I took a class called "Computers and Society" last year that was supposed to focus on the same things this ethics class will. I remember some of the topics: health insurance, business practices, etc. Plenty of room for ethical debate - but not a single one about technology. I dropped the class halfway through, even though it is a required class, because the teacher obviously had no idea what the word "computer" meant. Although a friend of mine who stayed in somehow managed to work EverQuest into one of the class ethics discussions...:) Please make sure your teacher friend stays on-topic, because as relevent as these other ethical issues may be, they are not technological ones, and many universities offer other ethics classes to cover non-technological issues.
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I took a class called "Computers and Society" last year that was supposed to focus on the same things this ethics class will. I remember some of the topics: health insurance, business practices, etc. Plenty of room for ethical debate - but not a single one about technology. I dropped the class halfway through, even though it is a required class, because the teacher obviously had no idea what the word "computer" meant. Although a friend of mine who stayed in somehow managed to work EverQuest into one of the class ethics discussions... :) Please make sure your teacher friend stays on-topic, because as relevent as these other ethical issues may be, they are not technological ones, and many universities offer other ethics classes to cover non-technological issues.