Academic Programme - Study Plan

The Overview of the EMSE modules across learning paths

To move to the Second University, students must complete 52/60 credits by the second exam session of the second semester of the first year (September/October). The student is excluded from the program when this criteria is not satisfied.

The study currculum is compounded of the modules Foundations, Advanced Topics in Software Engineering, Transversal Skills, Free Choice, Internship and Thesis according to the following schema, which also illustrate the range of credits for each module and their temporal distribution.


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First Year in UNIBZ
Course ECTS Exam
Annual Courses
Software Process and Project Management (EMSE-SPPM) 16 Yes
First semester
Requirements and Design of Software Systems (EMSE-RDSS) 8 Yes
Advanced Statistics for Data Mining 12 Pass / Fail
Second semester
Verification and Validation (EMSE-VV) 8 Yes
Empirical Software Engineering Research(EMSE-ESER) 8 Yes
Advanced Topic in Software Engineering (EMSE-ATSE) 8 Yes
Total 60
First Year in OY
Course ECTS Exam
Annual Courses
Verification and Validation (EMSE-VV) 10 Yes
Requirements and Design of Software Systems (EMSE-RDSS) 11 Yes
First semester
Software Process and Project Management (EMSE- SPPM) 10 Yes
Empirical Software Engineering Research (EMSE-ESER) 9 Yes
Second semester
Advanced Topic in Software Engineering (EMSE- ATSE) 10 Yes
IT Infrastructure (EMSE-TS) 5 Pass / Fail
Mobile and Social Computing (EMSE-TS) 5 Pass / Fail
Total 60
First Year in UNIKL
Course ECTS Exam
Annual Courses
Verification and Validation (EMSE-VV) 12 Yes
Requirements and Design of Software Systems (EMSE-RDSS) 12 Yes
First semester
Advanced Topic in Software Engineering (EMSE - ATSE-I) 8 Yes
Performance Modeling of Distributed Systems (EMSE-TS) 4 Pass / Fail
Product Line Engineering (EMSE-TS) 4 Pass / Fail
Second semester
Software Process and Project Management (EMSE-SPPM) 8 Pass / Fail
Empirical Software Engineering Research (EMSE-ESER) 8 Pass / Fail
Process Modeling (EMSE-TS) 4 Pass / Fail
Total 60
First Year in UPM
Course ECTS Exam
Annual Courses
Verification and Validation (EMSE-VV) 10 Yes
Requirements and Design of Software Systems (EMSE-RDSS) 14 Yes
Empirical Software Engineering Research (EMSE-ESER) 10 Yes
First semester
Software Process and Project Management (EMSE-SPPM) 8 Yes
Critical Software (EMSE-TS) 3 Pass / Fail
Software Engineering Economics (EMSE-TS) 3 Pass / Fail
Second semester
Advanced Topic in Software Engineering (EMSE- ATSE) 6 Yes
Interaction Design (EMSE-TS) 6 Pass / Fail
Total 60
Second Year in UNIBZ
Course ECTS Exam
First semester
Internship (EMSE - Int) 8 Pass / Fail
Advanced Topic in Software Engineering (EMSE- ATSE) 8 Yes
Research Methods (EMSE-TS) 2 Pass / Fail
Free Choice 12 Yes
Second semester
Thesis 30
Total 60
Second Year in OY
Course ECTS Exam
First semester
Internship (EMSE - Int) 14 Pass / Fail
Interaction Design 4 Yes
Free Choice 12 Yes
Second semester
Thesis 30
Total 60
Second Year UNIKL
Course ECTS Exam
First semester
Internship (EMSE - Int) 8 Pass / Fail
Advanced Topic in Software Engineering (EMSE -ATSE) 6 Yes
Grid and Cloud Computing (EMSE – TS) 4 Pass / Fail
Free Choice 12 Yes
Second semester
Thesis 30
Total 60
Second Year in UPM
Course ECTS Exam
First semester
Internship (EMSE - Int) 14 Pass / Fail
Management, Relationships and Communication in Working Groups (EMSE-TS) 4 Pass / Fail
Free Choice 12 Yes
Second semester
Thesis 30
Total 60

The courses that belong to the module “Foundations”, are:

Software Process and Project Management (EMSE – SPPM)

Building the capacity and ability to define, manage and improve software process and project are the main focus of this topic. The course includes techniques and methods for managing the process of development and coordinating project artefacts in all its stages. The students will also be introduced to techniques of decision-making for software processes.


Requirements and Design of Software Systems (EMSE – RDSS)

Students will acquire skills and competencies resulting from the conception, negotiation, documentation and maintenance of software requirements in a specific domain and environment. Requirements analysis aims at reviewing, assessing, prioritizing, and balancing the software requirements by developing technical specifications for building a system that will meet the needs of the stakeholders. Design of software systems aims at identifying or building software components that define the characteristics and quality of a system. The students are exposed to problem-solving techniques that allow the synthesis of software solutions satisfying the requirements of the system.


Verification and Validation (EMSE - VV)

The topic defines the principles and practices of verification and validation of software systems. Verification methods aims at checking that the elements of the system meet prescribed software specification. In other words, the system must be built right. The verification process also aims to define and apply any procedures and actions to restore compliance with the requirements. The validation aims at assessing whether the implemented system meets the requirements / needs of stakeholders. In other words, the system must be the right one.


Empirical Software Engineering Research (ESEM – ESER)

This topic defines the paradigms, methods, and techniques of scientific investigation in software engineering. Students learn how to conduct experiments, surveys and studies in real environments as well as how to mine, measure, and analyse data and software artefacts.


Each course is compulsory and has 8 ECTS as mimimum number of credits in all the possible learning paths. The courses under the module “Advanced Topic in Software Engineeringhave no less than 8 ECTS. The courses under the “Transversal Skills” module are distributed along three semsters. The Internship has at least 8 ECTS. The fourth semster is dedicated to the work (30 ECTS).

List of free-choice courses

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