  The undergraduate data science curriculum at the University of California,
Berkeley is anchored in five new courses that emphasize computational thinking,
inferential thinking, and working on real-world problems. We believe that
interleaving these elements within our core courses is essential to preparing
students to engage in data-driven inquiry at the scale that contemporary
scientific and industrial applications demand. This new curriculum is already
reshaping the undergraduate experience at Berkeley, where these courses have
become some of the most popular on campus and have led to a surging interest in
a new undergraduate major and minor program in data science.
