Intelligent Systems Design. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisites: CS 375 or CS 370 . This course is an advanced exploration of how modern intelligent systems powered by large language models (LLMs) are designed, deployed, operated, and evaluated at scale. Students will learn the system-level architecture of LLM applications, including orchestrators, autonomous agents, retrieval systems, memory layers, tool integration, safety controls, and observability. The course emphasizes practical, real-world engineering practices used in contemporary LLM system development. Students will build and evaluate an end-to-end intelligent system as their semester project.