BS | Eligible Humanities Electives

Overview

The Computer Science Department encourages our undergraduate majors to enroll into humanities and social science courses outside the department to complement the mathematically and computationally oriented classes we've always required.

Important Note: Courses that are cross-listed with the eligible Humanities elective courses are acceptable to utilize towards your program sheet.

The classes contributing to this option are presented below:

Art and Art Studio

ARTSINST 142: Drawing with Code
ARTSTUDI 130: Interactive Art: Making it with Arduino
ARTSTUDI 160: Intro to Digital / Physical Design
ARTSTUDI 168: Data as Material
ARTSTUDI 179: Digital Art I

English

ENGLISH 106: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence in Fiction
ENGLISH 106A: A.I.-Activism-Art
ENGLISH 115: Virtual Italy: Methods for Historical Data Science (former name: Mapping the Grand Tour: Digital Methods for Historical Data)
ENGLISH 122: Medieval Manuscripts, Digital Methodologies
ENGLISH 184C: Data and Knowledge in the Humanities
ENGLISH 184D: Race, Gender, and Literary Digital Humanities
ENGLISH 184E: Literary Text Mining

Philosophy

PHIL 60: Introduction to Philosophy of Science
PHIL 72: Contemporary Moral Problems
PHIL 99: Minds and Machines
PHIL 170: Ethical Theory
PHIL 171: Justice
PHIL 174B: Universal Basic Income: The Philosophy Behind the Proposal

History

HISTORY 44: Women and Gender in Science, Medicine and Engineering
HISTORY 244F: Intersectional Design: An Expanded Approach to Gender in Tech (Formerly known as Beyond Pink and Blue: Gender in Tech)

Archaeology

ARCHLGY 86: Digital Methods for Archaeology and Anthropology
ARCHLGY 104: Digital Methods in Archaeology

Anthropology

ANTHRO 132C: Technology and Inequality
ANTHRO 132D: Thinking Technology: Anthropological Perspectives

Communications and Sociology

COMM 120W: The Rise of Digital Culture
COMM 124: Lies, Trust, and Tech
COMM 145: Personality and Digital Media
COMM 154: The Politics of Algorithms
COMM 158: Censorship and Propaganda
COMM 166: Virtual People
COMM 186W: Media, Technology, and the Body
COMM 230A: Digital Civil Society
COMM 230B: Digital Civil Society
COMM 230C: Digital Civil Society
SOC 114: Economic Sociology
SOC 124: Gender and Technology

Computer Science

CS 80Q: Race and Gender in Silicon Valley
CS 152: Trust and Safety Engineering
CS 181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
CS 182: Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change
CS 184: Bridging Policy and Tech Through Design
CS 206: Exploring Computational Journalism
CS 209: Law, Bias, & Algorithms

Symbolic Systems

SYMSYS 208: Computer Machines and Intelligence

Psychology

PSYCH 35: Minds and Machines
PSYCH 70: Self and Society: Introduction to Social Psychology
PSYCH 75: Introduction to Cultural Psychology
PSYCH 80: Introduction to Personality and Affective Science
PSYCH 141: Cognitive Development
PSYCH 175: Social Cognition and Learning in Early Childhood
PSYCH 180: Social Psychological Perspectives on Stereotyping and Prejudice
PSYCH 215: Mind, Culture, and Society
PSYCH 204A: Human Neuroimaging Methods
PSYCH 204B: Computational Neuroimaging
PSYCH 241: Psychometrics and Automated Experiment Design

Earth Systems (and related departments)

EARTHSYS 140: Data Science for Geoscience
EARTHSYS 144: Fundamentals of Geographic Information Science
EARTHSYS 162: Data for Sustainable Development
EARTHSYS 227: Decision Science for Environmental Threats
ENERGY 112: Exploring Geosciences with MATLAB
ENERGY 160: Uncertainty Quantification in Data-Centric Simulations
ESS 109: Biological and Social Networks
GEOPHYS 128: Modeling Earth
GEOPHYS 228: Basic Earth Imaging
SUST 210: Pursuing Sustainability: Managing Complex Social Environmental Systems

Ethics in Society

ETHICSOC 131X: Ethics in Bioengineering
ETHICSOC 187: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Artificial Intelligence
ETHICSOC 234R: Ethics on the Edge: Business, Non-Profit Organizations, Government, and Individuals

Design Institute

DESINST 215: The Design of Data
DESINST 240: Designing Machine Learning: A Multidisciplinary Approach
DESINST 285: Designing for Digital Agency

American Studies

AMSTUD 120: The Rise of Digital Culture
AMSTUD 133: Technology and American Visual Culture
AMSTUD 145: Silicon Valley

Political Science, Public Policy

POLYSCI 150A: Data Science for Politics
PUBLPOL 63Q: Democratizing Ethics with Discrimination, Inequality, Injustice and Technology in Mind
PUBLPOL 103F: Ethics of Truth in a Post-Truth World

Management Science & Engineering

MS&E 231: Introduction to Computational Social Science
MS&E 234: Data Privacy and Ethics
MS&E 254: The Ethical Analyst

Linguistics

LINGUIST 130A: Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
LINGUIST 145: Introduction to Psycholinguistics
LINGUIST 150: Language and Society
LINGUIST 156: Language and Gender