Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Bachelor of Software Engineering

Bachelor of Software Engineering - pre 2000

This course is designed for students interested in planning, management and development of large and complex software systems. Such systems are often mission-critical, developed by teams, and maintained over many years. The course comprises disciplined and comprehensive coverage of software engineering principles, methods and techniques. Requirements engineering, construction and validation components are covered. Students learn to develop software architectures, using standard building blocks and achieving domain-specific solutions for a range of problems. They work in a variety of programming languages across a range of platforms. Tools used include computer-aided software engineering, user interface generators and prefabricated, reusable components.
Specific knowledge is developed in the processes for requirement definition and specification, object-oriented design and programming, systematic testing and validation methodologies and software development maintenance and re-engineering processes. Students complete a 'real world' project over several semesters. Broad training is also given in software project management and mathematical tools for product and project analysis and costing.
Students can specialise in one of the following areas in the last three semesters:

· business and management
· telecommunications
· operating systems and networking
· user interfaces and databases
· multimedia and telepresence.

The course is offered jointly by the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Engineering.