<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Bravo!!!!!!<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my smartest phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my smartest phone</div><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 1, 2023, at 18:36, Koblentz, Evan via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">My course is permanent now! Our CS faculty voted in favor of it today. The department chairman called me with the good news and said there were only two 'no' votes. It's going to be CS-210. I hoped for 300 level, but I'll take it.<div><br></div><div>Now that it's no longer a special topics course starting this fall, I will post a syllabus at <a href="https://web.njit.edu/~evank/">https://web.njit.edu/~evank/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The many replies to my original post on this list, both on/off-list, were very helpful. Thank you again to everyone who posted constructively.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:40 PM Evan Koblentz <<a href="mailto:evank@njit.edu">evank@njit.edu</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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<div>-- <br>
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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