Singapore

This course explores the various genres of keyboard music throughout history and the composers who have gained widespread popularity, and also examines the works of those who have received less attention. Topics include variation sets, preludes, fugues, suites, studies, and single-movement works. Students think critically about the significance and evolution of each genre over time. This course is for students who can read Western Classical music notation fluently (particularly in bass and treble clefs). Students may contact the instructor and state their prior experience with music to ascertain if this course will be feasible for them.

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 provides a strong foundation in the study of protein structure and function. Topics include structures and structural complexity of proteins and methods used to determine their primary, secondary and tertiary structures; biological functions of proteins in terms of their regulatory, structural, protective and transport roles; the catalytic action of enzymes, their mechanism of action and regulation; and various approaches used in studying the structure-function relationships of proteins. The course has a prerequisite of Biochemistry.

This course focuses on corporate entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on the role of venture capital and spin-offs, including managerial efforts aimed at the identification, development and exploitation of technical and organizational innovations and on effective new venture management in the context of large corporations. Students evaluate business models and appropriateness for development in a corporate setting. As an advanced course, students improve analytical, creative and communication skills. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

The course covers several current and advanced topics in optimization, with an emphasis on efficient algorithms for solving large scale data-driven inference problems. Topics include first and second order methods, stochastic gradient type approaches and duality principles. Many relevant examples in statistical learning and machine learning are covered in detail. The algorithms uses the Python programming language. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

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 course examines the relationship between Japan and Korea, with a particular focus on the impact of Japan’s colonization of Korea and its postcolonial legacies. Students gain greater insights into how the multifaceted intersections between both countries mutually impacts the shaping of their modernities, national identities, cultural politics, and globalization. The course focuses on various official and popular cultural forms such as museum exhibits, expositions, art, film, anime, TV drama, and international events to analyze the histories of these countries.

The course introduces the scientific study of stars, the physical properties of stars, the measurements of these properties, and the relevant laws of physics. The course includes the relationship among stellar physical properties as a step towards understanding star formation and stellar evolution. Students learn advanced topics, including variable stars, supernovae, and black holes. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course introduces students to several computer intensive statistical methods and the topics include: empirical distribution and plug-in principle, general algorithm of bootstrap method, bootstrap estimates of standard deviation and bias, jack-knife method, bootstrap confidence intervals, the empirical likelihood for the mean and parameters defined by simple estimating function, Wilks theorem, and EL confidence intervals, missing data, EM algorithm, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. This course has a prerequisite of Mathematical Statistics. 

This course examines qualitative communication research, the role it plays in the development of communication theories and applications, and the steps in carrying out qualitative research projects. It covers fundamental concepts in qualitative research design, sampling strategies and protocol development, data collection, data analysis, and evaluation. This course introduces basic concepts of qualitative methods such as interpretation, meaning making, co‐construction, and performance. A set of field‐based experiences are designed to give students opportunities to become familiar with specific forms of qualitative data gathering such as in‐depth interviews, focus groups, and ethnography.