The aim of this cluster is to provide the knowledge that will enable those who complete the cluster to face thoughtfully the question of the appropriate use of and limitations upon modern technology. One important feature of the cluster is that it brings together actual sciences with humanistic and social science disciplines.
Cluster Coordinator: Jamie P. Ross
Office: CH 117M
Phone: 725-8370
E-mail: rossj@pdx.edu
Privacy and freedom are highly valued, and are to some extent protected by the U.S. Constitution. Recent rapid advance in science and technology, combined with compelling motives to use this technology to control and exploit aspects of human life that have heretofore been left to chance or to individual choice, make urgent the questions about what uses of technology should be encouraged or permitted.
This SINQ leads to the Freedom, Privacy, and Technology Cluster.
BI 341U Introduction to Genetics (Course Proposal)
BI 343U Genes and Society (Course Proposal)
CCJ 355U Perspectives on Terrorism
CR 399U Participating in Democracy (Course Proposal)
CS 346U Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology
CS 347U The Internet Age
CS 348U Digital Media and Society
CS 485U Cryptography (Course Proposal)
HST 339U Environment and History (Course Proposal)
HST 387U Science in Society: Historical Perspectives
PHE 455U Film and Health (Course Proposal)
PHL 303U Critical Thinking
PHL 306U Science and Pseudoscience
PHL 308U Elementary Ethics
PHL 309U Business Ethics (Course Proposal)
PHL 310U Environmental Ethics (Course Proposal)
PHL 311U Morality of Punishment
PHL/WS 312U Feminist Philosophy (Course Proposal)
PHL 313U Life and Death Issues
PHL 314U Computer Ethics
PHL 333U Philosophy of Law
PHL 455U Morality and Health Care
PHL 378U/SCI 355U Learning Science Through Science Fiction
PHL 481U Biomedical Ethics
PS 325U Politics and the Legal Enforcement of Morals
PS 425U Women and the Law (Course Proposal)
SCI 359U Biopolitics
SCI 361U Science: Power-Knowledge
SCI 363U Ethics in Science
SCI 365U Science of Women's Bodies
USP 457U Information Cities
WR 399U Writing About 19th Century Texts
WS 424U Women and the Law (Course Proposal)
