Computer Science Department Handbook 2008-9

Welcome to the home of the Departmental Handbook. This handbook should help you to find your way through the department. The handbook is under development, most chapters have been written, but most are incomplete in one way or another.

If you find a caveat which is not in the list of caveats, then please add it (if you are a staff member), or let someone of the staff know.

• Changes Since Printing
• Inside cover, Copyright notice and Preface.
• Introduction
• Your Time in the Computer Science Department
• Teaching and Learning methods
• Coursework
• Projects
• Assessment
• Plagiarism
• Progress
• Research
• Resources
• Undergraduate Course Descriptions
  • Computer Science
  • CSE
  • Mathematics and Computer Science
  Postgraduate Course Descriptions
  • MSc in Computer Science
  • MSc in Advanced Computing (Machine Learning and Data Mining)
  • MSc in Advanced Computing (Internet Technologies with Multimedia)
  • MSc in Advanced Computing (Internet Technologies with Security)
  • MSc in Advanced Microelectronic Systems Engineering
  • MSc Units
• Timetables and Diary
• Units List
• Unit Descriptions (meta description)

The following pages are not distributed in printed form, but are part of the handbook:

• New members of staff, new PhD students.
• Reference guide for staff.
• Tutorial guidelines.
• Demonstrator guidelines.
• Admissions procedures.
• Registration procedures.
• Student records.
• Monitoring Teaching Quality.
• Project supervision guidelines.
• Examination procedures.
• The Handbook.