Re: [SIGCIS-Members] History courses in CS departments
I know I’m a bit late to this, but I teach a permanent history of computing course here at the University of Waterloo in Canada, hosted by the Faculty of Engineering: STV 210: The Computing Society. It’s cross-listed with the History department and open to any student, including computer science (who are in the Faculty of Math). It covers the standard pre-electronic history back to the late 18th century up through to the internet, using the venerable Campbell-Kelly, Apsray, Ensmenger, and Yost textbook as the background text, but not exclusively. I also strongly emphasize historical thinking practices, and wrote a short pedagogical paper about the course and its value to students: S. M. Campbell, "From historical thinking to critical thinking about technology," , Waterloo, ON, Canada, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISTAS52410.2021.9629144. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9629144 Cheers all, Scott Campbell -- Scott M. Campbell (he/him) Director, Centre for Society, Technology and Values University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 (519) 888-4567 x35635 http://cstv.uwaterloo.ca
I've been asked by colleagues to narrow down the list to US schools, and again only to those with a specific history-of-computing course. Many schools offer courses that overlap into computer history, but as I see it, the direct ones are Carnegie Mellon, Colorado/Boulder, Cornell, Minnesota, and Yale. I've made my best case to our administration, and hopefully NJIT can join the list soon.
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