FI:IV057 Seminar on Information Society - Course Information
IV057 Seminar on Information Society
Faculty of InformaticsSpring 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics - Timetable
- Mon 16:00–17:50 B411
- Prerequisites
- Students can only register for this course after presenting a two-page long (approx. 4kB) essay on their ideas concerning the notion of Information Society.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 37 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students shoud be able to understand better issues related to information society, gain deeper insight into more specialized topics, and to develop their own ability to interpret technologial and social issues related to information society.
- Syllabus
- Seminar focuses on some aspects of the Information Society. A loose companion seminar to IV064 Information Society based on students work with literature on this topic and talks by the students based on the literature. Studets are required to work independently with relevant literature.
- Information technologies and the society.
- Information as a real value.
- Economic and social impact.
- Civilizational impacts of the Information Society.
- Information technologies and democracy.
- Literature
- Literatura shodná s IV064
- Teaching methods
- Seminary, self study of literature, student presentations, and discussions.
- Assessment methods
- 2-3 oral and written presentation, participation in discussions
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/spring2016/IV057