In theory, this is a great course. In practice, it is incredibly boring and is graded far too harshly, especially on essays, where you aren't given a rubric until after it is submitted.

When I saw Robot Ethics, I thought it would be about how robots should be treated and how they should treat us. While ot does touch on that, it mostly focuses on morality and ethics, and not as much on robots as I would like.

Two different professors, both were nice enough, but it was clear that they didn't agree on everything.

Be ready to read 50 - 75 pages twice a week of very dense content

Worst class I have ever taken. They grade so harshly the chances of getting a low A in the class itself is slim. The TA especially grades like he's going to hit it big as a future author, always finding some sort of BS to give you a 3/4 on your essay, NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF THE REQUIREMENTS YOU REACH ON YOUR PAPER. I got docked off for having "too small text," for my presentation. Yeah, I guess it's small WHEN YOU'RE SITTING IN THE BACK OF THE ALDERSON CLASSROOM!!! The essays don't even have proper rubrics! In fact, THERE ISN'T A RUBRIC TO WORK OFF OF, JUST ON WHAT TO WRITE, AND THAT'S IT. Because of this, I got docked off for my ******* CITATION FORMATTING, WHICH THERE WASN'T EVEN A REQUIRED CITATION FORMAT SPECIFIED. AGAIN, it's like this TA genuinely just has a massive ego, and needs t...read more