Professional Issues in IT
| Hours: 3 0 3 |
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The laws and how they are created, professional bodies in IT, the computing profession and the nature, structure, and management of commercial IT organizations, financing of start-up companies, financial accounting, management accounting and the evaluation of investment proposals, human resources issues and management, discrimination and anti-discrimination legislation, social networking, spotting fake news, gender and racial issues, ethics, software contracts and liability, copyrights, piracy, intellectual property rights, freedom of information, data protection, cyber laws, peer-to-peer torrents and legislation that affects use/misuse of computers.
Pre-requisites: None
| Co-requisites: CS
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Hours: XYZ where X = Lecture, Y = Lab, Z = Credit
All hours are per week.
3 Lab hours constitute 1 credit hour
1 credit hour implies 1 lecture of 50mins per academic week. 16 weeks in total.
Pre-Requisite courses are courses required to be completed before this course may be taken
Co-Requisite courses are courses required to be taken along with this course
