Data Analytics Minor

The Data Analytics minor at St. Scholastica enhances expertise in the student's major to make informed decisions based on data and is designed to supplement any major. Students in this minor conduct qualitative analysis and apply evaluative and predictive models to produce actionable information. In addition to developing skills, students learn to present information in an effective and meaningful way.

Depending on the students' major, graduates completing this minor are prepared for positions such as a data analyst, business analyst, financial analyst, market analyst, research analyst, or any other position requiring the ability to work with data to make better decisions.

Content Information 

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Learning Outcomes 

Upon completion of the undergraduate minor in Data Analytics at The College of St. Scholastica, the student will be able to:

1. Design and interact with relational databases.
2. Select and apply statistical methods in the analysis of data.
3. Use data analysis tools and algorithms to extract and analyze data from multiple sources.
4. Identify and communicate contextualized meaning from the analysis of structured and unstructured data.

Requirements

Students must achieve the following program requirements for all courses listed under Program Requirements and Program Required Courses for the Data Analytics minor.

Program Requirements

Minor Credits: 24

Program Required Courses

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
CIS 1001	Computer Science Principles	4
or CIS 3205	Information Systems
CIS 3107	Database Modeling	4
CIS 3115	Machine Learning for Data Science	4
CIS 3005/ART 2777/3005	Data Storytelling: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Data Visualization	4
FIN 3550	Business Statistics	4
or MTH 2442	Introduction to Data Analysis and Applied Statistics
or PSY 3331	Statistics
or MTH 4411	Probability and Statistics I
MTH 2442	Introduction to Data Analysis and Applied Statistics 1	4
or MGT 3130	Business Research & Decision-Making
or HIM 4415	Health Data Analytics
Total Credits		24

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MTH 2442 can only be used to satisfy one of the elective topics. In other words, students must take 24 credits of coursework while satisfying these six requirements.