COSC470-25W (C) Whole Year 2025

Research Project

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 August 2025

Description

This course gives students in-depth research experience by completing a comprehensive computer science research project. A research topic will be chosen in discussion with a possible academic supervisor, a proposal developed and approved, and a written research report completed. Various milestones throughout the year include proposal development, written and oral progress reports, and final project presentations. At the end of the course, students will have studied and practised essential techniques and skills required to successfully complete a computer science research project.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate research techniques appropriate to a computer science context [WA2, WA3, WA4, WA10, WA11, WA12]

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department

Restrictions

COSC460, COSC461

Co-requisites

Timetable Note

Please note that the course activity times advertised here are currently in draft form, to be finalised at the end of January for S1 and whole year courses, and at the end of June for S2 courses.

Please hold off enquiries about these times until those finalisation dates.

Course Coordinator

Walter Guttmann

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,353.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering .

All COSC470 Occurrences

  • COSC470-25W (C) Whole Year 2025