Africa’s Languages and AI
AFRAMER 122Y
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Description
How can Africa’s languages shape AI? This seminar explores language, knowledge, and technological
invention through oral and written encounters, archives, and guided AI experiments. Students
investigate the “low-resource” label; examine translation, speech, and tokenization; and study
African AI production, public uses, markets, and ownership. Weekly Language Dome discussions
connect evidence with questions of participation and possibility. No prior coding experience or
knowledge of an African language is required.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
African & African Amer Studies
Course Component
Seminar
Subject
African & African Amer Studies
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
