Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
Preparation for Minor
3 units- CS 150 - Introductory Computer Programming
- CS 150L - Introductory Computer Programming Laboratory
- STAT 250 - Statistical Principles and Practices
- STAT 200 - Introduction to Data Science with R
- STAT 350A - Statistical Methods
- STAT 350B - Statistical Methods
- STAT 410 - Statistical Programming in Data Science
- MIS 380 - Data Management Systems
- LING 571 - Computational Corpus Linguistics
- LING 572 - Python Scripting for Social Science
- STAT 420 - Data Curation and Management
- STAT 520 - Applied Multivariate Analysis
- STAT 580 - Statistical Computing
- STAT 585 - Statistical Machine Learning
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2026-27 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.