Singapore

This course examines Singapore’s media law and policy with socio-legal and socioeconomic analysis, which is essential for good media practice. Students learn about legislation that consolidates the media legal framework in traditional areas such as broadcasting, print, advertising, film and art, etc.; as well as the new areas of concern such as social media, platform media, digital minorities, etc. Students will develop an understanding of the historical, cultural and particular contexts in the implementation and function of media law and policy by studying and contrasting different approaches in other nation-states.

This course introduces the theory and practice of community leadership. Topics include basic leadership theories, models and frameworks including transformational leadership, transactional leadership, servant leadership, as well as contingent models of leadership. The course also covers concepts related to community leadership such as power, culture, and conflict in the community. Through this course, students develop critical competencies in leading and managing in the community such as influence and persuasion, negotiation, communication, empathy, and empowerment.

This course examines the fundamentals of cognition. Topics include key cognitive domains and operations such as attention, memory, language, problem solving and decision making. The course requires students to take Introduction to Psychology as a prerequisite.

This course offers an opportunity to grapple with some of the most enduring challenges to human thought. The starting point is a conception of ourselves as free and conscious beings equipped with bodies that allow us to observe and explore a familiar external world. Successive lectures investigate alternative conceptions of the human condition, such as ones in which we are unfree, or non-spirituous, or inhabit a world whose fundamental nature is hidden from our view. Different conceptions bear differently on the further question of what we should value and why. Discussion is both argument-driven and historically informed. Assessment: attendance, quizzes, final exam.

This course examines the theories of knowledge and methods of inquiry appropriate to studying politics. It introduces alternative perspectives of the social sciences and to the empirical, critical, and analytical skills they imply. It pays particular attention to the basics of good research and skills essential to conducting independent research.