ENG 360SEM—Writing and Artificial Intelligence Literacy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving literacy practice with the potential to impact almost every facet of contemporary society. Students taking this course will develop a critical orientation to AI literacy, both by writing about AI and reflecting on how AI tools influence the writing they and their peers produce. In doing so, they will determine for themselves how AI literacy might extend human capabilities and how it might diminish them. Assignments will ask students to compose their own technological literacy narratives; to research AI’s historical evolution; to examine both the practical and ethical considerations of using AI in academic, professional, and civic contexts; to investigate AI’s uses and impacts in their intended professions; and to present their findings in a professional presentation. Students will also use AI tools to better understand the rhetorical and creative affordances these tools open up, and the constraints they impose, for the writing process.