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T Computer Science Adding Ethics Courses to Curriculum
Credit: The Daily Texas
At the University of Texas at Austin, computer science students are being asked to go beyond coding and engineering. Their department wants them to graduate with an understanding of ethics as well.
This semester at UT there's a new computer science course called "Ethical Foundations of Computer Science" which introduces first-year students to ethical dilemmas they may be familiar with and over time helps them to draw parallels to problems they may encounter working in technology.
Sarah Abraham and Alison Norman, the two lecturers teaching this course, say they hope to eventually make it a requirement for the more than 400 students who enter their department each year.
Norman says her students will go on to work with technology that will impact things like medical devices, phones, maybe even driverless cars. "Without this sort of training, our students are less likely to realize the impacts of their software," she says.
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