JOUR389X

edu). Some prior exposure to at least one programming or scripting language, like Python,R or JavaScript, is recommended. If you lack that, completing a few introductory, online programming tutorials assigned by the instructor before the semester starts is strongly recommended. A project-based skills course that teaches students to use cutting-edge investigative techniques that employ artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative language models or computational analysis of open source intelligence data sources, like near-real-time satellite imagery,global flight and shipping data, repositories of millions of leaked digital documents and massive collections of video files. Students will learn how leading news organizations, OSINT researchers, human rights groups and academic researchers are pioneering advanced methods to tell important stories about, for example, secret Chinese prison camps, networks of global shell companies shielding the ultra-wealthy from taxes, uncapped oil wells leaking climate-heating methane into the atmosphere, etc.