Computer Science

What you Study

Courses are taught by a combination of lectures, tutorials, workshops and laboratory sessions. Core courses introduce you to basic computer skills, the fundamentals of computing (hardware, software, architecture and operating systems), and how different kinds of data can be represented and stored on computer media. You also concentrate on the internet - including fundamentals of networking, internet applications, and wider issues like data protection, viruses and security - and you'll be given the necessary mathematical background you will need in your computing studies. Additional courses give you an overview of how businesses use computing to become and remain competitive, and will allow you to learn what managers expect of information systems. They also introduce you to Java and object-oriented programming languages. Courses in the second year introduce team working and help you develop report writing skills. You study the development of database systems, object-oriented software engineering principles and techniques, and specific features of the programming language Java. You will also learn about programming distributed systems, concurrency, data-structures and algorithms.

Our degrees include an optional industrial placement year between the second and final year of study. Although we encourage you to take the opportunity of a placement year, you can also complete your degree in a straight three years.

Your final year consists of option courses and a major project, in which you apply your new technological skills to solve real-world problems in innovative and practical ways.

Assessment

Modular: assignments, tests, laboratory exercises, exams, final year project. If you opt for an industrial placement year, your placement tutor will assess your work. If you complete the placement year successfully, you earn the endorsement 'with work experience' on your degree certificate.

Mode of Attendance : Full - time