Bachelor of Science in Data Analytics
Associate Dean of Continuing Education: Mark Parker
Program Manager: Henry Collier
The mission of the BSDA program is to help students acquire and refine the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to collect and analyze data in a variety of professional settings, and to use the results to contribute to problem-solving within organization.
Upon successful completion of the BSDA program students will be able to:
- Evaluate organizational needs and problems and create suitable data analyses to inform solutions.
- Apply data analytics techniques and methods to a wide array of data types using industry-standard tools.
- Demonstrate data analyses and conclusions in an effective, ethical manner to non-specialist audiences.
Program outcomes are assessed in the core courses and capstone course, which consists of a portfolio of prior coursework as well as an original, applied data analytics project under the supervision of a qualified faculty member
| MA 107 | Precalculus Mathematics | 4 |
| MA 108 | Applied Calculus | 4 |
| MA 306 | Discrete Mathematics | 3 |
| MA 310 | Linear Algebra | 3 |
| MA 332 | Advanced Statistical Methods | 3 |
| CYBR 230 | Relational Databases with SQL | 3 |
| CS 150 | (Programming Languages for Data Science) | 3 |
| DTAN 301 | Introduction to Data & Business Analytics | 3 |
| DTAN 310 | Algorithm Design and Implementation (Alogrithm Design and Implementation) | 3 |
| DTAN 320 | Introduction to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence (Introduction to Machine Learning and AI) | 3 |
| DTAN 330 | Introduction to Network Science | 3 |
| DTAN 344 | Data Visualization (Data Visualization) | 3 |
| DTAN 410 | CLIPS: Programming for Expert Systems (CLIPS: programming for Expert Systems) | 4 |
| DTAN 400 | Capstone (Capstone) | 6 |
| Additional Required Courses | ||
| COMM 301 | Business & ProfessionalWriting | 3 |
| PHLS 210 | Ethics in the Modern World | 3 |
| MNGT 330 | Management Information Systems | 3 |
| IA 340 | Introduction to Information Assurance | 3 |
| courses "not found" are under development and not yet approved by the University Curriculum Committee | ||
| Total Cr. | 60 | |