Software Engineering

PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the bachelor honours degree programme in Software Engineering are to:

a. provide and promote sound practical and theoretical training in computer hardware, software and application areas, that will make the students useful in both private and public sectors of the economy;

b. identify the basic problems of the society and find appropriate computer software-based solutions to them;

c. develop and offer service courses in Software Engineering to other Departments in the University;

d. equip the students with the capacity for professional practice in computing and communications;

e. develop in students through an education in Software Engineering a range of transferrable applicable skills of information technology to all aspects of human endeavours;

f. develop the students for the purpose of self-employment and job placements in the government and industry;

g. generate in students to appreciate the importance of computer in an industrial, economic, technological and social context;

h. develop the students through sound academic and professional programmes as a basis for further studies in Software Engineering or multi-disciplinary studies involving Software Engineering.