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Twin Cities Campus
Statistical Practice B.A.Statistics, School of
College of Liberal Arts
Statistics is the science of learning from data, measuring, controlling, and communicating uncertainty. It provides the navigation essential for controlling the course of scientific and societal advances.
The statistical practice BA is intended for students who want to use their education as certification for work requiring statistical skills or as a basis for further education in another area like medicine, psychology, law or others. Compared to the BS degree, this program reduces the number of required mathematics courses and increases the number of applied statistics courses, or courses in a supporting quantitative area. Students who complete this program using statistics electives will have applied statistics training equivalent to most masters programs in statistics.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
Students must complete
1 courses
before admission to the program.
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
Required prerequisites
Preparatory Course
Complete STAT 3011 or STAT 3021 with a grade of C- or better in order to declare the statistical practice BA program. Completion of the preparatory course does not factor into the total credits required in the major.
STAT 3011 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
STAT 3021 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics
(3.0 cr)
General Requirements
All students in baccalaureate degree programs are required to complete general University and college requirements including writing and liberal education courses. For more information about University-wide requirements, see the
liberal education requirements.
Required courses for the major, minor or certificate in which a student receives a D grade (with or without plus or minus) do not count toward the major, minor or certificate (including transfer courses).
Program Requirements
Students are required to complete 4 semester(s) of
any second language.
with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department
or college.
Students may earn no more than one degree from the statistics program: a BA or a BS or a minor.
Beginning fall 2012, all incoming CLA freshmen must complete the appropriate First Year Experience course sequence. Specific information about this collegiate requirement can be found at: https://cla.umn.edu/student-services-advising/academic-requirements
Calculus
Take two courses for 8 credits.
MATH 1271 - Calculus I
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
MATH 1371 - CSE Calculus I
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
or
MATH 1571H - Honors Calculus I
[MATH]
(4.0 cr)
MATH 1272 - Calculus II
(4.0 cr)
or
MATH 1372 - CSE Calculus II
(4.0 cr)
or
MATH 1572H - Honors Calculus II
(4.0 cr)
Major Courses
Take the following 4 courses and one of the options in Theory of Statistics (2 courses) for 23 credits.
STAT 3032 - Regression and Correlated Data
(4.0 cr)
STAT 3701 - Introduction to Statistical Computing
(4.0 cr)
STAT 4051 - Statistical Machine Learning I
(4.0 cr)
STAT 4052 - Statistical Machine Learning II
(4.0 cr)
Choose a Theory of Statistics course group:
Electives
A total of 11 credits of coursework is required.
At least 5 credits should be from the below courses. The remaining 6 credits may include Freshman Seminars (STAT 19XX) & Honors Seminars (HSEM) taught by School of Statistics faculty. With approval from the undergraduate adviser, up to 6 credits may be in an area where statistical methods are often applied, including but not limited to biostatistics, psychology, sociology, economics, geography or computer science at the 4XXX or 5XXX level.
Take 5 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
STAT 3501 {Inactive}
(1.0 cr)
·
STAT 5031 {Inactive}
(4.0 cr)
·
STAT 5201 - Sampling Methodology in Finite Populations
(3.0 cr)
·
STAT 5401 - Applied Multivariate Methods
(3.0 cr)
·
STAT 5421 - Analysis of Categorical Data
(3.0 cr)
·
STAT 5511 - Time Series Analysis
(3.0 cr)
·
STAT 5601 - Nonparametric Methods
(3.0 cr)
·
STAT 5931 - Topics in Statistics
(3.0 cr)
·
STAT 5932 {Inactive}
(3.0 cr)
Senior Project: Consultation and Communication for Statisticians
This course is required of all majors, including double-majors who have met the writing intensive requirement in the other major.
STAT 4893W - Consultation and Communication for Statisticians
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
Upper-division Writing Intensive within the major
Students are required to take one upper-division Writing Intensive course within the major. If that requirement has not been satisfied within the core major requirements, students must choose one course from the following list. Some of these courses may also fulfill other major requirements.
Take 0 - 1 course(s) from the following:
·
STAT 4893W - Consultation and Communication for Statisticians
[WI]
(3.0 cr)
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Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | AnSc 3011/ESPM 3012/Stat 3011/ |
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Course Equivalencies: | STAT 3021/STAT 3021H |
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Course Equivalencies: | Math 1271/Math 1381/Math 1571/ |
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Course Equivalencies: | Math 1271/Math 1381/Math 1571/ |
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Course Equivalencies: | Math 1271/Math 1381/Math 1571/ |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
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Course Equivalencies: | Math 1272/Math 1282/Math 1372/ |
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Course Equivalencies: | Math 1272/Math 1282/Math 1372/ |
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Course Equivalencies: | Math 1272/Math 1282/Math 1372/ |
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Course Equivalencies: | Math 5651/Stat 5101 |
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Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
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Typically offered: | Periodic Fall |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 3.0 [max 3.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |