Winter 2024 Course Schedule

SOC 31914 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society: The Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence (3 credits; Online Mix)

This course explores the social impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI involves the development of intelligent computer systems capable of tasks typically requiring human intelligence. The course examines how AI is transforming society by automating tasks, optimizing processes, and extracting insights from data as well as ethical considerations such as bias, privacy, security, and job displacement. Students will delve into the social implications of AI in labor markets, social media, the arts, education, government, etc. We will critically examine the cultural, economic, and social impacts of AI, considering topics like ethics, power dynamics, automation, and the future of work.

NOTE: The Jan. 2-23, 2023 course schedule for this online mix winter class is as follows: Mon. & Tues. 6-9:38pm, online synchronous AND Wed. & Thur. 6-7pm, online synchronous PLUS 7-9:38pm asynchronous work. Please inquire with the instructor Paul Galatowitsch ( paul@healthclearstrategies.com or pgalatowitsch@ccny.cuny.edu ) if you have any questions.

SOC 31189 Restoring Care and Connection (3 credits; Online Synchronous)

In the US, contemporary institutions, such as schools, prisons, and healthcare organizations, underserve and even harm their constituents. How could these systems be re-imagined through Black Feminist Abolitionist movements so that they serve stakeholders? This course centers the voices of those ensnared in carceral systems and explores key conceptual frameworks, practices, and genealogies of abolition, especially in relation to Black and queer feminisms. This course delves into the relationship between dismantling prisons and other carceral systems, including, but not limited to, family regulation, immigration, capitalism, schools, psychiatry, and gender and family norms. In critiquing Social Work practice within progressive change movements and exploring Abolitionist Social Work, the course creates space for freedom dreaming and radical reimagining of our communities without oppressive and harmful systems.