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May 01, 2024
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PSC 601P - Big Data, Politics and Society (3 units)
Explores the nature and history of data as an epistemological innovation from the advent of language to modern “Big Data” IT infrastructures. Using theories of technological change, we consider social and political implications.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. describe the evolution of cooperation in human society.
2. distinguish between biological and social bases of cooperation.
3. contrast ethical and biological bases for cooperation and conflict.
4. analyze the circumstances in which either cooperation or conflict emerge.
5. explain social and political structures that encourage cooperation and minimize cooperation.
6. compare and contrast the how social and political institutions succeed in promoting cooperation and reducing conflict.
7. analyze and critique prevailing theories of the relationship between technological and social change.
8. investigate and consider the sociopolitical implications of a particular technological innovation from either a moral-philosophical or empirical point of view.
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