We describe a new curriculum (Computational Science and Information Technology) being developed at Florida State University. The curriculum consists of four courses:

Each course is described in the Appendix. We argue that it could be of particular value to HBCU/MI's and to DoD scientists and engineers. This value will be enhanced if the curriculum is made available by distance education technology. In this project, we take this basic thesis and we investigate its value to the ERDC Graduate Institute. We do this in a way that will test technology that is being developed in other focused efforts. This semester we taught a class to several sites including JSU and the ERDC Graduate Institute. We used TangoInteractive technology and although adequate, the class was disappointing in its lack of interactions between students and teacher. When the class was given at ERDC there were many interactions with students. When giving the class from Syracuse or Tallahassee, there were essentially no questions from any remote site. We have proposed in other focused efforts, a different strategy from Tango, which involves a mix of synchronous and asynchronous interactions with lectures available in SMIL format for students to peruse before tutorial sessions held synchronously. We have also proposed developing novel applications of hand-held devices.