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3150

ETHICS IN COMPUTING

Catalog Description:

Computer professionals have a special responsibility to ensure ethical behavior in the design, development, and use of computers and computer networks. This course focuses on the education of the undergraduate through the study of ethical concepts and the social, legal, and ethical implications involved in computing. Issues to be studied include computer crimes, software theft, hacking and viruses, intellectual property, unreliable computers, technology issues in the workplace, and professional codes of ethics.

Goals:

The focus of this course is applied ethics: in our case, ethics that exist in a technical context. By its nature, normative ethics need to be analyzed, evaluated, and discussed.

Advising Information:

 

Prerequisites:

Junior standing.

Required for:

BSMS,BSCS,BSCpE

Recent Instructor:

MaryAlys Lillard

 

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