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INF STD 20

Digital Cultures and Societies

Lecture, four hours. Examination of social and cultural contexts of global digital networks and systems. Exploration of ethical, infrastructural, and political questions raised at intersection of technologies and cultures. Topics include data surveillance, algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, digital economies and labor, social media revolutions, indigenous and non-Western uses of technology, digital media literacies, and more. Letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.63
n = 255 · 5 terms · ± 0.033
A range
75%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
0%
— of those passed
D / F / W
2.0%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 5621F
  • 1622S
  • 6823S
  • 6224S
  • 5425S
Enrolment by term: 21F 56, 22S 16, 23S 68, 24S 62, 25S 54
Peak 68 Most recent 54 in 25S 5 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 6 · 2.3%
  • A 117 · 45.7%
  • A- 69 · 27.0%
  • B+ 27 · 10.5%
  • B 18 · 7.0%
  • B- 7 · 2.7%
  • C+ 1 · 0.4%
  • C 3 · 1.2%
  • C- 2 · 0.8%
  • D+ 1 · 0.4%
  • D 2 · 0.8%
  • F 2 · 0.8%
  • I 1 · 0.4%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
SRINIVASAN, RAMESH 3.63 3.62 255 5 75%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term