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Course Descriptions

Courses for the Master of Software Engineering program are hyperlinked below to the University Bulletin. Please refer to the prerequisites mentioned on this page as those listed on the University Bulletin may differ from Penn State Great Valley. All courses offered are three credits unless otherwise indicated.

A-I 570 - Deep Learning
Prerequisite: STAT 500
Previously offered as DAAN 570

A-I 572 - Reinforcement Learning
Previously offered as DAAN 572

A-I 574 - Natural Language Processing

A-I 801 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence 

A-I 879 - Machine Vision

DAAN 545 - Data Mining

DAAN 825 - Large Scale Databases & Warehouses
Prerequisite: IN SC 521

DAAN 862 - Analytics Programming in Python

DAAN 871 - Data Visualization for Analytics

DAAN 881 - Data-Driven Decision Making
Prerequisite: STAT 500

I E 575 - Foundations of Predictive Analytics
Prerequisite: STAT 500 or with Division permission

INSC 521 - Database Design Concepts

INSC 526 - Business Process Management and Integration
Previously offered as IN SC 597 - Business Process Management

INSC 561 - Web Security and Privacy

INSC 846 - Network and Predictive Analytics for Socio-Technical Systems

STAT 500 - Applied Statistics

SWENG 881 - Software Testing 
Previously offered as SWENG 581

SWENG 886 - Requirements Engineering
Previously offered as SWENG 586

SWENG 837 - Software System Design
Prerequisite: Information Science students need permission from Engineering Division

Previously offered as SWENG 537 – Software System Design

SWENG 861 - Software Construction

SWENG 887 - Software Systems Architecture

SWENG 888 - Mobile Computing and Applications

SWENG 894 - Advanced Software Engineering Studio
Previously offered as SWENG 500 – Advanced Software Engineering Studio

SYSEN 507 - Systems Thinking

SYSEN 536 - Decision and Risk Analysis in Engineering

SYSEN 555 - Invention and Creative Design
(Taking SYSEN 550 prior to SYSEN 555 is recommended, but not required)

SYSEN 805 - Technical Project Management
PLEASE NOTE: Students may take either SWENG 805 Software Project Management or SYSEN 805 Technical Project Management

SYSEN 850 - Creativity and Problem Solving I

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