Gehringer, North Caroline State University. This course is a survey of the ethical issues involved in computing. It discusses the way that computers and software pose new ethical questions or pose new versions of standard moral problems and dilemmas. It stresses case studies that relate to ethical theory.
Farley, Univ. Oregon The main topics covered in the course are computer crime, software ownership and intellectual property, privacy, cryptography, software risks and safety, codes of ethics, internet ethics. The site includes the course syllabus, directions for specific readings for each week, and links to course-related information that can be found on the web.
Univ. Vermont The site contains very detailed information about the course, i.e. class notes, presentations notes, a very complete bibliography of materials related to the course, some links to other web resources. The course materials cover topics such as computer crime, security and protection, computer and professional ethics, role and responsibility of computer scientists.
Kling, Cal. State/Long Beach The course focuses on social issues of computerization. Includes assignments, syllabus, links to related courses, on-line course-related information, a teaching guide.
Cranor, Washington Univ. in St.Louis This site contains a syllabus, large collection of articles, links to other related sites. The course covers material related to the following themes: privacy issues, intellectual property issues, crime and punishment, risks and reliability; and social, political, and economic issues. Ethics is covered as part of the materials on each theme.
Topics covered include general ethics, privacy, data protection, employee privacy, data regulation, artificial intelligence, computer malfunction liability, computer crime, and the Professional Responsibility of the Computer User.
Virginia Tech. The most updated and complete version of the course can be found on the Fall 1996 page Lee, Virginia Tech. Very extensive site -- syllabus, assignments, projects, class notes, readings, extensive bibliography list, resources, many useful links, index of pages in the collection of course materials. Topics covered include ethics, codes of ethics, hacking, etiquette, privacy, the impact of computerization, Therac 25 incident, responsibilities, liabilities, copyrights and patents, personal relationships.
Nissenbaum, Princeton Univ. Very complete notes on lectures and presentations, syllabus, assignments, paper topics and guidelines, final examination, links of general interest in the area of computer ethics; links sorted by course topics, which include risk and responsibility, ethical theory, intellectual property and computer software, privacy and information technology, crime by computer, the networked world.
Abelson, Fischer, MIT This is an extremely extensive site -- includes syllabus, very complete notes on in-class discussions, assignments, student papers, the class on-line discussion list, readings and source material, links to many other sites, list of related courses and links to them. The main areas discussed in the course are computer crime, information and intellectual property, encryption and national security, privacy implications of computer networks, computer communications and freedom of expression.
Litman, Wayne State Univ. Law School. An extensive site -- a bibliography of online sources, a general description of the seminar, a syllabus with links to most of the assigned reading, student seminar papers, links to other courses at other institutions (mostly the Law and Ethics in Cyberspace courses). The topics covered include intellectual property, regulation, civil liability, Net "crime", privacy and anonymity, economics in cyberspace, international law, utopian and dystopian visions.
Robinson, Duke Univ.
Very extensive site -- includes syllabus, assignments, notes, readings, links to online resources, online discussion, student web projects, links to other ethics sites. The material covers cyberculture, intellectual property, privacy, security, encryption, censorship, pornography, terrorism, and other interesting topics.
A paper written by John A. N. Lee for the 1999 Conference at the Case Western Reserve University. Starting from a project to develop a digital library for a Computer Science course studying social impact and computer ethics, the paper describes a highly interactive Web-based, active-learning system that is a highly developed work-in-progress. Capable of supporting a variety teaching/learning environments, the system is intended to support courses in Computer Science, Computer Science teachers whose primary disciplinary interest is other than social impact, and ethics and students in the discipline who have a need to understand the implications of their acquired technology.
Relevant Literature on this Topic
Herkert, Joseph R. 1997. "Making Connections: Engineering Ethics on the World Wide Web." Originally in IEEE Transactions on Education 40 (4): CD- ROM Supplement. Other keywords for this: engineering ethics courses; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; pedagogy; professional societies; technical and scholarly societies; technological disasters.
Herkert, Joseph R. 1997. "Collaborative Learning in Engineering Ethics." Science and Engineering Ethics 3(4):447-462. Other keywords for this: engineering ethics courses; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; pedagogy; product quality; professional responsibility.
C. Glagola, M. Kam, M. C. Loui, and C. Whitbeck, "Teaching ethics in engineering and computer science: a panel discussion." Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 463-480, October 1997. Other keywords for this: ethics courses, engineering ethics; pedagogy.
Don Gotterbarn and Robert Riser, "Ethics activities in Computer Science Courses: Goals and Issues," in Computers and Society, March 1997. Other keywords for this: pedagogy; design; ethics codes.
Don Gotterbarn and Robert Riser, "Ethics activities in Computer Science Courses," in Computers and Society, December 1996. Other keywords for this: pedagogy; design; ethics codes.
Don Gotterbarn, Chuck Huff, Dianne Martin, and Keith Miller, "Implementing a Tenth Strand in the CS Curriculum (Second Report from project ImpactCS)." December Communications of the ACM, 39(12): 75-84, December 1996. Other keywords for this: pedagogy; design; ethics codes.
Don Gotterbarn, Chuck Huff, Dianne Martin, and Keith Miller, "A Framework for Implementing and Teaching the Social and Ethical Impact of Computing." Education and Information Technologies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1996, published by Chapman. Other keywords for this: accountability; pedagogy; design; ethics codes.
Christelle Didier, "Le cas de Metrotelephone," in Christelle Didier, Annie Gireaux-Geneaux, and Bertrand HÈriard Dubreuil. Ethique industrielle: Textes pour un dÈbat, Editions De Boeck universitÈ, Bruxelles, 1998, pp. 113-124. Other keywords for this: design process; workplace relationships; performance review.