The Master of Arts in Political Economy with a Data Analytics Emphasis is a two-year (four-semester) interdisciplinary program. The major goal of the program curriculum is to train public policy specialists using advanced technologies and data analytics.
A minimum of thirty- (30) credit hours of coursework with a cumulative GPA ≥ 3.0. The 30 hours include 12 hours of core courses, 18 hours of graduate Data Analytics Electives.
Course ID | Title | Credits |
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Core Courses | ||
MATH 6080 | Intro to Statistical Inference | 3 |
or CCCC 7300 | Quantitative Analysis | |
ECON 6230 | Econometrics | 3 |
Advanced Positive Political Economy | ||
Advanced Seminar for MA Students | ||
Electives (pick 5 from the list) | ||
Elements in Biomedical Informatics | ||
Introduction to Data Science for Biomedical Informatics | ||
Statistical Machine and Deep Learning in Biomedical Practice | ||
Data Management and Statistical Computing | ||
Introduction To ArcGIS | ||
Public Health GIS | ||
Research Design | ||
Introduction to Data Science | ||
Intro to GIS | ||
Advanced GIS | ||
Linear Models | ||
Intro to Statistical Inference | ||
Applied Mathematics I | ||
Data Analysis | ||
Modeling and Analytics | ||
Web Analytics | ||
Adv Modeling and Analytics | ||
Quantitative Methods I | ||
Quantitative Methods I | ||
Qualitative Methods | ||
One Additional Elective from the Following | ||
Intermed Microeconomics | ||
Intermed. Macroeconomics | ||
Inequality & Poverty Latin Am | ||
Economics of Poverty | ||
Regulation | ||
Intl Trading Relations | ||
Health Econ & Policy | ||
Econ Public Expenditures | ||
Economics of Taxation | ||
Public Finance & Public Policy | ||
Comparative Economic Systems | ||
Labor & Pop In L.A. | ||
Econ Devel of Latin America | ||
Inequality & Poverty Latin Am | ||
Labor & Population in Lat Amer | ||
Sem On Lat Am Countries | ||
Econ of Educ Policy and Reform | ||
Theories of Economic Justice | ||
Graduate Professional Skills | ||
Race, Crime and Control |