Bioethics and Informatics

IT:
Lectures:
-Hardware and software: main components and applications (2 hours)
-Binary, octal and hexadecimal coding of information: interpretation of the main multimedia contents (texts, images, sounds and videos) (3 hours)
-Networks: typologies, topologies, means of transmission, main devices (3 hours)
-IT security: fundamentals of legislation and conscious use of the network (3 hours)
-Spreadsheet: knowledge and main functions (basic and advanced) (3 hours)
-Programming fundamentals: flowcharts, algorithms (3 hours)
-Mathematical/computer logic (3 hours)

Exercises:
-Algorithms (4 hours)
-Spreadsheet (4 hours)
-Conversions (2 hours)
-Logic (2 hours)

Bioethics:
-What is animal bioethics (2 hours)?
-Evolution of the human-animal relationship (2 hours)
-Ethics and animals: Comparison of major philosophical theories (4 hours)
-The moral status of non-human animals and the concept of animal well-being (2 hours)
-Animal bioethics and law: reading animal protection laws; do animals have rights? (4 hours)
-Bioethics applied to companion animals (2 hours)
-Key bioethical issues in relation to dogs: dangerous dogs as a bioethical problem; sterilization as a bioethical problem; genetic abuse; bioethical aspects of kennel management; assistance/sport dogs; euthanasia (2 hours)
-Unconventional animals as pets and emerging bioethical issues (2 hours)
-The horse as a companion animal and emerging bioethical issues (2 hours)
-Preparation of the ethical opinion (2 hours).