BSc Computer ScienceSouthwest Jiaotong - Leeds Joint School

Year 3

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard
- Features in a range of aspects of the discipline;
- Apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied;
- Appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in the subject and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different
- Methods of enquiry;
- Use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
- Adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries;
- Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms;
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts, principles and theories relating to computing and
- Computer applications as appropriate to the programme of study.
- Use the appropriate knowledge and understanding in the modelling and design of computer-based systems for the purposes of
- Comprehension, communication, prediction and the understanding of trade-offs.
- Recognise and analyse criteria and specifications appropriate to specific problems, and plan strategies for their solution.
- Analyse the extent to which a computer-based system meets the criteria defined for its current use and future development.
- Deploy appropriate theory, practices and tools for the specification, design, implementation and evaluation of computer-based systems.
- Specify, design and construct computer-based systems.
- Deploy effectively the tools used for the construction and documentation of computer applications, with particular emphasis on
- Understanding the whole process involved in the effective deployment of computers to solve practical problems.

Transferable (key) skills

- Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- Decision making;
- The ability to work as a member of a development team, recognising the different roles within a team and different ways of
- Organising teams.

Assessment

- Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for
- The year/programme and will include:
- Demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit
- Standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- Work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- Demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;