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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-1064 or CS-1054 or CS-1114

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 20

Average GPA: 3.66 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 59.37%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.45%

Michael E Flora202487.3%11.6%0.7%0.1%0.2%0.1%3.848
Staff Barhorst202275.3%24.0%0.0%0.3%0.0%0.4%3.742
Nima Zahadat202471.6%18.3%3.8%0.5%5.6%0.2%3.514
Idris Adjerid202357.6%37.6%3.9%0.3%0.0%0.7%3.514
Anthony O Vance202468.5%29.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%1.8%3.651
David G Simpson202144.7%52.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.6%3.411

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