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Professional Issues in Computing: Understanding the Wider Context of Your Degree, Slides of Human Resource Management

Information about a university course titled 'professional issues'. The course aims to help students understand the wider context in which they will work and how that context shapes technical decisions. It covers topics such as personal attributes, the computing profession, social and ethical issues, legal issues, commercial issues, and computing projects. Students will learn to identify how computing graduates can make effective contributions to tasks in various contexts, identify failures and successes of professionalism, and understand the relationships between scientific, technical, and engineering issues and deployed systems.

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2012/2013

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What it’s about 1
Professional Issues
Much of your degree course is technical you are gaining a deep understanding
of Information, Computation and Communication.
In the world there are many additional constraints and interests that need to
be taken into account in exercising the skills you acquire on your course.
Professional Issues considers the wider context in which you are likely to
work and how that wider context shapes technical decisions.
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What it’s about 1

Professional Issues

  • Much of your degree course is technical — you are gaining a deep understanding of Information, Computation and Communication.
  • In the world there are many additional constraints and interests that need to be taken into account in exercising the skills you acquire on your course.
  • Professional Issues considers the wider context in which you are likely to work and how that wider context shapes technical decisions.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course successfully:

  • Given a work context, you should be able to identify how attributes of computing graduates can make an effective contribution to tasks in that context
  • Given a scenario involving professional conduct, you should be able to identify failures of professionalism and successes and justify this with reference to appropriate codes of conduct
  • Given a situation where a computing system could be deployed you should be able to identify how and where social and ethical implications arise in that potential deployment

PI is different from what you’re used to... 4

Professional Issues

  • Typical Science/Engineering topic — all required information is in the lectures, only one answer
  • PI more like Social Science — you need to draw on experience from real world; may be no single or right answer
  • This is not a bad thing

Professional Issues: Syllabus

  • Personal Attributes: study skills, personal development, interpersonal skills; employers’ views and expectations of graduates; verbal, writing and presentation skills
  • The Computing Profession: professional bodies; codes of conduct and practice
  • Social and Ethical: security, privacy, software ownership
  • People: management, work psychology, groups, dealing with change