Experience offering a course centered on cyberporn
Abstract
In Spring Semester 2007 our small liberal arts college offered a new course, Computer Science 150, Cyberporn: A Seminar in Computing and Society. I proposed and taught the course as a one-hour seminar style course with no prerequisite. This paper describes the course, including motivation and student response.
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