Topics and Sub-Topics 2017-20 • Combating cybercrime Potential exam questions cover areas • Understanding IP highlighted in blue • Copyright * Section A is based on weeks 2, 3 • Patent protections • Trademarks • Trade secret Week 1: Introduction to Ethics • Intellectual commons • Advantages of learning ethics • Terminology Week 7: Social Issues • Ethical decision making model • Persuasive rhetoric, racism & bullying • Gender Week 2: Ethical Theories 1 • Employment: robotics, workplace surveillance, work life balance • Act and rule utilitarianism: social utility • Online communities and utilitarian calculus • Virtual reality • Rule and act deontology: prima facie • Artificial intelligence duties, categorical imperative, universality • Bionic implants and impartiality Week 8: The Internet Free or Forbidden & Systems Reliability Week 3: Ethical Theories 2 • Internet issues • Moral and legal contracts: problem of • Netizen minimalist morality • Managing the Internet • Virtue ethics: eudemonia, problem • Filtering (conflicting virtues) • Cyberbullying & cyberstalking • Modern approach • Systems failures: TRELIS, Sydney Water, RMIT, One Tel, Therac-25 etc. Week 4: Professional Ethics (ACS) Week 9: Professionalism & Project Management • The primacy of public interest • The enhancement of quality of life • IT Careers • Honesty • Project management recap • Competence • The project manager • Professional development • PMI Ethics • Professionalism • Certifications
Week 10: Leadership, Management &
Week 5: Privacy & Security Change • Privacy and cyberspace • Management • Personal privacy • Leadership • Threat to privacy • Entrepreneurship • Privacy enhancing technologies • Managing change • Privacy proposals • Managing communication • Privacy legislation • Computer security • Ethics of cybersecurity Week 11: Teams & Negotiation • Cyberterrorism • Learning and project teams • Information warfare • Learning and projects • Law and hacking • Learning organisations • Cybersecurity risk management • Teams and organisational learning