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ACCT 486 - Accounting Internship
The internship highlights academic study with a focus in various areas of accounting. It offers students the opportunity to test classroom theory, align career goals, develop a professional outlook, proof communication skills, and deepen the understanding of the functions of accounting in a business setting. Academic credit is dependent upon the number of hours spent at the internship site. Courses for junior and senior business majors only.
Prerequisites & Notes
SPCO 220 - Internship Preparation Seminar
Credits: 1-6
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AEXS 101 - Introduction to Applied Exercise Science
This introductory course in Applied Exercise Science is designed for Applied Exercise Science majors. This course provides an overview to the field of applied exercise science. The student will gain exposure to various career options and the settings for professional practice. Introduction to the curriculum, policies and procedures for the major will be provided.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 284 - On-Campus Practicum
This course represents the first in a sequence of practica experiences. Students are afforded the opportunity to observe and, to a limited extent, develop techniques, methodologies, and philosophies of teaching exercise under the direct supervision of Springfield College faculty members.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 101 - Introduction to Applied Exercise Science
Credits: 1
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AEXS 313 - Physiology of Exercise
This course takes a systematic approach to the study of the impact of exercise on human physiology. Both acute and chronic exercise responses are studied. Systems covered included, but are not limited skeletal muscle, exercise biochemistry, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and endocrine.
Prerequisites & Notes
BIOL 130
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BIOL 132
Credits: 3
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AEXS 315 - Physiology of Exercise - Lab
Lab component of AEXS 313.
Credits: 0
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AEXS 321 - Kinesiology / Biomechanics - Lab
Lab component of AEXS 319.
Credits: 0
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AEXS 362 - Exercise Testing and Prescription-Lab
Lab component of AEXS 360.
Credits: 0
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AEXS 377 - Stress Management
This course provides an overview of principles and practices in stress management. The concept of stress, the psychophysiology of stress, the measurement of stress, the relation of stress to mental/physical health and performance, prevention and intervention in stress management, and special topics related to stress are discussed.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 470 - Strength and Conditioning
This course is designed to provide students with information for the design and implementation of a successful strength and conditioning program. Emphasis will be placed on assessment, description and analysis of sport movement, and designing weight training programs to enhance performance variables. This course will assist those students who desire to take the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Certified Strength and Conditioning (CSCS) Exam. However, this course is not a preparation course for the exam.
Prerequisites & Notes
AEXS 313, 315, 319 and 321.
Credits: 3
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AEXS 471 - Strength and Conditioning Applications
This course provides students with the appropriate setting in which to apply the principles of strength and conditioning that are taught in the AEXS 470 course. Emphasis is placed on assessment of athletic performance as well as the development of musculoskeletal flexibility, speed, agility, quickness, strength, and power.
Prerequisites & Notes
Co-requisite: AEXS 470 - Strength and Conditioning
Credits: 1
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Art |
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ARTS 101 - Materials and Techniques
This course gives students experience in a variety of materials- metal, ceramics, woods, and cloth. Each medium is developed as a unique form of creative expression.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 102 - Arts and Ideas
This course is designed to combine the elements of art with art history. Through the study of the plastic elements of art and composition, students view the role of the artist from ancient times to the present day to form a better understanding of the aesthetics of our own human nature.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 103 - Studio in Computer Graphics
This is an introductory course that focuses on the technology of computer graphics. Each student has the opportunity to explore a number of graphic and web programs, which will allow them to design web pages of almost unlimited possibilities. No previous computer experience is necessary. A strong sense of design and drawing ability are keys for success in this course. Cross-listed with CISC 103.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 104 - Creativity: Methods and Practices
This course explores the creative processes of artists in the visual arts. Examples of work by the leaders of contemporary art, as well as artists of historical significance are analyzed. Slides, tapes, films, museum visits, and guest artists provide an integral part of the course. Through this examination of art, students have the opportunity to develop an aesthetic sensitivity that can be applied to creating more meaningful and significant artistic statements of their own.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 105 - Studio in Printmaking
This course explores the varied aspects of the printmaking media. Areas covered are intaglio, calligraphy, and lithography. Work is done using both traditional and experimental techniques in black and white and in color.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 108 - Studio in Drawing
This course sets out to increase the student’s ability to draw realistically. Drawings are treated as an independent medium rather than a sketch exercise or studies for other materials.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 111 - Studio in Design
This is an exploration of design as a visual language as it exists on a flat surface. Students are guided toward the understanding of the basic design elements as a means to maximize the freedom of expression in the area of communication and originality.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 116 - Studio in Painting
This is a course in which the many aspects of making a painting are explored. Various painting problems are assigned in order to focus on the capacity of painting for control and scope of expression. Students are encouraged to develop and realize their personal ideas as exciting visual images.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 118 - Introduction to Community Arts
This course introduces students to the field of socially engaged art practices, and is designed for students interested in merging social activism, creative work, performance, teaching and youth development. Students learn how to identify, approach and construct classes for community sites, including youth organizations, schools and after-school programs, as well as institutions serving other populations through the arts in a community setting. The course examines the processes of creative thinking, community involvement, collaborative enterprise, research, and education in community arts.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 120 - Contemporary Art
This course provides a survey of contemporary art from early in the Twentieth Century until the present. Illustrated by slides and other visual materials, the lectures and discussions, focus on the Modern and Post Modern Art of the Western World and also includes Art from non-Western societies. The course focuses on painting, sculpture and photography as well as art using new materials and multi-media techniques.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 202 - Computer Animation
This course provides the student with an in-depth study of the creation of computer animation. Each student has the opportunity to develop animated pieces from initial conception to final animation, and then developing it for the web. Students use a variety of two-dimensional software and develop skills in story boarding and interactivity.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 210 - Figure Drawing
This course is an in-depth study of the traditional problems of drawing the figure, working with light, weight, dimension, and color. Emphasis is placed on developing the student’s sensitivity and awareness to the many possibilities and potentials that the human form possesses. Students draw directly from both male and female models. Work is done in such media as charcoal, ink, pencil, and conti-crayon, as well as in techniques of contour, line, and work drawings.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 211 - Studio in Sculpture
This course develops the individual imaginative efforts of students working in the third dimension. Emphasis is placed on the relationship of materials, scale, means, and concept as related to the artist’s statement. Students may work in a variety of materials and techniques such as wood, stone, plaster, metal, wax, and clay.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 217 - Arts of the Prehistory to the Renaissance
This survey course examines the development of the visual arts from cave painting to the beginning of the modern era. It concentrates on the relationship between artistic expression and social and cultural forces.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 218 - Renaissance to Modern Art
This course provides a descriptive survey of painting, sculpture, decorative arts and architecture from the Renaissance to Modern Era. This course includes the development of Western styles as well as those of Africa, Asia, and South America. Slides and visual materials illustrate lectures and discussions. This course focuses on the relationship between artistic expression and societal and cultural forces during this time period.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 219 - American Art 1700-1900
This course is a survey of painting, architecture, and sculpture from the early Colonial Period to the turn of the Twentieth Century. It emphasizes the meaning and function of art in the historic and cultural context of the developing nation.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 221 - Women Artists in History
This course examines the achievements and contributions of European and American women artists from the Middle Ages to the present in terms of the culture in which they lived and worked.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 222 - Asian Arts and Culture
This course provides a survey of the arts of Asia, specifically India, China, and Japan from prehistory to modern times. Lectures and discussions focus on the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as the art of Feng Shui, Ikebana, Calligraphy, Haiku, Bonsai, Raku, and martial arts. Students have an opportunity to work directly with some of the art forms. Students are exposed to the aesthetics as well as the philosophical basis of these Eastern Arts.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 223 - Studio in Ceramics
This course is an introduction to the various methods of pottery making. Students explore such forming methods as slab, pinch, coil, and throwing. The uses of glazing and kiln firing as a means for enhancing the design of both the pottery form and its function are developed. Tests are conducted in differing clay bodies and glaze information.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 225 - Studio in Photography
This course explores the photographic process, the use of equipment, history of photography and current trends. Emphasis is placed upon the use of the camera as a creative means of expression.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 228 - Three-Dimensional Design
This course explores our urban environment as three-dimensional design. Students are encouraged to use the urban community as a classroom for studying the aesthetic interrelationships of man and his environment. Such basic design elements as color, form, shape, texture, and scale as related to the human elements are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 231 - 3-D Animation
This course is designed for individuals who are interested in developing expertise in 3-D computer animation. 3-D animation theory and practice are integrated using the latest computer programs. Animation composition and the creation of storyboards are taught in addition, as a variety of graphic and digital video tools are explored. Skills in lighting, vector layout, and animation rendering are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 245 - Contemporary Jewish Art
This course is an overview of the lives and works of Jewish visual artists from the mid-nineteenth century to today. The effects of anti-Semitism on the themes and acceptance of Jewish artists is addressed. In addition to a didactic approach, a component of this course explores the styles and media of these artists. Artistic skill is not required, only a willingness for students to explore their creativity.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 248 - Interarts Workshop
This course trains musicians, singers, dancers, painters, sculptors, actors, designers, and graphic artists to function as a collective in the preparation and mounting of a major stage production in an apprentice-like manner by contract with faculty coaches/directors.
Prerequisites & Notes
Auditions, interviews, and permission of the company directors.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 255 - Introduction to Art Education
This course explores the stages of a child’s development through art and how to teach developmentally-appropriate creative art activities in elementary, middle, and high schools. Students participate in art exercises and are required to design and critique lesson plans. Art teaching that emphasizes current research in art education is a major focus.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 280 - Integrating Arts in the Classroom
The focus of this course is to train students in the basics of integrating visual arts in the curriculum. In order to create a framework for this to occur students need to be familiar with several aspects of art education. Students learn the stages of art development, goals and benefits, interdisciplinary connections, cross-cultural art and art as a tool for social justice.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 290 - Art in the Community
Art in the Community. This is a Community Service Experience. Licensure students take this course for 3 credits.
Credits: 3
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ARTS 320 - Advanced Web Design
In this course the student will explore advanced concepts in page design for the World Wide Web by creating a series of visually exciting, well-balanced, standards-compliant web pages using XHTML and CSS. Proper markup and the relationship between the Content and Appearance of each page will be investigated.
Prerequisites & Notes
ARTS 103 - Studio in Computer Graphics
Credits: 3
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ARTS 330 - Digital Sculpting and Surfacing
In this course students will learn how to integrate Maya and ZBrush in accordance to current production methodologies used in the film and game industries. Students will learn how to model, texture, surface, light, render and manage topology. Students will also learn how to use ZBrush as a tool for realizing, editing and refining concepts.
Prerequisites & Notes
ARTS 231 - 3-D Animation
Credits: 3
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ARTS 340 - Advanced Rigging and Animation
In this course, students learn advanced rigging and animation techniques in accordance with current production methodologies used in the film and game industries. Through the development of these advanced technical skills, students will be able to create dynamic animated content for a variety of disciplines including games and film. Students will learn how to make biped and quadruped rigs using forward and inverse kinematics, and how to efficiently animate models using the rigs they create.
Prerequisites & Notes
ARTS 231 - 3-D Animation
Credits: 3
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ARTS 382 - Seminar in Teaching Art
The focus of this seminar is on the further development of students’ knowledge, skills, and understanding of methodologies acquired in field experiences. Selected issues in art education and the history of the discipline are discussed. State and national guidelines for art competencies and museum education trends are addressed. This course provides port from an art education perspective for students in their student teaching in the visual arts.
Credits: 1
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ARTS 386 - Supervised Field Experience
This course provides the opportunity for the student to become involved in the professional digital arts community. The student works directly with the people at a 3-D studio, gallery, graphic or a web design firm. An exhibit of student artwork in their own areas of interest as presented at the completion of the experience. This field experience requires a minimum of 400 clock hours of placement time. A minimum of nine semester hours is required for graduation.
Credits: 1-9
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ATPY 101 - Introduction to Art Therapy
This course introduces students to the profession of art therapy, including its history and development. Therapeutic and diagnostic methods used in working with physically, emotionally, and socially disabled individuals are studied.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 105 - Methods and Materials of Art Therapy
This course covers a range of methods, materials, and techniques employed by the Art therapist/art educator. Students explore various art materials and techniques for use with a wide variety of populations and settings where art is used as a group activity, such as schools, hospitals, community centers, etc. This is a hands-on methods course that provides students a deeper understanding of theory and practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
ATPY 101 - Introduction to Art Therapy
Credits: 3
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ATPY 203 - Art Therapy with Special Needs Populations
This course is designed for individuals who are interested in working with multi-diagnosed individuals through art therapy. Various therapeutic approaches in art therapy as well as psychological and educational aspects of providing services to special needs populations are discussed. Students discover how art therapy can be used as an educational tool as well as a therapeutic modality.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 410 - The Therapeutic Aspects of Clay
This course demonstrates techniques and tools to utilize clay as a therapeutic medium. It introduces methods and theories of art therapy utilizing clay as a tool for healing. Technical and theoretical information is covered in depth, along with the integration of clay as a vehicle to express social and political concerns.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 430 - Multicultural Issues in Art Therapy
The social, political, and multicultural concerns that arise in the practice of art therapy are addressed in this course. Topics include, but are not limited to, multicultural issues in art assessment, art therapy treatment, ethics, family art therapy, and art therapy with various clientele.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 482 - Art Therapy Seminar
This seminar integrates topics in art therapy applicable to entry-level work in the field. Topics include multicultural aspects of art therapy, assessment and evaluation, aesthetics, new techniques, introduction to research and tools for obtaining a job.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 484 - Practicum in Art Therapy
This course provides students with an in-depth practicum experience in the art therapy field. Students practice observation skills, co-lead groups, and work with individual clients in agencies, schools, clinics, and other human service organizations. Students receive supervision from the College supervisor in-group and individual sessions. Depending on the site, students may utilize various approaches such as art as healing, art as adjunctive therapy, or a traditional art therapy approach.
Prerequisites & Notes
ATPY 309 - Pre-Practicum in Art Therapy and Art Education
Credits: 1-6
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ATPY 504 - Printmaking for the Art Therapist
In this course, students learn traditional and innovative printmaking techniques, utilize materials and equipment, and understand limits and advantages of printmaking as a therapeutic modality in clinical sites. Students are required to produce prints in various media, apply techniques to selected client populations in a written paper, and produce a final book project.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 507 - Psychology of Art and Artists
This course integrates concepts and theories of art education, art therapy, and art
history. Students learn the parameters and potential fusion of these disciplines.
Discussions of the analysis of art by nineteenth and twentieth century artists who
experienced psychological problems, as well as the utilization of art history in
therapeutic practice with clientele, are the essence of the course.
Credits: 3
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ATPY 508 - Art Therapy and the Elderly Client
This course presents art therapy as a tool to work with the physical, psychological, and social needs of the elderly. It focuses on materials and methodologies that the art therapist uses to assist the elderly to express these needs nonverbally through the art process.
Credits: 2
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Athletic Training |
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ATRN 110 - Introduction to Athletic Training
This introductory course in athletic training is designed for athletic training majors and those considering athletic training as a career. It exposes students to the professional preparation of athletic trainers and their role as a health care professional at all levels. It also provides an introduction to the Springfield College Athletic Training Program.
Credits: 1
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ATRN 116 - Risk Management and Preventation Lab
Lab component of ATRN 114.
Credits: 0
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ATRN 122 - Emergency Medical Response Lab
Lab component of ATRN 120.
Credits: 0
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ATRN 229 - Orthopedic Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis I Lab
Lab component of ATRN 227.
Credits: 0
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ATRN 230 - Orthopedic Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis II Lab
Lab component of ATRN 228.
Credits: 0
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ATRN 285 - Sophomore Practicum in Athletic Training II
This spring, sophomore-year athletic training clinical experience emphasizes continued development of entry-level competence in athletic injury prevention, evaluation, and management. The students develop these competencies working with college and secondary school athletes under the supervision of certified athletic trainers.
Prerequisites & Notes
ATRN major
ATRN 227 - Orthopedic Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis I
ATRN 284 - Sophomore Practicum in Athletic Training I
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current CPR/FA certification.
Credits: 1
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ATRN 306 - Therapeutic Interventions: I Lab
Lab component of ATRN 305.
Credits: 0
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ATRN 308 - Therapeutic Interventions: II Lab
Lab component of ATRN 307.
Credits: 0
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ATRN 384 - Junior Practicum in Athletic Training I
This fall, junior-year athletic training clinical experience provides athletic training students the opportunity to further develop their practical skills in athletic injury prevention and management. Students are assigned to clinical preceptors, either on- or off-campus to gain experience working with diverse patient populations.
Prerequisites & Notes
ATRN major
ATRN 228 - Orthopedic Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis II
ATRN 285 - Sophomore Practicum in Athletic Training II
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current CPR/FA certification.
Credits: 2
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ATRN 385 - Junior Practicum in Athletic Training II
This spring, junior-year athletic training clinical experience provides athletic training students the opportunity to further develop their practical skills and competencies in athletic injury prevention and management. Students are assigned to clinical preceptors, either on- or off-campus to gain experience working with diverse patient populations.
Prerequisites & Notes
ATRN major
ATRN 228 - Orthopedic Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis II
ATRN 384 - Junior Practicum in Athletic Training I
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current CPR/FA certification.
Credits: 2
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