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Data Science

Plan of Study

Population Health

Overview

In this sequence, students will apply data science to the understanding of public health issues and the interconnected variables that impact the origination and spread of infectious diseases and the effect of health variables on mortality. Students will also apply modeling to predict the impact of treatment strategies. Students in this sequence will be prepared to work in a government, non-profit, or public setting. After graduation, students might gain employment at a health insurance company, healthcare software vendor, diagnostic center, healthcare consulting firm, or within a healthcare organization including hospitals, clinics, and private practices.

Sequence Requirements

Take all of the following courses (21 credit hours):

  • HSC 105 Medical Terminology
  • HSC 145 Environmental Health and Sustainability Practice or HSC 292 Public Health
  • HSC 210 Intro to Health Info Management
  • HSC 230 Legal Aspects of Health Info & Risk Management
  • HSC 258 Epidemiology
  • HSC 341 Health Data Governance
  • HSC 345 Quality Management and Health Care

Sample Plans of Study

First Year - Fall Semester (17 credit hours)

MAT 145 Calculus I (General Education) (4)
ENG 101 Composition as Critical Inquiry or 
 COM 110 Communication as Critical Inquiry (3)
General Education course (3)
General Education course (3)
IT 168 Structured Problem Solving Using the Computer (4)

First Year - Spring Semester (16 credit hours)

MAT 146 Calculus II (General Education) (4)
ENG 101 Composition as Critical Inquiry or 
 COM 110 Communication as Critical Inquiry (3)
IT 179 Introduction to Data Structures (3)
General Education course (3)
General Education course (3)

Second Year - Fall Semester (15 credit hours)

MAT 147 Calculus III (BS-SMT) (4)
MAT 260 Discrete Mathematics (4)
IT 180 C++ Programming (1)
General Education course (AMALI) (3)
University-wide elective (3)

Second Year - Spring Semester (15 credit hours)

MAT 350 Applied Probability Models (4)
IT 279 Algorithms and Data Structures (3)
General Education course (3)
University-wide elective (2)
HSC 105 Medical Terminology (3)

Third Year - Fall Semester (17 credit hours)

MAT 175 Elementary Linear Algebra (4)
MAT 351 Statistics and Data Analysis (4)
HSC 210 Intro to Health Info Management (3)
HSC 145 Environmental Health & Sustainability Practice or HSC 292 Community Public Health (3)
General Education course (3)

Third Year - Spring Semester (15 credit hours)

IT 348 Intro to Machine Learning (3)
HSC 230 Legal Aspects of Health Info & Risk Management (3)
General Education course (3)
General Education course (3)
PHI 234 Business Ethics, MKT 236 Business Ethics, Social Responsibility and Sustainability, or IT 214 Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Info Tech (3)

Fourth Year - Fall Semester (12 credit hours)

POL 309 Data Analysis and Data Visualization in Political Science, CTK 302 Computer Programming for Creatives, or IT 352 Data and Information Visualization (3)
HSC 345 Quality Management in Health Care (3)
University-wide elective (IDEAS) (3)
University-wide elective (3)

Fourth Year - Spring Semester (13 credit hours)

IDS 398a05 Professional Practice Internship in Data Science or IDS 388 Capstone/Directed Project in Data Science (3)
MAT 355 Generalized Linear Models and Predictive Modeling (4)
HSC 341 Health Data Governance (3)
HSC 258 Epidemiology (3)