DPT: Computer Science and Mathematics (BSc Hons) (UTCMPMA)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

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

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

Introduction to Linear Algebra

Must be passed

Calculus and its Applications

Must be passed

Proofs and Problem Solving

Must be passed

Informatics 1 - Introduction to Computation

Must be passed

Informatics 1 - Object Oriented Programming

Must be passed

Course options

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

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

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

Please Note: Maths have 10 credit courses available in both S1 and S2. Probability is needed as background for S2 of INF2-FDS

Compulsory courses

Informatics 2 - Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures

Must be passed

Informatics 2 - Foundations of Data Science

Must be passed

Several Variable Calculus and Differential Equations

Must be passed

Probability

Must be passed

Fundamentals of Pure Mathematics

Must be passed

Course options

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

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

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.

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

Course options

Students may not take both SDP and EIP.

System Design Project

Informatics Large Practical

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project

AND

These are Artificial Intelligence courses open to third-year undergraduate students.

Computational Cognitive Science

Foundations of Natural Language Processing

Introduction to Mobile Robotics

Machine Learning

Automated Reasoning

Speech Processing (Hons)

AND

These are Computer Science courses in both semesters open to third-year undergraduate students on Computer Science joint degrees.

Algorithms and Data Structures

Software Testing

Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science

Elements of Programming Languages

Software Design and Modelling

Compiling Techniques

Computer Security

Computer Communications and Networks

Computer Architecture and Design

Operating Systems

Introduction to Databases

Introduction to Mobile Robotics

Machine Learning

Modelling Concurrent Systems (Level 10)

AND

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.

AND

Professional Issues (Level 10)

AND

Courses are only permitted under this option if the 'normal year taken' is 'year 3 undergraduate'. For suggested Year 3 courses, see the third year of the Mathematics degree (School of Mathematics).

AND

HAlg/HAna/HCoV/HDEq choice collection - These are core courses

Honours Differential Equations

Honours Complex Variables

Honours Analysis

Honours Algebra

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

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 Mathematics) 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.