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AI and the Monstrous Mind is a writing and humanities course I designed and taught over multiple terms. The course uses literature, film, theory, and analytical writing to help students examine artificial intelligence through the lens of the monstrous: what societies fear, exclude, project, or create. Students engage questions of consciousness, ethics, labor, agency, and personhood while developing their academic writing and critical reading skills.

Course Overview

This course asks students to think critically about artificial intelligence not only as a technical development, but as a cultural and philosophical problem. Through literature, film, theory, and discussion, students examine how the figure of the monster helps illuminate social fears, desires, and assumptions about intelligence, humanity, labor, and control.

Learning goals

Students in this course develop academic writing and analytical reading skills while engaging difficult questions about ethics, personhood, and creation. The course is designed to help students move between texts, ideas, and evidence with greater confidence, precision, and intellectual independence.

course design approach

I designed the course to balance conceptual depth with strong instructional structure. The module sequence helps students build from foundational ideas to more complex ethical and philosophical questions, while writing assignments ask them to synthesize theory, interpretation, and textual analysis. The course also reflects my interest in using interdisciplinary content to create stronger engagement and more meaningful academic inquiry.

why this course matters

AI is often discussed in technical or commercial terms. This course opens another path. It invites students to ask what artificial intelligence reveals about human systems, social values, and the boundaries we construct around the category of the human. In that sense, it is both a writing course and a humanities intervention.