Surveillance & Society.

Catalog description

A. Prerequisite: CRJ 101 or PLS 103 or SJS 101 or COR 201 or departmental approval. Examines the nexus of surveillance, policing, and society. The course explores the role of states, corporations and individuals in monitoring and policing of bodies, populations, property and information. Consideration is given to historical and contemporary dynamics of surveillance: socio-technical assemblages, risk and security discourses, institutional blurring, inequalities and civil liberties.