Program Overview

Foundation in Computer Science

The Foundation Year is designed for students who either do not meet the requirements for direct BSc entry (level of English, school qualifications, etc.) or would like to gain additional confidence and skills in their subject area and general academic practice prior to the start of their degree course.

The Foundation Year in Computer Science provides an introduction to the academic discipline of Computer Science, and guarantees progression to BSc (Hons) Computer Science or BSc (Hons) Software Engineering (subject to meeting the required criteria).

Progression to: BSc (Honours) Software Engineering

Software Engineers are programming architects, who apply computer science, engineering and mathematical analysis to the design and development of large, complex, and critical software systems.

Your first year will provide you with the fundamentals of computer science, software development, digital systems and understanding of professionalism within your chosen practice, allowing you to gain the essential knowledge needed for analysis and design. You will also begin to develop complex computer programming skills, learning to write, analyse, debug, test, and document computer programs.

Your second and third years offer advanced modules, including Distributed Systems, Computer Human Interaction, and Languages and Compilation. In addition to developing your foundational understanding, programming, and software design skills, related to the discipline and will complete a group software engineering project. These will allow you to develop the working knowledge and skills to overcome the challenges of designing, developing and evaluating real-world software systems.

You will also undertake a variety of software engineering studio modules, ensuring you gain a broad and robust level of skills and experience. These modules require you to solve real-world problems as a software engineering team and will further develop your data analysis, graphical, report writing and presentation skills.