DGT HUM 123Technology, Power, and Society
Digital Humanities · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Formerly numbered Social Science 102.) Consideration of the ways in which data, data science, and datafication have developed. By foregrounding data as a central organizing theme in contemporary politics, economics, and knowledge-making, study prepares students to understand current phenomena by examining their historical precedent, methodological, and theoretical underpinnings. Drawing from multiple disciplines, exploration of topics such as the histories of data and datafication; the making of technological systems; science and technology as sources of social power and authority; race, gender, postcolonial, and intersectional approaches; regulatory and policy interventions; and public engagement with data and technology.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended requisite: course 122.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
DGT HUM 123
- DGT HUM 122Theories of Information Society
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.