You should be in this room if you
are enrolled on stage 3 of one of
the following degrees
BEng Software Engineering
BSc Software Engineering
BSc Computer Science
BSc Computer Systems & Networking
BSc Computer Security & Forensics
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Welcome (back) to the
University of Greenwich
Dr Kevin McManus
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Kevin McManus PhD MSc PGCert BSc MBCS
Programme Leader
Department of Computing and Information Systems
(CIS)
Faculty of Architecture Computing and Humanities (FACH)
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BSc Computer Science
BEng Software Engineering
BSc Software Engineering
BSc Computer Systems & Networking
BSc Computer Security & Forensics
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Programme Leader
• Devise, manage and administer the degree
programme
• Advise on programme choices
• Direct students to sources of support
• academic, pastoral, financial, etc.
• Advise on academic progress
• Monitor student progress
• Report to the department
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Personal Tutor
• The Lead Personal Tutor (Year Tutor) for
academic Stage 3 is the Programme Leader
• Your personal tutor is your project supervisor
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Stage 3
• For most students this is the final year and counts significantly
towards your degree classifications
• 25% stage 2 GPA + 75% stage 3 GPA
• academic regulations for taught awards are available online
• The individual project is 60 credits
• half of your final year
• Most programmes have 30 credits of core courses
• two 15 credit courses, one in each term
• Most programmes have 30 credits of optional courses
• two 15 credit courses, one in each term
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Individual Project
• Says more about you than anything else you do at university
• not only in terms of marks
• Conforms to BCS requirements
• Encourages student-led learning
• the project is selected or originated by you according to your own
interests and appropriate to your programme of study
• Any subject or material appropriate to your programme of
study which you feel that you have not had an opportunity to
cover in your taught courses can and should be incorporated
into your project
• where appropriate access to teaching material can be arranged
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Programme Options
• Available online at
Undergraduate Stage 3 (Final Year) Options
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Programmes and Options
• Programme Change
• contact your programme leader
• change must be authorised by the programme
leader of your destination programme
• Course Change Form
• online through student intranet
• requires my online approval
• requires a convincing reason to change
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Individual Project
• Through term 1 you have a 2 hour weekly session
with 2 tutors
• These tutors will become your supervisor and your
second marker
• you will be required to pitch your project notion Dragon's
Den style
• one of the two Dragon's will become your supervisor
• Through term 2 you are on your own
• expected to arrange regular meetings with your supervisor
• More details including PowerPoint slides online
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Classification
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1st Class Honours
2:1 – Upper Second Honours
2:2 – Lower Second Honours
3rd Class Honours
>70%
>60%
>50%
>40%
How is your grade
calculated?
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New Students
• There is a lab session on to get you up to speed with
our systems
• there is a lot to take on board
• Wednesday 2:00-5:00 King William KW116 and other
KW labs
• Staff, mentors and other helpers will assume you are
first year students so please let them know that you
are third year direct entry and avoid confusion
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Student Representatives
• We need student representative to provide
feedback
• ad-hoc to the year tutor
• at Stage Committee Meetings
• one each term
• Please make yourself known to your year tutor
• Me 
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Questions?
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