Participating Programs and Common Academic Pathways
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Program:
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD Students: Stat Minor, Stat MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS:
STAT 537 – Statistics for Research I
STAT 538 – Statistics for Research II
ECON 582 – Elements of Econometrics I
ECON 583 – Elements of Econometrics II
ECON 682 – Advanced Topics in Cross Section Econometrics
Contact your PhD Advisor for additional guidance.
Contact: lmyers16@utk.edu
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Seong Hoon Cho, Karen DeLong, and Xuqi Chen
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for Ph.D. Students: Stat Minor, Stat MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for Ph.D. Students: Stat Minor
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Ben Auerbach
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Hong Tian, Rachel McCord
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Jeremy B. Kanter
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Lee Han, Asad Khattak
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent MS – Statistics Minor:
(Level A 6cr, Level B 3cr)
Level A: PSYCH 521 (Regression), PSYCH 522 (ANOVA)
Level B: PSYCH 622 (Structural Equation Modelling)
Preferred Courses for Concurrent PhD – Statistics MS:
(Level A 6cr, Level B 9cr)
Level A: PSYCH 521 (Regression), PSYCH 522 (ANOVA)
Level B: PSYCH 607 (Psychometrics), PSYCH 622 (Structural Equation Modelling), Student Program of Study Driven Level B Elective
Please use this as a guide and contact your advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Elizabeth Avery Foster, Michael Kotowski
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS:
STAT 537 Statistics for Research I
STAT 538 Statistics for Research II
PUBH 530 Biostatistics
ANSC 571 Design and analysis of biological research
ESM (or EDPY) 577 Statistics in Applied Fields I
ESM (or EDPY) 677 Statistics in Applied Fields II
PSYC 521 Analysis of Variance for Social Sciences
PSYC 522 Multiple Regression for Social Sciences
ESM (or EDPY) 678 Statistics in Applied Fields III
STAT 563 Probability and Mathematical Statistics I
STAT 564 Probability and Mathematical Statistics II
STAT 567 Analysis of Lifetime Data
STAT 575 Applied Time Series Communication and Information
STAT 577 Data Mining Methods and Applications
STAT 578 Categorical data analysis
STAT 579 Applied Multivariate Methods
PUBH 630 Advanced Biostatistics
PUBH 635 Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analysis
SOWK 665 Advanced Quantitative Research Methods: Applied multilevel modeling
BZAN 645 Machine Learning
IE 565 Applied Data Science
MSE 576 Machine Learning for Materials
ECE 517 Reinforcement Learning
COSC 522 Machine Learning
COSC 525 Deep Learning
COSC 526 Data Mining
COSC 527 Biologically Inspired computing
CEM 601 Advanced Epidemiology
CEM 602 GIS and Geographical Epidemiology
SOCI 631 Advanced quantitative methods
SOWK 665 Advanced Quantitative Research Methods: Applied Multilevel Modeling
*STAT 537 should be taken with STAT 538, STAT 538 should be taken after taking either STAT 537 or PUBH 530, PUBH 530 should be taken with STAT 538, ANSC 571 should be taken after taking STAT 537, EMS 577 should be taken with EMS 677, f EMS 677 should be taken after taking EMS 577, PSYC 521 should be taken with PSYC 521. PSYC 522 should be taken after taking PSYC 521
Contact your advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Odoi Agricola
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: James Fordyce, Mike Gilchrist
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Luiz Renato Lima, Christian A. Vossler, Celeste Carruthers
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Jennifer Ann Morrow, Louis Rocconi
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Terry Ishitani
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Sheng-I Yang, Mark Q. Wilber
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor:
Level A Class Options:
STAT 537 and GEOG 515
Level B Class Options:
GEOG 510: Geographic Software Design
GEOG 517: Database Design for Spatial Data Science
GEOG 549: Topics in Geography of Transportation (which covers various spatial analysis methods for transportation and logistics problems)
GEOG 611: Seminar in Geographic Information Science
GEOG 649: Seminar in Geography of Transportation (which covers spatial optimization problems)
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics MS:
GEOG 510: Geographic Software Design
GEOG 517: Database Design for Spatial Data Science
GEOG 549: Topics in Geography of Transportation (which covers various spatial analysis methods for transportation and logistics problems)
GEOG 611: Seminar in Geographic Information Science
GEOG 649: Seminar in Geography of Transportation (which covers spatial optimization problems)
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Nicholas Nagle, Shih-Lung Shaw
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: John Kobza, Mingzhou Jin, Hwangbo Hoon
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contact: David Williams
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contact: Wenjun Zhou
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor:
STAT 578 Categorical Data Analysis
STAT 577 Data Mining Methods and Applications
STAT 579 Applied Multivariate Methods
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics MS:
STAT 578 Categorical Data Analysis
STAT 577 Data Mining Methods and Applications
STAT 579 Applied Multivariate Methods
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Contact: Jonathan Hasford
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Vasillios Maroulas, Balram Rajput, Jan Rosinski, Christopher Strickland, Carl Wagner, Ioannis Sgouralis
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS:
Courses taken by graduate students in School of Natural Resources for IGSDSP minor and masters (09-16-2023)
Statistics for Research I – STAT 537 (Level A)
Statistics for Research II – STAT 538 (Level A)
Probability I – STAT 563 (Level B)
Probability II- STAT 564 (Level B)
Biometry – EEB 560 (Level B)
Applied Time Series – STAT 575 (Level B)
Design of Experiments – STAT 573 (Level B)
Data mining methods and applications – STAT 577 (Level B)
Machine Learning – COSC 522 (Level B)
Advanced Epidemiology – CEM 601 (Level B)
Design and Analysis of Biological Research – ANSC 571 (Level B)
Statistics for Biological Research – PLSC 561 (Level B)
Multivariate and data mining techniques – STAT 579 (Level B)
Categorical Data Analysis – STAT 578 (Level B)
Advanced Regression for Agricultural Research – FDSC 551 (Level B)
Introduction to Bayesian methods – POLS 518 (Level B)
Possible Course Pathway (Minor in Stats for SNR Master’s students)
Statistics for Research I – STAT 537 (Level A)
Biometry – EEB 560 (Substitute for Level A)
Level B course -> See options previous SNR students have taken for level B courses
Possible Course Pathway (Master’s in Stats for SNR students)
Statistics for Research I – STAT 537 (Level A)
Statistics for Research II – STAT 538 (Level A)
Probability I – STAT 563 (Level B)
Probability II- STAT 564 (Level B)
Biometry – EEB 560 (Level B)
Categorical Data Analysis – STAT 578 (Level B)
Data mining methods and applications – STAT 577 (Level B)
Introduction to Bayesian methods – POLS 518 (Level B)
9 remaining hours from technical courses in SNR
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Contact: Mark Wilber
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Wes Hines, Ronald Pevey, Belle Upadhyaya, Jamie Coble
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Lisa Lindley
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Vincent Pantalone
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor:
Level A – POLS 512 and POLS 513
Level B – two from POLS 515, POLS 516 and POLS 518; one course from another Department, to be approved by the Political Science DGS.
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics MS:
Level A – POLS 512 and POLS 513
Level B – two from POLS 515, POLS 516 and POLS 518; one course from another Department, to be approved by the Political Science DGS.
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Wonjae Hwang, Kyung Joon Han, Nathan J. Kelly, David Houston
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Chris Elledge, Lowell Gaertner
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent MA – Statistics Minor:
Minor (masters level)
Level A
PUBH 530 Biostat (this is required for the MPH also)
Level B
STAT578 Categorical Data Analysis
CEM 601 Advanced Epidemiology or CEM 602GIS and Geographical Epidemiology (as these are not offered every year)
Preferred Courses for Concurrent PhD – Statistics Minor:
Minor (phd level)
Level A
PUBH 530 Biostat
Level B
STAT578 Categorical Data Analysis
CEM 601 Advanced Epidemiology or CEM 602GIS and Geographical Epidemiology
SOWK 665 Advanced Quantitative Research Methods: Applied Multilevel Modeling
POLS 515 Maximum Likelihood
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Samantha Ehrlich, Odoi Agricola
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact your academic advisor to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Charles Glisson, William Nugent
Concurrent Degree Options for Master’s Students: Stat Minor
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent MA – Statistics Minor:
STAT 537 and 538 or PSYCH 521 and 522
SOCI 631
Preferred Courses for Concurrent PhD – Statistics Minor:
STAT 537 and 538 or PSYCH 521 and 522
SOCI 631
And any two of the following:
EDPY 667
GEOG 517
POLS 515
POLS 518
PUBH 635
PSYC 622
SOWK 665
Preferred Courses for Concurrent PhD – Statistics MS:
STAT 537 and 538
STAT 563 and 564
Additional B level STAT class:
STAT 579 or STAT 577
In concentration:
SOCI 631
SOCI 534*
POL 515
And any three of the following:
EDPY 667
GEOG 517
POLS 515
POLS 518
PUBH 635
PSYC 622
SOWK 665
Please contact the advisor (listed below) to finish creating a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Stephanie Bohon, Robert Jones, Deadric Williams
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contact: Stephanie Eckerd
Concurrent Degree Options for PhD: Stat Minor, STAT MS
Preferred Courses for Concurrent Statistics Minor or MS: Please contact the advisor (listed below) to create a custom path for your academic goals.
Contacts: Joshua Rosenberg
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- Mike Kotowski – College of Communications and Information (mkotowsk@utk.edu)
- Jennifer Ann Morrow – Education, Health and Human Sciences (jamorrow@utk.edu)
- Lee Han – College of Engineering (lhan@utk.edu)
- Lisa Lindley – College of Nursing (llindley@utk.edu)
- Russell Zaretzki – Haslam College and Executive Committee Chair (rzaretzk@utk.edu)