Spring 2025
21W.238 – Professional Communication in the Digital Realm: Social Media and Artificial Intelligence for Bilingual Students
Instructor: Eric Grunwald
Units: 3-0-9
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:30am-11am
Room: 66-156
Explores the opportunities and risks of social media and generative AI, especially for those communicating in a second language. Provides opportunities for advanced bilingual students to build confidence and skills in using social media in English-speaking contexts and in using generative AI effectively and ethically. Assignments include written analyses of social media across disciplines and cultures, tests of chatbots’ abilities and limitations, comparisons of their output with students’ own writing, and short in-class presentations. Culminates in the creation of a long-term social media plan for students’ careers. No listeners. Limited to 15 total for versions meeting together.