Module PS4640-KP04
Technikethik (TE)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each winter semester
Credit points
4
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Bachelor Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2020 , compulsory, interdisciplinary competence
Classes and lectures:
- Ethics of Technology (seminar, 1 SWS)
- Ethics of Technology (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
- 30 hours in-classroom work
- 60 hours private studies
- 30 hours work on project
Contents of teaching:
- Fundamental ethical theories and methods
- Responsible Research & Innovation
- Trustworthiness of technologies
- Aspects of privacy
- Justice and Eco-social Inequality
- transparency, technological opacity, interpretability and explainability
- Ironies of automation
- Approaches to ethical decision-making
- Autonomous systems in the context of societal transformation
- Novel and unsolved cases in ethical discourse on the basis of modern and innovative technologies
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- The students know ethical and societal challenges of innovative technologies and are able to articulate these precisely.
- The students are able to evaluate and analyze future and existing technologies with regard to associated ethical debates.
- The students are able to decide in case studies on the basis of different normative ethical theories.
- The students are able to present precise ethical arguments to defend their opinions in discourse.
- The students know fundamental future ethical debates with regard to automation and the development of autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
- The students are able to comprehensibly express their findings in interdisciplinary exchange.
- Students are able to systematically develop solution proposals based on ethical criteria and present them with arguments.
Grading through:
- portfolio exam
Responsible for this module:
Literature:
- van de Poel, Ibo; Royakkers, Lambèr : Ethics, Technology, and Engineering - An Introduction Wiley-Blackwell
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Language:
- offered only in German
Notes:
Admission requirements for taking the module:- None
Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- None
Module Exam(s):
- Submissions in groups will be required periodically during the semester, accounting for 20% of the final grade.
- At the end of the semester a report (80%) is required, whereby the respective individual performance must be identified and will be evaluated separately.
- The grade of the report is calculated from: 70% individual performance + 30% overall grade of the report (= average grade of the individual performances of the report).
Last Updated:
13.12.2021