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King's College
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2024
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Humanity is often a very lonely species. Thinking that our big brains and technological advancements set us above all other beings (hu-man exceptionalism andspeciesism), we often feel a profound dis-connection from the other living creatures with whom we share the Earth. Yet evolutionarily speaking, we are hard-wired to want to love and connect with animals and, when we prevent ourselves from doing so,we naturally suffer from ills such as anxiety and depression.1In this article, I will discuss two experiential assignments that I have developed for my undergraduate anthropology course on Animals, Religion, and Culture (ARC) at Texas Christian Universityto help students learn to pay closer attention to ani-mals and human-animal relationships, with the ultimate goal of the stu-dents feeling more closely connected to and compassionate toward other than human animals.
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Sociology and Anthropology