The aim of this graduate-level course is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the state-of-art and practices in the software engineering (SE) discipline, its associated processes/methodologies and current trends.  This includes in-depth coverage of some of the key SE issues, best practices and guidelines and an overview of project management techniques.  The key objective is to equip students with SE knowledge so that they will be able to take full advantage of these concepts, processes, and best practices in their future software development projects.