Curriculum of MSc in Software Management

Program Structure

The structure of the software management program consists of background, core courses, software elective courses and software domains elective courses. There are no required courses in background category. Students are expected to have knowledge in the areas defined as background to be admitted to the program. Core courses are required to be taken by all students enrolled in the program. In addition to core courses, students need to take 7 elective courses from two different categories. Software electives category includes courses related to software management and software product engineering. Students need to take at least four courses in this category. Software domains category includes courses on computing foundations and software application areas. Students can take up to 3 courses from this category. In addition to the listed courses, students can take courses from associated programs such as MSc in Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) and MSc in Informatics (ION) as software domains electives.

Background

Discrete Mathematics or Numerical Methods; Programming or algorithms or data structures; Management.

Core Courses

• SM 501 Personal Software Process
• SM 502 Software Management
• SM 503 Object Oriented Software Development
• SM 504 Team Software Project
  
  
• SM 590 Graduate Seminar, Non Credit
• SM 589 Term Project, Non Credit

Software Elective Courses

• SM 511 Software Process Improvement
• SM 514 Introduction to Software Testing
• SM 515 Software Verification and Validation
• SM 516 Component Based Software Production
• SM 517 Software Metrics
• SM 518 Real-time Software Development
• SM 519 Software Acquisition
• SM 520 Research Methods in Software Engineering
• SM 521 Software Requirements Engineering
• SM 702 Behavioral Aspects of Software Development: Peopleware

Software Domains Elective Courses

• SM 541 Instructional Software Construction
• SM 542 Multimedia and Web Engineering
• SM 546 Contemporary Database Management Systems
• SM 547 Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• SM 548 Computer Systems for Programmars
• SM 561 Introduction to Software Engineering / ION 502 Introduction to Software Engineering
• SM 701 Contemporary Issues in Business