What is the purpose of learning? Is the career you have in mind going to be fulfilling? Have you wondered what is the right major for you? What do you ultimately want to achieve in life? In this first-year seminar, rather than declaring a major, you will be challenged to declare a mission. This course will help you gain clarity about your purpose in life and ensure that you consistently make decisions in line with your ultimate goals.

In this course, we will explore the political, legal, and social implications of Big Data, artificial intelligence, and the increasing reliance on automated, machine learning algorithms across many different decision-making contexts, with a particular focus on the manifestations of bias in computationally or machine-based decisions. The course will address both the promise and perils of data-based, machine decision-making as well as the multiplicity of ways in which it already influences our daily lives.

This course provides an introduction to the field of political psychology. It focuses primary attention on psychological explanations of individual political attitudes and actions, among both elites as well as the masses. This course is offered as part of the new graduate program in Data Analytics and Computational Social Science, and would count towards the substantive course distribution requirement of the master's degree.

What is public opinion? How do we measure it? Where does it come from? Does it?and should it?matter for policies and political outcomes? Whose opinions count? These are fundamental questions for understanding the role of citizens in American democracy, and democracy in general. In this course, we learn about how members of the public think about issues, and why they think the way they do. We will also examine whether or not political leaders follow the "the will of the public" or manipulate public opinion to achieve their own aims.

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This course is an introduction to normative ethics. More specifically, we will focus on questions about what to do and how to live from a moral point of view. We will spend a large portion of the course discussing specific moral questions?e.g. Is it ever permissible to kill someone? How much of our income should we donate to charity? What are our obligations to animals? But we will also look at proposals to give unified answers to all moral questions. Inevitably, we will pause to reflect on the moral questions themselves: What are we asking for when we ask whether something is morally wrong?

This course is an introduction to normative ethics. More specifically, we will focus on questions about what to do and how to live from a moral point of view. We will spend a large portion of the course discussing specific moral questions?e.g. Is it ever permissible to kill someone? How much of our income should we donate to charity? What are our obligations to animals? But we will also look at proposals to give unified answers to all moral questions. Inevitably, we will pause to reflect on the moral questions themselves: What are we asking for when we ask whether something is morally wrong?

This course is an introduction to normative ethics. More specifically, we will focus on questions about what to do and how to live from a moral point of view. We will spend a large portion of the course discussing specific moral questions?e.g. Is it ever permissible to kill someone? How much of our income should we donate to charity? What are our obligations to animals? But we will also look at proposals to give unified answers to all moral questions. Inevitably, we will pause to reflect on the moral questions themselves: What are we asking for when we ask whether something is morally wrong?