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Tyler Totten

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Assistant Professor
Coordinator, Foundations Program

Office: Ross Building, S735
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 20515
Email: ttotten@yorku.ca


I am an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Social Science’s Law & Society program, as well as the Coordinator of the Foundations program in the same department. I regularly teach courses that focus on contemporary social issues related to the law, fundamental learning skills, and my area of specialty: animal law.

My doctoral work examined the relationship between animals and the law, highlighting both the possibilities that emerge when encountering species other than our own and the inescapable limitations of law which is made by and for human beings.

Complementing my academic background regarding other-than-human entities, my most significant scholarly interest is currently in digital pedagogies that interrogate the place of “the human” in technologically-mediated spaces.

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Degrees

PhD, Legal Studies, Carleton University
MA, Western University
BA, Western University

Research Interests

Law and Justice , Animal Studies, Feminist Perspectives, Sexuality Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC4365 6.0 A Animal Rights Debates ONLN
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC1350 9.0 B Gender and the Law ONLN
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC1350 9.0 B Gender and the Law TUTR



I am an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Department of Social Science’s Law & Society program, as well as the Coordinator of the Foundations program in the same department. I regularly teach courses that focus on contemporary social issues related to the law, fundamental learning skills, and my area of specialty: animal law.

My doctoral work examined the relationship between animals and the law, highlighting both the possibilities that emerge when encountering species other than our own and the inescapable limitations of law which is made by and for human beings.

Complementing my academic background regarding other-than-human entities, my most significant scholarly interest is currently in digital pedagogies that interrogate the place of “the human” in technologically-mediated spaces.

Degrees

PhD, Legal Studies, Carleton University
MA, Western University
BA, Western University

Research Interests

Law and Justice , Animal Studies, Feminist Perspectives, Sexuality Studies, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC4365 6.0 A Animal Rights Debates ONLN
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC1350 9.0 B Gender and the Law ONLN
Fall/Winter 2023 AP/SOSC1350 9.0 B Gender and the Law TUTR