Spineless, Ignored, Misunderstood: Perceptions of Animal Diversity in the UCD Community - First-Year Seminar Winter Quarter 2022

First-Year Seminars provides a lab like environment for instructors to test out new course ideas.  That was just the case in a Winter Quarter 2022 course developed by the College of Biological Science’s Faculty member Laci Gerhart-Barley and PhD candidate Hannah Nelson, “Spineless, Ignored, Misunderstood: Perceptions of Animal Diversity in the UCD Community”.  A primary goal of the course was to help students break stereotypes in animal representation by studying animal diversity or lack thereof in media representation.