Data Intensive Designated Course Student Learning Outcomes

Data Intensive Designated courses focus on 2 or more of the below student learning outcomes (SLO’s). Use the searchable catalog to search for approved courses based on SLOs, prefixes, or other keywords.

ASSESS: Students think critically about when and what data are needed, assess data sources appropriate to the information needed, and identify the context in which data are produced and used.
ACCESS: Students access, or collect when appropriate, data and explain the ethical considerations of how this data is collected and used.
METHODS: Students identify appropriate data-analysis methods for working with a given data set and explain the associated limitations and interpretations.
COMMUNICATE: Students communicate their data-intensive work to a variety of audiences through multiple modalities (written, visual, verbal).
TECHNOLOGY: Students identify and proficiently use appropriate software tools to perform at least 2 of the following:
a. Proof—or “clean”—data to make it amenable to further analysis,
b. Transform data (e.g. from text to numbers), through coding or another process
c. Visualize and compare attributes of a data set,
d. Analyze data for pertinent information, and
e. Develop models that estimate relationships among variables in the data.