Course Project Topic Selection

This course is designed to introduce you to computer ethics issues in the following stages: (1)
Ethics and morality in a general context, (2) Ethics and morality in a technology context, and (3)
Ethics and morality of technology in a social context. The overall purpose of the course project
is to afford you the opportunity to translate ethical theories and critical thinking strategies into an
authentic problem-solving framework related to an issue of interest in the computer ethics field.
For the scope of the project, you will identify a topic of interest, relate it to each of the three
perspectives of computer ethics noted above, declare a thesis statement, and present
arguments for and against your thesis similar in style to an argumentative essay.