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Business Analytics – Minor

Business Analytics

The Business Analytics Minor prepares students for positions involving data management, visualization, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive modeling, and communication of business insights across a variety of industries. The minor’s mission is to be responsive to serving our students with relevant and practical learning experiences essential in an ever- changing and complex economy.

The Business Analytics minor requires 12 units. Students do not need to earn more than 120 units towards the degree to earn the minor.

TIER ONE: THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE REQUIRED (9 UNITS)

BSA 315: Introduction to Business Analytics
BSA 316: Coding for Analytics
BSA 319: Data Visualization and Business Insight

TIER TWO: CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES: (3 UNITS)

BSA 320: The Art of Thinking Like a Data Scientist
BSA 401: Digital Transformation
BSA 402: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
BSA 410: Silicon Valley Immersion
BSA 420: Technoethics and Responsibility
BSA S: Special Topics in Business Analytics
ENI 403: Design Thinking
MGT 309: Role of Blockchain in Business Model Innovation
MKT 335: Marketing Research

Program Learning Outcomes

Data-Driven Decision-Making: Students will be able to apply analytic models and appropriate statistical techniques to make well-informed business decisions.
Designing for Insights: Students will be able to create, collect, organize, and analyze datasets using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
Communicating Actionable Insights and Applications: Students will be able to communicate, present, and visualize the results of their data analyses.

The Business Analytics minor requires 12 units. Students do not need to earn more than 120 units towards the degree to earn the minor.

TIER ONE: THE FOLLOWING COURSES ARE REQUIRED (9 UNITS)

BSA 315: Introduction to Business Analytics
BSA 316: Coding for Analytics
BSA 319: Data Visualization and Business Insight

TIER TWO: CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES: (3 UNITS)

BSA 320: The Art of Thinking Like a Data Scientist
BSA 401: Digital Transformation
BSA 402: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
BSA 410: Silicon Valley Immersion
BSA 420: Technoethics and Responsibility
BSA S: Special Topics in Business Analytics
ENI 403: Design Thinking
MGT 309: Role of Blockchain in Business Model Innovation
MKT 335: Marketing Research

Program Learning Outcomes

Data-Driven Decision-Making: Students will be able to apply analytic models and appropriate statistical techniques to make well-informed business decisions.
Designing for Insights: Students will be able to create, collect, organize, and analyze datasets using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
Communicating Actionable Insights and Applications: Students will be able to communicate, present, and visualize the results of their data analyses.

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