Systems Analysis and Design

This course is focused on the system design process from inception to detailed system design.  Topics a student can expect to be covered in this class include:

• Requirements solicitation and stakeholder analysis
• Approaches to software development, including plan-oriented and agile methodologies
• Object-oriented software modeling, from high-level concept to detailed design
• Communicating modeling decisions through the Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Student progress in this course is evaluated through a set of individual assignments and exams, as well as a major group project.  Individual exams and assignments are designed to allow students to demonstrate mastery of the foundation concepts and skills presented in the course.  In the group project, students work together to apply the foundation system design concepts and skills to a complex problem scenario; final project deliverables are evaluated based on the extent to which the design addresses the complexity inherent in the problem scenario, as well as the design quality (including both correctness and consistency).