Singapore

In this course, students are introduced to the foundations and principles of game design and apply these in practice with the design and creation of a simple digital game. Topics include node-based and script-centered software with a view to developing basic game levels and core game mechanics and ideas. Students explore how play theory inspires the design of games, imbuing games with a range of roles including training, education and entertainment. Students apply these principles to propose a game that addresses a well-defined purpose. 

This course introduces regression analysis, one of the most widely used statistical techniques. Topics include simple and multiple linear regression, nonlinear regression, analysis of residuals and model selection, one-way and two-way factorial experiments, random and fixed effects models.

This course covers the mathematical fundamentals of probability theory and complex variables which are necessary in the study of integrated circuits, communications, communication networks, control systems, signal processing, energy and new media. There is a strong emphasis on the application of these concepts to electrical and computer engineering problems, such as the Gaussian distribution in communications, random variable distributions for system reliability, complex random variables. This course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course introduces students to the foundations of game creation and provides an overview of different aspects of game development. Students learn C# Programming (industry standard), starting with console application, then GUI games on various platform with graphics, dialog boxes, and user control. The course includes an overview of topics including game architecture, interface design, graphics for games, audio for games, prototyping and play testing. Students implement their creative gaming ideas by using the latest gaming tools. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course examines the development throughout modern drama from realism and naturalism to absurdism and post-modernist theatre. Topics include Strindberg, Ibsen, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Churchill, and Shepherd as well as contemporary Singaporean dramatist Kuo Pao Kun. In addition to understanding how changing theatrical trends embody changing epistemological, ontological and ideological attitudes, students develop a powerful comparative appreciation of the interconnected evolution of Asian and Western drama.

This course introduces the fundamental concept of carriers, operating principles of PN diodes and MOSFETs. Topics include IV characteristics in different operating regions and their impact on the performance of logic gate, the foundational concepts of inverters and analyze their performance in terms of power and delay trade-off. The course introduces logic synthesis and the fundamental timing analysis of logic gates. Besides the static CMOS logic, students examine pass logics or transmission gates logics.

In this course, students examine the representation of continuous-time and discrete-time signals; their frequency characteristics and Fourier spectrum; representation and characteristics of linear time-invariant systems in both time and frequency domains; and the principles of sampling a continuous-time signal to yield a discrete-time one.

Students participate in creative writing exercises and improvisation games to find their playwriting voice as well as honing an ear for the spoken word onstage. Students examine examples of play scripts with a view to recognizing and utilizing techniques and generate new scripts via exercises and assignments. Students gain a practitioner's understanding of the creative process to evaluate their own writing and its impact on readers and audiences. This course requires a prerequisite.

Arabic 2 is an integrated course that helps students gain higher basic proficiency in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), grammar, vocabulary for personal interaction and communication in authentic situations. Themes covered are pertinent to everyday social settings/encounters, such as family, party, food, time and price, holiday and alike. Grammar rules and concepts cover topics such as present tense conjugation, imperative and imperative moods, singular, dual and plural, negation, nominal and verbal sentences, prepositions, etc. This course has a prerequisite of Arabic 1 or students must take a placement test to test into Arabic 2.

This course examines the ways in which theory can be used as an interpretive practice in literary criticism and how literary scholars think, read, and write with theory. It focuses on how to generate and sustain a dialogue between literary and theoretical texts and trains the ability to identify the resonances and tensions that exist between these distinct registers of writing. Through the overlapping exigences of race, gender, and ecology, the course explores how theory—as critically engaged with literature—might clarify and fundamentally transform how to make sense of the world.