Singapore

This course examines kinship, a foundational concern of anthropology. Kinship is, essentially about, relationships. The course investigates the forms, meanings and manipulations of relationships that people have constructed across various historical and cultural contexts. Comparing the diverse ways in which people live, labor and love, it examines the centrality of kinship to understandings of what it means to be a person. Concurrently, kinship is a medium for grappling with the interactions between intimate life and public culture, domestic production-reproduction and political economy, everyday practices and conceptual structures and affection and moral obligations. The focus of the course is on how kinship is a vital force in contemporary societies.

This course introduces the rationale for, and process of, the emergence and growth of Singapore's built environment from a third world country to a world class city. It enables students to have an understanding and appreciation of the economic and social aspects and implications of how properties and infrastructure are developed and managed, given the constraints that Singapore faces. It also encourages them to develop alternative views on how the built environment can help Singapore continue to prosper and remain relevant in the region. 

This undergraduate research course (UROPS) provides students the opportunity to work under the mentorship of NUS faculty and experience the challenges and benefits that come from pursuing an independent research project. It provides undergraduate students the opportunity to foster mentoring relationships with faculty and research staff while working in a specific area of study. This program allows students to engage actively in research, discussions, intellectual communications and other creative activities. Through the typical phases of doing research, students are able to enhance their knowledge in the latest development of science and technology; acquire special communication and presentation skills; experience creative thinking; interact and forge closer ties with the established scientists and members of their groups. 

This course provides an introduction to the philosophy of art. Topics include the definition of art, evaluation of art, interpretation of art, art and morality.

This course introduces mathematical tools required in the study of computer science. Topics include: Logic and proof techniques: propositions, conditionals, quantifications; relations and functions: equivalence relations and partitions; partially ordered sets; Well-Ordering Principle; function equality; Boolean, identity, inverse functions; Bijection; mathematical formulation of data models (linear model, trees, graphs); counting and combinatoric: Pigeonhole Principle, Inclusion-Exclusion Principle; number of relations on a set, number of injections from one finite set to another, diagonalisation proof: An infinite countable set has an uncountable power set; Algorithmic proof: An infinite set has a countably infinite subset; subsets of countable sets are countable.