Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Essentials
AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and DALL·E are only as powerful as the person directing them — and prompt engineering is the skill that separates students who get mediocre results from those who get remarkable ones.
Starts Tue, Oct 27
11:30 PM UTC · 1h
6 sessions
Lloyd
Outcomes, not lecture notes.
Explain how large language models process and respond to prompts, including why phrasing, structure, and context change the output you get
Craft precise, effective prompts using techniques like role assignment, constraint-setting, and iterative refinement
Apply few-shot prompting by giving AI targeted examples to steer tone, format, and accuracy
Generate high-quality images and creative assets using tools like DALL·E by writing detailed, well-structured visual prompts
Use AI as a productivity partner for real tasks — drafting content, summarizing research, brainstorming ideas, and automating communication
Identify when AI output is weak, wrong, or off-target — and revise your prompt strategically to fix it
Build a personal prompt library of reusable templates tailored to your own academic and creative workflows
Meet Lloyd.
Lloyd
Lloyd is an AI-native entrepreneur who specializes in automating businesses and processes with agentic workflows. His tech career started as "The YouTube Ads Guy," and when the early releases of ChatGPT and other LLMs emerged he saw AI as the most transformative technology of our lifetimes - and set about learning everything he could about it. Nowadays he's happy to check in between classes on the AI agents running his businesses while he shows Varsity Tutors students how they can do the same.
AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and DALL·E are only as powerful as the person directing them — and prompt engineering is the skill that separates students who get mediocre results from those who get remarkable ones. Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Essentials teaches you exactly how large language models think, why they respond the way they do, and how to craft prompts that consistently produce smart, useful output. No coding required — this course is built around hands-on experimentation, real-world case studies, and immediate practice with the tools already reshaping school, work, and creativity. By the end, students walk away with a personal toolkit of prompt strategies they can apply to writing, research, brainstorming, image generation, and beyond. In a world where everyone has access to AI, knowing how to actually use it well is the competitive edge.
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Session 1: Large Language Models, What They Do, and How They Work
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Session 2: Prompt Structures that Work
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Session 3: Use Case Deep Dive: Writing, Research, and Brainstorming
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Session 4: Use Case Deep Dive: Visuals, Coding, and Productivity
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Session 5: Prompting for Style, Voice, and Personalization
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Session 6: Final Projects and Forward Thinking
Live Q&A
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MINTue, Oct 27 • 11:30pm UTC
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Generative AI: Prompt Engineering Essentials