THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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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

Course options

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Notes:
These are courses in all schools other than Medicine, or the Centre for Open Learning.

Year 2 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.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Notes:
These are courses in all schools other than Medicine, or the Centre for Open Learning.

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 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.

Students must meet all the programme learning outcomes specified in the Engineering Councils Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP) to be eligible to graduate with the BEng in Computer Science. In particular: a maximum of 30 credits may be compensated (awarded on aggregate) in total across years 3 and 4. The minimum mark where compensation is applied is 10% below the nominal course pass mark; students must therefore score at least 30% for a course with a pass mark of 40% in order to be eligible for compensation; and, Professional Issues (Level 10) INFR10022, Informatics Large Practical INFR09051 and System Design Project INFR09032 must be passed without compensation; and, students who do not meet these criteria, but do meet the University regulations to pass the year, will be permitted to switch to the BSc in Computer Science in order to achieve an honours degree award

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 50 credits in this group.

Informatics Hons 3rd Year 10-credit Courses

Select exactly 10 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These are 10 credit Informatics courses open to third-year undergraduate students. All of these courses run in Semester 1.
AND

Informatics Hons 3rd Year Sem 2 CS Courses

Select between 20 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These are Computer Science courses in Semester 2 open to third-year undergraduate students.
AND

Informatics Hons 3rd Year Sem 2 AI Courses

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These are Artificial Intelligence courses in Semester 2 open to third-year undergraduate students.
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.

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.

Students must meet all the programme learning outcomes specified in the Engineering Councils Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP) to be eligible to graduate with the BEng in Computer Science. In particular: a maximum of 30 credits may be compensated (awarded on aggregate) in total across years 3 and 4. The minimum mark where compensation is applied is 10% below the nominal course pass mark; students must therefore score at least 30% for a course with a pass mark of 40% in order to be eligible for compensation; Professional Issues (Level 10) INFR10022, Informatics Large Practical INFR09051 and System Design Project INFR09032 must be passed without compensation; and students who do not meet these criteria, but do meet the University regulations to pass the year, will be permitted to switch to the BSc in Computer Science in order to achieve an honours degree award

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Informatics Hons 4th Year CS Courses

Select between 60 and 80 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These are Computer Science courses at level 10 or 11 open to fourth-year undergraduate students.
AND

Informatics Hons 4th Year non-CS courses

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These are other level 10 or 11 courses 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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