Re: Advice/Comments - Constructed Languages Class
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 18, 2004, 16:19 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Jones" <jsjonesmiami@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Advice/Comments - Constructed Languages Class
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:00:44 -0400, Sai Emrys <conlangs@...> wrote:
>
>>Howdy all.
>>
>>This is my first post here, recommended to me by David Peterson.
Welcome! My regards to David. I also went to Berkeley way back when. My
regards to Annalee Rehjon, Dan Melia, and Kathryn Klar.
>>I am planning on running a class on conlangs at UC Berkeley - a "DE-Cal",
>>i.e., student-run course. It's tentative so far; I'm currently fleshing
>>out
>>the syllabus / notes / etc, and I'm to talk with my potential faculty
>>sponsor in a couple days.
>>
>>The details (e.g., what DE-Cals are, the syllabus-so-far, a couple class
>>outlines) are at
http://www.livejournal.com/~conlangs_decal (and /info for
>>more). I'd appreciate any input on what to cover, how, progression, good
>>resources, homework to assign, etc. - especially if any of you have prior
>>experience with teaching a class (or colloquium, or whatever) on conlangs.
>>
>>You can find out more about *me* at
>>
http://www.livejournal.com/~saizai/info .
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>> Sai Emrys
>
> Welcome, Sai!
> I think there are a couple others besides David who've done something like
> that, but I don't think they're active on the list now. There should be
> plenty of suggestions from others though!
>
> Jeff