GENE 351Information Technology and Society
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Offered
- Winter
- Last listed
- 1988–89
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1984–85 to 1988–89; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The social and technological concepts of an information society. Overview of information technology; current states and future directions in computers and communications. Study of an information system, its promises and problems including privacy, security, user acceptance, retraining, control, etc. Impact of information technology on the quality of life; employment, freedom of information, leisure, creativity, etc. One application area will be selected for study each term from Computer-Aided Learning, Office Automation, Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Telecomputing, etc. Prereq: Open to third- or fourth-year students in any faculty with at least one university-level computing course, or consent of the instructor
As printed in the 1984–85 to 1988–89 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1984–85 to 1988–89, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1984–85 to 1988–89 4 calendars
The social and technological concepts of an information society. Overview of information technology; current states and future directions in computers and communications. Study of an information system, its promises and problems including privacy, security, user acceptance, retraining, control, etc. Impact of information technology on the quality of life; employment, freedom of information, leisure, creativity, etc. One application area will be selected for study each term from Computer-Aided Learning, Office Automation, Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Telecomputing, etc. Prereq: Open to third- or fourth-year students in any faculty with at least one university-level computing course, or consent of the instructor
Offered Winter · 2 class, 2 seminar hours a week