Those courses were basically a senior design project with some added software engineering topics put on top(the year I took it was extreme programming and somet

Those courses were basically a senior design project with some added software engineering topics put on top(the year I took it was extreme programming and something else I don't remember). In all honesty, the actual coursework was pretty useless. I don't think that it's really possible to teach a lot of true SE concepts in a classroom. They're social paradigms that are constantly in flux, and very difficult to effectively teach. The project itself was more helpful to me because of the group nature of the work, which meant that we had to work out scheduling, progress metrics, etc. Again, this is more of a social system than academic work.