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2025-2026 Catalog

CIA 105 - Everyday Computing & Soc Responsibility


Credit Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites: ENGL 090  and RDG 090  or qualifying scores on accepted placement tests
Session Cycle: FL

This course explores ethical issues faced by everyday computer users. Students will review various web-based and installed computer productivity tools to support socially responsible computer use.

Notes:  

Business Division

Theory Hours: 45

Learning Outcomes:  

  1. Define electronic society

  2. Discuss the political environment surrounding the electronic society

  3. Differentiate between social, political, legal, and ethical use of technology

  4. Demonstrate responsible technology use

Applies to Computer Information Systems: PC Support Technician, A.A.S.  Outcome E.

  5. Define privacy

  6. Resolve the boundaries of censorship and freedom of speech

  7. Define intellectual property and provide examples

  8. List and define the significant types of crime related to technology 

  9. Define and discuss the digital divide

  10. Demonstrate how to evaluate and control technology

  11. List and define the eight principles of the ACM Code 

  12. List and uphold the eight moral imperatives of professional conduct of the ACM