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COM SCI 130 · CS 130Software Engineering

Computer Science · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Structured programming, program specification, program proving, modularity, abstract data types, composite design, software tools, software control systems, program testing, team programming.

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Requisites

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Requisites: courses 111, 131. Recommended requisite: Engineering 183EW or 185EW.

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all of
  • COM SCI 111
  • COM SCI 131

BruinTree reads · Recommended

confidence 1.00 · from text
one of
  • ENGR 183EW
  • ENGR 185EW

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Requires

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COM SCI 130

  • COM SCI 111Operating Systems Principles
    • COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
      • COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
    • COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organizationanother path to it
    • COM SCI 35LSoftware Constructionanother path to it
  • COM SCI 131Programming Languages
    • COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
      • COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science IIanother path to it
    • COM SCI 35LSoftware Construction
      • COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science Ianother path to it
      • COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science IIanother path to it
  • ENGR 183EWEngineering and Society
    • ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
      • ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
      • ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students1 more beneath
    • ENGCOMP 3DEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
      • ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writinganother path to it
      • ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Studentsanother path to it
    • ENGCOMP 3EEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language For Engineers
      • ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writinganother path to it
      • ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Studentsanother path to it
  • ENGR 185EWArt of Engineering Endeavors
    • ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it
    • ENGCOMP 3DEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it
    • ENGCOMP 3EEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language For Engineersanother path to it

4 direct requisites. Showing 25 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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COM SCI 130

  • COM SCI 263ALanguage and Thought
    • COM SCI 265AMachine Learning
  • COM SCI 263CAnimats-Based Modeling

2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.