{"id":208355,"date":"2020-10-02T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/?page_id=208355"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:23:45","slug":"data-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/becoming-a-csam-major\/data-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Advising Guidelines for Data Science Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Programs offered in the Computer Science Department: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Data Science are restricted majors requiring a High School GPA of 3.0 or higher for Computer Science and Data Science, and a 2.7 or higher for Information Technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>For Incoming Freshmen<\/h2>\n<h3>First Semester Major Courses<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MATH 111 or MATH 122 (based on placement)<\/li>\n<li>CSIT 104<\/li>\n<li>CSIT 114<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>These courses must be passed with a minimum grade of C- within the student&#8217;s first year.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>For Currently Matriculated MSU Students Interested in Declaring Data Science<\/h2>\n<p>Before submitting a declaration of major form to the department, students must have completed MATH 111 or MATH 122 or AMAT 120, CSIT 104, and with grades of C- or higher. A GPA of 3.0 is required.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to go from here:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/computer-science\/\">Computer Science Department<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/csam\/becoming-a-csam-major\/csam-math-sequences\/\">CSAM Math Sequences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programs offered in the Computer Science Department: Computer Science, Information Technology, and Data Science are restricted majors requiring a High School GPA of 3.0 or higher for Computer Science and Data Science, and a 2.7 or higher for Information Technology. For Incoming Freshmen First Semester Major Courses MATH 111 or MATH 122 (based on placement) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":992,"parent":582,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208355","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209450,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208355\/revisions\/209450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/csam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}