Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified. No more than two courses may be used to satisfy other program requirements.

Foundational Courses 

MATH 2280Statistics and Software4
or CRIM 3700 Analyzing and Using Data on Crime and Justice
or ECON 2350 Statistics for Economists
or INSH 3102 Introduction to Statistics in the Social Sciences
or POLS 2400 Quantitative Techniques
or PSYC 2320 Statistics in Psychological Research
or SOCL 2320 Statistical Analysis in Sociology
INSH 1500Digital Methods for Social Sciences and Humanities4
or CS 2500 Fundamentals of Computer Science 1
or DS 2000
and DS 2001
Programming with Data
and Data Science Programming Practicum

Applications of Computational Approaches in the Social Sciences

Complete two courses from the following. Students may complete a capstone project under the direction of a faculty member in lieu of an application course:8
Social Networks
Foundations of Data Science
Information Presentation and Visualization
Large-Scale Information Storage and Retrieval
Machine Learning and Data Mining 1
Bostonography: The City through Data, Texts, Maps, and Networks
Introduction to Information Systems and Digital Technologies
Fundamentals of Information Analytics
Ethics and Evolutionary Games
Public Opinion, Voting, and Elections
Big Data for Cities

Elective in Social Inquiry, Computation, and Logic 

Complete one course from the following:4
Wired/Unwired: Cybercultures and Technopolitics
Logic and Computation
Information Economics and Game Theory
Principles of Information Science
Probability and Statistics
Introduction to Logic
Mathematical Thinking
Advanced Deductive Logic

GPA Requirement

2.000 GPA required in the minor