Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College · Courses
IEC
14 courses with the subject IEC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
IEC 100Introduction to Social Implications of Information Technology3
This course introduces students to critical perspectives on emerging information technologies, including data systems, artificial intelligence (algorithms), and security technologies. It provides a forum for critical analysis of these technologies for communities and societies, with particular attention to marginalized populations around the globe. Students will be introduced to the strategies used by activists to ensure new technologies generate just and equitable benefit for all members of society. They will also learn about legal structures for regulating new technologies. Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to articulate key ethical and values-based issues associated with data, artificial intelligence and security technologies, as well as strategies for advocacy and policy to create a just society.
/Maximum of 18 Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
IEC 300Socially Responsible Information Management3
Management of data and information are central to all organizations, whether public, private, governmental or civil society. As distinct from IT management, information management encompasses practices and policies focused on the organization of and control over the structure, processing, and delivery of information. Key issues in information management include: knowing and tracking the sources of information, establishing policies for information storage and retrieval, policies
This course introduces students to the conceptual foundations of Information Ethics. It starts by discussing what information is and what is called the information revolution. We address the different approaches to Information Ethics using Floridi's unified approach. The course also discusses privacy, morality in distributed systems, the relation between information and business ethics, and the global nature of information ethics. Enforced Prerequisite at Enrollment: IEC 100 and (PHIL 107 or PHIL 119) Writing Across the Curriculum
/Maximum of 18 Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and that fall outside the scope of formal courses.
