Capstone: Data Science Certificate for Non-Computing Majors

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/ NUTR 2030 & CEMA 2050 / NUTR 2050 , or permission of the Coordinator of the Data Science Certificate for Non-Computing Majors. This course provides the capstone experience for students pursuing the Data Science Certificate for Non-Computing Majors. Students are required to implement and document a data-enabled project within the context of their major discipline. The course requires students to apply their data science and data analytic skills and domain knowledge to analyze and visualize current real-world issues from their major discipline. This course requires the submission of a written reproducible report and an oral presentation of the project in an open forum. The selection of projects must be approved by the Coordinator of the Data Science Certificate for Non-Computing Majors and the supervising discipline faculty. This course is part of an undergraduate-level Data Science Certificate for Non-Computing Majors certificate program that is being created. This certificate is open to non-computing majors, particularly Criminal Justice, Art, and Nutrition and Dietetics. Interested students from any non-computing discipline can take the courses from this certificate in place of free electives or as recommended by their respective departments.