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Virginia Tech

CS-5024: Ethics and Professionalism in Computer Science

Description: Ethical implications and consequences of computing technology applied to algorithmic decision making, security, privacy, autonomous systems. Ethical frameworks and their application to relevant current topics. Formulating, reasoning, and communicating positions on ethical topics related to computing technology. Diversity and bias as it relates to information technology. Ethical conduct of research and development of intellectual property. Pre: Graduate standing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 40

Average GPA: 3.87 (rounds to A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 74.78%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.08%

Mohammed F Farghally202495.8%2.9%0.9%0.0%0.4%0.0%3.9318
Narendran Ramakrishnan202076.3%23.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.732
Timothy E Greening202488.1%10.9%0.8%0.0%0.0%0.3%3.8011
Christopher Cuozzo2023100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.971
Danfeng Yao202299.2%0.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.932
Staff Lyman202488.6%11.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.791
Erika M Olimpiew202492.5%5.4%0.0%2.2%0.0%0.0%3.892
Sara Hooshangi202478.5%14.3%7.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.741
Chang Tien Lu202077.7%22.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.741
Huntington Lyman202497.3%2.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.841

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Summer I 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Summer I 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Summer I 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Summer I 2024Fall 2024Term050% W