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Experience offering a course centered on cyberporn

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

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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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cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 40, Issue 1
SIGCSE 08
March 2008
549 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1352322
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    SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
    March 2008
    606 pages
    ISBN:9781595937995
    DOI:10.1145/1352135
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