CS 4345: Computerization and Society - Summer 1999

General Information

Class Time: TTH, 10-11:45 am,
Place: CCB Room 102

Instructor: Philip Enslow
    Office: CCB 269
    Office Hours: MWF 12-1
    Phone: 894-3187
    email: enslow@cc.gatech.edu

Teaching Assistants
    Idris Hsi, CCB 202, idris@cc.gatech.edu
         Office Hours: TTH 11:45-1:30 - in cubicle or by appt.
Textbook
     In The Age of the Smart Machine - The Future of Work and Power, Shoshana Zuboff

Course Objectives and Philosophies
Course Schedule and Reading Assignments

Updated Schedule of Due Dates

Submission Guidelines (Read these carefully!)
Assignment Descriptions

Debate Description
Current Debate Score - Section A (3-2-2) - Section B (2-2-3)

Grading

There are 3 assignments and a term paper. The weighting of the grade will be toward the term paper even though the actual percentages have not been determined yet.
There is also a participation component that includes attendance and class activity.
More on this distribution later.
Debates (mandatory - may contribute towards raising grade)

Class Participation

Discovery does not arise from instruction but from personal engagement with the controversies and potentials of a computerized society. In this class, engagement will take several forms.

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.