National University of Singapore

This course examines the intersection of international relations and global health. It introduces students to various issues and topics in global health. Questions include: What are the health threats and opportunities that arise with globalization? Who are the main actors and what are the major institutions influencing processes of global health governance? How do existing institutional arrangements function in responding to global health challenges? To engage comprehensive examination of these key issues, the course includes International Relations concepts, such as power, legitimacy, soft vs hard law, regime, and normative change.

This course surveys the history and philosophy of science and its relation to technology and society. Students examine major topics and readings in the field including the scientific revolution, experimental science, industrialization, probabilistic theory, and environmental science, keeping in mind the broader historical circumstances that have shaped these forces. Key concepts include: scientific norms, paradigm shifts and technoscience. Students encounter historical and contemporary case studies various regions and countries.

This class introduces students to the process of conducting research on historical topics. Students discuss and critique examples of publishable research and work independently to develop their own topics and interests. Students explore different methods and approaches of historical inquiry, learn how to identify, access, and use records in the archives and in digital humanities, and produce research on their own. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course introduces the history, evolution, and contemporary practices of clinical psychology. Students use the scientist practitioner model to study underlying theoretical frameworks and the skills and practices of clinical psychologists. Ethical and professional issues covered include classification and diagnosis, clinical research, assessment, case formulation and treatment planning, interventions, and prevention. The materials are discussed in the context of typical work settings of clinical psychologists (e.g. mental health, forensic or neuropsychological) and across varied client populations (e.g. children, adults, couples). The course requires students to take prerequisites.

Spanish 3 (A.2.1 level), is an elementary level at the CLS. This course offers a combination of listening and speaking practice and introduces past tenses (pretérito perfecto compuesto, pretérito perfecto simple and pretérito imperfecto) via targeted reading and writing activities. The course continues to incorporate Spanish cultural elements through representative texts and audio-visual materials.

This course introduces the basic concepts and techniques of planning, design and operations within a facility. Topics include forecasting techniques, aggregate planning, inventory management, material requirements planning, process planning, production systems and operations scheduling. Students examine the intuitions behind many manufacturing logistics concepts and demonstrate the application of operations research techniques to this area. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course provides students with the knowledge and professional development for the 21st century organization. Students learn contemporary organizational communication theories and concepts, the dynamism of working in teams and diversity, as well as leadership communication skills essential in today’s technology-driven and digitally connected global workplace. Students apply case studies to solve the problems and challenges faced by the contemporary globally connected workplaces, learn how to manage intercultural sensitivities and interactions, and demonstrate effective decision-making and conflict-management processes in the workplace through a strong understanding of organizational communicative processes and relationships.

This course covers mathematical concepts and algorithms that allow society to recover the 3D geometry of camera motions and the structures in its environment. Topics include projective geometry, camera model, one-/two-/three-/N-View reconstructions and stereo, generalized cameras and non- rigid structure-from-motion. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course introduces advanced mathematical knowledge used in quantitative finance, including differential equations, numerical partial differential equations, optimization and dynamic programming, advanced probability, and neural network. Motivating examples in finance will be given as well. The course requires students to take prerequisites.