Requirements for a Major in Data Analytics Leading to the B.A. Degree
A total of fifty-six (56) credits as follows:
Required courses (28 credits):
- COMP 141: Programming Fundamentals
- DATA 242: Program Design and Data Structures for Data Analytics or COMP 241: Data Structures & Algorithms
- DATA 244/MATH 244: Introduction to Data Analytics & Visualization
- DATA 344/COMP 344/MATH 344: Advanced Methods in Data Analytics
- MATH 211 or ECON 290 or PSYC 211 (an introductory statistics course)
- MATH 212: Regression or ECON 420: Econometrics
- DATA 486: Data Analytics Senior Seminar
One course in ethics from the following list (4 credits):
- PHIL 224: Digital Technology and Big Data Ethics
- PHIL 320: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Elective courses, two of the following numbered 300 or up (8 credits):
- COMP 345: Data Mining
- COMP 340: Databases
- COMP 375: Machine Learning
- ECON 412: Data Analysis and Management
- ECON 440: Advanced Econometrics
- MATH 307: Bayesian Statistical Analysis
- MATH 333: Time Series and Forecasting
- MATH 335: Stochastics Processes
Concentration, one of the following (16 credits):
- Anthropology and Sociology: ANSO 103 or 105, ANSO 351, one additional research methods course (ANSO 352, 254, or ARCE 120), and one 300-level ANSO elective (must be approved by the ANSO chair).
- Accounting: ECON 100, BUS 241, 243, and BUS 450
- Finance: ECON 100, BUS 241*, BUS 351, and BUS 454 (*BUS 243 is also recommended)
- Management: ECON 100, BUS 243*, BUS 361, and BUS 466 or BUS 467 (*BUS 241 is also recommended)
- Marketing: ECON 100, BUS 243*, BUS 371, and BUS 472 (*BUS 241 is also recommended)
- Economics: MATH 115, 116 or 122, ECON 100, 201, and 412 or 440 (and students must take ECON 290, 420, and 486 as Required Courses).
- Environmental Studies and Sciences: ENVS 150, INTD 225/URBN-225, and two additional courses, one of which must include a science lab (BIOL 120, ENVS 325, four credits of research ENVS 451/452, or additional environmental science elective approved by the ENVS chair)
- Health Equity: URBN or ENVS 225, HLEQ 440 or PLAW 320, one of HLEQ 210, URBN 235, or AFS 350, and one of the following: HLEQ 420, HLEQ 415, HLEQ 430, MATH 314, MATH 315, ENVS 150, PSYC 220, PSYC 330, RELS 231, URBN 340, or other elective approved by the chair of Health Equity
- International Studies: INTS 270 and three courses from INTS global leadership and/or regional leadership courses.
- Psychology: PSYC 150, 200, and two more advanced research courses. These two advanced courses can either be (a) two courses selected from 350, 351, 352, 353, 306, 338 or (b) one class from 350-353, 306, or 338, and four credits of research practicum (451/452).
- Urban Studies: URBN 201, URBN/ENVS 225, PLAW 206, and one of the following: URBN 310, URBN 320, URBN 323 URBN 340, URBN 345, URBN 350, URBN 362, URBN 365, or other elective approved by the chair of Urban Studies .
