Computer Science - MSc

• Advanced Software Engineering (20 cp) - Extend your existing programming skills and develop expertise in a variety of intelligent system engineering contexts and object-orientated program development.
• Systems Analysis and Design (20 cp) - Understand the life cycle of a software process.The module introduces a number of Systems Development methodologies and associated techniques such as: Systems Analysis and Design, Data Modelling and Usability Engineering.
• Service-Oriented Cloud Technologies (20 cp) - Learn the theory, practice, and advanced techniques associated with implementing large-scale distributed computing systems in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Gain the necessary knowledge to design and implement enterprise-level computer applications and associated data-storage as services that can be cost-effectively deployed in scalable Cloud infrastructures.
• Applied Artificial Intelligence (20 cp) - Learn about a variety of artificial intelligence methods such as machine learning, reasoning and optimisation techniques, and how they can be used to solve real-world problems in engineering, operations research and science.
• Research Methods (20 cp) - You will develop the skills of research and enquiry that will enhance your independent learning abilities and enable you to write effective project reports and technical papers.
• Major project (60 cp) - On completion of the taught modules on this course you will then have the opportunity to undertake an MSc topic. This gives you 15 weeks to concentrate full time on a specialist area that interests you and apply what you have learnt to a specific problem.

Choose one module from the following:

• Mobile Interactive Systems (20 cp) - Examine the key issues in the implementation of interactive mobile applications, and gain an appreciation of the platform design guidelines, capabilities and constraints of a variety of mobile computing technologies and applications.
• Internet Programming (20 cp) - Learn more about web-based mark up languages, object oriented design patterns, and implementing internet applications as a collection of higher-level software objects and controls that render the XHTML code representing a webpage.