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Syllabus and assignments for students enrolled in Dr. Isbell’s course ”Algorithms and the Arts”

Syllabus and assignments for students enrolled in Dr. Isbell’s Seminar in Academic Inquiry and Writing (Fall 2025, Section 02H)

Syllabus and assignments for students enrolled in Dr. Isbell’s Seminar in Academic Inquiry and Writing (Spring 2026, Section 16)

How do we decide what creative works to engage with? How did people discover what they loved before the Internet? How often is an algorithm influencing what we choose to watch, read, or listen to? What is the […]

Syllabus and assignments for students enrolled in Dr. Isbell’s Seminar in Academic Inquiry and Writing (Fall 2025, Section 13)

Why did that movie make you cry? Why does that novel make you feel like you can do anything? Why do you always feel better after listening to that stand-up comic? How is it possible that you fell in love with that […]

Syllabus and assignments for students enrolled in Dr. Isbell’s Seminar in Academic Inquiry and Writing

Are you a writer? Do you want to learn more about the publishing industry? If yes, we’ve designed this new course for you! We’re going to explore what it means to edit and publish another person’s work, wheth […]