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1/11 | Welcome & Overview | |||
1/13 | Case Study: Therac-25 |
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1/18 | Reading Arguments | Writing Arguments (WA) 1 & 2 | ||
1/20 | Utilitarianism | Quinn Chapter 2 | ||
1/25 | Deontology & Social Contract Theory | Quinn Chapter 2, continued | Reading the Argument of a Current Article | |
1/27 | Core & Logical Structure of Arguments | WA 3 & 4 | ||
2/1 | Stakeholder Analysis & Virtue Ethics |
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Please come to class with a short quote from one of the readings that you find interesting. | |
2/3 | Professional Ethics |
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2/8 | Freedom of Speech | Quinn Chapter 3 | Applying Ethical Frameworks to a Dilemma | |
2/10 | Do Artifacts Have Politics? Guest lecturer: Jill Dimond |
"Do Artifacts Have Politics?" by Langdon Winner (electronic reserve) | ||
2/15 | Evidence | WA 5 | ||
2/17 | Privacy |
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2/22 | Privacy, continued |
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Term Paper Proposals | |
2/24 | Discussion of Term Paper Proposals & Midterm Review |
Come to class prepared to tell everyone about your term paper topic. | ||
3/1 | Midterm | |||
3/3 | Moving your Audience & Responding to Alternate Views
Guest lecturer: Thomas Smyth |
WA 6 & 7 | ||
3/8 | Intellectual Property |
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Term Paper Outline | |
3/10 | Software as Intellectual Property | Quinn Chapter 4, continued (4.7-end) | ||
3/15 | Visual Argument | Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making by Tufte | ||
3/17 | The Patriot Act | Wikipedia Articles: | ||
3/22 & 3/24 | Spring Break | No class. | ||
3/29 | Term Paper Discussion |
Come to class prepared to talk about your term paper. | ||
3/31 | Talk by Sherry Turkle (required) | Term Papers
Hand in papers to Tom at the Turkle lecture. |
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4/5 | Globalization and Outsourcing
Guest Lecturer: Thomas Smyth |
Quinn 9.4 | HW: One page on Turkle talk | |
4/7 | Digital Activism Guest Lecturer: Jill Dimond |
From Innovation to Revolution: Do Social Media Make Protests Possible? by Malcolm Gladwell and Clay Shirky | ||
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4/14 | Simulation |
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4/19 | Computer Reliability & Warranties |
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4/21 | class cancelled | Tom will be there for 15 minutes at the start of class to accept revised term papers. | ||
4/26 | Final Exam Review | |||
4/28 | no class |
Readings and assignments are subject to change.