UG Year 2 information
Second Year Tutor
The second year single honours tutor is Graham Gough (click for contact details).
Tutors are available for an Open Hour once a week when students can visit them in their office.
If you are a CSE or CM student then your tutor can be found in the tutors list on the page for current undergraduate students.
What to do when things go wrong
Of course we all hope that your 2nd year will go smoothly, but when things do seem to be going wrong we have a number of ways to help. The most important thing to remember (throughout your degree, not just in the 2nd year!) is not to keep the problems to yourself... if we know that you are having difficulties of some kind, we may be able to help directly, and even if we can't we'll probably be able to take things into account when it comes to deciding on degree classifications and so on.
If you are experiencing any difficulties, in particular anything that may affect your academic performance, please speak to someone. This could be your personal tutor, or if you prefer, come to speak to me; anything you say will be treated in confidence. You can find me in Kilburn 2.115, but if I'm not in my office, email me to arrange an appointment.
Lab manual
Tutorial Groups
All second year single and joint honours students have fortnightly tutorial groups. Where possible, the tutorial groups have been preserved from the first year and stay with the same tutor. However this is not always the case so it is important to confirm the group arrangements.
Tutorial activities and material for Semester 1
- Week 1/2: Reflection form for first tutorial
- Week 3/4: Tutorial Sheet 1 : Writing Skills
- Week 5: No tutorial
- Week 6: Reading Week Assignment
- Week 7/8 Tutorial Sheet 2 : Presentation Skills
- Week 9/10: Presentations on topics of the Reading Week Essay (first half group)
- Week 11/12: Presentations on topics of the Reading Week Essay (second half group)
Tutorial activities and material for Semester 2
- Weeks 1/2: (30 Jan / 6 Feb) Tutorial 1: Emerging Internet Technologies 1.
- Weeks 3/4: (13 Feb / 20 Feb) Tutorial 2: Emerging Internet Technologies 2.
- Weeks 5/6: (27 Feb / 5 Mar) Tutorial 3: 26120 Knapsack case study.
- Weeks 7/8: (12 Mar / 19 Mar ) Tutorial 4: Semester 1 review.
- Weeks 9/10: (16 Apr / 23 Apr) Tutorial 5: 23420 case study.
Changing your course units
Instructions for choosing and changing course units are in the options & themes page.
Changing your degree programme
You can change your degree programme at any point during the 2nd year, subject to having met the right conditions (e.g. having done the right 1st and 2nd year course units) and having permission from the appropriate members of staff.
To start the process of changing your degree programme you will need to get a Change Of Degree form from the School Office and collect the appropriate signatures on it (this will usually involve getting your personal tutor and whoever is responsible for the new degree programme to agree to your change).