Autumn Quarter 2019 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Concannon M-Th 9:30-10:20 14461

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 B READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Fanning M-Th 10:30-11:20 14462

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 C READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Poland M-Th 11:30-12:20 14463

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 D READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Wirth M-Th 12:30-1:20 14464

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 E READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Wirth M-Th 1:30-2:20 14465

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

202 A INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Cherniavsky MWF 10:30-11:20 14466

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AA INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) M 9:30-10:20 14467

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AB INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) T 9:30-10:20 14468

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AC INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) T 11:30-12:20 14469

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AD INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) M 2:30-3:20 14470

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AE INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) W 12:30-1:20 14471

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AF INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) W 2:30-3:20 14472

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

204 A POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Kaup MW 10:30-12:20 14473

Catalog Description: Introduces students to the study of popular culture, possibly including print or visual media, understood as sites of critical reflection. Particular attention to dynamics of production and reception, aesthetics and technique, and cultural politics. Topics may foreground genres (science fiction; romance) or forms (comics; graffiti

207 A INTRO CULTURE ST (Introduction to Cultural Studies) Harkins MW 3:30-5:20 14475

Catalog Description: Asks three questions: What is Cultural Studies? How does one read from a Cultural Studies perspective? What is the value of reading this way? Provides historical understanding of Cultural Studies, its terms and its specific way of interpreting a variety of texts, i.e. literature, visual images, music, video, and performance.

210 A LIT 400 to 1600 (Medieval and Early Modern Literature, 400 to 1600) Norako MW 11:30-1:20 14476

Catalog Description: Introduces literature from the Middle Ages and the Age of Shakespeare, focusing on major works that have shaped the development of literary and intellectual traditions of these periods.

242 A READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Morton MW 1:30-3:20 14478

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

242 B READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Popov TTh 2:30-4:20 14479

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

242 C READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) Gerhardt TTh 4:30-6:20p 14480

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

250 A American Literature (American Literature) Griffith M-Th 8:30-9:20 14484

Catalog Description: Introduces American culture through a careful reading of a variety of representative texts in their historical contexts.

251 A Lit & Amer Pol Cltr (Literature & American Polical Culture) MW 12:30-2:20 23436

Catalog Description: Introduction to the methods and theories used in the analysis of American culture. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media.

258 A INTRO TO AFR AM LIT (Introduction African American Literature) Weinbaum TTh 2:30-4:20 14486

Catalog Description: Introduction to various genres of African American literature from its beginnings to the present. Emphasizes the cultural and historical context of African American literary expression and its aesthetics criteria. Explores key issues and debates, such as race and racism, inequality, literary form, and canonical acceptance. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 214.

265 A INTRO ENVIR HUMANITIES (DIVERSITY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE) Holmes MWF 12:30-1:20 14487

Catalog Description: ntroduces the study of the environment through literature, culture, and history. Topics include changing ideas about nature, wilderness, ecology, pollution, climate, and human/animal relations, with particular emphasis on environmental justice and the unequal distribution of environmental crises, both globally and along class, race and gender lines.

270 A USES OF ENGL LANG (The Uses of the English Language) Webster MW 12:30-2:20 14490

Catalog Description: Survey of the assumptions, methodologies, and major issues of English in its cultural settings. Designed to connect English Language study with the study of literature, orality and literacy, education, ethnicity, gender, and public policy.

277 A CHILD & YOUNG ADULT LIT (Introduction to Children's and Young Adult Literature) Gillis-Bridges MW 2:30-4:20 14491

Catalog Description: Introduction to creative works written for children and young adults, with emphasis on historical, cultural, institutional, and industrial contexts of production and reception. Also examines changing assumptions about the social and educational function of children's and young adult literature.

281 B INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Daniel TTh 10:30-12:20 14493

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 E INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Costa MW 12:30-2:20 14496

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

282 A INT MULTIMODAL COMP (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) Lane TTh 10:30-12:20 14498

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

282 D INT MULTIMODAL COMP (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) Hitchman TTh 12:30-2:20

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

283 A BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Kenney MW 11:30-12:50 14500

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

283 B BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Bitter TTh 11:30-12:50 14501

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Daugharty TTh 12:30-1:50 14503

Catalog Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.

284 B BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Shields MW 1:30-2:50 14504

Catalog Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.

295 A English Study Abroad (Study Abroad) ARR 14506

Catalog Description: Equivalency for 200-level English courses taken on UW study abroad programs or direct exchanges. May not apply to major requirements

297 A ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Wacker MWF 11:30-12:20 14507

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

297 B ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) George MWF 10:30-11:20 23291

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 A ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Daniel TTh 2:30-3:50 14508

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 B ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Daniel TTh 1:00-2:20 14509

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 C ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Peters TTh 3:30-4:50 14510

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 E ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Babbie MWF 1:30-2:20 14512

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 F ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Barr TTh 11:30-12:50 14513

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 G ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Robertson TTh 3:30-4:50 14514

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 H ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Misra WF 11:30-12:50 14515

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 I ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Williams TTh 11:30-12:50 14516

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 J ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) Abella MWF 2:30-3:20 14517

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 A ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Wacker MWF 1:30-2:20 14518

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 C ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Malone MWF 12:30-1:20 14520

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 D ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Roberts MWF 9:30-10:20 14521

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 E ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Matthews MW 2:30-3:50 14522

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 F ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Holmes MWF 3:30-4:20 14523

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 G ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Wilson MW 11:30-12:50 14524

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

302 A CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Patterson TTh 9:30-11:20 14526

Catalog Description: Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices.

302 B CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Wong MW 10:30-12:20 14527

Catalog Description: Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices.

309 A THEORIES OF READING (Theories of Reading) Gerhardt TTh 1:30-3:20 14529

Catalog Description: Investigates what it means to be a reader. Centers on authorial and reading challenges, shifting cultural and theoretical norms, and changes in the public's reading standards.

318 A BLACK LIT GENRES (Black Literary Genres) Retman MW 8:30-10:20 14532

Catalog Description: Considers how generic forms and conventions have been discussed and distributed in the larger context of African American, or other African diasporic literary studies. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 318; AWSp.

321 A CHAUCER (Chaucer) Remley MW 2:30-4:20 14533

Catalog Description: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other poetry, with attention to Chaucer's social, historical, and intellectual milieu.

323 A SHAKESPEARE TO 1603 (Shakespeare to 1603) Streitberger MW 9:30-11:20 14534

Catalog Description: Explores Shakespeare's early drama and poetry. May include the sonnets, narrative poems, and selected comedies, histories, or tragedies.

329 A RISE OF ENG NOVEL (Rise of the English Novel) Popov TTh 10:30-12:20 14535

Catalog Description: Traces the development of a major and popular modern literary genre - the novel. Readings survey forms of fiction including the picaresque, the gothic, the epistolary novel, and the romance. Authors range from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen and beyond.

336 A EARLY 20TH C ENGL LIT (English Literature: Early Twentieth Century) Kaplan TTh 1:30-3:20 14537

Catalog Description: Explores fiction, poetry, and drama in English from the period of 1900-1945. Considers the literature in socio-historical context. Modernism, realism, imperialism, and questions f nationality may be foregrounded.

344 A STUDIES IN DRAMA (STUDIES IN DRAMA) Streitberger MW 1:30-3:20 14538

Catalog Description: Explores the workings and historical development of theartrical practices, including performance and spectatorship more broadly. Possible topics include genres of drama (tragedy, mystery play, melodrama, agitprop); histories of drama (Elizabethan theater, Theater of the Absurd, the Mbari Mbayo Club, In-Your-Face Theater); and theorists of performance and dramaturgy.

352 A US LIT TO 1865 (Literatures of the United States to 1865) Griffith M-Th 9:30-10:20 14540

Catalog Description: Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War. May include such representative authors of the period as Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass and fuller, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.

357 A JEWISH AM LIT &CLTR (Jewish American Literature & Culture) Senderovich MW 2:30-4:20 14542

Catalog Description: Examines the literary and cultural production of American Jews from the colonial period to the present time. Considers ways in which American Jews assimilate and resist assimilation while Jewish writers, filmmakers, playwrights, and graphic novelists imitate and alter American life and literature.

359 A CONT AM IND LIT (Contemporary American Indian Literature) Devos MW 3:30-5:20 14543

Catalog Description: Creative writings -- novels, short stories, poems -- of contemporary Indian authors; traditions out of which they evolved. Differences between Indian writers and writers of the dominant European/American mainstream.

370 A ENGL LANG STUDY (English Language Study) Stygall MW 2:30-4:20 14546

Catalog Description: Wide-ranging introduction to the study of written and spoken English. Includes the nature of language; ways of describing language; the use of language study as an approach to English literature and the teaching of English.

381 A ADV EXPOSITORY WRIT (Advanced Expository Writing) Liu TTh 9:30-11:20 14547

Catalog Description: Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.

382 A SPECIAL MULTIMODAL (Special Topics in Multimodal Composition) Youell M 10:30-12:20, W 10:30-12:20 14549

Catalog Description: Focuses on emerging questions, debates, genres, and methods of multimodal analysis and production. Topics vary but might include transmedia storytelling, digital humanities, audiovisual essays, new media journalism, and performance. Although course has no prerequisites, instructors, assume knowledge of academic argumentation strategies.

383 B CRAFT OF VERSE (The Craft of Verse) Kenney MW 1:30-2:50 14552

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

384 A CRAFT OF PROSE (The Craft of Prose) Cecil MW 1:30-2:50 14553

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

384 B CRAFT OF PROSE (The Craft of Prose) Shields MW 3:30-4:50 14554

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

386 A ASIAN-AMERICAN LIT (Asian-American Literature) Liu TTh 12:30-2:20 23428

Catalog Description: Examines different forms of Asian American expression as a response to racial formations in local and global contexts. Teaches critical thinking about identity, power, inequalities, and marginality.

395 A STUDY ABROAD (Study Abroad) ARR 14555

Catalog Description: Relates major works of literature, literary theory and criticism, or creative writing to the landscape and activities of their settings for students in UW English Department study abroad programs. Equivalency for upper-division English coursework taken on a UW study abroad program or direct exchange

440 A SPEC STUDIES IN LIT (Special Studies in Literature) Gillis-Bridges MW 11:30-1:20 14556

Catalog Description: Themes and topics offering special approaches to literature.

466 A QUEER & LGBT STUDIES (Queer and LGBT Studies) Clare MW 12:30-2:20 14557

Catalog Description: Special topics in queer theory and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender (LGBT) studies. Examination of ways lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer histories and cultures are represented in criticism, literature, film, performance, and popular culture.

471 A TEACHING WRITING (The Theory and Practice of Teaching Writing) Callow TTh 12:30-2:20 14558

Catalog Description: Reviews the research, core debates, and politics tht have shaped the practice, teaching and study of writing. Introduces theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the teaching and learning of writing

483 A ADV VERSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Verse Workshop) Feld MW 1:30-2:50 14560

Catalog Description: Intensive verse workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

484 B ADV PROSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Prose Workshop) Crouse TTh 1:30-2:50 14563

Catalog Description: Intensive prose workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student fiction and/or creative nonfiction.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

491 A INTERNSHIP (Internship) Sisko ARR 14565

Catalog Description: Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only.

491 B INTERNSHIP (Internship) Bawarshi ARR 14566

Catalog Description: Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only.

492 A EXPOSIT WRIT CONF (Advanced Expository Writing Conference) ARR 14567

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

493 A CREATIVE WRIT CONF (Advanced Creative Writing Conference) ARR 14568

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

494 A HONORS SEMINAR (Honors Seminar) Foster MW 2:30-4:20 14569

Catalog Description: Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.

494 B HONORS SEMINAR (Honors Seminar) Chrisman TTh 10:30-12:20 14570

Catalog Description: Survey of current issues confronting literary critics today, based on revolving themes and topics. Focuses on debates and developments affecting English language and literatures, including questions about: the relationship of culture and history; the effect of emergent technologies on literary study; the rise of interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities.

496 A H-MAJOR CONF-HONORS (Major Conference for Honors) ARR

Catalog Description: Individual study (reading, papers) by arrangement with the instructor. Required of, and limited to, honors seniors in English.

498 A SENIOR SEMINAR (SENIOR SEMINAR) ARR A:RR-A:RRp 14571

Catalog Description: Seminar study of special topics in language and literary study. Limited to seniors majoring in English.

499 A INDEPENDENT STUDY (INDEPENDENT STUDY) ARR A:RR-A:RRp 14572

Catalog Description: Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

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