The fall semester 2000 class meets in 352 Weir Hall at 12:00 to 1:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays.
The class is taught by Prof. Conrad Cunningham, whose office is in 312 Weir Hall. The official office hours for this class are 1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and by appointment at other times.
Prof. Cunningham's voice telephone number is (662) 915-5358 and fax number is (662) 915-5623. His WWW home page is http://www.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/ and his email address is cunningham@cs.olemiss.edu (send?).
The WWW home page for this class is http://www.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/csci300/.
"It is the responsibility of any student with a disability who requests a reasonable accommodation to contact the Office of Disability Services (915-7128). Contact will then be made by that office through the student to the instructor of this class. The instructor will then be happy to work with the student so that a reasonable accommodation of any disability can be made."
This course seeks to increase the students' understanding of the social, ethical, and legal environment of the computing profession and of the use of computers in society. It encourages professional behavior consistent with accepted professional standards of ethics and social responsibility. It also seeks to develop the students' skills in oral and written communication in a professional context.
Study of the nature of and need for social responsibility and ethical behavior in computing and the computer professions. (1 hour)
Successful completion of CSCI 211 and 223.
See the topic and assignment schedule page for a more detailed listing and schedule. Most of the following topics will be discussed.
All students in CSCI 300 are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner according to the Honor Code of the School of Engineering, the Information Technology Appropriate Use Policy, the M Book, and any other relevant policies.
"The Honor Code shall apply to all students, both undergraduate and graduate, registered in and/or seeking degrees through the School of Engineering. The Honor Code shall be understood to apply to all academic areas of the School such as examinations, quizzes, laboratory reports, themes, computer programs, homework, and other possible assignments. Only that work explicitly identified by the class instructor not to be under the Honor Code is excluded. The intent of the Honor Code is to recognize professional conduct and, thus, it shall be deemed a violation of the Honor Code to knowingly deceive, copy, paraphrase, or otherwise misrepresent your work in a manner inconsistent with professional conduct."
The activities associated with this class involve individual reading, thinking, writing, and oral presentation as well as group discussion and exercises. The semester grade will be based on the following components with the given relative weights:
My grading scale is A [90..100], B [80..90), C [70..80), D [60..70), and F [0..60).
If an assignment is submitted late, a penalty of 10% of that assignment's grade will be assessed for each day it is late. A homework paper will not be accepted after graded papers have been returned or a solution has been given.
This is largely a student-driven class. Your instructor will seldom lecture, but there will likely be one or more outside speakers. Most class meetings will instead consist of group activities of one kind or another. How valuable (and how much fun!) the class will be depends upon your preparation for and participation in these activities. Accordingly, a significant portion of the semester grade is based on your attendance at class meetings and your meaningful participation in the class activities.
Class activities include class discussions of the textbook chapters, development of policy statements, mock trials, debates, etc. These activities are shown on the topics and assignment schedule.
To prepare individually for the class activities, you will need to study (not just read!) the assigned materials in advance. You are encouraged to go to the library and to search the Web for other relevant materials. (You might find the resource links page a helpful starting point for Web searches.)
Some of the activities (e.g., debates and mock trials) will require groups to prepare presentations in advance.
I hope that this class will be an enjoyable experience as well as a valuable learning experience.
As shown on the topic and assignment schedule, you will be given a short quiz over each chapter that we discuss from the textbook. Each quiz will be given during the first 10 minutes of class and will cover the basic terminology and concepts in the chapter. I expect a quiz to include some combination of matching, multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer questions.
A significant portion of the semester grade is based on these quizzes. I will use the five best quiz grades to compute this portion of your final grade.
Missed quizzes cannot be made up.
There will be no other examinations in this class.
See the term paper document for description of the annotated bibliography, term paper, and critique.
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