Undergraduate Minor in Artificial Intelligence

Upgrade your skills: AI for every major

Designed for students in any major, this program blends technical basics with ethical insights and hands-on projects. You’ll learn how AI works, explore its impact on society, and practice using AI tools in your field—whether that’s communication, business, education, health, or the arts. Graduate ready to lead responsibly in an AI-driven world.

What you'll learn

By completing the AI minor, you will:

  • Understand core AI concepts: Learn how AI systems work and how data is created, managed, and used.
  • Analyze ethical and societal implications: Examine the philosophical and ethical dimensions of AI across multiple domains.
  • Evaluate AI in your discipline: Critically assess opportunities, risks, and limitations of AI tools in your field.
  • Apply AI in practice: Gain hands-on experience using AI technologies in real-world, discipline-specific projects.
  • Communicate effectively about AI: Develop the ability to articulate AI’s impact in professional, academic, and public contexts.

Minor requirements

Required courses (12 cr.)

  • AII-I 100 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3 cr., fall and spring, in-person and online)
  • DSCI-D 201 Foundations of Data Studies (3 cr., fall and spring, online)
  • PHIL-P 353 Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (or PHIL-P 383, 3 cr., spring, online)

Choose one of the following:

  • COMM-M 355 AI for Communicators (3 cr., spring, in-person)
  • AII-I 300 Collaborative Human-AI Systems (3 cr., fall and spring, online)