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University of Seoul graduate thesis (uos-thesis, community)

A community template that implements the University of Seoul graduate school's thesis format with pdfLaTeX and kotex: English cover and title pages, approval page, Korean and English abstracts, chapters and a biblatex bibliography. Unofficial; its author reports a thesis written with it passed review in August 2026.

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Thesis
Document class
uos-thesis (uos-thesis.cls) — ships with TeX Live
Workflow
Thesis / dissertation — submissions and revision rounds
Author
Seongmin Kim (University of Seoul thesis template)
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What you get

  • LICENSE · 1 KB
  • chapters/conclusion.tex · 291 B
  • chapters/introduction.tex · 2 KB
  • main.tex — the file that is compiled · 5 KB
  • references.bib · 1 KB
  • uos-thesis.cls · 13 KB

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chapters/conclusion.tex · 291 B
\chapter{Conclusion}
\label{ch:conclusion}

\section{Summary}
\label{sec:summary}

Summarize the key findings and contributions of your thesis.

\section{Limitations and Future Work}
\label{sec:future_work}

Discuss the limitations of your work and potential directions for future research.
chapters/introduction.tex · 2 KB
\chapter{Introduction}
\label{ch:introduction}

% Chapter 1: Introduction
% Typical structure: background, motivation, contributions, outline

\section{Background}
\label{sec:background}

Write the background and context of your research here. Introduce the broader
research area and explain why it matters.

For example, you might cite a foundational work like this~\cite{vaswani2017attention}.

Table~\ref{tab:example} shows an example of experimental results.

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
  \caption{Example experimental results on benchmark datasets.}
  \label{tab:example}
  \begin{tabular}{lccc}
    \toprule
    Method & Accuracy & Params (M) & FLOPs (G) \\
    \midrule
    Baseline & 76.1 & 25.6 & 4.1 \\
    Ours     & \textbf{78.3} & 22.1 & 3.8 \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

Figure~\ref{fig:example} illustrates the overall architecture.

\begin{figure}[h]
  \centering
  \fbox{\parbox{0.7\textwidth}{\centering\vspace{2cm}Architecture Diagram Placeholder\vspace{2cm}}}
  \caption{Overview of the proposed architecture.}
  \label{fig:example}
\end{figure}

\section{Motivation}
\label{sec:motivation}

Describe the specific problem you are addressing and why existing solutions
are insufficient.

\section{Contributions}
\label{sec:contributions}

Summarize the main contributions of your thesis:
\begin{enumerate}
  \item First contribution description.
  \item Second contribution description.
  \item Third contribution description.
\end{enumerate}

\section{Thesis Outline}
\label{sec:outline}

The remainder of this thesis is organized as follows:
\begin{itemize}
  \item \textbf{Chapter~\ref{ch:introduction}} introduces the research background and motivation.
  % \item \textbf{Chapter~\ref{ch:related}} reviews related work.
  % \item \textbf{Chapter~\ref{ch:method}} describes the proposed method.
  % \item \textbf{Chapter~\ref{ch:experiments}} presents experimental results.
  \item \textbf{Chapter~\ref{ch:conclusion}} concludes the thesis with a discussion of future work.
\end{itemize}
main.tex — the file that is compiled · 5 KB
%% ============================================================
%% University of Seoul - Master Thesis Template
%% 서울시립대학교 대학원 석사학위논문 LaTeX 템플릿
%%
%% Compile with: pdflatex -> biber -> pdflatex -> pdflatex
%%   or use latexmk: latexmk -pdf main.tex
%% ============================================================

\documentclass[master]{uos-thesis}

%% ============================================================
%% Bibliography file
%% ============================================================
\addbibresource{references.bib}

%% ============================================================
%% Thesis Metadata - FILL IN YOUR INFORMATION
%% ============================================================

% English title (22pt on cover)
\titleEn{Your Thesis Title Here}
% Optional subtitle (comment out if none)
% \subtitleEn{Your Subtitle Here}
% Korean title (for 국문초록)
\titleKo{논문 제목}

% Author
\authorEn{Gildong Hong}
\authorKo{홍길동}

% Department
\departmentEn{Artificial Intelligence}
\departmentKo{인공지능학과}

% Degree
\degreeEn{Master of Engineering}
\degreeKo{공학석사}
\degreeFieldEn{Engineering}
\degreeFieldKo{공학}

% Advisor
\advisorEn{Advisor Name}
\advisorKo{지도교수명}

% Thesis Committee
\committeeChair{Committee Chair Name}
\committeeMemberA{Committee Member A Name}
\committeeMemberB{Committee Member B Name}

% Dates
\coverDate{August 2026}          % Cover page date (학위수여일 기준 연, 월)
\submissionDate{June 2026}       % Submission date
\approvalDate{June 2026}         % Approval date


%% ============================================================
%% Additional packages (add your own here)
%% ============================================================
% \usepackage{listings}    % for code listings
% \usepackage{tikz}        % for diagrams
% \usepackage{pgfplots}    % for plots


%% ============================================================
%% Document Start
%% ============================================================
\begin{document}

%% ============================================================
%% (1) Cover Page (표지) - no page number
%% ============================================================
\makecover

%% ============================================================
%% (2) Submission Page (제출문) - no page number
%% ============================================================
\makesubmission

%% ============================================================
%% (3) Approval Page (인준서) - no page number
%% ============================================================
\makeapproval

%% ============================================================
%% (4) Abstract (본문이 영어이므로 앞에 영문초록)
%%     - no page number
%% ============================================================
\begin{abstract}
% Write your English abstract here.
% The abstract should summarize the main contributions of your thesis.

This is a placeholder for your abstract. Replace this text with a summary of
your research motivation, methodology, key results, and contributions.

The abstract should be concise yet comprehensive, typically ranging from
200 to 500 words for a master's thesis.

\keywords{Keyword1, Keyword2, Keyword3, Keyword4, Keyword5}
\end{abstract}

%% ============================================================
%% (5) Inner Cover Page (속표지 - 표지와 동일) - no page number
%% ============================================================
\makeinnercover

%% ============================================================
%% (6)-(7) Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures
%%         Page numbers: roman numerals (i, ii, iii, ...)
%% ============================================================
\frontmatter

\tableofcontents
\clearpage

\listoftables
\clearpage

\listoffigures
\clearpage

%% ============================================================
%% (8) Body Text - Page numbers: arabic (1, 2, 3, ...)
%% ============================================================
\mainmatter

\include{chapters/introduction}
% \include{chapters/related_work}
% \include{chapters/method}
% \include{chapters/experiments}
\include{chapters/conclusion}

%% ============================================================
%% (9) Bibliography (참고문헌)
%% ============================================================
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc, title={Bibliography}]

%% ============================================================
%% (10) Appendices (부록, 있는 경우에 한함)
%% ============================================================
% \appendix
% \include{chapters/appendix_a}

%% ============================================================
%% (11) Korean Abstract (본문이 영어이므로 뒤에 국문초록)
%% ============================================================
\backmatter

\begin{abstractko}
% 국문초록을 여기에 작성하세요.

이곳에 국문초록을 작성합니다. 논문의 연구 동기, 방법론, 주요 결과 및 기여를
요약하여 기술합니다.

\keywordsko{키워드1, 키워드2, 키워드3, 키워드4, 키워드5}
\end{abstractko}

%% ============================================================
%% (12) Acknowledgments (감사문, 있는 경우에 한함)
%% ============================================================
\begin{acknowledgments}
% Write your acknowledgments here (optional).

I would like to express my gratitude to my advisor for the guidance
and support throughout my research.
\end{acknowledgments}

\end{document}
references.bib · 1 KB
@inproceedings{vaswani2017attention,
  title     = {Attention is All You Need},
  author    = {Vaswani, Ashish and Shazeer, Noam and Parmar, Niki and
               Uszkoreit, Jakob and Jones, Llion and Gomez, Aidan N and
               Kaiser, {\L}ukasz and Polosukhin, Illia},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume    = {30},
  year      = {2017},
}

@article{he2016deep,
  title   = {Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition},
  author  = {He, Kaiming and Zhang, Xiangyu and Ren, Shaoqing and Sun, Jian},
  journal = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and
             Pattern Recognition},
  pages   = {770--778},
  year    = {2016},
}

@article{dosovitskiy2021image,
  title   = {An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image
             Recognition at Scale},
  author  = {Dosovitskiy, Alexey and Beyer, Lucas and Kolesnikov, Alexander
             and Weissenborn, Dirk and Zhai, Xiaohua and Unterthiner, Thomas
             and Dehghani, Mostafa and Minderer, Matthias and Heigold, Georg
             and Gelly, Sylvain and Uszkoreit, Jakob and Houlsby, Neil},
  journal = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year    = {2021},
}
uos-thesis.cls · 13 KB
%% uos-thesis.cls
%% LaTeX class for University of Seoul (서울시립대학교) Graduate School Thesis
%% Based on 대학원 시행세칙 별첨 - 학위논문 체제 및 양식
%%
%% Compile with: pdflatex (Korean font support via the kotex package)
%%

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesClass{uos-thesis}[2026/04/13 University of Seoul Thesis Class]

%% ============================================================
%% Options
%% ============================================================
\newif\if@master    \@mastertrue
\newif\if@doctor    \@doctorfalse
\newif\if@korean    \@koreanfalse
\newif\if@hassubtitle \@hassubtitlefalse

\DeclareOption{master}{\@mastertrue\@doctorfalse}
\DeclareOption{doctor}{\@doctortrue\@masterfalse}
\DeclareOption{korean}{\@koreantrue}

\DeclareOption*{\PassOptionsToClass{\CurrentOption}{report}}
\ProcessOptions\relax

\LoadClass[11pt]{report}

%% ============================================================
%% Required Packages
%% ============================================================

% Page geometry: 4·6배판 (18.2cm x 25.7cm), updated 2024.5.31
\RequirePackage[
  paperwidth=18.2cm,
  paperheight=25.7cm,
  top=3.0cm,
  bottom=3.0cm,
  left=2.5cm,
  right=2.5cm,
  headheight=14pt,
]{geometry}

% Font setup (pdfLaTeX)
\RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
\RequirePackage{kotex}          % Korean language support
\RequirePackage{mathptmx}       % Times New Roman equivalent

% Line spacing: 200% = double spacing
\RequirePackage{setspace}
\doublespacing

% Graphics
\RequirePackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{figures/}}

% Math
\RequirePackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsfonts}

% Colors (for hyperref)
\RequirePackage{xcolor}

% Hyperlinks
\RequirePackage[
  colorlinks=true,
  linkcolor=black,
  citecolor=black,
  urlcolor=blue,
  bookmarks=true,
  bookmarksnumbered=true,
]{hyperref}

% Bibliography
\RequirePackage[
  backend=biber,
  style=numeric,
  sorting=nyt,
  maxbibnames=99,
]{biblatex}

% Center the bibliography heading
\defbibheading{bibintoc}[\bibname]{%
  \chapter*{\hfill #1 \hfill}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}%
  \markboth{#1}{#1}%
}

% Table of contents formatting
\RequirePackage{tocloft}
\RequirePackage{titletoc}

% Section title formatting
\RequirePackage{titlesec}

% Header/footer
\RequirePackage{fancyhdr}

% Caption formatting
\RequirePackage{caption}
\RequirePackage{subcaption}

% Tables
\RequirePackage{booktabs}
\RequirePackage{multirow}

% Algorithms (common in AI theses)
\RequirePackage{algorithm}
% \RequirePackage{algorithmic}

% Misc
\RequirePackage{enumitem}
\RequirePackage{etoolbox}
\RequirePackage{xparse}

%% ============================================================
%% Font Size Commands (matching UOS specifications)
%% ============================================================
%  Cover title:     22pt
%  Cover subtitle:  16pt
%  Body/Abstract:   11pt (base)
%  Chapter title:   16pt
%  Section title:   14pt
%  Footnote:        9pt

% Chapter title: 16pt bold, left-aligned (matching reference theses)
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
  {\normalfont\fontsize{16}{20}\bfseries}
  {\chaptername\ \thechapter}{0.5em}{}
\titlespacing*{\chapter}{0pt}{-20pt}{20pt}

% Section title: 14pt bold
\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\fontsize{14}{18}\bfseries}
  {\thesection}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{12pt}{6pt}

% Subsection title: 12pt bold
\titleformat{\subsection}
  {\normalfont\fontsize{12}{16}\bfseries}
  {\thesubsection}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0pt}{10pt}{4pt}

% Subsubsection
\titleformat{\subsubsection}
  {\normalfont\fontsize{11}{15}\bfseries}
  {\thesubsubsection}{1em}{}
\titlespacing*{\subsubsection}{0pt}{8pt}{4pt}

% Footnote size: 9pt
\renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\fontsize{9}{11}\selectfont}

%% ============================================================
%% Page Styles
%% ============================================================
\fancypagestyle{plain}{
  \fancyhf{}
  \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\fancypagestyle{empty}{
  \fancyhf{}
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
}

\pagestyle{plain}

%% ============================================================
%% Table of Contents Formatting
%% ============================================================
\renewcommand{\cftchapfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchappagefont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}}
\setlength{\cftbeforechapskip}{6pt}

% Make List of Tables / List of Figures entries flush-left so the left and
% right margins are equal (table/figure numbers are not indented from the
% text margin, matching the flush-right page numbers).
\setlength{\cfttabindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\cftfigindent}{0pt}

% TOC/LOT/LOF title names
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Contents}
\renewcommand{\listtablename}{List of Tables}
\renewcommand{\listfigurename}{List of Figures}

% Center the TOC/LOT/LOF chapter titles
\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\hfill\fontsize{16}{20}\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftaftertoctitle}{\hfill}
\renewcommand{\cftlottitlefont}{\hfill\fontsize{16}{20}\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftafterlottitle}{\hfill}
\renewcommand{\cftloftitlefont}{\hfill\fontsize{16}{20}\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftafterloftitle}{\hfill}

% Add TOC, LOT, LOF themselves as entries in the TOC
\RequirePackage{tocbibind}

%% ============================================================
%% Metadata Commands
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\@titleEn}{}
\newcommand{\@titleKo}{}
\newcommand{\@subtitleEn}{}
\newcommand{\@authorEn}{}
\newcommand{\@authorKo}{}
\newcommand{\@departmentEn}{}
\newcommand{\@departmentKo}{}
\newcommand{\@advisorEn}{}
\newcommand{\@advisorKo}{}
\newcommand{\@degreeEn}{}
\newcommand{\@degreeKo}{}
\newcommand{\@degreeFieldEn}{}
\newcommand{\@degreeFieldKo}{}
\newcommand{\@submissionDate}{}
\newcommand{\@approvalDate}{}
\newcommand{\@coverDate}{}
\newcommand{\@committeeChair}{}
\newcommand{\@committeeMemberA}{}
\newcommand{\@committeeMemberB}{}

\newcommand{\titleEn}[1]{\renewcommand{\@titleEn}{#1}}
\newcommand{\titleKo}[1]{\renewcommand{\@titleKo}{#1}}
\newcommand{\subtitleEn}[1]{\renewcommand{\@subtitleEn}{#1}\@hassubtitletrue}
\newcommand{\authorEn}[1]{\renewcommand{\@authorEn}{#1}}
\newcommand{\authorKo}[1]{\renewcommand{\@authorKo}{#1}}
\newcommand{\departmentEn}[1]{\renewcommand{\@departmentEn}{#1}}
\newcommand{\departmentKo}[1]{\renewcommand{\@departmentKo}{#1}}
\newcommand{\advisorEn}[1]{\renewcommand{\@advisorEn}{#1}}
\newcommand{\advisorKo}[1]{\renewcommand{\@advisorKo}{#1}}
\newcommand{\degreeEn}[1]{\renewcommand{\@degreeEn}{#1}}
\newcommand{\degreeKo}[1]{\renewcommand{\@degreeKo}{#1}}
\newcommand{\degreeFieldEn}[1]{\renewcommand{\@degreeFieldEn}{#1}}
\newcommand{\degreeFieldKo}[1]{\renewcommand{\@degreeFieldKo}{#1}}
\newcommand{\submissionDate}[1]{\renewcommand{\@submissionDate}{#1}}
\newcommand{\approvalDate}[1]{\renewcommand{\@approvalDate}{#1}}
\newcommand{\coverDate}[1]{\renewcommand{\@coverDate}{#1}}
\newcommand{\committeeChair}[1]{\renewcommand{\@committeeChair}{#1}}
\newcommand{\committeeMemberA}[1]{\renewcommand{\@committeeMemberA}{#1}}
\newcommand{\committeeMemberB}[1]{\renewcommand{\@committeeMemberB}{#1}}

%% ============================================================
%% Cover Page (표지) [별지 제3호서식 영문] - no page number
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\makecover}{%
  \newgeometry{top=3cm, bottom=3cm, left=2cm, right=2cm}
  \begin{titlepage}
    \begin{center}
      \vspace{1.0cm}
      {\fontsize{14}{18}\selectfont Master Thesis}
      \vspace{1.5cm}

      {\fontsize{22}{28}\selectfont\bfseries \@titleEn \par}
      \if@hassubtitle
        \vspace{0.5cm}
        {\fontsize{16}{22}\selectfont : \@subtitleEn \par}
      \fi

      \vfill

      {\fontsize{14}{18}\selectfont by}\\[0.8cm]
      {\fontsize{16}{22}\selectfont \@authorEn}

      \vfill

      {\fontsize{14}{18}\selectfont
        Department of \@departmentEn\\[0.3cm]
        The Graduate School of the University of Seoul
      }

      \vspace{1.5cm}
      {\fontsize{14}{18}\selectfont \@coverDate}
    \end{center}
  \end{titlepage}
  \restoregeometry
}

%% ============================================================
%% Submission Page (제출문) [별지 제4호서식 영문] - no page number
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\makesubmission}{%
  \newgeometry{top=3cm, bottom=3cm, left=3cm, right=3cm}
  \thispagestyle{empty}
  \begin{spacing}{1.3}
  \begin{center}
    \vspace*{1.5cm}

    {\fontsize{16}{22}\selectfont \@titleEn \par}
    \if@hassubtitle
      \vspace{0.3cm}
      {\fontsize{13}{18}\selectfont : \@subtitleEn \par}
    \fi

    \vspace{1.4cm}
    {\fontsize{12}{16}\selectfont by}\\[0.4cm]
    {\fontsize{14}{18}\selectfont \@authorEn}

    \vfill

    {\fontsize{13}{20}\selectfont
      A Master Thesis submitted to the\\
      Department of \@departmentEn\\
      at the Graduate School of the University of Seoul\\
      in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the\\
      degree of \@degreeEn
    }

    \vfill

    {\fontsize{14}{20}\selectfont \@submissionDate}

    \vspace{1.4cm}
    {\fontsize{14}{20}\selectfont
      Approved by\\[0.4cm]
      \@advisorEn\\[0.2cm]
      Advisor
    }

    \vspace*{0.1cm}
  \end{center}
  \end{spacing}
  \clearpage
  \restoregeometry
}

%% ============================================================
%% Approval Page (인준서) [별지 제5호서식 석사 영문] - no page number
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\makeapproval}{%
  \newgeometry{top=3cm, bottom=3cm, left=3cm, right=3cm}
  \thispagestyle{empty}
  \begin{spacing}{1.0}
  \begin{center}
    \vspace{2.5cm}

    {\fontsize{14}{18}\selectfont
      This certifies that the master thesis of\\[0.5cm]
      \@authorEn~is approved.
    }

    \vspace{2.5cm}

    % Committee Chair
    \rule{7cm}{0.4pt}\\[0.2cm]
    {\fontsize{12}{16}\selectfont Thesis Committee Chair: \@committeeChair}

    \vspace{1.5cm}

    % Committee Member 1
    \rule{7cm}{0.4pt}\\[0.2cm]
    {\fontsize{12}{16}\selectfont Thesis Committee Member: \@committeeMemberA}

    \vspace{1.5cm}

    % Committee Member 2
    \rule{7cm}{0.4pt}\\[0.2cm]
    {\fontsize{12}{16}\selectfont Thesis Committee Member: \@committeeMemberB}

    \vfill

    {\fontsize{12}{16}\selectfont
      The Graduate School of the University of Seoul\\[0.3cm]
      \@approvalDate
    }
  \end{center}
  \end{spacing}
  \clearpage
  \restoregeometry
}

%% ============================================================
%% Abstract Environment (영문초록 - front matter) - no page number
%% ============================================================
\renewenvironment{abstract}{%
  \clearpage
  \thispagestyle{empty}
  \begin{center}
    \vspace{0.5cm}
    {\fontsize{16}{20}\selectfont\bfseries Abstract}\\[0.8cm]
  \end{center}
  \begin{spacing}{1.3}
  \fontsize{11}{14}\selectfont
  \noindent
}{%
  \end{spacing}
  \clearpage
}

%% ============================================================
%% Keywords Command
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\keywords}[1]{%
  \vspace{1cm}
  \noindent\textbf{Keywords}: #1
}

%% ============================================================
%% Inner Cover Page (속표지 - same as cover) - no page number
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\makeinnercover}{%
  \makecover
}

%% ============================================================
%% Korean Abstract (국문초록 - back matter)
%% ============================================================
\newenvironment{abstractko}{%
  \clearpage
  \phantomsection
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{초록}
  \thispagestyle{plain}
  \begin{center}
    \vspace{0.5cm}
    {\fontsize{16}{20}\selectfont\bfseries 초\quad 록}\\[0.8cm]
  \end{center}
  \begin{spacing}{1.3}
  \fontsize{11}{14}\selectfont
  \noindent
}{%
  \end{spacing}
  \clearpage
}

\newcommand{\keywordsko}[1]{%
  \vspace{1cm}
  \noindent\textbf{주요어}: #1
}

%% ============================================================
%% Acknowledgments
%% ============================================================
\newenvironment{acknowledgments}{%
  \clearpage
  \phantomsection
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Acknowledgments}
  \begin{center}
    {\fontsize{16}{20}\selectfont\bfseries Acknowledgments}\\[1cm]
  \end{center}
  \begin{spacing}{1.6}
  \fontsize{11}{14}\selectfont
}{%
  \end{spacing}
  \clearpage
}

%% ============================================================
%% Front Matter / Main Matter / Back Matter
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\frontmatter}{%
  \cleardoublepage
  \pagenumbering{roman}
}

\newcommand{\mainmatter}{%
  \cleardoublepage
  \pagenumbering{arabic}
  \setcounter{page}{1}
}

\newcommand{\backmatter}{%
  \cleardoublepage
}

%% ============================================================
%% Chapter format for unnumbered special chapters
%% ============================================================
\newcommand{\specialchapter}[1]{%
  \clearpage
  \phantomsection
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}
  \begin{center}
    {\fontsize{16}{20}\selectfont\bfseries #1}\\[1cm]
  \end{center}
}

\endinput
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\newcommand{\specialchapter}[1]{%
  \clearpage
  \phantomsection
  \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#1}
  \begin{center}
    {\fontsize{16}{20}\selectfont\bfseries #1}\\[1cm]
  \end{center}
}

\endinput

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