Course co-ordinator(s): Dr Hamish Taylor (Edinburgh).
Aims:
This research course will be taught primarily by individual supervision and secondarily by a limited number of weekly lectures that aim to
- Impart skills in critical thinking, research planning, academic writing and experimental design appropriate for a post-graduate research programme.
- Impart skills in research project planning
- Develop a critical awareness of legal, social, ethical and professional issues relevant for computer science and its research.
Detailed Information
Course Description: Link to Official Course Descriptor.
Pre-requisites: none.
Location: Edinburgh.
Semester: 2.
Syllabus:
- Research aims and objectives, critical analysis of a research problem, critical review of relevant literature and investigative design.
- Research paper and proposal writing
- Research project planning, testing, risk analysis, requirements and design.
- Human factors in software engineering and computer science.
- Experimental design and software evaluation.
- Professional and academic standards and issues.
- Legal, social and ethical issues in Computer Science and its research.
SCQF Level: 12.
Credits: 15.