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Jul 17, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Data Science, B.S.
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Sara Shirley, undergraduate program director
Sara.Shirley@mtsu.edu
615-898-2122
Data Science is an interdisciplinary field that covers the use of data to make decisions, gain insight, or develop knowledge. Data scientists combine skills from computer science, statistics, and business analytics. Students will start from a business understanding of the question at hand, using it to inform and understand the data available, then use skills in the preparation and display of data and in the modeling of data to evaluate the issue at hand. Finally, they will deploy the model they created in order to ensure that it is widely used. A capstone project or internship will allow students to follow the process of data science in a real-world setting and will ensure that they have a portfolio of work to show prospective employers.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
45 hours |
| Data Science Electives |
12 hours |
| Supporting Courses |
7 hours* |
| Electives |
15-21 hours |
| TOTAL |
120 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may vary.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (45 hours)
Data Science Cognate (12 hours)
Choose one cognate from the following:
Business Intelligence and Analytics
Data Science Electives (12 hours)
Supporting Courses (7 hours)
Electives/Minor (15-21 hours)
- Minor strongly recommended
Curriculum: Data Science
Students should consult their advisors each semester to plan their schedules.
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