Restricted to first semester first year students in the College of Arts and Humanities.

This course introduces students to humanistic research through the study of artificial intelligence as a cultural system shaped by human values, power, inequity, and imagination. Using methods from media studies, philosophy, the history of technology, and feminist and critical race theory, students will learn how to ask scholarly questions, analyze primary texts and artifacts (ads, headlines, platforms), and develop original research on AI's social impacts. Through guest lectures, debates, and a final research project, students will practice key skillsof humanistic inquiry: critical interpretation, argumentation, andethical reflection.