Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering

The primary purpose of this volume is to provide guidance to academic institutions and accreditation agencies about what should constitute an undergraduate software engineering education. These recommendations were originally developed by a broad, international group of volunteer participants. Software engineering curriculum recommendations are of particular relevance because the number of new software engineering degree programs continues to grow steadily and accreditation processes for such programs have been established in a number of countries. The recommendations included in this volume are based on a high-level set of characteristics recommended for software engineering graduates, which are presented in Chapter 3. Flowing from these outcomes are the two main contributions of this document: • The Software Engineering Education Knowledge (SEEK): what every SE graduate must know. • Curriculum: ways this knowledge and the skills fundamental to software engineering can be taught in various contexts