Teaching

Teaching is a vocation that is developed and refined over time, enriched by the presentation and interaction of different viewpoints and ideas between students and teachers in the broadest of terms. One of the principal reasons I came to work in the field of linguistics was to be able to train and work with students at all levels and to contribute to a more inclusive society through collaborative and multidisciplinary learning.

Courses at the University of California, San Diego

2024 Culture & Society, International Perspective, INTL101, (winter)

Languages and Cultures in America, LIGN 8, (winter/spring/summer session I)

Seminar - International Studies - Language & Language Policy, INTL190, (spring)

Introduction to the Study of Language, LIGN101, (summer session I)
Indigenous Languages of the Americas, LIGN152, (fall)
Structure of Spanish, LIGN 143, (fall)

2023 Culture & Society, International Perspective, INTL101, (winter)

Languages & Cultures in America, LIGN 8, (winter/spring/summer session I)
Seminar - International Studies - Language & Language Policy, INTL190, (spring)

Structure of Spanish, LIGN 143, (fall)
Field Methods - San Juan Piñas Mixtec, LIGN 139, (fall)

2022 Languages and Cultures of America, LIGN8 (winter/spring/summer & fall)

Culture & Society, International Perspective, INTL101 (winter)

Introduction to the Study of Language, LIGN101, Summer
Structure of Spanish, LIGN 143, Fall

2021 Historical Linguistics, LIGN150, (winter)

Culture & Society, International Perspective, INTL101 (winter)

Languages and Cultures of America, LIGN8 (spring)

Seminar - International Studies - Language & Language Policy, INTL190 (spring & fall)

Introduction to the Study of Language, LIGN101 (summer session I)

2020 Languages and Cultures of America, LIGN8 (winter/spring/summer/fall)

Indigenous Languages of the Americas, LIGN152 (fall)

2019 Field Methods - San Juan Piñas Mixtec, LIGN139 (spring)

Languages and Cultures of America, LIGN8 (winter/spring/summer)

2018 Field Methods - San Juan Piñas Mixtec, LIGN139 (spring)

Structure of Spanish, LIGN143 (winter)

Courses at the Biblioteca de Investigación, Juan de Córdova, Oaxaca, México

2019 Text Workshop on Otomanguean Languages - Co-Instructor of Mé’phàà, Otomí, Mazahua, &

Amuzgo language groups (with Tony Woodbury & Eric Campbell), Oaxaca, México - June 18-24

2018 Pedagogical Grammar workshop for speaker linguists of Otomanguean Languages

Facilitator for the Tu'un Savi (Mixtec) language group - June 18-24

2017 Pedagogical Grammar workshop for speaker linguists of Otomanguean Languages

Facilitator for the Tu'un Savi (Mixtec) language group -

2016 Pedagogical Grammar workshop for speaker linguists of Otomanguean Languages

Facilitator for the Tu'un Savi (Mixtec) language group -

Biblioteca de Investigación, Juan de Córdova: Oaxaca, México

2012 First Tone Workshop for speaker linguists of the Otomanguean languages

Co-facilitator with John Kingston of the Chinantec, Matlazinca, Mé’phàà, and Otomí language groups

Courses at the Escuela de Antropología e Historia del Norte de México (EAHNM)

2018 Teoría y Práctica de la Documentación de Lenguas, Chihuahua, Mexico September 3-7

Courses at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)

2018 Métodos de la Producción de Textos Escritos - Taller de Literacidad, Mexico City, Mexico, June 6-9

Courses at the Universidad Autónoma de México - UNAM

2017 Métodos y Técnicas para la Documentación de Lenguas, March 21-24

Courses at the University of Texas at Austin

2012 Introduction to the Study of Language, LIN306, (fall)

The Department of Linguistics - University of Texas at Austin

2010 Spanish - SPN508K (spring)

The Spanish and Portuguese Department - University of Texas at Austin

2009 Spanish - SPN508K (fall)

The Spanish and Portuguese Department - University of Texas at Austin

There are a number of interrelated principles that inform my approach and beliefs about teaching. Engaging students in meaningful course materials, readings, and lectures, and providing an environment where students feel safe to take risks to discuss controversial or challenging topics is paramount. Setting clear output expectations and working with students to achieve these learning goals is a central and an ongoing part of the learning process. In imparting knowledge, it is my responsibility to foster a learning environment where students think about how this knowledge is relevant to them, and how to integrate it with their own life experiences. This cultivates and builds student intent, so that they take a personal interest and responsibility for their education.

Justin D. McIntosh, Ph.D.

Teaching

“Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.”

Edward Sapir - Language (1921)