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| 2024-2025 | ANTH 101 | Introduction to Cultural AnthropologyIntroduction to the general field of anthropology, including reviews of scientific theories as basis of the academic research, as well as social, cultural, ethnographic and methodological topics which refer to the discipline. The course includes a study of diversity and similarity of behavior patterns, values, traditions, economical systems and customs of people in different cultural contexts- present and past. The focus will be to enhance students understanding of human nature. This will be derived from the investigation of the variety and range of socially standardized responses to the circumstances of human living. Such insight transcends a culture- bound approach, which views things from the narrow perspective of one's native cultural background. In each aspect of human culture this introduction seeks to provide an appreciation of other cultures as well an understanding of our values attitudes within society, lastly it reflects the perspective of our Christian faith toward society. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ANTH 205 | Race and EthnicityThis course introduces students to the concept of race and ethnicity and to the major theories that the discipline employs as a means of understanding race and ethnic relations. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): SOCI 101 or ANTH 101
Cross-listed: SOCI 210 |
| 2024-2025 | ANTH 210 | Islamic CultureThis course is designed as an introduction to the religion of Islam and the Muslim cultures. It's a basic overview/ survey of the most influential denominations of Islamic faith, like Sunna, Shia, Ismailia, Druze, Alavites and Ahmadyia. In the course we will examine the history of Islamic religion and the different theological and juristic schools like the Hanafits, Shafiites, Malekites and Hanibalites, as well the practice and pillars of Islam with particular attention to the classic texts of Ou'ran and Hadith. The course will also analyze the role of Jesus in the Qu'ran as well compare stories written in the Bible. Students are invited into using the disciplines of anthropology/sociology as possibility of inquiry, evaluation and interpretation. Through analyzing concepts of religious belief systems students experience the social world around them, by interacting with norms, beliefs and values of global and local cultures. Course Credits: 3
NB: Not offered every year See department chair
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| 2024-2025 | ANTH 302 | Cross-Cultural CommunicationThis course is about the nature of cross-cultural interaction. Cultural concepts and contexts are explored through taxonomies, theories, and comparative analysis. Through in-class and out-of-class activities, students become self-aware and other-aware. Students also experiment with cultural behaviours and cultural change, aiming to increase both explanatory and predictive cultural knowledge, and enhance behavioural competencies. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or instructor's consent.
Cross-listed: MCOM 372 LING 302 |
| 2024-2025 | ANTH 350 | Urban StudiesThis course examines the evolution of the city, from its earliest pre-industrial roots to cities of the New Economy, and provides a sociological analysis of selected urban social issues. The course explores the urban effect on society and the various efforts, past and present, to make cities more livable.. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 6 sem. hrs. of Sociology or Anthropology. (3-0 or 3-0)
Cross-listed: SOCI 350 |
| 2024-2025 | ANTH 385 | Qualitative Research MethodsThis course will introduce students to various traditions of qualitative social inquiry and their associated methodological features. Emphasis will be placed on the practical application of these traditions of inquiry as their associated methods of data collection and analysis are applied in a range of research settings. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 6 s.h. at the 300- or 400-level of Psychology, Sociology, and/or Anthropology.
Cross-listed: SOCS 385 |
| 2024-2025 | ANTH 390 | Special Topics in AnthropologyAn examination of selected topics and theories within the field of anthropology. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or instructor's consent
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| 2024-2025 | ANTH 395 | Indigenous Peoples in CanadaThis course is an introduction to the culture, languages, history and enduring presence of First Nation people in Canada. It will explore a range of indigenous social and cultural formations. Attention will be given to the cultural, economic, political, and religious aspects of First Nation societies, as well as the changes that have occurred since the arrival of the Europeans. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or SOCI 101
Cross-listed: SOCI 395 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 140 | Introduction to PrintmakingThis studio course introduces the basic application and procedures of two traditional methods of printmaking-relief and screen printing. The course is designed to provide a positive studio experience for non-art students interested in art and its application to popular culture. This course is similar to ART 240, but is intended for non-art majors; therefore ART 140 and ART 240 may not both be taken for credit. Course Credits: 3
NB: This course is similar to ART 240, but is intended for non-art majors; therefore ART 140 and ART 240 may not both be taken for credit.
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| 2024-2025 | ART 150 | Creative ThinkingIn this interdisciplinary course, students will gain experience with a wide range of creative thinking practices with a focus on ideation techniques and creative problem solving methodologies, such as design thinking. Students will apply creative problem solving techniques to complex problems and personal interests while learning about the history, key players, and processes that have led to our contemporary understanding of creativity. Students will develop their capacity for flexible and original thinking, and will begin cultivating habits that support their ability to quickly adapt and innovate in our rapidly changing world. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ART 180 | Integration ForumA seminar for students in all levels of the program, this course is required for all majors each semester (concentrations and minors are encouraged to attend). The core of the class is a visiting lecture series facilitating presentations, critiques, and communication amongst local artists, faculty, and students. The class covers topical issues in art; facilitates communication regarding departmental and professional practices; creates a community of inquiry supporting one another's production; addresses issues common to students of art; and supports the integration of faith and art in preparation for a life in the arts. Course Credits: 1
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| 2024-2025 | ART 181 | Visual Foundations IThis foundations level studio course invites students to explore artistic practice as a mode of inquiry and a meaning-making language. The course cultivates visual intelligence through carefully sequenced drawing exercises, illustrated lectures and readings. Perceptual, conceptual and technical skills are honed and elements of art and principles of design are explored through drawing and composition projects that give students an experiential understanding of a wide range of artmaking paradigms. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ART 182 | Visual Foundations IIIntroductory studio course that invites students into the investigation of colour and its interaction, time and space arts, and three-dimensional art. Through the immersive practice of developing of artwork, students experience art as a mode of inquiry where meaning is understood through intuitive, imaginative, creative and interpretive methodologies. Using foundational skills, students employ critical and creative thinking that reflects fluency and flexibility of imagination and expression to create art and make new connections or respond to a chosen problem, concept or question. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ART 211 | Life Drawing IThrough this intensive investigation into life drawing, students develop perceptual awareness, build an expressive visual vocabulary and critically examine how cultural stereotypes inscribe and politicize the body. Anatomical, aesthetic, perceptual, critical and conceptual inquiries are explored. Students examine the ways in which culture, society and theology influence imaging the body. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 181
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| 2024-2025 | ART 215 | Beauty and the Sacred: Introduction to the Sacred Arts CPDo the Ten Commandments forbid Christian art? What, if anything, can images, music, architecture, dance, or film uniquely communicate about God? Does, as Hans Urs von Balthasar writes, every experience of beauty point toward the infinite? An introduction to theological aesthetics, this class queries the extent to which various aspects of Christian belief can and cannot be adequately apprehended through the senses. Engaging with a wide range of perspectives and artistic media, particular emphasis will be placed upon the history and significance of distinctively Christian works of art. Course Credits: 3
NB: Course taught at Catholic Pacific College, an approved TWU learning centre
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| 2024-2025 | ART 221 | Painting IThis studio course focuses on the acquisition of basic painting skills. Colour theory is used in increasingly intentional ways as students explore strategies of using picture plane, shape, plane, volume, and brushstroke. Students are involved in issues of how personal voice and concerns translate into painting practices. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 182
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| 2024-2025 | ART 230 | PhotographyAn introduction to photographic art - students explore basic techniques of digital and traditional photography. These include, but are not limited to: composition, visual literacy, lighting, review of darkroom procedures, and production. Photographic theory is introduced as it relates to cultural, aesthetic, ethical, and theological matters. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ART 231 | Foundations of AnimationAn introduction to the foundational principles and practices of animation. While students will focus on 2D animation in frequent practical exercises, their acquired skills and theory will be foundational for doing 3D animation. This course is a prerequisite for any subsequent animation courses. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 181 or 182; ART 211 or 212; ART 250.
Cross-listed: GAME 231 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 232 | Foundations of 3D GraphicsAn introduction to the foundational principles and practices of 3D computer animation. Working in a lab setting, students will develop the basic conceptual and technical tools necessary to create and modify elements for game development. This course is a prerequisite for any subsequent animation courses. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GAME/ART 231.
Cross-listed: GAME 232 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 237 | History of Western ArtAn introductory survey inviting students, as a mode of inquiry, to explore, examine, analyze and appreciate specific historical visual images, sculptural objects, and architectural structures. It traces thematically and chronologically some of the major developments that have influenced both western and eastern cultures from prehistoric cave painting to the 15th century. Students employ historical means and methods (notably artworks as important historical documents complementing written texts) to question, in a systematic and rigorous way, and to interpret the ways in which particular works of art participate in the social, political, economic, religious and cultural climates of which they have been an integral part learning. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ART 238 | History of Western Art IIAn introductory survey inviting students, as a mode of inquiry, to explore, examine, analyze and appreciate specific historical visual images, sculptural objects, and architectural structures. It traces thematically and chronologically some of the major developments that have influenced both western and eastern cultures from prehistoric cave painting to the 15th century. Students employ historical means and methods (notably artworks as important historical documents complementing written texts) to question, in a systematic and rigorous way, and to interpret the ways in which particular works of art participate in the social, political, economic, religious and cultural climates of which they have been an integral part. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | ART 240 | Printmaking IThis studio course introduces the basic applications and procedures of printmaking through the medium of screen printing. The class covers black and white, colour separation, editioning, registration, proofing, and printing, integrating technical ability with conceptual development during the execution of each project. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 181 or ART 182 and one of SAMC 112, ART 237 or 238.
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| 2024-2025 | ART 250 | Foundations in Digital DesignAn active exploration of graphic design essentials, creative ideation methods, and visual communication techniques. Students use creative thinking methodologies to experiment with a wide range of design approaches, evaluate the aesthetic and conceptual value of specific design solutions, and sharpen their creative, critical thinking, and perceptual skills. Course Credits: 3
NB: Priority given to Design and Media and Communication students
Cross-listed: MCOM 231 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 280 | 3D DesignThe course investigates three-dimensional design and overviews the various stages in the process of design from ideation and planning to production. Through a study of the properties and characteristics of objects within cultures, students focus on relationships between form, function, ideas and ideologies. Course Credits: 3
NB: Not offered every year
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| 2024-2025 | ART 283 | Sculpture IAn introduction to working in three dimensions in a variety of media, including clay, wood, and metal. Historical and contemporary approaches to sculpture are examined to achieve an understanding of the relationship of materials to form, space, expressive content, and the construction of meaning. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 181 or 182, and ART 237 or 238 (0-3 or 0-3)
NB: Not offered every year
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| 2024-2025 | ART 290 | Special Topics in ArtTopics vary from year to year. Course Credits: 3
NB: Not offered every semester. Course may be repeated
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| 2024-2025 | ART 305 | Art PracticumIn this art-related work experience, students are invited into embodied and experiential inquiry. Students immerse themselves into a hands-on investigation of professional practices while being mentored by practicing artists and other art professionals in areas of creative and critical expertise. This participatory experience may include guidance from artists, art historians, art institutions, designers, art therapists, and others. Course Credits: 1
Prerequisite(s): Art + Design major, concentration or minor and third or fourth year standing or instructor's consent
NB: Course may be repeated
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| 2024-2025 | ART 306 | Art PracticumIn this art-related work experience, students are invited into embodied and experiential inquiry. Students immerse themselves into a hands-on investigation of professional practices while being mentored by practicing artists and other art professionals in areas of creative and critical expertise. This participatory experience may include guidance from artists, art historians, art institutions, designers, art therapists, and others. Course Credits: 2
Prerequisite(s): Art + Design major, concentration, or minor, and third or fourth year standing or instructor's consent
NB: Course may be repeated
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| 2024-2025 | ART 307 | Art PracticumIn this art-related work experience, students are invited into embodied and experiential inquiry. Students immerse themselves into a hands-on investigation of professional practices while being mentored by practicing artists and other art professionals in areas of creative and critical expertise. This participatory experience may include guidance from artists, art historians, art institutions, designers, art therapists, and others. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Art + Design major, concentration, or minor, and third or fourth year standing or instructor's consent
NB: Course may be repeated
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| 2024-2025 | ART 310 | Contemporary DrawingStudents explore inquiry-based perceptual, abstract, conceptual, and performative definitions of contemporary drawing practice. The criteria for defining, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating drawings are widened to embrace current theoretical frameworks. Issues and themes of drawing practice after the initial decades of postmodernism are the focus of student inquiries/projects. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 211
NB: Not offered every year
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| 2024-2025 | ART 321 | Abstract PaintingThis course provides an in-depth look at the integration of theory and practice surrounding historical and contemporary abstract painting. Art elements and principles, particularly colour, are used with increasing specificity and intentionality. Students investigate how aesthetic choices realized on a canvas reveal the artist's position within art, culture, and political history. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 221 or 222
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| 2024-2025 | ART 327 | Modern Art History IThis course traces the diverse artistic movements that developed in urban centres throughout Europe from The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London to the Dada movement in Zurich in the 1920s. Students consider the changing role of the artist and the way in which both the subject matter and the stylistic treatment of their art are shaped by and are a response to this modern world. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 237 or ART 238
NB: Not offered every semester
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| 2024-2025 | ART 328 | Modern Art History IIThis course explores how art strategies (in traditional mediums such as painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as film, video, performance) and the critical debates that arose in Europe and North America in the aftermath of the First World War to the present day, reflect the social, economic, and political context charting the rise and fall of modernism and the transition to postmodern practices within the visual arts. The role of art in society, its relationship to mass culture, and what is at stake in maintaining socially engaged art today are considered. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 237 or 238 or SAMC 112
NB: Not offered every semester
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| 2024-2025 | ART 330 | Photographic VisionCultivating an informed engagement with our predominantly visual culture, this course combines photographic technical skill (composition, lighting, darkroom procedures, etc.) with informed cultural photographic theory relating to aesthetic, ethical, and theological issues. Participants are encouraged to embody a re-visioning as photographers and thinkers who embrace a Christian view of the world and its inhabitants. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3 sem hrs of ART and ART 230 (0-0 0-3)
NB: Not offered every year
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| 2024-2025 | ART 331 | Video Game ArtA critical evaluation of the deployment of visual art in video games. Student will develop a broad appreciation for the incredible variety of video game art and consider the spiritual, moral and ethical issues surrounding visual design choices in game development. Student will engage theories and tools that will enhance student participation in development projects. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 2nd year standing or higher.
Cross-listed: GAME 331 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 332 | Advanced Animation ProjectsA continuation of the foundational animation courses. Students will research animation techniques and aesthetics and then develop a plan in consultation with the instructor for a semester-long project. Students will build on their existing animation skills and aesthetic judgement as well as gain a wider appreciation for what is possible with animation, whether computerized or otherwise. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): GAME/ART 231
Cross-listed: GAME 332 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 340 | Printmaking IIPrintmaking is explored historically, and as a vehicle for critical inquiry and self-expression. Critical, theoretical, and practical aspects of relief printmaking are studied. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 240 and 6 sem hrs of ART, or instructor's consent. (0-0 0-3)
NB: Not offered every year
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| 2024-2025 | ART 351 | IntermediaIntegrating cultural theory with material experimentations, this course investigates a variety of contemporary practices and themes, including, but not limited to, multimedia investigations, sitespecific installation, soundscapes, video, performance, and phenomenologically driven practices. The boundaries of more traditional art experience are pushed to discover new possibilities of collaborative and personal expression using a variety of media in time and space. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 15 sem hrs of ART and third or fourth year standing
NB: Not offered every year
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| 2024-2025 | ART 361 | Imaging and Illustration DesignAn exploration of the conception, production, and analysis of imagery in graphic communication design, including photos, illustrations, and graphic marks. Imagery-based problems are investigated in multiple design contexts and formats. Specialized rendering techniques, digital studio practices and iconographic style development are considered. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 250 or MCOM 231
Cross-listed: MCOM 331 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 362 | Symbol & Typography DesignAn exploration of integrated conceptual thinking and formal experimentation with type and related symbol systems in graphic communications. Emphasis is placed on type as image, principles of typesetting, hierarchy, and structure. The complex interaction of type in relation to other graphic elements in multiple design contexts and formats is considered. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 250 or MCOM 231
Cross-listed: MCOM 332 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 363 | Format and Layout DesignAn exploration of integrated conceptual thinking and formal experimentation with the structural and organizing systems at work in graphic communications. Emphasis is given to the development of unified graphic systems spanning multiple design contexts and formats. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 250 or MCOM 231
Cross-listed: MCOM 333 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 364 | Interaction DesignIntroduces students to the design of interactive digital experiences with a focus on website design, User Experience (UX) design, and User Interface (UI) design. Students will learn the core concepts and principles of interaction design by working through technical and design projects using industry standard design software. Students leave this course with the ability to build basic websites and design digital experiences that follow current interaction design standards and methodologies. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Two or more upper-level studio or design courses.
Cross-listed: MCOM 334 |
| 2024-2025 | ART 370 | Professional PracticesAn overview of professional practices in art and design, with a focus on developing the practical skills and materials necessary for sustainable and healthy art and design careers. Students will engage in professional writing, portfolio development, networking, and career planning. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 3rd year standing or higher
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| 2024-2025 | ART 390 | Cultural TheoryThis course introduces students to a broad range of critical and theoretical texts that have impacted art practices and the discipline of art history in the 20th century through to the current day. The role of enlightenment aesthetics and the rise of mass culture are explored in relation to the formation of cultural modernism and how Marxist, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist theories have challenged modernist conceptions. This course investigates the implications for Christians engaging with visual culture today; considers the theoretical underpinnings of postmodern theory; and cultivates the critical thinking skills necessary to engage in current critical debates within visual culture. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 327 or 328.
NB: Not offered every year.
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| 2024-2025 | ART 410 | Advanced DrawingThis studio course guides students in developing independent, inquiry-based projects in drawing. Students link theory with praxis; inquire into the interrelationships between aesthetics, theory and theology in relation to their emerging body of work; and locate themselves within contemporary drawing practices. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 310
NB: Not offered every year.
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| 2024-2025 | ART 411 | Senior Studio IIn this intensive studio course, students are guided through sustained research that culminates in a solo senior show during ART 412. With the approval of the Senior Studio faculty, sustained visual cultural research and the development of a body of work is executed. This work is self-directed and must demonstrate an increasingly high level of understanding of a professional work process and the resulting production. Through research, as well as written and spoken practice, students gain confidence and a voice to articulate visually and verbally as well as to contextualize their work in contemporary practice. Students research and write on the integration of faith and art. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Two or more upper-level studio or design courses.
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| 2024-2025 | ART 412 | Senior Studio IIIn this studio course, the research and experimentation in production done during ART 411 culminates in an intense semester of developing a sophisticated body of work for the Senior Show. A multidisciplinary environment is protected, and diversity in style and medium is emphasized. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 411
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| 2024-2025 | ART 421 | Advanced PaintingThis studio course emphasizes the development of advanced artistic inquiry in painting. Students examine strategies for structuring and developing a visual investigation. By studying examples of serial and thematic approaches, students see how artists have developed bodies of sophisticated and exploratory work. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): ART 321
NB: Not offered every year.
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| 2024-2025 | ART 451 | Socially Engaged ArtThis project based, upper level art and humanities interdisciplinary capstone course fosters interdisciplinary collaborative research and socially engaged art-making practices. Also known as relational aesthetics, socially engaged art explores art as a state of encounter that integrates social science practices alongside art-making practices, co-creating with community organizations to develop socially engaged projects. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Upper level standing.
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