Invented Languages: Klingon & Beyond...
LIN 312, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2005, Fall 2006
[webpage] (includes course objectives, syllabus, schedule, and links to most homeworks and course-packet readings)

During UT's "Explore UT" Open House, I was asked to give a brief presentation describing my "Klingon..." course. The slides from that presentation can be found here: [Klingon 101 - Explore UT].

Introduction to Language and Linguistics
LIN 306, University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2006, Fall 2007
[objectives]  [syllabus]  [schedule]  [webpage]

Over the two semesters I taught the course, there were many excellent final projects. Some are listed here. When possible, links are provided to their final projects.

Evan Wilson, Fall 2005, LIN 312, final project
For his final project, Evan chose to translate T.S. Elliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" into SolReSol. It proved to be an incredibly daunting task, and only a section of it could be completed. SolReSol can be represented notationally in many ways, two of which are color and music. Evan combined these two in the final project, producing a video of flashing light. Words that proved untranslateable are spoken against a white background. The final video can be found here: [SolReSol Quicktime mov] while the English transcript for the video is here: [SolReSol pdf].

Darren Doyle, [The Kryptonian Langauge] based on 'Smallville' and Superboy.
Carolyn Chen, [translation program] for 'Futurama's "alien languages"
Andrew Adey, creation of the Gi'th language
D Frost, creation of a vowel-less language, [description pdf]
Norman Friis, Lojban orthography [orthography jpg]  [translated line jpg]  [description pdf]
Travis Dunn, translation of comic books into Esperanto:
[Sin City cover]   [Sin City sample page]   [Doom Patrol cover]   [Doom Patrol sample page]
Ellen Julstrom & Troy Rudolph, recruitment video for UT in Klingon (unfortunately the video is unable to be uploaded!)
Kim Soland, translation of [Ride of the Valkyries jpg]  [explanation jpg]
Cindy Morris, decipherment of the Atlantean language from Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire"
Craig Pemberton & Ryan Johnson, SolReSol translation program (based off Evan Wilson's project the previous semester)