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BIT-4604: Data Governance, Privacy and Ethics

Description: Examination of data analytics and automated decision making issues, across multiple technology contexts, through the lens of the humanities and ethics. Privacy, autonomy, data ownership, equality, and accountability. Decision making and exploration of questions of data ethics and data fairness throughout the data life cycle.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: BIT-2405 or CMDA-2014 or CS-1054 or CS-1114 or CS-1064

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 26

Average GPA: 3.64 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 58.88%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.43%

Nima Zahadat202475.2%14.9%4.0%0.7%5.2%0.1%3.526
Staff Barhorst202275.3%24.0%0.0%0.3%0.0%0.4%3.742
Idris Adjerid202457.3%37.2%4.4%0.2%0.3%0.5%3.505
Michael E Flora202483.7%13.0%1.8%0.5%0.8%0.2%3.7711
David G Simpson202144.7%52.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.6%3.411
Anthony O Vance202468.5%29.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%1.8%3.651

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Spring 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Summer I 2024Fall 2024Term050% W