Minor in Societal & Human Impacts of Future Technologies (SHIFT)
SHIFT your thinking about advancing technologies
Technological advances are rapidly reshaping cultures, economies, societies, nations, peoples, and our very understanding of what it is to be human. Students are graduating into a world filled with technological tools, computational intelligence, human-AI teams, and large-scale data-driven decision making.
With the SHIFT minor, you will gain the skills, knowledge, and experience to successfully take on roles in integrated, multidisciplinary analyses of current and near-future computational technologies.
Coursework
The SHIFT minor requires eight total courses, with no limit to double-counting with other majors or minors.
Core Courses (2 courses, 18 units total):
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AI, Society, and Humanity |
9 |
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Shift Capstone Experience |
Var. |
Area Courses (6 courses, 54 units total):
Note: Five of the six Area Courses must be taken in different departments.
Courses that build basic technological competence, and teach concepts & frameworks that provide high-level understanding of computational technologies, including their possibilities and limits.
Courses that teach the concepts and frameworks of social & behavioral sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, sociology), including methods & analyses such as experimental design and quantitative & qualitative data analysis.
Courses that teach core concepts & frameworks to address and analyze ethical, policy, and design challenges relevant to current and near-future computational technologies.
Area Course Selections
More advanced courses in these areas can satisfy these requirements (upon discussion with the minor advisor).
Technology area
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Design of Artificial Intelligence Products |
12 |
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Human AI Interaction |
12 |
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Social Web |
12 |
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Service Design |
12 |
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Principles of Computing |
10 |
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Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science |
12 |
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Human Robot Interaction |
12 |
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Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and Applications |
Var. |
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Foundations of Software Engineering |
12 |
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Information Security, Privacy, and Policy |
12 |
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Privacy Policy, Law, and Technology |
9 |
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Program Analysis |
12 |
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Statistical Reasoning and Practice |
9 |
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Methods for Statistics & Data Science |
9 |
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The Information Systems Milieux |
9 |
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Programming and Data Analysis for Social Scientists |
9 |
Social & Behavioral Science area
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Human Factors |
9 |
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Influence, Persuasion, and Manipulation Online |
9 |
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Reasoning with Data |
9 |
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Organizational Behavior |
9 |
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution |
9 |
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Team Dynamics and Leadership |
9 |
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Principles of Microeconomics |
9 |
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Principles of Macroeconomics |
9 |
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Political Science Research Methods |
9 |
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Decision Science for International Relations |
9 |
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Behavioral Economics @ Work |
9 |
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Domestic Negotiation |
9 |
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International Negotiation |
9 |
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Decision Science and Policy |
9 |
Politics, Ethics, & Design area
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Human Factors |
9 |
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Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing |
9 |
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ROB Freshman Seminar: Artificial Intelligence and Humanity |
9 |
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Influence, Persuasion, and Manipulation Online |
9 |
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Reasoning with Data |
9 |
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Design Center: Human Experience in Design |
9 |
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How People Work |
9 |
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Futures I |
4.5 |
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Futures II |
4.5 |
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Design Center: Design for Social Innovation |
9 |
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DC Grand Challenge First-Year Seminar: Artificial Intelligence and Humanity |
9 |
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Organizational Behavior |
9 |
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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution |
9 |
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Business, Society and Ethics |
9 |
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Team Dynamics and Leadership |
9 |
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Business Law |
9 |
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Principles of Microeconomics |
9 |
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Principles of Macroeconomics |
9 |
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Technology and Society |
9 |
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From Newton to the Nuclear Bomb: History of Science, 1750-1950 |
9 |
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Killer Robots:The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems |
6 |
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Moneyball Nation: Data in American Life |
9 |
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Introduction to Ethics |
9 |
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Introduction to Political Philosophy |
9 |
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Engineering Ethics |
9 |
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Ethical Theory |
9 |
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Social and Political Philosophy |
9 |
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Political Science Research Methods |
9 |
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Comparative Politics |
9 |
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U.S. Foreign Policy and Interventions in World Affairs |
9 |
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Contemporary American Foreign Policy |
9 |
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Decision Science for International Relations |
9 |
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Global Nuclear Politics |
9 |
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Space and National Security |
9 |
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Emerging Technologies and the Law |
9 |
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Grand Strategy in the United States |
9 |
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The Privatization of Force |
9 |
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Technology and Policy of Cyber War |
9 |
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Terrorism and Insurgency |
9 |
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Social Media, Technology, and Conflict |
9 |
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The Future of Warfare |
9 |
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International and Subnational Security |
9 |
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Analytical Foundations of Public Policy |
9 |
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Behavioral Economics @ Work |
9 |
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Domestic Negotiation |
9 |
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International Negotiation |
9 |
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Decision Science and Policy |
9 |