Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies (FGSS)Arts and Sciences

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FGSS 2010
Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program focused on understanding the impact of gender and sexuality on the world around us and on the power hierarchies that structure ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5420 FGSS 2010   LEC 001

  • To ensure that underclassmen are able to enroll, enrollment caps are placed on this course during pre-enroll. This is why you may be unable to enroll even if there seems to be space in the class. If this happens, please e-mail Professor Chang (jhc324) and she will add you to the waitlist.

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FGSS 2290
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies

This course offers an introduction to the questions, topics, approaches, and theories that characterize the field of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Studies. Using an interdisciplinary approach ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2290, LGBT 2290

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16822 FGSS 2290   LEC 001

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FGSS 2351
Intro to Africa and its Diaspora

This course introduces students to the study of Africa and its Diasporas, including the Americas and West Indies, as well as Europe.  The course takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach to a range ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 2351

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16548 FGSS 2351   LEC 001

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FGSS 2468
Medicine, Culture, and Society

Medicine has become the language and practice through which we address a broad range of both individual and societal complaints. Interest in this "medicalization of life" may be one of the reasons that ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2468, BSOC 2468, STS 2468

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9629 FGSS 2468   LEC 001

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  •  9630 FGSS 2468   DIS 201

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  •  9631 FGSS 2468   DIS 202

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  •  9632 FGSS 2468   DIS 204

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  •  9633 FGSS 2468   DIS 205

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  •  9634 FGSS 2468   DIS 206

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  •  9635 FGSS 2468   DIS 207

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  •  9636 FGSS 2468   DIS 208

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  •  9637 FGSS 2468   DIS 209

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FGSS 2512
Black Women in the 20th Century

This course focuses on African American women in the 20th century. The experiences of black women will be examined from a social, practical, communal, and gendered perspective. Topics include the Club ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2512, ASRC 2512, HIST 2512

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17106 FGSS 2512   LEC 001

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FGSS 2620
Performing Death and Desire: Vampires on Stage and Screen

Why are the undead so long-lived? This course hunts the dangerous and subversive figure of the vampire across a variety of pages, stages and screens. From campy melodramas and raucous stage comedies, to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PMA 2620

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18183 FGSS 2620   SEM 101

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FGSS 2621
Gendering Religion, Science and Technology

There are several "just-so stories" about science and religion: the world's religions are parallel systems of belief in the supernatural; science has a set method that produces universal truths; and religion ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2621, STS 2621

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18009 FGSS 2621   LEC 001

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FGSS 2841
Viruses- Humans-Viral Politics (Social History and Cultural Politics of HIV & AIDS)

This course explores what has been termed "the modern plague."  It investigates the social history, cultural politics, biological processes, and global impacts of the retrovirus, HIV, and the disease syndrome, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18004 FGSS 2841   LEC 001

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 3015
Cyborg Writing: Diasporic Literary Media

This course examines the relationships between diasporic/transnational experiences and emerging forms, practices and technologies of literary production. We will analyze literary media, such as interactive ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AAS 3015, ENGL 3915

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18546 FGSS 3015   SEM 101

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FGSS 3210
Gender and the Brain

In this course, we will delve into the neuroscience of gender difference. Reading the original scientific papers and related critical texts, we will ask whether we can find measureable physical differences ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIONB 3215, LGBT 3210

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9457 FGSS 3210   LEC 001

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  • Prerequisite: BIONB 2220, BIOMG 3320, FGSS 2010, LGBT 2290 or permission of instructor. For NBB concentration: this course may be used toward the additional 7 credit requirement, but does not qualify as an advanced course.

FGSS 3376
Digital Asia

New media remain central to ongoing struggles over the constitution of the public sphere in Asia. In high measure, censorship affects the Internet and visual media (including digital, independent cinema), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3376, ASIAN 6676, FGSS 6676

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16100 FGSS 3376   LEC 001

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FGSS 3520
(Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History

This course will offer an historical overview of responses to bodily and cognitive difference.  What was the status of the monster, the freak, the abnormal, the (dis)abled, and how are all of these concepts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3520

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15845 FGSS 3520   SEM 101

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FGSS 3540
Modeling Race, Fashioning Beauty

This course explores written and visual biographies of African American and African women in the fashion industry as a launching point for thinking about beauty, race, gender and class. Some of the questions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3560, ASRC 3550

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17381 FGSS 3540   SEM 101

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FGSS 3588
Creating Renaissance Man (and Woman)

This course is dedicated to studying important works of literature that address what it means, in the Renaissance, to strive for excellence as a man or as a woman, especially in the public sphere and in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ITAL 3580

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17984 FGSS 3588   SEM 101

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FGSS 3655
Women in New Media Art

The work of women artists has been central to the development of new media art. These rich and varied practices include installation, virtual reality environments, net art, digital video, networked performance, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3651, VISST 3651

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17972 FGSS 3655   LEC 001

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FGSS 3691
The Race and Gender of Poverty in Literature and Film

Poverty is an ongoing issue in the United States, and has intensified since the recession of 2008. As such, poverty has disproportionately affected women and underrepresented racial and ethnic communities. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3690, ENGL 3690

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15566 FGSS 3691   SEM 101

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FGSS 3991
Undergraduate Independent Study

Individual study program intended for juniors and seniors working on special topics with selected reading or research projects not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5422 FGSS 3991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Juffer, J

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7753 FGSS 3991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Hodzic, S

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7754 FGSS 3991   IND 603

    • TBA

    • Ramberg, L

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7755 FGSS 3991   IND 604

    • TBA

    • McCullough, K

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8567 FGSS 3991   IND 605

    • TBA

    • Castillo, D

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9674 FGSS 3991   IND 606

    • TBA

    • Ghosh, D

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FGSS 4000
Senior Seminar in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

For Spring 2018, this course will focus on The Complexities of Consent.  The issue of consent is central to much feminism scholarship, yet its meaning is contested. It figures prominently in relation to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9196 FGSS 4000   SEM 101

  • This class is open to FGSS majors, minors, and with permission of the instructor.

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FGSS 4020
Reading the Body in Medicine and Fiction

This course examines how modern Spanish writers and doctors represented the human body as they grappled with disease and disability.  Reading fiction alongside medical and anthropological texts we will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SPAN 4020

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17931 FGSS 4020   SEM 101

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FGSS 4035
Intersectionality in Disability Studies

A recognition of the importance of intersectionality, or the understanding of how identities such as disability, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic class, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: ILRLR 4035

  • 2 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 14467 FGSS 4035   LEC 001

    • W Ives Hall 217
    • Mar 19 - May 9, 2018

    • Cook, L

      Heinemann, A

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FGSS 4114
Science, Medicine, the Body: A Critical Race and Feminist Inquiry

In this course we will consider the production of the human body as an artifact of race, sex and gender through the discourses, practices, and technologies of bio-science and bio-medicine. We will read ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17129 FGSS 4114   SEM 101

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FGSS 4160
Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia

Students consider the relationships among colonialism and gender and sexual identity formation in Southeast Asia. Using material from a wide range of fields including anthropology and literature, the course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17137 FGSS 4160   SEM 101

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FGSS 4501
African Women Writers Critique the PostColonial State

This course reads and discusses representative literature from 20th century continental African writers with particular attention to the ways that African women examine the nature of the post-colonial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4501, ASRC 6105, ENGL 4501

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17367 FGSS 4501   SEM 101

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FGSS 4504
The City: Asia

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16075 FGSS 4504   SEM 101

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FGSS 4509
Toni Morrison's Novels

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955.  To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16563 FGSS 4509   SEM 101

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FGSS 4620
Undocumentation

In this seminar we will sustain a particular reading of post-1984 Mexico-US border cultural production as "undocumentation." Specifically, we will focus on performance, conceptual, and cinematic practices ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16492 FGSS 4620   SEM 101

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FGSS 4652
Bodies and Diseases in the Middle East (1500-2000)

Bodies and Diseases in the Middle East (1500-2000) will explore the history of medicine and science in the Middle East from early modern period to the present. It covers the main topics and questions regarding ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BSOC 4651, NES 4652, NES 6652

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8931 FGSS 4652   SEM 101

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FGSS 4701
Nightlife

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks.  Focusing on queer communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  9606 FGSS 4701   LEC 001

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FGSS 4711
Late Theory

This seminar explores theoretical work in which lateness figures as the signal condition, gesture, problem, or method. We begin with two topics prominent in twentieth-century criticism: late style and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17816 FGSS 4711   SEM 101

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FGSS 4841
What is (an) Epidemic? (Infectious Diseases in Historical, Social, and Political Perspective)

The term "epidemic" travels widely and wildly in contemporary worlds.  But, what, when and where is "the epidemic"? How and why does epidemic unfold? This senior seminar offers an interdisciplinary exploration ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4041, BSOC 4841, STS 4841

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18002 FGSS 4841   SEM 101

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 4945
Body Politics in African Literature and Cinema

The course examines how postcolonial African writers and filmmakers engage with and revise controversial images of bodies and sexuality--genital cursing, same-sex desire, HIV/AIDS, genital surgeries, etc. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17321 FGSS 4945   SEM 101

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FGSS 4991
Senior Honors Thesis II

To graduate with honors, FGSS majors must complete a senior thesis under the supervision of an FGSS faculty member and defend that thesis orally before an honors committee. To be eligible for honors, students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5423 FGSS 4991   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Juffer, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7752 FGSS 4991   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Ghosh, D

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 6160
Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia

Students consider the relationships among colonialism and gender and sexual identity formation in Southeast Asia. Using material from a wide range of fields including anthropology and literature, the course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18743 FGSS 6160   SEM 101

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FGSS 6504
The City: Asia

This course uses the lens of temporality to track transformations in notions of urban personhood and collective life engendered by recent trans-Asia economic shifts. We will develop tools that help unpack ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8873 FGSS 6504   SEM 101

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FGSS 6513
Toni Morrison's Novels

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955.  To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16747 FGSS 6513   SEM 101

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FGSS 6676
Digital Asia

New media remain central to ongoing struggles over the constitution of the public sphere in Asia. In high measure, censorship affects the Internet and visual media (including digital, independent cinema), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3376, ASIAN 6676, FGSS 3376

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16102 FGSS 6676   LEC 001

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FGSS 6711
Late Theory

This seminar explores theoretical work in which lateness figures as the signal condition, gesture, problem, or method. We begin with two topics prominent in twentieth-century criticism: late style and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17814 FGSS 6711   LEC 001

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FGSS 6990
Topics in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Independent reading course for graduate students on topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students develop a course of readings in consultation with a faculty member in the field of Feminist, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5402 FGSS 6990   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

FGSS 7114
Science, Medicine, the Body: A Critical Race and Feminist Inquiry

In this course we will consider the production of the human body as an artifact of race, sex and gender through the discourses, practices, and technologies of bio-science and bio-medicine.  We will read ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17132 FGSS 7114   SEM 101

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