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Introductory CS education. I have taught CS 1315 to non-CS majors at GA Tech for several years now (and recently the follow-on course CS 1316). CS 1315 is a great opportunity to overcome the attitude often heard among non-technology students (especially at a technology university, where many of them feel out of place) that "I don't get on with computers." The course is designed around media examples, such as simple image manipulations (such as background substitution and chromakey), sound manipulations (reversing or splicing sounds), movie algorithms (simple computed animations) and turtle graphics. The gratification is immediate, and most students are surprised that they are good at this stuff and actually like it. Having been a non-CS major myself, I can relate to this.
Professional communication. CS 4001, of which I am course owner (see the professional awareness of social implications page for more details), has as one of its major learning objectives the development of skills in argumentation and writing about technical subjects and their policy implications. We do this in a lightweight way, but the treatment is informed by explicit models of argumentation of the kinds found in design rationale research (see the design rationale page for more on issue-based argumentation and systems.)