1.  Basic software engineering concepts
a) Software Engineering layered technology
b) Software development process models (paradigms), major activities and milestones.
c) Software development methodologies (Conventional/Object-oriented/Formal methods).

3. Project management
a) Software Project Estimation (LOC/FP; Person-month; COCOMO)
b) Risk Management (RMMM-Risk Mitigation, Monitoring, Management)
c) Software Project Scheduling.

4. Conventional/Object-oriented Software Requirement Analysis and Design
a) Analysis model and elements: Use-Cases
b) Functional/Component decomposition
c) Design model and elements: Class Diagram
d) Architecture/User Interface Design; Prototyping
e) CASE tools and Major analysis and design diagrams: Rational Rose.

5. Software Testing
a) Software Test Strategies, test procedures, and test cases (White/Black Box testing; Unit/Integration/Validation/System Testing)
b) Software Verification and Validation.

6. SQA and SCM
a) Software Quality Assurance activities
b) Software Configuration Management tasks.