Application Form: Community Engaged Data Science Course

Application Form

Community Engaged Data Science Course | Winter 2027
Name

First NameLast Name
Email
example@example.com
Major
Are you enrolled in the Data Science Minor? (This is not a requirement, but if interest in the course exceeds capacity then students enrolled in the Data Science Minor may be given priority to register).
MANDATORY: Transcript
Please upload your most recent academic transcript (unofficial is fine).

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MANDATORY: Prerequisites
Students are not required to be enrolled in the UW Data Science Minor, but they must have taken at least three courses that are associated with the minor: 2 “data skills” classes and 1 “data studies” class, as defined in the DS Minor requirements. Courses that count toward each of these categories can be found here. Below, please provide information about the courses you have taken that fulfill the above prerequisites.

Data Skills Class 1

Rows	Your info:
Course Prefix (e.g. AMATH)
Course Number (e.g. 301)
Course Title (e.g. Beginning Scientific Computing)
Year Taken
Quarter Taken
Grade

Data Skills Class 2

Rows	Your info:
Course Prefix (e.g. AMATH)
Course Number (e.g. 301)
Course Title (e.g. Beginning Scientific Computing)
Year Taken
Quarter Taken
Grade

Data Studies Class 1

Rows	Your info:
Course Prefix (e.g. ENGL)
Course Number (e.g. 208)
Course Title (e.g. Data Narrative)
Year Taken
Quarter Taken
Grade

OPTIONAL: Other Relevant Coursework and Activities
Please list any other courses you have taken from the Data Science Minor offerings.
Please list any other courses or you have taken, or professional/extracurricular activities you have participated in, that are relevant to data skills or data studies.
Please list any formal community engagement activities you have completed through the University of Washington. This might included, but is not limited to, offerings like Community-Engaged Courses, Summer Public Service Fellowship, and Community Based Internships.
Please list any other community engagement activities you have participated in, whether at UW or beyond.
MANDATORY: Personal Essays
Essay 1: In a paragraph of 200-500 words, please tell us about a time that you needed to be self-directed. For example, what were the circumstances? What were you able to achieve? What strengths or skills did you draw on or develop in this situation?

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Essay 2: In a paragraph of 200-500 words, please tell us about a specific time that you felt active in a community (any community, however you define that). For example, how were you involved? What was difficult or rewarding about that experience, and what did you learn from it? How do you think external perceptions of that community differed from the internal reality of it? What aspects of that experience might be relevant to this course?

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Essay 3: In a paragraph of 200-500 words, please tell us about the data analysis you are most proud of completing (it’s fine if this was completed as a class assignment). For example, what question(s) did you address and what made it interesting or challenging? What data set(s) did you use and what was it like to work with that data? What methods did you try and why did you take the approach you did? What were the results and how do those results matter? Why are you proud of this example?

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OPTIONAL: Data Analysis Artifact

If able, please provide a link to an online artifact related to the project you described above, or upload a file.
URL:
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MANDATORY: Transcript

MANDATORY: Prerequisites

OPTIONAL: Other Relevant Coursework and Activities

MANDATORY: Personal Essays

OPTIONAL: Data Analysis Artifact