The whole field is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from related fields in psychology, philosophy, linguistics and biology. Distinctive features of the work in the School include human-centred computer systems, the foundations of concurrent systems, vision, natural language processing, neural networks and artificial life. The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence degrees do not require previous programming experience. Sussex encourages applications from women and from mature students. How you learn Teaching is by a combination of lectures, seminars, exercise classes and computer laboratory work.
Some teaching takes place in the form of group projects linked to particular courses.
What you will achieve As well as your degree and the enhanced career prospects it offers, there are opportunities to participate in peer group teaching, and to develop your language skills and programming techniques. Career prospects Computer science is a rapidly-changing discipline that affects many aspects of modern life. Many people, for instance women who had been turned off computing at school, have found our BA in Artificial Intelligence an attractive route into careers directly or indirectly related to information technology. In an economic climate that is difficult for everyone, graduates of these degree schemes are proving to be very successful at finding permanent employment soon after finishing their studies. The University has multiprocessor computers running UNIX, and a campus network to which many Sun and Solbourne workstations are attached, as well as numerous PCs.