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Postgraduate Module Descriptor

SOCM033: Data Governance and Ethics

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:

• 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.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

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.

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.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

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.

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