Singapore

Decentralized blockchain-based systems, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, are successful beyond all expectations. Although still in their infancy, they promise to revolutionize how we think of financial, information, and other infrastructures. This course covers the technical aspects of public distributed ledgers, blockchain systems, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts. It covers how these systems are built, how to interact with them, and how to design and build secure distributed applications.

This course is about arts and artists in the Nusantara, the archipelagic Malay–Indonesian world. Attention is drawn to the art making and distribution processes which are not only determined by artists but also involves other stakeholders. This includes critics, museum personnel, gallery owners, collectors, art consumers, interest groups as well as the state. The political, social, cultural and economic contexts in the Nusantara at different time periods are considered to explain the kinds of artworks that emerge. Topics include gender and race in the arts, art and activism, censorship and patronage.

This course works through the stages of critical thinking and provides a study of the basic principles of ‘clarity’, ‘precision’ and ‘reasoning’; culminating in a debate of complex, current issues affecting the workplace. It also covers management theory and contemporary management practices in a “VUCA” (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment.

This course on leadership and organization management considers the characteristics of human interaction and cooperation that make organizations effective and efficient. Adopting a leadership perspective, the course covers organizational behavior, organizational management, organizational change, and organizational leadership in a range of environmental and cultural contexts. The course develops the concepts of leadership and organization management by introducing well-established theories and practices, progressively exploring their applicability under group and organizational situations of varying contextual uncertainty and cultural diversity. The course guides students towards a practical appreciation of human cognitive, emotional and behavioral characteristics in organizations by developing a framework for applying appropriative global leadership, strategic and operational leadership approaches. 

This course introduces the world of imaginative sketching. It provides confidence and skills in expressing ideas visually, regardless of ones drawing level. Topics include line walking, class portraits, left-hand sketch, blind contours, and Rorschach sketch.

This course provides foundation knowledge of the different aspects of, approaches and discursive contexts relating to the study and praxis of theater and performance. The course also introduces the various forms of classical and contemporary performance practices and their attendant modes of analyses: combining play analysis, theater history and theory. Using complementary content-centered lectures and practice laboratory, the course creates an environment where students simultaneously engage with content while investigating its relations to the creation of theater and performance. 

The course covers topics on the patterns of inheritance,  the molecular properties of genes and chromosomes,  transcription and translation, genetic methods and technology, and genetic analysis of individuals and populations. This includes an in-depth understanding of Mendelian patterns of inheritance and variations that could occur due to multiple alleles, lethal genes, chromosomal variations, linkage, gene interaction and other genetic phenomena. Emphasis is placed on the understanding of the underlying molecular and biochemical basis of inheritance. Quantitative and population genetics are also discussed with the emphasis of understanding the processes and forces in nature that promote genetic change. 

This course explores the many ways in which theater and film are distinct but closely inter-related mediums. The bulk of the course focuses on close analysis of texts that have been adapted from the stage to the screen, examining performativity within those texts and how the essential properties that define the stage and the screen contribute to and facilitate particular ways for performing such texts. Notions of theatricality and the cinema are interrogated, especially in relation to how cinema can be 'theatrical' and the theatre 'cinematic'. 

This course provides fundamental knowledge of dynamic atmospheric air quality in a changing world. The topics cover the effects of emission sources and pollutants, air quality assessment, atmospheric reactions of air pollutants, principles and implications of vertical mixing and transport of airborne pollutants, and air pollution control strategies and devices. This enables students to understand dynamic atmospheric processes and to identify air pollution issues associated with varied energy sources and economic development. Students also learn to assess air quality, quantify air pollutant levels, devise control strategies and recommend engineering solutions to enhance air quality.