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AI: Prompts, Pixels, and Power — CS2388.01

Instructor: Darcy Otto
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

AI tools can now write your essays, generate images from a sentence, and hold conversations that feel disturbingly human. You’ve probably already used them. But do you know how they actually work? Do you know who built them, what data they were trained on, and who benefits when you use them? This course takes AI seriously in three ways: technically, critically, and

Introduction to Computer Science 1: Spacewar! — CS2139.01

Instructor: Darcy Otto
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

In 1962, a group of programmers at MIT created Spacewar!, one of the first video games ever made. By the end of this course, you’ll build your own version of it. Along the way, you’ll learn what computer science actually is, which turns out to be less about coding and more about systematic design.

We use Racket, a language designed for

Linear Algebra: An Introduction — MAT2482.01

Instructor: Joe Mundt
Days & Time: T/Th 6:30PM-8:30PM
Credits: 4

Together with calculus, linear algebra is one of the foundations of higher-level mathematics and its applications. This is NOT just the algebra you know from high school. There are several perspectives one can take on linear algebra: it is a method for handling large systems of linear equations, it is a theory of linear geometry (including in dimensions larger than three),

Poetry & Technology — LIT4393.01

Instructor: Franny Choi
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 2

Since the arrival of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, many have wondered—even panicked—about how this new technology would impact creative writing. But literature has always been shaped by the technology of its time. In this 2-credit class, we will look beyond the common assumption of poems as ideally “timeless” to examine how poetry