Course overview
This course aims to equip leaners with knowledge and awareness of a wide range of ethical and legal challenges related to technology focusing on information technology, and to enable them to identify potential issues in real world cases and recommend resolutions. A wide range of issues will be discussed including privacy, data protection, surveillance and monitoring, cybersecurity and cybercrime, intellectual property rights, and other ethical concerns. Learners will develop understanding of such ethical and legal challenges and become capable of identifying and explaining potential issues and recommending prospective resolutions.
- Ethical and Legal Foundations in Technology
- Ethical and Legal Foundations in Technology
- Professional Responsibility and Ethical Innovation
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the ethical and legal theories, frameworks and issues in technology development, deployment, and use across various domains.
- Evaluate the ethical and legal challenges in the context of contemporary information technology systems and practice.
- Identify and analyse ethical and legal challenges from the use of information technology within organisational contexts.
- Recommend strategies, policies or resolutions for ethical and legal challenges in information technology.
- Reflect on the human, cultural and societal factors that shape ethical and legal responsibilities in information technology development and use.
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 65250
Section WS02
Size 35
Available 34
Class number 65251
Section WS01
Size 35
Available 34
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 65249
Section WS01
Size 10
Available 10
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 30294
Section WS01
Size 45
Available 44
Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 30295
Section WS04
Size 40
Available 35
Class number 30296
Section WS03
Size 40
Available 32
Class number 30297
Section WS02
Size 40
Available 37
Class number 30298
Section WS01
Size 40
Available 36
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