CS 1023 Cultural Implications of the Information Society

• Learning about the information revolution--its new opportunities and problems.
• Learning about the effects of this revolution on society and culture.
• Being exposed to some of the technology behind the revolution.
• Learning the basics of ethics and ethical decision making.
• Practicing essay writing, including not just a focus on ideas, but on the mechanics of writing.
• Learning to use the World Wide Web.
• Working on a longer and larger project for the course.

Note: The following are not course objectives:

• Not an objective: Learning to use software applications on computers, such as spreadsheets or database products. These are part of the objectives of the courses
  • CS 1033 (Microcomputer Applications), or
  • IS 3033 (Priciples of Information Systems for Management).
• Not an objective: Learning to program in a computer language such as Visual Basic, C, C++, or Java. This is the objective of the courses
  • CS 1063 (Introduction to Computer Programming: currently works with the C language),
  • CS 1073 (Introductory Computer Programming for Scientific Applications: currently works with the Fortran language),
  • CS 1713 (Introduction to Computer Science: this semester works with the Java language; previously used the C language), and
  • CS 2073 (Computer Programming with Engineering Applications: currently works with the C++ language).
• Not an objective: Learning technical details about computer hardware, software, and applications. These are objectives of
  • a Computer Science major (Division of Computer Science),
  • an Electrical Engineering major (Division of Engineering), or
  • an Information Systems major (Division of Accounting and Information Systems).