The Classes Taught
The MSc/PG Dip programme in Information Technology is a long running course aimed at giving good graduates who don't have a degree in Computing an intensive one year course which provides a basic Computing education. It is designed to be a highly demanding and rigorously examined year of study, one which is attractive to employers.
The year begins with one week of programming in Java to get the students started. Then follows twelve weeks of core materials including more programming, a course in Systems and Networks and Information Systems and Databases, the subject of this portfolio. Three courses run through the two teaching semesters: courses on program design and development, professional skills and issues and general readings in computing science. After Christmas, the student must choose four ten credit electives and there is also a ten credit module in which the student creates a proposal for the project they will carry out over the summer.
The course is also taught to the students of a Master of Research programme in BioInformatics. This programme mostly consists of courses in advanced biological research, but also trains the students in programming and databases by sharing IT modules.