As AI becomes more integrated into daily life, employers across industries are looking for professionals who understand how it works. You don't need a computing background to get started. Our Certificate in Artificial Intelligence is open to students in any major, including liberal arts, with no additional prerequisites required. This is a great way to build valuable skills and prepare for a future where AI knowledge is in high demand
AI skills for any career path
At a glance
Format
Online, On-campus
Start dates
Fall, Spring, or Summer
5classes
16credits
What you'll learn
Through this certificate, you’ll gain a strong foundation in AI, including machine learning, data analysis, and intelligent systems, preparing you to apply these skills in fields like health care, marketing, transportation, and research.
Earn industry certifications
Two of the AI elective courses allow you to earn additional professional/industry certifications:
- Rasa AI Assistant Developer Level-1
- AI Conversational VideoBot Developer-L1
- Rasa Advanced AI Assistant Developer
Get a head start on your bachelor's degree
By completing your undergraduate certificate, you’ll not only earn a valuable credential to make an immediate impact on your career, you’ll also lay the groundwork for a bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence. Transfer your certificate into a Luddy Indianapolis bachelor’s degree.
Careers
AI is increasing in sectors from health care, research and marketing to manufacturing, transportation, and more. Acquiring AI knowledge and skills prepares you for what’s to come and is a valuable asset to employers.
Students who earn this certificate can work as:
- Artificial intelligence specialist
- Business intelligence analyst
- Cloud engineer
- Data scientist
- Machine learning engineer
Certificate requirements
You can complete the certificate in three semesters, online or on campus. You’ll take five courses to earn your 16 credit hour certificate.
Core courses (9 cr.)
- AII-I 100 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (3 cr.)
- DSCI-D 201 Foundations of Data Studies (3 cr., was LIS-S 201) or INFO-I 223 Data Fluency (3 cr.)
- AII-I 300 Collaborative Human-AI Systems (3 cr.)
Programming (4 cr.)
Select one python course from below:
- CSCI-C 200 Introduction to Computers and Programming I (4 cr.)
- CSCI-A 204 Introduction to Programming I (4 cr.)
- INFO-I 210 Information Infrastructure I (4 cr.)
- DSCI-D 210 Programming with Python 1 (4 cr., was INFO-B 210)
Select one AI course from below:
- INFO-I 220 Software Bots for Cognitive Automation (3 cr.)
- INFO-I 308 Information Representation (3 cr.)
- INFO-I 319 Cognitive Automation and Bots Development (3 cr.) *
- NEWM-N 328 Visualizing Information (3 cr.)
- DSCI-D 415 Introduction to Statistical Learning (3 cr., was INFO-I 415) *
- DSCI-D 416 Cloud Computing for Data Science (3 cr., was INFO-I 416) *
- DSCI-D 418 Deep Learning Neural Networks (3 cr., was INFO-I 418)*
- INFO-I 419 Enterprise Cognitive Automation (3 cr.) *
- INFO-I 421 Applications of Data Mining (3 cr.) *
- DSCI-D 428 Web Mining (3 cr., was INFO-I 428) *
- INFO-I 459 Media and Technology Entrepreneurship (3 cr.)
- INFO-I 467 Internet-of-Things Interface Design for Business Innovation (3 cr.) *
- INFO-I 483 Conversational User Interfaces: Experience Design and Applications (3 cr.)
- INFO-I 496 Artificial Intelligence Professional Practice 1 (3 cr.)
* Prerequisites to this course are outside the certificate coursework.
NOTE: Eight of the courses listed require no prerequisite outside your certificate coursework.
A C- or higher is required for all courses. Students must maintain a 2.0 GPA.
This plan of study is subject to revision.
Getting started
You can earn this as a stand-alone certificate, or as part of an undergraduate degree. To get started, you’ll need to be admitted to IU Indianapolis as an undergraduate student.
Current students
Contact your advisor to add this certificate to your major.
New students
You will need to apply to IU Indianapolis as an undergraduate student.