Overview
This advanced unit builds on the ethical and legal foundations introduced in the core units LAWS20063 Governance and Business Law and MGMT20130 Operations Management and Business Analytics. The emerging field of data science encompasses "big data" and "data analytics". In this unit you will analyse ethical considerations specific to study design, data collection methods, data analysis and the appropriate dissemination and application of findings. You will apply the ethical duties of researchers and analysts to ensure that ethical protocols have been respected and that the rights and consequences of participants and users have been acknowledged and respected. You will employ practical tools to help you to identify ethical dilemmas and develop strategies for ensuring ethical decision making and resulting behaviours. You will also examine the role of organisational and industry cultures in shaping ethical (or unethical) data analytic practices, thus addressing the United Nation's sustainability development goals with respect to responsible business operations, new business models, investment, innovation and technology and collaboration.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Students enrolling in this unit must be undertaking the CL84 Master of Business Administration (International) or the CM45 Professional Certificate in Business (Data Science).
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2024
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Self-reflection.
The group assignment should have an individual component.
Incorporate an individual component within the group assignment, based on students' self- and peer-assessment of their group mates.
- Critically reflect on the ethical dimensions of the data science, its purpose, methods and impact in data-driven organisations
- Apply ethical techniques in auditing data-driven processes in organisational contexts
- Analyse established ethical techniques and strategies, independently and within teams, to identify and minimize potential harm associated with data driven organisational processes
- Demonstrate knowledge, skills and ideas related to ethical aspects of data, its collection, management and uses to a range of stakeholders.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||
| 2 - Presentation - 30% | ||||
| 3 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 30% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - First Nations Knowledges | ||||
| 9 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)