|
100 Level Courses |
101
English Composition
I. 3 hrs. |
Introduction
to academic writing with emphasis on writing as a multi-stage
process, critical thinking, and fundamental research
strategies and skills. (PR: ACT Verbal 18-27; students with
scores 14-15 should first take COM 095; those with scores 0-13
should first take COM 094) |
101B
Intensive English Composition.
4 hrs. |
An
intensive workshop course designed to help students develop
basic writing skills and prepare for success in ENG 102. (PR:
ACT Verbal 16-17; permission of University College) |
102
English Composition
II. 3 hrs. |
Academic
writing with an emphasis on research related writing and
higher levels of critical thinking and reading. (Not open to
juniors and seniors. PR: English 101 or equivalent) |
| |
| 200 Level Courses |
201H
English Composition Honors
3 hrs. I, II. |
An
accelerated course in English composition. Completion of 201H
with a C or better satisfies the university requirement in
freshman composition. Students completing the course are
awarded three additional hours of credit toward graduation.
(PR: Enhanced ACT English score of 28-33) |
202
Writing About Literature.
3 hrs. |
Introduction to literary genres, terms, and methods required for
writing about literature, and basic research skills. (PR:
English 101 or equivalent) |
| |
| 300 Level Courses |
302
Research Intensive Writing
3 hrs. |
An
upper-division research intensive writing course emphasizing
research strategies, critical reading and thinking, and
multi-stage writing processes in a variety of academic
disciplines. (PR: English 101 or equivalent, and junior or
above status.) |
303
Appalachian Fiction and Poetry
3 hrs. |
The
study of short fiction, novels, and poetry of literary merit,
reflecting the intellectual, emotional and aesthetic
experience of Appalachia, including works by Dickey, Arnow,
Berry, Smith, Mason and others. (PR: ENG 102 or 302, or 201H) |
306
Introduction to Drama
3 hrs. |
Study
of drama as a literary type from the earliest periods to 1870,
with emphasis on the development and analysis of form,
structure, and language. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
307
Modern Drama
3 hrs |
British
and American plays since 1870, with their backgrounds in
foreign literatures. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
308
Contemporary Drama
3 hrs. |
British
and American plays since 1945. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
309
Literature of Fantasy
3 hrs. |
Study
of different forms, conventions, and styles in fantastic
literature, such as in legend, fairy tale, horror story,
heroic fantasy, nonsense, and romance. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
310
Biography
3 hrs. |
British,
American, and world literature as seen through selected major
biographies. The study of biography as a literary type. (PR:
ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
311
Science Fiction
3 hrs. I, II. |
Study
of science fiction in its background, themes, types, analyses,
and appreciation. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
313
Introduction to Poetry
3 hrs. |
Theory,
prosody, analysis, and principal types, forms, and themes;
selected examples through literary periods and cultures. (PR:
ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
315
Introduction to Novel
3 hrs. |
An
introduction to the basic elements of the novel, such as forms
and techniques, through careful reading of selected novels and
criticism concerning them. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
317
English Literature to the Romantic Period
3 hrs. |
English
Literature from Beowulf through Pope. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
319
English Literature from the Romantics to the Present
3 hrs. |
English
Literature from the Romantics to the present. (PR: 102 or 302
or 201H) |
320
The Political Novel
3 hrs. |
Studies
in English and American novels relating significantly to
political themes. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
321
American Literature to 1860
3 hrs. |
American
Literature from the Colonial, Eighteenth Century, Federal and
Romantic Periods. (PR: English 102 or 302 or 201H) |
323
American Literature, 1860 to the Present
3 hrs. |
American
Literature from the late Nineteenth Century to the present.
Not for majors. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
329
Twentieth Century Novel
3 hrs. |
Criticism
and analysis of principal British and American novels since
1900. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
331
Introduction to Short Story 3 hrs. I, II, S. |
Criticism
and analysis of representative short stories, primarily
British and American. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
335
Crime and Sensation Literature
3 hrs. |
Examines
the literary responses to crime and sensational literature and
discusses the artistic, cultural, and historical contexts of
those responses. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
336
Forbidden Literature
3 hrs. |
Examines
the literary responses to "banned literature" and
discusses the artistic, cultural and historical contexts of
those responses. |
340
Introduction to African-American Literature
3 hrs. |
A
survey of major writers and types of literature. (PR: ENG 102
or 302 or 201H) |
341
Introduction to Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
3 hrs. |
An
examination of selected groups, writers, and types of
literature from a cultural theory perspective. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H)
|
342
Women Writers
3 hrs. |
A study
of women writers in cultural contexts. Surveys attitudes to
women, women writers, and their work. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
344
Film and Fiction
3 hrs. |
The
relationship between literature and cinema: analysis of
literary masterpieces and the films derived from them. (PR:
ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
350
Junior Seminar in English
3 hrs. |
First
of two capstone courses for majors. Develops knowledge and
abilities needed by English majors through study of American
literature and literary critical theory, independent research,
and portfolio. (PR: 15 hours in major) |
354
Scientific and Technical Writing
3 hrs. |
Types
and styles of written reports required in science, government,
industry, and medicine. Practical applications adapted to the
needs of the individual student. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
360
Introduction to Creative Writing
3 hrs. |
An
introduction to writing of fiction and poetry. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
377
Creative Writing: Poetry
3 hrs. |
Practice
in writing poetry. (PR: ENG 360 or permission of instructor) |
378
Creative Writing: Fiction
3 hrs. |
Practice
in writing fiction. (PR: ENG 360 or permission of instructor) |
| |
| 400 Level Courses |
402
Pre-Professional Composition and Rhetoric
3 hrs. |
Study
of rhetorical invention and models of the composing process,
with intensive practice in writing. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
404
The Writing Way: Tutoring and
Conference-Teaching
3 hrs. CR/NC |
Training and practical workshops on writing, reading, and
teaching writing in conference or one-on-one formats. For tutors
and teachers. (PR: ENG 102, 202, 201H or 302 and instructor
approval of writing sample) |
405
History of the English Language
3 hrs. |
The
phonology, spelling, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of
previous language periods as back-ground to Modern English.
(PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
408
Advanced Expository Writing
3 hrs. |
Reports,
theses, briefs, abstracts and other expository types. Adapted
to the needs of the individual student. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
409
Milton
3 hrs. |
Biographical
and critical study, including Milton’s English poetry and
prose, and his literary and intellectual milieu. (PR: ENG 102
or 302 or 201H) |
410
Shakespeare’s Comedies, Tragicomedies, and Romances
3 hrs. |
Intensive
study of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragicomedies, and late
romances. Also includes the Sonnets and Venus and Adonis. (PR:
ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
411
Chaucer
3 hrs. |
The
poetry of Chaucer, chiefly the Canterbury Tales, in the light
of medieval tradition and critical analysis. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
412
Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies
3 hrs. |
Intensive
study of Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies. (PR: ENG 102
or 201H or 302) |
413
English Novel to 1800
3 hrs. |
Defoe,
Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, Smollett,
and Sterne, with supporting study of their most important
predecessors and contemporaries. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
414
Nineteenth Century English Novel
3 hrs. |
Austen,
Scott, the Brontes, Gaskell, Dickens, Hardy, Schreiner, and
others. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
415
Victorian Poetry
3 hrs. |
Tennyson,
Browning, Arnold and others. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
417
English Drama to 1642
3 hrs. |
Non-Shakespearean
English drama from its beginning to the closing of the
theatres. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
419
Approaches to Teaching Literature
3 hrs. |
The
intensive study of the pedagogy of literature and literary
critical theory and its classroom applications. |
420
Senior Seminar in Literature 3 hrs. II. |
Advanced
study of forms and movements. Individual research required.
Limited to English majors with senior class standing. Capstone
experience. (PR: 27 hours in major and ENG 350) |
421
American Literature to 1830
3 hrs. |
Study
of American literature of the Puritan, Colonial, and Federal
periods, including such authors as Jonathan Edwards, Edward
Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet,
Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
422
American Literature, 1830-1865
3 hrs. |
American
literature of the Romantic period, including such authors as
Emerson, Douglass, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman,
Dickinson, and lesser figures of the period. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
423
American Literature, 1865-1914
3 hrs. |
American
literature of the Realistic and Naturalistic periods,
including such authors as Howells, Crane, Twain, James,
Chopin, Dreiser, Chestnut, and Wharton. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
424
American Literature After 1914
3 hrs. |
American
literature after 1914, including such authors as Faulkner,
Hemingway, Cather, Mailer, Carver, Vonnegut, Morrison, and
others. |
425
Southern Writers
3 hrs. |
The
study of selected writers of the American South from the
beginnings to the present with special attention on writers
after 1920. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
428
International Literature
3 hrs. |
Readings
in contemporary literature from the non-Anglo-European world.
Texts will be taken from Asian, African, South American,
Australian, and other authors. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
433
Contemporary English Poetry
3 hrs. |
Principal
poetry since the Victorian period. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
434
Contemporary American Poetry
3 hrs. |
Principal
poetry since 1900. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
435
Modernism
3 hrs. |
Examines
literary modernism and the artistic, cultural, and historical
contexts of that movement. |
436
Medieval English Literature
3 hrs. |
Old
English elegiac and heroic poetry; Middle English lyrics and
romances; the Ricardian and Malory.
(PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
437
Tudor Literature: Poetry and Prose of the 16th Century
3 hrs. |
Survey
includes works by Wyatt, Philip and Mary Sidney, Spenser,
Elizabeth I, Nashe, Marlowe, Ralegh,
Anne Cecil, Lyly, Isabella Whitney, and Shakespeare, excluding
drama. (PR: ENG 102 or 302
or 201H) |
438
17th Century Literature: Poetry and Prose|
3 hrs. |
Survey
includes Donne and the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier
lyricists, Bacon, Browne, Lady Mary
Wroth, Herbert, Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, Burton, Walton, Hobbes,
and Bunyan. (PR: ENG 102 or 302
or 201H) |
444
Rendering the Landscape
3 hrs. |
Representing
landscape in words. Emphasis on student writing—any genre—supplemented
by selected readings.
Second week spent in field at state park. Lodging fee. |
446
Drama of the Restoration and 18th Century|
3 hrs. |
Trends,
movements, and dramatic types in the English theatre of this
period. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
447
English Romantic Poets
3 hrs. |
Emphasis
on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
(PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
450
Western World Literature to the Renaissance
3 hrs. I. |
Major
works (excluding English), with emphasis on Homer, the Greek
Drama, Virgil, Dante, and Cervantes.
(PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
451
Western World Literature Since the Renaissance
3 hrs. II. |
Major
works (excluding English and American), with emphasis on
Racine, Moliere, Goethe and principal
continental fiction. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
455
Literary Criticism
3 hrs. |
Historical
study, with application of principles. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
458
Contemporary Fiction: Form and Theory
3 hrs. |
Readings
in contemporary fiction addressing the work in terms of formal
and theoretical concerns. Cutting-edge
texts that challenge our notions of genre, form, theory, and
practice. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H). |
462
Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Poetry and Prose
3 hrs. |
Includes
works by Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, and
Wollstonecraft. Emphasis on satire, biography,
and literary criticism. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
465
Literature of War
3 hrs. |
Examines
the literary responses to an individual war and discusses the
artistic, cultural, and historical
contexts of those responses. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
475
Introduction to Linguistics
3 hrs. I, II. |
The
structural and descriptive approach to study of the English
language. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
476
Modern Grammar
3 hrs. |
A
descriptive analysis of the structure of present day American
English, utilizing the basic theory of generative
transformational grammar. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
478
Language, Society, and Self: An Introduction to
Sociolinguistics
3 hrs. |
Sociolinguistics
is the study of the effects of language in society, relevant
to discourse practices, language
attitudes, variations, shifts, and changes. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
480-483
Special Topics
1-3 hrs. each |
(PR:
ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
485-488
Independent Study 1-4 hrs. each. |
(PR:
Permission of chair) |
490
Internship in English 3 hrs. |
A
supervised internship. The student works for a local
firm/agency to gain practical experience in the
major. Arranged by student and department. Supervised by firm.
(PR: permission of chair) |
491
Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop
3 hrs. |
A
practical and intensive class in exploring the varieties of
creative expression; exercises on the creating
of verse in different forms and styles. (PR: ENG 377 or
permission of instructor) |
492
Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop
3 hrs. |
Offers
students a forum for presentation, discussion, and refinement
of their work, either short stories or
novels. (PR: ENG 378 or permission of instructor) |
493
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction
Workshop
3 hrs. |
A
writing workshop where students develop and refine their
original creative non-fiction (memoir, biography, essays,
travel/leisure writing, etc.), employing techniques typically
reserved for fiction (dialogue, narrative, poetic language,
etc.). (PR: ENG 360 or permission of the instructor) |
495H-496H
Readings for Honors in English
2-4; 2-4 hrs. I, II. |
Open
only to English majors of outstanding ability. Possible study
areas include world literature, works
of individual authors, etc. See Honors Courses. (PR:
Permission of chair) |
| |
| 500 Level Courses |
502
Pre-Professional Composition and Rhetoric
3 hrs. |
Study
of rhetorical invention and models of the composing process,
with intensive practice in writing. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
508
Advanced Expository Writing
3 hrs. |
Reports,
theses, briefs, abstracts and other expository types. Adapted
to the needs of the individual student. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
509
Milton
3 hrs. |
Biographical
and critical study, including Milton’s English poetry and
prose, and his literary and intellectual milieu. (PR: ENG 102
or 302 or 201H) |
510
Shakespeare’s Comedies, Tragicomedies, and Romances
3 hrs. |
Intensive
study of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragicomedies, and late
romances. Also includes the Sonnets and Venus and Adonis. (PR:
ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
511
Chaucer
3 hrs. |
The
poetry of Chaucer, chiefly the Canterbury Tales, in the light
of medieval tradition and critical analysis. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
512
Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies
3 hrs. |
Intensive
study of Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies. (PR: ENG 102
or 201H or 302) |
513
English Novel to 1800
3 hrs. |
Defoe,
Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, Smollett,
and Sterne, with supporting study of their most important
predecessors and contemporaries. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
514
Nineteenth Century English Novel
3 hrs. |
Austen,
Scott, the Brontes, Gaskell, Dickens, Hardy, Schreiner, and
others. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
515
Victorian Poetry
3 hrs. |
Tennyson,
Browning, Arnold and others. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
517
English Drama to 1642
3 hrs. |
Non-Shakespearean
English drama from its beginning to the closing of the
theatres. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
519
Approaches to Teaching Literature
3 hrs. |
The
intensive study of the pedagogy of literature and literary
critical theory and its classroom applications. |
521
American Literature to 1830
3 hrs. |
Study
of American literature of the Puritan, Colonial, and Federal
periods, including such authors as Jonathan Edwards, Edward
Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet,
Washington Irving, and James Fenimore Cooper. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
522
American Literature, 1830-1865
3 hrs. |
American
literature of the Romantic period, including such authors as
Emerson, Douglass, Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman,
Dickinson, and lesser figures of the period. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
523
American Literature, 1865-1914
3 hrs. |
American
literature of the Realistic and Naturalistic periods,
including such authors as Howells, Crane, Twain, James,
Chopin, Dreiser, Chestnut, and Wharton. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
525
Southern Writers
3 hrs. |
The
study of selected writers of the American South from the
beginnings to the present with special attention on writers
after 1920. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
528
International Literature
3 hrs. |
Readings
in contemporary literature from the non-Anglo-European world.
Texts will be taken from Asian, African, South American,
Australian, and other authors. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
533
Contemporary English Poetry
3 hrs. |
Principal
poetry since the Victorian period. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
534
Contemporary American Poetry
3 hrs. |
Principal
poetry since 1900. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
536
Medieval English Literature
3 hrs. |
Old
English elegiac and heroic poetry; Middle English lyrics and
romances; the Ricardian and Malory.
(PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
537
Tudor Literature: Poetry and Prose of the 16th Century
3 hrs. |
Survey
includes works by Wyatt, Philip and Mary Sidney, Spenser,
Elizabeth I, Nashe, Marlowe, Ralegh,
Anne Cecil, Lyly, Isabella Whitney, and Shakespeare, excluding
drama. (PR: ENG 102 or 302
or 201H) |
538
17th Century Literature: Poetry and Prose
3 hrs. |
Survey
includes Donne and the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier
lyricists, Bacon, Browne, Lady Mary
Wroth, Herbert, Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, Burton, Walton, Hobbes,
and Bunyan. (PR: ENG 102 or 302
or 201H) |
546
Drama of the Restoration and 18th Century
3 hrs. |
Trends,
movements, and dramatic types in the English theatre of this
period. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
547
English Romantic Poets
3 hrs. |
Emphasis
on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
(PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
555
Literary Criticism
3 hrs. |
Historical
study, with application of principles. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or
201H) |
558
Contemporary Fiction: Form and Theory
3 hrs. |
Readings
in contemporary fiction addressing the work in terms of formal
and theoretical concerns. Cutting-edge
texts that challenge our notions of genre, form, theory, and
practice. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H). |
562
Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Poetry and Prose
3 hrs. |
Includes
works by Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, and
Wollstonecraft. Emphasis on satire, biography,
and literary criticism. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
565
Literature of War
3 hrs. |
Examines
the literary responses to an individual war and discusses the
artistic, cultural, and historical
contexts of those responses. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
575
Introduction to Linguistics
3 hrs. I, II. |
The
structural and descriptive approach to study of the English
language. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
576
Modern Grammar
3 hrs. |
A
descriptive analysis of the structure of present day American
English, utilizing the basic theory of generative
transformational grammar. (PR: ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
578
Language, Society, and Self: An Introduction to
Sociolinguistics
3 hrs. |
Sociolinguistics
is the study of the effects of language in society, relevant
to discourse practices, language
attitudes, variations, shifts, and changes. (PR: ENG 102 or
302 or 201H) |
580-583
Special Topics
1-3 hrs. each |
(PR:
ENG 102 or 302 or 201H) |
585-588
Independent Study 1-4 hrs. each. |
(PR:
Permission of chair) |
591
Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop
3 hrs. |
A
practical and intensive class in exploring the varieties of
creative expression; exercises on the creating
of verse in different forms and styles. (PR: ENG 377 or
permission of instructor) |
592
Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop
3 hrs. |
Offers
students a forum for presentation, discussion, and refinement
of their work, either short stories or
novels. (PR: ENG 378 or permission of instructor) |
| |
| 600 Level Courses |
601
Folk and Popular Literature
3 hrs. |
A study
of types, variants, backgrounds, and influences. |
610
Readings in English and American Literature
2-3 hrs. |
Independent
reading in a field not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Limited to English majors who
have been admitted to candidacy. (PR: Permission of the chair)
|
611
Independent Readings
3 hrs. |
Independent
readings and research. Open only to students with an M.A.
degree with a major in English or
English Education. |
616
Essayists of the 19th Century
3 hrs. |
Major
British writers of the period. |
620
Twentieth Century Drama
3 hrs. |
Major
British and American dramatists since 1870. |
624
Twentieth Century British Novel
3 hrs. |
Major
British novelists of the twentieth century. |
625
Twentieth Century American Novel
3 hrs. |
Major
American novelists of the twentieth century. |
628
Twentieth Century African-American Literature
3 hrs. |
An
intensive study of selected novels, plays and poems of the
period. |
630
Materials and Methods of Research
4 hrs. |
Instruction
and practice in scholarly literary research. Required among
first 12 hours of coursework and
prior to admission to candidacy for the Master of Arts degree
with a major in English. |
631
Major American Authors
3 hrs. |
An
intensive study of one, two, or three selected American
authors. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of the chair) |
632
Topics in American Literature
3 hrs. |
Concentrated
study of continuing themes or influences in American
literature; for example, narrative perspectives,
regional influences, or conflicting agrarian and industrial
values. (PR: ENG 630 or per-mission of
the chair) |
636
Selected English Writers
3 hrs. |
An
intensive study of a small group of selected English writers
such as the Metaphysical Poets, the Cavalier
Poets, or the Bloomsbury Group. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of
the chair) |
637
Topics in English Literature
3 hrs. |
A
concentrated study of themes or influences in English
literature; for example, narrative strategies, medievalism,
the pastoral mode, or conflicting moral, social or literary
values. (PR: ENG 630 or permission of
the chair) |
640
Teaching College English
3 hrs. |
Required
for graduate assistants in English |
679
Problem Report
1-3 hrs. |
|
681
Thesis
1-6 hrs. |
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