Syllabus
AI 1010, foundationalAI 1010: AI Foundations
Fall Semester 2026
Course description
A foundational AI literacy course for colleagues with little or no prior AI experience. It has no prerequisites, and it builds the skills that matter in a working day: prompting that gets a useful answer, judgement about where AI is unreliable, and safe use of the internal tools Amadeus has approved.
- Prerequisites
- None. This course is open to anyone.
- Assumed knowledge
- Foundational — assumes no prior AI knowledge.
- Sessions
- 5 sessions of 60 minutes, each delivered twice — once per hemisphere — and recorded.
Course outcomes and objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Write prompts that get a useful answer, and recognise when a prompt is the problem
- Judge where an AI answer is likely to be wrong, and what to check before relying on it
- Use the approved internal AI tools safely, and know what must not be put into them
How this course runs
This course assumes nothing. It is for anyone who has not used AI at work, or has tried it once and found it unconvincing, and it is built around the things a colleague actually does in a day rather than around how the technology works underneath.
Sessions run fortnightly, so there is a fortnight between each one to try what was covered on your own work. That is the intended way to take the course: the practice between sessions is where the fluency comes from, not the hour itself.
Every session is recorded and published afterwards with its notes, so a session you cannot attend at either sitting is still a session you can take in full.
Office hours run weekly and are the place to bring anything from this course that did not land — Mondays for the USA and Colombia, Tuesdays for the Philippines. There is no expectation that you arrive with a question prepared.
Course requirements
The requirements for this course have not been published yet.
Required and recommended readings
No readings have been set for this course. Material published for the course as a whole is listed on the course page, and each session carries its own handouts.
Grading scale
The grading scale for this course has not been published yet.
University policies
The institutional policies that apply to this course have not been linked yet.
Preliminary course schedule
One row per session, dated by its western sitting. Every session is delivered twice, and the session page carries both sitting times with their time zones.
| Date | Topic / discussion | Due dates |
|---|---|---|
| PLACEHOLDER(program) — topic of session 1 | Nothing due | |
| PLACEHOLDER(program) — topic of session 2 | Nothing due | |
| PLACEHOLDER(program) — topic of session 3 | Nothing due | |
| PLACEHOLDER(program) — topic of session 4 | Nothing due | |
| PLACEHOLDER(program) — topic of session 5 | Nothing due |