Minors and Immersions
Many of RIT’s minors and immersions include courses in AI that help illustrate how broad the field is and its wide-reaching impact.
The development of strong analytical and logical reasoning and communication skills supports studies in many disciplines, including artificial intelligence applications.
Learn more about Analytic and Expressive Communication Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Business analytics is increasingly infused with applied artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques. RIT’s minor in Business Analytics includes several courses that employ AI-based resources for the collection, cleaning, and analysis of data. These include the required course, ‘Data Literacy, Analytics and Decision Making’, as well as such elective courses as ‘Supply Chain Management Fundamentals’, ‘Stock Market Algorithmic Trading’, ‘Financial Analytics’, ‘Business Intelligence’, ‘Marketing Analytics’, and ‘Search Engine Marketing and Analytics’.
Learn more about Business Analytics Minor
Offered within the Saunders College of Business
Gain a foundation in digital systems design, an understanding of computer organization, and an introduction to embedded systems programming.
Learn more about Computer Engineering Minor
Offered within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering
The Computer Science minor introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of computing, including intelligent systems like artificial intelligence. Students can tailor their elective choices to focus on specific areas within computer science, gaining a well-rounded understanding of the field.
Learn more about Computer Science Minor
Offered within the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Explores linkages between politics and technology, particularly in cyberspace, and connections that include the political implications of artificial intelligence; politics of network effects, cyberspace, and extremism; ethical implications of cyberwar, computing, and the digital space as disruptors of traditional governance; and more.
Learn more about Cyberpolitics Minor
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly being incorporated into all facets of digital business delivery. RIT’s minor in Digital Business includes several courses where emerging AI applications are considered, including ‘Digital Marketing’, ‘Marketing Analytics’, ‘Search Engine Marketing and Analytics’, and ‘Social Media Marketing’.
Learn more about Digital Business Minor
Offered within the Saunders College of Business
Digital texts and codes, including those generated by AI, are encountered every time we use a smartphone, launch an app, or interact online. This immersion explores questions and practices of text and code in literature, creative writing, and interactive media and the social, cultural, and technological significance of text, code, and their interrelations.
Learn more about Digital Literatures and Comparative Media Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Provides a foundation to explore specialized material in electrical engineering and provides students from other engineering or non-engineering disciplines an introduction to the wide-ranging content of the electrical engineering major.
Learn more about Electrical Engineering Minor
Offered within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Teaches students to identify and critically consider ethical issues on both the theoretical and applied levels, including contemporary issues related to artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Students gain insights into how ethical problems can emerge from complex social structures and learn how strategic changes in these structures can help prevent ethical dilemmas.
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Teaches students to identify and critically consider ethical issues on both the theoretical and applied levels, including contemporary issues related to artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Students gain insights into how ethical problems can emerge from complex social structures and learn how strategic changes in these structures can help prevent ethical dilemmas.
Learn more about Ethics Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Gendered notions inform the content and context of engineering, science, and technology, including applications of artificial intelligence. In this interdisciplinary set of courses students investigate and critically analyze a range of issues related to gender in its intersection with sexuality, race, class, and ethnicity within STEM fields.
Learn more about Gender and STEM Studies Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Equips students in viewing public affairs and social institutions—many of which now employ artificial intelligence—through a gendered lens, critically analyzing policies and practices that affect gender equity and social justice.
Learn more about Gender Equity, Social Institutions, and Public Affairs Minor
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Equips students in viewing public affairs and social institutions—many of which now employ artificial intelligence—through a gendered lens, critically analyzing policies and practices that affect gender equity and social justice.
Learn more about Gender Equity, Social Institutions, and Public Affairs Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
The human language technology and computational linguistics immersion provides exposure to computational linguistics, computational natural language processing, and technical linguistic analysis. This builds a foundation that is relevant to artificial intelligence development, and applicable to analytics and modeling with language data and developing, evaluating, and maintaining language technology software.
Learn more about Human Language Technology and Computational Linguistics Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
The Imaging Science Minor enables undergraduate students to develop a deeper understanding of the “imaging chain”, especially as far as intelligent systems are concerned. AI becomes especially applicable to those students who elect to focus on especially our image processing and computer vision course sequence. Students are exposed to essential programming skills and become better acquainted with AI applications in imaging.
Learn more about Imaging Science Minor
Offered within the College of Science
Focuses on the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, equipment, and energy.
Learn more about Industrial Engineering Minor
Offered within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Learn more about Innovation Minor
Offered within the School of Individualized Study
As an emerging subset of information technology, artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques represent a critical resource for MIS professionals. RIT’s minor in MIS offers multiple courses where the application of AI for business enhancement are assessed, including ‘Systems Analysis and Design’, ‘Business Intelligence’, ‘Cyber: Risk and Resilience’, and the ‘Seminar in MIS’.
Learn more about Management Information Systems (MIS) Minor
Offered within the Saunders College of Business
The Optical Science Minor enables undergraduate students to develop a deeper understanding of the “imaging chain”, with a focus in optics. AI is better embedded in our image processing and computer vision course sequence, although optics courses and associated research do embed AI as part of the analytical approaches.
Learn more about Optical Science Minor
Offered within the College of Science
The Principles of Computing immersion at RIT introduces students to computational thinking and programming skills. It includes a course on Principles of Data Science, foundational for modern artificial intelligence systems, emphasizing the pervasive impact of computing on society and culture.
Learn more about Principles of Computing Immersion
Offered within the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
The study of psychology is crucial to artificial intelligence as it provides insights into human cognition, behavior, and decision-making processes, allowing AI developers to create systems that better understand and respond to human interactions. By integrating psychological principles, AI models can enhance their ability to simulate human-like responses, improving user experience and facilitating more effective human-AI collaboration.
Learn more about Psychology Minor
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
The study of psychology is crucial to artificial intelligence as it provides insights into human cognition, behavior, and decision-making processes, allowing AI developers to create systems that better understand and respond to human interactions. By integrating psychological principles, AI models can enhance their ability to simulate human-like responses, improving user experience and facilitating more effective human-AI collaboration.
Learn more about Psychology Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Provides a foundation in the field of public policy and underscores the role of public policy on science and technology-based problems, including those related to artificial intelligence applications. Students obtain a deeper understanding of public policy and the policy making process, how policy analysis impacts policymaking, and how public policies operate within a number of specific science or technological domains.
Learn more about Public Policy Minor
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Provides a foundation in the field of public policy and underscores the role of public policy on science and technology-based problems, including those related to artificial intelligence applications. Students obtain a deeper understanding of public policy and the policy making process, how policy analysis impacts policymaking, and how public policies operate within a number of specific science or technological domains.
Learn more about Public Policy Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
AI is applied in the context of Computer Vision (CV) systems within industrial robotics. The curriculum teaches students how AI-driven CV systems are integrated into robotic applications for tasks like quality control, automation, and complex assembly processes. Through hands-on projects and labs, students gain experience in programming and optimizing CV algorithms that enable robots to interpret and interact with their environment.
Learn more about Robotics and Automation Minor
Offered within the College of Engineering Technology
Integrates studies of human society, science, and technology and bridges the humanities and social sciences for a better understanding of how science, technology, and society are mutually interacting forces in our world. Artificial intelligence is one contemporary example of the need to develop science and technology in ways that are historically, culturally, and ethically informed.
Learn more about Science, Technology, and Society Minor
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts
Integrates studies of human society, science, and technology and bridges the humanities and social sciences for a better understanding of how science, technology, and society are mutually interacting forces in our world. Artificial intelligence is one contemporary example of the need to develop science and technology in ways that are historically, culturally, and ethically informed.
Learn more about Science, Technology, and Society Immersion
Offered within the College of Liberal Arts