Exposing students to the unfamiliar - Improving software engineering teaching in non-major computer science programs

The high relevance of IT skills for most job profiles today requires to teach computer science and software engineering topics to an increasing number of students from non-major computer science programs (i.e. business administration). Due to their different knowledge and motivation this is a special challenge and requires suitable didactical methods and concepts. Since the research literature on this issue is sparse, the present paper provides a first overview about these challenges and methods and presents results of a first analysis of selected methods in practice.