{"id":26796,"date":"2025-06-19T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/?page_id=26796"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:44:40","slug":"aiandworld-building","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/first-year\/discovery-core\/autumn-dcx\/aiandworld-building","title":{"rendered":"A.I. &amp; World-Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/06\/aiworldbuilding.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26797\" style=\"width:962px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/06\/aiworldbuilding.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2025\/06\/aiworldbuilding-300x67.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/AH-with-purple.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25068\" style=\"width:100px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-large\">A Discovery Core Experience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May be taken as <strong>BCORE 120<\/strong> (Arts &amp; Humanities)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About This Course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This course will begin with a series of seminar-style discussions about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on both local and global human experiences, enviro-cultural practices, and socio-political (re-)structure via combining humanistic inquiry with technological understanding. Grounded in the discussions on critical AI literacy and humanity, students will then work in groups to undertake a creative, weeks-long world-building process as a real-world fantasy project that envisions a future of the human world with and\/or without AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Say More About the &#8220;World-building Process&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire world-building process includes: concept brainstorming, storyboarding, determining the human &amp; other-than-human populations, establishing the historical and cultural backgrounds, and determining the power source of the world. Near the end of the world-building process, students will compile their work at each of the stages and present their own unique world-building projects to class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Will We Learn About A.I.?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Multimodal course readings\/materials will be used to provide fundamental knowledge about AI, world-building, and fantasy mapping include excerpts from <em>The Age of AI<\/em>, <em>Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI<\/em>, <em>The Complete Art of World Building<\/em>, and<em> Fantasy Mapping: Drawing Worlds<\/em>. Library resources will also be built in the course design to help you learn how to gain support from the librarians and access resources related to AI &amp; information literacy at the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Should I Take This Course?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to developing AI and information literacy, you will engage in reflective circles and peer review activities at every stage of the project as you collaborate with you group members to construct or reenact an innovative, fantastic world in the age of AI with their respective diverse focuses of stories, characters, and environments inclusive of cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills &#8212; building skills essential to the collaborative nature of college learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor Hsinmei (May) Lin (she\/her)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/may.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25024 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/may.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2023\/08\/may-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Professor Lin <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.A.   National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.A.    Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Email: <a href=\"mailto:hsinmei@uw.edu\">hsinmei@uw.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Discovery Core Experience May be taken as BCORE 120 (Arts &amp; Humanities) About This Course This course will begin with a series of seminar-style discussions about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on both local and global human experiences, enviro-cultural practices, and socio-political (re-)structure via combining humanistic inquiry with technological understanding. 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