THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Notes:
Before making your course choices, make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your student support team.

Please note that all students must pass INF1A (Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation INFR08025), and INF1B (Informatics 1 - Object-Orientated Programming INFR08029), before they are allowed to progress into Year 2 of this degree.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Notes:
Before making your course choices make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your student support team.

Some third year courses are prerequisites for specific fourth year courses, you are advised to consider your plans for fourth year when making your third year course choices.

Students must take at least 40 credits from the School of Informatics, and 40 credits from the School of Physics and Astronomy.

Students who are members of Edinburgh University Formula Student may request a concession from the School Curriculum Approval Officer (SCAO) to replace System Design Project INFR09032 with Informatics Experiential Learning (Level 10) INFR10084 (IEL-10). Please contact your student support team to gain approval from the IEL-10 course organiser, confirming your eligibility for that course, and they will then pass to the SCAO.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 120 credits in this group.

Informatics Hons 3rd Year Group Project and Large Practical

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students may not take both SDP and EIP.
AND

Informatics Hons 3rd Year Joint Degree CS Courses

Select between 20 and 60 credits of the following courses
AND

Informatics CS-Phys 3rd Year - 1

Select between 10 and 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Informatics CS-Phys 3rd Year - 2

Select between 10 and 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Informatics CS-Phys 3rd Year - 3

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Undergraduate (School of Physics and Astronomy) Level 9 and 10 courses

Notes:
Level 10 courses are only permitted under this option when the 'normal year taken' is 'year 3 undergraduate'. For suggested Year 3 courses, see the third year of the DPT for the Physics (BSc Hons) or Computational Physics (BSc Hons) degrees.
AND

Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 20 credits from Level 9 and 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
These are courses in all Schools other than Medicine, Veterinary Studies, or the Centre for Open Learning, and include courses normally taken by fourth-year students. In the case that this DPT option is chosen, you are advised to obtain permission to take the course from the Course Organiser, and have the course choice approved by your student support team.

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Notes:
Before making your course choices make sure you have discussed them with your Student Adviser, or someone in your student support team.

Select your project options from either Group A (School of Informatics) or Group B (School of Physics and Astronomy) below.

Some third year courses are prerequisites for specific fourth year courses, you are advised to consider your plans for fourth year when making your third year course choices.

Students who are members of Edinburgh University Formula Student may request a concession from the School Curriculum Approval Officer (SCAO) to replace System Design Project INFR09032 with Informatics Experiential Learning (Level 10) INFR10084 (IEL-10). Please contact your student support team to gain approval from the IEL-10 course organiser, confirming your eligibility for that course, and they will then pass to the SCAO.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 120 credits in this group.

Honours Project (Informatics)

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
AND

Informatics Hons 4th Year CS Courses

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These are Computer Science courses at level 10 or 11 open to fourth-year undergraduate students.
AND

Informatics CS-Phys 4th Year - Core

Select between 20 and 30 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students MUST NOT take the following combinations:

1) Relativity, Nuclear and Particle Physics PHYS10096 AND Nuclear and Particle Physics PHYS10106, or

2) Quantum Physics PHYS1003 AND Principles of Quantum Mechanics PHYS10094, or

3) Principles of Quantum Mechanics PHYS10094 is not available for students who took Quantum Mechanics PHYS1003 in Year 3
AND

Undergraduate (School of Physics and Astronomy) Level 10 and 11 courses

AND

Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 10 credits from Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
These are courses in all Schools other than Medicine, Veterinary Studies, or the Centre for Open Learning, and include courses normally taken by fourth-year students. In the case that this DPT option is chosen, you are advised to obtain permission to take the course from the Course Organiser, and have the course choice approved by your student support team.
OR

Group B

Select exactly 120 credits in this group.

Senior Honours Project (Physics & Astronomy) Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Senior Honours Project (Physics & Astronomy) Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
AND

Informatics CS-Phys 4th Year - Core

Select between 20 and 30 credits of the following courses
AND

Undergraduate (School of Physics and Astronomy) Level 10 and 11 courses

AND

Informatics Hons 4th Year CS Courses

Select between 40 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These are Computer Science courses at level 10 or 11 open to fourth-year undergraduate students.
AND

Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 10 credits from Level 10 and 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
Notes:
These are courses in all Schools other than Medicine, Veterinary Studies, or the Centre for Open Learning, and include courses normally taken by fourth-year students. In the case that this DPT option is chosen, you are advised to obtain permission to take the course from the Course Organiser, and have the course choice approved by your student support team.

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