This course develops critical reading and writing skills for Computing, Design, and Technology fields. Students will learn to adapt their writing for different audiences and purposes, adhering to disciplinary conventions. The curriculum covers expository and academic writing, professional communication, source selection, and effective communication with diverse audiences.
Major Coursework
For this class, I wrote two major papers.
Industry Analysis
This paper explores the broader enterprise software market and then focuses on the specific example of Palantir, examining key players, its history, and its products. The second part of the paper explores my personal career trajectory and ambitions.
Ethical Argument
For this paper, I explored the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) from the perspective of two stakeholders, a soldier (pro-LAWS) and a protester (anti-LAWS), relating their positions to some well-known ethical frameworks and influential thinkers.