This letter embarks on a first step along the path to rethink the academy from the ground up: re-building a single course. Courses are the basic unit from which the university is constructed. With the bigger picture in mind, I sketch out a roadmap to prepare teaching in the fall term – and we will implement this over the coming months. I will re-imagine a course that I plan to teach in the fall term, from the ground up, based on everything we know so far about generative AI, while using our best estimates for its developing impacts, and our best predictions for future changes. The course that we craft will serve as a model for what can be done, a model that can help others in their own work, either by adopting some of the patterns, or by figuring out what they don’t like and how to go their own way.
