CS 4345: Computerization and Society - Summer 1998

General Information

Instructor: Philip Enslow
    Office: CCB 269
    Office Hours: TTH 11-12
    Phone: 894-3187
    email: enslow@cc.gatech.edu
 
Teaching Assistants
    Lynn Bacher, lynn@cc.gatech.edu
        Office Hours: 1:30-3:30, CoC Commons Area
    Idris Hsi, CCB 226b, idris@cc.gatech.edu
         Office Hours: W: 1-3, TH 11-12 and by appointment

Textbook
    Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices, edited by Rob Kling, 2nd Edition, Academic Press: New York, NY, 1996.

• Course Objectives and Philosophies
• Course Schedule and Reading Assignments
• Submission Guidelines (Read these carefully!)
• Assignment Descriptions (all due at start of class)
• Writing Assignment 1 (due 6/30)
• Writing Assignment 2 (due 7/9)
• Writing Assignment 3 (due 7/21)
• Writing Assignment 4 (due 7/30)
• Term Paper Description
• Term Paper Submission Guidelines - August 10, 1998

Grading

Class Participation

• You will be expected to read and interpret the articles in the book for yourself and others.
• You will be expected to present and persuasively defend your positions on controversial topics both orally and in writing.
• You will be expected to critique the perspectives / opinions of both authors and classmates in discussions and position papers.
• On any given day, you may be asked to summarize and critique readings from the book or elsewhere for the class.  On such occasions, you are invited to refer to notes you've made in response to the readings.