California State University Dominguez Hills - Department of Computer Science

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Syllabus

Week 1 – 8    Ethical and legal prerequisites. Readings: 

Computers and Society

http://csc.csudh.edu/suchenek/Papers/Computers_and_Society.htm

Declaration of Independence (selected topics from Preamble only)

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm 

 

Constitution (Preamble, Article I Section 8 [1], [3], [18]  and Article VI [2] – relevant powers of Congress -  only) and Bill of Rights (all) and 14^th Amendment (Equal Protection clause and powers of Congress only)

http://constitutionus.com/

International law 'vs.' the American Constitution

Copyrighted material for in-class use only:
http://csc.csudh.edu/suchenek/CSC301/RabkinNatlInterest1999.pdf

ACM Code of Ethics

http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics  

Introduction's closing remarks

http://csc.csudh.edu/suchenek/CSC301/Closing_intro.htm

 

The Purpose of Society
http://csc.csudh.edu/suchenek/CSC301/Purpose_of_society.html

Chap. 1 (all sections), Chap. 9 Section 9.1 Ethics, and Lecture Notes. 

Week 9 - 13     Privacy. Readings: Chap. 2 (all sections) and:

Public key cryptography: 

http://cxf.apache.org/docs/ws-security.html

Why I Wrote PGP (an annotated and edited version)
http://csc.csudh.edu/suchenek/CSC301/
Articles/WhyIWrotePGPannotated.html

and Lecture Notes, particularly Section 2.2 "Big Brother Is Watching You" up to the end of Notes for Chapter 2.

Week 14  Freedom of Speech. Readings: Chap. 3 (all sections) and:

Hate Speech on Campus
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/hate-speech-campus

slides and Lecture Notes.

Free speech and gun control controversy  including Comment (by M.S)    on homicide rates, up  to (but not including) Study of gun violence in movies.

Week 15:  Intellectual Property.  Readings:

Chap. 4 (all sections) and Lecture Notes and article "On the Software Patenting Controversy"
http://csc.csudh.edu/suchenek/CSC301/PatentsForSoftwareArticle.pdf (click here for a version with highlights). Make sure to thoroughly review all Lecture Notes on Chapter 1 before reading that article.

Individual reading: 1. Limits of Computability (slides, or slides with narrative, and Lecture Notes).

2. Topic from: Work.  Readings: Chap. 6 (all sections, with an emphasis on Section 6.2.3 - some aspects of these will be also discussed in week 15).

Individual reading: Errors, Failures, and Risks. Readings: Chap 8 (all sections).

Week 15: Computers and Society: Closing Remarks - presence in the last week of classes will earn double credit. Readings:

Slides and Lecture Notes beginning: (click here).

FINAL 120 min.   Comprehensive multiple-choice, closed-textbook, no notes; covers Chapters 1 through 4 (including slides for Chapters 1 through 4), Sections 6.2, 9.3, slides for Chapter 9, and all lecture notes and assigned readings, including individual readings, such as slides Limits of Computability and others listed in the Syllabus. In particular, it will cover all the material covered by Tests 1 trough  5  3 and Test 5, AND all the material covered by the lectures and slides presented in class, including all the material covered after the last test, in particualr, the slides on Limits of Computability and the Lecture on Population. There will be some emphasis on the required material that was not covered by Tests 1 through 3.

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