New Undergraduate Course! UNIV103: Let’s Talk About Digital You

Check out one of Duke University’s newest undergraduate course!

Let’s Talk About Digital You (EI, SS, STS) seeks to explore the technology underlying the digital experiences we depend upon in our lives, as well as their ethical, political, and social implications. Through a combination of interactive lectures, hands-on workshops, and active discussions, this course will introduce students to a wide array of headline-making technology like AI art and ChatGPT, and explore what they mean for our society.

Fourteen faculty from across Duke’s campus will guide students through seven learning modules covering such topics as generative art (AI art), large language models (ChatGPT), AI in healthcare and business, and more. Students will spend the first week of each module learning about the featured technology through a lecture and a hands-on, guided workshop. During the second week of each module, students will learn about and discuss the societal and ethical implications of that technology.

This course will help students develop the critical thinking skills they need to understand the complex digital world as it exists today and prepare them to navigate the rapidly-changing digital landscape as it continues to evolve. Collectively, students in the course will grapple with some of the most challenging technological and ethical questions of our time: What are the trade-offs, challenges, and opportunities of the digital experiences we interface with in our personal lives, at our jobs, and through our systems? What are these technologies missing? How might these technologies be used in new, creative, and socially responsive ways?

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