Data Science Minor

Students who wish to obtain a minor in Data Science must take at least 19-20 semester hours of DATA or related courses, which must include the following:

Foundational courses (take any four of these):

• DATA 3401 Python for Data Science 1
• DATA 3402 Python for Data Science 2 
• DATA 3421 Data Mining, Management, and Curation
• DATA 3441 Statistical Methods for Data Science 1
• DATA 3442 Statistical Methods for Data Science 2
• DATA 3461 Machine Learning    

And take any one of the following elective courses:

• DATA 1301 Introduction to Data Science
• An additional DATA 34xx course listed in section 1 (above)

• BIOL 3340 Bioinformatics
• ENVR / GEOL 4454 Statistics for Scientists and Engineers
• GEOL 4330 Understanding Geographical Information Systems
• MATH 3313 Introduction to Probability
• MATH 3316 Statistical Inference
• PHYS 2321 Computational Physics
• PSYC 2443 Research Design and Statistics I