Singapore

This course improves visual communication skills and stimulates creative thinking. Through hands-on practice, students are taught how to use the stylus and tablet to create sketches and paintings in Photoshop. Major topics include dynamic sketching; introduction to stylus, tablet and Photoshop; understanding and applying values and light; rendering with color; silhouetting for ideation; layout for presentation. 

This course discusses the basic concepts and methods of information retrieval including capturing, representing, storing, organizing, and retrieving unstructured or loosely structured information. 

This course introduces major themes in environmental history along with the historical study of the mutual influences of humans and the environment. After critically evaluating how the discipline of environmental history has developed, lectures and discussions focus on topics such as disease, agriculture, gender, and modern environmental problems. The course combines lectures with research assignments to understand how a historian approaches such a topic concerning the environment. 

This course introduces students to the sociological study of deviance and social control, distinguishing it as a field of research from biological and psychological explanations of deviance. It traces the historical development of sociological theories on deviance and introduce students to contemporary approaches to deviance and crime. These perspectives are utilized and illustrated through a study of the changing patterns of defining and controlling deviance in modern societies with reference to selected substantive issues. 

This course introduces basic concepts and methods of statistics as a tool to perform appropriate data analyses. The statistical software R is taught alongside the material to introduce statistical computing. Students learn to load raw data, make numerical and graphical summaries of data, and conduct various estimation and testing procedures. Topics include programming in R, descriptive statistics, concepts of probability, random variables and probability distributions, sampling distribution, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression, and applications to real-world problems.

This course covers basic historical knowledge about the international relations of Asia since the 19th century. This module examines how a wide range of ideas and ideologies borne in Europe have shaped the norms, practices and institutions of Asia’s politics and international relations. It explores the resilient nature of local norms and culture in the changing dynamics of international relations, particularly in the age of globalization. 

This course provides students with practical knowledge and understanding of basic issues and techniques in data management, with sufficient theory to understand the reasons for these techniques. Topics include conceptual (entity relationship model) and logical design (relational model) of database models, relational database management (data definition, data manipulation, SQL, visual interactive query interfaces), and their use in application development (in particular, data extraction from DBMS to spreadsheets application and data extraction to Web applications). Projects in developing a database within an application form an essential component of this course.

This is the first half of a two-part course which offers an introduction to philosophical debate in the Warring States period of ancient China, the Classical Age of Chinese Philosophy and the seedbed from which grew all of the native currents of thought that survived from traditional China. It begins by considering the intellectual-historical background to the ancient philosophies and focuses primarily on the Confucius (the Analects), Mozi, Yang Zhu, Mencius and Laozi, closing with a brief introduction to some of the later developments that will be covered more fully in Part II. The approach of the course will be both historical and critical.

This course considers the behavior of firms in a market economy. It has two parts. The first part on basic theory considers how firms behave under different market structures. The second part is policy oriented. It applies tools from the basic theory part to everyday problems and scenarios and tries to assess market efficiency and effects of possible intervention by the government or regulatory agencies. The two parts proceed simultaneously. Applying knowledge obtained in the class, students solve optimization problems and critically discuss real-life problems or scenarios.

This practical introduction to the comprehensive range of concepts, principles and practices in marketing focuses on arts and culture-related products, services and industries. Besides drawing attention to vital distinctions in the marketing of for-profit versus not-for-profit organizations, the latter of which characterizes the majority of arts agencies in Singapore, the political, sociological and economic factors which influence those working in the arts will also be examined. This course covers arts administration and skills in the managerial aspects of the arts.