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MICHEL DEGRAFF: So the course
grew out of a need and a desire

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to make linguistics available
to a broader range of students,

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and within which we could
connect languages to larger

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issues of culture and identity.

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And as I'm from Haiti, and as
my research is Creole languages,

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I try to think of
ways in which we

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can use the history
of Creole languages

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to introduce larger issues
connected to linguistics,

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identity, history,
sociology, education.

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So I've been teaching
this course now

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for the past 10 years.