COMPUTERS ETHICS  SOCIETY and HUMAN VALUES   

MOD   TOPICS

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ORIENTATION and TRAINING

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Introduction

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Computers and Ethics

3

Ethics

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Law: Free Speech and Censorship

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Intellectual Property

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Privacy

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Secrecy and Security

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MID COURSE EVALUATIONS and CHANGES

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Crime and Misbehavior

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Information Technology  Accountability

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Computing and Information Technology as Professions and Professional Codes

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Social Change

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Political Change

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Artificial Intelligence: Computers and Being Human

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CULMINATING ACTIVITIES Course Evaluation

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Module Overview: 0 ORIENTATION
Some simple steps to follow under ASSIGNMENTS that will enable the students to orient themselves to the class website and to the BlackBoard website for the class.

Module Learning Objectives:   The learner will :

Required Readings: ALL COURSE INFORMATION DOCUMENTS on the CLASS WEBSITE

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

This is the first module of the course. in this module you will do a bit of reading and then enter into the discussions and send in a written assignment and start working within your group.

VIEW  > Objective of Module one.  at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKwrNMUmjjc

Module Learning Objectives:  The Student will learn about:

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK  Chapter 1.

Suggested Readings:

chapter 1,2  Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 2 COMPUTERS and ETHICS

This module introduces the particular ethical issues associated with computers and information systems

Module Learning Objectives:  The Student will learn about:

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 2

Suggested Readings:

chapter 1 Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 3 ETHICS

A presentation of several of the major ethical traditions or schools of thought.

Module Learning Objectives: The learner should :

VIDEO : Objective of Module Three at  http://www.youtube.com/v/YIoUj1zFM94

Required Readings:   ONLINE TEXTBOOK   Chapter 3

Suggested Readings:  chapter 2 Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 4 Law: Free Speech and Censorship

A presentation of the matter of Freedom of Speech as it applies to issues related to computers and the internet and information systems and networks.

Module Learning Objectives: The learner will

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 4

Suggested Readings: 

chapter  3 Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

chapter 8  Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 5 Intellectual Property

Presenting and discussing matters of Intellectual property and the foundations for the concept and the basis for the right to control IP in a world with digital information and software.

Module Learning Objectives:  The learner will  be able to answer the following questions:

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 5

Suggested Readings:

chapter 6 Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  8 Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  4 Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview:MODULE 6 Privacy

A presentation on the matter of Privacy and its forms in : communication privacy  and information privacy and psychological privacy.

Module Learning Objectives: The learner will be able to answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 6

Suggested Readings:

chapter 5  Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter 7 Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  2 Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 7 Secrecy and Security

 A presentation on matters of secrecy of information and the protection or security of that information.

Module Learning Objectives: The learner will answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 7

Suggested Readings:

chapter 3  Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 8 Mid Course Evaluations and Changes

 A week to take stock. A week for a small rest. A week to give you an opportunity to revise papers and to revise the approach to the course as well as an attempt to improve the learner's performance and final grade.

Your group might submit a draft or description of what you are doing for the instructor's feedback during this week.

Evaluations of the course , the subject matter and student performance will take place during this module.

Module Learning Objective:

Students will discuss what problems they are encountering with the course and make suggestions as to how to improve the course and their performance in the course.

Students will become more aware of what is required to do well in the course.

Required Readings:   None

Assignments:  None

Discussions: Several.  They are the only feature of this module.

Just respond in the Discussion Board to the lead questions concerning the class and how it is going.

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Module Overview: MODULE 9 Crime and Misbehavior

A presentation on a variety of crimes and troublesome behavior associated with computer and information technologies and the Internet.

Module Learning Objectives:  The learner will answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 8

Suggested Readings:

chapter  4 Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  7 Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 10 Information Technology  Accountability

A presentation on the concept of accountability.

Module Learning Objectives: The learner will answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 9

Suggested Readings:

chapter 7 Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 11  Computing and Information Technology as Professions and Professional Codes

 A presentation on Computing and Information Technology and Professionalism

Module Learning Objectives:  The learner will answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 10

Suggested Readings:

chapter  3 Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter 6 Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  10  Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview:MODULE 12 Social Change

A presentation on the impact of Computer Technology and Information Technology on Society

Module Learning Objectives: The learner will answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 11

Suggested Readings:

chapter  8  Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  11 12 Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  8,9 Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 13 Political Change

A presentation on the impact of Computer Technology and Information Technology on Political Institutions

Module Learning Objectives: The learner will answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 12

Suggested Readings:

chapter  8  Johnson, Deborah Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter 5   Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 14 Artificial Intelligence: Computers and Being Human

 A presentation on the impact of Computer Technology and Information Technology on how humans regard themselves as human beings

Module Learning Objectives: The learner will answer these questions

Required Readings:  ONLINE TEXTBOOK Chapter 13

Suggested Readings:

chapter  4,10 Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)

chapter  4   Baase,Sara, A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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Module Overview: MODULE 15:    CULMINATING ACTIVITY: BONUS EXERCISE

In this Culminating Activity module, you will complete a survey and enter into discussions that will provide feedback to the instructor to be used in the evaluation and revision of the course for the next time it is taught.

Module Learning Objectives:

The objective is to provide valuable feedback to the instructor.

Assignments: check the calendar

Discussions:  check the calendar

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