Hello SIGCIS, Somehow I fell off the list back in September 2020. Thank you Andy R. and Jason for resubscribing me. In 2019, I resigned from Vintage Computer Federation (~15 years after founding the predecessor organization) and started working at New Jersey Institute of Technology as a science writer in the communications office, where my primary assignment is the computer science department. Thus I got to know the dean and the faculty, and asked them if I could teach the history of computing. They said yes, so as of this spring I am teaching my first college course, CS-485 / Special Topics: Introduction to Computing History. I arranged it so there are no prerequisites, and students do not have to be CS majors -- anyone at the university can take this course. There is a similar course in our history department catalog, but it has not been offered since 2018, after which Elizabeth Petrick moved to Rice University. I'm looking at the syllabus repository at https://www.sigcis.org/syllabi and working on my own version. I know the material well enough, but I would like to hear advice about * how * to teach and what type of assignments to give. -Evan Koblentz -- [image: NJIT logo] <https://www.njit.edu/> *Evan A Koblentz* Staff Writer Office of Strategic Communications evank@njit.edu (973) 596-3065 <9735963065> https://web.njit.edu/~evank/ @TechnicallyEvan
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Koblentz, Evan