Spring 2025

DATA C4AC 001 - LEC 001

Formerly DATA C4AC

Data and Justice

Mauricio J Najarro

Jan 21, 2025 - May 09, 2025

Tu, Th

08:00 am - 09:29 am

Social Sciences Building 60

Class #:33747

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Data Science Undergraduate Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 1

Enrolled: 49

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 50

Waitlist Max: 30

Open Reserved Seats:

8 reserved for Data Science majors with Inequalities, Orgs and the Economy, STS, Social Welf, or Social Policy domain emphases

20 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission

12 reserved for Undergraduate Students: Hist, LegalSt, MediaSt, PolEcon, PolSci, Psych, PbHlth, Rhet and Soc Majors. Hist, Rhet and STS minors

Hours & Workload

3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 7.5 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1.5 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Other classes by Mauricio J Najarro

This course engages students with fundamental questions of justice in relation to data and computing in American society. Data collection, visualization, and analysis have been entangled in the struggle for racial and social justice because they can make injustice visible, imaginable, and thus actionable. Data has also been used to oppress minoritized communities and institutionalize, rationalize, and naturalize systems of racial violence. The course examines key sites of justice involving data (such as citizenship, policing, prisons, environment, and health). Along with critical social science tools, students gain introductory experience and do collaborative and creative projects with data science using real-world data.