National University of Singapore

This course provides an in-depth treatment of fundamental topics of network design based on the Internet protocol stack model. It introduces how networks work through understanding of the underlying principles of sound network design. This course covers topics including network requirements, architecture, protocol stack models, Ethernet Token Ring, Wireless, and FDDI networks, bridges, switching and routing in IP and ATM networks, and internetworking. Apart from learning the concepts in networks, the students gain expertise in analyzing and designing networking protocols through mini-projects. The course requires students to take prerequisites.

A flourishing modern society can be promoted by volunteerism and civic engagement. Considering that volunteerism is perceived as a crucial indicator of livable society, it has been a concern of many countries including Singapore to promote volunteering among citizens. Mainly through various non-profit voluntary organizations, volunteer workforce helps attain the goal of civic, livable, and harmonious society. This course thus pursues three main themes: (1) the relationship between civil society and civic engagement, (2) the precursors of volunteer workforce (i.e., what makes people volunteer?), and (3) the outcomes of volunteerism (e.g., life satisfaction, health, and status attainment).

This course examines the basic concepts and application of thermodynamics and heat transfer, required for the analysis, modeling and design of processes and thermal-fluid systems in engineering practice. Major topics include the introduction and the application of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, non-flow and flow processes, cycles involving entropy changes, power and refrigeration cycles, as well as convection & radiation heat transfer.

The course helps students build their compositional skills and contextualize various theoretical concepts through analytical exercises and stylistic writing. Students explore a variety of musical pieces throughout the course to develop their skills for analysis of common practice European music. Through close listening and analysis, students learn about the use of melodic motives, repetition, variation, and harmonic progressions to write their own simple compositions. While prior experience with music composition is not required, a familiarity with music theory rudiments is highly recommended.

This course introduces the dynamics of the world economy and the impact on Singapore in the last two centuries. It examines how Singapore grew through continual dependence on the rest of the world in different ways by focusing on major labor, capital, and technological factors, in which threats are also seen as opportunities.

This course is an overview of the major events, actors, and developments that have shaped the course and character of Europe since the French Revolution. Students examine the rise of nationalism, industrialization, and imperialism that paved the way for World War I and the making and remaking of Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.