Artificial Intelligence Practitioner

INTRODUCTION

This Technical Certificate in Artificial Intelligence Practitioner provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Information Technology career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Information Technology career cluster. The content includes but is not limited to technical knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and their real-world applications for data management, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. Addional content includes ethics as relevant to the design implementation of artificial intelligence.

NOTE: NEW PROGRAM PENDING SACS APPROVAL

Certificate Requirements

Required Courses

CAI 1001C – Artificial Intelligence (AI) Thinking Semester Hours: 3 credit hours
COP 1510 – Programming Concepts Semester Hours: 3 credit hours
CTS 2433 – Database Development and Management Semester Hours: 3 credit hours
CAI 2100C – Machine Learning Foundations Semester Hours: 3 credit hours
CAI 2300C – Introduction to Natural Language Processing Semester Hours: 3 credit hours
CAI 2840C – Introduction to Computer Vision Semester Hours: 3 credit hours
Total Credit Hours: 18