MINOR PROGRAM IN Data Scıence
Data Science is a popular and emerging field which has many applications in different domains. Due to the vast amount of data availability, storage possibility, and computation facilities, the need to process, analyze and understand data has become essential in addressing challenges across disciplines. Minor Program in Data Science provides relevant background and skills in statistics, programming, computation and different applications of data science to interested students.
This minor program is open to all students whose major area is outside Computer Engineering.
Conditions of Minor Program Completion
There are a total of 6 courses in this minor program; 4 of them are mandatory, 1 of them is restricted elective, and 1 of them is elective courses. Students must take two programming courses: one fundamental and one advanced topics, one statistics and one database management and file structures courses to get the fundamentals of the data science. Some of these courses may be taken as a part of the students’ major program. In that case, those courses can be counted towards the Data Science minor program. The remaining courses to meet the requirement for completing a minor program must be taken, which provide insights of the data science.
Compulsory Courses
| Course Coverage | Course Name* | Prerequisites* |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Programming | CNG 230 C Programming (2-2)3 or CNG 240 Programming with Python for Engineers (2-2)3 |
- |
| Data Structures | CNG 301 Algorithms and Data Structures (3-0)3 or CNG 310 Algorithms and Data Structures with Python 3(3-0) |
CNG 230 CNG 240 |
| Statistics | STAS 221 Statistics for Engineers I (3-0)3 or CVE 303 Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers (3-0)3 or EEE 330 Probability and Random Variables (3-0)3 or BUS 152 Statistics for Social Sciences (3-0)3 or PSYC 116 Statistics for Psychology I (3-2)4 or INE 265 Introduction to Probability (3-0)3 |
MAT 120 MAT 119 MAT 120 - - |
| Database Management & File Structures | CNG 351 Database Management Systems and File Structures (3-0)3 | - |
*Please check the Student Affairs Information System to see the most updated course information.
Restricted Elective Courses
At least one of the following courses needs to be taken in the minor program.
| Code | Elective Course Name | Prerequisites* |
|---|---|---|
| CNG 414 | Introduction to Data Mining | MAT 260 & STAS 221 |
| CNG 462 | Artificial Intelligence | - |
*Please check the Student Affairs Information System to see the most updated course information.
Elective Courses**
At least one of the following courses needs to be taken in the minor program.
| Code | Elective Course Name | Prerequisites* |
|---|---|---|
| CNG 352 | Database Management Systems (3-2)4 | CNG 351 |
| CNG 465 | Introduction to Bioinformatics (3-0)3 | - |
| CNG 466 | Fundamentals of Image Processing (3-0)3 | - |
| CNG 483 | Introduction to Computer Vision (3-0)3 | - |
| CNG XXX | Machine Learning (3-0)3 | MAT260, STAS221, CNG223 |
*Please check the Student Affairs Information System to see the most updated course information.
**Other courses may be accepted as an elective course upon the approval of the minor program coordinator.
Summary Table for Engineering Students
The following summary table is given as information for the engineering students; thus, it is not a binding table. The detailed program should be discussed with the academic advisor in the major program and the minor program coordinator.
The minimum requirement for completing a minor, based on respective METU directive, is the completion of 6 courses and 18 credits, with no less than 4 courses outside the major program curriculum.
| Major Program | Programming | Statistics | Data Structures | Database Management & File Structures | # of Electives (R: Restrictive) |
Total # of Courses in Addition to the Major Program |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASE | CNG 230 | n/a in major | 1 RE + 1 | 4*** | ||
| CHME | CNG 230 | n/a in major | 1 RE + 1 | 4*** | ||
| CVE | CNG 230 | CVE 303 | n/a in major | 1 RE + 1 | 4 | |
| EEE | CNG 230 | EEE 330 | n/a in major | 1 RE + 1 | 4 | |
| MECH | CNG 230 | n/a in major | 1 RE + 1 | 4*** | ||
| PNGE | CNG 230 | CVE 303 | n/a in major | 1 RE + 1 | 4 | |
| INE | CNG 240 | CNG 310 | n/a in major | 1 RE + 1 | 4 | |
***The remaining number of courses is calculated if one course (must or elective) is counted towards major program.