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Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM101: Animals, Health and Healing
This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The module will cover a range of theoretical debates and case studies concerned with the following topics:
- the use of animals in biomedical research (which could include animal rights/ethics, nonhuman models, history of vivisection, environmental enrichment programmes, genomics, xenotransplants, cloning)
- the use of animals in therapeutic contexts (which could include Animal Assisted Therapy, assistance animals such as Guide dogs, power relationships etc.)
- ethnoveterinary medicine (which could also include alternative/non-allopathic therapies such as homeopathy, as well as spiritual communications with nonhumans such as shamanism and animal psychics)
- zoonotic disease (which could include focus on transmission, responses, attitudes towards carriers etc.)
- zoopharmacognosy (which could also include ethnobotany)
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 130 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 1 hour podcast audio lectures with accompanying powerpoint presentations |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 1 hour discussion/seminar |
| Guided Independent Study | 20 | Preparation for formative assessments |
| Guided Independent Study | 100 | Research and writing of summative assessments |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 1 hour contributions to VLE forums |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE – https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/