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HIST-2604: Introduction to Data in Social Context

Description: Examines the use of data to identify, reveal, explain, and interpret patterns of human behavior, identity, ethics, diversity, and interactions. Explores the historical trajectories of data to ask how societies have increasingly identified numerical measures as meaningful categories of knowledge, as well as the persistent challenges to assumptions about the universality of categories reducible to numerical measures.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 5F Quant & Comp Thnk Found., 10 Ethical Reasoning, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: CS-4774

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: SOC-2604, STS-2604

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 89

Average GPA: 3.66 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 68.61%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.16%

Mario Khreiche201973.0%13.2%10.1%0.0%3.7%0.0%3.503
Marcia S Davitt202480.0%12.1%4.4%0.3%1.9%1.3%3.6828
Danielle Thompson202095.0%0.0%5.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.872
Emma Stamm202185.7%8.7%2.1%0.0%1.6%2.0%3.817
Sarah E Plummer202393.5%4.0%1.4%1.1%0.0%0.0%3.887
Ladale C Winling202078.7%14.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%7.1%3.731
Hannah L Steinhauer202483.7%13.0%2.5%0.4%0.5%0.0%3.808
Leanna Ireland202073.4%26.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.751
Brian W Lutgens202479.1%13.4%2.2%1.7%0.9%2.6%3.705
Roan G Parrish202269.7%22.2%4.0%0.0%0.0%4.0%3.682
Dhritiman Barman202483.7%8.3%0.0%4.0%4.0%0.0%3.603
Taylor Loy202364.7%35.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.591
Pratyusha P Kiran202450.0%33.3%9.0%0.0%4.9%2.8%3.232
John K Aggrey202468.4%21.1%0.0%10.6%0.0%0.0%3.431
Edward T Ewing202182.2%12.7%3.5%0.0%1.7%0.0%3.722
Savannah L Mandel202391.9%4.8%1.2%0.0%2.1%0.0%3.802
Michael J Meindl202171.4%14.2%6.9%1.9%1.7%3.8%3.642
Rosa Fernanda Ribeiro202376.2%11.2%6.0%2.7%2.5%1.3%3.533
Ralisa N Dawkins202360.0%28.0%4.0%0.0%8.0%0.0%3.191
Tsung Yen Tsou202468.2%24.5%3.6%2.0%0.0%1.8%3.592
Kristen A Koopman201957.7%26.9%7.7%3.8%3.8%0.0%3.351
Samuel B Beckenhauer202248.2%36.7%8.9%4.7%0.0%1.4%3.332
Hesam Hosseinpour202148.6%20.0%11.4%5.7%14.3%0.0%2.831
Seohyun Park202166.6%23.1%2.6%2.6%5.1%0.0%3.441
Stephen L Frommer202470.0%20.0%3.3%0.0%6.7%0.0%3.341

Grade Distribution Over Time

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