Student home · Fall semester

Start with the work in front of you.

Learn how AI works, use it with judgment, build practical projects, and explain the decisions behind your work.

Designed and developed by Dr. Weihao Qu.

Fourteen chapters, all open from day one. One clear path from understanding AI to defending a finished project.

Begin here · Week

Introduction to AI-Assisted Creation

Course Map + What Is an LLM? Meet the course, build a useful mental model, and practice checking confident claims.

Two 80-minute classes No prerequisite Optional, ungraded homework

Start Topic 1

Course chapters

All fourteen weeks are open. Start at Topic 1 and work forward, or go straight to the week your instructor assigns — each chapter holds that week’s lesson, activities, and student directions.

Phase 1

Understand

Topics 01–03

Phase 2

Use

Topics 04–06

Phase 3

Build

Topics 07–10

Phase 4

Defend

Topics 11–14

Daniel-John C. Diala

Teaching Assistant

Office hours: Thursday 4:30–6:00 p.m.Friday 12:00–2:30 p.m.
Where to find him: CSSE tutoring room, upstairs next to the cybersecurity officeor inside the cybersecurity office

Outside those hours, you are still welcome to ask him for help if you run into him and he is free.

Looking for dates, grading, and policy?

Every chapter here holds the lesson and its materials. The syllabus carries the schedule, grading breakdown, and course policy; eCampus announces each deadline.

Open the syllabus (PDF)