ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
Covers the discourse around artificial life and sentience from the eighteenth century to our present. Considers how philosophy and literature both seek to understand and explore what it might mean to have machines that think. Discusses issues around the creation and implementation of Artificial Intelligence and poses some of the key questions about Artificial Intelligence including their capacity for thought, consciousness and intentionality. Considers how these texts work through the questions posed by theorists and raise their own.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand an array of theoretical and literary explorations of the artificial intelligence and robotics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Write original, coherent, and compelling arguments that push beyond summary to analysis and independent and critical thinking in clear prose. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize how writers deploy various literary and narrative devices to marshal arguments about key concepts, problems, and questions related to the course topic. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand an array of theoretical and literary explorations of the artificial intelligence and robotics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Write original, coherent, and compelling arguments that push beyond summary to analysis and independent and critical thinking in clear prose. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize how writers deploy various literary and narrative devices to marshal arguments about key concepts, problems, and questions related to the course topic. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027