Exploring the Ethics of the Digital Transformation

FAIN: AKA-290966-23

Agnes Scott College (Decatur, GA 30030-3797)
Harald Christian Thorsrud (Project Director: August 2022 to present)
Carlee A. Bishop (Co Project Director: January 2023 to present)
James S. Wiseman (Co Project Director: January 2023 to present)
Lara L. Denis (Co Project Director: January 2023 to present)

A one-year project to plan a new minor in humanities and data, incorporating content from philosophy and data science

Agnes Scott College (ASC), a private liberal arts college for women in Decatur, Georgia, requests support for the “Exploring the Ethics of the Digital Transformation” project that will focus on exploring ethical questions involved in the use of data while developing a new minor degree focused on the digital humanities. The three goals of the project will be to (1) demonstrate the practical relevance of the humanities to evolving professional needs, (2) attract more students to the humanities, and (3) strengthen the intellectual and working relationships between the humanities and data science fields. Toward those goals, the project team will engage in the work necessary to develop, launch, and promote a new Humanities and Data minor degree program that will bring together courses relevant to data analysis and communications and those focused on understanding the ethical implications of using data.