On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Ronald Mak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron.mak@sjsu.edu">ron.mak@sjsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <u></u> <div> <div><font face="Arial"><span>Folks,</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial"><span>Computer Science Prof. Stan Franklin at the University of Memphis, along with his colleagues, taught a computer literacy class in Spring 1982. </span></font></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> ... </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> <div><font face="Arial"><span>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 </span></font><font face="Arial"><span>I'm sure you all have opinions. Please tell Stan (<a href="mailto:franklin.stan@gmail.com" target="_blank">franklin.stan@gmail.com</a>) what you think and share with the rest of us!</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial"><span>-- Ron</span></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 <i>Computers in the Humanities</i>. 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.</div> <div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div></div>