SDSU CS 668 Applied Large Language Models
Spring Semester, 2026
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SLP: Speech and Language Processing

Scratch: Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)
Tuesday Thursday
Jan 20 Jan22
Jan 27 Jan 29 Testing 18 RAG Techniques to Find the Best
Feb 3 Building a Complex, Production-Ready RAG System Feb 5 LangSmith Agents, Models, Tools, Short-term memory
Feb 10 LandSmith Middleware, Guardrails, MCP, Multi-agent, Retrieval, Long-term memory Feb 12
Feb 17 SLP Chapter 7 Feb 19 SLP Chapter 8
Feb 24 Scratch Chp 3 Feb 26 Scratch Chp 4
Mar 3 Scratch Chp 5 Mar 5
Mar 10 Mar 12
Mar 17 Exam Mar 19
Mar 24 Mar 26 Project Proposal
Mar 31 Spring Break Apr 2 Spring Break
Apr 7 Apr 9
Apr 14 Apr 16
Apr 21 Project Milestone Apr 23
Apr 28 Apr 30
May 5 May 7 Exam
May 12 Project Due May 14