AI Literacy Essentials: Prompting for Practical Applications

This course offers a focused exploration of prompting and iteration strategies for generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot. Through collaborative, hands-on activities and interactive exercises, participants will learn to write clear, effective prompts, apply refinement techniques such as prompt chaining, and assess AI-generated outputs for accuracy and relevance to achieve more reliable and useful results in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. This course is an elective that counts toward receiving a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program (https://ai.sfsu.edu/start-your-ai-journey).