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• DATA Minor Fundamental Statistics Prerequisite consists of the following courses: DATA100, STAT100, MATH135, DATA400, or any 400-level STAT course, or their UMD approved equivalents: BIOE372, ENEE324, SURV410, SURV420, SURV440. No other courses can be used as DATA Minor prerequisites.
• The prerequisite course must have been completed before your request to enroll in the DATA minor was approved, and it cannot be changed later.
• The simplest answer to the question Which of these courses is my prerequisite? is this: You are always told during your initial interview with the Program Director, which course will be used as your DATA Minor prequisite. However if that information is not readily available for you, below are some other helpful suggestions.
• The complete list of possible prerequisite courses consists of: DATA100, STAT100, MATH135, DATA400, ENEE324, SURV410, SURV420, SURV440, BIOE372, STAT400, STAT401, STAT410, STAT420, STAT422, STAT426, STAT430, STAT440, STAT464, STAT470.
• Since some of these courses have other STAT prerequisites, the list of the actual courses that are used as prerequisites consists of: DATA100, STAT100, MATH135,  ENEE324, BIOE372, DATA400, STAT400, STAT410, SURV410, STAT464.
• In case you took more than one of these courses prior to enrolling in the DATA Minor, typically it is the lowest numbered course from this list (DATA100, STAT100, MATH135,  ENEE324, BIOE372, DATA400, STAT400, STAT410, SURV410, STAT464) that is used as your DATA minor prerequisite.
• If you still have any doubts or questions, please reach out to us.

• Short answer: NO.
• Long answer: Still NO. The reason is that DATA100/STAT100 have a restriction: must not have completed any STAT course with a prerequisite of MATH141. As DATA400/STAT400 have MATH141 as prerequisite, registering for DATA100/STAT100 after completing DATA400/STAT400 is not allowed.

• The DATA Minor consists of a curated and streamlined selection of courses (DATA110, DATA120, DATA200, DATA250, DATA320, DATA350, DATA400), or a short list of their approved equivalents. If you see any of these courses on your major audit chances are the course is double counted. If you have any questions please reach out to your major advisor to confirm.
• Of the DATA courses DATA400 and its substitute courses (ENEE324, STAT400, STAT410, SURV410) are used by some UMD majors and minors.
• Other courses that may overlap with your major include substitute courses for DATA250: CMSC250, MATH240, MATH341, MATH461, and the substitute course for DATA320: CMSC320, which are used by some UMD majors and minors.
• If DATA400, STAT400, ENEE324, STAT410 or SURV410 is used as a prerequisite to join the minor, then another 400-level STAT course or CMSC498Y must be taken in lieu of the DATA400 requirement, and that course also might be used by your major or other minor.
• Recently it came to our attention that some of the majors (including ASTR, INST, NEUR) allow some of our courses to be used as their major electives (DATA110, DATA120, DATA320, DATA350).

• The University rule states that: No more than six credits (or two courses) may be applied to satisfy both the requirements of a minor and a major program. This rule cover various possibilities:
  • Two courses worth 3 credits, each.
  • One course worth 4 credits and 2 one-credit courses.
  • Any other combination of multiple courses (can be more than 2) as long as the toal sum of credits equals 6. The extreme case would be six 1-credit courses.
  • Two courses worth 4 credits each.
  • Two courses worth any number of credits (can be more than 6).
• The course used for the DATA Minor prerequsite does NOT count as an overlap with your major.
• If more than one course is used to substitute for a DATA course (e.g., CMSC250 and MATH240, or CMSC250 and MATH341, or CMSC250 and MATH461, to substitute for DATA250), then these courses count as a single course for the purposes of the overlap count, and the number of credits is that of the substituted single course (so in case of substituting for DATA250, CMSC250 and MATH240 count as a single course worth 4 credits, even though these are two courses worth a total of 8 credits).

• No course can be used to satisfy the requirements of two different minors at UMD.
• The course used for the DATA Minor prerequsite does NOT count as an overlap with your other minor.

No. The course used for your DATA Minor prerequisite is not considered part of the required courses and as such it does NOT count as an overlap between the DATA Minor and your major or another minor.

Yes, there are two types of approved substitutions:

• Standard Course Substitutions:
• DATA250 can be replaced by CMSC250 and MATH240, or by CMSC250 and MATH341, or by CMSC250 and MATH461.
• DATA320 can be replaced by CMSC320.
• DATA400 can be replaced by ENEE324, or STAT400, or STAT410, or SURV410.
• If DATA400, STAT400, ENEE324, STAT410 or SURV410 is used as a prerequisite to join the minor, then another 400-level STAT course or CMSC498Y must be taken in lieu of the DATA400 requirement.