NPRE 398

Spring 2026 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

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NPRE 398 class schedule data for spring 2026
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	65750	Lecture-Discussion	AI	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	3217 Everitt Laboratory	Kozlowski, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Applied Large Language Models Section Info: The course introduces students to the conceptual foundations and practical uses of transformer-based language models, their structure, capabilities, and limitations. Students will learn to interact with both local open-weight models and remote API-based systems. Through a sequence of hands-on projects, students design and build custom AI tools and applications such as personal interactive chatbot and recommendation system, Q&A document assistants ("talk to my documents"), LLM-based debate agents, and personal tutoring or research agents. Emphasis is placed on experimentation, system design, validation, and responsible use of LLMs. The course is for students with basic programming experience. Prerequisite: CS 101, CS 105, CS 107, CS 124. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.