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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. 

This special topic explores the geological and volcanic history of the Auckland Volcanic Field. 

In this course, students are introduced to the foundations and principles of game design and apply these in practice with the design and creation of a simple digital game. Topics include node-based and script-centered software with a view to developing basic game levels and core game mechanics and ideas. Students explore how play theory inspires the design of games, imbuing games with a range of roles including training, education and entertainment. Students apply these principles to propose a game that addresses a well-defined purpose. 

The course introduces the psychology of religion, focusing on insights from contemporary cognitive and evolutionary psychology into human religious belief and behavior. It explores questions such as: Can science explain religious belief? What do cognitive and evolutionary theories reveal about belief in God? Is religion universal or a product of human evolution? How does religious belief develop in childhood? What social functions does religion serve? The course combines research from psychology and religious studies to examine topics including the psychology of atheism, terrorism, and the effects of religion on prejudice and tolerance.

This course covers advanced topics in areas such as sensation, perception, attention, consciousness, memory, language, and decision making. It focuses on behavioral and neuroscience methods and findings, and critically examines theories that account for key empirical results.