This minor in Data and Education will introduce you to how data-driven solutions and applications can improve and inform education practices, policy making, and implementation; and how education, as a tool, can impact many aspects of society beyond school boundaries. Using a critical lens, you'll examine important issues in the use of data to address education issues, such as access and equity, ethics and values, both in the US and globally. You'll learn how to understand and manage education data, how to think about and examine the complexities of education data, how and why education data are collected, and what kinds of critical education issues can be explored and solved through data. This minor is open to all NYU undergraduates.
Core Course Sequence
Students in this minor are required to take one foundation course either in data science or in education.
Students who come from data science or other related technical backgrounds (such as computer science, data science and statistics, information sciences, and other related STEM fields) and are interested in education-related solutions and applications) are required to take one foundations of education course such as Introduction to US Education or Introduction to Global Education to gain foundational knowledge about important background historical context to understand the current political, pedagogical, and economic debates or issues in the fields of global education.
Students who come from social science, humanities and a range of professional backgrounds at NYU (such as education, policy, business and public health) and are interested in leveraging data-driven technologies/solutions in improving education-related practices and policies in broad settings) are required to take one foundation of data for the social sciences such as Introduction to Statistics. Students are also required to take a Data and Education Practicum course such as Education and Social Entrepreneurship, Presenting and Visualizing Education, Education Consulting
Specialization Sequence
There are two tracks: Students who come from data science or other related technical backgrounds (such as computer science, data science and statistics, information sciences, and other related STEM fields) and are interested in education-related solutions and applications) are required to take one foundations of education course such as Introduction to US Education or Introduction to Global Education to gain foundational knowledge about important background historical context to understand the current political, pedagogical, and economic debates or issues in the fields of global education.
Students who come from social science, humanities and a range of professional backgrounds at NYU (such as education, policy, business and public health) and are interested in leveraging data-driven technologies/solutions in improving education-related practices and policies in broad settings) are required to take one foundation of data for the social sciences such as Introduction to Statistics.
Sample Elective Courses
Presenting and Visualizing Education
Education and Social Entrepreneurship
Power + Politics of Data
Topics in Political Economy of Education: Why Does College Cost So Much?
Education as a Social Institution
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration
Education and Law
Globalization & Education
International Human Rights Activism and Education
Comparative Politics, Education, and Conflict
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Data and Education Minor Requirements
(16 units)
Foundations of Data for the Social Sciences (4 units)
Students who have no foundation in quantitative methods, statistics or data science must take one course in Foundations of Data for the Social Sciences from the following:
- APSTA-UE 21 Cracking the Code
- APSTA-UE 1085 Basic Statistics I
- APSTA-UE 10 Statistical Mysteries and How to Solve Them
- APSTA-UE 25 Carpe Datum: Data Science for Life’s Big Questions
Students who have already taken an equivalent course in statistics, quantitative methods or data science may take 8 credits in electives.
Foundations of Education (4 units)
Choose one course from the following:
- HSED-UE 1005 Introduction to US Education
- TCHL-UE 41/SCA-UE 755: American Dilemmas: Race, Inequality, and the Unfulfilled Promise
- INTE-UE 10 Introduction to Global Education
- EDLED-UE 1005: Introduction to Education Policy Analysis
Alternative course by advisement for those who have an education background or have already taken one or more of the above courses.
Data and Education Practicum (4 units)
Choose one course from the following:
Data and Statistical Applications
- APSTA-UE 1301 Power + Politics of Data
- EDST-UE 1601 Presenting and Visualizing Education Data
Experiential Learning
- EDST-UE 1503 Education and Social Entrepreneurship
- EDST-UE 1505 Education Consulting
Electives (4-8 units)
Choose 1 or 2 courses from the combined list of Foundations of Education and Data and Education Practicum courses listed above or other education- or data-related courses by advisement, such as:
- EDST-UE 1321 Political Economy of Education: Why Does College Cost So Much?
- HSED-UE 1033 Global Culture Wars
- INTE-UE 11 Globalization and Education
- INTE-UE 1010 International Human Rights Activism and Education
- INTE-UE 1545 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration
- SOED-UE 1015 Education as a Social Institution
For help planning your schedule or questions about the minor requirements, please contact the Data and Education Minor adviser at minor.data.education@nyu.edu.