Curriculum Library

Conversations about Responsible Computing and Employment Choices

Difficult Conversations

By including meaningful, hard conversations about these topics, one can facilitate student learning on issues that will only become more urgent as time goes on.

Discussing Justice and Equity

Encourage students to examine what they think and what aspects of their identity, experience, and training contributes to their perspective.

Engaging with Industry

Engaging with software engineers and others who work in industry is likely to surface issues that might not otherwise be top of mind for academic faculty.

Effective Talking Points for Different Audiences

Talking points help with reframing ethics to address concerns people may have but are not articulated and prevent fuller engagement.

Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure

Polling Data, Binary Trees, and Heaps

Topics: recursive binary tree design, array-based heaps

Talking About Unanticipated Consequences

he topic of this section is more like (but also importantly different from) a logical error that the programmers didn’t catch: the program will run, but the fact that its results are wrong will not be immediately apparent.

Inclusive HCI Exercise

Meta-goals include asking better questions an asking them more frequently.

Role Play: An Academic Institution Decides on an AI Admissions App

A technology company has approached a state university about an app that is in the testing phase of development. Before deciding on whether to use the app, state and university policies stipulate that the convening of a committee must occur in any situation involving the selection of a vendor whose