"Rivera creditsthe creation of courses focusing on the intersection of AI and humanities with a resurgence in student interest in liberal arts degrees like English. Pre-pandemic, the number of English majors at the university was shrinking,part of a broader decline in English across the country, he said. It was a far cry from the days of over 1,500 majors and long waitlists in the early 2000s, according to Rivera. But there's been a rebound, with the number of English majors rising 9% since 2021."
""The students love it," said John-Michael Rivera, the school's dean of arts and humanities, of the class, which is called Inclusive Interdisciplinary Data Science for All. The class gives STEM students a way to think about the ethics of AI, he said. In other courses, humanities majors can use their skills to evaluate how AI writes, what it means for the practice of writing, and what the "self" means in an AI world."
A course at the University of Colorado Boulder, Inclusive Interdisciplinary Data Science for All, is co-taught by an applied mathematician and a Renaissance scholar and blends AI and humanities. The course encourages STEM students to consider AI ethics and enables humanities majors to analyze AI-generated writing, its effects on writing practices, and concepts of selfhood in an AI context. Enrollment in English has rebounded after pre-pandemic declines, with majors rising 9% since 2021 compared with early-2000s peaks exceeding 1,500. Employers and organizations increasingly prioritize soft skills, accountability, identity, style, empathy and other human competencies alongside technical abilities, shifting perceived career stability.
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