Artificial Intelligence
Applied AI for Your Field — Campus Program
One semester. Transform your professional practice with AI — for university credit.
About this course
A 24-week, 200-hour Campus Program delivered with your university, credit-bearing, and open to every faculty outside engineering. Weave teaches 160 hours online and 24×7 and adapts every project to your discipline; IIT professors and industry experts teach the live 20%, with two on-campus classes. Fourteen modules ending in a domain capstone defended before a panel. Enrolment is through your institution.
What you'll learn
- Research, analyse, automate, evaluate, and orchestrate AI inside your profession
- Ship two major projects and two live systems grounded in real documents
- Produce a governance pack that would survive a compliance review
- Defend a capstone before IIT faculty, an industry expert, and an external judge
Course content
24 weeks · 200 hours · 144 lessons · 55 videos · 24 guided project activities · 13 quizzes · 24 projects
AI Foundations and Responsible AI
What these systems actually do12 min
Where AI helps and where it must not decide14 min
Break the model using your own field60 min
Privacy audit of your daily work60 min
Charter and domain risk register60 min
Foundations check34 min
Domain risk casework180 min
Read your profession's actual rules150 min
Written responsible-use standard150 min
Prompt Engineering and Reliable AI Systems
From one prompt to a reusable system14 min
Getting output in a shape you can use14 min
Building verification into the prompt12 min
Context engineering: what you give it, and when16 min
Build a five-prompt pack90 min
Adversarial pass on your own pack90 min
Mini-build 1: professional prompt system120 min
Prompt systems check20 min
Adversarial exchange with a partner150 min
Privacy and data-handling casework150 min
Work a long document inside a fixed budget100 min
Second prompt system, different task class184 min
AI Research, Search and Verification
How AI search tools find things14 min
Spotting fabricated citations in seconds14 min
Building a verification chain12 min
Synthesis without distortion12 min
Run a real research question80 min
Source-conflict lab80 min
Mini-build 2: cited research brief and verification log188 min
Research and verification check20 min
Multi-source conflict resolution180 min
Research brief to publication standard240 min
Data Literacy and AI-Assisted Analysis
Reading data honestly14 min
Letting AI analyse without inventing numbers14 min
Charts that inform and charts that mislead12 min
From analysis to a one-page insight memo12 min
Analyse a real dataset from your field80 min
Catch the lie80 min
Mini-build 3: analysis, chart and insight memo188 min
Data literacy check20 min
Survey design and its failure modes16 min
A second dataset, a different source type164 min
Build a dashboard someone else will read150 min
Analysis portfolio piece210 min
No-Code AI Workflows and Automation
Map the workflow before automating it14 min
Triggers, steps, and approvals14 min
Designing the human checkpoint12 min
Map one real workflow end to end80 min
Feed it bad input deliberately70 min
Live automated workflow150 min
Automation check20 min
Document processing at volume16 min
Process 200 real documents164 min
Design a multi-step approval chain150 min
Automation running at real volume150 min
RAG and Domain Knowledge Assistants
Why a general chatbot cannot answer about your organisation16 min
Preparing a document set16 min
Citations and refusal14 min
Testing before anyone relies on it14 min
Build an assistant over your own documents80 min
Force a refusal80 min
Redaction pass70 min
Major project: grounded domain assistant170 min
Knowledge assistants check20 min
Multiple document sets in one assistant16 min
When a document tells your assistant what to do16 min
Reliability testing at volume, including your own language150 min
Plant a bad instruction, then defend against it100 min
Major project 1: deployed domain assistant198 min
AI Agents and Multi-Step Workflows
What an agent is, without the hype14 min
Escalation design14 min
Supervising work you did not do yourself12 min
Decompose a multi-day professional task80 min
Build it and trigger the escalation70 min
Multi-step agent workflow150 min
Agents check20 min
Agents across multi-week processes16 min
Memory, handover, and the long process16 min
Run an agent over a real multi-week process170 min
Escalation rehearsal140 min
Supervised workflow pack258 min
Generative and Multimodal AI
What is usable professionally and what is not14 min
Document and image understanding14 min
Disclosure, rights, and likeness12 min
Extract structured data from real documents70 min
Produce one professional multimodal artefact70 min
Multimodal artefact for a real audience100 min
Multimodal check20 min
Document understanding at volume180 min
Second multimodal artefact240 min
AI for Domain Practice
How AI is actually changing professional practice16 min
Reading your profession's rules on AI16 min
Working with material you cannot share14 min
Map every recurring task in your field150 min
Build the highest-value assistant you identified150 min
Stress-test with the hardest real cases130 min
Peer-review exchange120 min
Major project 2: domain practice system330 min
Domain practice check34 min
AI for Decision Support and Problem Solving
Framing a problem so it can be answered16 min
Scenario analysis without laundering guesses16 min
Decision matrices and sensitivity14 min
Writing a recommendation that survives challenge14 min
Frame one real decision three ways130 min
Build the matrix and run sensitivity130 min
Adversarial review of your recommendation110 min
Decision-support pack250 min
Decision support check40 min
AI Evaluation, Risk and Governance
Writing a quality rubric someone else could apply16 min
Hallucination and bias audits14 min
Privacy, consent, and record-keeping14 min
Apply your rubric to 20 outputs80 min
Rate twenty of your own outputs by hand90 min
Run the bias and hallucination audit80 min
Quality rubric and audit report136 min
Governance check20 min
Running a privacy assessment16 min
Retention policy and accountability map130 min
Full governance pack124 min
AI Product Thinking and Workflow Redesign
Where AI creates value and where it creates work16 min
Prototyping fast enough to be wrong cheaply16 min
Feasibility: cost, data, integration, appetite14 min
Why most internal AI tools die in month two14 min
Run an opportunity scan across your department120 min
Prototype the top opportunity in one sitting120 min
Write the implementation plan90 min
The task AI should not touch90 min
Workflow redesign pack200 min
Product thinking check40 min
Professional Portfolio and Career AI
Turning six months of work into evidence16 min
Writing about technical work for a non-technical reader14 min
Presenting: structure, demo discipline, hard questions14 min
Interview preparation with AI, without sounding generated14 min
Build the portfolio site120 min
Record the flagship video demo110 min
Mock interview cycle110 min
Portfolio live, CV variants generated302 min
Portfolio and career check20 min
Capstone: Build, Validate and Present
What a defensible domain capstone looks like18 min
Validation with real users16 min
The risk section every capstone must contain14 min
Validate with at least three real users180 min
Defence rehearsal with an adversarial panel150 min
Capstone build600 min
Defence pack and live defence222 min