Film Media Theater 330FW - Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Back to the Future of Writing and AI Technology'

This course is designed as an upper-level humanities seminar on writing as a technology with a long history (cuneiform, hieroglyphics, and runes) and an interesting future within film, social media, and generative artificial intelligence. We will wade through various historical media and cultures of writing as a communicative and representational technology, then spend time thinking about contemporary forms such as emoticons and AI. Students will write and revise their own writing of sentences, paragraphs, and essays, and they will experiment with the affordance and detriment of AI as a cyborg author of thinking and writing.

Prereq: 8 credits in English or Film Media Theater, or the equivalent.