Cyber-Ethics

Undergraduate

This course will examine key challenges and topics related to ethics and societal change in the digital age, focusing on how law, morality, and public policy influence and are influenced by digital technologies. Students will be critically assessing issues surrounding, but not limited to, free speech, property rights (particularly intellectual property), privacy, security, and artificial intelligence. Students will be expected to demonstrate understanding of ethical digital stewardship, Indigenous digital sovereignty, and the importance of respecting cultural values in technology design. Students will analyze ethical issues raised by theorists, policy makers, legal experts, Indigenous scholars, and computer scientists to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of cyber ethics in today's society. (Prerequisites: COMP-2057 or completed Semester 4 of studies) (3 lecture hours a week) COMP-3067 Applied Databases This course will acquaint students with the basic concepts and application of relational database systems. The topic covered will include 3-level architecture, relational bases, Structured Query Language (SQL) and query formulation, and normalization concepts. Prerequisite: COMP-2547, Antirequisite: COMP-3150) (May not be used to fulfill the major requirements of any major or joint major in Computer Science, except for the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) program. This course cannot be taken as a substitute for COMP-3150) (3 lecture hours a week).