All Courses
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JOU3365 - AI in Media and Society
Gain an understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning as they apply to the media professions, including journalists reporting on AI. Explore major developments in AI technologies as covered by the mass media. Learn to detect hype and exaggeration in descriptions of AI’s promises and potential risks and dangers. Examine use of AI systems in finance, healthcare, hiring decisions, housing, policing, etc. Prerequisites: None
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JOU4364 - Adv Comm Web Apps
This course adds server-side (back-end) web skills to the client-side (front-end) web skills students have developed in the preceding course, with the goal of developing web apps that include a server-side component to support presentations of stories and large data sets for media organizations. Web scraping is also covered to enable journalists to gather open data from the web for analysis and/or informing audiences. Prerequisite: JOU 3363 Introduction to Web Apps for Communicators with grade of C or better