*2026 Summer *NEW* Evaluating AI
CLASS NUMBER:
760-01
INSTRUCTOR:
TIME:
Fridays, 12:00-2:30 PM
LOCATION:
This hybrid course will be held in person at GLS House and online via Zoom.
DESCRIPTION:
Through interdisciplinary conversation, practice, and engagement with chatbots and critical thinkers, we’ll evaluate how AI tools create knowledge, shape relations, redefine the human, auto-generate evidence and artifacts, and participate in building (and breaking?) worlds.
This course prioritizes interpretive, critical, and speculative inquiry over technical proficiency: our aim is not to become AI power users, but to recognize how AI tools are situated within, and contributing to, unjust systems of power. Our goal is to develop sociotechnical analytical skills to read, evaluate, assess, responsibly use, democratically design, challenge, repair, and sometimes refuse AI.*
This course is designed for anyone wanting to think deeply about AI’s impact in/on the world. There is no technical prerequisite or requirement for this course. AI superusers, newbies, and non-users are all welcome! If you are already working with digital or AI-enabled tools in your research or work, you’ll be invited to conduct a short self-study that evaluates how those tools participate in shaping your questions, methods, stories, and claims.
*Hmm, is AI a noun? That’s a provocation…and we’ll talk about that.
Summer 2026, Humanities, Technology