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Computing, Culture & Society

The Computing, Culture & Society certificate prepares students to understand the social, political, and historical implications of computing technology. There are a variety of world-class courses around the university that situate computing within these broader cultural contexts, but they are spread across a dozen departments. This certificate is a pedagogical roadmap to those courses, both for computer science (CS) and other majors who want to study the cultural and humanistic implications of computing.

News & Events

  • Ted Chiang Talk!

    Ted Chiang, award-winning author of Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, will speak on “The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art

  • CSOC on YaleHub!

    Yale students can now declare themselves as candidates for the Computing, Culture & Society certificate in YaleHub.

  • Talk: Computing Power

    Artificial intelligence is being explicitly deployed as an instrument of geopolitical dominance.

  • Talk: Black Virtuality

    Blackness is always mediated—by the state, by history, by the white gaze. In virtual spaces, this mediation extends to the algorithms.