COM6023 - Project

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

The Project serves as the culmination of the academic programme and extensively integrates the knowledge and competencies cultivated throughout the programme of study.

This module offers students the chance to showcase their capacity for applying practical and analytical skills, fostering innovation and creativity. It emphasises the synthesis of information, ideas, and practices to deliver a high-quality solution, coupled with an assessment of that solution, which is related to their degree programme. The module also aims to cultivate the ability to undertake a project addressing a genuine need within a broader context, demonstrating effective self-management of substantial work, and conducting a critical self-evaluation of the entire process.

Encouragement is offered to students for the cultivation of professional skills, including effective project time management, guidance in negotiating project outcomes, and the adept contextualisation of computing subjects. Concurrently, an emphasis is placed on fostering reflexive practice as an integral component of the development of professional acumen.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Group seminars
Hours: 20
Intended Group Size: Cohort

Independent supervisions
Hours: 10

Guided independent study
Hours: 270

Further details relating to assessment
Project proposal: This is a report that enables the student to detail and confirm the project they are undertaking, reflect on their research hypothesis, project objectives, verification and validation methods and intended outcomes, set in context of relevant literature/sector best practice.

Artefact and Viva: The ‘artefact’ is the software or technical product the student has developed in response to the brief that was negotiated between themselves and an academic supervisor. The artefact should be sufficiently technical and complex to satisfy the Level 6 requirements. The viva presents an opportunity for the student to demo and defend their artefact before their academic supervisor and a second marker.

Written report: This is a more substantial report demonstrating the student has acquired the depth of knowledge and academic rigour expected at Level 6. Their report should provide the wider context of the problem they are seeking to address (e.g. What is the wider social/political issue? Why is it important that businesses act to address it?) The report may follow a typical 'academic' structure. For example:
• Introduction (500 words)
• Literature review (750 words)
• Methodologies (750 words)
• Results (250 words)
• Discussion (500 words)
• Conclusion (250 words).

In this module, formative assessment will be used to support the skills that contribute to the assessment. Formative assessment includes student-led seminars, mock viva, skills audit and specific research tasks. Formative feedback will be an ongoing process within class sessions.

Full details are available in the Module Handbook.

Please note that assessment components 2 and 3 must be passed in line with PSRB requirements.

Assessment:

001 Project outline; 750 word equivalent; mid- semester 1 20%
002 Artefact & Viva; 3,000 words equiv + 10 min demo; end of semester 2 40%
003 Written report; 3,000 words; end of semester 2 40%
004 Workplace Hours; 80 hours; Pass/Fail; End semester 2 %

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Lesley May
Level - 6
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6YL

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