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Management and Ethics - COMP4920
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4920
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: stage two of Bioinformatics, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science programs.
 
 
Excluded: BINF4920, COMP2920, SENG4921
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course will develop a framework on which management and ethical issues can be developed. Topics covered will include management issues such as:
  • management of innovation
  • engineering project planning and control
  • human factors
  • patents
  • technical strategy
In addition, the following ethics topics will be covered:
  • introduction to ethics
  • workable ethical theories
  • morality of breaking the law
  • privacy
  • public information and records
  • and related topics

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