Course Description
Go beyond basic prompting. This course teaches you advanced prompt engineering techniques used by professionals to extract maximum value from large language models. Learn systematic approaches to prompt design, evaluation, and optimization.
Who Is This For?
- Professionals who already use ChatGPT or Claude and want to level up
- Content creators and marketers seeking consistent, high-quality AI output
- Product managers working with AI features
- Anyone who wants to become the "AI expert" in their organization
Syllabus
Module 1: Foundations of Prompt Engineering
- Review of LLM architecture (practical perspective)
- Tokenization and its impact on prompts
- System prompts, user prompts, and assistant responses
- Temperature, top-p, and other parameters
Module 2: Advanced Prompting Techniques
- Chain-of-thought and step-by-step reasoning
- Role-based prompting and persona design
- Few-shot learning with curated examples
- Self-consistency and verification prompts
Module 3: Structured Output & Data Extraction
- Getting JSON, CSV, and structured formats from LLMs
- Data extraction from unstructured text
- Classification and categorisation tasks
- Building reliable data pipelines with prompts
Module 4: Prompt Chains & Multi-Step Workflows
- Breaking complex tasks into prompt chains
- Using AI output as input for subsequent prompts
- Error handling and fallback strategies
- Building autonomous agent-like workflows
Module 5: Evaluation & Optimization
- How to measure prompt quality systematically
- A/B testing prompts
- Red-teaming and adversarial testing
- Cost optimization: fewer tokens, better results
Module 6: Applied Projects
- Build a customer support prompt system
- Create an automated content pipeline
- Design a research assistant workflow
- Present and peer review
What You'll Get
- 18 hours of instructor-led training (6 sessions x 3 hours)
- Prompt template library with 50+ tested templates
- Access to prompt evaluation framework
- Certificate of completion
- SkillsFuture Credit eligible (pending SSG accreditation)
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