Societal and Human Impacts of Future Technologies, Minor
The Minor in Societal & Human Impacts of Future Technologies (SHIFT)
Overview
Students pursing the SHIFT minor will gain the skills, knowledge, and experience to successfully take on roles in integrated, multidisciplinary analyses of current and near-future computational technologies. The SHIFT minor requires eight total courses, with no limit to double-counting with other majors or minors. All courses counted towards the minor must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a grade of "C" or above.
Curriculum
Core Courses (2 courses, 10 to 18 units total)
| Units | ||
| 80-249 | AI, Society, and Humanity | 9 |
| 80-445 | Shift Capstone Experience | 1-9 |
Area Courses (6 courses, 54 units total)
Note: Five of the six Area Courses must be taken in different departments
Technology area (18 units)
Courses that build basic technological competence, and teach concepts and frameworks that provide high-level understanding of computational technologies, including their possibilities and limits.
| Complete two courses | Units | |
| 05-317 | Design of Artificial Intelligence Products | 12 |
| 05-318 | Human AI Interaction | 12 |
| 05-320 | Social Web | 12 |
| 05-452 | Service Design | 12 |
| 15-110 | Principles of Computing | 10 |
| 15-112 | Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science | 12 |
| 16-467 | Introduction to Human Robot Interaction | 12 |
| 17-303 | Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and Applications | 9 |
| 17-313 | Foundations of Software Engineering | 12 |
| 17-331 | Information Security, Privacy and Policy in the Age of AI | 12 |
| 17-333 | Privacy Policy, Law, and Technology | 9 |
| 17-355 | Program Analysis | 12 |
| 36-202 | Methods for Statistics & Data Science | 9 |
| 67-250 | The Information Systems Milieux | 9 |
| 88-300 | Programming and Data Analysis for Social Scientists | 9 |
Social & Behavioral Sciences area (18 units)
Courses that teach the concepts and frameworks of social and behavioral sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, sociology), including methods and analyses such as experimental design and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
| Complete two courses | Units | |
| 05-413 | Human Factors | 9 |
| 36-200 | Reasoning with Data | 9 |
| 36-309 | Experimental Design for Behavioral & Social Sciences | 9 |
| 70-311 | Organizational Behavior | 9 |
| 70-321 | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution | 9 |
| 70-341 | Team Dynamics and Leadership | 9 |
| 73-102 | Principles of Microeconomics | 9 |
| 73-103 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 9 |
| 84-266 | Research Design for Political Science | 9 |
| 84-369 | Decision Science for International Relations | 9 |
Ethics, Policy & Design Area (18 units)
Courses that teach core concepts and frameworks to address and analyze ethical, policy, and design challenges relevant to current and near-future computational technologies.
| Complete two courses | Units | |
| 05-413 | Human Factors | 9 |
| 16-161 | Artificial Intelligence and Humanity | 12 |
| 36-200 | Reasoning with Data | 9 |
| 51-173 | Human Experience in Design | 9 |
| 51-371 | Futures I | 4.5 |
| 51-373 | Futures II | 4.5 |
| 51-382 | Design for Social Innovation | 9 |
| 70-311 | Organizational Behavior | 9 |
| 70-321 | Negotiation and Conflict Resolution | 9 |
| 70-332 | Business, Society and Ethics | 9 |
| 70-341 | Team Dynamics and Leadership | 9 |
| 70-364 | Business Law | 9 |
| 73-102 | Principles of Microeconomics | 9 |
| 73-103 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 9 |
| 79-175 | Moneyball Nation: Data in American Life | 9 |
| 79-234 | Technology and Society | 9 |
| 79-302 | Killer Robots? The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Drones and A.I. in War | 9 |
| 80-130 | Introduction to Ethics | 9 |
| 80-135 | Introduction to Political Philosophy | 9 |
| 80-330 | Ethical Theory | 9 |
| 80-335 | Social and Political Philosophy | 9 |
| 84-266 | Research Design for Political Science | 9 |
| 84-275 | Comparative Politics | 9 |
| 84-319 | Civil-Military Relations | 9 |
| 84-325 | Contemporary American Foreign Policy | 9 |
| 84-369 | Decision Science for International Relations | 9 |
| 84-370 | Nuclear Security & Arms Control | 9 |
| 84-372 | Space and National Security | 9 |
| 84-373 | International Law | 9 |
| 84-380 | US Grand Strategy | 9 |
| 84-386 | The Privatization of Force | 9 |
| 84-387 | Remote Systems and the Cyber Domain in Conflict | 9 |
| 84-389 | Terrorism and Insurgency | 9 |
| 84-390 | Social Media, Technology, and Conflict | 9 |
| 84-405 | The Future of Warfare | 9 |
| 88-221 | Markets, Democracy, and Public Policy | 9 |