Individual Assignments:
Assignment 1: Identify a current (2010 source or later) article and summarize its key points, analyze its multi-national and global aspects, and determine three critically important questions you would like to address regarding the article. This assignment should be posted in the Conference Discussion area.
5% of your grade
Due: September 16, 2012, 10:00 pm EST
Assignment 2: Apply decision-making frameworks to IT-related ethical issue. This requires a 3-5 page paper addressing a leading ethical issue (suggested topics provided in project description details in Course Content). You will use the decision-making framework to analyze the issue and select one of the four common approaches to ethical decision making.
15% of your grade
Due: September 23, 2012, 10:00 pm EST
Assignment 3: Privacy-related Matrix. You will analyze a key IT-related organizational ethical issue and complete a provided template (see Course Content) to produce a matrix mapping how this issue is affected by laws, regulations, and policies.
10% of your grade
Due: September 30, 2012, 10:00 pm EST
Assignment 4: Organizational Policy paper. Write an organizational policy to address the IT-related ethical issue you described in B1 and identify how these ethical issues were affected by laws, regulations and policies.
10% of your grade
Due: October 7, 2012, 10:00 pm EST
Assignment 5: Topic Selection for research paper on existing or emerging technology and related ethical issues. Select a topic and determine three critically important questions you will address regarding this topic when your research for the C2 Paper. This will form the thesis for the C2 assignment. Note: You must receive prior approval from your instructor before proceeding with your research. (This is the first part of a 3-part assignment.)
5% of your grade
Due: October 14, 2012,