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What We Offer

Our cross-disciplinary courses promote a critical understanding of computing.

Courses

The recommended courses are divided into four categories. We suggest taking at least five courses in total, one course from the first category and four from the other categories, in order to get a well-rounded education in critical computing. This combination of courses should give a grounding in technical knowledge paired with a deeper understanding of how the technologies we build impact our world. 

Introduction to computing 

  • CPSC 100: “Introduction to Computing and Programming.”
  • CPSC 110: “Python Programming for Humanities and Social Sciences.”
  • CPSC 201: “Introduction to Computer Science.”
  • CPSC 223: “Data Structures and Programming Techniques.”
  • CPSC 323: “Introduction to Systems Programming and Computer Organization.”

Artificial intelligence, data sciences, information systems, and big data analytics

  • ARCH 332: “Cultural AI: Machine Vision, Art, and Design.”
  • HSHM 449 / EVST 349 / HIST 449J / HUMS 446 / URBN 382: “Critical Data Visualization: History, Theory, and Practice.”
  • S&DS 150: “Data Science Ethics.”
  • CPSC 464: “Algorithms and their Societal Implications.”
  • AMST 250 / FILM 250 / GLB 249: “Introduction to Critical Data Studies.”
  • AMST 150 / ER&M 317 / FILM 152: “Information, Ethics, and Society.”
  • PHIL 240: “Philosophy of Data Science.”

Digital media technologies, Internet, platforms, and infrastructures  

  • FILM 160 / ENGL 196: “Introduction to Media.”
  • ENGL 188 / FILM 210: “Philosophy of Digital Media.”
  • ENGL 198 / FILM 394 / LITR 409 / RSEE 350 / WGSS 394: “Internet Cultures.”
  • ART 560: “Attention Economies.”
  • SPAN 855: “Media Studies in the Amazon.”
  • HSAR 700: “Media Cultures of the Cold War”
  • CPSC 478: “Introduction to Computer Graphics”
  • AMST 365 / ER&M 295 / FILM 268: “Platforms and Cultural Production.”
  • AMST 269 / ER&M 330 / SAST 262: “Digital War.”
  • SPAN 290 / HUMS 387 / CPLT 606 / FREN 945 /SPAN 845: “Introduction to Digital Humanities I.”

Broader intersections of technologies, engineering, and culture 

  • ANTH 367: “Technology and Culture.”
  • RUSS 222 / RSEE 244 / FILM 369 / HUMS 186: “War Games.”
  • ANTH 468 / AFST 465 / HSHM 413: “Infrastructures of Empire: Control and (In)security in the Global South.”
  • ART 612: “Technology Criticism in Practice.”
  • EP&E 330 / PLSC 284: “Capitalism, Commodification, and Business Ethics.”
  • AMST 302 / ER&M 312 / HSHM 493 / WGSS 312: “Technology, Race and Gender.”
  • ER&M 355 / WGSS 360 / HSHM 405: “Science and Technology Studies: Anti-racist and Feminist Approaches to Technoscience.”
  • AMST 610 / ER&M 610: “Militarism, Technology, Empire.”