<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2">Hi Evan, it is not a contemporary US course but if it is any help to know, I gave lectures on retro tech at the Univ of Bristol, UK, for at least a decade as part of the contemporary archaeology strand. I continue to publishing in that field, and Artifacts is still in print!<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><font size="2">cheers, Christine </font><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 at 17:42, Evan Koblentz via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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?<br>
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Evan Koblentz
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New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
- Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications<br>
- Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing<br>
- Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Club</p>
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<a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu" target="_blank">evank@njit.edu</a><br>
(973) 596-3065<br>
<a href="https://web.njit.edu/~evank/" target="_blank">https://web.njit.edu/~evank</a><br>
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