Software Engineering Major (B.Sc.)

63 credits · Faculty of Science · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (36-39 credits)

  • COMP 202 Foundations of Programming (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • COMP 206 Introduction to Software Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 250 Introduction to Computer Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 251 Algorithms and Data Structures (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 273 Introduction to Computer Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 302 Programming Languages and Paradigms (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 303 Software Design (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 310 Operating Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 361D1 Software Engineering Project (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 361D2 Software Engineering Project (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECSE 429 Software Validation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MATH 223 Linear Algebra (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MATH 240 Discrete Structures (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Complementary Courses (24 credits)

9 credits selected from Groups A and B, with at least 3 credits selected from each: 15 credits selected from Groups C and D, with at least 9 credits selected from Group C, and at least 3 credits selected from Group D.

Group A

  • MATH 222 Calculus 3 (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MATH 323 Probability (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MATH 324 Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Group B

  • COMP 330 Theory of Computation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 360 Algorithm Design (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Group C: Software Engineering Specialization

  • COMP 409 Concurrent Programming (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • COMP 523 Language-based Security (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • COMP 525 Formal Verification (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • COMP 529 Software Architecture (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • COMP 533 Model-Driven Software Development (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • COMP 555 Information Privacy (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECSE 326 Software Requirements Engineering (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECSE 420 Parallel Computing (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECSE 424 Human-Computer Interaction (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ECSE 437 Software Delivery (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECSE 539 Advanced Software Language Engineering (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Group D: Applications

  • COMP 350 Numerical Computing (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 417 Introduction Robotics and Intelligent Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • COMP 421 Database Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • COMP 424 Artificial Intelligence (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 512 Distributed Systems (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 520 Compiler Design (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • COMP 521 Modern Computer Games (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 535 Computer Networks 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 551 Applied Machine Learning (4 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • COMP 557 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 558 Fundamentals of Computer Vision (4 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • COMP 585 Intelligent Software Systems (4 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

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