计算机科学硕士
Online United Kingdom
理学硕士
期间
6 年
语言
英语
步伐
全职, 兼职
报名截止日期
最早开始日期
学费
GBP 9,960 *
学习形式
远程教育
* 总花费
此计算机理学硕士资格涵盖各种主题,包括适用于专业发展的可转移技能。灵活、广泛的路线可让您选择适合您需求的模块。或者从网络路线或 BCS 认证的软件工程或信息安全和取证路线中选择,以发展深入的专业知识。最后,完成您选择的主题的独立项目。
主要特征
- 将理论与实践结合起来,借鉴你的背景和经验
- 使您能够根据自己的特定职业需求和专业兴趣定制学习
- 为进一步的研究提供了良好的平台
认证
信息安全与取证路线和软件工程路线(如果包括 30 学分的项目模块 T803)
- 经英国特许信息技术协会 (BCS) 认证,部分满足注册为特许 IT 专业人士的学术要求。BCS 认证确保学习课程符合该行业设定的高标准。
- 获得英国特许信息技术协会 (BCS) 的认可,代表欧洲信息学教育质量保证网络 (EQANIE) 颁发 Euro-Inf 大师质量标签,表明该学院满足 Euro-Inf 框架标准和信息学学位课程认证标准所规定的第二周期课程成果。
信息安全与取证路线和软件工程路线(如果包括 60 学分项目模块 T802)
- 经英国特许信息技术协会 (BCS) 认证,部分满足注册为特许 IT 专业人士的学术要求。BCS 认证确保学习课程符合该行业设定的高标准。
- 获得英国特许信息技术协会 (BCS) 的认可,代表欧洲信息学教育质量保证网络 (EQANIE) 颁发 Euro-Inf 大师质量标签,表明该学院满足 Euro-Inf 框架标准和信息学学位课程认证标准所规定的第二周期课程成果。
- 经英国特许信息技术协会 (BCS) 代表工程委员会认证,完全符合注册工程师的学术要求,部分符合特许工程师的学术要求。认证是保证学位符合工程委员会在英国专业工程能力标准 (UK-SPEC) 中设定的标准的一种标志。
这需要多久
大多数学生需要三年时间才能完成该资格课程,这是最短所需时间,每年完成 60 个学分。最长完成时间为六年。
The qualification provides opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas:
Knowledge and understanding
完成该学位后,您将能够展示以下方面的知识和理解:
- A wide range of computing tools, techniques, development practices, and systems and their application to business, societal and personal requirements
- The application of a combination of computing theory and practice, with the ability to use theoretical considerations and practical constraints to guide the application
- 计算机系统的开发、规范和使用,允许根据一系列标准对其进行评估
- Computing and related standards, codes of practice, quality and evaluation frameworks and their application.
Cognitive skills
On completion of this degree you will be able to:
- Integrate knowledge and skills from various sources into a coherent whole, making appropriate abstractions
- Deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively, using appropriate tools and techniques, notations and formalisms
- Pursue an original, independent, practical project involving an appropriate balance of research, development, evaluation and review and communicate effectively the project aims, processes and outcomes.
Practical and/or professional skills
On completion of this degree you will be able to:
- Recognise and respond to opportunities for innovation in computing
- Recognise social, legal and ethical responsibilities and their appropriate application
- Critically evaluate developments in computing including the identification of limitations and risks, legal issues, cultural and ethical impact and societal and business needs
- Identify needs, articulate goals, locate and employ resources and follow action plans in support of independent learning and professional development.
Key skills
On completion of this degree you will be able to:
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, using appropriate channels and media and where appropriate incorporating research and practice from the forefront of the computing discipline and professional practice
- Make and articulate decisions, including collating appropriate evidence and opinions, even in the presence of incomplete information
- Independently apply problem solving principles; using appropriate underpinning knowledge and skills
- Review, evaluate, reflect on and critique your own work and the work of others, engaging in peer review processes that lead to innovation and improvement.
You’ll choose one of four routes:
- MSc in Computing (broad route)
- MSc in Computing (Information Security and Forensics)
- MSc in Computing (Networking)
- MSc in Computing (Software Engineering)
MSc in Computing (broad route)
To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits as follows:
Stage 1 (120 credits)
60–120 credits from:
- Data management (M816)
- Digital forensics (M812)
- Information security (M811)
- Project management (M815)
- Software development (M813)
- Software engineering (M814)
0–60 credits from:
- Making strategy with systems thinking in practice (TB871)
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
- Network security (T828)
- Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
- Systems security (M817)
- Technology innovation management (TB801)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T824, T846, T848, T889, TU811, TU812 and U810.
Stage 2 (60 credits)
You’ll choose either:
- A Research route
- A Professional route
Research route
60 credits from:
- Research project (T802)
Professional route
60 credits from:
- MSc project: researching in context (T803)
或者,根据有关排除组合的规则,已停止使用模块 T842 和 T847。
Plus 30 credits from any modules at OU Level 3 or above.
MSc in Computing (Networking)
To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits as follows:
Stage 1 (120 credits)
90 credits from:
- Advanced networking (CCNP Enterprise) (T829)
- Network security (T828)
30 credits from:
- Data management (M816)
- Digital forensics (M812)
- Information security (M811)
- Making strategy with systems thinking in practice (TB871)
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
- Project management (M815)
- Software development (M813)
- Software engineering (M814)
- Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
- Systems security (M817)
- Technology innovation management (TB801)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T824, T846, T848, T889, TU811, TU812 and U810.
Stage 2 (60 credits)
You’ll choose either:
- A Research route
- A Professional route
Research route
60 credits from:
- Research project (T802)
Professional route
60 credits from:
- 理学硕士项目:情境研究(T803)
或者,根据有关排除组合的规则,已停止使用模块 T842 和 T847。
Plus 30 credits from any modules at OU Level 3 or above.
MSc in Computing (Information Security and Forensics)
To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits as follows:
Stage 1 (120 credits)
60 credits from:
- Information security (M811)
- Digital forensics (M812)
60 credits from:
- Data management (M816)
- Making strategy with systems thinking in practice (TB871)
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
- Network security (T828)
- Project management (M815)
- Software development (M813)
- Software engineering (M814)
- Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
- Systems security (M817)
- Technology innovation management (TB801)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T824, T846, T848, T889, TU811, TU812 and U810.
Stage 2 (60 credits)
You’ll choose either:
- A Research route
- A Professional route
Research route
60 credits from:
- Research project (T802)
Professional route
60 credits from:
- 理学硕士项目:情境研究(T803)
或者,根据有关排除组合的规则,已停止使用模块 T842 和 T847。
另加 OU 3 级或以上任意模块的 30 个学分。
MSc in Computing (Software Engineering)
To gain this qualification, you need 180 credits as follows:
Stage 1 (120 credits)
60 credits from:
- Software development (M813)
- Software engineering (M814)
60 credits from:
- Data management (M816)
- Digital forensics (M812)
- Information security (M811)
- Making strategy with systems thinking in practice (TB871)
- Managing change with systems thinking in practice (TB872)
- Network security (T828)
- Project management (M815)
- Strategic capabilities for technological innovation (T849)
- Systems security (M817)
- Technology innovation management (TB801)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued modules T824, T846, T848, T889, TU811, TU812 and U810.
Stage 2 (60 credits)
You’ll choose either:
- A Research route
- A Professional route
Research route
60 credits from:
- Research project (T802)
Professional route
60 credits from:
- 理学硕士项目:情境研究(T803)
或者,根据有关排除组合的规则,已停止使用模块 T842 和 T847。
另加 OU 3 级或以上任意模块的 30 个学分。
您应该注意到,大学独特的学习规则适用于此资格。这意味着您必须包括至少 60 个 OU 模块学分,这些学分未计入您之前获得的任何其他 OU 资格中。特别注意,您只能将以下模块的学分计入单个资格:研究项目 (T802);理学硕士项目:情境研究 (T803)。
Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
您将使用在线教学文本、CD、DVD 和网络上的多媒体包、教科书和学术及行业论文的指导阅读以及专门的软件工具进行自主学习。
我们将通过以下方式支持您的学习:
- Self-assessment questions and exercises
- 基于计算机的调查、任务和活动以及开放式
- Project work
- Feedback and guidance from tutors and other subject specialists
- Computer conferences and other online forums
- Study guides, information and guidance packs.
We will assess your learning using some or all of the following:
- 交互式计算机标记作业 (iCMA)
- Tutor-marked assessments (TMAs)
- Formal examinations
- 模块结束评估 (EMA)
- Progress and project reports.
There will be opportunities for you to:
- Apply your learning in practical contexts, for example by reflecting on your own engagement with computing systems in a home, work or social setting
- Engage with fellow students, tutors, subject practitioners and academic specialists in online groups
- Engage with research papers and industry white papers at the forefront of the discipline
- Gain exposure to the professional and employability discussions that are shaping the computing profession.


