A one-credit artificial intelligence course for a general audience

  • Authors:
  • Michael Black

  • Affiliations:
  • American University

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In order to expose more students to computer science, we developed "Artificial Intelligence", a one-credit course intended for non-computer science majors. The course seeks to give students a taste of various technical topics in AI, ranging from expert systems to neural networks, without requiring any programming or mathematics background. The course uses a mixture of hands-on exercises and software demonstrations to illustrate the principles behind AI. Despite the technical subject matter, students from a variety of majors reported that they found the course both accessible and interesting.