In this class, we will examine a variety of texts that complicate our understandings of the dog as a cultural and historical figure. Together, we will look in familiar places, past and present, for strange, unsettling, and weird dogs. We will rigorously debate questions such as: Why bother looking at animals in human stories? What does it mean to be a dog’s enemy? An animal’s equal? Did dogs domesticate us? While we study dogs in literature, TV, and film, students will develop skills in written, oral, and digital communication in this COM2 course. This course fulfills your O (Oral Communication Requirement) and COM2 requirements.