University of Florida Offers ‘Data Feminisms’ Course but Won’t Provide Syllabus

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'That appears to contradict the public university’s own policies.'

The target audience for this course probably doesn’t care, and the people who do care probably wouldn’t take the course anyway.The University of Florida plans to offer a “Data Feminisms” course this upcoming semester.The class will use “critical data, algorithm studies, and feminist science and technology studies to develop essential tools of inquiry needed to approach data in a context of racialized, gendered, colonial, and classed systems of power,” according to its description.

But the university declined to provide a syllabus because “the course has not yet been finalized for the fall semester,” according to spokesperson Cynthia Roldan.The university then again denied the request, stating “the draft syllabus you requested is not available because the course has not been taught in a year and a half and has not been formalized for the Fall semester.

Her “research interests” include “critical data and algorithm studies,” “feminist studies of space and place,” and “critical Muslim studies,” according to her personal website. “In this course, we center how racial capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy define who is the subject or object of data collection, cleaning, analysis, and management,” a one-page document for the fall 2021 version of the course

“We learn how to read datasets with a critical feminist science and technology studies lens and critically examine technologies of surveillance such as Big Data, facial recognition, and biometric data collection,” Shaikh’s course description stated.This sounds like another class in which the students will get an A Plus in indoctrination studies.

 

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