Software Engineering MComp

Why choose this course?

This integrated masters degree enables you to build on fundamental software engineering principles to develop your knowledge across the whole spectrum of the discipline. The four-year course enables you to explore advanced and emerging areas of software engineering, providing an ideal preparation for future research work either in industry or on a PhD programme.

What will you study?

The curriculum's core themes are computing systems, information management and software engineering. The first two years of the course concentrate on the key areas required to build reliable and maintainable software systems on time and within budget. Work experience forms the core of the third year, together with professional training and preparation for your final-year project through a module in research methods. In the final year, you will focus on a major project and study both undergraduate and MSc-level modules in advanced software engineering topics.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Programming Essentials
• IT Toolbox 1
• IT Toolbox 2
• Business Organisation and Practice
• Systems Analysis and Design 1
• Programming Applications
• Technology and Change
• Group Design Workshop 1

Year 2

• Advanced Programming Concepts
• Systems Analysis and Design 2
• Database Systems
• Network Communications
• Group Design Workshop 2
• Information and Project Management
• Two option modules (eg Network Software, Strategic and Intelligent Games, Advanced Java Environment)

Year 3

• Professional Training
• Work Performance
• Work Reporting
• Research Methods

Year 4

• Software Quality
• Foundation of Algorithms
• Software Engineering Tools
• Masters Project (double module)
• Three option modules (one at MSc level)