National University of Singapore

This is a beginning Chinese language course consisting of two main components, conversation and Chinese characters. Vocabulary items, sentence patterns and short texts are taught. Students acquire basic communicative skills to deal with simple daily situations. 

The course examines the application of strategic asset management policies and strategies within the context of physical property, in particular, the various stages of asset lifecycle, such as planning and design, acquisition, operations and maintenance, rehabilitation as well as renewal and disposal. The course features lectures by industry leaders so that students are better to develop a link between theory and current industry trends.

This course examines the ethical dimensions of everyday life in Singapore. It focuses on moral dilemmas that arise in the nation's pursuit of happiness, prosperity, and progress. The course explores how moral reasoning from multiple perspectives applies to local concerns such as equality, meritocracy, multiculturalism, immigration, and marriage. This challenges us to identify moral problems created by social and technological changes, combine ethical principles with practical constraints, and balance the interests of individuals and communities. How moral dialogue can be cultivated in Singapore's multicultural society, so as to manage diverse traditions and divergent values, is also considered.

This course introduces art history both as a field of academic knowledge concerned with works of art (including painting, sculpture, and architecture) and as a discipline with a distinctive methodology, vocabulary and theoretical foundations. The course surveys the main trends in the artistic traditions of Europe and Asia paying special attention to cross-cultural comparative analysis (i.e. how the human body and landscape are represented in different artistic traditions). The course introduces the discipline's methodology and frameworks to appreciate broad comparative surveys of the major artistic movements in the history of art. Concepts such as idealism, realism, iconography, among others frame major art historical themes. 

This course is intended for students in computing disciplines whose work focuses on human-computer interaction issues in the design of software systems. The course stresses the importance of user-centered design and usability in the development of software applications and systems. Students are taken through the analysis, design, development, and evaluation of human-computer interaction methods for software systems. They acquire hands-on design skills through laboratory exercises and assignments. The course also covers HCI design principles and emphasizes the importance of contextual, organizational, and social factors in system design.

This course introduces fluid mechanics as applied to engineering. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification of fluid and flow, the course presents fluid statics, which cover hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies, surface tension forces, buoyancy, metacentric height, and stability of floating bodies. The course presents numerous examples of engineering applications pertaining to each aspect of fluid statics. In the section on fluid dynamics, the course introduces basic principles of fluid motion. Topics include continuity equation, Bernoulli and energy equations, and free-surface flows including hydraulic jumps, the momentum equation and its engineering application using the control volume approach, flow measurements and common pressure instrumentation, velocity and volumetric measurements, analysis of engineering results, the dimensional analysis and similitude.

This course provides an introduction to instrument sound design using different forms of synthesis and signal processing with computers. Students develop skills in creating sounds they imagine. The course offers aural training in identifying synthesis types, filtering, and other common techniques used in instrument design as well as support in practical implementation of these techniques in software. Projects include designing a sample-based instrument and developing a sound library with different forms of synthesis. The course uses entry-level graphical synthesis environments. No experience with coding is required.