New degree programs approved | Top Stories - Basement Medicine

In December, the NVU-Johnson Faculty Assembly approved three new degree programs for fall 2020, following an endorsement in fall 2019 by the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees, according to Magnificent Schmidl, Staff Reporter at Basement Medicine.

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Two of the programs, Professional Writing, Editing, and Publishing – which was featured in the Dec. 12 issue of Basement Medicine– and Performance Arts and Technology, will be NVU-Johnson specific while the third, Data Sciences, will be offered on both campuses.

Data Sciences will be directed by Gregory Petrics, associate professor in mathematics and Bradley Beth, assistant professor in computer sciences. From afar, the major looks similar to a Statistics major, but Petrics, says that there are some fundamental differences.

The degree will have a foundation of computer programming and use Java throughout the program...

Some classes will be added to the department to complete the curriculum for the program.
 
Among them is Statistical Computing and R, which will be the sequel to the Stats course already offered, but will be using a different program than your average TI calculator or Excel. The program is called R and it uses computing language to do data analysis. Some students are currently in a trial run of the course.
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Source: Basement Medicine