tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jul 03 23:00:20 1994
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: Klingon courses
>On Mon, 4 Jul 94 15:18:03 BST, [email protected] (Richard Kennaway) said:
> Katrin Erk writes:
>>No, no, I'm NOT teaching, I'm just a student. The Klingon course at
>>Koblenz is a - what on earth DO you call that in English? We call it a
>>"Seminar", which means that it is a course with an overall topic,
>>e.g. The Klingon Language, where every week one of the students is to speak
>>on some sub-topic, e.g. Klingon Nouns, Klingon Semantics, and the
>>professor normally doesn't talk much but just gives out the sub-topics.
>>
>>It is a course of the department of computational linguistics.
> That's most interesting. Can you tell us some more about it? Who is the
> professor putting it on, and why is he interested? Or was it started
> through student demand? How large is the class? Is it held in German?
It was put on by an assistant professor, Sonja Kowalewski. I don't
know why she's interested, but I'll ask her tomorrow (at the next
session of the Klingon course).The course was talked about a lot at
our usiversity, and the class is really large for a "Seminar", about
20 students (well, maybe you wouldn't call that large, but for Koblenz
University it is). About ten of these will actually speak, the rest
are just interested, if more because of Star Trek than for linguistic
reasons.
The course is held in German.
Katrin