according toNanjing UniversityOfficial WeChat public account: Nanjing University held a new semester work arrangement meeting today, at which the overall plan for the "Artificial Intelligence General Core Course System" to be offered to all undergraduate freshmen in September 2024 was released.Officials said this is the first of its kind in universities nationwide..
According to Tan Tianniu, Party Secretary of Nanjing University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the significance of the university's opening of this course is as follows: driven by new theories and technologies such as mobile Internet, big data, supercomputing, sensor networks, and brain science,Artificial intelligence has had a significant and far-reaching impact on economic development, social progress, global governance and other aspects.Only by keeping up with the pace of the times and grasping the pulse of the times can we follow the trend and act accordingly, and firmly grasp the initiative of innovation and development in our own hands.
IT Home summarizes the course construction plan as follows:
Focusing on Nanjing University’s undergraduate education curriculum construction goals, the school will build a three-level “1+X+Y” “artificial intelligence general core curriculum system”.
by 1 required AI general core course + X AI literacy courses + Y cutting-edge extension courses that deeply integrate various disciplines with AIBased on the education and teaching, we carry out education and teaching from three dimensions: knowledge, ability, values and ethics.
1 core course in artificial intelligence
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Led by top scholars in the field of artificial intelligence such as Tan Tianniu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhou Zhihua, an academician of the European Academy of Sciences, the school brings together first-class experts and scholars from home and abroad to form a high-level teaching team.
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Course objectives: To guide students to correctly recognize and understand the intelligent era we are in, to have a basic understanding of the development of artificial intelligence, its past and present, basic concepts, basic technologies, typical application scenarios, common tool platforms, etc., and to be able to think about artificial intelligence ethics, governance, and the relationship between artificial intelligence and social development from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Organization form: collective teaching + small class thematic seminars + internship practice + AI teaching assistants
X AI Literacy Courses
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Module 1: Taking advantage of Nanjing University's strengths in computer science, artificial intelligence, software, and mathematics, we offer a series of basic courses on basic thinking and basic skills in artificial intelligence to help students master the basic skills of artificial intelligence application practice.
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Module 2: Taking advantage of Nanjing University's comprehensive strengths in liberal arts and science, we offer a series of courses on the application of artificial intelligence in different fields, mainly using case teaching to help students understand the application of artificial intelligence in cutting-edge scientific research, and the application of artificial intelligence in digital humanities, digital economy, and social sciences.
Y Frontier extension courses that deeply integrate various disciplines with artificial intelligence
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Each major is encouraged to offer several cutting-edge extension courses that deeply integrate disciplines with artificial intelligence.
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Experts and scholars in various disciplines who apply artificial intelligence to conduct scientific research and humanities and social sciences research are invited to offer project-based courses in the form of "course + project" based on the cutting-edge scientific research results of "AI for Science" and "AI for Hass".
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Students will directly enter key laboratories and other scientific research institutions, leading enterprises and other industrial platforms to personally experience and participate in cutting-edge scientific research projects, cultivate students' innovative ability to solve complex problems in multidisciplinary fields in the future intelligent era, and cultivate their entrepreneurial spirit to do things and start businesses.