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This course examines the geophysical imaging of the subsurface, including contrasting rock and fluid properties. Applications include environmental, engineering, resource, hazard, and tectonic studies. 

This course examines how and why volcanoes erupt from magma processes in the mantle to eruption at the surface.

This course covers the basic theories of behavioral economics and discusses papers published in major journals in recent years in a group-reading style. Utilizing behavioral economics, it analyzes recent trends in development econmics research.

Course prerequisites: Advanced undergraduate or graduate-level microeconomics and econometrics.

This course examines leadership effectiveness from a psychological perspective, covering a range of theories developed and utilized by psychologists. Topics include job characteristc theory, self-determination theory, expectancy theory, and equity theory. Students participate in group discussions and projects, analyzing real-world leadership issues and propose intervention plans to resolve issues. 

This course is for fourth-year students in the biomedical engineering major or adjacent majors. The course includes a series of expert guest speakers who are actively conducting reearch in diverse areas of biomedical engineering. Students gain exposure to a wide range of research and research methodologies. 

This course examines the military situation of Singapore and how it is governed by its place in the Malay world and its fluctuating strategic value to great powers. Students learn the 700‐year approach to the island’s military history and examine the relative impact of its distant and recent past on its present situation. 

This third-year course introduces generative art, emphasizing the interplay between predefined systems and the unpredictable nature of procedural algorithms. Students learn about artistic concepts, techniques, and tools that can be applied to creating both digital and analog generative artworks. Students explore generativity as a crucial creative framework for contemporary media by examining generative artwork across various disciplines. The course covers key strategies and techniques, offering hands-on experience with software and hardware tools for generative experimentation. Additionally, students gain insight into the processes and project development involved in creating generative art.

This course explores the challenges and dilemmas of globalization, especially with regard to global human mobility; cultural flows and transformation; multiculturalism; ethnic communities; identities; citizenship, social divisions and inequality. While taking a global, comparative approach, this course places special emphasis on Japan and other industrial countries. Through lectures, discussions, and other class activities, the class collectively examines and evaluate key concepts and theories to deepen one's understanding of issues related to transnational sociology. 

This course examines terrorist groups and individuals, terrorist origins, goals, and ideologies. It covers the structure and dynamics of terrorism along with terrorist weapons, strategies and tactics, the hot spots in which they operate and their use of the media.