Are you interested in Enterprise Application Development and the techniques they use such as 
Aspect-Oriented Sofware Development (AOSD)
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=html&op=userdisplay&id=developers/projects/jboss/aop
and Data Binding
http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxb/
and Domain Engineering
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/domain-engineering/domain_engineering.html
and Model-Driven Architecture?
http://www.omg.org/mda/

Those topics are covered this Fall semester in "Advanced Software Development" 
(CSG 260). My research group has made important contributions to AOSD
http://aosd.net/
This is a chance for you to learn the latest about very exciting new technologies.

Here is a quote from a recent InformationWeek article:

Aspect-oriented programming is the product of more than a decade of research 
at PARC, IBM, Northeastern University, and the University of Twente, in the 
Netherlands. It continues a trend in computer science of making software 
programs smaller and more manageable by sharing and reusing more code across 
their parts. "It's the next generation of software engineering," says John 
Seely Brown, director emeritus of Xerox PARC. 

The prerequisites for the course are: good knowledge of object-oriented
design and programming, good knowledge of Java and language technology 
(scanners, grammars and parsing) and an
open mind to learn something new.

It is a Thursday evening class.  The course home page:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/courses/csg260/f03/f03.html

I hope to see many of you there. 

-- Karl Lieberherr
PS.
We will have a keynote speaker from ICSE 2004 in Edinburgh, 
Scotland, as a "guest" lecturer on the topic of AOSD.
ICSE is the premier Software Engineering Conference.