Louise Moses - Mount Union College - Alliance, Ohio

Professional Codes as a Tool in Decision Making

Assignment Worksheet - for next class, Tuesday

Textbook reading: Chapter 10, ISSUES OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

For each of these two professional organizations.

AITP, Association for Information Technology Professionals, http://www.aitp.org/
ACM Association for Computing Machinery, http://www.acm.org/

1) find the home page and read about the organization
2) from the home page find and print a copy of the statement on ethical practice
3) bring a copy of the statements to class on Tuesday

Which is "your" organization? Why?

Find, read, and print a copy of each of the following

Mount Union College "Computing Ethics Policy"
RaiderWeb Policy Document

These can be found from http://WWW.MUC.EDU/CIS/Policies/Policies.htm

Find and read the Rules and Guidelines with which you agreed to comply when you asked for a space on our server to use for a personal web page at Mount Union College. These are also available from the above web page.

Additional remarks: This worksheet could be handed out on either Tuesday or Thursday of the week before the activity. Some of the items may be discussed in class on Thursday if it is felt there is too much substance to the assignment. In this case copies of whatever text was needed would be handed out.

Author contact information:

Louise Moses
Mount Union College
Alliance, OH 44601
mosesle@muc.edu