Singapore

This course explores Asian cinema from its beginning to the introduction of talkies in the 1930s. Topics include the advent of cinema in Asia and how it transformed entertainment across the continent and provided a novel means of popular expression. Students examine how cinema is closely tied to modernity and understand how different societies and cultures in Asia responded to the modern transformation and how they appropriated it for their own ends. The course focuses on China, Japan, and India and their film culture.

This course introduces the fundamental theory and concepts of computational intelligence methods, in particular neural networks, fuzzy systems, genetic algorithms and their applications in the area of machine intelligence. Topics include: (1) Understand the concepts of fuzzy sets, knowledge representation using fuzzy rules, approximate reasoning, fuzzy inference systems, and fuzzy logic control and other machine intelligence applications of fuzzy logic. (2) Understand the basics of an evolutionary computing paradigm known as genetic algorithms and its application to engineering optimization problems. (3) Understand the fundamental theory and concepts of neural networks, neuro-modeling, several neural network paradigms and its applications. (4) Contents: Introduction to Fuzzy Logic. Introduction to Fuzzy Sets. Introduction to Fuzzy Inference Systems. Fuzzy Logic Applications. Introduction to Genetic Algorithm. Fundamental Concepts of Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Network Architectures.

This course introduces algorithms and algorithmic thinking. Students examine common algorithms, algorithmic paradigms, and data structures that can be used to solve computational problems. Emphasis is placed on understanding why algorithms work, and how to analyze the complexity of algorithms. Students learn the underlying thought process on how to design their own algorithms, including how to use suitable data structures and techniques such as dynamic programming to design algorithms that are efficient. The course includes a prerequisite.

This course offers a thematic overview of the frontiers of physics, with a central focus on light due to its ubiquitous presence in the development of modern physics. It covers the classical wave description of light, from the history of its discovery to the basic mathematical notions, the speed of light and special relativity, as well as light's impact on the development of quantum theory, highlighting some fundamental quantum processes involving one or two photons. It also explores light-based technologies and considers the historical and philosophical context of these scientific concepts, laying a solid foundation for further study in physics.

This course is designed for beginners with no previous knowledge of Arabic. It introduces students to the Arabic alphabet, vowels and tones and to construct simple sentences using basic vocabulary and expressions related to everyday communicative situations. Through theme-based classroom activities, students develop the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. By the end of the course, students are able to read, write and talk in Arabic about simple topics related to their daily lives.

This course introduces the essential software engineering body of knowledge, including software project management, software requirements and specifications, software design, and software testing and maintenance.

This course explores how games such as Ghost of Tsushima and Rise of the Rōnin have become one of the key vehicles through which people in Japan and across the world encounter the samurai and compares these depictions to historical realities. Students investigate how and why the samurai emerged as a distinct group, how they changed across Japan’s long history and the evolving and selective nature of samurai representations. As a final project, students collaborate to design their own samurai-themed video games.

This course examines the evolution of British painting, sculpture, architecture and music from Wellington's victory at Waterloo in 1815 to the Wall Street Crash in 1929. Students observe, analyze and assess the role of art and artists within this rapidly evolving society and the British world in the 19th and early 20th century. Topics include the conservative canvases of Victorians at the Royal Academy to the Modernist abstractions of the Rebel Art Centre, and the painters of the Great War in The Roaring Twenties in the West End of London.

This course introduces architecture of digital systems, emphasizing structural principles common to a wide range of technologies. Topics include Multilevel implementation strategies; definition of new primitives (e.g., gates, instructions, procedures, and processes) and their mechanization using lower-level elements. The course includes analysis of potential concurrency; precedence constraints and performance measures; pipelined and multidimensional systems; instruction set design issues; architectural support for contemporary software structures.