Artificial Intelligence Transversal Skills
At Université Côte d’Azur, the Bachelor’s degree program is structured around disciplinary and cross-disciplinary skills, designed to foster academic success and employability.
The field of AI is providing new tools that are having a growing impact not only on professional practices but also on personal practices—such as learning—and on society as a whole. To meet the need for widespread training in AI and address its challenges, the cross-disciplinary skills module “Major Societal Challenges: Artificial Intelligence (AI)” has been mandatory in the first year (L1) since 2024, in the second year (L2) since 2025, and in the third year (L3) starting in the 2026 academic year.
The educational resources are available below.
They will help you acquire the knowledge you need to understand, on your own, what existing AI systems can and cannot do. By exploring their underlying principles, you’ll understand the sources of their societal and environmental impacts—impacts that are often still not widely recognized by the general public but are important to understand. This will help you build on current knowledge to better decide whether, when, and how to use these tools in your studies, professional practice, or personal life.
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The field of AI is providing new tools that are having a growing impact not only on professional practices but also on personal practices—such as learning—and on society as a whole. To meet the need for widespread training in AI and address its challenges, the cross-disciplinary skills module “Major Societal Challenges: Artificial Intelligence (AI)” has been mandatory in the first year (L1) since 2024, in the second year (L2) since 2025, and in the third year (L3) starting in the 2026 academic year.
The educational resources are available below.
They will help you acquire the knowledge you need to understand, on your own, what existing AI systems can and cannot do. By exploring their underlying principles, you’ll understand the sources of their societal and environmental impacts—impacts that are often still not widely recognized by the general public but are important to understand. This will help you build on current knowledge to better decide whether, when, and how to use these tools in your studies, professional practice, or personal life.
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These ressource are licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 open license.
You may freely access these resources for your training.
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Artificial Intelligence Transversal Skills – L1
- Chapter 1: How does using AI affect student learning?
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- Video 1: Introduction
- Video 2: Why you still need to learn, not just "know how to use AI" (1/3)
- Video 3: Why you still need to learn, not just "know how to use AI" (2/3)
- Video 4: Why you still need to learn, not just "know how to use AI" (3/3)
- Video 5: You are at university to "learn", not to "produce"
- Video 6: Why you should avoid using AI in order to learn (1/2)
- Video 7: Why you should avoid using AI in order to learn (2/2)
- Video 5: You are at university to "learn", not to "produce"
- Chapter 1 slides
- Satirical illustrations:
- Karim Duval, Les sacrifiés de l'IA (The Casualties of AI, in French)
- The Daily Show, TDS Tackles AI, 5:20-11:20
- Chapter 2: What are large language models (LLMs)?
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- Video 1: Basic principle of LLMs
- Video 2: Unreliability of LLMs
- Video 3: Human exploitation
- Video 4: Environmental exploitation
- Chapter 2 slides
- Satirical illustrations:
- The Daily Show, Trump’s DEI Purge Goes Too Far
- The Daily Show, TDS Tackles AI, 11:22-13:50
- Chapter 3: What is AI?
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- Video 1: Introduction
- Video 2: The field of AI and families of methods
- Video 3: Examples of AI systems
- Video 4: How an AI/ML model works
- Video 5: Narrow AI and AGI
- Chapter 3 slides
- Satirical illustrations:
- Karim Duval, La vie éternelle grâce à l'innovation (Eternal Life Through Innovation, in French)
- The Daily Show, TDS Tackles AI, 18:22-29:38
- Chapter 4: Impacts on my disciplinary field
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- Video 1: Introduction
- Video 2: Law and political science
- Video 3: Economics and management
- Video 4: Languages, literature, arts and creative work
- Video 5: Health, psychology and life sciences
- Video 6: Humanities and social sciences
- Video 7: Science and technology
- Video 8: Sports science (STAPS)
- Chapter 4 slides
Artificial Intelligence Transversal Skills – L2
- Chapter 1: AI Under the Hood
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- Video 1: Introduction
- Video 2: Human Choices In The Design cycle
- Video 3: Simplification And Consequences
- Video 4: Human And Environmental Exploitation
- Slides du chapitre 1
- Satirical Illustrations:
- The Daily Show, Trump’s DEI Purge Goes Too Far
- The Daily Show, TDS Tackles AI, 11:22-13:50
- Chapter 2 : What does the term AI refer to?
- Chapitre 3 : Can It, Or Should It, Read, Write And Think For Me?
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- Video 1: Growing Concerns
- Video 2: The Importance Of The process
- Video 3: Frustration
- Video 4: Conclusion
- Slides of Chapter 3
- Satirical Illustrations:
- The Daily Show, TDS Tackles AI, AI University 5:20-11:20
- Ronny Chieng, Is AI Making College Students Dumber?
- Chapter 4: And For My Disciplinary Field?
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- Health Portal (STAPS, psychology, medicine)
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- Video 1: Mental Health, Real-life Cases
- Video 2: Mental Health, APA Positions
- Video 3: Mental Health, Scientific Results
- Video 4: Mental Health, Case OpenAI sycophancy (1/2)
- Video 5: Mental Health, Case OpenAI sycophancy (2/2)
- Video 6: Coaching, Medical Diagnosis, Conclusion And Summary
- Slides Of The Course
- Literature, Languages, Arts and Creation Portal(LLAC)
- Science And Technology Portal
- Law And Political Science Portal
- Portail Economics And Management
- Life Science Portal