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Spring 2018
Apr 18,2024 |
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| SPAN 100 - IS-Spanish |
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0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Spanish Department |
| SPAN 101 - FOUNDATIONS I - SPANISH |
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This course is the first half of a one-year sequence, is designed for students with no prior knowledge of the language. Heritage students are advised to take Intermediate or higher level courses. Students will practice using the language in various contexts likely to be encountered in real-life situations. Thematic and cultural contexts include daily social encounters, routine activities, survival needs, and handling school-related situations. Students will receive intensive in-class practice with the language, supplemented with daily work outside of class on individual assignments and small group activities that emphasize communication. Audio-visual materials will be used to enhance language skills. Attendance at the Language Laboratory is recommended. Lab Fee.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department |
| SPAN 102 - FOUNDATIONS II - SPANISH |
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This course is the second half of a one-year sequence in beginning Spanish. Students will build on the skills acquired in Foundations I to further develop their communicative and cultural competence. New thematic and cultural contexts will include friendship and love relationships, nature and the environment, housing, and travel. Students will receive intensive in-class practice with the language, supplemented with daily work outside of class on individual assignments and small group activities that emphasize communication. Audio-visual materials will be used to enhance language learning. Attendance at the Language Laboratory is recommended. Lab Fee.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department |
| SPAN 200 - IS-Spanish |
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0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Spanish Department |
| SPAN 201 - INTERMEDIATE I - SPANISH |
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This course offers an intensive review of the basic structures of the Spanish language while introducing students to the study of more complex structures, functions, and vocabulary. Activities have been designed to develop and practice a variety of skills students can apply to real-life situations. Instructors use a repertoire of strategies to help students expand their communicative and cultural competence. This is the first semester of a one year sequence in Intermediate Spanish. Lab Fee.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 202 - INTERMEDIATE II - SPANISH |
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This course, the second half of a one-year sequence in Intermediate Spanish, emphasizes the study of more complex structures and functions, and an enriching vocabulary that will allow students to reach higher levels of proficiency in the language. Instructors use a repertoire of strategies to help students expand their communicative and cultural competence. A variety of activities will facilitate the acquisition of knowledge about Hispanic culture, literature, and ways of life. Lab Fee.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 300 - IS-Spanish |
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0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Spanish Department |
| SPAN 301 - THE ART OF CONVERSATION IN SPANISH |
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Welcome to SPAN 310, El arte de conversar en espanol (The Art of Conversation in Spanish), a course designed to help you to develop advanced proficiency in Spanish in the four skill areas; speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Conversation, writing skills and fluency are highlighted in particular. This course emphasizes writing as a process, which means that good writing involves several steps including brainstorming, planning, research, free-writing, editing and revision. You will have the opportunity to revise all major papers. For help outside the classroom, please see the professor during office hours and/or work with one fo the Spanish tutors in the AIS lab. Reading and writing are excellent ways to greatly improve your literacy, fluency, vocabulary and accuracy in Spanish no matter your current proficiency. Some of the topics we will discuss are identity, personality, the imagination, film and other media, power and politics, love, and lifestyles. While grammar will not be a major focus in this course, we will review some advanced structures.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, WRITING INTENSIVE |
| SPAN 303 - THE ART OF READING IN SPANISH |
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This advanced course is a core requirement for all Spanish majors and an important bridge for those who wish to complete a literature concentration as it provides an introduction to literature in Spanish. In order to discuss literary selections we will use vocabulary and concepts pertaining to the field, such as personaje (character), genero (genre), cuento (short story), tema (theme), trama or argumento (plot), etc. Applied or thematic courses like this can lead to incredible acquisition of language and increased proficiency in all the skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening and cultural competence. Literature also carries rich cultural material that will help lead to deeper understanding and cultural competence, how well one can function within particular cultural contexts. Thus, we will emphasize the communities and historical periods in which these literary texts are produced.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 305 - SPANISH CIVILIZATION |
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A survey, conducted entirely in Spanish, of the country's culture through the study of geography, history, and artistic expression in order to gain a better understanding of the present-day Spanish speaking communities and their contribution to Western civilization.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 307 - LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY |
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This writing-intensive course entirely conducted in Spanish, is an exploration of key periods, events, actors, and interpreters of Latin American cultural and political history since the late 15th century. The first half of the course will be devoted to the three centuries of Spanish colonial rule in Latin America while the second half will focus on the wars for independence in the early 19th century and the postcolonial period. Throughout the course we will study the contributions of diverse Amerindian, European, African, and Asian peoples to the making of Latin American society. Class presentations and discussions will be based on representative works from Latin America and Latin American diasporas in the areas of literature, music, film, and the visual arts. This course has been designed for students who have completed the intermediate year of Spanish or higher.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 309 - BUSINESS SPANISH |
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An introduction to business language and vocabulary in the Spanish-speaking world. The course will focus on economy, geography, correspondence and trade regulations, as well as vocabulary and language used in banking, advertising, the stock market, insurance, communications, and export and import. Recommended for students with a Spanish or business minor.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 311 - SPANISH FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS |
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This couse is designed to provide students with skills necessary to communicate with the growing Spanish-speaking community in the United States. Conducted entirely in Spanish, this course will build on the student's previous skills in order to develop his/her listening, speaking, writing and reading skills in Spanish. Specifically, it will focus on how to conduct medical interviews, obtain the pertinent personal and family history and give specific instructions in Spanish. The course will also address the importance of understanding Hispanic Cultures and ways to build a patient-practitioner relationship. By learning Spanish, the student will also gain insight into the nature of his/her own language and culture in a comparative way -- particularly, "false cognates" (words and phrases that sound similar to Englsih but have different meanings) relevant to the medical field.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Spanish Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 313 - HISPANIC CULTURE THROUGH ARTISTS |
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This advanced Spanish language course will concentrate on major works of art in the Spanish-speaking world in order for students to become more proficient in the Spanish language and more knowledgeable about many aspects of Hispanic culture and civilization. The course covers works of art beginning with the pre-historic cave paintings of northern Spain and ending with the Chicano art of the American southwest. Some of the artists studied will be El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Picasso, Dali, Posada, Orozco, Kahlo, Rivera, Botero and Lam. The questions will be: "What can I see in this work of art?" and "How can I relate what I see to the Spanish speaking world?"
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 315 - HISPANIC WOMEN'S VOICES AND IMAGES |
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This four-credit course, entirely conducted in Spanish, offers a partial exploration of the literary and artistic production of women in the Hispanic Americas since the 17th century. We will read a number of poems, short stories, and testimonios by renowned women writers, as well as brief critical essays on gender and women's writing; view films and documentaries in Spanish by and on women; and listen to popular songs for clues about women's lives in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latino U.S. Some of the questions we will explore are the following: What do these voices and images tell us about the situation of women in these societies? Do all Latin American women share the same concerns? What commonalities and differences among the voices can we identify and how can we explain them? What spaces have opened up for women since colonial times? How have women used language and images to engage with their marginalized place in Hispanic societies? Have they been empowered through the arts? What can we learn from these women artists? This course has been designed for students who have completed the intermediate year of Spanish or higher. It is a content-driven course as well as a course that will help you further develop proficiency in Spanish. It is intended to bridge the language and literature courses.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: MJ-AMER-Gender & Sexuality, OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 320 - SYNTAX AND SUBSTANCE: SPANISH GRAMMAR |
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This course will foster students' learning about the Spanish syntax, that is, "the department of grammar which deals with the established usages of grammatical construction and the rules deduced therefrom," according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The course will reinforce and expand students' knowledge of the system of rules underlying the Spanish language. Students will practice grammar rules through controlled and communicative exercises, especially in areas of particular challenge to Anglophone and heritage speakers such as the use of the preterit versus the imperfect and ser versus estar as well as the subjunctive mode, prepositions and diacritical marks. While the study of isolated grammar structures will be an important part of the course, we will emphasize grammar in context as well as the learners' reflection on language through the examination of short texts and the comparative framework supported by translation. Students will see how grammar functions in short stories by well-known writers, newspaper articles, and through the scrutiny of their own postings on the Web.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 330 - NUEVA YORK LATINO (LATIN N.Y.) |
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Nueva York Latino/Latin New York is a 300 level interdisciplinary course designed to explore the complexity of the Latino communities in the New York/New Jersey area. The 2010 Census already shows that Hispanics are the second largest group in America, with one in six Americans identifying as Latino. By the year 2050, nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Hispanic. This course will examine the ways in which generations of Latinos have become integral to the fabric of New York City's urban landscape since the 19th century, extending their influence from the city to neighboring suburban enclaves and even back to the Caribbean and Latin America. It will examine the diversity within the Latino ethnic groups, as well as the Hispanic influence in the multiple sites--in media, poular culture, literature, politics, and the arts--where Latinidad, a discursive category, finds concrete expressions. The course will be taught in Spanish. Lab Fee.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Spanish Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERCULT NORTH AMERICA |
| SPAN 340 - MODERN & CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE |
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The course introduces students to the canonical texts of Spanish Peninsular literature written in between the 18th and the 20th century; these texts are addressed in their cultural and historical context. Through literary analyses, students will also learn how to write about these texts, in Spanish, and develop a further understanding of world literature through a comparative approach.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Spanish Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 390 - TOPICS: |
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The descriptions and topics of this course change from semester-to-semester, as well as from instructor-to-instructor. Some courses may stress Spanish culture while others may emphasize Latin America. The courses are taught in Spanish.
Prerequisite: varies with the topic offered.
SPAN 390 HISPANIC LITERATURE AND FILM. This course will examine contemporary topics of Hispanic culture through their representation in literature and film. Some of the topics to be addressed are historical memory, personal relationships, gender and authority, political repression, and social marginalization. The courses will include novels and plays by such writers as Gabriel García Márquez, Federico García Lorca, Isabel Allende, Manuel Rivas, and Manuel Puig, and films by Almodóvar, Buñuel, Gutiérrez Alea, Meirelles, and Guzmán, among others.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department |
| SPAN 400 - IS-SPANISH |
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Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Spanish Department |
| SPAN 401 - THE ART OF WRITING & FORMAL RESEARCH TECHNIQUES |
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In El arte de escribir y tecnicas de investigacion formal (The Art of Writing and Formal Research Technigues ) you will focus on narrative, expository and argumentative modes of writing using college level discourse. We will also discuss the rhetorical situation, argumentation and suport of ideas, responsible documentation of sources, and research techniques. This course emphasizes writing as a process, which means that good writing involves several steps including brainstorming, planning, research, free-writing, editing and revision. The course emphasizes learning by doing and so you will analyze models of styles and techniques in order to be able to comprehend their effects and use them well. Then you will apply the techniques in your own work. Finally you will reflect on your process and analyze your own work and dialogue with each other about your choices. You will have the opportunity to revise all major papers. We highlight writing skills, however, if you apply yourself, you will improve your Spanish proficiency in all the skills. Reading and writing are excellent ways to greatly improve your literacy, fluency, vocabulary, and accuracy in Spanish no matter your current proficiency. Furthermore, communication and rhetorical skills transfer to any other languages you use!
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, WRITING INTENSIVE |
| SPAN 404 - EARLY TRANSATLANTIC ENCOUNTERS |
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The course introduces students to Spanish and Latin American major texts written around the period of the Conquest, through critical examination and literary analyses. These texts are addressed in their cultural and historical context. Through a transatlantic approach, students compare the consequences of the Conquest in the epistemologies of Spanish and Latin American authors. As the course is taught in Spanish, the students will also be developing their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in this language.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 409 - BUSINESS SPANISH II |
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FORMERLY LANG-442: A continuation of 300-level Business I language course.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Lecture/Online, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES |
| SPAN 410 - LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1900 |
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This writing-intensive, four-credit course will concentrate on the contemporary literature of Latin America. The course will present a panoramic view of the short story, poetry, drama, and essay written in the Hispanic Americas since the early 20th century. It will introduce writers identified with the post-modernist and vanguardista movements, as well as those of the Latin American boom and post-boom periods, including contemporary women writers. Among other writers, we will read three Nobel Prize winners, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Octavio Paz, all of whom have left their mark indelibly in regional letters and beyond. Throughout the course we will focus on distinctive features of contemporary Latin American literature and pay attention to the relationship between literature and society. All of the readings will be in Spanish and the class will be conducted in Spanish as well. It is recommended that students take at least one upper level course before signing up for this one.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, WRITING INTENSIVE |
| SPAN 415 - HISPANIC CARIBBEAN WRITERS AND POP CULTURE |
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The Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Puerto Rico have produced some of the major writers in Hispanic literature, as well as some of the most popular musical forms in Spanish-speaking countries and beyond. This course, entirely conducted in Spanish, will explore the contributions made by the peoples of the three island nations to the broader Hispanic culture and the global community since the mid-nineteenth century, at the same time it will provide the socio-historical context that made those contributions possible. Guided by a thematic and largely chronological approach to cultural manifestations in the Hispanic Caribbean, students will read major writers, watch relevant films, and study musical forms from the region. Some of the themes include the making of nations, race and mestizaje, gender and sexuality, and the Caribbean experience in the U.S. The course will have a quick pace, requiring a lot of reading at times. It is recommended that students take at least two upper level courses before enrolling in this one.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE TOPICS SOCIAL SCIENCE |
| SPAN 420 - ADVANCED COMMUNICATION IN SPANISH |
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Advanced Communication in Spanish presents an opportunity for you to reach a more advanced level of ability, ease and confidence in speaking and writing Spanish. You will participate in intensive practice of negotiating meaning, expressing emotion and abstract concepts, hypothesizing and other advanced communicative skills. Authentic materials, film, music, literature and visual arts, serve as springboards to discussion and writing exercises. Mastery of any language requires continuous practice and attention to linguistic detail. Of course, an enormous part of this ability is cultural competence that is required to effectively negotiate our diverse global world. In order to be able to engage
with others authentically, we must understand the dynamics of power and privilege and identify and move beyond ethnocentric views we receive from our culture.
This course emphasizes writing as a process, which means that good writing involves several steps including brainstorming, planning, research, free-writing, editing and revision. The course emphasizes learning by doing and so you will analyze models of styles and techniques in order to be able to use them well. Finally you will reflect on your process and analyze your own work and dialogue with each other about your choices. You will have the opportunity to revise all major papers. Here we highlight writing skills, however, ifyou apply yourself, you will improve your Spanish proficiency in all the skills. Reading and writing are excellent ways to greatly improve your literacy, fluency, vocabulary and accuracy in Spanish no matter your current proficiency. Furthermore, communication and rhetorical skills transfer to any other languages you use!
The ultimate goal ofthis course is to help you become a life-long learner and provide some examples of how to maintain and increase your linguistic and cultural competence on your own. One way to support your mastery goals is to be able to self assess as you progress. Each student will be tested orally using the ACTFL Oral Proficiency lnterview during the semester and will be given an unofficial
rating in speaking, a nationally recognized assessment based on ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. The coaching around this interview will be especially helpful to those seeking teacher certification, as it is required by the state, and for anyone interested in obtaining the rating for the job market.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, WRITING INTENSIVE |
| SPAN 421 - REWRITING HISPANIC IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS |
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This capstone course is designed to provide students majoring in Spanish with an understanding of the theoretical and historical frames in which the Hispanic tradition has been conceived throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Texts dealing with this topic will be analyzed not only for content, but for their potential as rhetorical, structural and stylistic models. The students will draw from these models to write a research paper on a subject of their choice. Students will also be asked to present their work publicly at the end of the course. The twofold nature of the course aims to further students' academic and professional competence and prepare them for graduate work and/or the teaching of Spanish and Hispanic culture in American schools.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Language Department Course Attributes: OLD GE-INTERNATIONAL ISSUES, WRITING INTENSIVE |
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