入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：First- or upper second-class honours degree or equivalent in an appropriate discipline (eg mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science)
英语要求：IELTS 6.5
学费 Tuition Fee：2011/2012 £14,460
课程特征 Course Features：
Web Science is a new area of research that analyses the impact of the Web on business, government, law and science itself. Pioneered by ECS in the UK and MIT in the US, Web Science uses multidisciplinary techniques to explore the impact of the Web on all aspects of human society, from the individual right through to a national and global scale.
课程内容 Course Content ：
Semester 1: Foundations of Web science; Hypertext and Web technologies for master’s; Research methods in computing; Research methods group project
Semester 2: Advanced research skills (qualitative); Discourse analysis; Distributed computing systems; Graph theory; Independent disciplinary review; Large-scale distributed systems; Microeconomic theory; Public economics; Internet law; Semantic Web technologies
Semester 3: Three-month independent, individual research project, culminating in a dissertation
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment：Examinations, written full-time project (design, development or research), dissertation
职业机会 Career Opportunities：Further research; industry; management