Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence 7.5 credits

About the course

The course offers a broad introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its historical development from a Computing Science and technical perspective. The course focuses on the interaction between human and AI technology. It is aimed at students who want to understand how AI technologies actually work and what their fundamental limitations are.

Module 1, theory, 5.5 credits. The module provides a broad introduction to classical Artificial Intelligence (AI) and non-classical AI and their historical development. It addresses fundamental conditions, problems, and challenges for AI also from a philosophical and a human-centered perspective. Taking as a starting point human cognition, communication, and embodied action, the corresponding artificial intelligence methods, techniques, and their theoretical grounds are introduced. The purposes of AI techniques range from artificially perceiving the physical and social environment, classifying objects, learning from small and large sets of data, reasoning with contradictory information, making decisions, explaining the grounds for conclusions to a human or other AI systems and predicting the consequences of actions and decisions made by oneself as well as by others. The social and humanistic aspects of AI will be introduced. For instance, in artificial social intelligence manifested in interaction with humans, human values such as transparency, trust, fairness, and how biases are embedded and reinforced become important.

Module 2, pratice, 2 credits. In Module 2 some of the theories, methods and principles treated in Module 1 are illustrated and applied. This module consists of a set of mandatory assignments where the students will advance their understanding and skills in the practical application of AI methods while applying and advancing also their programming skills.

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Autumn 2025
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
  
  Autumn 2025 / Umeå / English / On site
  
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  Starts
  1 September 2025
  
  Ends
  2 November 2025
  
  Number of credits
  7.5 credits
  
  Type of studies
  On site
  
  Study pace
  50%
  
  Teaching hours
  Daytime
  
  Study location
  Umeå
  
  Language
  English
  
  Application code
  UMU-57232
  
  Eligibility At least 7.5 ECTS programming and 7.5 ECTS data structures and algorithms.
  
  Selection
  Academic credits
  
  Application
  Application deadline was 15 April 2025. The application period is closed.
  
  Application and tuition fees
  As a citizen of a country outside the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees for studies at Umeå University.
  
  Application fee: SEK 900
  
  Tuition fee, first instalment: SEK 19,038
  
  Total fee: SEK 19,038
  
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