Data Science

Year 1: Understanding

Your first year experience is designed to prepare your mind for everything that follows. The courses you take will prepare you to think critically, communicate creatively, and question everything.

Featured Courses:

• PHIL 130 – Values and Knowledge
• CMPSC 105 – Data Exploration
• PHIL 140 – Ethics and Community

Year 2: New Approaches

As a sophomore, you’ll declare your major and select your mentor. But that’s just the start of it. You’ll also be asked to choose a minor from an alternate discipline to keep your perspectives fresh and your mind wide open.

Featured courses:

• ENGL 210 – Writing Creative Nonfiction
• GHS 228 – Global Health Data and Visualization
• GHS 223 – People & Poisons: Foundations of Public Health Toxicology

Year 3: Delving Deeper

As you delve deeper and take on a Junior Seminar, you’ll develop an even more eloquent understanding of your chosen fields. And you’ll begin to focus on improving your research skills and rhetorical ability in preparation for your Senior Comp.

Featured Courses

• FILM 375 – Documentary Tradition
• BIO 321 – Epidemiology
• CMPSC 303 – Artificial Intelligence

Year 4: The Comp

One of the accomplishments our alumni are most proud of is their Senior Comp. Every Allegheny student must research, propose, create, and defend an original creative or critical project. You’ll be paired with a mentor throughout the project, and the experience will prepare you well for any step you take after graduation.

Featured Courses

• CMPSC 406 – Internet of Things
• POLSC 489 – Statistics and Data Analysis
• CMPSC 405 – Deep Learning