Number and Format: (3040X.03) Seminar
Instructors: M. Power & J. Williams; Adjunct Professors
Winter: 3 credits; 3 hours; max. enrollment: 5 (upper year) 20 (total)
Prerequisite Courses: None
Preferred Courses: None
Upper Year Research & Writing Requirement: No
Praxicum: No
Presentation: Discussion and lectures led by the instructors. The seminar will be taught over 9 classes in an eleven-week period, beginning January 22, 2014. Each session will be 3 hours.
Description: The subject of privacy in today’s society raises questions in a number of inter-related disciplines, including law, information security, philosophy, sociology, engineering, health care and political science. This seminar introduces and explores the subject of privacy as well as data protection governance and management.
Classes are organized around discussions of current issues in privacy law and policy, based on short lectures concerning Canadian and international privacy and data protection law as well as student reading and writing assignments.
Although it covers the key conceptual foundations of privacy as found in the western legal tradition, a number of sessions will be spent examining the subject from critical perspectives, including aboriginal, reductionist and feminist views on privacy and data protection.
Students' participation is required and actively encouraged.
Evaluation: 50% for a paper and 30% for writing exercises based on topics covered in or related to the course; 20% for attendance and participation.
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