Cyber Ethics and Societal Impact

Catalog description

This course will investigate the ethical and social challenges stemming from computing and telecommunication technology, as well as from mobile information-enabling devices. Topics include: cyber ethics, global and societal impact of the Internet, ethical analysis tools, ethical dimensions of computer system reliability, professional ethics, ethical frontiers in emerging technologies, privacy, security, intellectual property, cybercrime, and civil liberties in cyberspace. CSC 150 is a required course for CSC majors and minors. This course will be open to other math and science majors.