Data Analytics Major Requirements

Data Analytics Major

(62 credits)

The data analytics major is divided into core requirements and electives. The following are core requirements (normally taken in the following years; order of courses to be taken should be discussed with an advisor).

First-Year

BUAD 142 Computer Applications in Business
CSCI 110 Introduction to Computer Programming
DATA 101 Introduction to Data Analytics (2 credits)
MATH 128 (fall semester), then BUAD 228 Advanced Statistics for Business and Economics (spring semester) or MATH 221
Statistics in the Sciences (spring)
MATH 131 Calculus and Analytical Geometry 1 (Math 128 as prerequisite), or MATH 132 Calculus and Analytical
Geometry 2 (4 cr), or MATH 233 Calculus and Analytical Geometry 3

Sophomore Year

BUAD 210 Business Ethics (2 credits)
BUAD 233 Introduction to Operations and Supply Chain Management (2 credits)
CSCI 205 Software Engineering and Elementary Data Structures
CSCI/DATA 201 Data Analytics (2 credits)
DATA 202 Data Analytics II (2 credits)
ECON 101 Principles of Macroeconomics or ECON 102 Principles of Microeconomics
MATH 203 Linear Algebra

Junior Year

CSCI 330 Database Techniques and Modeling (fall, even years)
ECON 325 Econometrics (fall) [Note: ECON 325 has a prerequisite of ECON 101 or ECON 102]
DATA 301 Advanced Techniques in Data Analysis

And four credits from the following:

BUAD 372 Marketing Research [Note: BUAD 372 has a prerequisite of BUAD 270] or BUAD 333 Advanced Operations and Supply Chain Management or ECON 402 Solving Social & Economic Problems with Data or other approved electives

Senior Year

DATA 400 Data Practicum Capstone
ECON 326 Advanced Econometrics