With the exception of the first two weeks of content, the course will have the following format: Mondays will focus on course projects, with project teams meeting instructors to discuss research, and Wednesdays will be the discussion day for weekly readings. The topics and schedule below are subject to modification with fair notice.

All readings can be accessed online or through Canvas.

Date Topics Readings
Week 1
1/12 & 1/14 		Course Introduction
  • No readings
Week 2
1/21 		Social Intelligence and Competence, Part 1
Week 3
1/26 & 1/28 		Social Intelligence and Competence, Part 2
Will be posted
Week 4
2/2 & 2/4 		Emotional Intelligence
Will be posted
Week 5
2/9 & 2/11 		Social Cognition and Social Interactions
Will be posted
Week 6
2/16 & 2/18 		Evaluation and Measurement of Social Constructs
Will be posted
Week 7
2/23 & 2/25 		Social Knowledge and Modeling Benchmarks
Will be posted
Week 8
No Classes 		No classes – Spring break
Will be posted
Week 9
3/9 & 3/11 		Social Simulation and World Models
Will be posted
Week 10
3/16 & 3/18 		Modeling Social Understanding and Reasoning
Will be posted
Week 11
3/23 & 3/25 		Text-Based Dialogue Agents
Will be posted
Week 12
3/30 & 4/1 		Multimodal Virtual Agents
Will be posted
Week 13
4/6 & 4/8 		Social Robots
Will be posted
Week 14
4/13 & 4/15 		Ethics and Societal Impacts
Will be posted
Week 15
4/20 & 4/22 		Project Presentations
Will be posted