Assignment Case Studies

Twice this term students will sit for a 20 minute, 1-1 conversation about 1/2 the course material, and receive a grade and feedback.

Students use NotebookLM to generate audio and video overviews on a venture capital topic generated from class readings and outside research.

Students submit traditional written essays & defend/explain them orally in individual meetings with the instructor

Students chat with a custom AI chatbot about their completed essay, then write a 1pg reflection on what they learned.

Students practice writing abstracts of their research papers with and without AI

Students used Speakology AI for spontaneous oral Arabic practice. They used active learning to reflect on their growth versus human communication.

Students annotate code, write a prompt precise enough for AI to regenerate it, then compare; gaps in the output reveal gaps in understanding.

Design an AI experiment, reflect on human-AI collaboration, and compose a personal philosophy of AI use.

Prompt LLMs to generate survey responses as if they were different kinds of people, then compare these data to responses by actual people.

An exploration of LLM word embeddings and text analysis using python notebooks

Students prompt ChatGPT to write a paper they’ve already written, then we reflect in class on LLMs’ possibilities and limitations

Students explore different prompting techniques with large language models (LLMs) to label and extract information from text in a dataset.