Data Science Certificate

Campus: Knoxville, Distance Education

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Not every course is offered each term or available in all modalities. Students should review their degree audit regularly and work closely with their academic advisor to plan their courses and ensure timely progress toward degree completion based on course availability in their declared modality.

Undergraduate Certificate Type: Add-On, Stand-Alone

Credit Hours Required

The Data Science Certificate consists of 12 credit hours.

Required Course (3 Credit Hours)

• DATA 101* - Data Knowledge and Discovery 3 Credit Hours

Elective Courses (9 Credit Hours)

Select three courses from the list below:

• DATA 102* - Data Stewardship and Ethics 3 Credit Hours
• DATA 202* - Data Management and Visualization 3 Credit Hours ¹
• DATA 203* - Analytical Methods of Data Science 3 Credit Hours
• DATA 303 - Advanced Data Analysis 3 Credit Hours
• DATA 304 - Data Wrangling 3 Credit Hours
• DATA 395 - Special Topics in Data Science 3 Credit Hours
• DATA 401 - Visual Analytics 3 Credit Hours
• DATA 495 - Special Topics in Data Science 3 Credit Hours
• IARC 321 - Advanced Representation 2 Credit Hours ²
• IE 340 - Design of Experiments 3 Credit Hours ²
• IE 465 - Applied Data Science 3 Credit Hours ²
• INSC 260 - Programming for Information Applications 3 Credit Hours
• INSC 384 - Database Design 3 Credit Hours
• INSC 484 - Database Applications 3 Credit Hours ²
• INSC 486 - Data Analytics 3 Credit Hours ²
• INSC 489 - Information Visualization 3 Credit Hours ²
• MATH 423 - Probability 3 Credit Hours ²
• MATH 424 - Stochastic Processes 3 Credit Hours ²
• MATH 425 - Statistics 3 Credit Hours ²

Footnotes

¹ is the prerequisite for DATA 203* , DATA 303 , DATA 304 , and DATA 401  .  

² Course has its own set of prerequisites.  Please consult the catalog for more information.

* Meets Volunteer Core  Requirement.