Professional Practices

Course Code: SS-4910 Credit hour: 03 Prerequisites: None

Description: This course introduces students to the Professional Code of Conduct, ethical problems, and the legal challenges that may arise from the use of information technology, as well as their level of accountability for these issues. Such issues include cyber-ethics, privacy, security and safety, intellectual property rights, ethical theories, and social responsibility. The course will introduce students about professionalism, ethics, morals, laws, and other core concepts. The goal of the assignments is to give students some exposure to analyze, evaluate ethical and professional research and case studies. The objective of this course is to familiarize students with professional practice in Software Engineering, and to enable them to: identify ethical conflicts, identify their responsibilities and options, and think through the implications of possible solutions to ethical conflicts and the policies, rules, and laws in Professional workplace.

Learning outcome:

Students analyze, evaluate, and assess ethical and professional computing case studies.
Understand responsibilities with respect to society
The students should develop understanding about historical, social, economic, ethical and professional issues related to the discipline of computing
The understanding of responsibilities as a computer professional, Ethical issues in computing, privacy and criminal laws of computing is also very important.

Textbook: Frank Bott, Professional Issues in Information Technology, 1st South Asia Edition

Reference Material:

Terrell Ward Bynum & Simon Rogerson, Computer Ethics & Professional Responsibility.

Changing Patterns of Computing Disciplines Written by Dr. M. A. Pasha

Assessment Criteria: Midterm: 30%, Final term: 50%, sessional 20%.[Quizzes: 03Marks, Assignments:07Marks, Presentation:10 Marks]

Key Timings and dates of classes

BSCS 8th Reg