CoursesAI 系列課程
From criminology and cyborg feminism to social welfare — seven AI courses taught by Center members, plus the interdisciplinary AI learning module.
Across AY 2023–2025, Center members offered seven AI courses: six in the Department of Sociology form a full ladder from second-year social design and third-year core theory to fourth-year applied seminars; one cross-college course, "AI for Social Good," runs in the College of Business AI program — teaching students how sociology sees AI.
BSO35001 ・ Junior ・ 3 credits
AI and Sociology
Yu-Cheng Liu
The Center’s core theory course on how AI shapes behavior, social structure, and institutions: inequality and distribution, algorithmic bias and ethics, and policy and governance frameworks. Steadily offered — 26 students in fall 2024 and 25 in spring 2026.
BSO29201 ・ Sophomore ・ 3 credits ・ Fall 2025
AI-Assisted Social Design: How AI Changes Society
Chien-Liang Chi
Combines social-design methods with AI collaboration tools to understand AI’s impact on labor, education, life, and social structure, and to build design proposals for real problems. With 51 students in fall 2025, it is the Center’s most popular sophomore course.
BSO29601 ・ Sophomore ・ 3 credits ・ Fall 2025
AI and Cyborg Feminism
Chun-Mei Chang
Thinks through human–machine relations, the body, and boundaries from a gender-and-technology angle. Starting from Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto, it examines gender politics, bodily boundaries, and technological intimacy in the age of AI. 44 students in fall 2025.
BSO41801 ・ Senior ・ 2 credits ・ Fall 2025
AI in Criminology
Fang-Yi Huang
Examines the criminology and criminal-justice challenges of AI, machine learning, and emerging technology: predictive policing, algorithms and due process, AI bias and offender discrimination, virtual financial crime, disinformation defense, crime mapping, and hands-on Python crime-data work. Nearly full at 59 students in fall 2025.
🏝️ Interactive course site：Criminology Exploration Island →
BSO53401 ・ Senior ・ 3 credits ・ Spring 2026
Ecological Wisdom and AI
Chun-Mei Chang
Explores AI’s role in environmental governance, sustainability, and conservation: climate prediction, environmental monitoring, green AI, and the environmental-justice questions behind technological fixes. A senior seminar offered in spring 2026.
BSO52401 ・ Junior ・ 2 credits ・ Spring 2024
AI and Database Applications
Fang-Yi Huang
A hands-on introduction to database thinking and AI tools: SQL, data cleaning, and machine learning for social research. Scheduled in spring 2024 (later suspended); the Center’s earliest data-practice course, its module is now folded into the Python and database units of "AI in Criminology."
PAI12201 ・ College of Business AI Program ・ 2 credits ・ Fall 2025
AI for Social Good
Fang-Yi Huang
A cross-college course on "AI for Social Good": from Gemini-AI comics and picture books, machine-learning disease-distribution analysis, and AI website building to humanitarian-crisis applications, East Asian surveillance and tech governance, elder care, gender and care automation, and the technological marginalization of the Global South — ending with a "social-impact AI prototype" that translates social problems into AI-tractable tasks.
🏝️ Interactive course site：AI & Social Well-Being Islands →
Junior ・ 3 credits ・ Spring 2027 ・ Elective
AI Agents and Applications
Fang-Yi Huang, Chung-Yang Yeh
AI agents from a sociological perspective, with no programming background assumed: large language models, ReAct, RAG, MCP and multi-agent systems; comparing agent tools; building websites, apps and research agents with vibe coding; and exploring social simulation, qualitative coding and the effects of AI on work, inequality and accountability.
Interactive course site ・ Extended from a Taiwanese Sociological Association forum
AI Employability
Fang-Yi Huang
An interactive course site extended from a forum at the Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting: ten islands on AI employability and social inequality, covering four themes and ten questions, with an AI host console and a 3D archipelago view (Chinese/English).
🏝️ Interactive course site：AI × Humanities Exploration Island →
Sociology ・ English-taught
East Asian Family and Society
Fang-Yi Huang
An English-taught course built on Philip N. Cohen's The Family: definitions of family, the history of patriarchal families, ethnic and immigrant families, class and gender, mate selection and marriage, fertility and parenting, divorce and remarriage, work–family conflict and domestic violence — compared across Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, China, and Hong Kong. Paired with the "Family and Society in East Asia" interactive site, where ten islands guide students through thirteen chapters.
🏝️ Interactive course site：Family and Society in East Asia Island →
In fall 2025, "AI for Social Good" (with the College of Business) and "AI in Criminology" (College of Humanities & Social Sciences) together enrolled 82 students, with Kebbi robots and n8n automation introduced in class. Student portfolios: scu-portfolio.web.app ・ portfolio-web-coral-one.vercel.app ・ Japan exchange: scu-japan2.web.app
Interactive
AI Interactive Course SitesAI 互動課程網頁
Each of four courses is paired with an AI-built interactive exploration island. Follow guides Ori and Aya across the bridges; each island walks through the course with designed questions and answers, and includes an AI agent console, a 3D archipelago view, and domain agents linked to Google Scholar and official statistics. Scan a QR code to open one on your phone.
AI & Social Well-Being IslandsVisit →
- AI for Social GoodPAI12201 course guide: nine AI skills over eighteen weeks, with five AI tools (one an AI agent), an agent team and a vibe coding brief each week, plus class surveys (Chinese/English)
AI × Humanities Exploration IslandVisit →
- AI EmployabilityCompanion to a Taiwanese Sociological Association forum: ten islands probing AI employability and social inequality across four themes and ten questions (Chinese/English)
Criminology Exploration IslandVisit →
- AI in CriminologyA guided tour of 4T35 Criminology: ten islands covering four parts and seventeen chapters, about two chapters per island (Chinese/French)
Family and Society in East Asia IslandVisit →
- East Asian Family and SocietyGuide for the English-taught course: ten islands reading Cohen's The Family through East Asian families, thirteen chapters with glossary and class surveys (Chinese/English/French)
Module
Interdisciplinary AI Learning Module跨域學習模組
Center members help design the college learning module within the university’s Digital Humanities interdisciplinary program, themed "Social Practice and Intelligent Innovation — from insight to problem-solving": students turn humanities and social-science insight into actionable data analysis, public narrative, and service prototypes.
STAGE 1 ・ Foundations (Year 1–2)
Build the AI skill base
Interdisciplinary AI applications → Introduction to Python → AI: Overview and international certification. Builds AI fundamentals and data-handling skills, with support for earning international certificates.
STAGE 2 ・ Applications (Year 2–3)
From insight to analysis
"AI and Sociology" (inequality, bias, and AI governance) and "Space, Community, and Society" (fieldwork and spatial data analysis in the Shilin community) produce verifiable insight and workable solutions.
STAGE 3 ・ Practice (Year 3–4)
Portfolio and prototype
"Cultural Landscape and Media" (digital storytelling × public communication) → "Integrated Innovation Practice" (capstone): co-creating projects with government, NGOs, and industry to deliver AI prototypes and impact assessments.
Career Pathways
| Role | Core courses | What the work involves |
|---|---|---|
| Service Designer 服務設計師 |
Integrated Innovation Practice (capstone); Interdisciplinary AI Applications | User research and service blueprints; cross-team co-creation; AI-assisted prototyping, validation, and iteration. |
| Local Revitalization PM 地方創生專案管理 |
Space, Community & Society; Cultural Landscape & Media | Mapping local resources and needs; running government projects and tenders; connecting local organizations and evaluating outcomes. |
| Exhibition Planner 策展人員 |
Cultural Landscape & Media; AI and Cyborg Feminism | Building curatorial narratives from an STS view; immersive spaces; inclusive content planning and risk review. |
| Policy & Sentiment Analyst 政策輿情數據分析師 |
Introduction to Python; AI and Sociology | Big-data cleaning and dataset building; text mining and sentiment/stance analysis; dashboards and policy-communication advice. |
| Community Specialist 社區營造專員 |
AI for Social Good; Space, Community & Society | Introducing AI social-work tools (health monitoring, smart reminders, companion tech); designing care plans for older and vulnerable groups; precise needs assessment and welfare matching. |
| Public Affairs Specialist 公共事務專員 |
AI and Sociology; AI in Criminology; Smart Policing & Digital Crime | Social-risk assessment and advocacy strategy; crisis early-warning for cyberattacks and disinformation; compliance communication on AI ethics and data privacy. |