Nanyang Technological University

This elective foundation level course introduces the principles of photography. Students learn all aspects of the black and white photographic process in the traditional wet darkroom such as film development, contact printing, enlarging and proper use of chemicals. Lectures, demonstrations, critiques and hands-on practice will clarify techniques. Through assignments and projects, students explore content, make aesthetic choices and learn how to better articulate ideas through the medium of photography.

This course covers maritime trade and cargo, the shipping market, the market cycle, supply and demand, freight and cost structure, tramp shipping, and liner shipping. 

This course equips students with the knowledge and skills of table-tennis so that they can demonstrate the techniques of the game, and play the game. 

IMPORTANT: Physical Activity courses do not count towards the UCEAP minimum unit requirement and are taken for pass/no pass only.

This course examines the start-up formation process, such as the forms and regulatory compliances of different business structures, types and sources of funding for starting up and growth, ultimately leading to a viable exit strategy for all stakeholders. Students learn the entrepreneurship development from a financing viewpoint and gain insights into the investment opportunities from the perspectives of both the entrepreneurs and investors, with respect to the funding cycles and expectations. Students assess a venture's financial health through understanding the financial statements, essential financial indicators, creating financial projections, capital budgeting techniques and preliminary valuation methods. This course is suitable for those who are planning to embark on and/or currently involved in startup creation, with or without prior knowledge of accounting and finance, and would like to gain a working knowledge of how to read the financial statements in ways that will support business activities and decision making from the perspective of a startup.

The course covers commodities markets with a primary focus on agriculture, metals and minerals and energy and chemicals. It focuses on fundamental concepts and terminology necessary for understanding commodity production, transportation, economics and marketing. Students learn about trading technology trends and innovation and look into sustainability challenges and legal aspects.

This course examines key logistics activities. It includes total cost concept, the supply chain system, shipping value chain, just-in-time concept, risk pooling, and logistical strategic partnerships. Students study the bullwhip effect, global logistics, current trends in shipping logistics, and logistics arms of shipping-related companies. 

This course introduces cutting-edge concepts, frameworks and practices that are current in social entrepreneurship, as well as critical issues in business ethics as a knowledge foundation for analyzing and practicing social entrepreneurship. The course considers how social entrepreneurship plays out in organizations ranging from conventional companies seeking to adopt corporate social responsibility practices to double-bottom-line businesses and social enterprises. The course specifies strategic and implementation tensions inherent in aligning business and social/environmental values, and provides frameworks with which to analyze and resolve the tensions at play. Students learn to be a quasi-expert of social entrepreneurship by applying frameworks to make tough decisions in real business contexts. The course includes four modules: strategic corporate social responsibility (SCSR); double-bottom-line business (DBL), social enterprise (SE) and business ethics (BE). It begins by analyzing and making decisions on the cases of conventional companies conducting social innovation initiatives through SCSR and DBL. Students then explore the cases of social enterprises and observe both the common and distinctive challenges facing conventional companies and social enterprises. The modules of SCSR, DBL and SE are followed by an Entrepreneur Panel where social entrepreneurs introduce their initiatives and engage in a highly interactive conversation with students. The course concludes by analyzing business ethics theories and issues of social entrepreneurship.

This course examines white collar crimes in Singapore by analyzing real case studies of major crimes. Students learn the investigation methodology in the detection of fraud and the use of information technology forensics and social media tracing to examine documents and evidence within the Singapore legal, regulatory and professional rule-based environment. Students examine various fraudulent schemes including financial statements, cash receipt, cash disbursement, defalcation and cybercrimes. The course teaches students effective interviewing and interrogation techniques, and the role of an expert witness. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This is an intermediate level course which introduces unique and topical issues in product design. Students explore one or more issues, conduct analysis and exploration, and produce designs that address a specific aspect identified. This course builds upon the learning of other courses as it prepares the way for creating unique product designs.