Singapore

This elective foundation level course introduces the principles of photography. Students learn all aspects of the black and white photographic process in the traditional wet darkroom such as film development, contact printing, enlarging and proper use of chemicals. Lectures, demonstrations, critiques and hands-on practice will clarify techniques. Through assignments and projects, students explore content, make aesthetic choices and learn how to better articulate ideas through the medium of photography.

This project-based course focuses on developing products to meet users’ latent needs. The course combines problem framing, problem solving, and product development. Students learn about the jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework, distinction between values and features, and product vision. Students develop tangible prototypes that work and test them with users. Topics include product presentation using analogy, metaphor, and product storytelling. Students work in teams in a studio environment and gain hands-on experience in product development.

This course covers maritime trade and cargo, the shipping market, the market cycle, supply and demand, freight and cost structure, tramp shipping, and liner shipping. 

This course uses postwar Japanese films and animation (anime) as the principal texts and investigates their relationship with contemporary Japanese culture, society and politics. The course introduces the various genre and representative film and anime, together with specific critical writings on these works. The focus is on the relationship between the films and the audience, the impact of the dominance of films and anime in present day Japan and worldwide, and the various social and cultural issues such as violence and globalization that are closely related to the movie industry.

This course on Japanese art focuses on historical contexts, discussing the ideas and feelings conveyed by the art, and probing the aesthetic and philosophical concepts behind the art.  Students learn about (1) ancient and medieval art and sculpture, (2) arts of the early modern period, and (3) modern artistic trends since the Meiji Restoration. 

Building upon the basis of Japanese 5, this course enhances skills and strategies to discuss complex topics such as social, cultural, and historical issues based on authentic materials. Students learn how to summarize long and complex texts, how to structure essays and skills to understand media materials. Students attain a good all-round proficiency in the four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and can communicate with others in Japanese while handling more elaborate situations.

This course provides the foundations to econometrics and the use of software tools to perform econometrics data analysis. The course covers an introduction to causal inference and associated analysis models with a primary emphasis on linear regression. Examples are drawn from various industry domains and applications. The course requires students to have completed prerequisites.

This course introduces the concepts, tools and techniques of bioinformatics to understand molecular evolution, individualized medicine, and data intensive biology. The course includes a conceptual framework for modern bioinformatics, an introduction to key bioinformatics topics such as databases and software, sequence analysis, pairwise alignment, multiple sequence alignment, sequence database searches, and profile-based methods, molecular phylogenetics, genomic analysis and personal genomics. Lectures include hands-on inquiry using bioinformatics tools in the practical sessions. The course requires students to take a prerequisite of General Biology. 

This course introduces the field of user experience (UX) design involving the study, planning, and design of the interaction between people (users) and computers, and the resulting user experience. The course covers the basics of relevant issues, theories, and insights about the human side, the technical side, and the interaction (interface) between the two, and the process involved in designing the user experience. The course includes both theoretical and practical work and requires students to take prerequisites

This course covers two branches of fundamental physics: mechanics and electricity & magnetism. Topics in mechanics include linear motion, circular motion, Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of energy, linear momentum, and simple harmonic motion. Topics in electricity & magnetism include electric force, field & potential, current & resistance, DC circuits, electromagnetism and electromagnetic induction.