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CSC372-Professional Practices

Week-1 Lecture-1
Semester 7- Fall 2018
Prepared by:

Sundus Munir
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Instructor Contact Details

 Name: Sundus Munir

 Course Instructor: CSC372- Profesional Practice
 Credit Hours: 3
 Designation : Senior Lecturer
 Office Location: CS-Staff Room
 Email:sundusmunir@lgu.edu.pk
 Visiting Hours: Thursday- Friday (0800-0900)

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Course Objectives

 This course examines the underlying assumptions, values, experiences, skills, forms of knowledge
and broader contexts that impact on and inform students' professional practice approach.
Using case studies as a starting point, students will explore some of the key issues of
contemporary workplaces. Students will be required to draw on theoretical perspectives and
ideas from contemporary research as well as insights generated through critical reflection,
online discussions and collaborative problem-solving. This course introduces the various
communication options available in a business context so that students can make appropriate
choices in the workplace. Students will gain confidence in their ability to communicate by
practising and receiving feedback on business communication skills. Through this critical enquiry
process, it is expected that students will further develop their understandings of their own
practices and change and develop aspects of these practices. It has a particular emphasis on
building professional knowledge of working in a business environment and developing work
ready skills in the areas of written and oral communication, intercultural communication, client
service, problem solving and self-management.

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Course Prerequisites

 There is no prerequisite for this course.

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Course Contents

 Following contents will be covered throughout the semester in week wise

lectures:
 Computing Profession,
 Computing Ethics,
 Philosophy of Ethics
 The Structure of Organizations,
 Finance and Accounting,
 Anatomy of a Software House,
 Computer Contracts,
 Intellectual Property Rights,
 The Framework of Employee Relations Law and Changing Management Practices,
 Human Resource Management and IT,

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Course Contents

 Health and Safety at Work,

 Software Liability,
 Liability and Practice,
 Computer Misuse and the Criminal Law,
 Regulation and Control of Personal Information.
 Overview of the British Computer Society Code of Conduct,
 IEEE Code of Ethics,
 ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct,
 ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice.
 Accountability and Auditing, Social Application of Ethics.

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Introduction

 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institution of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE-CS) recommended Professional
Practices course for computing professionals.

 Cooperate Lessons from Holy Quran relevant to Professional Practices and

Code of Ethics by ACM and Software Engineering (SE) will be taught in detail.

 Enable the students to identify/solve situations related to ethical conflicts by

knowing Code of Ethics and basic concepts of Professional Practices.

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Professional Practices

 Professional Practices is partly comprised of what a professional should or should

not do in the work-place

 If a professional is to have ethics then that person needs to adopt that conduct in
all of his dealings

 Another aspect is the enhancement of the profession and the industry within
which the professional works

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Professional Practices

 Professional Practices is a discipline aimed at: -

 Understanding the moral values that ought to guide engineering profession or

practice.
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 Resolving moral issue in engineering.

 Justifying the moral judgment in engineering.

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Professional Practices

 It deals with moral problems and issues connected with engineering.

 Another important goal is to discover the set of justified moral principles or

obligations, rights and ideals and apply them to ethical situations.

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You are the best nation that has been raised up for mankind; You enjoin right
conduct, forbid evil and believe in Allah. (3:110)

ِ ‫اس تَأ ْ ُم ُرونَ بِ ْال َم ْع ُر‬

َّ ِ‫وف َوت َ ْن َه ْونَ َع ِن ْلل ُم ْن َك ِر َوتُْْ ِمنُونَ ب‬
ِ‫اّل‬ ْ ‫ُك ْنت ُ ْم َخي َْر أ ُ َّم ٍة أ ُ ْخ ِر َج‬
ِ َّ‫ت ِللن‬

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The Quran addresses the Prophet. “Thou has been created with an
excellent character”
‫وانه لعلى خلق عظيم‬

The Prophet highlighted one of his main objective is to perfecting good

morals
“I have been sent for the purpose of perfecting good morals”.

‫بعثت التمم مكارم االخالق‬

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HADITH
“HE WHO HAS A GOOD
NATURE WILL HAVE THE
REWARD OF THOSE WHO
OBSERVE FASTING IN DAYS
AND KEEP AWAKE PRAYING AT
NIGHTS.”