From this session (1995-6), Computer Science courses are fully modularised and semesterised. The word module refers to courses offered under modularisation.
Module identifiers are of the form "CS21020", where the third character indicates the level (which corresponds to the year in which the module is usually taken), and the last two characters indicate the credit weighting of the module. So, CS21020 is a level 2 module worth 20 credits.
Students must take modules worth a total of 120 credits in each year of study.
Modules which run entirely within the first semester will be assessed at the end of that semester. Modules which run entirely within the second semester, or those which run over both semesters, will be ssessed at the end of the second semester.
Students who started their degree course before modularisation (e.g., industrial year returners and MEng students) will have their degree assessed under the old regulations. In this respect, a 10 credit module is counted as a half unit, a 20 credit module as a full unit, etc. (All Computer Science level 3 modules count as starred units.)
The Computer Science department will consider appropriate modules from the Mathematics department or the Department of Information and Library Studies to be Computer Science units for the purposes of degree naming, so long as the total scheme remains a sensible one. Consult the departmental advisor if you need to know more.
To ensure best use of resources, the department reserves the right to withdraw modules, or otherwise amend the information given here.
A series of departmental seminars will be held during the year with invited speakers from industry, and this and other universities. The material in these seminars is regarded as examinable and questions involving knowledge of this material may be set on appropriate final year papers.
Students should note that an honours degree will not be awarded to candidates whose work on CS39030 (the major project) does not reach honours standard. Similarly, MEng will not be awarded to students whose work on CS49060 does not achieve honours standard.
Candidates for single honours BSc in Computer Science should note that, provided they achieve honours standard, they will be exempted from both parts of the British Computer Society's examinations and so will have fulfilled all the educational requirements for corporate membership of the Society and for Chartered Engineer status. Candidates who are successful in gaining a joint honours degree in Computer Science will be exempted from Part 1 of the Society's examinations.
Similar exemption has been provisionally granted for the engineering degrees (BEng and MEng) and for Computer Science with a European Language; this is due to be confirmed when the first students graduate.
For direct entrants to Part II, a specially designed lead-in course is run during September. This is compulsory for all such students. Successful completion of this course is an `exemption in Computer Science at Level 1'.
Syllabus
John Hunt Departmental Advisor
jjh@aber.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, UW Aberystwyth (disclaimer)