• DocumentCode
    475808
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    13-16 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Professional Communication Conference, 2008. IPCC 2008. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, QC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2085-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCC.2008.4610213
  • Filename
    4610213