This new course has been developed from existing successful courses in Mathematical and Computing Sciences offered by the university for a number of years to help meet this demand, and takes into account views from industry and commerce. The course provides a balanced and coherent range of studies from these two sciences and produces a practical mathematical scientist with considerable expertise in the use of computers in general and software in particular. In the degree and honours years, the optional mathematical topics which are selected will allows a student to specialise in a particular area of mathematics, namely statistics, operational research or computational mathematics. This course also develops other professionally oriented skills such as team working, oral presentation and report writing through fairly extensive use of case study and project assignments. Computing science topics emphasise software design, graphics, database systems and artificial intelligence.
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