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4/2/10 2:19pmBachelor Degrees
The Department of Computer Science offers a four-year undergraduate programme leading to the B.Sc. in Computer Science. No computing experience or familiarity with computers is required or expected prior to enrolment. The programme's goal is to impart to its graduates both the fundamental scientific principles that underpin the key computing technologies in use today and the engineering skills that enable those principles to be applied in practice. Upon graduation students should be equipped to pursue a career as computer professionals or, if they so wish, to pursue further studies.
The curriculum covers both the hardware technologies that underly modern computer systems and the software systems and technologies that form the basis for modern computer applications. A major emphasis of the programme is software engineering: the process by which a piece of software is developed to meet a specific technological need according to rigorous engineering principles. This skill is developed in a series of modules incorporating significant hands-on work in supervised laboratory sessions.
In later years of the programme specialised modules are offered on topics such as networks, computer architecture, distributed systems, multimedia, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, computer security and graphics among others.
The programme incorporates a six-month or twelve-month period of work-experience within the IT industry during the third year and is rounded off with a substantial project completed during the final year.
Apart from the "pure computing" degrees described above (single honours degrees), it is also possible to combine computer science with another subject leading to a joint honours degree. This option involves roughly half the amount of computer science material as the single honours degree with the difference being made up by modules of the other subject. Currently, this option is available for economics. The choice of whether to pursue a joint honours or a single honours degree is made at the end of first year.
Details available on the college calendar at http://www.ucc.ie/calendar/science/index.html. Authoritative source of individual modules is the UCC Book of Modules - see http://www.ucc.ie/academic/modules/descriptions/page014.html.