Special Topics in Literary Genres

LIT 390S-1

Algorithms of (Anti)Blackness -

This course investigates how (anti)blackness informs the design and implementation of computation and automation as they pertain to pressing issues such as discoverability and data discrimination to mineral mining. Histories and contexts of AI and robotics, machine learning, software development and code-based media, such as search engines like Google, apps, and social networks will be closely examined.

Taught by Professor Zakiyyah Jackson

T/TH 4:40 – 5:55pm, Friedl 102

Studies in one or more literary genres or subgenres, such as the novel, drama, poetry, or the documentary novel, epic poetry, love lyrics, modernist drama, and so on. Focus on questions of genre and form, but other themes discussed may vary widely.
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