Courses offered at Emory Goizueta & ASU
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BUS 450G – Foundations of Digital Enterprises and Markets, 2013
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Individual project
Write a 10 page white paper about a person, company, or organization that is either a digital media enterprise or has impacted them. Explain why they were successful and possible scenarios for their future. Work with instructor on picking topic and to set date of presentation.
Develop on webpage with reviews and links to best resources on the topic
Lead a thirty minute presentation and discussion on topic
Group Project
You will create a team of four to nine people to compete in the Google university on-line marketing challenge. Each team will compete in the Google Ad Words contest. Teams can also compete in the Google + and Social Impact contests.
Each team will pick a company to market in a manner consistent with the contest rules.
Each teams must submit a pre-contest marketing plan and a post-contest evaluation.
Course offered at Georgia Tech
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Cyber-Security Policy: CS 6725, July 9th, 2013
This course provides students with a framework for analyzing cyber-threats and for developing an environment permeated by trust and security. Many people working in cyber-security do not have a background in international relations, organizational psychology, the development of protocols, and an understanding of the US government`s and other countries` cyber strategies. To be able to adequately analyze the threats confronting their organization and then to secure their organization against these cyber-threats, students need a wide range of inter-disciplinary skills many of which they will learn in this class.
Courses offered at Arizona State University
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STS 330 Information Technology and Globalization (24834), Spring 2010
This online course is meant to serve as an upper level in-depth study of the relationship between information technology and globalization. I predict in the future, people will look back at 2010 as the year when smartphones and social computing transformed and were transformed by globalization. Studying information technology and globalization is a challenge. Important advancements in information technology will not be confined to the past but will be occurring as we are studying the subject. By actively using Google Alerts, Google Sites, YouTube, Blackboard, Twitter, and other newly emerging social media to explore what is happening around the world, we will hope to rapidly build our collective knowledge base.
Science, Technology and Society course on Solar Energy, Spring 2010
This online course is meant to serve as an upper level in-depth study of the use of solar energy in our global society. I predict that, in the future, people will look back at the first decade of the 21st century as a time when Web 2.0 (social computing) played a key role in the transformation of consciousness to support global sustainability. Studying the role of solar energy in our society is a challenge. Important advancements in solar energy adoption will not be confined to the past but will be occurring as we are studying the subject. By actively using Google Alerts, Google Sites, YouTube, Blackboard, Twitter, and other newly emerging social media to explore what is happening around the world, we will hope to rapidly build our collective knowledge base about solar energy.
STS 330 Information Technology and Globalization (85812), Fall 2009
This online course is meant to serve as an upper level in-depth study of the relationship between information technology and globalization. I predict in the future, people will look back at the first decade of the 21st century as a time when Web 2.0 (social computing) played a key role in the transformation of consciousness to support global sustainability. Studying information technology and globalization is a challenge. Important advancements in information technology will not be confined to the past but will be occurring as we are studying the subject. By actively using Google Alerts, Google Sites, YouTube, Blackboard, Twitter, and other newly emerging social media to explore what is happening around the world, we will hope to rapidly build our collective knowledge base.
STS 101 Introduction to Science, Technology and Society, Spring 2009
This course is meant to serve as an introduction to the study of science, technology, and society (STS). No one would dispute the fact that science and technology have transformed human society and that they will continue to do so. This course will provide an opportunity for students to think critically about science and technology and to explore the choices we as a global society face around science and technology issues. Topics that will be studied in the course include:
- Climate Change (both global warming and global cooling)
- Applied Genomics
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
- Medicine and Health
- Space Travel
- National Security (preventing nuclear terrorism)
STS 304 Introduction to Science, Technology and Society, Spring 2009
This on-line course is meant to serve as an upper level introduction to the study of science, technology, and society (STS). No one would dispute the fact that science and technology have transformed human society and that they will continue to do so. This course will provide an opportunity for students to think critically about science and technology and to explore the choices we as a global society face around science and technology issues. In addition, this course will introduction to methodologies relevant to the study of STS including positivism, neo-Marxism, post-modernism, and hermeneutics. Topics that will be studied in the course include:
- Applied Genomics
- Climate Change (both global warming and global cooling)
- The Internet and Information technology
- Nanotechnology
Social Change: Soc. 352-1001 Summer 1 2009
All would agree that our planetary society is changing rapidly in response to the forces of globalization, rationalization, and technology. In the McDonaldization of Society, George Ritzer argues that social change is being driven by an attempt to impose efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control on the world. Social change is imposed. In marked contrast, Steven Johnson in Emergence–his analysis of the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software–shows how intelligence can arise from the play of the parts without any hierarchical control. Social change can emerge from below. Tapscott and Williams in Wikinomics point out many examples of how the Internet has resulted in massive decentralized creativity. We will use these different paradigms to explore challenges we as a society face and how we can envision them being resolved.
Social Change: Soc. 352-1001 Course Number: Lec 71365 Fall 2008
All would agree that our planetary society is changing rapidly in response to the forces of globalization, rationalization, and technology. In the McDonaldization of Society, George Ritzer argues that social change is being driven by an attempt to impose efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control on the world. Social change is imposed. In marked contrast, Steven Johnson in Emergence–his analysis of the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software–shows how intelligence can arise from the play of the parts without any hierarchical control. Social change can emerge from below. Tapscott and Williams in Wikinomics point out many examples of how the Internet has resulted in massive decentralized creativity. We will use these different paradigms to explore challenges we as a society face and how we can envision them being resolved.
The Internet in Africa: Soc. 194-1006, Course Number: Lec 81034, Fall 2008
The Internet (which we will define as to include mobile telecommunications) is changing the world. Perhaps the continent which it has the most potential to change is Africa. Though there is one Internet, the pattern of Internet diffusion is different in each country, based on different political, economic, and cultural factors. In this class we will try and make sense of the Internet by using the “country” as the unit of analysis. Each of you will pick one country where you will become the expert on the Internet in that country. Using information technology, you will build your expertise about the Internet in a particular country without actually visiting the country. You will do original sociology research.
Social Change: Soc. 352-1002, Course Number: Lec 46627, Summer 1, 2008
All would agree that our planetary society is changing rapidly in response to the forces of globalization and rationalization. In the McDonaldization of Society, George Ritzer argues that social change is being driven by an attempt to impose efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control on the world. Social change is imposed. In marked contrast, Steven Johnson in Emergence–his analysis of the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software–shows how intelligence can arise from the play of the parts without any hierarchical control. Social change can emerge from below. We will use these two paradigms to explore challenges we as a society face and how we can envision them being resolved.
Current Issues in National Politics: POS 230 – 1002, Course Number: Lec 43620, Summer 2, 2008
All would agree that the United States faces major challenges including:
- A recession and the return of inflation
- The war in Iraq and relations with Iran and other countries in the Middle East.
- Health care
- Immigration and Trade
- Climate change
Most would agree that the two major Presidential candidates offer different visions of how to address these challenges. The first goal of this class is for each student to be able to articulate each candidate’s position on these issues as well the role of the US Congress, the Judiciary system, political parties, interest groups, the media, and the general public in the decision-making process. Commentators have noted that Web 2.0—the explosion of user generated content and social networking tools—is having a great impact on the political process. The second goal of the course is for students to be able to articulate this impact, and hone their skills with new Web 2.0 technologies (You Tube, Blogs, Wikis, MySpace, etc.) and traditional media (articles, op ed pieces, letters to the editor, and editorials in print newspapers and TV news shows).