Nanyang Technological University

This course is designed for beginners with no previous knowledge of Vietnamese. Students develop the four skills of speaking, listening, writing and reading in Vietnamese in an integrated manner. Students are introduced to the Vietnamese writing system as well as the pronunciation of alphabets and tones. Each lesson covers pronunciation drills, conversational dialogues, and practice in vocabulary and grammar. Through a range of communicative activities, students learn to carry out simple conversations on common topics related to their daily life. By the end of the course, students develop some general understanding of the culture, customs and history of Vietnam.

This course examines the basic properties of biomaterials and methods so that students can manipulate them. Topics include the basic physiological consequences in relation to biomaterial implantation, and the methods for testing biomaterial compatibility. This course gives background knowledge for biomedical engineers to work in biomedical fields.

This course examines the many categories of wearable technology, as well as closely related fields, such as wearable computing, techno fashion, electronic textiles, intelligent jewelry and smart clothes. Students research, experiment with and design wearable technology projects, from conceptual work to pragmatic solutions and applications. Topics include how technology can be used in wearable contexts as a means to complement the functions of the human body and enhance personal expression. The course offers a theoretical introduction and foundation, which is iterated through practical elements in the form of concept development and prototyping. 

This third-year, intermediate level course introduces students through practice-based learning an ability to design and implement device-based solutions for the presentation of media content. Students learn interaction and product design methods used in the design and development of interactive products or devices and apply these methods and physical computing to conceptualize, design, and develop interactive devices. 

This course introduces the fundamental skills required for 3D computer modeling and animation. Students are introduced to industry standard digital tools and gain creative and technical competence with modeling, character design, movement, environment and rendering. Emphasis is placed on learning techniques, principles and strategies to enable on-going independent learning of the specialist 3D software used. A wide variety of processes are reviewed to provide an overall awareness of the complete 3D animation production process. Technical processes include modeling, texturing, simple rigging, keyframe animation, lighting and rendering. By the end of the course, students can produce a short animation.

This course serves as a foundation course on Semiconductors. It covers a broad range of fundamental concepts in semiconductors such as basics of semiconductors and their properties, semiconductor in equilibrium/non- equilibrium, carrier transport phenomena, and operating principles of a semiconductor diode, metal-semiconductor contacts, and MOSFET.

This course provides a firm foundation in aural skills for the 21st Century musician in the globalized Singapore context, drawing in particular on Western Classical music, popular music/jazz, and music from diverse cultures (e.g., Chinese, Malay, Indian). The course introduces to key listening skills to develop a critical ear, aural awareness, and cross-cultural sensitivity to music across different traditions, styles, and genres. Throughout the course, students develop foundational aural skills (e.g., sight-singing/solfege-singing (including using cipher notation), dictation/aural transcription skills, and abilities to identify harmonies, timbres, other musical and stylistic features through a spiral approach. This course requires an audition.