The University of Texas at El Paso and Texas A&M Corpus Christi in consultation with Georgia Tech, are investigating the impact of an existing programming-centric computer literacy course that has attracted women into computing. This research effort is investigating how the successful approach of this course can be applied to Hispanics enrolled at Hispanic serving institutions. This effort is increasing the understanding of how curriculum design can affect the attractiveness of technical careers. Data for longitudinal studies to evaluate how participation in this course correlates with future success in technology-related careers is being collected. In collaboration with career planning experts, the pedagogical techniques underlying this course are being adapted to students from diverse disciplines. This project is improving computing literacy among non-computing majors and the results are being deployed and evaluated at six of the eight members of the Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
