Software Engineering

Year 1: Understanding

Your first year experience is designed to prepare your mind for everything that follows. The courses you take will prepare you to think critically, communicate creatively, and question everything.

Featured Courses:

• CMPSC 100 – Computational Expression
• CMPSC 104 – Document Engineering
• CMPSC 101 – Data Structures

Year 2: New Approaches

As a sophomore, you’ll declare your major and select your mentor. But that’s just the start of it. You’ll also be asked to choose a minor from an alternate discipline to keep your perspectives fresh and your mind wide open.

Featured courses:

• CMPSC 201 – Programming Languages
• CMPSC 203 – Software Engineering
• CMPSC 302 – Web Design

Year 3: Delving Deeper

As you delve deeper and take on a Junior Seminar, you’ll develop an even more eloquent understanding of your chosen fields. And you’ll begin to focus on improving your research skills and rhetorical ability in preparation for your Senior Comp.

Featured Courses

• CMPSC 404 – Web Applications
• CMPSC 303 – Artificial Intelligence
• CMPSC 580 – Junior Seminar

Year 4: The Comp

One of the accomplishments our alumni are most proud of is their Senior Comp. Every Allegheny student must research, propose, create, and defend an original creative or critical project. You’ll be paired with a mentor throughout the project, and the experience will prepare you well for any step you take after graduation.

Featured Courses

• SE 600 – Senior Thesis I
• CMPSC 403 – Computer Security
• CMPSC 400 – Operating Systems