Software Engineering Canterbury Christ Church University

Overview

This degree in Software Engineering from Canterbury Christ Church University will also develop your skills in analysis, design, programming, testing and evaluation to produce software solutions, ensuring you have all the necessary skills to flourish in your career.

Why Study Software Engineering?

Software Engineering is a fast moving exciting field of study with the challenges involved to engineer high quality, secure and reliable software systems. This programme will enable you to adopt a professional approach to the entire process of developing software, from the initial gathering of requirements, through to the design of the functionality and interfaces, to the implementation of the final product using industry best practices.

This innovative course has been designed in collaboration with industry and you’ll have the excellent opportunity to work and develop relationships with a range of employers. The university offers a truly immersive learning opportunity where the applied side of the course provides the opportunity to solve problems provided by local industry. Working with your peers and other fields of engineering you will typically have the opportunity to apply theory to solving industry supplied work related/work based problems.

All about the course

The programme’s emphasis is on high quality software development and programming, software design, analysis, quality assurance and project management, all of which will enable you to develop knowledge and skills in this area.

All through the course, you'll experience through hands-on learning from on and off campus and on-line learning. This will develop your practical agile problem-solving approach to create software engineering solutions to problems. You will undertake group projects, typically sourced from industry or akin to problems in industry. Your groupwork will be supported through the use on-line tools and on-line project management solutions. You'll also develop skills enabling you to:

• work effectively and supportively in diverse and inclusive groups
• communicate effectively in groups and one to one
• apply project management to group-work
• apply principles of commercial management and consideration of wider issues.

You’ll gain the engineering skills, knowledge and confidence needed to study at BEng level where you’ll use the pioneering CDIO (Conceive, Design, Implement and Operate) approach to problem solve software challenges. We are one of only a handful of universities in the UK to offer the CDIO international engineering education model developed by MIT that allows you to learn in a practical, hands-on way to tackle real industrial problems.