Communicating, Leading, and Problem Solving With Data

3 units

Some of the most desired skills in the job market, across various fields, are management, communication, leadership, and the ability to apply data to influence policy and decision-making in an organization. The purpose of this course is to help students develop the non-technical skills needed to use data in various professional settings such as concepts in data literacy, data interpretation, and data communication. Students will be able to apply the knowledge they learned through mini-assignments, weekly discussions, and a semester long-project that is divided into stages. Students not in the CAPS Data Analytics certificate program must have knowledge of basic statistics and basic Excel tasks in order to succeed in this course (e.g. understand means, medians, and modes and can calculate them in Excel).