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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear Historians,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Here is a cool Language and Literature course for WIN 2026 with A & H credit. You may read about it below and/or check out the course flyer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Course Blurb:
</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Athelas-Bold",serif;color:black">ASIAN 207 A Wi 26: Special Topics in Literature and Culture of Asia</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Athelas-Bold",serif;color:black">Namaste: Language Politics & South Asia</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Athelas-Bold",serif;color:black">Meeting Schedule: Mondays, Wednesdays 2.30-4.20pm</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Athelas",serif;color:black">Number of credits: 5</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Athelas",serif;color:black">Counts towards A&H/SSc credit</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Athelas-Bold",serif;color:black">Instructor:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Athelas-Regular",serif;color:black"> Sravanthi Kollu</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Athelas-Regular",serif;color:black"> </span><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Athelas",serif;color:#96607D"><a href="mailto:kollu@uw.edu" title="mailto:kollu@uw.edu"><span style="color:#96607D">kollu@uw.edu</span></a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Athelas",serif;color:black">Explore South Asia through the politics of language in this introductory course. Whether you are curious about the region, have been greeted with a ‘namaste’ at your local yoga class,
or grew up around South Asian languages, this course invites you to bring your curiosity and questions. We will put these in conversation with essays, poetry and academic texts by South Asian and diasporic authors to study language’s links to postcolonial
literature, history and identity. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0086F0"><a href="https://asian.washington.edu/people/sravanthi-kollu" title="https://asian.washington.edu/people/sravanthi-kollu">Sravanthi Kollu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#666666">Assistant Professor and Hanuma and Anuradha Kodavalla Endowed Chair in Telugu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#666666">Department of Asian Languages and Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#666666">University of Washington, Seattle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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