A Curriculum for Success

The AUBG Master in Software Engineering stresses a modern, creative approach to software development and management. Each cohort of students starts in September. The MSE is designed as a four semester (16 months) program by including a summer semester, with the fourth semester being reserved for the development of a Master Thesis, a substantial piece of individual project work in the area of Software Engineering that is supervised by one of the faculty. Classes will be held on Thursdays and Saturdays.

The first three semesters will include also a seminar series oriented to train specific skills and/or to introduce the best industrial practices, given by invited lecturers from academia and industry. More detailed descriptions of all courses may be found on the MSE website.

Course Schedule:

1st semester: Fall 2012

MSE 500 Foundations of Software Engineering
(including Fundamentals, Principles, Life Cycles and UML)
MSE 510 Requirements Engineering
(including Requirements Gathering and OO Analysis Modeling)
MSE 520 Software Design
(including OO System Design, Object Design, Software Architecture, Design Patterns)
MSE 530 Software Project Management
(including Software Development Management)
MSE 580 Seminar Series

2nd semester: Spring 2013

MSE 540 Software Testing
(including Unit Testing and Refactoring)
MSE 550 Software Maintenance and Support
MSE 560 Agile Software Development
MSE 570 Risk Assessment and Management
MSE 581 Seminar Series

3rd semester: Summer 2013

MSE 610 Secure and Reliable Programming
MSE 620 Quality Assurance and Process Improvement
MSE 630 Software Security
MSE 640 Professional Practices
(Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Ethics and Standards)
MSE 650 Software Enterprise Management

4th semester: Fall 2013

MSE 690 Master Thesis