CS-317 ETHICS & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
The increasing dependence on and use of digital technology has created many ethical dilemmas across many disciplines and professions. This course will provide students with an ethical and moral framework, which can serve as a basis for ethically grounded decision-making with respect to the use of technology in the ditial era. Students are introduced to basic concepts and theories of ethics, argumentation, and inductive reasoning, while exploring specific digital technological issues that affect privacy, identity theft, intellectual property, social justice, community, self-identity, free speech and censorship. In addition, ethical and social issues pertaining to emerging and converging technologies such as pervasive computing, computational genomics, and autonomous machines are explored. In particular, this course prepares students interested in management of information systems, computer forensics, and computer security to apply practical ethical principles to the many challenges they will face in their careers as ditial technology becomes more pervasive in business and everyday life.