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Coursework

Required Courses

  • DSA 001: Foundations of DSA
  • DSA 002: Thinking like a programmer
  • MIST 050: Intro to Entrepreneurship -or- MIST 070: Creativity & Innovation
  • ECON 010: Statistical Inference
  • ECON 110: Econometrics
  • MIST 130: Statistical Data Analysis in R for Decision Support -or- MIST 134: Methods of Data Science & Network Science
  • DSA 101: Machine Learning & Natural Langauge Processing -or- DSA 102: Interactive Data Vis. -or- MIST 135: Technical Commun. & Vis.
  • PHIL 123: Technology Ethics
  • DSA 120/121: Senior Year Capstone

Elective Courses

By strategically selecting coursework electives, students obtain an EMPHASIS TRACK that appears on the diploma and identifies your DSA specialization:

  • Business Analytics
  • Policy Analytics
  • Environmental and Sustainability Analytics
  • Behavioral Modeling Analytics
  • Default: Custom Emphasis Track 

DSA electives are offered by faculty from 4 different departments:

Cognitive and Information Sciences

  • COGS 103: Intro to Neural Networks in Cognitive Science
  • COGS 104: Complex Adaptive Systems
  • COGS 125: Intro to Artificial Intelligence
  • COGS 122: Modeling Social Behavior
  • COGS 128: Cognitive Engineering
  • COGS 170: Judgement and Decision Making

Economics

  • ECON 001: Introduction to Economics
  • ECON 120: Economics of the Environment and Public Policy
  • ECON 153: Judgement and Decision Making
  • ECON 171: Advanced Econometrics

Management of Complex Systems

  • MIST 118: Climate Change: Science & Solutions
  • MIST 132: Geographic Information Systems Analysis in Management
  • MIST 131: Data Governance for Analytics Projects
  • MIST 138: Systematic Financial Trading & Analysis
  • MIST 175: Information Systems for Management

 

Political Science

  • POLI 112: Public Policy: Analysis, Strategy and Impact
  • POLI 120: Voting Behavior, Campaigns and Elections
  • POLI 170: Theoretical Models of Politics
  • POLI 174: Data Science and Government Affairs
  • POLI 175: Advanced Analysis of Political Data