375 Assignment Schedule

For January 24:

  • Read ET 53-56
  • Read Hedonistic Calculus

For January 29:

  • Read ET 56-64
  • Read Ross PF Duties

For January 31:

  • Read ET 76-85

For February 5:

  • Complete (bring to class) 375 Writing 1
  • Read ET 3-14

For February 7:

  • Read ET 230-235
  • Read Property and Intellectual Property

For February 12:

  • Read ET 235-242

For February 14:

  • Read Software Copyright

For February 19:

  • Read ET 242-249

For February 21:

  • Read ET 250-260
  • Read The GNU Manifesto

For February 26:

  • Read ET 260-264

For February 28:

  • Complete (bring to class) 375 Writing 2

For March 5:

  • Read ET 201-205

For March 7:

  • Read “Civil Disobedience” up until the beginning of section 2.

For March 12:

  • Read “What is a Hacktivist?”

Exam March 14 (in class)

For March 26:

  • Read ET 131-139

For March 28:

  • Read The Value of Privacy

For April 2:

  • Read Privacy Method

For April 4:

  • Read Foucault: Discipline and Punish

For April 9:

  • Read ET 141-144, 145-156
  • Paper 1 Assigned

For April 11:

  • Complete 375 Writing 3

For April 16:

  • Read: Case Study: Google Books and Privacy

For April 18:

  • Read World Cyberwar and the Inevitability of Radical Transparency

For April 23:

  • Read MM 13-23

For April 25:

  • Paper 1 due
  • Read MM 25-36

For April 30:

  • Read MM 37-53

For May 2:

  • Read MM 83-97
  • Complete 375 Writing 4

For May 7:

  • Read MM 99-115

For May 9:

  • Read MM 189-214

Final Exam May 16, 7:30

  • Exam is comprehensive.
  • About half of the content concerns issues raised in the ‘Moral Machines’ text
  • The remainder is drawn from material throughout the semester
  • The format is very similar to the midterm (9 short answer, 4 medium answer, 1 long answer)