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The Undergraduate Certificate of Data Science in Business is a 12 credit interdisciplinary credential that offers a path towards developing essential skills in data science with depth in Business (BUS) content. Students who pursue this certificate will have the opportunity to learn from data science instructors & practitioners, and Business faculty in industry & academia, alongside their peers from various colleges. Students will pursue courses in data management, communication, applications, ethics, business, and more, in addition to choosing from electives of interest.

Plan Requirements

Required Courses

Course List

Code	Title	Hours	Counts towards
Required DSC Courses: At least one course from each category		6
Data Communication
¶Ù³§°äÌý202	Introduction to Data Visualization
¶Ù³§°äÌý205	Data Communication
Ethics, Policy, & Privacy
¶Ù³§°äÌý225	Data Science for Social Good
Data Management & Analysis
¶Ù³§°äÌý201	Introduction to R/Python for Data Science (¶Ù³§°äÌý201 will not count for students who take ³§°ÕÌý308 as a coreq for µþ±«³§Ìý351.)
Machine Learning and AI
¶Ù³§°äÌý412	Exploring Machine Learning
Electives or Internships & Capstones
¶Ù³§°äÌý405	Data Wrangling and Web Scraping
Required Depth Courses: Two courses from the following		6
µþ±«³§Ìý351	Introduction to Business Analytics (Prerequisites: µþ±«³§Ìý340 and [µþ±«³§Ìý350, or ³§°ÕÌý312, or ³§°ÕÌý370, or ³§°ÕÌý372]; Corequisite: ³§°ÕÌý307 or ³§°ÕÌý308)
µþ±«³§Ìý458	Analytics: From Data to Decisions (Prerequisite: µþ±«³§Ìý351)
See the published special topics list for courses accepted within a category
¶Ù³§°äÌý295	Introductory Special Topics in Data Science
´Ç°ùÌý¶Ù³§°äÌý495	Special Topics in Data Science
´Ç°ùÌý¶Ù³§°äÌý595	Graduate Special Topics in Data Science
NOTE 1: ¶Ù³§°äÌý295, ¶Ù³§°äÌý495, and ¶Ù³§°äÌý595 courses must be individually approved for the certificate.
NOTE 2: Students pursuing multiple Data Science Academy credentials must have at least 2 distinct 1-credit DSC courses and 2 distinct 3-credit depth courses between any two credentials (8 distinct credits total).
NOTE 3: Per university requirements courses already used to satisfy two or more credit requirements cannot also be used to satisfy the data science certificate (or any third requirement).
Total Hours		12