Undergraduate Certificate in Data Science
Computing and data analysis skills are becoming necessary in an ever-increasing number of disciplines and workplace contexts. This fully online undergraduate certificate will provide you with introductory data science skills to help you support data-driven decision making in your organisation and build the foundations of an exciting new career.Course overview
- Course code
- CU006
- Status
- Rescinded subject to continuing students being able to re-enrol and complete
- Intake periods
- beginning of year and mid-year
- Admission requirements
- Minimum ATAR Threshold is . The ATAR Subject Prerequisites are
- Administered by
- Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Computing; Graduate Research School
- Full-time
- 6 months
- Part-time
- 1 year (maximum 2 years)
- Delivery mode
- internal
- Locations offered
- UWA (Perth)
- Available to international students
- No
- Fees
- Visit the fees calculator.
Prospective students should see the Future Students website for details on admission requirements, intake periods, fees, availability to international students, careers information etc.
Course structure
Key to availability of units: |
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S1 = Semester 1; S2 = Semester 2 |
All units have a value of six points unless otherwise stated.
Take all units (18 points):
Availability | Unitcode | Unitname | Unit requirments | Contact hours |
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S1, S2 | CITS1401 | Computational Thinking with Python |
| lectures: 2 hours per week; labs: 2 hours per week; workshop: 1 hour per week |
S2 | CITS1402 | Relational Database Management Systems |
| lectures: 2 hours per week; labs: 2 hours per week |
S1, S2 | PACM1101 | Communication in Practice | 3 hours per week |
For students who have not completed Math Applications ATAR, take MATH1720 in the winter teaching period.
Availability | Unitcode | Unitname | Unit requirments | Contact hours |
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S1, S2 | MATH1720 | Mathematics Fundamentals |
| 3 x 1 hr lectures and 1 x 1hr workshop |
For students who have completed Math Applications ATAR or equivalent, take STAT1400.
Availability | Unitcode | Unitname | Unit requirments | Contact hours |
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S1, S2 | STAT1400 | Statistics for Science |
| lectures: 3 hours; labs: 2 hours |