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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme Computer Science 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| Students are able to recognize, reflect on, and appropriately address societal, ethical, and gender-related implications within their field of work as computer scientists.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
- Identify and reason about ethical and societal implications of technological developments (C2, C3, C4)
- Recognize and address the relevance of gender and diversity in specific situations in the work environment (C3, C4)
- Take into account aspects of diversity in the development of human-computer interfaces (C1, C3)
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- Aspects and issues of gender and diversity in technology and computer science
- Reproduction of socialized stereotypes through data-driven artificial intelligence
- Biological and social gender
- Guidelines for inclusive language at the JKU
- Ethical schools of thought
- Cultural dimensions
- Consideration of hardware and software from a sustainability perspective
- Key ethics-related guidelines (codes of conduct) for computer scientists
- Contents of current ethics guidelines and regulatory approaches for technical systems
- Accessibility criteria
- Basics of human-computer interaction and usability
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| Criteria for evaluation |
Group work, written exam
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| Methods |
- Combination of lectures and interactive elements
- Combination of course-relevant theories, scientific-empirical literature and current examples from practice
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| Language |
German |
| Study material |
Will be introduced in the course.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Corresponding lecture |
(*)INBPGKVETHI: KV Ethik in Naturwissenschaft und Technik (3 ECTS)
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