College AI Literacy & Technical Core
University-ready sequence: evaluation methodology, technical track, and Professional AI Practice (evals that matter, org prompt systems, go/no-go memos, operator portfolio).
Unit 1
Foundations & Evaluation
Formalize learning problem types, risk, validation, and reporting.
Essential question: How do we evaluate AI systems rigorously enough to make institutional decisions?
Problem Types and Risk
60 min · 1 quiz items · 0 labs
Map tasks to supervised, unsupervised, and generative paradigms
Validation Design
65 min · 1 quiz items · 1 labs
Design train/validation/test splits and discuss leakage
Responsible Deployment & Model Cards
60 min · 1 quiz items · 1 labs
Author a professional model card section set for a case system
Unit 2
Technical Track
For CS majors/minors and advanced dual-enroll: loss, nets, eval harnesses, capstone.
Essential question: How do we go from literacy to building?
Loss, Gradients & Regularization
55 min · 1 quiz items · 1 labs
Interpret loss as a measure of error the trainer reduces
Evaluation Harness Studio
55 min · 1 quiz items · 2 labs
Design an evaluation harness with metrics, slices, and baselines
Domain Capstone: Audit + Prototype
60 min · 1 quiz items · 1 labs
Ship a small prototype with evaluation and an ethics refuse line
Unit 3
Professional AI Practice
Workplace-ready practice: evaluation harnesses, go/no-go memos, prompt systems at org scale, and refuse lines that survive contact with incentives.
Essential question: How do professionals decide when AI systems are good enough — and when to refuse?
Evals That Matter
65 min · 3 quiz items · 2 labs
Design an evaluation harness with baselines, slices, and release criteria
Organizational Prompt Systems
60 min · 2 quiz items · 2 labs
Design a reusable prompt system with evaluation hooks for a team workflow
Go / No-Go Decision Memo
65 min · 3 quiz items · 2 labs
Write a structured go / no-go / pilot memo for an AI deployment proposal
Capstone: Operator Portfolio
70 min · 2 quiz items · 1 labs
Assemble a portfolio package: playbook, eval harness, model card, and decision memo