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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2023
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FWIS 199 001 (CRN: 24237)
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF DATA
Long Title: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF DATA
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Instructor: Keny, Gebhard
Meeting: 11:00AM - 11:50AM MWF (9-JAN-2023 - 21-APR-2023)
Part of Term: First Year Writing
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 16
Section Enrolled: 16
Enrollment data as of: 2-MAY-2024 12:15AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Final Exam Time:
30-APR-2023
2:00PM - 5:00PM U
Description: The Social Life of Data is an introduction to the discipline of social-cultural anthropology and its engagements with data as both a topic of study and key figure animating contemporary human life. More specifically, the course interrogates how recent investments in data inform long-standing structures of social inequality.