Hey there!
In this new series on my website I'll inform you guys about the state of the conlanging class I'm teaching at my institution. I had one lesson on September 28th, but I forgot to make that first post, so now, after the second lesson took place yesterday, I have decided to write this short post.
In the first lesson we didn't do that much, just some organizational stuff and a bunch of definitions. We discussed the difference between a priori and a posteriori conlangs, famous conlangs and conlangers and some common terms like "kitchen sink" or "relex". I should note that I'm basing my class's curriculum on the Conlangs University project that some of my friends organized. At last I gave the students some useful wikipedia links they could check out to get some first introduction to linguistics.
In the second lesson yesterday we discussed the basics of phonology, i.e. the difference between phonetics and phonology, the IPA, consonant PoA and MoA, as well as the basics of the vowel chart.
This was my report for the first two lessons, see you next time!
Fiat Lingua!