ABSTRACT
The creation of courses in applied ethics—business, engineering, legal, medical, and professional ethics—is a very fertile industry. The type of institution that supports the course—sectarian or nonsectarian—and the department responsible for the course—philosophy, religion, or computer science—affect the objectives. In his paper, "Human Values and the Computer Science Curriculum," Terrell Ward Bynum offers as a major objective of teaching computer ethics those courses make it more likely that "computer tecnology will be used to advance human values." Computer ethics is a relatively new and developing academic area. There have been several attempts to define and categorize the field and how one ought to teach it. The concept of "pop computer ethics" is very broad. The goal of pop ethics is to "sensitize people to the fact that computer technology has social and ethical consequences".
