Virtual Applicant Taster Days

Courses included: BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology and BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology with Foundation Year

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.55pm

  Taster lecture: Introduction to Digital Transformation

  During this taster session, you will have the opportunity to participate in some fascinating hands-on activities focused around a range of topics in Digital Transformation. These include exercises on problem solving and database development. This will give you a taste of what it will be like studying on the course, and the variety of topics that your course will cover.

• 12.55 - 1pm

  Break

• 1 - 2pm

  Certify for success

  During this taster session, you will find out about the certification opportunites available to BIT and CIT students and how these support your development and employability. You will get an opportunity to run through some certification bootcamp exercises and sample the certifications on offer. At the end of our activity, you will have the chance to ask our student ambassadors and academics any questions you may have about student life and studying at BCU.

• 2pm onwards

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.

Courses included: BSc (Hons) Computing Information Technology and BSc (Hons) Computing Information Technology with Foundation Year

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.55pm

  Taster lecture: Introduction to Digital Transformation

  During this taster session, you will have the opportunity to participate in some fascinating hands-on activities focused around a range of topics in Digital Transformation. These include exercises on problem solving and database development. This will give you a taste of what it will be like studying on the course, and the variety of topics that your course will cover.

• 12.55 - 1pm

  Break

• 1 - 2pm

  Certify for success

  During this taster session, you will find out about the certification opportunites available to BIT and CIT students and how these support your development and employability. You will get an opportunity to run through some certification bootcamp exercises and sample the certifications on offer. At the end of our activity, you will have the chance to ask our student ambassadors and academics any questions you may have about student life and studying at BCU.

• 2pm onwards

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.

Courses included: BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics and BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics with Foundation Year

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.55pm

  Taster lecture: Forensics challenge

  This taster session will introduce you to a range of specialised software and techniques used by forensic computing experts. You will get the chance to solve forensic challenges set by course staff, allowing you to learn the basics of digital forensics and cyber security.

• 12.55 - 1pm

  Break

• 1 - 2pm

  Taster activity: Introduction to analysing data

  In this taster session you will secure, retrieve and analyse data stored on a range of different devices, this will enable you to get a taste of the modules you will be studying on your course.At the end of our activity, you will have the chance to ask our student ambassadors and academics any questions you may have about student life and studying at BCU.

• 2pm onwards

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.45pm

  Taster activity: Create your own Minecraft Character!

  In this session you will produce several Minecraft character texture skins and map them to characters in Autodesk Maya, enabling you to work with 3D computer graphics.

• 1 - 2pm

  Taster lecture: Introduction to Unity3D

  You will import the assets from the previous activity into Unity3D allowing you to expand upon the asset pack via textures and sounds. Your final product will consist of a small game with a controllable character, interactable objects, particles, sounds and animation. After the session you will be able to download your creation from GitHub, onto your PC! At the end of our activity, you will have the chance to ask our student ambassadors and academics any questions you may have about student life and studying at BCU.

• 2pm

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.

Courses included: BSc (Hons) Digital Media Computing and BSc (Hons) Digital Media Computing with Foundation Year

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.40pm

  Introduction to Digital Media Computing at BCU

  Find out all about studying Digital Media Computing with us! This session will provide you with a brief introduction to our academics, allow you to see the industry standard facilities we offer and gain a student’s perspective. You’ll also get an insight into some of the extra curricular activities that we offer.

• 12.45 - 2pm

  Web module, Production module and Group module talk + Q&A

  In this session you will get an insight into the web and production modules that you will do on the course. Including interactive web design, JavaScript libraries, 3D modelling and 2D/3D animation. Our academics will also explain how separate components of web, design and video come together using some of our student projects. Ask our academics and current students questions about the course and student life in the Q&A at the end of the session.

• 2pm onwards

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.

Courses included: BSc (Hons) Cyber Security and BSc (Hons) Cyber Security with Foundation Year

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.55pm

  Taster lecture: Crypto-Fun Capture the flag competition

  In this session, you will take part in a CTF competition. Capture The Flag is a contest in which you are provided with challenges or puzzles and once you solve these you get an alphanumeric string, known as a flag. For this activity, you will be given 4 encrypted messages to decrypt and get the flags. You will be introduced to some fundamental Cryptography concepts and you will explore a range of encryption algorithms.

• 12.55 - 1pm

  Break

• 1 - 2pm

  Taster activity: Network Configuration

  During this session you will get the chance to participate in some fascinating hands-on activities focused on the areas of networking. Firstly, we’ll let you loose on a computer network where you will carry out some configuration and make use of software tools to examine the network traffic. At the end of our activity, you will have the chance to ask our student ambassadors and academics any questions you may have about student life and studying at BCU.

• 2pm onwards

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.

Courses included: BSc (Hons) Computer and Data Science and BSc (Hons) Computer and Data Science with Foundation Year

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.55pm

  Taster lecture: Introduction to Programming

  This Computer Programming taster session will introduce you to a language often used in the arts to easily create computer graphics and animations through program instruction. It will provide a tangible onscreen output directly relating to the program instruction you provide. You will explore co-ordinate systems, drawing primitives, user interaction, the RGB colour space and animation.

• 12.55 - 1pm

  Break

• 1 - 2pm

  Taster activity: Intelligent Data Technologies

  This session will introduce you to Computer and Data Science and explain the importance of Data Science in the modern world. Learn about the power of intelligent Data technologies like Computer Vision and how these systems are sensitive to design choices to get a taste of what stuyding on the course is like. At the end of our activity, you will have the chance to ask our student ambassadors and academics any questions you may have about student life and studying at BCU.

• 2pm onwards

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.

• 12 - 12.15pm

  Welcome to School of Computing and Digital Technology

  During this welcome talk, you will be given a brief course introduction by our Head of School, Andrew Aftelak. You can find out more about the School, how you will be learning and have the chance to ask any questions.

• 12.15 - 12.55pm

  Taster lecture: Introduction to Digital Transformation

  During this taster session, you will have the opportunity to participate in some fascinating hands-on activities focused around a range of topics in Digital Transformation. These include exercises on problem solving and database development. This will give you a taste of what it will be like studying on the course, and the variety of topics that your course will cover.

• 12.55 - 1pm

  Break

• 1 - 2pm

  Certify for success

  During this taster session, you will find out about the certification opportunites available to BIT and CIT students and how these support your development and employability. You will get an opportunity to run through some certification bootcamp exercises and sample the certifications on offer. At the end of our activity, you will have the chance to ask our student ambassadors and academics any questions you may have about student life and studying at BCU.

• 2pm onwards

  Explore BCU

  Learn about key areas of university life, with virtual tours, information on finance, admissions, student support and accommodation, and a chance to ask us your questions.