slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C Slimick) (07/06/90)
This fall I am offering a course "Social Implications of Computers" for the first time. The text will be a collection of articles in "Computers in Society" pub. by Annual Editions. The articles are for the most part from the popular and semi-technical press, e.g.: "The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy" "Science and the American Experiment" "Prepare for E-Mail Attack" "Employee Performance Monitoring...or Meddling?" "A Hard Day's Work in the Electronic Cottage" and so on. I am interested in how others have done this course. My current thinking is that I absolutely must not allow this course to degenerate into a 100% lecture. My intentions are to run the course as a seminar with a one page paper assigned for each reading and each student must be the seminar leader for at least one reading. Will this work? Other ideas? Does it help to have industry types come in and talk about effects of automation, etc.? Please email to slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu or slimick@pittvms.BITNET thx john slimick university of pittsburgh at bradford bradford pa (the part of Pitt nearest the north pole)