National University of Singapore

Through a close reading and analysis of several representative Platonic dialogues, this course introduces the philosophy of Plato and Socrates and prepares students for Aristotle’s philosophy and Greek Thinkers. The course also include materials on earlier Philosophy forming the background to Socrates and Plato.

This course explores cultural, economic, political, intellectual and religious movements in continental Europe from an urban perspective. Students examine patterns and ideas which have shaped the European cultural and historical inheritance that remain relevant today. Course topics include the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Church, the Monarchies, and Europe in the 1700s. 

This course is a history of the personal and institution library, focusing on Renaissance Europe, a pivotal period of enormous cultural, religious, and technological changes. Students examine some masterworks—Petrarch, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Cervantes, Marlowe, and the visual arts. Additional topics include other sites of knowledge such as the cabinet of curiosities, museums, anatomy galleries and gardens and the questions of how knowledge is created and destroyed? How did people cope with information overload in the past? The course requires students to take prerequisites.

This course provides a conceptual-level introduction to the field of machine learning and its most important techniques. Students examine how machine learning (ML) is the dominant component of modern research in artificial intelligence and that although ML is largely associated with computer science and software engineering, many of its foundational techniques have historical roots in the natural and social sciences and are commonly used in those fields.

This fundamental course examines signals and systems. Topics include the relationship between signals and systems, time and frequency domain representations, Fourier and Laplace transforms, spectrum of a signal, frequency response of systems (Bode diagrams), sampling theorem, linear time invariant systems, convolution, transfer functions, stability of feedback systems, modulation and filters. The course requires students to take a prerequisite.

In this course, students learn to apply the One Health approach to address public health issues with a focus on infectious diseases. Students examine how the concept of One Health recognizes that the health of people is intertwined with the health of animals and their shared environment. Understanding this concept allows the integration of information from these three health domains when creating programs, policies, and legislation to achieve better public health outcomes. Current major public health concerns will be analyzed, and One Health interventions contrasted to a traditional approach for students to better appreciate the differences.

This course introduces the theory and practical skills of near-distance microphone techniques for a variety of acoustic and electric/electronic instruments. This course covers basic Pro Tools skills, and overdub techniques. Students are required to complete at least five multitrack sessions independently during the semester. This course requires a prerequisite.

The course examines the appeal of science fiction and fantasy as a serious fictional engagement with consensual sense of reality. It addresses fantasy, speculative fiction, and science fiction as forms of narrative engaged in “world-building” and “word-shaping,” studying such fictional constructs as forms of sociological and anthropological knowledge. It also examines the relation between the “strange” and the “real” in terms of the shared and the antithetical elements that relate s/f to realism.

In this course, students examine the concept of health, discuss health promotion and disease prevention, and delve into the world of understanding and changing lifestyle behaviors. Students analyze how psychological factors, environments, policies, culture and even corporations shape human behaviors. These insights allow students to design powerful lifestyle interventions. Students gain foundational knowledge and skills necessary for understanding and improving the lifestyle behaviors of populations.

This foundational course provides knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyze and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. Topics include the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behavior, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing.