DATA 5002
Data Science, Ethics & Society
The ethical, social, political, and environmental implications of data science including the roles and responsibilities of data scientists in contemporary and emerging technological systems and the impact these systems may have at multiple scales, individual, group, institution, across sectors and nation-states.
2026
Topics
- and biopolitics; risk, probability and the taming of chance; algorithmic culture, data
- governance, data sovereignty and diplomacy, data colonialism, dynamic nominalism
- categorization and ontologies; the translation of people, space and social phenomena into and
- Green/Sustainable/Carbon Neutral Computing – The Data Centre Edition.
Prerequisites & course information
Also listed as COMS 5225 . Precludes additional credit for COMS 5225 , ITEC 5206 .
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Data Science, Ethics & Society ↗2026