Data Analytics and Economics

A total of sixty-four (64) credits as follows:

Required data analytics courses (16 credits):

  • COMP 141: Programming Fundamentals
  • DATA 242: Program Design and Data Structures for Data Analytics or COMP 241: Data Structures and Algorithms
  • DATA 244/MATH 244: Introduction to Data Analytics and Visualization
  • DATA 344/COMP 344/MATH 344: Advanced Methods in Data Analytics

Required economics and mathematics courses (40 credits):

  • MATH 115, 116, or 122 (a calculus course)
  • ECON 100: Introduction to Economics
  • ECON 201: Intermediate Microeconomics
  • ECON 202: Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • ECON 290: Statistical Analysis for Economics and Business
  • ECON 412: Data Management and Analysis
  • ECON 420: Econometrics
  • ECON 440: Advanced Econometrics
  • ECON 486: Senior Seminar
  • Four additional credits in economics (not including ECON 460 or 461)

One course in ethics (4 credits):

  • PHIL 320: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Elective courses, one of the following numbered 300 or up (4 credits):

  • COMP 345: Data Mining
  • COMP 340: Databases
  • COMP 375: Machine Learning
  • MATH 307: Bayesian Statistical Analysis
  • MATH 333: Time Series and Forecasting
  • MATH 335: Stochastic Processes