Spring 2027

Information Ethics and Policy

Information Ethics and Policy covers modern ethical theories informing information agency practices and policy issues like intellectual property, privacy, censorship, and equity of access.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Alan Rubel

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LIS 661

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ALAN RUBEL is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Alan Rubel

The course is cross-listed, and one student found the instructor opinionated but unclear in delivery.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.92 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.90 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Alan Rubel

No specific details regarding workload or assessment demands were provided in the available feedback.

Past student reviews · Alan Rubel

A student felt the instructor lacked subject-matter expertise in libraries and did not belong in Information Studies.

Topics

  • Modern ethical theories and their application to information agency policies
  • Intellectual property, privacy, censorship, and equity of access

Skills

  • Apply modern ethical theories to information agency policies and practices
  • Examine policy issues including intellectual property, privacy, censorship, and equity of access

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2024— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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