National University of Singapore

This course provides an overview of the major issues in developmental psychology, with a focus on infancy and childhood. It reviews the development of individual differences; evaluates stage and process theories of cognitive, social, and linguistic development; and considers the extent to which research findings have pan-cultural and local application. The course also stresses the importance of empirical research. This course requires a prerequisite of Introduction to Psychology.

This course explores Singapore’s historical and present-day relationship with Western music, examining its influences on and integration into our culture and society, and its role in our self-identification. Socio-historical and contemporary perspectives are used when analyzing various case studies. The course critically considers how Singapore and Singaporeans have shaped and been shaped by music from the West, and be empowered to make decisions in negotiating this cultural correspondence moving forward. Topics covered include historical overview of the arrival of Western music in Singapore and the various functions that music plays and has played in society

This course introduces issues and ‘social problems’ in Singapore society from a sociocultural and political-economic perspective. It examines social trends, problems, and phenomena from a critical and multidisciplinary standpoint to understand their explicit and underlying causes as well as impact on society. The course encompasses separate lectures covering topics such as social class, race, gender, and ageing in Singapore.

This course introduces game theory, a theory of interactive decision making. This course provides basic solution concepts for different types of non-cooperative games, including static and dynamic games with complete and incomplete information. The basic solution concepts covered are Nash equilibrium, subgame perfect equilibrium, Bayesian equilibrium, and perfect Bayesian equilibrium. This course emphasizes the applications of game theory to economics, such as oligopolies, bargaining, and auctions. 

This course provides an introduction to human structure and function, comprising gross anatomy integrated with microscopic anatomy. The course covers histological organization of the primary tissues including epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous tissues. It also discusses clinical relevance of the anatomical structures. 

This course examines the roles of RNA, coding and in particular non-coding (ncRNA), in regulation of gene expression, host-pathogen interaction, and catalysis as well as their applications in research, diagnosis, and therapy of human diseases. The topics cover the 'RNA world hypothesis', the relation between structure and function of RNA, the mechanisms of regulation and dysregulation of gene expression by ncRNAs, selection and design of functional RNAs, features and usage of ncRNAs, the role of RNA in early stage pharmaceutical developments, and RNA-based drug development. 

This series of two courses covers many of the popular approaches for a variety of statistical problems. There is heavy emphasis on the implementation of these methods on real-world data sets in the popular statistical software package R. Part I gives a broad overview of the common problems as well as their most popular approaches. Topics include linear regression model and its extensions, classification methods, resampling methods, regularization and model selection, principal components and clustering methods.