COMPUTERS ETHICS  SOCIETY and HUMAN VALUES

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COMPUTERS,  ETHICS  SOCIETY and HUMAN VALUES

PHI 301   Fall 2012      EVENTS   AND DATES          PHI 301 FALL 2012

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Orientation and Training 8-25-14 8-27-14 Course Orientation 8-27-14

 Orientation Assignment

Introduction 8-28-14 8-31-14 Online text Chapter 1 8-31-14

Assignment #1

Computers and Ethics 9-1-14 9-7-14 Online text Chapter  2 9-7-14 Assignment#2
Ethics 9-8-14 9-28-14 Online text Chapter  3 9-28-14 Assignment#3
Law: Free Speech and Censorship 9-29-14 10-5-14 Online text Chapter  4 10-5-14 Assignment #4
Intellectual Property 10-6-14 10-12-14 Online text Chapter  5 10-12-14 Assignment #5
Privacy 10-13-14 10-19-14 Online text Chapter  6 10-19-14 Assignment #6
Secrecy and Security 10-20-14 10-26-14

Online text Chapter  7

10-26-14 Assignment #7

Mid Course Evaluations and Changes

10-27-14 11-2-14

 

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Crime 11-3-14 11-9-14 Online text Chapter  8 11-9-14 Assignment #8
Information Technology  Accountability 11-10-14 11-16-14 Online text Chapter  9 11-16-14 Assignment #9
Computing and Information Technology as Professions and Professional Codes 11-17-14 11-23-14 Online text Chapter  10 11-23-14 Assignment #10
Social Change 11-24-14 11-30-14 Online text Chapter  11 11-30-14 Assignment #11
Political Change 12-1-14 12-7-14 Online text Chapter  12 12-7-14 Assignment #12
Artificial Intelligence: Computers and Being Human 12-8-14 12-14-14 Online text Chapter  13 12-14-14 Assignment #13
Culminating Activity   Course Evaluation 12-15-14 12-16-14 Course Evaluation : Mod 12-16-14 BONUS Assignment BONUS
READINGS are listed by chapter (ch) in an Online Textbook provided to you FREE.  You are to read and do research by means of a computer in the Library, home, workplace  or any facility with computers with internet access !

Written Assignments may be submitted by email.

REQUIRED TEXTS:    NONE to buy!    Computers, Information Systems ,Ethics, Society and Human Values  Online Textbook    is the required text and it is on a website and the url is:

 ONLINE TEXTBOOK- Computers, Information Technology, the Internet, Ethics, Society and Human Values  free and available 24/7               It contains links to many readings online.  It will open in a new browser window.

Suggested Textbooks: For those who want more than the free online e-textbook! For those who want printed paper texts! I offer these suggested texts to obtain. 

Johnson,  Deborah.   Computer Ethics, 3rd ed (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)  ISBN #  0-13-083699-0 

Hester, D. Micah & Paul J. Ford, eds.  Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2001)  ISBN #0-13-082978-1 

Baase, Sara,  A Gift of Fire. 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2003)  ISBN # 0-13-008215-5