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BIOS 408

Prompt Engineering 101

UNITS:1
GRADING:Medical Satisfactory/No Credit
LEVEL:Graduate
GER:—

This mini-course offers a practical introduction to prompt engineering, how to effectively interact with AI tools like ChatGPT to support your academic and research work. Rather than diving deep into theory, the course focuses on real-world use cases and hands-on strategies for crafting prompts that generate helpful, accurate, and creative responses. Participants will experiment with techniques such as chain-of-thought and few-shot prompting to tackle a variety of everyday tasks. No coding background is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to explore the potential of AI in everyday productivity and problem-solving.

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1 Term
Lecture 1Open
ID: 22776
0 / 20 enrolled
DAYS:Monday, Wednesday
TIME:4:30 PM – 5:20 PM
LOCATION:EDWRDSR166
INSTRUCTOR:
Lin, Steven, Jeong, Jeannie Yejin
1unit

BIOS 408: Prompt Engineering 101

1 units · Medical Satisfactory/No Credit

This mini-course offers a practical introduction to prompt engineering, how to effectively interact with AI tools like ChatGPT to support your academic and research work. Rather than diving deep into theory, the course focuses on real-world use cases and hands-on strategies for crafting prompts that generate helpful, accurate, and creative responses. Participants will experiment with techniques such as chain-of-thought and few-shot prompting to tackle a variety of everyday tasks. No coding background is needed, just curiosity and a willingness to explore the potential of AI in everyday productivity and problem-solving.

Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.

Autumn 2026 sections

  • Lecture — Monday Wednesday 4:30 PM – 5:20 PM — EDWRDSR166 — Lin, Steven, Jeong, Jeannie Yejin (Graduate)

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