Core Curriculum Strands

The Semester 0–10 sequence remains the required core. These strands identify capabilities that recur across semester boundaries; they are not additional semesters or optional reading lists.

Strand	Introduced	Developed	Graduation evidence
Testing and verification	Semesters 0–3	property, mutation, systems, distributed, and production testing	reproducible verification and remediation
Security and privacy	Semesters 0 and 4	protocols, data, architecture, delivery, operations	threat model, security review, provenance, residual risk
Human-centered accessibility	Semester 3	product/system decisions in Semester 8	usability retest and WCAG 2.2 audit
Responsible AI	Semesters 0–2	data, architecture, delivery, and operations	baseline, evaluation, risk, cost, and fallback evidence
Ethics and professional responsibility	Semester 0	design, leadership, security, and operations	ethical-impact decision record and defense
Empirical and scientific practice	Semester 1	benchmarks, experiments, reliability, and capacity work	reproducible investigation with uncertainty
Sustainability and cost	systems foundations	architecture and cloud operation	cost/carbon decision with measurable functional unit

Use the generated Competency and Standards Coverage report for stable IDs, standards mappings, readiness, and evidence routes.