Undergraduate Requirements Archive →
2025/2026 Undergraduate Requirements →
Requirements Change Summary
1. Requirements Change Summary
NEW: Data Science BS
Math Major Course Requirements and Emphases:
- ECE 101 and ECE 201 added to list of programming course options for math majors
- Applied emphasis: MATH 412 added to list of alternatives to 475B
- Prob/Stat emphasis: MATH 412 added to "pick 1" list
- Econ/Bus emphasis: MATH 412 added to "pick 2" list
- CS emphasis: restructured to require one linear algebra course (412 or 413), and pick 2 additional electives to reach 5 courses.
- For the B.S. degree, we now allow ENVS 200 & 201 to fulfill one lab science requirement. Lecture and lab must both be taken to constitute one lab science course. We were not able to get this into the Fall 2025 catalog, but can make substitutions for students in any catalog.
Statistics & Data Science BA Major Course Requirements:
To better align with the new Data Science B.S., we have revised the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in SDS as follows (we do not plan to offer a B.A. in Data Science):
- MATH 263 (Intro Stats & Biostats) will be required instead of MATH 223 (Vector Calculus)
- DATA 201 and 474 are still required (added for Fall 2024)
- MATH 223, 464, and 466 were moved to the elective options, where students will pick THREE electives (instead of one). At least two of the electives must be upper-division.
- Additional electives have been added, including:
- DATA 439 (Statistical Natural Language Processing)
- GEOG 457 (Statistical Techniques in Geography, Regional Development and Planning)
- INFO 402 (Data Ethics)
- ISTA 320 (Applied Data Visualization)
- ISTA 321 (Data Mining & Discovery
- PHIL 206 (Ethics of AI)
- PHIL 346 (Minds, Brains, & Computers)
- PHIL 455 (Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence)
- WFSC 223 (Dealing With Data in the Wild)
