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SOC-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: HIST-2604, STS-2604

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 83

Average GPA: 3.63 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 65.53%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.00%

Marcia S Davitt202482.5%9.1%4.5%1.9%0.7%1.4%3.7126
Leanna Ireland202060.0%20.0%0.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%3.261
Ladale C Winling202083.4%16.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.831
Samuel B Beckenhauer202243.4%40.1%6.7%3.4%6.7%0.0%3.052
Hannah L Steinhauer202477.1%10.9%5.4%0.0%6.1%0.6%3.518
Mario Khreiche201971.4%15.4%3.9%0.0%3.9%5.6%3.572
Danielle Thompson202088.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%11.1%3.921
Seohyun Park202137.5%25.0%0.0%12.5%25.0%0.0%2.341
Pratyusha P Kiran202442.7%42.7%5.9%3.0%3.0%2.9%3.182
Tsung Yen Tsou202461.4%35.5%3.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.532
Emma Stamm202182.1%9.5%3.5%5.0%0.0%0.0%3.686
Edward T Ewing202186.3%9.1%0.0%0.0%4.5%0.0%3.742
Sarah E Plummer202389.5%8.1%2.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.857
Dhritiman Barman202488.1%8.9%0.0%0.0%3.0%0.0%3.733
Hesam Hosseinpour202192.3%7.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.921
Brian W Lutgens202472.3%21.3%3.7%1.5%1.2%0.0%3.585
Savannah L Mandel202393.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%6.7%0.0%3.711
Roan G Parrish202275.0%12.6%6.3%6.3%0.0%0.0%3.552
Rosa Fernanda Ribeiro202380.4%15.9%1.9%0.0%0.0%1.9%3.743
Ralisa N Dawkins202376.5%23.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.611
Stephen L Frommer202480.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.721
Kristen A Koopman201940.0%20.0%20.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%2.861
John K Aggrey202480.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.681
Michael J Meindl202183.5%6.8%5.9%0.0%0.0%3.8%3.832
Taylor Loy202356.3%25.0%12.6%6.3%0.0%0.0%3.331

Grade Distribution Over Time

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