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Parks and Recreation Management
Description: AI and the Future of Fun is a 3-credit course examining how artificial intelligence is changing the very nature of leisure. As AI enables new forms of creativity, travel, gaming, and more, it also raises questions about the technology's broader social impact. The course will explore how AI-powered systems may increase accessibility and personalization of recreational experiences while potentially displacing human roles. Students will learn technical foundations alongside ethical issues like privacy, bias, and job loss. Our leisure time is among our most personal spaces; the course investigates this human-AI intersection so we can shape recreational futures with eyes wide open to both profound promise and pitfalls. The very meaning of fun itself may transform - examining this key part of the human experience will shed light on deeper changes afoot. Beyond receiving practical skills, students will contemplate and discuss what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world where recreation is ever more entwined with intelligent machines. This course is open to all students from any major. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Summer 2026
Parks and Recreation Management
Term : Spring 2025
Catalog Year : 2024-2025
PRM 165 - Ai And The Future Of Fun
Description: AI and the Future of Fun is a 3-credit course examining how artificial intelligence is changing the very nature of leisure. As AI enables new forms of creativity, travel, gaming, and more, it also raises questions about the technology's broader social impact. The course will explore how AI-powered systems may increase accessibility and personalization of recreational experiences while potentially displacing human roles. Students will learn technical foundations alongside ethical issues like privacy, bias, and job loss. Our leisure time is among our most personal spaces; the course investigates this human-AI intersection so we can shape recreational futures with eyes wide open to both profound promise and pitfalls. The very meaning of fun itself may transform - examining this key part of the human experience will shed light on deeper changes afoot. Beyond receiving practical skills, students will contemplate and discuss what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world where recreation is ever more entwined with intelligent machines. This course is open to all students from any major. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
Sections offered: Summer 2026