Ethics in IT

Enrollment in this course is by invitation only

COURSE INTRODUCTION

Dear students, you are beginning to become familiar with Ethics in IT course, under the Certificate of Information Technology Working Environment Proficiency of the FUNiX univeristy. In addition to the Ethics in IT course, the Certificate also consists of other courses including: Introduction to Network Security, Communication in Business and IT Project Management.

The aim of the course is to enable students to understand the complexity of making ethical decisions, as well as other urgent situations such as: computer crimes, the right to privacy and freedom of expression, intellectual property right in the modern world so that students can work in IT-oriented environments, namely, software companies, financial-banking organizations, factories, or other manufacturing and service companies.

IT experience or previous skills in IT are not required in the course; however, students need to listen, study and develop indifferent thoughts.

The course will have 6 chapters, including 15 lessons. Each lesson will have one or several videos that require students to watch carefully, read one or more readings thoroughly and answer the quiz. After each chapter, students will be asked to write essays and discuss directly with Mentors.

The course is designed by Founder of FUNiX, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Nam, who are very experienced and dedicated to Ethics after 30 years leading in a professional IT environment and cooperating with many large business partners in the world.

Course code: ITE302x_0102_VN_FX Course name: Ethics in IT

Credit: 3 Estimated Duration: 45 hours

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Understand & apply fundamental ethical concepts in general decision making process.
Understand complexity of computer crimes, privacy, freedom of expression and IP in today connected world.
Understand how ethical issues are important in IT organization and create code of ethic for his/her own organization.
Understand how ethical concept are translated into ISMS in typical environment of FPT Software.

COURSE STRUCTURE

Module 1 - Ethics Fundamentals

Lesson 1 - Complexity of making decision

Lesson 2 - Importance of self-knowledge

Lesson 3 - Balance of pain and pleasure

Lesson 4 - Queen vs Dudley and Stephens

Lesson 5 - Fundamental rights

Module 2 - Computer Crime

Lesson 6 - 3 types of computer crime

Lesson 7 - Hacker Portrait

Module 3 - Privacy Right - What to hide?

Lesson 8 - All of us have thing to hide

Lesson 9 - Surveillance state, society

Module 4 - Freedom of Expression

Lesson 10 - What is freedom of expression?

Lesson 11 - The paradox of choice in modern world

Module 5 - Intelletual property

Lesson 12 - What is IP and why do you care?

Lesson 13 - How companies protect their IP?

Module 6 - Ethics of IT Organizations

Lesson 14 - Common issues that can create friction between employers and IT workers

Lesson 15 - Code of Ethics

PREREQUISITE

COURSE DESIGNER

Dr Nguyen Thanh Nam

Learnt Mathematics in the University of Hanoi, upheld PhD thesis in Mathematics at Matxcova.
Cofounder & Programmer of FPT in 1988; Leader of FPT Software in the stage of globalization from 1999-2011. Since 2012, lecturer of FPT University and leader of the University Globalization. In November 2015, he established the FUNiX cyber university.
In the process of globalization, the author sees arguments, contradictions and mistakes that often deprive primarily from heterogeneous interpretations of behaviors among divergent cultures with different levels of economic development. The main reason is that Vietnamese youth have not been prepared with such knowledge when going abroad.
As an important role at FPT Corporation, the author also has the opportunity to experience the consequences resulted from improper behaviors of IT staff.
Lecturer of Ethics in IT course at FPT University.

LEARNING SOURSES:

Below is the list of all free massive open online learning sources (MOOC) used for this course by FUNiX: Havard University, Ted Talk, explainitychannel, Tr3Vel0cita, docstocTV, Steve Vondran, Guardian News.
All open learning sources used in FUNiX training program are public, constantly updated and freely used. FUNiX is always willing to receive and discuss any comments, suggestions and responses related to our learning sources via email program@funix.edu.vn