[SPG_Active_Members] First computer literacy class?

[Dave Redell]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Ronald Mak <ron.mak at sjsu.edu> wrote:

> **
> Folks,
>
> Computer Science Prof. Stan Franklin at the University of Memphis, along
> with his colleagues, taught a computer literacy class in Spring 1982.
>
...

His question that he posed to me, and which I'm passing on to all of you,
> is whether this was the very first university computer literacy course. I
> suspect not, but I'm sure you all have opinions. Please tell Stan (
> franklin.stan at gmail.com) what you think and share with the rest of us!
>
> -- Ron
>

In 1971, Laura Gould at UC Berkeley won the University's Distinguished
Teaching Award for teaching a course in the new Computer Science Department
entitled *Computers in the Humanities*. The basic approach was for
humanities students to learn about non-numeric applications of computers by
writing small programs in Snobol. Some of their course work was done on
teletypes connected to UCB's experimental Cal-TSS timesharing system.

Dave
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