thinking to take NLP, prerequisites question

I'm considering taking NLP as my last course, from the course page, it shows pre-requisites:

A course in introductory artificial intelligence or machine learning

I'm on Comp Sys spec so I haven't taken any ML/AI stuff. There were a few HWs in IIS netSec that involved tiny ML stuff, I don't have issue with Python, and according to the review, NLP does not seem to be a hard course. will I get into a lot of trouble taking NLP without ML/AI?