Credit: 20  -  Module Type: Core

This module develops an understanding of the professional and legal constraints within which computing specialists operate. The module operates using a ‘discursive’ environment where you will be confronted with the social and ethical issues of using technology, considering both regional and global trends and perspectives. Skills learnt will include how to communicate your work effectively keeping in line with the process and standards to be adhered to as a Professional in Computing Field. The module helps to develop a mature attitude to working as an ethical, sustainability aware, computer or information systems professional as well as build upon your undergraduate research skills through the introduction and application of advanced techniques to support you in your professional practice.

Credit: 20  -  Module Type: Core

This module allows you to develop skills, knowledge and techniques to improve your capabilities in research and to deal with complex issues systematically and creatively. This includes investigating processes to help evaluate and critically appraise both qualitative and quantitative research papers; identify, select and utilise different approaches to literature searching and review; identify appropriate epistemological and methodological approaches that will underpin your research design; and formulate and develop achievable research aims, questions and objectives. This module builds on previous learning focused on gaining insights from academic literature and formulating research project proposals. Knowledge gained in this module will be consolidated and extended in the capstone project module while writing the dissertation and preparing for your viva voce. The following GAME+ attributes are covered in this module: Influence and Impact, and Critical Creativity and Innovation.

Credit: 20  -  Module Type: Core

This module introduces software engineers to contemporary development approaches including the agile methodology, related frameworks, management practices and testing strategies which are increasingly used in industry. The assessment approach targets authentic experiences through immersion in agile methodologies while developing a significant software artefact in groups. Critical and lateral thinking capabilities must be employed to formulate and justify approaches for management and testing. This module builds on previous learning in Software Engineering. Knowledge gained in this module may be consolidated and extended in the capstone project module as a dissertation theme. The following GAME+ attributes are covered in this module: Professional identity and Skills mastery.

Credit: 20  -  Module Type: Core

Object oriented analysis, design and programming has emerged as a dominant approach to developing software. In object oriented programming data structures and functions are unified. Design patterns extend the scope further by seeking out sets of interrelated classes and objects. Design patterns are object systems that recur in software architecture and implementation. Design patterns are standard models of a structure or a process that can be applied to specific cases in a consistent way. Patterns thus enable the reuse not only of code, but also of the results of rigorous object analysis or design, in other contexts. Gamma et al. have catalogued a set of 23 Design patterns. This module takes a subset of these patterns and illustrates how they can be applied to construct more elegant software. This module is of benefit to students who already have an introductory knowledge of object oriented design and programming and wish to be able to perform software engineering at a higher, more abstract, design level. Students will learn to employ well-established design patterns in their software solutions and fully exploit code reuse. This module incorporates the following GAME+ attributes: Critical Creativity and Innovation, Skills Mastery.

Credit: 20  -  Module Type: Core

DevOps is designed to help students gain technical expertise in development and deployment using cloud technologies. DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity. Using DevOps principles, organisations can evolve and improve products at a faster pace than organisations using traditional software development and infrastructure management processes. This speed enables organisations to better serve their customers and compete more effectively in the market. This module brings together multiple threads of development, delivery and security so that students are able to participate in contemporary and complex Software Engineering techniques in the Cloud. The following GAME+ attributes are covered in this module: Critical self-management and Professional identity.

Credit: 20  -  Module Type: Offered

This module aims at developing advanced knowledge and skills in data analysis and visualisation. The module will be delivered in a lab environment where sessions grounded in theory are underpinned by practical labs. These practical lab sessions leverage real-world data for analysis and visualisation using contemporary tools in the industry. This module builds upon previous learning focused on strategies for leveraging data for insight and innovation. Knowledge gained in this module will be consolidated across other modules in the programme and extended in the capstone project module depending on dissertation theme and area of specialisation. The following GAME+ attributes are covered in this module: Critical Creativity and innovation and Skills mastery.

Credit: 60  -  Module Type: Core

This module enables the demonstration of research capability and application of advanced technical knowledge relating to a relevant aspect of the subject pathway. Students first determine the theme of the project which is then evaluated by the assigned research supervisor to ensure that it meets the required academic standards before work is undertaken. This module requires significant use of academic skills and knowledge of research practice, which is crucial for investigating literature and presenting findings, determining appropriate research methodologies and methods, conducting research activity and presenting outputs. Ethics and professional practice is to be adhered to throughout the project. This module culminates with the submission of substantial dissertation and the verbal presentation of significant aspects of work in a viva voce, which is conducted to a professional standard. The following GAME+ attributes are covered in this module: Influence and impact, Critical self-management, Critical Creativity and innovation, Professional identity and Skills mastery.