Here’s the first “homework”, just a couple of demographic questions for you. You can email your answers to me. If I did it right, you can click here to start your email with the questions already there. But the questions are:
What other Linguistics courses (or related courses) have you taken?
What are your (actual or planned) major/minors?
What languages (other than English) do you know, and how well?
What language(s) did you grow up speaking?
Do you prefer to be called something other than what I see in the class list?1
Anything else that seems relevant?
1Within reason, that is. “Your Excellence” is not a valid answer here.