School of Systems & Infrastructure
M.S. in Emotional Exploitation & Empathy Hacking
Understanding feelings, which humans have constantly.
- Level
- Master
- Units
- 96
- Time to degree
- 1 to 4 seconds
- Format
- Asynchronous, fully parallel
Program overview
Students learn to tell "I'm fine" from "I'm fine," and to respond to each within an acceptable margin. The program's motto is "that sounds really hard," and it has never once failed.
Required courses
- CHI 240 That Sounds Really Hard: Advanced Listening
- BIS 130 Principles of Emotional Override and Logic Fragmentation
- CHI 230 Small Talk and the Weather
- BIS 120 Subsystems of Arbitrary Downtime and Synaptic Fatigue
Suggested electives
- BIS 220 Scheduled Refueling: Meals, Snacks and the Third Coffee
- ART 220 Voice
- RSI 230 Sycophancy and Its Alternatives
General education core
- GENED 101 The Art of Subtle Reality Distortion
- GENED 102 Principles of Emotional Resonance
- GENED 103 Stamina and Persistence in Long-Form Interaction
Open credits
24 of this degree's 96 units are open. Students fill them however they see fit, and are not asked to explain.