Teaching Ethics and Activism in a Human-Computer Interaction Professional Master's Program
We report on a new ethics course for industry-bound students in a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) professional master’s program. The goal is to prepare students to think critically about the technology they design and to drive ethical change within their future organizations. Unlike research-oriented graduate programs, students in professional master’s programs primarily seek to enter industry, oftentimes making a career change from a non-computing area. Thus, ethics pedagogy also needs to help students develop core skills in the technical discipline and align with their practice-oriented goals. We structure our course around three principles: survey (introducing contemporary ethical issues in computing and their social context), stakeholders (considering the multi-faceted nature of ethical decision-making), and skills (developing the technical and communication skills needed to drive ethical change). We hope that our curriculum and reflections will help other instructors teach ethics in practice-based programs.
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13:45 - 15:00 | Ethics & Social JusticePapers at Oregon Ballroom 204 Chair(s): Emanuelle Burton College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago | ||
13:45 25mTalk | Do Embedded Ethics Modules Have Impact Beyond the Classroom?Global Papers Diane Horton University of Toronto, David Liu University of Toronto, Sheila McIlraith University of Toronto, Nina Wang University of Toronto, Steven Coyne University of Toronto DOI | ||
14:10 25mTalk | Teaching Ethics and Activism in a Human-Computer Interaction Professional Master's Program Papers DOI | ||
14:35 25mTalk | The Need for More Justice-Oriented Courses in Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula Papers Sukanya Kannan Moudgalya University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Amanda Zeller University of Tennessee, Knoxville DOI |