Module course for HUM7015_01_S1_202627 offered at LOC: by Humanities (ORG:COHS)
Convenor name: Paul Giladi
Convenor email: pg30@soas.ac.uk
Office room: Room 333, College Building
Module dates: Semester 1
Intended learning outcomes:

  1. Synthesise scholarly discourses on a range of ethical challenges raised by AI systems
  2. Critically reflect on a range of ethical issues concerning AI systems through the lens of conceptual frameworks across African, Asian, Middle-Eastern, and Euro-American intellectual traditions
  3. Assess ways in which AI systems can help foster or hinder social justice, with reference to a range of conceptual frameworks across disciplinary perspectives in the humanities and the social sciences
Assessment 1: Name: Assignment 1 (AS1)
Assessment 1: Weighting: 30%
Assessment 1: Permitted AI usage: Retrieval;Editing
Assessment 1: Format: Portfolio (1500 words)
Assessment 2: Name: Assignment 2 (AS2)
Assessment 2: Weighting: 70%
Assessment 2: Permitted AI usage: Retrieval;Editing
Assessment 2: Format: Case-study portfolio (2500 words)
Page template: On campus 2026/27