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Informing Science + IT Education Conference 2003 Proceedings
| Informing Science + IT Education Conference |
| Pori, Finland June 24-27, 2003 |
| Teaching Information Technology to a non-Technical Audi-ence: A Graduate Course on IT for |
| the Historical Profession |
| William Paterson University, USA |
| The graduate program in History at William Paterson University explicitly promotes itself as emphasiz-ing |
| information technology. HIST501: Information Technology for the Historical Profession, a course required of all |
| entering graduate students, serves as a foundation for the IT literacy the program seeks to foster. Teaching |
| HIST501 has proved challenging, however, due to the diverse interests and back-grounds of our students and a lack |
| of integration with the broader graduate program. By structuring the course around an historical project—research, |
| composition, and presentation of a thesis proposal—students immediately realize the relevance of IT to their |
| research and teaching. Students learn IT appli-cations and tools by using them to advance their proposal. By |
| devoting class time to discussion of tech-niques for solving problems, while students learn the details of particular |
| software packages on their own or through individual tutoring, a wide range of skill levels can be accommodated. |
| Keywords: Information technology curricula, information technologies for the humanities, information |
ISSN
1535-07-03
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