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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

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.

Seeing technology through a human lens: UCLA’s new Department of Digital Humanities brings humanistic inquiry to the technologies transforming our world — and puts those technologies to work exploring the human experience. David Esquivel/UCLA.

UCLA launches nation’s first digital humanities department

Future-ready students, forward-looking research: The new department brings a humanistic approach to AI, other emerging technologies

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

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.