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Root number
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525602 |
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Semester
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HS2026 |
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Type of course
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Exercise |
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Allocation to subject
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Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies |
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Type of exam
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AI Lab for SACS Students |
| Description |
This course is a hands-on lab for exploring, experimenting with, and critically evaluating AI tools in the context of the study programs at SACS.
The lab combines practical tool literacy with disciplinary reflection: How can AI support qualitative research, fieldwork analysis, and academic writing—and where does it fall short?
The course responds directly to student needs identified in a 2025 SACS survey and the workshop “Let’s Talk AI” with the students: uncertainty about what is permitted, the need for better prompting skills, concerns about ecological costs, and the desire for transparent, critical engagement with AI as a research tool rather than a shortcut.
The lab alternates between tool exploration and open experimentation. Depending on their study program, students work with concrete research scenarios: coding interview transcripts, navigating multilingual sources, structuring literature reviews, or producing audio-based outputs.
A core principle runs throughout the course: AI is as a tool, not a replacement for thinking.
Two transversal threads run through every session:
1. Ethics, ecology, and politics: each session includes a dedicated 10–15 minute segment anchoring ethical questions to the specific tool or method of the day (data sovereignty when using cloud transcription; bias in training data when summarising sources; environmental cost of large-scale API calls; etc.). These threads converge in two dedicated specific sessions later in the course.
2. Output evaluation as methodology: from session 2 onward, students learn to systematically assess hallucinations, transcription errors, translation drift, fabricated references, and other failure modes.
Teaching may include guest sessions with external experts on specific tools and applications. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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| Lecturers |
Mohamed Kamel Ilyes Mechentel, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO) ✉
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Anna Maria Ritz, Unit Social Anthropology - Media Anthropology ✉
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Prof. Dr.
Serena Tolino, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO) ✉
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ECTS
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5 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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passed/failed |
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| Dates |
Tuesday 14:15-16:00 Weekly
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