Module SOCM033 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
SOCM033: Data Governance and Ethics
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Topics will include:
- Measuring society? Data governance and ethics.
- How to deal with exclusions: fairness in data collection and analysis.
- Social justice and the politics of evidence-based movements.
- The advantages and disadvantages of automation.
- The professional status of data scientists and their role relating to government, research institutions, industry and societal expectations.
- Historical roots and current institutionalisation of data science.
- Data science across fields: the challenges of diversity.
- Case Study 1: Scraping data from Twitter and other social media. Issues of privacy, sample bias and fairness.
- Case Study 2: Personalised medicine. Maintaining trust: identifying and handling ethical concerns in data science.
- Case Study 3: Engagement and participation: the opportunities of citizen science. With guest lecture from Met Office.
- Cinema event & discussion.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching | 22 | Lectures and discussion (two hours per week) |
Guided Independent Study | 78 | Background reading |
Guided Independent Study | 50 | Coursework preparation and writing |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Presentation on essay topic | 10 minutes | 1-10 | Oral and written comments. |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Written essay | 100 | 4000 words | 1-10 | Written comments. |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Written essay | Written essay (4000 words) | 1-10 | August/September reassessment period |