PHIL 334 - Technologies and Human Values

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-C; Social Justice
The course will cover the main challenges that technology represents for human values and the future of an ethical society. For example: AI ethics, the ethics of brain-interfaces, the constitution of algorithms and sustainability, the politics of digital information and more.

Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-C - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Course Typically Offered: Fall Only

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1. discern the role of technology in human relationships and values

2. to ethically ponder the problems emerging from the use of new technologies in our society.

3. to discuss emerging technologies such as biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology, and virtual reality

UD-C. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
1. Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity.

2. Describe the challenges to achieving social justice.

3. Identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, and/or the world.