Below is a list of current classes available for the MS Data Science degree. For a complete listing of all classes related to the degree please see the Requirements tab of the Data Science degree in our academic catalog.
| Fall 2024 MSDS Courses | |||||||||||
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| Developing Insights from Data for Applications (1 Course/3 credits required) | |||||||||||
| Course No. | Course Title | Class Code | Class Time | Online | Evening | Faculty | Credits | Prerequisites | |||
| INFOST 582G | Introduction to Data Science | 17790 | Section 201 - ONLINE | Online | Margaret Kipp | 3 | Prereq: jr st; or cons instr. | ||||
| 17791 | Section 202 - ONLINE | Online | Faculty | 3 | Prereq: jr st; or cons instr. | ||||||
| Organizing and Maintaining Large Data Sets (1 course/3 credits required) | |||||||||||
| Course No. | Course Title | Class Code | Class Time | Online | Evening | Faculty | Credits | Prerequisites | |||
| BUS ADM 749 | Data and Information Management | 14502 | Section 001 - Monday, 2:30 – 5:10 p.m. | 3 | Grad Standing | ||||||
| 14501 | Section 002 - Wednesday, 5:30 – 8:10 p.m. | Evening | 3 | Grad Standing | |||||||
| COMPSCI 557G | Introduction to Database Systems | 14467 | Section 001 - Tuesday/Thursday, 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Paul McNally | 3 | Prerequisite enforcement: junior standing and COMPSCI 251(P); or graduate student; or special student. Prerequisite enforcement: students assigned to the EASUG program code (includes -1, -2, -3, -E and -Q plan codes), CEAS Minors (-3 codes), Actuarial Science program (ACTSCIBA plan codes), or Applied Math & Computer Science program code (MCSUG). | |||||
| INFOST 714 | Metadata | 18579 | Section 201 - ONLINE | Online | Julaine Clunis | 3 | Grad st; MLIS prereqs: InfoSt 511(P); InfoSt 571(R) MSIST prereqs: InfoSt 582(P). | ||||
| AI and Machine Learning to Extract Insight from Data (1 course/3 credits required) | |||||||||||
| Course No. | Course Name | Class Code | Class Time | Online | Evening | Faculty | Credits | Prerequisites | |||
| BUS ADM 767 | Ideas and Applications of Data Science Different Fields | 14289 | Section 001- Thursday, 5:30 – 8:10 p.m. (50% online) | Evening | Purushottam Papatla | 3 | Grad standing | ||||
| COMPSCI 711 | Introduction to Machine Learning | 18668 | Section 001- Monday/Wednesday, 2:30 -- 3:45 p.m. | Rohit Kate | 3 | Grad standing | |||||
| Probabilistic Methods to Analyze Uncertainty in Data (1 course/3 credits required) | |||||||||||
| Course No. | Course Name | Class Code | Class Time | Online | Evening | Faculty | Credits | Prerequisites: | |||
| BUS ADM 754 | Statistical Analysis | 18435 | Section 001 - Tuesday, 5:30 – 8:10 p.m. | Staff | 3 | Grad st; cons instr | |||||
| BUSMGMT 709 | Predictive Analytics for Managers | 17652 | Section 001 - Tuesday, 5:30 – 8:10 p.m. | Evening | 3 | Grad standng | |||||
| 11722 | Section 203 - ONLINE | Online | |||||||||
| 10828 | Section 212- ONLINE | Layth Alwan | |||||||||
| COMPSCI 720 | Computational Models of Decision Making | 14472 | Section 001 - Thursday, 4 – 5:15 p.m. | Evening | Amol Mali | 3 | Basic course in Probability or Statistics. | ||||
| ECON 703 | Econometrics | 11484 | Section 401- Monday/Wednesday, 2:30 -- 3:45 p.m. | Kevin Thom | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| 11786 | Section 601- Friday, 10:30 -- 11:20 am | ||||||||||
| ECON 835 | Econometric Methods II | 19027 | Section 001- Tuesday/Thursday, 11:30--12:45 a.m. | Narayan Kishor | 3 | ECON 735(P) | |||||
| 19028 | Section 202 - ONLINE | Online | |||||||||
| ED PSY 724 | Educational Statistical Methods II | 15534 | Section 001 - Tuesday, 5 – 8:20 p.m. | Evening | Razia Azen | 3 | Grad st; Ed Psy 624(P) | ||||
| IND ENG 765 | Operations Research Methods | 18684 | Section 001 - Tuesday/Thursday, 2:30—3:45 p.m. | 3 | Grad st; Ind Eng 465 & 767. | ||||||
| MTHSTAT 361G | Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I | 12284 | Section 001 - Monday/Wednesday, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. | Chao Zhu | 3 | Junior standing and MATH 212(P) or MATH 233(P). | |||||
| ***Not recommended for graduate students in math, or students not planning to take MTHSTAT 362. | |||||||||||
| MTHSTAT 362G | Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II | 13200 | Section 001 - Monday/Wednesday 2:30—3:45 p.m. | Daniel Gervini | 3 | Prereq: jr st; MthStat 361(P) | |||||
| MTHSTAT 763 | Regression Analysis | 13251 | Section 001 - Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00 –11:15 a.m. | David Spade | 3 | Graduate standing; MTHSTAT 362(P) or MTHSTAT 467(P); or consent of instructor. | |||||
| MTHSTAT 871 | Mathematical Statistics I | 14221 | Section 001 - Tuesday/Thursday, 11:30 a.m. -- 12:45 p.m. | David Spade | 3 | graduate standing and MATH 524 (522)(C), MATH 624(622)(C), or MATH 724(C). | |||||
| POL SCI 701 | Techniques of Political Science Research | 12060 | Section 001 - Wednesday, 4:30—7:10 p.m. | Kyle McWagner | 3 | grad st; one undergrad stats course or cons instr. | |||||
| PSYCH 510G | Advanced Psychological Statistics | 14839 | (LEC) - Section 401 - Monday, 6:00—7:50 p.m. | Evening | Jeffrey Cooley | 3 | Jr st & Psych 210(P); or grad st. | ||||
| ***must sign up for lecture and one discussion section | 14840 | (DISC) - Section 601 - Friday, 9:30 – 10:20 a.m. | |||||||||
| 14841 | (DISC) - Section 602 - Friday, 10:30—11:20 a.m. | ||||||||||
| SOCIOL 461G | Social Data Analysis Using Regression | 12290 | (LEC) - Section 401 - ONLINE | Online | Aki Roberts | 3 | Junior standing and SOCIOL 261(P) or other approved statistics course; or consent of instructor. | ||||
| ***must sign up for lecture and one lab section | 12297 | (LAB) - Section 901 - ONLINE | |||||||||
| SOCIOL 982 | Advanced Quantitative Analysis | 19209 | Section 001- Wednesday, 5:30 -- 8:10 p.m. | Evening | John Roberts | 3 | Graduate standing and a minimum score of 85 on department diagnostic exam. | ||||
| Advanced Programming for Data Collection/Data Science (1 course/3 credits required) | |||||||||||
| Course No. | Course Name | Class Code | Class Time | Online | Evening | Faculty | Credits | Prerequisites: | |||
| COMPST 702 | Software Development in Python | 13644 | Section 401 - Tuesday/Thursday, 2:20-3:20 | Rohit Kate | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| ***must sign up for lecture and one lab section | 13785 | (LAB) - Section 801- Thursday, 3:30-5:20 p.m. | |||||||||
| 13645 | (LAB) - Section 802- Thursday, 3:30-5:20 p.m. | ||||||||||
| 17858 | (LAB) - Section 803 - Thursday, 3:30-5:20 p.m. | ||||||||||
| COMPST 751 | Data Structure and Algorithms | 13637 | Section 001 - Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30-10:20 a.m. | John Boyland | 3 | CompSt 750(P) or CompSci 251(R). | |||||
| 13407 | Section 201- Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30-10:20 a.m. (ONLINE) | Online | John Boyland | ||||||||
| MTHSTAT 766 | Computational Statistics | 13252 | Section 001 - Monday/Wednesday, 4:00—5:15 p.m. | Evening | Daniel Gervini | 3 | Graduate standing; MTHSTAT 362(P) or MTHSTAT 467(P), or consent of instructor. | ||||
| URBPLAN 794 | Internet Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | 16928 | Section 001 - Monday, 6:00–8:40 p.m. | Evening | Paul Vepraskas | 3 | Grad st; UrbPlan 792(P) or Geog 625(P); or cons instr. | ||||
| Ethics (1 course/3 credits required) | |||||||||||
| Course No. | Course Name | Class Code | Class Time | Online | Evening | Faculty | Credits | Prerequisites: | |||
| BUS ADM 743 | Information Privacy, Security & Continuity | 14507 | Section 001 - Thursday, 2:30-5:10 p.m. | 3 | graduate standing | ||||||
| 14508 | Section 002 - Thursday, 5:30-8:10 p.m. | Evening | 3 | graduate standing | |||||||
| INFOST 465G | Legal Aspects of Information Products and Services | 15799 | Section 201 - ONLINE | Online | Nadine Kozak | 3 | Graduate Standing only (Undergrads not allowed). | ||||
| INFOST 583G | Survey of Information Security | 15894 | Section 001 - Thursday, 5:30-8:10 p.m. | Evening | Katelyn Goerke | 3 | Jr st or cons instr. | ||||
| INFOST 660G | Information Policy | 18577 | Section 001- Tuesday/Thursday, 10:00 -- 11:15 am | Wilhelm Peekhaus | 3 | Jr. st. | |||||
| Electives (4 courses/12 credits required) | |||||||||||
| Course No. | Course Name | Class Code | Class Time | Online | Evening | Faculty | Credits | Prerequisites: | |||
| ART 316G | Creative Interfaces | 18482 | Section 801 (LAB)- Tuesday/Thursday, 11:30 a.m. -- 2:10 p.m. | Nathaniel Stern | 3 | Junior standing and ART 218(P); or junior standing and SOIS, CEAS or SARUP major; or graduate standing; or consent of instructor. | |||||
| ART 427G | Advanced Design Workshop: Experimental Interfaces | 17015 | Section 801(LAB) - Monday/Wednesday, 8:00-10:40 a.m. | Wesley Larsen | 3 | Junior standing and ART 221(R) or consent of instructor. | |||||
| BUS ADM 741 | Web Mining and Analytics | 14496 | Section 001 - Wednesday 5:30—8:10 p.m. | Evening | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| 14497 | Section 203 - ONLINE | Online | |||||||||
| BUS ADM 742 | Big Data in Business | 13610 | Section 001 - Tuesday 5:30—8:10 p.m. | Evening | Staff | 3 | Graduate standing | ||||
| BUS ADM 745 | Artificial Intelligence for Business | 14513 | Section 001 - Monday 5:30—8:10 p.m. | Evening | Atish Sinha | 3 | Graduate standing | ||||
| BUS ADM 763 | Marketing Analytics | 11652 | Section 001 - Monday 5:30—8:10 p.m. | Evening | Pallav Routh | 3 | Grad st; BusMgmt 709(C) or cons instr. | ||||
| BUS ADM 812 | Machine Learning for Business | 14504 | Section 001 - Wednesday, 2:30—5:10 p.m. | Cheng Chen | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| 14179 | Section 203 - ONLINE | Online | Cheng Chen | 3 | graduate standing | ||||||
| BUS ADM 813 | Social Media Analytics for Business | 14498 | Section 001 - Thursday 5:30-8:10 p.m. | Evening | Yang Wang | 3 | Graduate standing | ||||
| BUS ADM 816 | Business Intelligence Technologies & Solutions | 14510 | Section 001 - Monday, 5:30—8:10 p.m. | Evening | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| 11654 | Section 203 - ONLINE | Online | Atish Sinha | ||||||||
| COMPSCI 469G | Introduction to Computer Security | 18662 | Section 001- Tuesday/Thursday, 4:00 - 5:15 pm | Evening | Zhen Zeng | 3 | Junior standing; a grade of C or better in both COMPSCI 317(P) and COMPSCI 251(P). | ||||
| COMPSCI 535G | Algorithm Design and Analysis | 13710 | Section 001 - Monday/Wednesday, 1:00—2:15 p.m. | Zeyun Yu | 3 | Junior standing; MATH 211(P), MATH 213(P), MATH 221(P) or MATH 231(P); a grade of C or better in COMPSCI 351(P) and COMPSCI 317(P); or MATH 341(P) and MTHSTAT 361(P). | |||||
| COMPSCI 723 | Introduction to Natural Language Processing | 12970 | Section 001 - Monday/Wednesday 2:30-3:45 p.m. | Susan Mcroy | 3 | Not open to students with credit in COMPSCI 423. Prereq: graduate standing and COMPSCI 351 or COMPST 751 | |||||
| CRM JST 520G | Analysis Oriented Technology: Spatial Data Analysis; Crime Mapping; ArcGIS | 18500 | Section 201- ONLINE | Online | Rebecca Konkol | 3 | Jr st; Crm Jst 110(P). | ||||
| CRM JST 713 | Measuring Crime & Analyzing Crime Data | 14636 | Section 201 -ONLINE | Online | Danielle Romaine Dagenhardt | 3 | Graduate standing | ||||
| ED PSY 821 | Psychometric Theory and Practice | 18549 | Section 001- Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. -- 2:10 p.m. | Bo Zhang | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| ED PSY 826 | Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical Data | 18550 | Section 001- Thursday, 3:30 -- 6:30 p.m. | Razia Azen | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| GEOG 716 | Watershed Analysis and Modeling | 14737 | Section 001 - Monday/Wednesday 4:00-5:15 p.m. | Evening | 3 | Grad st; working knowledge of GIS | |||||
| GEOG 726 | Geographic Information Science | 13649 | (LEC) - Section 202 - ONLINE | Online | Zengwang Xu | 4 | Graduate standing | ||||
| ***must sign up for lecture and one lab section | 13650 | (LAB) - Section 901 - ONLINE | |||||||||
| 13651 | (LAB) - Section 902 - ONLINE | ||||||||||
| GEOG 826 | Intermediate Geographic Information Science | 12168 | (LEC) - Section 401 - Tuesday/Thursday, 1:00—2:15 p.m. | Changshan Wu | 4 | Grad st; Geog 525(P) or Geog 726(P) or UrbPlan 591(P) or UrbPlan 791(P). | |||||
| ***must sign up for lecture and one lab section | 12169 | (LAB) - Section 801 - Friday 11:30-1:20 p.m. | |||||||||
| GEOG 999 | Independent Work | (IND) - Sections (Multiple) | Geog. Faculty | Graduate standing | |||||||
| INFOST 695G | Ethical Hacking I | 15906 | Section 001- Monday/Wednesday, 1:00--2:15 pm | Faculty | 3 | INFOST 325(P) or graduate standing. | |||||
| 18586 | Section 201- ONLINE | Online | Faculty | ||||||||
| INFOST 771 | Data Curation | 18587 | Section 201- ONLINE | Online | Wan-Chen Lee | 3 | Graduate standing and INFOST 511(P) or INFOST 582(P); or consent of instructor. | ||||
| POL SCI 390G | Political Data Analysis | 13555 | Section 001- Monday/Wednesday, 10:00--11:15 a.m. | Hong Min Park | 3 | Jr. st; satisfaction of GER Quantitative Literacy Part A req. | |||||
| SOCIOL 750 | Research Methods in Sociology | 12729 | Section 001 - Thursday, 2:30-5:10 p.m. | Timothy O’Brien | 3 | Graduate standing | |||||
| URBPLAN 791 | Introduction to Urban Geographic Information Systems for Planning | 16926 | (LEC) - Section 201 - Monday, 5:30—6:25 p.m. | Online | Michael Benedict | 3 | Graduate standing | ||||
| ***must sign up for lecture and one lab section | 16927 | (LAB) - Section 901 - Monday 6:30—8:00 p.m. | |||||||||
| URBPLAN 999 | Independent Study | varies | |||||||||