ILS-Z 640 SEMINAR IN INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM (3 CR.)
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Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 7899 | Open | 12:40 p.m.–3:10 p.m. | R | I 232 | Rosenbaum H |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 7899: Total Seats: 15 / Available: 7 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
In this seminar course you will explore issues in intellectual freedom through reading, discussion, and debate. The general scope of the course includes such concepts as freedom of speech, free speech and hate speech, censorship, social justice, and information access and privacy along with issues such as intellectual property protection, information inequity, surveillance capitalism, implications of big data for intellectual freedom, and ethics for information professionals. While library and, more generally, information policy issues regarding intellectual freedom are central to this course, to critically analyze these issues we must understand them in their cultural, social, and historical contexts.