AI Applications in the Languageand Creative Arts (HUM 5303)
Term: 2025-2026 Academic Year - Summer Session
Description
a. Creativity, Authenticity, and Identity:
This course looks both at the various ways creativity figures in the design of AI technologies and also the questions that are raised by generative AI with regard to what it means to produce an original work of any kind, what it means to be authentic, and what it means to claim ownership over what we produce. It will bring together perspectives from different fields of cultural and creative production to help students understand the stakes of these questions and to find their own answers to them, however tentative.
b. AI, Science Fiction, and Visions of Human Futures:
This course tracks AI in science and speculative fiction to assess both how it has changed its character and nature, but also how it has been envisioned in utopias and dystopias conjured by various thinkers, artists, writers, filmmakers, and scientists. What does it tell us about how humans have imagined the "intelligent future"? How have those imaginations materialized and why? How can this help us as we engage with and envision our future with this new technology?