Data Science Certificate of Achievement

This certificate introduces the computational and inferential thinking skills needed for data science. Students learn intermediate programming techniques, database fundamentals using SQL, data visualization techniques, statistics, and popular data science tools used for analysis.

15-20 annually 

Local Program Goals 

• Prepare students with basic skills needed for data science jobs
• Prepare students for transferring into data science related majors

Local Program Objectives 

Given the successful completion of the data science Certificate of Achievement, students will be able to:

• Perform all parts of the data science lifecycle
• Program in a high-level language to solve data science problems.
• Use industry standard data science tools

Data science is a discipline that combines statistics and computing. This Data Science Certificate of Achievement gives students marketable knowledge and skills that students can apply in the workplace or towards four-year degrees. Completing one of the required statistics courses offers students the fundamental understanding necessary for data science. The two computer science courses allow students to have introductory and intermediate experience in programming. Finally, the sequence of data science courses introduces students to the specific skills needed for data science.

Division of Mathematical Sciences --Computer Science 

As listed in the LMI report: 

0509.70 E-Commerce (business emphasis) 

0701 Information Technology, General 

0702 Computer Information Systems 

0702 Software Applications

0707.20 Database Design and Administration 

0707.30 Computer Systems Analysis 

0708 Computer Networking 

0708.20 Computer Support

0709 World Wide Web Administration 

0709.10 E-Commerce (technology emphasis) 

15-20

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