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INF5013NSA - Cyberethics

Course content

This course covers cyberethics in its broadest sense, oncentrating on the domain of network and system administration. The course will include examination of ethical, legal and social issues and standards, discussing both first principles and case studies. The course will concentrate on moving from abstract standards to real world situations: we will not only consider ethical issues and standard but also how apply them in order to render judgments and to identify appropriate reactions and responses. Topics to be covered include:

• Ethics and ethical thinking
• Code of ethics and professional conduct
• Legal requirements and law enforcement
• The global perspective: ethics and legal issues in context
• Privacy concerns and rights
• Commerce and ethics
• Crime and response: external and internal
• Civil liberties
• Academic environments
• Corporate environments
• High security environments
• The grey areas

Learning outcomes

Students will be able to express commonly accepted ethical standards as well as their personal ones with respect to with respect to the broad field of network and system administration. They will also be able to successfully analyze real world scenarios with regard to relevant ethical, legal and social issues and to discuss appropriate actions and responses to situations and problems.

Prerequisites

No obligatory prerequisites beyond the minimum requirements for entrance to higher education in Norway.

Teaching

2 hours of lecture per week. Weekly reading assignments selected from the relevant literature.

Exam information

Class participation (at least 80%) and a final written which counts 100% of the final grade. General information about the examination.

Exam resources

Dictionary: own language-English, English-own language. No other exam resources are allowed.

Assessment and grading

Students are awarded either a passing or a failing grade. Read more about the grading system .

Possibility of make-up exams and re-takes

This subject does not offer new examination in the beginning of the subsequent term for candidates who withdraw during an ordinary examination or fail an ordinary examination. For general information about new examination, see http://www.mn.uio.no/studier/admin/eksamen/utsatt-og-ny-eksamen/index.html and http://www.mn.uio.no/english/studies/admin/examination/retaking-examinations/

Withdrawing from exams and limits on re-takes

A student can sit for this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do this in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit for the exam.

Other information

It is strongly recommended to attend the first lecture since it will be given important information.

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