Information Ethics

Code:

CINF043

Acronym:

EI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Science

Instance: 2019/2020 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CINF	21	CINF - Study Plan	2	-	6	56	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To help the students to understand the ethic grounds of the info-communicational process in order to:

- know how to distinguish between Information Ethics and deonthology of the information professionals
,
- acquire, as operative skill, the conscience that the production, the selection, the storage of information and its communication occur establishing interesting and deep relations with Ethics.

At the end of this curricular unit, the students must have a well supported opinion about Information Ethics, to distinguish Ethics from Professional Deonthology and to explain in which way Ethics has relation to the diverse procedures and activities of the info-communicational process.

Learning outcomes and competences

The aim is that the students may find the importance of Information Ethics in the info-communicational process, may distinguish between Ethics and Deonthology and may have a current and future perspective for the Ethics in the Information Era.
 Items 1 and 2 of the syllabus are in accordance to the first objective; item 3 is related to the second objective and the items 4 and 5 to the last objective.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Ethics as a branch of Philosophy
and distinction from Moral and Deonthology


2. The Information Era challenges Ethics


3. Information Ethics: origin and principles



4. Information Ethics and Deonthology of the Information Professional: distinction and contact points


5. Information and Communication: from the right statute to the duty limitations


Mandatory literature

Araújo, Luís de; Sob o signo da ética. ISBN: 972-8594-09-7
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich; Éthique
Comissão de Ética para os Profissionais da Informação em Portugal ; Código de ética para os profissionais da informação em Portugal, 2000
Habermas, Jurgen; A Ética do discurso, Edições 70, 2014. ISBN: 978-972-44-1582-6
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804; Fundamentação da metafísica dos costumes. ISBN: 972-0-41077-9
Kolakowski, Leszek; Ética
Moore, Adam D. , ed; Information Ethics: privacy, property and power, University of Washington Press, 2005
Renaud, Michel 340; Ética, crise e sociedade. ISBN: 978-989-8139-90-0
Rosas, João Carlos; Merrill, Roberto, Org.; Ética, tecnologia e democracia, Edições Humus, 2010. ISBN: 978-989-8139-70-2
Savater, Fernando; Ética para um jovem. ISBN: 972-23-1657-5
Silva, Armando Malheiro da; A Pesquisa e suas aplicações em Ciência da Informação: implicações éticas
Tasset, José L.; La Ética y las pasiones, Universidad de La Coruña Servicio de Publicaciones, 1999. ISBN: 84-95322-05-6

Teaching methods and learning activities

The classes will be based in the expositive method, with the formulation of questions to be discussed with the students and with the support of some texts that they must read and discuss.

Evaluation consists of a work and a final examination, based in a question enunciated from selected text(s).

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	66,00
Frequência das aulas	56,00
Trabalho de investigação	40,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Not applicable

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification (FC) is calculeted as follows:

FC = Work x 0,3 + Final examination x 0,7

Classification improvement

According to mandatory rules.