National Collegiate Honors Council

 

Date of this Version

2022

Document Type

Article

Citation

Honors in Practice, 2022, Vol. 18: 81–95

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© Copyright 2022 by the National Collegiate Honors Council

Abstract

An interdisciplinary honors course titled “Minds, Machines, and Meaning” incorporates the notion of the algorithmic imaginary, which explains how people make use of algorithms to create new information infrastructures and communities and how these algorithms shape us in turn. Describing a culminating writing assignment in speculative research, the author explains how this course facilitates interdisciplinary research while fostering student and faculty growth, and he reflects on the possibility of its future variation, the uncanny valley of algorithmic anti-humanism.

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