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This advanced, hands, on course teaches learners how to customize modern AI tools so they work precisely toward their personal goals. Students will explore prompt engineering, multimodal features, workflow design, and safe, reliable customization techniques that make AI more accurate and aligned with their intent. Each session blends demonstration with guided practice, allowing participants to build reusable templates, refine AI outputs, and integrate AI into everyday tasks. By the end of the course, learners will have created a personalized AI workflow they can confidently use beyond the classroom. The course emphasizes clarity, creativity, and ethical, responsible use of AI.
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This course explores the ethical questions raised by today’s rapidly advancing AI tools and helps learners use AI responsibly in everyday life. Participants will examine issues such as privacy, bias, misinformation, intellectual property, and the human impact of automation. Through real examples, guided discussions, and hands‑on demonstrations, students will learn how to evaluate AI outputs critically, recognize risks, and make informed decisions about when and how to use AI. The course emphasizes practical, senior‑friendly guidance that empowers learners to stay safe, confident, and thoughtful as AI becomes part of daily communication, creativity, and problem‑solving.
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Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how we work, create, and solve problems—but most people only scratch the surface. This course demystifies AI and shows how to use tools like ChatGPT in practical, real-world scenarios. Students will learn how AI actually works (at a high level), how to prompt effectively, and how to apply it across business, personal productivity, and creative projects. Each session includes live demonstrations, hands-on examples, and actionable frameworks. By the end, participants will confidently use AI to automate tasks, generate ideas, and gain a competitive edge in everyday life.
This course is designed for non-technical professionals, entrepreneurs, and curious learners who want to actually use AI—not just hear about it.
Each session builds progressively:
Week 1: AI Foundations (No Hype)
What AI is (and isn't)
How tools like ChatGPT actually work
Where people get it wrong
Week 2: Prompting & Practical Use
How to talk to AI effectively
Real examples: emails, business ideas, problem solving
Live prompt engineering exercises
Week 3: Automation & Leverage
Using AI to save hours per week
Combining tools (AI + workflows)
Real-world business and personal use cases
Week 4: Advanced Use & Future Positioning
Building lightweight AI-powered solutions
Risks, limitations, and ethical considerations
How to stay ahead as AI evolves
The class is interactive, practical, and immediately applicable.
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Bitcoin was the first of many cryptocurrencies. It’s based on some cryptographic concepts and a technology called blockchain. The first lecture will discuss what cryptocurrencies are and their possible advantages and disadvantages, using bitcoin as an example. It will describe the underlying technology in a very elementary way, and it will be a repeat of a class that the instructor gave before. The second lecture will extend this discussion to stablecoins and Ethereum, a cryptocurrency with some features that bitcoin doesn’t have. This will NOT be an investment seminar or a “how to” seminar. The instructor finds the technology and the economics of cryptocurrency to be very interesting, but he has not invested in any cryptocurrency and has no intention of doing so.
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Genealogy research online has become more popular as records are digitized and made available through Ancestry, Family Search, Find a Grave, Google, and many, many other web sites. We will look at the more popular ones to see what is available.
Online Zoom Session
- Section Code: F26FSFPER020A
- Instructor: Crystal Barth
- Dates: 10/19/2026 - 10/26/2026
- Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
- Sessions: 2
- Days: M
- Building: Online Class
- Room: Zoom
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Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of Artificial Intelligence that can create a wide variety of data, such as images, videos, audio, text, and 3D models. It does this by learning patterns from existing data, then using this knowledge to generate new and unique outputs. GenAI is capable of producing highly realistic and complex content that mimics human creativity, making it a valuable tool for many industries such as gaming, entertainment, and product design. Recent breakthroughs in the field, such as GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) and Midjourney, have significantly advanced the capabilities of GenAI.
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- Section Code: F26FSFTCM001A
- Instructor: Michele Gagne
- Dates: 9/22/2026 - 9/29/2026
- Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
- Sessions: 2
- Days: Tu
- Building: Online Class
- Room: Zoom
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This is NOT a gambling class! While we will go over the rules and restriction of three popular casino games (Blackjack, Roulette, and Craps), we will focus on the odds of certain bets within these games. Should I double down? Should I bet "behind the line"? Red or Black? It will help if you aren't afraid of talking about fractions, but we'll have "cheat sheets" to help where we can. So join us as we take a look "behind the scenes" to find out why casino games are so appealing to many people.
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Every day, millions of Americans encounter misleading headlines, doctored photos, and AI-generated fake videos online — and older adults are among the most frequent targets. In this hands-on course, you'll learn practical strategies to evaluate the credibility of news, images, and video content you encounter on social media, email, and the web. Using free, easy-to-access AI-powered tools, you'll discover how to fact-check stories in seconds, reverse-search suspicious images, and recognize the telltale signs of "deepfake" videos. No technical background required. You'll leave with a personal toolkit and the confidence to protect yourself — and help your family and friends.
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Texas Christian University