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Course Outline · 2026

AI Literacy for Professionals.

Ten two-hour lessons designed to take you from AI novice to confident, careful professional user — with verification built into every task.

Duration 20 hours total
Sessions 10 × 2 hours
Level Beginner to Confident
Prerequisites Basic computer skills
Course Overview

Confidence that doesn't come from trust — it comes from verification.

Most AI training teaches people how to get AI to produce something. This course goes further: it teaches you when to use AI, how to check what it gives you, and when not to trust it. That's the difference between AI dependency and AI judgment.

No coding is required. You only need basic computer literacy — email, documents, and web browsing. The course is built for adults from varied educational backgrounds, with administrative staff, office teams, and HR professionals as the primary audience, though it works equally well for individual professionals and small business owners.

The Ten Lessons

Every lesson ties to real workplace tasks.

Each two-hour session introduces concepts, walks through real examples, and ends with a lesson-specific verification checkpoint you'll apply immediately.

01

Foundations: How Generative AI Works

Pattern-matching vs. understanding. What AI does well, what it can't do, and why it sometimes sounds certain while being wrong. Sets the mental model for everything that follows.

02

Structured Prompting

A consistent framework — role, goal, specific details, rules and constraints — applied across different task types. The one pattern you'll reuse for the rest of your career.

03

Professional Writing with AI

Sharpen emails, letters, and announcements for clarity, tone, concision, and correctness — while keeping human judgment and your authentic voice.

04

Unstructured to Structured

Convert meeting notes, photos, and voice memos into accurate structured outputs. The No-New-Facts rule and how to verify AI has not quietly invented details.

05

Privacy & Responsible Use

Data classification, redaction, and bias recognition. The Four Checks framework — a discipline you will apply to every AI output afterward.

06

AI with Spreadsheets

Excel and Google Sheets. Use AI to clean data, generate formulas, and create visualizations — with manual verification as a required step, not an afterthought.

07

Summarizing Documents

Extract themes, risks, and action items using structured prompts. Learn how to critically assess AI summaries for completeness, omissions, and misemphasis.

08

Grounded Research & Briefs

Use research-grade AI tools to produce short, traceable briefs with cited sources, uncertainty notes, and explicit next-step questions.

09

Visuals & Presentations

Produce AI-assisted images, slides, and visual outputs responsibly — with awareness of copyright, intellectual property, and cultural or professional appropriation.

10

AI as a Second Opinion

High-stakes text — policies, contract-like documents. Use AI to identify questions, ambiguities, and risks without ever treating it as the authority.

Learning Outcomes

By the end, you will be able to:

CLO 1

Explain how generative AI works

Finding patterns in training data to produce probable outputs — and what it does not do (understand meaning, exercise judgment, or recognize its own errors).

CLO 2

Write structured prompts

Use a consistent framework — role, goal, specific details, rules and constraints — adapted across different task types.

CLO 3

Improve everyday professional writing

Emails, letters, announcements — for clarity, tone, concision, and correctness while maintaining human judgment and voice.

CLO 4

Convert unstructured inputs accurately

Meeting notes, photos, voice memos into structured outputs, applying the No-New-Facts rule and verifying everything.

CLO 5

Apply privacy and responsible-use practices

Data classification, redaction, bias recognition, and The Four Checks framework — throughout all AI-assisted work.

CLO 6

Use AI with spreadsheets

Excel and Google Sheets compatible. Clean data, generate formulas, and produce visualizations — with manual verification.

CLO 7

Summarize and extract meaning

Themes, risks, action items from documents — using structured prompts and critically assessing AI summaries.

CLO 8

Use grounded research tools

Produce short, traceable briefs that include cited sources, uncertainty notes, and clear next-step questions.

CLO 9

Produce AI-assisted visuals responsibly

Images, slides, and presentations — with awareness of copyright, intellectual property, and cultural appropriation.

CLO 10

Use AI as a second opinion

On high-stakes text — policies and contract-like documents. Identify questions, ambiguities, and risks without AI as authority.

CLO 11

Verify AI outputs consistently

Across all task types — by applying lesson-specific verification checkpoints and a personal verification checklist.

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Build your AI judgment.

Twenty hours that will change how you work — and how you decide what to trust.