Last updated 22.08.08

Combined Program in Software Engineering and Arts

Program code: 3652
Plan: SENGA13652

Handbook Entry

The BE Software Engineering BA combined program requires the completion of at least 60 uc (Units of Credit) of Arts courses, and must contain a major sequence of 42 uc at stages 2 and 3 in a single Arts discipline. To satisfy the requirement of the combined program, the free electives and the General Education electives of the standard Software Engineering program are assigned to Arts electives. Combined Programs are exempt from the General Education requirement.

The major Arts discipline may not be Computer Science.

Students who are enrolled in a combined program are expected to maintain a credit (at least 65%) average across courses taken from each of the composite programs. Students who fail to meet this condition will be counselled about their suitability to remain in the combined program.

The stages of a generic combined program are shown below. In general, it will be necessary to adapt the program by moving courses to meet the requirements of particular Arts majors. This generic program accommodates 72 uc of Arts electives.

All programs should be approved by the Faculty of Arts and Social Science.

Understanding the BE SE BA Program

Programs are usually listed in the handbook as sequence of stages, or years. The BE SE BA generic program will be listed that way a little later, but it is perhaps easier to understand the requirements for the program in terms of core requirements and elective requirements as shown in the following table.

Staged Program

Possible stages of the combined program are shown below. Courses may be arranged in any suitable order, subject to satisfaction of prerequisites and corequisites. It makes some sense to take the courses shown in stages 1&2 in the first two years. Of course, some arrangements may produce timetable conflicts.

All programs should be approved by the Faculty of Arts and Social Science.

Stage 1 Course No Course Name S1 S2 COMP1917 Higher Computing 1 6   MATH1131     MATH1141     Mathematics 1A     Higher Mathematics 1A   6 MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics 6 INFS1603 Business Data Management 6 SENG1031 Software Engineering Workshop 1 6   MATH1231     MATH1241     Mathematics 1B     Higher Mathematics 1B   6 COMP1927 Higher Data Structures & Algorithms 6 Stage 1 Arts electives 6 Total

Stage 2 Course No Course Name S1 S2 SENG2010 Software Engineering Workshop 2A 3 SENG2020 Software Engineering Workshop 2B 3 COMP2111 System Modelling and Design 6 COMP2911 Engineering Design in Computing 2 6 COMP2121 Microprocessors and Interfacing 6 COMP3711 Project Management 6 INFS2603 System Analysis & Design 6 Stage 2 Arts electives 12 Total

Stage 3 Course No Course Name S1 S2 SENG3010 Software engineering Workshop 3A 3 SENG3020 Software Engineering Workshop 3B 3 COMP3141 Software System Design & Implementation 6   COMP3331     INFS2607     Computer Networks and Applications     Infrastructure and Security   6 SE Electives1 152 Stage 2 Arts electives 12 MATH2859 Probability, Statistics and Information 3 Total

Stage 4 Course No Course Name S1 S2 SE Electives 6 Arts electives 30   Stage 3 Arts electives or     SE Electives   12 Total

Stage 5
Course No Course Name S1 S2 Industrial Training SENG4910 Thesis part A 6 SENG4911 Thesis part B 12 SENG4921 Professional Issues and Ethics 6 SE Electives 24 Total

Notes

1. The 8 options (48 uoc) for stages 3 and 4 are chosen from a list that includes all third and fourth stage COMP, INFS courses and some MATH courses. See SE electives.
2. SE electives are nominally 48 uoc, but because Project Management changed from 3uoc to 6uoc we have had to take 3uoc out of the SE electives. In practice it may not be easy to choose 45uoc of SE electives, so it may have to be 48uoc.
3. As set out in this staging, stage 2 will have one semester with 27uoc and stage 3 will have one semester of 21uoc. Standard 24uoc semesters can be achieved by moving MATH2859 to stage 3.
4. The chosen courses must form a major sequence of 42 units at stages 2 and 3.
5. To satisfy prerequisites it may be necessary to use a different arrangement of courses than shown above.
6. To accommodate particular sequences of Arts electives it may be necessary to change the distribution of SE electives between stages 3, 4 and 5.

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