CS4001B Fall 2007--Schedule

Schedule for CS 4001B: Computing, Society, & Professionalism, Fall 2007

Week	Date	Topic	Readings	Assignment Due
1	8/21	Welcome & Overview
	8/23	Case Study: Therac-25	"Medical Devices: The Therac-25" by Nancy Leveson
2	8/28	Reading Arguments	WA 1 & 2
	8/30	Utilitarianism	Baase 10.1
3	9/4	Deontology & Social Contract Theory		Reading the Argument of a Current Article
	9/6	Stakeholder Analysis & Virtue Ethics	In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan, pp. 25-39 (electronic reserve) Virtue Ethics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy	Please come to class with a short quote from one of the readings that you find interesting.
4	9/11	Writing Arguments	WA 3
	9/13	Professional Ethics	GF 10.2, 10.3, Appendix A Article "Using the New ACM Code of Ethics in Decision Making" by Anderson et al (electronic reserve)
5	9/18	Privacy	GF 2	Applying Ethical Frameworks to a Dilemma
	9/20	Privacy, continued	GF 3 EU-US Airline Passenger Data Disclosure (skim)
6	9/25	The Patriot Act, FISA, and the Protect America Act	Read articles online and see if you can figure out what The Patriot Act, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the Protect America Act provide for
	9/27	Structure of Argument	WA 4 & 5	Term Paper Proposals
7	10/2	Discussion of Term Paper Proposals		Come to class prepared to tell everyone about your term paper topic.
	10/4	Midterm
8	10/9	Fall Break
	10/11	Case Studies in Using Evidence: The Cholera Epidemic & The Challenger Disaster	Tufte Visual and Statistical Thinking
9	10/16	Using Evidence	WA 6	Term Paper Outline
	10/18	Freedom of Speech Online	GF 5
10	10/23	Intellectual Property	GF 6
	10/25	Software as Intellectual Property
11	10/30	Writing for an Audience	WA 7 & 8
	11/1	Privacy & Security for Kids & Teens Online	American Library Association Statement on Internet Filtering Center for Missing and Exploited Children information on Teen Safety on the Information Highway Filtering software: Better, but still fallible by Consumer Reports From this list of Internet filters, pick one and see if you can figure out what values are behind the filter. What kinds of things does it block and not block? For example, does this filter block images of smoking? Are any choices left to parents/ configurable?
12	11/6	Computers and Work	GF 8 "Christmas Unplugged" by Amy Bruckman
	11/8	Term Paper Presentations		Term Papers
13	11/13	Term Paper Presentations
	11/15	Term Paper Presentations
14	11/20	Happy Thanksgiving! (no class)
	11/22	Happy Thanksgiving! (no class)
15	11/27	Broader Issues & Globalization	GF 9
	11/29	Internet Censorship in China & Other Nations	Wikipedia article on Internet Censorship in China
16	12/4	The Power of Simulation	Sedutions of Sim by Paul Starr
	12/6	Final Exam Review		Revised Term Papers (optional)

Readings and assignments are subject to change.