National University of Singapore

This is a beginners' for students with no Chinese language education. The course consists of three main components: conversation, grammar, and Chinese characters. The course covers vocabulary items, sentence patterns and utilizes short texts to aid in instruction. Approximately 180 Chinese characters and 150 phrases are introduced and students acquire basic communicative skills to deal with simple daily situations. 

This course focuses on rivers, lakes, estuaries, wetlands and adjoining land (coastal and riparian zones). Taking a global perspective, with a focus on the tropics and Singapore, it explores the reservoirs, pathways and functioning of the hydrologic cycle, and the interactions between water and land, both on and below Earth’s surface. Dynamic hydrological processes and their effects, aquatic ecosystems, human interactions and impacts and ecohydrology are also covered.

This course offers a hands-on introduction to essential concepts in computational media, focusing on web development and data visualization. Non-programmers are introduced to the fundamentals of industry-standard programming languages, tools, and best practices for web development and data analysis, through hands-on tutorials and programming exercises. Topics include social media to public relations campaigns, from data reporting to web design, from business decision-making to news, from democratic participation to interactive art, and the ability to understand and interpret computational media.

This course focuses on the concepts and practical use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for problem solving in both the social and physical sciences. Topics include vector and raster data formats and their analytical functions. Practical laboratory exercises utilizing GIS software such as ArcGIS are a core component of the course.