Agentic AI in Practice — Online Professional Certificate banner
Start date
February 15, 2027
100% online modules
100% online
modules
Personalized pace with regular deadlines
Six modules completed in six weeks
Tuition
Weekly effort: 4-5 hours per week

Overview

You already use AI to speed up drafts and summaries. Now imagine having an AI teammate that doesn't just generate quick drafts, but consistently delivers accurate, repeatable, and trustworthy work using structured briefs, reusable prompt systems, built-in quality checks, and human oversight.

Agentic AI in Practice is that next step: Built for anyone ready to put AI agents to work and move from helpful drafts to service-quality, workplace-ready delivery. Building on the foundations of the AI Starter Kit, this program is structured around how AI actually gets used on the job: turning a rough brief into a polished deliverable, building reusable prompt systems instead of one-off prompts, running quality checks before anything goes out the door, automating repetitive workflows, and designing safe, human-in-the-loop workflows, including AI agents, that fit naturally into your own tools and ways of working.

Overview of the Agentic AI in Practice certificate program

Developed by the American University of Beirut, this 6-week hands-on program equips you with practical skills to:

  • Build AI templates for recurring tasks like emails, reports, and summaries.
  • Check AI-generated work for accuracy, completeness, and quality before it's sent.
  • Analyze documents faster by extracting key information and comparing versions.
  • Create AI-powered workflows that automate routine work while keeping humans in the loop.

What Benefits Will You Gain?

AUB academic excellence certificate benefit
Earn a highly respected certificate through AUB's academic excellence.
Interactive learning with live sessions benefit
Experience interactive learning with live sessions, expert guidance, and high-touch support.
Make.com workflow with AI-as-judge quality gate benefit
Build a practical Make.com workflow featuring a custom AI-as-judge quality gate.
Supervise automated workflows benefit
Supervise automated workflows using plain language goals, approvals, and escalation rules.

Who Is This Program For?

No prerequisites are required.

A basic familiarity with using a chat-based AI assistant and writing simple prompts with context and goals is recommended. If you're completely new to AI, our AI Starter Kit is a great place to start.

Non-technical professionals
Non-technical professionals

Want to put AI agents to work on real, repeatable tasks without needing a coding background.

Early-career professionals
Early-career professionals

Looking to build practical agentic AI skills that translate directly into everyday workplace delivery.

Anyone coordinating team or client work
Anyone coordinating team or client work.

Needs accurate, repeatable AI-powered workflows with human-in-the-loop checks before work goes out the door.

What Skills Will You Gain?

Build AI Context

Learn to structure briefs, goals, and constraints so AI agents deliver consistent, workplace-ready results.

Write Reusable Prompts

Build reusable prompt systems instead of one-off prompts for recurring tasks.

Verify AI Outputs with Confidence

Check AI-generated work for accuracy, completeness, and quality before it's sent.

Work with Documents & Data

Analyze documents faster by extracting key information and comparing versions with AI assistance.

Build No-Code AI Automations

Create AI-powered workflows that automate routine work while keeping humans in the loop.

Create and Supervise AI Agents

Design and oversee automated workflows using plain language goals, approvals, and escalation rules.

Curriculum

Module Details

Week 1
  • From Prompts to a Working Assistant
  • Under the Hood: How an LLM Actually Works
  • What LLMs Are Great At — and Where They Fail
  • Breaking a Task Down So an LLM Can Do It
  • Context Engineering: Giving the Model What It Needs
  • Prompting That Gets Reliable Results

Week 2
  • From a Working Assistant to a Trusted One
  • Confidently Wrong: How AI Fails Without Showing It
  • AI as a Judge: Using One Model to Check Another
  • Building the Compliance Auditor: Your Reusable Quality Gate
  • Running the Loop: Draft, Audit, Revise Until It Passes
  • Building a Review Panel: From One Auditor to a Team of Specialists

Week 3
  • Build the Knowledge Layer
  • The Source Registry & Evidence Room: Name Every Source Before You Use It
  • Docs, Briefing Notes & Reasoning Notes: Turn Raw Text into Working Material
  • Sheets, Excel & Embedded AI Helpers: Move the Intern Inside the Spreadsheet
  • Extract, Transform & Summarize Real Datasets: From Shoebox to Clean Ledger
  • Evidence, Calculations, Inferences & Assumptions: Put Every Claim on the Witness Stand
  • Traceable AI workflows: Leave Breadcrumbs from Every Output Back to the Source

Week 4
  • Workflows & AI Task Execution
  • Workflow Decomposition: See the Machine, Not Just the Steps
  • Workflow Diagram & Documentation Table: Draw the Blueprint, Then Detail It
  • Workflow Design Patterns: Learn the Shapes Before You Build
  • Vibe Coding & Loop Engineering: Say It, Don't Code It
  • Putting It Together: From Diagram to a Workflow You Can Run

Week 5
  • Automation Systems & Agents
  • Match the Task to the Right level of Autonomy
  • What to Automate & the No-Code Tools: Know the Test, Then Build It
  • Five Words, Any Automation
  • From Workflows to Agents: When the Script Isn't Enough
  • The Anatomy of an Agent: Five Parts and a Fence

Week 6
  • Responsible AI & End-to-End Delivery — The Governance Layer
  • Natural-language Governance: From Instruction to Policy
  • Responsible & Secure AI Layer: Privacy, Fairness, Traceability, Security
  • Human-in-the-loop control
  • When Things Go Wrong: Errors, Fallbacks, Escalation, Monitoring
  • Writing the One-Page SOP
  • Run It End-to-End: Assembling the Full System

Tuition

Tuition and program value at $150

At just $150, you can benefit from:

  • Access to all course content and materials
  • Live weekly guidance and interaction with instructors and teaching assistants
  • Office hours and virtual office hours with instructors
  • High-touch support, with a dedicated success coach ready to help you throughout your learning journey
Program start date September 21, 2026
Start Date

February 15, 2027

Limited seats are available!
Deadline to apply is February 8, 2027. Hurry!

Book your spot today!

Instructor

Ammar Mohanna
Ammar Mohanna

PhD in ECE

Lecturer and AI Consultant with extensive experience across academia and industry in the fields of machine learning, MLOps, explainable AI, and edge AI. His work bridges cutting-edge research with real-world deployment, spanning the training of AI practitioners, advising startups, and building production-grade machine learning pipelines.

Frequently Asked Questions

There is no formal English language proficiency requirement for this certificate, and applicants are not required to submit proof of language proficiency. However, since the program is delivered entirely in English, participants should have a good working knowledge to participate effectively in the program.

The courses consist of pre-recorded lectures that you can access at your convenience. Each module includes two online live interactive sessions per week, providing you with the opportunity to interact with both your instructors and fellow students. All live sessions are recorded in case you cannot attend.

No refunds will be issued once payment has been made. Applicants are encouraged to review the program details carefully before completing their registration.

This is a "pass or fail" program. You'll be assessed based on your ability to meet learning objectives throughout the course. This will likely involve various activities such as multiple-choice questions, case studies, and hands-on assignments. The focus is on demonstrating competence and engagement with the material, rather than traditional exams.  

The program is delivered fully online over 6 weeks. It includes asynchronous learning materials (short videos, interactive lessons) combined with weekly synchronous (live) feedback and working sessions. You'll also interact with instructors and TAs via virtual office hours.

You should expect to commit approximately 4-5 hours per week per module.

The next cohort for the 'Agentic AI in Practice' program is scheduled to begin on February 15, 2027.

Upon successful completion, you will receive a professional certificate issued by the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA), signed by the Dean of MSFEA and the Director of the Abdulla al Ghurair Hub for Digital Teaching and Learning. 

No, the certificate does not state "online." All our programs are offered by AUB faculty members in collaboration with industry experts, providing quality education while utilizing advanced tools and technology for online learning. 

You'll be able to pay for the program online.  

No, the certificate does not have an expiry date. 

No, this is a non-credit bearing professional certificate program. Credits cannot be transferred to other graduate programs at AUB.

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