This course is mainly designed to explore the role and status of animal in different religious traditions, , contributing to quality education by fostering critical and ethical reflection within an interdisciplinary learning environment.  Positive and negative resources will be addressed in order to equip students to understand the influence of religious traditions on human attitudes towards animals. The course will introduce the contemporary discussion about animal rights and animal welfare movement in order to have dialogue between ethical and religious perspectives towards the human-animal relationship. It also considers how these perspectives relate to broader concerns such as biodiversity conservation, sustainable consumption, species richness, and global citizenship in relation to forming human-animal relationships.