On Feb 16, 2023, at 07:48, Evan Koblentz via Members <members@lists.sigcis.org> 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?
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Evan KoblentzNew Jersey Institute of Technology
- Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
- Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
- Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Clubevank@njit.edu
(973) 596-3065
https://web.njit.edu/~evank
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Evan KoblentzNew Jersey Institute of Technology
- Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
- Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
- Faculty/Staff Advisor, NJIT Lego Clubevank@njit.edu
(973) 596-3065
https://web.njit.edu/~evank
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