AI Fluency (Undergraduate Certificate)
Bring AI into your degree—and turn new capabilities into an advantage in your chosen field.
Make AI a Powerful Part of Your Skill Set
Build practical AI skills that strengthen how you communicate, analyze information, solve problems, and work across disciplines.
Understand how AI works, choose tools with confidence, and use them to accelerate writing, quantitative analysis, and coding. Learn to test results, explain your reasoning, and bring your own expertise to every AI-assisted task.
Program Overview
The nine-credit undergraduate AI Fluency certificate brings together AI foundations, communication, and computational mathematics and coding. Designed to complement your major, it gives you a practical foundation for applying emerging technology to the questions that matter in your field.
Explore how to select AI tools, collaborate with large language models, verify their outputs, and use computational approaches to strengthen your work. From scientific data to technical communication, you’ll develop the skills to turn AI capability into useful, well-supported results.
What You’ll Learn:
- Understand AI foundations, model types, capabilities, limitations, and tool selection.
- Use AI as a creative and analytical partner to explore ideas and refine your work.
- Develop context-engineering and large language model skills, including critical evaluation of outputs.
- Verify factual claims, calculations, code, citations, and other AI-generated material.
- Communicate clearly and responsibly while retaining authorship and accountability.
- Apply AI to computational mathematics and coding while strengthening mathematical understanding and critical AI literacy.
Career Opportunities
Bring AI fluency to careers across science, engineering, design, business, communication, and other fields. Your primary major supplies the expertise; this certificate adds tools for analyzing information, improving workflows, and communicating results.
Explore roles that combine your disciplinary knowledge with analytical, technical, or project-based work. Career opportunities depend on your broader education and experience.
- Data Analyst
- Technical Communication Specialist
- AI-Enabled Project Coordinator
Career context: Explore related occupational information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The nine-credit certificate consists of three required courses. Course scheduling, prerequisites, and applicability to other degree requirements should be confirmed with an academic adviser.
Add this certificate to your undergraduate studies and work with your academic adviser to confirm eligibility, course choices, and how the credential fits your degree. Prospective non-degree students should contact Undergraduate Admission about enrollment options.
Review the Undergraduate Admission requirements and contact the appropriate academic adviser or admissions office for current certificate eligibility and enrollment options.
Tuition and Fees
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Review current costs and financial aid, and explore the undergraduate net price calculator.