Digital Ethics Minor

Required Courses (12 credits):

• CSC-121 Intro to Computer Programming
• CSC-271 Digital Dilemmas: Data, Technology, and Being Human
• PHL-208 Ethics

Elective Courses:

Select 8 credits from the following (at least 4 credits must be taken from courses without a CSC or PHL prefix):

• COM-301 Rhetorical Criticism
• COM-302 Media Criticism
• COM-314 Social Media Strategy
• COM-323 Race, Class and Gender in Media
• COM-335 Political Economy of Mass Media
• COM-419 Mobile Media, Space and Place
• COM-451 Civic Media
• COM-460 Communication Ethics
• CSC-272 Introduction to Data Mining
• CSC-343 Artificial Intelligence
• CSC-347 Human Computer Interaction
• CSC-372 Machine Learning with Big Data
• ECN-245 Development Economics
• ECN-246 Economic Growth
• ECN-247 History of Economic Thought
• PHL-200 Logic
• PHL-305 Bioethics
• PHL-318 Philosophy of Law
• PHL-417 Philosophy of Copyright
• SOC-231 Media, Culture and Society

Note:

No more than one 4-credit course from each student’s declared major(s) may count toward an elective in the Digital Ethics minor.

Capstone Project:

After completing all other requirements of the Digital Ethics Minor, each student will be required to present, either in the form of a talk or a poster, a research project focused on issues of digital ethics as they arise in their elective courses and/or declared Major(s). The project should minimally demonstrate the student’s ability to identify and critically engage with the ethical dimensions of digital technology in their Major field(s) of study. Projects should be approved by the student’s Digital Ethics Minor advisor.