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The content of the course is a cultural history of popular music from 1900 to modern times. This course examines the social and political conditions that influenced the development of genres in popular music by evaluating key releases from influential artists. Students analyze the growth of popular music from the turn of the 20th century onwards. They study the development of successive genres from delta blues and early jazz onwards, exploring the dynamic relationship between popular music, popular culture, and social change. The course also provides an introduction to critical approaches to culture and popular music such as postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, and Marxian analysis.

How do firms develop and conduct their strategy when operating across national borders? This course is designed to expose students to fundamental and advanced issues in international strategy enabling them to analyze opportunities and challenges from the point of view of business analysts and practicing general managers.

This course of human anatomy, histology, and embryology covers the structure and development of the head and neck, vertebral column, and limbs. Clinical and comparative aspects are introduced as appropriate, so as to draw out the relationship between structure and function. The course comprises lectures mainly, but it is hoped that optional lab classes can be offered in the Anatomy Laboratory. 

This course focuses on global trade system/rules (namely WTO Agreements and Free Trade Agreements) and Japanese trade policies and laws under those rules. It will provide basic knowledge on concepts and terms related to global trade system/rules, together with tools for legal analysis of trade laws and policies of respective countries.
 

The class sessions begin with lectures on basic trade system/rules/policies followed by case studies. Relevant cases are distributed in advance and active participation in the case-related presentations, debates, or other forms of group work, depending on the number of students, is necessary. Case studies are based on actual cases and can be complex.

Geography increasingly relies on empirical data to understand social and environmental phenomena. This course builds a foundation for applied data analysis, emphasizing the fundamental data science tasks of wrangling, visualization, and analysis. Each of these tasks requires an understanding of quantitative approaches to generate and evaluate hypotheses. The course also covers essential concepts in statistics including expectation, hypothesis testing, and regression. By the end of the course, students will have a strong foundation to analyze multivariate data and communicate findings using open-source programming tools.

This course discusses similarities of concepts and methods in finance and physics in order to enhance cross-fertilization of these fields. The course contains portfolio theory and constrained optimization, relations between stochastic differential equations, regression models, time series and forecasting. Bubbles, crashes, and path integrals in physics and finance is also part of the course.

In this course students acquire a broad knowledge base and develop analytical and critical thinking skills. Students actively participate in seminars, read assigned texts and research papers, and analyze research data. Students also discuss results obtained in their own experiments with peers and senior laboratory members.

Efforts to support child health, including those made by health professionals and services, humanitarian organizations, interventions, and policymakers, are often hindered by common sense or ageist assumptions about who children are and should be. This course unpacks and contrasts those assumptions with evidence from actual children in their lived contexts. Questions will include: Can and should children be responsible for their health, health management, or medications? How do children cope with and care for illness? Who should decide whether a child receives medical treatment? What do and should children know about issues like sexuality, death, and bodily functions? Should we tell a child if they are dying? What happens when health interventions forget children are people? How can health policy perpetuate or address child health inequities? What’s wrong with saying “children are resilient”? Students learn how to think about child health from four perspectives: constructionist, child-centered, critical (structural), and biosocial.

The objective of this course is to understand how the roots of Otaku cultural activities in Japan have expanded internationally as one of Simulacra with creators and activists of the fields.  This course shares the history of “Otaku Culture” and its technology in Japan from three perspectives: 1) Potential of expression; 2) Application of digital content technologies, and 3) Breakthrough of “Otaku Culture” influenced by Trans-nationalization and Internationalization.  The course instructs on the creation process of media contents, games, and expressions for the next generation, especially learning and understanding technologies and methods on becoming “Otaku Culture creator and producers.”

This course analyzes Singapore's outlook towards the world with particular reference to countries in the West and Asia. It examines the following key issues affecting Singapore's foreign policy problems of a small state, factors influencing the worldview, the key foreign policy principles and precepts, the operationalization of relations towards different countries; and the key differences in outlook towards the world in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods.