Singapore

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 course is for students without prior knowledge of German to explore various aspects of German culture and the basic linguistic and communicative structures of the language. Students learn to communicate in simple everyday situations and personal interaction. The course adopts an integrated approach to language learning and emphasizes equally all four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking as well as application of learning strategies.

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 introduces students to human behavior in organizational contexts. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed and examining processes at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. 

This course engages students to think and express themselves through the production process of a musical. By introducing the various aspects of mounting a musical production, it empowers the students to transmit this understanding into an actual display of intrinsic ideas. The course is executed through classroom seminars and an experiential component culminating in the form of a micro-musical. The content coverage embodies a survey and appreciation of Singapore musicals; and to expound on the hardware and software requirements in mounting a musical. This includes individual elements like acting, singing, writing, composing, music-making and dancing which are interwoven in the creation of this art form; as well as the financial and budget planning, safety measures and basic aspects of stage management.

This class introduces the field of public relations (communication management) and the organizational, societal, and legal contexts in which it takes place. The course emphasizes ethics, social responsibility, the role of mass communication in the formation of public opinion, the role of organizational communication in a democracy, the global practices of communication management, and major influences that affect organizational behavior.

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 examines how states have attempted to apply and develop surveillance technologies with ever greater accuracy, scale, and speed (as well as when and how they did not). Geographically, this course covers from South Asia to East Asia. It focuses on how colonial, national, and postcolonial governments have tried to control their subjects and foreigners within their territory, as well as how people have responded to these state initiatives. After introducing relevant theoretical frameworks, the course investigates specific technologies such as fingerprints, photographs, anthropometrics, and CCTV, examining their historical development and impact on individual lives in modern Asian societies. Students examine people’s responses to surveillance technologies in modern Asia, ranging from adherence to protest and appraise the use of surveillance in today’s Asian societies based on its historical trajectories.

This course introduces important instrumental techniques used in analytical chemistry, including thermal analysis (TGA, DSC), chemical and elemental analysis (AAS, ICP-AES, AFS, UV-visible absorption, FTIR, ATR-IR), Raman techniques, x-ray techniques (XFS, XPS, XRD), imaging and electron microscopy (SEM, TEM), mass spectrometry and its hyphenated techniques (GC-MS, MALDI). Case studies and real application examples in quality control, environmental analysis, materials characterization, forensic studies, etc. are illustrated. Beginning from the fundamentals and connecting these to real applications, students learn to appreciate the plethora of scientific tools developed to provide analysis solutions for real problems they encounter.