UNIV 182: AI for All: Understanding and Building Artificial Intelligence

Introduces artificial intelligence (AI) to undergraduate students across the university, regardless of major. No prior computational, engineering, or quantitative background is required. Students with a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds and interests are encouraged. Offers an introduction to AI, guiding students through its foundations, applications, and societal impacts. Hands-on activities will enable students to analyze, apply, and create AI using intuitive, non-coding platforms, from neural networks to state-of-the-art language and foundation models. Through assignments, projects, role-based debates, discussions, critical analysis, students will examine AI’s impact across diverse sectors such as healthcare, policy, climate, arts, more, while addressing ethical and societal implications. By the end of the course, students will gain both theoretical and practical AI literacy, empowering them to succeed in their chosen discipline and impact our digital society responsibly. Offered by Provost's Office. Limited to three attempts.