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STS-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, SOC-2604

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 49

Average GPA: 3.72 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 74.25%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.36%

Edward T Ewing201955.8%34.5%5.7%0.0%3.8%0.0%3.401
Brian W Lutgens202485.4%8.3%0.0%0.0%6.3%0.0%3.634
Marcia S Davitt202489.2%4.5%4.7%0.8%0.7%0.0%3.7915
Pratyusha P Kiran202462.2%26.6%5.5%0.0%5.5%0.0%3.372
Hannah L Steinhauer202489.1%10.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.893
Emma Stamm202186.9%5.4%5.8%0.0%1.9%0.0%3.685
Ladale C Winling202057.2%28.6%0.0%0.0%14.3%0.0%3.141
Rosa Fernanda Ribeiro202388.9%0.0%11.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.781
Sarah E Plummer202397.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%2.1%0.0%3.904
Leanna Ireland202075.0%12.5%12.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.631
Kristen A Koopman201990.0%10.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.901
Mario Khreiche201980.8%5.5%9.1%0.0%0.0%4.5%3.762
Jessica Thompson2020100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.951
Dhritiman Barman202480.7%9.4%10.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.662
Stephen L Frommer202480.0%0.0%0.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%3.221
Savannah L Mandel202395.8%4.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.952
Tsung Yen Tsou202360.0%0.0%20.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%2.881
Roan G Parrish2020100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001
Taylor Loy202375.0%16.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%8.3%3.791

Grade Distribution Over Time

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