Spring 2024
CRN: 15393
CIS 2500 - Data Analytics for Business-HC

Data analytics is a versatile discipline that has revolutionized the various fields of social sciences such as management, business, psychology, political sciences and etc. This course introduces students to data analysis principles, methods, and tools that are used in social science disciplines. Students will be introduced to various types of analytics tools and techniques used to solve societal problems. Data types, databases, and data visualization techniques are introduced in this course. Students also learn data analytics foundations from the perspective of social sciences scenarios and demonstrate how to apply their knowledge and skills they learn in this course to support data driven, comprehensive, reason and evidence-based conclusions. To understand data analytics applications in social science, students work on various cases in contexts such as business, management, and organizational psychology (e.g., consumer behavior, organizational behavior, …). This course meets the student learning outcomes in the WMU Essential Studies Level 2: Exploration and Discovery, Science and Technology Course Category.

Additional Information

Campus: Main
Schedule Type: Lecture/Lab/Discussion
Instructional Method: Traditional
Attribute: Creative&Critical Thinking SLO           Science and Technology

This section is restricted to students in the Honors College

Prerequisites and Restrictions:
 MATH 1160  Minimum Grade of D
Instructor(s): Fleenor, Victoria (Primary)

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