Teaching Promt Engineering for Humanists

This is a presentation given by Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC & CLARIN-IT) at the CLARIN in University Curricula Workshop, held in Utrecht on 21–22 April 2026. Prompt engineering is presented as an emerging literacy for humanists, at the intersection of interpretation, formalisation, and interaction with AI systems. The contribution outlines teaching strategies aimed at making prompting transparent, reproducible, and critically informed, and at better equipping it to reduce hallucinations through explicit constraints, source grounding, and verification practices.