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The following are Spring 2021 course offerings that deal with topics at the intersection of technology and culture, provide hands-on computational instruction, and/or give students the opportunity to consider the value of digital humanities methods. Courses marked with * are graduate courses, and require permission for undergraduate enrollment.
African American Studies
- AAS 301 / SOC 367: Black to the Future: Science, Fiction, and Society
- Ruha Benjamin
- AAS 302 / SOC 303 / ANT 378 / GHP 302: Political Bodies: The Social Anatomy of Power & Difference
- Ruha Benjamin
- AAS 313 / HIS 213 / LAS 377: Modern Caribbean History
- Reena Goldthree
- AAS 359 / ENG 366: African American Literature: Harlem Renaissance to Present
- Kinohi Nishikawa
American Studies
Architecture
- ARC 205 / URB 205 / LAS 225 / ENV 205: Interdisciplinary Design Studio
- Elisa Silva
- *ARC 546 / URB 546: Technology and the City: The architectural implications of networked urban landscape
- Andrew Laing
- *ARC 523: New Forms of Knowledge in the Digital Age
- Erin Besler
- *ARC 578: Utopias: Utopias, Dystopias, Technotopias, and Heterotopias in Architecture and Urbanism
- Anthony Vidler
Art and Archaeology
Comparative Literature
- COM 450 / HUM 452 / TRA 450: Global Publishing: Translation, Media, Migration
- Sandra Bermann
- *COM 535 / ENG 534 / FRE 535: Contemporary Critical Theories: Writing, Technology, Humanity: The Work of Bernard Stiegler
- Benjamin Conisbee Baer
Computer Science
- COS 126 / EGR 126: Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- Adam Finkelstein, Alan Kaplan, Jérémie Lumbroso, Soohyun Nam Liao
- COS 226: Algorithms and Data Structures
- Maia Ginsburg, Dan Leyzberg, Kevin Wayne
- COS 324: Introduction to Machine Learning
- Tom Griffiths and Elad Hazan
- COS 424 / SML 302: Fundamentals of Machine Learning
- Barbara Engelhardt
- COS 448 / EGR 448: Innovating Across Technology, Business, and Marketplaces
- Robert Fish and Jaswinder P. Singh
- COS 484: Natural Language Processing
- Danqi Chen and Karthik Narasimhan
Computer Science (Independent Work Seminars)
- COS IW01: Seminar in Programming Language Design
- David Walker
- COS IW03: Tech Policy
- Mihir Kshirsagar
- COS IW06: Digital Humanities
- Brian Kernighan
- COS IW07: Computer Vision for Social Good
- Olga Russakovsky
- COS IW08: Fairness of Visual Recognition
- Olga Russakovsky
East Asian Studies
- EAS 232: Introduction to Chinese Literature
- Anna Shields
Engineering
- EGR 277 / SOC 277 / HIS 277: Technology and Society
- David Reinecke
Electrical Engineering
- ELE 480 / NEU 480 / PSY 480: fMRI Decoding: Reading Minds Using Brain Scans
- Kenneth Norman and Peter Ramadge
Energy Studies
- ENE 202 / ARC 208 / EGR 208 / ENV 206: Designing Sustainable Systems: Understanding our Environment with the Internet of Things
- Forrest Meggers
English
- ENG 215: Introduction to Science Fiction
- Russ Leo
- ENG 256 / HUM 346: Introduction to Digital Humanities
- Sierra Eckert
- ENG 399: Multicultural London: The Literature of Migrants and Immigrants
- Esther Schor
- ENG 567: Special Studies in Modernism: Early/Modern Essayism
- Jeff Dolven
- *ENG 532 / ART 516 / COM 576 / HUM 572 /MOD 572: Introduction to Critical Theory: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
- Eduardo Cadava
- *ENG 583 / HUM 587: Literature, Data, and Interpretation
- Meredith Martin and Rebecca Munson
French
- FRE 384: France Through Its Archives: Media, Memory, History
- Renee Altergott and Katie Chenoweth
Freshman Seminars
- FRS 174: Drawing Data
- Tim Szetela
- FRS 112: Connection and Communication in the Digital Bazaar
- Swati Bhatt
German
- GER 324 / CHV 320 / COM 448: Topics in the History and Theory of the Media: Artificial Life
- Devin Fore
History
- HIS 250 / AFS 250: The Mother and Father Continent: A Global History of Africa
- Chambi Chachage and Emmanuel Kreike
- HIS 295: Making America: Technology and History in the United States
- Emily Thompson
- HIS 431 / AMS 432: Archiving the American West
- Martha Sandweiss
- HIS 490: The Attention Economy: Historical Perspectives
- D. Graham Burnett
History of Science
- *HOS 599 / HIS 599: Special Topics in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: Experiments in Early Science
- Jennifer Rampling
Humanistic Studies
- HUM 331 / HIS 336: A History of Words: Technologies of Communication from Cuneiform to Coding
- Melissa Buckner Reynolds
Journalism
- JRN 448 / AAS 448: The Media and Social Issues: Reporting on Policing, Race, and Inequality
- Kimbriell Kelly
Latin American Studies
Music
- MUS 316: Computer and Electronic Music Composition
- Daniel Trueman
- *MUS 528: Seminar in Musicology: Digital Culture; Early Modern Women and Song
- Wendy Heller
Near Eastern Studies
- NES 392 / HIS 338 / HLS 391: Clash of Civilizations?
- Skyler Anderson and Peter Kitlas
Neuroscience
- NEU 395: Topics in Scientific Data Exploration
- Samuel Wang
Philosophy
- PHI 350 / CHV 356: Ethics of Emerging Technologies
- Johann Frick and Michal Masny
Sociology
- SOC 306 / SML 306: Machine Learning with Social Data: Opportunities and Challenges
- Brandon Stewart
- SOC 414 / COS 415: Can We Build Anti-Racist Technologies?
- Janet Vertesi
Translation and Intercultural Communication
- TRA 301 / COS 401 / LIN 304: Introduction to Machine Translation
- Srinivas Bangalore