- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
The Higher Diploma in Science (Computer Science) is a postgraduate course intended for graduates whose primary degree included 3-year’s study of Computing. On completion of the course participants would be expected to reach a level of competence equivalent to that of a four year BSc graduate in Computer Science.
Entry Requirements
Applicants for the course are required to hold a 3-year university degree, or its equivalent, recognized by the Senate of the University with computing as one of its subjects. (Examples include BA degrees with Computing and degrees where Computing is a minor subject). Graduates with less computing than required are recommended to apply for the Higher Diploma in Information Technology MHG54. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- COMPUTATION & COMPLEXITY
- ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION
- DIPLOMA PROJECT
- COMPUTER GRAPHICS
- AUDIO & SPEECH PROCESSING
- NUMERICAL COMPUTATION
- NEUROCOMPUTATION
- PARALLEL & DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
- ADVANCED CONCEPTS & ISSUES IN COMP.SCI. 1
- PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGN & SEMANTICS
- CRYPTOGRAPHY
- COMPUTER VISION
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & LANGUAGE PROCESSING
- MACHINE LEARNING & NEURAL NETWORKS
- THEORY OF COMPUTATION
- PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES & COMPILERS
- READINGS IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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