Her students’ enthusiasm and curiosity about AI as she integrated it into a spring 2024 course has inspired Dr. Lani Gao to explore further use of AI as a teaching tool. Gao, a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor of mathematics, first incorporated AI into her classroom via a graduate-level course, Applied Statistics Methods. “The…
The Taylor Swift effect on AI
Associate Lecturer of English Devori Kimbro is incorporating artificial intelligence into her fall 2024 English 2080 course. The focus is on helping students curious about majoring in English get familiar with all of the core tracks in the program—literature, rhetoric/composition and creative writing—all—through the lens of the career and music of Taylor Swift. The course’s…
Comparing AI to traditional information resources on Criminology
Dr. Katelyn Hancock,incorporated artificial intelligence in a student assignment for a spring 2024 course and because of the success of the innovation plans to instruct the course the same way in the fall. Hancock, an assistant professor of criminal justice, taught the course Criminal Justice 210, Criminology, in spring 2024, incorporating AI in the final…
Human-AI collaboration for novel, artistic creativity
Associate Professor of Art Andrew O’Brien is incorporating artificial intelligence prominently into his new fall 2024 Art 4900r course, “Special Topics: Art and Artificial Intelligence.” Course learning objectives center on current or anticipated use of AI in creating works of art and student understanding of the foundational technology and components of AI platforms; of using…
What’s a drawing machine? UTC art students are finding out
In Assistant Professor of Art Shane Ward’s fall Art 4330 Emerging Practices course, students are going to discover that artificial intelligence is now among those emerging practices. Yes, even in art. Art 4330 explores new materials and methods in contemporary sculpture, preparing students to use cutting-edge digital technologies for their own artistic ends. This semester,…