Data Modeling and Ethics Microcertificate (Online)

Data science isn’t just about numbers. Data represents people, societies, cultural trends, and more. This microcertificate will explore the ethics, governance, and laws relevant to data science and artificial intelligence, including privacy, fairness, accountability, and transparency.

In courses for the microcertificate, you will:

• Learn to integrate features of Python, MySQL, and Tableau as you gain foundational knowledge of data science and engineering.
• Learn the principles of statistical thinking, data structures, data manipulation, and data visualization.
• Practice applying the skills of data management, cleaning, modeling, machine learning, and natural language processing.
• Explore the ethics, governance, and laws relevant to data science and artificial intelligence, including privacy, fairness, accountability, and transparency.
• Understand the regulatory framework for data science, including data protection laws, intellectual property rights, and ethical codes of conduct.

• CSCI 101 Foundations of Data Science and Engineering (available Fall 2026 and Spring 2027)
• CSCI 184 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Governance, and Laws (available Fall 2026 and Spring 2027)

Stack Your Microcertificate to a Graduate Certificate

The microcertificate courses can stack toward one of the following 4-course graduate certificates:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science
• Data Analytics

By completing the Data Modeling and Ethics Microcertificate, you will gain the skills required to pursue various data analytics, engineering, and science careers, including:

• Data analyst
• Data engineer
• Machine learning engineer