Computer Science is a six-semester subject which may be taken as a major subject for the degrees of BSc, BSc(SofDev), BSc(Inf Sys), BCom, BJourn, BA and BEcon.

Besides the major courses, the Department offers a semester-credit computer literacy course CSc1L1.

The courses offered in Computer Science concentrate on the technology, engineering, project management and professional topics of computing, such as programming and application development, algorithm and system design, software engineering, operating systems and real-time computing, graphics, virtual reality and multimedia, artificial intelligence, networks and distributed computing, telecommunications and electronic commerce, and formal computer science theory.  Management and organisational aspects of computing are handled more specifically in courses offered by the Department of Information Systems, and aspects such as computer and digital electronics and hardware are complemented by courses offered in the Department of Physics and Electronics.  In all courses students are required to perform practical work on the computer, the marks of which count towards the final assessment.