Science Training and Research to Inform Decisions Advanced Certificate

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to effectively communicate their science to diverse audiences, including peers, professors, employers, policy makers, and various other stakeholders.

2. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to develop data visualization skills, including; an understanding of the role of visual perception, cognition, and the sense making process in human understanding of visual data, an ability to apply techniques from data mining, data science, machine learning, computer graphics, and information visualization to construct visual presentations of data; and finally, an ability to build visual analytics pipelines that enable humans to interactively reason with data and gain insight.

3. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to understand and utilize decision support systems ranging from decision making in public health, natural resource management, and climate adaptation as well as explore different career paths and work environments involved in scientific decision making.

4. Upon completion of the degree, students should be able to understand basic data analytics. At the completion of the certificate, students should be able to use data and tools to make informed decisions.