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100 Level

Courses with some HAS content:

• ENGL110/MAOR131/TITO101 Māori Writing in English
  (This courses includes a focus on relationships with animal whanaunga).
  Contact: Kirsty Dunn
• ENGL102 Great Works: Metamorphosis
  (An introduction to literary studies, but includes texts dealing with animals and human-animal transformations)
  Contact: Philip Armstrong

200 Level

Courses specifically dedicated to HAS:

• HSRV209/CULT209 Humans, Animals and Society
  Contact: Nik Taylor
  
  
• ENGL243/CULT206 From Bambi to Kong: The Animal in Popular Culture
  Contact: Annie Potts
  
  
• HIST298 Elephants and Empires: An Environmental History of Ancient to Modern India
  Contact: Jane Buckingham

300 Level

Courses specifically dedicated to HAS:

• ENGL349 From Bambi to Kong: The Animal in Popular Culture
  Contact: Annie Potts

• ENGL318/CULT335 Reading Animals: Beast Fables to Graphic Novels
  Contact: Annie Potts

• HIST398 Elephants and Empires: An Environmental History of Ancient to Modern India
  Contact: Jane Buckingham

Honours/400-level

Courses specifically dedicated to HAS:

• ANTH410/CULT421/SOCI410 Multispecies Studies
  
  
  
• ENGL411/CULT418 Intersectionalities: Humans, Animals and Otherness 
  Contact: Annie Potts

• Subject to development of an appropriate topic and supervision, students may also opt for an independent research project in human-animal studies at 400 level in English, or Cultural Studies: ENGL442, ENGL480, CULT402.

Courses with some HAS content:

• ENGL410 Picture (Im)Perfect: Utopia and Dystopia in Literature
  (Seminars, texts studied and assignments include some HAS topics)
  Contact: Philip Armstrong

PhD in Human-Animal Studies

• HUAN790 Human-Animal Studies PhD
  Contact: Philip Armstrong