We live in a world increasingly driven by data. Data science is a rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field that draws on statistics, computer science and math, with applications in a wide variety of academic disciplines and industries. We extract meaning from data to learn more about the world and society.
The overarching goal of the minor is to allow students to complement their discipline-specific skills and knowledge with a deeper understanding of how to analyze and extract meaning from data to learn more about the world, society and their discipline. We wish to prepare students to be excellent data analysts in their major disciplines and to be prepared to effectively work with data after graduation.
In meeting the requirements of this interdisciplinary minor, a student may not use more than nine credits that are also used to meet the requirements of other majors or minors. No more than three credits of 400-level work can be counted towards the minor. Additional prerequisites may be required depending on course choices above.
