Courses
Dr. Nathan C. Walker is an undergraduate and graduate instructor and curriculum developer for the following courses in Rutgers Honors College, the Department of Philosophy and Religion, the Digital Studies program, and for the graduate programs in Emerging Media, Computer Science, and Data Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-Camden.
AI Ethics & Law is a graduate seminar, also offered as a graduate course, that examines the multinational, national, and corporate regulatory systems that seek to govern the artificial intelligence movement.
AI & Society explores how AI systems that seek to emulate human learning, reasoning, self-correction, and perception influence humanity, societies, and the natural world.
AI & Vulnerable Populations applies what the United Nations calls a “vulnerability lens” to evaluate artificial intelligence’s impact on children, women, racial and ethnic minorities, and other vulnerable populations.
Experiential Learning Honors Seminar provides professional development opportunities for Teaching Assistants in my courses.
Happiness explores evidence-based approaches to human flourishing and well-being.
Independent Studies provides supervised research for undergraduates to explore a topic of their choice.
Religion & Culture, a course built in partnership with CBS News, examines contemporary expressions of religion and spirituality in American society in five sectors: arts, education, families, media, and the environment.
Religion & Health explores American religious communities’ response to the pandemic and the impact of religion and health in American public schools and hospitals.
Religion & Human Rights examines the origins, developments, effects, and critiques of four international legal frameworks: freedom of, for, from, and within religion.
Religion & Law explores the history of religious liberty in the five eras: Colonizing America, Constituting America, Reconstructing America, Incorporating America, and Diversifying America.
Truth, Justice, & Reconciliation explores restorative justice models worldwide that were formed in response to political unrest, racial segregation, war, and genocide.