Support

You will be allocated a dedicated Personal Tutor, an academic from within the department who you will be encouraged to meet on a regular basis. Your personal tutor can offer support and guidance for all matters relating to your academic progress or personal wellbeing. Our student Computing Society also offers academic and professional skills support through regular programming workshops, academic talks with industry professionals as well as hosting gaming and other social events.

Teaching

Our courses offer a balance of core material delivered through lectures, small-group seminars, and hands-on laboratory sessions. Lectures are large group lessons in which an academic will speak for usually around an hour on a particular subject. Seminars offer an often complimentary smaller group session where you will have a chance to build on topics introduced in lectures, while laboratory sessions provide opportunities to apply your learning and develop your practical skills under the support of supervision staff.

Assessment

Your performance on most modules will be assessed by a combination of coursework and written examination. The coursework may be individual or group work involving programming, research, writing, and/or presentations. Typically in the third and fourth years of some of our courses, depending on which degree path you follow, project work is fully assessed by a presentation and project reports.