Academic Regulations 2003/4:
School of Electronics & Computer Science
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Students may change their selection up to the end of week three of the semester.
- 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.
- Completed options forms must be signed by the student and their personal tutor, senior tutor, or course coordinator.
- The deadlines indicated above apply to the submission of a properly completed options form to student courses office.
- Most programmes include a project in their final and possibly penultimate year.
- 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.