Computer Ethics

Instructor:
Judy A Goldsmith
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Credits:
3.0
001
Building:
Bill Gatton Student Center
Room:
Rm.WORSHAM
Semester:
Spring 2025
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Computer Ethics
Class Type:
LEC
2:00 pm
2:50 pm
Days:
MWF

The topics covered in this course will be: professional ethics; ethical theories; data, information, knowledge, and wisdom; privacy and personhood; sociotechnical systems; other related topics as time and interest allow. The course will look critically and with enthusiasm at science fiction portrayals of science, technology, and ethics. We will use the fictional situations as jumping- off points for discussions of ethics. We will also consider the state of technology described in the fiction, and its current effects on society.

The topics covered in this course will be: professional ethics; ethical theories; data, information, knowledge, and wisdom; privacy and personhood; sociotechnical systems; other related topics as time and interest allow. The course will look critically and with enthusiasm at science fiction portrayals of science, technology, and ethics. We will use the fictional situations as jumping- off points for discussions of ethics. We will also consider the state of technology described in the fiction, and its current effects on society.

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