Themes

Themes

If you are following the MSc in ACS or the MSc in ACS&ITM programme, you choose three themes: a theme is a conceptually coherent set of two course units, each of which is worth 15 credits. Hence three themes make up the 90 credits of the taught elements of these programmes.

There is another, compulsory course unit, COMP60990, which is part of the research element and described in Section *.

ACS or ACS&ITM students cannot replace or choose other course units than those from their chosen themes: this is due to the fact that course units within a theme are designed to build on each other, and thus a student following a "later" course unit within a theme without having followed the earlier one(s) is likely to lack prerequisite knowledge.

The following is a list of currently available themes:

• Advanced Web Technologies
• Data Engineering and IT Governance
• Biohealth Informatics
• Managing Data
• Learning from Data
• Reasoning and Optimisation
• Making Sense of Complex Data
• Mobile Computing
• Parallel Computing in the Multi-core Era
• Security
• Software Engineering 1
• Software Engineering 2

In order to help you choose, there is an introduction to themes in the Welcome Week at the beginning of the academic year. The themes and their course units available are listed in the on-line Computer Science Masters Syllabus.

For more detail regarding course units and themes they belong, see Section *.

Themes