Prompt Engineering Mastery: From Complete Novice to AI Power User

By the end of this course, learners move from curious novice to confident AI power user—able to design, govern, and continuously improve production-grade prompts and workflows across the Black Scientists & Inventors ecosystem.

CORE SKILL

Write clear, structured prompts

Use role, context, task, and format to design prompts that are unambiguous, reproducible, and aligned with real-world STEM and enterprise scenarios.

Prompt structure Clarity Role & context

ANALYTICAL DEPTH

Apply chain-of-thought & REASON

Guide models through complex analytical tasks using explicit chain-of-thought prompting and the REASON framework to surface assumptions, alternatives, and evidence.

Reasoning Complex tasks Frameworks

PRECISION

Design precise constraint blocks

Build constraint blocks that lock in format, content, style, methodology, and perspective, reducing drift and ensuring outputs meet compliance, curriculum, and brand standards.

Constraints Governance Quality control

REUSABILITY

Build modular prompt templates

Use the MODULE and TEMPLATE frameworks to create reusable prompt components that can be mixed, matched, and versioned across courses, tools, and teams.

Templates Modularity Scalability

PRODUCTION USE

Manage context windows & parameters

Understand context windows, token economics, and key model parameters to design prompts that are efficient, robust, and ready for production deployment.

Tokens Model settings Cost awareness

MULTIMODAL

Prompt across text, image, audio & docs

Design prompts that work seamlessly across text, images, audio, and document inputs, enabling rich, multimodal learning and research experiences.

Text Images Audio & documents

AGENTIC AI

Direct tool-using AI workflows

Orchestrate agentic AI systems that call tools, APIs, and data sources—paired with appropriate testing, validation, and guardrails.

Agents Tools & APIs Validation

ENTERPRISE

Build a shared prompt library

Design and govern a version-controlled enterprise prompt library that captures best practices, supports collaboration, and aligns with organisational policy.

Version control Collaboration Knowledge base

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Design evaluation & improvement loops

Create an evaluation framework and continuous-improvement process for production prompts, using metrics, feedback, and experiments to refine performance over time.

Evaluation Metrics Iteration

LEADERSHIP

Lead AI adoption & risk management

Shape AI adoption strategy, manage risk, and develop team skills so that prompt engineering becomes a sustainable, ethical, and empowering capability across the organisation.

CAPSTONE

Apply everything in one real, AI-powered project

In Module 6, learners bring together every skill from Modules 1–5 into a single practical portfolio — designing prompts to produce a business plan, brand assets, marketing materials, a website, a contract, and a budgeting tool — then submit it through the platform's AI-assisted marking pipeline for scored, human-reviewed feedback.

Strategy Risk Team development

These objectives anchor every module, exercise, and assessment in the Prompt Engineering Mastery pathway — culminating in a hands-on capstone project — ensuring learners can apply their skills directly to their jobs, businesses, hobbies, products, civic groups, families and communities.

This course is designed to be accessible to learners at all levels — from complete beginners to emerging AI leaders. Each module builds on the last, with clear expectations and supportive scaffolding.

FOUNDATION

Basic computer literacy

Learners should be comfortable using a web browser and interacting with a chat-based AI tool such as ChatGPT or Claude. No technical background required.

BEGINNER FRIENDLY

No programming required

Modules 1–3 require no prior programming or AI experience. They introduce prompting fundamentals, reasoning patterns, and structured frameworks.

TECHNICAL AWARENESS

Helpful familiarity for Module 4

Module 4 benefits from basic comfort with files, documents, and simple technical concepts — but still requires no coding. It focuses on production prompting and multimodal systems.

LEADERSHIP TRACK

Ideal for team leads & managers

Module 5 is designed for team leads, managers, or aspiring AI enablement leads who want to guide responsible AI adoption, governance, and capability-building across their organisation.

CAPSTONE ASSESSMENT

Module 6 requires Modules 1–5 to be completed

The capstone assignment assumes learners have finished Modules 1 through 5. No new tools, software, or technical skills are required — success depends entirely on applying the prompting techniques already learned to a practical business scenario of the learner's choosing.