Title :
Government-funded ethics in the information economy: The effects of a federal grant on a technical communication graduate curriculum
Author :
Jennings, Ann S.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX
Abstract :
In the information economy, students can benefit from exposure to theories of ethics that are pertinent to such concerns as corporate governance and worker safety. The wisdom of classical and modern ethicists can provide guidance as faculty help students apply the theories to graduate-level course content as varied as visual design, rhetoric, and project management.
Keywords :
educational courses; ethical aspects; information science education; project management; corporate governance; government-funded ethics; graduate-level course content; information economy; project management; technical communication graduate curriculum; visual design; worker safety; British Petroleum; Challenger; Enron; Kant; NASA; National En-dowment for the Humanities; Plato; Rawls; corporate governance; ethics; genetic engineering; visual design; worker safety;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 2008. IPCC 2008. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2085-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610213
