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This 1-credit course covers the basic tenets of ethical and professional conduct and their relation to the principles of ethics. It explains the importance of the ethical management of information to society and to the information professions.

The course will build upon widely accepted ethical principles used in diverse professional fields such as accounting, healthcare, law, and corporate governance, applying them to the issues and context of records and information management. These ethical foundations will be presented as a framework within which ethical and legal rules are formulated to address new developments in information technologies and practices.

The course will explore ethical issues such as professional responsibility, conflicts of interest, confidentiality, intellectual property, management ethics, whistleblowing and leaking, and information privacy. The ethical implications of managing digital content and electronic records will be addressed. Current technological platforms such as enterprise content management will be discussed, as will emerging technologies such as big data.