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Professor Norm Coombs writes:

> I am contemplating designing a new course re computers and society. ...
> I would appreciate information about any such courses already being
> given.  I would appreciate a syllabus and any kind of bibliography.

Just what you want was announced on this newsgroup a few months ago:
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From: x1@oxy.edu (Rodney J. Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: CPSR Syllabus Collection
Date: 31 Oct 90 07:28:45 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041

Now available from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility:

	  COMPUTING AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
	     A Collection of Course Syllabi

Topics covered include:

  *  Social Implications of Computing
  *  Social Analyses of Computing
  *  Ethics for Computer Professionals
  *  Computers in the Arts
  *  Computers in the Military
  *  Computers in the Third World
  *  Computers in Education
  *  Bibliography


To order, mail a check for $15 payable to CPSR, your name and mailing
address, and this note to

	     CPSR, P.O. Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302

Rodney
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> If anyone knows of any good audio or video presentations re the topic, I'd 
> like to get those names as well.  It seems like Nova on Public TV must have 
> had a broadcast or two.

In this last season, NOVA broadcast a show titled, "We Know Where You Live,"
about databases and privacy, another show re-enacting the computer espionage
story told in Cliff Stoll's THE CUCKOO'S EGG, and a show about "smart" weapons.

> I have not quite decided whether to focus on computers and society or 
> whether to make it broader and talk about the new information age ...

These topics are a major interest area of CPSR.  They have other materials 
besides the syllabus which may be useful to you; they can be contacted 
at the address given above.

Jon Jacky