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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2021/2022

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Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Students are permitted to take a MAXIMUM of 30 credits of courses that are below Level 11.
Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

MSc Dissertation (Informatics)

Must be passed at 50%

Informatics Research Review

Informatics Project Proposal

Course options

These are courses in Machine Learning, Statistics, and Optimization open to taught postgraduate students.

Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition

Machine Learning Practical

Probabilistic Modelling and Reasoning

Natural Computing

Introductory Applied Machine Learning

Machine Learning Theory

Statistical Learning

Statistical Methodology

Applied Statistics

The Analysis of Survival Data

Fundamentals of Optimization

Time Series

Modern Optimization Methods for Big Data Problems

Large Scale Optimization for Data Science

Bayesian Data Analysis

Statistical Programming

Bayesian Theory

Incomplete Data Analysis

Nonparametric Regression Models

Generalised Regression Models

Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

Topics in Applied Optimization

AND

These are courses in Databases and Data Management Systems open to taught postgraduate students.

Algorithms and Data Structures

Introduction to Databases

Extreme Computing

Fundamentals of Data Management

Advanced Database Systems

AND

These are courses in Unstructured Data and Applications open to taught postgraduate students.

Advanced Vision (Level 11)

Automatic Speech Recognition

Accelerated Natural Language Processing

Image and Vision Computing

Text Technologies for Data Science

Natural Language Understanding, Generation, and Machine Translation

Bioinformatics 1

Data-driven Business and Behaviour Analytics

Methods for Causal Inference

Speech Synthesis

Optimization Methods in Finance

Biomedical Data Science

AND

These are courses in all schools other than Medicine, Veterinary Studies, or the Centre for Open Learning. Note this includes courses within the School of Informatics.

Students may not register for introductory programming courses in other parts of the University unless explicitly listed in the DPT

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