COURSE INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

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Course Name

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
	Fall

Prerequisites	None
Course Language
Course Type	Required
Course Level	-
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course
Course Coordinator	Doç. Dr. Selin ÖZPEYNİRCİ
Course Lecturer(s)	Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ayşe Misket YEKTAY
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; Will be able to comprehend basic issues in engineering and computer ethics Will be able to analyze the impacts of information and communication technologies Will be able to look at the connection between ethics and technology, the ethical issues emerged in the information society Will be able to gain an understanding about the ethical principles, professional responsibilites and codes of conduct via surveying the engineer’s obligations to society, employer and client
Course Description

Course Category	Core Courses	X
	Major Area Courses
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Managment Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Required Materials
1	What is Ethics? Philosophical Ethics Basic Concepts: Responsibility, Accountability and Liability Ethical Analysis (Case Studies & Role Playing)	Management Information Systems P.139 , Computer Ethics (4th edtn) P.25–27, 35–51, Management Information Systems P.143, 144, Management Information Systems P.144
2	Society and The Need For ICT Ethics: Two Way Relationship Between Society and Technology The Impacts of ICT; Optimistic, Pessimistic and Contextualist Views Why Computer Ethics The Task Of Computer Ethics (Case Studies & Role Playing)	MIS P.139, 140, CE (4th edtn) P.5–22, Computers, Ethics and Society P.161–162, CE (3rd edtn) P.11–13
3	Ethics in ICT Societies: Technology As The Instrumentation Of Human Action Features of ICT Configured Activities and Society (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (4th edtn) P.55–72, CE (3rd edtn) P.15–16
4	Dependence, Health Problems, Unemployment, Social Relations (Case Studies & Role Playing)	MIS 159–167 CEAS P.137–141, 122–128
5	Accuracy, Virtual Environments, Virtual Community, Virtual Action (Case Studies & Role Playing)	Ethical Issues In Information Systems P.49–51, CE (3rd edtn) P.194–198, Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage P.393–405, P.100–117
6	Security, Cyber Crime and Abuse (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (4th edtn) P.145–154
7	Intellectual Property Rights (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (4rd edtn) P.111–135, MIS P.150–152
8	Midterm
9	Privacy (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (4rd edtn) P.81–107
10	Democracy and the Internet. Is the Internet a Democratic Technology? (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (4th edtn) P.72–79, 156–160
11	Access and the Digital Divide (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (3rd edtn) P.218–224, EIIS P.53, 54, Ethics and Technology P.300–315
12	Professional Ethics in Computing and Engineering (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (4th edtn) P.165–177
13	Professional Ethics in Computing and Engineering (Case Studies & Role Playing)	CE (4th edtn) P.178–192, CEAS P.313–322
14	Project Presentations
15	Project Presentations
16	Project Presentations

Course Notes/Textbooks

Computer Ethics; Deborah G. Johnson, Fourth Edition, 2009, Pearson Education, Inc.

Suggested Readings/Materials

Management Information Systems – Organization and Technology;
Kenneth C. LaudonJane P. Laudon, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1996 Ethical Issues in Information Systems;
Roy DejoieGeorge FowlerDavid Paradice, Boyd and Fraser Publishing Company, 1991 Computers, Ethics and Society;
M. David ErmanMary B. WilliamsMichele S. Shauf, Oxford University Press, 1997 Computer and Ethics in The Cyberage;
D. Micah HesterPaul J. Ford, PrenticeHall Inc., New Jersey, 2001 Bilişim Toplumu ve Etik Sorunlar;
Gözde Dedeoğlu, Alfa Aktüel Yayınları, 2006 Etik ve Bilişim;
Gözde Dedeoğlu, Etki Yayınları, 2009 (2.baskı) Ethics and Technology – Controversies, Questions, and Strategies for Ethical Computing;
Herman T. Tavani, John Wiley Sons, Inc., Third Edition.
http://www.tbv.org.tr (Türkiye Bilişim Vakfı – Bilişim Mesleği Ahlak İlkeleri)
http://cyberethics.cbi.msstate.edu/biblio/#issues
http://www.cpsr.org (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility)
http://www4.uwm.edu/sois/cipr/inseit.html (International Society for Ethics and Information Technology)
http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility)
http://www.iacap.org/ (International Association for Computer & Philosophy)
http://www.naavi.org/pati/paticybercrimesdec03.htm (CYBER CRIME, Partasarathi Pati)
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnist/169 “RFID Chips Are Here”,
Scott Granneman http://www.bilgitoplumu.gov.tr/btstrateji/BilgiToplumuIstatistikleri.pdf
http://ooofline.blogspot.com/2009/08/turkiyededijitalucurum.html

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	1	20
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project	1	40
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterm	1	40
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	3	100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16
Study Hours Out of Class	15	1
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project	1	30
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exam
Midterms	1	25
Final Exams
		Total	118

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Be able to define problems in real life by identifying functional and nonfunctional requirements that the software is to execute
2	Be able to design and analyze software at component, subsystem, and software architecture level
3	Be able to develop software by coding, verifying, doing unit testing and debugging
4	Be able to verify software by testing its behaviour, execution conditions, and expected results
5	Be able to maintain software due to working environment changes, new user demands and the emergence of software errors that occur during operation
6	Be able to monitor and control changes in the software, the integration of software with other software systems, and plan to release software versions systematically
7	To have knowledge in the area of software requirements understanding, process planning, output specification, resource planning, risk management and quality planning
8	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure and manage changes in software development by applying software engineering processes
9	Be able to use various tools and methods to do the software requirements, design, development, testing and maintenance
10	To have knowledge of basic quality metrics, software life cycle processes, software quality, quality model characteristics, and be able to use them to develop, verify and test software
11	To have knowledge in other disciplines that have common boundaries with software engineering such as computer engineering, management, mathematics, project management, quality management, software ergonomics and systems engineering
12	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics, and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering					X
13	Be able to use a foreign language to follow related field publications and communicate with colleagues				X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest