Artificial Intelligence Foundations
Build on your foundation in AI to tackle advanced machine learning and large language models.
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Build on your foundation in AI
Career training and instruction from experienced AI specialists
This 12-week program takes you past the basics of data science and AI and throws you into creating your own AI models. Guided by an industry expert, you'll advanced machine learning, large language models, natural language processing, and neural networks and complete the program with a portfolio of original, industry-level projects.
The Charlotte x Flatiron School difference:
Be mentored by a world-class AI specialist
Small group classes (max 5 students)
100% online programs
In this foundations program, you'll delve deep into the world of AI - creating your own AI models and utilizing data science methodologies to derive data-driven insights. We know that sounds fast, but you'll have lots of support! A dedicated industry mentor will be there the entire 12 weeks to guide you, provide direct feedback, and help you gain speed and confidence with industry software, techniques and best practices, and continue you along your AI learning journey.
Upon completion of this program, you'll be able to move on to Artificial Intelligence Capstone
Program prerequisites: Artificial Intelligence Essentials
Curriculum
Industry-approved curriculum to support your journey into data and AI
Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn - 3 weeks
This course covers both supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. You'll learn about distance metrics and k-Nearest Neighbors for classification, recommender systems using SVD, clustering techniques like k-means, and dimensionality reduction with PCA. The course concludes with a project where you'll build and demonstrate both a supervised (k-Nearest Neighbors) and an unsupervised (k-means) learning model, showcasing your skills in classification and clustering tasks.
What you'll learn:
- Utilize foundational machine learning modeling like decision trees and supervised learning
- Prepare data for machine learning modeling with preprocessing (feature extraction) and normalization
- Integrate mathematics, statistics, and probability for data science methodologies to derive insights
Natural Language Processing, Time Series and Neural Networks - 3 weeks
This course teaches skills to build advanced models, focusing on natural language processing (NLP) with techniques like text classification and vectorization, time series analysis for managing and visualizing trends, and neural networks using Keras. The course culminates in a project where you'll build and showcase three models: a language model, a time series model, and a basic neural network.
What you'll learn:
- Develop insights from language, time, and image data using neural networks and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Integrate mathematics, statistics, and probability for data science methodologies to derive insights
Neural Networks and Similar Models - 3 weeks
This course builds on neural network fundamentals, teaching optimization techniques like normalization and regularization. You'll explore Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image classification, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for forecasting and sequence data, and advanced models like transformers and BERT. The course concludes with a project where you'll demonstrate your expertise by building an advanced neural network application.
What you'll learn:
- Create an advanced neural network application
- Integrate mathematics, statistics, and probability for data science methodologies to derive insights
Large Language Models - 3 weeks
This course covers large language models (LLMs) and their practical applications. You'll learn to extract insights from text, time, and image data using neural networks and natural language processing (NLP). The course also integrates key concepts from mathematics, statistics, and probability to enhance your data and AI skills.
What you'll learn:
- Develop insights from language, time, and image data using neural networks and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Integrate mathematics, statistics, and probability for data science methodologies to derive insights
Tuition
Upfront - Save 9%
$4,700
Pay as You Go
$5,200
3 monthly payments of $1,733
FAQs
Yes, all programs offered by UNC Charlotte + Flatiron are delivered entirely online. This format provides flexibility and convenience, allowing you to learn from anywhere while balancing other commitments. The online experience includes live interactive virtual classes led by skilled instructors, collaborative projects, and comprehensive support services to ensure a rich and engaging learning journey.
Your monthly financed payment is based on your credit score. The amount shown reflects the lowest possible rate. To explore your financing options, schedule a call with an admissions representative today.
Our programs are not currently set up to accept military benefits, such as the GI Bill, as a form of payment directly from the student at this time. However, if your military benefits can be arranged to pay the school directly, this may be an option in rare cases.
No, you do not need a college degree to enroll in our programs. A high school diploma or GED is the only educational requirement. Our programs are designed to be accessible to a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds.
No, we do not accept FAFSA or traditional financial aid for our programs. However, we do offer loans for full-time students, as well as interest-free installment plans and upfront payment options for everyone else. Please contact us for more details about these flexible payment options.
It is occasionally possible to skip the Essentials program and go directly to Foundations I. However, we highly recommend that most students do not skip Essentials as it covers a tremendous amount of information and skills that will be used throughout the entire career pathway program and will require some catching up if skipped. The Essentials program is still difficult and covers a great deal of material that is necessary for proceeding in the following programs and won't be reviewed in Foundations. All of the future program material will build upon the essentials. If you would like to be considered to enter directly into the Foundations-level programs, you'll be required to submit materials demonstrating your proficiency in the materials covered in the Essentials program.
Nope! This program is designed for complete beginners—no experience required.
Yes! Upon the completion of each program in the pathway, you will receive a Credly digital badge from UNC Charlotte and a completion certificate from Flatiron School. Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and certificates can be displayed on portfolio websites and social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Thousands of our community members use their program certificates and badges to demonstrate skills to potential employers — including our hiring partners — along with their LinkedIn networks. This curriculum is powered by Flatiron School, whose programs are well-regarded by top employers. Many of these top employers contribute to our curriculum, hire our community, and partner with us to train their own teams.
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