Writing With and About AI
In the age of artificial intelligence, the ability to use generative AI tools to assist with content production is quickly becoming an in-demand professional skill. At the same time, there is a valid concern that over-reliance on LLMs in writing hinders critical thinking, problem solving, and genuine intellectual inquiry. This course will help students develop critical AI literacy skills and explore the limitations and affordances of LLMs in writing and content creation. Students will practice integrating AI tools into the composing process in an ethical and transparent way. Through a variety of creative, analytical, and research-based assignments, students will create original work while reflecting on the role of AI in knowledge-making.
Topics
- Critically assess ethical issues associated with the use of generative AI tools.
- Recognize AI as a political technology with built-in algorithmic biases and inequalities.
- Differentiate between AI-assisted writing vs AI-generated writing.
- Develop ethical, transparent, and reflective practices of using AI as a tool in research and content production.
- Practice writing logical, nuanced, evidence-based arguments that center human thought and genuine intellectual engagement with texts and ideas.
Official roster learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
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Catalogue variants
- Writing With and About AI · 3.0 · Undergraduate