Modules

• 1. Systems Analysis (Core) — Explains the importance of the wider environment surrounding a system, such as business strategy, and covers a range of systems development approaches, including object-oriented, soft systems method and agile. Students apply requirements elicitation techniques, produce early-stage systems development models using UML and rich pictures, and analyse and design a system within a small group.
• 2. Systems Engineering (Core) — Examines the complexity of computer-based systems and the systems thinking and systems practice needed to handle it. Introduces activities such as risk management, project management, measurement, quality, outsourcing, software process improvement, testing and support, and the people issues of working in development teams.
• 3. Introduction to Cyber Security (Core) — Students evaluate cyber-threat actors, attacks and vulnerabilities, analyse and evaluate cyber threats and risks, identify appropriate mitigations, and present their knowledge in reports and presentations based on industry requirements for cyber security processes.

• 4. Developing Secure Software (Core) — Students identify the most common security vulnerabilities in web-based systems and how to mitigate them, create and code a secure and usable web-based system that protects against attacks, apply secure software testing, and work in a small team to research, present and demonstrate attacks and mitigations.
• 5. Human Computer Interaction (Core) — Students learn good and bad practice in user interaction and interface design and implementation, the main approaches to understanding and evaluating interface and user experience issues, and the capabilities and needs of users.
• 6. Artificial Intelligence (Core) — Students learn the fundamental concepts and methods of problem-solving and prediction with artificial intelligence, how classical AI is inspired by human intelligence, supervised learning for data analysis, and how to select and evaluate learning models on real-world data.