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INFO-611 Information Policies & Politics

3 Credits

The course will be concerned primarily with access to and dissemination of information. Students will discuss the range and scope of information policies as they affect society today, among them freedom of information, intellectual property, privacy, and government information. Students will be shown how tensions between conflicting laws and policies are resolved on a legal and pragmatic level and will rely on both primary and secondary source materials, including statutes, case law, law reviews, scholarly journal articles, books and popular press.