Decision Sciences Certificate
Program Code: U-DECSCI-C
Plan Type: Certificate
Department: Decision Sciences
Website: decisionsciences.trinity.duke.edu/overview
Program Summary
The Decision Sciences Certificate focuses on how humans make decisions in a variety of contexts, including economic, political, and social choices. If you are interested in behavioral economics, game theory, machine learning, or neuroeconomics, this certificate will provide an interdisciplinary appreciation of how these separate fields approach decision-making. This will enable communication and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries and will allow you to engage in research with a broader perspective than that provided by any single major.
The goal of the curriculum is to provide a shared methodological and substantive framework that will allow students to participate in the interdisciplinary study of decision-making. Our expectation, though, is that students will arrive from and return to different departments and conduct research in their home departments. The cohorts produced by the certificate will provide these students with support and criticism from a variety of perspectives, however, and the hope is that this will result in stronger student research.
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Academic Requirements
At least 8 units total to complete the certificate. At least 34 units total to earn a degree.
Foundations Course (1 unit)
MATH 112L (MATH 22 may also count)
Any STA course 101 and above
Required Courses (3 units)
COMPSCI 101L
DECSCI 101
DECSCI 401S
Applied Stats/Machine Learning Course (1 unit)
COMPSCI 216
ECON 204D
STA 199L
STA 210L
Game Theory Course (1 unit)
DECSCI 201
ECON 201D
POLSCI 631L
Neuroscience Course (1 unit)
NEUROSCI 101D
NEUROSCI 102
NEUROSCI 201
Integrated Modeling in Decision Sciences (1 unit)
COMPSCI 370D
ECON 368
ECON 462
NEUROSCI 258
NEUROSCI 382L
NEUROSCI 462S
NEUROSCI 478S
PHIL 213S