Academic Advising Centre
This guide has been prepared with the information you need to successfully register for your first year at UFV. Please review the information provided on this page thoroughly before contacting your academic advisor with questions.
Data analysis is the science of correctly collecting data, assessing it for trustworthiness, extracting information from it, and presenting it in a comprehensible informative way. These skills are vital to institutions such as government, business, or health care where sound decisions must be made based on data and the way it is interpreted.
Students will acquire the skills needed to extract reliable information from large data sets. With carefully designed courses taken in both computing and statistics, students will gain the data-base skills needed to house, extract, manipulate, and maintain data, and will learn the statistical techniques needed to collect data correctly, assess its quality, analyze it, and present the information effectively to decision makers. The industry standard statistical software environments SAS and R will be used throughout.
Co-operative education is an option within the Data Analysis Post-baccalaureate certificate. Combining academic studies with paid work terms related to your major and is a valuable addition to your program of study and an effective form of professional preparation.
Co-op students within the Data Analysis Post-baccalaureate certificate must complete 11 courses as well as a four-month Co-op work term in the Summer semester directly before their final (fulltime) academic semester. The certificate with Co-op option can be earned in about 18 months, beginning in July and finishing in December of the following year.
Semester I: Summer (May–August)
Early Summer session (May–June)
Late Summer session (July–August)
Semester II: Fall (September–December)
Semester III: Winter (January–April)
Semester IV: Summer (May–August)
Semester V: Fall (September–December)
Students must complete 11 courses, for a total of 34 or 35 credits. The certificate can be earned in 14 months, beginning in May and finishing at the end of June the following year. Those students who begin the program with credit for COMP 120, COMP 150, COMP 152, or COMP 155 and either STAT 106 or MATH 270/STAT 270 can earn the certificate in about 10 months, beginning in September and finishing at the end of the following June.
Students planning to complete the DAC within 12 months may need a B or better in STAT 106 in order to have the prerequisites in place for all of their Fall courses.
You can access a list of all approved and required courses for your program in two ways:
First time using MyGRADplan?
Visit MyGRADplan website to get login instructions and review tutorials. Specifically, you will want to learn about the 'What if' and 'Look ahead' features as they will be most helpful in your course planning.
Given that 3 classes correspond to approximately 20+ hours/week of school work both in and out of the classroom, it is very important that you consider your workload capacity carefully.
It is much better to start with less and add more coursework in future semesters than to start out feeling overloaded in your first semester.
Ultimately, the number of courses you take each semester is up to you, but here is what we recommend for first-year students:
Pick
3-5 courses per semester
Expect
9-18 hours per week in class
And at least
9-18 hours per week
for homework
Science courses can be a heavy course load. If you are working, you want to make sure to keep a good balance between work and school:
Semester I: Summer (May–August)
Early Summer session (May–June)
Late Summer session (July–August)
Semester II: Fall (September–December)
Semester III: Winter (January–April)
Semester IV: Early Summer session (May–June)
Book an appointment with an academic advisor or email your questions to advising@ufv.ca.
If you are starting in the fall, book your next appointment prior to the winter registration (October).