WRIT 8520 is also offered in Fall 2023
WRIT 8520 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | WRIT 8520 Section 001: Seminar in Scientific and Technical Communication -- Humane Futures: Augmentation Technologies and Tech (34748)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (6 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics may include theories, landmark studies, history, gender, ethics. Topics vary. See the Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- Description: This seminar brings theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical attention to the development of sophisticated, emergent, and embodied augmentation technologies slated to improve lives, literacy, cultures, arts, economies, and social contexts, with critical analysis of both intended and unintended consequences. We address this overarching question: How might disciplines and professions understand augmentation technology and build digital and artificial intelligence (AI) literacy to foster humane futures? Collaborate as part of this seminar to Increase understanding of how augmentation technologies impact professions, writing, and education; Increase understanding of digital and AI literacy as a means to avoid reckless or unintended outcomes, algorithmic bias, racial discrimnation, digital divides, unethical AI practices, misinformation, and other socio-ethical harms to humans that occur when digital and AI literacy is absent; Reframe practice and pedagogy so as to promote digital and AI literacy surrounding the ethical development, adoption, and adaptation of augmentation technologies; and Determine and practice new methods that empower researchers, students, and practitioners to understand, design, and adopt augmentation technologies within an ethically-aligned design framework. National and international researchers of augmentation technologies and digital and AI literacy will join the seminar at strategic points throughout the course. Students will be invited to make multiple connections and join coalitions that align with their specific research and teaching directions. Specific readings are drawn from exam lists (Rhetoric, Scientific, and Technical Communication program) and related disciplines.
This course will be a combination of asynchronous and synchronous modalities. The course will be taught asynchronously with synchronous guest speaker sessions that will meet on determined dates/times.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34748/1219
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