Part B, Computer Science and Philosophy
Computer Science and Philosophy students take options subjects in Part B, but cannot offer more than two subjects from Schedule B2(CS&P) and that must offer at least two Philosophy subjects from 101, 102, 103, 104, 108, 122, 124, 125, and 127.
Computer Science
Computer Science and Philosophy students take between two and six Computer Science optional courses in the third year Schedules B1(CS&P) and B2(CS&P). All optional courses are examined at the end of your third year, including courses taken in Trinity Term of the previous year. Students are not permitted to offer an optional subject in Part B that they have already offered in Part A of the examination.
Please note that although practicals play no part in the degree classification, you must pass the practical component of the course in order to pass the exam, i.e. students must achieve 40% or more overall in their practicals each year to pass.
Philosophy
Students take three, four or five Philosophy courses during the second and third years, from the following list of courses. It is recommended that students take two courses in the second year. The options list for Philosophy is:
The subject list for Philosophy is: 101. Early Modern Philosophy; 102. Knowledge and Reality; 103. Ethics; 104. Philosophy of Mind; 106. Philosophy of Science and Social Science; 107. Philosophy of Religion; 108. The Philosophy of Logic and Language; 109. Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Criticism; 110. Medieval Philosophy:Aquinas; 111. Medieval Philosophy: Duns Scotus and Ockham; 112. The Philosophy of Kant; 113. Post-Kantian Philosophy; 114. Theory of Politics; 115. Plato, Republic; 116. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; 120. Intermediate Philosophy of Physics; 122. Philosophy of Mathematics; 124. Philosophy of Science; 125. Philosophy of Cognitive Science; 127. Philosophical Logic; 128. Practical Ethics; 129. The Philosophy of Wittgenstein; 137. Plato on Knowledge, Language, & Reality in the Theaetetus and Sophist (in translation); 138. Aristotle on Nature, Life and Mind (in translation); 139. Knowledge and Scepticism in Hellenistic Philosophy (in translation).
Students must take at least two of 101, 102, 103, 104, 108, 122, 124, 125 and 127.
Full course details can be found on the Philosophy website.
Each Philosophy option is twice the weight of a Computer Science option.
All Computer Science papers will be examined by a written paper in Trinity Term, except those which are examined by mini-project. Courses examined by mini-project this year are: Data Visualisation, Deep Learning in Healthcare and Requirements.
Schedule B1 (CS&P)
- Artificial Intelligence 16 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Combinatorial Optimisation 20 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Computer Security 16 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Computer-Aided Formal Verification 16 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Geometric Modelling 16 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Machine Learning 20 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Principles of Programming Languages 16 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Requirements 16 Lectures, Michaelmas Term 2023
- Computational Complexity 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Computer Architecture 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Computer Graphics 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Data Visualisation 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Databases 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Deep Learning in Healthcare 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Lambda Calculus and Types 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Logic and Proof 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
- Quantum Information 16 Lectures, Hilary Term 2024
Schedule B2 (CS&P)
Notices
- Notice to Candidates - 2023/2024 (Notice to Candidates, Hilary Term 2024) (pdf)
- Notice to Candidates - 2023/2024 (Notice to Candidates - Compilers MT2023) (pdf)
- Notice to Candidates - 2023/2024 (Notice to Candidates - Requirements MT2023) (pdf)