Spring 2027

Topics in Race and Ethnicity in the Information Society

Examines race and ethnicity in the information society, focusing on information service provision in multiethnic settings and the role of institutions in preserving ethnic heritage.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · Ethelene Whitmire

The course included weekly online discussion prompts that lacked specific guides or structure, while lectures involved listening to research talks and reading verbatim from distributed handouts.

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LIS 665

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Professors

Spring 2027

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ETHELENE WHITMIRE is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Ethelene Whitmire

Students described the course as easy with lenient grading, featuring readings that provided new insights into archives, though they were not highly impressed with the overall experience.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2017: 3.54 GPA, 78.6% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Fall 2019: 3.70 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Ethelene Whitmire

The course included weekly online discussion prompts that lacked specific guides or structure, while lectures involved listening to research talks and reading verbatim from distributed handouts.

Past student reviews · Ethelene Whitmire

Critics found the instructor dismissive and uninterested in students, noting that class time was often spent on her personal research rather than engaging with the cohort.

Topics

  • Provision of information services in multiethnic and multilingual societies.
  • Role of information institutions in promoting and preserving ethnic heritage.

Skills

  • Analyzing issues in providing information services within multiethnic and multilingual contexts.
  • Evaluating the role of information institutions in promoting and preserving ethnic heritage.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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