National University of Singapore

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.

This course examines the fusion of physics of biology that forms the basis of modern medical imaging and radiation therapy technology and traces its roots from the foundational theories to its implementation in medical procedures. Students learn how such technology is applied to disease management, as well as the modern innovations that pave the way towards the future of healthcare. Topics include how medical technology is one of the most important applications of science and technology; how it provides the means to protect and preserve lives in today’s world of ageing population, proliferation of chronic diseases, global pandemics and rising pollution. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course introduces the key questions, issues, and tools necessary to conduct qualitative research. It guides students through devising a research question, choosing appropriate research epistemologies, ethical implications, selecting appropriate methods of data collection and analysis, and writing a research proposal. Students learn the key techniques of qualitative sociological inquiry including interviews, focus groups, content and discourse analysis, archival research, participatory and action research, and various forms of ethnographic research. It further introduces relevant qualitative data analysis and research software, in addition to examining the analysis, writing, and reporting of qualitative research.

This course explores the concept of physical activity and the importance of encouraging people to move more and sit less as part of health promotion efforts. Students examine measuring movement behaviors to equip students with the ability to judge data based on how it was obtained. Students identify and analyze various factors that impact how much or little people move. This includes looking into the psychology of physical activity, environmental assessments, and policy enquiries. Insights allow students to design an intervention that can improve movement behaviors. Students can gain tangible knowledge and skills for assessing, understanding, and changing movement behaviors across diverse populations.

This course introduces South Asian Islamic society, culture and religious thought, especially in Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives, the three South Asian countries with a Muslim majority and where Islam forms an important cultural element. The focus of this course is the period from c. 1750-1950, during which important developments took place in South Asian Islam. The course outlines the role of Islam in pre-colonial society as well as the movements for religious and political reform of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Questions of language and literature are also addressed.

This course covers the underlying principles and wide-ranging industrial, environmental, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications of microbiology. The objectives are (a) to gain an understanding of the role of microorganisms for biotechnology applications in the fields of medicine, agriculture, organic chemistry, synthetic biology, public health, biomass conversion, bioremediation, and biomining; and (b) to review advances in genetics and molecular biology of industrial microorganisms, enzyme engineering, environmental microbiology, food microbiology, and molecular biotechnology. A particular focus will be on the meaning and impact of microbiology on human health and the development of new therapeutic approaches. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course explores Europe and Asia's mutual fascination with, and appropriation of, each other's visual and material cultures. From the Buddhist art of Central Asia to KL Petronas Towers through medieval textiles, chinoiseries, Orientalist paintings, colonial architecture, museums, modernist avant-gardes and postmodernism, the course surveys chronologically some fifteen centuries of East/West artistic interactions while introducing students to the disciplines (art and cultural history, post-colonial and cultural studies) concerned with visual culture.