Data Science Major

Major Requirements

1. Two courses in Data Science core: STAT 112  /COMP 112  and STAT/COMP 212*
2. Two courses in Statistics core: STAT 155  and STAT 253  
3. Two courses in Computer Science core: COMP 120  or COMP 123 , and COMP 127  
4. One course in Math core: MATH 236  
5. Three upper-level electives: Any three courses from the following list: COMP 302 , COMP 320 , COMP 435 , COMP 440 , COMP 445 , COMP 484  MATH 354 /STAT 354 , MATH 365 /COMP 365 , MATH 432 , MATH 437 , MATH 471 , MATH 479 /COMP 479 , STAT 451 , STAT 452 , STAT 453 , STAT 454 
6. Capstone: STAT 456  
7. Pass the capstone presenation

*STAT/COMP 212 is a new intermediate data science course that will be developed. It will emphasize advanced data wrangling and manipulation, writing functions, and working with data in databases (including SQL). It may use a combination of R and Python and will definitely involve at least one project working with messy data. This course will give students practice in the constant feedback loop of asking questions of the data, manipulating the data to help answer the question, and then returning to more questions.