This course focuses on quantitative literacy, using current events and how these events are reported in the media to examine fundamental statistical and probabilistic concepts. The goal of this course is to make students more informed, critical readers of current news stories, and to promote a deeper understanding of the probability and statistics that they will be exposed to in day-to-day life.

To understand the course topics fully, students may be exposed to graphical descriptive statistics, confidence intervals, probability, measures of central tendency and dispersion, basic combinatorics, hypothesis testing, conditional probability, chi-squared test, binomial distributions, sampling, correlation, linear regression and more.