[SIGCIS-Members] History courses in CS departments

[Koblentz, Evan]

I've been asked by colleagues to narrow down the list to US schools, and
again only to those with a specific history-of-computing course.
Many schools offer courses that overlap into computer history, but as I see
it, the direct ones are Carnegie Mellon, Colorado/Boulder, Cornell,
Minnesota, and Yale. I've made my best case to our administration, and
hopefully NJIT can join the list soon.

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 10:47 AM Evan Koblentz <evank at njit.edu> wrote:

> Thank you to everyone who replied to my post from yesterday.
>
> I determined that at least five universities -- Yale, Cornell,
> Colorado/Boulder, Minnesota, and Athens -- all have history courses, not
> just special topics (as is my current course), as part of the catalogs in
> technical departments. I shared that list and the course links with my
> department administration.
>
>
> On 2/15/23 12:40 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been teaching a special topics course in computer history for three
> semesters here at NJIT. The university policy is three semesters maximum,
> then the course must be made permanent or cancelled. So I'm going through
> the process of trying to make it permanent.
>
> The department administration supports it, but it has to be voted on by
> the rank-and-file faculty, many of whom don't seem to understand the value
> of a history course -- or at least not of a history course in a technical
> department, rather than through our humanities college.
>
> It would help if I can show them other examples. Can anyone point me
> existing examples of history courses in CS, EE, or other technical
> departments at U.S. universities?
> --
> Evan Koblentz
>
> New Jersey Institute of Technology
> - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
> - Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Club
>
> evank at njit.edu
> (973) 596-3065
> https://web.njit.edu/~evank
>
> --
> Evan Koblentz
>
> New Jersey Institute of Technology
> - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
> - Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Club
>
> evank at njit.edu
> (973) 596-3065
> https://web.njit.edu/~evank
>
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