(WGSS 260) Algorithms and Social Justice

4 Credits

This course explores how algorithms reflect and magnify social inequality. Topics include race, gender, sexuality, and class in the context of policing and punishment, search engines and social media, and ranking and optimization. Readings, discussions, and assignments are designed to cultivate transdisciplinary competence in the history of science and technology, feminist theory, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and to encourage peer-to-peer learning across the humanities, social science, and engineering. Attribute/Distribution: Q