Humanities Division

Contact Us

Give Now

A person uses their laptop at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on Feb. 18, 2022. Photo by Raquel Natalicchio for CalMatters

Culture and ethics meets tech: UCLA debuts country’s first bachelor’s in digital humanities

DH News

UCLA’s new major fuses technological tools for statistical analysis, coding, 3D mapping and data visualization with traditional humanities in subjects like history, literature and global cultures.

The Viterbi school of engineering at USC is offering a four-year program to prepare students for such fields as drug discovery, robotics and agriculture. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)

USC and UCLA bet big on AI to meet soaring student, job market demands

DH News

USC and UCLA are joining the rush to embed artificial intelligence and new digital technologies into college coursework as the academic year begins, announcing new AI majors and initiatives, betting that degrees built partly or entirely around AI will launch careers and pay off after graduation.