In this course you will do a substantial amount of reading.  Many of the texts are fairly challenging so you should leave yourself time to read and then re-read.  I also would like you to come to class with your books and articles annotated, and with a set of notes that allow you to easily turn to pages and find your way around the reading assigned for a given day.

Below is a list of required books for our course.  Please be sure that the book you order has the same ISBN number as the one given below.  I would like everyone to have the same print edition so that during discussion we can easily turn to the same page.

• Gruen, Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for our Relationships with Animals (9781590564875)
• Berns, How Dogs Love Us (978-0544114517)
• Chin, Doggie Language: A Dog Lover’s Guide to Understanding Your Best Friend (978-1-78783-701-0)
• Horowitz, Inside of a Dog:  What Dogs See, Smell and Know (978-1416583431)
• Pierce, Run, Spot, Run:  The Ethics of Keeping Pets (9780226209890)
• Quinn, Dog On It (978-1416585848)

There will be some additional articles to read, and they will be available as handouts or through links provided on Moodle.  An overview of reading and writing assignments is available here, and a detailed weekly schedule will be posted on Moodle.  I’ll expect you to check Moodle, complete the assigned reading, and bring to every class all of the reading scheduled for the day’s discussion. If you’d like to get a head start on the reading (not required, just an option), we’ll be discussing Inside of a Dog first.

Finally, there are 2 recommended writing handbooks for this course.  You can work with whichever one you prefer.  The St. Martin’s Handbook (9781319120269), edited by Andrea Lunsford, is an excellent resource for writers.  It’s expensive, but will serve you well during your 4 years here, and also afterwards for whatever workplace writing you go on to do.  The Purdue OWL, is also very good, and it is available online for free (https://owl.purdue.edu/).