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The Master of Software Engineering Preparatory, Core, and Elective Modules

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The Master of Software Engineering degree requires 36 credits. You may need to take additional preparatory classes depending on your engineering background. After admission to the program, you will have eight years to complete your course work with a grade point average of 3.0 (B) or higher. Please note that our electives may change over time as we develop new courses. If you have questions or requests for course substitutions and approvals, please e-mail enghelp@psu.edu.

NOTE: The links below in the Schedule columns go to University Park's Web site. Although the course numbers, times, and availability on that site are accurate, their course descriptions and prerequisites are not the same as ours. Please use the course descriptions and prerequisites linked from the Course # column on this page to learn about Penn State Great Valley offerings and prerequisites.

Students admitted fall 2009 or after must successfully complete the SARI (Scholarship and Research Integrity) requirement of the Penn State degree in order to graduate. For an overview of the SARI requirements, please visit the following link: 'Engineering SARI Program'.

Fall 2013 registration begins Monday, June 3rd.

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Preparatory courses (one or both may be assigned)
Course # Course Name Schedule Schedule
SWENG 400 Special Topics: Introduction to Software Engineering Studio N/A N/A
CMPSC 473 Operating Systems Design & Construction (previously offered as CSE 411) N/A N/A
18-Credit Core Curriculum
Course # Course Name  Schedule  Schedule
SWENG 497   Special Topics: Software Documentation Summer 2013 N/A
SWENG 537 Software System Design N/A N/A
SWENG 580  Advanced Software Engineering N/A Fall 2013
SWENG 581  Software Testing N/A N/A
SYSEN 505  Technical Project Management N/A Fall 2013
Choose one of the following to be taken near the end of the program 
SWENG 500 Advanced Software Engineering Studio Summer 2013 N/A
SWENG 594  Masters Research Paper Contact Division
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Students take any six elective courses from the following: 
Course # Course Name  Schedule  Schedule 
INFSY 563  Network Security (Previously offered as IN SC 497 - Special Topics: Fundamentals of Information Security) Summer 2013 N/A
IN SC 497  Special Topics: Business Intelligence Summer 2013 N/A
IN SC 497  Special Topics: Enterprise Architecture N/A N/A
IN SC 521  Database Design Concepts Summer 2013 N/A
IN SC 525  Applied Data Mining N/A Fall 2013
IN SC 526  Business Process Management and Integration (Previously offered as IN SC 597 Business Process Management) N/A N/A
IN SC 561 Web Security and Privacy N/A Fall 2013
IST 454 Computer and Cyber Forensics (previously offered as IN SC 497 Computer Forensics) N/A Fall 2013
IST 516  Web and Internet Information Retrieval N/A N/A
SWENG 497 Special Topics: Domain Specific Languages Summer 2013 N/A
SWENG 497 Special Topics: Software Integration N/A N/A
SWENG 497 Special Topics: Tools and Processes for Software Engineering N/A N/A
SWENG 541 Advanced Database Design N/A N/A
SWENG 545 Data Mining N/A N/A
SWENG 568 Enterprise Integration N/A N/A
SWENG 569  Service-Oriented Architecture (previously INSC 597) N/A Fall 2013
SWENG 582  Real-Time Software Design and Analysis N/A N/A
SWENG 584 Genetic Algorithms N/A N/A
SWENG 585 Pattern-Oriented Design N/A N/A
SWENG 586  Requirements Engineering (previously SWENG 597) Summer 2013 N/A
SWENG 587  Software Systems Architecture (previously SWENG 597) N/A Fall 2013 (Navy Yard)
SWENG 588  Program Understanding N/A N/A
SWENG 597  Special Topics: Formal Methods N/A N/A
SWENG 826  Applied Human-Computer Interaction (previously offered as SWENG 497 Human Computer Interface) Summer 2013 N/A
CSE 543 Computer Security N/A N/A
SYSEN 497  Wireless Positioning N/A N/A
SYSEN 507 Systems Thinking (previously SYSEN 597) N/A N/A
SYSEN 536 Decision and Risk Analysis in Engineering N/A Fall 2013