Consultation procedures
Any questions concerning the teaching of this subject can be made by contacting your Subject Lecturer.
Email is the best option. Please send a brief message regarding the issue and include the subject name and subject code in your email -it really helps to know which class you belong to, before I respond to your query. If your query is urgent then meet with your respective Course Coordinator on Level-4.
What is your subject about? A brief overview
This subject allows students to develop skills that are necessary to identify ethical issues that are raised as a result of the advancement of information and communications technology (ICT). The subject will cover areas such as critical thinking, professionalism, ethical theories, privacy, security and crime in cyberspace, intellectual property, freedom of speech and regulation of the internet, systems reliability, and social and ethical issues of emerging technologies. By the end of the subject students should be able to argue consistently and rationally about the moral problems raised by the adoption and use of ICT and propose solutions to those moral problems.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, you should:
be able to identify ethical issues related to ICT;
be able to assess the implications of ethical problems;
be able to critically evaluate solutions to ethical problems; be able to apply ethical theories to ethical problems;
be able to argue consistently and rationally about the moral issues raised by the adoption and use of ICT;
be able to analyse ethical problems from the point of view of ICT professionals using the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Code of Ethics;
be able to analyse ethical situations using critical thinking techniques.
Pass Requirements
A student must obtain at least 50% in both the examination and the total mark in order to pass this subject.
To be eligible for the grade AA or AE you must have submitted all assessment items in the subject, including the final exam. If you choose not to complete an assessment item or do not sit the final exam then you will not be granted an AA or an AE grade.
Learn how to:
- use Primo Search to find eReserve material and journal articles
- search journal databases and web resources for information for your assessments
- identify appropriate sources of information and peer reviewed material, and evaluate resources.
Bookmark your Subject Library Resource Guide
Subject Library Guides are a great way to get started with research. Each online guide is tailored to a specific area of study, including Accounting, Business & Information Technology outlining how to research in your area and where to look for information.
https://libguides.csu.edu.au/
Academic Learning Support Assistance
Visit the learning support website for advice about assignment preparation, academic reading and note-taking, referencing, and preparing for exams at: https://student.csu.edu.au/study
Assessment item 1
Task
Proceed according to the following instructions.
1. Identify an ethical dilemma or ethically questionable situation from ONE of the following four YouTube videos:
Please include the link to the video in the references list of your assignment.
2. Undertake further research about the ethical issues you identified in your chosen video to assist you in analysing and discussing it in your essay.
3. You are required to analyse the ethical dilemma you have identified above using the Doing Ethics Technique (DET). The word limit should be between 900-1000 words. Note: Headings, citations, references and any appendices do not count towards your word limit, but quotations do. At the start of the assignment indicates in brackets the word count of your assignment excluding those items mentioned above.
4. Include a Reference list at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations. You must include at least TWO (2) quality academic references from different sources. Please note that these references are in addition to those provided to you through this subject (for example, you still must reference, the DET, Tavani, the Interact subject lecture notes etc BUT these references cannot be used as one of your two quality academic references from different sources). Only include references that have been cited in the body of your assignment and ones that support what you have presented in your assignment.
Rationale
This assessment aligns with the following subject learning outcomes: be able to identify ethical issues related to ICT;
be able to assess the implications of ethical problems;
be able to critically evaluate solutions to ethical problems; be able to apply ethical theories to ethical problems;
be able to argue consistently and rationally about the moral issues raised by the adoption and use of ICT.
Assessment item 2
Task
In this assignment, you are required to complete online quiz on topics 1 to 6. This quiz can be accessed through the Test Centre tool of the subject site from 07th August 2017 and quiz will remain open until 11:55pm Sunday, 20th August 2017. There will be 10 multiple choice questions that you need to complete in 40 minutes.
Your lecturer will also provide sample questions in Test Centre under 'practice quiz' so that you can practice before attempting your online quiz.
Rationale
The assessment item is designed to help you to build skills towards achieving the learning objectives, by requiring you to:
be able to identify ethical issues related to ICT;
be able to assess the implications of ethical problems;
be able to critically evaluate solutions to ethical problems; be able to apply ethical theories to ethical problems;
be able to analyse ethical problems from the point of view of ICT professionals using the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Code of Ethics;
Assessment item 3
Task
Your lecturer will place several links in Interact to a number of relevant articles and/or case studies. These will be available to you just after your second assignment has been submitted.
1. Choose one of the media articles or case studies listed by the lecturer in your Interact 2 subject site.
2. Use the title of the article/case study provided in interact 2 as the title of your essay, so that the lecturer knows which article you are analysing.
3. Undertake further research about your chosen case, to assist you in analysing and discussing it in your essay.
You are required to complete the following: Write an essay:
The word limit for the essay is 1200-1300 words. Headings, citations and references do not count towards the word limit, but quotations do.
Analyse the article/case study from the perspective of four classical ethical theories including utilitarianism, deontology, virtue and contract. Present well reasoned arguments for your assessments and recommendations.
Write an overall conclusion that justifies your recommendations made in your essay. Include a Reference list at the end of your work, in the correct APA referencing style, corresponding to in-text citations.
Assessment item 4
Requirements
Students must pass the examination the examination to be able to pass this subject. A pass in the examination is 50% of the total possible marks. That is, if the examination is marked out of 100 marks, then a pass would be 50 marks or more.