Courses

These are our courses for the Fall 2025 semester. They will take place in September through November. See each one for details on content and location. All of them are 3 sessions over 3 weekdays.

Become an AI Engineer: Python for Beginners

Course dates: September 2025

Welcome to the first course in a series dedicated to training people from scratch to become AI Engineers.

This is a course for learning how to work with Python, a very popular programming language and widely used in the field of web development, data science and artificial intelligence. No previous experience with programming is needed.

The course will run every Saturday for every week of September. We start at 10 am and stop at 6 pm, making the course a total of 32 hours.

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Personal Finance

Course dates: September 2025

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

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Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: What’s love got to do with it?

Course dates: September 2025

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
(Oscar Wilde, Salome)

​The question of love is largely avoided and suspected in the contemporary political and philosophical terrain though once was one of the most significant philosophical concepts (Plato’s eros, Aristotle’s philia and Augustine’s caritas, Kierkegaard’s love for the other human being or the love for God); while for the field of psychoanalysis, love is the cure (Freud).

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Tolkien's Mythology

Course dates: October 2025

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

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History and Culture of Open Source

Course dates: November 2025

​​This is a 3-session course at Shoshin College.

​Open Source is a way of producing software that makes it possible to share code. It’s also so much more — a way of thinking about sharing knowledge, collaborating, and innovating together. This course draws on twenty-five years of adventures in open source, covering the political consequences of technical decisions, democratic and radical politics and how to draw on this history to challenge the current cultural and infrastructural dominance of big tech platforms.

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