SINGAPORE

This course covers torsion of open and closed non-circular thin-walled sections; bending of unsymmetric thin-walled beams; idealized beams; multi-cell torque boxes and beams; tapered beams; introduction to mechanics of fiber-reinforced composites; classical lamination theory; failure theories for composites. This course is intended for students who are interested in the design and analysis of thin-walled structures, especially aircraft structures.

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.

This course examines the rapid development of Information Technology and the relaxation of regulations in the financial industry. Topics include how tech firms can enter the financial industry to reach and provide financial services to customers at scale and the market that is neglected by traditional financial institutions. Under this backdrop, many tech firms build online platforms to mobilize the under-utilized financial resources among customers. This allows customers who need financial services to bypass traditional financial institutions (e.g., banks and venture capital funds) and get served. Students examine peer-to-peer lending platforms, equity-based crowdfunding platforms that link individual investors with founders of startups and how the emergence of these new platforms substantially reduces the financing cost on the borrowers’ side and increases the rate of return on the investors’ side. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course examines the study of ethical considerations and issues in public policy making and implementation. The course addresses the question of how (best) to design and implement ethical public policy within a certain societal context? Students examine the different ethical perspectives, issues as well as tensions/dilemmas that arise during the public policy making and implementation phases in key policy sectors primarily, but not exclusively, within the Asia-Pacific region. These policy sectors are prominent sectors that are seen in many Asia-pacific societies, including the education, economic, housing, social and environmental sectors. Lectures focus on delivery of relevant concepts and perspectives relating to ethics in public policy making and implementation. Lectures in the first part of the course center around concepts and perspectives on ethics in public policy making and implementation. Lectures in the second part of the course situate the concepts and perspectives covered in the first part of the course in specific case studies that reflect key policy sectors. Extending from these lectures, the tutorials provide students with the opportunity to apply what is learned in the lectures and to analyze and evaluate the ethical considerations, dilemmas and tensions that arise within the respective public policy sectors under study. This course has a pre-requisite of Introduction to Public Administration and Policy (HA1003). 

This course develops an increased knowledge and understanding of the nature of international politics in the Asia-Pacific, and the conceptual and theoretical issues relating to those politics. It equips students with basic skills to analyze foreign policy of major powers and explain the role of regional institutions. Students discuss central concepts relevant to international politics of the region, apply theories of international relations to analyze the dynamics of Asia Pacific politics, and analyze the foreign policy of major powers in the Asia-Pacific. Discussions include the roles of ASEAN and small states in shaping regional architecture and debate effectively as a team. This course has a pre-requisite of Introduction to Public Administration & Policy (HA1003).

This course examines the philosophy OF film, the philosophy IN film, and philosophy AS film. The course includes film theory, philosophy in films as abstract ideas and arguments, and has a different film genre each week to review.

This course introduces students to fundamental concepts of numerical analysis as a powerful tool for solving a wide variety of engineering problems. Topics include numerical solution of linear systems of algebraic equations, numerical solution of nonlinear algebraic equations and systems of equations, elementary unconstrained optimization techniques, regression and interpolation techniques, numerical differentiation and integration, as well as the numerical solution of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE). Applications are drawn from a broad spectrum of diverse disciplines in Mechanical Engineering. The course also introduces the use of scientific computing software packages for the numerical solution of practical engineering problems. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course focuses on the viability of innovative product ideas, one of the three domains that make up the desirability-feasibility-viability innovation framework. Through a series of lecture classes, workshops, case studies, industry talks, and a major group project, students learn several tools that help them to: (a) understand industry value chain and competitive strategies, (b) develop value propositions for their product ideas, (c) explore various business models, and (d) craft effective go-to-market approaches. Students with promising product ideas can pursue them for further development and prototyping in subsequent project courses.

This course explores social, cultural, economic, and structural factors influencing individual and population health risks and outcomes beyond predisposed biological factors and access to healthcare. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to critically examine the complex emerging public health problems, their causes, and potential solutions. Students engage in contemporary technological, ethical, political, and cultural debates in health, healing, and well-being. Through the analysis of these factors and the development of strategies to address them, students gain the knowledge to promote health, and develop critical insights into health equity and strategies to address social factors for improved health for all, for a just society.

This course is an introduction to the fundamental principles of theatre and performance making as well as performance analysis. It examines how theatre is developed from a range of sources, and explores ways in which scripted text is transformed, interpreted and manipulated. Working with the body, voice and performance space as critical performance elements, a number of 20th century theatre-making methodologies will be explored and examined. These include the theories and practice of Konstantin Stanislavski and Bertolt Brecht. Where practice approaches are concerned, there will be a particular focus on Realist (Stanislavsky) and Epic (Brecht) dramaturgical and performance strategies. In addition, the course introduces two modes of performance analysis, semiotics and phenomenology, and other ways to 'de-code' performances.