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CSE175 - Social and Ethical Issues in Information Technology
Units: 4
Course Objectives:
To give students the background they need to understand and make intelligent decisions about information technology in today's world.
Course Description:
Social aspects of information technology, with an emphasis on ethical issues. Topics include ethical theories, privacy and security, spam, e-commerce, the digital divide, open souce software, open source software, medical informatics, actor-network theory,some neo-classical economics.
Format:
3 hours of lecture per week, 1 hour of discussion per week, and 8 hours of outside preparation per week.
Prerequisites:
CSE 100, or Math 176.
Other restrictions:
Majors only.
Example Textbook(s):
www.cs.ucsd.edu/users/goguen/courses/175/ has links to extensive online notes. Also:Computerization and Controversy by Ro Kling (ed), Academic 1996
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