IT Ethics and Corporate Responsibility

1.  Understand the applications of information technology

1. Analyse the uses, strengths and limitations of different categories of hardware and software
2. Analyse the applications of artificial intelligence (AI)
3. Produce a specification of requirements for an application that meets the brief
4. Create and present presentations that demonstrate an application layout using planning tools

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2.  Understand the ethics involved in information technology

1. Analyse the nature of information technology ethics and its application to IT
2. Analyse the analogy that relates ethics, morality and society
3. Assess how and why information technology gives rise to ethical dilemmas not present in other technologies
4. Evaluate the issues relating to IT ethics, justifying their conclusions

• The assessment strategy for this course is designed to test all the learning outcomes.
• Learners must demonstrate successful achievement of all learning outcomes to pass the course.

• The assessment criteria for a pass will be presented with the summative exercise.
• Further information and guidance on the assessment will be made available through the tutor.

To pass the unit a 40% overall grade must be achieved.