The victors for the 13 th annual awards for animal and society course has been announced by the Humane society of the US and Animals and Society Institute. The impressive award identifies the academy and university ranks, which discover the affiliation existing amid people and animals.

The executive director of the Animals and Society Institute, Kenneth Shapiro, Ph.D., said that they are having honored itineraries in various programs, ever since the institution of this award in the year 1998. The entries for this year replicates animal studies’ fantastic development.

The special assistant and senior policy adviser to the CEO of The HSUS, Dr. Bernard Unti said the rising presence of the course on animal studies inside the higher education institutions globally is a true indicator of the growing interest in the affinity between animals and humans.

The Animals and Society Institute and the HSUS judges assessed the submissions utilizing the parameters like firmness and profundity inside a topic, the animal and society study’s’ impact and the innovation of approach. The academic department of the course gives cash price of $1000 to the winners.

Distinguished New Course Award: “Perspectives: Seal Wives, Grizzly Men Werewolves, and Other Metamorphoses", Karla Armbruster, Webster University English Department, (St. Louis, Missouri).

This course emphasis on the alteration of human – animal and resourcefully discovers the traditional assumptions regarding separation of humans and dominance to non human animals.

Distinguished Established Course Award: “Introduction to Animal Studies,” Robert Mitchell, Psychology Department, University of Eastern Kentucky (Richmond, Kentucky).

This course has a cross discipline syllabus and covers subjects like history; psychology; social justice, philosophy and cultural studies.