Undergraduate courses coming soon!

Description

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous and plays a major role in improving every walk of lives.

The Department of Computer Science, which is home to an EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre on Human-centred AI, is addressing a clear and challenging need to put people at the heart of AI research and innovation for data-driven and intelligent technologies. Our world-leading research and passion to develop students into outstanding AI professionals are empowering us to launch a new degree programme - “Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence”.

The programme covers the fundamentals of Computer Science (CS) and puts specific focus on advanced AI and related applications. The first year will provide students with the foundation of computer science, including programming, maths and logic, and a dedicated data science module in preparation for human-centred AI.

The second year will focus on core AI and modelling, as well as those parts of the Computer Science syllabus that are key to AI applications development. These will offer students useful CS skill sets and help them to integrate their AI knowledge seamlessly into CS related graduate jobs.

The final year will include a large AI development project, along with required modules in advanced AI and mathematical modelling. As in the second year, options will be available. The AI projects will explore and address real-world problems with our partners (including medical and industrial applications) and with the Human-Centred CDT.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

The programme covers topics from both Computer Science (CS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

CS topics include programming, professional issues, computer science concepts, modelling of computing systems, database systems, algorithms, data structures, software engineering and more. These train students’ problem solving and application development skills.

AI topics include data science methodology, mathematical modelling and simulation, Advanced AI, logic, machine learning, computer vision, data mining, visualization and exploratory analysis, evaluation and deployment, and the importance of data privacy, security and ethics in data science.

We have strong research and industrial connections at the CDT of Human-Centred AI. Example topics of AI projects may include novel image processing for health, mixed intelligences, deep learning to assist decision making, data-driven steel defect detection, point cloud recognition for shoreline navigation, rare event detection for security, and more.

Intended Start Date

September 2022

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Description

The Digital Technology degree covers the creation and use of digital data and systems, and their impact on societies around the world. Its broad scope enables students to develop their knowledge and understanding of the digital world, and how digital systems are made and used creatively, productively, and safely.

Throughout the three-year programme, students will encounter topics that will expand their appreciation of the societal, cultural, economic, and political impacts of Digital Technology. They will be able to utilise a set of industry standard tools to plan, develop and produce digital products ranging from marketing campaigns to computer games.

By the end of the degree, students will be digitally capable, allowing them to enter a substantial number of different digital-based roles across a wide spectrum of industries and public services.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

This course covers a broad variety of topics exploring the use and implications of Digital Technology, as well as core Computer Science and Software Engineering. These include but are not limited to:

• Computational Thinking
• Animation
• Programming
• Games Development
• Media Creation
• Security
• Big Data
• Digital Communication
• History of Digital Technology
• Societal Impacts
• Implications of Digital Technology

Intended Start Date

September 2023

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Description

The BA Film and Visual Culture has been specifically designed to take advantage of the portfolio of modules and expertise across the School of Communication and Culture disciplines to deliver an undergraduate programme which will embrace a range of aspects of visual culture and film.

The programme will offer a combination of theory and practice with three pillars: Film, Visual Culture and Practice. Study at least one module from all three pillars at each level of the programme with the flexibility to choose your own specialism.

Study BA Film and Visual Culture with us and you will learn practical skills to equip you for an exciting career in the media, marketing, or related fields, as well as transferable skills which are valued by employers and open up a range of wider career opportunities.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

You will have the chance to explore film analysis, social media cultures, video and film production, writing for radio and screen, contemporary film and television, language and literature in film and video gaming, creative media and more, learning from experienced industry professionals and leading academics.

A year in industry or work placement will give you first-hand experience, and you will have the option of studying a year abroad.

Anticipated career outcomes range from: 

• Media Production
• Communications and PR
• Digital / Social Media marketing
• Business management
• Teaching
• Social enterprise and entrepreneurship
• Public sector / non-for-profit, creative industries entrepreneurship
• Film Festival management
• Film Critic
• Screenwriter
• Media Production

 Opportunities for further study at Masters and Research level are also available.

Intended Start Date

September 2023

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Description

The BA Philosophy and Politics programme comprises an equal focus on each subject area with multiple modules on the intersection of philosophy and politics to ensure the programme explores the ways that philosophy and politics connect. 

Teaching is informed from the research and teaching expertise of members of staff in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations, who specialise in the area of political philosophy / political theory and who offer specialist modules that explore the intersections of philosophy and politics. 

Some of the current major issues of our time – e.g., Brexit, the American presidency of Trump, climate change, Covid-19 – have generated huge public interest in, and discussion of, politics, but also prompted substantial reflection on key political concepts such as democracy, freedom and truth. These concepts require careful philosophical analysis, such as when we consider the nature of freedom, what form of democracy is most desirable, or what it means to possess basic human rights.

Topics Likely To Be Covered

There are specialist modules on philosophy and politics at each level and exclusive to this programme.

Modules will explore conceptual themes in politics, such as the status of political knowledge, the nature of political agency, power, ideology and oppression, and theoretical lenses that structure political research (e.g., post-structuralism; feminism; intersectional theory), along with the politicisation of philosophy (e.g., epistemic injustice and de-colonising the philosophical cannon).

In your final year you will build on topics covered in years one and two and bring together philosophical accounts of knowledge, truth and the self, with political perspectives on power and freedom centred on the work of the political philosopher Michel Foucault.

Studying Philosophy equips you with key intellectual skills that are much sought-after by many employers. These include critical and creative thinking, logical problem solving, open-mindedness and effective information-analysis. Figures show that there is a growing demand for philosophy graduates across a range of industries.

Anticipated career outcomes range from:

• Business
• Human resources (HR)
• Finance
• Marketing
• Public Relations (PR)
• Sales
• Public sector/ non-for-profit industries
• Teaching

Intended Start Date

September 2023

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