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Below you can use the filters to explore a selection of new courses, general education offerings, special topics, emerging technology topics (IST and DS 402), and condensed courses.
While this page does not include every course offered by the College of IST, it highlights some new and useful courses that may be of interest. Students looking for a full list of course offerings should use LionPATH class search, refer to the course bulletin, or contact an academic adviser.
Students may email advising@ist.psu.edu to request a seat in a course outside their level: undergraduate students for graduate courses, and graduate students for undergraduate courses.
A-I 100: Artificial Intelligence: Automated Thinking to Augment Human Intellect
A-I 285: Experiential Learning Skills Lab
A-I 341W-001: Responsible Artificial Intelligence
A-I 370-001: Problem Formulation and Automated Problem Solving
A-I 375-001: Knowledge Representation and Inference
Course Number TBD: Course Number TBD: Collaborative Capstone through the Learning Factory
CYBER 497-001: Adversarial Machine Learning
DS 120: Scripting for Data Sciences
DS 200: Introduction to Data Sciences
DS 402-001: Mathematical Structure of Intelligence
DS 402-001: TBD
DS 402-002: Influential Work in AI (1997 - 2027)
DS 402-002: Mining Large and Complex Data
DS 402-003: Agentic Data Science: Autonomous Workflows, Tool Use, and Human-in-the-Loop Systems
ETI 200-001: Designing AI for the Enterprise
ETI 497-001: TBD (Learning Factory)
HCDD 115-001: Foundations of Human Centered Artificial Intelligence
IEC 320W-001: Information and Ethics
IST 110: Information, People and Technology
IST 130: Emerging Technologies in Popular Culture
IST 197-001: Introduction to Undergraduate Research
IST 197-001: Technical Vocabulary for Information Sciences and Technology
IST 234N: Digital Cultures
IST 235-001: Gender and the Global Information Technology Sector
IST 402-001: Assembled Web (AW)
IST 402-001: TBD
IST 402-002: Anticipating the Future in Information Technology (FIT)
IST 402-002: Prototyping for User Experience
IST 402-002: TBD
IST 402-003: TBD
IST 402-003: Vibe Coding: Building Applications with Natural Language
IST 402-004: Privacy in a Digitally Saturated World
IST 402-004: TBD
IST 402: Cloud Computing (CC)
IST 402: Health Information Technology (HIT)
IST 597-001: AI-enhanced Virtual and Augmented Reality
IST 597-002: Advances in Generative AI and Applications
IST 597-003: Secure and Efficient Inference for LLMs & Agents
IST 597-004: AI Agent Systems in the Age of Foundation Models
IST 597-005: Algorithmic Fairness and Mechanism Design
