Teaching

I teach courses on artificial intelligence, natural language processing, digital humanities, and data sciences at the intersection of computation and communication. Prospective graduate students should contact me directly.

Courses

• AI in Action: Build and Apply
  Hands-on introduction to AI applications across industries, with case studies in media, journalism, cybersecurity, marketing, finance, and healthcare.
• GEN/AI and NLP for Media Innovation
  Generative AI and NLP applied to media innovation, with emphasis on Arabic content and responsible deployment.
• Intro to Social Computing
  Computational approaches for studying social behavior, online communities, and digital platforms.
• Data Sciences and Text Analytics
  Data science fundamentals and text analytics for communication research, including Arabic text processing.
• Methods in Digital Humanities
  Research methods and applied projects in digital humanities, covering text analysis, corpus-based approaches, and digital curation.
• Coding for Humanities
  Programming fundamentals applied to humanities research, including Python, data wrangling, and reproducible analysis.
• Digital Communication and Media
  Digital communication theory and methods with applications to Arabic and global media.
• Emerging Technologies and Applications
  Survey of emerging digital technologies, AI systems, and their applications to research and practice.
• Doctoral Pro Seminar in Digital Humanities
  Doctoral seminar on digital humanities scholarship, research design, and methodological foundations.

Graduate Supervision

I welcome applications from prospective MA and PhD students interested in Arabic NLP, large language models, digital humanities, or computational social science. Interested candidates should send a CV and research proposal to wajdi.zaghouani@northwestern.edu.