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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

• AMS 403: Advanced Seminar in American Studies: Fixing a Bug in Democracy: The Math and Practice of Fair Redistricting
• Samuel Wang

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

• ART 361 / HIS 355 / MED 361 / HUM 361: The Art & Archaeology of Plague
• Janet Kay

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

• LAS 416 / HUM 416 / ART 416: Reading the Landscapes of Colonial Latin America
• Noa Corcoran-Tadd

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