Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Human Impacts Undergraduate Certificate

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Human Impacts offers an undergraduate certificate program that examines and engages with human experiences of AI and big data technologies. The program draws from interdisciplinary perspectives across the College of Arts and Humanities to provide students with critical and creative approaches to the ethics, uses, histories, and broad implications of big data-driven technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

This certificate offers students the opportunity to develop critical and creative approaches to their understanding and implementation of artificial intelligence.

The critical and creative perspectives emphasized in this certificate are intended to complement the technical and applied expertise that faculty in areas such as “Machine Learning and AI” within Computer Science, which focuses on “complex systems, data mining, diagnostics, evolutionary computation, intelligent simulation, knowledge representation, learning from observation of human performance, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, neural networks, neuro-evolution, robotics, and social informatics” (https://www.cs.ucf.edu/research/machine-learning-and-ai/). As such, the focus on this certificate is not on the development of AI and big data technologies but on the development of knowledge about and research into the human experiences of their impacts and uses.

Admission Requirements

• None

Certificate Requirements

• For degree-seeking students, certificates will be awarded only at time of degree completion.

Prerequisite Courses

• None

Degree Requirements

• Complete all of the following
  • Take the following:
    • PHI3681 - AI and Big Data Ethics (3)
    • ENC3600 - Literacies of Artificial Intelligence (3)
  • Take at least 2 of the following:
    • DIG3171 - Tools for Digital Humanities (3)
    • ENC3250 - Professional Writing (3)
    • ENC3417 - Literacy and Technology (3)
    • ENC3433 - Multimedia Writing and Composition (3)
    • ENC4416 - Writing in Digital Environments (3)
    • ENG3817 - Digital Archives (3)
    • FRE3440 - Business French I (3)
    • HIS4166 - Spatial Histories, Digital Storytelling (3)
    • JPN1421 - Japanese Language through Anime, Gaming and Technology (3)
    • THE3311 - Theatre History and Dramatic Literature I (3)
    • PHI3625 - Virtual Ethics (3)
    • PHI3638 - Ethical Issues in the 21st Century (3)
    • PHI2647 - Logic and Ethics (3)
    • ENG3623 - Social Media for English Majors (3)
    • ENG3861 - Digital Humanities Approaches to AI (3)
    • PHI4689 - Neuroethics (3)

Grand Total Credits: 12

Additional Requirements

• A grade of "C" (2.0) or better is required in each course used to satisfy the minor.
• At least 6 hours used in the certificate must be earned at UCF within the College of Arts and Humanities.
• A maximum of 6 hours can be taken from a single department.
• No credit by exam (TSD, Military credit) may be used.
• Internship, Co-op, or Independent Study credit cannot be used toward the certificate.