***This Sophomore Inquiry is no longer offered***
SOPHOMORE INQUIRY DESCRIPTION (UNST 230)
This course introduces the Freedom, Privacy, and Technology cluster. Privacy and freedom are highly valued and are to some extent protected by the U.S. Constitution. Recent rapid advances in science and technology, combined with compelling motives to use this technology to control and exploit aspects of human life that have heretofore been left to chance or to individual choice, make urgent the questions about what uses of technology should be encouraged or permitted. This class is an opportunity to step back and consider the question of what is privacy? How is privacy constructed culturally? How do our values about privacy relate to our behaviors? How do our privacy concerns intersect with technology? In this students explore theories and concepts that they then apply to contemporary issues and use to reflect on their own relationship to privacy.