----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- The inaugural History of Economics Society Workshop on Teaching Undergraduate History of Economics will be held on July 5-6, 2003, in conjunction with the HES meetings at Duke University. The workshop will begin Saturday, July 5 at 6pm with a keynote speaker, and will end with the HES banquet on Sunday, July 6. The Workshop is being organized by the Society's Committee on Undergraduate Education (Avi Cohen, Jerry Evensky, Sherry Kasper), which was created out of concern for the future of the history of economics, given its declining presence in the undergraduate economics curriculum. Our mandate is to create a one-day workshop for those who teach (or might consider teaching) undergraduate history of economic thought but who may not attend the HES meetings. Our target audience is largely liberal arts colleges, where a history of economics course could be part of a capstone course, writing across the curriculum, great books, or an interdisciplinary history and philosophy of science approach. We also welcome interest from faculty at larger universities. The aim of the workshop is to expose participants to the best practices and practitioners in the field, and to provide information and resources about teaching the history of economics that would make it much easier to offer a high-quality (content and pedagogy) course, or to update an existing course. Ideas and teaching techniques learned in the workshops also could be introduced elsewhere in the undergraduate curriculum. Details, registration fees and other information will be posted in the coming months on the Society website (http://www.eh.net/HE/HisEcSoc/) and on this list. MOST IMPORTANT: Please pass on this announcement to colleagues who might be interested and who do not subscribe to the HES List. The workshop will NOT be an exercise in preaching to the converted, but (hopefully) a valuable resource for those who are not historians of economics but are intrigued by the idea of teaching a history of thought course. If you have any questions, please contact me. Avi J. Cohen [log in to unmask] ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]