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This fall I am offering a course "Social Implications of Computers" for 
the first time. The text will be  a collection of articles in "Computers 
in Society" pub. by Annual Editions. The articles are for the most part from
the popular and semi-technical press, e.g.: "The Myth of the Post-Industrial 
Economy" "Science and the American Experiment" "Prepare for E-Mail Attack"
"Employee Performance Monitoring...or Meddling?" "A Hard Day's Work in the 
Electronic Cottage" and so on.

I am interested in how others have done this course.  My current thinking 
is that I absolutely must not allow this course to degenerate into a 
100% lecture.  My intentions are to run the course as a seminar with a 
one page paper assigned for each reading and each student must be the 
seminar leader for at least one reading.

Will this work? Other ideas? Does it help to have industry types come in 
and talk about effects of automation, etc.?

Please email to
		slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu    or
		slimick@pittvms.BITNET

John Slimick