| Date | Assignment |
| Tu 8/27 |
Introduction
- Make sure you have purchased the course textbook:
M.
Quinn, Ethics for the Information Age, Fifth Edition,
Pearson, ISBN: 978-0-13-285553-2, 2012.
Used, new, rental,
e-text. Your choice.
- Before coming to class, please complete this short survey.
- Quinn: Plagiarism, pp. 491-493
- Plagiarism lines blur for students
in digital age, T. Gabriel, NY Times, 8/1/10 (Alternate link
to story)
- Quinn: Section 1-1 (pp. 1-5)
- Disconnected: My year without the
Internet, H. Kelly, CNN, 5/10/13
- CUNY
professor pays $65,000 after steering software purchase to own
firm, N. DeSantis, Chronicle of Higher Education,
6/25/13
- UD
Responds to Data Breach, University of Delaware,
8/19/13
- Don't forget your first quiz due before class!
|
Th 8/29 -
Tu 9/3 |
Quick History Lesson: Catalysts for Change
- Quinn, Ch. 1 (pp. 1-50)
- Key Milestones in the development
of Internet
(AP 8/30/09) and
Hobbes' Internet Timeline v8.2 (Robert H'obbes'
Zakon 2006)
- Why Amish businesses don't fail (CNN Money 5/10/10)
- Building smarter machines (NY Times 6/24/10)
- Five billionth device about to plug into the Internet (Network World 8/16/10)
- Why Your Battery Life is Terrible, in One Handy
Chart (MIT Technology Review 8/11/11)
|
Th 9/5 -
Th 9/19 |
Ethics 101: Reason's Role and
Ethics 102: Other Approaches to
Ethics, Persuasion, and Decision-Making
Leading to our
Ethical Toolkit
- Quinn, Ch. 2 (pp. 51-108)
- Virtue Ethics: Quinn section 9.4.2 (pp. 417-419)
- Ethics of Care (aka "feminist ethics"):
Robert Cavalier's Ethics of Care (Carnegie
Mellon University 2002)
Feminist Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy [2009])
- Walter Maner's Summary of Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
- Another Perspective on Ethical Decision-Making: Chapter 1 from Rushworth
Kidder's How Good People Make Tough Choices (Institute for Global
Ethics 1995, revised 2005)
- The
Biology of Ethics (Christopher Shea, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, June 12, 2011)
- How to
persuade (Lincoln Mullen, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
August 18, 2011) Skim the comments, too--especially the one
about "mythos."
|
| Tu 9/10 |
Google Group Post 1 Due |
| Th 9/12 |
Google Group Post 2 Due |
Tu 9/24 -
Tu 10/1
|
The Network
- Quinn, Ch. 3
(pp. 109-160)
|
| Tu 10/1 |
Google Group Post 3 Due |
| Fr 10/4 |
Take Home Midterm 1 Due |
Th 10/3 -
Th 10/10
|
Intellectual Property
- Quinn, Ch. 4 (pp. 161-226)
|
| Th 10/10 |
Google Group Post 4 Due |
Tu 10/15 -
Th 10/24
|
Information Privacy
- Quinn, Ch. 5 (pp. 227 - 266)
- Quinn, Ch. 6 (pp. 267 - 314)
|
Tu 10/29 -
Tu 11/5
|
Computer and Network Security
- Quinn, Ch. 7 (pp. 315-350)
|
Th 11/7 -
Tu 11/12
|
Computer Reliability; Liability
-
Quinn, Ch. 8 (pp. 355-402)
|
| Tu 11/12 |
Google Group Post 5 Due |
| Fr 11/15 |
Take Home Mid-Term 2 Due |
Th 11/14 -
Tu 11/19
|
Ethics 103: Professional Ethics and Acceptable
Use Policies
- Quinn, Ch. 9 (pp. 403-446)
|
Th 11/21 -
Tu 11/26 |
Work and Wealth; Technology and the Economy
- Quinn, Ch. 10 (pp. 447-490)
Note re: Thanksgiving break from UD Academic Calendar:
"Thanksgiving Break begins after last class [Tu 11/26]; classes end at
10 p.m. Residence Halls close at 7:00 p.m. for students who
do not have evening classes."
|
| Tu 11/26 |
Google Group Post 6 Due |
|
Th 11/28
|
- No Class. American Thanksgiving Day
|
| Tu 12/3 |
Problems, The Future, and our Toolkit- Readings TBA
|
| ?? 12/?? |
Final Exam
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