The A.S. in AI for Digital Transformation at Long Beach City College — the first AI associate degree approved in California's community college system. Six courses, ethics-first, no code required.
A pathway that moves you from AI literacy — knowing what these tools are — to AI fluency: working alongside them with judgment, using no-code and low-code tools the whole way. No programming background needed.
Six AI courses form the core, taught with no-code and low-code tools. Each runs in two parallel tracks with the same content — a for-credit version that stacks toward the associate degree, and a tuition-free non-credit version — so you can choose the on-ramp that fits.
Where it starts — what AI and machine learning actually are, where they show up in real work, and how to size up a tool before you trust it.
How generative models work and how to direct them — prompt engineering, hands-on projects, and the ethics of creating with AI.
Design assistants and agents that hold a conversation and complete tasks on their own — built with no-code and low-code tools, ending in a portfolio project.
Work across text, image, audio, and video — building things like voice assistants and cross-modal search, with human-centered, ethical design throughout.
Put it to work — automating real processes with language models, retrieval, and agent orchestration, always with a human in the loop.
The capstone — analyze a real problem and ship a working AI solution end to end, then present a professional portfolio built for real-world impact.
Real programming fundamentals in Python — logic, functions, strings, and data structures — the coding literacy underneath the no-code tools.
How data is modeled, stored, and queried — relational design and SQL, the backbone of every data-driven AI system.
Where modern AI runs — cloud fundamentals on AWS, with preparation for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Earn as you go. You don't have to finish the degree to walk away with something — courses stack into certificates along the way, just as valuable for learners who aren't pursuing the full A.S.
Short courses and workshops beyond the degree are in development. Want to know when they open? Reach out and I'll keep you posted.