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Stefano Manuso and Alessandra Viola (2013) have all ventured into the project of granting
plants a position of agency, intelligence, learning, memory and communication. Critical animal
and plant studies touch on basic issues relating to areas such as ecolinguistics, ecopsychology
as well as environmental humanities.

ENG 517 Gender Studies in Interdisciplinary Context
1 Term; 3 Credits
Gender studies theories form an essential part of the foundation of cultural studies. The
first part of this course will introduce students to theories of different feminist schools as well as
gender studies in a comprehensive way. In the second part, emphasis will be put on discussing
feminism and gender issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, for example, feminism and
art, feminism and biology, feminism and neuroscience, etc. The aim of this course is two-fold:
on one hand, it aims at giving students a solid and structured foundation in feminist and gender
studies theories; on the other hand, students will be encouraged to explore intersections of
feminism/gender studies with different fields from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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