Undergraduate Course: Honours Project (Informatics) (INFR10044)

Course Outline
School	School of Informatics	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	This is a major project and is intended to allow students to demonstrate their ability to organise and carry out a substantial piece of work. The project involves both the application of skills learnt in the past and the acquisition of new skills. Typical areas of activity will be: gathering and understanding background information; solving conceptual problems; design; implementation; experimentation and evaluation; writing up. The project is conducted individually by the student under the supervision of a member of teaching staff. The project specification is usually provided by a member of staff, but students are also free to specify their own project. All project specifications must be approved by the Project Coordinator. For a single honours Informatics degree, the project will normally involve the construction of an artefact, whether software, hardware, a robotic device, some other artefact incorporating computation, or some combination of these. This requirement does not necessarily apply to combined honours degrees.
Course description	Project dependent

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Only available to 4th Year Informatics students including those on joint degrees. There is also a possibility of further project dependent pre-requisites.

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 6, Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 22, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 363 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	The project is assessed on the basis of a written report which should typically contain: - Title page with abstract (a one paragraph summary of the contents). - Introduction and synopsis, in which the project topic is described and the main results are briefly summarised. - Background, which sets the project in the context of published literature and justifies the further investigation. - Methods, which presents the work undertaken, explaining and justifying the approach in detail, and in which the various sub-problems, solutions and difficulties are examined. - Results, providing evaluation of the work and including, as appropriate, experiments undertaken, a presentation of the data gleaned from them, and an interpretation of that data. - Discussion and conclusion, in which the main achievements are reviewed, and unsolved problems and directions for further work are presented. - Bibliography. After submission the student makes a presentation to the two markers. This presentation does not make an explicit contribution to the overall mark, but it does inform the markers' assessment of the report.
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: structure, summarise and critically evaluate a body of knowledge relating to a substantial project topic in Informatics conduct a programme of work in further investigation of issues related to the topic discuss and solve conceptual problems which arise during the investigation critically evaluate the investigation, including design choices made present their work orally and visually, with demonstration of working artefacts where appropriate