Information Technology University of York

Programme Structure

Course Modules

The components of the course are listed below:

• Advanced Programming Concepts (Using Java)
• Computer Systems Architecture for IT
• Maths for Information Processing
• Human Computer Interaction
• Software Engineering
• Operating Systems for Information Processing
• Design of Information Systems
• Web Design
• Project Preperation
• Networks and Communications
• Management Systems and Organisations
• Project

Past Projects

Projects undertaken over the past few years include:

• Web Usage Mining: Development of Self-Optimising Navigational Structures
• Wiki Brainstorming and Problems with Wiki Based Collaboration
• Context-aware multi-modal weather forecast system
• Temporal Difference Learning in Shogi
• User-interface for an interactive compiler
• Garden design package
• Heat exchanger simulator
• Satellite communications feasibility study
• Mouth-controlled input device
• Analysis of the relationship between JSD and occam.

Personal Tutor & Tutorial Group

Each student is assigned to a tutorial group (usually containing no more than four or five students), and hence to a personal tutor. Tutorial groups meet on a weekly basis up until the start of the project. The purpose of these meetings is to reinforce the material taught in the formal course units, and also to provide an opportunity for informal discussion of related subjects.

Assessment

Assessment of students' performance in the course modules takes place in a variety of forms: practical exercises, reports, closed examinations and a dissertation for the project. Students are deliberately exposed to a variety of assessment methods so that they are not disadvantaged by background.

Assessment Dates: The assessments take place at various times during the year.

Closed examinations take place in:

• The 1st week of Term 2 (for those courses taught during Term 1) and
• Around the 8th week of Term 3 (for those courses taught during Terms 2 and 3).

Practical exercises, reports and other forms of open assessment are due either during the course module or just after its completion.

Timescales, Modules and Project Descriptions may be subject to change.