Natural Language Processing

Certificate of Achievement Artificial Intelligence · Laney College · 2026-2027 Catalog

The certificate of achievement in Natural Language Processing prepares students for careers as NLP developers. The program provides the analytical, methodological, and technical skills required within the NLP industry, and serves as a foundation for further studies in NLP or other relevant technologies and fields such as Computer Vision (CV), Deep Learning (DL), and Generative AI (GenAI).

Career Opportunities

Students will be able to find employment in the Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Natural Language Processing (NLP) sector. This NLP sector offers high-paid positions with job titles including NLP Specialist, NLP Analyst, Natural Language Generation Developer, NLP Engineer, NLP Researcher, NLP Scientist, Software Engineer Researcher, etc. Sectors that benefit from NLP include Health Care, Finance, Education, Business, IT, and Data Science.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this program a student will be able to:

  1. Analyze and apply NLP transformers to produce selected applications or projects.
  2. Apply and practice advanced NLP technologies such as Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Tranformers (BERT) and Generative Pre-trained Transformers. (GPT).
  3. Design and develop NLP modeling used in applications such as chatbots, story creations, etc. using NLP libraries and toolkits.
CourseTitleUnits
Core Courses16
CIS 96FIntroduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning3
CIS 96LNatural Language Processing (NLP) I3
CIS 96MNatural Language Processing (NLP) II3
AI 6Ethics and AI3
MATH 100Essential Mathematics for Applied Artificial Intelligence4
Total Units:16

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