DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP (PL3087)

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Digital citizenship is a key concept of our digital age, expressing the hope that a humane use of digital technologies is possible. The course contrasts digital citizenship with political, environmental, and global conceptions citizenship, before studying the political, legal, and educational dimensions of digital citizenship. It also explores selected practices of digital citizenship, including clicktivism, digital commoning, and digital counter surveillance.

Code: 
PL3087
Name: 
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Discipline: 
PL (Philosophy)
Type: 
CCD
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
EN1010 AND College Level=Sophomore
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP (LW3087)

Learning Outcomes

  1. To read with care and understand multi-disciplinary texts on educational, legal, and political problems of the contemporary digital transformation of society.
  2. To analyze and evaluate educational, political, and legal arguments regarding their logical structure (or validity), adequacy (or soundness), and their effectiveness (or informativeness).
  3. To develop and articulate a compelling ethical position on at least one issue of contemporary digitalization.
  4. Students will learn about privacy, security and data preservation issues. (CCD LO2)
  5. Students will be able to write and publish digitally and analyze and produce audiovisual content in order to communicate through a variety of digital media. (CCD LO1)

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