Academic Regulations 2003/4:
School of Electronics & Computer Science

  1. The compulsory and optional modules for each year of each degree are given in the ECS programme specifications, and student courses handbook. Some modules have pre-requisites, and some modules are mutually exclusive. These are documented in the ECS module specifications. A printed copy of the latest version of these documents is kept in the student courses office, and can also be viewed electronically on the ECS web site.

  2. Students must select their options for each semester of study before the start of the semester, on or before the options deadline as notified by the options coordinator.

  3. It is responsibility of each student to ensure that the combination of modules they have selected is valid, and meets the requirements of their programme of study.

  4. Students may change their selection up to the end of week three of the semester.

  5. Exceptionally it may be possible to drop a module up to the end of week six of the semester; but only in the first semester, and providing it is also possible to select an additional module in the following semester.

  6. Completed options forms must be signed by the student and their personal tutor, senior tutor, or course coordinator.

  7. The deadlines indicated above apply to the submission of a properly completed options form to student courses office.

  8. Most programmes include a project in their final and possibly penultimate year.

  9. Students must submit a completed project preferences form by the end of the semester before the start of the project, on or before the deadline as notified by the project coordinator, so that a project supervisor can be allocated.