Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Discussion
Enrollment Information
Requirement Designation:
Diversity & Humanities Exploration
Description
This course utilizes nonfiction accounts and fictional narratives in order to investigate cultural realities in the US today. We will examine the current issues of big data interpretation and surveillance capitalism in order to approach questions of equity, specifically concerning the confluence of computer engineering and business practice. We will analyze the tropes of modern superheroes in order to examine the heroes that characterize contemporary American culture and explores questions of equity through analysis and creation.