Course Outline

CT123B

Main objectives of the course are basic understanding of history of IT, awareness of current issues, and familiarity with ethics. The course provides an overview of ethical theories and related problems such as privacy, networking, security and reliability. The course presents issues such as government supervision, computer crimes, and intellectual property from all points of view. Global issues such as cyberspace, cybernetics, social networking, and online crimes will be reviewed. This course aims to challenge students to think critically and enables them to draw their own conclusion. Besides they will learn to balance divergent thoughts which eventually prepare them to become responsible and ethical professionals as a team, as well as individual users of innovative technologies.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

• Discuss what ethics is and what constitutes an ethical issue in information and computer ethics;
• Develop awareness of ethical issues in different contexts;
• İdentify and discuss ethical issues that arise in general public media, and in particular in individuals everyday professional practice;
• Discuss how negotiation might resolve apparent ethical differences;
• Apply ethical theories to interpret personal and group behavior to use a variety of information technology tools;
• Evaluate the ethical decisions that can be made by individual and others when various roles that expose social and multicultural differences are served.
• Develop written arguments on the evolving nature of ethical norms relating to innovative technologies.
  

In the beginning of each class there will be a short lecture about the importance of the topic.

Students will form teams and choose a project from the specified topics to be presented in class.

Case Studies, drama and dialogue will be used as powerful tools to help IT students to identify, discuss and understand the role of ethics in their professional practice.

Students are encouraged to use internet to research and present various related topics in a team work. 
Lecture notes and announcements will be posted on the web site.
Students are responsible to know and use all the course material placed on the web (http://staff.emu.edu.tr/eralpgorkan/tr/dersler/itec317) and track the designated dates for timely submission of the assignment and for timely attendance to all quizzes.

There is a project assignments as follows:

• A project that will be select from students related topic.
  
  There are two written quiz as follows:
• Quiz1-(before midterm week)
• Quiz2-(before final week)
  There is written midterm exam which covers Catalysts for Change, Introduction to Ethics, Intellectual Property and Privacy  
  
  There is a written final exam which covers all topics.
  

Text Book:
Michael J. Quinn, Ethics in the Information Age, Sixth Edition, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2015.

Resource Books:

- George Reynolds, Ethics in Information Technology, Fourth Edition, Course Technology, 2011.
- Albert Bayet, Bilim Ahlakı, Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2000.

Lecture Notes:

• Lecture , Lab and tutorial notes on web link : http://courses.sct.emu.edu.tr/it/itec317

Catalysts for Change:

Introduction, Milestones in computing, Milestones in networking, Milestones in information storage and retrieval, Information technology issues.

Intellectual Property:

Intellectual property rights, Protecting intellectual property, Fair use, New restrictions on use.