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Undergraduate MUR-ART202-2021

The Weight of Data

From

$1,100 $1,350

Your upfront cost: $0

International student?

Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

Subjects may require attendance

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

  • 30 Aug 2021
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This research-based university in Perth has a strong interdisciplinary focus and a reputation for outstanding teaching and ground-breaking research. With more than 22,000 students and 2,000 staff from over 90 countries, and campuses in Dubai and Singapore, Murdoch embraces free thinking, shared ideas and knowledge to make a difference, and Open Universities Australia is certainly part of that.

QS RANKING 2021

28

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

29

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

On completion of this subject, students will be able to:

  1. define what is meant by key points that link information science and the humanities
  2. assess how information science affects our lives
  3. articulate the significance of varying disciplinary approaches to data from across both HASS & STEM
  4. display an awareness of future issues facing the incorporation of information by industry.
Topics covered
    • Case studies problematize whether the ‘natural/human’ or the ‘digital’ are most appropriate way for understanding what the world is really like: Is the map sufficient for the terrain? (‘Inadequacy’ of data; ‘Duplicity’ of data; ‘Innocence’ of data)
    • Consider how data informs the disciplines by which we have traditionally understood our place in the world. This is done through a series of guest lectures by figures from across the campus
    • Student-lead workshops based on their own disciplines – write a reflective essay on how their field has (or might yet be) transformed by the digital revolution
    • Summary class
Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

This subject explores what it means for our lives to be ‘informed’ by data. The subject does this not only through a series of lectures by invited experts and more traditional seminars where students engage with key texts, but also through a series of workshops in which students are required to examine how their own academic discipline and intended field of employment might yet be transformed by the power of information – and what this means for the lives we will live.

Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.

Assessments

  • In-Class Test (10%)
  • Reflective Presentation (20%)
  • Final Invigilated Exam (30%)
  • Essay (40%)
Textbooks

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

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