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Availability: Available from 1998.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: To be announced.
Prerequisite: 615-350 (Case Studies in Information Systems)
Contact: Three one hour lectures per week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
At the completion of this subject, students should:
- have an understanding of the legal framework of business with respect to information systems, including business entities, intellectual property, contracts, and privacy;
- be exposed to, and have grappled with, a series of practical ethical questions;
- have constructed a personal frame of reference for ethical practice.
Content:
This subject introduces some of the legal and ethical issues associated with the effective use of information systems in a complex organisational and societal framework. Alternative legal business entities and types of contracts are defined. The subject then explores the development and implementation of information systems in ways that satisfy legal, ethical, and business requirements.Topics may include business entities (companies, partnerships, trusts, etc. ), contracts, copyright and patents, privacy and confidentiality, and computer crime.
Assessment:
Class participation; written assignment of up to 5,000 words; end of semester written examination of up to three hours. Weighting of the assessment components will be announced at the commencement of the subject.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 202)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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