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Study Abroad Year:

This module represents the Study Abroad Year of an MEng International Programme. The Study Abroad Year is a year of study taken at an approved international partner institution in Year 3, which replaces the equivalent Year 3 study at UCL. Students resume the standard Year 4 curriculum when they return to UCL.

More information about Study Abroad is available at Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ Study Abroad website and in the . The department will notify students about the Study Abroad scheme at the start of Year 2.

Aims:

The educational aims of the Study Abroad Year follow exactly those of their existing MEng Computer Science or MEng Mathematical Computation programme, with the additional aims of extending the educational experience of students through: (a) continuing advanced education in computer science, (b) experience of education in a different cultural and/or linguistic setting, and (c) access to high level teaching and research expertise from outside UCL.

Intended learning outcomes:

Students will have studied modules / courses at an appropriate breadth and depth to enable them to progress to Year 4 of theirÌýMEng International Programme, whilst at the same time having benefited from the experience of Higher Education in a different linguistic and/or cultural setting.

Content:

Students studying abroad must follow a programme that satisfies the following criteria:

• Be of overall of equivalent depth to that of their UCL Year 3 MEngÌýprogramme.
• Be substantially composed of courses in computer science.
• Have a significant engineering orientation (as defined by UK-SPEC) andÌýbe compliant with the QAA subject benchmark framework.
• Be of equal workload to that of theirÌýUCL Year 3 MEng that is, using accepted equivalence measures, be of 120 credits.
• Be formally assessed by the host institution and the results of the assessment independently reported to the Study Abroad Tutor.
• Include taught modules/ courses, that should not consist solely of project work.

Requisites:

To be eligible to select this module, a student must: (1) be registered on a programme and year of study for which it is formally available; and (2) have been approved to commence the Study Abroad Year.