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Foundational Program

Level 1 — where every AI journey begins.

6 modules building real AI fluency — from core AI concepts to prompting, working with AI assistants, and safely automating real work with AI tools and agents. Built for students and freshers with no prior experience.

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Course Objectives

What you'll set out to achieve

  • ✦Build a working understanding of how AI models and tools actually function
  • ✦Learn to prompt effectively — as a way of specifying work, not just asking questions
  • ✦Use AI assistants and agentic tools hands-on, on real tasks
  • ✦Automate a real piece of work using AI tooling
  • ✦Understand responsible and safe AI use
Who This Is For

Target Audience

  • →Students & freshers with no prior AI experience
  • →Anyone starting out toward Agentic AI Engineering or AI Operations
  • →Professionals curious about applying AI to their own work before specialising
Program Structure

6 modules building real AI fluency

No coding required — this level focuses on understanding, prompting, and safely using AI tools and agents.

6
Modules
Level 1
Stage
Learn
Goal
0
Coding Required
MODULE 1

AI Fundamentals

MODULE 2

Prompting as Specification

MODULE 3

Working with AI Assistants

MODULE 4

Agentic Tool Use — First Contact

MODULE 5

Automating Real Work

MODULE 6

Responsible and Safe AI

Technologies Covered

Tools & Frameworks

Industry-standard AI tools used by real practitioners — so what you learn here transfers directly to the job.

ChatGPT / ClaudePrompting FrameworksOpenAI APIGit & GitHub
Where This Takes You

Your next step, once you finish

The Foundational Program is a launchpad — from here, students split into two paths depending on interest:

  • ✓Go technical — build AI systems yourself in Agentic AI Engineering
  • ✓Go applied — put AI to work in your role, no code required, via AI Operations
Go Technical

Agentic AI Engineering (Level 2A) →

Build with LLMs, retrieval systems, and agentic architectures.

 Go Applied

AI Operations (Level 2B) →

Delegate work to AI and manage AI adoption — no code required.
FAQs

Common questions

Do I need to know how to code?

No — the Foundational Program doesn't require coding. It focuses on understanding AI, prompting effectively, and using AI assistants and agentic tools.

What happens after I finish the Foundational Program?

You choose between Agentic AI Engineering (the technical, build-it-yourself path) or AI Operations (the applied, no-code path).

Start with real AI fluency.

Practical, hands-on, and safe — the same structured first step every Sophorion AI student takes.

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