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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science offers a History of Computing Course:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It does not appear to be special topics.
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<b>Date: </b>Friday, February 17, 2023 at 06:48<br>
<b>To: </b>Evan Koblentz <evank@njit.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Tracy, Kim via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] History courses in CS departments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can add a couple others to your list. Swansea University has had a course on the history of computing taught by my colleague John Tucker since 1994—it is now called <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fintranet.swan.ac.uk%2Fcatalogue%2Fdefault.asp%3Ftype%3Dmoddetail%26dept%3Dany%26mod%3DCSC309%26ayr%3D23%2F24%26psl%3DTB1%2B2%26detailOnly%3Dfalse&data=05%7C01%7Ceric.kaltman%40csuci.edu%7Cf688717496cd4d3cb14b08db10f6017f%7Ce30f5bdb7f18435b84369d84aa7b96dd%7C1%7C0%7C638122421024527936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=VJIWlWa9QGcwS1%2FFANbqEIkcFtL4R0o3qnpHJ48VSF4%3D&reserved=0">Invention
and Innovation in Computing</a> but covers a great deal of topics (I sat in on one lecture and enjoyed a lengthy discussion on Jacquard). Historical aspects are taught in a number of other modules throughout the department, for context of material, and to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Swansea has a research theme (not quite a research group… yet?) on <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.swansea.ac.uk%2Fcompsci%2Fresearch-and-impact%2Feducational-historical-philosophical-foundations%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ceric.kaltman%40csuci.edu%7Cf688717496cd4d3cb14b08db10f6017f%7Ce30f5bdb7f18435b84369d84aa7b96dd%7C1%7C0%7C638122421024527936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=25Chq408H86caxyOZ4j6vlBlFZIVYqxeJbs24Ud1EJI%3D&reserved=0">Educational,
Historical, and Philosophical Foundations</a> of computing. This helped create our <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.swansea.ac.uk%2Flibrary%2Farchive-and-research-collections%2Fhocc%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ceric.kaltman%40csuci.edu%7Cf688717496cd4d3cb14b08db10f6017f%7Ce30f5bdb7f18435b84369d84aa7b96dd%7C1%7C0%7C638122421024527936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3XXu8OEiGsYD0XGtXEpkyGRh1TXQAsaHUIXI7tDgnBo%3D&reserved=0">History
of Computing collection</a>, where I am currently sitting, which has a great deal of material. See also <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.swansea.ac.uk%2Fs%2Fswansea-2020%2Fpage%2Fcomputer-science&data=05%7C01%7Ceric.kaltman%40csuci.edu%7Cf688717496cd4d3cb14b08db10f6017f%7Ce30f5bdb7f18435b84369d84aa7b96dd%7C1%7C0%7C638122421024527936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=K%2BvE5jM%2B1zMLIkqc1WwEXLkG0gtXl7AL0zXpbXgW8C0%3D&reserved=0">The
Computer Revolution and Us: Computer Science at Swansea University from the 1960s.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The second course you can add is the <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatanose.nl%2FCourse%2FManual%2F61441%2FHistory%2520of%2520Digital%2520Cultures%2F2017&data=05%7C01%7Ceric.kaltman%40csuci.edu%7Cf688717496cd4d3cb14b08db10f6017f%7Ce30f5bdb7f18435b84369d84aa7b96dd%7C1%7C0%7C638122421024527936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AXGOeflz8N82ybHWE9FOqRERJK0fmErwY45ZtpfDz2o%3D&reserved=0">History
of Digital Cultures</a> Master’s module taught jointly by University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Vrije Universiteit (VU). Danny Beckers now has control since Gerard Alberts retired. I worked as a TA on that for a few years—the link is for when I was still involved
and a few things may have changed but it is still running. This attracts mostly CS and AI students, but a few from other programmes of study. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them / nhw) <br>
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Lecturer, Computer Science / Darlithydd, Cyfrifiadureg <br>
Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe <br>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black">For students: my office hours are </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffse-intranet.swan.ac.uk%2Fintranet%2Fstaff_officehours%3Fselected_staff_id%3D203842&data=05%7C01%7Ceric.kaltman%40csuci.edu%7Cf688717496cd4d3cb14b08db10f6017f%7Ce30f5bdb7f18435b84369d84aa7b96dd%7C1%7C0%7C638122421024527936%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=zqeGE5SOeGpEYA59%2FQPBhyPBvZBYNvxeam0Mc0rTp8Q%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">o</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt">n
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black">I fyfyrwyr: mae fy oriau swyddfa ar y fewnrwyd.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black">Zoom office: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/my/t.k.astarte"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black;text-decoration:none">https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/my/t.k.astarte</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;color:black">Mae gan bob e-bost gost i’r hinsawdd. Meddyliwch cyn i chi anfon e-byst byr. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On 16 Feb 2023, at 15:47, Evan Koblentz via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Thank you to everyone who replied to my post from yesterday.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>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<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>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<o:p></o:p></p>
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