Non-Apologetic Computer Ethics Education:
A Strategy for Integrating Social Impact and Ethics into the Computer Science Curriculum

C. Dianne Martin and Hilary J. Holz

• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 New CS Curriculum Standards
• 1.2 Teaching the Ethics Component
• 2. Creating a Social and Ethical Context
• 2.1 The Freshman Computers and Society Course
• 2.1.1 Format
• 2.1.2 Teaching Analysis Skills
• 2.1.3 Teaching Social Impact Awareness
• 2.2 Social Impact Modules
• 2.3 Senior Software Engineering Project
• 3. Discussion
• 3.1 Beyond the Computer Science Curriculum
• 4. References
• 5. Sample Primary Source List of Readings

5. Sample Primary Source List of Readings

Cooley, Mike. Architect or Bee? The Human-Technology Relationship, South End Press, 1980.

Freiberger, Paul & Swaine, Michael. Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, Osborne-McGraw, 1984.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Random House, 1980.

Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine. Avon, 1982.

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1970.

McCorduck, Pamela. Machines Who Think. W. H. Freeman, 1979.

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol 1. Random, 1977.

Meadows, D.H, Meadows, D.L., and Behrens, W.W. The Limits to Growth. Universe Books, 1972.

Miller, Arthur. The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, & Dossiers. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1971.

Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster (Touchstone Books), 1988.

Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 of Today’s Most Brilliant Programmers, Contrib. by Susan Lammars. Microsoft, 1986.

Roszak, Theodore. The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking. New York: Pantheon, 1986.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1982.

Toffler, Alvin. The Third Wave. Bantam, 1984.

Turkle, Sherry. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Simon & Schuster,1985.

Weiner, Nobert. God & Golem, Inc. A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion. MIT Press, 1964.

Weizenbaum, Joseph. Computer Power & Human Reason. W.H. Freeman, 1976.

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