A minimum of a lower second class honours degree (2:2).
If your first language is not English you should have an IELTS 6.5 with no element below 6.0.
A personal statement is required.
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A minimum of a lower second class honours degree (2:2).
If your first language is not English you should have an IELTS 6.5 with no element below 6.0.
A personal statement is required.
Visit our How to apply page for more information on:
Visit our How to apply page for more information on:
Visit our How to apply page for more information on:
Aimed at non-computing graduates, this course provides the core and most advanced practical knowledge and skills that a professional software engineer needs to be successful in today’s IT industry. Are you a graduate in a non-computing subject with some basic experience and interest in computing, who would like to enter the IT industry? Are you already working in the IT industry and would like to increase your technical skills and knowledge? If your answer to either question is yes, this course is for you. Software engineering is the application of engineering methods, practices and disciplines to the creation and maintenance of software applications and systems. A professional software engineer works with these engineering approaches to develop software in a systematic, quantifiable and disciplined way. By choosing this course, you’ll get the essential practical experience of programming and applying software engineering to a number of new and important areas of IT and computing. In addition, you’ll develop a strong grasp of the theory that underpins these practical skills. To ensure that you have the best possible employment prospects at the end of the course, you’ll gain skills that cover a variety of areas: technical skills, such as programming, object-oriented software development, practical experience of software development tools; soft skills, such as analytical and critical thinking, communication, presenting and demonstrating, team working, and peer reviewing; and career skills, such as CV writing, planning, job searching, interview practice. Technical change in software development is happening at a rapid pace. This is accompanied by a constant increase in the complexity of the systems that are developed, in particular in mobile computing. This course will give you the best theoretical and practical skills to kickstart your career and succeed in this exciting and challenging sector.
Teaching methods are aimed at encouraging and involving the active participation of students in their learning through knowledge and skills acquisition by means of engagement, experimentation, self-study and practical experience. The delivery of the course's taught modules involves lectures, tutorials, workshops and seminars. For the software development project students are allocated a supervisor who guides them through the project and are further supported by a series of group seminars and workshops that cover general skills and knowledge required for the project.
Assessments and feedback are important and are designed to form part of the learning experience. A wide variety of types and forms are used on the course and are dependent on the module and its learning outcomes, including both individual and group work. For example, individual work solving programming tasks, writing a report, group work as part of a team to design and create a complex software application, presenting and demonstrating your work or a group's work.
You’ll study six core modules and two option modules, for a total of 180 credits.
The following subjects are indicative of what you’ll study on this course.
We aim to offer a wide range of option modules. However, availability may be affected by timetabling, staff availability, or student demand, so preferred choices cannot always be guaranteed.