• Credits: 20
• Core/Option: Core
• Code: COMP70033

IS Projects have a reputation for being difficult to manage, and instances of IT projects that have ended disastrously late and/or over budget are often reported. However, surveys show that managers working on many of these projects have not received adequate training in basic project management, however good they may be technically. This module is intended to overcome this problem, to give you a ‘running start’ in a project team and to allow you to use your technical skills to maximum effect within the project environment.

• Credits: 20
• Core/Option: Core
• Code: COMP70037

The module will introduce you to the issues involved in identifying business data for analysis and modelling and will look at data mining in the context of Big Data and Business Data and will give you hands-on experience of working with data mining tools and techniques.

• Credits: 20
• Core/Option: Core

Explore how organisations can use digital technologies to transform processes, services and business models. You will develop an understanding of the opportunities and challenges associated with digital transformation and how technology can contribute to organisational growth.

• Credits: 60
• Core/Option: Core
• Code: COMP70045

Each student must perform a large project for this module on a research or implementation topic of their choice from among those suggested by the project supervisors. Students will have hands-on practise organising, carrying out, documenting, and presenting a sizable original piece of work. The purpose of this unit is to give students a significant opportunity to combine material from all taught units they have studied as part of the programme in order to demonstrate the breadth and depth of their learning for the MSc. Every MSc project is supervised by a qualified academic staff member, occasionally with the help of a postdoctoral research associate, doctorate student, or outside industrial adviser or supervisor. Throughout the course of this unit, all students are required to meet often with their supervisor (and any co-supervisors).

• Credits: 20
• Core/Option: Core
• Code: COMP70047

This module exposes you to a real-world development environment. Working in groups you will simulate the activities of a multi-disciplinary team tendering for and delivering an enterprise application using a blend of server, web and client programming techniques.

• Credits: 20
• Core/Option: Core
• Code: COMP70051

This module will introduce you to the issues involved in working with emerging technologies in a business context and to some of the technologies that you will more widely use on your MSc course.

• Credits: 20
• Core/Option: Core
• Code: COMP70062

The purpose of this module is to introduce the foundational knowledge and abilities you will need to start working on your MSc project. The syllabus will consist of identifying a project, defining goals and objectives, deliverables, and value addition, selecting literature to go in your research review section, how to study research papers, academic writing, and preparing for your MSc dissertation.