Numerical and statistical literacy has become more important as our identities, contributions to society, leadership choices, medical options, legal obligations, social interactions, product preferences, and every other aspect of our personal, intellectual, civic, and commercial lives have been quantified and qualified by staggering amounts of data. Individuals who can knowledgeably "read" data sets, understand experimental design, and responsibly interpret numeric results are those who can offer insight into how organizations and systems run and what they value or prioritize; they can also identify significant but unrecognized trends and notify stakeholders and citizens of relevant information that may affect their communities, health, livelihoods, and well-being in a democracy. Students will strive to test their skills at understanding the stories that data sets, provided in various ways, tell them. People who can then create narratives and visualizations to accompany them are valuable to the organizations and other individuals who have an interest in and/or must make choices based on these narratives. Fulfills requirement: Critical Thinking through Writing,Quantitative Reasoning. Prerequisite: FYE 112. 3 credits. |