MSc Software Engineering

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Objectives The main subject areas covered are: formal methods, software measurement and testing, windows applications and software engineering. Students from this course will be practitioners with a holistic view, able to understand that success comes from integrating several software technologies against a defined system need.
Entry requirements The course is aimed at students who wish to pursue careers as professional software engineers within information systems environments and/or undertake further research in the field. Students will acquire knowledge and skills in the key areas of existing and emerging software techniques against competitive software market need.
Academic title MSc Software Engineering
Course description You will study the following compulsory core units:

-Software engineering
-Project management
-Software measurement and testing
-Formal methods in software engineering
-Object-oriented process and techniques
-Masters skills and practice
-Windows application programming and development

You must also undertake a substantial project where you will apply the skills and knowledge from the taught part of the course to a practical software engineering problem, usually supplied by local businesses or other external clients.

In addition to the compulsory core units, there will be the opportunity to choose a further two optional specialist units from fields such as:

-Computer graphics
-Artificial intelligence
-Computer assisted learning