Cluster: Freedom, Privacy, and Technology
The aim of this cluster is to provide the knowledge that will enable those who complete the cluster to face thoughtfully the question of the appropriate use of and limitations upon modern technology. One important feature of the cluster is that it brings together actual sciences with humanistic and social science disciplines.
Cluster Coordinator: Alan MacCormack
Office: 117 Cramer Hall
Phone: 725-8430
E-mail: alanm@pdx.edu
Sophomore Inquiry: Freedom, Privacy, and Technology
(UNST 230)
Privacy and freedom are highly valued, and are to some extent protected by the U.S. Constitution. Recent rapid advance in science and technology, combined with compelling motives to use this technology to control and exploit aspects of human life that have heretofore been left to chance or to individual choice, make urgent the questions about what uses of technology should be encouraged or permitted.
This SINQ leads to the Freedom, Privacy, and Technology Cluster.
Approved Cluster Courses:
Academic Year 11-12
*Courses listed below are all Approved Cluster Courses. The links beside the course titles are for documentation purposes.
| BI 343U |
Genes and Society |
| CCJ 355U |
Perspectives on Terrorism |
| COMM 312U |
Media Literacy |
| COMM 420U |
Political Communication |
| CR 399U |
Participating in Democracy |
| CS/SYSC 346U |
Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology (Crosslisted with SYSC 346U) |
| CS 347U |
The Internet Age |
| CS 348U |
Digital Media and Society |
| CS 485U |
Cryptography |
| HON 407U/SCI 359U |
Biopolitics (Crosslisted with SCI 359U) |
| HON 407U/SCI 361U |
Science: Power-Knowledge (Crosslisted with SCI 361U) |
| HST 339U |
Environment and History |
| HST 387U |
Science in Society: Historical Perspectives |
| PHE 455U |
Film and Health |
| PHL 306U |
Science and Pseudoscience |
| PHL 308U |
Elementary Ethics |
| PHL 309U |
Business Ethics |
| PHL 310U |
Environmental Ethics |
| PHL 311U |
Morality of Punishment |
| PHL/WS 312U |
Feminist Philosophy (Crosslisted with WS 312U) |
| PHL 313U |
Life and Death Issues |
| PHL 314U |
Computer Ethics |
| PHL 320U |
Critical Thinking |
| PHL 333U |
Philosophy of Law |
| PHL 455U |
Morality and Health Care |
| PHL 378U/SCI 355U |
Learning Science Through Science Fiction |
| PHL 481U |
Biomedical Ethics |
| PS 318U |
Media, Opinion and Voting |
| PS 325U |
Politics and the Legal Enforcement of Morals |
| PS 425U/WS 424U |
Women and the Law (Crosslisted with WS 424U) |
| SCI 359U/HON 407U |
Biopolitics (Crosslisted with HON 407U) |
| SCI 361U/HON 407U |
Science: Power-Knowledge (Crosslisted with HON 407U) |
| SCI 363U |
Ethics in Science |
| SCI 365U |
Science of Women's Bodies |
| SYSC/CS 346U |
Exploring Complexity in Science and Technology (Crosslisted with CS 346U) |
| SYSC 399U |
Models in Science |
| USP 457U |
Information Cities |
| WR 399U |
Writing About 19th Century Texts |
| WS 424U/PS 425U |
Women and the Law (Crosslisted with PS 425U) |