BSc (Hons) Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Bachelor's degree at East London

Develop the skills you need to confidently navigate your future career. You'll engage in real-world professional activities like networking simulations, mock interviews, and digital branding exercises, supported by industry guest speakers and career coaches. Practical sessions will sharpen your communication, research, and critical thinking abilities, while workshops will guide you in building a digital portfolio to strengthen your employability. Alongside hands-on experience, you'll map your ca

Build the academic and professional skills you need for success in the creative and technology industries. You'll develop key study techniques, including effective note-taking, research, academic writing, and digital communication. Through workshops, tutorials, and practical tasks, you'll boost your confidence as an independent learner and strengthen your ability to plan, organise, and deliver assignments. You'll also learn how to manage your time effectively, reference sources correctly, and ap

Strong numeracy and data-handling skills are vital in creative industries. In this module, you'll learn how to interpret graphs, solve problems using digital tools like spreadsheets, and present numerical information clearly. Practical exercises build your confidence with real-world scenarios, supporting your wider academic and professional development. By focusing on rational problem-solving and applied data skills, you'll strengthen your ability to work independently and collaboratively on fut

Understanding how media messages are created and interpreted is essential in today's digital world. This module introduces you to key frameworks for analysing visual media, while also building your ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively. You'll design an academic poster using professional software, develop critical thinking around cultural differences, and practise both oral and written communication for academic and industry contexts. A creative, skills-focused approach ensures y

A project-based approach is at the core of this module, helping you apply your knowledge to real computing and tech challenges. You'll work on software development, cybersecurity, hardware projects, or data science tasks, depending on your interest. Group work, project management, and professional communication are emphasised, alongside technical problem-solving. Continuous feedback will guide you as you prepare for higher-level computer science study, with a focus on producing professional-stan

Develop skills and techniques required for analysing, modelling and designing information systems. Understand the legal, social, ethical and professional issues relating to information systems development. This core module enhances your knowledge of information systems modelling and design. Get a good understanding of the complex legal, social, ethical, and professional considerations central to information systems development and computer science. Through rigorous study and practical learning,

Gain the skills to design, implement and test software applications using a high-level programming language. The module is taught from first principles and assumes no prior knowledge. It focuses on programming fundamentals such as variables, control structures, arrays and procedural programming methodology. It then introduces the object-oriented programming concepts of objects, classes and inheritance. This module is a foundational exploration of computer science through the lens of software dev

The module will allow you to examine the requirements for web applications and to select appropriate tools and techniques with which to design and build them. You will be able to use those selected tools and techniques to design, implement and test web pages. You will be able to provide professional documentation for the web pages produced.

This module will help you build fundamental knowledge of mathematical concepts and skills that are required for the study and application of computer science and cyber security. This module starts with the basic arithmetic and algebraic concepts that are used in almost every aspect of computer science. This is followed by topics on logic which are fundamental concepts used in the functioning of computer hardware and design and programming of software. Computer science theory heavily relies on pr

The module aims to provide a basic understanding of computer architecture. You will discover the relationship between hardware and software components of a computer system. You'll gain an understanding of the fundamentals of computer networking. The module delves into key concepts of computer science, ensuring you grasp the theoretical knowledge essential for navigating the complexities of modern computing systems and networks. You'll gain practical experience and hands-on skills. These will fur

Developing key professional skills is critical for successful graduate-level employment, entrepreneurship and career progression in the 4th industrial revolution. This module will help you to identify the skills, competencies and experience required for successful development in a range of future careers. You will recognise areas for your own personal and professional development through taught and workshop activities. Central to the process is for you to develop reflective skills, openness and

This module aims to provide you with the theoretical and practical knowledge that influences the design, implementation and applications of database management systems. It promotes the understanding of computer database systems in information management by providing technical skills that are required to deploy a database management system using various languages and tools that can be used within game development.

This module builds upon the foundational programming skills you have already learned. You will look at how to distinguish between, use and build a range of advanced data structures such as queues, stack and trees. You'll gain conceptual knowledge of the analysis, design and implementation of algorithms, such as sorting and searching, for solving complex problems. As part of your computer science course, you'll gain practical experience in applying these advanced data structures and algorithms to

This module investigates methods of state-of-the-art and research trends in Artificial Intelligence and related topics. In particular, the module introduces AI from machine learning to biologically inspired AI systems. This provides students with knowledge of the principles and applications of AI systems, and promotes appreciation of the current state of development in this area.

In this core module, you will engage with the abstract in computer science. At the same time, you will develop fundamental professional skills key to thriving in the 4th industrial revolution. Through a blend of taught sessions and practical experiences, you will gain the skills necessary for job applications within the IT sector. You'll also gain insights into the abstract concepts inherent in computer science. By reflecting on strategies for personal and professional development, you'll furthe

This module provides you with knowledge of the current trends in business intelligence analysis techniques and related topics. It will expose you to the skills, techniques and programming tools that yield the current industrial standards for data analysis.

This module provides students with the skills necessary to prepare, cleaning and data manipulation using commercial use programming language. The module builds on fundamental programming skills taught at level 4 and focuses on a programming language suited for data science tasks and the essential libraries within the programming language for completing data science tasks.

This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement