+
-[[homepage](http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~damithch)]
-[[github](https://github.com/johndoe)]
-[[portfolio](team/johndoe.md)]
+[[github](https://github.com/AdityaB4)]
+[[portfolio](team/adityab4.md)]
-* Role: Project Advisor
-
-### Jane Doe
-
-
-[[github](http://github.com/johndoe)] [[portfolio](team/johndoe.md)]
+[[github](http://github.com/blaukc)]
+[[portfolio](team/blaukc.md)]
* Role: Developer
-* Responsibilities: Data
+* Responsibilities: Code Quality
-### Jean Doe
+### Yadunand Prem
-
-[[github](http://github.com/johndoe)]
-[[portfolio](team/johndoe.md)]
+[[homepage](https://gitea.ts.yadunut.com)]
+[[github](http://github.com/yadunut)]
+[[portfolio](team/yadunut.md)]
* Role: Developer
-* Responsibilities: Dev Ops + Threading
+* Responsibilities: Code Writer
-### James Doe
+### Taufiq Mohammed
-
-[[github](http://github.com/johndoe)]
-[[portfolio](team/johndoe.md)]
+[[github](http://github.com/taufiq)]
+[[portfolio](team/taufiq.md)]
* Role: Developer
-* Responsibilities: UI
+* Responsibilities: Code Writer
diff --git a/docs/DeveloperGuide.md b/docs/DeveloperGuide.md
index 1b56bb5d31..92a6b8471f 100644
--- a/docs/DeveloperGuide.md
+++ b/docs/DeveloperGuide.md
@@ -2,23 +2,28 @@
layout: page
title: Developer Guide
---
-* Table of Contents
+# Table of Contents
+* TOC
{:toc}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
++1. The command can communicate with the `Model` when it is executed (e.g. to delete a student).
Note that although this is shown as a single step in the diagram above (for simplicity), in the code it can take several interactions (between the command object and the `Model`) to achieve. 1. The result of the command execution is encapsulated as a `CommandResult` object which is returned back from `Logic`. @@ -115,19 +120,19 @@ How the parsing works: * All `XYZCommandParser` classes (e.g., `AddCommandParser`, `DeleteCommandParser`, ...) inherit from the `Parser` interface so that they can be treated similarly where possible e.g, during testing. ### Model component -**API** : [`Model.java`](https://github.com/se-edu/addressbook-level3/tree/master/src/main/java/seedu/address/model/Model.java) +**API** : [`Model.java`](https://github.com/AY2324S2-CS2103T-W12-2/tp/tree/master/src/main/java/seedu/address/model/Model.java)
The `Model` component,
-* stores the address book data i.e., all `Person` objects (which are contained in a `UniquePersonList` object).
-* stores the currently 'selected' `Person` objects (e.g., results of a search query) as a separate _filtered_ list which is exposed to outsiders as an unmodifiable `ObservableList+
@@ -136,7 +141,7 @@ The `Model` component,
### Storage component
-**API** : [`Storage.java`](https://github.com/se-edu/addressbook-level3/tree/master/src/main/java/seedu/address/storage/Storage.java)
+**API** : [`Storage.java`](https://github.com/AY2324S2-CS2103T-W12-2/tp/tree/master/src/main/java/seedu/address/storage/Storage.java)
@@ -150,11 +155,69 @@ The `Storage` component,
Classes used by multiple components are in the `seedu.addressbook.commons` package.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
+
## **Implementation**
This section describes some noteworthy details on how certain features are implemented.
+### Finding free time between friends based on allocated module timings
+
+Finding free time between students is done through `find_free_time d/Wed st/1200 et/1400`.
+
+`LogicManager` first calls `AddressBookParser` which then runs `parse_command` and then calls
+`FindFreeTimeCommandParser` which then parses the arguments, validates them, and then creates
+a new `FindFreeTimeCommand` instance. The arguments passed in is then used within a newly `IsFreePredicate`
+instance within the `FindFreeTimeCommand` instance, and the `LogicManager` then executes it.
+
+This then calls the existing `updateFilteredStudentList`with the `IsFreePredicate` within the `Model` instance.
+
+The following is the sequence diagram for this example.
+
+
+
+#### Design Considerations
+
+Well, it was rather straightforward to implement this design because it has extreme similarities to the `FindCommand`
+that already existed within the AB3. Only tough parts were the filtering of conditions to ensure the
+time range stated doesn't overlap with the module timings of the students within the list.
+
+* **Alternative 1 (current choice):** Re-use code from `FindCommand` sequence.
+ * Pros: Easy to implement.
+ * Cons: Had to reconfigure the code to match our usecase.
+
+In short, this was the straightforward options with no backlash as it was a insanely easy command to create
+considering that existing groundwork has been laid. No issues has been faced with the implementation of the design
+other than rough hiccups (i.e allowing end time to be earlier than start time)
+
+### Adding a ModuleTiming to a Student
+
+Adding a class to a student in ModContacts is done by the command `add_timing i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200`
+
+The entry point for this command is when the `LogicManager` parses the command, gets a `AddStudentModuleCommand`,
+and then executes it.
+
+`AddStudentModuleCommand` performs some validations, then adds the `ModuleTiming` to the designated
+`Student` in the `FilteredStudentList` via `Model#addModuleTimingToStudent`.
+
+The following is the sequence diagram for this example.
+
+
+
+### Deleting a ModuleTiming from a Student
+
+Deleting a class from a student in ModContacts is done using the command `delete_timing i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200`
+
+The entry point for this command is when the `LogicManager` parses the command, gets a `DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand`,
+and then executes it.
+
+`DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand` performs validations for valid Timings, and whether a student takes the module; then deletes the `ModuleTiming` from the designated
+`Student` in the `FilteredStudentList` via `Model#deleteModuleTimingFromStudent`.
+
+The following is the sequence diagram for this example.
+
+
+
+
### \[Proposed\] Undo/redo feature
#### Proposed Implementation
@@ -173,11 +236,11 @@ Step 1. The user launches the application for the first time. The `VersionedAddr
-Step 2. The user executes `delete 5` command to delete the 5th person in the address book. The `delete` command calls `Model#commitAddressBook()`, causing the modified state of the address book after the `delete 5` command executes to be saved in the `addressBookStateList`, and the `currentStatePointer` is shifted to the newly inserted address book state.
+Step 2. The user executes `delete 5` command to delete the 5th student in the address book. The `delete` command calls `Model#commitAddressBook()`, causing the modified state of the address book after the `delete 5` command executes to be saved in the `addressBookStateList`, and the `currentStatePointer` is shifted to the newly inserted address book state.
-Step 3. The user executes `add n/David …` to add a new person. The `add` command also calls `Model#commitAddressBook()`, causing another modified address book state to be saved into the `addressBookStateList`.
+Step 3. The user executes `add n/David …` to add a new student. The `add` command also calls `Model#commitAddressBook()`, causing another modified address book state to be saved into the `addressBookStateList`.
@@ -185,7 +248,7 @@ Step 3. The user executes `add n/David …` to add a new person. The `add` co
+ 2. Re-launch the app by double-clicking the jar file.
Expected: The most recent window size and location is retained. -1. _{ more test cases … }_ -### Deleting a person +### Deleting a student -1. Deleting a person while all persons are being shown +1. Deleting a student while all students are being shown - 1. Prerequisites: List all persons using the `list` command. Multiple persons in the list. + 1. Prerequisites: List all students using the `list` command. Multiple students in the list. 1. Test case: `delete 1`
Expected: First contact is deleted from the list. Details of the deleted contact shown in the status message. Timestamp in the status bar is updated. 1. Test case: `delete 0`
- Expected: No person is deleted. Error details shown in the status message. Status bar remains the same. + Expected: No student is deleted. Error details shown in the status message. Status bar remains the same. 1. Other incorrect delete commands to try: `delete`, `delete x`, `...` (where x is larger than the list size)
Expected: Similar to previous. @@ -380,3 +569,22 @@ testers are expected to do more *exploratory* testing. 1. _{explain how to simulate a missing/corrupted file, and the expected behavior}_ 1. _{ more test cases … }_ + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +## **Appendix: Planned Enhancements** + +Given below are Planned Enhancements that will be implemented in future versions of the app. + + +### `view_email` and `view_address` +The `add` command currently requires the user to enter an email and address, which are not displayed in the application due to lack of relevance. The `view_email` and `view_address` commands would address why this information was included in the `add` command syntax by allowing a user to view the added student's email and address by referring to a particular index. + + +### Supporting text in multiple languages +ModContacts currently supports input in English. This will be extended to more languages in future versions. + +**Note**: Attempting to input text in another language may produce unpredicatble behaviour in the current version of the app, and is to be done at the user's risk. + +### Supporting names with special characters +ModContacts currently supports names without any special characters. This will be extended to support common Singaporean names containing "S/O" or "D/O" in future versions. diff --git a/docs/UserGuide.md b/docs/UserGuide.md index 7abd198421..c2295d1f91 100644 --- a/docs/UserGuide.md +++ b/docs/UserGuide.md @@ -3,196 +3,727 @@ layout: page title: User Guide --- -AddressBook Level 3 (AB3) is a **desktop app for managing contacts, optimized for use via a Command Line Interface** (CLI) while still having the benefits of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). If you can type fast, AB3 can get your contact management tasks done faster than traditional GUI apps. +Hello NUS School of Computing (SoC) students! Welcome to the User Guide for **ModContacts**! -* Table of Contents +**TIRED** of constantly needing to remember what your NUS friends are up to? +**ModContacts** is a desktop app for keeping track of your peers and the modules that they take so that you can keep in +contact with them amidst your journey in NUS! + + + +# Table of Contents + +- TOC {:toc} --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +--- + +# About ModContacts + +## Who is ModContacts for? + +ModContacts tailored specifically for: + +1. NUS School of Computing students, +2. people who want to keep in touch with their NUS friends easily, +3. people who desire academic success by utilising their social connections, +4. people quick on the keyboard, tired of moving constantly between the mouse and keyboard + +## What does ModContacts do? + +ModContacts is designed to help School of Computing students: + +- Effortlessly keep track of all their friend's modules and schedules + - Our one-stop solution to keeping track of our friend's timetables! +- Find out common timings when everyone is free to meet + - Say goodbye to painting when2meets! +- Discover who is taking the same module as you + - No more constantly asking: "hey bro, what mods are you doing this sem?" + +## What is the Purpose of this User Guide? + +Some of you are definitely thinking: _What is the point of this User Guide?_ + +The ModContacts User Guide serves as a quick, efficient, all-in-one manual for both new and experienced users. + +### New Users +It is great to see that you're interested in using ModContacts! + +Head to the [Getting Started](#getting-started) section and follow the guide to get ModContacts up and running! + +Then check out the [Tutorial](#tutorial) some [Features](#features), and the handy [Command Summary](#command-summary). + +### Experienced Users + +Head over to the [Command Summary](#command-summary), [FAQ](#faq) or [Troubleshooting](#known-issues) sections. + +## How should I use this guide? + +The guide includes information on how users can effectively navigate the document, clarifies the meaning of icons and formatting used, and provides guidance on understanding features, functions, or commands. +These can be quickly referenced from the [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents). + +## Conventions + +| Convention | Description | +| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| [Link](#conventions) | These are links to sections within the user guide | +| `Command` | Commands are represented with this text | +| :bulb: | These are tips that might be useful during the operation of ModContacts | +| :exclamation: | These are warnings to take note of during the operation of ModContacts | +| `m/FIELD` | These are required [fields](#glossary) in a command | +| `[i/FIELD]` | These are optional [fields](#glossary) in a command | + +--- + +# Getting Started + +## Prerequisites + +For ModContacts to work, you need to have Java `11` or above installed on your computer! + +Follow this guide for your OS of choice: + +- [Windows](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/install/installation-jdk-microsoft-windows-platforms.html#GUID-A7E27B90-A28D-4237-9383-A58B416071CA) +- [MacOS](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/install/installation-jdk-macos.html#GUID-2FE451B0-9572-4E38-A1A5-568B77B146DE) +- [Linux](https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/install/installation-jdk-linux-platforms.html#GUID-737A84E4-2EFF-4D38-8E60-3E29D1B884B8) + ## Quick start -1. Ensure you have Java `11` or above installed in your Computer. +1. Ensure you have Java `11` or above installed in your computer from the [Prerequisites](#prerequisites) Section. + +2. Download the latest `modcontacts.jar` from [here](https://github.com/AY2324S2-CS2103T-W12-2/tp/releases). -1. Download the latest `addressbook.jar` from [here](https://github.com/se-edu/addressbook-level3/releases). +3. Opening the app: + 1. **If you are using Windows:** Simply double-click on `modcontacts.jar` within your file explorer and a GUI similar to what is shown below should appear! + 2. **If you are using MacOS / Linux:** Open a terminal window. Navigate to the folder containing `modcontacts.jar` using the `cd [relative/absolute folder path]` command. Then run `java -jar modcontacts.jar`. -1. Copy the file to the folder you want to use as the _home folder_ for your AddressBook. +
+
+
+### Usage
+
+
+
+1. Menubar: This is where you will find the `File` and `Help` options.
+ 1. `File` provides you a menu, which contains an option to exit the app.
+ 2. `Help` shows you a pop-up, using which you can access the User Guide.
+2. [CLI](#glossary) / Input: This is where you enter [commands](#what-is-a-command) to interact with the app.
+3. Command output panel: This is where you would see the output of the commmand that you have entered in the CLI.
+4. Filtered contact list: This is the main information panel of the app. Here you will see a list of your contacts, that you can filter using commands.
+ - Filtering the list is done using commands like [`find`](#locating-friends-by-name-find) and [`find_free_time`](#find-friends-who-are-free-to-meet-find_free_time), which change the filtered contact list by reducing the number of contacts displayed.
+ - After this, when you use other commands like [`edit`](#editing-a-friend--edit), the command inputs are based on the contacts that are currently visible in the filtered contact list. You will learn more about this [in a later section.](#features)
+5. Name, Number, Module with timings: These are the details for a particular contact in the filtered contact list.
+
+### What is a Command?
+
+A command is what you type into the app to execute your intentions (Adding a `Friend` or a `Module`)!
-1. Open a command terminal, `cd` into the folder you put the jar file in, and use the `java -jar addressbook.jar` command to run the application.- A GUI similar to the below should appear in a few seconds. Note how the app contains some sample data.
-  +Here are some examples of commands that you'd be using: -1. Type the command in the command box and press Enter to execute it. e.g. typing **`help`** and pressing Enter will open the help window.
- Some example commands you can try: +- `add n/Aditya p/98765432 e/adityab4@u.nus.edu a/2 College Ave West, Singapore 138607` - * `list` : Lists all contacts. +- `add_module i/1 m/MA2001` - * `add n/John Doe p/98765432 e/johnd@example.com a/John street, block 123, #01-01` : Adds a contact named `John Doe` to the Address Book. +- `delete_module i/2 m/CS1231S` - * `delete 3` : Deletes the 3rd contact shown in the current list. +You may notice a pattern here, and here is a rough breakdown of what a command composes of. Let's use the first example! - * `clear` : Deletes all contacts. +``` +add n/Aditya p/98765432 e/adityab4@u.nus.edu a/2 College Ave West, Singapore 138607 +``` - * `exit` : Exits the app. +Our command composes of: -1. Refer to the [Features](#features) below for details of each command. +1. A Command Word (`add`) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + This is the first word of your command that carries the intention of your action! Examples would be using `add` when you want to add a `Friend`, `add_module` when you want to add a `Module` to your `Friend`, so on and so forth! -## Features +2. Prefixes (`n/Aditya p/98765432 e/adityab4@u.nus.edu a/2 College Ave West, Singapore 138607`) + + Prefixes are additional information that you add to your command. For example, when adding a friend you would want to add their **name** and their **email**. + + We can use Prefixes to accomplish this! They are usually marked with an unique identifier (`n/` for **name**, `p/` for **phone number**, etc). You can then add your values after the identifiers! (`Aditya` is the value supplied for the **name** when you type `n/Aditya`). + + **(P.S)** Different commands have different prefixes! Check out the **[Features](#features)** section to see what prefixes exist for each command. + +### Summary + +In summary, what this command (`add n/Aditya p/98765432 e/adityab4@u.nus.edu a/2 College Ave West, Singapore 138607`) +does is that it adds a `Friend` whose name is `Aditya`, has a phone number `98765432`, has an email is `adityab4@u.nus.edu` and stays at the address `2 College Ave West, Singapore 138607`.
-* Words in `UPPER_CASE` are the parameters to be supplied by the user.
+- Words in `UPPER_CASE` are the parameters to be supplied by the user.
e.g. in `add n/NAME`, `NAME` is a parameter which can be used as `add n/John Doe`. -* Items in square brackets are optional.
+- Items in square brackets are optional.
e.g `n/NAME [t/TAG]` can be used as `n/John Doe t/friend` or as `n/John Doe`. -* Items with `…` after them can be used multiple times including zero times.
+- Items with `…` after them can be used multiple times including zero times.
e.g. `[t/TAG]…` can be used as ` ` (i.e. 0 times), `t/friend`, `t/friend t/family` etc. -* Parameters can be in any order.
+- Parameters can be in any order.
e.g. if the command specifies `n/NAME p/PHONE_NUMBER`, `p/PHONE_NUMBER n/NAME` is also acceptable. -* Extraneous parameters for commands that do not take in parameters (such as `help`, `list`, `exit` and `clear`) will be ignored.
+- Extraneous parameters for commands that do not take in parameters (such as `help`, `list`, `exit` and `clear`) will be ignored.
e.g. if the command specifies `help 123`, it will be interpreted as `help`. -* If you are using a PDF version of this document, be careful when copying and pasting commands that span multiple lines as space characters surrounding line-breaks may be omitted when copied over to the application. +- If you are using a PDF version of this document, be careful when copying and pasting commands that span multiple lines as space characters surrounding line-breaks may be omitted when copied over to the application.
-  -### Deleting a person : `delete` +- `find John` Finds a friend whose name contains `John` -Deletes the specified person from the address book. +**Before command** -Format: `delete INDEX` +Suppose you want to find your friend `John Doe` + +Type the following command: +`find John` + + + +**On Success** + +If the command is inputted the correctly, a message should appear informing you that the command was successful and how many friends whose names contains the keyword you are searching. A filtered list will then be shown showing who matches the name you are searching for. + + + +**On Error** + +If the command is improperly formatted or certain parameters are missing the app will show what fields are needed and how a properly inputted command should look like. In this example we did not include the keyword to search for. -* Deletes the person at the specified `INDEX`. -* The index refers to the index number shown in the displayed person list. -* The index **must be a positive integer** 1, 2, 3, … + + +## Find friends who are free to meet: `find_free_time` + +Finds friends who are free at this given time period. + +Format: `find_free_time d/DAY st/START_TIME et/END_TIME` + +* The `DAY` refers to the day of the class, i.e. Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun (This is case-sensitive!) +* The `START_TIME` refers to the start time of the class i.e. 0800, 1230, 1845, 2300 +* The `END_TIME` refers to the end time of the class i.e. 0900, 1430, 2045, 2359 Examples: -* `list` followed by `delete 2` deletes the 2nd person in the address book. -* `find Betsy` followed by `delete 1` deletes the 1st person in the results of the `find` command. -### Clearing all entries : `clear` +- `find_free_time d/Wed st/1500 et/1600` Find a list of friends who are free on **Wednesday 1500h – 1600h** -Clears all entries from the address book. +**Before command** -Format: `clear` +Suppose you are free on **Monday 1200h – 1300h** and you would like to find out which friends are free as well. +Your two friends `Alice` and `Bob` are on ModContacts and these are their current schedules on **Monday**. -### Exiting the program : `exit` +- `Alice` has a lesson from **1000h - 1200h** +- `Bob` has a lesson from **1100h - 1300h** -Exits the program. + -Format: `exit` +Type the following command: +`find_free_time d/Mon st/1200 et/1300` + + + +**On Success** + +If the command is inputted the correctly, a message should appear informing you that the command was successful and how many friends whose names contains the keyword you are searching. A filtered list will then be shown showing which friends are free in the stipulated time. + + + +**On Error** + +If the command is improperly formatted or certain parameters are missing the app will show what fields are needed and how a properly inputted command should look like. In this example we did not key in the day in the proper format (`Monday` instead of `Mon`) + + + +## Learn more about modules: `list_modules` -### Saving the data +List Modules allows you to search for the available modules in NUS and get its description. -AddressBook data are saved in the hard disk automatically after any command that changes the data. There is no need to save manually. +Format: `list_modules m/MODULE_CODE` -### Editing the data file +* The `MODULE_CODE` refers to the *prefix* or the first few characters of the module you intend to search. This search **case insensitive**, which means searching with `m/CS2103` and `m/cs2103` will yield the same results. -AddressBook data are saved automatically as a JSON file `[JAR file location]/data/addressbook.json`. Advanced users are welcome to update data directly by editing that data file. +For example, you can search for all modules starting with `CS21` with the command `list_modules m/cs21` and it will list all modules in NUS starting with the given module code. + +
-Furthermore, certain edits can cause the AddressBook to behave in unexpected ways (e.g., if a value entered is outside of the acceptable range). Therefore, edit the data file only if you are confident that you can update it correctly. + +If no valid modules are found, the message "No modules found with prefix `[MODULE_CODE]`" will be displayed.
-**A**: Install the app in the other computer and overwrite the empty data file it creates with the file that contains the data of your previous AddressBook home folder. +**A**: Install the app in the other computer and overwrite the empty data file it creates with the file that contains the data of your previous ModContacts home folder. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +**Q**: How do I know if my data is saved?
+**A**: ModContacts data are saved in the hard disk automatically after any command that changes the data. There is no need to save manually. -## Known issues +**Q**: Can I manually edit the data file?
+**A**: ModContacts data are saved automatically as a JSON file `[JAR file location]/data/modcontacts.json`. Advanced users are welcome to update data directly by editing that data file. -1. **When using multiple screens**, if you move the application to a secondary screen, and later switch to using only the primary screen, the GUI will open off-screen. The remedy is to delete the `preferences.json` file created by the application before running the application again. +
+Furthermore, certain edits can cause the ModContacts to behave in unexpected ways (e.g., if a value entered is outside of the acceptable range). Therefore, edit the data file only if you are confident that you can update it correctly. +
e.g., `add n/James Ho p/22224444 e/jamesho@example.com a/123, Clementi Rd, 1234665 t/friend t/colleague` -**Clear** | `clear` -**Delete** | `delete INDEX`
e.g., `delete 3` -**Edit** | `edit INDEX [n/NAME] [p/PHONE_NUMBER] [e/EMAIL] [a/ADDRESS] [t/TAG]…`
e.g.,`edit 2 n/James Lee e/jameslee@example.com` -**Find** | `find KEYWORD [MORE_KEYWORDS]`
e.g., `find James Jake` -**List** | `list` -**Help** | `help` +1. **When using multiple screens**, if you move the application to a secondary screen, and later switch to using only the primary screen, the GUI will open off-screen. The remedy is to delete the `preferences.json` file created by the application before running the application again. + +--- +# Command summary + +| Action | Format, Examples | +| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| **Help** | `help` | +| [**Add**](#adding-a-module-add_module) | `add n/NAME p/PHONE_NUMBER e/EMAIL a/ADDRESS [t/TAG]…`
e.g., `add n/James Ho p/22224444 e/jamesho@example.com a/123, Clementi Rd, 1234665 t/friend t/colleague` | +| [**List**](#listing-all-students--list) | `list` | +| [**Edit**](#editing-a-student--edit) | `edit INDEX [n/NAME] [p/PHONE_NUMBER] [e/EMAIL] [a/ADDRESS] [t/TAG]…`
e.g.,`edit 2 n/James Lee e/jameslee@example.com` | +| [**Delete**](#deleting-a-module-delete_module) | `delete INDEX`
e.g., `delete 3` | +| [**Add Module**](#adding-a-module-add_module) | `add_module i/INDEX m/MODULE_CODE`
e.g., `add_module i/1 m/CS2103T` | +| [**Delete Module**](#deleting-a-module-delete_module) | `delete_module i/INDEX m/MODULE_CODE`
e.g., `delete_module i/1 m/MA2001` | +| [**Add Timing**](#adding-a-module-timing-add_timing) | `add_timing i/INDEX m/MODULE_CODE d/DAY st/START_TIME et/END_TIME`
e.g., `add_timing i/1 m/MA2001 d/Mon st/1200 et/1400` | +| [**Delete Timing**](#deleting-a-module-timing-delete_timing) | `delete_timing i/INDEX m/MODULE_CODE d/DAY st/START_TIME et/END_TIME`
e.g., `delete_timing i/1 m/MA2001 d/Mon st/1200 et/1400` | +| [**Find**](#locating-students-by-name-find) | `find KEYWORD [MORE_KEYWORDS]`
e.g., `find James Jake` | +| [**Find Free Timing**](#find-friends-who-are-free-to-meet-find_free_time) | `find_free_time d/DAY st/START_TIME et/END_TIME`
e.g., `find_free_time d/Wed st/1500 et/1600` | +| [**List Modules**](#learn-more-about-modules-list_modules) | `list_modules m/MODULE_CODE`
e.g. `list_modules m/cs21` | +| [**Search Module**](#find-friends-with-modules-module_search) | `search m/MODULE_CODE`
e.g. `search m/CS2103T` | +| [**Clear**](#clearing-all-entries--clear) | `clear` | +| [**Exit**](#exiting-the-program--exit) | `exit` | diff --git a/docs/_config.yml b/docs/_config.yml index 6bd245d8f4..e9b746e4cf 100644 --- a/docs/_config.yml +++ b/docs/_config.yml @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ -title: "AB-3" +title: "ModContacts" theme: minima +toc: true header_pages: - UserGuide.md @@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ header_pages: markdown: kramdown -repository: "se-edu/addressbook-level3" +repository: "AY2324S2-CS2103T-W12-2/tp" github_icon: "images/github-icon.png" plugins: diff --git a/docs/_sass/minima/_base.scss b/docs/_sass/minima/_base.scss index 0d3f6e80ce..153bc5e34c 100644 --- a/docs/_sass/minima/_base.scss +++ b/docs/_sass/minima/_base.scss @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ table { text-align: center; } .site-header:before { - content: "AB-3"; + content: "ModContacts"; font-size: 32px; } } diff --git a/docs/diagrams/AddModuleTimingSequenceDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/AddModuleTimingSequenceDiagram.puml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d0046d7861 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/diagrams/AddModuleTimingSequenceDiagram.puml @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +@startuml +!include style.puml +skinparam ArrowFontStyle plain + +box Logic LOGIC_COLOR_T1 +participant ":LogicManager" as LogicManager LOGIC_COLOR +participant ":AddressBookParser" as AddressBookParser LOGIC_COLOR +participant ":AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser" as AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser LOGIC_COLOR +participant "d:AddStudentModuleTimingCommand" as AddStudentModuleTimingCommand LOGIC_COLOR +participant "r:CommandResult" as CommandResult LOGIC_COLOR +end box + +box Model MODEL_COLOR_T1 +participant "m:Model" as Model MODEL_COLOR +end box + +[-> LogicManager : execute("add_timing i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200") +activate LogicManager + +LogicManager -> AddressBookParser : parseCommand("add_timing i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200") +activate AddressBookParser + +create AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser +AddressBookParser -> AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser +activate AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser --> AddressBookParser +deactivate AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +AddressBookParser -> AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser : parse("i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200") +activate AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +create AddStudentModuleTimingCommand +AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser -> AddStudentModuleTimingCommand +activate AddStudentModuleTimingCommand + +AddStudentModuleTimingCommand --> AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser : +deactivate AddStudentModuleTimingCommand + +AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser --> AddressBookParser : d +deactivate AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser +'Hidden arrow to position the destroy marker below the end of the activation bar. +AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser -[hidden]-> AddressBookParser +destroy AddStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +AddressBookParser --> LogicManager : d +deactivate AddressBookParser + +LogicManager -> AddStudentModuleTimingCommand : execute(m) +activate AddStudentModuleTimingCommand + +AddStudentModuleTimingCommand -> Model : addModuleTimingToStudent(moduleTiming, studentToModify) +activate Model + +Model --> AddStudentModuleTimingCommand +deactivate Model + +create CommandResult +AddStudentModuleTimingCommand -> CommandResult +activate CommandResult + +CommandResult --> AddStudentModuleTimingCommand +deactivate CommandResult + +AddStudentModuleTimingCommand --> LogicManager : r +deactivate AddStudentModuleTimingCommand + +[<--LogicManager +deactivate LogicManager +@enduml diff --git a/docs/diagrams/ArchitectureSequenceDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/ArchitectureSequenceDiagram.puml index 48b6cc4333..1a887d8c1d 100644 --- a/docs/diagrams/ArchitectureSequenceDiagram.puml +++ b/docs/diagrams/ArchitectureSequenceDiagram.puml @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ activate ui UI_COLOR ui -[UI_COLOR]> logic : execute("delete 1") activate logic LOGIC_COLOR -logic -[LOGIC_COLOR]> model : deletePerson(p) +logic -[LOGIC_COLOR]> model : deleteStudent(p) activate model MODEL_COLOR model -[MODEL_COLOR]-> logic diff --git a/docs/diagrams/BetterModelClassDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/BetterModelClassDiagram.puml index 598474a5c8..7eac22ee97 100644 --- a/docs/diagrams/BetterModelClassDiagram.puml +++ b/docs/diagrams/BetterModelClassDiagram.puml @@ -4,18 +4,18 @@ skinparam arrowThickness 1.1 skinparam arrowColor MODEL_COLOR skinparam classBackgroundColor MODEL_COLOR -AddressBook *-right-> "1" UniquePersonList +AddressBook *-right-> "1" UniqueStudentList AddressBook *-right-> "1" UniqueTagList -UniqueTagList -[hidden]down- UniquePersonList -UniqueTagList -[hidden]down- UniquePersonList +UniqueTagList -[hidden]down- UniqueStudentList +UniqueTagList -[hidden]down- UniqueStudentList UniqueTagList -right-> "*" Tag -UniquePersonList -right-> Person +UniqueStudentList -right-> Student -Person -up-> "*" Tag +Student -up-> "*" Tag -Person *--> Name -Person *--> Phone -Person *--> Email -Person *--> Address +Student *--> Name +Student *--> Phone +Student *--> Email +Student *--> Address @enduml diff --git a/docs/diagrams/DeleteModuleTimingSequenceDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/DeleteModuleTimingSequenceDiagram.puml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f004f326a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/diagrams/DeleteModuleTimingSequenceDiagram.puml @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +@startuml +'Belongs to @AdityaB4, Adapted from author of AddModuleTimingSequenceDiagram +!include style.puml +skinparam ArrowFontStyle plain + +box Logic LOGIC_COLOR_T1 +participant ":LogicManager" as LogicManager LOGIC_COLOR +participant ":AddressBookParser" as AddressBookParser LOGIC_COLOR +participant ":DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser" as DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser LOGIC_COLOR +participant "d:DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand" as DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand LOGIC_COLOR +participant "r:CommandResult" as CommandResult LOGIC_COLOR +end box + +box Model MODEL_COLOR_T1 +participant "m:Model" as Model MODEL_COLOR +end box + +[-> LogicManager : execute("delete_timing i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200") +activate LogicManager + +LogicManager -> AddressBookParser : parseCommand("delete_timing i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200") +activate AddressBookParser + +create DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser +AddressBookParser -> DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser +activate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser --> AddressBookParser +deactivate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +AddressBookParser -> DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser : parse("i/1 m/CS2103T d/Mon st/0800 et/1200") +activate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +create DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser -> DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand +activate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand + +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand --> DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser : +deactivate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand + +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser --> AddressBookParser : d +deactivate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser +'Hidden arrow to position the destroy marker below the end of the activation bar. +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser -[hidden]-> AddressBookParser +destroy DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommandParser + +AddressBookParser --> LogicManager : d +deactivate AddressBookParser + +LogicManager -> DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand : execute(m) +activate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand + +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand -> Model : deleteModuleTimingFromStudent(moduleTiming, studentToModify) +activate Model + +Model --> DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand +deactivate Model + +create CommandResult +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand -> CommandResult +activate CommandResult + +CommandResult --> DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand +deactivate CommandResult + +DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand --> LogicManager : r +deactivate DeleteStudentModuleTimingCommand + +[<--LogicManager +deactivate LogicManager +@enduml diff --git a/docs/diagrams/DeleteSequenceDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/DeleteSequenceDiagram.puml index 5241e79d7d..e7a1e82a9f 100644 --- a/docs/diagrams/DeleteSequenceDiagram.puml +++ b/docs/diagrams/DeleteSequenceDiagram.puml @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ deactivate AddressBookParser LogicManager -> DeleteCommand : execute(m) activate DeleteCommand -DeleteCommand -> Model : deletePerson(1) +DeleteCommand -> Model : deleteStudent(1) activate Model Model --> DeleteCommand diff --git a/docs/diagrams/FindFreeTimeSequenceDiagram.png b/docs/diagrams/FindFreeTimeSequenceDiagram.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..436db2bc67 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/diagrams/FindFreeTimeSequenceDiagram.png differ diff --git a/docs/diagrams/FindFreeTimeSequenceDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/FindFreeTimeSequenceDiagram.puml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b73e4f3480 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/diagrams/FindFreeTimeSequenceDiagram.puml @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +@startuml +'Belongs to @taufiq, Copied from author of AddModuleTimingSequenceDiagram +!include style.puml +skinparam ArrowFontStyle plain + +box Logic LOGIC_COLOR_T1 +participant ":LogicManager" as LogicManager LOGIC_COLOR +participant ":AddressBookParser" as AddressBookParser LOGIC_COLOR +participant ":FindFreeTimeCommandParser" as FindFreeTimeCommandParser LOGIC_COLOR +participant "d:FindFreeTimeCommand" as FindFreeTimeCommand LOGIC_COLOR +participant "r:CommandResult" as CommandResult LOGIC_COLOR +end box + +box Model MODEL_COLOR_T1 +participant "m:Model" as Model MODEL_COLOR +end box + +[-> LogicManager : execute("find_free_time d/Wed st/1200 et/1400") +activate LogicManager + +LogicManager -> AddressBookParser : parseCommand("find_free_time d/Wed st/1200 et/1400") +activate AddressBookParser + +create FindFreeTimeCommandParser +AddressBookParser -> FindFreeTimeCommandParser +activate FindFreeTimeCommandParser + +FindFreeTimeCommandParser --> AddressBookParser +deactivate FindFreeTimeCommandParser + +AddressBookParser -> FindFreeTimeCommandParser : parse("d/Wed st/1200 et/1400") +activate FindFreeTimeCommandParser + +create FindFreeTimeCommand +FindFreeTimeCommandParser -> FindFreeTimeCommand +activate FindFreeTimeCommand + +FindFreeTimeCommand --> FindFreeTimeCommandParser : +deactivate FindFreeTimeCommand + +FindFreeTimeCommandParser --> AddressBookParser : d +deactivate FindFreeTimeCommandParser +'Hidden arrow to position the destroy marker below the end of the activation bar. +FindFreeTimeCommandParser -[hidden]-> AddressBookParser +destroy FindFreeTimeCommandParser + +AddressBookParser --> LogicManager : d +deactivate AddressBookParser + +LogicManager -> FindFreeTimeCommand : execute(m) +activate FindFreeTimeCommand + +FindFreeTimeCommand -> Model : updateFilteredStudentList(freePredicate) +activate Model + +Model --> FindFreeTimeCommand +deactivate Model + +create CommandResult +FindFreeTimeCommand -> CommandResult +activate CommandResult + +CommandResult --> FindFreeTimeCommand +deactivate CommandResult + +FindFreeTimeCommand --> LogicManager : r +deactivate FindFreeTimeCommand + +[<--LogicManager +deactivate LogicManager +@enduml diff --git a/docs/diagrams/ModelClassDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/ModelClassDiagram.puml index 0de5673070..34b85973aa 100644 --- a/docs/diagrams/ModelClassDiagram.puml +++ b/docs/diagrams/ModelClassDiagram.puml @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ Class AddressBook Class ModelManager Class UserPrefs -Class UniquePersonList -Class Person +Class UniqueStudentList +Class Student Class Address Class Email Class Name @@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ Class Phone Class Tag Class I #FFFFFF + +Class ModuleMap + +Class Module +Class ModuleCode +Class Title +Class Description } Class HiddenOutside #FFFFFF @@ -31,24 +38,34 @@ AddressBook .up.|> ReadOnlyAddressBook ModelManager .up.|> Model Model .right.> ReadOnlyUserPrefs Model .left.> ReadOnlyAddressBook -ModelManager -left-> "1" AddressBook +ModelManager -right-> "1" AddressBook +ModelManager -right-> "1" ModuleMap ModelManager -right-> "1" UserPrefs UserPrefs .up.|> ReadOnlyUserPrefs -AddressBook *--> "1" UniquePersonList -UniquePersonList --> "~* all" Person -Person *--> Name -Person *--> Phone -Person *--> Email -Person *--> Address -Person *--> "*" Tag +AddressBook *--> "1" UniqueStudentList +UniqueStudentList --> "~* all" Student +Student *--> Name +Student *--> Phone +Student *--> Email +Student *--> Address +Student *--> "*" Tag +Student *--> "*" ModuleCode -Person -[hidden]up--> I -UniquePersonList -[hidden]right-> I +Student -[hidden]up--> I +UniqueStudentList -[hidden]right-> I Name -[hidden]right-> Phone Phone -[hidden]right-> Address Address -[hidden]right-> Email -ModelManager --> "~* filtered" Person +ModelManager --> "~* filtered" Student + +ModuleMap --> "~* all" Module +Module *--> ModuleCode +Module *--> Title +Module *--> Description + +ModuleCode -[hidden]right-> Title +Title -[hidden]right-> Description @enduml diff --git a/docs/diagrams/StorageClassDiagram.puml b/docs/diagrams/StorageClassDiagram.puml index a821e06458..858d9719ea 100644 --- a/docs/diagrams/StorageClassDiagram.puml +++ b/docs/diagrams/StorageClassDiagram.puml @@ -18,10 +18,15 @@ package "AddressBook Storage" #F4F6F6{ Class "<
+1. The rest of the method seems to exhaustively check for the existence of each possible parameter of the `edit` command and store any possible changes in an `EditStudentDescriptor`. Recall that we can verify the contents of `editStudentDesciptor` through the 'Variables' window.
 1. As you just traced through some code involved in parsing a command, you can take a look at this class diagram to see where the various parsing-related classes you encountered fit into the design of the `Logic` component. @@ -189,22 +189,22 @@ Recall from the User Guide that the `edit` command has the format: `edit INDEX [ @Override public CommandResult execute(Model model) throws CommandException { ... - Person personToEdit = lastShownList.get(index.getZeroBased()); - Person editedPerson = createEditedPerson(personToEdit, editPersonDescriptor); - if (!personToEdit.isSamePerson(editedPerson) && model.hasPerson(editedPerson)) { - throw new CommandException(MESSAGE_DUPLICATE_PERSON); + Student studentToEdit = lastShownList.get(index.getZeroBased()); + Student editedStudent = createEditedStudent(studentToEdit, editStudentDescriptor); + if (!studentToEdit.isSameStudent(editedStudent) && model.hasStudent(editedStudent)) { + throw new CommandException(MESSAGE_DUPLICATE_STUDENT); } - model.setPerson(personToEdit, editedPerson); - model.updateFilteredPersonList(PREDICATE_SHOW_ALL_PERSONS); - return new CommandResult(String.format(MESSAGE_EDIT_PERSON_SUCCESS, editedPerson)); + model.setStudent(studentToEdit, editedStudent); + model.updateFilteredStudentList(PREDICATE_SHOW_ALL_STUDENTS); + return new CommandResult(String.format(MESSAGE_EDIT_STUDENT_SUCCESS, editedStudent)); } ``` 1. As suspected, `command#execute()` does indeed make changes to the `model` object. Specifically, - * it uses the `setPerson()` method (defined in the interface `Model` and implemented in `ModelManager` as per the usual pattern) to update the person data. - * it uses the `updateFilteredPersonList` method to ask the `Model` to populate the 'filtered list' with _all_ persons.
- FYI, The 'filtered list' is the list of persons resulting from the most recent operation that will be shown to the user immediately after. For the `edit` command, we populate it with all the persons so that the user can see the edited person along with all other persons. If this was a `find` command, we would be setting that list to contain the search results instead.
- To provide some context, given below is the class diagram of the `Model` component. See if you can figure out where the 'filtered list' of persons is being tracked. + * it uses the `setStudent()` method (defined in the interface `Model` and implemented in `ModelManager` as per the usual pattern) to update the student data. + * it uses the `updateFilteredStudentList` method to ask the `Model` to populate the 'filtered list' with _all_ students.
+ FYI, The 'filtered list' is the list of students resulting from the most recent operation that will be shown to the user immediately after. For the `edit` command, we populate it with all the students so that the user can see the edited student along with all other students. If this was a `find` command, we would be setting that list to contain the search results instead.
+ To provide some context, given below is the class diagram of the `Model` component. See if you can figure out where the 'filtered list' of students is being tracked.
* :bulb: This may be a good time to read through the [`Model` component section of the DG](../DeveloperGuide.html#model-component) @@ -231,15 +231,15 @@ Recall from the User Guide that the `edit` command has the format: `edit INDEX [ * {@code JsonSerializableAddressBook}. */ public JsonSerializableAddressBook(ReadOnlyAddressBook source) { - persons.addAll( - source.getPersonList() + students.addAll( + source.getStudentList() .stream() - .map(JsonAdaptedPerson::new) + .map(JsonAdaptedStudent::new) .collect(Collectors.toList())); } ``` -1. It appears that a `JsonAdaptedPerson` is created for each `Person` and then added to the `JsonSerializableAddressBook`. +1. It appears that a `JsonAdaptedStudent` is created for each `Student` and then added to the `JsonSerializableAddressBook`. This is because regular Java objects need to go through an _adaptation_ for them to be suitable to be saved in JSON format. 1. While you are stepping through the classes in the `Storage` component, here is the component's class diagram to help you understand how those classes fit into the structure of the component.
@@ -296,6 +296,6 @@ Here are some quick questions you can try to answer based on your execution path 4. Add a new command - 5. Add a new field to `Person` + 5. Add a new field to `Student` 6. Add a new entity to the address book diff --git a/src/main/java/seedu/address/MainApp.java b/src/main/java/seedu/address/MainApp.java index 3d6bd06d5a..a801033c46 100644 --- a/src/main/java/seedu/address/MainApp.java +++ b/src/main/java/seedu/address/MainApp.java @@ -24,7 +24,9 @@ import seedu.address.model.util.SampleDataUtil; import seedu.address.storage.AddressBookStorage; import seedu.address.storage.JsonAddressBookStorage; +import seedu.address.storage.JsonModuleMapStorage; import seedu.address.storage.JsonUserPrefsStorage; +import seedu.address.storage.ModuleMapStorage; import seedu.address.storage.Storage; import seedu.address.storage.StorageManager; import seedu.address.storage.UserPrefsStorage; @@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ */ public class MainApp extends Application { - public static final Version VERSION = new Version(0, 2, 2, true); + public static final Version VERSION = new Version(1, 0, 0, true); private static final Logger logger = LogsCenter.getLogger(MainApp.class); @@ -58,7 +60,9 @@ public void init() throws Exception { UserPrefsStorage userPrefsStorage = new JsonUserPrefsStorage(config.getUserPrefsFilePath()); UserPrefs userPrefs = initPrefs(userPrefsStorage); AddressBookStorage addressBookStorage = new JsonAddressBookStorage(userPrefs.getAddressBookFilePath()); - storage = new StorageManager(addressBookStorage, userPrefsStorage); + + ModuleMapStorage moduleMapStorage = new JsonModuleMapStorage(); + storage = new StorageManager(addressBookStorage, userPrefsStorage, moduleMapStorage); model = initModelManager(storage, userPrefs); @@ -79,7 +83,7 @@ private Model initModelManager(Storage storage, ReadOnlyUserPrefs userPrefs) { ReadOnlyAddressBook initialData; try { addressBookOptional = storage.readAddressBook(); - if (!addressBookOptional.isPresent()) { + if (addressBookOptional.isEmpty()) { logger.info("Creating a new data file " + storage.getAddressBookFilePath() + " populated with a sample AddressBook."); } @@ -90,7 +94,7 @@ private Model initModelManager(Storage storage, ReadOnlyUserPrefs userPrefs) { initialData = new AddressBook(); } - return new ModelManager(initialData, userPrefs); + return new ModelManager(initialData, userPrefs, storage.readModuleMap()); } private void initLogging(Config config) { @@ -117,7 +121,7 @@ protected Config initConfig(Path configFilePath) { try { Optional
* Returns null if there are no matches
- *
*/
private Level getLoggingLevel(String loggingLevelString) {
return Level.parse(loggingLevelString);
diff --git a/src/main/java/seedu/address/commons/util/StringUtil.java b/src/main/java/seedu/address/commons/util/StringUtil.java
index 61cc8c9a1c..8bd74b28fc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/seedu/address/commons/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/src/main/java/seedu/address/commons/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ public static String getDetails(Throwable t) {
return t.getMessage() + "\n" + sw.toString();
}
+ /**
+ * Truncates the string {@code s} to the specified {@code length}.
+ * If the length of {@code s} is less than or equal to {@code length}, returns {@code s}.
+ * Otherwise, returns a truncated string of length {@code length} with "..." appended at the end.
+ */
+
+ public static String truncate(String s, int length) {
+ if (s.length() <= length) {
+ return s;
+ }
+ return s.substring(0, length - 3) + "...";
+ }
+
/**
* Returns true if {@code s} represents a non-zero unsigned integer
* e.g. 1, 2, 3, ..., {@code Integer.MAX_VALUE}
diff --git a/src/main/java/seedu/address/logic/Logic.java b/src/main/java/seedu/address/logic/Logic.java
index 92cd8fa605..6696e55727 100644
--- a/src/main/java/seedu/address/logic/Logic.java
+++ b/src/main/java/seedu/address/logic/Logic.java
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
import seedu.address.logic.commands.exceptions.CommandException;
import seedu.address.logic.parser.exceptions.ParseException;
import seedu.address.model.ReadOnlyAddressBook;
-import seedu.address.model.person.Person;
+import seedu.address.model.student.Student;
/**
* API of the Logic component
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ public interface Logic {
*/
ReadOnlyAddressBook getAddressBook();
- /** Returns an unmodifiable view of the filtered list of persons */
- ObservableList
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Through the examination of the origin, function and pattern of law in primitive and modern societies from a historical, anthropological and sociological perspective, we will try to understand better, the constraints under which \u2018law\u2019 in modern society operates, and the limits on the use of law as an instrument of social change. \n\nIn the first part of the course, the student will be introduced to basic ideas in classical anthropology and the sociology of law. Questions such as - Are there any \u2018universal\u2019 patterns of human behaviour? To what extent is a society\u2019s perception of law influenced or controlled by environmental and econological factors? How are disputes resolved? Is aggression and warfare inherent in the human condition? - will be dealt with. In the second part of the course, these anthropological methods will be applied to a study of the concept of law in diverse societies from a sociological perspective, and to the actual function of law in society. Do patterns of human behaviour discernable in primitive societies hold true in more complex \u2018modern\u2019 societies? What are the attributes of a \u2018modern\u2019 legal system? Is the concept of \u2018law\u2019 in the western sense inevitable and universal in all kinds of societies. What happens to the concept of law in plural societies? Teaching will be by seminars which will include lectures and discussion of assigned readings. No previous knowledge of law anthropology or sociology is required or will be assumed of students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4148", "title": "Secured Transactions Law", "description": "This course provides a comparative study of the law of secured transactions across the common law world. The first part covers the English law of security and title financing in depth. The second part looks at the notice filing model originally introduced in UCC Article 9 and now enacted as PPSAs in several other jurisdictions. The third part looks at reform of secured transactions law around the world, and, in particular, the Cape Town Convention and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide and Model Law. This course will be of interest to anyone interested in the debt side of corporate finance, as well as those interested in transnational commercial law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4150", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4150V", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4153", "title": "Int'l Police Enforcement Cooperation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4155", "title": "Topics in Law and Economics", "description": "This seminar will explore several key topics at the intersection of law and economics. It will commence with an exploration of the concept of rationality as employed in (positive) micro-economic theory. It will also explore the Coase theorem as a means of understanding the importance of legal rules and institutions. These theoretical tools will then be used as a lens for examining, amongst other topics, tort, contract and insolvency law; company law; financial regulation, and the role of law and legal institutions in economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4158", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4158V", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4159", "title": "The Economic Analysis of Law", "description": "In this course, we will look at the way economists analyze legal problems and how economics has contributed to our understanding of the legal system. In order to do that, we\u2019ll want to get a firm grounding on what an economist\u2019s lens looks like. We\u2019ll run through the main principles of economic thought. \n\nAfter this introduction to economic thinking, we\u2019ll look at how the principles of economics are applied in specific legal contexts. For these basic applications, we shall take examples from four courses (Property, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law) to see how an economist might approach these problems.\n\nFollowing on from these basic applications, we\u2019ll look at various extensions to the basic model and special topics."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4159V", "title": "The Economic Analysis of Law", "description": "In this course, we will look at the way economists analyze legal problems and how economics has contributed to our understanding of the legal system. In order to do that, we\u2019ll want to get a firm grounding on what an economist\u2019s lens looks like. We\u2019ll run through the main principles of economic thought. \n\nAfter this introduction to economic thinking, we\u2019ll look at how the principles of economics are applied in specific legal contexts. For these basic applications, we shall take examples from four courses (Property, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law) to see how an economist might approach these problems.\n\nFollowing on from these basic applications, we\u2019ll look at various extensions to the basic model and special topics."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4161", "title": "Intelligence Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4161V", "title": "Intelligence Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4162", "title": "Singapore Corporate Governance", "description": "Since Singapore\u2019s independence in 1965, its economic development has been remarkable. Singapore\u2019s unique system of corporate governance is one of the keys to its economic success. This course will begin by providing a historical and comparative overview of Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance. It will then undertake an indepth and comparative analysis of the core aspects of Singapore corporate governance, highlighting the aspects which make it unique. The course will then examine the latest developments in Singapore corporate governance, with an emphasis on analysing the details, policy rationale, and implications of recent reforms. The course will conclude by considering what the future may hold for Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance and what other jurisdictions may learn from it. ("}, {"moduleCode": "LL4162V", "title": "Singapore Corporate Governance", "description": "Since Singapore\u2019s independence in 1965, its economic development has been remarkable. Singapore\u2019s unique system of corporate governance is one of the keys to its economic success. This course will begin by providing a historical and comparative overview of Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance. It will then undertake an indepth and comparative analysis of the core aspects of Singapore corporate governance, highlighting the aspects which make it unique. The course will then examine the latest developments in Singapore corporate governance, with an emphasis on analysing the details, policy rationale, and implications of recent reforms. The course will conclude by considering what the future may hold for Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance and what other jurisdictions may learn from it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4164", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4164V", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": "This course is intended to introduce students to the practice and law relating to international projects and infrastructure. The various methods of procurement and the construction process involved will be reviewed in conjunction with standard forms that are used internationally - such as the FIDIC, JCT and NEC forms, among others. Familiar issues such as defects, time and cost overruns and the implications therefrom (and how these matters are dealt with in an international context) will also be covered.\n\nThe course will provide students with an understanding of how international projects are procured, planned and administered as well as give an insight into how legal and commercial risks are identified, priced, managed and mitigated."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4170", "title": "Comparative Conflict of Laws", "description": "This is an advanced course of private international law which offers a comparative perspective on the traditional issues addressed by rules of private international law, i.e. choice of law, international jurisdiction, and the recognition of foreign judgments. The focus will essentially be the United States and on the European Union, but other jurisdictions will also be considered from time to time."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4171", "title": "ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy & Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4171V", "title": "ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy & Governance", "description": "This course examines the progressive development of environmental law, policy and governance in ASEAN. It also considers the role of ASEAN in supplementing and facilitating international environmental agreements (MEAs), such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNESCO Man & Biosphere,etc. It will evaluate the extent of implementation of the ASEAN environmental instruments at national level - some case studies will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4172", "title": "Japanese Corporate Law & Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4173", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4173V", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": "This module examines the core legal characteristics of the corporate form in five major jurisdictions: the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany and France. It explains the common agency problems that are inherent in the corporate form and compares the legal strategies that each jurisdiction uses to solve these common problems. The major topics that this comparative examination covers include: agency problems; legal personality and limited liability; basic governance structures; creditor protection; related party transactions; significant corporate actions; control transactions; issuer and investor protection; the convergence of corporate law; and, comparative corporate law in developing countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4173X", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": "This module examines the core legal characteristics of the corporate form in five major jurisdictions: the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany and France. It explains the common agency problems that are inherent in the corporate form and compares the legal strategies that each jurisdiction uses to solve these common problems. The major topics that this comparative examination covers include: agency problems; legal personality and limited liability; basic governance structures; creditor protection; related party transactions; significant corporate actions; control transactions; issuer and investor protection; the convergence of corporate law; and, comparative corporate law in developing countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4175", "title": "Global Legal Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", "description": "The development of new types of legal phenomena in the global arena has outgrown established understandings of law, and conventional classifications of legal materials. At the point of needing a theoretical underpinning for the novel concerns of academic law occasioned by globalization, fresh considerations of interdisciplinary perspectives on law are opened up, questioning the extent to which a distinctively legal approach to global issues is possible. This course engages with these challenges by exploring the global interconnectedness of law, morality, politics and economics, and considers what contribution legal theory might make to illuminating complex policy issues with a global reach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4175V", "title": "Global Legal Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", "description": "The development of new types of legal phenomena in the global arena has outgrown established understandings of law, and conventional classifications of legal materials. At the point of needing a theoretical underpinning for the novel concerns of academic law occasioned by globalization, fresh considerations of interdisciplinary perspectives on law are opened up, questioning the extent to which a distinctively legal approach to global issues is possible. This course engages with these challenges by exploring the global interconnectedness of law, morality, politics and economics, and considers what contribution legal theory might make to illuminating complex policy issues with a global reach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4177", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4177V", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4178", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4178V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4179", "title": "International Alternative Dispute Resolution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4180", "title": "Choice of Law & Jurisdiction in Int\u2019l Commercial Contracts in Asia", "description": "Starting by examining the theory and the need for choice of law and jurisdiction clauses, this course will examine various issues with these clauses by involving students in drafting, negotiating, concluding and eventually enforcing choice of law and jurisdiction clauses (in particular arbitration clauses) in international commercial contracts in Asia. This will be done through real life scenarios being introduced into the classroom in which students will act as lawyers advising and representing clients in drafting and negotiating choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as attacking or defending them before a tribunal in a dispute context. Accordingly, students will live through the life of various choice of law and jurisdiction clauses and see how they can be drafted, negotiated and enforced in Asian jurisdictions. \nUpon completion of the course, students will have learnt the theories behind choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as the practical skills and lessons in negotiating, finalizing and enforcing them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4185", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4185V", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4187", "title": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law", "description": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law invites students to critically examine (1) the theoretical underpinnings of contract law at the level of meta theory (e.g. autonomy, reliance, promise, economic, property), but also (2) at the level of foundational concepts such as \u2018autonomy\u2019, \u2018freedom\u2019, \u2018the intention of the parties\u2019, \u2018vitiation\u2019 and \u2018expectation interest\u2019; (3) how the theories help us to explain different aspects of contract law. Students should be able to engage in normative analysis of the law (how the law should be) with a view to desirable law reform. It complements the modules Advanced Contract Law and Property Theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4188", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. Advisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4188V", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. \nAdvisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4189", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4189V", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4190", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these\njurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4190V", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these\njurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4191", "title": "Wealth Management Law", "description": "This course will examine the legal principles and regulatory environment surrounding the wealth management services provided by banking institutions. Major topics that are likely to be covered on the course include the nature and regulation of wealth management services and providers, banks\u2019 potential liability for the provision of wealth management services (such as financial advisory services in general and in relation to complex financial products in particular, the provision of financial information and data, portfolio management services, and custodianship) and the effectiveness of banks\u2019 attempts to exclude or limit liability."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4192", "title": "Private International Law of IP", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4193", "title": "An Introduction to Negotiating & Drafting Commercial Contracts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4193V", "title": "An Introduction to Negotiating & Drafting Commercial Contracts", "description": "This course provides a practical introduction to the essentials of negotiating and drafting commercial contracts in the Common Law tradition. \nThe course begins with a refresh of plain English writing skills. The second part then reviews key Common Law concepts and considers the Common Law's attitudes to the commercial world. The third looks at the fundamental shape, structure and organisation of commercial contracts. The fourth deals with aspects of law routinely encountered by the practitioner and technical drafting issues. The fifth focuses on technical drafting. The sixth and final part considers the approach of managing legal risk and the practicalities of negotiation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4194", "title": "Partnership and LLP Law", "description": "This module will examine in depth the law of partnerships. The basic framework is the same in most Commonwealth countries and based still on the UK Partnership Act of 1890. The topics to be covered in relation to general partnerships include the formation of partnerships, partnerships in the modern legal system, the relationship between partners and outsiders, the relationship of partners inter se and the dissolution of partnerships. The module will then examine the variants of limited partnerships, used mainly as investment vehicles, and limited liability partnerships. LLPs, a recent creation, are becoming increasingly popular for the professions especially. They are an amalgam of corporate and partnership concepts but are also developing their own specific legal issues which will only increase with time."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4195V", "title": "International Economic Law & Relations", "description": "This course examines the international law and international relations dimensions of the current international economic systems and discuss the various possibilities for future reforms in light of the past and recent global economic crises. While the discussion will be based on the Bretton Woods System (the GATT/WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank), the course will focus mainly on the international regulatory framework of finance and investment. The purpose of the course is to let the students develop a bird\u2019s eye view of the legal aspects of the international economic architecture as well as the reasons \u2013 or the international political economy \u2013 behind its operation. Students will also be exposed certain fundamentals of international law and international relations concerning global economic affairs. Further, the course will examine the experiences of several countries\u2019 economic development and their use of international economic law to achieve economic growth."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4197", "title": "Comparative State and Religion in Southeast Asia", "description": "How do Southeast Asian constitutions accommodate religion? Is secularism necessary for democracy? Do public religions undermine religious freedom? These are some of the questions we will be engaging with in this course.\n\nThere are two segments to the course. In the first segment, we will examine general theories of statereligion relations, including liberal assumptions of the dominant theory of the separation of church and state (the \u201cdisestablishment theory\u201d), the rise and fall of the secularization thesis, and alternative theories.\n\nDuring the second segment, we will examine statereligion relations through topical issues in selected countries in Southeast Asia, including how legal systems in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia accommodate Syariah Courts, and how separationist claims based on religious difference and identities are advanced in the Philippines and Thailand."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4197V", "title": "Comparative State and Religion in Southeast Asia", "description": "How do Southeast Asian constitutions accommodate religion? Is secularism necessary for democracy? Do public religions undermine religious freedom? These are some of the questions we will be engaging with in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4202", "title": "ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy", "description": "ASEAN leaders agreed to create a single market \u2013 the ASEAN Economic Community \u2013 by 2015. Due to sovereignty concerns, ASEAN leaders did not create a single supranational authority to regulate this market. This course examines how ASEAN member states and institutions are filling in the vacuum through formal and informal means. Students will understand how regional policymaking affects domestic laws and policies within ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4202V", "title": "ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy", "description": "ASEAN leaders agreed to create a single market \u2013 the ASEAN Economic Community \u2013 by 2015. Due to sovereignty concerns, ASEAN leaders did not create a single supranational authority to regulate this market. This course examines how ASEAN member states and institutions are filling in the vacuum through formal and informal means. Students will understand how regional policymaking affects domestic laws and policies within ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4203", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4203A", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4203B", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4203C", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4204", "title": "Islamic Finance Law", "description": "This course will provide students with an overview of the fundamental principles of Islamic commercial law and how they are applied in the modern context in connection with the practice of Islamic finance. The course will begin with \nhistorical doctrines, discuss modern transformations, review practical examples, and consider the treatment of Islamic financial contracts in secular courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4205", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4205V", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4208", "title": "Advanced Criminal Legal Process", "description": "The course encompasses the theoretical and practical concepts underpinning the entire criminal litigation process, from pre-trial to post-conviction. Coverage will include the role of the charge, drafting of charges, plea-bargains, guilty pleas, trials, consequential orders and appeals. Common evidential issues arising in trials will also be discussed. The aim is to provide both a holistic overview of the entire process as well as detailed examination of specific areas. The course will cover criminal procedure and evidence as well as include advocacy exercises in common criminal proceedings and a practical attachment at the Criminal Justice Division."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4208V", "title": "Advanced Criminal Legal Process", "description": "The course encompasses the theoretical and practical concepts underpinning the entire criminal litigation process, from pre-trial to post-conviction. Coverage will include the role of the charge, drafting of charges, plea-bargains, guilty pleas, trials, consequential orders and appeals. Common evidential issues arising in trials will also be discussed. The aim is to provide both a holistic overview of the entire process as well as detailed examination of specific areas. The course will cover criminal procedure and evidence as well as include advocacy exercises in common criminal proceedings and a practical attachment at the Criminal Justice Division."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4209", "title": "Legal Argument & Narrative", "description": "This module will focus on the advanced argumentative techniques possible with legal narrative, which refers to how information is selected and organised to construct a persuasive view of the facts. Fact construction plays a particularly prominent role in litigation, but it also appears in methods of alternative dispute resolution and justifications of policy positions. This module will analyze \nthe pervasive reach of fact construction in the law, examine why fact construction is such an effective tool of legal persuasion, and explore advanced techniques of fact\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4209V", "title": "Legal Argument & Narrative", "description": "This module will focus on the advanced argumentative techniques possible with legal narrative, which refers to how information is selected and organised to construct a persuasive view of the facts. Fact construction plays a particularly prominent role in litigation, but it also appears in methods of alternative dispute resolution and justifications of policy positions. This module will analyze \nthe pervasive reach of fact construction in the law, examine why fact construction is such an effective tool of legal persuasion, and explore advanced techniques of fact\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4210", "title": "Intellectual Property And International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4210V", "title": "Intellectual Property And International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4211", "title": "International Public Monetary and Payment Systems Law", "description": "The course addresses major regulatory legal aspects of money, payments, and clearing and settlement systems from international, comparative and global perspective. It addresses the design and structure of the monetary and\npayment systems; the infrastructure designed to accommodate the payment and settlement of commercial and financial transactions; sovereign debt; and the impact of sovereign risk on commercial and financial transactions. It covers domestic & international monetary systems; central banking; international retail and wholesale payments in major currencies; settlement of financial transactions; foreign exchange transactions; payment clearing & settlement: mechanisms and risks; systematically important payment systems; and global securities settlement systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4213", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4213V", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4214", "title": "International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law", "description": "The module explores principles and rules relating to the exploration for, development and production of oil and gas (upstream operations). The main focus of the module is on the examination of different arrangements governing the\nlegal relationship between states and international oil companies, such as modern concessions, productionsharing agreements, joint ventures, service and hybrid contracts. The agreements governing the relationships between companies involved in upstream petroleum operations (joint operating and unitisation agreements) will also be examined. The module will further explore the\nissues of dispute settlement, expropriation, stability of contracts and a relevant international institutional and legal framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4216", "title": "Cyber Law", "description": "Cyberspace is the online world of computer networks, especially the Internet. This module examines two major points of connection between the law and cyberspace: how communications in cyberspace are regulated; and how\n(intellectual) property rights in cyberspace are enforced. Specific topics include: governing the Internet; jurisdiction and dispute resolution in cyberspace; controlling online content; electronic privacy; trademarks on the Internet;\ncybersquatting; digital copyright; virtual worlds."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4217", "title": "Comparative & International Anti-Corruption Law", "description": "This module will examine the legal approach to curbing corruption in three jurisdictions namely: Singapore, US and UK. The focus will be on bribery of public officials both domestic and foreign. The applicable laws \u2013 domestic and\nextra-territorial - in the selected national jurisdictions will be examined to see how effective they are for curbing such corruption. The module will also examine regional and multi-regional laws enacted to curb corruption. Major topics to be coveredinclude: preventive measures; criminalization; corporate liability including criminal and non-criminal sanctions; and jurisdictional principles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4218V", "title": "Asian Legal Studies Colloquium", "description": "This module draws on research, programming and visiting speakers under the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, ASLI Fellows and NUS faculty, bringing students into discussion, interrogation and analysis of major current issues in Asian legal studies. The module will involve reading and analyzing recent work in the field, emphasising theoretical and methodological approaches in a comparative context. It will use current case studies as examples for analysis. These will vary from year to year according to CALS activity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4219", "title": "The Trial of Jesus in Western Legal Thought", "description": "The Trial of Jesusis an excellent case for students to learn how to conduct non\u2010practical studies of legal and normative issues. It is, arguably, the most consequential\nlegal event in the evolution of Western Civilization. We will examine the historical, political, and legal background to the Trial, and, especially, the procedural propriety of\nthe Trial. Questions to be explored include: Were hisprocedural rights preserved during his trial before the Sanhedrin? Was histrial a miscarriage of justice? Through\nreflecting upon these and other questions, we will explore if and how thistrialshaped the Western culture. \n\nThis module is also concerned with the \u2018method\u2019 or \u2018process\u2019 of how students digest and integrate \u2019substance\u2019 or\u2018content\u2019. Thus,there is emphasis on the significance of understanding and clarifying, the complexity of each and every problem, and not only the importance of offering, or trying to offer, a clever solution to it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4220", "title": "International Business Transactions", "description": "This course explores the legal issues \u2010 both from a conflict of laws perspective and a substantive law one \u2010 that may arise in connection with business contracts (such as contracts for the sale of goods, factoring contracts, leasing\ncontracts, transport contracts, etc.) that involve some element of internationality and examines those issues in light of some of the sets of rules specifically designed to address those issues when embedded in an international\nsetting (such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the International Factoring Convention, the Convention on International Financial Leasing, the Montreal Convention,\nthe Rome I Regulation, etc.). The course will also offer an overview of the basic features of litigation of those issues in state courts and before arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4221", "title": "Climate Change Law & Policy", "description": "This course will explore legal and policy developments pertaining to climate change. Approaches considered will range in jurisdictional scale, temporal scope, policy orientation, regulatory target, and regulatory objective. Although course readings and discussion will focus on existing and actual proposed legal responses to climate change, the overarching aim of the course will be\nto anticipate how the climate change problem will affect our laws and our lives in the long run."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4222", "title": "The Law & Politics of International Courts & Tribunals", "description": "The course provides students with profound knowledge relating to core issues of procedural law (including jurisdiction, admissibility, standing, provisional measures, \napplicable law, and the effect as well as enforcement of international decisions). It combines the discussion of these matters of law with international relations theory and issues of judicial policy. Against the background of a mounting stream of international judicial decisions, students will develop a solid analytical framework to \nappreciate the law and politics of international judicial institutions, focusing on the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the World Trade Organization, and adjudication in investment disputes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4223", "title": "Cross Border Mergers", "description": "The module will analyze and discuss mergers which involve two or more entities which are located in different countries. \n\nAfter outlining the issues and conflicts created by the duality of corporate, control of foreign investment, regulatory and tax (for the latter in general terms) laws, the various solutions available will be discussed. \n\nEmphasis will be given to international treaties and European directives solutions as used in actual transactions. \n\nOther structures, in the absence of regulatory support, such as stock for stock offers and dual listing will be analyzed, also as used in actual transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4224", "title": "Cybercrime & Information Security Law", "description": "Cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwars have been new threats developed in the interconnected age of the internet. In this Module we are looking at a range of \ncrimes committed through the use of computers, computer integrity offences where computers or networks are the target of the criminal activity and internet crimes \nrelated to the distribution of illegal content. This Module examines substantive criminal law in England, other European countries, the US, Canada and Singapore . It \nexplores the greater risks stemming from criminal activities due to the borderless nature of the internet and the limits of international co-operation. This module also aims to teach the key legal aspects and principles surrounding electronic data and systems security, identity management and authentication."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4225", "title": "Topics in the Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "This course will provide an overview of the basic economic theory that underlies competition law, an area of law that has expanded dramatically around the world in recent years. Various topics will be covered, including an economic analysis of efficiency and why competition matters from the perspective of social welfare, horizontal agreements, mergers, vertical restraints, and exclusion of competitors. While the course will not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of antitrust law, relevant economic theory will be discussed in the context of legal cases taken from different jurisdictions around the world (most prominently the United States and Europe)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4226", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, traveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last stretch to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4226V", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, raveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last strech to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4227", "title": "Philanthropy, Non-profit Organizations, and the Law", "description": "This module covers the legal and policy framework for civil society, non-profit organizations, and philanthropy in Asia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and other jurisdictions, including the formation and ac tivities of \norganizations, capital formation and fundraising, state restrictions on activities, governance, donations from domestic and foreign sources, and o ther key topics. In 2014 the instructor and students will undertake a publishing project on philanthropy, non-profit organizations and the law in Asia in collaboration with the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL, which is based in Washington DC)"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4228", "title": "The Use of Force in International Law", "description": "This course introduces students to the rules on the use of force in international law. It does so from an historical perspective with special emphasis on state practice so that students can understand how and why the law on the use \nof force has evolved in the way it has. The course sets out the general prohibition on the u se of fo rce in the UN Charter, and introduces students to key concepts such as self-defence, humanitarian intervention, and aggression. Students will be introduced to debates on pre-emption, the use of force in pursuit of self-determination, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4228V", "title": "The Use of Force in International Law", "description": "This course introduces students to the rules on the use of force in international law. It does so from an historical perspective with special emphasis on state practice so that students can understand how and why the law on the use \nof force has evolved in the way it has. The course sets out the general prohibition on the u se of fo rce in the UN Charter, and introduces students to key concepts such as self-defence, humanitarian intervention, and aggression. Students will be introduced to debates on pre-emption, the use of force in pursuit of self-determination, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4229", "title": "Corporate Governance in the US and UK", "description": "This course adopts a functional approach to Anglo-American company law and integrates company law with corporate governance. The course examines core Company Law and the regulatory framework and practice on corporate governance \u2013 the system (structure and process) by which companies are \ngoverned, and to what purpose. In light of their extraterritorial reach and partly because of th e relationship between their markets and legal systems, the course focusses on the similarities and variations by considering the structural \ndifferences and similarities, legal frameworks and market structure (the effect of retail and institutional investors) as drivers of corporate governance regulation in both jurisdictions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4231", "title": "Transition and the Rule of Law in Myanmar", "description": "This subject will provide an introduction to the modern legal system of Myanmar/Burma in social, political and historical context. It will consider the legal framework and institutions of Myanmar in light of the literature on rule of \nlaw reform in transitional and developing contexts. The subject will include a focus on constitutional law; the legislature; the courts; criminal justice; minority rights; \nforeign investment law and special economic zones; the military; and institutional reform. The mode of assessment for this course is 80% research essay, 10% class presentation and 10% class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4233", "title": "European Company Law", "description": "European company law can be understood in two ways. It can indicate the EU\u2019s approach to company law and thereby lead to an analysis of the harmonized standards for 28 European nations. It can also be understood as a comparative approach to the different legal systems on the European continent. \n\nThis course includes both aspects. It will first concentrate on EU legislation and jurisdiction, followed by a comparison of the legal systems of the two most important continental European jursidictions, France and Germany. It will lead to an understanding of shared principles of civil law jurisdictions and emphasize important differences to common law systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4233V", "title": "European Company Law", "description": "European company law can be understood in two ways. It can indicate the EU\u2019s approach to company law and thereby lead to an analysis of the harmonized standards for 28 European nations. It can also be understood as a comparative approach to the different legal systems on the European continent. \n\nThis course includes both aspects. It will first concentrate on EU legislation and jurisdiction, followed by a comparison of the legal systems of the two most important continental European jursidictions, France and Germany. It will lead to an understanding of shared principles of civil law jurisdictions and emphasize important differences to common law systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4234", "title": "Property Theory", "description": "This module explores the way in which the concept of property has figured in political and legal theory. The module will first investigate the significance of property discourse in modern political theory, beginning with early modern authors such as Grotius and Locke, and then considering later political theorists such as Kant, Hume, Smith and Hegel, as well as utilitarian/economic treatments of property. The course will then draw upon this material to then focus on modern debates about the role of the concept of property in legal theory, covering such \nissues as economic/distributive justice, whether property is a \u2018bundle of rights\u2019, possession, ownership, and equitable property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4234V", "title": "Property Theory", "description": "This module explores the way in which the concept of property has figured in political and legal theory. The module will first investigate the significance of property discourse in modern political theory, beginning with early modern authors such as Grotius and Locke, and then considering later political theorists such as Kant, Hume, Smith and Hegel, as well as utilitarian/economic treatments of property. The course will then draw upon this material to then focus on modern debates about the role of the concept of property in legal theory, covering such issues as economic/distributive justice, whether property is a 'bundle of rights', possession, ownership, and equitable property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4235", "title": "International Contract Law: Principles and Practice", "description": "With the onset of globalization, the study of contract law can no longer be confined to arrangements between private entities sharing the same nationality and operating in the same jurisdiction. The costliest and most complex contractual disputes involve States, State entities, or State-linked enterprises, and foreign nationals, as contracting parties. The introduction of States as permanent and powerful participants in economic life led to the emergence of a bespoke body of law \u2013 international contract law \u2013 to regulate these prominent contractual arrangements. This course is for students who have been targeted for regional and international legal practice, or who plan to gravitate towards transnational legal work in multinational corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4235V", "title": "International Contract Law: Principles and Practice", "description": "With the onset of globalization, the study of contract law can no longer be confined to arrangements between private entities sharing the same nationality and operating in the same jurisdiction. The costliest and most complex contractual disputes involve States, State entities, or State-linked enterprises, and foreign nationals, as contracting parties. The introduction of States as permanent and powerful participants in economic life led to the emergence of a bespoke body of law \u2013 international contract law \u2013 to regulate these prominent contractual arrangements. This course is for students who have been targeted for regional and international legal practice, or who plan to gravitate towards transnational legal work in multinational corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4237V", "title": "Law, Institutions, and Business in Greater China", "description": "This module aims to explore the interaction between legal institutions and economic/business development in Greater China (i.e. China, Taiwan, HK), with focus on China. How has China been able to offset institutional weaknesses at home while achieving impressive economic results worldwide? Have China\u2019s experiences indicated an unorthodox model as captured in the term \u201cBeijing Consensus\u201d? To what extent is this model different from\nEast Asian models and conventional thinking in economic growth? This course reviews theories about market development in the context of Greater China, including securities, corporate regulations, capital markets, property, sovereign wealth funds, foreign investment, and anticorruption etc."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4238", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": "The course will cover the international, comparative and domestic aspects of corporate finance law and practice. The emphasis of the course will be on the actual application of corporate finance law in practice, the policies that have shaped the laws in Singapore and elsewhere, and the international conventions that have evolved in this area. Topics include: cash flow, value and risk; term loans and loan syndications; fund raising and capital markets; securitisations; derivatives; and financing mergers and acquisitions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4238V", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": "The course will cover the international, comparative and domestic aspects of corporate finance law and practice. The emphasis of the course will be on the actual application of corporate finance law in practice, the policies that have shaped the laws in Singapore and elsewhere, and the international conventions that have evolved in this area. Topics include: cash flow, value and risk; term loans and loan syndications; fund raising and capital markets; securitisations; derivatives; and financing mergers and acquisitions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4239V", "title": "Law & Politics in South Asia", "description": "This module focuses on contemporary legal and political institutions in the South Asian region, with particular emphasis on understanding the role and nature of law and constitutionalism. Although the primary focus will be on\nBangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, developments in Bhutan and Nepal will also be covered. The module will employ readings and perspectives from the disciplines of history, politics, sociology and economics to understand\nhow these affect the evolution of South Asian legal systems over time. It will also adopt comparative perspectives and analyse how individual legal systems in South Asia are influenced by other nations in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4241", "title": "Financial Stability and the Regulation of Banks", "description": "This course begins with an analysis of the fragility of the business model of commercial and investment banks and the negative externalities of bank failure. It then focuses on three principal functions of bank regulation: (1) making banks more resilient to business shocks; (2) making it less likely that banks will suffer shocks; (3) and facilitating the resolution and recovery of banks which fail. The focus will be on the crucial policy choices involved in achieving these objectives; the trade-offs among the available legal strategies; and the problems of regulatory arbitrage (shadow banking)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4242V", "title": "Financial Regulation and Central Banking", "description": "The course will include various aspects of financial regulation. The focus will be on the regulation of credit institutions and the role of central banks. Other forms of regulation of financial intermediaries and financial markets will be discussed in less detail. Since the focus will be on credit institutions, it will be important that the students understand what distinguishes credit institutions from other providers of financial services and how the regulatory approaches differ.\n\nThe part on the regulation of credit institutions will include requirements for their\nauthorization, their permanent supervision and rescue scenarios in situations of insolvency and default. These aspects will be discussed from a comparative perspective with the Basel requirements at the core of the discussion, complemented by the implementing norms in important jurisdictions, above all in Singapore. For resolution and restructuring the European Union has taken on a leading role, and, as a consequence, these EU approaches will be analysed in detail.\n\nThe roles of central banks will remain a core part of the course. Their tasks and objectives will be discussed from a comparative perspective. Their essential role in crisis management, their co-operation with supervisory agencies and their monetary policy will remain essential components of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4243", "title": "The Effects of Space and Geography on Regulation", "description": "This seminar explores how the efficacy of any particular regulatory scheme can be shaped by the nature of the geographical space in which it operates. Simply put, regulatory schemes that are effective in one kind of geography can be ineffective in some other kind of geography. The seminar will look that this phenomena from a diversity of geographical perspectives, including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, cultural geography, and affective geography (i.e., geographies of belonging). As we shall see, each of these kinds of geographies can take on a diversity of configurations. For example, a particular economic geography can be primarily industrial (see, e.g., Singapore) or it can be primarily rural (see, e.g., Sumatra or Gansu). Regulatory schemes that work well in Singapore may not work so well in Sumatra or Gansu. For the latter geographies, different regulatory strategies are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4243V", "title": "The Effects of Space and Geography on Regulation", "description": "This seminar explores how the efficacy of any particular regulatory scheme can be shaped by the nature of the geographical space in which it operates. Simply put, regulatory schemes that are effective in one kind of geography can be ineffective in some other kind of geography. The seminar will look that this phenomena from a diversity of geographical perspectives, including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, cultural geography, and affective geography (i.e., geographies of belonging). As we shall see, each of these kinds of geographies can take on a diversity of configurations. For example, a particular economic geography can be primarily industrial (see, e.g., Singapore) or it can be primarily rural (see, e.g., Sumatra or Gansu). Regulatory schemes that work well in Singapore may not work so well in Sumatra or Gansu. For the latter geographies, different regulatory strategies are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4244V", "title": "Criminal Practice", "description": "The administration of criminal justice in Singapore relies on an ethical, professional and skilled disposition and management of criminal cases. A good criminal practitioner needs a sound grounding in criminal law and criminal procedure, and a strong base of written and oral advocacy and communication skills. This is an experiential course that takes students through a case from taking instructions all the way through to an appeal, using the structure of the criminal process to teach criminal law, procedure and advocacy skills. Taught primarily by criminal law practitioners, this course will give an insight into the realities of criminal practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4245V", "title": "Regulatory Foundations of Public Law", "description": "Course explores the various ways through which public law contributes to the regulatory construction of the state. Topics will include the ways public law contributes to the various purposes of the state; the tools that public law uses to contribute to these purposes; how public law evolves; and the future of public law in a post-Westphalian world\n\nA significant portion of this seminar is devoted to helping students identify and develop research projects, and write academic-quality research papers. This includes individual meetings with the instructor, and class discussion on doing research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4246", "title": "International Carriage of Passengers by Sea", "description": "This module will give students a broad understanding of the law relating to the international carriage of passengers by sea. Topics to be covered include formation of contract, regulation of cruise ships, State jurisdiction over crimes\nagainst the person on board a ship, liability for accidents, limitation of liability, the Athens Convention 1974/1990, and conflict of laws/jurisdictional issues relating to passenger claims. This module will be useful for those who\nare intending to: practice law in a broadly focussed shipping practice; work within the cruise and ferry industry; or otherwise are likely to deal with passengers and/or their claims."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4247V", "title": "International Economic Law & Globalisation", "description": "This course is a survey course of topics that include: international sales contract; international trade law; and international investment law. It covers the basic principles of private and public international law that are fundamental\nto the creation of the framework within which business transactions take place. It will also cover the topic of the relationships among international business transactions, globalization and economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4249", "title": "Shareholders' Rights & Remedies", "description": "The course will examine at an advanced level the rights and duties of company shareholders. In doing so the course will critically examine, from a comparative\nperspective, the division of power between the various organs of the modern company and the underlying policy of the law with regard to shareholders rights. The course will also key in on topical issues such as the effectiveness\nof shareholders\u2019 rights, enabling v mandatory theories of shareholders\u2019 rights, the statutory derivative action and its effectiveness and the role of the company in shareholder litigation. Finally, it will look at international developments including institutional shareholder activism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4250", "title": "Principles of Equity Financing", "description": "This course concentrates on the principles of equity financing in the private and public markets, including the relevant company law rules (eg pre-emption rules), capital market regulation as far as it affects the issues of raising equity finance for public companies, private equity and its regulation, and change of control transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4251", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": "This course examines the jus in bello \u2013 the law which regulates the conduct of hostilities once the decision to resort to force has been taken. This course will deal with fundamental concepts of the jus in bello, focusing on customary international law. Basic legal concepts that will be discussed include State and individual responsibility, the distinction between combatants and civilians, and the principle of proportionality. The course will also examine topics such as weaponry, international and noninternational conflicts, and the enforcement of the law in situations of conflict.\n\nNote: This course does not deal with the jus ad bellum, or the rules relating to the general prohibition on the use of force in international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4251V", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4252", "title": "The EU and its Law", "description": "This course will develop your understanding of EU law and politics as well as your capacity critically to evaluate the institutional, substantive and constitutional dimensions of European integration. It will consider the nature of the EU as well as the challenges it presents to its Member States. \n\nThe course will provide an overview of the judicial architecture and political structures of the European Union, the authority of EU law, law-making procedures, and the most significant case law in free movement, citizenship, and fundamental rights. It will also introduce more complex questions about the dynamics and direction of the process of regional integration, particularly since the Euro crisis."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4253V", "title": "The Law of Treaties", "description": "Treaties are a principal source of obligation in international law. In this era of globalization, many state and individual activities in many countries are direct results of treaty obligations. In this sense, treaties are the \u201coverworked workhorses\u201d of the global legal order.\n\nDespite this significant impact on our lives, few of us understand what treaties truly mean and what kinds of implications they bring to international relations, our businesses, and private lives. In order to understand the treaty mechanisms, this course covers various aspects of the law of treaties."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4254V", "title": "Developing States in a Changing World Order", "description": "This course explores the changing role of developing countries in a changing international order. It does so by adopting an approach that combines history, theory, and doctrine. The course will examine the historical origins of the contemporary international legal system, and the theoretical debates that have accompanied its evolution, focusing in particular on relations between the Western and non-Western worlds. It will then examine selected topics of international law that are of current significancethese may include international human rights law, the law relating to the use of force, the international law of trade and foreign investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4255V", "title": "Trade Remedy Law & Practice", "description": "The primary focus of the course will be given to the multilateral rules and cases of trade remedies under WTO jurisprudence. In parallel, domestic trade remedy rules and regulations and policies of China, Korea and Japan will be examined to analyze application of WTO rules to domestic jurisprudence and policies. What are the common characteristics and differences among those rules and policies? Are they consistent with WTO jurisprudence? Which agencies are in charge of trade remedy system and policy making and implementations? What is the best strategy for enterprises to respond to such policies? Answers to these key questions are given through lectures, presentations, and discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4256", "title": "Comparative Constitutional Government", "description": "Constitutional government in the modern era has developed different organisational and functional models, that draw their inspiration from some main principles (eg. Separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, democratic accountability) that are distinguishing features of the same type of state. The module will consequently highlight the different forms of (presidential, semi-presidential, parliamentary) government, as experienced by the states belonging to both the common law and the civil law legal traditions. Reference will be made also to forms of constitutional government based on territorial division of powers, such as federal systems and supranational organisations such as the Europe Union."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4257", "title": "Law & Finance", "description": "This seminar deals with ongoing research in the area of financial intermediary supervision, corporate governance and capital markets regulation. Each participant will have to 1) read the discussed papers in advance; 2) write a 10 page commentary on one of the discussed papers and present it in class; 3) comment upon one presentation by a fellow student; and 4) actively participate in the discussion throughout the seminar."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4258V", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of key personal property concepts. Topics to be studied will include: types of personal property; personal property entitlements recognised at common law, notably, possession, ownership, title and general and special property, with some reference also to equitable entitlements; the transfer of such entitlements; the conflict between competing entitlements; the protection given by law to such entitlements; the assignment of things in action; security interests over personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4259AV", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in alternative investment from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The topics that will be covered include private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, crowdfunding and REITs. The course will discuss selected partnership and corporate issues of alternative investment vehicles. The course will focus on China and will provide relevant comparisons on alternative investment in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4259V", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in alternative investment from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The topics that will be covered include private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, crowdfunding and REITs. The course will discuss selected partnership and corporate issues of alternative investment vehicles. The course will focus on China and will provide relevant comparisons on alternative investment in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4260V", "title": "Chinese Commercial Law", "description": "This course will introduce students to the fundamental legal concepts and principles relating to Chinese commercial law. Topics to be covered include: basic principles of PRC civil and commercial law, contracts, business associations and investment vehicles, secured transaction, negotiable instruments, taxation and dispute resolution. It will highlight key legal considerations in carrying out commercial transactions in China. Where applicable, the course will provide relevant comparisons with similar laws in other jurisdictions such as the U.S., the U.K. and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4261V", "title": "Employment Law & Migrant Workers Clinic", "description": "Taken concurrently with \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d but with an emphasis on experiential learning, this module offers students the opportunity to explore the legal issues affecting migrant workers, both in the classroom and through externships and case work. Students will spend most of their time outside of class, gaining practical experience by first interning at the Ministry of Manpower over the holidays and then, during the semester, volunteering an average of 10 hours weekly with either Justice Without Borders (JWB) or the NUS-HOME Theft Project (\u201cTheft Project\u201d). In class, using peer learning, including roundtable case review, students will hone their legal skills while examining the legal framework governing Singapore\u2019s foreign workers. Analysing their externship experiences, students will explore the relationship between law on the books and law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4263V", "title": "Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy", "description": "This module examines in interaction between IPRs and competition policy\nfrom two broad perspectives: the endogenous operation of competition policy\nfrom within IPR frameworks (copyright, designs, trade marks and patents),\nand the exogenous limitations placed by competition law rules on an IP\nholder\u2019s freedom to exploit his IPRs. Students enrolled in this module are\nexpected to have completed a basic intellectual property module \u2013 an\nunderstanding of what IPRs protect, the nature of the exclusive rights they\nconfer and how they may be exploited will be presumed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4267V", "title": "Architecting Deals: A Framework of Private Orderings", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamentals of how lawyers \"architect\" deals. It is taught in two parts. \nThe first examines the unique role of the transactional lawyer and asks the questions: What is a \"deal\"? What do transactional or \"deal\" lawyers do? What is the perceived \u201cvalue\u201d of what transactional lawyers do? How can lawyers successfully design and structure a transaction? \nThe second explores in detail the elements of a theory or framework of \u201cprivate orderings\u201d. The framework covers the economic and business considerations that drive the analysis of which legal principles should apply and how risks and benefits are allocated between the parties. The course explores how the framework of private orderings can apply to guide the assessment of transactions and the choice of contracting constructs and regimes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4268", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4268V", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4269", "title": "Privacy and Intellectual Property", "description": "Privacy may in some cases conflict with intellectual property but in other cases the two may go hand in hand and in addition other rights in personal information may further blur and complexity the boundaries. This module will explore the relationships between privacy, intellectual property and other rights in personal information in a range of contexts across different jurisdictions in an effort to explain and evaluate the current legal position, the various debates and proposals for improvements in the law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4270", "title": "International Human Rights of Women", "description": "The course examines the international legal protection of women\u2019s human rights within a framework of international law and feminist legal theories. The course will focus upon the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 to which Singapore became a party in 1995 and the work of the CEDAW Committee in monitoring and implementing the Convention. The impact of certain conceptual assumptions within international law, and human rights law in particular, that militates against the Adequate protection of women's rights will be considered. After an examination of the general framework, more detailed attention will be given to certain topics including health and reproductive rights, women\u2019s right to education violence against women, including in armed conflict, political participation and trafficking. The course will finally consider the question of whether international human rights law is an appropriate vehicle for the furtherance of women's interests."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4271", "title": "Law and Policy", "description": "This course explores and contrasts the different methodologies inherent in the disciplinary approaches of legal and policy analysis. What are the biases and assumptions in each method of analysis? How does each method view the other? How is each approach relevant to the other in different practical situations, e.g. in legal advice, court arguments and judgments and in government policy formulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4272", "title": "International Financial System: Law and Practice", "description": "In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008, the visibility of finance and financial regulation has increased dramatically. This subject will provide an overview of the global financial system and international efforts to build\nstructures to support its proper functioning. Taking an integrative approach, the subject will look at the evolution of the global financial system, its structure and regulation. In doing so, the subject will analyse financial crises, especially\nthe GFC, and responses thereto, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The approach will be international and comparative, with a focus on major jurisdictions in the global financial system, and will not focus on any single jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4273", "title": "European & International Competition Law", "description": "The course deals on a comparative legal basis (US-, EU and Swiss law) with problems related to:\nI. How to coordinate economic activities?\nII. Implementation of a competition system\n1) Competition? Private restrictions to competition and what states can do against it?\n2) The substantive EU- and Swiss-provisions\n\u2013 against agreements restricting competition and abuse of market power\n\u2013 on merger control\n\u2013 on sanctions and leniency programs\n\u2013 Discussion of leading cases\n3) State aids; public and private enforcement\nIII. Correcting the competition system\nPlanned sectors, consumer protection, price controlling\nIV. Controversial questions, the \u201emore economic\napproach\u201c? Efficiency and individual freedom to compete? Global competition?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4274", "title": "Comparative GST Law & Policy", "description": "Worldwide, governments are increasingly relying on broad-based consumption taxes, such as the GSTs in Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia and the VAT in Europe, to raise revenue. This course will introduce students to theories of comparative tax law and consumption taxation and to key GST law and policy concepts. With these theoretical, conceptual and legal tool kits, we will then explore the complex but fascinating legal and policy issues relating to cross-border trade in goods and services (such as professionals providing services to clients across borders and global digital trade), financial services and real property transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4275", "title": "International Institutional Law", "description": "International organizations play an increasingly important role in the international community. While the state continues to be the supreme form of political organization, international organizations, such as the UN, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the ASEAN, the EU and NATO, are indispensable to cope with globalization and increasing interdependence. The main objective of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental rules of international institutional law \u2013 that is the body of rules governing the legal status, structure and functioning of international organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4276", "title": "Advanced Contract Law", "description": "Advanced Contract Law invites students to examine some interesting and controversial topics from this foundational subject. Some topics will build on what students already know in their first-year/basic contract law course (e.g. how does contract law deal with change of circumstances?), some will cover new ground (e.g. the role of good faith in contract law). You will be able to write a paper on a topic of particular interest to you. The course also complements the module Advanced Tort Law and Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4277V", "title": "Medical Law and Ethics", "description": "This module provides the tools necessary for students to develop and reflect critically upon contemporary ethical and legal issues in medicine and the biosciences. Its substantive content includes and introduction to medical\nethics and medical law, health care in Singapore (presented comparatively with select jurisdictions, such as the UK and the USA), and professional regulation. The following key areas will be considered:\n- Professional regulation and good governance of medicines;\n- Genetics and reproductive technologies (including abortion and pre-natal harm);\n- Mental health;\n- Regulation of Human Biomedical Research;\n- Innovative treatment and clinical research;\n- Infectious Diseases;\n- Organ transplantation; and\n- End-of-life concerns (e.g. advance care plan and advance directive, discontinuation of life sustaining treatment, etc.)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4278V", "title": "Trade and Investment Law in the Asia-Pacific", "description": "Alongside the European Union the Asia-Pacific is becoming the central arena for trade and investment and its contestation within the world today. This module examines the global, regional and bilateral frameworks governing trade, investment, competition and migration across this region. It has three components. The first looks at how different organisations and regimes \u2013 the WTO, ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Agreements, BITS, NAFTA and Closer Economic Relations \u2013 interact to govern the region and the attempts to reform this, most notably through the TransPacific Partnership Process. The second looks at the detailed laws and processes governing trade in goods and services and investment. The final section looks at a number of further key policies: intellectual property, competition, the professions, and migration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4279V", "title": "Access to Justice", "description": "This module examines the conceptual foundation of access to justice and the practical challenges it raises in formal systems of dispute resolution. Using a Research Seminar structure, the module integrates academic analysis with experiential learning by providing students with opportunities to produce and critique original research on themes emerging from student internships and pro bono experiences."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4280V", "title": "Crime and Companies", "description": "Companies are both the victims of and vehicles for crime. This module examines both aspects. The first aspect covers crimes against the company by management \u2013 criminal breach of trust, dishonest misappropriation of property, breaches of fiduciary duty, misuse of corporate information. The second aspect will deal with using companies as vehicles for crime \u2013 cheating, money-laundering. Corruption cuts across both aspects. The statutes covered will be the Companies Act; Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits Act); Penal Code; and Prevention of Corruption Act. Students must have a firm grounding in both Criminal Law and Company Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4281V", "title": "Civil Procedure", "description": "This module acquaints the students with the laws and principles relating to the civil litigation process. The three distinct stages, namely, pre-commencement of action, pre-trial and post-trial are discussed in detail. The overriding aims of the civil justice system will also be deliberated. This will enable the students to better understand and appreciate the rationale of the application of the provisions of the rules of court. In this regard, the students will be able to make a case on behalf of their clients or against their opponents when the perennial issue of non-compliance with procedural rules takes centre stage. This module is designed to prepare the students to practise law in Singapore. Hence, the focus will primarily be on the Singapore Rules of Court and the decisions from the Singapore courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4282V", "title": "Resolution of Transnational Commercial Disputes", "description": "The primary focus of this module is on the variety of commercial dispute resolution processes available to contracting parties and the essential principles and issues pertinent to these different processes. The overriding aims are to acquaint the students with the characteristics of each of these processes, to highlight the governing principles and to discuss the perennial and emerging issues relating to this aspect of the law. Students who have undertaken this module will be able to consider the plethora of options available to them when drafting dispute resolution clauses and/or providing legal advice and representation when a dispute has arisen."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4283V", "title": "Artificial Intelligence, Information Science & Law", "description": "Advancements in computer science have made it possible to deploy information technology to address legal problems. Improved legal searches, fraud detection, electronic discovery, digital rights management, and automated takedowns are only the beginning. We are beginning to see natural language processing, machine learning and data mining technologies deployed in contract formation, electronic surveillance, autonomous machines and even decision making. This course examines the basis behind these technologies, deploys them in basic scenarios, studies the reasons for their acceptance or rejection, and analyses them for their benefits, limitations and dangers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4284", "title": "Confucianism and Law", "description": "This course is about the relevance of Confucianism to law, which includes three eras, namely: (1) Confucian legal theory and Confucian legal tradition; (2) the relevance of Confucianism to different aspects of national legal issues in contemporary East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam), such as human rights, rule of law, democracy, constitutional review, mediation, and family law; and (3) the relevance of Confucianism to international law. It will be of interest to those interested in Confucian legal tradition, customary law, Asian law, law and culture, legal theory, and legal pluralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4285V", "title": "International Dispute Settlement", "description": "This seminar will explore key legal questions related to international dispute settlement with a view to providing a broad overview of the field with respect to State-to-State, Investor-State, and commercial disputes. This course will include a discussion of the various types of international disputes and settlement mechanisms available for their resolution. It will explore the law pertaining to dispute settlement before the ICJ, WTO, ITLOS, as well as international arbitration, both Investor-State arbitration and commercial arbitration. The course will compare these different legal processes on issues such as jurisdiction, provisional remedies/measures, equal treatment, evidence, and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4286V", "title": "Transnational Terrorism and International Law", "description": "While terrorism is not a new phenomenon, the sheer scale and transnational nature of that practice in recent years have challenged some of the core tenets of international law. This seminar investigates the role that international law can play, along with its shortcomings, in suppressing and preventing terrorism. It examines the manner in which terrorism and counterterrorism laws and policies have affected the scope and application of diverse international legal regimes including UN collective security, inter-State use of force, the law of international responsibility, international human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4287V", "title": "ASEAN Law and Policy", "description": "This course examines ASEAN\u2019s ongoing metamorphosis into a rules-based, tri-pillared (political-security, economic, and socio-cultural) Community pursuant to the mandate of the 2007 ASEAN Charter. It deals primarily with Law but is also attentive to the Non Law and Quasi Law aspects inherent in ASEAN\u2019s character as an international actor and regional organisation; its purposes and principles; and its operational modalities, processes, and institutions. \n \nStudents will grasp the complexities of ASEAN\u2019s conversion to the rule of law and rule of institutions within the context of international law and its frameworks; national competences and jurisdiction; and regional relations and realpolitik."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4288V", "title": "Business, International Commerce and the European Union", "description": "This module studies European Union business regulation and how this affects both the EU and other markets. It has three components. The first looks at the types of business regulation deployed. It will include legislative harmonisation,\nprivate standardisation, mutual recognition and regulatory agencies. The second looks at the regulation of key industrial and service sectors, such as food, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, energy chemicals or financial services. The third looks at how EU business regulation interacts with non EU markets, through studying its commercial policy, free trade agreements and extraterritorial jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4289V", "title": "The Evolution of International Arbitration", "description": "The module has three distinctive features. First, it compares international commercial arbitration (ICA) international investment arbitration (ISA). Second, it focuses on the evolution of arbitration, in particular, on the development of the procedures and substantive law that have gradually enabled arbitration to become a meaningfully autonomous legal system. Third, it surveys a variety of explanations for why the arbitral order has evolved as it has \u2013 into a more \u201cjudicial-like\u201d legal order \u2013 focusing on the role of arbitral centres, state regulatory competition, and the reasoning of tribunals in their awards."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4290V", "title": "Legal Research: Method & Design", "description": "The seminar is designed to prepare students to undertake original, primary research in law. Major topics and questions to be covered include:\n- how to write a good literature review and prospectus;\n- why one must have a method, or, how are \u201cmethods\u201d and\n\u201cdata collection\u201d related?;\n- what is research design?;\n- how to avoid, or manage, the problem of \u201cselection bias.\u201d\n\nA major component of the seminar, students will assess a variety of published papers, as well as research projects presented by the faculty."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4291", "title": "Legal Pluralism and Global Law", "description": "The class will survey approaches to understanding legal pluralism in a range of settings, focusing on the various ways in which autonomous normative orders, including systems of law, interact with one another. Topics include: how \u201coutsider\u201d groups (e.g., Mayan Indians in Mexico, Roma-Gypsy communities, merchant guilds) govern themselves while resisting submission to the state law; the tensions between custom, state law, and human rights in Asia after the colonialist period; and the ways in which the pluralist structure of international treaty law and organization are transforming law and courts at the national level."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4291V", "title": "Legal Pluralism and Global Law", "description": "The class will survey approaches to understanding legal pluralism in a range of settings, focusing on the various ways in which autonomous normative orders, including systems of law, interact with one another. Topics include: how \u201coutsider\u201d groups (e.g., Mayan Indians in Mexico, Roma-Gypsy communities, merchant guilds) govern themselves while resisting submission to the state law; the tensions between custom, state law, and human rights in Asia after the colonialist period; and the ways in which the pluralist structure of international treaty law and organization are transforming law and courts at the national level."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4292V", "title": "State Responsibility: Theory and Practice", "description": "The law governing the responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts is absolutely central in public international law and cuts across various sub-fields of that discipline. This seminar investigates the fundamental tenets of the law of State responsibility, both from theoretical and practical standpoints, while tracing some of its historical roots. More broadly, the seminar will provide\nan overview of different doctrines of State responsibility and different theories and approaches to liability under international law. More importantly, the later sessions of the seminar will engage critically with the role that the law\nof State responsibility can play in specific areas."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4295", "title": "Conflict of Laws in Int\u2019l Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on the instances in which resort to conflict of laws is necessary in the international arbitration context. The objective of this course is to allow participants to realise on how many occasions both State courts and arbitrators will need to report a conflict of laws analysis despite the claim that conflict of laws issues are not relevant in the international commercial arbitration context. Participants will first be taught to identify what conflict of laws rules may apply and will then be given hypothetical cases and will be asked to critically examine whether a solution can be found that does not require a conflict of laws approach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4296", "title": "Imitation, Innovation and Intellectual Property", "description": "Does copying always harm creativity? Can innovation thrive in the face of imitiation? These questions are at the heart of intellectual property theory and doctrine. This course explores these issues via a close look at a range of unusual creative industries, including fashion, cuisine, sports, comedy, and tattoos, as well as more traditional intellectual property topics, such as music and film."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4297", "title": "Practice of Corporate Finance and the Law", "description": "Modern corporations draw funding to finance their consumption and investment needs from a variety of sources on the basis of extensive cost- benefit considerations. These include a multitude of factors, such as legal considerations, the quantity of funding required and cost of capital depending on its source, and impact on shareholders and management etc. Corporations may also obtain finance by either levering existing assets or resorting to unsecured bank lending or bond issues. For the biggest corporations the most important source of finance tends to be the capital markets. These normally comprise the debt and equity markets through which public companies can offer securities to investors or to transfer the control of the company to new owners in the context of an agreed takeover, a hostile take-over bid, or of a private equity transaction.\nThis course aims to develop a critical understanding of the subject matter through the combined study of finance theory, corporate law, capital market regulation and the corporate market dynamics, with a special focus on the different stakeholders involved in corporate finance. The module will focus on critical corporate finance issues such as: the use of debt and equity; why merge or acquire a business; core considerations of the process; purchase sale agreements and contractual governance; the role of the board of directors in an acquisition/financing transaction; the permissibility and regulation of takeover defenses in the UK, the US and the EU. It will also discuss cross-border IPOS, the problem of market abuse, theory and practice of corporate takeovers and their regulation, and issues pertinent to private equity transactions, as well practical issues relating to structuring corporate acquisition deals and attendant legal documentation. NB: While there is inevitably reference to scores of economic concepts and some finance readings the course is specifically addressed to law students it is non-mathematical."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4298", "title": "International Finance", "description": "This is the foundation course in international finance. It is meant for all who want to gain a better understanding of what is happening and concerns primarily (a) the way money is recycled through the banking system or the\ncapital market, (b) the products and conduct of the banking, securities and investment industry in this recycling activity, (c) the risks that are taken in the financial services industry (primarily by commercial and investment banks in their different functions) and the tools of risk management, (d) the operation of the financial markets and their infrastructure, (e) the type of regulation of commercial banks and of the intermediaries and issuers in the capital markets, and (f) the objectives, role, shape and effectiveness of this regulation. In this connection, the course will also deal with the smooth operation of payment systems.\n\nFinancial risk and its management is an important theme and the major concern in the course. What can commercial or investment banks and financial regulation achieve in this regard, how is risk management structured, and what academic or other (political) models are used in this connection, how effective are they, e.g. in the capital adequacy and liquidity requirements, and what can or must governments and/or central banks or other regulators do when all fails and financial crises occur? From a legal point of view, an important aspect is the strong public policy undercurrents in the applicable law.\n\nThat is obvious in regulation but may also impact on private law. Another important issuer is that the law applicable to financial products and their regulation is ever more transnationalised and expressed at the international level, especially in terms of transactional and payment finality, financial stability, and even banking resolution facilities or international safety nets. In these circumstances, choice of national laws in the older private international law approach often mean little and it will be discussed how they may fall seriously short especially in in matters of regulatory oversight and bankruptcy situations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4299", "title": "Advanced Issues in the Law & Practice of Int\u2019l Arbitration", "description": "This intensive course is designed for students and practitioners already acquainted with the fundamentals of international arbitration, and may be particularly useful for those who may have an inclination to specialize in the practice or study of international dispute resolution. Focus will be placed on topics of practical and academic interest in all aspects of the international arbitration process, looking in particular to recent trends and evolutions in the field of international dispute settlement.\nThrough seminar discussions, student presentations and moot court sessions, this course will expose students to contemporary controversies in the field of international commercial and investment arbitration. An international approach will be adopted in relation to the subjects considered: students can expect to review a substantial amount of comparative law sources, including academic commentaries and jurisprudence from France, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as public international law sources and international arbitral practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4300", "title": "Copyright in the Internet Age", "description": "This course will consider the particular and unique issues\nthat the ubiquitous use of the internet for commerce,\neducation and communication has created for copyright\ncreators and users. In particular, it will address the\nincreasingly visual medium of social media and how user\npractices are challenging the boundaries of copyright law. It\nwill consider copyright infringement, fair dealing, personal\nand professional uses and the interaction between\ncopyright, contract and consent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4301", "title": "Topics in Constitutional Law: Socio-Economic Rights", "description": "The course provides a grounding in the international and theoretical background to the constitutional protection of social rights; the substantive approach taken by courts to various social rights, and the interaction between social rights in various claims to equality and protection on the part of vulnerable groups. The topics covered in the class are thus:\n(1) theoretical debates on the nature of social rights, and the theoretical underpinnings for their recognition qua rights;\n(2) international human rights law instruments recognising social rights, and international human rights understandings of such rights;\n(3) constitutional debates about the capacity and legitimacy of courts enforcing such rights, and particular debates over concepts such as (a) weak-versus strong-form review, and (b) notions of a \u2018minimum core\u2019 to social rights; and\n(4) the actual interpretation of enforcement of key social rights by courts, with a particular focus on the right to housing, health care, water, food and social welfare and social security\n(5) questions of gender, poverty and social rights\n(6) the rights of children in relation to social rights\n(7) the rights of non-citizens"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4302", "title": "Int'l Regulation of Finance & Investment Markets", "description": "This course aims to introduce to students topical and current issues of interest in the regulation of international financial markets, with a focus on global capital and investment markets. The regulation of investment firms and funds reached a new high with mainly European leadership in regulatory standards and many of these are influential globally. We aim to cover theoretical foundations in regulation, so that students can grasp the law and economic theories and public policy underpinnings of financial regulation, and specific topics that relate to securities and investment regulation. The approach to specific topics would be grounded in theoretical and policy understanding, in order to appreciate the high key highlights of regulatory duties, compliance implications and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4302V", "title": "Int'l Regulation of Finance & Investment Markets", "description": "This course aims to introduce to students topical and current issues of interest in the regulation of international financial markets, with a focus on global capital and investment markets. The regulation of investment firms and funds reached a new high with mainly European leadership in regulatory standards and many of these are influential globally. We aim to cover theoretical foundations in regulation, so that students can grasp the law and economic theories and public policy underpinnings of financial regulation, and specific topics that relate to securities and investment regulation. The approach to specific topics would be grounded in theoretical and policy understanding, in order to appreciate the high key highlights of regulatory duties, compliance implications and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4303", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This course explores the complex interactions between\nliterature and the law. Even though the two disciplines may\nseem distinct, both law and literature are products of\nlanguage and have overlapped in significant and\ninteresting ways in history. Why do legal themes recur in\nfiction, and what kinds of literary structures underpin legal\nargumentation? How do novelists and playwrights imagine\nthe law, and how do lawyers and judges interpret literary\nworks? Could literature have legal subtexts, and could\nlegal documents be re-interpreted as literary texts? We will\nthink through these questions by juxtaposing fiction,\ndrama, legal cases, and critical theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4303V", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This is an interdisciplinary course that invites students to inhabit the field of law and literature by engaging closely with a key topic. Our seminar begins with a broad introduction to the field and related interdisciplinary scholarship, before delving into the focal thematic through close readings of legal and literary texts. This year, we address the question of authorship and its relationship with the law of copyright and intellectual property. Students would become familiar with a constellation of theoretical and historical perspectives from which to rethink our received understandings of authorship, including copyright\u2019s treatment of books, publishers, and authors."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4304", "title": "Global Comparative Constitutional Law", "description": "This module will explore the principal problems for the\ntheory and practice of comparative constitutional law,\ngenerally and in the globalizing conditions of the early 21st\ncentury. In doing so, it will range widely over countries and\nconstitutional systems and examine the challenges\npresented by differences in context and culture. The\nconclusions about methodology in the early classes will be\ntested in later ones by reference to a series of topical\nsubstantive issues in constitutional law in Asia and\nelsewhere, ranging from institutional design to rights\nprotection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4305", "title": "IP and Human Rights", "description": "This course anlayzes connections between human rights and intellectual property. While these bodies of law developed on separate tracks, the relationship between them has now captured the attention of government officials, judges, civil society groups, legal scholars and international agencies, including the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.\nThe course will be of interest to those interested in intellectual property and/or human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4306", "title": "Chinese Banking Law", "description": "This course focuses on laws governing banks and the other financial intermediaries in China, reflecting the game between regulation and financial innovation. It will be divided into three parts: the first and also the most the essential one will cover the legal requirements of operation and business of traditional commercial banks; the second one will go through the corporate governance of banks, problem bank resolution and currency issues; the last part will discuss the legal issues of new financial products and non-bank financial institutions. This course focuses on the emerging issues in China of that subject, and also pay particular attention to recent legislative reform efforts in China on banking and non-bank financial institutions and will consider both the developments and innovation in scholarship and teaching of financial law since 2008."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4306V", "title": "Chinese Banking Law", "description": "This course focuses on laws governing banks and the other financial intermediaries in China, reflecting the game between regulation and financial innovation. It will be divided into three parts: the first and also the most the essential one will cover the legal requirements of operation and business of traditional commercial banks; the second one will go through the corporate governance of banks, problem bank resolution and currency issues; the last part will discuss the legal issues of new financial products and non-bank financial institutions. This course focuses on the emerging issues in China of that subject, and also pay particular attention to recent legislative reform efforts in China on banking and non-bank financial institutions and will consider both the developments and innovation in scholarship and teaching of financial law since 2008."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4307", "title": "EU Maritime Law", "description": "The European Union plays an increasing role in the\nregulation of international shipping and any shipping\ncompany wishing to do business in Europe will have to\ntake this into consideration. The module will take on\nvarious aspects of this regulation and will place the EU\nrules in the context of international maritime law. To\nensure a common basis for understanding the EU maritime\nlaw, the basic structure and principles of the EU and EU\nlaw will be explained at the outset."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4308V", "title": "Behavioural Economics, Law & Regulation", "description": "Law is a behavioural system. Most law seeks to regulate, incentivize and nudge people to behave in some ways and not in others \u2013 it seeks to shape human behavior. Traditional economic analysis of law is committed to the assumption that people are fully rational, but empirical evidence suggests that people very often exhibit bounded rationality, bounded self-interest, and bounded willpower. This course about behavioural law and economics, with an emphasis on regulation, looks at the implications of actual, not hypothesized, human behaviour for the law. It considers, in particular, how using the mildest forms of interventions, law can steer people\u2019s choices in welfarepromoting\ndirections."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4309", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4309V", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4310V", "title": "International Organisations in International Law", "description": "This seminar-style module critically examines the impact of international organisations on the formal structures of international law. Do international organisations create and enforce international law? What type of norm-creating activity takes place inside and across international organisations? Does the reality of global governance give rise to concerns about legitimacy or accountability? What are the legal and policy responses to such concerns? Case studies used will range from traditional institutions such as the UN and its specialised agencies, to newer institutions such as the Financial Action Task Force and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4311", "title": "Islamic Law and the Family", "description": "This course will offer an historical and comparative focus on Islamic family law. It will begin by providing a basic overview of Islamic law generally and then turn to examine Islamic family law specifically. It will then cover major topics that arise in Islamic family law under the classical Islamic legal tradition. It will conclude by exploring how many of those issues arise in some modern contexts, as Islamic family law is applied both inside and outside of the Muslim world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4312V", "title": "The Law of Global Governance", "description": "The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of new forms of international organizations (e.g. Basel Committee) alongside traditional organizations (e.g. WTO). These new organizations challenge the traditional premises of international law. Moreover, international organizations increasingly issue rules that impact people around the world, yet they largely operate within a legal void and go unchecked. In view of these challenges, a new legal school of thought is emerging that seeks to set more legal constraints and that introduces institutional reforms, such as the growing inclusion of Asian countries in international organizations. We will explore these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4313", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4313V", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": "Recent years have witnessed more state-to-state and investor-state disputes, with a substantial increase in resources spent on binding arbitration. Mediation and conciliation are rarely attempted and more rarely successful. This course introduces the student to methods of mediation and conciliation on the international law plane, and surveys existing institutional regimes (ie, ICSID,\nPCA, SIAC). The focus will then turn to identification and critical analysis of the special legal and policy obstacles to voluntary dispute settlement by states (including SOEs), as well as countervailing incentives. The scope is\ninternational, with some readings devoted to Asia. Students will study and critique precedents, and conduct basic mediation/conciliation exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4314V", "title": "Private Equity and Venture Capital: Law and Practice", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in private equity and venture capital from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The topics that will be covered explore the laws and practices relating to the whole cycle of the venture capital and private equity, including fundraising, investments, exits, foreign investments and regulation. The course will also discuss equity crowdfunding which is an important emerging method of equity financing. Certain topics of this course will provide relevant comparisons with private equity and venture capital in China, Singapore and the U.S. It will be of interest to legal professionals in the private equity and venture capital sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4316V", "title": "Restitution of Unjust Enrichment", "description": "This course is about the law of restitution for unjust enrichment. In particular, it is concerned with when a defendant may be compelled to make restitution to a claimant, because the defendant has been unjustly enriched at the claimant\u2019s expense. It does not cover all of the law relating to gain-based remedies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4317V", "title": "International Arbitration in Asian Centres", "description": "This course will give the students an in-depth look at how cases proceed under the SIAC, HKIAC and MCIA rules, with some comparative coverage of the CIETAC and KLRCA rules. Highlighted will be the salient features of these arbitral institutional rules including the introduction of cutting edge procedures such as the emergency arbitrator and expedited arbitration procedures and consolidation/joinder. The course will also provide a comparative analysis of the arbitral legislative framework in Singapore, Hong Kong and India and offer an in-depth analysis, with case studies, of the role of the courts in Singapore, Hong Kong and India in dealing with specific issues such as challenges to tribunal jurisdiction, enforcement and setting aside of awards. Finally, the course will also look at the peculiar relationship between arbitration and mediation in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4318V", "title": "Public Health Law and Regulation", "description": "This course provides an introduction to important topics in public health law and regulation. It explores the use of law as an important tool in protecting the public\u2019s health, responding to health risks and implementing strategies to promote and improve public health. The course reviews the nature and sources of public health law, and regulatory strategies that law can deploy to protect and promote public health. It considers these roles in selected areas within the field: for example, acute public health threats like SARS and pandemic influenza, tobacco control, serious sexually transmitted diseases, and non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4319V", "title": "Current Problems in International Law", "description": "This course examines current problems in international law relating, for instance, to the use of force, human rights, international environmental law and foreign investment law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4320", "title": "International Space Law", "description": "Globally, space-derived products and services combine assets and annual revenues in excess of USD350 billion. The year-on-year growth of the space economy is 9%, three times that of the global economy. This course discusses the international law regulating the use of, and activities in, outer space. It will examine issues such as State responsibility, liability for damage, and environmental protection. It will then debate the law relating to various space sectors such as telecommunications, navigation, military and dual use, resource management, and human spaceflight."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4320V", "title": "International Space Law", "description": "Globally, space-derived products and services combine assets and annual revenues in excess of USD350 billion. The year-on-year growth of the space economy is 9%, three times that of the global economy. This course discusses the international law regulating the use of, and activities in, outer space. It will examine issues such as State responsibility, liability for damage, and environmental protection. It will then debate the law relating to various space sectors such as telecommunications, navigation, military and dual use, resource management, and human spaceflight."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4321", "title": "Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions", "description": "This course applies economic concepts to the practice of structuring business transactions. The materials consist of case studies of actual transactions. We will use those case studies to analyze the economics challenges that parties to a deal must address, and to analyse the mechanisms the parties use to address those challenges. The case studies will cover a selection from bond financings, acquisitions, movie financings, product licenses, biotech alliances, venture capital financings, cross-border joint ventures, private equity investments, corporate reorganizations, and more."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4322", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": "Trade Finance Law considers the different legal structures used to effect payment under, and disincentives breaches of, international agreements for the supply of goods and services. The course analyses and compares documentary and standby letters of credit, international drafts and forfaiting, performance bonds and first demand guarantees and export credit guarantees. Key topics will include the structure, juridical nature and obligational content of the aforementioned instruments; the nature of the harmonised regimes and their interaction with domestic law; the principle of strict compliance and its relaxation; documentary and non-documentary forms of recourse; the autonomy principle and its exceptions; and the conflict of laws principles applicable to autonomous payment undertakings. The course should be of interest to students who have already studied other components of international trade and/or who have an interest in international banking operations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4322V", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4323", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \n\nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4323V", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4324", "title": "Comparative Trade Mark Law", "description": "This module takes a comparative approach to exploring what is meant by a trade mark, the messages that trade marks communicate and the roles they perform. These are important enquiries because questions of what trade marks do and ought to do have a direct impact on the contours of the law. A major theme will be the relationship between trade marks and brands: to what extent should trade mark law be concerned with protecting brand value? What might a focus on brand value mean for competitors? Is a focus on brand value compatible with the logics of trade mark registration? These questions will be explored by reference to the laws of multiple jurisdictions, most significantly Australia, the EU, Singapore and the USA."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4325", "title": "The Int'l Litigation & Procedure of State Disputes", "description": "Taught by two public international law practitioners, this course invites participants to develop a more practical and strategic understanding of how a State deals with the various types of disputes it may face. Topics covered includes litigation and procedural considerations in inter-State, investor-State, human rights and international criminal disputes, and cross-cutting considerations like national security privileges, immunities, conflicts of public international law. The course will conclude with a seminar where senior practitioners of public international law share their views and insights on acting as a Government advisor and as an advocate."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4326", "title": "Administrative Justice: Perspectives from the U.S.", "description": "An introduction to the public law system of the United States, with an emphasis on structural issues and governmental processes, especially the creation of regulations and the political and judicial controls over this important activity. Changes resulting from the Trump administration will be an important element."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4327V", "title": "Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practitioner\u2019s Perspective", "description": "This course will provide a practitioner's perspective on the bread and butter of any transactional practice: mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of non-listed, private companies. It will deal with the structuring of an M&A transaction (the why) and the plain vanilla aspects of documentation (the why and how of basic drafting). \n\nMany new graduates seem to be unable to see the wood for the trees. They arrive as trainees, with a reasonable grounding in the law, but an inability to apply it to real life situations. The practicalities elude them and they seem to want to follow templates without much understanding of the transaction. This course will attempt to give them a working knowledge of the issues to be considered in structuring a transaction. It will also cover the main features of standard documentation (bearing in mind that there is a discernible industry-standard set of documentation in common law countries) to explain why documents are drafted the way they are."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4328", "title": "Sports Law & Arbitration", "description": "Sports Law is a very broad field, encompassing several areas of law unique to the sporting industry, as well as several traditional areas of law applied to the field of sport.This course will focus on the existing and evolving private and public international sports law systems, (where appropriate) the national sports law of several jurisdictions (including Australia, USA, UK and to a lesser extent, Singapore) and provide avenues of multi-jurisdictional comparative analysis. The social, political, commercial and economic influences on the development, content and structure of sports law globally will also be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4329", "title": "Cross-Border Litigation", "description": "The focus of this course is on the litigation of cross-border disputes in the fields of tort, contract, consumer protection and intellectual property including in the online context. The subject will examine the key doctrinal principles and scholarly debates in the area as well as problems commonly encountered in practice. Material will be drawn from leading common law jurisdictions, including Singapore, Australia, England, Hong Kong and Canada. The course is recommended for those with an interest in international dispute resolution, conflict of laws, litigation or international commerce."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4330", "title": "Advanced Trusts Law", "description": "The first part of the course explores how trusts are used to manage family wealth, with emphasis on developments in the \u2018offshore world\u2019. We will discuss how trusts may be used to protect assets, how trustees\u2019 discretions may be controlled, the rights of objects of trusts, and purpose trusts. The second part concerns trusts in commercial transactions. We will explore creditor trusts, constructive trusts, bonds and intermediated holding of securities, equitable assignments and equitable charges. By comparing commercial trusts with private trusts, we will also ask whether there are any significant contextual differences in relation to the trust device."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4331", "title": "The Rule of Law", "description": "This course explores the ideal of the rule of law: its value, limitations, costs, and relationship with distinct social aspirations. The teaching is based on leading texts, comparative case law, and video documentaries. The course is divided into nine modules: (1) the meaning and value of the rule of law, (2) emergencies, (3) the relationship(s) between the rule of law, the obligation to obey the law, and the rule of good law, (4) the modern welfare state, (5) criminal law vs. private law, (6) international law, (7) corporations and liberal democracy, (8) colonialism and developmental transitions, and (9) defences for disobedience."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4332", "title": "Fair Use in Theory and Practice", "description": "The copyright laws of Singapore and the United have in common a general, flexible, open exception designated by the term \u201cfair use.\u201d During the last 25 years, the U.S has had extensive experience with this concept, both in the courts and in fields of practice as diverse as art, filmmaking, education, technology, and journalism. Not only have judicial opinions about fair used cohered into a \u201cunified field theory\u201d of the doctrine, but awareness of its potential applications has increased dramatically among members of relevant communities. The last development has been attributable in part to the development of community-specific Codes of Best Practices for the responsible application of fair use \u2013 an effort in which the instructor for this module has been active. The course will explore the legal background of fair use, its doctrinal evolution over the past 25 years, and a variety of practical situations in which it has been successful employed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4333", "title": "International Criminal Law Clinic", "description": "This clinical course introduces students to the law, practice, and implementation of international criminal law. Students will learn and examine the content and application of substantive and procedural law on core international crimes\u2014war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression\u2014that attract individual criminal responsibility under international law. As part of the assessment, students will work on research projects in collaboration with the ICRC. Students will be exposed to \u2018real world\u2019 problems and learn the legal knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking expected of those working in this field. This course will require substantial student initiative, participation and collaboration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4333V", "title": "International Criminal Law Clinic", "description": "This clinical course introduces students to the law, practice, and implementation of international criminal law. Students will learn and examine the content and application of substantive and procedural law on core international crimes\u2014war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression\u2014that attract individual criminal responsibility under international law. As part of the assessment, students will work on research projects in collaboration with the ICRC. Students will be exposed to \u2018real world\u2019 problems and learn the legal knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking expected of those working in this field. This course will require substantial student initiative, participation and collaboration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4334", "title": "Law and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "This module aims to increase students\u2019 breadth of empirical knowledge and depth of theoretical understanding of issues of law, justice, and society. With urbanization and industrialization, modern societies have increasingly depended upon law to regulate the behaviour of their members and the activities of their institutions. It will explore issues in law and society in SE Asia, with an emphasis on how sexuality, ethnic and religious diversity are handled, and how justice is conceived; as well as\nissues in the Singaporean justice system, where other examples will be used to compare Singapore\u2019s unique approach to addressing justice and society issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4335V", "title": "Multinational Enterprises and International Law", "description": "This module examines the evolving regime for the regulation and protection of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in international law. Although MNEs remain creations of domestic law, the cross-border activities of MNEs increasingly come within the scope of instruments creating obligations and/or rights in international law. In assessing the challenges faced by states and MNEs alike with respect to such transnational regulation, the module takes a rounded and interdisciplinary view of the issues involved, addressing both the commercial and social dimensions of MNE action. In addition to considering the regulatory powers of individual states, developments under international instruments on human rights, labour conditions, finance, taxation and investment are addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4338V", "title": "Advanced Practicum in International Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the real-life practice of international commercial and treaty arbitration from beginning to end: from clause drafting/treaty jurisdiction, to arbitrator selection, to emergency proceedings, through the written and hearing phases, to award and enforcement strategy. Emphasis will be on primary materials: case law, statutes, institution rules, treaties, commentary, and \u201csoft law\u201d guidelines. Using complex factual scenarios, students will take part in strategy, drafting and advocacy exercises. On the commercial arbitration side, the focus will be on the ICC Court and SIAC; on the treaty side, ICSID and the PCA/UNCITRAL. Ethics issues will be front burner."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4339", "title": "Comparative Evidence in International Arbitration", "description": "This course considers the way that international adjudicators approach fact-finding and factual determinations. The course analyses essential policy questions as to the way legal systems should deal with evidence; considers comparative law perspectives; and aims to integrate these perspectives with practical consideration of the way documents and witnesses are dealt with in international arbitration. There is no greater divergence between legal families than that pertaining to the treatment of evidence. For international adjudication to meet the needs of participants from all legal families, a proper understanding of comparative approaches and the degree of convergence, is essential to arbitrators and practitioners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4340", "title": "International Refugee Law", "description": "One of the most pressing current issues of international concern is the highest ever level of global displacement, with over twenty million refugees in the world. This course examines the international legal regime for the protection of refugees. With the 1951 Refugee Convention as its \u201cbackbone\u201d, the course focuses on the \u201crefugee\u201d definition, the exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, status determination procedures, the rights of recognised refugees and asylum-seekers, the non-refoulement principle, complementary protection, States\u2019 responsibility-sharing, responsibility-shifting and deterrence of asylum-seekers, the status of Palestinian refugees, UNHCR\u2019s supervisory responsibility, and regional protection systems (particularly the Common European Asylum System)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4340V", "title": "International Refugee Law", "description": "One of the most pressing current issues of international concern is the highest ever level of global displacement, with over twenty million refugees in the world. This course examines the international legal regime for the protection of refugees. With the 1951 Refugee Convention as its \u201cbackbone\u201d, the course focuses on the \u201crefugee\u201d definition, the exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, status determination procedures, the rights of recognised refugees and asylum-seekers, the non-refoulement principle, complementary protection, States\u2019 responsibility-sharing, responsibility-shifting and deterrence of asylum-seekers, the status of Palestinian refugees, UNHCR\u2019s supervisory responsibility, and regional protection systems (particularly the Common European Asylum System)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4341", "title": "The Law and Politics of Forced Migration", "description": "This course critically examines the relationship between law and politics in the international protection of the forcibly displaced, focusing on five groups of migrants, namely, refugees and asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, and climate-change and environmentally displaced persons. After assessing the protection gaps relating to these five groups, this course considers the more complex phenomena of mass influx and \u201cmixed migration,\u201d immigration detention (specifically of particularly vulnerable migrants), and durable solutions. The roles of regional and institutional organisations will also be studied. An assessed negotiation relating to a present-day forced migration crisis concludes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4341V", "title": "The Law and Politics of Forced Migration", "description": "This course critically examines the relationship between law and politics in the international protection of the forcibly displaced, focusing on five groups of migrants, namely, refugees and asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, and climate-change and environmentally displaced persons. After assessing the protection gaps relating to these five groups, this course considers the more complex phenomena of mass influx and \u201cmixed migration,\u201d immigration detention (specifically of particularly vulnerable migrants), and durable solutions. The roles of regional and institutional organisations will also be studied. An assessed negotiation relating to a present-day forced migration crisis concludes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4342", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I", "description": "This course will be useful for those who want to practise corporate or tax law.\n\nTopics covered:\n- the Singapore corporate tax, GST and stamp duty implications of (a) related party transactions; (b) restructurings and; (c) M&As\n- structuring techniques to increase tax efficiency in each of these situations\n- selected US corporate tax and Australian GST rules (since the tax consequences of a foreign country will have to be analysed)\n- how structuring strategies may be challenged with rules/proposed rules addressing treaty shopping, debt-equity and entity classification hybridity, and arbitrage opportunities involving the GST treatment of cross-border transations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4342V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I", "description": "This course will be useful for those who want to practise corporate or tax law.\n\nTopics covered:\n- the Singapore corporate tax, GST and stamp duty implications of (a) related party transactions; (b) restructurings and; (c) M&As\n- structuring techniques to increase tax efficiency in each of these situations\n- selected US corporate tax and Australian GST rules (since the tax consequences of a foreign country will have to be analysed)\n- how structuring strategies may be challenged with rules/proposed rules addressing treaty shopping, debt-equity and entity classification hybridity, and arbitrage opportunities involving the GST treatment of cross-border transations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4343", "title": "International Regulation of the Global Commons", "description": "The global commons comprises the high seas, the deep seabed, outer space, the airspace above the exclusive economic zone and the high seas, as well as Antarctica, an ice-covered continent, and the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean. Each of these areas are governed by international treaty regimes that were developed specifically for that area. This course will examine and compare the international regimes governing activities in the global commons. It will also examine the evolving law on the obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause harm to the environment of the global commons."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4343V", "title": "International Regulation of the Global Commons", "description": "The global commons comprises the high seas, the deep seabed, outer space, the airspace above the exclusive economic zone and the high seas, as well as Antarctica, an ice-covered continent, and the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean. Each of these areas are governed by international treaty regimes that were developed specifically for that area. This course will examine and compare the international regimes governing activities in the global commons. It will also examine the evolving law on the obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause harm to the environment of the global commons."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4344", "title": "Public and Private International Copyright Law", "description": "A detailed study of the public and private international law of copyright law focusing on legal responses to cross-border issues and conflicts among private parties and nation states. Topics to be covered include: ASEAN IP relations, connecting factors in private litigation, the major international copyright treaties, major themes in EU copyright jurisprudence, exhaustion of rights, exceptions and limitations, indigenous IP."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4344V", "title": "Public and Private International Copyright Law", "description": "A detailed study of the public and private international law of copyright law focusing on legal responses to cross-border issues and conflicts among private parties and nation states. Topics to be covered include: ASEAN IP relations, connecting factors in private litigation, the major international copyright treaties, major themes in EU copyright jurisprudence, exhaustion of rights, exceptions and limitations, indigenous IP."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4345", "title": "The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law", "description": "What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question\nfor ancient philosophers, in both the east and the west, for\nwhom philosophy was not only theory. It was a method\ndesigned to achieve both rigorous conceptual analysis and\na fulfilled human life. In this course we will explore several\nof the methods philosophers have proposed for leading a\nfulfilled life and consider some of the rich suggestions or\nimplications of these methods for leading a fulfilled life of the\nlaw, the life led by law students, lawyers, judges, and others\ninterested in administering, shaping, or living according to\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4345V", "title": "The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law", "description": "What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question\nfor ancient philosophers, in both the east and the west, for\nwhom philosophy was not only theory. It was a method\ndesigned to achieve both rigorous conceptual analysis and\na fulfilled human life. In this course we will explore several\nof the methods philosophers have proposed for leading a\nfulfilled life and consider some of the rich suggestions or\nimplications of these methods for leading a fulfilled life of the\nlaw, the life led by law students, lawyers, judges, and others\ninterested in administering, shaping, or living according to\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4346", "title": "Interim Measures in International Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on provisional and interim\nmeasures in the context of international commercial\narbitration, including emergency arbitrator (EA)\nproceedings. The course will address topics such as the\nnature and scope of provisional and interim relief, the\nauthority of arbitral tribunals (and limitations thereon) to\norder such relief, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts,\nchoice of law issues and the standards for granting interim\nmeasures, issues arising with respect to various categories\nof provisional relief, and judicial enforcement of interim\nmeasures ordered by arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4346V", "title": "Interim Measures in International Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on provisional and interim\nmeasures in the context of international commercial\narbitration, including emergency arbitrator (EA)\nproceedings. The course will address topics such as the\nnature and scope of provisional and interim relief, the\nauthority of arbitral tribunals (and limitations thereon) to\norder such relief, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts,\nchoice of law issues and the standards for granting interim\nmeasures, issues arising with respect to various categories\nof provisional relief, and judicial enforcement of interim\nmeasures ordered by arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4347", "title": "Art & Cultural Heritage Law", "description": "This course explores international and domestic legal issues and disputes pertaining to the creation, ownership, use, and preservation of works of art and objects of cultural heritage. Cultural objects exist within the larger realm of goods and services moving throughout the marketplace. This course addresses the specialized laws and legal interpretations pertaining to the rights and obligations of individuals, entities, and governments as they discover and interact with these objects, within their own jurisdictions and across national borders, in times of war and peace."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4347V", "title": "Art & Cultural Heritage Law", "description": "This course explores international and domestic legal issues and disputes pertaining to the creation, ownership, use, and preservation of works of art and objects of cultural heritage. Cultural objects exist within the larger realm of goods and services moving throughout the marketplace. This course addresses the specialized laws and legal interpretations pertaining to the rights and obligations of individuals, entities, and governments as they discover and interact with these objects, within their own jurisdictions and across national borders, in times of war and peace."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4348", "title": "Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The module aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives. Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore. It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history. Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.\n\nThe module explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system. It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions. It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions. The module considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4348V", "title": "Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The module aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives. Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore. It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history. Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.\n\nThe module explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system. It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions. It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions. The module considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4349", "title": "Energy Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces international arbitration\u2019s role in resolving energy disputes. Seminars will address both commercial and investment arbitration.The substantive content of national and international energy laws will be discussed together with the procedural specificities of energy disputes. The course will explore the political aspects of energy disputes, both domestic (resource sovereignty) and international (inter-state boundary disputes).\n\nParticipants will study the recent debates on the role of international arbitration vis-\u00e0-vis climate change and sustainable development.\n\nThe course incorporates practical exercises that will help participants interested in a career in international arbitration and public international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4349V", "title": "Energy Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces international arbitration\u2019s role in resolving energy disputes. Seminars will address both commercial and investment arbitration.The substantive content of national and international energy laws will be discussed together with the procedural specificities of energy disputes. The course will explore the political aspects of energy disputes, both domestic (resource sovereignty) and international (inter-state boundary disputes).\n\nParticipants will study the recent debates on the role of international arbitration vis-\u00e0-vis climate change and sustainable development.\n\nThe course incorporates practical exercises that will help participants interested in a career in international arbitration and public international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4350", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4350V", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4351", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law in East Asia", "description": "This module examines principal corporate law issues from a comparative perspective. As for jurisdictions, it primarily focuses on Japan and Korea in comparison with US and UK. This module is composed of 18 units, two units for each of the nine class dates. Beginning with the peculiar ownership structure of Japan and Korea and the nature of their agency problems, the module explores various legal strategies employed to address these challenges. The topics to be covered include: shareholder power, corporate organizational structure, independent directors, fiduciary duties, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and creditor protection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4351V", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law in East Asia", "description": "This module examines principal corporate law issues from a comparative perspective. As for jurisdictions, it primarily focuses on Japan and Korea in comparison with US and UK. This module is composed of 18 units, two units for each of the nine class dates. Beginning with the peculiar ownership structure of Japan and Korea and the nature of their agency problems, the module explores various legal strategies employed to address these challenges. The topics to be covered include: shareholder power, corporate organizational structure, independent directors, fiduciary duties, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and creditor protection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4352", "title": "China and International Economic Law", "description": "This course will provide a broad introduction to international economic law related to China, including detailed study of a few core areas and the provision of guidance for students to pursue research on a topic of their choice.\nMajor topics to be covered include: (i) trade in goods; (ii) trade in services; (iii) trade in intellectual property; (iv) investment; (v) dispute settlement; and (vi) the future of China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4352V", "title": "China and International Economic Law", "description": "This course will provide a broad introduction to international economic law related to China, including detailed study of a few core areas and the provision of guidance for students to pursue research on a topic of their choice.\nMajor topics to be covered include: (i) trade in goods; (ii) trade in services; (iii) trade in intellectual property; (iv) investment; (v) dispute settlement; and (vi) the future of China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4353", "title": "Character Evidence in the Common Law World", "description": "The law relating to evidence of character has been changing throughout the common law world over the last fifty years. This course will, by reference several common law jurisdictions, including Singapore in particular, cover, most pressingly, how the law deals with evidence of the accused\u2019s bad character. It will also deal with bad character of witnesses in criminal cases, and, in particular, complainants in sexual cases, as well as that of witnesses and others in civil cases. A third element concerns the good character of the accused, of witnesses in criminal cases, and of parties and others in civil cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4353V", "title": "Character Evidence in the Common Law World", "description": "The law relating to evidence of character has been changing throughout the common law world over the last fifty years. This course will, by reference several common law jurisdictions, including Singapore in particular, cover, most pressingly, how the law deals with evidence of the accused\u2019s bad character. It will also deal with bad character of witnesses in criminal cases, and, in particular, complainants in sexual cases, as well as that of witnesses and others in civil cases. A third element concerns the good character of the accused, of witnesses in criminal cases, and of parties and others in civil cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4354", "title": "Comparative Human Rights Law", "description": "Human rights adjudication has expanded in many jurisdictions across the world in the past few decades. Yet there is still scepticism about the role of courts in human rights adjudication. This subject will provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the role of courts in human rights adjudication by introducing them to the different approaches to the adjudication of human rights in a range of jurisdictions including South Africa, Canada, Germany, the US, Israel, Australia, India, Singapore and the EU. Several key human rights issues that have arisen in different jurisdictions will be analysed and compared."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4354V", "title": "Comparative Human Rights Law", "description": "Human rights adjudication has expanded in many jurisdictions across the world in the past few decades. Yet there is still scepticism about the role of courts in human rights adjudication. This subject will provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the role of courts in human rights adjudication by introducing them to the different approaches to the adjudication of human rights in a range of jurisdictions including South Africa, Canada, Germany, the US, Israel, Australia, India, Singapore and the EU. Several key human rights issues that have arisen in different jurisdictions will be analysed and compared."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4355", "title": "International Law and Development", "description": "The concept of development has been crucial to structuring international legal relations for the last 70 years. In the political and economic domains, most international institutions engage with the development project in some form. This subject offers a conceptual and intellectual grounding to examine development as an idea and set of practices in dynamic relation with national and international law. The history of development in relation to imperialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and globalisation means that these relations are complex. Understanding them is crucial to understanding the place of international law, and the work development does in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4355V", "title": "International Law and Development", "description": "The concept of development has been crucial to structuring international legal relations for the last 70 years. In the political and economic domains, most international institutions engage with the development project in some form. This subject offers a conceptual and intellectual grounding to examine development as an idea and set of practices in dynamic relation with national and international law. The history of development in relation to imperialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and globalisation means that these relations are complex. Understanding them is crucial to understanding the place of international law, and the work development does in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4356", "title": "International Economic Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic offers a unique opportunity for students to apply theory to practice in the field of international economic law. Students work in small teams and under the close supervision of professors and invited experts on specific, real-world legal questions of international economic law coming from \"real clients\" such as governments, international organizations, or NGOs. At the end of the semester, the Project Teams submit written legal memos and orally present their projects. They also publish their projects. The clinic is part of \"TradeLab,\" a global network of international economic law clinics at leading law schools around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4356V", "title": "International Economic Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic offers a unique opportunity for students to apply theory to practice in the field of international economic law. Students work in small teams and under the close supervision of professors and invited experts on specific, real-world legal questions of international economic law coming from \"real clients\" such as governments, international organizations, or NGOs. At the end of the semester, the Project Teams submit written legal memos and orally present their projects. They also publish their projects. The clinic is part of \"TradeLab,\" a global network of international economic law clinics at leading law schools around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4357", "title": "Regulation & Political Economy", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the main debates and issues in the field of regulation covering current debates about what regulation is, and the different institutions and instruments used to regulate our lives. It looks at (i) central concepts used by regulators, e.g. risk, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment; (ii) when different strategies should be adopted in regulating a sector; (iii) three central fields where regulation is used \u2013 competition, network industries, cyberspace. This course involves examples from jurisdictions across the world (especially Australasia, Europe and North America) with their insights having particular relevance for law and regulation in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4357V", "title": "Regulation & Political Economy", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the main debates and issues in the field of regulation covering current debates about what regulation is, and the different institutions and instruments used to regulate our lives. It looks at (i) central concepts used by regulators, e.g. risk, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment; (ii) when different strategies should be adopted in regulating a sector; (iii) three central fields where regulation is used \u2013 competition, network industries, cyberspace. This course involves examples from jurisdictions across the world (especially Australasia, Europe and North America) with their insights having particular relevance for law and regulation in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4358Z", "title": "ICC Arbitration", "description": "The International Chamber of Commerce and its\nInternational Court of Arbitration have played a leading role\nin the establishment and the development of the\ninternational normative framework that makes arbitration so\nattractive today. This course highlights the historical and\ncontemporary contributions of ICC to this normative\nframework, and covers the key issues with which\npractitioners are faced at the main junctures of ICC\narbitration proceedings, from both a practical and a legal\nperspective. The course features in-class practical\nexercises that draw on course resources and enable\nstudents to face a variety of possible real-life scenarios."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4359Z", "title": "SIAC and Institutional Arbitration", "description": "Arbitral institutions are important stakeholders in the field\nof international arbitration, but the nature and importance\nof their role have often been overlooked. The course seeks\nto introduce participants to the role and function of arbitral\ninstitutions in the practice of international arbitration, and to\nthe complex issues that arbitral institutions face in the\nadministration of arbitrations, appointment of arbitrators,\nissuing arbitral rules and practice notes and in guiding and\nshaping the development of international arbitration. The\ncourse will be taught by visiting lecturers from the Board,\nCourt of Arbitration and Secretariat of the Singapore\nInternational Arbitration Centre (SIAC)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4360Z", "title": "Current Challenges to Investment Arbitration", "description": "This module will focus on the current challenges faced by investment arbitration at the global level. It will adopt a three-step approach.\nStudents will first acquire an in-depth understanding of the history and functioning of the existing system. On this basis, the different criticisms and reform proposals will be scrutinized. Finally, students will be invited to make their own informed assessment of the existing system, to discuss its evolution and debate possible improvements.\nThe module will be diversified, as it will address both legal and extra-legal issues. Seminars will be interactive and students will be encouraged to participate actively."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4361Z", "title": "Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty \u2013 Multicontract", "description": "1. Who are the parties to the contract(s) or to the arbitration clause(s) contained therein? The theories applied by courts and arbitral tribunals\n2. The extension of the arbitration clause to non-signatories\n3. The possibility of bringing together in one single proceeding all the parties who have participated in the performance of one economic transaction through interrelated contracts\n4. Joinder and consolidation\n5. Appointment of arbitrators in multiparty arbitration cases\n6. The enforcement of an award in multiparty, multicontract cases\n7. The res judicata effect of an award rendered in a connected arbitration arising from the same project"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4362V", "title": "Advanced Criminal Litigation - Forensics on Trial", "description": "Forensic science can play a large part in criminal litigation, from DNA and fingerprint evidence to the detection of forgery. Forensic scientists can play a significant role by presenting evidence in a trial, and effective trial lawyers should be equipped with the skills and knowledge to manage, present, and challenge forensic evidence. This interdisciplinary module brings law and science undergraduates together to equip them with key communication and analytical skills to present forensic evidence in Court in the most effective way. Key topics covered include advance trial techniques, the law of evidence, and aspects of forensic science."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4363", "title": "Sentencing Law and Practice", "description": "Our courts have to determine the appropriate\npunishment/sentence for every offender who has been\nfound guilty. Thus, sentencing law and practice is an area\nof law that affects the lives of every offender who goes\nthrough our criminal justice process. But what are the\nnumerous considerations going into the calculus of what is\nthe most appropriate punishment for an offender? This\ncourse will cover, among other things, the theoretical and\nempirical perspectives of punishment, sentencing options,\nsentencing methodology, and key aggravating and\nmitigating factors. We will also cover other important\nsentencing issues such as consecutive vs concurrent\nsentence, and parity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4363V", "title": "Sentencing Law and Practice", "description": "Our courts have to determine the appropriate\npunishment/sentence for every offender who has been\nfound guilty. Thus, sentencing law and practice is an area\nof law that affects the lives of every offender who goes\nthrough our criminal justice process. But what are the\nnumerous considerations going into the calculus of what is\nthe most appropriate punishment for an offender? This\ncourse will cover, among other things, the theoretical and\nempirical perspectives of punishment, sentencing options,\nsentencing methodology, and key aggravating and\nmitigating factors. We will also cover other important\nsentencing issues such as consecutive vs concurrent\nsentence, and parity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4364", "title": "Principles of Civil Law: Law of Obligations & Property", "description": "The module introduces important concepts and principles of private law in civil law jurisdictions to students trained in the common law. The focus is on concepts and principles in which the differences between the civil and common law systems are particularly striking. Examples are the core emphasis on obligations, the lack of a strict or any consideration requirement in contract law, the focus on absolute rights in delictual liability, the concept of negotiorum gestio and the design of property law as positive absolute rights. The different concepts of legislation and jurisprudence also form part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4364V", "title": "Principles of Civil Law: Law of Obligations & Property", "description": "The module introduces important concepts and principles of private law in civil law jurisdictions to students trained in the common law. The focus is on concepts and principles in which the differences between the civil and common law systems are particularly striking. Examples are the core emphasis on obligations, the lack of a strict or any consideration requirement in contract law, the focus on absolute rights in delictual liability, the concept of negotiorum gestio and the design of property law as positive absolute rights. The different concepts of legislation and jurisprudence also form part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4367", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4367V", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4368", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism", "description": "Comparative constitutional law has emerged as one of the\nmost vibrant areas in contemporary public law. The\ncourse explores the principal challenges for the theory and\npractice of constitutionalism across time and place,\ngenerally and in particular under the globalizing conditions\nof the early 21st century. It combines the legal study of\nconstitutional texts and constitutional jurisprudence from a\nwide range of countries and constitutional systems\nworldwide with exploration of pertinent social science\nresearch concerning the global expansion of\nconstitutionalism and judicial review."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4368V", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism", "description": "Comparative constitutional law has emerged as one of the\nmost vibrant areas in contemporary public law. The\ncourse explores the principal challenges for the theory and\npractice of constitutionalism across time and place,\ngenerally and in particular under the globalizing conditions\nof the early 21st century. It combines the legal study of\nconstitutional texts and constitutional jurisprudence from a\nwide range of countries and constitutional systems\nworldwide with exploration of pertinent social science\nresearch concerning the global expansion of\nconstitutionalism and judicial review."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4369", "title": "Constitutionalism in Asia", "description": "This course is designed to offer an up-to-date understanding of constitutionalism in Asia, covering a representative number of Asian jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and the ten ASEAN states. The students are introduced to leading constitutional cases and selected materials in those jurisdictions and guided to critically examine constitutional jurisprudences developed in those Asian jurisdictions and compared them with \nwhat has been developed elsewhere, particularly in the West."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4369V", "title": "Constitutionalism in Asia", "description": "This course is designed to offer an up-to-date understanding of constitutionalism in Asia, covering a representative number of Asian jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and the ten ASEAN states. The students are introduced to leading constitutional cases and selected materials in those jurisdictions and guided to critically examine constitutional jurisprudences developed in those Asian jurisdictions and compared them with \nwhat has been developed elsewhere, particularly in the West."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4370", "title": "The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance", "description": "This module explores the risks associated with protecting and managing the legal and corporate risks associated with the increasingly important and overlapping fields of cybersecurity, privacy and data compliance and offers both legal and practical solutions for regulating and managing such risks within an effective legal and compliance framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4370V", "title": "The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance", "description": "This module explores the risks associated with protecting and managing the legal and corporate risks associated with the increasingly important and overlapping fields of cybersecurity, privacy and data compliance and offers both legal and practical solutions for regulating and managing such risks within an effective legal and compliance framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4371", "title": "Charity Law Today", "description": "This course will look in depth at the content of charity law, the consequences of charity status, and key questions raised by charity law and regulation, in contemporary settings across the world. Topics will include the profile and value of the charity sector; the \u2018heads\u2019 of charity; the public benefit requirement of charity law; charity law\u2019s treatment of political purposes; the sources of charity law;\nthe tax treatment of charities; charitable trusts and discrimination; and the regulation of charities. Singapore\u2019s charity law will be considered in global perspective. \nThis course will not consider the treatment of charity in Islamic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4371V", "title": "Charity Law Today", "description": "This course will look in depth at the content of charity law, the consequences of charity status, and key questions raised by charity law and regulation, in contemporary settings across the world. Topics will include the profile and value of the charity sector; the \u2018heads\u2019 of charity; the public benefit requirement of charity law; charity law\u2019s treatment of political purposes; the sources of charity law;\nthe tax treatment of charities; charitable trusts and discrimination; and the regulation of charities. Singapore\u2019s charity law will be considered in global perspective. \nThis course will not consider the treatment of charity in Islamic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4372", "title": "International Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This module addresses the public and private international\nlaw issues concerned with the protection of intellectual\nproperty rights (IPRs) globally. It commences with an\noverview of the sources of public international IP law,\nincluding the principal treaties, their interpretation and\ndomestic implementation, and the general architecture of\nthe international IP system. Using selected case studies, it\nthen considers other international obligations that intersect\nwith IPRS, including trade and investment protection\nmeasures and human rights obligations. It concludes with\na survey of the private international law issues affecting the\nglobal exploitation of IPRs, particularly in the context of the\nInternet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4372V", "title": "International Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This module addresses the public and private international\nlaw issues concerned with the protection of intellectual\nproperty rights (IPRs) globally. It commences with an\noverview of the sources of public international IP law,\nincluding the principal treaties, their interpretation and\ndomestic implementation, and the general architecture of\nthe international IP system. Using selected case studies, it\nthen considers other international obligations that intersect\nwith IPRS, including trade and investment protection\nmeasures and human rights obligations. It concludes with\na survey of the private international law issues affecting the\nglobal exploitation of IPRs, particularly in the context of the\nInternet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4373", "title": "Advanced Copyright", "description": "Advanced copyright will examine a number of the most recent controversies in copyright law, including challenges to the cable and broadcast TV business models, the copyright status of \"appropriation art\", the permissibility of mass digitization, the phenomenon of \"copyright trolls\", and the copyright implications of universities' electronic library reserve policies. Students must have completed a course in basic copyright law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4373V", "title": "Advanced Copyright", "description": "Advanced copyright will examine a number of the most recent controversies in copyright law, including challenges to the cable and broadcast TV business models, the copyright status of \"appropriation art\", the permissibility of mass digitization, the phenomenon of \"copyright trolls\", and the copyright implications of universities' electronic library reserve policies. Students must have completed a course in basic copyright law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4374", "title": "Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development", "description": "We will examine water\u2019s importance to economic development and its special interest to lawyers. Water governance concerns both private as well as public\ninterests. Meanwhile, there is fundamental variation in how much is available and where. And because water flows, society must manage it across political boundaries. By drawing on the examples of a few key river basins, we will examine the reasons and processes by which water law has evolved as it has \u2013 and whether and how, given rising pressures and uncertainty, it may change."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4374V", "title": "Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development", "description": "We will examine water\u2019s importance to economic development and its special interest to lawyers. Water governance concerns both private as well as public\ninterests. Meanwhile, there is fundamental variation in how much is available and where. And because water flows, society must manage it across political boundaries. By drawing on the examples of a few key river basins, we will examine the reasons and processes by which water law has evolved as it has \u2013 and whether and how, given rising pressures and uncertainty, it may change."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4375", "title": "Traditional Chinese Legal Thought", "description": "This course is an introduction to the major themes and\nissues in traditional Chinese legal thought. We will focus\non the close reading and analysis of selected works by\nvarious philosophers and various philosophical schools,\nincluding Confucius and later Confucian thinkers\n(including, but not limited to, Mencius, Xunzi, and Dong\nZhongshu), the Legalists, and the Daoists. Attention will\nalso be placed on understanding these thinkers and\nphilosophical schools in historical context and gaining an\nunderstanding of how law was applied in premodern\nChina. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese\nphilosophy is required. All required readings are in\nEnglish."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4375V", "title": "Traditional Chinese Legal Thought", "description": "This course is an introduction to the major themes and\nissues in traditional Chinese legal thought. We will focus\non the close reading and analysis of selected works by\nvarious philosophers and various philosophical schools,\nincluding Confucius and later Confucian thinkers\n(including, but not limited to, Mencius, Xunzi, and Dong\nZhongshu), the Legalists, and the Daoists. Attention will\nalso be placed on understanding these thinkers and\nphilosophical schools in historical context and gaining an\nunderstanding of how law was applied in premodern\nChina. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese\nphilosophy is required. All required readings are in\nEnglish."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4376", "title": "Regulation & Private Law in Banking & Financial Service", "description": "This course is about the impact of regulation on the private law of banking and financial services. This would typically include how regulatory rules create private law duties in contract or tort.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in financial contracts, financial institutions and the regulation and supervision of financial markets and institutions including\nbanks. \n\nFinancial services constitute an important sector of the economy. Financial markets and institutions including banks are subject to a rapidly expanding field of public\nregulation. Its implementation and enforcement raise many underexplored challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4376V", "title": "Regulation & Private Law in Banking & Financial Service", "description": "This course is about the impact of regulation on the private law of banking and financial services. This would typically include how regulatory rules create private law duties in contract or tort.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in financial contracts, financial institutions and the regulation and supervision of financial markets and institutions including\nbanks.\n\nFinancial services constitute an important sector of the economy. Financial markets and institutions including banks are subject to a rapidly expanding field of public\nregulation. Its implementation and enforcement raise many underexplored challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4377", "title": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship", "description": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship offers students the opportunity to gain unique insights into Government policy making by working directly on various projects at the Ministry of Law.\n\nThe module provides a structured programme for students who wish to understand and acquire skills relevant to policy development in a Government setting. \n\nStudents will be involved in a wide spectrum of policy and legislative projects, such as civil and criminal procedure, arbitration law, intellectual property and legal industry development. Students will be part of a dynamic and challenging process of shaping policy goals to enhance the legal infrastructure in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4377V", "title": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship", "description": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship offers students the opportunity to gain unique insights into Government policy making by working directly on various projects at the Ministry of Law.\n\nThe module provides a structured programme for students who wish to understand and acquire skills relevant to policy development in a Government setting.\n\nStudents will be involved in a wide spectrum of policy and legislative projects, such as civil and criminal procedure, arbitration law, intellectual property and legal industry development. Students will be part of a dynamic and challenging process of shaping policy goals to enhance the legal infrastructure in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4379", "title": "Future of Int'l Commercial Arbitration in APAC Region", "description": "The course will examine recent developments and future directions in international commercial arbitration. Recent innovations such as emergency arbitrations, arb-med-arb protocols, expeditious dismissal of manifestly unmeritorious claims, consolidation and joinder, and expedited procedures will be examined from a comparative and analytical perspective with a focus on jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. It will also attempt to identify future trends in international commercial arbitration, including the use of artificial intelligence, online dispute resolution, block chain technology and other procedural and technological innovations. It will utilize case studies to allow students to gain hands-on experience with arbitral rules, legislation and procedure."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4379V", "title": "Future of Int'l Commercial Arbitration in APAC Region", "description": "The course will examine recent developments and future directions in international commercial arbitration. Recent innovations such as emergency arbitrations, arb-med-arb protocols, expeditious dismissal of manifestly unmeritorious claims, consolidation and joinder, and expedited procedures will be examined from a comparative and analytical perspective with a focus on jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. It will also attempt to identify future trends in international commercial arbitration, including the use of artificial intelligence, online dispute resolution, block chain technology and other procedural and technological innovations. It will utilize case studies to allow students to gain hands-on experience with arbitral rules, legislation and procedure."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4381", "title": "Heritage Law", "description": "Heritage is a broad term that, for our purposes, encompasses things as diverse as architecture and cultural objects regarded as having historical importance, and intangible aspects of culture such as cuisine, the performing arts, and ritual practices. The course aims to provide an insight into how heritage can be protected and safeguarded for future generations by domestic common law and statutory rules on the one hand; and international law rules on the other. \n\nA prior knowledge of how public international law works is useful but not required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4381V", "title": "Heritage Law", "description": "Heritage is a broad term that, for our purposes, encompasses things as diverse as architecture and cultural objects regarded as having historical importance, and intangible aspects of culture such as cuisine, the performing arts, and ritual practices. The course aims to provide an insight into how heritage can be protected and safeguarded for future generations by domestic common law and statutory rules on the one hand; and international law rules on the other.\n\nA prior knowledge of how public international law works is useful but not required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4382", "title": "Private International Law", "description": "With the internationalization of commercial and personal relationships and the increase of cross-border disputes in Singapore\u2019s courts, a working knowledge of private international law, or the conflict of laws, has become essential for legal practice in Singapore. This course offers students a comprehensive overview of the foundations of private international law, with a particular focus on Singapore law. It covers private international law\u2019s three main pillars - jurisdiction, choice of law and foreign judgments - and also touches on broader methodological issues, and questions of sovereignty, comity, and public policy, which undergird and define the boundaries of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4382V", "title": "Private International Law", "description": "With the internationalization of commercial and personal relationships and the increase of cross-border disputes in Singapore\u2019s courts, a working knowledge of private international law, or the conflict of laws, has become essential for legal practice in Singapore. This course offers students a comprehensive overview of the foundations of private international law, with a particular focus on Singapore law. It covers private international law\u2019s three main pillars - jurisdiction, choice of law and foreign judgments - and also touches on broader methodological issues, and questions of sovereignty, comity, and public policy, which undergird and define the boundaries of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4383Z", "title": "International Arbitration & the New York Convention", "description": "The New York Convention of 1958 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides for the international enforcement of arbitral awards. Considered as the most successful international convention in international private law, the Convention now has 164 Contracting States and more than 2,500 court decisions interpreting and applying the Convention (as of June 2020). The course will analyze and compare the most important of those decisions. It will offer a unique insight in treaty design, statutory enactments, varying court approaches, and the practice of international arbitration. The course materials will be made available at www.newyorkconvention.org."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4384", "title": "Harms and Wrongs", "description": "The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically engage with some of the core notions they encounter when they study criminal law. The focus will be on a number of issues revolving around the concepts of harm and wrong, such as:\n- How should we understand the notion of wrongdoing?\n- Should the criminal law care about the distinction between intended and foreseen harm?\n- Can the wrongfulness of certain actions depend on the intentions of the agent?\n- What is the relationship between reasons for action and legal justifications?\n- What is wrong with blackmail?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4384V", "title": "Harms and Wrongs", "description": "The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically engage with some of the core notions they encounter when they study criminal law. The focus will be on a number of issues revolving around the concepts of harm and wrong, such as:\n- How should we understand the notion of wrongdoing?\n- Should the criminal law care about the distinction between intended and foreseen harm?\n- Can the wrongfulness of certain actions depend on the intentions of the agent?\n- What is the relationship between reasons for action and legal justifications?\n- What is wrong with blackmail?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4385", "title": "Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy", "description": "In today\u2019s global digital world, national tax systems face new challenges. Governments large and small cooperate in tax enforcement including through strengthened anti-abuse rules, yet tax competition continues. Uncertainty,\ncomplexity and risk have increased for taxpayers ranging from individuals to multinational enterprises. Recent developments in the OECD Inclusive Framework and other forums may lead to significant new global tax rules, but an agreed outcome is far from certain. This course explores the latest trends and issues in personal and corporate income tax and Goods and Services Tax that address\ndigital or cross-border services or employment, consumption, and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4385V", "title": "Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy", "description": "In today\u2019s global digital world, national tax systems face new challenges. Governments large and small cooperate in tax enforcement including through strengthened anti-abuse rules, yet tax competition continues. Uncertainty,\ncomplexity and risk have increased for taxpayers ranging from individuals to multinational enterprises. Recent developments in the OECD Inclusive Framework and other forums may lead to significant new global tax rules, but an agreed outcome is far from certain. This course explores the latest trends and issues in personal and corporate income tax and Goods and Services Tax that address\ndigital or cross-border services or employment, consumption, and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4386", "title": "Intellectual Property in Body, Persona & Art", "description": "This course examines emerging trends to identify and analyse ways in which intellectual property laws are being used to commodify self. Through processes of intellectual propertisation, aspects of the human body, human persona, and human expression through art can be converted from \u2018unowned\u2019 to \u2018owned\u2019. Examining contemporary issues such as gene patents, fake news, authenticity and cultural appropriation, as well as emerging technologies such as transplanted and artificial body parts, cyborgs, mind downloads, blockchain and the Internet of Things, the course examines the mechanisms by which the expansion of intellectual property laws is enabling increasing commodification of humankind."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4386V", "title": "Intellectual Property in Body, Persona & Art", "description": "This course examines emerging trends to identify and analyse ways in which intellectual property laws are being used to commodify self. Through processes of intellectual propertisation, aspects of the human body, human persona, and human expression through art can be converted from \u2018unowned\u2019 to \u2018owned\u2019. Examining contemporary issues such as gene patents, fake news, authenticity and cultural appropriation, as well as emerging technologies such as transplanted and artificial body parts, cyborgs, mind downloads, blockchain and the Internet of Things, the course examines the mechanisms by which the expansion of intellectual property laws is enabling increasing commodification of humankind."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4387", "title": "Regulation of Digital Platforms", "description": "This course will survey multiple legal fields that involve the regulation of what are generally referred to as \u201cdigital platforms,\u201d including Google, Facebook, and others. The primary legal fields of study will be competition (antitrust) law and liability for third-party content. Because these areas of law draw heavily from economic theory and research, the course will also survey some of the relevant economics literature as a means of better understanding the relevant markets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4387V", "title": "Regulation of Digital Platforms", "description": "This course will survey multiple legal fields that involve the regulation of what are generally referred to as \u201cdigital platforms,\u201d including Google, Facebook, and others. The primary legal fields of study will be competition (antitrust) law and liability for third-party content. Because these areas of law draw heavily from economic theory and research, the course will also survey some of the relevant economics literature as a means of better understanding the relevant markets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4388", "title": "Comparative Civil Law: Thai Contract Law", "description": "This course explores Thai contract law which is a product of civil law traditions and a cornerstone of Thai private law. It covers major areas of contract law from the beginning to the end of a contract, i.e. contract formation, validity, interpretation, breach of contract, and ending and changing a contract. Course participants will be encouraged to make comparisons between Thai and Singapore contract laws on\ncertain issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4388V", "title": "Comparative Civil Law: Thai Contract Law", "description": "This course explores Thai contract law which is a product of civil law traditions and a cornerstone of Thai private law. It covers major areas of contract law from the beginning to the end of a contract, i.e. contract formation, validity, interpretation, breach of contract, and ending and changing a contract. Course participants will be encouraged to make comparisons between Thai and Singapore contract laws on\ncertain issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4389", "title": "Asset-Based Financing: Quasi-Security Devices", "description": "This course critically examines so-called \u2018quasi-security\u2019 devices: legal structures that perform the function of personal property security, whilst not being \u2018true\u2019 security in the legal sense. These devices entail the retention of title or absolute\ntransfer of title (rather than the grant of a security interest) and, like \u2018true\u2019 security, secure the performance of an obligation. Hence, consideration will be given to retention of title devices (ROT or \u2018Romapla\u2019 clauses) in the supply of goods to manufacturers or to retailers as stock-in-trade, conditional-sale, hire-purchase, finance-leasing. Absolute transfer of title devices exemplified by receivables financing (factoring, securitisation) will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4389V", "title": "Asset-Based Financing: Quasi-Security Devices", "description": "This course critically examines so-called \u2018quasi-security\u2019 devices: legal structures that perform the function of personal property security, whilst not being \u2018true\u2019 security in the legal sense. These devices entail the retention of title or absolute\ntransfer of title (rather than the grant of a security interest) and, like \u2018true\u2019 security, secure the performance of an obligation. Hence, consideration will be given to retention of title devices (ROT or \u2018Romapla\u2019 clauses) in the supply of goods to manufacturers or to retailers as stock-in-trade, conditional-sale, hire-purchase, finance-leasing. Absolute transfer of title devices exemplified by receivables financing (factoring, securitisation) will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4393", "title": "Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks", "description": "Corporate groups are pervasive in modern, international commerce. Frequently they are structured in order to avoid or minimise liability for wrongdoing and to protect group assets. In other cases, risky physical processes are contracted out to network participants. This course examines the structures and practices of corporate groups and networks, the problems of externalisation of liability, and legal mechanisms for extending liability among participant entities. Extended liability regimes considered span statute law and common law. Consideration is given also to several important suggestions for development of the law in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4393V", "title": "Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks", "description": "Corporate groups are pervasive in modern, international commerce. Frequently they are structured in order to avoid or minimise liability for wrongdoing and to protect group assets. In other cases, risky physical processes are contracted out to network participants. This course examines the structures and practices of corporate groups and networks, the problems of externalisation of liability,\nand legal mechanisms for extending liability among participant entities. Extended liability regimes considered span statute law and common law. Consideration is given also to several important suggestions for development of the law in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4394", "title": "Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law", "description": "In intellectual property law, overlaps of exclusive rights stemming from different protection regimes raise particular problems. Nonetheless, the cumulation of rights has become a standard protection strategy in sectors ranging from software to fashion and entertainment. Against this background, this module offers a detailed analysis of protection overlaps. Which combinations of rights are deemed permissible? Which specific problems arise from the cumulation of intellectual property rights? Using international, US and EU legislation and case law as\nreference points, these questions will be discussed. Moreover, the module will explore alternative avenues for better law and policy making."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4394V", "title": "Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law", "description": "In intellectual property law, overlaps of exclusive rights stemming from different protection regimes raise particular problems. Nonetheless, the cumulation of rights has become a standard protection strategy in sectors ranging from software to fashion and entertainment. Against this background, this module offers a detailed analysis of protection overlaps. Which combinations of rights are deemed permissible? Which specific problems arise from the cumulation of intellectual property rights? Using international, US and EU legislation and case law as reference points, these questions will be discussed. Moreover, the module will explore alternative avenues for better law and policy making."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4395", "title": "The Law & Practice of Modern Trust Structures", "description": "Using precedents and transactional documents generously supplied by various leading law firms and chambers, the module will examine in much greater depth various representative uses of trusts in the modern world, both to make family provision and in commerce. It will examine how these functions are realised by practising lawyers working within, ad developing, legal doctrine. Finally it will\nexplore the broad theoretical implications of this work."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4395V", "title": "The Law & Practice of Modern Trust Structures", "description": "Using precedents and transactional documents generously supplied by various leading law firms and chambers, the module will examine in much greater depth various representative uses of trusts in the modern world, both to make family provision and in commerce. It will examine how these functions are realised by practising lawyers working within, ad developing, legal doctrine. Finally it will\nexplore the broad theoretical implications of this work."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4396", "title": "University Research Opportunities Program", "description": "This course provides students with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. The topic for directed research must not have been studied in another course. Students may not do a research paper on a topic if they have previously done a research assignment on that topic for another course. Students interested in doing Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor before opting for the subject. Copies of the Directed Research Guidelines are available from the Dean's office or on the Faculty Home Page http://law.nus.edu.sg/ug/dr/index.htm"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4397", "title": "University Research Opportunities Program", "description": "This course provides students with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. The topic for directed research must not have been studied in another course. Students may not do a research paper on a topic if they have previously done a research assignment on that topic for another course. Students interested in doing Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor before opting for the subject. Copies of the Directed Research Guidelines are available from the Dean's office or on the Faculty Home Page http://law.nus.edu.sg/ug/dr/index.htm"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4398", "title": "University Research Opportunities Program", "description": "This course provides students with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. The topic for directed research must not have been studied in another course. Students may not do a research paper on a topic if they have previously done a research assignment on that topic for another course. Students interested in doing Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor before opting for the subject. Copies of the Directed Research Guidelines are available from the Dean's office or on the Faculty Home Page http://law.nus.edu.sg/ug/dr/index.htm"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4399", "title": "University Research Opportunities Program", "description": "This course provides students with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. The topic for directed research must not have been studied in another course. Students may not do a research paper on a topic if they have previously done a research assignment on that topic for another course. Students interested in doing Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor before opting for the subject. Copies of the Directed Research Guidelines are available from the Dean's office or on the Faculty Home Page http://law.nus.edu.sg/ug/dr/index.htm"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4400", "title": "Biomedical Law & Ethics", "description": "This courses examines the law governing the professional practice of health-care professionals and biomedical researchers, their legal and ethical obligations, and issues like medical negligence, consent, confidentiality, living wills, euthanasia and the statutory regulation of medical practice. It also surveys legal and ethical issues in human organ transplantation and reproductive medicine, property in the human body, and the new genetic and genomic sciences (including human embryonic stem cell research, cloning, tissue banking, genetic testing, screening and therapy, biomedical human research and experimentation, etc). Finally, social and ethical issues in the allocation of health resources and national health policy are considered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4402", "title": "Corporate Insolvency Law", "description": "Insolvency law is relevant to virtually all aspects of commercial activity involving the provision of credit. This course will explore its key concepts in the context of a winding up u the moratorium, powers of recovery, the pari passu principle, the external manager, avoidance of transactions, proof of debts and set-off. We will then review receivership, judicial management and schemes of arrangement as alternative procedures to the liquidation of a company in a winding up. We conclude with a brief examination of informal debt restructurings. This course will be taught principally through seminars for which prior preparation and participation are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4403", "title": "Family Law", "description": "The course covers the non-Muslim family law in Singapore including the areas of the formation and termination of marriage, legal regulation of the husband-wife and the parent-child relationships and legal regulation of the economic aspects of family life. It also introduces students to the relationship between this law and the Muslim family law in Singapore as well as the issues that arise from contacts with foreign marriage laws. The course is aimed at senior law students. Teaching is through discussion of assigned reading materials over two seminars each week. Students must make substantial preparation before classes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4405A", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (a)", "description": "Students will first be provided with an overview of what the various intellectual\nproperty (IP) rights in Singapore are. Thereafter, this module will launch into the specifics of the main IP rights including copyright, patents and trade marks. For each of these IP rights, selected issues relating to their subsistence (how does it arise; is registration needed; what are the registration criteria) and infringement (what exclusive rights the IP owner has; what defences are available) will be examined very closely. Students will also be encouraged to explore the inter-relationship between these IP rights on specific issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4405B", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (B)", "description": "Students will first be provided with an overview of what the various intellectual\nproperty (IP) rights in Singapore are. Thereafter, this module will launch into the specifics of the main IP rights including copyright, patents and trade marks. For each of these IP rights, selected issues relating to their subsistence (how does it arise; is registration needed; what are the registration criteria) and infringement (what exclusive rights the IP owner has; what defences are available) will be examined very closely. Students will also be encouraged to explore the inter-relationship between these IP rights on specific issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4407", "title": "Law Of Insurance", "description": "This course deals with the principles and doctrines underpinning the formation and validity of insurance policies. It seeks to help students appreciate concepts of risk management, the protection of commercial businesses assets and the protection of individual lives against unforeseen contingencies and losses that may arise. Topics include the nature of general insurance contracts, formation of insurance contracts, peculiar insurance doctrines such as non disclosure, warranties and subrogation, claims procedure, doctrine of indemnity and measuring your losses, and third party rights. The techniques of successfully claiming under the policy and resisting the insurer's wrongful denial of claims will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4409", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL4411", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "Personal property law cuts across many legal fields, including equity and trusts, and the law of sales, agency, company, insolvency and bankruptcy, insurance, banking, economic torts and crimes. The course covers the following broad areas: (i) defining the interests in personal property; (ii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by consent, including the sale of goods and documentary sales; (iii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by \noperation of law; (iv) intangible property & security interests; (v) persistence of interests in personal property; and (iv) protection of interests in personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4412", "title": "Securities and Capital Markets Regulation", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of securities regulation, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions, in Singapore and, where relevant, jurisdictions such as the US, UK, Australia, China and HK. Topics to be covered generally include: regulatory authorities and capital markets; supervision of intermediaries; the \"going public\" process; legal position of stockbrokers; insider trading and securities frauds; globalisation, technology and regulatory harmonisation; and regulation of takeover activity. In addition, aspects of syndicated loan and bond financing, and securitisation, will be studied in some detail. Students will be expected to use the Internet to search for comparative materials. Advisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Not appropriate for civil law students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4413", "title": "Civil Justice and Procedure", "description": "The course is about the law governing the processes by which substantive rights are effectuated during civil litigation in Singapore. The emphasis will be on how Rules of Court operate in areas of dispute resolution including the interlocutory stages from filing of an action to the trial, post-judgment matters and the role of amicable settlement in the adversarial culture. The inter-relationship between procedure, evidence and ethics will be analysed. Students will have an understanding of the principles of procedure to consider the efficacy and viability of the governing law in light of fairness, efficiency and justice, and to propose reforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4431", "title": "Choice of Law: Practice and Theories", "description": "This course explores the tensions in choice-of-law decision-making in selected areas or sub-fields spanning human rights violations, foreign sovereign debts, environmental liability, currency swaps, international trusts, multiple-listed corporations, and time permitting, economic torts and internet defamation and/or employment and human capital development. In each specific area, it asks whether a choice-of-law theory can shed light on the tensions which the choice-of-law rule seeks to balance and whether another can lead to development of a better or more coherent rule."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4431V", "title": "Choice of Law: Practice and Theories", "description": "This course explores the tensions in choice-of-law decision-making in selected areas or sub-fields spanning human rights violations, foreign sovereign debts, environmental liability, currency swaps, international trusts, multiple-listed corporations, and time permitting, economic torts and internet defamation and/or employment and human capital development. In each specific area, it asks whether a choice-of-law theory can shed light on the tensions which the choice-of-law rule seeks to balance and whether another can lead to development of a better or more coherent rule."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4432", "title": "International Litigation: Themes and Practice", "description": "The subject of international litigation has gained strong recognition as a composite of two branches of the conflict of laws, namely jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgment. This conceptualisation brings into its embrace evolving themes of comity, proximity, efficiency, party autonomy, foreign sovereign immunity, foreign act of state and justiciability, reasonable extraterritoriality, and forum mandatory procedural policies. In this advanced course, each theme is studied in the context of practice in a particular sub-field of jurisdiction or enforcement; although some themes such as that of sovereignty are cross-cutting and are studied in more than one jurisdictional context."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4432V", "title": "International Litigation: Themes and Practice", "description": "The subject of international litigation has gained strong recognition as a composite of two branches of the conflict of laws, namely jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgment. This conceptualisation brings into its embrace evolving themes of comity, proximity, efficiency, party autonomy, foreign sovereign immunity, foreign act of state and justiciability, reasonable extraterritoriality, and forum mandatory procedural policies. In this advanced course, each theme is studied in the context of practice in a particular sub-field of jurisdiction or enforcement; although some themes such as that of sovereignty are cross-cutting and are studied in more than one jurisdictional context."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4433", "title": "Global Data Privacy Law", "description": "This course will explore the main themes and approaches in data privacy law in light of various international frameworks (OECD, APEC, ASEAN) and a cross-section of national laws from North America, Europe and Asia. While many countries have enacted or amended laws in recent years, there is no widely-accepted framework for cross-border data transfers and developments in business and technology present new risks and challenges to the protection of individuals\u2019 personal data and privacy. This course will also consider the role of data privacy laws in regulating social media and the Internet, data science, AI and machine learning and cybersecurity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4433V", "title": "Global Data Privacy Law", "description": "This course will explore the main themes and approaches in data privacy law in light of various international frameworks (OECD, APEC, ASEAN) and a cross-section of national laws from North America, Europe and Asia. While many countries have enacted or amended laws in recent years, there is no widely-accepted framework for cross-border data transfers and developments in business and technology present new risks and challenges to the protection of individuals\u2019 personal data and privacy. This course will also consider the role of data privacy laws in regulating social media and the Internet, data science, AI and machine learning and cybersecurity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4434", "title": "International Commodity Trading Law Clinic", "description": "The trading of commodities is one of the oldest forms of economic activity known to mankind. Today, it is a sophisticated multi-trillion-dollar industry spanning across the globe. A commodity trade is, at its heart, the sale and purchase of a commodity, but is often coupled with other related transactions such as transportation, storage,\ninsurance and finance. This course seeks to provide students with an overview of international commodity trading law. As an \u201cindustry-focused\u201d course, students will\nbe trained to identify and analyse problems that span across different areas including contract, banking and finance, agency, assignment, set-off \u2013 just like practitioners do."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4434V", "title": "International Commodity Trading Law Clinic", "description": "The trading of commodities is one of the oldest forms of economic activity known to mankind. Today, it is a sophisticated multi-trillion-dollar industry spanning across the globe. A commodity trade is, at its heart, the sale and purchase of a commodity, but is often coupled with other related transactions such as transportation, storage,\ninsurance and finance. This course seeks to provide students with an overview of international commodity trading law. As an \u201cindustry-focused\u201d course, students will\nbe trained to identify and analyse problems that span across different areas including contract, banking and finance, agency, assignment, set-off \u2013 just like practitioners do."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4435", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is unique because it did not emerge from a single source of law. Rather, it has roots in almost every type of law. Through diverse readings, deep discussions, and independent research, this course will identify and understand the various types of law that, together, give rise to \u201cenvironmental law.\u201d The course will consider environmental law\u2019s roots in common law, regulation, legislation, constitutions, international cooperation, public action, and even private self-governance. Though not exclusively, the focus will be on common law jurisdictions in the British tradition, but independent research will allow students to explore more widely for themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4435V", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is unique because it did not emerge from a single source of law. Rather, it has roots in almost every type of law. Through diverse readings, deep discussions, and independent research, this course will identify and understand the various types of law that, together, give rise to \u201cenvironmental law.\u201d The course will consider environmental law\u2019s roots in common law, regulation, legislation, constitutions, international cooperation, public action, and even private self-governance. Though not exclusively, the focus will be on common law jurisdictions in the British tradition, but independent research will allow students to explore more widely for themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4436", "title": "Family Law and Practice", "description": "Family Law covers a very broad field that involves familial relationships wider than just spousal relationships, children and money matters. It encompasses transnational conflict of laws, marital agreements, international conventions and enforcement issues. It also sees intersectionality with elder law, mental capacity, as well as probate and succession law. It is not possible to cover every aspect of family law in this elective. This course will cover family law and practice in Singapore, with a special emphasis on marriages, divorce and ancillary matters for civil marriages, and the workings of the Family Justice Courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4436V", "title": "Family Law and Practice", "description": "Family Law covers a very broad field that involves familial relationships wider than just spousal relationships, children and money matters. It encompasses transnational conflict of laws, marital agreements, international conventions and enforcement issues. It also sees intersectionality with elder law, mental capacity, as well as probate and succession law. It is not possible to cover every aspect of family law in this elective. This course will cover family law and practice in Singapore, with a special emphasis on marriages, divorce and ancillary matters for civil marriages, and the workings of the Family Justice Courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4437", "title": "Law and Democracy in East Asia", "description": "This module explores diverse development patterns of the rule of law and democracy in East Asia. Theories of democracy commonly hold that the acceptance of rule of law in non-democratic countries would lead to democratization, especially along with increasing economic prosperity. This linear thesis, however, have met challenges recently in light of recent developments in China, HK, and other parts of the world. As such, this module scrutinizes this linear thesis by examining the trajectories of legal development in East Asia and the determinants, such as international factors, civil law traditions, legal professionals, foreign law influence, colonial legacies and post-colonial nationalism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4437V", "title": "Law and Democracy in East Asia", "description": "This module explores diverse development patterns of the rule of law and democracy in East Asia. Theories of democracy commonly hold that the acceptance of rule of law in non-democratic countries would lead to democratization, especially along with increasing economic prosperity. This linear thesis, however, have met challenges recently in light of recent developments in China, HK, and other parts of the world. As such, this module scrutinizes this linear thesis by examining the trajectories of legal development in East Asia and the determinants, such as international factors, civil law traditions, legal professionals, foreign law influence, colonial legacies and post-colonial nationalism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4438", "title": "Intellectual Property Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the exciting world of intellectual property arbitration. Traditionally thought of and taught as distinct areas of law, the overlap between IP rights and recourse to arbitration for the protection of those rights has grown significantly in recent years. This pioneering course is not currently offered in any other leading law school in the world. It is designed for students with little to\nno knowledge of IP law. It is also designed for students with an interest in arbitration, regardless of the level of their preexisting knowledge of arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4438V", "title": "Intellectual Property Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the exciting world of intellectual property arbitration. Traditionally thought of and taught as distinct areas of law, the overlap between IP rights and recourse to arbitration for the protection of those rights has grown significantly in recent years. This pioneering course is not currently offered in any other leading law school in the world. It is designed for students with little to\nno knowledge of IP law. It is also designed for students with an interest in arbitration, regardless of the level of their preexisting knowledge of arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4440", "title": "Electronic Evidence", "description": "This course introduces students to electronic evidence, which covers every area of law. Most legal problems presented to lawyers now include an element of electronic evidence. It is incumbent on judges, lawyers and legal academics to be familiar with the topic in the service of justice. Electronic evidence is ubiquitous.\nUsing an array of mobile technologies, people communicate regularly through social networking sites, e-mail and other virtual methods managed by organisations that are transnational. No area of human activity is free from the networked world \u2013 this also means no area of law is free from the effects of electronic evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4440V", "title": "Electronic Evidence", "description": "This course introduces students to electronic evidence, which covers every area of law. Most legal problems presented to lawyers now include an element of electronic evidence. It is incumbent on judges, lawyers and legal academics to be familiar with the topic in the service of justice. Electronic evidence is ubiquitous.\nUsing an array of mobile technologies, people communicate regularly through social networking sites, e-mail and other virtual methods managed by organisations that are transnational. No area of human activity is free from the networked world \u2013 this also means no area of law is free from the effects of electronic evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4441", "title": "Law & Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy & Insolvency", "description": "This course looks at the economic foundations of corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law. The course will discuss the application of general law-and-economics principles to the governance and reorganization of insolvent and financially distressed business firms. Readings will focus in particular on questions about whether and how general theories of contracts, property, and corporate governance must be amended in the context of insolvency and bankruptcy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4441V", "title": "Law & Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy & Insolvency", "description": "This course looks at the economic foundations of corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law. The course will discuss the application of general law-and-economics principles to the governance and reorganization of insolvent and financially distressed business firms. Readings will focus in particular on questions about whether and how general theories of contracts, property, and corporate governance must be amended in the context of insolvency and bankruptcy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4442", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4442V", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4443", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4443V", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4444", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4444V", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4446", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4446V", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4447", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4447V", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4448", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4448V", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4449", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4449V", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4450", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4450V", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4451", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4451V", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4452", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4452V", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4453", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4453V", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4454", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4454V", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4455", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4455V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4456", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4456V", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4457", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4457V", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4458", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4458V", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4460", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4460V", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4461", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. We then examine the compliance function through the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistleblowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money laundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4461V", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. We then examine the compliance function\nthrough the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistle blowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money\nlaundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4462", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4462V", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4463", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4463V", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4464", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4464V", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4465", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable collective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law; unfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the accommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4465V", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable collective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law; unfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the accommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4471", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4471V", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4472", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4472V", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4473", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of investment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy resources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4473V", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of investment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy resources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4474", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4474V", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4475", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4475V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4476", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4476V", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4477", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic civil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows (1) Introduction to Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4477V", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic civil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows (1) Introduction to Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4478", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4478V", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4479", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation.", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance. Nevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to identify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation, creativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4479V", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance. Nevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to identify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation, creativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4480", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4480V", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4481", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4481V", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4482", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4482V", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4483", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4483V", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4486", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4486V", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4487", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4487V", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4488", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4488V", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4489", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4489V", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4490", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4490V", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4491", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4491V", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4492", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4492V", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4493", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This course equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4493V", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This course equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4494", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4494V", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4496", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4496V", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4499", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies and performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4499V", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies and performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4500", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4500V", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4501", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4501V", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4502", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4502V", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4504", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4504V", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4505", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4505V", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL4506", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4506V", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4507", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4507V", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4508", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4508V", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4509", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4509V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4511", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LL4511V", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5001", "title": "Administration of Criminal Justice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5002", "title": "Admiralty Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5002V", "title": "Admiralty Law & Practice", "description": "This course will introduce the various concepts relating to the admiralty action in rem, which is the primary means by which a maritime claim is enforced. Topics will include: the nature of an action in rem; the subject matter of admiralty jurisdiction; the invocation of admiralty jurisdiction involving the arrest of offending and sister ships; the procedure for the arrest of ships; liens encountered in admiralty practice: statutory, maritime and possessory liens; the priorities governing maritime claims; and time bars and limitations. This course is essential to persons who intend to practice shipping law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5003V", "title": "China, India and International Law", "description": "This course will examine the rise of China and India and it\u2019s impact on the international legal order. In particular, students will be led to discuss issues concerning (1) the origin and history of the relationship between developing\ncountries and international law; (2) the rise of China and India and its challenge to the existing international legal order and legal norms; (3) China, India, and the multilateral trading system; (4) China, India and international investment; (5) the international law aspects of domestic policies in China and India; and (6) the international law aspects of competition and disputes between China and \nIndia. The course will also concentrate on demonstrating the interaction between international relations and international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5004", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5004V", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": "This course provides an insight into international civil aviation and the legal and regulatory issues facing airlines, governments and the common passenger. Issues raised include public air law and policy, aviation security in light of recent global developments and private air law. Emphasis will be placed on issues relevant to Singapore and Asia, given Singapore's status as a major aviation hub and the exponential growth of the industry in the Asia-Pacific. Topics to be discussed include the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, bilateral services agreements, aircraft safety, terrorism and aviation security and carrier liability for death or injury to passengers. Competition among airlines will also be analysed, including business strategies such as code-sharing, frequent flier schemes and alliances. The severe competitive environment introduced by weakening economies, war and terrorism will also be discussed. This course will be relevant for individuals with a keen interest in air travel, and is designed for those interested in joining the aviation industry or large law firms with an aviation practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5005V", "title": "Bank Documentation", "description": "Bank Documentation is an advanced contract course situated in the banking context. Students will be introduced to key principles that govern banking transactions as well as a variety of contractual clauses used by banks in their standard-form documentation. The aim of the course is to promote an\nunderstanding of these terms, how they operate and their shortcomings. Some emphasis is placed on contractual techniques used by banks to maintain control over their contractual relationships and to allocate risk, as well as the common law and statutory limits on their effectiveness. Students are required to evaluate the fairness of typical banking terms by applying relevant law and guidelines. Those who successfully complete the module will be equipped to navigate their way around standard form agreements (banking as well as others), recognize and understand the operation of a range of contractual terms, and predict their effectiveness."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5006", "title": "Banking Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5006V", "title": "Banking Law", "description": "This course is designed to familiarise the student with the key principles relating to the modern law of banking. Four main areas will be covered: the law of negotiable instruments, the law of payment systems, the banker customer relationship and bank regulation. Students who wish to obtain a basic knowledge of banking law will benefit from this course. It is also recommended that those who wish to specialize in banking law take this course as a foundational course, prior to studying the more advanced banking courses."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5007", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5007V", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": "This course will deal with the basic intellectual property, ethical, regulatory and policy issues in biotechnological innovations. It will focus mainly on patent issues including the patentability of biological materials, gene sequences, animals, plants and humans; infringement, ownership and licensing. Students will also be acquainted with genetic copyright, trade secrets protection and basic ethical and regulatory aspects including gene technology and ES cell research. Apart from Singapore law, a comparative analysis of the legal position in Europe and USA, as well as the major international conventions will be made. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of biology and genetics. (Class presentation is subject to change depending on student subscription)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5008A", "title": "Carriage of Goods By Sea", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5008AV", "title": "Carriage of Goods By Sea", "description": "This course will focus on the different transport documents which are used in contracts for the carriage of goods by sea. This will include bills of lading, sea waybills, delivery orders. The course will examine the rights and liabilities of\nthe parties to such contracts, including the shipowner, the charterer, the cargo owner, the lawful holder of the bill of lading etc. Major international conventions on carriage of goods, such as the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, the Hamburg Rules, and the Rotterdam Rules will also be examined. This course is of fundamental importance to those individuals contemplating a career in shipping law and underlines Singapore\u2019s role as a major global port and maritime hub."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5008B", "title": "Charterparties", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5008BV", "title": "Charterparties", "description": "This course will focus on charterparties, which are contracts between the shipowner and the charterer for the hire of the vessel, either for a specific voyage (voyage charterparties) or over a period of time (time charterparties). There are in addition, other variants of these basic types, which will also be referred to. This\ncourse will examine the standard forms for each of the charterparties being studied and examine the main terms and legal relationship between shipowners and charterers. This dynamic and important aspect of the law of carriage of goods by sea is frequently the subject of arbitral proceedings and court decisions. This course will be of importance to individuals contemplating a carrier in shipping law and underlines Singapore\u2019s role as a major global port and maritime hub."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5009", "title": "Modern Chinese Law & Legal Chinese", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the latest legal developments and areas of significance in modern China. Topics covered include Chinese legal system, legal institutions, civil law, corporate law, finance law and dispute resolution. Through this module, students will benefit from learning substantive aspects of modern Chinese law and will be conversant with Mandarin in the legal context. This course is conducted primarily in Chinese (Mandarin) and is intended for students who possess a basic level of Chinese (Mandarin)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5009GRSI", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar I (Legal Scholarship)", "description": "This seminar will address the central approaches to legal research currently found in legal scholarship. It will look at the central assumptions of each approach, the questions about the law that it seeks to address, how it relates to other approaches. This seminar will also consider the best ways for researching different approaches, and what differentiates good research from less good research within each."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5009GRSII", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar II (Research Methods)", "description": "This course, compulsory for PhD students, will encourage students to reflect on the nature of supervised research. It will then examine in depth issues concerning legal research and methodology; and consider how their research might be approached from a variety of perspectives (e.g. international, comparative, theoretical, empirical). This seminar will help students to understand the process of conceiving, structuring, and refining their argument and the sorts of challenges and difficulties involved in this process. The internal structure of the thesis as well as the structure of individual chapters will be considered in depth."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5009V", "title": "Modern Chinese Law & Legal Chinese", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the latest legal developments and areas of significance in modern China. Topics covered include Chinese legal system, legal institutions, civil law, corporate law, finance law and dispute resolution. Through this module, students will benefit from learning substantive aspects of modern Chinese law and will be conversant with Mandarin in the legal context. This course is conducted primarily in Chinese (Mandarin) and is intended for students who possess a basic level of Chinese (Mandarin)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5010", "title": "Civil Law Tradition", "description": "The course introduces students to the civil law tradition, principally the French\ncivil law tradition (with occasional references to the German civil law tradition). The French civil law tradition has had a significant influence in a number of ASEAN countries (including Indonesia) and whenever possible the course will refer to provisions of the different ASEAN civil codes and laws. The course will give an overview of the tradition and will touch on a number of topics including private law topics. The approach will be systematic in the sense that the course will try to immerse the students in the civil law system as a whole and help them understand how the system works and is organized. The goal is to teach the students how to think like civilian lawyers, or at least to teach them how civil law jurist approach the law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5010A", "title": "Topics in the Civil Law Tradition (A): EU Harmonisation", "description": "This module examines advanced topics in the civil law tradition using a\ncomparative approach, examining in particular the similiarities and differences between the civil law and the common law (and possibly other traditions) in approaching specific legal problems. The precise topics covered and examples used will vary depending on the instructor teaching the module in a given year, but the topics typically discussed would include the methodological differences between civil and common law (use of legislation and codes, use of case law / jurisprudence, use of doctrine), the differences in policies and values, as well whether we should seek convergence and unification or respect for the mentalit\u00e9 and culture of each legal tradition through harmonization."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5010AV", "title": "Topics in the Civil Law Tradition (A): EU Harmonisation", "description": "This module examines advanced topics in the civil law tradition using a\ncomparative approach, examining in particular the similiarities and differences between the civil law and the common law (and possibly other traditions) in approaching specific legal problems. The precise topics covered and examples used will vary depending on the instructor teaching the module in a given year, but the topics typically discussed would include the methodological differences between civil and common law (use of legislation and codes, use of case law / jurisprudence, use of doctrine), the differences in policies and values, as well whether we should seek convergence and unification or respect for the mentalit\u00e9 and culture of each legal tradition through harmonization."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5011", "title": "Reform of Civil Procedure", "description": "The reform of civil procedure is topical, having regard to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Commission appointed by the Chief Justice and the new Rules of Court 2021. This course takes the student through some key processes in civil procedure. The approach is more conceptual than a traditional rules-based civil procedure course. We will examine the rules, extract the relevant principles and concepts, and explore their strengths and reach. We will reflect on the goals of civil procedure and values of the system, and adopting a reform perspective, ask whether we can design the ideal or better civil litigation system."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5011V", "title": "Reform of Civil Procedure", "description": "The reform of civil procedure is topical, having regard to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Commission appointed by the Chief Justice and the new Rules of Court 2021. This course takes the student through some key processes in civil procedure. The approach is more conceptual than a traditional rules-based civil procedure course. We will examine the rules, extract the relevant principles and concepts, and explore their strengths and reach. We will reflect on the goals of civil procedure and values of the system, and adopting a reform perspective, ask whether we can design the ideal or better civil litigation system."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5012V", "title": "Comparative Constitutional Law", "description": "This discussion-based seminar will focus on issues of comparative constitutional adjudication in common law systems, with particular emphasis on the experiences of India, Singapore and South Africa. The course will therefore focus primarily on the institutional mechanisms of judicial review and the challenges for constitutionalism that are posed within this particular institutional setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5013V", "title": "Comparative Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is emerging as a distinct field of law in every nation and region. Legislatures establish environmental laws based upon the need to address perceived environmental problems in their territory or in a region of shared resources such as a river basin or coastal marine regions or the habitats for migratory species. In some instances, national legislation is stimulated by the negotiation and adherence to multilateral environmental agreements."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5014", "title": "Construction Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5014V", "title": "Construction Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the legal principles that form the foundation of construction law and to the common practical problems that arise in this field. Topics will include: (a) general principles of construction law, including completion, defects, retention and certification; (b) basic provisions of construction contracts; (c) claims procedure & dispute resolution, including arbitration procedure; and (d) relevant provisions of standard form building contracts. This course will be of interest to students interested in construction practice or a practical approach to the study of law. This course is taught by partners from the Construction Practice Group of Wong Partnership."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5016A", "title": "Topics in Int\u2019l Criminal Law (A): Aggression", "description": "When the judges at the Nuremberg Tribunal handed down\ntheir decision against the German leaders in October\n1946, they declared \u2018crimes against peace\u2019 \u2013 the initiation\nof aggressive wars \u2013 to be \u2018the supreme international\ncrime\u2019. At the time, the charge was heralded as a legal\nmilestone, but subsequent events revealed it to be a postwar\nanomaly. This module traces the ebb and flow of the\nidea of criminalising aggression \u2013 from its origins after the\nFirst World War, through its high-water mark at the postwar\ntribunals and its abandonment during the Cold War, to\nits recent revival at the International Criminal Court."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5017", "title": "Contract and Commercial Law in Civil-Law Asia", "description": "This course looks mainly at contract law but also at some issues of commercial law in civil law jurisdictions in Asia using as examples a few Asian civil and commercial codes (for example the Indonesian codes which are similar to the\nFrench codes). It also looks at civil law in general as, unfortunately, more materials are available in English on European civil law than on Asian civil law. The course is\ncomparative in nature as it will compare civil and common law solutions. It would be a useful course for those who will works for firms with dealings across Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5018", "title": "Corporate Tax: Profits & Distributions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5018V", "title": "Corporate Tax: Profits & Distributions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5019", "title": "Credit & Security", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5019V", "title": "Credit & Security", "description": "This course examines the granting of credit and the taking of security by bank as well as aspects of bank supervision. The course starts with the Part on Bank Supervision and then turns to the discussion of unsecured lending and the Moneylenders' Act. It then focuses on secured credit. The discussion of the general regulation of the giving of security is followed by an examination of specific security devices, such as pledges, trust receipts, Romalpa clauses, factoring, stocks and shares as security, and guarantees and indemnities. The emphasis throughout is on the commercial effectiveness of the system."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5021V", "title": "Environmental Law", "description": "This course is aimed at giving students an overview of environmental law and its development, including the legal and administrative structures for their implementation, from the international, regional and national perspectives. It will focus on hard laws (legal instruments, statutory laws, international and regional conventions) and soft laws (Declarations, Charters etc.). In particular, it will examine the basic elements of pollution laws relating to air, water, waste, hazardous substances and noise; as well as nature conservation laws and laws governing environmental impact assessments. Singapore's laws and the laws of selected ASEAN countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5022V", "title": "Globalization And International Law", "description": "Apart from the instruments of the World Trade Organization, there are other institutions and techniques which regulate international trade. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund regulate certain aspects of trade. There are multilateral instruments which deal with issues such as corruption, ethical business standards, investment protection, competition and the regulation of financial services. The jurisdictional reach of large powers over international markets also provides means of self-interested regulation. The international regulation of new technologies such as internet and biotechnology pose novel problems. This course addresses the issues that arise in this area in the theoretical and political contect of globalization."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5024", "title": "Indonesian Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5024V", "title": "Indonesian Law", "description": "This course will initiate the student to the basics of Indonesian law (adat law, Islamic law, legal pluralism, constitutional law, administrative law, civil law, judicial process) as well as to others aspects that are of concern to foreigners (foreign investment laws and protections, regional autonomy, mining laws etc.). It will also address some of the problems relating to law enforcement in Indonesia"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5025", "title": "Rights", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of rights.\nIt begins with exposition of Wesley Hohfeld\u2019s analysis of the different legal positions often designated as \u201crights\u201d; then uses Hohfeld\u2019s framework to understand the debate between interest and will theorists of rights. It moves on to explicit consideration of moral rights. Finally, applications are considered \u2013 including human rights, and Asian perspectives on \u201crights\u201d discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5025V", "title": "Rights", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of rights.\nIt begins with exposition of Wesley Hohfeld\u2019s analysis of the different legal positions often designated as \u201crights\u201d; then uses Hohfeld\u2019s framework to understand the debate between interest and will theorists of rights. It moves on to explicit consideration of moral rights. Finally, applications are considered \u2013 including human rights, and Asian perspectives on \u201crights\u201d discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5026V", "title": "Infocoms Law: Competition & Convergence", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5027", "title": "International & Comparative Law Of Sale", "description": "This course will focus in detail on the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, governing international commercial sales in the US and abroad. The objective of this course is to give participants an overview of the (different) ways in which this Convention has been applied by judges and arbitrators throughout the world, thus giving participants the tools to draft international import/export agreements favourable to their future clients. Participants will be given hypothetical cases and will be asked to critically examine the different substantive solutions proposed by courts and arbitrators. As the convention does not deal with all the problems that may arise out of international commercial sales, the course will also deal with the issue of how to fill the gaps left by this Convention."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5029", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5029AV", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5029BV", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5029V", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the basic understanding of the law of arbitration to enable them to advise and represent parties in the arbitral process confidence. Legal concepts peculiar to arbitration viz. separability, arbitrability and kompetenze-kompetenze will considered together with the procedural laws on the conduct of the arbitral process, the making of and the enforcement of awards. Students will examine the UNCITRAL Model Law and the New York Convention, 1958. This course is most suited for students with some knowledge of the law of commercial transactions, shipping, banking, international sale of goods or construction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5030", "title": "International Commercial Litigation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5030V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation", "description": "Globalisation has made it more important for lawyers to be knowledgeable about the international aspects of litigation. This course focuses on the jurisdictional techniques most relevant to international commercial litigation: in personam jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, interim protective measures, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, public policy, and an outline of choice of law issues for commercial contracts. The course, taught from the perspective of Singapore law, based largely on the common law, is designed to give an insight into the world of international litigation. These skills are relevant to not only litigation lawyers, but also lawyers planning international transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5031", "title": "International Environmental Law & Policy", "description": "International law traditionally concerns itself with the relations between states, yet environmental problems transcend borders. International environmental law demonstrates how international norms can affect national sovereignty on matters of common concern. The course surveys international treaties concerning the atmosphere and the conservation of nature, and connections to trade and economic development. Institutions and principles to promote compliance and cooperation are also examined. The course will assist students in their understanding of international law-making. It would be of use to those interested in careers involving international law, both for the government and public sector and those in international trade and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5031V", "title": "International Environmental Law & Policy", "description": "International law traditionally concerns itself with the relations between states, yet environmental problems transcend borders. International environmental law demonstrates how international norms can affect national sovereignty on matters of common concern. The course surveys international treaties concerning the atmosphere and the conservation of nature, and connections to trade and economic development. Institutions and principles to promote compliance and cooperation are also examined. The course will assist students in their understanding of international law-making. It would be of use to those interested in careers involving international law, both for the government and public sector and those in international trade and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5032", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5032V", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": "This course focuses on the nature of risks to foreign investment and the elimination of those risks through legal means. As a prelude, it discusses the different economic theories on foreign investment, the formation of foreign investment contracts and the methods of eliminating potential risks through contractual provisions. It then examines the different types of interferences with foreign investment and looks at the nature of the treaty protection available against such interference. It concludes by examining the different methods of dispute settlement available in the area. The techniques of arbitration of investment disputes available are fully explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5033", "title": "International Legal Process", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5033V", "title": "International Legal Process", "description": "This course takes a problem-oriented approach to public international law. Its primary objective is to provide students with an understanding of the basic principles of public international law and a framework for analysing international legal disputes. The focus will be a past problem from the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. This will be used to illustrate the basic principles of public international law applicable in an international dispute. Its second objective is to teach students how to research points of international law and to construct persuasive arguments based on legal precedent, general principles, policy and facts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5034", "title": "International Regulation of Shipping", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5034V", "title": "International Regulation of Shipping", "description": "This course will examine the global regime governing the international regulation of commercial shipping. It will examine the relationship between the legal framework established in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the work of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the UN specialized agency responsible for the safety and security of international shipping and the prevention of pollution from ships. The course will focus on selected global conventions administered by the IMO, including those governing safety of life at sea (SOLAS), the prevention of pollution from ships (MARPOL) and the training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers (STCW). It will also examine the liability and compensation schemes that have been developed for pollution damage caused by the carriage of oil and noxious substances by ships, as well as the conventions designed to ensure that States undertake contingency planning in order to combat spills of oil and other noxious and hazardous substances in their waters. In addition, the course will examine the schemes that have been developed to enhance the security of ships and ports in light of the threat of maritime terrorism. It will also examine the role of the IMO in the prevention of pollution of the marine environment from dumping waste at sea and from seabed activities subject to national jurisdiction. One of the themes of the course will be to consider how the IMO is responding to increased concern about the protection and preservation of the marine environment, including threats such as invasive species and climate change. Another theme will be to consider how the responsibility to enforce IMO Conventions is divided between flag States, coastal States, port States and the IMO. This course will be useful to persons who intend to practice shipping law or work in the private or public maritime sector."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5035", "title": "Taxation Issues in Cross-Border Transactions", "description": "This is an introduction to the major income tax issues faced by businesses operating in a global economy. These issues include causes of multiple taxation, strategies to avoid multiple taxation, the effectiveness of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) and the abuse of DTAs. The module will be taught using typical transactions of capital and income flows as the focus and method of instruction. It will identify the main tax risks from undertaking cross-border transactions. As part of the management and mitigation of tax costs to a MNC, tax planning opportunities in the form of tax arbitrage, tax havens, choice of investment vehicle, corporate funding, inbound and outbound investments as well as the repatriation of income and capital will be discussed. The course will also identify the global tax trends arising from increased mobility of capital, technological advancements as well as demographics. In particular, the module will address some of the major issues and challenges that are being addressed in the most ambitious international tax reform under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting 2015 (BEPS) initiative ever attempted. As this course seeks to illustrate some of the general strategies in international tax planning, no prior knowledge of country-specific tax rules is required. Instead, the latest OECD Model Tax Convention 2017 will used as a primary source of laws for the purpose of this module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5035V", "title": "Taxation Issues in Cross-Border Transaction", "description": "This is an introduction to the major income tax issues faced by businesses operating in a global economy. These issues include causes of multiple taxation, strategies to avoid multiple taxation, the effectiveness of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) and the abuse of DTAs. The module will be taught using typical transactions of capital and income flows as the focus and method of instruction. It will identify the main tax risks from undertaking cross-border transactions. As part of the management and mitigation of tax costs to a MNC, tax planning opportunities in the form of tax arbitrage, tax havens, choice of investment vehicle, corporate funding, inbound and outbound investments as well as the repatriation of income and capital will be discussed. The course will also identify the global tax trends arising from increased mobility of capital, technological advancements as well as demographics. In particular, the module will address some of the major issues and challenges that are being addressed in the most ambitious international tax reform under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting 2015 (BEPS) initiative ever attempted. As this course seeks to illustrate some of the general strategies in international tax planning, no prior knowledge of country-specific tax rules is required. Instead, the latest OECD Model Tax Convention 2017 will used as a primary source of laws for the purpose of this module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5037", "title": "Sociology of Law", "description": "The sociology of law studies law as a social institution. We will explore the relationships among law, social actors and other social institutions. This is in contrast to the legal academy\u2019s formalist approaches that treat law as\nautonomous and impartial, and jurisprudential concerns about law\u2019s morality. We will consider both theoretical and empirical, and classic and contemporary works in sociology of law. Issues covered include: law and classic social theory; law and contemporary social theory; law and power; the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution; law and organizations; legal mobilization; law, collective action, and social change; legal consciousness; and, sociological perspectives on the legal profession."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5037V", "title": "Sociology of Law", "description": "The sociology of law studies law as a social institution. We will explore the relationships among law, social actors and other social institutions. This is in contrast to the legal academy's formalist approaches that treat law as autonomous and impartial, and jurisprudential concerns about law's morality. We will consider both theoretical and empirical, and classic and contemporary works in sociology of law. Issues covered include: law and classic social theory; law and contemporary social theory; law and power; the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution; law and organizations; legal mobilization; law, collective action, and social change; legal consciousness; and, sociological perspectives on the legal profession."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5042V", "title": "Law and Religion", "description": "This course will consider the interaction of law and religion in three aspects: firstly, through a consideration of theoretical materials that discuss and debate religion\u2019s (possible) roles in public discourse and in the shaping of law, especially in multi-religious and multi-cultural environments; second, through an examination of a range of religio-legal traditions (e.g., Islamic law, Hindu Law etc); and, third, a consideration of specific instances \u2013 in cases, legislation and public issues etc -- where law and religion meet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5043", "title": "Law of Marine Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5043V", "title": "Law Of Marine Insurance", "description": "This course aims to give students a firm foundation of existing law; a working understanding of standard form policies; and an understanding of the interaction between the Marine Insurance Act, case law and the Institute Clauses. Topics will include: types of marine insurance policies; insurable interest; principle of utmost good faith; marine insurance policies; warranties; causation; insured and excluded perils; proof of loss; types of losses; salvage, general average and particular charges; measure of indemnity and abandonment; mitigation of losses. This course will appeal to students who wish to specialise in either insurance law or maritime law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5044", "title": "Mediation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5044V", "title": "Mediation", "description": "This course is a skills-based workshop and is designed to assist participants in learning about and attaining a basic level of competency as a mediator and mediation advocate. Topics covered include: Interest-based mediation vs Positions-based mediation; The Mediation Process; Opening Statements; Co-Mediation; Preparing a client for mediation; and Mediation advocacy. This workshop is targeted at self-motivated Year 3 & 4 students interested in learning and developing interpersonal and conflict resolution skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5045", "title": "Negotiation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5045V", "title": "Negotiation", "description": "This course is a skills-based workshop and is designed to assist participants in learning about and attaining a basic level of competency as a negotiator. This is particularly important as lawyers commonly engage in negotiation as part of their practice. Topics covered include: Interest-based negotiation vs Position-based negotiation; Preparing for a negotiation; Creating and Claiming Value; and Overcoming Impasse. This workshop is targeted at self-motivated students interested in learning and developing interpersonal and negotiation skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5049", "title": "Principles of Conflict of Laws", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5049V", "title": "Principles Of Conflict Of Laws", "description": "The subject of conflict of laws addresses three questions: Which country should hear the case? What law should be applied? What is the effect of its adjudication in another country? This course includes an outline of jurisdiction and judgments techniques, but will focus on problems in choice of law, and issues in the exclusion of foreign law. Coverage includes problems in contract and torts, and other areas may be selected from time to time. This course is complementary to International Commercial Litigation, but it stands on its own as an introduction to theories and methodologies in the conflict of laws."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5050", "title": "Public International Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5050V", "title": "Public International Law", "description": "This foundational course introduces the student to the nature, major principles, processes and institutions of the international legal system, the relationship between international and domestic law and the role of law in promoting world public order. Students will acquire an understanding of the conceptual issues underlying this discipline and a critical appreciation of how law inter-relates with contemporary world politics, its global, regional and domestic significance. Topics include the creation and status of international law, participation and competence in the international legal system, primary substantive norms such as the law regulating the use of force and enforcement procedures."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5051", "title": "Principles of Restitution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5054", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5054V", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of domestic and international sale of goods under the Singapore law. With regard to domestic sales, the course will focus on the Sale of Goods Act. Topics to\nbe studied will include the essential elements of the contract of sale; the passing of title and risk; the implied conditions of title, description, fitness and quality; delivery and payment, acceptance and termination, and the available remedies. With particular reference to a seller\u2019s delivery obligations, the course will also cover substantial aspects of the international sale of goods under the common law, such as FOB and CIF contracts and documentary sales. This course will be of interest to students intending to enter commercial practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5055", "title": "Securities Regulation", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of securities regulation, trusts, corporate governance and M & A, in Singapore and jurisdictions like US, China, UK, Australia, Taiwan and HK. Topics to be covered: use of alternative business entities and nature of shares; \"going public\" process; corporate governance of listed companies and trusts; insider trading and securities frauds; globalisation and technology; and the regulation of takeover activity. It also offers an introduction to the law of trusts, including custody arrangements and securitisation. Students are expected to search Internet for comparative materials but will also be provided with assigned readings."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5056A", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5056AV", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": "This foundation course seeks to acquaint participants with a basic working knowledge of income tax and goods and services tax issues faced by companies and individuals. It will illustrate the extent to which tax avoidance is acceptable under the rules for deductions, capital allowances and losses. In addition, the taxation of income from employment income, trade and investments will be highlighted. Tax planning opportunities arising from the differences in tax treatment of sole proprietors, partnerships and companies will be highlighted. On policy issues, concepts including economics of taxation, international trends and tax reform will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5056B", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5056BV", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": "This foundation course seeks to acquaint participants with a basic working knowledge of income tax and goods and services tax issues faced by companies and individuals. It will illustrate the extent to which tax avoidance is acceptable under the rules for deductions, capital allowances and losses. In addition, the taxation of income from employment income, trade and investments will be highlighted. Tax planning opportunities arising from the differences in tax treatment of sole proprietors, partnerships and companies will be highlighted. On policy issues, concepts including economics of taxation, international trends and tax reform will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5057V", "title": "Theoretical Foundations Of Criminal Law", "description": "The aim of this course is to examine and critique the philosophical assumptions that underlie the substantive criminal law. We begin with a survey of the various philosophical theories that purport to explain and justify the imposition of criminal liability. Once familiar with the fundamental concepts and issues, we then consider the relationship between moral responsibility and criminal liability by analyzing the theoretical assumptions behind the substantive principles and doctrine of criminal law. This is a seminar-style course aimed at students who already have grounding in criminal law, philosophy of law, or moral theory. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5059V", "title": "United Nations Law & Practice", "description": "By examining primary materials focused on the normative context within which the United Nations functions, students will develop an understanding of the interaction between law and practice. This is essential to a proper understanding of the UN Organization, but also to the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions more generally. The course is organized in four parts. Part I, \"Relevance\", raises some preliminary questions about the legitimacy and effectiveness of the United Nations, particularly in the area of peace and security. Part II, \"Capacity\", brings together materials on the nature and status of the United Nations. Part III, \"Practice\", examines how the United Nations has exercised its various powers. Part IV, \"Accountability\", concludes with materials on responsibility and accountability of the United Nations and its agents. A background in public international law is strongly recommended."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5060", "title": "World Trade Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5060B", "title": "World Trade Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5061", "title": "Inquiry", "description": "In this module, students will be encouraged to reflect upon what is really involved in pursuing a life of intellectual work. To this end, students will undertake a philosophical exploration of research and scholarship as it is routinely conducted across the experimental and social sciences, the humanities, literature and philosophy. Drawing upon insights achieved by historians, scientists, legal thinkers, sociologists, philosophers and literary writers into their respective crafts, students will explore not only the practical techniques recommended by these practitioners, but more significantly, the habits and virtues that have been found to be most conducive to successful practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5061V", "title": "Inquiry", "description": "In this module, students will be encouraged to reflect upon what is really involved in pursuing a life of intellectual work. To this end, students will undertake a philosophical exploration of research and scholarship as it is routinely conducted across the experimental and social sciences, the humanities, literature and philosophy. Drawing upon insights achieved by historians, scientists, legal thinkers, sociologists, philosophers and literary writers into their respective crafts, students will explore not only the practical techniques recommended by these practitioners, but more significantly, the habits and virtues that have been found to be most conducive to successful practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5062", "title": "Legal Reasoning & Legal Theory", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of legal reasoning, and its relationship with broader questions in legal theory. The course will examine, inter alia, the nature of rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, legal realism, statutory interpretation, judicial opinions, rules and standards, law and fact, and the burden of proof. The overarching questions to be addressed in this course include: In what way(s), if at all, is legal reasoning a distinctive form of reasoning? What is the relationship between legal reasoning and legal theory?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5062V", "title": "Legal Reasoning & Legal Theory", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of legal reasoning, and its relationship with broader questions in legal theory. The course will examine, inter alia, the nature of rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, legal realism, statutory interpretation, judicial opinions, rules and standards, law and fact, and the burden of proof. The overarching questions to be addressed in this course include: In what way(s), if at all, is legal reasoning a distinctive form of reasoning? What is the relationship between legal reasoning and legal theory?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5063", "title": "Business & Finance For Lawyers", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5063V", "title": "Business & Finance For Lawyers", "description": "To provide law students who intend to read commercial law electives with a foundation in accounting, finance and other related business concepts. It covers topics such as interpretation and analysis of standard financial statements, the types of players and instruments in the financial markets and the basic framework of a business investment market.The course will employ a hypothetical simulation where lawyers advise on several proposals involving the acquisition and disposal of assets by a client. The issues covered in the hypothetical will include asset valuation models, financing options and techniques, and compliance with accounting and regulatory frameworks."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5064", "title": "Competition Law and Policy", "description": "This module will examine the competition law and policy framework in Singapore and will introduce students to the three pillars of the legal and regulatory framework:\n(i) the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements, \n(ii) the prohibition against abuses of market dominance, and \n(iii) the regulation of mergers and concentrations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5064V", "title": "Competition Law and Policy", "description": "This module will examine the competition law and policy framework in Singapore and will introduce students to the three pillars of the legal and regulatory framework:\n(i) the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements, \n(ii) the prohibition against abuses of market dominance, and \n(iii) the regulation of mergers and concentrations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5065", "title": "Comparative Corporate Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5067", "title": "Comparative Criminal Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5069", "title": "European Union Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5069V", "title": "European Union Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5070", "title": "Foundations of IP Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5070V", "title": "Foundations Of Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This course seeks to introduce students to the general principles of intellectual property law in Singapore, as well as, major international IP conventions. It is aimed at students who have no knowledge of IP law but are interested in learning more about this challenging area of law. It will also be useful for students intending to pursue the advanced courses in IP/IT by providing them with the necessary foundation on IP law. Students will be assessed based on open book examination, 1 written assignment and 1 class presentation. (Class presentation is subject to change depending on student subscription)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5071", "title": "International Patent Law, Policy and Practice", "description": "The advent of new technologies in this scientific and technological age has led to a dramatic shift in business strategies and global economic development. IP rights (particularly patents) form an \"inexhaustible resource\" from which the fruits of research and innovation can be valued, commercially dealt with and shared. This course will analyse the international, regional and national patent laws, policies and practices including important aspects on successful technology licensing and knowledge transfer, as well as valuation and strategies for monetization of IP (patent) assets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5071V", "title": "International Patent Law, Policy and Practice", "description": "The advent of new technologies in this scientific and technological age has led to a dramatic shift in business strategies and global economic development. IP rights (particularly patents) form an \"inexhaustible resource\" from which the fruits of research and innovation can be valued, commercially dealt with and shared. This course will analyse the international, regional and national patent laws, policies and practices including important aspects on successful technology licensing and knowledge transfer, as well as valuation and strategies for monetization of IP (patent) assets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5072B", "title": "Topics in IP Law (B): IP Valuation: Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5073", "title": "International Criminal Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5073V", "title": "International Criminal Law", "description": "This course will introduce to students the substantive and procedural framework of international criminal law. We will study international criminal law's historical origins, evolution, and how it is implemented today through a variety of different institutional frameworks. Among others, we will study post-WWII tribunals, the ad hoc international tribunals of Yugoslavia and Rwanda, hybrid tribunals, military tribunals and the permanent International Criminal Court. We will also examine non-criminal law responses to international crimes such as truth and reconciliation commissions. Students will critically explore and question the pros and cons of international criminal justice in terms of its professed goals and objectives."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5074", "title": "Mergers & Acquisitions", "description": "The course will begin with an evaluation of the business rationale for M&As and a discussion of the various types of transactions and related terminology. The regulatory issues surrounding these transactions will be analysed through examination of the applicable laws and regulations. The course adopts an nternational comparative perspective, with greater focus on the U.S., U.K. and Singapore. While corporate and securities law issues form the thrust, incidental reference will be made to accounting, tax and competition law considerations. inally, the transactional perspective will consider various\nstructuring matters, planning aspects, transaction costs\nand impact on various stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5074V", "title": "Mergers & Acquisitions", "description": "The course will begin with an evaluation of the business rationale for M&As and a discussion of the various types of transactions and related terminology. The regulatory issues surrounding these transactions will be analysed through examination of the applicable laws and regulations. The course adopts an nternational comparative perspective, with greater focus on the U.S., U.K. and Singapore. While corporate and securities law issues form the thrust, incidental reference will be made to accounting, tax and competition law considerations. inally, the transactional perspective will consider various\nstructuring matters, planning aspects, transaction costs\nand impact on various stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5075", "title": "IP and Competition Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5075V", "title": "IP and Competition Law", "description": "This course teaches the overlap between intellectual property and competition law. Students will be challenged to explore the intrinsic tensions that lie between the\nstatutory regimes that regulate market dominance, restrictive agreements and the monopolistic prerogatives and assertions by holders of intellectual property rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5076", "title": "It Law I", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5076V", "title": "IT Law I", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. Issues to be examined include the conduct of electronic commerce, cybercrimes, electronic evidence, privacy and data protection. (This course will not cover the intellectual property issues, which are addressed instead in \"IT Law: IP Issues\".) Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology and policy will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5077V", "title": "IT Law II", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. The focus of this course will be on the intellectual property issues such as copyright in software and electronic materials, software patents, electronic databases, trade marks, domain names and rights management information. Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology, policy and economic rights will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5078", "title": "Law & Practice of Investment Treaty Arbitration", "description": "This course is about a form of arbitration which is specific to disputes arising between international investors and host states \u2013 i.e. investor-state disputes \u2013 involving public, treaty rights. In contrast, international commercial arbitration typically deals with the resolution of disputes over private law rights between what are usually private parties.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in arbitration, and/or the law of foreign investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5079", "title": "State and Company in Legal-Historical Perspective", "description": "This module examines the relationship between the public and private power through the historical lens of the East India Company (established in 1600), one of the first multinational corporations. In particular, it examines: the\nformation and evolution of the Company and the legal implications of its ambiguous status as a private or public entity; its transformation into a sovereign power in India against the backdrop of the rise of the modern state and modern constitutionalism in Europe and the United States of America; and the Company\u2019s role in the founding of modern Singapore; and the Company\u2019s demise in 1858."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5081", "title": "Comparative Advocacy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5082", "title": "Law & Social Movements", "description": "This course provides a broad understanding of the relationship between law and social movements. Why do people mobilize collectively? We begin with this question, and then consider the different approaches of conceptualizing social movements. Next, we delve into questions intersecting social movements and sociology of law: the use of law as social control and repression, the role of lawyers in social movements, legal strategies involved in collective claim\u2010making, and the relationship between law and social change. After that, we examine a selection of case studies such as those concerning prodemocracy\nmovements, sexual rights movements, rightwing and counter movements, and transnational movements."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5085", "title": "International Trusts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5088", "title": "Chinese Contract Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5088V", "title": "Chinese Contract Law", "description": "This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on selected issues in contract law. It will compare the main principles of contract at common law and that in Chinese law. It will also examine the Chinese\ncontract law perspectives on scope of application, judicial interpretation, formation, performance, modification and assignment of contracts as well as liability for breach of contract.\n\nAt the end of the course, students will be able to understand the Chinese contract law framework and appreciate the differences at common law and that in Chinese law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5089", "title": "Chinese Corporate and Securities Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5089V", "title": "Chinese Corporate & Securities Law", "description": "This module introduces students to the laws and the relevant legislation governing the main forms of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China such as equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and limited liability companies.The aim is to provide students with a critical understanding of the FDI regime in China as well as an understanding of the relationship between the FDI governing laws and other general laws so as to provide updated and accurate information and enable proper legal advice to be given in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5093", "title": "Chinese Intellectual Property Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5093V", "title": "Chinese Intellectual Property Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094", "title": "The Pro Bono Family Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "Legal aid aims to ensure that all member of society have access to justice, regardless of their financial means.\n\nThis clinic provides students with a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students will assist an experienced legal practitioner with a Legal Aid Bureau case. Cases will relate to family law matters, and may cover issues relating to divorce, child maintenance, estate division and mental capacity. \n\nUnder guided mentorship, students will experience a meaningful learning journey that will allow them to gain professional practice skills, substantive knowledge in the area of family law, and refine their research, analysis, and drafting skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094A", "title": "The Corporate Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic provides students with the opportunity to handle a corporate matter, for a partner organisation, under guided mentorship. Partner organisations presently include the National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, The Arts House, Alzheimer's Disease Association, Singapore Hospice Council, Singapore Children\u2019s Society and Ernst & Young (Legal Corporate Social Responsibility Group).\n\nStudents will experience a meaningful learning journey, will gain valuable corporate practice skills, and increase their substantive knowledge in the areas of law that are relevant to the matters they are handling. Matters could cover areas such as personal data protection, contract formation and intellectual property issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094AV", "title": "The Corporate Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic provides students with the opportunity to handle a corporate matter, for a partner organisation, under guided mentorship. Partner organisations presently include the National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, The Arts House, Alzheimer's Disease Association, Singapore Hospice Council, Singapore Children\u2019s Society and Ernst & Young (Legal Corporate Social Responsibility Group).\n\nStudents will experience a meaningful learning journey, will gain valuable corporate practice skills, and increase their substantive knowledge in the areas of law that are relevant to the matters they are handling. Matters could cover areas such as personal data protection, contract formation and intellectual property issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094BV", "title": "NUS-State Courts Judicial Clerkship Programme", "description": "The State Courts Clerkship Programme is a judicial clinical legal education programme designed to provide top law students with the opportunity to be attached to senior District Court Judges and acquire experiential knowledge of law practice through direct exposure to judicial work. It is a unique course which allows law students to acquire a different perspective of legal work through personalised interaction with senior Judges, working on actual cases from a judicial perspective and experiencing legal practice in a real-life court setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094C", "title": "The Access to Justice Low Bono Litigation Clinic", "description": "Access to justice is a fundamental tenet of the rule of law. Many individuals of low means do not qualify for legal aid. Low bono seeks to fill this lacuna. This legal clinic provides students with the experiential learning opportunity of assisting lawyers with pro bono or low bono cases originating from the Family Justice Support Scheme (FJSS) or the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) and other sources. These matters will predominantly relate to matrimonial matters involving foreign spouses and cross-border matrimonial issues, deputyship and estate matters, and Syariah divorce matters."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094CV", "title": "The Access to Justice Low Bono Litigation Clinic", "description": "Access to justice is a fundamental tenet of the rule of law. Many individuals of low means do not qualify for legal aid. Low bono seeks to fill this lacuna. This legal clinic provides students with the experiential learning opportunity of assisting lawyers with pro bono or low bono cases originating from the Family Justice Support Scheme (FJSS) or the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) and other sources. These matters will predominantly relate to matrimonial matters involving foreign spouses and cross-border matrimonial issues, deputyship and estate matters, and Syariah divorce matters."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094D", "title": "The Pro Bono Criminal Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the opportunity of being heavily involved in assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a Criminal Legal Aid Scheme (CLAS) case. \n\nUnder close mentorship students will embark upon a hands-on learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and deepen their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students could be dealing with cases involving offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act (Cap. 50A) or the Moneylenders Act (Cap. 188). Students will be involved in tasks such as attending client interviews, drafting pleadings and possibly attending court hearings."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094DV", "title": "The Pro Bono Criminal Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the opportunity of being heavily involved in assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a Criminal Legal Aid Scheme (CLAS) case. \n\nUnder close mentorship students will embark upon a hands-on learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and deepen their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students could be dealing with cases involving offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act (Cap. 50A) or the Moneylenders Act (Cap. 188). Students will be involved in tasks such as attending client interviews, drafting pleadings and possibly attending court hearings."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094E", "title": "The Capital Offences Criminal Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the eye-opening experience of assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a case under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO). \n\nUnder guided mentorship clinical students will experience a learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and increase their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students may be involved in tasks such as attending client meetings, drafting pleadings and attending court hearings.\n\nStudents will be able to help accused individuals when they need it most. The experience may cause students to question their own views on justice, and life!"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094EV", "title": "The Capital Offences Criminal Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the eye-opening experience of assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a case under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO). \n\nUnder guided mentorship clinical students will experience a learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and increase their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students may be involved in tasks such as attending client meetings, drafting pleadings and attending court hearings.\n\nStudents will be able to help accused individuals when they need it most. The experience may cause students to question their own views on justice, and life!"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5094V", "title": "The Pro Bono Family Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "Legal aid aims to ensure that all member of society have access to justice, regardless of their financial means.\n\nThis clinic provides students with a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students will assist an experienced legal practitioner with a Legal Aid Bureau case. Cases will relate to family law matters, and may cover issues relating to divorce, child maintenance, estate division and mental capacity. \n\nUnder guided mentorship, students will experience a meaningful learning journey that will allow them to gain professional practice skills, substantive knowledge in the area of family law, and refine their research, analysis, and drafting skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5096", "title": "Int''l Trademark Law & Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5096V", "title": "International Trademark Law and Policy", "description": "The emphasis will be on the international and comparative aspects of the subject, including\n\nthe international treaties in this area (Paris Convention; TRIPS; Madrid etc) and regional developments (eg the Community trade mark system in Europe, the harmonization efforts in Asean);\n\ninter-relationship between trade mark law and the law of unfair competition in civil law jurisdictions;\n\ndifferent treatment by countries of topics such as parallel importation; protection of personality interests; dilution; protection of \"trade dress\" or \"get up\"."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5097", "title": "Islamic Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5097V", "title": "Islamic Law", "description": "Course will introduce history and basic concepts of traditional Islamic law, followed by an account of reforms during the 19th and 20th centuries. The reform period will be covered topically, beginning with method and philosophical foundations, and moving to a variety of issues of positive and procedural law. Finally, some themes related to law and modernity will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5099", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5099V", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": "This course will provide an understanding of the legal issues arising from casualties involving ships. It will examine aspects of the law relating to nationality and registration of ships, the law relating to the management of ships, ship sale and purchase, and the law of collisions, salvage, towage, wreck and general average. Students successfully completing the course will be familiar with the international conventions governing these issues, as well as the domestic law of Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5100", "title": "Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in China", "description": "This course takes students to the areas of significance in the field of dispute resolution in China, particularly with respect to the resolution of commercial disputes where arbitration plays a major role in today\u2019s China. Major methods of dispute resolution will be examined, such as arbitration, civil litigation, and mediation (as it combines with arbitration and litigation). Some topical issues pertinent to commercial disputes such as corporate litigation, securities enforcement, recognition and enforcement of foreign civil judgments, civil justice reform, and regional judicial assistance in the Greater China region will be looked into in the course as well."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5100V", "title": "Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in China", "description": "This course takes students to the areas of significance in the field of dispute resolution in China, particularly with respect to the resolution of commercial disputes where arbitration plays a major role in today\u2019s China. Major methods of dispute resolution will be examined, such as arbitration, civil litigation, and mediation (as it combines with arbitration and litigation). Some topical issues pertinent to commercial disputes such as corporate litigation, securities enforcement, recognition and enforcement of foreign civil judgments, civil justice reform, and regional judicial assistance in the Greater China region will be looked into in the course as well."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5102", "title": "Advanced Torts", "description": "Advanced Torts is designed to build on and further your knowledge of tort law.\nThe course is divided into two parts. In Part One, we will examine some fundamental concepts and debates surrounding tort law. The objective is to understand what is distinctive about torts and how torts are important in a civilised system of law. In Part Two, we will examine torts not already covered in the first year course. This will include consideration of important torts such as defamation, conversion, deceit, conspiracy and breach of statutory duty. These torts will be examined by reference to the best of the literature and by a selection of representative cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5102V", "title": "Advanced Torts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5104", "title": "Jurisprudence", "description": "This is an advanced-level course which provides an opportunity for rigorous study about the nature of law and broader issues in legal and political theory such as the nature of rights, the nature of justice, and questions about (fair) distribution. The course will examine a range of salient topics related to these issues and will be taught entirely through interactive, discussion-intensive seminars, that will rely heavily on active class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5104V", "title": "Jurisprudence", "description": "This is an advanced-level course which provides an opportunity for rigorous study about the nature of law and broader issues in legal and political theory such as the nature of rights, the nature of justice, and questions about (fair) distribution. The course will examine a range of salient topics related to these issues and will be taught entirely through interactive, discussion-intensive seminars, that will rely heavily on active class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5107V", "title": "Partnership and Alternative Business Vehicles", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5109", "title": "International Law & Asia", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5109V", "title": "International Law & Asia", "description": "How does Asia relate to the international community and international law? The region's rich diversity of states and socieities challenges assumptions of universality and also affects cooperation between states on issues such as human rights violations, environmental harm and the facilitation of freer trade. Yet a sense of reguinalism within East Asia is growing, with new institutions and mechanisms to deal with these and other contemporary challenges in East Asia. The seminar will discuss key issues of law and legal approaches in Asia, such as sovereignty, as well as provide for presentations bt students on research subjects."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5111V", "title": "International Copyright Law and Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5122", "title": "The Contemporary Indian Legal System", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5122V", "title": "The Contemporary Indian Legal System", "description": "While serving as an introductory course to the Indian legal system, this discussion-based Seminar seeks to focus on topical, contemporary legal issues in India. It will focus primarily on the post-Independence legal system in India, and its important institutions of democratic governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5123", "title": "International Insolvency Law", "description": "The general aim of the course is to impart a critical analytical understanding of International Insolvency Law. There will be consideration of the main features of national insolvency regimes highlighting the similarities and differences followed by a detailed consideration of the scope for cooperation in respect of insolvency matters across national frontiers. The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and the European Insolvency Regulation will be addressed in detail."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5125", "title": "Law & Development in China", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5125V", "title": "Law And Development In China", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5128", "title": "Chinese Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5129", "title": "Indian Business Law", "description": "The principal objective of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the various legal issues and perspectives involved in carrying out business and corporate transactions in India. \n\nThe course will begin with a brief introduction to India\u2019s legal system, the Constitution and the judiciary so as to set the tone. This part will also contain an evaluation of the changes since 1991 to India\u2019s economic policies that have made it an emerging economic superpower. Thereafter, it will deal with the core through a discussion of the legal aspects involved in setting up business operations in India, the different types of business entities available, shareholders\u2019 rights, joint ventures, raising finance both privately and by accessing public capital markets, and the regimes relating to foreign direct investment, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate bankruptcy. \n\nWhere applicable, the course will provide relevant comparisons with similar laws in other jurisdictions such as the U.S., the U.K. and Singapore. While the course is not intended to involve an exhaustive study of all applicable laws and regulations, it will highlight key legal considerations for business transactions in India and allow for deliberation on topical, contemporary issues with real-world examples."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5129V", "title": "Indian Business Law", "description": "The principal objective of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the various legal issues and perspectives involved in carrying out business and corporate transactions in India."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5131", "title": "Law, Governance & Development in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5131V", "title": "Law, Governance & Development in Asia", "description": "In the wake of Asia's striking economic progress issues of law and governance are now seen as critical for the developing, developed and post-conflict states of Asia. Legal reforms are embracing constitutional, representative government, good governance and accountability, and human rights, based on the rule of law. How and on what principles should Asian states build these new legal orders? Can they sustain economic progress and satisfy the demands for the control of corruption and abuses of powers, and the creation of new forms of accountability? This course examines on a broad comparative canvas the nature, fate and prospects for law and governance in developing democracies in Asia, using case studies drawn especially from SE Asian states. Coverage of the issues will be both theoretical, as we ask questions about the evolving nature of 'law and development'; and practical, as ask questions about the implementation of law and development projects across Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5133", "title": "Human Rights in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5133V", "title": "Human Rights in Asia", "description": "Firstly, to impart a solid grounding in the history, principles, norms, controversies and institutions of international human rights law. Secondly, to undertake a contextualized socio-legal study of human rights issues within Asian societies, through examining case law, international instruments, policy and state interactions with UN human rights bodies. 'Asia' alone has no regional human rights system; considering the universality and indivisibility of human rights, we consider how regional particularities affect or thwart human rights.
\nSubjects include: justiciability of socio-economic rights, right to development and self-determination, political freedoms, religious liberties, indigenous rights, national institutions, women's rights; MNC accountability for rights violations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5134", "title": "Crossing Borders: Law, Migration & Citizenship", "description": "Migration is not a new phenomenon but the intensity, frequency and ease with which persons are crossing borders today, both voluntarily and involuntarily, is\nunprecedented.\n\nThis course examines the legal issues impacting a person\u2019s migration path into and in Singapore. We will examine the criteria for admission to Singapore on a temporary or permanent basis, the evolution of immigration and nationality laws, as well as the domestic responses to the growing global problem of human trafficking.\n\nTheoretical perspectives on migration and citizenship are examined with a view to a range of normative questions including: How should constitutional democracies respond to and balance rights claims by citizens, residents, and others within their borders?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5134V", "title": "Crossing Borders: Law, Migration & Citizenship", "description": "Migration is not a new phenomenon but the intensity, frequency and ease with which persons are crossing borders today, both voluntarily and involuntarily, is\nunprecedented.\n\nThis course examines the legal issues impacting a person\u2019s migration path into and in Singapore. We will examine the criteria for admission to Singapore on a temporary or permanent basis, the evolution of immigration and nationality laws, as well as the domestic responses to the growing global problem of human trafficking.\n\nTheoretical perspectives on migration and citizenship are examined with a view to a range of normative questions including: How should constitutional democracies respond to and balance rights claims by citizens, residents, and others within their borders?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5135", "title": "Patent Law & Practice: Perspectives from the U.S", "description": "This module will introduce patent law and policy in the United States, and how they relate to other systems of law, primarily U.S. trade secret and antitrust law. The course begins with central legal principles and policies, emphasizing the concepts and skills required of a new lawyer with a working knowledge of patent law. By the end of the course, students will understand the requirements for obtaining protection, the doctrinal elements of an infringement action as well as the various types of defences and remedies available. Students will also gain a practice-oriented perspective of \u201creal-world\u201d issues facing inventors and companies as well as how those issues are consistent with, or in tension with, other interests."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5138", "title": "International & Comparative Law of Sale in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5138V", "title": "Int'l&Comp Law of Sale in Asia", "description": "The goal of this course is to prepare students for regional and international trade in Asia by providing basic knowledge of domestic laws of sale in both civil and common law systems in Asia (including Singapore's) as well as international rules affecting the contract of sale. The course will cover: comparative private law of contract and of sale in Asia; international private law of sale; private International Law aspects of international sales. The course is meant for students interested in international trade and comparative law in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5140", "title": "Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice", "description": "The Law of the Sea governs the conduct of States in the oceans. Given that the oceans covers five-seventh of the world\u2019s surface, it is a critical component of international law. It is also relevant for Singapore due to its extensive maritime interests. This course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Law of the Sea with the aim of examining how it addresses the ever-increasing challenges in the regulation of the oceans. The course will draw on a wide range of case studies from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5140V", "title": "Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice", "description": "The Law of the Sea governs the conduct of States in the oceans. Given that the oceans covers five-seventh of the world\u2019s surface, it is a critical component of international law. It is also relevant for Singapore due to its extensive maritime interests. This course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Law of the Sea with the aim of examining how it addresses the ever-increasing challenges in the regulation of the oceans. The course will draw on a wide range of case studies from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5146", "title": "Law & Society", "description": "This course is primarily concerned with the age-old dichotomy between law in the law books and law in action. Through the examination of the origin, function and pattern of law in primitive and modern societies from a historical, anthropological and sociological perspective, we will try to understand better, the constraints under which \u2018law\u2019 in modern society operates, and the limits on the use of law as an instrument of social change. \n\nIn the first part of the course, the student will be introduced to basic ideas in classical anthropology and the sociology of law. Questions such as - Are there any \u2018universal\u2019 patterns of human behaviour? To what extent is a society\u2019s perception of law influenced or controlled by environmental and econological factors? How are disputes resolved? Is aggression and warfare inherent in the human condition? - will be dealt with. In the second part of the course, these anthropological methods will be applied to a study of the concept of law in diverse societies from a sociological perspective, and to the actual function of law in \nsociety. Do patterns of human behaviour discernable in primitive societies hold true in more complex \u2018modern\u2019 societies? What are the attributes of a \u2018modern\u2019 legal system? Is the concept of \u2018law\u2019 in the western sense inevitable and universal in all kinds of societies. What happens to the concept of law in plural societies? \n\nTeaching will be by seminars which will include lectures and discussion of assigned readings. No previous knowledge of law anthropology or sociology is required or will be assumed of students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5146V", "title": "Law & Society", "description": "This course is primarily concerned with the age-old dichotomy between law in the law books and law in action. Through the examination of the origin, function and pattern of law in primitive and modern societies from a historical, anthropological and sociological perspective, we will try to understand better, the constraints under which \u2018law\u2019 in modern society operates, and the limits on the use of law as an instrument of social change. \n\nIn the first part of the course, the student will be introduced to basic ideas in classical anthropology and the sociology of law. Questions such as - Are there any \u2018universal\u2019 patterns of human behaviour? To what extent is a society\u2019s perception of law influenced or controlled by environmental and econological factors? How are disputes resolved? Is aggression and warfare inherent in the human condition? - will be dealt with. In the second part of the course, these anthropological methods will be applied to a study of the concept of law in diverse societies from a sociological perspective, and to the actual function of law in society. Do patterns of human behaviour discernable in primitive societies hold true in more complex \u2018modern\u2019 societies? What are the attributes of a \u2018modern\u2019 legal system? Is the concept of \u2018law\u2019 in the western sense inevitable and universal in all kinds of societies. What happens to the concept of law in plural societies? Teaching will be by seminars which will include lectures and discussion of assigned readings. No previous knowledge of law anthropology or sociology is required or will be assumed of students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5148", "title": "Secured Transactions Law", "description": "This course provides a comparative study of the law of secured transactions across the common law world. The first part covers the English law of security and title financing in depth. The second part looks at the notice filing model originally introduced in UCC Article 9 and now enacted as PPSAs in several other jurisdictions. The third part looks at reform of secured transactions law around the world, and, in particular, the Cape Town Convention and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide and Model Law. This course will be of interest to anyone interested in the debt side of corporate finance, as well as those interested in transnational commercial law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5150", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5150V", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5153", "title": "International Police Enforcement Cooperation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5155", "title": "Topics in Law & Economics", "description": "This seminar will explore several key topics at the intersection of law and economics. It will commence with an exploration of the concept of rationality as employed in\n(positive) micro-economic theory. It will also explore the Coase theorem as a means of understanding the importance of legal rules and institutions. These theoretical tools will then be used as a lens for examining, amongst other topics, tort, contract and insolvency law; company law; financial regulation, and the role of law and legal institutions in economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5158", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5158V", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5159", "title": "The Economic Analysis of Law", "description": "In this course, we will look at the way economists analyze legal problems and how economics has contributed to our understanding of the legal system. In order to do that, we\u2019ll want to get a firm grounding on what an economist\u2019s lens looks like. We\u2019ll run through the main principles of economic thought. \n\nAfter this introduction to economic thinking, we\u2019ll look at how the principles of economics are applied in specific legal contexts. For these basic applications, we shall take examples from four courses (Property, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law) to see how an economist might approach these problems.\n\nFollowing on from these basic applications, we\u2019ll look at various extensions to the basic model and special topics."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5161", "title": "Intelligence Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5161V", "title": "Intelligence Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5162", "title": "Singapore Corporate Governance", "description": "Since Singapore\u2019s independence in 1965, its economic development has been remarkable. Singapore\u2019s unique system of corporate governance is one of the keys to its economic success. This course will begin by providing a historical and comparative overview of Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance. It will then undertake an indepth and comparative analysis of the core aspects of Singapore corporate governance, highlighting the aspects which make it unique. The course will then examine the latest developments in Singapore corporate governance, with an emphasis on analysing the details, policy rationale, and implications of recent reforms. The course will conclude by considering what the future may hold for Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance and what other jurisdictions may learn from it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5162V", "title": "Singapore Corporate Governance", "description": "Since Singapore\u2019s independence in 1965, its economic development has been remarkable. Singapore\u2019s unique system of corporate governance is one of the keys to its economic success. This course will begin by providing a historical and comparative overview of Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance. It will then undertake an indepth and comparative analysis of the core aspects of Singapore corporate governance, highlighting the aspects which make it unique. The course will then examine the latest developments in Singapore corporate governance, with an emphasis on analysing the details, policy rationale, and implications of recent reforms. The course will conclude by considering what the future may hold for Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance and what other jurisdictions may learn from it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5164", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5164V", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": "This course is intended to introduce students to the practice and law relating to international projects and infrastructure. The various methods of procurement and the construction process involved will be reviewed in conjunction with standard forms that are used internationally - such as the FIDIC, JCT and NEC forms, among others. Familiar issues such as defects, time and cost overruns and the implications therefrom (and how these matters are dealt with in an international context) will also be covered.\n\nThe course will provide students with an understanding of how international projects are procured, planned and administered as well as give an insight into how legal and commercial risks are identified, priced, managed and mitigated."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5170", "title": "Comparative Conflict of Laws", "description": "This is an advanced course of private international law which offers a comparative perspective on the traditional issues addressed by rules of private international law, i.e. choice of law, international jurisdiction, and the recognition of foreign judgments. The focus will essentially be the United States and on the European Union, but other jurisdictions will also be considered from time to time."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5171", "title": "Asean Environmental Law, Policy and Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5171V", "title": "ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy & Governance", "description": "This course examines the progressive development of environmental law, policy and governance in ASEAN. It also considers the role of ASEAN in supplementing and facilitating international environmental agreements (MEAs), such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNESCO Man & Biosphere,etc. It will evaluate the extent of implementation of the ASEAN environmental instruments at national level - some case studies will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5172", "title": "Japanese Corporate Law & Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5173", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5173V", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": "This module examines the core legal characteristics of the corporate form in five major jurisdictions: the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany and France. It explains the common agency problems that are inherent in the corporate form and compares the legal strategies that each jurisdiction uses to solve these common problems. The major topics that this comparative examination covers include: agency problems; legal personality and limited liability; basic governance structures; creditor protection; related party transactions; significant corporate actions; control transactions; issuer and investor protection; the convergence of corporate law; and, comparative corporate law in developing countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5175", "title": "Global Legal Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", "description": "The development of new types of legal phenomena in the global arena has outgrown established understandings of law, and conventional classifications of legal materials. At the point of needing a theoretical underpinning for the novel concerns of academic law occasioned by globalization, fresh considerations of interdisciplinary perspectives on law are opened up, questioning the extent to which a distinctively legal approach to global issues is possible. This course engages with these challenges by exploring the global interconnectedness of law, morality, politics and economics, and considers what contribution legal theory might make to illuminating complex policy issues with a global reach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5175V", "title": "Global Legal Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", "description": "The development of new types of legal phenomena in the global arena has outgrown established understandings of law, and conventional classifications of legal materials. At the point of needing a theoretical underpinning for the novel concerns of academic law occasioned by globalization, fresh considerations of interdisciplinary perspectives on law are opened up, questioning the extent to which a distinctively legal approach to global issues is possible. This course engages with these challenges by exploring the global interconnectedness of law, morality, politics and economics, and considers what contribution legal theory might make to illuminating complex policy issues with a global reach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5177", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5177V", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5178", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5178V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5179", "title": "International Alternative Dispute Resolution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5180", "title": "Choice of Law & Jurisdiction in Int\u2019l Commercial Contracts in Asia", "description": "Starting by examining the theory and the need for choice of law and jurisdiction clauses, this course will examine various issues with these clauses by involving students in drafting, negotiating, concluding and eventually enforcing choice of law and jurisdiction clauses (in particular arbitration clauses) in international commercial contracts in Asia. This will be done through real life scenarios being introduced into the classroom in which students will act as lawyers advising and representing clients in drafting and negotiating choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as attacking or defending them before a tribunal in a dispute context. Accordingly, students will live through the life of various choice of law and jurisdiction clauses and see how they can be drafted, negotiated and enforced in Asian jurisdictions. \nUpon completion of the course, students will have learnt the theories behind choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as the practical skills and lessons in negotiating, finalizing and enforcing them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5185", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5185V", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5187", "title": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law", "description": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law invites students to critically examine (1) the theoretical underpinnings of contract law at the level of meta theory (e.g. autonomy, reliance, promise, economic, property), but also (2) at the level of foundational concepts such as \u2018autonomy\u2019, \u2018freedom\u2019, \u2018the intention of the parties\u2019, \u2018vitiation\u2019 and \u2018expectation interest\u2019; (3) how the theories help us to explain different aspects of contract law. Students should be able to engage in normative analysis of the law (how the law should be) with a view to desirable law reform. It complements the modules Advanced Contract Law and Property Theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5188", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. Advisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5188V", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. \nAdvisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5189", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5189V", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5190", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these jurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5190V", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these\njurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5191", "title": "Wealth Management Law", "description": "This course will examine the legal principles and regulatory environment surrounding the wealth management services provided by banking institutions. Major topics that are likely to be covered on the course include the nature and regulation of wealth management services and providers, banks\u2019 potential liability for the provision of wealth management services (such as financial advisory services in general and in relation to complex financial products in particular, the provision of financial information and data, portfolio management services, and custodianship) and the effectiveness of banks\u2019 attempts to exclude or limit liability."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5192", "title": "Private International Law of IP", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5193", "title": "An Introduction to Negotiating & Drafting Commercial Contracts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5193V", "title": "An Introduction to Negotiating & Drafting Commercial Contracts", "description": "This course provides a practical introduction to the essentials of negotiating and drafting commercial contracts in the Common Law tradition. \nThe course begins with a refresh of plain English writing skills. The second part then reviews key Common Law concepts and considers the Common Law's attitudes to the commercial world. The third looks at the fundamental shape, structure and organisation of commercial contracts. The fourth deals with aspects of law routinely encountered by the practitioner and technical drafting issues. The fifth focuses on technical drafting. The sixth and final part considers the approach of managing legal risk and the practicalities of negotiation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5194", "title": "Partnership and LLP Law", "description": "This module will examine in depth the law of partnerships. The basic framework is the same in most Commonwealth countries and based still on the UK Partnership Act of 1890. The topics to be covered in relation to general partnerships include the formation of partnerships, partnerships in the modern legal system, the relationship between partners and outsiders, the relationship of partners inter se and the dissolution of partnerships. The module will then examine the variants of limited partnerships, used mainly as investment vehicles, and limited liability partnerships. LLPs, a recent creation, are becoming increasingly popular for the professions especially. They are an amalgam of corporate and partnership concepts but are also developing their own specific legal issues which will only increase with time."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5195V", "title": "International Economic Law & Relations", "description": "This course examines the international law and international relations dimensions of the current international economic systems and discuss the various possibilities for future reforms in light of the past and recent global economic crises. While the discussion will be based on the Bretton Woods System (the GATT/WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank), the course will focus mainly on the international regulatory framework of finance and investment. The purpose of the course is to let the students develop a bird\u2019s eye view of the legal aspects of the international economic architecture as well as the reasons \u2013 or the international political economy \u2013 behind its operation. Students will also be exposed certain fundamentals of international law and international relations concerning global economic affairs. Further, the course will examine the experiences of several countries\u2019 economic development and their use of international economic law to achieve economic growth."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5197", "title": "Comparative State and Religion in Southeast Asia", "description": "How do Southeast Asian constitutions accommodate religion? Is secularism necessary for democracy? Do public religions undermine religious freedom? These are some of the questions we will be engaging with in this course.\n\nThere are two segments to the course. In the first segment, we will examine general theories of statereligion relations, including liberal assumptions of the dominant theory of the separation of church and state (the \u201cdisestablishment theory\u201d), the rise and fall of the secularization thesis, and alternative theories.\n\nDuring the second segment, we will examine statereligion relations through topical issues in selected countries in Southeast Asia, including how legal systems in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia accommodate Syariah Courts, and how separationist claims based on religious difference and identities are advanced in the Philippines and Thailand."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5197V", "title": "Comparative State and Religion in Southeast Asia", "description": "How do Southeast Asian constitutions accommodate religion? Is secularism necessary for democracy? Do public religions undermine religious freedom? These are some of the questions we will be engaging with in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5202", "title": "ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy", "description": "ASEAN leaders agreed to create a single market \u2013 the ASEAN Economic Community \u2013 by 2015. Due to sovereignty concerns, ASEAN leaders did not create a single supranational authority to regulate this market. This course examines how ASEAN member states and institutions are filling in the vacuum through formal and informal means. Students will understand how regional policymaking affects domestic laws and policies within ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5202V", "title": "ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy", "description": "ASEAN leaders agreed to create a single market \u2013 the ASEAN Economic Community \u2013 by 2015. Due to sovereignty concerns, ASEAN leaders did not create a single supranational authority to regulate this market. This course examines how ASEAN member states and institutions are filling in the vacuum through formal and informal means. Students will understand how regional policymaking affects domestic laws and policies within ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5203", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5203A", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5203B", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5203C", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5204", "title": "Islamic Finance Law", "description": "This course will provide students with an overview of the fundamental principles of Islamic commercial law and how they are applied in the modern context in connection with the practice of Islamic finance. The course will begin with \nhistorical doctrines, discuss modern transformations, review practical examples, and consider the treatment of Islamic financial contracts in secular courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5205", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5205V", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5208", "title": "Advanced Criminal Legal Process", "description": "The course encompasses the theoretical and practical concepts underpinning the entire criminal litigation process, from pre-trial to post-conviction. Coverage will include the role of the charge, drafting of charges, plea-bargains, guilty pleas, trials, consequential orders and appeals. Common evidential issues arising in trials will also be discussed. The aim is to provide both a holistic overview of the entire process as well as detailed examination of specific areas. The course will cover criminal procedure and evidence as well as include advocacy exercises in common criminal proceedings and a practical attachment at the Criminal Justice Division."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5208V", "title": "Advanced Criminal Legal Process", "description": "The course encompasses the theoretical and practical concepts underpinning the entire criminal litigation process, from pre-trial to post-conviction. Coverage will include the role of the charge, drafting of charges, plea-bargains, guilty pleas, trials, consequential orders and appeals. Common evidential issues arising in trials will also be discussed. The aim is to provide both a holistic overview of the entire process as well as detailed examination of specific areas. The course will cover criminal procedure and evidence as well as include advocacy exercises in common criminal proceedings and a practical attachment at the Criminal Justice Division."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5209", "title": "Legal Argument & Narrative", "description": "This module will focus on the advanced argumentative techniques possible with legal narrative, which refers to how information is selected and organised to construct a persuasive view of the facts. Fact construction plays a particularly prominent role in litigation, but it also appears in methods of alternative dispute resolution and justifications of policy positions. This module will analyze \nthe pervasive reach of fact construction in the law, examine why fact construction is such an effective tool of legal persuasion, and explore advanced techniques of fact\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5209V", "title": "Legal Argument & Narrative", "description": "This module will focus on the advanced argumentative techniques possible with legal narrative, which refers to how information is selected and organised to construct a persuasive view of the facts. Fact construction plays a particularly prominent role in litigation, but it also appears in methods of alternative dispute resolution and justifications of policy positions. This module will analyze \nthe pervasive reach of fact construction in the law, examine why fact construction is such an effective tool of legal persuasion, and explore advanced techniques of fact\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5210", "title": "Intellectual Property And International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5210V", "title": "Intellectual Property And International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5211", "title": "International Public Monetary and Payment Systems Law", "description": "The course addresses major regulatory legal aspects of money, payments, and clearing and settlement systems from international, comparative and global perspective. It addresses the design and structure of the monetary and\npayment systems; the infrastructure designed to accommodate the payment and settlement of commercial and financial transactions; sovereign debt; and the impact of sovereign risk on commercial and financial transactions. It covers domestic & international monetary systems; central banking; international retail and wholesale payments in major currencies; settlement of financial transactions; foreign exchange transactions; payment clearing & settlement: mechanisms and risks; systematically important payment systems; and global securities settlement systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5213", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5213V", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5214", "title": "International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law", "description": "The module explores principles and rules relating to the exploration for, development and production of oil and gas (upstream operations). The main focus of the module is on the examination of different arrangements governing the\nlegal relationship between states and international oil companies, such as modern concessions, productionsharing agreements, joint ventures, service and hybrid contracts. The agreements governing the relationships between companies involved in upstream petroleum operations (joint operating and unitisation agreements) will also be examined. The module will further explore the\nissues of dispute settlement, expropriation, stability of contracts and a relevant international institutional and legal framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5216", "title": "Cyber Law", "description": "Cyberspace is the online world of computer networks, especially the Internet. This module examines two major points of connection between the law and cyberspace: how communications in cyberspace are regulated; and how\n(intellectual) property rights in cyberspace are enforced. Specific topics include: governing the Internet; jurisdiction and dispute resolution in cyberspace; controlling online content; electronic privacy; trademarks on the Internet;\ncybersquatting; digital copyright; virtual worlds."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5217", "title": "Comparative & International Anti-Corruption Law", "description": "This module will examine the legal approach to curbing corruption in three jurisdictions namely: Singapore, US and UK. The focus will be on bribery of public officials both domestic and foreign. The applicable laws \u2013 domestic and\nextra-territorial - in the selected national jurisdictions will be examined to see how effective they are for curbing such corruption. The module will also examine regional and multi-regional laws enacted to curb corruption. Major topics to be coveredinclude: preventive measures; criminalization; corporate liability including criminal and non-criminal sanctions; and jurisdictional principles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5218V", "title": "Asian Legal Studies Colloquium", "description": "This module draws on research, programming and visiting speakers under the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, ASLI Fellows and NUS faculty, bringing students into discussion, interrogation and analysis of major current issues in Asian legal studies. The module will involve reading and analyzing recent work in the field, emphasising theoretical and methodological approaches in a comparative context. It will use current case studies as examples for analysis. These will vary from year to year according to CALS activity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5219", "title": "The Trial of Jesus in Western Legal Thought", "description": "The Trial of Jesusis an excellent case for students to learn how to conduct non\u2010practical studies of legal and normative issues. It is, arguably, the most consequential\nlegal event in the evolution of Western Civilization. We will examine the historical, political, and legal background to the Trial, and, especially, the procedural propriety of\nthe Trial. Questions to be explored include: Were hisprocedural rights preserved during his trial before the Sanhedrin? Was histrial a miscarriage of justice? Through\nreflecting upon these and other questions, we will explore if and how thistrialshaped the Western culture. \n\nThis module is also concerned with the \u2018method\u2019 or \u2018process\u2019 of how students digest and integrate \u2019substance\u2019 or\u2018content\u2019. Thus,there is emphasis on the significance of understanding and clarifying, the complexity of each and every problem, and not only the importance of offering, or trying to offer, a clever solution to it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5220", "title": "International Business Transactions", "description": "This course explores the legal issues \u2010 both from a conflict of laws perspective and a substantive law one \u2010 that may arise in connection with business contracts (such as contracts for the sale of goods, factoring contracts, leasing\ncontracts, transport contracts, etc.) that involve some element of internationality and examines those issues in light of some of the sets of rules specifically designed to address those issues when embedded in an international\nsetting (such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the International Factoring Convention, the Convention on International Financial Leasing, the Montreal Convention,\nthe Rome I Regulation, etc.). The course will also offer an overview of the basic features of litigation of those issues in state courts and before arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5221", "title": "Climate Change Law & Policy", "description": "This course will explore legal and policy developments pertaining to climate change. Approaches considered will range in jurisdictional scale, temporal scope, policy orientation, regulatory target, and regulatory objective. Although course readings and discussion will focus on existing and actual proposed legal responses to climate change, the overarching aim of the course will be\nto anticipate how the climate change problem will affect our laws and our lives in the long run."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5222", "title": "The Law & Politics of International Courts & Tribunals", "description": "The course provides students with profound knowledge relating to core issues of procedural law (including jurisdiction, admissibility, standing, provisional measures, \napplicable law, and the effect as well as enforcement of international decisions). It combines the discussion of these matters of law with international relations theory and issues of judicial policy. Against the background of a mounting stream of international judicial decisions, students will develop a solid analytical framework to \nappreciate the law and politics of international judicial institutions, focusing on the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the World Trade Organization, and adjudication in investment disputes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5223", "title": "Cross Border Mergers", "description": "The module will analyze and discuss mergers which involve two or more entities which are located in different countries. \n\nAfter outlining the issues and conflicts created by the duality of corporate, control of foreign investment, regulatory and tax (for the latter in general terms) laws, the various solutions available will be discussed. \n\nEmphasis will be given to international treaties and European directives solutions as used in actual transactions. \n\nOther structures, in the absence of regulatory support, such as stock for stock offers and dual listing will be analyzed, also as used in actual transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5224", "title": "Cybercrime & Information Security Law", "description": "Cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwars have been new threats developed in the interconnected age of the internet. In this Module we are looking at a range of \ncrimes committed through the use of computers, computer integrity offences where computers or networks are the target of the criminal activity and internet crimes \nrelated to the distribution of illegal content. This Module examines substantive criminal law in England, other European countries, the US, Canada and Singapore . It \nexplores the greater risks stemming from criminal activities due to the borderless nature of the internet and the limits of international co-operation. This module also aims to teach the key legal aspects and principles surrounding electronic data and systems security, identity management and authentication."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5225", "title": "Topics in the Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "This course will provide an overview of the basic economic theory that underlies competition law, an area of law that has expanded dramatically around the world in recent years. Various topics will be covered, including an economic analysis of efficiency and why competition matters from the perspective of social welfare, horizontal agreements, mergers, vertical restraints, and exclusion of competitors. While the course will not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of antitrust law, relevant economic theory will be discussed in the context of legal cases taken from different jurisdictions around the world (most prominently the United States and Europe)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5226", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, traveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last stretch to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5226V", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, raveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last strech to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5227", "title": "Philanthropy, Non-profit Organizations, and the Law", "description": "This module covers the legal and policy framework for civil society, non-profit organizations, and philanthropy in Asia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and other jurisdictions, including the formation and ac tivities of \norganizations, capital formation and fundraising, state restrictions on activities, governance, donations from domestic and foreign sources, and o ther key topics. In 2014 the instructor and students will undertake a publishing project on philanthropy, non-profit organizations and the law in Asia in collaboration with the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL, which is based in Washington DC)"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5228", "title": "The Use of Force in International Law", "description": "This course introduces students to the rules on the use of force in international law. It does so from an historical perspective with special emphasis on state practice so that students can understand how and why the law on the use \nof force has evolved in the way it has. The course sets out the general prohibition on the u se of fo rce in the UN Charter, and introduces students to key concepts such as self-defence, humanitarian intervention, and aggression. Students will be introduced to debates on pre-emption, the use of force in pursuit of self-determination, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5228V", "title": "The Use of Force in International Law", "description": "This course introduces students to the rules on the use of force in international law. It does so from an historical perspective with special emphasis on state practice so that students can understand how and why the law on the use \nof force has evolved in the way it has. The course sets out the general prohibition on the u se of fo rce in the UN Charter, and introduces students to key concepts such as self-defence, humanitarian intervention, and aggression. Students will be introduced to debates on pre-emption, the use of force in pursuit of self-determination, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5229", "title": "Corporate Governance in the US and UK", "description": "This course adopts a functional approach to Anglo-American company law and integrates company law with corporate governance. The course examines core Company Law and the regulatory framework and practice on corporate governance \u2013 the system (structure and process) by which companies are \ngoverned, and to what purpose. In light of their extraterritorial reach and partly because of th e relationship between their markets and legal systems, the course focusses on the similarities and variations by considering the structural \ndifferences and similarities, legal frameworks and market structure (the effect of retail and institutional investors) as drivers of corporate governance regulation in both jurisdictions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5231", "title": "Transition and the Rule of Law in Myanmar", "description": "This subject will provide an introduction to the modern legal system of Myanmar/Burma in social, political and historical context. It will consider the legal framework and institutions of Myanmar in light of the literature on rule of \nlaw reform in transitional and developing contexts. The subject will include a focus on constitutional law; the legislature; the courts; criminal justice; minority rights; \nforeign investment law and special economic zones; the military; and institutional reform. The mode of assessment for this course is 80% research essay, 10% class presentation and 10% class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5233", "title": "European Company Law", "description": "European company law can be understood in two ways. It can indicate the EU\u2019s approach to company law and thereby lead to an analysis of the harmonized standards for 28 European nations. It can also be understood as a comparative approach to the different legal systems on the European continent. \n\nThis course includes both aspects. It will first concentrate on EU legislation and jurisdiction, followed by a comparison of the legal systems of the two most important continental European jursidictions, France and Germany. It will lead to an understanding of shared principles of civil law jurisdictions and emphasize important differences to common law systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5233V", "title": "European Company Law", "description": "European company law can be understood in two ways. It can indicate the EU\u2019s approach to company law and thereby lead to an analysis of the harmonized standards for 28 European nations. It can also be understood as a comparative approach to the different legal systems on the European continent. \n\nThis course includes both aspects. It will first concentrate on EU legislation and jurisdiction, followed by a comparison of the legal systems of the two most important continental European jursidictions, France and Germany. It will lead to an understanding of shared principles of civil law jurisdictions and emphasize important differences to common law systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5234", "title": "Property Theory", "description": "This module explores the way in which the concept of property has figured in political and legal theory. The module will first investigate the significance of property discourse in modern political theory, beginning with early modern authors such as Grotius and Locke, and then considering later political theorists such as Kant, Hume, Smith and Hegel, as well as utilitarian/economic treatments of property. The course will then draw upon this material to then focus on modern debates about the role of the concept of property in legal theory, covering such \nissues as economic/distributive justice, whether property is a \u2018bundle of rights\u2019, possession, ownership, and equitable property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5234V", "title": "Property Theory", "description": "This module explores the way in which the concept of property has figured in political and legal theory. The module will first investigate the significance of property discourse in modern political theory, beginning with early modern authors such as Grotius and Locke, and then considering later political theorists such as Kant, Hume, Smith and Hegel, as well as utilitarian/economic treatments of property. The course will then draw upon this material to then focus on modern debates about the role of the concept of property in legal theory, covering such issues as economic/distributive justice, whether property is a 'bundle of rights', possession, ownership, and equitable property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5235", "title": "International Contract Law: Principles and Practice", "description": "With the onset of globalization, the study of contract law can no longer be confined to arrangements between private entities sharing the same nationality and operating in the same jurisdiction. The costliest and most complex contractual disputes involve States, State entities, or State-linked enterprises, and foreign nationals, as contracting parties. The introduction of States as permanent and powerful participants in economic life led to the emergence of a bespoke body of law \u2013 international contract law \u2013 to regulate these prominent contractual arrangements. This course is for students who have been targeted for regional and international legal practice, or who plan to gravitate towards transnational legal work in multinational corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5235V", "title": "International Contract Law: Principles and Practice", "description": "With the onset of globalization, the study of contract law can no longer be confined to arrangements between private entities sharing the same nationality and operating in the same jurisdiction. The costliest and most complex contractual disputes involve States, State entities, or State-linked enterprises, and foreign nationals, as contracting parties. The introduction of States as permanent and powerful participants in economic life led to the emergence of a bespoke body of law \u2013 international contract law \u2013 to regulate these prominent contractual arrangements. This course is for students who have been targeted for regional and international legal practice, or who plan to gravitate towards transnational legal work in multinational corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5237V", "title": "Law, Institutions, and Business in Greater China", "description": "This module aims to explore the interaction between legal institutions and economic/business development in Greater China (i.e. China, Taiwan, HK), with focus on China. How has China been able to offset institutional weaknesses at home while achieving impressive economic results worldwide? Have China\u2019s experiences indicated an unorthodox model as captured in the term \u201cBeijing Consensus\u201d? To what extent is this model different from\nEast Asian models and conventional thinking in economic growth? This course reviews theories about market development in the context of Greater China, including securities, corporate regulations, capital markets, property, sovereign wealth funds, foreign investment, and anticorruption etc."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5238", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": "The course will cover the international, comparative and domestic aspects of corporate finance law and practice. The emphasis of the course will be on the actual application of corporate finance law in practice, the policies that have shaped the laws in Singapore and elsewhere, and the international conventions that have evolved in this area. Topics include: cash flow, value and risk; term loans and loan syndications; fund raising and capital markets; securitisations; derivatives; and financing mergers and acquisitions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5238V", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": "The course will cover the international, comparative and domestic aspects of corporate finance law and practice. The emphasis of the course will be on the actual application of corporate finance law in practice, the policies that have shaped the laws in Singapore and elsewhere, and the international conventions that have evolved in this area. Topics include: cash flow, value and risk; term loans and loan syndications; fund raising and capital markets; securitisations; derivatives; and financing mergers and acquisitions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5239V", "title": "Law & Politics in South Asia", "description": "This module focuses on contemporary legal and political institutions in the South Asian region, with particular emphasis on understanding the role and nature of law and constitutionalism. Although the primary focus will be on\nBangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, developments in Bhutan and Nepal will also be covered. The module will employ readings and perspectives from the disciplines of history, politics, sociology and economics to understand\nhow these affect the evolution of South Asian legal systems over time. It will also adopt comparative perspectives and analyse how individual legal systems in South Asia are influenced by other nations in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5241", "title": "Financial Stability and the Regulation of Banks", "description": "This course begins with an analysis of the fragility of the business model of commercial and investment banks and the negative externalities of bank failure. It then focuses on three principal functions of bank regulation: (1) making banks more resilient to business shocks; (2) making it less likely that banks will suffer shocks; (3) and facilitating the resolution and recovery of banks which fail. The focus will be on the crucial policy choices involved in achieving these objectives; the trade-offs among the available legal strategies; and the problems of regulatory arbitrage (shadow banking)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5242S", "title": "Financial Regulation and Central Banking", "description": "The module familiarizes students with the world of financial institutions and services, looks at the reasons for and the details of regulation and discusses the roles of central banks. This includes the general approaches and reasons for the regulation of financial markets, institutions and services. In a more detail-concentrated part, the course will focus on banks as the most strictly regulated and monitored financial institutions.\n\nCentral banks are essential for financial stability in all jurisdictions. The course discusses the reasons, objectives and tasks of central banks and their monetary policies. Examples will be central banks from Singapore, China, Japan and Europe."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5242V", "title": "Financial Regulation and Central Banking", "description": "The course will include various aspects of financial regulation. The focus will be on the regulation of credit institutions and the role of central banks. Other forms of regulation of financial intermediaries and financial markets will be discussed in less detail. Since the focus will be on credit institutions, it will be important that the students understand what distinguishes credit institutions from other providers of financial services and how the regulatory approaches differ.\n\nThe part on the regulation of credit institutions will include requirements for their\nauthorization, their permanent supervision and rescue scenarios in situations of insolvency and default. These aspects will be discussed from a comparative perspective with the Basel requirements at the core of the discussion, complemented by the implementing norms in important jurisdictions, above all in Singapore. For resolution and restructuring the European Union has taken on a leading role, and, as a consequence, these EU approaches will be analysed in detail.\n\nThe roles of central banks will remain a core part of the course. Their tasks and objectives will be discussed from a comparative perspective. Their essential role in crisis management, their co-operation with supervisory agencies and their monetary policy will remain essential components of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5243", "title": "The Effects of Space and Geography on Regulation", "description": "This seminar explores how the efficacy of any particular regulatory scheme can be shaped by the nature of the geographical space in which it operates. Simply put, regulatory schemes that are effective in one kind of geography can be ineffective in some other kind of geography. The seminar will look that this phenomena from a diversity of geographical perspectives, including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, cultural geography, and affective geography (i.e., geographies of belonging). As we shall see, each of these kinds of geographies can take on a diversity of configurations. For example, a particular economic geography can be primarily industrial (see, e.g., Singapore) or it can be primarily rural (see, e.g., Sumatra or Gansu). Regulatory schemes that work well in Singapore may not work so well in Sumatra or Gansu. For the latter geographies, different regulatory strategies are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5243V", "title": "The Effects of Space and Geography on Regulation", "description": "This seminar explores how the efficacy of any particular regulatory scheme can be shaped by the nature of the geographical space in which it operates. Simply put, regulatory schemes that are effective in one kind of geography can be ineffective in some other kind of geography. The seminar will look that this phenomena from a diversity of geographical perspectives, including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, cultural geography, and affective geography (i.e., geographies of belonging). As we shall see, each of these kinds of geographies can take on a diversity of configurations. For example, a particular economic geography can be primarily industrial (see, e.g., Singapore) or it can be primarily rural (see, e.g., Sumatra or Gansu). Regulatory schemes that work well in Singapore may not work so well in Sumatra or Gansu. For the latter geographies, different regulatory strategies are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5244V", "title": "Criminal Practice", "description": "The administration of criminal justice in Singapore relies on an ethical, professional and skilled disposition and management of criminal cases. A good criminal practitioner needs a sound grounding in criminal law and criminal procedure, and a strong base of written and oral advocacy and communication skills. This is an experiential course that takes students through a case from taking instructions all the way through to an appeal, using the structure of the criminal process to teach criminal law, procedure and advocacy skills. Taught primarily by criminal law practitioners, this course will give an insight into the realities of criminal practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5245V", "title": "Regulatory Foundations of Public Law", "description": "Course explores the various ways through which public law contributes to the regulatory construction of the state. Topics will include the ways public law contributes to the various purposes of the state; the tools that public law uses to contribute to these purposes; how public law evolves; and the future of public law in a post-Westphalian world\n\nA significant portion of this seminar is devoted to helping students identify and develop research projects, and write academic-quality research papers. This includes individual meetings with the instructor, and class discussion on doing research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5246", "title": "International Carriage of Passengers by Sea", "description": "This module will give students a broad understanding of the law relating to the international carriage of passengers by sea. Topics to be covered include formation of contract, regulation of cruise ships, State jurisdiction over crimes\nagainst the person on board a ship, liability for accidents, limitation of liability, the Athens Convention 1974/1990, and conflict of laws/jurisdictional issues relating to passenger claims. This module will be useful for those who\nare intending to: practice law in a broadly focussed shipping practice; work within the cruise and ferry industry; or otherwise are likely to deal with passengers and/or their claims."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5247V", "title": "International Economic Law & Globalisation", "description": "This course is a survey course of topics that include: international sales contract; international trade law; and international investment law. It covers the basic principles of private and public international law that are fundamental\nto the creation of the framework within which business transactions take place. It will also cover the topic of the relationships among international business transactions, globalization and economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5249", "title": "Shareholders' Rights & Remedies", "description": "The course will examine at an advanced level the rights and duties of company shareholders. In doing so the course will critically examine, from a comparative\nperspective, the division of power between the various organs of the modern company and the underlying policy of the law with regard to shareholders rights. The course will also key in on topical issues such as the effectiveness\nof shareholders\u2019 rights, enabling v mandatory theories of shareholders\u2019 rights, the statutory derivative action and its effectiveness and the role of the company in shareholder litigation. Finally, it will look at international developments including institutional shareholder activism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5250", "title": "Principles of Equity Financing", "description": "This course concentrates on the principles of equity financing in the private and public markets, including the relevant company law rules (eg pre-emption rules), capital market regulation as far as it affects the issues of raising equity finance for public companies, private equity and its regulation, and change of control transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5251", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": "This course examines the jus in bello \u2013 the law which regulates the conduct of hostilities once the decision to resort to force has been taken. This course will deal with fundamental concepts of the jus in bello, focusing on customary international law. Basic legal concepts that will be discussed include State and individual responsibility, the distinction between combatants and civilians, and the principle of proportionality. The course will also examine topics such as weaponry, international and noninternational conflicts, and the enforcement of the law in situations of conflict.\n\nNote: This course does not deal with the jus ad bellum, or the rules relating to the general prohibition on the use of force in international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5251V", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5252", "title": "The EU and its Law", "description": "This course will develop your understanding of EU law and politics as well as your capacity critically to evaluate the institutional, substantive and constitutional dimensions of European integration. It will consider the nature of the EU as well as the challenges it presents to its Member States. \n\nThe course will provide an overview of the judicial architecture and political structures of the European Union, the authority of EU law, law-making procedures, and the most significant case law in free movement, citizenship, and fundamental rights. It will also introduce more complex questions about the dynamics and direction of the process of regional integration, particularly since the Euro crisis."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5253V", "title": "The Law of Treaties", "description": "Treaties are a principal source of obligation in international law. In this era of globalization, many state and individual activities in many countries are direct results of treaty obligations. In this sense, treaties are the \u201coverworked workhorses\u201d of the global legal order.\n\nDespite this significant impact on our lives, few of us understand what treaties truly mean and what kinds of implications they bring to international relations, our businesses, and private lives. In order to understand the treaty mechanisms, this course covers various aspects of the law of treaties."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5254V", "title": "Developing States in a Changing World Order", "description": "This course explores the changing role of developing countries in a changing international order. It does so by adopting an approach that combines history, theory, and doctrine. The course will examine the historical origins of the contemporary international legal system, and the theoretical debates that have accompanied its evolution, focusing in particular on relations between the Western and non-Western worlds. It will then examine selected topics of international law that are of current significancethese may include international human rights law, the law relating to the use of force, the international law of trade and foreign investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5255V", "title": "Trade Remedy Law & Practice", "description": "The primary focus of the course will be given to the multilateral rules and cases of trade remedies under WTO jurisprudence. In parallel, domestic trade remedy rules and regulations and policies of China, Korea and Japan will be examined to analyze application of WTO rules to domestic jurisprudence and policies. What are the common characteristics and differences among those rules and policies? Are they consistent with WTO jurisprudence? Which agencies are in charge of trade remedy system and policy making and implementations? What is the best strategy for enterprises to respond to such policies? Answers to these key questions are given through lectures, presentations, and discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5256", "title": "Comparative Constitutional Government", "description": "Constitutional government in the modern era has developed different organisational and functional models, that draw their inspiration from some main principles (eg. Separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, democratic accountability) that are distinguishing features of the same type of state. The module will consequently highlight the different forms of (presidential, semi-presidential, parliamentary) government, as experienced by the states belonging to both the common law and the civil law legal traditions. Reference will be made also to forms of constitutional government based on territorial division of powers, such as federal systems and supranational organisations such as the Europe Union."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5257", "title": "Law & Finance", "description": "This seminar deals with ongoing research in the area of financial intermediary supervision, corporate governance and capital markets regulation. Each participant will have to 1) read the discussed papers in advance; 2) write a 10 page commentary on one of the discussed papers and present it in class; 3) comment upon one presentation by a fellow student; and 4) actively participate in the discussion throughout the seminar."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5258V", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of key personal property concepts. Topics to be studied will include: types of personal property; personal property entitlements recognised at common law, notably, possession, ownership, title and general and special property, with some reference also to equitable entitlements; the transfer of such entitlements; the conflict between competing entitlements; the protection given by law to such entitlements; the assignment of things in action; security interests over personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5259AV", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5259V", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in alternative investment from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The topics that will be covered include private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, crowdfunding and REITs. The course will discuss selected partnership and corporate issues of alternative investment vehicles. The course will focus on China and will provide relevant comparisons on alternative investment in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5260V", "title": "Chinese Commercial Law", "description": "This course will introduce students to the fundamental legal concepts and principles relating to Chinese commercial law. Topics to be covered include: basic principles of PRC civil and commercial law, contracts, business associations and investment vehicles, secured transaction, negotiable instruments, taxation and dispute resolution. It will highlight key legal considerations in carrying out commercial transactions in China. Where applicable, the course will provide relevant comparisons with similar laws in other jurisdictions such as the U.S., the U.K. and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5261V", "title": "Employment Law & Migrant Workers Clinic", "description": "Taken concurrently with \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d but with an emphasis on experiential learning, this module offers students the opportunity to explore the legal issues affecting migrant workers, both in the classroom and through externships and case work. Students will spend most of their time outside of class, gaining practical experience by first interning at the Ministry of Manpower over the holidays and then, during the semester, volunteering an average of 10 hours weekly with either Justice Without Borders (JWB) or the NUS-HOME Theft Project (\u201cTheft Project\u201d). In class, using peer learning, including roundtable case review, students will hone their legal skills while examining the legal framework governing Singapore\u2019s foreign workers. Analysing their externship experiences, students will explore the relationship between law on the books and law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5263V", "title": "Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy", "description": "This module examines in interaction between IPRs and competition policy\nfrom two broad perspectives: the endogenous operation of competition policy\nfrom within IPR frameworks (copyright, designs, trade marks and patents),\nand the exogenous limitations placed by competition law rules on an IP\nholder\u2019s freedom to exploit his IPRs. Students enrolled in this module are\nexpected to have completed a basic intellectual property module \u2013 an\nunderstanding of what IPRs protect, the nature of the exclusive rights they\nconfer and how they may be exploited will be presumed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5267V", "title": "Architecting Deals: A Framework of Private Orderings", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamentals of how lawyers \"architect\" deals. It is taught in two parts. \nThe first examines the unique role of the transactional lawyer and asks the questions: What is a \"deal\"? What do transactional or \"deal\" lawyers do? What is the perceived \u201cvalue\u201d of what transactional lawyers do? How can lawyers successfully design and structure a transaction? \nThe second explores in detail the elements of a theory or framework of \u201cprivate orderings\u201d. The framework covers the economic and business considerations that drive the analysis of which legal principles should apply and how risks and benefits are allocated between the parties. The course explores how the framework of private orderings can apply to guide the assessment of transactions and the choice of contracting constructs and regimes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5268", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5268V", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5269", "title": "Privacy and Intellectual Property", "description": "Privacy may in some cases conflict with intellectual property but in other cases the two may go hand in hand and in addition other rights in personal information may further blur and complexity the boundaries. This module will explore the relationships between privacy, intellectual property and other rights in personal information in a range of contexts across different jurisdictions in an effort to explain and evaluate the current legal position, the various debates and proposals for improvements in the law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5270", "title": "International Human Rights of Women", "description": "The course examines the international legal protection of women\u2019s human rights within a framework of international law and feminist legal theories. The course will focus upon the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 to which Singapore became a party in 1995 and the work of the CEDAW Committee in monitoring and implementing the Convention. The impact of certain conceptual assumptions within international law, and human rights law in particular, that militates against the Adequate protection of women's rights will be considered. After an examination of the general framework, more detailed attention will be given to certain topics including health and reproductive rights, women\u2019s right to education violence against women, including in armed conflict, political participation and trafficking. The course will finally consider the question of whether international human rights law is an appropriate vehicle for the furtherance of women's interests."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5271", "title": "Law and Policy", "description": "This course explores and contrasts the different methodologies inherent in the disciplinary approaches of legal and policy analysis. What are the biases and assumptions in each method of analysis? How does each method view the other? How is each approach relevant to the other in different practical situations, e.g. in legal advice, court arguments and judgments and in government policy formulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5272", "title": "International Financial System: Law and Practice", "description": "In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008, the visibility of finance and financial regulation has increased dramatically. This subject will provide an overview of the global financial system and international efforts to build\nstructures to support its proper functioning. Taking an integrative approach, the subject will look at the evolution of the global financial system, its structure and regulation. In doing so, the subject will analyse financial crises, especially\nthe GFC, and responses thereto, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The approach will be international and comparative, with a focus on major jurisdictions in the global financial system, and will not focus on any single jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5273", "title": "European & International Competition Law", "description": "The course deals on a comparative legal basis (US-, EU and Swiss law) with problems related to:\nI. How to coordinate economic activities?\nII. Implementation of a competition system\n1) Competition? Private restrictions to competition and what states can do against it?\n2) The substantive EU- and Swiss-provisions\n\u2013 against agreements restricting competition and abuse of market power\n\u2013 on merger control\n\u2013 on sanctions and leniency programs\n\u2013 Discussion of leading cases\n3) State aids; public and private enforcement\nIII. Correcting the competition system\nPlanned sectors, consumer protection, price controlling\nIV. Controversial questions, the \u201emore economic\napproach\u201c? Efficiency and individual freedom to compete? Global competition?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5274", "title": "Comparative GST Law & Policy", "description": "Worldwide, governments are increasingly relying on broad-based consumption taxes, such as the GSTs in Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia and the VAT in Europe, to raise revenue. This course will introduce students to theories of comparative tax law and consumption taxation and to key GST law and policy concepts. With these theoretical, conceptual and legal tool kits, we will then explore the complex but fascinating legal and policy issues relating to cross-border trade in goods and services (such as professionals providing services to clients across borders and global digital trade), financial services and real property transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5275", "title": "International Institutional Law:", "description": "International organizations play an increasingly important role in the international community. While the state continues to be the supreme form of political organization, international organizations, such as the UN, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the ASEAN, the EU and NATO, are indispensable to cope with globalization and increasing interdependence. The main objective of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental rules of international institutional law \u2013 that is the body of rules governing the legal status, structure and functioning of international organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5276", "title": "Advanced Contract Law", "description": "Advanced Contract Law invites students to examine some interesting and controversial topics from this foundational subject. Some topics will build on what students already know in their first-year/basic contract law course (e.g. how does contract law deal with change of circumstances?), some will cover new ground (e.g. the role of good faith in contract law). You will be able to write a paper on a topic of particular interest to you. The course also complements the module Advanced Tort Law and Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5277V", "title": "Medical Law and Ethics", "description": "This module provides the tools necessary for students to develop and reflect critically upon contemporary ethical and legal issues in medicine and the biosciences. Its substantive content includes and introduction to medical\nethics and medical law, health care in Singapore (presented comparatively with select jurisdictions, such as the UK and the USA), and professional regulation. The following key areas will be considered:\n- Professional regulation and good governance of medicines;\n- Genetics and reproductive technologies (including abortion and pre-natal harm);\n- Mental health;\n- Regulation of Human Biomedical Research;\n- Innovative treatment and clinical research;\n- Infectious Diseases;\n- Organ transplantation; and\n- End-of-life concerns (e.g. advance care plan and advance directive, discontinuation of life sustaining treatment, etc.)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5278V", "title": "Trade and Investment Law in the Asia-Pacific", "description": "Alongside the European Union the Asia-Pacific is becoming the central arena for trade and investment and its contestation within the world today. This module examines the global, regional and bilateral frameworks governing trade, investment, competition and migration across this region. It has three components. The first looks at how different organisations and regimes \u2013 the WTO, ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Agreements, BITS, NAFTA and Closer Economic Relations \u2013 interact to govern the region and the attempts to reform this, most notably through the TransPacific Partnership Process. The second looks at the detailed laws and processes governing trade in goods and services and investment. The final section looks at a number of further key policies: intellectual property, competition, the professions, and migration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5279V", "title": "Access to Justice", "description": "This module examines the conceptual foundation of access to justice and the practical challenges it raises in formal systems of dispute resolution. Using a Research Seminar structure, the module integrates academic analysis with experiential learning by providing students with opportunities to produce and critique original research on themes emerging from student internships and pro bono experiences."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5280V", "title": "Crime and Companies", "description": "Companies are both the victims of and vehicles for crime. This module examines both aspects. The first aspect covers crimes against the company by management \u2013 criminal breach of trust, dishonest misappropriation of property, breaches of fiduciary duty, misuse of corporate information. The second aspect will deal with using companies as vehicles for crime \u2013 cheating, money-laundering. Corruption cuts across both aspects. The statutes covered will be the Companies Act; Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits Act); Penal Code; and Prevention of Corruption Act. Students must have a firm grounding in both Criminal Law and Company Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5281V", "title": "Civil Procedure", "description": "This module acquaints the students with the laws and principles relating to the civil litigation process. The three distinct stages, namely, pre-commencement of action, pre-trial and post-trial are discussed in detail. The overriding aims of the civil justice system will also be deliberated. This will enable the students to better understand and appreciate the rationale of the application of the provisions of the rules of court. In this regard, the students will be able to make a case on behalf of their clients or against their opponents when the perennial issue of non-compliance with procedural rules takes centre stage. This module is designed to prepare the students to practise law in Singapore. Hence, the focus will primarily be on the Singapore Rules of Court and the decisions from the Singapore courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5282V", "title": "Resolution of Transnational Commercial Disputes", "description": "The primary focus of this module is on the variety of commercial dispute resolution processes available to contracting parties and the essential principles and issues pertinent to these different processes. The overriding aims are to acquaint the students with the characteristics of each of these processes, to highlight the governing principles and to discuss the perennial and emerging issues relating to this aspect of the law. Students who have undertaken this module will be able to consider the plethora of options available to them when drafting dispute resolution clauses and/or providing legal advice and representation when a dispute has arisen."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5283V", "title": "Artificial Intelligence, Information Science & Law", "description": "Advancements in computer science have made it possible to deploy information technology to address legal problems. Improved legal searches, fraud detection, electronic discovery, digital rights management, and automated takedowns are only the beginning. We are beginning to see natural language processing, machine learning and data mining technologies deployed in contract formation, electronic surveillance, autonomous machines and even decision making. This course examines the basis behind these technologies, deploys them in basic scenarios, studies the reasons for their acceptance or rejection, and analyses them for their benefits, limitations and dangers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5284", "title": "Confucianism and Law", "description": "This course is about the relevance of Confucianism to law, which includes three eras, namely: (1) Confucian legal theory and Confucian legal tradition; (2) the relevance of Confucianism to different aspects of national legal issues in contemporary East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam), such as human rights, rule of law, democracy, constitutional review, mediation, and family law; and (3) the relevance of Confucianism to international law. It will be of interest to those interested in Confucian legal tradition, customary law, Asian law, law and culture, legal theory, and legal pluralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5285V", "title": "International Dispute Settlement", "description": "This seminar will explore key legal questions related to\ninternational dispute settlement with a view to providing a\nbroad overview of the field with respect to State-to-State,\nInvestor-State, and commercial disputes. This course will\ninclude a discussion of the various types of international\ndisputes and settlement mechanisms available for their\nresolution. It will explore the law pertaining to dispute\nsettlement before the ICJ, WTO, ITLOS, as well as\ninternational arbitration, both Investor-State arbitration and\ncommercial arbitration. The course will compare these\ndifferent legal processes on issues such as jurisdiction,\nprovisional remedies/measures, equal treatment,\nevidence, and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5286V", "title": "Transnational Terrorism and International Law", "description": "While terrorism is not a new phenomenon, the sheer scale and transnational nature of that practice in recent years have challenged some of the core tenets of international law. This seminar investigates the role that international law can play, along with its shortcomings, in suppressing and preventing terrorism. It examines the manner in which terrorism and counterterrorism laws and policies have affected the scope and application of diverse international legal regimes including UN collective security, inter-State use of force, the law of international responsibility, international human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5287V", "title": "ASEAN Law and Policy", "description": "This course examines ASEAN\u2019s ongoing metamorphosis into a rules-based, tri-pillared (political-security, economic, and socio-cultural) Community pursuant to the mandate of the 2007 ASEAN Charter. It deals primarily with Law but is also attentive to the Non Law and Quasi Law aspects inherent in ASEAN\u2019s character as an international actor and regional organisation; its purposes and principles; and its operational modalities, processes, and institutions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5288V", "title": "Business, International Commerce and the European Union", "description": "This module studies European Union business regulation and how this affects both the EU and other markets. It has three components. The first looks at the types of business regulation deployed. It will include legislative harmonisation,\nprivate standardisation, mutual recognition and regulatory agencies. The second looks at the regulation of key industrial and service sectors, such as food, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, energy chemicals or financial services. The third looks at how EU business regulation interacts with non EU markets, through studying its commercial policy, free trade agreements and extraterritorial jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5289V", "title": "The Evolution of International Arbitration", "description": "The module has three distinctive features. First, it compares international commercial arbitration (ICA) international investment arbitration (ISA). Second, it focuses on the evolution of arbitration, in particular, on the development of the procedures and substantive law that have gradually enabled arbitration to become a meaningfully autonomous legal system. Third, it surveys a variety of explanations for why the arbitral order has evolved as it has \u2013 into a more \u201cjudicial-like\u201d legal order \u2013 focusing on the role of arbitral centres, state regulatory competition, and the reasoning of tribunals in their awards."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5290V", "title": "Legal Research: Method & Design", "description": "The seminar is designed to prepare students to undertake original, primary research in law. Major topics and questions to be covered include:\n- how to write a good literature review and prospectus;\n- why one must have a method, or, how are \u201cmethods\u201d and\n\u201cdata collection\u201d related?;\n- what is research design?;\n- how to avoid, or manage, the problem of \u201cselection bias.\u201d\n\nA major component of the seminar, students will assess a variety of published papers, as well as research projects presented by the faculty."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5291", "title": "Legal Pluralism and Global Law", "description": "The class will survey approaches to understanding legal pluralism in a range of settings, focusing on the various ways in which autonomous normative orders, including systems of law, interact with one another. Topics include: how \u201coutsider\u201d groups (e.g., Mayan Indians in Mexico, Roma-Gypsy communities, merchant guilds) govern themselves while resisting submission to the state law; the tensions between custom, state law, and human rights in Asia after the colonialist period; and the ways in which the pluralist structure of international treaty law and organization are transforming law and courts at the national level."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5291V", "title": "Legal Pluralism and Global Law", "description": "The class will survey approaches to understanding legal pluralism in a range of settings, focusing on the various ways in which autonomous normative orders, including systems of law, interact with one another. Topics include: how \u201coutsider\u201d groups (e.g., Mayan Indians in Mexico, Roma-Gypsy communities, merchant guilds) govern themselves while resisting submission to the state law; the tensions between custom, state law, and human rights in Asia after the colonialist period; and the ways in which the pluralist structure of international treaty law and organization are transforming law and courts at the national level."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5292V", "title": "State Responsibility: Theory and Practice", "description": "The law governing the responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts is absolutely central in public international law and cuts across various sub-fields of that discipline. This seminar investigates the fundamental tenets of the law of State responsibility, both from theoretical and practical standpoints, while tracing some of its historical roots. More broadly, the seminar will provide\nan overview of different doctrines of State responsibility and different theories and approaches to liability under international law. More importantly, the later sessions of the seminar will engage critically with the role that the law\nof State responsibility can play in specific areas."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5293S", "title": "Business Torts", "description": "This course concerns tort liability in the course of business. The first part of the course deals with professional negligence, examining the liability of solicitors, auditors, builders/architects, and banks/financial institutions. The second part of the course deals with intentional infliction of economic harm, where individuals or entities deliberately cause economic harm in the course of business. Some of the\ntopics to be covered include inducing breach of contract, unlawful interference with trade, intimidation, conspiracy and deceit. The course will touch on the intersections between torts and other areas of the law, including the law of contract, competition law and intellectual property law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5294S", "title": "Security and Insolvency Law", "description": "Credit is the lifeblood of any modern economy, but as the extension of credit carries risks, creditors take security to protect themselves. But that in turn poses challenges for corporate insolvency law. How should the rights conferred\nby security be dealt with in an insolvency? Further, what are the mechansims that creditors, secured or otherwise, may use to deal with an insolvent company? Major topics to be covered include general concepts of secured transactions, specific security and quasi-security devices over chattels and choses in action, the main themes of corporate rescue law and corporate rescue mechansims."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5295", "title": "Conflict of Laws in Int\u2019l Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on the instances in which resort to conflict of laws is necessary in the international arbitration context. The objective of this course is to allow participants to realise on how many occasions both State courts and arbitrators will need to report a conflict of laws analysis despite the claim that conflict of laws issues are not relevant in the international commercial arbitration context. Participants will first be taught to identify what conflict of laws rules may apply and will then be given hypothetical cases and will be asked to critically examine whether a solution can be found that does not require a conflict of laws approach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5296", "title": "Imitation, Innovation and Intellectual Property", "description": "Does copying always harm creativity? Can innovation\nthrive in the face of imitiation? These questions are at the\nheart of intellectual property theory and doctrine. This\ncourse explores these issues via a close look at a range of\nunusual creative industries, including fashion, cuisine,\nsports, comedy, and tattoos, as well as more traditional\nintellectual property topics, such as music and film."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5297", "title": "Practice of Corporate Finance and the Law", "description": "Modern corporations draw funding to finance their\nconsumption and investment needs from a variety of\nsources on the basis of extensive cost- benefit\nconsiderations. These include a multitude of factors, such\nas legal considerations, the quantity of funding required\nand cost of capital depending on its source, and impact on\nshareholders and management etc. Corporations may also\nobtain finance by either levering existing assets or\nresorting to unsecured bank lending or bond issues. For\nthe biggest corporations the most important source of\nfinance tends to be the capital markets. These normally\ncomprise the debt and equity markets through which public\ncompanies can offer securities to investors or to transfer\nthe control of the company to new owners in the context of\nan agreed takeover, a hostile take-over bid, or of a private\nequity transaction.\nThis course aims to develop a critical understanding of the\nsubject matter through the combined study of finance\ntheory, corporate law, capital market regulation and the\ncorporate market dynamics, with a special focus on the\ndifferent stakeholders involved in corporate finance. The\nmodule will focus on critical corporate finance issues such\nas: the use of debt and equity; why merge or acquire a\nbusiness; core considerations of the process; purchase\nsale agreements and contractual governance; the role of\nthe board of directors in an acquisition/financing\ntransaction; the permissibility and regulation of takeover\ndefenses in the UK, the US and the EU. It will also discuss\ncross-border IPOS, the problem of market abuse, theory\nand practice of corporate takeovers and their regulation,\nand issues pertinent to private equity transactions, as well\npractical issues relating to structuring corporate acquisition\ndeals and attendant legal documentation. NB: While there\nis inevitably reference to scores of economic concepts and\nsome finance readings the course is specifically addressed\nto law students it is non-mathematical."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5298", "title": "International Finance", "description": "This is the foundation course in international finance. It is meant for all who want to gain a better understanding of what is happening and concerns primarily (a) the way money is recycled through the banking system or the\ncapital market, (b) the products and conduct of the banking, securities and investment industry in this recycling activity, (c) the risks that are taken in the financial services industry (primarily by commercial and investment banks in their different functions) and the tools of risk management, (d) the operation of the financial markets and their infrastructure, (e) the type of regulation of commercial banks and of the intermediaries and issuers in the capital markets, and (f) the objectives, role, shape and effectiveness of this regulation. In this connection, the course will also deal with the smooth operation of payment systems.\n\nFinancial risk and its management is an important theme and the major concern in the course. What can commercial or investment banks and financial regulation achieve in this regard, how is risk management structured, and what academic or other (political) models are used in this connection, how effective are they, e.g. in the capital adequacy and liquidity requirements, and what can or must governments and/or central banks or other regulators do when all fails and financial crises occur? From a legal point of view, an important aspect is the strong public policy undercurrents in the applicable law.\n\nThat is obvious in regulation but may also impact on private law. Another important issuer is that the law applicable to financial products and their regulation is ever more transnationalised and expressed at the international level, especially in terms of transactional and payment finality, financial stability, and even banking resolution facilities or international safety nets. In these circumstances, choice of national laws in the older private international law approach often mean little and it will be discussed how they may fall seriously short especially in in matters of regulatory oversight and bankruptcy situations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5299", "title": "Advanced Issues in the Law & Practice of Int\u2019l Arbitration", "description": "This intensive course is designed for students and\npractitioners already acquainted with the fundamentals of\ninternational arbitration, and may be particularly useful for\nthose who may have an inclination to specialize in the\npractice or study of international dispute resolution. Focus\nwill be placed on topics of practical and academic interest\nin all aspects of the international arbitration process,\nlooking in particular to recent trends and evolutions in the\nfield of international dispute settlement.\nThrough seminar discussions, student presentations and\nmoot court sessions, this course will expose students to\ncontemporary controversies in the field of international\ncommercial and investment arbitration. An international\napproach will be adopted in relation to the subjects\nconsidered: students can expect to review a substantial\namount of comparative law sources, including academic\ncommentaries and jurisprudence from France, Singapore,\nSwitzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as\nwell as public international law sources and international\narbitral practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5300", "title": "Copyright in the Internet Age", "description": "This course will consider the particular and unique issues\nthat the ubiquitous use of the internet for commerce,\neducation and communication has created for copyright\ncreators and users. In particular, it will address the\nincreasingly visual medium of social media and how user\npractices are challenging the boundaries of copyright law. It\nwill consider copyright infringement, fair dealing, personal\nand professional uses and the interaction between\ncopyright, contract and consent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5301", "title": "Topics in Constitutional Law: Socio-Economic Rights", "description": "The course provides a grounding in the international and\ntheoretical background to the constitutional protection of\nsocial rights; the substantive approach taken by courts to\nvarious social rights, and the interaction between social\nrights in various claims to equality and protection on the\npart of vulnerable groups. The topics covered in the class\nare thus:\n(1) theoretical debates on the nature of social rights,\nand the theoretical underpinnings for their\nrecognition qua rights;\n(2) international human rights law instruments\nrecognising social rights, and international human\nrights understandings of such rights;\n(3) constitutional debates about the capacity and\nlegitimacy of courts enforcing such rights, and\nparticular debates over concepts such as (a)\nweak-versus strong-form review, and (b) notions of\na \u2018minimum core\u2019 to social rights; and\n(4) the actual interpretation of enforcement of key\nsocial rights by courts, with a particular focus on\nthe right to housing, health care, water, food and\nsocial welfare and social security\n(5) questions of gender, poverty and social rights\n(6) the rights of children in relation to social rights\n(7) the rights of non-citizens"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5302", "title": "Int'l Regulation of Finance & Investment Markets", "description": "This course aims to introduce to students topical and current issues of interest in the regulation of international financial markets, with a focus on global capital and investment markets. The regulation of investment firms and funds reached a new high with mainly European leadership in regulatory standards and many of these are influential globally. We aim to cover theoretical foundations in regulation, so that students can grasp the law and economic theories and public policy underpinnings of financial regulation, and specific topics that relate to securities and investment regulation. The approach to specific topics would be grounded in theoretical and policy understanding, in order to appreciate the high key highlights of regulatory duties, compliance implications and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5302V", "title": "Int'l Regulation of Finance & Investment Markets", "description": "This course aims to introduce to students topical and current issues of interest in the regulation of international financial markets, with a focus on global capital and investment markets. The regulation of investment firms and funds reached a new high with mainly European leadership in regulatory standards and many of these are influential globally. We aim to cover theoretical foundations in regulation, so that students can grasp the law and economic theories and public policy underpinnings of financial regulation, and specific topics that relate to securities and investment regulation. The approach to specific topics would be grounded in theoretical and policy understanding, in order to appreciate the high key highlights of regulatory duties, compliance implications and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5303", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This course explores the complex interactions between\nliterature and the law. Even though the two disciplines may\nseem distinct, both law and literature are products of\nlanguage and have overlapped in significant and\ninteresting ways in history. Why do legal themes recur in\nfiction, and what kinds of literary structures underpin legal\nargumentation? How do novelists and playwrights imagine\nthe law, and how do lawyers and judges interpret literary\nworks? Could literature have legal subtexts, and could\nlegal documents be re-interpreted as literary texts? We will\nthink through these questions by juxtaposing fiction,\ndrama, legal cases, and critical theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5303V", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This is an interdisciplinary course that invites students to inhabit the field of law and literature by engaging closely with a key topic. Our seminar begins with a broad introduction to the field and related interdisciplinary scholarship, before delving into the focal thematic through close readings of legal and literary texts. This year, we address the question of authorship and its relationship with the law of copyright and intellectual property. Students would become familiar with a constellation of theoretical and historical perspectives from which to rethink our received understandings of authorship, including copyright\u2019s treatment of books, publishers, and authors."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5304", "title": "Global Comparative Constitutional Law", "description": "This module will explore the principal problems for the\ntheory and practice of comparative constitutional law,\ngenerally and in the globalizing conditions of the early 21st\ncentury. In doing so, it will range widely over countries and\nconstitutional systems and examine the challenges\npresented by differences in context and culture. The\nconclusions about methodology in the early classes will be\ntested in later ones by reference to a series of topical\nsubstantive issues in constitutional law in Asia and\nelsewhere, ranging from institutional design to rights\nprotection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5305", "title": "IP and Human Rights", "description": "This course anlayzes connections between human rights\nand intellectual property. While these bodies of law\ndeveloped on separate tracks, the relationship between\nthem has now captured the attention of government\nofficials, judges, civil society groups, legal scholars and\ninternational agencies, including the World Intellectual\nProperty Organization, the United Nations Human Rights\nCouncil, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural\nRights, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.\nThe course will be of interest to those interested in\nintellectual property and/or human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5306", "title": "Chinese Banking Law", "description": "This course focuses on laws governing banks and the other financial intermediaries in China, reflecting the game between regulation and financial innovation. It will be divided into three parts: the first and also the most the essential one will cover the legal requirements of operation and business of traditional commercial banks; the second one will go through the corporate governance of banks, problem bank resolution and currency issues; the last part will discuss the legal issues of new financial products and non-bank financial institutions. This course focuses on the emerging issues in China of that subject, and also pay particular attention to recent legislative reform efforts in China on banking and non-bank financial institutions and will consider both the developments and innovation in scholarship and teaching of financial law since 2008."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5306V", "title": "Chinese Banking Law", "description": "This course focuses on laws governing banks and the other financial intermediaries in China, reflecting the game between regulation and financial innovation. It will be divided into three parts: the first and also the most the essential one will cover the legal requirements of operation and business of traditional commercial banks; the second one will go through the corporate governance of banks, problem bank resolution and currency issues; the last part will discuss the legal issues of new financial products and non-bank financial institutions. This course focuses on the emerging issues in China of that subject, and also pay particular attention to recent legislative reform efforts in China on banking and non-bank financial institutions and will consider both the developments and innovation in scholarship and teaching of financial law since 2008."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5307", "title": "EU Maritime Law", "description": "The European Union plays an increasing role in the\nregulation of international shipping and any shipping\ncompany wishing to do business in Europe will have to\ntake this into consideration. The module will take on\nvarious aspects of this regulation and will place the EU\nrules in the context of international maritime law. To\nensure a common basis for understanding the EU maritime\nlaw, the basic structure and principles of the EU and EU\nlaw will be explained at the outset."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5308V", "title": "Behavioural Economics, Law & Regulation", "description": "Law is a behavioural system. Most law seeks to regulate, incentivize and nudge people to behave in some ways and not in others \u2013 it seeks to shape human behavior. Traditional economic analysis of law is committed to the assumption that people are fully rational, but empirical evidence suggests that people very often exhibit bounded rationality, bounded self-interest, and bounded willpower. This course about behavioural law and economics, with an emphasis on regulation, looks at the implications of actual, not hypothesized, human behaviour for the law. It considers, in particular, how using the mildest forms of interventions, law can steer people\u2019s choices in welfarepromoting\ndirections."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5309", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5309V", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5310V", "title": "International Organisations in International Law", "description": "This seminar-style module critically examines the impact of international organisations on the formal structures of international law. Do international organisations create and enforce international law? What type of norm-creating activity takes place inside and across international organisations? Does the reality of global governance give rise to concerns about legitimacy or accountability? What are the legal and policy responses to such concerns? Case studies used will range from traditional institutions such as the UN and its specialised agencies, to newer institutions such as the Financial Action Task Force and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5311", "title": "Islamic Law and the Family", "description": "This course will offer an historical and comparative focus\non Islamic family law. It will begin by providing a basic\noverview of Islamic law generally and then turn to examine\nIslamic family law specifically. It will then cover major\ntopics that arise in Islamic family law under the classical\nIslamic legal tradition. It will conclude by exploring how\nmany of those issues arise in some modern contexts, as\nIslamic family law is applied both inside and outside of the\nMuslim world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5312V", "title": "The Law of Global Governance", "description": "The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of\nnew forms of international organizations (e.g. Basel\nCommittee) alongside traditional organizations (e.g. WTO).\nThese new organizations challenge the traditional premises\nof international law. Moreover, international organizations\nincreasingly issue rules that impact people around the world,\nyet they largely operate within a legal void and go\nunchecked. In view of these challenges, a new legal school\nof thought is emerging that seeks to set more legal\nconstraints and that introduces institutional reforms, such as\nthe growing inclusion of Asian countries in international\norganizations. We will explore these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5313", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5313V", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": "Recent years have witnessed more state-to-state and investor-state disputes, with a substantial increase in resources spent on binding arbitration. Mediation and conciliation are rarely attempted and more rarely successful. This course introduces the student to methods of mediation and conciliation on the international law plane, and surveys existing institutional regimes (ie, ICSID,\nPCA, SIAC). The focus will then turn to identification and critical analysis of the special legal and policy obstacles to voluntary dispute settlement by states (including SOEs), as well as countervailing incentives. The scope is international, with some readings devoted to Asia. Students will study and critique precedents, and conduct basic mediation/conciliation exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5314S", "title": "Private Equity and Venture Capital: Law and Practice", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in private equity and venture capital from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The topics that will be covered explore the laws and practices relating to the whole cycle of the venture capital and private equity, including fundraising, investments, exits, foreign investments and regulation. The course will also discuss equity crowdfunding which is an important emerging method of equity financing. Certain topics of this course will provide relevant comparisons with private equity and venture capital in China, Singapore and the U.S. It will be of interest to legal professionals in the\nprivate equity and venture capital sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5314V", "title": "Private Equity and Venture Capital: Law and Practice", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in private equity and venture capital from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The topics that will be covered explore the laws and practices relating to the whole cycle of the venture capital and private equity, including fundraising, investments, exits, foreign investments and regulation. The course will also discuss equity crowdfunding which is an important emerging method of equity financing. Certain topics of this course will provide relevant comparisons with private equity and venture capital in China, Singapore and the U.S. It will be of interest to legal professionals in the private equity and venture capital sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5315S", "title": "China's Tax Law and International Tax Policy", "description": "China\u2019s tax law and international tax policy play an important role in influencing cross-border transactions. Chinese tax system and treaty network could affect both business structure and profits derived from the transaction, while Chinese tax administration measures and the way to resolve tax disputes are factors for assessing business risk. This course will cover these Chinese tax issues\nthrough providing lectures, practical exploration and peer-learning in a seminar environment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5316V", "title": "Restitution of Unjust Enrichment", "description": "This course is about the law of restitution for unjust enrichment. In particular, it is concerned with when a defendant may be compelled to make restitution to a claimant, because the defendant has been unjustly enriched at the claimant\u2019s expense. It does not cover all of the law relating to gain-based remedies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5317V", "title": "International Arbitration in Asian Centres", "description": "This course will give the students an in-depth look at how cases proceed under the SIAC, HKIAC and MCIA rules, with some comparative coverage of the CIETAC and KLRCA rules. Highlighted will be the salient features of these arbitral institutional rules including the introduction of cutting edge procedures such as the emergency arbitrator and expedited arbitration procedures and consolidation/joinder. The course will also provide a comparative analysis of the arbitral legislative framework in Singapore, Hong Kong and India and offer an in-depth analysis, with case studies, of the role of the courts in Singapore, Hong Kong and India in dealing with specific issues such as challenges to tribunal jurisdiction, enforcement and setting aside of awards. Finally, the course will also look at the peculiar relationship between arbitration and mediation in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5318V", "title": "Public Health Law and Regulation", "description": "This course provides an introduction to important topics in public health law and regulation. It explores the use of law as an important tool in protecting the public\u2019s health, responding to health risks and implementing strategies to promote and improve public health. The course reviews the nature and sources of public health law, and regulatory strategies that law can deploy to protect and promote public health. It considers these roles in selected areas within the field: for example, acute public health threats like SARS and pandemic influenza, tobacco control, serious sexually transmitted diseases, and non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5319V", "title": "Current Problems in International Law", "description": "This course examines current problems in international law relating, for instance, to the use of force, human rights, international environmental law and foreign investment law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5320", "title": "International Space Law", "description": "Globally, space-derived products and services combine assets and annual revenues in excess of USD350 billion. The year-on-year growth of the space economy is 9%, three times that of the global economy. This course discusses the international law regulating the use of, and activities in, outer space. It will examine issues such as State responsibility, liability for damage, and environmental protection. It will then debate the law relating to various space sectors such as telecommunications, navigation, military and dual use, resource management, and human spaceflight."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5320V", "title": "International Space Law", "description": "Globally, space-derived products and services combine assets and annual revenues in excess of USD350 billion. The year-on-year growth of the space economy is 9%, three times that of the global economy. This course discusses the international law regulating the use of, and activities in, outer space. It will examine issues such as State responsibility, liability for damage, and environmental protection. It will then debate the law relating to various space sectors such as telecommunications, navigation, military and dual use, resource management, and human spaceflight."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5321", "title": "Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions", "description": "This course applies economic concepts to the practice of structuring business transactions. The materials consist of case studies of actual transactions. We will use those case studies to analyze the economics challenges that parties to a deal must address, and to analyse the mechanisms the parties use to address those challenges. The case studies will cover a selection from bond financings, acquisitions, movie financings, product licenses, biotech alliances, venture capital financings, cross-border joint ventures, private equity investments, corporate reorganizations, and more."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5322", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": "Trade Finance Law considers the different legal structures used to effect payment under, and disincentives breaches of, international agreements for the supply of goods and services. The course analyses and compares documentary and standby letters of credit, international drafts and forfaiting, performance bonds and first demand guarantees and export credit guarantees. Key topics will include the structure, juridical nature and obligational content of the aforementioned instruments; the nature of the harmonised regimes and their interaction with domestic law; the principle of strict compliance and its relaxation; documentary and non-documentary forms of recourse; the autonomy principle and its exceptions; and the conflict of laws principles applicable to autonomous payment undertakings. The course should be of interest to students who have already studied other components of international trade and/or who have an interest in international banking operations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5322V", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5323", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5323V", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5324", "title": "Comparative Trade Mark Law", "description": "This module takes a comparative approach to exploring what is meant by a trade mark, the messages that trade marks communicate and the roles they perform. These are important enquiries because questions of what trade marks do and ought to do have a direct impact on the contours of the law. A major theme will be the relationship between trade marks and brands: to what extent should trade mark law be concerned with protecting brand value? What might a focus on brand value mean for competitors? Is a focus on brand value compatible with the logics of trade mark registration? These questions will be explored by reference to the laws of multiple jurisdictions, most significantly Australia, the EU, Singapore and the USA."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5325", "title": "The Int'l Litigation & Procedure of State Disputes", "description": "Taught by two public international law practitioners, this course invites participants to develop a more practical and strategic understanding of how a State deals with the various types of disputes it may face. Topics covered includes litigation and procedural considerations in inter-State, investor-State, human rights and international criminal disputes, and cross-cutting considerations like national security privileges, immunities, conflicts of public international law. The course will conclude with a seminar where senior practitioners of public international law share their views and insights on acting as a Government advisor and as an advocate."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5326", "title": "Administrative Justice: Perspectives from the U.S.", "description": "An introduction to the public law system of the United States, with an emphasis on structural issues and governmental processes, especially the creation of regulations and the political and judicial controls over this important activity. Changes resulting from the Trump administration will be an important element."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5327V", "title": "Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practitioner\u2019s Perspective", "description": "This course will provide a practitioner's perspective on the bread and butter of any transactional practice: mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of non-listed, private companies. It will deal with the structuring of an M&A transaction (the why) and the plain vanilla aspects of documentation (the why and how of basic drafting). \n\nMany new graduates seem to be unable to see the wood for the trees. They arrive as trainees, with a reasonable grounding in the law, but an inability to apply it to real life situations. The practicalities elude them and they seem to want to follow templates without much understanding of the transaction. This course will attempt to give them a working knowledge of the issues to be considered in structuring a transaction. It will also cover the main features of standard documentation (bearing in mind that there is a discernible industry-standard set of documentation in common law countries) to explain why documents are drafted the way they are."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5328", "title": "Sports Law & Arbitration", "description": "Sports Law is a very broad field, encompassing several areas of law unique to the sporting industry, as well as several traditional areas of law applied to the field of sport.This course will focus on the existing and evolving private and public international sports law systems, (where appropriate) the national sports law of several jurisdictions (including Australia, USA, UK and to a lesser extent, Singapore) and provide avenues of multi-jurisdictional comparative analysis. The social, political, commercial and economic influences on the development, content and structure of sports law globally will also be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5329", "title": "Cross-Border Litigation", "description": "The focus of this course is on the litigation of cross-border disputes in the fields of tort, contract, consumer protection and intellectual property including in the online context. The subject will examine the key doctrinal principles and scholarly debates in the area as well as problems commonly encountered in practice. Material will be drawn from leading common law jurisdictions, including Singapore, Australia, England, Hong Kong and Canada. The course is recommended for those with an interest in international dispute resolution, conflict of laws, litigation or international commerce."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5330", "title": "Advanced Trusts Law", "description": "The first part of the course explores how trusts are used to manage family wealth, with emphasis on developments in the \u2018offshore world\u2019. We will discuss how trusts may be used to protect assets, how trustees\u2019 discretions may be controlled, the rights of objects of trusts, and purpose trusts. The second part concerns trusts in commercial transactions. We will explore creditor trusts, constructive trusts, bonds and intermediated holding of securities, equitable assignments and equitable charges. By comparing commercial trusts with private trusts, we will also ask whether there are any significant contextual differences in relation to the trust device."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5331", "title": "The Rule of Law", "description": "This course explores the ideal of the rule of law: its value, limitations, costs, and relationship with distinct social aspirations. The teaching is based on leading texts, comparative case law, and video documentaries. The course is divided into nine modules: (1) the meaning and value of the rule of law, (2) emergencies, (3) the relationship(s) between the rule of law, the obligation to obey the law, and the rule of good law, (4) the modern welfare state, (5) criminal law vs. private law, (6) international law, (7) corporations and liberal democracy, (8) colonialism and developmental transitions, and (9) defences for disobedience."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5332", "title": "Fair Use in Theory and Practice", "description": "The copyright laws of Singapore and the United have in common a general, flexible, open exception designated by the term \u201cfair use.\u201d During the last 25 years, the U.S has had extensive experience with this concept, both in the courts and in fields of practice as diverse as art, filmmaking, education, technology, and journalism. Not only have judicial opinions about fair used cohered into a \u201cunified field theory\u201d of the doctrine, but awareness of its potential applications has increased dramatically among members of relevant communities. The last development has been attributable in part to the development of community-specific Codes of Best Practices for the responsible application of fair use \u2013 an effort in which the instructor for this module has been active. The course will explore the legal background of fair use, its doctrinal evolution over the past 25 years, and a variety of practical situations in which it has been successful employed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5333", "title": "International Criminal Law Clinic", "description": "This clinical course introduces students to the law, practice, and implementation of international criminal law. Students will learn and examine the content and application of substantive and procedural law on core international crimes\u2014war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression\u2014that attract individual criminal responsibility under international law. As part of the assessment, students will work on research projects in collaboration with the ICRC. Students will be exposed to \u2018real world\u2019 problems and learn the legal knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking expected of those working in this field. This course will require substantial student initiative, participation and collaboration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5333V", "title": "International Criminal Law Clinic", "description": "This clinical course introduces students to the law, practice, and implementation of international criminal law. Students will learn and examine the content and application of substantive and procedural law on core international crimes\u2014war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression\u2014that attract individual criminal responsibility under international law. As part of the assessment, students will work on research projects in collaboration with the ICRC. Students will be exposed to \u2018real world\u2019 problems and learn the legal knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking expected of those working in this field. This course will require substantial student initiative, participation and collaboration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5334", "title": "Law and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "This module aims to increase students\u2019 breadth of empirical knowledge and depth of theoretical understanding of issues of law, justice, and society. With urbanization and industrialization, modern societies have increasingly depended upon law to regulate the behaviour of their members and the activities of their institutions. It will explore issues in law and society in SE Asia, with an emphasis on how sexuality, ethnic and religious diversity are handled, and how justice is conceived; as well as\nissues in the Singaporean justice system, where other examples will be used to compare Singapore\u2019s unique approach to addressing justice and society issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5335V", "title": "Multinational Enterprises and International Law", "description": "This module examines the evolving regime for the regulation and protection of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in international law. Although MNEs remain creations of domestic law, the cross-border activities of MNEs increasingly come within the scope of instruments creating obligations and/or rights in international law. In assessing the challenges faced by states and MNEs alike with respect to such transnational regulation, the module takes a rounded and interdisciplinary view of the issues involved, addressing both the commercial and social dimensions of MNE action. In addition to considering the regulatory powers of individual states, developments under international instruments on human rights, labour conditions, finance, taxation and investment are addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5338V", "title": "Advanced Practicum in International Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the real-life practice of international commercial and treaty arbitration from beginning to end: from clause drafting/treaty jurisdiction, to arbitrator selection, to emergency proceedings, through the written and hearing phases, to award and enforcement strategy. Emphasis will be on primary materials: case law, statutes, institution rules, treaties, commentary, and \u201csoft law\u201d guidelines. Using complex factual scenarios, students will take part in strategy, drafting and advocacy exercises. On the commercial arbitration side, the focus will be on the ICC Court and SIAC; on the treaty side, ICSID and the PCA/UNCITRAL. Ethics issues will be front burner."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5339", "title": "Comparative Evidence in International Arbitration", "description": "This course considers the way that international adjudicators approach fact-finding and factual determinations. The course analyses essential policy questions as to the way legal systems should deal with evidence; considers comparative law perspectives; and aims to integrate these perspectives with practical consideration of the way documents and witnesses are dealt with in international arbitration. There is no greater divergence between legal families than that pertaining to the treatment of evidence. For international adjudication to meet the needs of participants from all legal families, a proper understanding of comparative approaches and the degree of convergence, is essential to arbitrators and practitioners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5340", "title": "International Refugee Law", "description": "One of the most pressing current issues of international concern is the highest ever level of global displacement, with over twenty million refugees in the world. This course examines the international legal regime for the protection of refugees. With the 1951 Refugee Convention as its \u201cbackbone\u201d, the course focuses on the \u201crefugee\u201d definition, the exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, status determination procedures, the rights of recognised refugees and asylum-seekers, the non-refoulement principle, complementary protection, States\u2019 responsibility-sharing, responsibility-shifting and deterrence of asylum-seekers, the status of Palestinian refugees, UNHCR\u2019s supervisory responsibility, and regional protection systems (particularly the Common European Asylum System)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5340V", "title": "International Refugee Law", "description": "One of the most pressing current issues of international concern is the highest ever level of global displacement, with over twenty million refugees in the world. This course examines the international legal regime for the protection of refugees. With the 1951 Refugee Convention as its \u201cbackbone\u201d, the course focuses on the \u201crefugee\u201d definition, the exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, status determination procedures, the rights of recognised refugees and asylum-seekers, the non-refoulement principle, complementary protection, States\u2019 responsibility-sharing, responsibility-shifting and deterrence of asylum-seekers, the status of Palestinian refugees, UNHCR\u2019s supervisory responsibility, and regional protection systems (particularly the Common European Asylum System)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5341", "title": "The Law and Politics of Forced Migration", "description": "This course critically examines the relationship between law and politics in the international protection of the forcibly displaced, focusing on five groups of migrants, namely, refugees and asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, and climate-change and environmentally displaced persons. After assessing the protection gaps relating to these five groups, this course considers the more complex phenomena of mass influx and \u201cmixed migration,\u201d immigration detention (specifically of particularly vulnerable migrants), and durable solutions. The roles of regional and institutional organisations will also be studied. An assessed negotiation relating to a present-day forced migration crisis concludes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5341V", "title": "The Law and Politics of Forced Migration", "description": "This course critically examines the relationship between law and politics in the international protection of the forcibly displaced, focusing on five groups of migrants, namely, refugees and asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, and climate-change and environmentally displaced persons. After assessing the protection gaps relating to these five groups, this course considers the more complex phenomena of mass influx and \u201cmixed migration,\u201d immigration detention (specifically of particularly vulnerable migrants), and durable solutions. The roles of regional and institutional organisations will also be studied. An assessed negotiation relating to a present-day forced migration crisis concludes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5342", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I", "description": "This course will be useful for those who want to practise corporate or tax law.\n\nTopics covered:\n- the Singapore corporate tax, GST and stamp duty implications of (a) related party transactions; (b) restructurings and; (c) M&As\n- structuring techniques to increase tax efficiency in each of these situations\n- selected US corporate tax and Australian GST rules (since the tax consequences of a foreign country will have to be analysed)\n- how structuring strategies may be challenged with rules/proposed rules addressing treaty shopping, debt-equity and entity classification hybridity, and arbitrage opportunities involving the GST treatment of cross-border transations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5342V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I", "description": "This course will be useful for those who want to practise corporate or tax law.\n\nTopics covered:\n- the Singapore corporate tax, GST and stamp duty implications of (a) related party transactions; (b) restructurings and; (c) M&As\n- structuring techniques to increase tax efficiency in each of these situations\n- selected US corporate tax and Australian GST rules (since the tax consequences of a foreign country will have to be analysed)\n- how structuring strategies may be challenged with rules/proposed rules addressing treaty shopping, debt-equity and entity classification hybridity, and arbitrage opportunities involving the GST treatment of cross-border transations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5343", "title": "International Regulation of the Global Commons", "description": "The global commons comprises the high seas, the deep seabed, outer space, the airspace above the exclusive economic zone and the high seas, as well as Antarctica, an ice-covered continent, and the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean. Each of these areas are governed by international treaty regimes that were developed specifically for that area. This course will examine and compare the international regimes governing activities in the global commons. It will also examine the evolving law on the obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause harm to the environment of the global commons."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5343V", "title": "International Regulation of the Global Commons", "description": "The global commons comprises the high seas, the deep seabed, outer space, the airspace above the exclusive economic zone and the high seas, as well as Antarctica, an ice-covered continent, and the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean. Each of these areas are governed by international treaty regimes that were developed specifically for that area. This course will examine and compare the international regimes governing activities in the global commons. It will also examine the evolving law on the obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause harm to the environment of the global commons."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5344", "title": "Public and Private International Copyright Law", "description": "A detailed study of the public and private international law of copyright law focusing on legal responses to cross-border issues and conflicts among private parties and nation states. Topics to be covered include: ASEAN IP relations, connecting factors in private litigation, the major international copyright treaties, major themes in EU copyright jurisprudence, exhaustion of rights, exceptions and limitations, indigenous IP."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5344V", "title": "Public and Private International Copyright Law", "description": "A detailed study of the public and private international law of copyright law focusing on legal responses to cross-border issues and conflicts among private parties and nation states. Topics to be covered include: ASEAN IP relations, connecting factors in private litigation, the major international copyright treaties, major themes in EU copyright jurisprudence, exhaustion of rights, exceptions and limitations, indigenous IP."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5345", "title": "The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law", "description": "What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question\nfor ancient philosophers, in both the east and the west, for\nwhom philosophy was not only theory. It was a method\ndesigned to achieve both rigorous conceptual analysis and\na fulfilled human life. In this course we will explore several\nof the methods philosophers have proposed for leading a\nfulfilled life and consider some of the rich suggestions or\nimplications of these methods for leading a fulfilled life of the\nlaw, the life led by law students, lawyers, judges, and others\ninterested in administering, shaping, or living according to\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5345V", "title": "The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law", "description": "What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question\nfor ancient philosophers, in both the east and the west, for\nwhom philosophy was not only theory. It was a method\ndesigned to achieve both rigorous conceptual analysis and\na fulfilled human life. In this course we will explore several\nof the methods philosophers have proposed for leading a\nfulfilled life and consider some of the rich suggestions or\nimplications of these methods for leading a fulfilled life of the\nlaw, the life led by law students, lawyers, judges, and others\ninterested in administering, shaping, or living according to\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5346", "title": "Interim Measures in International Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on provisional and interim\nmeasures in the context of international commercial\narbitration, including emergency arbitrator (EA)\nproceedings. The course will address topics such as the\nnature and scope of provisional and interim relief, the\nauthority of arbitral tribunals (and limitations thereon) to\norder such relief, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts,\nchoice of law issues and the standards for granting interim\nmeasures, issues arising with respect to various categories\nof provisional relief, and judicial enforcement of interim\nmeasures ordered by arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5346V", "title": "Interim Measures in International Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on provisional and interim\nmeasures in the context of international commercial\narbitration, including emergency arbitrator (EA)\nproceedings. The course will address topics such as the\nnature and scope of provisional and interim relief, the\nauthority of arbitral tribunals (and limitations thereon) to\norder such relief, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts,\nchoice of law issues and the standards for granting interim\nmeasures, issues arising with respect to various categories\nof provisional relief, and judicial enforcement of interim\nmeasures ordered by arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5347", "title": "Art & Cultural Heritage Law", "description": "This course explores international and domestic legal issues and disputes pertaining to the creation, ownership, use, and preservation of works of art and objects of cultural heritage. Cultural objects exist within the larger realm of goods and services moving throughout the marketplace. This course addresses the specialized laws and legal interpretations pertaining to the rights and obligations of individuals, entities, and governments as they discover and interact with these objects, within their own jurisdictions and across national borders, in times of war and peace."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5347V", "title": "Art & Cultural Heritage Law", "description": "This course explores international and domestic legal issues and disputes pertaining to the creation, ownership, use, and preservation of works of art and objects of cultural heritage. Cultural objects exist within the larger realm of goods and services moving throughout the marketplace. This course addresses the specialized laws and legal interpretations pertaining to the rights and obligations of individuals, entities, and governments as they discover and interact with these objects, within their own jurisdictions and across national borders, in times of war and peace."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5348", "title": "Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The module aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives. Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore. It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history. Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.\n\nThe module explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system. It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions. It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions. The module considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5348V", "title": "Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The module aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives. Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore. It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history. Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.\n\nThe module explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system. It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions. It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions. The module considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5349", "title": "Energy Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces international arbitration\u2019s role in resolving energy disputes. Seminars will address both commercial and investment arbitration.The substantive content of national and international energy laws will be discussed together with the procedural specificities of energy disputes. The course will explore the political aspects of energy disputes, both domestic (resource sovereignty) and international (inter-state boundary disputes).\n\nParticipants will study the recent debates on the role of international arbitration vis-\u00e0-vis climate change and sustainable development.\n\nThe course incorporates practical exercises that will help participants interested in a career in international arbitration and public international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5349V", "title": "Energy Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces international arbitration\u2019s role in resolving energy disputes. Seminars will address both commercial and investment arbitration.The substantive content of national and international energy laws will be discussed together with the procedural specificities of energy disputes. The course will explore the political aspects of energy disputes, both domestic (resource sovereignty) and international (inter-state boundary disputes).\n\nParticipants will study the recent debates on the role of international arbitration vis-\u00e0-vis climate change and sustainable development.\n\nThe course incorporates practical exercises that will help participants interested in a career in international arbitration and public international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5350", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5350V", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5351", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law in East Asia", "description": "This module examines principal corporate law issues from a comparative perspective. As for jurisdictions, it primarily focuses on Japan and Korea in comparison with US and UK. This module is composed of 18 units, two units for each of the nine class dates. Beginning with the peculiar ownership structure of Japan and Korea and the nature of their agency problems, the module explores various legal strategies employed to address these challenges. The topics to be covered include: shareholder power, corporate organizational structure, independent directors, fiduciary duties, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and creditor protection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5351V", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law in East Asia", "description": "This module examines principal corporate law issues from a comparative perspective. As for jurisdictions, it primarily focuses on Japan and Korea in comparison with US and UK. This module is composed of 18 units, two units for each of the nine class dates. Beginning with the peculiar ownership structure of Japan and Korea and the nature of their agency problems, the module explores various legal strategies employed to address these challenges. The topics to be covered include: shareholder power, corporate organizational structure, independent directors, fiduciary duties, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and creditor protection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5352", "title": "China and International Economic Law", "description": "This course will provide a broad introduction to international economic law related to China, including detailed study of a few core areas and the provision of guidance for students to pursue research on a topic of their choice.\nMajor topics to be covered include: (i) trade in goods; (ii) trade in services; (iii) trade in intellectual property; (iv) investment; (v) dispute settlement; and (vi) the future of China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5352V", "title": "China and International Economic Law", "description": "This course will provide a broad introduction to international economic law related to China, including detailed study of a few core areas and the provision of guidance for students to pursue research on a topic of their choice.\nMajor topics to be covered include: (i) trade in goods; (ii) trade in services; (iii) trade in intellectual property; (iv) investment; (v) dispute settlement; and (vi) the future of China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5353", "title": "Character Evidence in the Common Law World", "description": "The law relating to evidence of character has been changing throughout the common law world over the last fifty years. This course will, by reference several common law jurisdictions, including Singapore in particular, cover, most pressingly, how the law deals with evidence of the accused\u2019s bad character. It will also deal with bad character of witnesses in criminal cases, and, in particular, complainants in sexual cases, as well as that of witnesses and others in civil cases. A third element concerns the good character of the accused, of witnesses in criminal cases, and of parties and others in civil cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5353V", "title": "Character Evidence in the Common Law World", "description": "The law relating to evidence of character has been changing throughout the common law world over the last fifty years. This course will, by reference several common law jurisdictions, including Singapore in particular, cover, most pressingly, how the law deals with evidence of the accused\u2019s bad character. It will also deal with bad character of witnesses in criminal cases, and, in particular, complainants in sexual cases, as well as that of witnesses and others in civil cases. A third element concerns the good character of the accused, of witnesses in criminal cases, and of parties and others in civil cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5354", "title": "Comparative Human Rights Law", "description": "Human rights adjudication has expanded in many jurisdictions across the world in the past few decades. Yet there is still scepticism about the role of courts in human rights adjudication. This subject will provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the role of courts in human rights adjudication by introducing them to the different approaches to the adjudication of human rights in a range of jurisdictions including South Africa, Canada, Germany, the US, Israel, Australia, India, Singapore and the EU. Several key human rights issues that have arisen in different jurisdictions will be analysed and compared."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5354V", "title": "Comparative Human Rights Law", "description": "Human rights adjudication has expanded in many jurisdictions across the world in the past few decades. Yet there is still scepticism about the role of courts in human rights adjudication. This subject will provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the role of courts in human rights adjudication by introducing them to the different approaches to the adjudication of human rights in a range of jurisdictions including South Africa, Canada, Germany, the US, Israel, Australia, India, Singapore and the EU. Several key human rights issues that have arisen in different jurisdictions will be analysed and compared."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5355", "title": "International Law and Development", "description": "The concept of development has been crucial to structuring international legal relations for the last 70 years. In the political and economic domains, most international institutions engage with the development project in some form. This subject offers a conceptual and intellectual grounding to examine development as an idea and set of practices in dynamic relation with national and international law. The history of development in relation to imperialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and globalisation means that these relations are complex. Understanding them is crucial to understanding the place of international law, and the work development does in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5355V", "title": "International Law and Development", "description": "The concept of development has been crucial to structuring international legal relations for the last 70 years. In the political and economic domains, most international institutions engage with the development project in some form. This subject offers a conceptual and intellectual grounding to examine development as an idea and set of practices in dynamic relation with national and international law. The history of development in relation to imperialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and globalisation means that these relations are complex. Understanding them is crucial to understanding the place of international law, and the work development does in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5356", "title": "International Economic Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic offers a unique opportunity for students to apply theory to practice in the field of international economic law. Students work in small teams and under the close supervision of professors and invited experts on specific, real-world legal questions of international economic law coming from \"real clients\" such as governments, international organizations, or NGOs. At the end of the semester, the Project Teams submit written legal memos and orally present their projects. They also publish their projects. The clinic is part of \"TradeLab,\" a global network of international economic law clinics at leading law schools around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5356V", "title": "International Economic Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic offers a unique opportunity for students to apply theory to practice in the field of international economic law. Students work in small teams and under the close supervision of professors and invited experts on specific, real-world legal questions of international economic law coming from \"real clients\" such as governments, international organizations, or NGOs. At the end of the semester, the Project Teams submit written legal memos and orally present their projects. They also publish their projects. The clinic is part of \"TradeLab,\" a global network of international economic law clinics at leading law schools around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5357", "title": "Regulation & Political Economy", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the main debates and issues in the field of regulation covering current debates about what regulation is, and the different institutions and instruments used to regulate our lives. It looks at (i) central concepts used by regulators, e.g. risk, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment; (ii) when different strategies should be adopted in regulating a sector; (iii) three central fields where regulation is used \u2013 competition, network industries, cyberspace. This course involves examples from jurisdictions across the world (especially Australasia, Europe and North America) with their insights having particular relevance for law and regulation in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5357V", "title": "Regulation & Political Economy", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the main debates and issues in the field of regulation covering current debates about what regulation is, and the different institutions and instruments used to regulate our lives. It looks at (i) central concepts used by regulators, e.g. risk, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment; (ii) when different strategies should be adopted in regulating a sector; (iii) three central fields where regulation is used \u2013 competition, network industries, cyberspace. This course involves examples from jurisdictions across the world (especially Australasia, Europe and North America) with their insights having particular relevance for law and regulation in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5358Z", "title": "ICC Arbitration", "description": "The International Chamber of Commerce and its\nInternational Court of Arbitration have played a leading role\nin the establishment and the development of the\ninternational normative framework that makes arbitration so\nattractive today. This course highlights the historical and\ncontemporary contributions of ICC to this normative\nframework, and covers the key issues with which\npractitioners are faced at the main junctures of ICC\narbitration proceedings, from both a practical and a legal\nperspective. The course features in-class practical\nexercises that draw on course resources and enable\nstudents to face a variety of possible real-life scenarios."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5359Z", "title": "SIAC and Institutional Arbitration", "description": "Arbitral institutions are important stakeholders in the field\nof international arbitration, but the nature and importance\nof their role have often been overlooked. The course seeks\nto introduce participants to the role and function of arbitral\ninstitutions in the practice of international arbitration, and to\nthe complex issues that arbitral institutions face in the\nadministration of arbitrations, appointment of arbitrators,\nissuing arbitral rules and practice notes and in guiding and\nshaping the development of international arbitration. The\ncourse will be taught by visiting lecturers from the Board,\nCourt of Arbitration and Secretariat of the Singapore\nInternational Arbitration Centre (SIAC)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5360Z", "title": "Current Challenges to Investment Arbitration", "description": "This module will focus on the current challenges faced by investment arbitration at the global level. It will adopt a three-step approach.\nStudents will first acquire an in-depth understanding of the history and functioning of the existing system. On this basis, the different criticisms and reform proposals will be scrutinized. Finally, students will be invited to make their own informed assessment of the existing system, to discuss its evolution and debate possible improvements.\nThe module will be diversified, as it will address both legal and extra-legal issues. Seminars will be interactive and students will be encouraged to participate actively."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5361Z", "title": "Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty \u2013 Multicontract", "description": "1. Who are the parties to the contract(s) or to the arbitration clause(s) contained therein? The theories applied by courts and arbitral tribunals\n2. The extension of the arbitration clause to non-signatories\n3. The possibility of bringing together in one single proceeding all the parties who have participated in the performance of one economic transaction through interrelated contracts\n4. Joinder and consolidation\n5. Appointment of arbitrators in multiparty arbitration cases\n6. The enforcement of an award in multiparty, multicontract cases\n7. The res judicata effect of an award rendered in a connected arbitration arising from the same project"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5362V", "title": "Advanced Criminal Litigation - Forensics on Trial", "description": "Forensic science can play a large part in criminal litigation, from DNA and fingerprint evidence to the detection of forgery. Forensic scientists can play a significant role by presenting evidence in a trial, and effective trial lawyers should be equipped with the skills and knowledge to manage, present, and challenge forensic evidence. This interdisciplinary module brings law and science undergraduates together to equip them with key communication and analytical skills to present forensic evidence in Court in the most effective way. Key topics covered include advance trial techniques, the law of evidence, and aspects of forensic science."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5363", "title": "Sentencing Law and Practice", "description": "Our courts have to determine the appropriate\npunishment/sentence for every offender who has been\nfound guilty. Thus, sentencing law and practice is an area\nof law that affects the lives of every offender who goes\nthrough our criminal justice process. But what are the\nnumerous considerations going into the calculus of what is\nthe most appropriate punishment for an offender? This\ncourse will cover, among other things, the theoretical and\nempirical perspectives of punishment, sentencing options,\nsentencing methodology, and key aggravating and\nmitigating factors. We will also cover other important\nsentencing issues such as consecutive vs concurrent\nsentence, and parity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5363V", "title": "Sentencing Law and Practice", "description": "Our courts have to determine the appropriate\npunishment/sentence for every offender who has been\nfound guilty. Thus, sentencing law and practice is an area\nof law that affects the lives of every offender who goes\nthrough our criminal justice process. But what are the\nnumerous considerations going into the calculus of what is\nthe most appropriate punishment for an offender? This\ncourse will cover, among other things, the theoretical and\nempirical perspectives of punishment, sentencing options,\nsentencing methodology, and key aggravating and\nmitigating factors. We will also cover other important\nsentencing issues such as consecutive vs concurrent\nsentence, and parity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5364", "title": "Principles of Civil Law: Law of Obligations & Property", "description": "The module introduces important concepts and principles of private law in civil law jurisdictions to students trained in the common law. The focus is on concepts and principles in which the differences between the civil and common law systems are particularly striking. Examples are the core emphasis on obligations, the lack of a strict or any consideration requirement in contract law, the focus on absolute rights in delictual liability, the concept of negotiorum gestio and the design of property law as positive absolute rights. The different concepts of legislation and jurisprudence also form part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5364V", "title": "Principles of Civil Law: Law of Obligations & Property", "description": "The module introduces important concepts and principles of private law in civil law jurisdictions to students trained in the common law. The focus is on concepts and principles in which the differences between the civil and common law systems are particularly striking. Examples are the core emphasis on obligations, the lack of a strict or any consideration requirement in contract law, the focus on absolute rights in delictual liability, the concept of negotiorum gestio and the design of property law as positive absolute rights. The different concepts of legislation and jurisprudence also form part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5367", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in actio"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5367V", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5368", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism", "description": "Comparative constitutional law has emerged as one of the\nmost vibrant areas in contemporary public law. The\ncourse explores the principal challenges for the theory and\npractice of constitutionalism across time and place,\ngenerally and in particular under the globalizing conditions\nof the early 21st century. It combines the legal study of\nconstitutional texts and constitutional jurisprudence from a\nwide range of countries and constitutional systems\nworldwide with exploration of pertinent social science\nresearch concerning the global expansion of\nconstitutionalism and judicial review."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5368V", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism", "description": "Comparative constitutional law has emerged as one of the\nmost vibrant areas in contemporary public law. The\ncourse explores the principal challenges for the theory and\npractice of constitutionalism across time and place,\ngenerally and in particular under the globalizing conditions\nof the early 21st century. It combines the legal study of\nconstitutional texts and constitutional jurisprudence from a\nwide range of countries and constitutional systems\nworldwide with exploration of pertinent social science\nresearch concerning the global expansion of\nconstitutionalism and judicial review."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5369", "title": "Constitutionalism in Asia", "description": "This course is designed to offer an up-to-date understanding of constitutionalism in Asia, covering a representative number of Asian jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and the ten ASEAN states. The students are introduced to leading constitutional cases and selected materials in those jurisdictions and guided to critically examine constitutional jurisprudences developed in those Asian jurisdictions and compared them with \nwhat has been developed elsewhere, particularly in the West."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5369V", "title": "Constitutionalism in Asia", "description": "This course is designed to offer an up-to-date understanding of constitutionalism in Asia, covering a representative number of Asian jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and the ten ASEAN states. The students are introduced to leading constitutional cases and selected materials in those jurisdictions and guided to critically examine constitutional jurisprudences developed in those Asian jurisdictions and compared them with \nwhat has been developed elsewhere, particularly in the West."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5370", "title": "The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance", "description": "This module explores the risks associated with protecting and managing the legal and corporate risks associated with the increasingly important and overlapping fields of cybersecurity, privacy and data compliance and offers both legal and practical solutions for regulating and managing such risks within an effective legal and compliance framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5370V", "title": "The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance", "description": "This module explores the risks associated with protecting and managing the legal and corporate risks associated with the increasingly important and overlapping fields of cybersecurity, privacy and data compliance and offers both legal and practical solutions for regulating and managing such risks within an effective legal and compliance framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5371", "title": "Charity Law Today", "description": "This course will look in depth at the content of charity law, the consequences of charity status, and key questions raised by charity law and regulation, in contemporary settings across the world. Topics will include the profile and value of the charity sector; the \u2018heads\u2019 of charity; the public benefit requirement of charity law; charity law\u2019s treatment of political purposes; the sources of charity law;\nthe tax treatment of charities; charitable trusts and discrimination; and the regulation of charities. Singapore\u2019s charity law will be considered in global perspective. \nThis course will not consider the treatment of charity in Islamic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5371V", "title": "Charity Law Today", "description": "This course will look in depth at the content of charity law, the consequences of charity status, and key questions raised by charity law and regulation, in contemporary settings across the world. Topics will include the profile and value of the charity sector; the \u2018heads\u2019 of charity; the public benefit requirement of charity law; charity law\u2019s treatment of political purposes; the sources of charity law;\nthe tax treatment of charities; charitable trusts and discrimination; and the regulation of charities. Singapore\u2019s charity law will be considered in global perspective. \nThis course will not consider the treatment of charity in Islamic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5372", "title": "International Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This module addresses the public and private international law issues concerned with the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) globally. It commences with an overview of the sources of public international IP law, including the principal treaties, their interpretation and domestic implementation, and the general architecture of the international IP system. Using selected case studies, it then considers other international obligations that intersect with IPRS, including trade and investment protection measures and human rights obligations. It concludes with a survey of the private international law issues affecting the global exploitation of IPRs, particularly in the context of the Internet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5372V", "title": "International Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This module addresses the public and private international\nlaw issues concerned with the protection of intellectual\nproperty rights (IPRs) globally. It commences with an\noverview of the sources of public international IP law,\nincluding the principal treaties, their interpretation and\ndomestic implementation, and the general architecture of\nthe international IP system. Using selected case studies, it\nthen considers other international obligations that intersect\nwith IPRS, including trade and investment protection\nmeasures and human rights obligations. It concludes with\na survey of the private international law issues affecting the\nglobal exploitation of IPRs, particularly in the context of the\nInternet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5373", "title": "Advanced Copyright", "description": "Advanced copyright will examine a number of the most recent controversies in copyright law, including challenges to the cable and broadcast TV business models, the copyright status of \"appropriation art\", the permissibility of mass digitization, the phenomenon of \"copyright trolls\", and the copyright implications of universities' electronic library reserve policies. Students must have completed a course in basic copyright law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5373V", "title": "Advanced Copyright", "description": "Advanced copyright will examine a number of the most recent controversies in copyright law, including challenges to the cable and broadcast TV business models, the copyright status of \"appropriation art\", the permissibility of mass digitization, the phenomenon of \"copyright trolls\", and the copyright implications of universities' electronic library reserve policies. Students must have completed a course in basic copyright law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5374", "title": "Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development", "description": "We will examine water\u2019s importance to economic development and its special interest to lawyers. Water governance concerns both private as well as public\ninterests. Meanwhile, there is fundamental variation in how much is available and where. And because water flows, society must manage it across political boundaries. By drawing on the examples of a few key river basins, we will examine the reasons and processes by which water law has evolved as it has \u2013 and whether and how, given rising pressures and uncertainty, it may change."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5374V", "title": "Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development", "description": "We will examine water\u2019s importance to economic development and its special interest to lawyers. Water governance concerns both private as well as public\ninterests. Meanwhile, there is fundamental variation in how much is available and where. And because water flows, society must manage it across political boundaries. By drawing on the examples of a few key river basins, we will examine the reasons and processes by which water law has evolved as it has \u2013 and whether and how, given rising pressures and uncertainty, it may change."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5375", "title": "Traditional Chinese Legal Thought", "description": "This course is an introduction to the major themes and\nissues in traditional Chinese legal thought. We will focus\non the close reading and analysis of selected works by\nvarious philosophers and various philosophical schools,\nincluding Confucius and later Confucian thinkers\n(including, but not limited to, Mencius, Xunzi, and Dong\nZhongshu), the Legalists, and the Daoists. Attention will\nalso be placed on understanding these thinkers and\nphilosophical schools in historical context and gaining an\nunderstanding of how law was applied in premodern\nChina. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese\nphilosophy is required. All required readings are in\nEnglish."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5375V", "title": "Traditional Chinese Legal Thought", "description": "This course is an introduction to the major themes and\nissues in traditional Chinese legal thought. We will focus\non the close reading and analysis of selected works by\nvarious philosophers and various philosophical schools,\nincluding Confucius and later Confucian thinkers\n(including, but not limited to, Mencius, Xunzi, and Dong\nZhongshu), the Legalists, and the Daoists. Attention will\nalso be placed on understanding these thinkers and\nphilosophical schools in historical context and gaining an\nunderstanding of how law was applied in premodern\nChina. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese\nphilosophy is required. All required readings are in\nEnglish."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5376", "title": "Regulation & Private Law in Banking & Financial Service", "description": "This course is about the impact of regulation on the private law of banking and financial services. This would typically include how regulatory rules create private law duties in contract or tort.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in financial contracts, financial institutions and the regulation and supervision of financial markets and institutions including\nbanks. \n\nFinancial services constitute an important sector of the economy. Financial markets and institutions including banks are subject to a rapidly expanding field of public\nregulation. Its implementation and enforcement raise many underexplored challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5376V", "title": "Regulation & Private Law in Banking & Financial Service", "description": "This course is about the impact of regulation on the private law of banking and financial services. This would typically include how regulatory rules create private law duties in contract or tort.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in financial contracts, financial institutions and the regulation and supervision of financial markets and institutions including\nbanks.\n\nFinancial services constitute an important sector of the economy. Financial markets and institutions including banks are subject to a rapidly expanding field of public\nregulation. Its implementation and enforcement raise many underexplored challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5377", "title": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship", "description": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship offers students the opportunity to gain unique insights into Government policy making by working directly on various projects at the Ministry of Law.\n\nThe module provides a structured programme for students who wish to understand and acquire skills relevant to policy development in a Government setting.\n\nStudents will be involved in a wide spectrum of policy and legislative projects, such as civil and criminal procedure, arbitration law, intellectual property and legal industry development. Students will be part of a dynamic and challenging process of shaping policy goals to enhance the legal infrastructure in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5377V", "title": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship", "description": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship offers students the opportunity to gain unique insights into Government policy making by working directly on various projects at the Ministry of Law.\n\nThe module provides a structured programme for students who wish to understand and acquire skills relevant to policy development in a Government setting.\n\nStudents will be involved in a wide spectrum of policy and legislative projects, such as civil and criminal procedure, arbitration law, intellectual property and legal industry development. Students will be part of a dynamic and challenging process of shaping policy goals to enhance the legal infrastructure in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5379", "title": "Future of Int'l Commercial Arbitration in APAC Region", "description": "The course will examine recent developments and future directions in international commercial arbitration. Recent innovations such as emergency arbitrations, arb-med-arb protocols, expeditious dismissal of manifestly unmeritorious claims, consolidation and joinder, and expedited procedures will be examined from a comparative and analytical perspective with a focus on jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. It will also attempt to identify future trends in international commercial arbitration, including the use of artificial intelligence, online dispute resolution, block chain technology and other procedural and technological innovations. It will utilize case studies to allow students to gain hands-on experience with arbitral rules, legislation and procedure."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5379V", "title": "Future of Int'l Commercial Arbitration in APAC Region", "description": "The course will examine recent developments and future directions in international commercial arbitration. Recent innovations such as emergency arbitrations, arb-med-arb protocols, expeditious dismissal of manifestly unmeritorious claims, consolidation and joinder, and expedited procedures will be examined from a comparative and analytical perspective with a focus on jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. It will also attempt to identify future trends in international commercial arbitration, including the use of artificial intelligence, online dispute resolution, block chain technology and other procedural and technological innovations. It will utilize case studies to allow students to gain hands-on experience with arbitral rules, legislation and procedure."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5380S", "title": "International and Comparative Insolvency Law in the BRI", "description": "Insolvency is a risk facing the BRI that requires careful study. This module equips students with the concepts and principles to understand the framework of the insolvency laws of the jurisdictions likely to have the most say in the resolution of insolvencies affecting the BRI. Major topics covered include a brief introduction to the BRI, the theories and concepts of insolvency laws and cross-border insolvency laws, main features of the restructuring laws of UK, US and China, the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, and recent developments in the cross-border insolvency laws of China, Singapore, UK and US."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5381", "title": "Heritage Law", "description": "Heritage is a broad term that, for our purposes, encompasses things as diverse as architecture and cultural objects regarded as having historical importance, and intangible aspects of culture such as cuisine, the performing arts, and ritual practices. The course aims to provide an insight into how heritage can be protected and safeguarded for future generations by domestic common law and statutory rules on the one hand; and international law rules on the other. \n\nA prior knowledge of how public international law works is useful but not required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5381V", "title": "Heritage Law", "description": "Heritage is a broad term that, for our purposes, encompasses things as diverse as architecture and cultural objects regarded as having historical importance, and intangible aspects of culture such as cuisine, the performing arts, and ritual practices. The course aims to provide an insight into how heritage can be protected and safeguarded for future generations by domestic common law and statutory rules on the one hand; and international law rules on the other.\n\nA prior knowledge of how public international law works is useful but not required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5382", "title": "Private International Law", "description": "With the internationalization of commercial and personal relationships and the increase of cross-border disputes in Singapore\u2019s courts, a working knowledge of private international law, or the conflict of laws, has become essential for legal practice in Singapore. This course offers students a comprehensive overview of the foundations of private international law, with a particular focus on Singapore law. It covers private international law\u2019s three main pillars - jurisdiction, choice of law and foreign judgments - and also touches on broader methodological issues, and questions of sovereignty, comity, and public policy, which undergird and define the boundaries of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5382V", "title": "Private International Law", "description": "With the internationalization of commercial and personal relationships and the increase of cross-border disputes in Singapore\u2019s courts, a working knowledge of private international law, or the conflict of laws, has become essential for legal practice in Singapore. This course offers students a comprehensive overview of the foundations of private international law, with a particular focus on Singapore law. It covers private international law\u2019s three main pillars - jurisdiction, choice of law and foreign judgments - and also touches on broader methodological issues, and questions of sovereignty, comity, and public policy, which undergird and define the boundaries of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5383Z", "title": "International Arbitration & the New York Convention", "description": "The New York Convention of 1958 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides for the international enforcement of arbitral awards. Considered as the most successful international convention in international private law, the Convention now has 164 Contracting States and more than 2,500 court decisions interpreting and applying the Convention (as of June 2020). The course will analyze and compare the most important of those decisions. It will offer a unique insight in treaty design, statutory enactments, varying court approaches, and the practice of international arbitration. The course materials will be made available at www.newyorkconvention.org."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5384", "title": "Harms and Wrongs", "description": "The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically engage with some of the core notions they encounter when they study criminal law. The focus will be on a number of issues revolving around the concepts of harm and wrong, such as:\n- How should we understand the notion of wrongdoing?\n- Should the criminal law care about the distinction between intended and foreseen harm?\n- Can the wrongfulness of certain actions depend on the intentions of the agent?\n- What is the relationship between reasons for action and legal justifications?\n- What is wrong with blackmail?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5384V", "title": "Harms and Wrongs", "description": "The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically engage with some of the core notions they encounter when they study criminal law. The focus will be on a number of issues revolving around the concepts of harm and wrong, such as:\n- How should we understand the notion of wrongdoing?\n- Should the criminal law care about the distinction between intended and foreseen harm?\n- Can the wrongfulness of certain actions depend on the intentions of the agent?\n- What is the relationship between reasons for action and legal justifications?\n- What is wrong with blackmail?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5385", "title": "Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy", "description": "In today\u2019s global digital world, national tax systems face new challenges. Governments large and small cooperate in tax enforcement including through strengthened anti-abuse rules, yet tax competition continues. Uncertainty,\ncomplexity and risk have increased for taxpayers ranging from individuals to multinational enterprises. Recent developments in the OECD Inclusive Framework and other forums may lead to significant new global tax rules, but an agreed outcome is far from certain. This course explores the latest trends and issues in personal and corporate income tax and Goods and Services Tax that address\ndigital or cross-border services or employment, consumption, and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5385V", "title": "Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy", "description": "In today\u2019s global digital world, national tax systems face new challenges. Governments large and small cooperate in tax enforcement including through strengthened anti-abuse rules, yet tax competition continues. Uncertainty,\ncomplexity and risk have increased for taxpayers ranging from individuals to multinational enterprises. Recent developments in the OECD Inclusive Framework and other forums may lead to significant new global tax rules, but an agreed outcome is far from certain. This course explores the latest trends and issues in personal and corporate income tax and Goods and Services Tax that address\ndigital or cross-border services or employment, consumption, and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5386", "title": "Intellectual Property in Body, Persona & Art", "description": "This course examines emerging trends to identify and analyse ways in which intellectual property laws are being used to commodify self. Through processes of intellectual propertisation, aspects of the human body, human persona, and human expression through art can be converted from \u2018unowned\u2019 to \u2018owned\u2019. Examining contemporary issues such as gene patents, fake news, authenticity and cultural appropriation, as well as\nemerging technologies such as transplanted and artificial body parts, cyborgs, mind downloads, blockchain and the Internet of Things, the course examines the mechanisms\nby which the expansion of intellectual property laws is enabling increasing commodification of humankind."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5386V", "title": "Intellectual Property in Body, Persona & Art", "description": "This course examines emerging trends to identify and analyse ways in which intellectual property laws are being used to commodify self. Through processes of intellectual propertisation, aspects of the human body, human persona, and human expression through art can be converted from \u2018unowned\u2019 to \u2018owned\u2019. Examining contemporary issues such as gene patents, fake news, authenticity and cultural appropriation, as well as emerging technologies such as transplanted and artificial body parts, cyborgs, mind downloads, blockchain and the Internet of Things, the course examines the mechanisms by which the expansion of intellectual property laws is enabling increasing commodification of humankind."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5387", "title": "Regulation of Digital Platforms", "description": "This course will survey multiple legal fields that involve the regulation of what are generally referred to as \u201cdigital platforms,\u201d including Google, Facebook, and others. The primary legal fields of study will be competition (antitrust) law and liability for third-party content. Because these areas of law draw heavily from economic theory and research, the course will also survey some of the relevant economics literature as a means of better understanding the relevant markets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5387V", "title": "Regulation of Digital Platforms", "description": "This course will survey multiple legal fields that involve the regulation of what are generally referred to as \u201cdigital platforms,\u201d including Google, Facebook, and others. The primary legal fields of study will be competition (antitrust) law and liability for third-party content. Because these areas of law draw heavily from economic theory and research, the course will also survey some of the relevant economics literature as a means of better understanding the relevant markets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5388", "title": "Comparative Civil Law: Thai Contract Law", "description": "This course explores Thai contract law which is a product of civil law traditions and a cornerstone of Thai private law. It covers major areas of contract law from the beginning to the end of a contract, i.e. contract formation, validity, interpretation, breach of contract, and ending and changing a contract. Course participants will be encouraged to make comparisons between Thai and Singapore contract laws on\ncertain issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5388V", "title": "Comparative Civil Law: Thai Contract Law", "description": "This course explores Thai contract law which is a product of civil law traditions and a cornerstone of Thai private law. It covers major areas of contract law from the beginning to the end of a contract, i.e. contract formation, validity, interpretation, breach of contract, and ending and changing a contract. Course participants will be encouraged to make comparisons between Thai and Singapore contract laws on\ncertain issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5389", "title": "Asset-Based Financing: Quasi-Security Devices", "description": "This course critically examines so-called \u2018quasi-security\u2019 devices: legal structures that perform the function of personal property security, whilst not being \u2018true\u2019 security in the legal sense. These devices entail the retention of title or absolute\ntransfer of title (rather than the grant of a security interest) and, like \u2018true\u2019 security, secure the performance of an obligation. Hence, consideration will be given to retention of title devices (ROT or \u2018Romapla\u2019 clauses) in the supply of goods to manufacturers or to retailers as stock-in-trade, conditional-sale, hire-purchase, finance-leasing. Absolute transfer of title devices exemplified by receivables financing (factoring, securitisation) will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5389V", "title": "Asset-Based Financing: Quasi-Security Devices", "description": "This course critically examines so-called \u2018quasi-security\u2019 devices: legal structures that perform the function of personal property security, whilst not being \u2018true\u2019 security in the legal sense. These devices entail the retention of title or absolute\ntransfer of title (rather than the grant of a security interest) and, like \u2018true\u2019 security, secure the performance of an obligation. Hence, consideration will be given to retention of title devices (ROT or \u2018Romapla\u2019 clauses) in the supply of goods to manufacturers or to retailers as stock-in-trade, conditional-sale, hire-purchase, finance-leasing. Absolute transfer of title devices exemplified by receivables financing (factoring, securitisation) will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5393", "title": "Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks", "description": "Corporate groups are pervasive in modern, international commerce. Frequently they are structured in order to avoid or minimise liability for wrongdoing and to protect group assets. In other cases, risky physical processes are contracted out to network participants. This course examines the structures and practices of corporate groups and networks, the problems of externalisation of liability, and legal mechanisms for extending liability among participant entities. Extended liability regimes considered span statute law and common law. Consideration is given also to several important suggestions for development of the law in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5393V", "title": "Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks", "description": "Corporate groups are pervasive in modern, international commerce. Frequently they are structured in order to avoid or minimise liability for wrongdoing and to protect group assets. In other cases, risky physical processes are contracted out to network participants. This course examines the structures and practices of corporate groups and networks, the problems of externalisation of liability,\nand legal mechanisms for extending liability among participant entities. Extended liability regimes considered span statute law and common law. Consideration is given also to several important suggestions for development of the law in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5394", "title": "Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law", "description": "In intellectual property law, overlaps of exclusive rights stemming from different protection regimes raise particular problems. Nonetheless, the cumulation of rights has become a standard protection strategy in sectors ranging from software to fashion and entertainment. Against this background, this module offers a detailed analysis of protection overlaps. Which combinations of rights are deemed permissible? Which specific problems arise from the cumulation of intellectual property rights? Using international, US and EU legislation and case law as reference points, these questions will be discussed. Moreover, the module will explore alternative avenues for better law and policy making."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5394V", "title": "Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law", "description": "In intellectual property law, overlaps of exclusive rights stemming from different protection regimes raise particular problems. Nonetheless, the cumulation of rights has become a standard protection strategy in sectors ranging from software to fashion and entertainment. Against this background, this module offers a detailed analysis of protection overlaps. Which combinations of rights are deemed permissible? Which specific problems arise from the cumulation of intellectual property rights? Using international, US and EU legislation and case law as reference points, these questions will be discussed. Moreover, the module will explore alternative avenues for better law and policy making."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5395", "title": "The Law & Practice of Modern Trust Structures", "description": "Using precedents and transactional documents generously supplied by various leading law firms and chambers, the module will examine in much greater depth various representative uses of trusts in the modern world, both to make family provision and in commerce. It will examine how these functions are realised by practising lawyers working within, ad developing, legal doctrine. Finally it will\nexplore the broad theoretical implications of this work."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5395V", "title": "The Law & Practice of Modern Trust Structures", "description": "Using precedents and transactional documents generously supplied by various leading law firms and chambers, the module will examine in much greater depth various representative uses of trusts in the modern world, both to make family provision and in commerce. It will examine how these functions are realised by practising lawyers working within, ad developing, legal doctrine. Finally it will\nexplore the broad theoretical implications of this work."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5396", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": "UNIVERSITY RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMME"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5396V", "title": "International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Research", "description": "This module provides students enrolled in the LLM (IADR) degree with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper not exceeding 10,000 words under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. Students\nmay not do a directed research on topics that they have studied in other courses or have previously done research assignments on. Students interested in doing the Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5397", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5397V", "title": "International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Research", "description": "This module provides students enrolled in the LLM (IADR) degree with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper not exceeding 10,000 words under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. Students\nmay not do a directed research on topics that they have studied in other courses or have previously done research assignments on. Students interested in doing the Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5398", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5399", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5400", "title": "Biomedical Law & Ethics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5402", "title": "Corporate Insolvency Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5403", "title": "Family Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5405A", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (a)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5405B", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (B)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5407", "title": "Law of Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5409", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL5411", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "Personal property law cuts across many legal fields, including equity and trusts, and the law of sales, agency, company, insolvency and bankruptcy, insurance, banking, economic torts and crimes. The course covers the following broad areas: (i) defining the interests in personal property; (ii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by consent, including the sale of goods and documentary sales; (iii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by \noperation of law; (iv) intangible property & security interests; (v) persistence of interests in personal property; and (iv) protection of interests in personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5412", "title": "Securities and Capital Markets Regulation", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of securities regulation, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions, in Singapore and, where relevant, jurisdictions such as the US, UK, Australia, China and HK. Topics to be covered generally include: regulatory authorities and capital markets; supervision of intermediaries; the \"going public\" process; legal position of stockbrokers; insider trading and securities frauds; globalisation, technology and regulatory harmonisation; and regulation of takeover activity. In addition, aspects of syndicated loan and bond financing, and securitisation, will be studied in some detail. Students will be expected to use the Internet to search for comparative materials. Advisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Not appropriate for civil law students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5413", "title": "Civil Justice and Procedure", "description": "The course is about the law governing the processes by which substantive rights are effectuated during civil litigation in Singapore. The emphasis will be on how Rules of Court operate in areas of dispute resolution including the interlocutory stages from filing of an action to the trial, post-judgment matters and the role of amicable settlement in the adversarial culture. The inter-relationship between procedure, evidence and ethics will be analysed. Students will have an understanding of the principles of procedure to consider the efficacy and viability of the governing law in light of fairness, efficiency and justice, and to propose reforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5431", "title": "Choice of Law: Practice and Theories", "description": "This course explores the tensions in choice-of-law decision-making in selected areas or sub-fields spanning human rights violations, foreign sovereign debts, environmental liability, currency swaps, international trusts, multiple-listed corporations, and time permitting, economic torts and internet defamation and/or employment and human capital development. In each specific area, it asks whether a choice-of-law theory can shed light on the tensions which the choice-of-law rule seeks to balance and whether another can lead to development of a better or more coherent rule."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5431V", "title": "Choice of Law: Practice and Theories", "description": "This course explores the tensions in choice-of-law decision-making in selected areas or sub-fields spanning human rights violations, foreign sovereign debts, environmental liability, currency swaps, international trusts, multiple-listed corporations, and time permitting, economic torts and internet defamation and/or employment and human capital development. In each specific area, it asks whether a choice-of-law theory can shed light on the tensions which the choice-of-law rule seeks to balance and whether another can lead to development of a better or more coherent rule."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5432", "title": "International Litigation: Themes and Practice", "description": "The subject of international litigation has gained strong recognition as a composite of two branches of the conflict of laws, namely jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgment. This conceptualisation brings into its embrace evolving themes of comity, proximity, efficiency, party autonomy, foreign sovereign immunity, foreign act of state and justiciability, reasonable extraterritoriality, and forum mandatory procedural policies. In this advanced course, each theme is studied in the context of practice in a particular sub-field of jurisdiction or enforcement; although some themes such as that of sovereignty are cross-cutting and are studied in more than one jurisdictional context."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5432V", "title": "International Litigation: Themes and Practice", "description": "The subject of international litigation has gained strong recognition as a composite of two branches of the conflict of laws, namely jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgment. This conceptualisation brings into its embrace evolving themes of comity, proximity, efficiency, party autonomy, foreign sovereign immunity, foreign act of state and justiciability, reasonable extraterritoriality, and forum mandatory procedural policies. In this advanced course, each theme is studied in the context of practice in a particular sub-field of jurisdiction or enforcement; although some themes such as that of sovereignty are cross-cutting and are studied in more than one jurisdictional context."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5433", "title": "Global Data Privacy Law", "description": "This course will explore the main themes and approaches in data privacy law in light of various international frameworks (OECD, APEC, ASEAN) and a cross-section of national laws from North America, Europe and Asia. While many countries have enacted or amended laws in recent years, there is no widely-accepted framework for cross-border data transfers and developments in business and technology present new risks and challenges to the protection of individuals\u2019 personal data and privacy. This course will also consider the role of data privacy laws in regulating social media and the Internet, data science, AI and machine learning and cybersecurity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5433V", "title": "Global Data Privacy Law", "description": "This course will explore the main themes and approaches in data privacy law in light of various international frameworks (OECD, APEC, ASEAN) and a cross-section of national laws from North America, Europe and Asia. While many countries have enacted or amended laws in recent years, there is no widely-accepted framework for cross-border data transfers and developments in business and technology present new risks and challenges to the protection of individuals\u2019 personal data and privacy. This course will also consider the role of data privacy laws in regulating social media and the Internet, data science, AI and machine learning and cybersecurity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5434", "title": "International Commodity Trading Law Clinic", "description": "The trading of commodities is one of the oldest forms of economic activity known to mankind. Today, it is a sophisticated multi-trillion-dollar industry spanning across the globe. A commodity trade is, at its heart, the sale and purchase of a commodity, but is often coupled with other related transactions such as transportation, storage,\ninsurance and finance. This course seeks to provide students with an overview of international commodity trading law. As an \u201cindustry-focused\u201d course, students will\nbe trained to identify and analyse problems that span across different areas including contract, banking and finance, agency, assignment, set-off \u2013 just like practitioners do."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5434V", "title": "International Commodity Trading Law Clinic", "description": "The trading of commodities is one of the oldest forms of economic activity known to mankind. Today, it is a sophisticated multi-trillion-dollar industry spanning across the globe. A commodity trade is, at its heart, the sale and purchase of a commodity, but is often coupled with other related transactions such as transportation, storage,\ninsurance and finance. This course seeks to provide students with an overview of international commodity trading law. As an \u201cindustry-focused\u201d course, students will\nbe trained to identify and analyse problems that span across different areas including contract, banking and finance, agency, assignment, set-off \u2013 just like practitioners do."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5435", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is unique because it did not emerge from a single source of law. Rather, it has roots in almost every type of law. Through diverse readings, deep discussions, and independent research, this course will identify and understand the various types of law that, together, give rise to \u201cenvironmental law.\u201d The course will consider environmental law\u2019s roots in common law, regulation, legislation, constitutions, international cooperation, public action, and even private self-governance. Though not exclusively, the focus will be on common law jurisdictions in the British tradition, but independent research will allow students to explore more widely for themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5435V", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is unique because it did not emerge from a single source of law. Rather, it has roots in almost every type of law. Through diverse readings, deep discussions, and independent research, this course will identify and understand the various types of law that, together, give rise to \u201cenvironmental law.\u201d The course will consider environmental law\u2019s roots in common law, regulation, legislation, constitutions, international cooperation, public action, and even private self-governance. Though not exclusively, the focus will be on common law jurisdictions in the British tradition, but independent research will allow students to explore more widely for themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5436", "title": "Family Law and Practice", "description": "Family Law covers a very broad field that involves familial relationships wider than just spousal relationships, children and money matters. It encompasses transnational conflict of laws, marital agreements, international conventions and enforcement issues. It also sees intersectionality with elder law, mental capacity, as well as probate and succession law. It is not possible to cover every aspect of family law in this elective. This course will cover family law and practice in Singapore, with a special emphasis on marriages, divorce and ancillary matters for civil marriages, and the workings of the Family Justice Courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5436V", "title": "Family Law and Practice", "description": "Family Law covers a very broad field that involves familial relationships wider than just spousal relationships, children and money matters. It encompasses transnational conflict of laws, marital agreements, international conventions and enforcement issues. It also sees intersectionality with elder law, mental capacity, as well as probate and succession law. It is not possible to cover every aspect of family law in this elective. This course will cover family law and practice in Singapore, with a special emphasis on marriages, divorce and ancillary matters for civil marriages, and the workings of the Family Justice Courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5437", "title": "Law and Democracy in East Asia", "description": "This module explores diverse development patterns of the rule of law and democracy in East Asia. Theories of democracy commonly hold that the acceptance of rule of law in non-democratic countries would lead to democratization, especially along with increasing economic prosperity. This linear thesis, however, have met challenges recently in light of recent developments in China, HK, and other parts of the world. As such, this module scrutinizes this linear thesis by examining the trajectories of legal development in East Asia and the determinants, such as international factors, civil law traditions, legal professionals, foreign law influence, colonial legacies and post-colonial nationalism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5437V", "title": "Law and Democracy in East Asia", "description": "This module explores diverse development patterns of the rule of law and democracy in East Asia. Theories of democracy commonly hold that the acceptance of rule of law in non-democratic countries would lead to democratization, especially along with increasing economic prosperity. This linear thesis, however, have met challenges recently in light of recent developments in China, HK, and other parts of the world. As such, this module scrutinizes this linear thesis by examining the trajectories of legal development in East Asia and the determinants, such as international factors, civil law traditions, legal professionals, foreign law influence, colonial legacies and post-colonial nationalism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5438", "title": "Intellectual Property Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the exciting world of intellectual property arbitration. Traditionally thought of and taught as distinct areas of law, the overlap between IP rights and recourse to arbitration for the protection of those rights has grown significantly in recent years. This pioneering course is not currently offered in any other leading law school in the world. It is designed for students with little to\nno knowledge of IP law. It is also designed for students with an interest in arbitration, regardless of the level of their preexisting knowledge of arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5438V", "title": "Intellectual Property Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the exciting world of intellectual property arbitration. Traditionally thought of and taught as distinct areas of law, the overlap between IP rights and recourse to arbitration for the protection of those rights has grown significantly in recent years. This pioneering course is not currently offered in any other leading law school in the world. It is designed for students with little to\nno knowledge of IP law. It is also designed for students with an interest in arbitration, regardless of the level of their preexisting knowledge of arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5439S", "title": "Applied Accounting and Finance for Lawyers", "description": "This module is a condensed course designed to enable law students to acquire essential accounting knowledge and financial skills needed to advise clients in today\u2019s highly regulated global environment. This module comprises four parts. The first part demystifies accounting concepts and taxonomy. The second part addresses the significance of the primary information in financial statements. The third part introduces key financial ratios that are tools for assessing the health, solvency and value of a business. The fourth part introduces students to fraud, misstatements, non-compliance to financial reporting and other related financial risks."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5440", "title": "Electronic Evidence", "description": "This course introduces students to electronic evidence, which covers every area of law. Most legal problems presented to lawyers now include an element of electronic evidence. It is incumbent on judges, lawyers and legal academics to be familiar with the topic in the service of justice. Electronic evidence is ubiquitous.\nUsing an array of mobile technologies, people communicate regularly through social networking sites, e-mail and other virtual methods managed by organisations that are transnational. No area of human activity is free from the networked world \u2013 this also means no area of law is free from the effects of electronic evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5440V", "title": "Electronic Evidence", "description": "This course introduces students to electronic evidence, which covers every area of law. Most legal problems presented to lawyers now include an element of electronic evidence. It is incumbent on judges, lawyers and legal academics to be familiar with the topic in the service of justice. Electronic evidence is ubiquitous.\nUsing an array of mobile technologies, people communicate regularly through social networking sites, e-mail and other virtual methods managed by organisations that are transnational. No area of human activity is free from the networked world \u2013 this also means no area of law is free from the effects of electronic evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5441", "title": "Law & Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy & Insolvency", "description": "This course looks at the economic foundations of corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law. The course will discuss the application of general law-and-economics principles to the governance and reorganization of insolvent and financially distressed business firms. Readings will focus in particular on questions about whether and how general theories of contracts, property, and corporate governance must be amended in the context of insolvency and bankruptcy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5441V", "title": "Law & Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy & Insolvency", "description": "This course looks at the economic foundations of corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law. The course will discuss the application of general law-and-economics principles to the governance and reorganization of insolvent and financially distressed business firms. Readings will focus in particular on questions about whether and how general theories of contracts, property, and corporate governance must be amended in the context of insolvency and bankruptcy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5442", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5442V", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5443", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5443V", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5444", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5444V", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5445S", "title": "Corporate Insolvency Law", "description": "Insolvency law is relevant to virtually all aspects of commercial activity. This course consists of three components. The first is an introduction to credit and security, providing the foundation for a solid understanding of corporate insolvency law. The second is on insolvent winding up and receivership. For insolvent winding up, the topics include the initiation and effects of insolvent winding up, assets of the insolvent company, the pari passu principle, proof of debts, avoidance provisions and improper trading. The third part is on rescue. The topics include informal workout and scheme of arrangement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5446", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5446V", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5447", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5447V", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5448", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5448V", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5449", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5449V", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5450", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5450V", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5451", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5451V", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5452", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5452V", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5453", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5453V", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5454", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5454S", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of this module is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws from the perspective of courts in Singapore. First, the module identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the module outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments. Finally, the module outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5454V", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5455", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5455V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5456", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5456V", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5457", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5457V", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5458", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5458V", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5459X", "title": "Env. & Sustainability - Law, Governance & Practice", "description": "This module provides an understanding of the global environmental issues; their effects and interlinkages with sustainable development; the international legal and governance framework and practice as they relate to environmental and sustainability management; and the domestic implementation and impact of such environmental norms and policies. The module will also address international environmental corporate standards."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5460", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5460V", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5461", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. We then examine the compliance function\nthrough the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistle blowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money\nlaundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5461V", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. We then examine the compliance function\nthrough the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistle blowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money\nlaundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5462", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5462V", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5463", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5463V", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5464", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5464V", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5465", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable \ncollective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law; unfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the accommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5465V", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable\ncollective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law;\nunfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the\naccommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5471", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5471V", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5472", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5472V", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5473", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of\ninvestment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy\nresources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5473V", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of\ninvestment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy\nresources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5474", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5474V", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5475", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5475V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5476", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5476V", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5477", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic\ncivil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows: (1) Introduction to Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia: History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5477V", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic civil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows: (1) Introduction\nto Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia: History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5478", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5478V", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5479", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance.\nNevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to\nidentify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation,\ncreativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5479V", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance.\nNevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to\nidentify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation,\ncreativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5480", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5480V", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5481", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region: in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5481V", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region: in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5482", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5482V", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5483", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5483V", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5484X", "title": "Introduction to Singapore Business Law", "description": "This course will introduce students to the basics of Singapore law, with a focus on law as applicable to the business context. Students will learn about the Singapore legal system (specifically, (i) common law reasoning; (ii) how laws are enacted and implemented in Singapore; and (iii) the basics of interpreting laws), tort law, contract law, and company law. Through this course, students will gain an understanding of the legal issues that they may have to negotiate within their respective organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5485X", "title": "Interests-Based Negotiation", "description": "While negotiation is a key competency in professional life, many do not have formal training in negotiating. Often, we negotiate by acting instinctively (and often randomly), or emulating others. And through this process of trial and error, we develop our own styles of negotiating. However, sometimes, these styles that we develop can lead to difficulties. First, the styles that we develop do not necessarily sit well with our personality or conflict resolution styles. Secondly, the styles we adopt are not necessarily guided by a coherent paradigm or strategic thinking and action. Finally, these styles are often adversarial and zero-sum, leading to unsustainable business and personal relationships. This workshop does not seek to replace the existing effective negotiation skills that students already have. However, it seeks to enhance the range of tools they have available to negotiate effectively. This workshop will focus on giving students a working knowledge of the Interests-Based Model of Negotiation created by Roger Fisher and as taught at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. It will be taught through a mixture of presentations, facilitated discussions and role plays."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5486", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5486V", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5487", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5487V", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5488", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5488V", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5489", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5489V", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5490", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5490V", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5491", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5491V", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5492", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5492V", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5493", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This course equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5493V", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This course equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5494", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5494V", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5496", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5496V", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5499", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies, performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make of law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5499V", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies, performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make of law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5500", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5500V", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5501", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5501V", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5502", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5502V", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5504", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5504V", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5505", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5505V", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL5506", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5506V", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5507", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5507V", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5508", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5508V", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5509", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5509V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5511", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5511V", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5512S", "title": "Digital Law and Policy in China", "description": "The Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and many others are clearly disruptive technologies. The digital disruptions have brought about profound social, economic, and legal implications and the rate of change will only increase. This course introduces students to the rapid development of law and the regulatory bodies of the People\u2019s Republic of China in the digital age. It covers many interesting topics such as Internet governance, e-commerce, internet service providers\u2019 liabilities, privacy, data protection and artificial intelligence. It also provides the opportunity to explore one specific area in a greater depth, through case discussions and class presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL5513S", "title": "Chinese Company and Capital Market Law", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity to study selected issues of company and capital market laws in greater detail than can be covered in the typical introductory law course covering relevant topics. The course will also help the students to understand law in China\u2019s social and economic context by analyzing cases and statutory developments. Main issues in this course includes: incorporation and corporate personality, foreign investment enterprises, corporate financing, corporate governance, Chinese financial markets and regulatory framework, market manipulation and insider trading. Topics will be discussed on a comparative approach to broaden the students\u2019 outlook."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6001", "title": "Administration Of Criminal Justice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6002", "title": "Admiralty Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6002V", "title": "Admiralty Law & Practice", "description": "This course will introduce the various concepts relating to the admiralty action in rem, which is the primary means by which a maritime claim is enforced. Topics will include: the nature of an action in rem; the subject matter of admiralty jurisdiction; the invocation of admiralty jurisdiction involving the arrest of offending and sister ships; the procedure for the arrest of ships; liens encountered in admiralty practice: statutory, maritime and possessory liens; the priorities governing maritime claims; and time bars and limitations. This course is essential to persons who intend to practice shipping law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6003V", "title": "China, India and International Law", "description": "This course will examine the rise of China and India and it\u2019s impact on the international legal order. In particular, students will be led to discuss issues concerning (1) the origin and history of the relationship between developing\ncountries and international law; (2) the rise of China and India and its challenge to the existing international legal order and legal norms; (3) China, India, and the multilateral trading system; (4) China, India and international investment; (5) the international law aspects of domestic policies in China and India; and (6) the international law aspects of competition and disputes between China and \nIndia. The course will also concentrate on demonstrating the interaction between international relations and international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6004", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6004V", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": "This course provides an insight into international civil aviation and the legal and regulatory issues facing airlines, governments and the common passenger. Issues raised include public air law and policy, aviation security in light of recent global developments and private air law. Emphasis will be placed on issues relevant to Singapore and Asia, given Singapore's status as a major aviation hub and the exponential growth of the industry in the Asia-Pacific. Topics to be discussed include the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, bilateral services agreements, aircraft safety, terrorism and aviation security and carrier liability for death or injury to passengers. Competition among airlines will also be analysed, including business strategies such as code-sharing, frequent flier schemes and alliances. The severe competitive environment introduced by weakening economies, war and terrorism will also be discussed. This course will be relevant for individuals with a keen interest in air travel, and is designed for those interested in joining the aviation industry or large law firms with an aviation practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6005V", "title": "Bank Documentation", "description": "Bank Documentation is an advanced contract course situated in the banking context. Students will be introduced to key principles that govern banking transactions as well as a variety of contractual clauses used by banks in their standard-form documentation. The aim of the course is to promote an\nunderstanding of these terms, how they operate and their shortcomings. Some emphasis is placed on contractual techniques used by banks to maintain control over their contractual relationships and to allocate risk, as well as the common law and statutory limits on their effectiveness. Students are required to evaluate the fairness of typical banking terms by applying relevant law and guidelines. Those who successfully complete the module will be equipped to navigate their way around standard form agreements (banking as well as others), recognize and understand the operation of a range of contractual terms, and predict their effectiveness."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6006", "title": "Banking Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6006V", "title": "Banking Law", "description": "This course is designed to familiarise the student with the key principles relating to the modern law of banking. Four main areas will be covered: the law of negotiable instruments, the law of payment systems, the banker customer relationship and bank regulation. Students who wish to obtain a basic knowledge of banking law will benefit from this course. It is also recommended that those who wish to specialize in banking law take this course as a foundational course, prior to studying the more advanced banking courses."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6007", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6007V", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": "This course will deal with the basic intellectual property, ethical, regulatory and policy issues in biotechnological innovations. It will focus mainly on patent issues including the patentability of biological materials, gene sequences, animals, plants and humans; infringement, ownership and licensing. Students will also be acquainted with genetic copyright, trade secrets protection and basic ethical and regulatory aspects including gene technology and ES cell research. Apart from Singapore law, a comparative analysis of the legal position in Europe and USA, as well as the major international conventions will be made. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of biology and genetics. (Class presentation is subject to change depending on student subscription)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6008A", "title": "Carriage of Goods by Sea", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6008AV", "title": "Carriage of Goods By Sea", "description": "This course will focus on the different transport documents which are used in contracts for the carriage of goods by sea. This will include bills of lading, sea waybills, delivery orders. The course will examine the rights and liabilities of\nthe parties to such contracts, including the shipowner, the charterer, the cargo owner, the lawful holder of the bill of lading etc. Major international conventions on carriage of goods, such as the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, the Hamburg Rules, and the Rotterdam Rules will also be examined. This course is of fundamental importance to those individuals contemplating a career in shipping law and underlines Singapore\u2019s role as a major global port and maritime hub."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6008B", "title": "Carriage of Goods by Sea", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6008BV", "title": "Charterparties", "description": "This course will focus on charterparties, which are contracts between the shipowner and the charterer for the hire of the vessel, either for a specific voyage (voyage charterparties) or over a period of time (time charterparties). There are in addition, other variants of these basic types, which will also be referred to. This\ncourse will examine the standard forms for each of the charterparties being studied and examine the main terms and legal relationship between shipowners and charterers. This dynamic and important aspect of the law of carriage of goods by sea is frequently the subject of arbitral proceedings and court decisions. This course will be of importance to individuals contemplating a carrier in shipping law and underlines Singapore\u2019s role as a major global port and maritime hub."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6009", "title": "Modern Chinese Law & Legal Chinese", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the latest legal developments and areas of significance in modern China. Topics covered include Chinese legal system, legal institutions, civil law, corporate law, finance law and dispute resolution. Through this module, students will benefit from learning substantive aspects of modern Chinese law and will be conversant with Mandarin in the legal context. This course is conducted primarily in Chinese (Mandarin) and is intended for students who possess a basic level of Chinese (Mandarin)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6009GRSI", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar I (Legal Scholarship)", "description": "This seminar will address the central approaches to legal research currently found in legal scholarship. It will look at the central assumptions of each approach, the questions about the law that it seeks to address, how it relates to other approaches. This seminar will also consider the best ways for researching different approaches, and what differentiates good research from less good research within each."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6009V", "title": "Modern Chinese Law & Legal Chinese", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the latest legal developments and areas of significance in modern China. Topics covered include Chinese legal system, legal institutions, civil law, corporate law, finance law and dispute resolution. Through this module, students will benefit from learning substantive aspects of modern Chinese law and will be conversant with Mandarin in the legal context. This course is conducted primarily in Chinese (Mandarin) and is intended for students who possess a basic level of Chinese (Mandarin)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6010", "title": "Civil Law Tradition", "description": "The course introduces students to the civil law tradition, principally the French\ncivil law tradition (with occasional references to the German civil law tradition). The French civil law tradition has had a significant influence in a number of ASEAN countries (including Indonesia) and whenever possible the course will refer to provisions of the different ASEAN civil codes and laws. The course will give an overview of the tradition and will touch on a number of topics including private law topics. The approach will be systematic in the sense that the course will try to immerse the students in the civil law system as a whole and help them understand how the system works and is organized. The goal is to teach the students how to think like civilian lawyers, or at least to teach them how civil law jurist approach the law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6010A", "title": "Topics in the Civil Law Tradition (A): EU Harmonisation", "description": "This module examines advanced topics in the civil law tradition using a\ncomparative approach, examining in particular the similiarities and differences between the civil law and the common law (and possibly other traditions) in approaching specific legal problems. The precise topics covered and examples used will vary depending on the instructor teaching the module in a given year, but the topics typically discussed would include the methodological differences between civil and common law (use of legislation and codes, use of case law / jurisprudence, use of doctrine), the differences in policies and values, as well whether we should seek convergence and unification or respect for the mentalit\u00e9 and culture of each legal tradition through harmonization."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6010AV", "title": "Topics in the Civil Law Tradition (A): EU Harmonisation", "description": "This module examines advanced topics in the civil law tradition using a\ncomparative approach, examining in particular the similiarities and differences between the civil law and the common law (and possibly other traditions) in approaching specific legal problems. The precise topics covered and examples used will vary depending on the instructor teaching the module in a given year, but the topics typically discussed would include the methodological differences between civil and common law (use of legislation and codes, use of case law / jurisprudence, use of doctrine), the differences in policies and values, as well whether we should seek convergence and unification or respect for the mentalit\u00e9 and culture of each legal tradition through harmonization."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6011", "title": "Reform of Civil Procedure", "description": "The reform of civil procedure is topical, having regard to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Commission appointed by the Chief Justice and the new Rules of Court 2021. This course takes the student through some key processes in civil procedure. The approach is more conceptual than a traditional rules-based civil procedure course. We will examine the rules, extract the relevant principles and concepts, and explore their strengths and reach. We will reflect on the goals of civil procedure and values of the system, and adopting a reform perspective, ask whether we can design the ideal or better civil litigation system."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6011V", "title": "Reform of Civil Procedure", "description": "The reform of civil procedure is topical, having regard to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Commission appointed by the Chief Justice and the new Rules of Court 2021. This course takes the student through some key processes in civil procedure. The approach is more conceptual than a traditional rules-based civil procedure course. We will examine the rules, extract the relevant principles and concepts, and explore their strengths and reach. We will reflect on the goals of civil procedure and values of the system, and adopting a reform perspective, ask whether we can design the ideal or better civil litigation system"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6012V", "title": "Comparative Constitutional Law", "description": "This discussion-based seminar will focus on issues of comparative constitutional adjudication in common law systems, with particular emphasis on the experiences of India, Singapore and South Africa. The course will therefore focus primarily on the institutional mechanisms of judicial review and the challenges for constitutionalism that are posed within this particular institutional setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6013V", "title": "Comparative Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is emerging as a distinct field of law in every nation and region. Legislatures establish environmental laws based upon the need to address perceived environmental problems in their territory or in a region of shared resources such as a river basin or coastal marine regions or the habitats for migratory species. In some instances, national legislation is stimulated by the negotiation and adherence to multilateral environmental agreements."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6014", "title": "Construction Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6014V", "title": "Construction Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the legal principles that form the foundation of construction law and to the common practical problems that arise in this field. Topics will include: (a) general principles of construction law, including completion, defects, retention and certification; (b) basic provisions of construction contracts; (c) claims procedure & dispute resolution, including arbitration procedure; and (d) relevant provisions of standard form building contracts. This course will be of interest to students interested in construction practice or a practical approach to the study of law. This course is taught by partners from the Construction Practice Group of Wong Partnership."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6016A", "title": "Topics in Int\u2019l Criminal Law (A): Aggression", "description": "When the judges at the Nuremberg Tribunal handed down\ntheir decision against the German leaders in October\n1946, they declared \u2018crimes against peace\u2019 \u2013 the initiation\nof aggressive wars \u2013 to be \u2018the supreme international\ncrime\u2019. At the time, the charge was heralded as a legal\nmilestone, but subsequent events revealed it to be a postwar\nanomaly. This module traces the ebb and flow of the\nidea of criminalising aggression \u2013 from its origins after the\nFirst World War, through its high-water mark at the postwar\ntribunals and its abandonment during the Cold War, to\nits recent revival at the International Criminal Court."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6017", "title": "Contract and Commercial Law in Civil-Law Asia", "description": "This course looks mainly at contract law but also at some issues of commercial law in civil law jurisdictions in Asia using as examples a few Asian civil and commercial codes (for example the Indonesian codes which are similar to the\nFrench codes). It also looks at civil law in general as, unfortunately, more materials are available in English on European civil law than on Asian civil law. The course is\ncomparative in nature as it will compare civil and common law solutions. It would be a useful course for those who will works for firms with dealings across Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6018", "title": "Corporate Tax: Profits & Distributions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6018V", "title": "Corporate Tax: Profits & Distributions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6019", "title": "Credit & Security", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6019V", "title": "Credit & Security", "description": "This course examines the granting of credit and the taking of security by bank as well as aspects of bank supervision. The course starts with the Part on Bank Supervision and then turns to the discussion of unsecured lending and the Moneylenders' Act. It then focuses on secured credit. The discussion of the general regulation of the giving of security is followed by an examination of specific security devices, such as pledges, trust receipts, Romalpa clauses, factoring, stocks and shares as security, and guarantees and indemnities. The emphasis throughout is on the commercial effectiveness of the system."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6021V", "title": "Environmental Law", "description": "This course is aimed at giving students an overview of environmental law and its development, including the legal and administrative structures for their implementation, from the international, regional and national perspectives. It will focus on hard laws (legal instruments, statutory laws, international and regional conventions) and soft laws (Declarations, Charters etc.). In particular, it will examine the basic elements of pollution laws relating to air, water, waste, hazardous substances and noise; as well as nature conservation laws and laws governing environmental impact assessments. Singapore's laws and the laws of selected ASEAN countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6022V", "title": "Globalization And International Law", "description": "Apart from the instruments of the World Trade Organization, there are other institutions and techniques which regulate international trade. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund regulate certain aspects of trade. There are multilateral instruments which deal with issues such as corruption, ethical business standards, investment protection, competition and the regulation of financial services. The jurisdictional reach of large powers over international markets also provides means of self-interested regulation. The international regulation of new technologies such as internet and biotechnology pose novel problems. This course addresses the issues that arise in this area in the theoretical and political contect of globalization."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6024", "title": "Indonesian Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6024V", "title": "Indonesian Law", "description": "This course will initiate the student to the basics of Indonesian law (adat law, Islamic law, legal pluralism, constitutional law, administrative law, civil law, judicial process) as well as to others aspects that are of concern to foreigners (foreign investment laws and protections, regional autonomy, mining laws etc.). It will also address some of the problems relating to law enforcement in Indonesia"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6025", "title": "Rights", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of rights. It begins with exposition of Wesley Hohfeld\u2019s analysis of the different legal positions often designated as \u201crights\u201d; then uses Hohfeld\u2019s framework to understand the debate between interest and will theorists of rights. It moves on to explicit consideration of moral rights. Finally, applications are considered \u2013 including human rights, and Asian perspectives on \u201crights\u201d discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6025V", "title": "Rights", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of rights. It begins with exposition of Wesley Hohfeld\u2019s analysis of the different legal positions often designated as \u201crights\u201d; then uses Hohfeld\u2019s framework to understand the debate between interest and will theorists of rights. It moves on to explicit consideration of moral rights. Finally, applications are considered \u2013 including human rights, and Asian perspectives on \u201crights\u201d discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6026V", "title": "Infocoms Law: Competition & Convergence", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6027", "title": "International & Comparative Law Of Sale", "description": "This course will focus in detail on the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, governing international commercial sales in the US and abroad. The objective of this course is to give participants an overview of the (different) ways in which this Convention has been applied by judges and arbitrators throughout the world, thus giving participants the tools to draft international import/export agreements favourable to their future clients. Participants will be given hypothetical cases and will be asked to critically examine the different substantive solutions proposed by courts and arbitrators. As the convention does not deal with all the problems that may arise out of international commercial sales, the course will also deal with the issue of how to fill the gaps left by this Convention."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6029", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6029AV", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6029BV", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6029V", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the basic understanding of the law of arbitration to enable them to advise and represent parties in the arbitral process confidence. Legal concepts peculiar to arbitration viz. separability, arbitrability and kompetenze-kompetenze will considered together with the procedural laws on the conduct of the arbitral process, the making of and the enforcement of awards. Students will examine the UNCITRAL Model Law and the New York Convention, 1958. This course is most suited for students with some knowledge of the law of commercial transactions, shipping, banking, international sale of goods or construction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6030", "title": "International Commercial Litigation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6030V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation", "description": "Globalisation has made it more important for lawyers to be knowledgeable about the international aspects of litigation. This course focuses on the jurisdictional techniques most relevant to international commercial litigation: in personam jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, interim protective measures, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, public policy, and an outline of choice of law issues for commercial contracts. The course, taught from the perspective of Singapore law, based largely on the common law, is designed to give an insight into the world of international litigation. These skills are relevant to not only litigation lawyers, but also lawyers planning international transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6031", "title": "International Environmental Law & Policy", "description": "International law traditionally concerns itself with the relations between states, yet environmental problems transcend borders. International environmental law demonstrates how international norms can affect national sovereignty on matters of common concern. The course surveys international treaties concerning the atmosphere and the conservation of nature, and connections to trade and economic development. Institutions and principles to promote compliance and cooperation are also examined. The course will assist students in their understanding of international law-making. It would be of use to those interested in careers involving international law, both for the government and public sector and those in international trade and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6031V", "title": "International Environmental Law & Policy", "description": "International law traditionally concerns itself with the relations between states, yet environmental problems transcend borders. International environmental law demonstrates how international norms can affect national sovereignty on matters of common concern. The course surveys international treaties concerning the atmosphere and the conservation of nature, and connections to trade and economic development. Institutions and principles to promote compliance and cooperation are also examined. The course will assist students in their understanding of international law-making. It would be of use to those interested in careers involving international law, both for the government and public sector and those in international trade and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6032", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6032V", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": "This course focuses on the nature of risks to foreign investment and the elimination of those risks through legal means. As a prelude, it discusses the different economic theories on foreign investment, the formation of foreign investment contracts and the methods of eliminating potential risks through contractual provisions. It then examines the different types of interferences with foreign investment and looks at the nature of the treaty protection available against such interference. It concludes by examining the different methods of dispute settlement available in the area. The techniques of arbitration of investment disputes available are fully explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6033", "title": "International Legal Process", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6033V", "title": "International Legal Process", "description": "This course takes a problem-oriented approach to public international law. Its primary objective is to provide students with an understanding of the basic principles of public international law and a framework for analysing international legal disputes. The focus will be a past problem from the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. This will be used to illustrate the basic principles of public international law applicable in an international dispute. Its second objective is to teach students how to research points of international law and to construct persuasive arguments based on legal precedent, general principles, policy and facts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6034", "title": "International Regulation Of Shipping", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6034V", "title": "International Regulation of Shipping", "description": "This course will examine the global regime governing the international regulation of commercial shipping. It will examine the relationship between the legal framework established in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the work of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the UN specialized agency responsible for the safety and security of international shipping and the prevention of pollution from ships. The course will focus on selected global conventions administered by the IMO, including those governing safety of life at sea (SOLAS), the prevention of pollution from ships (MARPOL) and the training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers (STCW). It will also examine the liability and compensation schemes that have been developed for pollution damage caused by the carriage of oil and noxious substances by ships, as well as the conventions designed to ensure that States undertake contingency planning in order to combat spills of oil and other noxious and hazardous substances in their waters. In addition, the course will examine the schemes that have been developed to enhance the security of ships and ports in light of the threat of maritime terrorism. It will also examine the role of the IMO in the prevention of pollution of the marine environment from dumping waste at sea and from seabed activities subject to national jurisdiction. One of the themes of the course will be to consider how the IMO is responding to increased concern about the protection and preservation of the marine environment, including threats such as invasive species and climate change. Another theme will be to consider how the responsibility to enforce IMO Conventions is divided between flag States, coastal States, port States and the IMO. This course will be useful to persons who intend to practice shipping law or work in the private or public maritime sector."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6035", "title": "Taxation Issues in Cross-Border Transactions", "description": "This is an introduction to the major income tax issues faced by businesses operating in a global economy. These issues include causes of multiple taxation, strategies to avoid multiple taxation, the effectiveness of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) and the abuse of DTAs. The module will be taught using typical transactions of capital and income flows as the focus and method of instruction. It will identify the main tax risks from undertaking cross-border transactions. As part of the management and mitigation of tax costs to a MNC, tax planning opportunities in the form of tax arbitrage, tax havens, choice of investment vehicle, corporate funding, inbound and outbound investments as well as the repatriation of income and capital will be discussed. The course will also identify the global tax trends arising from increased mobility of capital, technological advancements as well as demographics. In particular, the module will address some of the major issues and challenges that are being addressed in the most ambitious international tax reform under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting 2015 (BEPS) initiative ever attempted. As this course seeks to illustrate some of the general strategies in international tax planning, no prior knowledge of country-specific tax rules is required. Instead, the latest OECD Model Tax Convention 2017 will used as a primary source of laws for the purpose of this module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6035V", "title": "Taxation Issues in Cross-Border Transactions", "description": "This is an introduction to the major income tax issues faced by businesses operating in a global economy. These issues include causes of multiple taxation, strategies to avoid multiple taxation, the effectiveness of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) and the abuse of DTAs. The module will be taught using typical transactions of capital and income flows as the focus and method of instruction. It will identify the main tax risks from undertaking cross-border transactions. As part of the management and mitigation of tax costs to a MNC, tax planning opportunities in the form of tax arbitrage, tax havens, choice of investment vehicle, corporate funding, inbound and outbound investments as well as the repatriation of income and capital will be discussed. The course will also identify the global tax trends arising from increased mobility of capital, technological advancements as well as demographics. In particular, the module will address some of the major issues and challenges that are being addressed in the most ambitious international tax reform under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting 2015 (BEPS) initiative ever attempted. As this course seeks to illustrate some of the general strategies in international tax planning, no prior knowledge of country-specific tax rules is required. Instead, the latest OECD Model Tax Convention 2017 will used as a primary source of laws for the purpose of this module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6037", "title": "Sociology of Law", "description": "The sociology of law studies law as a social institution. We will explore the relationships among law, social actors and other social institutions. This is in contrast to the legal academy\u2019s formalist approaches that treat law as\nautonomous and impartial, and jurisprudential concerns about law\u2019s morality. We will consider both theoretical and empirical, and classic and contemporary works in sociology of law. Issues covered include: law and classic social theory; law and contemporary social theory; law and power; the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution; law and organizations; legal mobilization; law, collective action, and social change; legal consciousness; and, sociological perspectives on the legal profession."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6037V", "title": "Sociology of Law", "description": "The sociology of law studies law as a social institution. We will explore the relationships among law, social actors and other social institutions. This is in contrast to the legal academy's formalist approaches that treat law as autonomous and impartial, and jurisprudential concerns about law's morality. We will consider both theoretical and empirical, and classic and contemporary works in sociology of law. Issues covered include: law and classic social theory; law and contemporary social theory; law and power; the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution; law and organizations; legal mobilization; law, collective action, and social change; legal consciousness; and, sociological perspectives on the legal profession."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6042V", "title": "Law and Religion", "description": "This course will consider the interaction of law and religion in three aspects: firstly, through a consideration of theoretical materials that discuss and debate religion\u2019s (possible) roles in public discourse and in the shaping of law, especially in multi-religious and multi-cultural environments; second, through an examination of a range of religio-legal traditions (e.g., Islamic law, Hindu Law etc); and, third, a consideration of specific instances \u2013 in cases, legislation and public issues etc -- where law and religion meet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6043", "title": "Law Of Marine Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6043V", "title": "Law Of Marine Insurance", "description": "This course aims to give students a firm foundation of existing law; a working understanding of standard form policies; and an understanding of the interaction between the Marine Insurance Act, case law and the Institute Clauses. Topics will include: types of marine insurance policies; insurable interest; principle of utmost good faith; marine insurance policies; warranties; causation; insured and excluded perils; proof of loss; types of losses; salvage, general average and particular charges; measure of indemnity and abandonment; mitigation of losses. This course will appeal to students who wish to specialise in either insurance law or maritime law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6044", "title": "Mediation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6044V", "title": "Mediation", "description": "This course is a skills-based workshop and is designed to assist participants in learning about and attaining a basic level of competency as a mediator and mediation advocate. Topics covered include: Interest-based mediation vs Positions-based mediation; The Mediation Process; Opening Statements; Co-Mediation; Preparing a client for mediation; and Mediation advocacy. This workshop is targeted at self-motivated Year 3 & 4 students interested in learning and developing interpersonal and conflict resolution skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6045", "title": "Negotiation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6045V", "title": "Negotiation", "description": "This course is a skills-based workshop and is designed to assist participants in learning about and attaining a basic level of competency as a negotiator. This is particularly important as lawyers commonly engage in negotiation as part of their practice. Topics covered include: Interest-based negotiation vs Position-based negotiation; Preparing for a negotiation; Creating and Claiming Value; and Overcoming Impasse. This workshop is targeted at self-motivated students interested in learning and developing interpersonal and negotiation skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6049", "title": "Principles Of Conflict Of Laws", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6049V", "title": "Principles Of Conflict Of Laws", "description": "The subject of conflict of laws addresses three questions: Which country should hear the case? What law should be applied? What is the effect of its adjudication in another country? This course includes an outline of jurisdiction and judgments techniques, but will focus on problems in choice of law, and issues in the exclusion of foreign law. Coverage includes problems in contract and torts, and other areas may be selected from time to time. This course is complementary to International Commercial Litigation, but it stands on its own as an introduction to theories and methodologies in the conflict of laws."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6050", "title": "Public International Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6050V", "title": "Public International Law", "description": "This foundational course introduces the student to the nature, major principles, processes and institutions of the international legal system, the relationship between international and domestic law and the role of law in promoting world public order. Students will acquire an understanding of the conceptual issues underlying this discipline and a critical appreciation of how law inter-relates with contemporary world politics, its global, regional and domestic significance. Topics include the creation and status of international law, participation and competence in the international legal system, primary substantive norms such as the law regulating the use of force and enforcement procedures."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6051", "title": "Principles Of Restitution", "description": "This course introduces students to the central concepts and disputes in the law of restitution, centring on unjust enrichment as an organising theme. The prevention of unjust enrichment as an independent legal principle, capable of founding causes of action, gained currency as an independent branch of the common law only as recently as in 1991. This course covers the operation of key restitutionary concepts in common law and equity, including their relationships to the law of contract, torts, and property, as well as to equitable principles. A selection of topics, which may vary from year to year, will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6054", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6054V", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of domestic and international sale of goods under the Singapore law. With regard to domestic sales, the course will focus on the Sale of Goods Act. Topics to\nbe studied will include the essential elements of the contract of sale; the passing of title and risk; the implied conditions of title, description, fitness and quality; delivery and payment, acceptance and termination, and the available remedies. With particular reference to a seller\u2019s delivery obligations, the course will also cover substantial aspects of the international sale of goods under the common law, such as FOB and CIF contracts and documentary sales. This course will be of interest to students intending to enter commercial practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6055", "title": "Securities Regulation", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of securities regulation, trusts, corporate governance and M & A, in Singapore and jurisdictions like US, China, UK, Australia, Taiwan and HK. Topics to be covered: use of alternative business entities and nature of shares; \"going public\" process; corporate governance of listed companies and trusts; insider trading and securities frauds; globalisation and technology; and the regulation of takeover activity. It also offers an introduction to the law of trusts, including custody arrangements and securitisation. Students are expected to search Internet for comparative materials but will also be provided with assigned readings."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6056A", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6056AV", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": "This foundation course seeks to acquaint participants with a basic working knowledge of income tax and goods and services tax issues faced by companies and individuals. It will illustrate the extent to which tax avoidance is acceptable under the rules for deductions, capital allowances and losses. In addition, the taxation of income from employment income, trade and investments will be highlighted. Tax planning opportunities arising from the differences in tax treatment of sole proprietors, partnerships and companies will be highlighted. On policy issues, concepts including economics of taxation, international trends and tax reform will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6056B", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6056BV", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": "This foundation course seeks to acquaint participants with a basic working knowledge of income tax and goods and services tax issues faced by companies and individuals. It will illustrate the extent to which tax avoidance is acceptable under the rules for deductions, capital allowances and losses. In addition, the taxation of income from employment income, trade and investments will be highlighted. Tax planning opportunities arising from the differences in tax treatment of sole proprietors, partnerships and companies will be highlighted. On policy issues, concepts including economics of taxation, international trends and tax reform will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6057V", "title": "Theoretical Foundations Of Criminal Law", "description": "The aim of this course is to examine and critique the philosophical assumptions that underlie the substantive criminal law. We begin with a survey of the various philosophical theories that purport to explain and justify the imposition of criminal liability. Once familiar with the fundamental concepts and issues, we then consider the relationship between moral responsibility and criminal liability by analyzing the theoretical assumptions behind the substantive principles and doctrine of criminal law. This is a seminar-style course aimed at students who already have grounding in criminal law, philosophy of law, or moral theory. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6059V", "title": "United Nations Law & Practice", "description": "By examining primary materials focused on the normative context within which the United Nations functions, students will develop an understanding of the interaction between law and practice. This is essential to a proper understanding of the UN Organization, but also to the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions more generally. The course is organized in four parts. Part I, \"Relevance\", raises some preliminary questions about the legitimacy and effectiveness of the United Nations, particularly in the area of peace and security. Part II, \"Capacity\", brings together materials on the nature and status of the United Nations. Part III, \"Practice\", examines how the United Nations has exercised its various powers. Part IV, \"Accountability\", concludes with materials on responsibility and accountability of the United Nations and its agents. A background in public international law is strongly recommended."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6060", "title": "World Trade Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6060B", "title": "World Trade Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6061", "title": "Inquiry", "description": "In this module, students will be encouraged to reflect upon what is really involved in pursuing a life of intellectual work. To this end, students will undertake a philosophical exploration of research and scholarship as it is routinely conducted across the experimental and social sciences, the humanities, literature and philosophy. Drawing upon insights achieved by historians, scientists, legal thinkers, sociologists, philosophers and literary writers into their respective crafts, students will explore not only the practical techniques recommended by these practitioners, but more significantly, the habits and virtues that have been found to be most conducive to successful practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6061V", "title": "Inquiry", "description": "In this module, students will be encouraged to reflect upon what is really involved in pursuing a life of intellectual work. To this end, students will undertake a philosophical exploration of research and scholarship as it is routinely conducted across the experimental and social sciences, the humanities, literature and philosophy. Drawing upon insights achieved by historians, scientists, legal thinkers, sociologists, philosophers and literary writers into their respective crafts, students will explore not only the practical techniques recommended by these practitioners, but more significantly, the habits and virtues that have been found to be most conducive to successful practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6062", "title": "Legal Reasoning & Legal Theory", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of legal reasoning, and its relationship with broader questions in legal theory. The course will examine, inter alia, the nature of rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, legal realism, statutory interpretation, judicial opinions, rules and standards, law and fact, and the burden of proof. The overarching questions to be addressed in this course include: In what way(s), if at all, is legal reasoning a distinctive form of reasoning? What is the relationship between legal reasoning and legal theory?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6062V", "title": "Legal Reasoning & Legal Theory", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of legal reasoning, and its relationship with broader questions in legal theory. The course will examine, inter alia, the nature of rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, legal realism, statutory interpretation, judicial opinions, rules and standards, law and fact, and the burden of proof. The overarching questions to be addressed in this course include: In what way(s), if at all, is legal reasoning a distinctive form of reasoning? What is the relationship between legal reasoning and legal theory?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6063", "title": "Business & Finance For Lawyers", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6063V", "title": "Business & Finance For Lawyers", "description": "To provide law students who intend to read commercial law electives with a foundation in accounting, finance and other related business concepts. It covers topics such as interpretation and analysis of standard financial statements, the types of players and instruments in the financial markets and the basic framework of a business investment market.The course will employ a hypothetical simulation where lawyers advise on several proposals involving the acquisition and disposal of assets by a client. The issues covered in the hypothetical will include asset valuation models, financing options and techniques, and compliance with accounting and regulatory frameworks."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6064", "title": "Competition Law and Policy", "description": "This module will examine the competition law and policy framework in Singapore and will introduce students to the three pillars of the legal and regulatory framework:\n(i) the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements, \n(ii) the prohibition against abuses of market dominance, and \n(iii) the regulation of mergers and concentrations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6064V", "title": "Competition Law and Policy", "description": "This module will examine the competition law and policy framework in Singapore and will introduce students to the three pillars of the legal and regulatory framework:\n(i) the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements, \n(ii) the prohibition against abuses of market dominance, and \n(iii) the regulation of mergers and concentrations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6065", "title": "Comparative Corporate Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6067", "title": "Comparative Criminal Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6069", "title": "European Union Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6069V", "title": "European Union Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6070", "title": "Foundations of IP Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6070V", "title": "Foundations Of Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This course seeks to introduce students to the general principles of intellectual property law in Singapore, as well as, major international IP conventions. It is aimed at students who have no knowledge of IP law but are interested in learning more about this challenging area of law. It will also be useful for students intending to pursue the advanced courses in IP/IT by providing them with the necessary foundation on IP law. Students will be assessed based on open book examination, 1 written assignment and 1 class presentation. (Class presentation is subject to change depending on student subscription)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6071", "title": "International Patent Law, Policy and Practice", "description": "The advent of new technologies in this scientific and technological age has led to a dramatic shift in business strategies and global economic development. IP rights (particularly patents) form an \"inexhaustible resource\" from which the fruits of research and innovation can be valued, commercially dealt with and shared. This course will analyse the international, regional and national patent laws, policies and practices including important aspects on successful technology licensing and knowledge transfer, as well as valuation and strategies for monetization of IP (patent) assets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6071V", "title": "International Patent Law, Policy and Practice", "description": "The advent of new technologies in this scientific and technological age has led to a dramatic shift in business strategies and global economic development. IP rights (particularly patents) form an \"inexhaustible resource\" from which the fruits of research and innovation can be valued, commercially dealt with and shared. This course will analyse the international, regional and national patent laws, policies and practices including important aspects on successful technology licensing and knowledge transfer, as well as valuation and strategies for monetization of IP (patent) assets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6072B", "title": "Topics in IP Law B: IP Valuation:Law & Prc", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6073", "title": "International Criminal Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6073V", "title": "International Criminal Law", "description": "This course will introduce to students the substantive and procedural framework of international criminal law. We will study international criminal law's historical origins, evolution, and how it is implemented today through a variety of different institutional frameworks. Among others, we will study post-WWII tribunals, the ad hoc international tribunals of Yugoslavia and Rwanda, hybrid tribunals, military tribunals and the permanent International Criminal Court. We will also examine non-criminal law responses to international crimes such as truth and reconciliation commissions. Students will critically explore and question the pros and cons of international criminal justice in terms of its professed goals and objectives."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6074", "title": "Mergers & Acquisitions", "description": "The course will begin with an evaluation of the business rationale for M&As and a discussion of the various types of transactions and related terminology. The regulatory issues surrounding these transactions will be analysed through examination of the applicable laws and regulations. The course adopts an nternational comparative perspective, with greater focus on the U.S., U.K. and Singapore. While corporate and securities law issues form the thrust, incidental reference will be made to accounting, tax and competition law considerations. inally, the transactional perspective will consider various\nstructuring matters, planning aspects, transaction costs\nand impact on various stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6074V", "title": "Mergers & Acquisitions", "description": "The course will begin with an evaluation of the business rationale for M&As and a discussion of the various types of transactions and related terminology. The regulatory issues surrounding these transactions will be analysed through examination of the applicable laws and regulations. The course adopts an nternational comparative perspective, with greater focus on the U.S., U.K. and Singapore. While corporate and securities law issues form the thrust, incidental reference will be made to accounting, tax and competition law considerations. inally, the transactional perspective will consider various\nstructuring matters, planning aspects, transaction costs\nand impact on various stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6075", "title": "IP and Competition Law", "description": "This course teaches the overlap between intellectual property and competition law. Students will be challenged to explore the intrinsic tensions that lie between the\nstatutory regimes that regulate market dominance, restrictive agreements and the monopolistic prerogatives and assertions by holders of intellectual property rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6075V", "title": "IP and Competition Law", "description": "This course teaches the overlap between intellectual property and competition law. Students will be challenged to explore the intrinsic tensions that lie between the\nstatutory regimes that regulate market dominance, restrictive agreements and the monopolistic prerogatives and assertions by holders of intellectual property rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6076", "title": "IT Law I", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6076V", "title": "IT Law I", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. Issues to be examined include the conduct of electronic commerce, cybercrimes, electronic evidence, privacy and data protection. (This course will not cover the intellectual property issues, which are addressed instead in \"IT Law: IP Issues\".) Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology and policy will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6077V", "title": "IT Law II", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. The focus of this course will be on the intellectual property issues such as copyright in software and electronic materials, software patents, electronic databases, trade marks, domain names and rights management information. Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology, policy and economic rights will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6078", "title": "Law & Practice of Investment Treaty Arbitration", "description": "This course is about a form of arbitration which is specific to disputes arising between international investors and host states \u2013 i.e. investor-state disputes \u2013 involving public, treaty rights. In contrast, international commercial arbitration typically deals with the resolution of disputes over private law rights between what are usually private parties.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in arbitration, and/or the law of foreign investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6079", "title": "State and Company in Legal-Historical Perspective", "description": "This module examines the relationship between the public and private power through the historical lens of the East India Company (established in 1600), one of the first multinational corporations. In particular, it examines: the\nformation and evolution of the Company and the legal implications of its ambiguous status as a private or public entity; its transformation into a sovereign power in India against the backdrop of the rise of the modern state and modern constitutionalism in Europe and the United States of America; and the Company\u2019s role in the founding of modern Singapore; and the Company\u2019s demise in 1858."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6081", "title": "Comparative Advocacy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6082", "title": "Law & Social Movements", "description": "This course provides a broad understanding of the relationship between law and social movements. Why do people mobilize collectively? We begin with this question, and then consider the different approaches of conceptualizing social movements. Next, we delve into questions intersecting social movements and sociology of law: the use of law as social control and repression, the role of lawyers in social movements, legal strategies involved in collective claim\u2010making, and the relationship between law and social change. After that, we examine a selection of case studies such as those concerning prodemocracy\nmovements, sexual rights movements, rightwing and counter movements, and transnational movements."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6085", "title": "International Trusts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6088", "title": "Chinese Contract Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6088V", "title": "Chinese Contract Law", "description": "This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on selected issues in contract law. It will compare the main principles of contract at common law and that in Chinese law. It will also examine the Chinese\ncontract law perspectives on scope of application, judicial interpretation, formation, performance, modification and assignment of contracts as well as liability for breach of contract.\n\nAt the end of the course, students will be able to understand the Chinese contract law framework and appreciate the differences at common law and that in Chinese law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6089", "title": "Chinese Corporate and Securities Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6089V", "title": "Chinese Corporate & Securities Law", "description": "This module introduces students to the laws and the relevant legislation governing the main forms of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China such as equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and limited liability companies.The aim is to provide students with a critical understanding of the FDI regime in China as well as an understanding of the relationship between the FDI governing laws and other general laws so as to provide updated and accurate information and enable proper legal advice to be given in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6093", "title": "Chinese Intellectual Property Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6093V", "title": "Chinese Intellectual Property Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094", "title": "The Pro Bono Family Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "Legal aid aims to ensure that all member of society have access to justice, regardless of their financial means.\n\nThis clinic provides students with a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students will assist an experienced legal practitioner with a Legal Aid Bureau case. Cases will relate to family law matters, and may cover issues relating to divorce, child maintenance, estate division and mental capacity. \n\nUnder guided mentorship, students will experience a meaningful learning journey that will allow them to gain professional practice skills, substantive knowledge in the area of family law, and refine their research, analysis, and drafting skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094A", "title": "The Corporate Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic provides students with the opportunity to handle a corporate matter, for a partner organisation, under guided mentorship. Partner organisations presently include the National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, The Arts House, Alzheimer's Disease Association, Singapore Hospice Council, Singapore Children\u2019s Society and Ernst & Young (Legal Corporate Social Responsibility Group).\n\nStudents will experience a meaningful learning journey, will gain valuable corporate practice skills, and increase their substantive knowledge in the areas of law that are relevant to the matters they are handling. Matters could cover areas such as personal data protection, contract formation and intellectual property issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094AV", "title": "The Corporate Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic provides students with the opportunity to handle a corporate matter, for a partner organisation, under guided mentorship. Partner organisations presently include the National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, The Arts House, Alzheimer's Disease Association, Singapore Hospice Council, Singapore Children\u2019s Society and Ernst & Young (Legal Corporate Social Responsibility Group).\n\nStudents will experience a meaningful learning journey, will gain valuable corporate practice skills, and increase their substantive knowledge in the areas of law that are relevant to the matters they are handling. Matters could cover areas such as personal data protection, contract formation and intellectual property issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094B", "title": "NUS-State Courts Judicial Clerkship Programme", "description": "The State Courts Clerkship Programme is a judicial clinical legal education programme designed to provide top law students with the opportunity to be attached to senior District Court Judges and acquire experiential knowledge of law practice through direct exposure to judicial work. It is a unique course which allows law students to acquire a different perspective of legal work through personalised interaction with senior Judges, working on actual cases from a judicial perspective and experiencing legal practice in a real-life court setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094BV", "title": "NUS-State Courts Judicial Clerkship Programme", "description": "The State Courts Clerkship Programme is a judicial clinical legal education programme designed to provide top law students with the opportunity to be attached to senior District Court Judges and acquire experiential knowledge of law practice through direct exposure to judicial work. It is a unique course which allows law students to acquire a different perspective of legal work through personalised interaction with senior Judges, working on actual cases from a judicial perspective and experiencing legal practice in a real-life court setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094C", "title": "The Access to Justice Low Bono Litigation Clinic", "description": "Access to justice is a fundamental tenet of the rule of law. Many individuals of low means do not qualify for legal aid. Low bono seeks to fill this lacuna. This legal clinic provides students with the experiential learning opportunity of assisting lawyers with pro bono or low bono cases originating from the Family Justice Support Scheme (FJSS) or the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) and other sources. These matters will predominantly relate to matrimonial matters involving foreign spouses and cross-border matrimonial issues, deputyship and estate matters, and Syariah divorce matters."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094CV", "title": "The Access to Justice Low Bono Litigation Clinic", "description": "Access to justice is a fundamental tenet of the rule of law. Many individuals of low means do not qualify for legal aid. Low bono seeks to fill this lacuna. This legal clinic provides students with the experiential learning opportunity of assisting lawyers with pro bono or low bono cases originating from the Family Justice Support Scheme (FJSS) or the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) and other sources. These matters will predominantly relate to matrimonial matters involving foreign spouses and cross-border matrimonial issues, deputyship and estate matters, and Syariah divorce matters."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094D", "title": "The Pro Bono Criminal Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the opportunity of being heavily involved in assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a Criminal Legal Aid Scheme (CLAS) case. \n\nUnder close mentorship students will embark upon a hands-on learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and deepen their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students could be dealing with cases involving offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act (Cap. 50A) or the Moneylenders Act (Cap. 188). Students will be involved in tasks such as attending client interviews, drafting pleadings and possibly attending court hearings."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094DV", "title": "The Pro Bono Criminal Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the opportunity of being heavily involved in assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a Criminal Legal Aid Scheme (CLAS) case. \n\nUnder close mentorship students will embark upon a hands-on learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and deepen their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students could be dealing with cases involving offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act (Cap. 50A) or the Moneylenders Act (Cap. 188). Students will be involved in tasks such as attending client interviews, drafting pleadings and possibly attending court hearings."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094E", "title": "The Capital Offences Criminal Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the eye-opening experience of assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a case under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO). \n\nUnder guided mentorship clinical students will experience a learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and increase their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students may be involved in tasks such as attending client meetings, drafting pleadings and attending court hearings.\n\nStudents will be able to help accused individuals when they need it most. The experience may cause students to question their own views on justice, and life!"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094EV", "title": "The Capital Offences Criminal Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the eye-opening experience of assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a case under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO). \n\nUnder guided mentorship clinical students will experience a learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and increase their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students may be involved in tasks such as attending client meetings, drafting pleadings and attending court hearings.\n\nStudents will be able to help accused individuals when they need it most. The experience may cause students to question their own views on justice, and life!"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6094V", "title": "The Pro Bono Family Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "Legal aid aims to ensure that all member of society have access to justice, regardless of their financial means.\n\nThis clinic provides students with a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students will assist an experienced legal practitioner with a Legal Aid Bureau case. Cases will relate to family law matters, and may cover issues relating to divorce, child maintenance, estate division and mental capacity. \n\nUnder guided mentorship, students will experience a meaningful learning journey that will allow them to gain professional practice skills, substantive knowledge in the area of family law, and refine their research, analysis, and drafting skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6096", "title": "International Trademark Law and Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6096V", "title": "International Trademark Law and Policy", "description": "The emphasis will be on the international and comparative aspects of the subject, including\n\nthe international treaties in this area (Paris Convention; TRIPS; Madrid etc) and regional developments (eg the Community trade mark system in Europe, the harmonization efforts in Asean);\n\ninter-relationship between trade mark law and the law of unfair competition in civil law jurisdictions;\n\ndifferent treatment by countries of topics such as parallel importation; protection of personality interests; dilution; protection of \"trade dress\" or \"get up\"."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6097", "title": "Islamic Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6097V", "title": "Islamic Law", "description": "Course will introduce history and basic concepts of traditional Islamic law, followed by an account of reforms during the 19th and 20th centuries. The reform period will be covered topically, beginning with method and philosophical foundations, and moving to a variety of issues of positive and procedural law. Finally, some themes related to law and modernity will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6099", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6099V", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": "This course will provide an understanding of the legal issues arising from casualties involving ships. It will examine aspects of the law relating to nationality and registration of ships, the law relating to the management of ships, ship sale and purchase, and the law of collisions, salvage, towage, wreck and general average. Students successfully completing the course will be familiar with the international conventions governing these issues, as well as the domestic law of Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6100", "title": "Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in China", "description": "This course takes students to the areas of significance in the field of dispute resolution in China, particularly with respect to the resolution of commercial disputes where arbitration plays a major role in today\u2019s China. Major methods of dispute resolution will be examined, such as arbitration, civil litigation, and mediation (as it combines with arbitration and litigation). Some topical issues pertinent to commercial disputes such as corporate litigation, securities enforcement, recognition and enforcement of foreign civil judgments, civil justice reform, and regional judicial assistance in the Greater China region will be looked into in the course as well."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6100V", "title": "Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in China", "description": "This course takes students to the areas of significance in the field of dispute resolution in China, particularly with respect to the resolution of commercial disputes where arbitration plays a major role in today\u2019s China. Major methods of dispute resolution will be examined, such as arbitration, civil litigation, and mediation (as it combines with arbitration and litigation). Some topical issues pertinent to commercial disputes such as corporate litigation, securities enforcement, recognition and enforcement of foreign civil judgments, civil justice reform, and regional judicial assistance in the Greater China region will be looked into in the course as well."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6102", "title": "Advanced Torts", "description": "Advanced Torts is designed to build on and further your knowledge of tort law.\nThe course is divided into two parts. In Part One, we will examine some fundamental concepts and debates surrounding tort law. The objective is to understand what is distinctive about torts and how torts are important in a civilised system of law. In Part Two, we will examine torts not already covered in the first year course. This will include consideration of important torts such as defamation, conversion, deceit, conspiracy and breach of statutory duty. These torts will be examined by reference to the best of the literature and by a selection of representative cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6102V", "title": "Advanced Torts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6104", "title": "Jurisprudence", "description": "This is an advanced-level course which provides an opportunity for rigorous study about the nature of law and broader issues in legal and political theory such as the nature of rights, the nature of justice, and questions about (fair) distribution. The course will examine a range of salient topics related to these issues and will be taught entirely through interactive, discussion-intensive seminars, that will rely heavily on active class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6104V", "title": "Jurisprudence", "description": "This is an advanced-level course which provides an opportunity for rigorous study about the nature of law and broader issues in legal and political theory such as the nature of rights, the nature of justice, and questions about (fair) distribution. The course will examine a range of salient topics related to these issues and will be taught entirely through interactive, discussion-intensive seminars, that will rely heavily on active class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6107V", "title": "Partnership and Alternative Business Vehicles", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6109", "title": "International Law & Asia", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6109V", "title": "International Law & Asia", "description": "How does Asia relate to the international community and international law? The region's rich diversity of states and socieities challenges assumptions of universality and also affects cooperation between states on issues such as human rights violations, environmental harm and the facilitation of freer trade. Yet a sense of reguinalism within East Asia is growing, with new institutions and mechanisms to deal with these and other contemporary challenges in East Asia. The seminar will discuss key issues of law and legal approaches in Asia, such as sovereignty, as well as provide for presentations bt students on research subjects."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6111V", "title": "International Copyright Law and Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6122", "title": "The Contemporary Indian Legal System", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6122V", "title": "The Contemporary Indian Legal System", "description": "While serving as an introductory course to the Indian legal system, this discussion-based Seminar seeks to focus on topical, contemporary legal issues in India. It will focus primarily on the post-Independence legal system in India, and its important institutions of democratic governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6123", "title": "International Insolvency Law", "description": "The general aim of the course is to impart a critical analytical understanding of International Insolvency Law. There will be consideration of the main features of national insolvency regimes highlighting the similarities and differences followed by a detailed consideration of the scope for cooperation in respect of insolvency matters across national frontiers. The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and the European Insolvency Regulation will be addressed in detail."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6125", "title": "Law And Development In China", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6125V", "title": "Law And Development In China", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6128", "title": "Chinese Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6129", "title": "Indian Business Law", "description": "The principal objective of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the various legal issues and perspectives involved in carrying out business and corporate transactions in India. The course will begin with a brief introduction to India\u2019s legal system, the Constitution and the judiciary so as to\nset the tone. This part will also contain an evaluation of the changes since 1991 to India\u2019s economic policies that have made it an emerging economic superpower. Thereafter, it will deal with the core through a discussion of he legal aspects involved in setting up business operations in India, the different types of business entities available, shareholders\u2019 rights, joint ventures, raising finance both privately and by accessing public capital markets, and the regimes relating to foreign direct investment, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate bankruptcy.Where applicable, the course will provide relevant comparisons with similar laws in other jurisdictions such as the U.S., the U.K. and Singapore. While the course is not intended to involve an exhaustive study of all\napplicable laws and regulations, it will highlight key legal considerations for business transactions in India and allow for deliberation on topical, contemporary issues with real-world examples."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6129V", "title": "Indian Business Law", "description": "The principal objective of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the various legal issues and perspectives involved in carrying out business and corporate transactions in India."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6131", "title": "Law, Governance & Development in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6131V", "title": "Law, Governance & Development in Asia", "description": "In the wake of Asia's striking economic progress issues of law and governance are now seen as critical for the developing, developed and post-conflict states of Asia. Legal reforms are embracing constitutional, representative government, good governance and accountability, and human rights, based on the rule of law. How and on what principles should Asian states build these new legal orders? Can they sustain economic progress and satisfy the demands for the control of corruption and abuses of powers, and the creation of new forms of accountability? This course examines on a broad comparative canvas the nature, fate and prospects for law and governance in developing democracies in Asia, using case studies drawn especially from SE Asian states. Coverage of the issues will be both theoretical, as we ask questions about the evolving nature of 'law and development'; and practical, as ask questions about the implementation of law and development projects across Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6133", "title": "Human Rights in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6133V", "title": "Human Rights in Asia", "description": "Firstly, to impart a solid grounding in the history, principles, norms, controversies and institutions of international human rights law. Secondly, to undertake a contextualized socio-legal study of human rights issues within Asian societies, through examining case law, international instruments, policy and state interactions with UN human rights bodies. 'Asia' alone has no regional human rights system; considering the universality and indivisibility of human rights, we consider how regional particularities affect or thwart human rights.
\nSubjects include: justiciability of socio-economic rights, right to development and self-determination, political freedoms, religious liberties, indigenous rights, national institutions, women's rights; MNC accountability for rights violations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6134", "title": "Crossing Borders: Law, Migration & Citizenship", "description": "Migration is not a new phenomenon but the intensity, frequency and ease with which persons are crossing borders today, both voluntarily and involuntarily, is\nunprecedented.\n\nThis course examines the legal issues impacting a person\u2019s migration path into and in Singapore. We will examine the criteria for admission to Singapore on a temporary or permanent basis, the evolution of immigration and nationality laws, as well as the domestic responses to the growing global problem of human trafficking.\n\nTheoretical perspectives on migration and citizenship are examined with a view to a range of normative questions including: How should constitutional democracies respond to and balance rights claims by citizens, residents, and others within their borders?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6134V", "title": "Crossing Borders: Law, Migration & Citizenship", "description": "Migration is not a new phenomenon but the intensity, frequency and ease with which persons are crossing borders today, both voluntarily and involuntarily, is\nunprecedented.\n\nThis course examines the legal issues impacting a person\u2019s migration path into and in Singapore. We will examine the criteria for admission to Singapore on a temporary or permanent basis, the evolution of immigration and nationality laws, as well as the domestic responses to the growing global problem of human trafficking.\n\nTheoretical perspectives on migration and citizenship are examined with a view to a range of normative questions including: How should constitutional democracies respond to and balance rights claims by citizens, residents, and others within their borders?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6135", "title": "Patent Law & Practice: Perspectives from the U.S", "description": "This module will introduce patent law and policy in the United States, and how they relate to other systems of law, primarily U.S. trade secret and antitrust law. The course begins with central legal principles and policies, emphasizing the concepts and skills required of a new lawyer with a working knowledge of patent law. By the end of the course, students will understand the requirements for obtaining protection, the doctrinal elements of an infringement action as well as the various types of defences and remedies available. Students will also gain a practice-oriented perspective of \u201creal-world\u201d issues facing inventors and companies as well as how those issues are consistent with, or in tension with, other interests."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6138", "title": "International & Comparative Law of Sale in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6138V", "title": "Int'l&Comp Law of Sale in Asia", "description": "The goal of this course is to prepare students for regional and international trade in Asia by providing basic knowledge of domestic laws of sale in both civil and common law systems in Asia (including Singapore's) as well as international rules affecting the contract of sale. The course will cover: comparative private law of contract and of sale in Asia; international private law of sale; private International Law aspects of international sales. The course is meant for students interested in international trade and comparative law in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6140", "title": "Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice", "description": "The Law of the Sea governs the conduct of States in the oceans. Given that the oceans covers five-seventh of the world\u2019s surface, it is a critical component of international law. It is also relevant for Singapore due to its extensive maritime interests. This course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Law of the Sea with the aim of examining how it addresses the ever-increasing challenges in the regulation of the oceans. The course will draw on a wide range of case studies from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6140V", "title": "Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice", "description": "The Law of the Sea governs the conduct of States in the oceans. Given that the oceans covers five-seventh of the world\u2019s surface, it is a critical component of international law. It is also relevant for Singapore due to its extensive maritime interests. This course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Law of the Sea with the aim of examining how it addresses the ever-increasing challenges in the regulation of the oceans. The course will draw on a wide range of case studies from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6146", "title": "Law & Society", "description": "This course is primarily concerned with the age-old dichotomy between law in the law books and law in action. Through the examination of the origin, function and pattern of law in primitive and modern societies from a historical, anthropological and sociological perspective, we will try to understand better, the constraints under which \u2018law\u2019 in modern society operates, and the limits on the use of law as an instrument of social change. \n\nIn the first part of the course, the student will be introduced to basic ideas in classical anthropology and the sociology of law. Questions such as - Are there any \u2018universal\u2019 patterns of human behaviour? To what extent is a society\u2019s perception of law influenced or controlled by environmental and econological factors? How are disputes resolved? Is aggression and warfare inherent in the human condition? - will be dealt with. In the second part of the course, these anthropological methods will be applied to a study of the concept of law in diverse societies from a sociological perspective, and to the actual function of law in \nsociety. Do patterns of human behaviour discernable in primitive societies hold true in more complex \u2018modern\u2019 societies? What are the attributes of a \u2018modern\u2019 legal system? Is the concept of \u2018law\u2019 in the western sense inevitable and universal in all kinds of societies. What happens to the concept of law in plural societies? \n\nTeaching will be by seminars which will include lectures and discussion of assigned readings. No previous knowledge of law anthropology or sociology is required or will be assumed of students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6146V", "title": "Law & Society", "description": "This course is primarily concerned with the age-old dichotomy between law in the law books and law in action. Through the examination of the origin, function and pattern of law in primitive and modern societies from a historical, anthropological and sociological perspective, we will try to understand better, the constraints under which \u2018law\u2019 in modern society operates, and the limits on the use of law as an instrument of social change. \n\nIn the first part of the course, the student will be introduced to basic ideas in classical anthropology and the sociology of law. Questions such as - Are there any \u2018universal\u2019 patterns of human behaviour? To what extent is a society\u2019s perception of law influenced or controlled by environmental and econological factors? How are disputes resolved? Is aggression and warfare inherent in the human condition? - will be dealt with. In the second part of the course, these anthropological methods will be applied to a study of the concept of law in diverse societies from a sociological perspective, and to the actual function of law in society. Do patterns of human behaviour discernable in primitive societies hold true in more complex \u2018modern\u2019 societies? What are the attributes of a \u2018modern\u2019 legal system? Is the concept of \u2018law\u2019 in the western sense inevitable and universal in all kinds of societies. What happens to the concept of law in plural societies? Teaching will be by seminars which will include lectures and discussion of assigned readings. No previous knowledge of law anthropology or sociology is required or will be assumed of students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6148", "title": "Secured Transactions Law", "description": "This course provides a comparative study of the law of secured transactions across the common law world. The first part covers the English law of security and title financing in depth. The second part looks at the notice filing model originally introduced in UCC Article 9 and now enacted as PPSAs in several other jurisdictions. The third part looks at reform of secured transactions law around the world, and, in particular, the Cape Town Convention and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide and Model Law. This course will be of interest to anyone interested in the debt side of corporate finance, as well as those interested in transnational commercial law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6150", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6150V", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6153", "title": "International Police Enforcement Cooperation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6155", "title": "Topics in Law & Economics", "description": "This seminar will explore several key topics at the intersection of law and economics. It will commence with an exploration of the concept of rationality as employed in (positive) micro-economic theory. It will also explore the Coase theorem as a means of understanding the importance of legal rules and institutions. These theoretical tools will then be used as a lens for examining, amongst other topics, tort, contract and insolvency law; company law; financial regulation, and the role of law and\nlegal institutions in economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6158", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation. (78 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6158V", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6159", "title": "The Economic Analysis of Law", "description": "In this course, we will look at the way economists analyze legal problems and how economics has contributed to our understanding of the legal system. In order to do that, we\u2019ll want to get a firm grounding on what an economist\u2019s lens looks like. We\u2019ll run through the main principles of economic thought. \n\nAfter this introduction to economic thinking, we\u2019ll look at how the principles of economics are applied in specific legal contexts. For these basic applications, we shall take examples from four courses (Property, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law) to see how an economist might approach these problems.\n\nFollowing on from these basic applications, we\u2019ll look at various extensions to the basic model and special topics."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6159V", "title": "The Economic Analysis of Law", "description": "In this course, we will look at the way economists analyze legal problems and how economics has contributed to our understanding of the legal system. In order to do that, we\u2019ll want to get a firm grounding on what an economist\u2019s lens looks like. We\u2019ll run through the main principles of economic thought. \n\nAfter this introduction to economic thinking, we\u2019ll look at how the principles of economics are applied in specific legal contexts. For these basic applications, we shall take examples from four courses (Property, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law) to see how an economist might approach these problems.\n\nFollowing on from these basic applications, we\u2019ll look at various extensions to the basic model and special topics."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6161", "title": "Intelligence Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6161V", "title": "Intelligence Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6162", "title": "Singapore Corporate Governance", "description": "Since Singapore\u2019s independence in 1965, its economic development has been remarkable. Singapore\u2019s unique system of corporate governance is one of the keys to its economic success. This course will begin by providing a historical and comparative overview of Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance. It will then undertake an indepth and comparative analysis of the core aspects of Singapore corporate governance, highlighting the aspects which make it unique. The course will then examine the latest developments in Singapore corporate governance, with an emphasis on analysing the details, policy rationale, and implications of recent reforms. The course will conclude by considering what the future may hold for Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance and what other jurisdictions may learn from it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6162V", "title": "Singapore Corporate Governance", "description": "Since Singapore\u2019s independence in 1965, its economic development has been remarkable. Singapore\u2019s unique system of corporate governance is one of the keys to its economic success. This course will begin by providing a historical and comparative overview of Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance. It will then undertake an indepth and comparative analysis of the core aspects of Singapore corporate governance, highlighting the aspects which make it unique. The course will then examine the latest developments in Singapore corporate governance, with an emphasis on analysing the details, policy rationale, and implications of recent reforms. The course will conclude by considering what the future may hold for Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance and what other jurisdictions may learn from it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6164", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6164V", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": "This course is intended to introduce students to the practice and law relating to international projects and infrastructure. The various methods of procurement and the construction process involved will be reviewed in conjunction with standard forms that are used internationally - such as the FIDIC, JCT and NEC forms, among others. Familiar issues such as defects, time and cost overruns and the implications therefrom (and how these matters are dealt with in an international context) will also be covered.\n\nThe course will provide students with an understanding of how international projects are procured, planned and administered as well as give an insight into how legal and commercial risks are identified, priced, managed and mitigated."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6170", "title": "Comparative Conflict of Laws", "description": "This is an advanced course of private international law which offers a comparative perspective on the traditional issues addressed by rules of private international law, i.e. choice of law, international jurisdiction, and the recognition of foreign judgments. The focus will essentially be the United States and on the European Union, but other jurisdictions will also be considered from time to time."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6171", "title": "ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy and Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6171V", "title": "ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy & Governance", "description": "This course examines the progressive development of environmental law, policy and governance in ASEAN. It also considers the role of ASEAN in supplementing and facilitating international environmental agreements (MEAs), such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNESCO Man & Biosphere,etc. It will evaluate the extent of implementation of the ASEAN environmental instruments at national level - some case studies will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6172", "title": "Japanese Corporate Law & Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6173", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6173V", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": "This module examines the core legal characteristics of the corporate form in five major jurisdictions: the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany and France. It explains the common agency problems that are inherent in the corporate form and compares the legal strategies that each jurisdiction uses to solve these common problems. The major topics that this comparative examination covers include: agency problems; legal personality and limited liability; basic governance structures; creditor protection; related party transactions; significant corporate actions; control transactions; issuer and investor protection; the convergence of corporate law; and, comparative corporate law in developing countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6175", "title": "Global Legal Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", "description": "The development of new types of legal phenomena in the global arena has outgrown established understandings of law, and conventional classifications of legal materials. At the point of needing a theoretical underpinning for the novel concerns of academic law occasioned by globalization, fresh considerations of interdisciplinary perspectives on law are opened up, questioning the extent to which a distinctively legal approach to global issues is possible. This course engages with these challenges by exploring the global interconnectedness of law, morality, politics and economics, and considers what contribution legal theory might make to illuminating complex policy issues with a global reach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6175V", "title": "Global Legal Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", "description": "The development of new types of legal phenomena in the global arena has outgrown established understandings of law, and conventional classifications of legal materials. At the point of needing a theoretical underpinning for the novel concerns of academic law occasioned by globalization, fresh considerations of interdisciplinary perspectives on law are opened up, questioning the extent to which a distinctively legal approach to global issues is possible. This course engages with these challenges by exploring the global interconnectedness of law, morality, politics and economics, and considers what contribution legal theory might make to illuminating complex policy issues with a global reach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6177", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6177V", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6178", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6178V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6179", "title": "International Alternative Dispute Resolution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6180", "title": "Choice of Law & Jurisdiction in Int\u2019l Commercial Contracts in Asia", "description": "Starting by examining the theory and the need for choice of law and jurisdiction clauses, this course will examine various issues with these clauses by involving students in drafting, negotiating, concluding and eventually enforcing choice of law and jurisdiction clauses (in particular arbitration clauses) in international commercial contracts in Asia. This will be done through real life scenarios being introduced into the classroom in which students will act as lawyers advising and representing clients in drafting and negotiating choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as attacking or defending them before a tribunal in a dispute context. Accordingly, students will live through the life of various choice of law and jurisdiction clauses and see how they can be drafted, negotiated and enforced in Asian jurisdictions. \nUpon completion of the course, students will have learnt the theories behind choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as the practical skills and lessons in negotiating, finalizing and enforcing them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6185", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6185V", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6187", "title": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law", "description": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law invites students to critically examine (1) the theoretical underpinnings of contract law at the level of meta theory (e.g. autonomy, reliance, promise, economic, property), but also (2) at the level of foundational concepts such as \u2018autonomy\u2019, \u2018freedom\u2019, \u2018the intention of the parties\u2019, \u2018vitiation\u2019 and \u2018expectation interest\u2019; (3) how the theories help us to explain different aspects of contract law. Students should be able to engage in normative analysis of the law (how the law should be) with a view to desirable law reform. It complements the modules Advanced Contract Law and Property Theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6188", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. Advisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6188V", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. \nAdvisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6189", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6189V", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6190", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these jurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6190V", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these\njurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6191", "title": "Wealth Management Law", "description": "This course will examine the legal principles and regulatory environment surrounding the wealth management services provided by banking institutions. Major topics that are likely to be covered on the course include the nature and regulation of wealth management services and providers, banks\u2019 potential liability for the provision of wealth management services (such as financial advisory services in general and in relation to complex financial products in particular, the provision of financial information and data, portfolio management services, and custodianship) and the effectiveness of banks\u2019 attempts to exclude or limit liability."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6192", "title": "Private International Law of IP", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6193", "title": "Negotiating & Drafting Int'l Commercial Transactions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6193V", "title": "An Introduction to Negotiating & Drafting Commercial Contracts", "description": "This course provides a practical introduction to the essentials of negotiating and drafting commercial contracts in the Common Law tradition. \nThe course begins with a refresh of plain English writing skills. The second part then reviews key Common Law concepts and considers the Common Law's attitudes to the commercial world. The third looks at the fundamental shape, structure and organisation of commercial contracts. The fourth deals with aspects of law routinely encountered by the practitioner and technical drafting issues. The fifth focuses on technical drafting. The sixth and final part considers the approach of managing legal risk and the practicalities of negotiation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6194", "title": "Partnership and LLP Law", "description": "This module will examine in depth the law of partnerships. The basic framework is the same in most Commonwealth countries and based still on the UK Partnership Act of 1890. The topics to be covered in relation to general partnerships include the formation of partnerships, partnerships in the modern legal system, the relationship between partners and outsiders, the relationship of partners inter se and the dissolution of partnerships. The module will then examine the variants of limited partnerships, used mainly as investment vehicles, and limited liability partnerships. LLPs, a recent creation, are becoming increasingly popular for the professions especially. They are an amalgam of corporate and partnership concepts but are also developing their own specific legal issues which will only increase with time."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6195V", "title": "International Economic Law & Relations", "description": "This course examines the international law and international relations dimensions of the current international economic systems and discuss the various possibilities for future reforms in light of the past and recent global economic crises. While the discussion will be based on the Bretton Woods System (the GATT/WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank), the course will focus mainly on the international regulatory framework of finance and investment. The purpose of the course is to let the students develop a bird\u2019s eye view of the legal aspects of the international economic architecture as well as the reasons \u2013 or the international political economy \u2013 behind its operation. Students will also be exposed certain fundamentals of international law and international relations concerning global economic affairs. Further, the course will examine the experiences of several countries\u2019 economic development and their use of international economic law to achieve economic growth."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6197", "title": "Comparative State and Religion in Southeast Asia", "description": "How do Southeast Asian constitutions accommodate religion? Is secularism necessary for democracy? Do public religions undermine religious freedom? These are some of the questions we will be engaging with in this course.\n\nThere are two segments to the course. In the first segment, we will examine general theories of statereligion relations, including liberal assumptions of the dominant theory of the separation of church and state (the \u201cdisestablishment theory\u201d), the rise and fall of the secularization thesis, and alternative theories.\n\nDuring the second segment, we will examine statereligion relations through topical issues in selected countries in Southeast Asia, including how legal systems in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia accommodate Syariah Courts, and how separationist claims based on religious difference and identities are advanced in the Philippines and Thailand."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6197V", "title": "Comparative State and Religion in Southeast Asia", "description": "How do Southeast Asian constitutions accommodate religion? Is secularism necessary for democracy? Do public religions undermine religious freedom? These are some of the questions we will be engaging with in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6202", "title": "ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy", "description": "ASEAN leaders agreed to create a single market \u2013 the ASEAN Economic Community \u2013 by 2015. Due to sovereignty concerns, ASEAN leaders did not create a single supranational authority to regulate this market. This course examines how ASEAN member states and institutions are filling in the vacuum through formal and informal means. Students will understand how regional policymaking affects domestic laws and policies within ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6202V", "title": "ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy", "description": "ASEAN leaders agreed to create a single market \u2013 the ASEAN Economic Community \u2013 by 2015. Due to sovereignty concerns, ASEAN leaders did not create a single supranational authority to regulate this market. This course examines how ASEAN member states and institutions are filling in the vacuum through formal and informal means. Students will understand how regional policymaking affects domestic laws and policies within ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6203", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6203A", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6203B", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6203C", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6204", "title": "Islamic Finance Law", "description": "This course will provide students with an overview of the fundamental principles of Islamic commercial law and how they are applied in the modern context in connection with the practice of Islamic finance. The course will begin with \nhistorical doctrines, discuss modern transformations, review practical examples, and consider the treatment of Islamic financial contracts in secular courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6205", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6205V", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6208", "title": "Advanced Criminal Legal Process", "description": "The course encompasses the theoretical and practical concepts underpinning the entire criminal litigation process, from pre-trial to post-conviction. Coverage will include the role of the charge, drafting of charges, plea-bargains, guilty pleas, trials, consequential orders and appeals. Common evidential issues arising in trials will also be discussed. The aim is to provide both a holistic overview of the entire process as well as detailed examination of specific areas. The course will cover criminal procedure and evidence as well as include advocacy exercises in common criminal proceedings and a practical attachment at the Criminal Justice Division."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6208V", "title": "Advanced Criminal Legal Process", "description": "The course encompasses the theoretical and practical concepts underpinning the entire criminal litigation process, from pre-trial to post-conviction. Coverage will include the role of the charge, drafting of charges, plea-bargains, guilty pleas, trials, consequential orders and appeals. Common evidential issues arising in trials will also be discussed. The aim is to provide both a holistic overview of the entire process as well as detailed examination of specific areas. The course will cover criminal procedure and evidence as well as include advocacy exercises in common criminal proceedings and a practical attachment at the Criminal Justice Division."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6209", "title": "Legal Argument & Narrative", "description": "This module will focus on the advanced argumentative techniques possible with legal narrative, which refers to how information is selected and organised to construct a persuasive view of the facts. Fact construction plays a particularly prominent role in litigation, but it also appears in methods of alternative dispute resolution and justifications of policy positions. This module will analyze \nthe pervasive reach of fact construction in the law, examine why fact construction is such an effective tool of legal persuasion, and explore advanced techniques of fact\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6209V", "title": "Legal Argument & Narrative", "description": "This module will focus on the advanced argumentative techniques possible with legal narrative, which refers to how information is selected and organised to construct a persuasive view of the facts. Fact construction plays a particularly prominent role in litigation, but it also appears in methods of alternative dispute resolution and justifications of policy positions. This module will analyze \nthe pervasive reach of fact construction in the law, examine why fact construction is such an effective tool of legal persuasion, and explore advanced techniques of fact\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6210", "title": "Intellectual Property and International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6210V", "title": "Intellectual Property And International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6211", "title": "International Public Monetary and Payment Systems Law", "description": "The course addresses major regulatory legal aspects of money, payments, and clearing and settlement systems from international, comparative and global perspective. It addresses the design and structure of the monetary and\npayment systems; the infrastructure designed to accommodate the payment and settlement of commercial and financial transactions; sovereign debt; and the impact of sovereign risk on commercial and financial transactions. It covers domestic & international monetary systems; central banking; international retail and wholesale payments in major currencies; settlement of financial transactions; foreign exchange transactions; payment clearing & settlement: mechanisms and risks; systematically important payment systems; and global securities settlement systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6213", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6213V", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6214", "title": "International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law", "description": "The module explores principles and rules relating to the exploration for, development and production of oil and gas (upstream operations). The main focus of the module is on the examination of different arrangements governing the\nlegal relationship between states and international oil companies, such as modern concessions, productionsharing agreements, joint ventures, service and hybrid contracts. The agreements governing the relationships between companies involved in upstream petroleum operations (joint operating and unitisation agreements) will also be examined. The module will further explore the\nissues of dispute settlement, expropriation, stability of contracts and a relevant international institutional and legal framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6216", "title": "Cyber Law", "description": "Cyberspace is the online world of computer networks, especially the Internet. This module examines two major points of connection between the law and cyberspace: how communications in cyberspace are regulated; and how\n(intellectual) property rights in cyberspace are enforced. Specific topics include: governing the Internet; jurisdiction and dispute resolution in cyberspace; controlling online content; electronic privacy; trademarks on the Internet;\ncybersquatting; digital copyright; virtual worlds."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6217", "title": "Comparative & International Anti-Corruption Law", "description": "This module will examine the legal approach to curbing corruption in three jurisdictions namely: Singapore, US and UK. The focus will be on bribery of public officials both domestic and foreign. The applicable laws \u2013 domestic and\nextra-territorial - in the selected national jurisdictions will be examined to see how effective they are for curbing such corruption. The module will also examine regional and multi-regional laws enacted to curb corruption. Major topics to be coveredinclude: preventive measures; criminalization; corporate liability including criminal and non-criminal sanctions; and jurisdictional principles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6218V", "title": "Asian Legal Studies Colloquium", "description": "This module draws on research, programming and visiting speakers under the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, ASLI Fellows and NUS faculty, bringing students into discussion, interrogation and analysis of major current issues in Asian legal studies. The module will involve reading and analyzing recent work in the field, emphasising theoretical and methodological approaches in a comparative context. It will use current case studies as examples for analysis. These will vary from year to year according to CALS activity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6219", "title": "The Trial of Jesus in Western Legal Thought", "description": "The Trial of Jesusis an excellent case for students to learn how to conduct non\u2010practical studies of legal and normative issues. It is, arguably, the most consequential\nlegal event in the evolution of Western Civilization. We will examine the historical, political, and legal background to the Trial, and, especially, the procedural propriety of\nthe Trial. Questions to be explored include: Were hisprocedural rights preserved during his trial before the Sanhedrin? Was histrial a miscarriage of justice? Through\nreflecting upon these and other questions, we will explore if and how thistrialshaped the Western culture. \n\nThis module is also concerned with the \u2018method\u2019 or \u2018process\u2019 of how students digest and integrate \u2019substance\u2019 or\u2018content\u2019. Thus,there is emphasis on the significance of understanding and clarifying, the complexity of each and every problem, and not only the importance of offering, or trying to offer, a clever solution to it."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6220", "title": "International Business Transactions", "description": "This course explores the legal issues \u2010 both from a conflict of laws perspective and a substantive law one \u2010 that may arise in connection with business contracts (such as contracts for the sale of goods, factoring contracts, leasing\ncontracts, transport contracts, etc.) that involve some element of internationality and examines those issues in light of some of the sets of rules specifically designed to address those issues when embedded in an international\nsetting (such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the International Factoring Convention, the Convention on International Financial Leasing, the Montreal Convention,\nthe Rome I Regulation, etc.). The course will also offer an overview of the basic features of litigation of those issues in state courts and before arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6221", "title": "Climate Change Law & Policy", "description": "This course will explore legal and policy developments pertaining to climate change. Approaches considered will range in jurisdictional scale, temporal scope, policy orientation, regulatory target, and regulatory objective. Although course readings and discussion will focus on existing and actual proposed legal responses to climate change, the overarching aim of the course will be\nto anticipate how the climate change problem will affect our laws and our lives in the long run."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6222", "title": "The Law & Politics of International Courts & Tribunals", "description": "The course provides students with profound knowledge relating to core issues of procedural law (including jurisdiction, admissibility, standing, provisional measures, \napplicable law, and the effect as well as enforcement of international decisions). It combines the discussion of these matters of law with international relations theory and issues of judicial policy. Against the background of a mounting stream of international judicial decisions, students will develop a solid analytical framework to \nappreciate the law and politics of international judicial institutions, focusing on the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the World Trade Organization, and adjudication in investment disputes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6223", "title": "Cross Border Mergers", "description": "The module will analyze and discuss mergers which involve two or more entities which are located in different countries. \n\nAfter outlining the issues and conflicts created by the duality of corporate, control of foreign investment, regulatory and tax (for the latter in general terms) laws, the various solutions available will be discussed. \n\nEmphasis will be given to international treaties and European directives solutions as used in actual transactions. \n\nOther structures, in the absence of regulatory support, such as stock for stock offers and dual listing will be analyzed, also as used in actual transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6224", "title": "Cybercrime & Information Security Law", "description": "Cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwars have been new threats developed in the interconnected age of the internet. In this Module we are looking at a range of \ncrimes committed through the use of computers, computer integrity offences where computers or networks are the target of the criminal activity and internet crimes \nrelated to the distribution of illegal content. This Module examines substantive criminal law in England, other European countries, the US, Canada and Singapore . It \nexplores the greater risks stemming from criminal activities due to the borderless nature of the internet and the limits of international co-operation. This module also aims to teach the key legal aspects and principles surrounding electronic data and systems security, identity management and authentication."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6225", "title": "Topics in the Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "This course will provide an overview of the basic economic theory that underlies competition law, an area of law that has expanded dramatically around the world in recent years. Various topics will be covered, including an economic analysis of efficiency and why competition matters from the perspective of social welfare, horizontal agreements, mergers, vertical restraints, and exclusion of competitors. While the course will not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of antitrust law, relevant economic theory will be discussed in the context of legal cases taken from different jurisdictions around the world (most prominently the United States and Europe)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6226", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, traveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last stretch to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6226V", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, raveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last strech to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6227", "title": "Philanthropy, Non-profit Organizations, and the Law", "description": "This module covers the legal and policy framework for civil society, non-profit organizations, and philanthropy in Asia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and other jurisdictions, including the formation and ac tivities of \norganizations, capital formation and fundraising, state restrictions on activities, governance, donations from domestic and foreign sources, and o ther key topics. In 2014 the instructor and students will undertake a publishing project on philanthropy, non-profit organizations and the law in Asia in collaboration with the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL, which is based in Washington DC)"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6228", "title": "The Use of Force in International Law", "description": "This course introduces students to the rules on the use of force in international law. It does so from an historical perspective with special emphasis on state practice so that students can understand how and why the law on the use \nof force has evolved in the way it has. The course sets out the general prohibition on the u se of fo rce in the UN Charter, and introduces students to key concepts such as self-defence, humanitarian intervention, and aggression. Students will be introduced to debates on pre-emption, the use of force in pursuit of self-determination, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6228V", "title": "The Use of Force in International Law", "description": "This course introduces students to the rules on the use of force in international law. It does so from an historical perspective with special emphasis on state practice so that students can understand how and why the law on the use \nof force has evolved in the way it has. The course sets out the general prohibition on the u se of fo rce in the UN Charter, and introduces students to key concepts such as self-defence, humanitarian intervention, and aggression. Students will be introduced to debates on pre-emption, the use of force in pursuit of self-determination, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6229", "title": "Corporate Governance in the US and UK", "description": "This course adopts a functional approach to Anglo-American company law and integrates company law with corporate governance. The course examines core Company Law and the regulatory framework and practice on corporate governance \u2013 the system (structure and process) by which companies are \ngoverned, and to what purpose. In light of their extraterritorial reach and partly because of th e relationship between their markets and legal systems, the course focusses on the similarities and variations by considering the structural \ndifferences and similarities, legal frameworks and market structure (the effect of retail and institutional investors) as drivers of corporate governance regulation in both jurisdictions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6231", "title": "Transition and the Rule of Law in Myanmar", "description": "This subject will provide an introduction to the modern legal system of Myanmar/Burma in social, political and historical context. It will consider the legal framework and institutions of Myanmar in light of the literature on rule of \nlaw reform in transitional and developing contexts. The subject will include a focus on constitutional law; the legislature; the courts; criminal justice; minority rights; \nforeign investment law and special economic zones; the military; and institutional reform. The mode of assessment for this course is 80% research essay, 10% class presentation and 10% class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6233", "title": "European Company Law", "description": "European company law can be understood in two ways. It can indicate the EU\u2019s approach to company law and thereby lead to an analysis of the harmonized standards for 28 European nations. It can also be understood as a comparative approach to the different legal systems on the European continent. \n\nThis course includes both aspects. It will first concentrate on EU legislation and jurisdiction, followed by a comparison of the legal systems of the two most important continental European jursidictions, France and Germany. It will lead to an understanding of shared principles of civil law jurisdictions and emphasize important differences to common law systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6233V", "title": "European Company Law", "description": "European company law can be understood in two ways. It can indicate the EU\u2019s approach to company law and thereby lead to an analysis of the harmonized standards for 28 European nations. It can also be understood as a comparative approach to the different legal systems on the European continent. \n\nThis course includes both aspects. It will first concentrate on EU legislation and jurisdiction, followed by a comparison of the legal systems of the two most important continental European jursidictions, France and Germany. It will lead to an understanding of shared principles of civil law jurisdictions and emphasize important differences to common law systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6234", "title": "Property Theory", "description": "This module explores the way in which the concept of property has figured in political and legal theory. The module will first investigate the significance of property discourse in modern political theory, beginning with early modern authors such as Grotius and Locke, and then considering later political theorists such as Kant, Hume, Smith and Hegel, as well as utilitarian/economic treatments of property. The course will then draw upon this material to then focus on modern debates about the role of the concept of property in legal theory, covering such \nissues as economic/distributive justice, whether property is a \u2018bundle of rights\u2019, possession, ownership, and equitable property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6234V", "title": "Property Theory", "description": "This module explores the way in which the concept of property has figured in political and legal theory. The module will first investigate the significance of property discourse in modern political theory, beginning with early modern authors such as Grotius and Locke, and then considering later political theorists such as Kant, Hume, Smith and Hegel, as well as utilitarian/economic treatments of property. The course will then draw upon this material to then focus on modern debates about the role of the concept of property in legal theory, covering such issues as economic/distributive justice, whether property is a 'bundle of rights', possession, ownership, and equitable property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6235", "title": "International Contract Law: Principles and Practice", "description": "With the onset of globalization, the study of contract law can no longer be confined to arrangements between private entities sharing the same nationality and operating in the same jurisdiction. The costliest and most complex contractual disputes involve States, State entities, or State-linked enterprises, and foreign nationals, as contracting parties. The introduction of States as permanent and powerful participants in economic life led to the emergence of a bespoke body of law \u2013 international contract law \u2013 to regulate these prominent contractual arrangements. This course is for students who have been targeted for regional and international legal practice, or who plan to gravitate towards transnational legal work in multinational corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6235V", "title": "International Contract Law: Principles and Practice", "description": "With the onset of globalization, the study of contract law can no longer be confined to arrangements between private entities sharing the same nationality and operating in the same jurisdiction. The costliest and most complex contractual disputes involve States, State entities, or State-linked enterprises, and foreign nationals, as contracting parties. The introduction of States as permanent and powerful participants in economic life led to the emergence of a bespoke body of law \u2013 international contract law \u2013 to regulate these prominent contractual arrangements. This course is for students who have been targeted for regional and international legal practice, or who plan to gravitate towards transnational legal work in multinational corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6237V", "title": "Law, Institutions, and Business in Greater China", "description": "This module aims to explore the interaction between legal institutions and economic/business development in Greater China (i.e. China, Taiwan, HK), with focus on China. How has China been able to offset institutional weaknesses at home while achieving impressive economic results worldwide? Have China\u2019s experiences indicated an unorthodox model as captured in the term \u201cBeijing Consensus\u201d? To what extent is this model different from\nEast Asian models and conventional thinking in economic growth? This course reviews theories about market development in the context of Greater China, including securities, corporate regulations, capital markets, property, sovereign wealth funds, foreign investment, and anticorruption etc."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6238", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": "The course will cover the international, comparative and domestic aspects of corporate finance law and practice. The emphasis of the course will be on the actual application of corporate finance law in practice, the policies that have shaped the laws in Singapore and elsewhere, and the international conventions that have evolved in this area. Topics include: cash flow, value and risk; term loans and loan syndications; fund raising and capital markets; securitisations; derivatives; and financing mergers and acquisitions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6238V", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": "The course will cover the international, comparative and domestic aspects of corporate finance law and practice. The emphasis of the course will be on the actual application of corporate finance law in practice, the policies that have shaped the laws in Singapore and elsewhere, and the international conventions that have evolved in this area. Topics include: cash flow, value and risk; term loans and loan syndications; fund raising and capital markets; securitisations; derivatives; and financing mergers and acquisitions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6239V", "title": "Law & Politics in South Asia", "description": "This module focuses on contemporary legal and political institutions in the South Asian region, with particular emphasis on understanding the role and nature of law and constitutionalism. Although the primary focus will be on\nBangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, developments in Bhutan and Nepal will also be covered. The module will employ readings and perspectives from the disciplines of history, politics, sociology and economics to understand\nhow these affect the evolution of South Asian legal systems over time. It will also adopt comparative perspectives and analyse how individual legal systems in South Asia are influenced by other nations in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6241", "title": "Financial Stability and the Regulation of Banks", "description": "This course begins with an analysis of the fragility of the business model of commercial and investment banks and the negative externalities of bank failure. It then focuses on three principal functions of bank regulation: (1) making banks more resilient to business shocks; (2) making it less likely that banks will suffer shocks; (3) and facilitating the resolution and recovery of banks which fail. The focus will be on the crucial policy choices involved in achieving these objectives; the trade-offs among the available legal strategies; and the problems of regulatory arbitrage (shadow banking)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6242V", "title": "Financial Regulation and Central Banking", "description": "The course will include various aspects of financial regulation. The focus will be on the regulation of credit institutions and the role of central banks. Other forms of regulation of financial intermediaries and financial markets will be discussed in less detail. Since the focus will be on credit institutions, it will be important that the students understand what distinguishes credit institutions from other providers of financial services and how the regulatory approaches differ.\n\nThe part on the regulation of credit institutions will include requirements for their\nauthorization, their permanent supervision and rescue scenarios in situations of insolvency and default. These aspects will be discussed from a comparative perspective with the Basel requirements at the core of the discussion, complemented by the implementing norms in important jurisdictions, above all in Singapore. For resolution and restructuring the European Union has taken on a leading role, and, as a consequence, these EU approaches will be analysed in detail.\n\nThe roles of central banks will remain a core part of the course. Their tasks and objectives will be discussed from a comparative perspective. Their essential role in crisis management, their co-operation with supervisory agencies and their monetary policy will remain essential components of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6243", "title": "The Effects of Space and Geography on Regulation", "description": "This seminar explores how the efficacy of any particular regulatory scheme can be shaped by the nature of the geographical space in which it operates. Simply put, regulatory schemes that are effective in one kind of geography can be ineffective in some other kind of geography. The seminar will look that this phenomena from a diversity of geographical perspectives, including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, cultural geography, and affective geography (i.e., geographies of belonging). As we shall see, each of these kinds of geographies can take on a diversity of configurations. For example, a particular economic geography can be primarily industrial (see, e.g., Singapore) or it can be primarily rural (see, e.g., Sumatra or Gansu). Regulatory schemes that work well in Singapore may not work so well in Sumatra or Gansu. For the latter geographies, different regulatory strategies are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6243V", "title": "The Effects of Space and Geography on Regulation", "description": "This seminar explores how the efficacy of any particular regulatory scheme can be shaped by the nature of the geographical space in which it operates. Simply put, regulatory schemes that are effective in one kind of geography can be ineffective in some other kind of geography. The seminar will look that this phenomena from a diversity of geographical perspectives, including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, cultural geography, and affective geography (i.e., geographies of belonging). As we shall see, each of these kinds of geographies can take on a diversity of configurations. For example, a particular economic geography can be primarily industrial (see, e.g., Singapore) or it can be primarily rural (see, e.g., Sumatra or Gansu). Regulatory schemes that work well in Singapore may not work so well in Sumatra or Gansu. For the latter geographies, different regulatory strategies are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6244V", "title": "Criminal Practice", "description": "The administration of criminal justice in Singapore relies on an ethical, professional and skilled disposition and management of criminal cases. A good criminal practitioner needs a sound grounding in criminal law and criminal procedure, and a strong base of written and oral advocacy and communication skills. This is an experiential course that takes students through a case from taking instructions all the way through to an appeal, using the structure of the criminal process to teach criminal law, procedure and advocacy skills. Taught primarily by criminal law practitioners, this course will give an insight into the realities of criminal practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6245V", "title": "Regulatory Foundations of Public Law", "description": "Course explores the various ways through which public law contributes to the regulatory construction of the state. Topics will include the ways public law contributes to the various purposes of the state; the tools that public law uses to contribute to these purposes; how public law evolves; and the future of public law in a post-Westphalian world\n\nA significant portion of this seminar is devoted to helping students identify and develop research projects, and write academic-quality research papers. This includes individual meetings with the instructor, and class discussion on doing research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6246", "title": "International Carriage of Passengers by Sea", "description": "This module will give students a broad understanding of the law relating to the international carriage of passengers by sea. Topics to be covered include formation of contract, regulation of cruise ships, State jurisdiction over crimes\nagainst the person on board a ship, liability for accidents, limitation of liability, the Athens Convention 1974/1990, and conflict of laws/jurisdictional issues relating to passenger claims. This module will be useful for those who\nare intending to: practice law in a broadly focussed shipping practice; work within the cruise and ferry industry; or otherwise are likely to deal with passengers and/or their claims."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6247V", "title": "International Economic Law & Globalisation", "description": "This course is a survey course of topics that include: international sales contract; international trade law; and international investment law. It covers the basic principles of private and public international law that are fundamental\nto the creation of the framework within which business transactions take place. It will also cover the topic of the relationships among international business transactions, globalization and economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6249", "title": "Shareholders' Rights & Remedies", "description": "The course will examine at an advanced level the rights and duties of company shareholders. In doing so the course will critically examine, from a comparative\nperspective, the division of power between the various organs of the modern company and the underlying policy of the law with regard to shareholders rights. The course will also key in on topical issues such as the effectiveness\nof shareholders\u2019 rights, enabling v mandatory theories of shareholders\u2019 rights, the statutory derivative action and its effectiveness and the role of the company in shareholder litigation. Finally, it will look at international developments including institutional shareholder activism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6250", "title": "Principles of Equity Financing", "description": "This course concentrates on the principles of equity financing in the private and public markets, including the relevant company law rules (eg pre-emption rules), capital market regulation as far as it affects the issues of raising equity finance for public companies, private equity and its regulation, and change of control transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6251", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": "This course examines the jus in bello \u2013 the law which regulates the conduct of hostilities once the decision to resort to force has been taken. This course will deal with fundamental concepts of the jus in bello, focusing on customary international law. Basic legal concepts that will be discussed include State and individual responsibility, the distinction between combatants and civilians, and the principle of proportionality. The course will also examine topics such as weaponry, international and noninternational conflicts, and the enforcement of the law in situations of conflict.\n\nNote: This course does not deal with the jus ad bellum, or the rules relating to the general prohibition on the use of force in international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6251V", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6252", "title": "The EU and its Law", "description": "This course will develop your understanding of EU law and politics as well as your capacity critically to evaluate the institutional, substantive and constitutional dimensions of European integration. It will consider the nature of the EU as well as the challenges it presents to its Member States. \n\nThe course will provide an overview of the judicial architecture and political structures of the European Union, the authority of EU law, law-making procedures, and the most significant case law in free movement, citizenship, and fundamental rights. It will also introduce more complex questions about the dynamics and direction of the process of regional integration, particularly since the Euro crisis."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6253V", "title": "The Law of Treaties", "description": "Treaties are a principal source of obligation in international law. In this era of globalization, many state and individual activities in many countries are direct results of treaty obligations. In this sense, treaties are the \u201coverworked workhorses\u201d of the global legal order.\n\nDespite this significant impact on our lives, few of us understand what treaties truly mean and what kinds of implications they bring to international relations, our businesses, and private lives. In order to understand the treaty mechanisms, this course covers various aspects of the law of treaties."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6254V", "title": "Developing States in a Changing World Order", "description": "This course explores the changing role of developing countries in a changing international order. It does so by adopting an approach that combines history, theory, and doctrine. The course will examine the historical origins of the contemporary international legal system, and the theoretical debates that have accompanied its evolution, focusing in particular on relations between the Western and non-Western worlds. It will then examine selected topics of international law that are of current significancethese may include international human rights law, the law relating to the use of force, the international law of trade and foreign investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6255V", "title": "Trade Remedy Law & Practice", "description": "The primary focus of the course will be given to the multilateral rules and cases of trade remedies under WTO jurisprudence. In parallel, domestic trade remedy rules and regulations and policies of China, Korea and Japan will be examined to analyze application of WTO rules to domestic jurisprudence and policies. What are the common characteristics and differences among those rules and policies? Are they consistent with WTO jurisprudence? Which agencies are in charge of trade remedy system and policy making and implementations? What is the best strategy for enterprises to respond to such policies? Answers to these key questions are given through lectures, presentations, and discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6256", "title": "Comparative Constitutional Government", "description": "Constitutional government in the modern era has developed different organisational and functional models, that draw their inspiration from some main principles (eg. Separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, democratic accountability) that are distinguishing features of the same type of state. The module will consequently highlight the different forms of (presidential, semi-presidential, parliamentary) government, as experienced by the states belonging to both the common law and the civil law legal traditions. Reference will be made also to forms of constitutional government based on territorial division of powers, such as federal systems and supranational organisations such as the Europe Union."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6257", "title": "Law & Finance", "description": "This seminar deals with ongoing research in the area of financial intermediary supervision, corporate governance and capital markets regulation. Each participant will have to 1) read the discussed papers in advance; 2) write a 10 page commentary on one of the discussed papers and present it in class; 3) comment upon one presentation by a fellow student; and 4) actively participate in the discussion throughout the seminar."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6258V", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of key personal property concepts. Topics to be studied will include: types of personal property; personal property entitlements recognised at common law, notably, possession, ownership, title and general and special property, with some reference also to equitable entitlements; the transfer of such entitlements; the conflict between competing entitlements; the protection given by law to such entitlements; the assignment of things in action; security interests over personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6259AV", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in alternative investment from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The topics that will be covered include private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, crowdfunding and REITs. The course will discuss selected partnership and corporate issues of alternative investment vehicles. The course will focus on China and will provide relevant comparisons on alternative investment in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6259V", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in alternative investment from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The topics that will be covered include private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, crowdfunding and REITs. The course will discuss selected partnership and corporate issues of alternative investment vehicles. The course will focus on China and will provide relevant comparisons on alternative investment in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6260V", "title": "Chinese Commercial Law", "description": "This course will introduce students to the fundamental legal concepts and principles relating to Chinese commercial law. Topics to be covered include: basic principles of PRC civil and commercial law, contracts, business associations and investment vehicles, secured transaction, negotiable instruments, taxation and dispute resolution. It will highlight key legal considerations in carrying out commercial transactions in China. Where applicable, the course will provide relevant comparisons with similar laws in other jurisdictions such as the U.S., the U.K. and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6261V", "title": "Employment Law & Migrant Workers Clinic", "description": "Taken concurrently with \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d but with an emphasis on experiential learning, this module offers students the opportunity to explore the legal issues affecting migrant workers, both in the classroom and through externships and case work. Students will spend most of their time outside of class, gaining practical experience by first interning at the Ministry of Manpower over the holidays and then, during the semester, volunteering an average of 10 hours weekly with either Justice Without Borders (JWB) or the NUS-HOME Theft Project (\u201cTheft Project\u201d). In class, using peer learning, including roundtable case review, students will hone their legal skills while examining the legal framework governing Singapore\u2019s foreign workers. Analysing their externship experiences, students will explore the relationship between law on the books and law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6263V", "title": "Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy", "description": "This module examines in interaction between IPRs and competition policy\nfrom two broad perspectives: the endogenous operation of competition policy\nfrom within IPR frameworks (copyright, designs, trade marks and patents),\nand the exogenous limitations placed by competition law rules on an IP\nholder\u2019s freedom to exploit his IPRs. Students enrolled in this module are\nexpected to have completed a basic intellectual property module \u2013 an\nunderstanding of what IPRs protect, the nature of the exclusive rights they\nconfer and how they may be exploited will be presumed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6267V", "title": "Architecting Deals: A Framework of Private Orderings", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamentals of how lawyers \"architect\" deals. It is taught in two parts. \nThe first examines the unique role of the transactional lawyer and asks the questions: What is a \"deal\"? What do transactional or \"deal\" lawyers do? What is the perceived \u201cvalue\u201d of what transactional lawyers do? How can lawyers successfully design and structure a transaction? \nThe second explores in detail the elements of a theory or framework of \u201cprivate orderings\u201d. The framework covers the economic and business considerations that drive the analysis of which legal principles should apply and how risks and benefits are allocated between the parties. The course explores how the framework of private orderings can apply to guide the assessment of transactions and the choice of contracting constructs and regimes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6268", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6268V", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6269", "title": "Privacy and Intellectual Property", "description": "Privacy may in some cases conflict with intellectual property but in other cases the two may go hand in hand and in addition other rights in personal information may further blur and complexity the boundaries. This module will explore the relationships between privacy, intellectual property and other rights in personal information in a range of contexts across different jurisdictions in an effort to explain and evaluate the current legal position, the various debates and proposals for improvements in the law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6270", "title": "International Human Rights of Women", "description": "The course examines the international legal protection of women\u2019s human rights within a framework of international law and feminist legal theories. The course will focus upon the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 to which Singapore became a party in 1995 and the work of the CEDAW Committee in monitoring and implementing the Convention. The impact of certain conceptual assumptions within international law, and human rights law in particular, that militates against the Adequate protection of women's rights will be considered. After an examination of the general framework, more detailed attention will be given to certain topics including health and reproductive rights, women\u2019s right to education violence against women, including in armed conflict, political participation and trafficking. The course will finally consider the question of whether international human rights law is an appropriate vehicle for the furtherance of women's interests."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6271", "title": "Law and Policy", "description": "This course explores and contrasts the different methodologies inherent in the disciplinary approaches of legal and policy analysis. What are the biases and assumptions in each method of analysis? How does each method view the other? How is each approach relevant to the other in different practical situations, e.g. in legal advice, court arguments and judgments and in government policy formulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6272", "title": "International Financial System: Law and Practice", "description": "In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008, the visibility of finance and financial regulation has increased dramatically. This subject will provide an overview of the global financial system and international efforts to build\nstructures to support its proper functioning. Taking an integrative approach, the subject will look at the evolution of the global financial system, its structure and regulation. In doing so, the subject will analyse financial crises, especially\nthe GFC, and responses thereto, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The approach will be international and comparative, with a focus on major jurisdictions in the global financial system, and will not focus on any single jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6273", "title": "European & International Competition Law", "description": "The course deals on a comparative legal basis (US-, EU and Swiss law) with problems related to:\nI. How to coordinate economic activities?\nII. Implementation of a competition system\n1) Competition? Private restrictions to competition and what states can do against it?\n2) The substantive EU- and Swiss-provisions\n\u2013 against agreements restricting competition and abuse of market power\n\u2013 on merger control\n\u2013 on sanctions and leniency programs\n\u2013 Discussion of leading cases\n3) State aids; public and private enforcement\nIII. Correcting the competition system\nPlanned sectors, consumer protection, price controlling\nIV. Controversial questions, the \u201emore economic\napproach\u201c? Efficiency and individual freedom to compete? Global competition?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6274", "title": "Comparative GST Law & Policy", "description": "Worldwide, governments are increasingly relying on broad-based consumption taxes, such as the GSTs in Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia and the VAT in Europe, to raise revenue. This course will introduce students to theories of comparative tax law and consumption taxation and to key GST law and policy concepts. With these theoretical, conceptual and legal tool kits, we will then explore the complex but fascinating legal and policy issues relating to cross-border trade in goods and services (such as professionals providing services to clients across borders and global digital trade), financial services and real property transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6275", "title": "International Institutional Law:", "description": "International organizations play an increasingly important role in the international community. While the state continues to be the supreme form of political organization, international organizations, such as the UN, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the ASEAN, the EU and NATO, are indispensable to cope with globalization and increasing interdependence. The main objective of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental rules of international institutional law \u2013 that is the body of rules governing the legal status, structure and functioning of international organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6276", "title": "Advanced Contract Law", "description": "Advanced Contract Law invites students to examine some interesting and controversial topics from this foundational subject. Some topics will build on what students already know in their first-year/basic contract law course (e.g. how does contract law deal with change of circumstances?), some will cover new ground (e.g. the role of good faith in contract law). You will be able to write a paper on a topic of particular interest to you. The course also complements the module Advanced Tort Law and Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6277V", "title": "Medical Law and Ethics", "description": "This module provides the tools necessary for students to develop and reflect critically upon contemporary ethical and legal issues in medicine and the biosciences. Its substantive content includes and introduction to medical\nethics and medical law, health care in Singapore (presented comparatively with select jurisdictions, such as the UK and the USA), and professional regulation. The following key areas will be considered:\n- Professional regulation and good governance of medicines;\n- Genetics and reproductive technologies (including abortion and pre-natal harm);\n- Mental health;\n- Regulation of Human Biomedical Research;\n- Innovative treatment and clinical research;\n- Infectious Diseases;\n- Organ transplantation; and\n- End-of-life concerns (e.g. advance care plan and advance directive, discontinuation of life sustaining treatment, etc.)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6278V", "title": "Trade and Investment Law in the Asia-Pacific", "description": "Alongside the European Union the Asia-Pacific is becoming the central arena for trade and investment and its contestation within the world today. This module examines the global, regional and bilateral frameworks governing trade, investment, competition and migration across this region. It has three components. The first looks at how different organisations and regimes \u2013 the WTO, ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Agreements, BITS, NAFTA and Closer Economic Relations \u2013 interact to govern the region and the attempts to reform this, most notably through the TransPacific Partnership Process. The second looks at the detailed laws and processes governing trade in goods and services and investment. The final section looks at a number of further key policies: intellectual property, competition, the professions, and migration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6279V", "title": "Access to Justice", "description": "This module examines the conceptual foundation of access to justice and the practical challenges it raises in formal systems of dispute resolution. Using a Research Seminar structure, the module integrates academic analysis with experiential learning by providing students with opportunities to produce and critique original research on themes emerging from student internships and pro bono experiences."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6280V", "title": "Crime and Companies", "description": "Companies are both the victims of and vehicles for crime. This module examines both aspects. The first aspect covers crimes against the company by management \u2013 criminal breach of trust, dishonest misappropriation of property, breaches of fiduciary duty, misuse of corporate information. The second aspect will deal with using companies as vehicles for crime \u2013 cheating, money-laundering. Corruption cuts across both aspects. The statutes covered will be the Companies Act; Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits Act); Penal Code; and Prevention of Corruption Act. Students must have a firm grounding in both Criminal Law and Company Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6281V", "title": "Civil Procedure", "description": "This module acquaints the students with the laws and principles relating to the civil litigation process. The three distinct stages, namely, pre-commencement of action, pre-trial and post-trial are discussed in detail. The overriding aims of the civil justice system will also be deliberated. This will enable the students to better understand and appreciate the rationale of the application of the provisions of the rules of court. In this regard, the students will be able to make a case on behalf of their clients or against their opponents when the perennial issue of non-compliance with procedural rules takes centre stage. This module is designed to prepare the students to practise law in Singapore. Hence, the focus will primarily be on the Singapore Rules of Court and the decisions from the Singapore courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6282V", "title": "Resolution of Transnational Commercial Disputes", "description": "The primary focus of this module is on the variety of commercial dispute resolution processes available to contracting parties and the essential principles and issues pertinent to these different processes. The overriding aims are to acquaint the students with the characteristics of each of these processes, to highlight the governing principles and to discuss the perennial and emerging issues relating to this aspect of the law. Students who have undertaken this module will be able to consider the plethora of options available to them when drafting dispute resolution clauses and/or providing legal advice and representation when a dispute has arisen."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6283V", "title": "Artificial Intelligence, Information Science & Law", "description": "Advancements in computer science have made it possible to deploy information technology to address legal problems. Improved legal searches, fraud detection, electronic discovery, digital rights management, and automated takedowns are only the beginning. We are beginning to see natural language processing, machine learning and data mining technologies deployed in contract formation, electronic surveillance, autonomous machines and even decision making. This course examines the basis behind these technologies, deploys them in basic scenarios, studies the reasons for their acceptance or rejection, and analyses them for their benefits, limitations and dangers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6284", "title": "Confucianism and Law", "description": "This course is about the relevance of Confucianism to law, which includes three eras, namely: (1) Confucian legal theory and Confucian legal tradition; (2) the relevance of Confucianism to different aspects of national legal issues in contemporary East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam), such as human rights, rule of law, democracy, constitutional review, mediation, and family law; and (3) the relevance of Confucianism to international law. It will be of interest to those interested in Confucian legal tradition, customary law, Asian law, law and culture, legal theory, and legal pluralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6285V", "title": "International Dispute Settlement", "description": "This seminar will explore key legal questions related to\ninternational dispute settlement with a view to providing a\nbroad overview of the field with respect to State-to-State,\nInvestor-State, and commercial disputes. This course will\ninclude a discussion of the various types of international\ndisputes and settlement mechanisms available for their\nresolution. It will explore the law pertaining to dispute\nsettlement before the ICJ, WTO, ITLOS, as well as\ninternational arbitration, both Investor-State arbitration and\ncommercial arbitration. The course will compare these\ndifferent legal processes on issues such as jurisdiction,\nprovisional remedies/measures, equal treatment,\nevidence, and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6286V", "title": "Transnational Terrorism and International Law", "description": "While terrorism is not a new phenomenon, the sheer scale and transnational nature of that practice in recent years have challenged some of the core tenets of international law. This seminar investigates the role that international law can play, along with its shortcomings, in suppressing and preventing terrorism. It examines the manner in which terrorism and counterterrorism laws and policies have affected the scope and application of diverse international legal regimes including UN collective security, inter-State use of force, the law of international responsibility, international human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6287V", "title": "ASEAN Law and Policy", "description": "This course examines ASEAN\u2019s ongoing metamorphosis into a rules-based, tri-pillared (political-security, economic, and socio-cultural) Community pursuant to the mandate of the 2007 ASEAN Charter. It deals primarily with Law but is also attentive to the Non Law and Quasi Law aspects inherent in ASEAN\u2019s character as an international actor and regional organisation; its purposes and principles; and its operational modalities, processes, and institutions. \n \nStudents will grasp the complexities of ASEAN\u2019s conversion to the rule of law and rule of institutions within the context of international law and its frameworks; national competences and jurisdiction; and regional relations and realpolitik."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6288V", "title": "Business, International Commerce and the European Union", "description": "This module studies European Union business regulation and how this affects both the EU and other markets. It has three components. The first looks at the types of business regulation deployed. It will include legislative harmonisation,\nprivate standardisation, mutual recognition and regulatory agencies. The second looks at the regulation of key industrial and service sectors, such as food, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, energy chemicals or financial services. The third looks at how EU business regulation interacts with non EU markets, through studying its commercial policy, free trade agreements and extraterritorial jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6289V", "title": "The Evolution of International Arbitration", "description": "The module has three distinctive features. First, it compares international commercial arbitration (ICA) international investment arbitration (ISA). Second, it focuses on the evolution of arbitration, in particular, on the development of the procedures and substantive law that have gradually enabled arbitration to become a meaningfully autonomous legal system. Third, it surveys a variety of explanations for why the arbitral order has evolved as it has \u2013 into a more \u201cjudicial-like\u201d legal order \u2013 focusing on the role of arbitral centres, state regulatory competition, and the reasoning of tribunals in their awards."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6290V", "title": "Legal Research: Method & Design", "description": "The seminar is designed to prepare students to undertake original, primary research in law. Major topics and questions to be covered include:\n- how to write a good literature review and prospectus;\n- why one must have a method, or, how are \u201cmethods\u201d and\n\u201cdata collection\u201d related?;\n- what is research design?;\n- how to avoid, or manage, the problem of \u201cselection bias.\u201d\n\nA major component of the seminar, students will assess a variety of published papers, as well as research projects presented by the faculty."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6291", "title": "Legal Pluralism and Global Law", "description": "The class will survey approaches to understanding legal pluralism in a range of settings, focusing on the various ways in which autonomous normative orders, including systems of law, interact with one another. Topics include: how \u201coutsider\u201d groups (e.g., Mayan Indians in Mexico, Roma-Gypsy communities, merchant guilds) govern themselves while resisting submission to the state law; the tensions between custom, state law, and human rights in Asia after the colonialist period; and the ways in which the pluralist structure of international treaty law and organization are transforming law and courts at the national level."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6291V", "title": "Legal Pluralism and Global Law", "description": "The class will survey approaches to understanding legal pluralism in a range of settings, focusing on the various ways in which autonomous normative orders, including systems of law, interact with one another. Topics include: how \u201coutsider\u201d groups (e.g., Mayan Indians in Mexico, Roma-Gypsy communities, merchant guilds) govern themselves while resisting submission to the state law; the tensions between custom, state law, and human rights in Asia after the colonialist period; and the ways in which the pluralist structure of international treaty law and organization are transforming law and courts at the national level."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6292V", "title": "State Responsibility: Theory and Practice", "description": "The law governing the responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts is absolutely central in public international law and cuts across various sub-fields of that discipline. This seminar investigates the fundamental tenets of the law of State responsibility, both from theoretical and practical standpoints, while tracing some of its historical roots. More broadly, the seminar will provide\nan overview of different doctrines of State responsibility and different theories and approaches to liability under international law. More importantly, the later sessions of the seminar will engage critically with the role that the law\nof State responsibility can play in specific areas."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6295", "title": "Conflict of Laws in Int\u2019l Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on the instances in which resort to conflict of laws is necessary in the international arbitration context. The objective of this course is to allow participants to realise on how many occasions both State courts and arbitrators will need to report a conflict of laws analysis despite the claim that conflict of laws issues are not relevant in the international commercial arbitration context. Participants will first be taught to identify what conflict of laws rules may apply and will then be given hypothetical cases and will be asked to critically examine whether a solution can be found that does not require a conflict of laws approach."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6296", "title": "Imitation, Innovation and Intellectual Property", "description": "Does copying always harm creativity? Can innovation\nthrive in the face of imitiation? These questions are at the\nheart of intellectual property theory and doctrine. This\ncourse explores these issues via a close look at a range of\nunusual creative industries, including fashion, cuisine,\nsports, comedy, and tattoos, as well as more traditional\nintellectual property topics, such as music and film."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6297", "title": "Practice of Corporate Finance and the Law", "description": "Modern corporations draw funding to finance their\nconsumption and investment needs from a variety of\nsources on the basis of extensive cost- benefit\nconsiderations. These include a multitude of factors, such\nas legal considerations, the quantity of funding required\nand cost of capital depending on its source, and impact on\nshareholders and management etc. Corporations may also\nobtain finance by either levering existing assets or\nresorting to unsecured bank lending or bond issues. For\nthe biggest corporations the most important source of\nfinance tends to be the capital markets. These normally\ncomprise the debt and equity markets through which public\ncompanies can offer securities to investors or to transfer\nthe control of the company to new owners in the context of\nan agreed takeover, a hostile take-over bid, or of a private\nequity transaction.\nThis course aims to develop a critical understanding of the\nsubject matter through the combined study of finance\ntheory, corporate law, capital market regulation and the\ncorporate market dynamics, with a special focus on the\ndifferent stakeholders involved in corporate finance. The\nmodule will focus on critical corporate finance issues such\nas: the use of debt and equity; why merge or acquire a\nbusiness; core considerations of the process; purchase\nsale agreements and contractual governance; the role of\nthe board of directors in an acquisition/financing\ntransaction; the permissibility and regulation of takeover\ndefenses in the UK, the US and the EU. It will also discuss\ncross-border IPOS, the problem of market abuse, theory\nand practice of corporate takeovers and their regulation,\nand issues pertinent to private equity transactions, as well\npractical issues relating to structuring corporate acquisition\ndeals and attendant legal documentation. NB: While there\nis inevitably reference to scores of economic concepts and\nsome finance readings the course is specifically addressed\nto law students it is non-mathematical."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6298", "title": "International Finance", "description": "This is the foundation course in international finance. It is meant for all who want to gain a better understanding of what is happening and concerns primarily (a) the way money is recycled through the banking system or the\ncapital market, (b) the products and conduct of the banking, securities and investment industry in this recycling activity, (c) the risks that are taken in the financial services industry (primarily by commercial and investment banks in their different functions) and the tools of risk management, (d) the operation of the financial markets and their infrastructure, (e) the type of regulation of commercial banks and of the intermediaries and issuers in the capital markets, and (f) the objectives, role, shape and effectiveness of this regulation. In this connection, the course will also deal with the smooth operation of payment systems.\n\nFinancial risk and its management is an important theme and the major concern in the course. What can commercial or investment banks and financial regulation achieve in this regard, how is risk management structured, and what academic or other (political) models are used in this connection, how effective are they, e.g. in the capital adequacy and liquidity requirements, and what can or must governments and/or central banks or other regulators do when all fails and financial crises occur? From a legal point of view, an important aspect is the strong public policy undercurrents in the applicable law.\n\nThat is obvious in regulation but may also impact on private law. Another important issuer is that the law applicable to financial products and their regulation is ever more transnationalised and expressed at the international level, especially in terms of transactional and payment finality, financial stability, and even banking resolution facilities or international safety nets. In these circumstances, choice of national laws in the older private international law approach often mean little and it will be discussed how they may fall seriously short especially in in matters of regulatory oversight and bankruptcy situations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6299", "title": "Advanced Issues in the Law & Practice of Int\u2019l Arbitration", "description": "This intensive course is designed for students and\npractitioners already acquainted with the fundamentals of\ninternational arbitration, and may be particularly useful for\nthose who may have an inclination to specialize in the\npractice or study of international dispute resolution. Focus\nwill be placed on topics of practical and academic interest\nin all aspects of the international arbitration process,\nlooking in particular to recent trends and evolutions in the\nfield of international dispute settlement.\nThrough seminar discussions, student presentations and\nmoot court sessions, this course will expose students to\ncontemporary controversies in the field of international\ncommercial and investment arbitration. An international\napproach will be adopted in relation to the subjects\nconsidered: students can expect to review a substantial\namount of comparative law sources, including academic\ncommentaries and jurisprudence from France, Singapore,\nSwitzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as\nwell as public international law sources and international\narbitral practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6300", "title": "Copyright in the Internet Age", "description": "This course will consider the particular and unique issues\nthat the ubiquitous use of the internet for commerce,\neducation and communication has created for copyright\ncreators and users. In particular, it will address the\nincreasingly visual medium of social media and how user\npractices are challenging the boundaries of copyright law. It\nwill consider copyright infringement, fair dealing, personal\nand professional uses and the interaction between\ncopyright, contract and consent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6301", "title": "Topics in Constitutional Law: Socio-Economic Rights", "description": "The course provides a grounding in the international and\ntheoretical background to the constitutional protection of\nsocial rights; the substantive approach taken by courts to\nvarious social rights, and the interaction between social\nrights in various claims to equality and protection on the\npart of vulnerable groups. The topics covered in the class\nare thus:\n(1) theoretical debates on the nature of social rights,\nand the theoretical underpinnings for their\nrecognition qua rights;\n(2) international human rights law instruments\nrecognising social rights, and international human\nrights understandings of such rights;\n(3) constitutional debates about the capacity and\nlegitimacy of courts enforcing such rights, and\nparticular debates over concepts such as (a)\nweak-versus strong-form review, and (b) notions of\na \u2018minimum core\u2019 to social rights; and\n(4) the actual interpretation of enforcement of key\nsocial rights by courts, with a particular focus on\nthe right to housing, health care, water, food and\nsocial welfare and social security\n(5) questions of gender, poverty and social rights\n(6) the rights of children in relation to social rights\n(7) the rights of non-citizens"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6302", "title": "Int'l Regulation of Finance & Investment Markets", "description": "This course aims to introduce to students topical and current issues of interest in the regulation of international financial markets, with a focus on global capital and investment markets. The regulation of investment firms and funds reached a new high with mainly European leadership in regulatory standards and many of these are influential globally. We aim to cover theoretical foundations in regulation, so that students can grasp the law and economic theories and public policy underpinnings of financial regulation, and specific topics that relate to securities and investment regulation. The approach to specific topics would be grounded in theoretical and policy understanding, in order to appreciate the high key highlights of regulatory duties, compliance implications and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6302V", "title": "Int'l Regulation of Finance & Investment Markets", "description": "This course aims to introduce to students topical and current issues of interest in the regulation of international financial markets, with a focus on global capital and investment markets. The regulation of investment firms and funds reached a new high with mainly European leadership in regulatory standards and many of these are influential globally. We aim to cover theoretical foundations in regulation, so that students can grasp the law and economic theories and public policy underpinnings of financial regulation, and specific topics that relate to securities and investment regulation. The approach to specific topics would be grounded in theoretical and policy understanding, in order to appreciate the high key highlights of regulatory duties, compliance implications and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6303", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This course explores the complex interactions between\nliterature and the law. Even though the two disciplines may\nseem distinct, both law and literature are products of\nlanguage and have overlapped in significant and\ninteresting ways in history. Why do legal themes recur in\nfiction, and what kinds of literary structures underpin legal\nargumentation? How do novelists and playwrights imagine\nthe law, and how do lawyers and judges interpret literary\nworks? Could literature have legal subtexts, and could\nlegal documents be re-interpreted as literary texts? We will\nthink through these questions by juxtaposing fiction,\ndrama, legal cases, and critical theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6303V", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This is an interdisciplinary course that invites students to inhabit the field of law and literature by engaging closely with a key topic. Our seminar begins with a broad introduction to the field and related interdisciplinary scholarship, before delving into the focal thematic through close readings of legal and literary texts. This year, we address the question of authorship and its relationship with the law of copyright and intellectual property. Students would become familiar with a constellation of theoretical and historical perspectives from which to rethink our received understandings of authorship, including copyright\u2019s treatment of books, publishers, and authors."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6304", "title": "Global Comparative Constitutional Law", "description": "This module will explore the principal problems for the\ntheory and practice of comparative constitutional law,\ngenerally and in the globalizing conditions of the early 21st\ncentury. In doing so, it will range widely over countries and\nconstitutional systems and examine the challenges\npresented by differences in context and culture. The\nconclusions about methodology in the early classes will be\ntested in later ones by reference to a series of topical\nsubstantive issues in constitutional law in Asia and\nelsewhere, ranging from institutional design to rights\nprotection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6305", "title": "IP and Human Rights", "description": "This course anlayzes connections between human rights\nand intellectual property. While these bodies of law\ndeveloped on separate tracks, the relationship between\nthem has now captured the attention of government\nofficials, judges, civil society groups, legal scholars and\ninternational agencies, including the World Intellectual\nProperty Organization, the United Nations Human Rights\nCouncil, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural\nRights, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.\nThe course will be of interest to those interested in\nintellectual property and/or human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6306", "title": "Chinese Banking Law", "description": "This course focuses on laws governing banks and the other financial intermediaries in China, reflecting the game between regulation and financial innovation. It will be divided into three parts: the first and also the most the essential one will cover the legal requirements of operation and business of traditional commercial banks; the second one will go through the corporate governance of banks, problem bank resolution and currency issues; the last part will discuss the legal issues of new financial products and non-bank financial institutions. This course focuses on the emerging issues in China of that subject, and also pay particular attention to recent legislative reform efforts in China on banking and non-bank financial institutions and will consider both the developments and innovation in scholarship and teaching of financial law since 2008."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6306V", "title": "Chinese Banking Law", "description": "This course focuses on laws governing banks and the other financial intermediaries in China, reflecting the game between regulation and financial innovation. It will be divided into three parts: the first and also the most the essential one will cover the legal requirements of operation and business of traditional commercial banks; the second one will go through the corporate governance of banks, problem bank resolution and currency issues; the last part will discuss the legal issues of new financial products and non-bank financial institutions. This course focuses on the emerging issues in China of that subject, and also pay particular attention to recent legislative reform efforts in China on banking and non-bank financial institutions and will consider both the developments and innovation in scholarship and teaching of financial law since 2008."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6307", "title": "EU Maritime Law", "description": "The European Union plays an increasing role in the\nregulation of international shipping and any shipping\ncompany wishing to do business in Europe will have to\ntake this into consideration. The module will take on\nvarious aspects of this regulation and will place the EU\nrules in the context of international maritime law. To\nensure a common basis for understanding the EU maritime\nlaw, the basic structure and principles of the EU and EU\nlaw will be explained at the outset."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6308V", "title": "Behavioural Economics, Law & Regulation", "description": "Law is a behavioural system. Most law seeks to regulate, incentivize and nudge people to behave in some ways and not in others \u2013 it seeks to shape human behavior. Traditional economic analysis of law is committed to the assumption that people are fully rational, but empirical evidence suggests that people very often exhibit bounded rationality, bounded self-interest, and bounded willpower. This course about behavioural law and economics, with an emphasis on regulation, looks at the implications of actual, not hypothesized, human behaviour for the law. It considers, in particular, how using the mildest forms of interventions, law can steer people\u2019s choices in welfarepromoting\ndirections."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6309", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6309V", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6310V", "title": "International Organisations in International Law", "description": "This seminar-style module critically examines the impact of international organisations on the formal structures of international law. Do international organisations create and enforce international law? What type of norm-creating activity takes place inside and across international organisations? Does the reality of global governance give rise to concerns about legitimacy or accountability? What are the legal and policy responses to such concerns? Case studies used will range from traditional institutions such as the UN and its specialised agencies, to newer institutions such as the Financial Action Task Force and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6311", "title": "Islamic Law and the Family", "description": "This course will offer an historical and comparative focus\non Islamic family law. It will begin by providing a basic\noverview of Islamic law generally and then turn to examine\nIslamic family law specifically. It will then cover major\ntopics that arise in Islamic family law under the classical\nIslamic legal tradition. It will conclude by exploring how\nmany of those issues arise in some modern contexts, as\nIslamic family law is applied both inside and outside of the\nMuslim world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6312V", "title": "The Law of Global Governance", "description": "The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of\nnew forms of international organizations (e.g. Basel\nCommittee) alongside traditional organizations (e.g. WTO).\nThese new organizations challenge the traditional premises\nof international law. Moreover, international organizations\nincreasingly issue rules that impact people around the world,\nyet they largely operate within a legal void and go\nunchecked. In view of these challenges, a new legal school\nof thought is emerging that seeks to set more legal\nconstraints and that introduces institutional reforms, such as\nthe growing inclusion of Asian countries in international\norganizations. We will explore these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6313", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6313V", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": "Recent years have witnessed more state-to-state and investor-state disputes, with a substantial increase in resources spent on binding arbitration. Mediation and conciliation are rarely attempted and more rarely successful. This course introduces the student to methods of mediation and conciliation on the international law plane, and surveys existing institutional regimes (ie, ICSID,\nPCA, SIAC). The focus will then turn to identification and critical analysis of the special legal and policy obstacles to voluntary dispute settlement by states (including SOEs), as well as countervailing incentives. The scope is international, with some readings devoted to Asia. Students will study and critique precedents, and conduct basic mediation/conciliation exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6314V", "title": "Private Equity and Venture Capital: Law and Practice", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in private equity and venture capital from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The topics that will be covered explore the laws and practices relating to the whole cycle of the venture capital and private equity, including fundraising, investments, exits, foreign investments and regulation. The course will also discuss equity crowdfunding which is an important emerging method of equity financing. Certain topics of this course will provide relevant comparisons with private equity and venture capital in China, Singapore and the U.S. It will be of interest to legal professionals in the private equity and venture capital sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6316V", "title": "Restitution of Unjust Enrichment", "description": "This course is about the law of restitution for unjust enrichment. In particular, it is concerned with when a defendant may be compelled to make restitution to a claimant, because the defendant has been unjustly enriched at the claimant\u2019s expense. It does not cover all of the law relating to gain-based remedies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6317V", "title": "International Arbitration in Asian Centres", "description": "This course will give the students an in-depth look at how cases proceed under the SIAC, HKIAC and MCIA rules, with some comparative coverage of the CIETAC and KLRCA rules. Highlighted will be the salient features of these arbitral institutional rules including the introduction of cutting edge procedures such as the emergency arbitrator and expedited arbitration procedures and consolidation/joinder. The course will also provide a comparative analysis of the arbitral legislative framework in Singapore, Hong Kong and India and offer an in-depth analysis, with case studies, of the role of the courts in Singapore, Hong Kong and India in dealing with specific issues such as challenges to tribunal jurisdiction, enforcement and setting aside of awards. Finally, the course will also look at the peculiar relationship between arbitration and mediation in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6318V", "title": "Public Health Law and Regulation", "description": "This course provides an introduction to important topics in public health law and regulation. It explores the use of law as an important tool in protecting the public\u2019s health, responding to health risks and implementing strategies to promote and improve public health. The course reviews the nature and sources of public health law, and regulatory strategies that law can deploy to protect and promote public health. It considers these roles in selected areas within the field: for example, acute public health threats like SARS and pandemic influenza, tobacco control, serious sexually transmitted diseases, and non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6319V", "title": "Current Problems in International Law", "description": "This course examines current problems in international law relating, for instance, to the use of force, human rights, international environmental law and foreign investment law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6320", "title": "International Space Law", "description": "Globally, space-derived products and services combine assets and annual revenues in excess of USD350 billion. The year-on-year growth of the space economy is 9%, three times that of the global economy. This course discusses the international law regulating the use of, and activities in, outer space. It will examine issues such as State responsibility, liability for damage, and environmental protection. It will then debate the law relating to various space sectors such as telecommunications, navigation, military and dual use, resource management, and human spaceflight."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6320V", "title": "International Space Law", "description": "Globally, space-derived products and services combine assets and annual revenues in excess of USD350 billion. The year-on-year growth of the space economy is 9%, three times that of the global economy. This course discusses the international law regulating the use of, and activities in, outer space. It will examine issues such as State responsibility, liability for damage, and environmental protection. It will then debate the law relating to various space sectors such as telecommunications, navigation, military and dual use, resource management, and human spaceflight."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6321", "title": "Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions", "description": "This course applies economic concepts to the practice of structuring business transactions. The materials consist of case studies of actual transactions. We will use those case studies to analyze the economics challenges that parties to a deal must address, and to analyse the mechanisms the parties use to address those challenges. The case studies will cover a selection from bond financings, acquisitions, movie financings, product licenses, biotech alliances, venture capital financings, cross-border joint ventures, private equity investments, corporate reorganizations, and more."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6322", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": "Trade Finance Law considers the different legal structures used to effect payment under, and disincentives breaches of, international agreements for the supply of goods and services. The course analyses and compares documentary and standby letters of credit, international drafts and forfaiting, performance bonds and first demand guarantees and export credit guarantees. Key topics will include the structure, juridical nature and obligational content of the aforementioned instruments; the nature of the harmonised regimes and their interaction with domestic law; the principle of strict compliance and its relaxation; documentary and non-documentary forms of recourse; the autonomy principle and its exceptions; and the conflict of laws principles applicable to autonomous payment undertakings. The course should be of interest to students who have already studied other components of international trade and/or who have an interest in international banking operations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6322V", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6323", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6323V", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6324", "title": "Comparative Trade Mark Law", "description": "This module takes a comparative approach to exploring what is meant by a trade mark, the messages that trade marks communicate and the roles they perform. These are important enquiries because questions of what trade marks do and ought to do have a direct impact on the contours of the law. A major theme will be the relationship between trade marks and brands: to what extent should trade mark law be concerned with protecting brand value? What might a focus on brand value mean for competitors? Is a focus on brand value compatible with the logics of trade mark registration? These questions will be explored by reference to the laws of multiple jurisdictions, most significantly Australia, the EU, Singapore and the USA."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6325", "title": "The Int'l Litigation & Procedure of State Disputes", "description": "Taught by two public international law practitioners, this course invites participants to develop a more practical and strategic understanding of how a State deals with the various types of disputes it may face. Topics covered includes litigation and procedural considerations in inter-State, investor-State, human rights and international criminal disputes, and cross-cutting considerations like national security privileges, immunities, conflicts of public international law. The course will conclude with a seminar where senior practitioners of public international law share their views and insights on acting as a Government advisor and as an advocate."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6326", "title": "Administrative Justice: Perspectives from the U.S.", "description": "An introduction to the public law system of the United States, with an emphasis on structural issues and governmental processes, especially the creation of regulations and the political and judicial controls over this important activity. Changes resulting from the Trump administration will be an important element."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6327V", "title": "Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practitioner\u2019s Perspective", "description": "This course will provide a practitioner's perspective on the bread and butter of any transactional practice: mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of non-listed, private companies. It will deal with the structuring of an M&A transaction (the why) and the plain vanilla aspects of documentation (the why and how of basic drafting). \n\nMany new graduates seem to be unable to see the wood for the trees. They arrive as trainees, with a reasonable grounding in the law, but an inability to apply it to real life situations. The practicalities elude them and they seem to want to follow templates without much understanding of the transaction. This course will attempt to give them a working knowledge of the issues to be considered in structuring a transaction. It will also cover the main features of standard documentation (bearing in mind that there is a discernible industry-standard set of documentation in common law countries) to explain why documents are drafted the way they are."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6328", "title": "Sports Law & Arbitration", "description": "Sports Law is a very broad field, encompassing several areas of law unique to the sporting industry, as well as several traditional areas of law applied to the field of sport.This course will focus on the existing and evolving private and public international sports law systems, (where appropriate) the national sports law of several jurisdictions (including Australia, USA, UK and to a lesser extent, Singapore) and provide avenues of multi-jurisdictional comparative analysis. The social, political, commercial and economic influences on the development, content and structure of sports law globally will also be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6329", "title": "Cross-Border Litigation", "description": "The focus of this course is on the litigation of cross-border disputes in the fields of tort, contract, consumer protection and intellectual property including in the online context. The subject will examine the key doctrinal principles and scholarly debates in the area as well as problems commonly encountered in practice. Material will be drawn from leading common law jurisdictions, including Singapore, Australia, England, Hong Kong and Canada. The course is recommended for those with an interest in international dispute resolution, conflict of laws, litigation or international commerce."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6330", "title": "Advanced Trusts Law", "description": "The first part of the course explores how trusts are used to manage family wealth, with emphasis on developments in the \u2018offshore world\u2019. We will discuss how trusts may be used to protect assets, how trustees\u2019 discretions may be controlled, the rights of objects of trusts, and purpose trusts. The second part concerns trusts in commercial transactions. We will explore creditor trusts, constructive trusts, bonds and intermediated holding of securities, equitable assignments and equitable charges. By comparing commercial trusts with private trusts, we will also ask whether there are any significant contextual differences in relation to the trust device."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6331", "title": "The Rule of Law", "description": "This course explores the ideal of the rule of law: its value, limitations, costs, and relationship with distinct social aspirations. The teaching is based on leading texts, comparative case law, and video documentaries. The course is divided into nine modules: (1) the meaning and value of the rule of law, (2) emergencies, (3) the relationship(s) between the rule of law, the obligation to obey the law, and the rule of good law, (4) the modern welfare state, (5) criminal law vs. private law, (6) international law, (7) corporations and liberal democracy, (8) colonialism and developmental transitions, and (9) defences for disobedience."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6332", "title": "Fair Use in Theory and Practice", "description": "The copyright laws of Singapore and the United have in common a general, flexible, open exception designated by the term \u201cfair use.\u201d During the last 25 years, the U.S has had extensive experience with this concept, both in the courts and in fields of practice as diverse as art, filmmaking, education, technology, and journalism. Not only have judicial opinions about fair used cohered into a \u201cunified field theory\u201d of the doctrine, but awareness of its potential applications has increased dramatically among members of relevant communities. The last development has been attributable in part to the development of community-specific Codes of Best Practices for the responsible application of fair use \u2013 an effort in which the instructor for this module has been active. The course will explore the legal background of fair use, its doctrinal evolution over the past 25 years, and a variety of practical situations in which it has been successful employed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6333", "title": "International Criminal Law Clinic", "description": "This clinical course introduces students to the law, practice, and implementation of international criminal law. Students will learn and examine the content and application of substantive and procedural law on core international crimes\u2014war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression\u2014that attract individual criminal responsibility under international law. As part of the assessment, students will work on research projects in collaboration with the ICRC. Students will be exposed to \u2018real world\u2019 problems and learn the legal knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking expected of those working in this field. This course will require substantial student initiative, participation and collaboration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6333V", "title": "International Criminal Law Clinic", "description": "This clinical course introduces students to the law, practice, and implementation of international criminal law. Students will learn and examine the content and application of substantive and procedural law on core international crimes\u2014war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression\u2014that attract individual criminal responsibility under international law. As part of the assessment, students will work on research projects in collaboration with the ICRC. Students will be exposed to \u2018real world\u2019 problems and learn the legal knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking expected of those working in this field. This course will require substantial student initiative, participation and collaboration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6334", "title": "Law and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "This module aims to increase students\u2019 breadth of empirical knowledge and depth of theoretical understanding of issues of law, justice, and society. With urbanization and industrialization, modern societies have increasingly depended upon law to regulate the behaviour of their members and the activities of their institutions. It will explore issues in law and society in SE Asia, with an emphasis on how sexuality, ethnic and religious diversity are handled, and how justice is conceived; as well as\nissues in the Singaporean justice system, where other examples will be used to compare Singapore\u2019s unique approach to addressing justice and society issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6335V", "title": "Multinational Enterprises and International Law", "description": "This module examines the evolving regime for the regulation and protection of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in international law. Although MNEs remain creations of domestic law, the cross-border activities of MNEs increasingly come within the scope of instruments creating obligations and/or rights in international law. In assessing the challenges faced by states and MNEs alike with respect to such transnational regulation, the module takes a rounded and interdisciplinary view of the issues involved, addressing both the commercial and social dimensions of MNE action. In addition to considering the regulatory powers of individual states, developments under international instruments on human rights, labour conditions, finance, taxation and investment are addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6338V", "title": "Advanced Practicum in International Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the real-life practice of international commercial and treaty arbitration from beginning to end: from clause drafting/treaty jurisdiction, to arbitrator selection, to emergency proceedings, through the written and hearing phases, to award and enforcement strategy. Emphasis will be on primary materials: case law, statutes, institution rules, treaties, commentary, and \u201csoft law\u201d guidelines. Using complex factual scenarios, students will take part in strategy, drafting and advocacy exercises. On the commercial arbitration side, the focus will be on the ICC Court and SIAC; on the treaty side, ICSID and the PCA/UNCITRAL. Ethics issues will be front burner."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6339", "title": "Comparative Evidence in International Arbitration", "description": "This course considers the way that international adjudicators approach fact-finding and factual determinations. The course analyses essential policy questions as to the way legal systems should deal with evidence; considers comparative law perspectives; and aims to integrate these perspectives with practical consideration of the way documents and witnesses are dealt with in international arbitration. There is no greater divergence between legal families than that pertaining to the treatment of evidence. For international adjudication to meet the needs of participants from all legal families, a proper understanding of comparative approaches and the degree of convergence, is essential to arbitrators and practitioners."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6340", "title": "International Refugee Law", "description": "One of the most pressing current issues of international concern is the highest ever level of global displacement, with over twenty million refugees in the world. This course examines the international legal regime for the protection of refugees. With the 1951 Refugee Convention as its \u201cbackbone\u201d, the course focuses on the \u201crefugee\u201d definition, the exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, status determination procedures, the rights of recognised refugees and asylum-seekers, the non-refoulement principle, complementary protection, States\u2019 responsibility-sharing, responsibility-shifting and deterrence of asylum-seekers, the status of Palestinian refugees, UNHCR\u2019s supervisory responsibility, and regional protection systems (particularly the Common European Asylum System)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6340V", "title": "International Refugee Law", "description": "One of the most pressing current issues of international concern is the highest ever level of global displacement, with over twenty million refugees in the world. This course examines the international legal regime for the protection of refugees. With the 1951 Refugee Convention as its \u201cbackbone\u201d, the course focuses on the \u201crefugee\u201d definition, the exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, status determination procedures, the rights of recognised refugees and asylum-seekers, the non-refoulement principle, complementary protection, States\u2019 responsibility-sharing, responsibility-shifting and deterrence of asylum-seekers, the status of Palestinian refugees, UNHCR\u2019s supervisory responsibility, and regional protection systems (particularly the Common European Asylum System)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6341", "title": "The Law and Politics of Forced Migration", "description": "This course critically examines the relationship between law and politics in the international protection of the forcibly displaced, focusing on five groups of migrants, namely, refugees and asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, and climate-change and environmentally displaced persons. After assessing the protection gaps relating to these five groups, this course considers the more complex phenomena of mass influx and \u201cmixed migration,\u201d immigration detention (specifically of particularly vulnerable migrants), and durable solutions. The roles of regional and institutional organisations will also be studied. An assessed negotiation relating to a present-day forced migration crisis concludes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6341V", "title": "The Law and Politics of Forced Migration", "description": "This course critically examines the relationship between law and politics in the international protection of the forcibly displaced, focusing on five groups of migrants, namely, refugees and asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, and climate-change and environmentally displaced persons. After assessing the protection gaps relating to these five groups, this course considers the more complex phenomena of mass influx and \u201cmixed migration,\u201d immigration detention (specifically of particularly vulnerable migrants), and durable solutions. The roles of regional and institutional organisations will also be studied. An assessed negotiation relating to a present-day forced migration crisis concludes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6342", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I", "description": "This course will be useful for those who want to practise corporate or tax law.\n\nTopics covered:\n- the Singapore corporate tax, GST and stamp duty implications of (a) related party transactions; (b) restructurings and; (c) M&As\n- structuring techniques to increase tax efficiency in each of these situations\n- selected US corporate tax and Australian GST rules (since the tax consequences of a foreign country will have to be analysed)\n- how structuring strategies may be challenged with rules/proposed rules addressing treaty shopping, debt-equity and entity classification hybridity, and arbitrage opportunities involving the GST treatment of cross-border transations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6342V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I", "description": "This course will be useful for those who want to practise corporate or tax law.\n\nTopics covered:\n- the Singapore corporate tax, GST and stamp duty implications of (a) related party transactions; (b) restructurings and; (c) M&As\n- structuring techniques to increase tax efficiency in each of these situations\n- selected US corporate tax and Australian GST rules (since the tax consequences of a foreign country will have to be analysed)\n- how structuring strategies may be challenged with rules/proposed rules addressing treaty shopping, debt-equity and entity classification hybridity, and arbitrage opportunities involving the GST treatment of cross-border transations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6343", "title": "International Regulation of the Global Commons", "description": "The global commons comprises the high seas, the deep seabed, outer space, the airspace above the exclusive economic zone and the high seas, as well as Antarctica, an ice-covered continent, and the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean. Each of these areas are governed by international treaty regimes that were developed specifically for that area. This course will examine and compare the international regimes governing activities in the global commons. It will also examine the evolving law on the obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause harm to the environment of the global commons."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6343V", "title": "International Regulation of the Global Commons", "description": "The global commons comprises the high seas, the deep seabed, outer space, the airspace above the exclusive economic zone and the high seas, as well as Antarctica, an ice-covered continent, and the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean. Each of these areas are governed by international treaty regimes that were developed specifically for that area. This course will examine and compare the international regimes governing activities in the global commons. It will also examine the evolving law on the obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause harm to the environment of the global commons."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6344", "title": "Public and Private International Copyright Law", "description": "A detailed study of the public and private international law of copyright law focusing on legal responses to cross-border issues and conflicts among private parties and nation states. Topics to be covered include: ASEAN IP relations, connecting factors in private litigation, the major international copyright treaties, major themes in EU copyright jurisprudence, exhaustion of rights, exceptions and limitations, indigenous IP."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6344V", "title": "Public and Private International Copyright Law", "description": "A detailed study of the public and private international law of copyright law focusing on legal responses to cross-border issues and conflicts among private parties and nation states. Topics to be covered include: ASEAN IP relations, connecting factors in private litigation, the major international copyright treaties, major themes in EU copyright jurisprudence, exhaustion of rights, exceptions and limitations, indigenous IP."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6345", "title": "The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law", "description": "What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question\nfor ancient philosophers, in both the east and the west, for\nwhom philosophy was not only theory. It was a method\ndesigned to achieve both rigorous conceptual analysis and\na fulfilled human life. In this course we will explore several\nof the methods philosophers have proposed for leading a\nfulfilled life and consider some of the rich suggestions or\nimplications of these methods for leading a fulfilled life of the\nlaw, the life led by law students, lawyers, judges, and others\ninterested in administering, shaping, or living according to\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6345V", "title": "The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law", "description": "What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question\nfor ancient philosophers, in both the east and the west, for\nwhom philosophy was not only theory. It was a method\ndesigned to achieve both rigorous conceptual analysis and\na fulfilled human life. In this course we will explore several\nof the methods philosophers have proposed for leading a\nfulfilled life and consider some of the rich suggestions or\nimplications of these methods for leading a fulfilled life of the\nlaw, the life led by law students, lawyers, judges, and others\ninterested in administering, shaping, or living according to\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6346", "title": "Interim Measures in International Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on provisional and interim\nmeasures in the context of international commercial\narbitration, including emergency arbitrator (EA)\nproceedings. The course will address topics such as the\nnature and scope of provisional and interim relief, the\nauthority of arbitral tribunals (and limitations thereon) to\norder such relief, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts,\nchoice of law issues and the standards for granting interim\nmeasures, issues arising with respect to various categories\nof provisional relief, and judicial enforcement of interim\nmeasures ordered by arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6346V", "title": "Interim Measures in International Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on provisional and interim\nmeasures in the context of international commercial\narbitration, including emergency arbitrator (EA)\nproceedings. The course will address topics such as the\nnature and scope of provisional and interim relief, the\nauthority of arbitral tribunals (and limitations thereon) to\norder such relief, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts,\nchoice of law issues and the standards for granting interim\nmeasures, issues arising with respect to various categories\nof provisional relief, and judicial enforcement of interim\nmeasures ordered by arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6347", "title": "Art & Cultural Heritage Law", "description": "This course explores international and domestic legal issues and disputes pertaining to the creation, ownership, use, and preservation of works of art and objects of cultural heritage. Cultural objects exist within the larger realm of goods and services moving throughout the marketplace. This course addresses the specialized laws and legal interpretations pertaining to the rights and obligations of individuals, entities, and governments as they discover and interact with these objects, within their own jurisdictions and across national borders, in times of war and peace."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6347V", "title": "Art & Cultural Heritage Law", "description": "This course explores international and domestic legal issues and disputes pertaining to the creation, ownership, use, and preservation of works of art and objects of cultural heritage. Cultural objects exist within the larger realm of goods and services moving throughout the marketplace. This course addresses the specialized laws and legal interpretations pertaining to the rights and obligations of individuals, entities, and governments as they discover and interact with these objects, within their own jurisdictions and across national borders, in times of war and peace."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6348", "title": "Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The module aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives. Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore. It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history. Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.\n\nThe module explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system. It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions. It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions. The module considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6348V", "title": "Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The module aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives. Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore. It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history. Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.\n\nThe module explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system. It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions. It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions. The module considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6349", "title": "Energy Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces international arbitration\u2019s role in resolving energy disputes. Seminars will address both commercial and investment arbitration.The substantive content of national and international energy laws will be discussed together with the procedural specificities of energy disputes. The course will explore the political aspects of energy disputes, both domestic (resource sovereignty) and international (inter-state boundary disputes).\n\nParticipants will study the recent debates on the role of international arbitration vis-\u00e0-vis climate change and sustainable development.\n\nThe course incorporates practical exercises that will help participants interested in a career in international arbitration and public international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6349V", "title": "Energy Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces international arbitration\u2019s role in resolving energy disputes. Seminars will address both commercial and investment arbitration.The substantive content of national and international energy laws will be discussed together with the procedural specificities of energy disputes. The course will explore the political aspects of energy disputes, both domestic (resource sovereignty) and international (inter-state boundary disputes).\n\nParticipants will study the recent debates on the role of international arbitration vis-\u00e0-vis climate change and sustainable development.\n\nThe course incorporates practical exercises that will help participants interested in a career in international arbitration and public international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6350", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6350V", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6351", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law in East Asia", "description": "This module examines principal corporate law issues from a comparative perspective. As for jurisdictions, it primarily focuses on Japan and Korea in comparison with US and UK. This module is composed of 18 units, two units for each of the nine class dates. Beginning with the peculiar ownership structure of Japan and Korea and the nature of their agency problems, the module explores various legal strategies employed to address these challenges. The topics to be covered include: shareholder power, corporate organizational structure, independent directors, fiduciary duties, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and creditor protection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6351V", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law in East Asia", "description": "This module examines principal corporate law issues from a comparative perspective. As for jurisdictions, it primarily focuses on Japan and Korea in comparison with US and UK. This module is composed of 18 units, two units for each of the nine class dates. Beginning with the peculiar ownership structure of Japan and Korea and the nature of their agency problems, the module explores various legal strategies employed to address these challenges. The topics to be covered include: shareholder power, corporate organizational structure, independent directors, fiduciary duties, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and creditor protection."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6352", "title": "China and International Economic Law", "description": "This course will provide a broad introduction to international economic law related to China, including detailed study of a few core areas and the provision of guidance for students to pursue research on a topic of their choice.\nMajor topics to be covered include: (i) trade in goods; (ii) trade in services; (iii) trade in intellectual property; (iv) investment; (v) dispute settlement; and (vi) the future of China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6352V", "title": "China and International Economic Law", "description": "This course will provide a broad introduction to international economic law related to China, including detailed study of a few core areas and the provision of guidance for students to pursue research on a topic of their choice.\nMajor topics to be covered include: (i) trade in goods; (ii) trade in services; (iii) trade in intellectual property; (iv) investment; (v) dispute settlement; and (vi) the future of China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6353", "title": "Character Evidence in the Common Law World", "description": "The law relating to evidence of character has been changing throughout the common law world over the last fifty years. This course will, by reference several common law jurisdictions, including Singapore in particular, cover, most pressingly, how the law deals with evidence of the accused\u2019s bad character. It will also deal with bad character of witnesses in criminal cases, and, in particular, complainants in sexual cases, as well as that of witnesses and others in civil cases. A third element concerns the good character of the accused, of witnesses in criminal cases, and of parties and others in civil cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6353V", "title": "Character Evidence in the Common Law World", "description": "The law relating to evidence of character has been changing throughout the common law world over the last fifty years. This course will, by reference several common law jurisdictions, including Singapore in particular, cover, most pressingly, how the law deals with evidence of the accused\u2019s bad character. It will also deal with bad character of witnesses in criminal cases, and, in particular, complainants in sexual cases, as well as that of witnesses and others in civil cases. A third element concerns the good character of the accused, of witnesses in criminal cases, and of parties and others in civil cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6354", "title": "Comparative Human Rights Law", "description": "Human rights adjudication has expanded in many jurisdictions across the world in the past few decades. Yet there is still scepticism about the role of courts in human rights adjudication. This subject will provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the role of courts in human rights adjudication by introducing them to the different approaches to the adjudication of human rights in a range of jurisdictions including South Africa, Canada, Germany, the US, Israel, Australia, India, Singapore and the EU. Several key human rights issues that have arisen in different jurisdictions will be analysed and compared."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6354V", "title": "Comparative Human Rights Law", "description": "Human rights adjudication has expanded in many jurisdictions across the world in the past few decades. Yet there is still scepticism about the role of courts in human rights adjudication. This subject will provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the role of courts in human rights adjudication by introducing them to the different approaches to the adjudication of human rights in a range of jurisdictions including South Africa, Canada, Germany, the US, Israel, Australia, India, Singapore and the EU. Several key human rights issues that have arisen in different jurisdictions will be analysed and compared."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6355", "title": "International Law and Development", "description": "The concept of development has been crucial to structuring international legal relations for the last 70 years. In the political and economic domains, most international institutions engage with the development project in some form. This subject offers a conceptual and intellectual grounding to examine development as an idea and set of practices in dynamic relation with national and international law. The history of development in relation to imperialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and globalisation means that these relations are complex. Understanding them is crucial to understanding the place of international law, and the work development does in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6355V", "title": "International Law and Development", "description": "The concept of development has been crucial to structuring international legal relations for the last 70 years. In the political and economic domains, most international institutions engage with the development project in some form. This subject offers a conceptual and intellectual grounding to examine development as an idea and set of practices in dynamic relation with national and international law. The history of development in relation to imperialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and globalisation means that these relations are complex. Understanding them is crucial to understanding the place of international law, and the work development does in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6356", "title": "International Economic Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic offers a unique opportunity for students to apply theory to practice in the field of international economic law. Students work in small teams and under the close supervision of professors and invited experts on specific, real-world legal questions of international economic law coming from \"real clients\" such as governments, international organizations, or NGOs. At the end of the semester, the Project Teams submit written legal memos and orally present their projects. They also publish their projects. The clinic is part of \"TradeLab,\" a global network of international economic law clinics at leading law schools around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6356V", "title": "International Economic Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic offers a unique opportunity for students to apply theory to practice in the field of international economic law. Students work in small teams and under the close supervision of professors and invited experts on specific, real-world legal questions of international economic law coming from \"real clients\" such as governments, international organizations, or NGOs. At the end of the semester, the Project Teams submit written legal memos and orally present their projects. They also publish their projects. The clinic is part of \"TradeLab,\" a global network of international economic law clinics at leading law schools around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6357", "title": "Regulation & Political Economy", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the main debates and issues in the field of regulation covering current debates about what regulation is, and the different institutions and instruments used to regulate our lives. It looks at (i) central concepts used by regulators, e.g. risk, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment; (ii) when different strategies should be adopted in regulating a sector; (iii) three central fields where regulation is used \u2013 competition, network industries, cyberspace. This course involves examples from jurisdictions across the world (especially Australasia, Europe and North America) with their insights having particular relevance for law and regulation in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6357V", "title": "Regulation & Political Economy", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the main debates and issues in the field of regulation covering current debates about what regulation is, and the different institutions and instruments used to regulate our lives. It looks at (i) central concepts used by regulators, e.g. risk, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment; (ii) when different strategies should be adopted in regulating a sector; (iii) three central fields where regulation is used \u2013 competition, network industries, cyberspace. This course involves examples from jurisdictions across the world (especially Australasia, Europe and North America) with their insights having particular relevance for law and regulation in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6358Z", "title": "ICC Arbitration", "description": "The International Chamber of Commerce and its\nInternational Court of Arbitration have played a leading role\nin the establishment and the development of the\ninternational normative framework that makes arbitration so\nattractive today. This course highlights the historical and\ncontemporary contributions of ICC to this normative\nframework, and covers the key issues with which\npractitioners are faced at the main junctures of ICC\narbitration proceedings, from both a practical and a legal\nperspective. The course features in-class practical\nexercises that draw on course resources and enable\nstudents to face a variety of possible real-life scenarios."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6359Z", "title": "SIAC and Institutional Arbitration", "description": "Arbitral institutions are important stakeholders in the field\nof international arbitration, but the nature and importance\nof their role have often been overlooked. The course seeks\nto introduce participants to the role and function of arbitral\ninstitutions in the practice of international arbitration, and to\nthe complex issues that arbitral institutions face in the\nadministration of arbitrations, appointment of arbitrators,\nissuing arbitral rules and practice notes and in guiding and\nshaping the development of international arbitration. The\ncourse will be taught by visiting lecturers from the Board,\nCourt of Arbitration and Secretariat of the Singapore\nInternational Arbitration Centre (SIAC)."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6360Z", "title": "Current Challenges to Investment Arbitration", "description": "This module will focus on the current challenges faced by investment arbitration at the global level. It will adopt a three-step approach.\nStudents will first acquire an in-depth understanding of the history and functioning of the existing system. On this basis, the different criticisms and reform proposals will be scrutinized. Finally, students will be invited to make their own informed assessment of the existing system, to discuss its evolution and debate possible improvements.\nThe module will be diversified, as it will address both legal and extra-legal issues. Seminars will be interactive and students will be encouraged to participate actively."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6361Z", "title": "Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty \u2013 Multicontract", "description": "1. Who are the parties to the contract(s) or to the arbitration clause(s) contained therein? The theories applied by courts and arbitral tribunals\n2. The extension of the arbitration clause to non-signatories\n3. The possibility of bringing together in one single proceeding all the parties who have participated in the performance of one economic transaction through interrelated contracts\n4. Joinder and consolidation\n5. Appointment of arbitrators in multiparty arbitration cases\n6. The enforcement of an award in multiparty, multicontract cases\n7. The res judicata effect of an award rendered in a connected arbitration arising from the same project"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6362V", "title": "Advanced Criminal Litigation - Forensics on Trial", "description": "Forensic science can play a large part in criminal litigation, from DNA and fingerprint evidence to the detection of forgery. Forensic scientists can play a significant role by presenting evidence in a trial, and effective trial lawyers should be equipped with the skills and knowledge to manage, present, and challenge forensic evidence. This interdisciplinary module brings law and science undergraduates together to equip them with key communication and analytical skills to present forensic evidence in Court in the most effective way. Key topics covered include advance trial techniques, the law of evidence, and aspects of forensic science."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6363", "title": "Sentencing Law and Practice", "description": "Our courts have to determine the appropriate\npunishment/sentence for every offender who has been\nfound guilty. Thus, sentencing law and practice is an area\nof law that affects the lives of every offender who goes\nthrough our criminal justice process. But what are the\nnumerous considerations going into the calculus of what is\nthe most appropriate punishment for an offender? This\ncourse will cover, among other things, the theoretical and\nempirical perspectives of punishment, sentencing options,\nsentencing methodology, and key aggravating and\nmitigating factors. We will also cover other important\nsentencing issues such as consecutive vs concurrent\nsentence, and parity"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6363V", "title": "Sentencing Law and Practice", "description": "Our courts have to determine the appropriate\npunishment/sentence for every offender who has been\nfound guilty. Thus, sentencing law and practice is an area\nof law that affects the lives of every offender who goes\nthrough our criminal justice process. But what are the\nnumerous considerations going into the calculus of what is\nthe most appropriate punishment for an offender? This\ncourse will cover, among other things, the theoretical and\nempirical perspectives of punishment, sentencing options,\nsentencing methodology, and key aggravating and\nmitigating factors. We will also cover other important\nsentencing issues such as consecutive vs concurrent\nsentence, and parity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6364", "title": "Principles of Civil Law: Law of Obligations & Property", "description": "The module introduces important concepts and principles of private law in civil law jurisdictions to students trained in the common law. The focus is on concepts and principles in which the differences between the civil and common law systems are particularly striking. Examples are the core emphasis on obligations, the lack of a strict or any consideration requirement in contract law, the focus on absolute rights in delictual liability, the concept of negotiorum gestio and the design of property law as positive absolute rights. The different concepts of legislation and jurisprudence also form part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6364V", "title": "Principles of Civil Law: Law of Obligations & Property", "description": "The module introduces important concepts and principles of private law in civil law jurisdictions to students trained in the common law. The focus is on concepts and principles in which the differences between the civil and common law systems are particularly striking. Examples are the core emphasis on obligations, the lack of a strict or any consideration requirement in contract law, the focus on absolute rights in delictual liability, the concept of negotiorum gestio and the design of property law as positive absolute rights. The different concepts of legislation and jurisprudence also form part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6367", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6367V", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6368", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism", "description": "Comparative constitutional law has emerged as one of the\nmost vibrant areas in contemporary public law. The\ncourse explores the principal challenges for the theory and\npractice of constitutionalism across time and place,\ngenerally and in particular under the globalizing conditions\nof the early 21st century. It combines the legal study of\nconstitutional texts and constitutional jurisprudence from a\nwide range of countries and constitutional systems\nworldwide with exploration of pertinent social science\nresearch concerning the global expansion of\nconstitutionalism and judicial review."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6368V", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism", "description": "Comparative constitutional law has emerged as one of the\nmost vibrant areas in contemporary public law. The\ncourse explores the principal challenges for the theory and\npractice of constitutionalism across time and place,\ngenerally and in particular under the globalizing conditions\nof the early 21st century. It combines the legal study of\nconstitutional texts and constitutional jurisprudence from a\nwide range of countries and constitutional systems\nworldwide with exploration of pertinent social science\nresearch concerning the global expansion of\nconstitutionalism and judicial review."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6369", "title": "Constitutionalism in Asia", "description": "This course is designed to offer an up-to-date understanding of constitutionalism in Asia, covering a representative number of Asian jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and the ten ASEAN states. The students are introduced to leading constitutional cases and selected materials in those jurisdictions and guided to critically examine constitutional jurisprudences developed in those Asian jurisdictions and compared them with \nwhat has been developed elsewhere, particularly in the West."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6369V", "title": "Constitutionalism in Asia", "description": "This course is designed to offer an up-to-date understanding of constitutionalism in Asia, covering a representative number of Asian jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and the ten ASEAN states. The students are introduced to leading constitutional cases and selected materials in those jurisdictions and guided to critically examine constitutional jurisprudences developed in those Asian jurisdictions and compared them with \nwhat has been developed elsewhere, particularly in the West."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6370", "title": "The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance", "description": "This module explores the risks associated with protecting and managing the legal and corporate risks associated with the increasingly important and overlapping fields of cybersecurity, privacy and data compliance and offers both legal and practical solutions for regulating and managing such risks within an effective legal and compliance framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6370V", "title": "The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance", "description": "This module explores the risks associated with protecting and managing the legal and corporate risks associated with the increasingly important and overlapping fields of cybersecurity, privacy and data compliance and offers both legal and practical solutions for regulating and managing such risks within an effective legal and compliance framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6371", "title": "Charity Law Today", "description": "This course will look in depth at the content of charity law, the consequences of charity status, and key questions raised by charity law and regulation, in contemporary settings across the world. Topics will include the profile and value of the charity sector; the \u2018heads\u2019 of charity; the public benefit requirement of charity law; charity law\u2019s treatment of political purposes; the sources of charity law;\nthe tax treatment of charities; charitable trusts and discrimination; and the regulation of charities. Singapore\u2019s charity law will be considered in global perspective. \nThis course will not consider the treatment of charity in Islamic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6371V", "title": "Charity Law Today", "description": "This course will look in depth at the content of charity law, the consequences of charity status, and key questions raised by charity law and regulation, in contemporary settings across the world. Topics will include the profile and value of the charity sector; the \u2018heads\u2019 of charity; the public benefit requirement of charity law; charity law\u2019s treatment of political purposes; the sources of charity law;\nthe tax treatment of charities; charitable trusts and discrimination; and the regulation of charities. Singapore\u2019s charity law will be considered in global perspective. \nThis course will not consider the treatment of charity in Islamic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6372", "title": "International Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This course addresses the public and private international law issues concerned with the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) globally. It commences with an overview of the sources of public international IP law, including the principal treaties, their interpretation and domestic implementation, and the general architecture of the international IP system. Using selected case studies, it then considers other international obligations that intersect with IPRS, including trade and investment protection measures and human rights obligations. It concludes with a survey of the private international law issues affecting the global exploitation of IPRs, particularly in the context of the Internet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6372V", "title": "International Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This course addresses the public and private international law issues concerned with the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) globally. It commences with an overview of the sources of public international IP law, including the principal treaties, their interpretation and domestic implementation, and the general architecture of the international IP system. Using selected case studies, it then considers other international obligations that intersect with IPRS, including trade and investment protection measures and human rights obligations. It concludes with a survey of the private international law issues affecting the global exploitation of IPRs, particularly in the context of the Internet."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6373", "title": "Advanced Copyright", "description": "Advanced copyright will examine a number of the most recent controversies in copyright law, including challenges to the cable and broadcast TV business models, the copyright status of \"appropriation art\", the permissibility of mass digitization, the phenomenon of \"copyright trolls\", and the copyright implications of universities' electronic library reserve policies. Students must have completed a course in basic copyright law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6373V", "title": "Advanced Copyright", "description": "Advanced copyright will examine a number of the most recent controversies in copyright law, including challenges to the cable and broadcast TV business models, the copyright status of \"appropriation art\", the permissibility of mass digitization, the phenomenon of \"copyright trolls\", and the copyright implications of universities' electronic library reserve policies. Students must have completed a course in basic copyright law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6374", "title": "Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development", "description": "We will examine water\u2019s importance to economic development and its special interest to lawyers. Water governance concerns both private as well as public\ninterests. Meanwhile, there is fundamental variation in how much is available and where. And because water flows, society must manage it across political boundaries. By drawing on the examples of a few key river basins, we will examine the reasons and processes by which water law has evolved as it has \u2013 and whether and how, given rising pressures and uncertainty, it may change."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6374V", "title": "Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development", "description": "We will examine water\u2019s importance to economic development and its special interest to lawyers. Water governance concerns both private as well as public\ninterests. Meanwhile, there is fundamental variation in how much is available and where. And because water flows, society must manage it across political boundaries. By drawing on the examples of a few key river basins, we will examine the reasons and processes by which water law has evolved as it has \u2013 and whether and how, given rising pressures and uncertainty, it may change."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6375", "title": "Traditional Chinese Legal Thought", "description": "This course is an introduction to the major themes and\nissues in traditional Chinese legal thought. We will focus\non the close reading and analysis of selected works by\nvarious philosophers and various philosophical schools,\nincluding Confucius and later Confucian thinkers\n(including, but not limited to, Mencius, Xunzi, and Dong\nZhongshu), the Legalists, and the Daoists. Attention will\nalso be placed on understanding these thinkers and\nphilosophical schools in historical context and gaining an\nunderstanding of how law was applied in premodern\nChina. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese\nphilosophy is required. All required readings are in\nEnglish."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6375V", "title": "Traditional Chinese Legal Thought", "description": "This course is an introduction to the major themes and\nissues in traditional Chinese legal thought. We will focus\non the close reading and analysis of selected works by\nvarious philosophers and various philosophical schools,\nincluding Confucius and later Confucian thinkers\n(including, but not limited to, Mencius, Xunzi, and Dong\nZhongshu), the Legalists, and the Daoists. Attention will\nalso be placed on understanding these thinkers and\nphilosophical schools in historical context and gaining an\nunderstanding of how law was applied in premodern\nChina. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese\nphilosophy is required. All required readings are in\nEnglish."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6376", "title": "Regulation & Private Law in Banking & Financial Service", "description": "This course is about the impact of regulation on the private law of banking and financial services. This would typically include how regulatory rules create private law duties in contract or tort.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in financial contracts, financial institutions and the regulation and supervision of financial markets and institutions including\nbanks. \n\nFinancial services constitute an important sector of the economy. Financial markets and institutions including banks are subject to a rapidly expanding field of public\nregulation. Its implementation and enforcement raise many underexplored challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6376V", "title": "Regulation & Private Law in Banking & Financial Service", "description": "This course is about the impact of regulation on the private law of banking and financial services. This would typically include how regulatory rules create private law duties in contract or tort.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in financial contracts, financial institutions and the regulation and supervision of financial markets and institutions including\nbanks.\n\nFinancial services constitute an important sector of the economy. Financial markets and institutions including banks are subject to a rapidly expanding field of public\nregulation. Its implementation and enforcement raise many underexplored challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6377", "title": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship", "description": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship offers students the opportunity to gain unique insights into Government policy making by working directly on various projects at the Ministry of Law.\n\nThe module provides a structured programme for students who wish to understand and acquire skills relevant to policy development in a Government setting.\n\nStudents will be involved in a wide spectrum of policy and legislative projects, such as civil and criminal procedure, arbitration law, intellectual property and legal industry development. Students will be part of a dynamic and challenging process of shaping policy goals to enhance the legal infrastructure in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6377V", "title": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship", "description": "Law in Action: Legal Policymaking Externship offers students the opportunity to gain unique insights into Government policy making by working directly on various projects at the Ministry of Law.\n\nThe module provides a structured programme for students who wish to understand and acquire skills relevant to policy development in a Government setting.\n\nStudents will be involved in a wide spectrum of policy and legislative projects, such as civil and criminal procedure, arbitration law, intellectual property and legal industry development. Students will be part of a dynamic and challenging process of shaping policy goals to enhance the legal infrastructure in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6379", "title": "Future of Int'l Commercial Arbitration in APAC Region", "description": "The course will examine recent developments and future directions in international commercial arbitration. Recent innovations such as emergency arbitrations, arb-med-arb protocols, expeditious dismissal of manifestly unmeritorious claims, consolidation and joinder, and expedited procedures will be examined from a comparative and analytical perspective with a focus on jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. It will also attempt to identify future trends in international commercial arbitration, including the use of artificial intelligence, online dispute resolution, block chain technology and other procedural and technological innovations. It will utilize case studies to allow students to gain hands-on experience with arbitral rules, legislation and procedure."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6379V", "title": "Future of Int'l Commercial Arbitration in APAC Region", "description": "The course will examine recent developments and future directions in international commercial arbitration. Recent innovations such as emergency arbitrations, arb-med-arb protocols, expeditious dismissal of manifestly unmeritorious claims, consolidation and joinder, and expedited procedures will be examined from a comparative and analytical perspective with a focus on jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. It will also attempt to identify future trends in international commercial arbitration, including the use of artificial intelligence, online dispute resolution, block chain technology and other procedural and technological innovations. It will utilize case studies to allow students to gain hands-on experience with arbitral rules, legislation and procedure."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6381", "title": "Heritage Law", "description": "Heritage is a broad term that, for our purposes, encompasses things as diverse as architecture and cultural objects regarded as having historical importance, and intangible aspects of culture such as cuisine, the performing arts, and ritual practices. The course aims to provide an insight into how heritage can be protected and safeguarded for future generations by domestic common law and statutory rules on the one hand; and international law rules on the other. \n\nA prior knowledge of how public international law works is useful but not required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6381V", "title": "Heritage Law", "description": "Heritage is a broad term that, for our purposes, encompasses things as diverse as architecture and cultural objects regarded as having historical importance, and intangible aspects of culture such as cuisine, the performing arts, and ritual practices. The course aims to provide an insight into how heritage can be protected and safeguarded for future generations by domestic common law and statutory rules on the one hand; and international law rules on the other.\n\nA prior knowledge of how public international law works is useful but not required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6382", "title": "Private International Law", "description": "With the internationalization of commercial and personal relationships and the increase of cross-border disputes in Singapore\u2019s courts, a working knowledge of private international law, or the conflict of laws, has become essential for legal practice in Singapore. This course offers students a comprehensive overview of the foundations of private international law, with a particular focus on Singapore law. It covers private international law\u2019s three main pillars - jurisdiction, choice of law and foreign judgments - and also touches on broader methodological issues, and questions of sovereignty, comity, and public policy, which undergird and define the boundaries of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6382V", "title": "Private International Law", "description": "With the internationalization of commercial and personal relationships and the increase of cross-border disputes in Singapore\u2019s courts, a working knowledge of private international law, or the conflict of laws, has become essential for legal practice in Singapore. This course offers students a comprehensive overview of the foundations of private international law, with a particular focus on Singapore law. It covers private international law\u2019s three main pillars - jurisdiction, choice of law and foreign judgments - and also touches on broader methodological issues, and questions of sovereignty, comity, and public policy, which undergird and define the boundaries of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6383Z", "title": "International Arbitration & the New York Convention", "description": "The New York Convention of 1958 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides for the international enforcement of arbitral awards. Considered as the most successful international convention in international private law, the Convention now has 164 Contracting States and more than 2,500 court decisions interpreting and applying the Convention (as of June 2020). The course will analyze and compare the most important of those decisions. It will offer a unique insight in treaty design, statutory enactments, varying court approaches, and the practice of international arbitration. The course materials will be made available at www.newyorkconvention.org."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6384", "title": "Harms and Wrongs", "description": "The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically engage with some of the core notions they encounter when they study criminal law. The focus will be on a number of issues revolving around the concepts of harm and wrong, such as:\n- How should we understand the notion of wrongdoing?\n- Should the criminal law care about the distinction between intended and foreseen harm?\n- Can the wrongfulness of certain actions depend on the intentions of the agent?\n- What is the relationship between reasons for action and legal justifications?\n- What is wrong with blackmail?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6384V", "title": "Harms and Wrongs", "description": "The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically engage with some of the core notions they encounter when they study criminal law. The focus will be on a number of issues revolving around the concepts of harm and wrong, such as:\n- How should we understand the notion of wrongdoing?\n- Should the criminal law care about the distinction between intended and foreseen harm?\n- Can the wrongfulness of certain actions depend on the intentions of the agent?\n- What is the relationship between reasons for action and legal justifications?\n- What is wrong with blackmail?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6385", "title": "Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy", "description": "In today\u2019s global digital world, national tax systems face new challenges. Governments large and small cooperate in tax enforcement including through strengthened anti-abuse rules, yet tax competition continues. Uncertainty,\ncomplexity and risk have increased for taxpayers ranging from individuals to multinational enterprises. Recent developments in the OECD Inclusive Framework and other forums may lead to significant new global tax rules, but an agreed outcome is far from certain. This course explores the latest trends and issues in personal and corporate income tax and Goods and Services Tax that address\ndigital or cross-border services or employment, consumption, and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6385V", "title": "Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy", "description": "In today\u2019s global digital world, national tax systems face new challenges. Governments large and small cooperate in tax enforcement including through strengthened anti-abuse rules, yet tax competition continues. Uncertainty,\ncomplexity and risk have increased for taxpayers ranging from individuals to multinational enterprises. Recent developments in the OECD Inclusive Framework and other forums may lead to significant new global tax rules, but an agreed outcome is far from certain. This course explores the latest trends and issues in personal and corporate income tax and Goods and Services Tax that address\ndigital or cross-border services or employment, consumption, and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6386", "title": "Intellectual Property in Body, Persona & Art", "description": "This course examines emerging trends to identify and analyse ways in which intellectual property laws are being used to commodify self. Through processes of intellectual propertisation, aspects of the human body, human persona, and human expression through art can be converted from \u2018unowned\u2019 to \u2018owned\u2019. Examining\ncontemporary issues such as gene patents, fake news, authenticity and cultural appropriation, as well as emerging technologies such as transplanted and artificial\nbody parts, cyborgs, mind downloads, blockchain and the Internet of Things, the course examines the mechanisms by which the expansion of intellectual property laws is enabling increasing commodification of humankind."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6386V", "title": "Intellectual Property in Body, Persona & Art", "description": "This course examines emerging trends to identify and analyse ways in which intellectual property laws are being used to commodify self. Through processes of intellectual propertisation, aspects of the human body, human persona, and human expression through art can be converted from \u2018unowned\u2019 to \u2018owned\u2019. Examining contemporary issues such as gene patents, fake news, authenticity and cultural appropriation, as well as emerging technologies such as transplanted and artificial body parts, cyborgs, mind downloads, blockchain and the Internet of Things, the course examines the mechanisms by which the expansion of intellectual property laws is enabling increasing commodification of humankind."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6387", "title": "Regulation of Digital Platforms", "description": "This course will survey multiple legal fields that involve the regulation of what are generally referred to as \u201cdigital platforms,\u201d including Google, Facebook, and others. The primary legal fields of study will be competition (antitrust) law and liability for third-party content. Because these areas of law draw heavily from economic theory and research, the course will also survey some of the relevant economics literature as a means of better understanding the relevant markets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6387V", "title": "Regulation of Digital Platforms", "description": "This course will survey multiple legal fields that involve the regulation of what are generally referred to as \u201cdigital platforms,\u201d including Google, Facebook, and others. The primary legal fields of study will be competition (antitrust) law and liability for third-party content. Because these areas of law draw heavily from economic theory and research, the course will also survey some of the relevant economics literature as a means of better understanding the relevant markets."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6388", "title": "Comparative Civil Law: Thai Contract Law", "description": "This course explores Thai contract law which is a product of civil law traditions and a cornerstone of Thai private law. It covers major areas of contract law from the beginning to the end of a contract, i.e. contract formation, validity, interpretation, breach of contract, and ending and changing a contract. Course participants will be encouraged to make comparisons between Thai and Singapore contract laws on\ncertain issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6388V", "title": "Comparative Civil Law: Thai Contract Law", "description": "This course explores Thai contract law which is a product of civil law traditions and a cornerstone of Thai private law. It covers major areas of contract law from the beginning to the end of a contract, i.e. contract formation, validity, interpretation, breach of contract, and ending and changing a contract. Course participants will be encouraged to make comparisons between Thai and Singapore contract laws on\ncertain issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6389", "title": "Asset-Based Financing: Quasi-Security Devices", "description": "This course critically examines so-called \u2018quasi-security\u2019 devices: legal structures that perform the function of personal property security, whilst not being \u2018true\u2019 security in the legal sense. These devices entail the retention of title or absolute\ntransfer of title (rather than the grant of a security interest) and, like \u2018true\u2019 security, secure the performance of an obligation. Hence, consideration will be given to retention of title devices (ROT or \u2018Romapla\u2019 clauses) in the supply of goods to manufacturers or to retailers as stock-in-trade, conditional-sale, hire-purchase, finance-leasing. Absolute transfer of title devices exemplified by receivables financing (factoring, securitisation) will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6389V", "title": "Asset-Based Financing: Quasi-Security Devices", "description": "This course critically examines so-called \u2018quasi-security\u2019 devices: legal structures that perform the function of personal property security, whilst not being \u2018true\u2019 security in the legal sense. These devices entail the retention of title or absolute\ntransfer of title (rather than the grant of a security interest) and, like \u2018true\u2019 security, secure the performance of an obligation. Hence, consideration will be given to retention of title devices (ROT or \u2018Romapla\u2019 clauses) in the supply of goods to manufacturers or to retailers as stock-in-trade, conditional-sale, hire-purchase, finance-leasing. Absolute transfer of title devices exemplified by receivables financing (factoring, securitisation) will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6393", "title": "Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks", "description": "Corporate groups are pervasive in modern, international commerce. Frequently they are structured in order to avoid or minimise liability for wrongdoing and to protect group assets. In other cases, risky physical processes are contracted out to network participants. This course examines the structures and practices of corporate groups and networks, the problems of externalisation of liability, and legal mechanisms for extending liability among participant entities. Extended liability regimes considered span statute law and common law. Consideration is given also to several important suggestions for development of the law in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6393V", "title": "Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks", "description": "Corporate groups are pervasive in modern, international commerce. Frequently they are structured in order to avoid or minimise liability for wrongdoing and to protect group assets. In other cases, risky physical processes are contracted out to network participants. This course examines the structures and practices of corporate groups and networks, the problems of externalisation of liability,\nand legal mechanisms for extending liability among participant entities. Extended liability regimes considered span statute law and common law. Consideration is given also to several important suggestions for development of the law in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6394", "title": "Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law", "description": "In intellectual property law, overlaps of exclusive rights stemming from different protection regimes raise particular problems. Nonetheless, the cumulation of rights has become a standard protection strategy in sectors ranging from software to fashion and entertainment. Against this background, this module offers a detailed analysis of protection overlaps. Which combinations of rights are deemed permissible? Which specific problems arise from the cumulation of intellectual property rights? Using international, US and EU legislation and case law as reference points, these questions will be discussed. Moreover, the module will explore alternative avenues for better law and policy making."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6394V", "title": "Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law", "description": "In intellectual property law, overlaps of exclusive rights stemming from different protection regimes raise particular problems. Nonetheless, the cumulation of rights has become a standard protection strategy in sectors ranging from software to fashion and entertainment. Against this background, this module offers a detailed analysis of protection overlaps. Which combinations of rights are deemed permissible? Which specific problems arise from the cumulation of intellectual property rights? Using international, US and EU legislation and case law as reference points, these questions will be discussed. Moreover, the module will explore alternative avenues for better law and policy making."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6395", "title": "The Law & Practice of Modern Trust Structures", "description": "Using precedents and transactional documents generously supplied by various leading law firms and chambers, the module will examine in much greater depth various representative uses of trusts in the modern world, both to make family provision and in commerce. It will examine how these functions are realised by practising lawyers working within, ad developing, legal doctrine. Finally it will\nexplore the broad theoretical implications of this work."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6395V", "title": "The Law & Practice of Modern Trust Structures", "description": "Using precedents and transactional documents generously supplied by various leading law firms and chambers, the module will examine in much greater depth various representative uses of trusts in the modern world, both to make family provision and in commerce. It will examine how these functions are realised by practising lawyers working within, ad developing, legal doctrine. Finally it will\nexplore the broad theoretical implications of this work."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6396", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6397", "title": "University Research Opportunities Progra", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6398", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6399", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6400", "title": "Biomedical Law & Ethics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6402", "title": "Corporate Insolvency Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6403", "title": "Family Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6405A", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (a)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6405B", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (B)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6407", "title": "Law Of Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6409", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LL6411", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "Personal property law cuts across many legal fields, including equity and trusts, and the law of sales, agency, company, insolvency and bankruptcy, insurance, banking, economic torts and crimes. The course covers the following broad areas: (i) defining the interests in personal property; (ii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by consent, including the sale of goods and documentary sales; (iii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by \noperation of law; (iv) intangible property & security interests; (v) persistence of interests in personal property; and (iv) protection of interests in personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6412", "title": "Securities and Capital Markets Regulation", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of securities regulation, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions, in Singapore and, where relevant, jurisdictions such as the US, UK, Australia, China and HK. Topics to be covered generally include: regulatory authorities and capital markets; supervision of intermediaries; the \"going public\" process; legal position of stockbrokers; insider trading and securities frauds; globalisation, technology and regulatory harmonisation; and regulation of takeover activity. In addition, aspects of syndicated loan and bond financing, and securitisation, will be studied in some detail. Students will be expected to use the Internet to search for comparative materials. Advisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Not appropriate for civil law students."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6413", "title": "Civil Justice and Procedure", "description": "The course is about the law governing the processes by which substantive rights are effectuated during civil litigation in Singapore. The emphasis will be on how Rules of Court operate in areas of dispute resolution including the interlocutory stages from filing of an action to the trial, post-judgment matters and the role of amicable settlement in the adversarial culture. The inter-relationship between procedure, evidence and ethics will be analysed. Students will have an understanding of the principles of procedure to consider the efficacy and viability of the governing law in light of fairness, efficiency and justice, and to propose reforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6431", "title": "Choice of Law: Practice and Theories", "description": "This course explores the tensions in choice-of-law decision-making in selected areas or sub-fields spanning human rights violations, foreign sovereign debts, environmental liability, currency swaps, international trusts, multiple-listed corporations, and time permitting, economic torts and internet defamation and/or employment and human capital development. In each specific area, it asks whether a choice-of-law theory can shed light on the tensions which the choice-of-law rule seeks to balance and whether another can lead to development of a better or more coherent rule."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6431V", "title": "Choice of Law: Practice and Theories", "description": "This course explores the tensions in choice-of-law decision-making in selected areas or sub-fields spanning human rights violations, foreign sovereign debts, environmental liability, currency swaps, international trusts, multiple-listed corporations, and time permitting, economic torts and internet defamation and/or employment and human capital development. In each specific area, it asks whether a choice-of-law theory can shed light on the tensions which the choice-of-law rule seeks to balance and whether another can lead to development of a better or more coherent rule."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6432", "title": "International Litigation: Themes and Practice", "description": "The subject of international litigation has gained strong recognition as a composite of two branches of the conflict of laws, namely jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgment. This conceptualisation brings into its embrace evolving themes of comity, proximity, efficiency, party autonomy, foreign sovereign immunity, foreign act of state and justiciability, reasonable extraterritoriality, and forum mandatory procedural policies. In this advanced course, each theme is studied in the context of practice in a particular sub-field of jurisdiction or enforcement; although some themes such as that of sovereignty are cross-cutting and are studied in more than one jurisdictional context."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6432V", "title": "International Litigation: Themes and Practice", "description": "The subject of international litigation has gained strong recognition as a composite of two branches of the conflict of laws, namely jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgment. This conceptualisation brings into its embrace evolving themes of comity, proximity, efficiency, party autonomy, foreign sovereign immunity, foreign act of state and justiciability, reasonable extraterritoriality, and forum mandatory procedural policies. In this advanced course, each theme is studied in the context of practice in a particular sub-field of jurisdiction or enforcement; although some themes such as that of sovereignty are cross-cutting and are studied in more than one jurisdictional context."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6433", "title": "Global Data Privacy Law", "description": "This course will explore the main themes and approaches in data privacy law in light of various international frameworks (OECD, APEC, ASEAN) and a cross-section of national laws from North America, Europe and Asia. While many countries have enacted or amended laws in recent years, there is no widely-accepted framework for cross-border data transfers and developments in business and technology present new risks and challenges to the protection of individuals\u2019 personal data and privacy. This course will also consider the role of data privacy laws in regulating social media and the Internet, data science, AI and machine learning and cybersecurity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6433V", "title": "Global Data Privacy Law", "description": "This course will explore the main themes and approaches in data privacy law in light of various international frameworks (OECD, APEC, ASEAN) and a cross-section of national laws from North America, Europe and Asia. While many countries have enacted or amended laws in recent years, there is no widely-accepted framework for cross-border data transfers and developments in business and technology present new risks and challenges to the protection of individuals\u2019 personal data and privacy. This course will also consider the role of data privacy laws in regulating social media and the Internet, data science, AI and machine learning and cybersecurity."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6434", "title": "International Commodity Trading Law Clinic", "description": "The trading of commodities is one of the oldest forms of economic activity known to mankind. Today, it is a sophisticated multi-trillion-dollar industry spanning across the globe. A commodity trade is, at its heart, the sale and purchase of a commodity, but is often coupled with other related transactions such as transportation, storage,\ninsurance and finance. This course seeks to provide students with an overview of international commodity trading law. As an \u201cindustry-focused\u201d course, students will\nbe trained to identify and analyse problems that span across different areas including contract, banking and finance, agency, assignment, set-off \u2013 just like practitioners do."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6434V", "title": "International Commodity Trading Law Clinic", "description": "The trading of commodities is one of the oldest forms of economic activity known to mankind. Today, it is a sophisticated multi-trillion-dollar industry spanning across the globe. A commodity trade is, at its heart, the sale and purchase of a commodity, but is often coupled with other related transactions such as transportation, storage,\ninsurance and finance. This course seeks to provide students with an overview of international commodity trading law. As an \u201cindustry-focused\u201d course, students will\nbe trained to identify and analyse problems that span across different areas including contract, banking and finance, agency, assignment, set-off \u2013 just like practitioners do."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6435", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is unique because it did not emerge from a single source of law. Rather, it has roots in almost every type of law. Through diverse readings, deep discussions, and independent research, this course will identify and understand the various types of law that, together, give rise to \u201cenvironmental law.\u201d The course will consider environmental law\u2019s roots in common law, regulation, legislation, constitutions, international cooperation, public action, and even private self-governance. Though not exclusively, the focus will be on common law jurisdictions in the British tradition, but independent research will allow students to explore more widely for themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6435V", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is unique because it did not emerge from a single source of law. Rather, it has roots in almost every type of law. Through diverse readings, deep discussions, and independent research, this course will identify and understand the various types of law that, together, give rise to \u201cenvironmental law.\u201d The course will consider environmental law\u2019s roots in common law, regulation, legislation, constitutions, international cooperation, public action, and even private self-governance. Though not exclusively, the focus will be on common law jurisdictions in the British tradition, but independent research will allow students to explore more widely for themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6436", "title": "Family Law and Practice", "description": "Family Law covers a very broad field that involves familial relationships wider than just spousal relationships, children and money matters. It encompasses transnational conflict of laws, marital agreements, international conventions and enforcement issues. It also sees intersectionality with elder law, mental capacity, as well as probate and succession law. It is not possible to cover every aspect of family law in this elective. This course will cover family law and practice in Singapore, with a special emphasis on marriages, divorce and ancillary matters for civil marriages, and the workings of the Family Justice Courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6436V", "title": "Family Law and Practice", "description": "Family Law covers a very broad field that involves familial relationships wider than just spousal relationships, children and money matters. It encompasses transnational conflict of laws, marital agreements, international conventions and enforcement issues. It also sees intersectionality with elder law, mental capacity, as well as probate and succession law. It is not possible to cover every aspect of family law in this elective. This course will cover family law and practice in Singapore, with a special emphasis on marriages, divorce and ancillary matters for civil marriages, and the workings of the Family Justice Courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6437", "title": "Law and Democracy in East Asia", "description": "This module explores diverse development patterns of the rule of law and democracy in East Asia. Theories of democracy commonly hold that the acceptance of rule of law in non-democratic countries would lead to democratization, especially along with increasing economic prosperity. This linear thesis, however, have met challenges recently in light of recent developments in China, HK, and other parts of the world. As such, this module scrutinizes this linear thesis by examining the trajectories of legal development in East Asia and the determinants, such as international factors, civil law traditions, legal professionals, foreign law influence, colonial legacies and post-colonial nationalism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6437V", "title": "Law and Democracy in East Asia", "description": "This module explores diverse development patterns of the rule of law and democracy in East Asia. Theories of democracy commonly hold that the acceptance of rule of law in non-democratic countries would lead to democratization, especially along with increasing economic prosperity. This linear thesis, however, have met challenges recently in light of recent developments in China, HK, and other parts of the world. As such, this module scrutinizes this linear thesis by examining the trajectories of legal development in East Asia and the determinants, such as international factors, civil law traditions, legal professionals, foreign law influence, colonial legacies and post-colonial nationalism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6438", "title": "Intellectual Property Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the exciting world of intellectual property arbitration. Traditionally thought of and taught as distinct areas of law, the overlap between IP rights and recourse to arbitration for the protection of those rights has grown significantly in recent years. This pioneering course is not currently offered in any other leading law school in the world. It is designed for students with little to\nno knowledge of IP law. It is also designed for students with an interest in arbitration, regardless of the level of their preexisting knowledge of arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6438V", "title": "Intellectual Property Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the exciting world of intellectual property arbitration. Traditionally thought of and taught as distinct areas of law, the overlap between IP rights and recourse to arbitration for the protection of those rights has grown significantly in recent years. This pioneering course is not currently offered in any other leading law school in the world. It is designed for students with little to\nno knowledge of IP law. It is also designed for students with an interest in arbitration, regardless of the level of their preexisting knowledge of arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6440", "title": "Electronic Evidence", "description": "This course introduces students to electronic evidence, which covers every area of law. Most legal problems presented to lawyers now include an element of electronic evidence. It is incumbent on judges, lawyers and legal academics to be familiar with the topic in the service of justice. Electronic evidence is ubiquitous.\nUsing an array of mobile technologies, people communicate regularly through social networking sites, e-mail and other virtual methods managed by organisations that are transnational. No area of human activity is free from the networked world \u2013 this also means no area of law is free from the effects of electronic evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6440V", "title": "Electronic Evidence", "description": "This course introduces students to electronic evidence, which covers every area of law. Most legal problems presented to lawyers now include an element of electronic evidence. It is incumbent on judges, lawyers and legal academics to be familiar with the topic in the service of justice. Electronic evidence is ubiquitous.\nUsing an array of mobile technologies, people communicate regularly through social networking sites, e-mail and other virtual methods managed by organisations that are transnational. No area of human activity is free from the networked world \u2013 this also means no area of law is free from the effects of electronic evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6441", "title": "Law & Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy & Insolvency", "description": "This course looks at the economic foundations of corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law. The course will discuss the application of general law-and-economics principles to the governance and reorganization of insolvent and financially distressed business firms. Readings will focus in particular on questions about whether and how general theories of contracts, property, and corporate governance must be amended in the context of insolvency and bankruptcy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6441V", "title": "Law & Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy & Insolvency", "description": "This course looks at the economic foundations of corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law. The course will discuss the application of general law-and-economics principles to the governance and reorganization of insolvent and financially distressed business firms. Readings will focus in particular on questions about whether and how general theories of contracts, property, and corporate governance must be amended in the context of insolvency and bankruptcy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6442", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6442V", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6443", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6443V", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6444", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6444V", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6446", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6446V", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6447", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6447V", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6448", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6448V", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6449", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6449V", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6450", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6450V", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6451", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6451V", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6452", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6452V", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6453", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6453V", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6454", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6454V", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6455", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6455V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6456", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6456V", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6457", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6457V", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6458", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6458V", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6460", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6460V", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6461", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. we then examine the compliance function through the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistle blowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money laundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6461V", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. We then examine the compliance function\nthrough the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistle blowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money\nlaundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6462", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6462V", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6463", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6463V", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6464", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6464V", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6465", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable \ncollective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law; unfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the accommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6465V", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable\ncollective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law;\nunfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the\naccommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6471", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6471V", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6472", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6472V", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6473", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of\ninvestment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy\nresources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6473V", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of\ninvestment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy\nresources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6474", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6474V", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6475", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6475V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6476", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6476V", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6477", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic\ncivil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows: (1) Introduction to Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia: History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6477V", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic civil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows: (1) Introduction\nto Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia: History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6478", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6478V", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6479", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance.\nNevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to\nidentify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation,\ncreativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6479V", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance.\nNevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to\nidentify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation,\ncreativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6480", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6480V", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6481", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region: in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6481V", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region: in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6482", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6482V", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6483", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6483V", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6486", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6486V", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6487", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6487V", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6488", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6488V", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6489", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6489V", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6490", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6490V", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6491", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6491V", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6492", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6492V", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6493", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This course equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6493V", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This course equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6494", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6494V", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6496", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6496V", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6499", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies, performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make of law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6499V", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies, performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make of law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6500", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6500V", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6501", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6501V", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6502", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6502V", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6504", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6504V", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6505", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6505V", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LL6506", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6506V", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6507", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6507V", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6508", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6508V", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6509", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6509V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6511", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LL6511V", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5002", "title": "Admiralty Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5002V", "title": "Admiralty Law & Practice", "description": "This course will introduce the various concepts relating to the admiralty action in rem, which is the primary means by which a maritime claim is enforced. Topics will include: the nature of an action in rem; the subject matter of admiralty jurisdiction; the invocation of admiralty jurisdiction involving the arrest of offending and sister ships; the procedure for the arrest of ships; liens encountered in admiralty practice: statutory, maritime and possessory liens; the priorities governing maritime claims; and time bars and limitations. This course is essential to persons who intend to practice shipping law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5004", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5004V", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": "This course provides an insight into international civil aviation and the legal and regulatory issues facing airlines, governments and the common passenger. Issues raised include public air law and policy, aviation security in light of recent global developments and private air law. Emphasis will be placed on issues relevant to Singapore and Asia, given Singapore's status as a major aviation hub and the exponential growth of the industry in the Asia-Pacific. Topics to be discussed include the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, bilateral services agreements, aircraft safety, terrorism and aviation security and carrier liability for death or injury to passengers. Competition among airlines will also be analysed, including business strategies such as code-sharing, frequent flier schemes and alliances. The severe competitive environment introduced by weakening economies, war and terrorism will also be discussed. This course will be relevant for individuals with a keen interest in air travel, and is designed for those interested in joining the aviation industry or large law firms with an aviation practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5006", "title": "Banking Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5006V", "title": "Banking Law", "description": "This course is designed to familiarise the student with the key principles relating to the modern law of banking. Four main areas will be covered: the law of negotiable instruments, the law of payment systems, the banker customer relationship and bank regulation. Students who wish to obtain a basic knowledge of banking law will benefit from this course. It is also recommended that those who wish to specialize in banking law take this course as a foundational course, prior to studying the more advanced banking courses."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5007", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5007V", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": "This course will deal with the basic intellectual property, ethical, regulatory and policy issues in biotechnological innovations. It will focus mainly on patent issues including the patentability of biological materials, gene sequences, animals, plants and humans; infringement, ownership and licensing. Students will also be acquainted with genetic copyright, trade secrets protection and basic ethical and regulatory aspects including gene technology and ES cell research. Apart from Singapore law, a comparative analysis of the legal position in Europe and USA, as well as the major international conventions will be made. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of biology and genetics. (Class presentation is subject to change depending on student subscription)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5019", "title": "Credit & Security", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5019V", "title": "Credit & Security", "description": "This course examines the granting of credit and the taking of security by bank as well as aspects of bank supervision. The course starts with the Part on Bank Supervision and then turns to the discussion of unsecured lending and the Moneylenders' Act. It then focuses on secured credit. The discussion of the general regulation of the giving of security is followed by an examination of specific security devices, such as pledges, trust receipts, Romalpa clauses, factoring, stocks and shares as security, and guarantees and indemnities. The emphasis throughout is on the commercial effectiveness of the system."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5024", "title": "Introduction to Indonesian Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5024V", "title": "Introduction To Indonesian Law", "description": "This course will initiate the student to the basics of Indonesian law (adat law, Islamic law, legal pluralism, constitutional law, administrative law, civil law, judicial process) as well as to others aspects that are of concern to foreigners (foreign investment laws and protections, regional autonomy, mining laws etc.). It will also address some of the problems relating to law enforcement in Indonesia"}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5026V", "title": "Infocoms Law: Competition & Convergence", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5029", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5029V", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the basic understanding of the law of arbitration to enable them to advise and represent parties in the arbitral process confidence. Legal concepts peculiar to arbitration viz. separability, arbitrability and kompetenze-kompetenze will considered together with the procedural laws on the conduct of the arbitral process, the making of and the enforcement of awards. Students will examine the UNCITRAL Model Law and the New York Convention, 1958. This course is most suited for students with some knowledge of the law of commercial transactions, shipping, banking, international sale of goods or construction."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5030", "title": "International Commercial Litigation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5030V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation", "description": "Globalisation has made it more important for lawyers to be knowledgeable about the international aspects of litigation. This course focuses on the jurisdictional techniques most relevant to international commercial litigation: in personam jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, interim protective measures, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, public policy, and an outline of choice of law issues for commercial contracts. The course, taught from the perspective of Singapore law, based largely on the common law, is designed to give an insight into the world of international litigation. These skills are relevant to not only litigation lawyers, but also lawyers planning international transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5031", "title": "International Environmental Law & Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5031V", "title": "International Environmental Law & Policy", "description": "International law traditionally concerns itself with the relations between states, yet environmental problems transcend borders. International environmental law demonstrates how international norms can affect national sovereignty on matters of common concern. The course surveys international treaties concerning the atmosphere and the conservation of nature, and connections to trade and economic development. Institutions and principles to promote compliance and cooperation are also examined. The course will assist students in their understanding of international law-making. It would be of use to those interested in careers involving international law, both for the government and public sector and those in international trade and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5032", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5032V", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": "This course focuses on the nature of risks to foreign investment and the elimination of those risks through legal means. As a prelude, it discusses the different economic theories on foreign investment, the formation of foreign investment contracts and the methods of eliminating potential risks through contractual provisions. It then examines the different types of interferences with foreign investment and looks at the nature of the treaty protection available against such interference. It concludes by examining the different methods of dispute settlement available in the area. The techniques of arbitration of investment disputes available are fully explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5033", "title": "International Legal Process", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5034", "title": "International Regulation of Shipping", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5034V", "title": "International Regulation of Shipping", "description": "This course will examine the global regime governing the international regulation of commercial shipping. It will examine the relationship between the legal framework established in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the work of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the UN specialized agency responsible for the safety and security of international shipping and the prevention of pollution from ships. The course will focus on selected global conventions administered by the IMO, including those governing safety of life at sea (SOLAS), the prevention of pollution from ships (MARPOL) and the training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers (STCW). It will also examine the liability and compensation schemes that have been developed for pollution damage caused by the carriage of oil and noxious substances by ships, as well as the conventions designed to ensure that States undertake contingency planning in order to combat spills of oil and other noxious and hazardous substances in their waters. In addition, the course will examine the schemes that have been developed to enhance the security of ships and ports in light of the threat of maritime terrorism. It will also examine the role of the IMO in the prevention of pollution of the marine environment from dumping waste at sea and from seabed activities subject to national jurisdiction. One of the themes of the course will be to consider how the IMO is responding to increased concern about the protection and preservation of the marine environment, including threats such as invasive species and climate change. Another theme will be to consider how the responsibility to enforce IMO Conventions is divided between flag States, coastal States, port States and the IMO. This course will be useful to persons who intend to practice shipping law or work in the private or public maritime sector."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5043", "title": "Law of Marine Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5043V", "title": "Law Of Marine Insurance", "description": "This course aims to give students a firm foundation of existing law; a working understanding of standard form policies; and an understanding of the interaction between the Marine Insurance Act, case law and the Institute Clauses. Topics will include: types of marine insurance policies; insurable interest; principle of utmost good faith; marine insurance policies; warranties; causation; insured and excluded perils; proof of loss; types of losses; salvage, general average and particular charges; measure of indemnity and abandonment; mitigation of losses. This course will appeal to students who wish to specialise in either insurance law or maritime law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5045", "title": "Negotiation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5049", "title": "Principles of Conflict of Laws", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5049V", "title": "Principles Of Conflict Of Laws", "description": "The subject of conflict of laws addresses three questions: Which country should hear the case? What law should be applied? What is the effect of its adjudication in another country? This course includes an outline of jurisdiction and judgments techniques, but will focus on problems in choice of law, and issues in the exclusion of foreign law. Coverage includes problems in contract and torts, and other areas may be selected from time to time. This course is complementary to International Commercial Litigation, but it stands on its own as an introduction to theories and methodologies in the conflict of laws."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5050", "title": "Public International Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5051", "title": "Principles of Restitution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5054", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5054V", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of domestic and international sale of goods under the Singapore law. With regard to domestic sales, the course will focus on the Sale of Goods Act. Topics to\nbe studied will include the essential elements of the contract of sale; the passing of title and risk; the implied conditions of title, description, fitness and quality; delivery and payment, acceptance and termination, and the available remedies. With particular reference to a seller\u2019s delivery obligations, the course will also cover substantial aspects of the international sale of goods under the common law, such as FOB and CIF contracts and documentary sales. This course will be of interest to students intending to enter commercial practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5055", "title": "Securities Regulation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5060", "title": "World Trade Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5063", "title": "Business & Finance For Lawyers", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5063V", "title": "Business & Finance For Lawyers", "description": "To provide law students who intend to read commercial law electives with a foundation in accounting, finance and other related business concepts. It covers topics such as interpretation and analysis of standard financial statements, the types of players and instruments in the financial markets and the basic framework of a business investment market.The course will employ a hypothetical simulation where lawyers advise on several proposals involving the acquisition and disposal of assets by a client. The issues covered in the hypothetical will include asset valuation models, financing options and techniques, and compliance with accounting and regulatory frameworks."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5065", "title": "Comparative Corporate Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5076", "title": "It Law I", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5076V", "title": "IT Law I", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. Issues to be examined include the conduct of electronic commerce, cybercrimes, electronic evidence, privacy and data protection. (This course will not cover the intellectual property issues, which are addressed instead in \"IT Law: IP Issues\".) Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology and policy will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5077V", "title": "IT Law II", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. The focus of this course will be on the intellectual property issues such as copyright in software and electronic materials, software patents, electronic databases, trade marks, domain names and rights management information. Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology, policy and economic rights will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5085", "title": "International Trusts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5099", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5099V", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": "This course will provide an understanding of the legal issues arising from casualties involving ships. It will examine aspects of the law relating to nationality and registration of ships, the law relating to the management of ships, ship sale and purchase, and the law of collisions, salvage, towage, wreck and general average. Students successfully completing the course will be familiar with the international conventions governing these issues, as well as the domestic law of Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5102", "title": "Advanced Torts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5128", "title": "Chinese Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5138", "title": "Int'l & Comp Law of Sale in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5138V", "title": "Int'l&Comp Law of Sale in Asia", "description": "The goal of this course is to prepare students for regional and international trade in Asia by providing basic knowledge of domestic laws of sale in both civil and common law systems in Asia (including Singapore's) as well as international rules affecting the contract of sale. The course will cover: comparative private law of contract and of sale in Asia; international private law of sale; private International Law aspects of international sales. The course is meant for students interested in international trade and comparative law in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5140", "title": "Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice", "description": "The Law of the Sea governs the conduct of States in the oceans. Given that the oceans covers five-seventh of the world\u2019s surface, it is a critical component of international law. It is also relevant for Singapore due to its extensive maritime interests. This course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Law of the Sea with the aim of examining how it addresses the ever-increasing challenges in the regulation of the oceans. The course will draw on a wide range of case studies from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5140V", "title": "Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice", "description": "The Law of the Sea governs the conduct of States in the oceans. Given that the oceans covers five-seventh of the world\u2019s surface, it is a critical component of international law. It is also relevant for Singapore due to its extensive maritime interests. This course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Law of the Sea with the aim of examining how it addresses the ever-increasing challenges in the regulation of the oceans. The course will draw on a wide range of case studies from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5164", "title": "International Projects Law and Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5164V", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": "This course is intended to introduce students to the practice and law relating to international projects and infrastructure. The various methods of procurement and the construction process involved will be reviewed in conjunction with standard forms that are used internationally - such as the FIDIC, JCT and NEC forms, among others. Familiar issues such as defects, time and cost overruns and the implications therefrom (and how these matters are dealt with in an international context) will also be covered.\n\nThe course will provide students with an understanding of how international projects are procured, planned and administered as well as give an insight into how legal and commercial risks are identified, priced, managed and mitigated."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5180", "title": "Choice of Law & Jurisdiction in Int\u2019l Commercial Contracts in Asia", "description": "Starting by examining the theory and the need for choice of law and jurisdiction clauses, this course will examine various issues with these clauses by involving students in drafting, negotiating, concluding and eventually enforcing choice of law and jurisdiction clauses (in particular arbitration clauses) in international commercial contracts in Asia. This will be done through real life scenarios being introduced into the classroom in which students will act as lawyers advising and representing clients in drafting and negotiating choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as attacking or defending them before a tribunal in a dispute context. Accordingly, students will live through the life of various choice of law and jurisdiction clauses and see how they can be drafted, negotiated and enforced in Asian jurisdictions. \nUpon completion of the course, students will have learnt the theories behind choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as the practical skills and lessons in negotiating, finalizing and enforcing them."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5205", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5205V", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5214", "title": "International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law", "description": "The module explores principles and rules relating to the exploration for, development and production of oil and gas (upstream operations). The main focus of the module is on the examination of different arrangements governing the\nlegal relationship between states and international oil companies, such as modern concessions, productionsharing agreements, joint ventures, service and hybrid contracts. The agreements governing the relationships between companies involved in upstream petroleum operations (joint operating and unitisation agreements) will also be examined. The module will further explore the\nissues of dispute settlement, expropriation, stability of contracts and a relevant international institutional and legal framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5226", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, traveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last stretch to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5226V", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, raveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last strech to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5246", "title": "International Carriage of Passengers by Sea", "description": "This module will give students a broad understanding of the law relating to the international carriage of passengers by sea. Topics to be covered include formation of contract, regulation of cruise ships, State jurisdiction over crimes\nagainst the person on board a ship, liability for accidents, limitation of liability, the Athens Convention 1974/1990, and conflict of laws/jurisdictional issues relating to passenger claims. This module will be useful for those who\nare intending to: practice law in a broadly focussed shipping practice; work within the cruise and ferry industry; or otherwise are likely to deal with passengers and/or their claims."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5307", "title": "EU Maritime Law", "description": "The European Union plays an increasing role in the regulation of international shipping and any shipping company wishing to do business in Europe will have to take this into consideration. The module will take on various aspects of this regulation and will place the EU rules in the context of international maritime law. To ensure a common basis for understanding the EU maritime\nlaw, the basic structure and principles of the EU and EU law will be explained at the outset."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5322", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": "Trade Finance Law considers the different legal structures used to effect payment under, and disincentives breaches of, international agreements for the supply of goods and services. The course analyses and compares documentary and standby letters of credit, international drafts and forfaiting, performance bonds and first demand guarantees and export credit guarantees. Key topics will include the structure, juridical nature and obligational content of the aforementioned instruments; the nature of the harmonised regimes and their interaction with domestic law; the principle of strict compliance and its relaxation; documentary and non-documentary forms of recourse; the autonomy principle and its exceptions; and the conflict of laws principles applicable to autonomous payment undertakings. The course should be of interest to students who have already studied other components of international trade and/or who have an interest in international banking operations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5322V", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": "Trade Finance Law considers the different legal structures used to effect payment under, and disincentives breaches of, international agreements for the supply of goods and services. The course analyses and compares documentary and standby letters of credit, international drafts and forfaiting, performance bonds and first demand guarantees and export credit guarantees. Key topics will include the structure, juridical nature and obligational content of the aforementioned instruments; the nature of the harmonised regimes and their interaction with domestic law; the principle of strict compliance and its relaxation; documentary and non-documentary forms of recourse; the autonomy principle and its exceptions; and the conflict of laws principles applicable to autonomous payment undertakings. The course should be of interest to students who have already studied other components of international trade and/or who have an interest in international banking operations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5396", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5397", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5400", "title": "Biomedical Law & Ethics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5402", "title": "Corporate Insolvency", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5403", "title": "Family Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5407", "title": "Law of Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5409", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5444", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5444V", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLD5464", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5001", "title": "Administration of Criminal Justice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5002V", "title": "Admiralty Law & Practice", "description": "This course will introduce the various concepts relating to the admiralty action in rem, which is the primary means by which a maritime claim is enforced. Topics will include: the nature of an action in rem; the subject matter of admiralty jurisdiction; the invocation of admiralty jurisdiction involving the arrest of offending and sister ships; the procedure for the arrest of ships; liens encountered in admiralty practice: statutory, maritime and possessory liens; the priorities governing maritime claims; and time bars and limitations. This course is essential to persons who intend to practice shipping law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5003V", "title": "China, India and International Law", "description": "This course will examine the rise of China and India and it\u2019s impact on the international legal order. In particular, students will be led to discuss issues concerning (1) the origin and history of the relationship between developing\ncountries and international law; (2) the rise of China and India and its challenge to the existing international legal order and legal norms; (3) China, India, and the multilateral trading system; (4) China, India and international investment; (5) the international law aspects of domestic policies in China and India; and (6) the international law aspects of competition and disputes between China and \nIndia. The course will also concentrate on demonstrating the interaction between international relations and international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5004", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5004V", "title": "Aviation Law & Policy", "description": "This course provides an insight into international civil aviation and the legal and regulatory issues facing airlines, governments and the common passenger. Issues raised include public air law and policy, aviation security in light of recent global developments and private air law. Emphasis will be placed on issues relevant to Singapore and Asia, given Singapore's status as a major aviation hub and the exponential growth of the industry in the Asia-Pacific. Topics to be discussed include the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, bilateral services agreements, aircraft safety, terrorism and aviation security and carrier liability for death or injury to passengers. Competition among airlines will also be analysed, including business strategies such as code-sharing, frequent flier schemes and alliances. The severe competitive environment introduced by weakening economies, war and terrorism will also be discussed. This course will be relevant for individuals with a keen interest in air travel, and is designed for those interested in joining the aviation industry or large law firms with an aviation practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5005V", "title": "Bank Documentation", "description": "Bank Documentation is an advanced contract course situated in the banking context. Students will be introduced to key principles that govern banking transactions as well as a variety of contractual clauses used by banks in their standard-form documentation. The aim of the course is to promote an\nunderstanding of these terms, how they operate and their shortcomings. Some emphasis is placed on contractual techniques used by banks to maintain control over their contractual relationships and to allocate risk, as well as the common law and statutory limits on their effectiveness. Students are required to evaluate the fairness of typical banking terms by applying relevant law and guidelines. Those who successfully complete the module will be equipped to navigate their way around standard form agreements (banking as well as others), recognize and understand the operation of a range of contractual terms, and predict their effectiveness."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5006V", "title": "Banking Law", "description": "This course is designed to familiarise the student with the key principles relating to the modern law of banking. Four main areas will be covered: the law of negotiable instruments, the law of payment systems, the banker customer relationship and bank regulation. Students who wish to obtain a basic knowledge of banking law will benefit from this course. It is also recommended that those who wish to specialize in banking law take this course as a foundational course, prior to studying the more advanced banking courses."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5007", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5007V", "title": "Biotechnology Law", "description": "This course will deal with the basic intellectual property, ethical, regulatory and policy issues in biotechnological innovations. It will focus mainly on patent issues including the patentability of biological materials, gene sequences, animals, plants and humans; infringement, ownership and licensing. Students will also be acquainted with genetic copyright, trade secrets protection and basic ethical and regulatory aspects including gene technology and ES cell research. Apart from Singapore law, a comparative analysis of the legal position in Europe and USA, as well as the major international conventions will be made. Students will also be introduced to the fundamentals of biology and genetics. (Class presentation is subject to change depending on student subscription)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5008AV", "title": "Carriage of Goods By Sea", "description": "This course will focus on the different transport documents which are used in contracts for the carriage of goods by sea. This will include bills of lading, sea waybills, delivery orders. The course will examine the rights and liabilities of\nthe parties to such contracts, including the shipowner, the charterer, the cargo owner, the lawful holder of the bill of lading etc. Major international conventions on carriage of goods, such as the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, the Hamburg Rules, and the Rotterdam Rules will also be examined. This course is of fundamental importance to those individuals contemplating a career in shipping law and underlines Singapore\u2019s role as a major global port and maritime hub."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5008BV", "title": "Charterparties", "description": "This course will focus on charterparties, which are contracts between the shipowner and the charterer for the hire of the vessel, either for a specific voyage (voyage charterparties) or over a period of time (time charterparties). There are in addition, other variants of these basic types, which will also be referred to. This\ncourse will examine the standard forms for each of the charterparties being studied and examine the main terms and legal relationship between shipowners and charterers. This dynamic and important aspect of the law of carriage of goods by sea is frequently the subject of arbitral proceedings and court decisions. This course will be of importance to individuals contemplating a carrier in shipping law and underlines Singapore\u2019s role as a major global port and maritime hub."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5009", "title": "Modern Chinese Law & Legal Chinese", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the latest legal developments and areas of significance in modern China. Topics covered include Chinese legal system, legal institutions, civil law, corporate law, finance law and dispute resolution. Through this module, students will benefit from learning substantive aspects of modern Chinese law and will be conversant with Mandarin in the legal context. This course is conducted primarily in Chinese (Mandarin) and is intended for students who possess a basic level of Chinese (Mandarin)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5009V", "title": "Modern Chinese Law & Legal Chinese", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the latest legal developments and areas of significance in modern China. Topics covered include Chinese legal system, legal institutions, civil law, corporate law, finance law and dispute resolution. Through this module, students will benefit from learning substantive aspects of modern Chinese law and will be conversant with Mandarin in the legal context. This course is conducted primarily in Chinese (Mandarin) and is intended for students who possess a basic level of Chinese (Mandarin)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5010", "title": "Civil Law Tradition", "description": "The course introduces students to the civil law tradition, principally the French\ncivil law tradition (with occasional references to the German civil law tradition). The French civil law tradition has had a significant influence in a number of ASEAN countries (including Indonesia) and whenever possible the course will refer to provisions of the different ASEAN civil codes and laws. The course will give an overview of the tradition and will touch on a number of topics including private law topics. The approach will be systematic in the sense that the course will try to immerse the students in the civil law system as a whole and help them understand how the system works and is organized. The goal is to teach the students how to think like civilian lawyers, or at least to teach them how civil law jurist approach the law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5010AV", "title": "Topics in the Civil Law Tradition (A): EU Harmonisation", "description": "This module examines advanced topics in the civil law tradition using a\ncomparative approach, examining in particular the similiarities and differences between the civil law and the common law (and possibly other traditions) in approaching specific legal problems. The precise topics covered and examples used will vary depending on the instructor teaching the module in a given year, but the topics typically discussed would include the methodological differences between civil and common law (use of legislation and codes, use of case law / jurisprudence, use of doctrine), the differences in policies and values, as well whether we should seek convergence and unification or respect for the mentalit\u00e9 and culture of each legal tradition through harmonization."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5011", "title": "Reform of Civil Procedure", "description": "The reform of civil procedure is topical, having regard to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Commission appointed by the Chief Justice and the new Rules of Court 2021. This course takes the student through some key processes in civil procedure. The approach is more conceptual than a traditional rules-based civil procedure course. We will examine the rules, extract the relevant principles and concepts, and explore their strengths and reach. We will reflect on the goals of civil procedure and values of the system, and adopting a reform perspective, ask whether we can design the ideal or better civil litigation system."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5011V", "title": "Reform of Civil Procedure", "description": "The reform of civil procedure is topical, having regard to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Commission appointed by the Chief Justice and the new Rules of Court 2021. This course takes the student through some key processes in civil procedure. The approach is more conceptual than a traditional rules-based civil procedure course. We will examine the rules, extract the relevant principles and concepts, and explore their strengths and reach. We will reflect on the goals of civil procedure and values of the system, and adopting a reform perspective, ask whether we can design the ideal or better civil litigation system."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5012V", "title": "Comparative Constitutional Law", "description": "This discussion-based seminar will focus on issues of comparative constitutional adjudication in common law systems, with particular emphasis on the experiences of India, Singapore and South Africa. The course will therefore focus primarily on the institutional mechanisms of judicial review and the challenges for constitutionalism that are posed within this particular institutional setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5013V", "title": "Comparative Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is emerging as a distinct field of law in every nation and region. Legislatures establish environmental laws based upon the need to address perceived environmental problems in their territory or in a region of shared resources such as a river basin or coastal marine regions or the habitats for migratory species. In some instances, national legislation is stimulated by the negotiation and adherence to multilateral environmental agreements."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5014V", "title": "Construction Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the legal principles that form the foundation of construction law and to the common practical problems that arise in this field. Topics will include: (a) general principles of construction law, including completion, defects, retention and certification; (b) basic provisions of construction contracts; (c) claims procedure & dispute resolution, including arbitration procedure; and (d) relevant provisions of standard form building contracts. This course will be of interest to students interested in construction practice or a practical approach to the study of law. This course is taught by partners from the Construction Practice Group of Wong Partnership."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5016A", "title": "Topics in Int\u2019l Criminal Law (A): Aggression", "description": "When the judges at the Nuremberg Tribunal handed down\ntheir decision against the German leaders in October\n1946, they declared \u2018crimes against peace\u2019 \u2013 the initiation\nof aggressive wars \u2013 to be \u2018the supreme international\ncrime\u2019. At the time, the charge was heralded as a legal\nmilestone, but subsequent events revealed it to be a postwar\nanomaly. This module traces the ebb and flow of the\nidea of criminalising aggression \u2013 from its origins after the\nFirst World War, through its high-water mark at the postwar\ntribunals and its abandonment during the Cold War, to\nits recent revival at the International Criminal Court."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5018V", "title": "Corporate Tax: Profits & Distributions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5019V", "title": "Credit & Security", "description": "This course examines the granting of credit and the taking of security by bank as well as aspects of bank supervision. The course starts with the Part on Bank Supervision and then turns to the discussion of unsecured lending and the Moneylenders' Act. It then focuses on secured credit. The discussion of the general regulation of the giving of security is followed by an examination of specific security devices, such as pledges, trust receipts, Romalpa clauses, factoring, stocks and shares as security, and guarantees and indemnities. The emphasis throughout is on the commercial effectiveness of the system."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5021V", "title": "Environmental Law", "description": "This course is aimed at giving students an overview of environmental law and its development, including the legal and administrative structures for their implementation, from the international, regional and national perspectives. It will focus on hard laws (legal instruments, statutory laws, international and regional conventions) and soft laws (Declarations, Charters etc.). In particular, it will examine the basic elements of pollution laws relating to air, water, waste, hazardous substances and noise; as well as nature conservation laws and laws governing environmental impact assessments. Singapore's laws and the laws of selected ASEAN countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5022V", "title": "Globalization And International Law", "description": "Apart from the instruments of the World Trade Organization, there are other institutions and techniques which regulate international trade. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund regulate certain aspects of trade. There are multilateral instruments which deal with issues such as corruption, ethical business standards, investment protection, competition and the regulation of financial services. The jurisdictional reach of large powers over international markets also provides means of self-interested regulation. The international regulation of new technologies such as internet and biotechnology pose novel problems. This course addresses the issues that arise in this area in the theoretical and political contect of globalization."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5024V", "title": "Indonesian Law", "description": "This course will initiate the student to the basics of Indonesian law (adat law, Islamic law, legal pluralism, constitutional law, administrative law, civil law, judicial process) as well as to others aspects that are of concern to foreigners (foreign investment laws and protections, regional autonomy, mining laws etc.). It will also address some of the problems relating to law enforcement in Indonesia"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5025", "title": "Rights", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of rights.\nIt begins with exposition of Wesley Hohfeld\u2019s analysis of the different legal positions often designated as \u201crights\u201d; then uses Hohfeld\u2019s framework to understand the debate between interest and will theorists of rights. It moves on to explicit consideration of moral rights. Finally, applications are considered \u2013 including human rights, and Asian perspectives on \u201crights\u201d discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5025V", "title": "Rights", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of rights.\nIt begins with exposition of Wesley Hohfeld\u2019s analysis of the different legal positions often designated as \u201crights\u201d; then uses Hohfeld\u2019s framework to understand the debate between interest and will theorists of rights. It moves on to explicit consideration of moral rights. Finally, applications are considered \u2013 including human rights, and Asian perspectives on \u201crights\u201d discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5026V", "title": "Infocoms Law: Competition & Convergence", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5027", "title": "International & Comparative Law Of Sale", "description": "This course will focus in detail on the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, governing international commercial sales in the US and abroad. The objective of this course is to give participants an overview of the (different) ways in which this Convention has been applied by judges and arbitrators throughout the world, thus giving participants the tools to draft international import/export agreements favourable to their future clients. Participants will be given hypothetical cases and will be asked to critically examine the different substantive solutions proposed by courts and arbitrators. As the convention does not deal with all the problems that may arise out of international commercial sales, the course will also deal with the issue of how to fill the gaps left by this Convention."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5029BV", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5029V", "title": "International Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the basic understanding of the law of arbitration to enable them to advise and represent parties in the arbitral process confidence. Legal concepts peculiar to arbitration viz. separability, arbitrability and kompetenze-kompetenze will considered together with the procedural laws on the conduct of the arbitral process, the making of and the enforcement of awards. Students will examine the UNCITRAL Model Law and the New York Convention, 1958. This course is most suited for students with some knowledge of the law of commercial transactions, shipping, banking, international sale of goods or construction."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5030V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation", "description": "Globalisation has made it more important for lawyers to be knowledgeable about the international aspects of litigation. This course focuses on the jurisdictional techniques most relevant to international commercial litigation: in personam jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, interim protective measures, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, public policy, and an outline of choice of law issues for commercial contracts. The course, taught from the perspective of Singapore law, based largely on the common law, is designed to give an insight into the world of international litigation. These skills are relevant to not only litigation lawyers, but also lawyers planning international transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5031V", "title": "International Environmental Law & Policy", "description": "International law traditionally concerns itself with the relations between states, yet environmental problems transcend borders. International environmental law demonstrates how international norms can affect national sovereignty on matters of common concern. The course surveys international treaties concerning the atmosphere and the conservation of nature, and connections to trade and economic development. Institutions and principles to promote compliance and cooperation are also examined. The course will assist students in their understanding of international law-making. It would be of use to those interested in careers involving international law, both for the government and public sector and those in international trade and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5032", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5032V", "title": "International Investment Law", "description": "This course focuses on the nature of risks to foreign investment and the elimination of those risks through legal means. As a prelude, it discusses the different economic theories on foreign investment, the formation of foreign investment contracts and the methods of eliminating potential risks through contractual provisions. It then examines the different types of interferences with foreign investment and looks at the nature of the treaty protection available against such interference. It concludes by examining the different methods of dispute settlement available in the area. The techniques of arbitration of investment disputes available are fully explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5033V", "title": "International Legal Process", "description": "This course takes a problem-oriented approach to public international law. Its primary objective is to provide students with an understanding of the basic principles of public international law and a framework for analysing international legal disputes. The focus will be a past problem from the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. This will be used to illustrate the basic principles of public international law applicable in an international dispute. Its second objective is to teach students how to research points of international law and to construct persuasive arguments based on legal precedent, general principles, policy and facts."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5034", "title": "International Regulation of Shipping", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5034V", "title": "International Regulation of Shipping", "description": "This course will examine the global regime governing the international regulation of commercial shipping. It will examine the relationship between the legal framework established in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the work of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the UN specialized agency responsible for the safety and security of international shipping and the prevention of pollution from ships. The course will focus on selected global conventions administered by the IMO, including those governing safety of life at sea (SOLAS), the prevention of pollution from ships (MARPOL) and the training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers (STCW). It will also examine the liability and compensation schemes that have been developed for pollution damage caused by the carriage of oil and noxious substances by ships, as well as the conventions designed to ensure that States undertake contingency planning in order to combat spills of oil and other noxious and hazardous substances in their waters. In addition, the course will examine the schemes that have been developed to enhance the security of ships and ports in light of the threat of maritime terrorism. It will also examine the role of the IMO in the prevention of pollution of the marine environment from dumping waste at sea and from seabed activities subject to national jurisdiction. One of the themes of the course will be to consider how the IMO is responding to increased concern about the protection and preservation of the marine environment, including threats such as invasive species and climate change. Another theme will be to consider how the responsibility to enforce IMO Conventions is divided between flag States, coastal States, port States and the IMO. This course will be useful to persons who intend to practice shipping law or work in the private or public maritime sector."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5035", "title": "Taxation Issues in Cross-Border Transactions", "description": "This is an introduction to the major income tax issues faced by businesses operating in a global economy. These issues include causes of multiple taxation, strategies to avoid multiple taxation, the effectiveness of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) and the abuse of DTAs. The module will be taught using typical transactions of capital and income flows as the focus and method of instruction. It will identify the main tax risks from undertaking cross-border transactions. As part of the management and mitigation of tax costs to a MNC, tax planning opportunities in the form of tax arbitrage, tax havens, choice of investment vehicle, corporate funding, inbound and outbound investments as well as the repatriation of income and capital will be discussed. The course will also identify the global tax trends arising from increased mobility of capital, technological advancements as well as demographics. In particular, the module will address some of the major issues and challenges that are being addressed in the most ambitious international tax reform under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting 2015 (BEPS) initiative ever attempted. As this course seeks to illustrate some of the general strategies in international tax planning, no prior knowledge of country-specific tax rules is required. Instead, the latest OECD Model Tax Convention 2017 will used as a primary source of laws for the purpose of this module."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5035V", "title": "Taxation Issues in Cross-Border Transaction", "description": "This is an introduction to the major income tax issues faced by businesses operating in a global economy. These issues include causes of multiple taxation, strategies to avoid multiple taxation, the effectiveness of Double Taxation Agreements (DTAs) and the abuse of DTAs. The module will be taught using typical transactions of capital and income flows as the focus and method of instruction. It will identify the main tax risks from undertaking cross-border transactions. As part of the management and mitigation of tax costs to a MNC, tax planning opportunities in the form of tax arbitrage, tax havens, choice of investment vehicle, corporate funding, inbound and outbound investments as well as the repatriation of income and capital will be discussed. The course will also identify the global tax trends arising from increased mobility of capital, technological advancements as well as demographics. In particular, the module will address some of the major issues and challenges that are being addressed in the most ambitious international tax reform under the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting 2015 (BEPS) initiative ever attempted. As this course seeks to illustrate some of the general strategies in international tax planning, no prior knowledge of country-specific tax rules is required. Instead, the latest OECD Model Tax Convention 2017 will used as a primary source of laws for the purpose of this module."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5037V", "title": "Sociology of Law", "description": "The sociology of law studies law as a social institution. We will explore the relationships among law, social actors and other social institutions. This is in contrast to the legal academy's formalist approaches that treat law as autonomous and impartial, and jurisprudential concerns about law's morality. We will consider both theoretical and empirical, and classic and contemporary works in sociology of law. Issues covered include: law and classic social theory; law and contemporary social theory; law and power; the social construction of disputes and dispute resolution; law and organizations; legal mobilization; law, collective action, and social change; legal consciousness; and, sociological perspectives on the legal profession."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5042V", "title": "Law and Religion", "description": "This course will consider the interaction of law and religion in three aspects: firstly, through a consideration of theoretical materials that discuss and debate religion\u2019s (possible) roles in public discourse and in the shaping of law, especially in multi-religious and multi-cultural environments; second, through an examination of a range of religio-legal traditions (e.g., Islamic law, Hindu Law etc); and, third, a consideration of specific instances \u2013 in cases, legislation and public issues etc -- where law and religion meet."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5043", "title": "Law of Marine Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5043V", "title": "Law Of Marine Insurance", "description": "This course aims to give students a firm foundation of existing law; a working understanding of standard form policies; and an understanding of the interaction between the Marine Insurance Act, case law and the Institute Clauses. Topics will include: types of marine insurance policies; insurable interest; principle of utmost good faith; marine insurance policies; warranties; causation; insured and excluded perils; proof of loss; types of losses; salvage, general average and particular charges; measure of indemnity and abandonment; mitigation of losses. This course will appeal to students who wish to specialise in either insurance law or maritime law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5044V", "title": "Mediation", "description": "This course is a skills-based workshop and is designed to assist participants in learning about and attaining a basic level of competency as a mediator and mediation advocate. Topics covered include: Interest-based mediation vs Positions-based mediation; The Mediation Process; Opening Statements; Co-Mediation; Preparing a client for mediation; and Mediation advocacy. This workshop is targeted at self-motivated Year 3 & 4 students interested in learning and developing interpersonal and conflict resolution skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5045V", "title": "Negotiation", "description": "This course is a skills-based workshop and is designed to assist participants in learning about and attaining a basic level of competency as a negotiator. This is particularly important as lawyers commonly engage in negotiation as part of their practice. Topics covered include: Interest-based negotiation vs Position-based negotiation; Preparing for a negotiation; Creating and Claiming Value; and Overcoming Impasse. This workshop is targeted at self-motivated students interested in learning and developing interpersonal and negotiation skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5049V", "title": "Principles Of Conflict Of Laws", "description": "The subject of conflict of laws addresses three questions: Which country should hear the case? What law should be applied? What is the effect of its adjudication in another country? This course includes an outline of jurisdiction and judgments techniques, but will focus on problems in choice of law, and issues in the exclusion of foreign law. Coverage includes problems in contract and torts, and other areas may be selected from time to time. This course is complementary to International Commercial Litigation, but it stands on its own as an introduction to theories and methodologies in the conflict of laws."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5050V", "title": "Public International Law", "description": "This foundational course introduces the student to the nature, major principles, processes and institutions of the international legal system, the relationship between international and domestic law and the role of law in promoting world public order. Students will acquire an understanding of the conceptual issues underlying this discipline and a critical appreciation of how law inter-relates with contemporary world politics, its global, regional and domestic significance. Topics include the creation and status of international law, participation and competence in the international legal system, primary substantive norms such as the law regulating the use of force and enforcement procedures."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5051", "title": "Principles of Restitution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5054", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5054V", "title": "Domestic and International Sale of Goods", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of domestic and international sale of goods under the Singapore law. With regard to domestic sales, the course will focus on the Sale of Goods Act. Topics to\nbe studied will include the essential elements of the contract of sale; the passing of title and risk; the implied conditions of title, description, fitness and quality; delivery and payment, acceptance and termination, and the available remedies. With particular reference to a seller\u2019s delivery obligations, the course will also cover substantial aspects of the international sale of goods under the common law, such as FOB and CIF contracts and documentary sales. This course will be of interest to students intending to enter commercial practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5055", "title": "Securities Regulation", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of securities regulation, trusts, corporate governance and M & A, in Singapore and jurisdictions like US, China, UK, Australia, Taiwan and HK. Topics to be covered: use of alternative business entities and nature of shares; \"going public\" process; corporate governance of listed companies and trusts; insider trading and securities frauds; globalisation and technology; and the regulation of takeover activity. It also offers an introduction to the law of trusts, including custody arrangements and securitisation. Students are expected to search Internet for comparative materials but will also be provided with assigned readings."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5056AV", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": "This foundation course seeks to acquaint participants with a basic working knowledge of income tax and goods and services tax issues faced by companies and individuals. It will illustrate the extent to which tax avoidance is acceptable under the rules for deductions, capital allowances and losses. In addition, the taxation of income from employment income, trade and investments will be highlighted. Tax planning opportunities arising from the differences in tax treatment of sole proprietors, partnerships and companies will be highlighted. On policy issues, concepts including economics of taxation, international trends and tax reform will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5056BV", "title": "Tax Planning And Policy", "description": "This foundation course seeks to acquaint participants with a basic working knowledge of income tax and goods and services tax issues faced by companies and individuals. It will illustrate the extent to which tax avoidance is acceptable under the rules for deductions, capital allowances and losses. In addition, the taxation of income from employment income, trade and investments will be highlighted. Tax planning opportunities arising from the differences in tax treatment of sole proprietors, partnerships and companies will be highlighted. On policy issues, concepts including economics of taxation, international trends and tax reform will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5057V", "title": "Theoretical Foundations Of Criminal Law", "description": "The aim of this course is to examine and critique the philosophical assumptions that underlie the substantive criminal law. We begin with a survey of the various philosophical theories that purport to explain and justify the imposition of criminal liability. Once familiar with the fundamental concepts and issues, we then consider the relationship between moral responsibility and criminal liability by analyzing the theoretical assumptions behind the substantive principles and doctrine of criminal law. This is a seminar-style course aimed at students who already have grounding in criminal law, philosophy of law, or moral theory. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5059V", "title": "United Nations Law & Practice", "description": "By examining primary materials focused on the normative context within which the United Nations functions, students will develop an understanding of the interaction between law and practice. This is essential to a proper understanding of the UN Organization, but also to the possibilities and limitations of multilateral institutions more generally. The course is organized in four parts. Part I, \"Relevance\", raises some preliminary questions about the legitimacy and effectiveness of the United Nations, particularly in the area of peace and security. Part II, \"Capacity\", brings together materials on the nature and status of the United Nations. Part III, \"Practice\", examines how the United Nations has exercised its various powers. Part IV, \"Accountability\", concludes with materials on responsibility and accountability of the United Nations and its agents. A background in public international law is strongly recommended."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5060", "title": "World Trade Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5060B", "title": "World Trade Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5061", "title": "Inquiry", "description": "In this module, students will be encouraged to reflect upon what is really involved in pursuing a life of intellectual work. To this end, students will undertake a philosophical exploration of research and scholarship as it is routinely conducted across the experimental and social sciences, the humanities, literature and philosophy. Drawing upon insights achieved by historians, scientists, legal thinkers, sociologists, philosophers and literary writers into their respective crafts, students will explore not only the practical techniques recommended by these practitioners, but more significantly, the habits and virtues that have been found to be most conducive to successful practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5061V", "title": "Inquiry", "description": "In this module, students will be encouraged to reflect upon what is really involved in pursuing a life of intellectual work. To this end, students will undertake a philosophical exploration of research and scholarship as it is routinely conducted across the experimental and social sciences, the humanities, literature and philosophy. Drawing upon insights achieved by historians, scientists, legal thinkers, sociologists, philosophers and literary writers into their respective crafts, students will explore not only the practical techniques recommended by these practitioners, but more significantly, the habits and virtues that have been found to be most conducive to successful practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5062", "title": "Legal Reasoning & Legal Theory", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of legal reasoning, and its relationship with broader questions in legal theory. The course will examine, inter alia, the nature of rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, legal realism, statutory interpretation, judicial opinions, rules and standards, law and fact, and the burden of proof. The overarching questions to be addressed in this course include: In what way(s), if at all, is legal reasoning a distinctive form of reasoning? What is the relationship between legal reasoning and legal theory?"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5062V", "title": "Legal Reasoning & Legal Theory", "description": "An advanced course in analytic jurisprudence, investigating the nature of legal reasoning, and its relationship with broader questions in legal theory. The course will examine, inter alia, the nature of rules, precedent, authority, analogical reasoning, the common law, legal realism, statutory interpretation, judicial opinions, rules and standards, law and fact, and the burden of proof. The overarching questions to be addressed in this course include: In what way(s), if at all, is legal reasoning a distinctive form of reasoning? What is the relationship between legal reasoning and legal theory?"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5063V", "title": "Business & Finance For Lawyers", "description": "To provide law students who intend to read commercial law electives with a foundation in accounting, finance and other related business concepts. It covers topics such as interpretation and analysis of standard financial statements, the types of players and instruments in the financial markets and the basic framework of a business investment market.The course will employ a hypothetical simulation where lawyers advise on several proposals involving the acquisition and disposal of assets by a client. The issues covered in the hypothetical will include asset valuation models, financing options and techniques, and compliance with accounting and regulatory frameworks."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5064", "title": "Competition Law and Policy", "description": "This module will examine the competition law and policy framework in Singapore and will introduce students to the three pillars of the legal and regulatory framework:\n(i) the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements, \n(ii) the prohibition against abuses of market dominance, and \n(iii) the regulation of mergers and concentrations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5064V", "title": "Competition Law and Policy", "description": "This module will examine the competition law and policy framework in Singapore and will introduce students to the three pillars of the legal and regulatory framework:\n(i) the prohibition against anti-competitive agreements, \n(ii) the prohibition against abuses of market dominance, and \n(iii) the regulation of mergers and concentrations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5065", "title": "Comparative Corporate Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5067", "title": "Comparative Criminal Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5069", "title": "European Union Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5069V", "title": "European Union Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5070", "title": "Foundations of IP Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5070V", "title": "Foundations Of Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This course seeks to introduce students to the general principles of intellectual property law in Singapore, as well as, major international IP conventions. It is aimed at students who have no knowledge of IP law but are interested in learning more about this challenging area of law. It will also be useful for students intending to pursue the advanced courses in IP/IT by providing them with the necessary foundation on IP law. Students will be assessed based on open book examination, 1 written assignment and 1 class presentation. (Class presentation is subject to change depending on student subscription)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5071", "title": "International Patent Law, Policy and Practice", "description": "The advent of new technologies in this scientific and technological age has led to a dramatic shift in business strategies and global economic development. IP rights (particularly patents) form an \"inexhaustible resource\" from which the fruits of research and innovation can be valued, commercially dealt with and shared. This course will analyse the international, regional and national patent laws, policies and practices including important aspects on successful technology licensing and knowledge transfer, as well as valuation and strategies for monetization of IP (patent) assets."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5071V", "title": "International Patent Law, Policy and Practice", "description": "The advent of new technologies in this scientific and technological age has led to a dramatic shift in business strategies and global economic development. IP rights (particularly patents) form an \"inexhaustible resource\" from which the fruits of research and innovation can be valued, commercially dealt with and shared. This course will analyse the international, regional and national patent laws, policies and practices including important aspects on successful technology licensing and knowledge transfer, as well as valuation and strategies for monetization of IP (patent) assets."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5072B", "title": "Topics in IP Law (B): IP Valuation: Law & Practice", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5073", "title": "International Criminal Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5073V", "title": "International Criminal Law", "description": "This course will introduce to students the substantive and procedural framework of international criminal law. We will study international criminal law's historical origins, evolution, and how it is implemented today through a variety of different institutional frameworks. Among others, we will study post-WWII tribunals, the ad hoc international tribunals of Yugoslavia and Rwanda, hybrid tribunals, military tribunals and the permanent International Criminal Court. We will also examine non-criminal law responses to international crimes such as truth and reconciliation commissions. Students will critically explore and question the pros and cons of international criminal justice in terms of its professed goals and objectives."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5074", "title": "Mergers & Acquisitions", "description": "The course will begin with an evaluation of the business rationale for M&As and a discussion of the various types of transactions and related terminology. The regulatory issues surrounding these transactions will be analysed through examination of the applicable laws and regulations. The course adopts an nternational comparative perspective, with greater focus on the U.S., U.K. and Singapore. While corporate and securities law issues form the thrust, incidental reference will be made to accounting, tax and competition law considerations. inally, the transactional perspective will consider various\nstructuring matters, planning aspects, transaction costs\nand impact on various stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5074V", "title": "Mergers & Acquisitions", "description": "The course will begin with an evaluation of the business rationale for M&As and a discussion of the various types of transactions and related terminology. The regulatory issues surrounding these transactions will be analysed through examination of the applicable laws and regulations. The course adopts an nternational comparative perspective, with greater focus on the U.S., U.K. and Singapore. While corporate and securities law issues form the thrust, incidental reference will be made to accounting, tax and competition law considerations. inally, the transactional perspective will consider various\nstructuring matters, planning aspects, transaction costs\nand impact on various stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5075", "title": "IP and Competition Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5075V", "title": "IP and Competition Law", "description": "This course teaches the overlap between intellectual property and competition law. Students will be challenged to explore the intrinsic tensions that lie between the\nstatutory regimes that regulate market dominance, restrictive agreements and the monopolistic prerogatives and assertions by holders of intellectual property rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5076", "title": "It Law I", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5076V", "title": "IT Law I", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. Issues to be examined include the conduct of electronic commerce, cybercrimes, electronic evidence, privacy and data protection. (This course will not cover the intellectual property issues, which are addressed instead in \"IT Law IP Issues\".) Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology and policy will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5077V", "title": "IT Law II", "description": "This course will examine the legal and policy issues relating to information technology and the use of the Internet. The focus of this course will be on the intellectual property issues such as copyright in software and electronic materials, software patents, electronic databases, trade marks, domain names and rights management information. Students who are interested in the interface between law, technology, policy and economic rights will learn to examine the sociological, political, commercial and technical background behind these rules, evaluate the legal rules and policy ramifications of these rules, and formulate new rules and policies to address these problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5078", "title": "Law & Practice of Investment Treaty Arbitration", "description": "This course is about a form of arbitration which is specific to disputes arising between international investors and host states \u2013 i.e. investor-state disputes \u2013 involving public, treaty rights. In contrast, international commercial arbitration typically deals with the resolution of disputes over private law rights between what are usually private parties.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in arbitration, and/or the law of foreign investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5079", "title": "State and Company in Legal-Historical Perspective", "description": "This module examines the relationship between the public and private power through the historical lens of the East India Company (established in 1600), one of the first multinational corporations. In particular, it examines: the\nformation and evolution of the Company and the legal implications of its ambiguous status as a private or public entity; its transformation into a sovereign power in India against the backdrop of the rise of the modern state and modern constitutionalism in Europe and the United States of America; and the Company\u2019s role in the founding of modern Singapore; and the Company\u2019s demise in 1858."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5081", "title": "Comparative Advocacy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5082", "title": "Law & Social Movements", "description": "This course provides a broad understanding of the relationship between law and social movements. Why do people mobilize collectively? We begin with this question, and then consider the different approaches of conceptualizing social movements. Next, we delve into questions intersecting social movements and sociology of law: the use of law as social control and repression, the role of lawyers in social movements, legal strategies involved in collective claim\u2010making, and the relationship between law and social change. After that, we examine a selection of case studies such as those concerning prodemocracy\nmovements, sexual rights movements, rightwing and counter movements, and transnational movements."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5085", "title": "International Trusts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5088", "title": "Chinese Contract Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5088V", "title": "Chinese Contract Law", "description": "This course will provide students with a comparative perspective on selected issues in contract law. It will compare the main principles of contract at common law and that in Chinese law. It will also examine the Chinese\ncontract law perspectives on scope of application, judicial interpretation, formation, performance, modification and assignment of contracts as well as liability for breach of contract.\n\nAt the end of the course, students will be able to understand the Chinese contract law framework and appreciate the differences at common law and that in Chinese law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5089V", "title": "Chinese Corporate & Securities Law", "description": "This module introduces students to the laws and the relevant legislation governing the main forms of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China such as equity joint ventures, contractual joint ventures, wholly foreign-owned enterprises and limited liability companies.The aim is to provide students with a critical understanding of the FDI regime in China as well as an understanding of the relationship between the FDI governing laws and other general laws so as to provide updated and accurate information and enable proper legal advice to be given in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5093", "title": "Chinese Intellectual Property Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094", "title": "The Pro Bono Family Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "Legal aid aims to ensure that all member of society have access to justice, regardless of their financial means.\n\nThis clinic provides students with a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students will assist an experienced legal practitioner with a Legal Aid Bureau case. Cases will relate to family law matters, and may cover issues relating to divorce, child maintenance, estate division and mental capacity. \n\nUnder guided mentorship, students will experience a meaningful learning journey that will allow them to gain professional practice skills, substantive knowledge in the area of family law, and refine their research, analysis, and drafting skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094A", "title": "The Corporate Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic provides students with the opportunity to handle a corporate matter, for a partner organisation, under guided mentorship. Partner organisations presently include the National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, The Arts House, Alzheimer's Disease Association, Singapore Hospice Council, Singapore Children\u2019s Society and Ernst & Young (Legal Corporate Social Responsibility Group).\n\nStudents will experience a meaningful learning journey, will gain valuable corporate practice skills, and increase their substantive knowledge in the areas of law that are relevant to the matters they are handling. Matters could cover areas such as personal data protection, contract formation and intellectual property issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094AV", "title": "The Corporate Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic provides students with the opportunity to handle a corporate matter, for a partner organisation, under guided mentorship. Partner organisations presently include the National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, The Arts House, Alzheimer's Disease Association, Singapore Hospice Council, Singapore Children\u2019s Society and Ernst & Young (Legal Corporate Social Responsibility Group).\n\nStudents will experience a meaningful learning journey, will gain valuable corporate practice skills, and increase their substantive knowledge in the areas of law that are relevant to the matters they are handling. Matters could cover areas such as personal data protection, contract formation and intellectual property issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094B", "title": "NUS-State Courts Judicial Clerkship Programme", "description": "The State Courts Clerkship Programme is a judicial clinical legal education programme designed to provide top law students with the opportunity to be attached to senior District Court Judges and acquire experiential knowledge of law practice through direct exposure to judicial work. It is a unique course which allows law students to acquire a different perspective of legal work through personalised interaction with senior Judges, working on actual cases from a judicial perspective and experiencing legal practice in a real-life court setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094BV", "title": "NUS-State Courts Judicial Clerkship Programme", "description": "The State Courts Clerkship Programme is a judicial clinical legal education programme designed to provide top law students with the opportunity to be attached to senior District Court Judges and acquire experiential knowledge of law practice through direct exposure to judicial work. It is a unique course which allows law students to acquire a different perspective of legal work through personalised interaction with senior Judges, working on actual cases from a judicial perspective and experiencing legal practice in a real-life court setting."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094C", "title": "The Access to Justice Low Bono Litigation Clinic", "description": "Access to justice is a fundamental tenet of the rule of law. Many individuals of low means do not qualify for legal aid. Low bono seeks to fill this lacuna. This legal clinic provides students with the experiential learning opportunity of assisting lawyers with pro bono or low bono cases originating from the Family Justice Support Scheme (FJSS) or the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) and other sources. These matters will predominantly relate to matrimonial matters involving foreign spouses and cross-border matrimonial issues, deputyship and estate matters, and Syariah divorce matters."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094CV", "title": "The Access to Justice Low Bono Litigation Clinic", "description": "Access to justice is a fundamental tenet of the rule of law. Many individuals of low means do not qualify for legal aid. Low bono seeks to fill this lacuna. This legal clinic provides students with the experiential learning opportunity of assisting lawyers with pro bono or low bono cases originating from the Family Justice Support Scheme (FJSS) or the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB) and other sources. These matters will predominantly relate to matrimonial matters involving foreign spouses and cross-border matrimonial issues, deputyship and estate matters, and Syariah divorce matters."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094D", "title": "The Pro Bono Criminal Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the opportunity of being heavily involved in assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a Criminal Legal Aid Scheme (CLAS) case. \n\nUnder close mentorship students will embark upon a hands-on learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and deepen their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students could be dealing with cases involving offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act (Cap. 50A) or the Moneylenders Act (Cap. 188). Students will be involved in tasks such as attending client interviews, drafting pleadings and possibly attending court hearings."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094DV", "title": "The Pro Bono Criminal Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the opportunity of being heavily involved in assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a Criminal Legal Aid Scheme (CLAS) case. \n\nUnder close mentorship students will embark upon a hands-on learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and deepen their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students could be dealing with cases involving offences under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act (Cap. 50A) or the Moneylenders Act (Cap. 188). Students will be involved in tasks such as attending client interviews, drafting pleadings and possibly attending court hearings."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094E", "title": "The Capital Offences Criminal Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the eye-opening experience of assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a case under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO). \n\nUnder guided mentorship clinical students will experience a learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and increase their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students may be involved in tasks such as attending client meetings, drafting pleadings and attending court hearings.\n\nStudents will be able to help accused individuals when they need it most. The experience may cause students to question their own views on justice, and life!"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094EV", "title": "The Capital Offences Criminal Litigation Clinic", "description": "This clinic will provide students with the eye-opening experience of assisting a seasoned practitioner with the handling of a case under the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences (LASCO). \n\nUnder guided mentorship clinical students will experience a learning journey that will allow them to gain valuable professional practice skills, and increase their substantive criminal law knowledge. Students may be involved in tasks such as attending client meetings, drafting pleadings and attending court hearings.\n\nStudents will be able to help accused individuals when they need it most. The experience may cause students to question their own views on justice, and life!"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094F", "title": "The Evolving Legal Landscapes Clinic", "description": "Clinical students will predominantly be required to develop a keen understanding of how the respective partner organisations (such as charities and social enterprises) run and assist partner organisations investigate the evolving legal and regulatory landscapes in which they operate, and where applicable, to consider best practices in other jurisdictions. Aside from this research element, clinical students will support the partner organisations on matters of a non-contentious / advisory nature (this could for example include any combination of drafting work, workshops and presentations and corporate secretarial work)"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094FV", "title": "The Evolving Legal Landscapes Clinic", "description": "Clinical students will predominantly be required to develop a keen understanding of how the respective partner organisations (such as charities and social enterprises) run and assist partner organisations investigate the evolving legal and regulatory landscapes in which they operate, and where applicable, to consider best practices in other jurisdictions. Aside from this research element, clinical students will support the partner organisations on matters of a non-contentious / advisory nature (this could for example include any combination of drafting work, workshops and presentations and corporate secretarial work)"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094G", "title": "The NUS CPBCLE Start Up Clinic", "description": "This clinic is a collaboration among the NUS Centre for Pro Bono and Clinical Legal Education (CPBCLE), RHTLaw Asia and Rebel Labs. Rebel Labs is an accelerator that aims to provide boot camp, product marketing and fit, and capital raising services to existing founders and early stage entrepreneurs who are looking to scale their vision into a thriving business and rebel against current industry norms. It is interested in start-ups with public-private partnerships on people, planet and profit. RHTLaw Asia provides legal support to Rebel Labs in their start-up endeavours. In this Clinic, partners from RHTLaw Asia will supervise our law students in the legal aspects of start-up entrepreneurship. During this clinic, our students will , assist to research legal issues relating to start-ups and learn to review and draft applicable contracts. inter alia"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094GV", "title": "The NUS CPBCLE Start Up Clinic", "description": "This clinic is a collaboration among the NUS Centre for Pro Bono and Clinical Legal Education (CPBCLE), RHTLaw Asia and Rebel Labs. Rebel Labs is an accelerator that aims to provide boot camp, product marketing and fit, and capital raising services to existing founders and early stage entrepreneurs who are looking to scale their vision into a thriving business and rebel against current industry norms. It is interested in start-ups with public-private partnerships on people, planet and profit. RHTLaw Asia provides legal support to Rebel Labs in their start-up endeavours. In this Clinic, partners from RHTLaw Asia will supervise our law students in the legal aspects of start-up entrepreneurship. During this clinic, our students will , assist to research legal issues relating to start-ups and learn to review and draft applicable contracts. inter alia"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5094V", "title": "The Pro Bono Family Law Litigation Clinic", "description": "Legal aid aims to ensure that all member of society have access to justice, regardless of their financial means.\n\nThis clinic provides students with a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students will assist an experienced legal practitioner with a Legal Aid Bureau case. Cases will relate to family law matters, and may cover issues relating to divorce, child maintenance, estate division and mental capacity. \n\nUnder guided mentorship, students will experience a meaningful learning journey that will allow them to gain professional practice skills, substantive knowledge in the area of family law, and refine their research, analysis, and drafting skills."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5096", "title": "Int''l Trademark Law & Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5096V", "title": "International Trademark Law and Policy", "description": "The emphasis will be on the international and comparative aspects of the subject, including\n\nthe international treaties in this area (Paris Convention; TRIPS; Madrid etc) and regional developments (eg the Community trade mark system in Europe, the harmonization efforts in Asean);\n\ninter-relationship between trade mark law and the law of unfair competition in civil law jurisdictions;\n\ndifferent treatment by countries of topics such as parallel importation; protection of personality interests; dilution; protection of \"trade dress\" or \"get up\"."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5097", "title": "Islamic Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5097V", "title": "Islamic Law", "description": "Course will introduce history and basic concepts of traditional Islamic law, followed by an account of reforms during the 19th and 20th centuries. The reform period will be covered topically, beginning with method and philosophical foundations, and moving to a variety of issues of positive and procedural law. Finally, some themes related to law and modernity will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5099", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5099V", "title": "Maritime Law", "description": "This course will provide an understanding of the legal issues arising from casualties involving ships. It will examine aspects of the law relating to nationality and registration of ships, the law relating to the management of ships, ship sale and purchase, and the law of collisions, salvage, towage, wreck and general average. Students successfully completing the course will be familiar with the international conventions governing these issues, as well as the domestic law of Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5100", "title": "Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in China", "description": "This course takes students to the areas of significance in the field of dispute resolution in China, particularly with respect to the resolution of commercial disputes where arbitration plays a major role in today\u2019s China. Major methods of dispute resolution will be examined, such as arbitration, civil litigation, and mediation (as it combines with arbitration and litigation). Some topical issues pertinent to commercial disputes such as corporate litigation, securities enforcement, recognition and enforcement of foreign civil judgments, civil justice reform, and regional judicial assistance in the Greater China region will be looked into in the course as well."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5102", "title": "Advanced Torts", "description": "Advanced Torts is designed to build on and further your knowledge of tort law.\nThe course is divided into two parts. In Part One, we will examine some fundamental concepts and debates surrounding tort law. The objective is to understand what is distinctive about torts and how torts are important in a civilised system of law. In Part Two, we will examine torts not already covered in the first year course. This will include consideration of important torts such as defamation, conversion, deceit, conspiracy and breach of statutory duty. These torts will be examined by reference to the best of the literature and by a selection of representative cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5102V", "title": "Advanced Torts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5104V", "title": "Jurisprudence", "description": "This is an advanced-level course which provides an opportunity for rigorous study about the nature of law and broader issues in legal and political theory such as the nature of rights, the nature of justice, and questions about (fair) distribution. The course will examine a range of salient topics related to these issues and will be taught entirely through interactive, discussion-intensive seminars, that will rely heavily on active class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5107V", "title": "Partnership and Alternative Business Vehicles", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5109V", "title": "International Law & Asia", "description": "How does Asia relate to the international community and international law? The region's rich diversity of states and socieities challenges assumptions of universality and also affects cooperation between states on issues such as human rights violations, environmental harm and the facilitation of freer trade. Yet a sense of reguinalism within East Asia is growing, with new institutions and mechanisms to deal with these and other contemporary challenges in East Asia. The seminar will discuss key issues of law and legal approaches in Asia, such as sovereignty, as well as provide for presentations bt students on research subjects."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5111V", "title": "International Copyright Law and Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5122V", "title": "The Contemporary Indian Legal System", "description": "While serving as an introductory course to the Indian legal system, this discussion-based Seminar seeks to focus on topical, contemporary legal issues in India. It will focus primarily on the post-Independence legal system in India, and its important institutions of democratic governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5123", "title": "International Insolvency Law", "description": "The general aim of the course is to impart a critical analytical understanding of International Insolvency Law. There will be consideration of the main features of national insolvency regimes highlighting the similarities and differences followed by a detailed consideration of the scope for cooperation in respect of insolvency matters across national frontiers. The UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency and the European Insolvency Regulation will be addressed in detail."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5125V", "title": "Law And Development In China", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5128", "title": "Chinese Maritime Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5129", "title": "Indian Business Law", "description": "The principal objective of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the various legal issues and perspectives involved in carrying out business and corporate transactions in India. \n\nThe course will begin with a brief introduction to India\u2019s legal system, the Constitution and the judiciary so as to set the tone. This part will also contain an evaluation of the changes since 1991 to India\u2019s economic policies that have made it an emerging economic superpower. Thereafter, it will deal with the core through a discussion of the legal aspects involved in setting up business operations in India, the different types of business entities available, shareholders\u2019 rights, joint ventures, raising finance both privately and by accessing public capital markets, and the regimes relating to foreign direct investment, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and corporate bankruptcy. \n\nWhere applicable, the course will provide relevant comparisons with similar laws in other jurisdictions such as the U.S., the U.K. and Singapore. While the course is not intended to involve an exhaustive study of all applicable laws and regulations, it will highlight key legal considerations for business transactions in India and allow for deliberation on topical, contemporary issues with real-world examples."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5129V", "title": "Indian Business Law", "description": "The principal objective of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the various legal issues and perspectives involved in carrying out business and corporate transactions in India."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5131", "title": "Law, Governance & Development in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5131V", "title": "Law, Governance & Development in Asia", "description": "In the wake of Asia's striking economic progress issues of law and governance are now seen as critical for the developing, developed and post-conflict states of Asia. Legal reforms are embracing constitutional, representative government, good governance and accountability, and human rights, based on the rule of law. How and on what principles should Asian states build these new legal orders? Can they sustain economic progress and satisfy the demands for the control of corruption and abuses of powers, and the creation of new forms of accountability? This course examines on a broad comparative canvas the nature, fate and prospects for law and governance in developing democracies in Asia, using case studies drawn especially from SE Asian states. Coverage of the issues will be both theoretical, as we ask questions about the evolving nature of 'law and development'; and practical, as ask questions about the implementation of law and development projects across Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5133V", "title": "Human Rights in Asia", "description": "Firstly, to impart a solid grounding in the history, principles, norms, controversies and institutions of international human rights law. Secondly, to undertake a contextualized socio-legal study of human rights issues within Asian societies, through examining case law, international instruments, policy and state interactions with UN human rights bodies. 'Asia' alone has no regional human rights system; considering the universality and indivisibility of human rights, we consider how regional particularities affect or thwart human rights.
\nSubjects include: justiciability of socio-economic rights, right to development and self-determination, political freedoms, religious liberties, indigenous rights, national institutions, women's rights; MNC accountability for rights violations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5134V", "title": "Crossing Borders: Law, Migration & Citizenship", "description": "Migration is not a new phenomenon but the intensity, frequency and ease with which persons are crossing borders today, both voluntarily and involuntarily, is\nunprecedented.\n\nThis course examines the legal issues impacting a person\u2019s migration path into and in Singapore. We will examine the criteria for admission to Singapore on a temporary or permanent basis, the evolution of immigration and nationality laws, as well as the domestic responses to the growing global problem of human trafficking.\n\nTheoretical perspectives on migration and citizenship are examined with a view to a range of normative questions including: How should constitutional democracies respond to and balance rights claims by citizens, residents, and others within their borders?"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5135", "title": "Patent Law & Practice: Perspectives from the U.S", "description": "This module will introduce patent law and policy in the United States, and how they relate to other systems of law, primarily U.S. trade secret and antitrust law. The course begins with central legal principles and policies, emphasizing the concepts and skills required of a new lawyer with a working knowledge of patent law. By the end of the course, students will understand the requirements for obtaining protection, the doctrinal elements of an infringement action as well as the various types of defences and remedies available. Students will also gain a practice-oriented perspective of \u201creal-world\u201d issues facing inventors and companies as well as how those issues are consistent with, or in tension with, other interests."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5138V", "title": "Int'l&Comp Law of Sale in Asia", "description": "The goal of this course is to prepare students for regional and international trade in Asia by providing basic knowledge of domestic laws of sale in both civil and common law systems in Asia (including Singapore's) as well as international rules affecting the contract of sale. The course will cover: comparative private law of contract and of sale in Asia; international private law of sale; private International Law aspects of international sales. The course is meant for students interested in international trade and comparative law in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5140V", "title": "Law of the Sea: Theory and Practice", "description": "The Law of the Sea governs the conduct of States in the oceans. Given that the oceans covers five-seventh of the world\u2019s surface, it is a critical component of international law. It is also relevant for Singapore due to its extensive maritime interests. This course will examine the theoretical underpinnings and the practical implementation of Law of the Sea with the aim of examining how it addresses the ever-increasing challenges in the regulation of the oceans. The course will draw on a wide range of case studies from around the world, with a particular emphasis on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5146", "title": "Law & Society", "description": "This course is primarily concerned with the age-old dichotomy between law in the law books and law in action. Through the examination of the origin, function and pattern of law in primitive and modern societies from a historical, anthropological and sociological perspective, we will try to understand better, the constraints under which \u2018law\u2019 in modern society operates, and the limits on the use of law as an instrument of social change. \n\nIn the first part of the course, the student will be introduced to basic ideas in classical anthropology and the sociology of law. Questions such as - Are there any \u2018universal\u2019 patterns of human behaviour? To what extent is a society\u2019s perception of law influenced or controlled by environmental and econological factors? How are disputes resolved? Is aggression and warfare inherent in the human condition? - will be dealt with. In the second part of the course, these anthropological methods will be applied to a study of the concept of law in diverse societies from a sociological perspective, and to the actual function of law in \nsociety. Do patterns of human behaviour discernable in primitive societies hold true in more complex \u2018modern\u2019 societies? What are the attributes of a \u2018modern\u2019 legal system? Is the concept of \u2018law\u2019 in the western sense inevitable and universal in all kinds of societies. What happens to the concept of law in plural societies? \n\nTeaching will be by seminars which will include lectures and discussion of assigned readings. No previous knowledge of law anthropology or sociology is required or will be assumed of students."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5148", "title": "Secured Transactions Law", "description": "This course provides a comparative study of the law of secured transactions across the common law world. The first part covers the English law of security and title financing in depth. The second part looks at the notice filing model originally introduced in UCC Article 9 and now enacted as PPSAs in several other jurisdictions. The third part looks at reform of secured transactions law around the world, and, in particular, the Cape Town Convention and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide and Model Law. This course will be of interest to anyone interested in the debt side of corporate finance, as well as those interested in transnational commercial law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5150", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5150V", "title": "International Investment Law and Arbitration", "description": "The settlement of disputes arising from foreign direct investment attracts global interest and attention. Foreign investors often arbitrate their disputes with host States via an arbitration clause contained in a contract. Additionally, investment treaties also empower foreign investors to bring claims in arbitration against host State. The distinct body of law that grew into international investment law, has become one of the most prominent and rapidly evolving branches of international law. The aim of this course is to study the key developments that have taken place in the area. It deals with questions of applicable law, jurisdiction, substantive obligations, as well as award challenge and enforcement, in both investment contract arbitration and investment treaty arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5153", "title": "International Police Enforcement Cooperation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5155", "title": "Topics in Law & Economics", "description": "This seminar will explore several key topics at the intersection of law and economics. It will commence with an exploration of the concept of rationality as employed in\n(positive) micro-economic theory. It will also explore the Coase theorem as a means of understanding the importance of legal rules and institutions. These theoretical tools will then be used as a lens for examining, amongst other topics, tort, contract and insolvency law; company law; financial regulation, and the role of law and legal institutions in economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5158", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5158V", "title": "Climate Change Law", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of international climate change law as well as examines the legal and regulatory responses of selected Asian jurisdictions to climate change. The first part of the course will examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change legal regime.The second part will focus on climate change litigation. In the final part, we examine how selected Asian jurisdictions, including Singapore, have adopted laws and regulatory frameworks for climate change mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5159", "title": "The Economic Analysis of Law", "description": "In this course, we will look at the way economists analyze legal problems and how economics has contributed to our understanding of the legal system. In order to do that, we\u2019ll want to get a firm grounding on what an economist\u2019s lens looks like. We\u2019ll run through the main principles of economic thought. \n\nAfter this introduction to economic thinking, we\u2019ll look at how the principles of economics are applied in specific legal contexts. For these basic applications, we shall take examples from four courses (Property, Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law) to see how an economist might approach these problems.\n\nFollowing on from these basic applications, we\u2019ll look at various extensions to the basic model and special topics."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5161V", "title": "Intelligence Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5162V", "title": "Singapore Corporate Governance", "description": "Since Singapore\u2019s independence in 1965, its economic development has been remarkable. Singapore\u2019s unique system of corporate governance is one of the keys to its economic success. This course will begin by providing a historical and comparative overview of Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance. It will then undertake an indepth and comparative analysis of the core aspects of Singapore corporate governance, highlighting the aspects which make it unique. The course will then examine the latest developments in Singapore corporate governance, with an emphasis on analysing the details, policy rationale, and implications of recent reforms. The course will conclude by considering what the future may hold for Singapore\u2019s system of corporate governance and what other jurisdictions may learn from it."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5164V", "title": "International Projects Law & Practice", "description": "This course is intended to introduce students to the practice and law relating to international projects and infrastructure. The various methods of procurement and the construction process involved will be reviewed in conjunction with standard forms that are used internationally - such as the FIDIC, JCT and NEC forms, among others. Familiar issues such as defects, time and cost overruns and the implications therefrom (and how these matters are dealt with in an international context) will also be covered.\n\nThe course will provide students with an understanding of how international projects are procured, planned and administered as well as give an insight into how legal and commercial risks are identified, priced, managed and mitigated."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5170", "title": "Comparative Conflict of Laws", "description": "This is an advanced course of private international law which offers a comparative perspective on the traditional issues addressed by rules of private international law, i.e. choice of law, international jurisdiction, and the recognition of foreign judgments. The focus will essentially be the United States and on the European Union, but other jurisdictions will also be considered from time to time."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5171V", "title": "ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy & Governance", "description": "This course examines the progressive development of environmental law, policy and governance in ASEAN. It also considers the role of ASEAN in supplementing and facilitating international environmental agreements (MEAs), such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Biological Diversity, UNESCO Man & Biosphere,etc. It will evaluate the extent of implementation of the ASEAN environmental instruments at national level - some case studies will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5172", "title": "Japanese Corporate Law & Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5173V", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law", "description": "This module examines the core legal characteristics of the corporate form in five major jurisdictions: the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany and France. It explains the common agency problems that are inherent in the corporate form and compares the legal strategies that each jurisdiction uses to solve these common problems. The major topics that this comparative examination covers include: agency problems; legal personality and limited liability; basic governance structures; creditor protection; related party transactions; significant corporate actions; control transactions; issuer and investor protection; the convergence of corporate law; and, comparative corporate law in developing countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5175V", "title": "Global Legal Orders: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", "description": "The development of new types of legal phenomena in the global arena has outgrown established understandings of law, and conventional classifications of legal materials. At the point of needing a theoretical underpinning for the novel concerns of academic law occasioned by globalization, fresh considerations of interdisciplinary perspectives on law are opened up, questioning the extent to which a distinctively legal approach to global issues is possible. This course engages with these challenges by exploring the global interconnectedness of law, morality, politics and economics, and considers what contribution legal theory might make to illuminating complex policy issues with a global reach."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5177", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5177V", "title": "Entertainment Law", "description": "This course aims to provide you with an overview of the copyright, trademark and right of publicity issues confronting the entertainment industries of movies, music, books, video games, visual and performing arts, and new media. It provides a transnational perspective with an emphasis on cases from California, New York and the United Kingdom. This is not a course on entertainment law in Singapore, but the principles you learn could be relevant to Singapore law.\n\nWith case studies ranging from Roger Federer to Ariana Grande, Britney Spears to Tiger Woods, Avatar to Star Wars, Blurred Lines to Somebody To Love, this course will cover a number of prominent causes of action brought by celebrities and rights owners."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5178", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5178V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Treaties", "description": "This module examines the treaties used by States to protect the interests of their investors when making investments abroad and to attract foreign investment into host economies. It will pay particular attention to investor-State arbitration under investment treaties, which is increasingly becoming widespread in Asia and a growing part of international legal practice. It will examine not only the legal and theoretical underpinnings of these treaties and this form of dispute settlement, but also their practical application to concrete cases and their utility as a tool of government policy."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5179", "title": "International Alternative Dispute Resolution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5180", "title": "Choice of Law & Jurisdiction in Int\u2019l Commercial Contracts in Asia", "description": "Starting by examining the theory and the need for choice of law and jurisdiction clauses, this course will examine various issues with these clauses by involving students in drafting, negotiating, concluding and eventually enforcing choice of law and jurisdiction clauses (in particular arbitration clauses) in international commercial contracts in Asia. This will be done through real life scenarios being introduced into the classroom in which students will act as lawyers advising and representing clients in drafting and negotiating choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as attacking or defending them before a tribunal in a dispute context. Accordingly, students will live through the life of various choice of law and jurisdiction clauses and see how they can be drafted, negotiated and enforced in Asian jurisdictions. \nUpon completion of the course, students will have learnt the theories behind choice of law and jurisdiction clauses as well as the practical skills and lessons in negotiating, finalizing and enforcing them."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5185", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5185V", "title": "Government Regulations: Law, Policy & Practice", "description": "This course focuses on law, policy and practice in three regulated areas in Singapore: (1) financial markets & sovereign wealth funds; (2) healthcare; and (3) real property. It adopts a cross-disciplinary and practice-related perspective in its examination of competing and overlapping interests and the relevant theories and principles of state regulation driving these fast-developing areas. It also examines the roles, rights and obligations of the Government as a regulator, the government-linked entities as market actors, businesses and individuals, and considers \"market inefficiencies\" relating to accountability, independence, legitimacy and transparency. Students are required to evaluate current substantive law and institutional norms and processes, review comparative models and approaches in other jurisdictions, and propose a model of optimal regulation in one selected area."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5187", "title": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law", "description": "Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law invites students to critically examine (1) the theoretical underpinnings of contract law at the level of meta theory (e.g. autonomy, reliance, promise, economic, property), but also (2) at the level of foundational concepts such as \u2018autonomy\u2019, \u2018freedom\u2019, \u2018the intention of the parties\u2019, \u2018vitiation\u2019 and \u2018expectation interest\u2019; (3) how the theories help us to explain different aspects of contract law. Students should be able to engage in normative analysis of the law (how the law should be) with a view to desirable law reform. It complements the modules Advanced Contract Law and Property Theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5188", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. \nAdvisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5188V", "title": "Corporate Finance Law", "description": "The elective course focuses on the legal aspects of corporate finance issues, i.e. raising of funds by a company from the domestic and international markets. Major topics covered include understanding financial statements and financial ratios, equity financing through listing on recognised exchanges (including reverse/backdoor listing and rights' issue) and debt financing such as syndication loans and bond issues. \nAdvisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Students who have not taken lessons in trust law, contract law and company law from the common law jurisdiction may have difficulty following the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5189", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5189V", "title": "Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides a comparative and critical analysis of why and how six corporate mechanisms - (1) sustainability reporting; (2) board gender diversity; (3) constituency directors; (4) stewardship codes; (5) directors' duty to act in the company's best interests; and (6) liability on companies, shareholders and directors - have been or can be used to promote corporate social responsibility in the Asian and AngloAmercian jurisdictions. It equips students with useful, practical skillsets on how to advise clients on CSR issues and with a strong foundation to critically engage with sustainability matters that will be important to them in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5190", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these jurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5190V", "title": "Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "Through examining the jurisprudence in three common law Western liberal democracies of the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, this course compares and critiques how the freedom of speech is construed in these\njurisdictions. By confronting the complexities of the US First Amendment, the interplay between Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Australian implied constitutional guarantee, one is exposed to different theoretical, practical and often controversial approaches in the protection of free speech. Cases covered span the spectrum from flag burning to duck shooting, from the Gay Olympics to the Barbie Doll, from regulating the display of offensive art to protecting the privacy of a supermodel.\nMode of Assessment: 1 Research Paper (70%) - [to be handed in week 13]; Class Performance - 30%."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5191", "title": "Wealth Management Law", "description": "This course will examine the legal principles and regulatory environment surrounding the wealth management services provided by banking institutions. Major topics that are likely to be covered on the course include the nature and regulation of wealth management services and providers, banks\u2019 potential liability for the provision of wealth management services (such as financial advisory services in general and in relation to complex financial products in particular, the provision of financial information and data, portfolio management services, and custodianship) and the effectiveness of banks\u2019 attempts to exclude or limit liability."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5192", "title": "Private International Law of IP", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5193", "title": "An Introduction to Negotiating & Drafting Commercial Contracts", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5193V", "title": "An Introduction to Negotiating & Drafting Commercial Contracts", "description": "This course provides a practical introduction to the essentials of negotiating and drafting commercial contracts in the Common Law tradition. \nThe course begins with a refresh of plain English writing skills. The second part then reviews key Common Law concepts and considers the Common Law's attitudes to the commercial world. The third looks at the fundamental shape, structure and organisation of commercial contracts. The fourth deals with aspects of law routinely encountered by the practitioner and technical drafting issues. The fifth focuses on technical drafting. The sixth and final part considers the approach of managing legal risk and the practicalities of negotiation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5194", "title": "Partnership and LLP Law", "description": "This module will examine in depth the law of partnerships. The basic framework is the same in most Commonwealth countries and based still on the UK Partnership Act of 1890. The topics to be covered in relation to general partnerships include the formation of partnerships, partnerships in the modern legal system, the relationship between partners and outsiders, the relationship of partners inter se and the dissolution of partnerships. The module will then examine the variants of limited partnerships, used mainly as investment vehicles, and limited liability partnerships. LLPs, a recent creation, are becoming increasingly popular for the professions especially. They are an amalgam of corporate and partnership concepts but are also developing their own specific legal issues which will only increase with time."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5195V", "title": "International Economic Law & Relations", "description": "This course examines the international law and international relations dimensions of the current international economic systems and discuss the various possibilities for future reforms in light of the past and recent global economic crises. While the discussion will be based on the Bretton Woods System (the GATT/WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank), the course will focus mainly on the international regulatory framework of finance and investment. The purpose of the course is to let the students develop a bird\u2019s eye view of the legal aspects of the international economic architecture as well as the reasons \u2013 or the international political economy \u2013 behind its operation. Students will also be exposed certain fundamentals of international law and international relations concerning global economic affairs. Further, the course will examine the experiences of several countries\u2019 economic development and their use of international economic law to achieve economic growth."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5197V", "title": "Comparative State and Religion in Southeast Asia", "description": "How do Southeast Asian constitutions accommodate religion? Is secularism necessary for democracy? Do public religions undermine religious freedom? These are some of the questions we will be engaging with in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5202V", "title": "ASEAN Economic Community Law and Policy", "description": "ASEAN leaders agreed to create a single market \u2013 the ASEAN Economic Community \u2013 by 2015. Due to sovereignty concerns, ASEAN leaders did not create a single supranational authority to regulate this market. This course examines how ASEAN member states and institutions are filling in the vacuum through formal and informal means. Students will understand how regional policymaking affects domestic laws and policies within ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5203", "title": "International Moots and Other Competitions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5204", "title": "Islamic Finance Law", "description": "This course will provide students with an overview of the fundamental principles of Islamic commercial law and how they are applied in the modern context in connection with the practice of Islamic finance. The course will begin with \nhistorical doctrines, discuss modern transformations, review practical examples, and consider the treatment of Islamic financial contracts in secular courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5205", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5205V", "title": "Maritime Conflict of Laws", "description": "An examination of conflict of laws issues in the context of maritime law and admiralty litigation. The course will provide an introduction to conflicts theory and concepts before focusing on conflict of jurisdictions, parallel proceedings and forum shopping in admiralty matters; role of foreign law in establishing admiralty jurisdiction; recognition and priority of foreign maritime liens and other claims; choice of law and maritime Conventions; conflicts of maritime Conventions; security for foreign maritime proceedings; and recognition and enforcement of oreign maritime judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5208V", "title": "Advanced Criminal Legal Process", "description": "The course encompasses the theoretical and practical concepts underpinning the entire criminal litigation process, from pre-trial to post-conviction. Coverage will include the role of the charge, drafting of charges, plea-bargains, guilty pleas, trials, consequential orders and appeals. Common evidential issues arising in trials will also be discussed. The aim is to provide both a holistic overview of the entire process as well as detailed examination of specific areas. The course will cover criminal procedure and evidence as well as include advocacy exercises in common criminal proceedings and a practical attachment at the Criminal Justice Division."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5209V", "title": "Legal Argument & Narrative", "description": "This module will focus on the advanced argumentative techniques possible with legal narrative, which refers to how information is selected and organised to construct a persuasive view of the facts. Fact construction plays a particularly prominent role in litigation, but it also appears in methods of alternative dispute resolution and justifications of policy positions. This module will analyze \nthe pervasive reach of fact construction in the law, examine why fact construction is such an effective tool of legal persuasion, and explore advanced techniques of fact\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5210", "title": "Intellectual Property And International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5210V", "title": "Intellectual Property And International Trade", "description": "This course examines the international intellectual property system and addresses the legal issues raised by the trade of products protected by intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, and copyrights) across different jurisdictions. This course reviews the key international agreements and provisions in this area, as well as the different national policies, which have been adopted, to date, in several domestic jurisdictions or free trade areas, including the European Union, the U.S., China, Japan, and the ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5211", "title": "International Public Monetary and Payment Systems Law", "description": "The course addresses major regulatory legal aspects of money, payments, and clearing and settlement systems from international, comparative and global perspective. It addresses the design and structure of the monetary and\npayment systems; the infrastructure designed to accommodate the payment and settlement of commercial and financial transactions; sovereign debt; and the impact of sovereign risk on commercial and financial transactions. It covers domestic & international monetary systems; central banking; international retail and wholesale payments in major currencies; settlement of financial transactions; foreign exchange transactions; payment clearing & settlement: mechanisms and risks; systematically important payment systems; and global securities settlement systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5213", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5213V", "title": "Transnational Law", "description": "\u2018Transnational law\u2019 refers to regulatory systems whose regulatory reach is not constrained by state borders. It is a relatively newly-emergent form of regulation with which persons with legal training are increasingly being asked to engage. Such engagement requires appreciation of how the different aspects of these distinctive legal systems interact with each other. This seminar will explore these interrelationships, giving the student a framework for evaluating what a particular transnational legal system can and cannot do; and how to best interact with that particular transnational legal system in order to secure outcomes that are both desirable and achievable."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5214", "title": "International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law", "description": "The module explores principles and rules relating to the exploration for, development and production of oil and gas (upstream operations). The main focus of the module is on the examination of different arrangements governing the\nlegal relationship between states and international oil companies, such as modern concessions, productionsharing agreements, joint ventures, service and hybrid contracts. The agreements governing the relationships between companies involved in upstream petroleum operations (joint operating and unitisation agreements) will also be examined. The module will further explore the\nissues of dispute settlement, expropriation, stability of contracts and a relevant international institutional and legal framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5216", "title": "Cyber Law", "description": "Cyberspace is the online world of computer networks, especially the Internet. This module examines two major points of connection between the law and cyberspace: how communications in cyberspace are regulated; and how\n(intellectual) property rights in cyberspace are enforced. Specific topics include: governing the Internet; jurisdiction and dispute resolution in cyberspace; controlling online content; electronic privacy; trademarks on the Internet;\ncybersquatting; digital copyright; virtual worlds."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5217", "title": "Comparative & International Anti-Corruption Law", "description": "This module will examine the legal approach to curbing corruption in three jurisdictions namely: Singapore, US and UK. The focus will be on bribery of public officials both domestic and foreign. The applicable laws \u2013 domestic and\nextra-territorial - in the selected national jurisdictions will be examined to see how effective they are for curbing such corruption. The module will also examine regional and multi-regional laws enacted to curb corruption. Major topics to be coveredinclude: preventive measures; criminalization; corporate liability including criminal and non-criminal sanctions; and jurisdictional principles."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5218V", "title": "Asian Legal Studies Colloquium", "description": "This module draws on research, programming and visiting speakers under the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, ASLI Fellows and NUS faculty, bringing students into discussion, interrogation and analysis of major current issues in Asian legal studies. The module will involve reading and analyzing recent work in the field, emphasising theoretical and methodological approaches in a comparative context. It will use current case studies as examples for analysis. These will vary from year to year according to CALS activity."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5219", "title": "The Trial of Jesus in Western Legal Thought", "description": "The Trial of Jesusis an excellent case for students to learn how to conduct non\u2010practical studies of legal and normative issues. It is, arguably, the most consequential\nlegal event in the evolution of Western Civilization. We will examine the historical, political, and legal background to the Trial, and, especially, the procedural propriety of\nthe Trial. Questions to be explored include: Were hisprocedural rights preserved during his trial before the Sanhedrin? Was histrial a miscarriage of justice? Through\nreflecting upon these and other questions, we will explore if and how thistrialshaped the Western culture. \n\nThis module is also concerned with the \u2018method\u2019 or \u2018process\u2019 of how students digest and integrate \u2019substance\u2019 or\u2018content\u2019. Thus,there is emphasis on the significance of understanding and clarifying, the complexity of each and every problem, and not only the importance of offering, or trying to offer, a clever solution to it."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5220", "title": "International Business Transactions", "description": "This course explores the legal issues \u2010 both from a conflict of laws perspective and a substantive law one \u2010 that may arise in connection with business contracts (such as contracts for the sale of goods, factoring contracts, leasing\ncontracts, transport contracts, etc.) that involve some element of internationality and examines those issues in light of some of the sets of rules specifically designed to address those issues when embedded in an international\nsetting (such as the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the International Factoring Convention, the Convention on International Financial Leasing, the Montreal Convention,\nthe Rome I Regulation, etc.). The course will also offer an overview of the basic features of litigation of those issues in state courts and before arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5221", "title": "Climate Change Law & Policy", "description": "This course will explore legal and policy developments pertaining to climate change. Approaches considered will range in jurisdictional scale, temporal scope, policy orientation, regulatory target, and regulatory objective. Although course readings and discussion will focus on existing and actual proposed legal responses to climate change, the overarching aim of the course will be\nto anticipate how the climate change problem will affect our laws and our lives in the long run."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5222", "title": "The Law & Politics of International Courts & Tribunals", "description": "The course provides students with profound knowledge relating to core issues of procedural law (including jurisdiction, admissibility, standing, provisional measures, \napplicable law, and the effect as well as enforcement of international decisions). It combines the discussion of these matters of law with international relations theory and issues of judicial policy. Against the background of a mounting stream of international judicial decisions, students will develop a solid analytical framework to \nappreciate the law and politics of international judicial institutions, focusing on the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the World Trade Organization, and adjudication in investment disputes."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5223", "title": "Cross Border Mergers", "description": "The module will analyze and discuss mergers which involve two or more entities which are located in different countries. \n\nAfter outlining the issues and conflicts created by the duality of corporate, control of foreign investment, regulatory and tax (for the latter in general terms) laws, the various solutions available will be discussed. \n\nEmphasis will be given to international treaties and European directives solutions as used in actual transactions. \n\nOther structures, in the absence of regulatory support, such as stock for stock offers and dual listing will be analyzed, also as used in actual transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5224", "title": "Cybercrime & Information Security Law", "description": "Cybercrime, cyberterrorism and cyberwars have been new threats developed in the interconnected age of the internet. In this Module we are looking at a range of \ncrimes committed through the use of computers, computer integrity offences where computers or networks are the target of the criminal activity and internet crimes \nrelated to the distribution of illegal content. This Module examines substantive criminal law in England, other European countries, the US, Canada and Singapore . It \nexplores the greater risks stemming from criminal activities due to the borderless nature of the internet and the limits of international co-operation. This module also aims to teach the key legal aspects and principles surrounding electronic data and systems security, identity management and authentication."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5225", "title": "Topics in the Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "This course will provide an overview of the basic economic theory that underlies competition law, an area of law that has expanded dramatically around the world in recent years. Various topics will be covered, including an economic analysis of efficiency and why competition matters from the perspective of social welfare, horizontal agreements, mergers, vertical restraints, and exclusion of competitors. While the course will not attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of antitrust law, relevant economic theory will be discussed in the context of legal cases taken from different jurisdictions around the world (most prominently the United States and Europe)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5226", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, traveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last stretch to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5226V", "title": "Multimodal Transport Law", "description": "Other than the traditional unimodal contract of carriage, a multimodal contract of carriage requires more than one modality to perform the carriage. Think of a shipment of steel coils, raveling per train from Germany to the Netherlands, then by sea to Singapore where the last strech to the end receiver is performed by truck. The course deals with all the legal aspects of such a multimodal contract of carriage."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5227", "title": "Philanthropy, Non-profit Organizations, and the Law", "description": "This module covers the legal and policy framework for civil society, non-profit organizations, and philanthropy in Asia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and other jurisdictions, including the formation and ac tivities of \norganizations, capital formation and fundraising, state restrictions on activities, governance, donations from domestic and foreign sources, and o ther key topics. In 2014 the instructor and students will undertake a publishing project on philanthropy, non-profit organizations and the law in Asia in collaboration with the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL, which is based in Washington DC)"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5228V", "title": "The Use of Force in International Law", "description": "This course introduces students to the rules on the use of force in international law. It does so from an historical perspective with special emphasis on state practice so that students can understand how and why the law on the use \nof force has evolved in the way it has. The course sets out the general prohibition on the u se of fo rce in the UN Charter, and introduces students to key concepts such as self-defence, humanitarian intervention, and aggression. Students will be introduced to debates on pre-emption, the use of force in pursuit of self-determination, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5229", "title": "Corporate Governance in the US and UK", "description": "This course adopts a functional approach to Anglo-American company law and integrates company law with corporate governance. The course examines core Company Law and the regulatory framework and practice on corporate governance \u2013 the system (structure and process) by which companies are \ngoverned, and to what purpose. In light of their extraterritorial reach and partly because of th e relationship between their markets and legal systems, the course focusses on the similarities and variations by considering the structural \ndifferences and similarities, legal frameworks and market structure (the effect of retail and institutional investors) as drivers of corporate governance regulation in both jurisdictions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5231", "title": "Transition and the Rule of Law in Myanmar", "description": "This subject will provide an introduction to the modern legal system of Myanmar/Burma in social, political and historical context. It will consider the legal framework and institutions of Myanmar in light of the literature on rule of \nlaw reform in transitional and developing contexts. The subject will include a focus on constitutional law; the legislature; the courts; criminal justice; minority rights; \nforeign investment law and special economic zones; the military; and institutional reform. The mode of assessment for this course is 80% research essay, 10% class presentation and 10% class participation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5233V", "title": "European Company Law", "description": "European company law can be understood in two ways. It can indicate the EU\u2019s approach to company law and thereby lead to an analysis of the harmonized standards for 28 European nations. It can also be understood as a comparative approach to the different legal systems on the European continent. \n\nThis course includes both aspects. It will first concentrate on EU legislation and jurisdiction, followed by a comparison of the legal systems of the two most important continental European jursidictions, France and Germany. It will lead to an understanding of shared principles of civil law jurisdictions and emphasize important differences to common law systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5234V", "title": "Property Theory", "description": "This module explores the way in which the concept of property has figured in political and legal theory. The module will first investigate the significance of property discourse in modern political theory, beginning with early modern authors such as Grotius and Locke, and then considering later political theorists such as Kant, Hume, Smith and Hegel, as well as utilitarian/economic treatments of property. The course will then draw upon this material to then focus on modern debates about the role of the concept of property in legal theory, covering such issues as economic/distributive justice, whether property is a 'bundle of rights', possession, ownership, and equitable property."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5235V", "title": "International Contract Law: Principles and Practice", "description": "With the onset of globalization, the study of contract law can no longer be confined to arrangements between private entities sharing the same nationality and operating in the same jurisdiction. The costliest and most complex contractual disputes involve States, State entities, or State-linked enterprises, and foreign nationals, as contracting parties. The introduction of States as permanent and powerful participants in economic life led to the emergence of a bespoke body of law \u2013 international contract law \u2013 to regulate these prominent contractual arrangements. This course is for students who have been targeted for regional and international legal practice, or who plan to gravitate towards transnational legal work in multinational corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5237V", "title": "Law, Institutions, and Business in Greater China", "description": "This module aims to explore the interaction between legal institutions and economic/business development in Greater China (i.e. China, Taiwan, HK), with focus on China. How has China been able to offset institutional weaknesses at home while achieving impressive economic results worldwide? Have China\u2019s experiences indicated an unorthodox model as captured in the term \u201cBeijing Consensus\u201d? To what extent is this model different from\nEast Asian models and conventional thinking in economic growth? This course reviews theories about market development in the context of Greater China, including securities, corporate regulations, capital markets, property, sovereign wealth funds, foreign investment, and anticorruption etc."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5238V", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": "The course will cover the international, comparative and domestic aspects of corporate finance law and practice. The emphasis of the course will be on the actual application of corporate finance law in practice, the policies that have shaped the laws in Singapore and elsewhere, and the international conventions that have evolved in this area. Topics include: cash flow, value and risk; term loans and loan syndications; fund raising and capital markets; securitisations; derivatives; and financing mergers and acquisitions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5239V", "title": "Law & Politics in South Asia", "description": "This module focuses on contemporary legal and political institutions in the South Asian region, with particular emphasis on understanding the role and nature of law and constitutionalism. Although the primary focus will be on\nBangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, developments in Bhutan and Nepal will also be covered. The module will employ readings and perspectives from the disciplines of history, politics, sociology and economics to understand\nhow these affect the evolution of South Asian legal systems over time. It will also adopt comparative perspectives and analyse how individual legal systems in South Asia are influenced by other nations in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5241", "title": "Financial Stability and the Regulation of Banks", "description": "This course begins with an analysis of the fragility of the business model of commercial and investment banks and the negative externalities of bank failure. It then focuses on three principal functions of bank regulation: (1) making banks more resilient to business shocks; (2) making it less likely that banks will suffer shocks; (3) and facilitating the resolution and recovery of banks which fail. The focus will be on the crucial policy choices involved in achieving these objectives; the trade-offs among the available legal strategies; and the problems of regulatory arbitrage (shadow banking)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5242V", "title": "Financial Regulation and Central Banking", "description": "The course will include various aspects of financial regulation. The focus will be on the regulation of credit institutions and the role of central banks. Other forms of regulation of financial intermediaries and financial markets will be discussed in less detail. Since the focus will be on credit institutions, it will be important that the students understand what distinguishes credit institutions from other providers of financial services and how the regulatory approaches differ.\n\nThe part on the regulation of credit institutions will include requirements for their\nauthorization, their permanent supervision and rescue scenarios in situations of insolvency and default. These aspects will be discussed from a comparative perspective with the Basel requirements at the core of the discussion, complemented by the implementing norms in important jurisdictions, above all in Singapore. For resolution and restructuring the European Union has taken on a leading role, and, as a consequence, these EU approaches will be analysed in detail.\n\nThe roles of central banks will remain a core part of the course. Their tasks and objectives will be discussed from a comparative perspective. Their essential role in crisis management, their co-operation with supervisory agencies and their monetary policy will remain essential components of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5243V", "title": "The Effects of Space and Geography on Regulation", "description": "This seminar explores how the efficacy of any particular regulatory scheme can be shaped by the nature of the geographical space in which it operates. Simply put, regulatory schemes that are effective in one kind of geography can be ineffective in some other kind of geography. The seminar will look that this phenomena from a diversity of geographical perspectives, including economic geography, political geography, urban geography, cultural geography, and affective geography (i.e., geographies of belonging). As we shall see, each of these kinds of geographies can take on a diversity of configurations. For example, a particular economic geography can be primarily industrial (see, e.g., Singapore) or it can be primarily rural (see, e.g., Sumatra or Gansu). Regulatory schemes that work well in Singapore may not work so well in Sumatra or Gansu. For the latter geographies, different regulatory strategies are required."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5244V", "title": "Criminal Practice", "description": "The administration of criminal justice in Singapore relies on an ethical, professional and skilled disposition and management of criminal cases. A good criminal practitioner needs a sound grounding in criminal law and criminal procedure, and a strong base of written and oral advocacy and communication skills. This is an experiential course that takes students through a case from taking instructions all the way through to an appeal, using the structure of the criminal process to teach criminal law, procedure and advocacy skills. Taught primarily by criminal law practitioners, this course will give an insight into the realities of criminal practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5245V", "title": "Regulatory Foundations of Public Law", "description": "Course explores the various ways through which public law contributes to the regulatory construction of the state. Topics will include the ways public law contributes to the various purposes of the state; the tools that public law uses to contribute to these purposes; how public law evolves; and the future of public law in a post-Westphalian world\n\nA significant portion of this seminar is devoted to helping students identify and develop research projects, and write academic-quality research papers. This includes individual meetings with the instructor, and class discussion on doing research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5246", "title": "International Carriage of Passengers by Sea", "description": "This module will give students a broad understanding of the law relating to the international carriage of passengers by sea. Topics to be covered include formation of contract, regulation of cruise ships, State jurisdiction over crimes\nagainst the person on board a ship, liability for accidents, limitation of liability, the Athens Convention 1974/1990, and conflict of laws/jurisdictional issues relating to passenger claims. This module will be useful for those who\nare intending to: practice law in a broadly focussed shipping practice; work within the cruise and ferry industry; or otherwise are likely to deal with passengers and/or their claims."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5247V", "title": "International Economic Law & Globalisation", "description": "This course is a survey course of topics that include: international sales contract; international trade law; and international investment law. It covers the basic principles of private and public international law that are fundamental\nto the creation of the framework within which business transactions take place. It will also cover the topic of the relationships among international business transactions, globalization and economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5249", "title": "Shareholders' Rights & Remedies", "description": "The course will examine at an advanced level the rights and duties of company shareholders. In doing so the course will critically examine, from a comparative\nperspective, the division of power between the various organs of the modern company and the underlying policy of the law with regard to shareholders rights. The course will also key in on topical issues such as the effectiveness\nof shareholders\u2019 rights, enabling v mandatory theories of shareholders\u2019 rights, the statutory derivative action and its effectiveness and the role of the company in shareholder litigation. Finally, it will look at international developments including institutional shareholder activism."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5250", "title": "Principles of Equity Financing", "description": "This course concentrates on the principles of equity financing in the private and public markets, including the relevant company law rules (eg pre-emption rules), capital market regulation as far as it affects the issues of raising equity finance for public companies, private equity and its regulation, and change of control transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5251", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": "This course examines the jus in bello \u2013 the law which regulates the conduct of hostilities once the decision to resort to force has been taken. This course will deal with fundamental concepts of the jus in bello, focusing on customary international law. Basic legal concepts that will be discussed include State and individual responsibility, the distinction between combatants and civilians, and the principle of proportionality. The course will also examine topics such as weaponry, international and noninternational conflicts, and the enforcement of the law in situations of conflict.\n\nNote: This course does not deal with the jus ad bellum, or the rules relating to the general prohibition on the use of force in international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5251V", "title": "International Humanitarian Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5252", "title": "The EU and its Law", "description": "This course will develop your understanding of EU law and politics as well as your capacity critically to evaluate the institutional, substantive and constitutional dimensions of European integration. It will consider the nature of the EU as well as the challenges it presents to its Member States. \n\nThe course will provide an overview of the judicial architecture and political structures of the European Union, the authority of EU law, law-making procedures, and the most significant case law in free movement, citizenship, and fundamental rights. It will also introduce more complex questions about the dynamics and direction of the process of regional integration, particularly since the Euro crisis."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5253V", "title": "The Law of Treaties", "description": "Treaties are a principal source of obligation in international law. In this era of globalization, many state and individual activities in many countries are direct results of treaty obligations. In this sense, treaties are the \u201coverworked workhorses\u201d of the global legal order.\n\nDespite this significant impact on our lives, few of us understand what treaties truly mean and what kinds of implications they bring to international relations, our businesses, and private lives. In order to understand the treaty mechanisms, this course covers various aspects of the law of treaties."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5254V", "title": "Developing States in a Changing World Order", "description": "This course explores the changing role of developing countries in a changing international order. It does so by adopting an approach that combines history, theory, and doctrine. The course will examine the historical origins of the contemporary international legal system, and the theoretical debates that have accompanied its evolution, focusing in particular on relations between the Western and non-Western worlds. It will then examine selected topics of international law that are of current significancethese may include international human rights law, the law relating to the use of force, the international law of trade and foreign investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5255V", "title": "Trade Remedy Law & Practice", "description": "The primary focus of the course will be given to the multilateral rules and cases of trade remedies under WTO jurisprudence. In parallel, domestic trade remedy rules and regulations and policies of China, Korea and Japan will be examined to analyze application of WTO rules to domestic jurisprudence and policies. What are the common characteristics and differences among those rules and policies? Are they consistent with WTO jurisprudence? Which agencies are in charge of trade remedy system and policy making and implementations? What is the best strategy for enterprises to respond to such policies? Answers to these key questions are given through lectures, presentations, and discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5256", "title": "Comparative Constitutional Government", "description": "Constitutional government in the modern era has developed different organisational and functional models, that draw their inspiration from some main principles (eg. Separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, democratic accountability) that are distinguishing features of the same type of state. The module will consequently highlight the different forms of (presidential, semi-presidential, parliamentary) government, as experienced by the states belonging to both the common law and the civil law legal traditions. Reference will be made also to forms of constitutional government based on territorial division of powers, such as federal systems and supranational organisations such as the Europe Union."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5257", "title": "Law & Finance", "description": "This seminar deals with ongoing research in the area of financial intermediary supervision, corporate governance and capital markets regulation. Each participant will have to 1) read the discussed papers in advance; 2) write a 10 page commentary on one of the discussed papers and present it in class; 3) comment upon one presentation by a fellow student; and 4) actively participate in the discussion throughout the seminar."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5258V", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of key personal property concepts. Topics to be studied will include: types of personal property; personal property entitlements recognised at common law, notably, possession, ownership, title and general and special property, with some reference also to equitable entitlements; the transfer of such entitlements; the conflict between competing entitlements; the protection given by law to such entitlements; the assignment of things in action; security interests over personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5259AV", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5259V", "title": "Alternative Investments", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in alternative investment from both a practical and theoretical perspective. The topics that will be covered include private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, crowdfunding and REITs. The course will discuss selected partnership and corporate issues of alternative investment vehicles. The course will focus on China and will provide relevant comparisons on alternative investment in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5260V", "title": "Chinese Commercial Law", "description": "This course will introduce students to the fundamental legal concepts and principles relating to Chinese commercial law. Topics to be covered include: basic principles of PRC civil and commercial law, contracts, business associations and investment vehicles, secured transaction, negotiable instruments, taxation and dispute resolution. It will highlight key legal considerations in carrying out commercial transactions in China. Where applicable, the course will provide relevant comparisons with similar laws in other jurisdictions such as the U.S., the U.K. and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5261V", "title": "Employment Law & Migrant Workers Clinic", "description": "Taken concurrently with \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d but with an emphasis on experiential learning, this module offers students the opportunity to explore the legal issues affecting migrant workers, both in the classroom and through externships and case work. Students will spend most of their time outside of class, gaining practical experience by first interning at the Ministry of Manpower over the holidays and then, during the semester, volunteering an average of 10 hours weekly with either Justice Without Borders (JWB) or the NUS-HOME Theft Project (\u201cTheft Project\u201d). In class, using peer learning, including roundtable case review, students will hone their legal skills while examining the legal framework governing Singapore\u2019s foreign workers. Analysing their externship experiences, students will explore the relationship between law on the books and law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5263V", "title": "Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy", "description": "This module examines in interaction between IPRs and competition policy\nfrom two broad perspectives: the endogenous operation of competition policy\nfrom within IPR frameworks (copyright, designs, trade marks and patents),\nand the exogenous limitations placed by competition law rules on an IP\nholder\u2019s freedom to exploit his IPRs. Students enrolled in this module are\nexpected to have completed a basic intellectual property module \u2013 an\nunderstanding of what IPRs protect, the nature of the exclusive rights they\nconfer and how they may be exploited will be presumed."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5267V", "title": "Architecting Deals: A Framework of Private Orderings", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamentals of how lawyers \"architect\" deals. It is taught in two parts. \nThe first examines the unique role of the transactional lawyer and asks the questions: What is a \"deal\"? What do transactional or \"deal\" lawyers do? What is the perceived \u201cvalue\u201d of what transactional lawyers do? How can lawyers successfully design and structure a transaction? \nThe second explores in detail the elements of a theory or framework of \u201cprivate orderings\u201d. The framework covers the economic and business considerations that drive the analysis of which legal principles should apply and how risks and benefits are allocated between the parties. The course explores how the framework of private orderings can apply to guide the assessment of transactions and the choice of contracting constructs and regimes."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5268", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5268V", "title": "Remedies", "description": "This advanced course facilitates an in-depth understanding of the structure, goals, and nature of private law remedies. An emphasis is placed on the role of remedies within the broader structure of private law, and the question of what, if anything, remedies tell us about the substantive law.\n\nThe course ranges across a variety of substantive private law fields, examining remedies arising from contracts, torts, equity, and other sources of obligations. It will introduce students to basic organising private law concepts such as rights, duties, wrongs, loss, and gain, and the various remedial goals of compensation, vindication, disgorgement, restitution, and punishment."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5269", "title": "Privacy and Intellectual Property", "description": "Privacy may in some cases conflict with intellectual property but in other cases the two may go hand in hand and in addition other rights in personal information may further blur and complexity the boundaries. This module will explore the relationships between privacy, intellectual property and other rights in personal information in a range of contexts across different jurisdictions in an effort to explain and evaluate the current legal position, the various debates and proposals for improvements in the law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5270", "title": "International Human Rights of Women", "description": "The course examines the international legal protection of women\u2019s human rights within a framework of international law and feminist legal theories. The course will focus upon the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 to which Singapore became a party in 1995 and the work of the CEDAW Committee in monitoring and implementing the Convention. The impact of certain conceptual assumptions within international law, and human rights law in particular, that militates against the Adequate protection of women's rights will be considered. After an examination of the general framework, more detailed attention will be given to certain topics including health and reproductive rights, women\u2019s right to education violence against women, including in armed conflict, political participation and trafficking. The course will finally consider the question of whether international human rights law is an appropriate vehicle for the furtherance of women's interests."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5271", "title": "Law and Policy", "description": "This course explores and contrasts the different methodologies inherent in the disciplinary approaches of legal and policy analysis. What are the biases and assumptions in each method of analysis? How does each method view the other? How is each approach relevant to the other in different practical situations, e.g. in legal advice, court arguments and judgments and in government policy formulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5272", "title": "International Financial System: Law and Practice", "description": "In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008, the visibility of finance and financial regulation has increased dramatically. This subject will provide an overview of the global financial system and international efforts to build\nstructures to support its proper functioning. Taking an integrative approach, the subject will look at the evolution of the global financial system, its structure and regulation. In doing so, the subject will analyse financial crises, especially\nthe GFC, and responses thereto, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The approach will be international and comparative, with a focus on major jurisdictions in the global financial system, and will not focus on any single jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5273", "title": "European & International Competition Law", "description": "The course deals on a comparative legal basis (US-, EU and Swiss law) with problems related to:\nI. How to coordinate economic activities?\nII. Implementation of a competition system\n1) Competition? Private restrictions to competition and what states can do against it?\n2) The substantive EU- and Swiss-provisions\n\u2013 against agreements restricting competition and abuse of market power\n\u2013 on merger control\n\u2013 on sanctions and leniency programs\n\u2013 Discussion of leading cases\n3) State aids; public and private enforcement\nIII. Correcting the competition system\nPlanned sectors, consumer protection, price controlling\nIV. Controversial questions, the \u201emore economic\napproach\u201c? Efficiency and individual freedom to compete? Global competition?"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5274", "title": "Comparative GST Law & Policy", "description": "Worldwide, governments are increasingly relying on broad-based consumption taxes, such as the GSTs in Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and Australia and the VAT in Europe, to raise revenue. This course will introduce students to theories of comparative tax law and consumption taxation and to key GST law and policy concepts. With these theoretical, conceptual and legal tool kits, we will then explore the complex but fascinating legal and policy issues relating to cross-border trade in goods and services (such as professionals providing services to clients across borders and global digital trade), financial services and real property transactions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5275", "title": "International Institutional Law:", "description": "International organizations play an increasingly important role in the international community. While the state continues to be the supreme form of political organization, international organizations, such as the UN, the WTO, the IMF, the World Bank, the ASEAN, the EU and NATO, are indispensable to cope with globalization and increasing interdependence. The main objective of this course is to familiarize students with the fundamental rules of international institutional law \u2013 that is the body of rules governing the legal status, structure and functioning of international organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5276", "title": "Advanced Contract Law", "description": "Advanced Contract Law invites students to examine some interesting and controversial topics from this foundational subject. Some topics will build on what students already know in their first-year/basic contract law course (e.g. how does contract law deal with change of circumstances?), some will cover new ground (e.g. the role of good faith in contract law). You will be able to write a paper on a topic of particular interest to you. The course also complements the module Advanced Tort Law and Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5276V", "title": "Advanced Contract Law", "description": "Advanced Contract Law invites students to examine some interesting and controversial topics from this foundational subject. Some topics will build on what students already know in their first-year/basic contract law course (e.g. how does contract law deal with change of circumstances?), some will cover new ground (e.g. the role of good faith in contract law). You will be able to write a paper on a topic of particular interest to you. The course also complements the module Advanced Tort Law and Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5277V", "title": "Medical Law and Ethics", "description": "This module provides the tools necessary for students to develop and reflect critically upon contemporary ethical and legal issues in medicine and the biosciences. Its substantive content includes and introduction to medical\nethics and medical law, health care in Singapore (presented comparatively with select jurisdictions, such as the UK and the USA), and professional regulation. The following key areas will be considered:\n- Professional regulation and good governance of medicines;\n- Genetics and reproductive technologies (including abortion and pre-natal harm);\n- Mental health;\n- Regulation of Human Biomedical Research;\n- Innovative treatment and clinical research;\n- Infectious Diseases;\n- Organ transplantation; and\n- End-of-life concerns (e.g. advance care plan and advance directive, discontinuation of life sustaining treatment, etc.)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5278V", "title": "Trade and Investment Law in the Asia-Pacific", "description": "Alongside the European Union the Asia-Pacific is becoming the central arena for trade and investment and its contestation within the world today. This module examines the global, regional and bilateral frameworks governing trade, investment, competition and migration across this region. It has three components. The first looks at how different organisations and regimes \u2013 the WTO, ASEAN, ASEAN Plus Agreements, BITS, NAFTA and Closer Economic Relations \u2013 interact to govern the region and the attempts to reform this, most notably through the TransPacific Partnership Process. The second looks at the detailed laws and processes governing trade in goods and services and investment. The final section looks at a number of further key policies: intellectual property, competition, the professions, and migration."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5279V", "title": "Access to Justice", "description": "This module examines the conceptual foundation of access to justice and the practical challenges it raises in formal systems of dispute resolution. Using a Research Seminar structure, the module integrates academic analysis with experiential learning by providing students with opportunities to produce and critique original research on themes emerging from student internships and pro bono experiences."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5280V", "title": "Crime and Companies", "description": "Companies are both the victims of and vehicles for crime. This module examines both aspects. The first aspect covers crimes against the company by management \u2013 criminal breach of trust, dishonest misappropriation of property, breaches of fiduciary duty, misuse of corporate information. The second aspect will deal with using companies as vehicles for crime \u2013 cheating, money-laundering. Corruption cuts across both aspects. The statutes covered will be the Companies Act; Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits Act); Penal Code; and Prevention of Corruption Act. Students must have a firm grounding in both Criminal Law and Company Law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5281V", "title": "Civil Procedure", "description": "This module acquaints the students with the laws and principles relating to the civil litigation process. The three distinct stages, namely, pre-commencement of action, pre-trial and post-trial are discussed in detail. The overriding aims of the civil justice system will also be deliberated. This will enable the students to better understand and appreciate the rationale of the application of the provisions of the rules of court. In this regard, the students will be able to make a case on behalf of their clients or against their opponents when the perennial issue of non-compliance with procedural rules takes centre stage. This module is designed to prepare the students to practise law in Singapore. Hence, the focus will primarily be on the Singapore Rules of Court and the decisions from the Singapore courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5282V", "title": "Resolution of Transnational Commercial Disputes", "description": "The primary focus of this module is on the variety of commercial dispute resolution processes available to contracting parties and the essential principles and issues pertinent to these different processes. The overriding aims are to acquaint the students with the characteristics of each of these processes, to highlight the governing principles and to discuss the perennial and emerging issues relating to this aspect of the law. Students who have undertaken this module will be able to consider the plethora of options available to them when drafting dispute resolution clauses and/or providing legal advice and representation when a dispute has arisen."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5283V", "title": "Artificial Intelligence, Information Science & Law", "description": "Advancements in computer science have made it possible to deploy information technology to address legal problems. Improved legal searches, fraud detection, electronic discovery, digital rights management, and automated takedowns are only the beginning. We are beginning to see natural language processing, machine learning and data mining technologies deployed in contract formation, electronic surveillance, autonomous machines and even decision making. This course examines the basis behind these technologies, deploys them in basic scenarios, studies the reasons for their acceptance or rejection, and analyses them for their benefits, limitations and dangers."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5284", "title": "Confucianism and Law", "description": "This course is about the relevance of Confucianism to law, which includes three eras, namely: (1) Confucian legal theory and Confucian legal tradition; (2) the relevance of Confucianism to different aspects of national legal issues in contemporary East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam), such as human rights, rule of law, democracy, constitutional review, mediation, and family law; and (3) the relevance of Confucianism to international law. It will be of interest to those interested in Confucian legal tradition, customary law, Asian law, law and culture, legal theory, and legal pluralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5285V", "title": "International Dispute Settlement", "description": "This seminar will explore key legal questions related to\ninternational dispute settlement with a view to providing a\nbroad overview of the field with respect to State-to-State,\nInvestor-State, and commercial disputes. This course will\ninclude a discussion of the various types of international\ndisputes and settlement mechanisms available for their\nresolution. It will explore the law pertaining to dispute\nsettlement before the ICJ, WTO, ITLOS, as well as\ninternational arbitration, both Investor-State arbitration and\ncommercial arbitration. The course will compare these\ndifferent legal processes on issues such as jurisdiction,\nprovisional remedies/measures, equal treatment,\nevidence, and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5286V", "title": "Transnational Terrorism and International Law", "description": "While terrorism is not a new phenomenon, the sheer scale and transnational nature of that practice in recent years have challenged some of the core tenets of international law. This seminar investigates the role that international law can play, along with its shortcomings, in suppressing and preventing terrorism. It examines the manner in which terrorism and counterterrorism laws and policies have affected the scope and application of diverse international legal regimes including UN collective security, inter-State use of force, the law of international responsibility, international human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5287V", "title": "ASEAN Law and Policy", "description": "This course examines ASEAN\u2019s ongoing metamorphosis into a rules-based, tri-pillared (political-security, economic, and socio-cultural) Community pursuant to the mandate of the 2007 ASEAN Charter. It deals primarily with Law but is also attentive to the Non Law and Quasi Law aspects inherent in ASEAN\u2019s character as an international actor and regional organisation; its purposes and principles; and its operational modalities, processes, and institutions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5288V", "title": "Business, International Commerce and the European Union", "description": "This module studies European Union business regulation and how this affects both the EU and other markets. It has three components. The first looks at the types of business regulation deployed. It will include legislative harmonisation,\nprivate standardisation, mutual recognition and regulatory agencies. The second looks at the regulation of key industrial and service sectors, such as food, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, energy chemicals or financial services. The third looks at how EU business regulation interacts with non EU markets, through studying its commercial policy, free trade agreements and extraterritorial jurisdiction."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5289V", "title": "The Evolution of International Arbitration", "description": "The module has three distinctive features. First, it compares international commercial arbitration (ICA) international investment arbitration (ISA). Second, it focuses on the evolution of arbitration, in particular, on the development of the procedures and substantive law that have gradually enabled arbitration to become a meaningfully autonomous legal system. Third, it surveys a variety of explanations for why the arbitral order has evolved as it has \u2013 into a more \u201cjudicial-like\u201d legal order \u2013 focusing on the role of arbitral centres, state regulatory competition, and the reasoning of tribunals in their awards."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5290V", "title": "Legal Research: Method & Design", "description": "The seminar is designed to prepare students to undertake original, primary research in law. Major topics and questions to be covered include:\n- how to write a good literature review and prospectus;\n- why one must have a method, or, how are \u201cmethods\u201d and\n\u201cdata collection\u201d related?;\n- what is research design?;\n- how to avoid, or manage, the problem of \u201cselection bias.\u201d\n\nA major component of the seminar, students will assess a variety of published papers, as well as research projects presented by the faculty."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5292V", "title": "State Responsibility: Theory and Practice", "description": "The law governing the responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts is absolutely central in public international law and cuts across various sub-fields of that discipline. This seminar investigates the fundamental tenets of the law of State responsibility, both from theoretical and practical standpoints, while tracing some of its historical roots. More broadly, the seminar will provide\nan overview of different doctrines of State responsibility and different theories and approaches to liability under international law. More importantly, the later sessions of the seminar will engage critically with the role that the law\nof State responsibility can play in specific areas."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5295", "title": "Conflict of Laws in Int\u2019l Commercial Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on the instances in which resort to conflict of laws is necessary in the international arbitration context. The objective of this course is to allow participants to realise on how many occasions both State courts and arbitrators will need to report a conflict of laws analysis despite the claim that conflict of laws issues are not relevant in the international commercial arbitration context. Participants will first be taught to identify what conflict of laws rules may apply and will then be given hypothetical cases and will be asked to critically examine whether a solution can be found that does not require a conflict of laws approach."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5296", "title": "Imitation, Innovation and Intellectual Property", "description": "Does copying always harm creativity? Can innovation\nthrive in the face of imitiation? These questions are at the\nheart of intellectual property theory and doctrine. This\ncourse explores these issues via a close look at a range of\nunusual creative industries, including fashion, cuisine,\nsports, comedy, and tattoos, as well as more traditional\nintellectual property topics, such as music and film."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5297", "title": "Practice of Corporate Finance and the Law", "description": "Modern corporations draw funding to finance their\nconsumption and investment needs from a variety of\nsources on the basis of extensive cost- benefit\nconsiderations. These include a multitude of factors, such\nas legal considerations, the quantity of funding required\nand cost of capital depending on its source, and impact on\nshareholders and management etc. Corporations may also\nobtain finance by either levering existing assets or\nresorting to unsecured bank lending or bond issues. For\nthe biggest corporations the most important source of\nfinance tends to be the capital markets. These normally\ncomprise the debt and equity markets through which public\ncompanies can offer securities to investors or to transfer\nthe control of the company to new owners in the context of\nan agreed takeover, a hostile take-over bid, or of a private\nequity transaction.\nThis course aims to develop a critical understanding of the\nsubject matter through the combined study of finance\ntheory, corporate law, capital market regulation and the\ncorporate market dynamics, with a special focus on the\ndifferent stakeholders involved in corporate finance. The\nmodule will focus on critical corporate finance issues such\nas: the use of debt and equity; why merge or acquire a\nbusiness; core considerations of the process; purchase\nsale agreements and contractual governance; the role of\nthe board of directors in an acquisition/financing\ntransaction; the permissibility and regulation of takeover\ndefenses in the UK, the US and the EU. It will also discuss\ncross-border IPOS, the problem of market abuse, theory\nand practice of corporate takeovers and their regulation,\nand issues pertinent to private equity transactions, as well\npractical issues relating to structuring corporate acquisition\ndeals and attendant legal documentation. NB: While there\nis inevitably reference to scores of economic concepts and\nsome finance readings the course is specifically addressed\nto law students it is non-mathematical."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5298", "title": "International Finance", "description": "This is the foundation course in international finance. It is meant for all who want to gain a better understanding of what is happening and concerns primarily (a) the way money is recycled through the banking system or the\ncapital market, (b) the products and conduct of the banking, securities and investment industry in this recycling activity, (c) the risks that are taken in the financial services industry (primarily by commercial and investment banks in their different functions) and the tools of risk management, (d) the operation of the financial markets and their infrastructure, (e) the type of regulation of commercial banks and of the intermediaries and issuers in the capital markets, and (f) the objectives, role, shape and effectiveness of this regulation. In this connection, the course will also deal with the smooth operation of payment systems.\n\nFinancial risk and its management is an important theme and the major concern in the course. What can commercial or investment banks and financial regulation achieve in this regard, how is risk management structured, and what academic or other (political) models are used in this connection, how effective are they, e.g. in the capital adequacy and liquidity requirements, and what can or must governments and/or central banks or other regulators do when all fails and financial crises occur? From a legal point of view, an important aspect is the strong public policy undercurrents in the applicable law.\n\nThat is obvious in regulation but may also impact on private law. Another important issuer is that the law applicable to financial products and their regulation is ever more transnationalised and expressed at the international level, especially in terms of transactional and payment finality, financial stability, and even banking resolution facilities or international safety nets. In these circumstances, choice of national laws in the older private international law approach often mean little and it will be discussed how they may fall seriously short especially in in matters of regulatory oversight and bankruptcy situations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5299", "title": "Advanced Issues in the Law & Practice of Int\u2019l Arbitration", "description": "This intensive course is designed for students and\npractitioners already acquainted with the fundamentals of\ninternational arbitration, and may be particularly useful for\nthose who may have an inclination to specialize in the\npractice or study of international dispute resolution. Focus\nwill be placed on topics of practical and academic interest\nin all aspects of the international arbitration process,\nlooking in particular to recent trends and evolutions in the\nfield of international dispute settlement.\nThrough seminar discussions, student presentations and\nmoot court sessions, this course will expose students to\ncontemporary controversies in the field of international\ncommercial and investment arbitration. An international\napproach will be adopted in relation to the subjects\nconsidered: students can expect to review a substantial\namount of comparative law sources, including academic\ncommentaries and jurisprudence from France, Singapore,\nSwitzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as\nwell as public international law sources and international\narbitral practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5300", "title": "Copyright in the Internet Age", "description": "This course will consider the particular and unique issues\nthat the ubiquitous use of the internet for commerce,\neducation and communication has created for copyright\ncreators and users. In particular, it will address the\nincreasingly visual medium of social media and how user\npractices are challenging the boundaries of copyright law. It\nwill consider copyright infringement, fair dealing, personal\nand professional uses and the interaction between\ncopyright, contract and consent."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5301", "title": "Topics in Constitutional Law: Socio-Economic Rights", "description": "The course provides a grounding in the international and\ntheoretical background to the constitutional protection of\nsocial rights; the substantive approach taken by courts to\nvarious social rights, and the interaction between social\nrights in various claims to equality and protection on the\npart of vulnerable groups. The topics covered in the class\nare thus:\n(1) theoretical debates on the nature of social rights,\nand the theoretical underpinnings for their\nrecognition qua rights;\n(2) international human rights law instruments\nrecognising social rights, and international human\nrights understandings of such rights;\n(3) constitutional debates about the capacity and\nlegitimacy of courts enforcing such rights, and\nparticular debates over concepts such as (a)\nweak-versus strong-form review, and (b) notions of\na \u2018minimum core\u2019 to social rights; and\n(4) the actual interpretation of enforcement of key\nsocial rights by courts, with a particular focus on\nthe right to housing, health care, water, food and\nsocial welfare and social security\n(5) questions of gender, poverty and social rights\n(6) the rights of children in relation to social rights\n(7) the rights of non-citizens"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5302", "title": "Int'l Regulation of Finance & Investment Markets", "description": "This course aims to introduce to students topical and current issues of interest in the regulation of international financial markets, with a focus on global capital and investment markets. The regulation of investment firms and funds reached a new high with mainly European leadership in regulatory standards and many of these are influential globally. We aim to cover theoretical foundations in regulation, so that students can grasp the law and economic theories and public policy underpinnings of financial regulation, and specific topics that relate to securities and investment regulation. The approach to specific topics would be grounded in theoretical and policy understanding, in order to appreciate the high key highlights of regulatory duties, compliance implications and enforcement."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5303", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This course explores the complex interactions between\nliterature and the law. Even though the two disciplines may\nseem distinct, both law and literature are products of\nlanguage and have overlapped in significant and\ninteresting ways in history. Why do legal themes recur in\nfiction, and what kinds of literary structures underpin legal\nargumentation? How do novelists and playwrights imagine\nthe law, and how do lawyers and judges interpret literary\nworks? Could literature have legal subtexts, and could\nlegal documents be re-interpreted as literary texts? We will\nthink through these questions by juxtaposing fiction,\ndrama, legal cases, and critical theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5303V", "title": "Law and Literature", "description": "This is an interdisciplinary course that invites students to inhabit the field of law and literature by engaging closely with a key topic. Our seminar begins with a broad introduction to the field and related interdisciplinary scholarship, before delving into the focal thematic through close readings of legal and literary texts. This year, we address the question of authorship and its relationship with the law of copyright and intellectual property. Students would become familiar with a constellation of theoretical and historical perspectives from which to rethink our received understandings of authorship, including copyright\u2019s treatment of books, publishers, and authors."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5304", "title": "Global Comparative Constitutional Law", "description": "This module will explore the principal problems for the\ntheory and practice of comparative constitutional law,\ngenerally and in the globalizing conditions of the early 21st\ncentury. In doing so, it will range widely over countries and\nconstitutional systems and examine the challenges\npresented by differences in context and culture. The\nconclusions about methodology in the early classes will be\ntested in later ones by reference to a series of topical\nsubstantive issues in constitutional law in Asia and\nelsewhere, ranging from institutional design to rights\nprotection."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5305", "title": "IP and Human Rights", "description": "This course anlayzes connections between human rights\nand intellectual property. While these bodies of law\ndeveloped on separate tracks, the relationship between\nthem has now captured the attention of government\nofficials, judges, civil society groups, legal scholars and\ninternational agencies, including the World Intellectual\nProperty Organization, the United Nations Human Rights\nCouncil, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural\nRights, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.\nThe course will be of interest to those interested in\nintellectual property and/or human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5306", "title": "Chinese Banking Law", "description": "This course focuses on laws governing banks and the other financial intermediaries in China, reflecting the game between regulation and financial innovation. It will be divided into three parts: the first and also the most the essential one will cover the legal requirements of operation and business of traditional commercial banks; the second one will go through the corporate governance of banks, problem bank resolution and currency issues; the last part will discuss the legal issues of new financial products and non-bank financial institutions. This course focuses on the emerging issues in China of that subject, and also pay particular attention to recent legislative reform efforts in China on banking and non-bank financial institutions and will consider both the developments and innovation in scholarship and teaching of financial law since 2008."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5307", "title": "EU Maritime Law", "description": "The European Union plays an increasing role in the\nregulation of international shipping and any shipping\ncompany wishing to do business in Europe will have to\ntake this into consideration. The module will take on\nvarious aspects of this regulation and will place the EU\nrules in the context of international maritime law. To\nensure a common basis for understanding the EU maritime\nlaw, the basic structure and principles of the EU and EU\nlaw will be explained at the outset."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5308V", "title": "Behavioural Economics, Law & Regulation", "description": "Law is a behavioural system. Most law seeks to regulate, incentivize and nudge people to behave in some ways and not in others \u2013 it seeks to shape human behavior. Traditional economic analysis of law is committed to the assumption that people are fully rational, but empirical evidence suggests that people very often exhibit bounded rationality, bounded self-interest, and bounded willpower. This course about behavioural law and economics, with an emphasis on regulation, looks at the implications of actual, not hypothesized, human behaviour for the law. It considers, in particular, how using the mildest forms of interventions, law can steer people\u2019s choices in welfarepromoting\ndirections."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5309", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5309V", "title": "Strategies for Asian Disputes - A Comparative Analysis", "description": "This course aims to set out the practical realities of dispute resolution in Asia and aims to make students step into the shoes of lawyers and understand how to tackle and strategize real disputes. The course covers topics related to jurisdiction, interim relief, defence and guerrilla tactics, issue estoppel, choice of remedies and dealing with a State in relation to investment treaty disputes to give students a real life understanding of the issues which arise in international disputes. In the context of the substantive issues, the students would also go through facets of the New York Convention and a comparative analysis of the laws of Singapore, England & Wales, India and Hong Kong."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5310V", "title": "International Organisations in International Law", "description": "This seminar-style module critically examines the impact of international organisations on the formal structures of international law. Do international organisations create and enforce international law? What type of norm-creating activity takes place inside and across international organisations? Does the reality of global governance give rise to concerns about legitimacy or accountability? What are the legal and policy responses to such concerns? Case studies used will range from traditional institutions such as the UN and its specialised agencies, to newer institutions such as the Financial Action Task Force and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5311", "title": "Islamic Law and the Family", "description": "This course will offer an historical and comparative focus\non Islamic family law. It will begin by providing a basic\noverview of Islamic law generally and then turn to examine\nIslamic family law specifically. It will then cover major\ntopics that arise in Islamic family law under the classical\nIslamic legal tradition. It will conclude by exploring how\nmany of those issues arise in some modern contexts, as\nIslamic family law is applied both inside and outside of the\nMuslim world."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5312V", "title": "The Law of Global Governance", "description": "The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of\nnew forms of international organizations (e.g. Basel\nCommittee) alongside traditional organizations (e.g. WTO).\nThese new organizations challenge the traditional premises\nof international law. Moreover, international organizations\nincreasingly issue rules that impact people around the world,\nyet they largely operate within a legal void and go\nunchecked. In view of these challenges, a new legal school\nof thought is emerging that seeks to set more legal\nconstraints and that introduces institutional reforms, such as\nthe growing inclusion of Asian countries in international\norganizations. We will explore these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5313", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": "Rising dissatisfaction with the time, cost, lost opportunities, and political repercussions of international arbitration has increased interest in alternative methods to resolve State-State and investor-State disputes. International ADR knowledge is fast becoming a necessity for practitioners. This course introduces the student to the history and methods of consensual nonbinding dispute resolution on the international law plane primarily conciliation and mediation, with coverage also of good offices and fact-finding/inquiry. Overarching themes will be why State-level mediation and conciliation have been so rarely attempted and more rarely successful, and why the tide may now be turning, in part because of the successful Timor LesteAustralia boundary conciliation in 2018. The scope is international,"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5313V", "title": "Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes", "description": "Recent years have witnessed more state-to-state and investor-state disputes, with a substantial increase in resources spent on binding arbitration. Mediation and conciliation are rarely attempted and more rarely successful. This course introduces the student to methods of mediation and conciliation on the international law plane, and surveys existing institutional regimes (ie, ICSID,\nPCA, SIAC). The focus will then turn to identification and critical analysis of the special legal and policy obstacles to voluntary dispute settlement by states (including SOEs), as well as countervailing incentives. The scope is international, with some readings devoted to Asia. Students will study and critique precedents, and conduct basic mediation/conciliation exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5314V", "title": "Private Equity and Venture Capital: Law and Practice", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal issues that arise in private equity and venture capital from both practical and theoretical perspectives. The topics that will be covered explore the laws and practices relating to the whole cycle of the venture capital and private equity, including fundraising, investments, exits, foreign investments and regulation. The course will also discuss equity crowdfunding which is an important emerging method of equity financing. Certain topics of this course will provide relevant comparisons with private equity and venture capital in China, Singapore and the U.S. It will be of interest to legal professionals in the private equity and venture capital sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5316V", "title": "Restitution of Unjust Enrichment", "description": "This course is about the law of restitution for unjust enrichment. In particular, it is concerned with when a defendant may be compelled to make restitution to a claimant, because the defendant has been unjustly enriched at the claimant\u2019s expense. It does not cover all of the law relating to gain-based remedies."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5317V", "title": "International Arbitration in Asian Centres", "description": "This course will give the students an in-depth look at how cases proceed under the SIAC, HKIAC and MCIA rules, with some comparative coverage of the CIETAC and KLRCA rules. Highlighted will be the salient features of these arbitral institutional rules including the introduction of cutting edge procedures such as the emergency arbitrator and expedited arbitration procedures and consolidation/joinder. The course will also provide a comparative analysis of the arbitral legislative framework in Singapore, Hong Kong and India and offer an in-depth analysis, with case studies, of the role of the courts in Singapore, Hong Kong and India in dealing with specific issues such as challenges to tribunal jurisdiction, enforcement and setting aside of awards. Finally, the course will also look at the peculiar relationship between arbitration and mediation in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5318V", "title": "Public Health Law and Regulation", "description": "This course provides an introduction to important topics in public health law and regulation. It explores the use of law as an important tool in protecting the public\u2019s health, responding to health risks and implementing strategies to promote and improve public health. The course reviews the nature and sources of public health law, and regulatory strategies that law can deploy to protect and promote public health. It considers these roles in selected areas within the field: for example, acute public health threats like SARS and pandemic influenza, tobacco control, serious sexually transmitted diseases, and non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5319V", "title": "Current Problems in International Law", "description": "This course examines current problems in international law relating, for instance, to the use of force, human rights, international environmental law and foreign investment law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5320", "title": "International Space Law", "description": "Globally, space-derived products and services combine assets and annual revenues in excess of USD350 billion. The year-on-year growth of the space economy is 9%, three times that of the global economy. This course discusses the international law regulating the use of, and activities in, outer space. It will examine issues such as State responsibility, liability for damage, and environmental protection. It will then debate the law relating to various space sectors such as telecommunications, navigation, military and dual use, resource management, and human spaceflight."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5321", "title": "Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions", "description": "This course applies economic concepts to the practice of structuring business transactions. The materials consist of case studies of actual transactions. We will use those case studies to analyze the economics challenges that parties to a deal must address, and to analyse the mechanisms the parties use to address those challenges. The case studies will cover a selection from bond financings, acquisitions, movie financings, product licenses, biotech alliances, venture capital financings, cross-border joint ventures, private equity investments, corporate reorganizations, and more."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5322", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": "Trade Finance Law considers the different legal structures used to effect payment under, and disincentives breaches of, international agreements for the supply of goods and services. The course analyses and compares documentary and standby letters of credit, international drafts and forfaiting, performance bonds and first demand guarantees and export credit guarantees. Key topics will include the structure, juridical nature and obligational content of the aforementioned instruments; the nature of the harmonised regimes and their interaction with domestic law; the principle of strict compliance and its relaxation; documentary and non-documentary forms of recourse; the autonomy principle and its exceptions; and the conflict of laws principles applicable to autonomous payment undertakings. The course should be of interest to students who have already studied other components of international trade and/or who have an interest in international banking operations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5322V", "title": "Trade Finance Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5323", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5323V", "title": "Law of Agency", "description": "This course provides a detailed examination of the principles of agency law. Broadly speaking, agency involves one person acting for another. Agents may be of many different kinds spanning different settings and industries. Shop assistants, solicitors, auctioneers, estate agents, are common examples of agents. \nThis course covers both \u2018internal\u2019 and \u2018external\u2019 dimensions of agency. Topics covered include definitions of agency, how agency relationships are created, different types of authority, agency\u2019s application outside contract, and the rights and duties between principal and agent."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5324", "title": "Comparative Trade Mark Law", "description": "This module takes a comparative approach to exploring what is meant by a trade mark, the messages that trade marks communicate and the roles they perform. These are important enquiries because questions of what trade marks do and ought to do have a direct impact on the contours of the law. A major theme will be the relationship between trade marks and brands: to what extent should trade mark law be concerned with protecting brand value? What might a focus on brand value mean for competitors? Is a focus on brand value compatible with the logics of trade mark registration? These questions will be explored by reference to the laws of multiple jurisdictions, most significantly Australia, the EU, Singapore and the USA."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5325", "title": "The Int'l Litigation & Procedure of State Disputes", "description": "Taught by two public international law practitioners, this course invites participants to develop a more practical and strategic understanding of how a State deals with the various types of disputes it may face. Topics covered includes litigation and procedural considerations in inter-State, investor-State, human rights and international criminal disputes, and cross-cutting considerations like national security privileges, immunities, conflicts of public international law. The course will conclude with a seminar where senior practitioners of public international law share their views and insights on acting as a Government advisor and as an advocate."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5326", "title": "Administrative Justice: Perspectives from the U.S.", "description": "An introduction to the public law system of the United States, with an emphasis on structural issues and governmental processes, especially the creation of regulations and the political and judicial controls over this important activity. Changes resulting from the Trump administration will be an important element."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5327V", "title": "Mergers and Acquisitions: A Practitioner\u2019s Perspective", "description": "This course will provide a practitioner's perspective on the bread and butter of any transactional practice: mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of non-listed, private companies. It will deal with the structuring of an M&A transaction (the why) and the plain vanilla aspects of documentation (the why and how of basic drafting). \n\nMany new graduates seem to be unable to see the wood for the trees. They arrive as trainees, with a reasonable grounding in the law, but an inability to apply it to real life situations. The practicalities elude them and they seem to want to follow templates without much understanding of the transaction. This course will attempt to give them a working knowledge of the issues to be considered in structuring a transaction. It will also cover the main features of standard documentation (bearing in mind that there is a discernible industry-standard set of documentation in common law countries) to explain why documents are drafted the way they are."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5328", "title": "Sports Law & Arbitration", "description": "Sports Law is a very broad field, encompassing several areas of law unique to the sporting industry, as well as several traditional areas of law applied to the field of sport.This course will focus on the existing and evolving private and public international sports law systems, (where appropriate) the national sports law of several jurisdictions (including Australia, USA, UK and to a lesser extent, Singapore) and provide avenues of multi-jurisdictional comparative analysis. The social, political, commercial and economic influences on the development, content and structure of sports law globally will also be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5329", "title": "Cross-Border Litigation", "description": "The focus of this course is on the litigation of cross-border disputes in the fields of tort, contract, consumer protection and intellectual property including in the online context. The subject will examine the key doctrinal principles and scholarly debates in the area as well as problems commonly encountered in practice. Material will be drawn from leading common law jurisdictions, including Singapore, Australia, England, Hong Kong and Canada. The course is recommended for those with an interest in international dispute resolution, conflict of laws, litigation or international commerce."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5330", "title": "Advanced Trusts Law", "description": "The first part of the course explores how trusts are used to manage family wealth, with emphasis on developments in the \u2018offshore world\u2019. We will discuss how trusts may be used to protect assets, how trustees\u2019 discretions may be controlled, the rights of objects of trusts, and purpose trusts. The second part concerns trusts in commercial transactions. We will explore creditor trusts, constructive trusts, bonds and intermediated holding of securities, equitable assignments and equitable charges. By comparing commercial trusts with private trusts, we will also ask whether there are any significant contextual differences in relation to the trust device."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5331", "title": "The Rule of Law", "description": "This course explores the ideal of the rule of law: its value, limitations, costs, and relationship with distinct social aspirations. The teaching is based on leading texts, comparative case law, and video documentaries. The course is divided into nine modules: (1) the meaning and value of the rule of law, (2) emergencies, (3) the relationship(s) between the rule of law, the obligation to obey the law, and the rule of good law, (4) the modern welfare state, (5) criminal law vs. private law, (6) international law, (7) corporations and liberal democracy, (8) colonialism and developmental transitions, and (9) defences for disobedience."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5332", "title": "Fair Use in Theory and Practice", "description": "The copyright laws of Singapore and the United have in common a general, flexible, open exception designated by the term \u201cfair use.\u201d During the last 25 years, the U.S has had extensive experience with this concept, both in the courts and in fields of practice as diverse as art, filmmaking, education, technology, and journalism. Not only have judicial opinions about fair used cohered into a \u201cunified field theory\u201d of the doctrine, but awareness of its potential applications has increased dramatically among members of relevant communities. The last development has been attributable in part to the development of community-specific Codes of Best Practices for the responsible application of fair use \u2013 an effort in which the instructor for this module has been active. The course will explore the legal background of fair use, its doctrinal evolution over the past 25 years, and a variety of practical situations in which it has been successful employed."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5334", "title": "Law and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "This module aims to increase students\u2019 breadth of empirical knowledge and depth of theoretical understanding of issues of law, justice, and society. With urbanization and industrialization, modern societies have increasingly depended upon law to regulate the behaviour of their members and the activities of their institutions. It will explore issues in law and society in SE Asia, with an emphasis on how sexuality, ethnic and religious diversity are handled, and how justice is conceived; as well as\nissues in the Singaporean justice system, where other examples will be used to compare Singapore\u2019s unique approach to addressing justice and society issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5335V", "title": "Multinational Enterprises and International Law", "description": "This module examines the evolving regime for the regulation and protection of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in international law. Although MNEs remain creations of domestic law, the cross-border activities of MNEs increasingly come within the scope of instruments creating obligations and/or rights in international law. In assessing the challenges faced by states and MNEs alike with respect to such transnational regulation, the module takes a rounded and interdisciplinary view of the issues involved, addressing both the commercial and social dimensions of MNE action. In addition to considering the regulatory powers of individual states, developments under international instruments on human rights, labour conditions, finance, taxation and investment are addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5338V", "title": "Advanced Practicum in International Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the real-life practice of international commercial and treaty arbitration from beginning to end: from clause drafting/treaty jurisdiction, to arbitrator selection, to emergency proceedings, through the written and hearing phases, to award and enforcement strategy. Emphasis will be on primary materials: case law, statutes, institution rules, treaties, commentary, and \u201csoft law\u201d guidelines. Using complex factual scenarios, students will take part in strategy, drafting and advocacy exercises. On the commercial arbitration side, the focus will be on the ICC Court and SIAC; on the treaty side, ICSID and the PCA/UNCITRAL. Ethics issues will be front burner."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5339", "title": "Comparative Evidence in International Arbitration", "description": "This course considers the way that international adjudicators approach fact-finding and factual determinations. The course analyses essential policy questions as to the way legal systems should deal with evidence; considers comparative law perspectives; and aims to integrate these perspectives with practical consideration of the way documents and witnesses are dealt with in international arbitration. There is no greater divergence between legal families than that pertaining to the treatment of evidence. For international adjudication to meet the needs of participants from all legal families, a proper understanding of comparative approaches and the degree of convergence, is essential to arbitrators and practitioners."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5340V", "title": "International Refugee Law", "description": "One of the most pressing current issues of international concern is the highest ever level of global displacement, with over twenty million refugees in the world. This course examines the international legal regime for the protection of refugees. With the 1951 Refugee Convention as its \u201cbackbone\u201d, the course focuses on the \u201crefugee\u201d definition, the exclusion and withdrawal of refugee status, status determination procedures, the rights of recognised refugees and asylum-seekers, the non-refoulement principle, complementary protection, States\u2019 responsibility-sharing, responsibility-shifting and deterrence of asylum-seekers, the status of Palestinian refugees, UNHCR\u2019s supervisory responsibility, and regional protection systems (particularly the Common European Asylum System)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5341V", "title": "The Law and Politics of Forced Migration", "description": "This course critically examines the relationship between law and politics in the international protection of the forcibly displaced, focusing on five groups of migrants, namely, refugees and asylum-seekers, stateless persons, internally displaced persons, victims of trafficking, and climate-change and environmentally displaced persons. After assessing the protection gaps relating to these five groups, this course considers the more complex phenomena of mass influx and \u201cmixed migration,\u201d immigration detention (specifically of particularly vulnerable migrants), and durable solutions. The roles of regional and institutional organisations will also be studied. An assessed negotiation relating to a present-day forced migration crisis concludes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5342V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I", "description": "This course will be useful for those who want to practise corporate or tax law.\n\nTopics covered:\n- the Singapore corporate tax, GST and stamp duty implications of (a) related party transactions; (b) restructurings and; (c) M&As\n- structuring techniques to increase tax efficiency in each of these situations\n- selected US corporate tax and Australian GST rules (since the tax consequences of a foreign country will have to be analysed)\n- how structuring strategies may be challenged with rules/proposed rules addressing treaty shopping, debt-equity and entity classification hybridity, and arbitrage opportunities involving the GST treatment of cross-border transations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5343V", "title": "International Regulation of the Global Commons", "description": "The global commons comprises the high seas, the deep seabed, outer space, the airspace above the exclusive economic zone and the high seas, as well as Antarctica, an ice-covered continent, and the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean. Each of these areas are governed by international treaty regimes that were developed specifically for that area. This course will examine and compare the international regimes governing activities in the global commons. It will also examine the evolving law on the obligation of States to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause harm to the environment of the global commons."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5344", "title": "Public and Private International Copyright Law", "description": "A detailed study of the public and private international law of copyright law focusing on legal responses to cross-border issues and conflicts among private parties and nation states. Topics to be covered include: ASEAN IP relations, connecting factors in private litigation, the major international copyright treaties, major themes in EU copyright jurisprudence, exhaustion of rights, exceptions and limitations, indigenous IP."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5345", "title": "The Fulfilled Life and the Life of the Law", "description": "What is it to lead a fulfilled life? This was the central question\nfor ancient philosophers, in both the east and the west, for\nwhom philosophy was not only theory. It was a method\ndesigned to achieve both rigorous conceptual analysis and\na fulfilled human life. In this course we will explore several\nof the methods philosophers have proposed for leading a\nfulfilled life and consider some of the rich suggestions or\nimplications of these methods for leading a fulfilled life of the\nlaw, the life led by law students, lawyers, judges, and others\ninterested in administering, shaping, or living according to\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5346V", "title": "Interim Measures in International Arbitration", "description": "This course will focus in detail on provisional and interim\nmeasures in the context of international commercial\narbitration, including emergency arbitrator (EA)\nproceedings. The course will address topics such as the\nnature and scope of provisional and interim relief, the\nauthority of arbitral tribunals (and limitations thereon) to\norder such relief, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts,\nchoice of law issues and the standards for granting interim\nmeasures, issues arising with respect to various categories\nof provisional relief, and judicial enforcement of interim\nmeasures ordered by arbitral tribunals."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5347", "title": "Art & Cultural Heritage Law", "description": "This course explores international and domestic legal issues and disputes pertaining to the creation, ownership, use, and preservation of works of art and objects of cultural heritage. Cultural objects exist within the larger realm of goods and services moving throughout the marketplace. This course addresses the specialized laws and legal interpretations pertaining to the rights and obligations of individuals, entities, and governments as they discover and interact with these objects, within their own jurisdictions and across national borders, in times of war and peace."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5348", "title": "Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The module aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives. Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore. It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history. Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.\n\nThe module explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system. It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions. It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions. The module considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5349V", "title": "Energy Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces international arbitration\u2019s role in resolving energy disputes. Seminars will address both commercial and investment arbitration.The substantive content of national and international energy laws will be discussed together with the procedural specificities of energy disputes. The course will explore the political aspects of energy disputes, both domestic (resource sovereignty) and international (inter-state boundary disputes).\n\nParticipants will study the recent debates on the role of international arbitration vis-\u00e0-vis climate change and sustainable development.\n\nThe course incorporates practical exercises that will help participants interested in a career in international arbitration and public international law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5350", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5350V", "title": "Privacy & Data Protection Law", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce students to the law on privacy and data protection. It examines the various legal mechanisms by which privacy and personal data are protected. While the focus will be Singapore law, students will also be introduced to the laws of other jurisdictions such as the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5351", "title": "Comparative Corporate Law in East Asia", "description": "This module examines principal corporate law issues from a comparative perspective. As for jurisdictions, it primarily focuses on Japan and Korea in comparison with US and UK. This module is composed of 18 units, two units for each of the nine class dates. Beginning with the peculiar ownership structure of Japan and Korea and the nature of their agency problems, the module explores various legal strategies employed to address these challenges. The topics to be covered include: shareholder power, corporate organizational structure, independent directors, fiduciary duties, shareholder lawsuits, hostile takeovers, and creditor protection."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5352", "title": "China and International Economic Law", "description": "This course will provide a broad introduction to international economic law related to China, including detailed study of a few core areas and the provision of guidance for students to pursue research on a topic of their choice.\nMajor topics to be covered include: (i) trade in goods; (ii) trade in services; (iii) trade in intellectual property; (iv) investment; (v) dispute settlement; and (vi) the future of China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5353", "title": "Character Evidence in the Common Law World", "description": "The law relating to evidence of character has been changing throughout the common law world over the last fifty years. This course will, by reference several common law jurisdictions, including Singapore in particular, cover, most pressingly, how the law deals with evidence of the accused\u2019s bad character. It will also deal with bad character of witnesses in criminal cases, and, in particular, complainants in sexual cases, as well as that of witnesses and others in civil cases. A third element concerns the good character of the accused, of witnesses in criminal cases, and of parties and others in civil cases."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5354", "title": "Comparative Human Rights Law", "description": "Human rights adjudication has expanded in many jurisdictions across the world in the past few decades. Yet there is still scepticism about the role of courts in human rights adjudication. This subject will provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on the role of courts in human rights adjudication by introducing them to the different approaches to the adjudication of human rights in a range of jurisdictions including South Africa, Canada, Germany, the US, Israel, Australia, India, Singapore and the EU. Several key human rights issues that have arisen in different jurisdictions will be analysed and compared."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5355", "title": "International Law and Development", "description": "The concept of development has been crucial to structuring international legal relations for the last 70 years. In the political and economic domains, most international institutions engage with the development project in some form. This subject offers a conceptual and intellectual grounding to examine development as an idea and set of practices in dynamic relation with national and international law. The history of development in relation to imperialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and globalisation means that these relations are complex. Understanding them is crucial to understanding the place of international law, and the work development does in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5356V", "title": "International Economic Law Clinic", "description": "This clinic offers a unique opportunity for students to apply theory to practice in the field of international economic law. Students work in small teams and under the close supervision of professors and invited experts on specific, real-world legal questions of international economic law coming from \"real clients\" such as governments, international organizations, or NGOs. At the end of the semester, the Project Teams submit written legal memos and orally present their projects. They also publish their projects. The clinic is part of \"TradeLab,\" a global network of international economic law clinics at leading law schools around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5357V", "title": "Regulation & Political Economy", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the main debates and issues in the field of regulation covering current debates about what regulation is, and the different institutions and instruments used to regulate our lives. It looks at (i) central concepts used by regulators, e.g. risk, cost-benefit analysis, regulatory impact assessment; (ii) when different strategies should be adopted in regulating a sector; (iii) three central fields where regulation is used \u2013 competition, network industries, cyberspace. This course involves examples from jurisdictions across the world (especially Australasia, Europe and North America) with their insights having particular relevance for law and regulation in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5358Z", "title": "ICC Arbitration", "description": "The International Chamber of Commerce and its\nInternational Court of Arbitration have played a leading role\nin the establishment and the development of the\ninternational normative framework that makes arbitration so\nattractive today. This course highlights the historical and\ncontemporary contributions of ICC to this normative\nframework, and covers the key issues with which\npractitioners are faced at the main junctures of ICC\narbitration proceedings, from both a practical and a legal\nperspective. The course features in-class practical\nexercises that draw on course resources and enable\nstudents to face a variety of possible real-life scenarios."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5359Z", "title": "SIAC and Institutional Arbitration", "description": "Arbitral institutions are important stakeholders in the field\nof international arbitration, but the nature and importance\nof their role have often been overlooked. The course seeks\nto introduce participants to the role and function of arbitral\ninstitutions in the practice of international arbitration, and to\nthe complex issues that arbitral institutions face in the\nadministration of arbitrations, appointment of arbitrators,\nissuing arbitral rules and practice notes and in guiding and\nshaping the development of international arbitration. The\ncourse will be taught by visiting lecturers from the Board,\nCourt of Arbitration and Secretariat of the Singapore\nInternational Arbitration Centre (SIAC)."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5360Z", "title": "Current Challenges to Investment Arbitration", "description": "This module will focus on the current challenges faced by investment arbitration at the global level. It will adopt a three-step approach.\nStudents will first acquire an in-depth understanding of the history and functioning of the existing system. On this basis, the different criticisms and reform proposals will be scrutinized. Finally, students will be invited to make their own informed assessment of the existing system, to discuss its evolution and debate possible improvements.\nThe module will be diversified, as it will address both legal and extra-legal issues. Seminars will be interactive and students will be encouraged to participate actively."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5361Z", "title": "Complex Arbitrations: Multiparty \u2013 Multicontract", "description": "1. Who are the parties to the contract(s) or to the arbitration clause(s) contained therein? The theories applied by courts and arbitral tribunals\n2. The extension of the arbitration clause to non-signatories\n3. The possibility of bringing together in one single proceeding all the parties who have participated in the performance of one economic transaction through interrelated contracts\n4. Joinder and consolidation\n5. Appointment of arbitrators in multiparty arbitration cases\n6. The enforcement of an award in multiparty, multicontract cases\n7. The res judicata effect of an award rendered in a connected arbitration arising from the same project"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5364V", "title": "Principles of Civil Law: Law of Obligations & Property", "description": "The module introduces important concepts and principles of private law in civil law jurisdictions to students trained in the common law. The focus is on concepts and principles in which the differences between the civil and common law systems are particularly striking. Examples are the core emphasis on obligations, the lack of a strict or any consideration requirement in contract law, the focus on absolute rights in delictual liability, the concept of negotiorum gestio and the design of property law as positive absolute rights. The different concepts of legislation and jurisprudence also form part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5367", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5367V", "title": "Public International Law Externship", "description": "The NUS PIL Externship is a structured experiential module for students interested in public international law in action."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5368", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism", "description": "Comparative constitutional law has emerged as one of the\nmost vibrant areas in contemporary public law. The\ncourse explores the principal challenges for the theory and\npractice of constitutionalism across time and place,\ngenerally and in particular under the globalizing conditions\nof the early 21st century. It combines the legal study of\nconstitutional texts and constitutional jurisprudence from a\nwide range of countries and constitutional systems\nworldwide with exploration of pertinent social science\nresearch concerning the global expansion of\nconstitutionalism and judicial review."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5369", "title": "Constitutionalism in Asia", "description": "This course is designed to offer an up-to-date understanding of constitutionalism in Asia, covering a representative number of Asian jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, South Korea, Taiwan and the ten ASEAN states. The students are introduced to leading constitutional cases and selected materials in those jurisdictions and guided to critically examine constitutional jurisprudences developed in those Asian jurisdictions and compared them with \nwhat has been developed elsewhere, particularly in the West."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5370", "title": "The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance", "description": "This module explores the risks associated with protecting and managing the legal and corporate risks associated with the increasingly important and overlapping fields of cybersecurity, privacy and data compliance and offers both legal and practical solutions for regulating and managing such risks within an effective legal and compliance framework."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5371", "title": "Charity Law Today", "description": "This course will look in depth at the content of charity law, the consequences of charity status, and key questions raised by charity law and regulation, in contemporary settings across the world. Topics will include the profile and value of the charity sector; the \u2018heads\u2019 of charity; the public benefit requirement of charity law; charity law\u2019s treatment of political purposes; the sources of charity law;\nthe tax treatment of charities; charitable trusts and discrimination; and the regulation of charities. Singapore\u2019s charity law will be considered in global perspective. \nThis course will not consider the treatment of charity in Islamic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5372", "title": "International Intellectual Property Law", "description": "This module addresses the public and private international law issues concerned with the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) globally. It commences with an overview of the sources of public international IP law, including the principal treaties, their interpretation and domestic implementation, and the general architecture of the international IP system. Using selected case studies, it then considers other international obligations that intersect with IPRS, including trade and investment protection measures and human rights obligations. It concludes with a survey of the private international law issues affecting the global exploitation of IPRs, particularly in the context of the Internet."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5373", "title": "Advanced Copyright", "description": "Advanced copyright will examine a number of the most recent controversies in copyright law, including challenges to the cable and broadcast TV business models, the copyright status of \"appropriation art\", the permissibility of mass digitization, the phenomenon of \"copyright trolls\", and the copyright implications of universities' electronic library reserve policies. Students must have completed a course in basic copyright law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5374", "title": "Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development", "description": "We will examine water\u2019s importance to economic development and its special interest to lawyers. Water governance concerns both private as well as public\ninterests. Meanwhile, there is fundamental variation in how much is available and where. And because water flows, society must manage it across political boundaries. By drawing on the examples of a few key river basins, we will examine the reasons and processes by which water law has evolved as it has \u2013 and whether and how, given rising pressures and uncertainty, it may change."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5375", "title": "Traditional Chinese Legal Thought", "description": "This course is an introduction to the major themes and\nissues in traditional Chinese legal thought. We will focus\non the close reading and analysis of selected works by\nvarious philosophers and various philosophical schools,\nincluding Confucius and later Confucian thinkers\n(including, but not limited to, Mencius, Xunzi, and Dong\nZhongshu), the Legalists, and the Daoists. Attention will\nalso be placed on understanding these thinkers and\nphilosophical schools in historical context and gaining an\nunderstanding of how law was applied in premodern\nChina. No prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese\nphilosophy is required. All required readings are in\nEnglish."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5376", "title": "Regulation & Private Law in Banking & Financial Service", "description": "This course is about the impact of regulation on the private law of banking and financial services. This would typically include how regulatory rules create private law duties in contract or tort.\n\nIt will be of interest to those interested in financial contracts, financial institutions and the regulation and supervision of financial markets and institutions including\nbanks. \n\nFinancial services constitute an important sector of the economy. Financial markets and institutions including banks are subject to a rapidly expanding field of public\nregulation. Its implementation and enforcement raise many underexplored challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5377V", "title": "Law in Action Legal Policymaking Externship", "description": "Law in Action Legal Policymaking Externship offers students the opportunity to gain unique insights into Government policy making by working directly on various projects at the Ministry of Law. The module provides a structured programme for students who wish to understand and acquire skills relevant to policy development in a Government setting. Students will be involved in a wide spectrum of policy and legislative projects, such as civil and criminal procedure, arbitration law, intellectual property and legal industry development. Students will be part of a dynamic and challenging process of shaping policy goals to enhance the legal infrastructure in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5379V", "title": "Future of Int'l Commercial Arbitration in APAC Region", "description": "The course will examine recent developments and future directions in international commercial arbitration. Recent innovations such as emergency arbitrations, arb-med-arb protocols, expeditious dismissal of manifestly unmeritorious claims, consolidation and joinder, and expedited procedures will be examined from a comparative and analytical perspective with a focus on jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. It will also attempt to identify future trends in international commercial arbitration, including the use of artificial intelligence, online dispute resolution, block chain technology and other procedural and technological innovations. It will utilize case studies to allow students to gain hands-on experience with arbitral rules, legislation and procedure."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5381V", "title": "Heritage Law", "description": "Heritage is a broad term that, for our purposes, encompasses things as diverse as architecture and cultural objects regarded as having historical importance, and intangible aspects of culture such as cuisine, the performing arts, and ritual practices. The course aims to provide an insight into how heritage can be protected and safeguarded for future generations by domestic common law and statutory rules on the one hand; and international law rules on the other.\n\nA prior knowledge of how public international law works is useful but not required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5382V", "title": "Private International Law", "description": "With the internationalization of commercial and personal relationships and the increase of cross-border disputes in Singapore\u2019s courts, a working knowledge of private international law, or the conflict of laws, has become essential for legal practice in Singapore. This course offers students a comprehensive overview of the foundations of private international law, with a particular focus on Singapore law. It covers private international law\u2019s three main pillars - jurisdiction, choice of law and foreign judgments - and also touches on broader methodological issues, and questions of sovereignty, comity, and public policy, which undergird and define the boundaries of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5383Z", "title": "International Arbitration & the New York Convention", "description": "The New York Convention of 1958 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards provides for the international enforcement of arbitral awards. Considered as the most successful international convention in international private law, the Convention now has 164 Contracting States and more than 2,500 court decisions interpreting and applying the Convention (as of June 2020). The course will analyze and compare the most important of those decisions. It will offer a unique insight in treaty design, statutory enactments, varying court approaches, and the practice of international arbitration. The course materials will be made available at www.newyorkconvention.org."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5384", "title": "Harms and Wrongs", "description": "The module will provide students with the opportunity to critically engage with some of the core notions they encounter when they study criminal law. The focus will be on a number of issues revolving around the concepts of harm and wrong, such as:\n- How should we understand the notion of wrongdoing?\n- Should the criminal law care about the distinction between intended and foreseen harm?\n- Can the wrongfulness of certain actions depend on the intentions of the agent?\n- What is the relationship between reasons for action and legal justifications?\n- What is wrong with blackmail?"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5385", "title": "Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy", "description": "In today\u2019s global digital world, national tax systems face new challenges. Governments large and small cooperate in tax enforcement including through strengthened anti-abuse rules, yet tax competition continues. Uncertainty,\ncomplexity and risk have increased for taxpayers ranging from individuals to multinational enterprises. Recent developments in the OECD Inclusive Framework and other forums may lead to significant new global tax rules, but an agreed outcome is far from certain. This course explores the latest trends and issues in personal and corporate income tax and Goods and Services Tax that address\ndigital or cross-border services or employment, consumption, and investment."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5386", "title": "Intellectual Property in Body, Persona & Art", "description": "This course examines emerging trends to identify and analyse ways in which intellectual property laws are being used to commodify self. Through processes of intellectual propertisation, aspects of the human body, human persona, and human expression through art can be converted from \u2018unowned\u2019 to \u2018owned\u2019. Examining contemporary issues such as gene patents, fake news, authenticity and cultural appropriation, as well as\nemerging technologies such as transplanted and artificial body parts, cyborgs, mind downloads, blockchain and the Internet of Things, the course examines the mechanisms\nby which the expansion of intellectual property laws is enabling increasing commodification of humankind."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5387", "title": "Regulation of Digital Platforms", "description": "This course will survey multiple legal fields that involve the regulation of what are generally referred to as \u201cdigital platforms,\u201d including Google, Facebook, and others. The primary legal fields of study will be competition (antitrust) law and liability for third-party content. Because these areas of law draw heavily from economic theory and research, the course will also survey some of the relevant economics literature as a means of better understanding the relevant markets."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5388", "title": "Comparative Civil Law: Thai Contract Law", "description": "This course explores Thai contract law which is a product of civil law traditions and a cornerstone of Thai private law. It covers major areas of contract law from the beginning to the end of a contract, i.e. contract formation, validity, interpretation, breach of contract, and ending and changing a contract. Course participants will be encouraged to make comparisons between Thai and Singapore contract laws on\ncertain issues."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5393V", "title": "Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks", "description": "Corporate groups are pervasive in modern, international commerce. Frequently they are structured in order to avoid or minimise liability for wrongdoing and to protect group assets. In other cases, risky physical processes are contracted out to network participants. This course examines the structures and practices of corporate groups and networks, the problems of externalisation of liability,\nand legal mechanisms for extending liability among participant entities. Extended liability regimes considered span statute law and common law. Consideration is given also to several important suggestions for development of the law in this area."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5394", "title": "Protection Overlaps in Intellectual Property Law", "description": "In intellectual property law, overlaps of exclusive rights stemming from different protection regimes raise particular problems. Nonetheless, the cumulation of rights has become a standard protection strategy in sectors ranging from software to fashion and entertainment. Against this background, this module offers a detailed analysis of protection overlaps. Which combinations of rights are deemed permissible? Which specific problems arise from the cumulation of intellectual property rights? Using international, US and EU legislation and case law as reference points, these questions will be discussed. Moreover, the module will explore alternative avenues for better law and policy making."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5395", "title": "The Law & Practice of Modern Trust Structures", "description": "Using precedents and transactional documents generously supplied by various leading law firms and chambers, the module will examine in much greater depth various representative uses of trusts in the modern world, both to make family provision and in commerce. It will examine how these functions are realised by practising lawyers working within, ad developing, legal doctrine. Finally it will\nexplore the broad theoretical implications of this work."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5396", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": "UNIVERSITY RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMME"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5396V", "title": "International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Research", "description": "This module provides students enrolled in the LLM (IADR) degree with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper not exceeding 10,000 words under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. Students\nmay not do a directed research on topics that they have studied in other courses or have previously done research assignments on. Students interested in doing the Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5397", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5397V", "title": "International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Research", "description": "This module provides students enrolled in the LLM (IADR) degree with the opportunity to do a substantial research paper not exceeding 10,000 words under the direct supervision of a member of the academic staff. Students\nmay not do a directed research on topics that they have studied in other courses or have previously done research assignments on. Students interested in doing the Directed Research are advised to seek the provisional approval of their proposed supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5398", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5399", "title": "University Research Opportunities Programme", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5400", "title": "Biomedical Law & Ethics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5402", "title": "Corporate Insolvency Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5403", "title": "Family Law", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5405A", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (a)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5405B", "title": "Law of Intellectual Property (B)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5407", "title": "Law of Insurance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5409", "title": "International Corporate Finance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5411", "title": "Personal Property Law", "description": "Personal property law cuts across many legal fields, including equity and trusts, and the law of sales, agency, company, insolvency and bankruptcy, insurance, banking, economic torts and crimes. The course covers the following broad areas: (i) defining the interests in personal property; (ii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by consent, including the sale of goods and documentary sales; (iii) creation and acquisition of interests in tangible property by \noperation of law; (iv) intangible property & security interests; (v) persistence of interests in personal property; and (iv) protection of interests in personal property."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5412", "title": "Securities and Capital Markets Regulation", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of securities regulation, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions, in Singapore and, where relevant, jurisdictions such as the US, UK, Australia, China and HK. Topics to be covered generally include: regulatory authorities and capital markets; supervision of intermediaries; the \"going public\" process; legal position of stockbrokers; insider trading and securities frauds; globalisation, technology and regulatory harmonisation; and regulation of takeover activity. In addition, aspects of syndicated loan and bond financing, and securitisation, will be studied in some detail. Students will be expected to use the Internet to search for comparative materials. Advisory Note for students from Civil Law Jurisdiction: Not appropriate for civil law students."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5413", "title": "Civil Justice and Procedure", "description": "The course is about the law governing the processes by which substantive rights are effectuated during civil litigation in Singapore. The emphasis will be on how Rules of Court operate in areas of dispute resolution including the interlocutory stages from filing of an action to the trial, post-judgment matters and the role of amicable settlement in the adversarial culture. The inter-relationship between procedure, evidence and ethics will be analysed. Students will have an understanding of the principles of procedure to consider the efficacy and viability of the governing law in light of fairness, efficiency and justice, and to propose reforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5431V", "title": "Choice of Law: Practice and Theories", "description": "This course explores the tensions in choice-of-law decision-making in selected areas or sub-fields spanning human rights violations, foreign sovereign debts, environmental liability, currency swaps, international trusts, multiple-listed corporations, and time permitting, economic torts and internet defamation and/or employment and human capital development. In each specific area, it asks whether a choice-of-law theory can shed light on the tensions which the choice-of-law rule seeks to balance and whether another can lead to development of a better or more coherent rule."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5432V", "title": "International Litigation: Themes and Practice", "description": "The subject of international litigation has gained strong recognition as a composite of two branches of the conflict of laws, namely jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgment. This conceptualisation brings into its embrace evolving themes of comity, proximity, efficiency, party autonomy, foreign sovereign immunity, foreign act of state and justiciability, reasonable extraterritoriality, and forum mandatory procedural policies. In this advanced course, each theme is studied in the context of practice in a particular sub-field of jurisdiction or enforcement; although some themes such as that of sovereignty are cross-cutting and are studied in more than one jurisdictional context."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5433V", "title": "Global Data Privacy Law", "description": "This course will explore the main themes and approaches in data privacy law in light of various international frameworks (OECD, APEC, ASEAN) and a cross-section of national laws from North America, Europe and Asia. While many countries have enacted or amended laws in recent years, there is no widely-accepted framework for cross-border data transfers and developments in business and technology present new risks and challenges to the protection of individuals\u2019 personal data and privacy. This course will also consider the role of data privacy laws in regulating social media and the Internet, data science, AI and machine learning and cybersecurity."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5434V", "title": "International Commodity Trading Law Clinic", "description": "The trading of commodities is one of the oldest forms of economic activity known to mankind. Today, it is a sophisticated multi-trillion-dollar industry spanning across the globe. A commodity trade is, at its heart, the sale and purchase of a commodity, but is often coupled with other related transactions such as transportation, storage,\ninsurance and finance. This course seeks to provide students with an overview of international commodity trading law. As an \u201cindustry-focused\u201d course, students will\nbe trained to identify and analyse problems that span across different areas including contract, banking and finance, agency, assignment, set-off \u2013 just like practitioners do."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5435", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Law", "description": "Environmental Law is unique because it did not emerge from a single source of law. Rather, it has roots in almost every type of law. Through diverse readings, deep discussions, and independent research, this course will identify and understand the various types of law that, together, give rise to \u201cenvironmental law.\u201d The course will consider environmental law\u2019s roots in common law, regulation, legislation, constitutions, international cooperation, public action, and even private self-governance. Though not exclusively, the focus will be on common law jurisdictions in the British tradition, but independent research will allow students to explore more widely for themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5436V", "title": "Family Law and Practice", "description": "Family Law covers a very broad field that involves familial relationships wider than just spousal relationships, children and money matters. It encompasses transnational conflict of laws, marital agreements, international conventions and enforcement issues. It also sees intersectionality with elder law, mental capacity, as well as probate and succession law. It is not possible to cover every aspect of family law in this elective. This course will cover family law and practice in Singapore, with a special emphasis on marriages, divorce and ancillary matters for civil marriages, and the workings of the Family Justice Courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5437V", "title": "Law and Democracy in East Asia", "description": "This module explores diverse development patterns of the rule of law and democracy in East Asia. Theories of democracy commonly hold that the acceptance of rule of law in non-democratic countries would lead to democratization, especially along with increasing economic prosperity. This linear thesis, however, have met challenges recently in light of recent developments in China, HK, and other parts of the world. As such, this module scrutinizes this linear thesis by examining the trajectories of legal development in East Asia and the determinants, such as international factors, civil law traditions, legal professionals, foreign law influence, colonial legacies and post-colonial nationalism."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5438V", "title": "Intellectual Property Arbitration", "description": "This course introduces students to the exciting world of intellectual property arbitration. Traditionally thought of and taught as distinct areas of law, the overlap between IP rights and recourse to arbitration for the protection of those rights has grown significantly in recent years. This pioneering course is not currently offered in any other leading law school in the world. It is designed for students with little to\nno knowledge of IP law. It is also designed for students with an interest in arbitration, regardless of the level of their preexisting knowledge of arbitration."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5440", "title": "Electronic Evidence", "description": "This course introduces students to electronic evidence, which covers every area of law. Most legal problems presented to lawyers now include an element of electronic evidence. It is incumbent on judges, lawyers and legal academics to be familiar with the topic in the service of justice. Electronic evidence is ubiquitous.\nUsing an array of mobile technologies, people communicate regularly through social networking sites, e-mail and other virtual methods managed by organisations that are transnational. No area of human activity is free from the networked world \u2013 this also means no area of law is free from the effects of electronic evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5441", "title": "Law & Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy & Insolvency", "description": "This course looks at the economic foundations of corporate bankruptcy and insolvency law. The course will discuss the application of general law-and-economics principles to the governance and reorganization of insolvent and financially distressed business firms. Readings will focus in particular on questions about whether and how general theories of contracts, property, and corporate governance must be amended in the context of insolvency and bankruptcy."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5442", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5442V", "title": "Digital Trade and Digital Economy", "description": "This intensive course will consider digital trade's role within the global political economy and its benefits for international economic activity. Students will examine how international trade laws and treaties can affect cross-border digital trade, e-commerce, and emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, autonomous technology and 5G). Students will explore the legal and economic implications of various regulatory barriers to digital trade, as well as their related public policy concerns (e.g. privacy and cybersecurity), and learn about facilitating digital trade infrastructure, the key intellectual property issues in digital trade, and the linkages between trade and investment in the digital economy."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5443", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5443V", "title": "Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR", "description": "This course explores how the securities and capital markets are structured and regulated in Asia, particularly in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The topics covered in this course include, amongst others, the regulatory framework for the capital markets, securities offering, stock exchange listing, market misconduct such as insider trading, Fintech issues such as crowdfunding, mobile payment and cryptoassets. Given the nature of the course, a comparative approach will be adopted to examining the topics covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5444", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5444V", "title": "Law of the Marine Environment", "description": "Law of the Marine Environment discusses the legal framework for the international governance of shipping. Within this framework it considers the powers flag, coastal and ports states have to prescribe and enforce environmental shipping regulations. The main characteristics of the established regulatory system is further described. The course then embarks on a detailed analysis of a number of international and national civil liability regimes developed for the recovery of pollution damage. Contemporary environmental challenges faced by shipping, namely, the reduction of atmospheric pollution and greenhouse gas emissions and the issue of recycling of ships are then examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5446", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5446V", "title": "Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and practice of constitutionalism in four countries that are located in South and South East Asia: India, Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Two of these are among the largest, most pluralistic nations in the world, while the remaining two are small island states. All four nations experienced long periods of colonial rule, which continues to have a decisive impact on their post-colonial legal and constitutional orders. The course will be of interest to those who seek to study constitutionalism against larger societal debates about economic development, cultural values, and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5447", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5447V", "title": "Legal Data Science", "description": "This course offers a hands-on introduction to legal data science and aims to improve students\u2019 understanding of:\n1) legal issues that involve technology;\n2) the technologies that underlie many legal\u2013tech products; and\n3) how technology can be used in empirical legal research.\nThis class also provides practice in the logical reasoning skills important to many areas of legal practice and improves students\u2019 abilities to communicate with clients in high-tech industries.\nNo computer programming experience is required. Class operates in a \u201cflipped\u201d manner with weekly homework and readings, and intensive classroom activities that are designed to help students overcome learning obstacles."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5448", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5448V", "title": "Legal History: Themes and Perspectives", "description": "The common-law world only exists because of its shared history. History explains the common lawyer\u2019s profession. This module introduces the study of legal history with an eye to its contemporary relevance. It concentrates on the colonial roots of the laws and legal institutions of common-law countries such as Singapore. By examining colonial settings across three centuries, we shall see how English law dealt with cultural plurality and territorial expansion, and how imperial stakeholders debated and applied ideas from the rule of law to judicial independence. We explore why, how, and for whom law was made, and how these dynamics changed upon decolonisation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5449", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5449V", "title": "International Water Law", "description": "Water is everywhere. Water is life! But how is water regulated when it crosses national borders? And how is it regulated when it is found underground? Can water in one country be of relevance for the international community as a whole? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the intensive course on International Water Law. Throughout three weeks students will focus on transboundary surface water (first week), transboundary aquifers (second week) and on three specific water related matters that link water with other key relevant international legal areas (third week): climate change, sustainable development and security."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5450", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5450V", "title": "Singapore Legal History", "description": "This course provides students with a broad overview of Singapore\u2019s legal history, including its historical common law origins and the evolution of its key institutions and traditions. Topics covered include the historical development of Singapore\u2019s sources of law; the Singapore Constitution; judicial system; legal profession, legal service; legal education; criminal law; land law and law reporting. Assessment will be by way of a research paper on a selected topic to submit at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5451", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5451V", "title": "An Uncensored History of International Law", "description": "This course will focus on some of the neglected historical aspects of international law, but also on the techniques of doing a \u201chistory\u201d of the discipline (how is one even to attempt a history (or histories) of Euro-centric international law?). It will concentrate on topics as diverse as territorial acquisition and religious authority (the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas), on the freedom of the oceans and the slave trade, on colonies and race. The course will also be of particular interest to modalities of accountability for the international legal past, such as the 2000 Women\u2019s International Tribunal on Sexual Violence and the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5452", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5452V", "title": "Specialised Topics in Family Law", "description": "When a person refers to \u201cfamily law\u201d, listeners generally assume that the person is referring to divorce law. However, family law in Singapore encompasses much more, e.g. mental capacity, probate, and adoption.\n\nThis course will cover the above areas as well as more specialised topics in family law, e.g. relocation, cross border divorce and maintenance, child abduction, and therapeutic justice, and will also include an introduction to procedural and practical aspects of family law litigation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5453", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5453V", "title": "Fashion Law", "description": "This module provides an overview of how intellectual property laws (e.g. copyright, trademarks and right of publicity) regulate the world of fashion. It will also explore the enforcement of intellectual property laws in the fashion industry from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on writings in cultural studies and fashion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5454", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5454V", "title": "Commercial Conflict of Laws", "description": "Commercial conflict of laws is a significant area of legal scholarship and practice. The chief aim of the course is to examine the foundational principles of commercial conflict of laws in Singapore. First, it identifies and assesses the set of rules based on which Singapore courts decide whether to entertain international commercial disputes. Second, the unit outlines the provisions based on which Singapore courts determine the law governing the parties\u2019 cross-border disputes. Finally, the unit outlines the rules according to which courts in Singapore give effect to foreign judgments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5455", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5455V", "title": "Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions II", "description": "This course is the second installment on the taxation of cross-border commercial transactions. The first installment, Taxation of Cross-Border Commercial Transactions I, is a pre-requisite. This course will interest those who want to practise tax law and/or those who took the first installment and enjoyed it. \n\nTopics covered: \n- The OECD Model Double Tax Treaty including the Multilateral Instrument (in-depth)\n- Anti-avoidance rules and tax planning\n- Accounting for Tax Consequences\n- The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on International Tax\n- Tax Theory"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5456", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5456V", "title": "Legal Technology & Innovation", "description": "Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This module provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This module offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5457", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5457V", "title": "International Human Rights Law", "description": "The two fundamental goals of the module are to introduce students to topical issues surrounding international human rights law and to lay the foundation for their future advanced studies of, or work in, the field of human rights. The first section addresses normative bases, right-holders, and various types of human rights, corresponding territorial and extraterritorial obligations of states and non-state actors, and international and regional mechanisms of human rights protection. The second section explores the role of human rights in solving pressing global problems, including poverty and inequality, decolonization, social, global and environmental injustice, and other obstacles to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5458", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5458V", "title": "China and International Arbitration", "description": "China\u2019s expanding influence has been accompanied by a maturing of its legal framework for arbitration, as well as an increasingly active role in investor-state dispute settlement. This course undertakes a detailed examination of all facets of commercial arbitration in China, set within the context of China\u2019s transformational economic rise. It also explores salient issues that arise in commercial and investor-state arbitrations involving Chinese parties or China. Attention will be drawn to the import and impact of recent developments, including the South China Sea and the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as China\u2019s relationship with India, ASEAN and the US."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5460", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5460V", "title": "Law, FinTech and the Platform Economy", "description": "This module is designed to explore innovation and regulation of FinTech and its embedded platform economy. FinTech and its embedded platform economy, which is empowered by information communication technologies and cantered on data-driven online platforms, has transformed the paradigms of conducting commercial and financial activities. \n\nThrough a series of lectures, seminars, and group discussions, this module will explore the new phenomenon of the platform economy, especailly the FinTech innovation pertinant to Money, Investment, Data and Innovative Dispute Resolutions. A guest lecture by an experienced practitioner will be also arranged. \n\nA research-based, student-centred, and globally-oriented pedagogy will guide the teaching and learning engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5461", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. we then examine the compliance function through the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistle blowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money laundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5461V", "title": "Compliance and Risk Management", "description": "This course examines the rules and standards that govern the subject of compliance and risk management. It starts by examining questions of governance: boards of directors, and executives. We then examine the compliance function\nthrough the lens of managers, regulators, prosecutors, whistle blowers, and gatekeepers. Next, we consider particular areas of the law: corruption, anti-money\nlaundering, and export controls. We examine case studies where compliance fails and initiatives that go beyond compliance. Finally, we consider risk management as it pertains to lawyers; topics here include the governance of risk; approaches to risk management; reputational, operational, and enterprise risk."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5462", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5462V", "title": "Civil Law Approaches to Conflict of Laws", "description": "Recent decades have witnessed a growth in commercial dealings between EU Member States and South East Asian countries, specially Singapore. Consequently, it is not uncommon for Singaporean individuals or businesses to become involved in commercial disputes with EU-based entities. This elective examines how the ensuing conflict-oflaws questions in these cases are resolved by courts in the EU (which, after Brexit, is dominated by civil law states). This elective would be particularly beneficial to those who are likely to be engaged by clients in Singapore or South East Asia who become involved in litigation before EU Member State courts."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5463", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5463V", "title": "National Arts Council Externship", "description": "This externship, co-convened by a senior policymaker and a law professor, is designed to enable the student to gain a better understanding of influence of the law in the arts and adjacent sectors, inter alia, literary, visual and performing arts, in particular intellectual property and contract laws. The student will be involved in the Arts Resource Hub, draft artists\u2019 rights statements and agreement templates for arts practitioners, and perform high-quality research relevant for policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5464", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5464V", "title": "Principles of Port Finance and Regulation", "description": "Port financing is crucial to port performance and development. This course thus examines how port financing is supported or not as the case may be by law and regulation. It takes an internationalist and comparative approach to the subject. That said, where appropriate it will consider the Singapore legal system. The topics examined include the role of ports (as beneficiary of financing and as the investor), tools for port financing, legal management of risks and bankability of port projects, good practice in public-private initiatives, port concession agreements and green port financing."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5465", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable \ncollective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law; unfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the accommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5465V", "title": "International Geographical Indications Protection (IP)", "description": "Geographical Indications (GIs) signal the provenance of reputed products such as Champagne, Darjeeling and Prosciutto di Parma. They also constitute valuable\ncollective brands. This course (i) outlines the relevant international treaties mandating how they should be protected, (ii) compares the three competing models of protection envisaged by these treaties (trade mark law;\nunfair competition law; and sui generis protection), (iii) via EU law, explains the distinctive features of the sui generis model, and (iv) explores contemporary challenges, including the effects of climate change on terroir and the\naccommodation of handicrafts in a regime designed around agricultural products."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5471", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5471V", "title": "Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society", "description": "This module is based on both theoretical and practical approaches and regulative initiatives related to the digital governance, focusing to the existing and planned AI use-cases by public authorities in the fields. Reconciliation of data driven society with legal society and Rule of Law is a challenge to all of the jurisdictions. This module is using comparative method but is focusing on leading legal standard setting entity, European Union (and its member states, especially Estonia as a flagship country in e-gov), when analysing the norms, explaining the controversies, best practice and new legal doctrines related to Digital Governance."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5472", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5472V", "title": "The Belt & Road Initiative & Int\u2019l Trade Governance", "description": "Since its adoption nearly a decade ago, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has quickly become a key consideration in China\u2019s trade policy-making, and has attracted growing attention across the globe. This course explores how China produces and enhances its influence in global trade governance through BRI implementation, and how the international community should respond to China\u2019s growing influence. Nine selected issues will be discussed. This course will be conducted in an interactive way, including lectures of the professor, students presentations, and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5473", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of\ninvestment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy\nresources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5473V", "title": "International Energy Law", "description": "This course covers the international legal frameworks relating to various aspects of the management and governance of energy resources including the impact of\ninvestment law, trade law, property law and environmental law on energy transactions. It assesses how international law impacts on the energy sector and reviews selected national legal regimes concerning the regulation of energy\nresources such as nuclear, renewables, petroleum and gas, in addition to energy infrastructures such as pipelines and offshore platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5474", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5474V", "title": "Cybersecurity and Privacy Law", "description": "This course offers a foundational understanding of cybersecurity and privacy law drawing from international, European, and American legal perspectives. The distinct value of the course is that it integrates insights from both cybersecurity and privacy. The course offers an understanding of the core concepts, the relevant rules, and discusses the tensions that underpin these areas of law by addressing their complexities and contradictions. The additional advantage of the course is that it combines multiple legal perspectives. The carefully selected readings reflect the diversity of legal approaches to cybersecurity and privacy, and engage with multiple legal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5475", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5475V", "title": "Law and Practice of Investment Management", "description": "This course focuses on the law, directives and guidelines pertaining to the conduct of investment management activity in Singapore. The primary focus is on the regulatory regime in Singapore but significant elements of selected foreign regulatory regimes affecting investment managers in Singapore will also be introduced. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. The course is tailored to lay a foundation for those considering a career in the investment management industry, either as a legal practitioner in a law firm or as an in-house legal counsel or compliance officer within an investment management company."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5476", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5476V", "title": "US Copyright: International & Comparative Perspectives", "description": "This is a course in U.S. copyright law, both traditional and digital, in international and comparative perspective. Some of the specific topics we will cover are the subject matter of copyright; ownership; duration and transfer; infringement; fair use; and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5477", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic\ncivil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows: (1) Introduction to Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia: History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5477V", "title": "Private Law in East Asia (Korea, Taiwan, Japan)", "description": "The three East Asian jurisdictions (i.e., South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) covered in this course adopt the civil law tradition and have received the Romano-Germanic civil code. The study of civil law in East Asia broadens our legal horizons and enables us to have diverse legal minds in response to the globalisation era. Broadly speaking, the topics covered in this course are as follows: (1) Introduction\nto Comparative Private Law, (2) Private law in East Asia: History, Development and Methodology, (3) Contract Law in East Asia; (4) Property Law in East Asia; and (5) Trust Law in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5478", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5478V", "title": "Cross-Border Insolvency Law", "description": "This module is concerned with private international law (or \u2018conflict of laws\u2019) in the specialized context of international corporate insolvency and restructuring. It provides an opportunity for students who are interested in corporate insolvency and restructuring at the domestic level to consider the legal problems that arise in insolvency and restructuring cases where the assets and creditors are in multiple jurisdictions. The module will consider domestic, regional, and international approaches that lawmakers have developed to promote international cooperation in cross-border insolvency cases, including instruments such as the European Union Insolvency Regulation and the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5479", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance.\nNevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to\nidentify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation,\ncreativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5479V", "title": "Challenges of Emerging Technologies to Financial Regulation", "description": "Financial markets have been traditionally permeable to technological progress and technology has been an important driving force in the transformation of finance.\nNevertheless, the vertiginous pace of contemporary technological innovation, the multi-layered impact on the market (actors, activities, transactions) and the unpredictable effects of its application on a large scale, represent unprecedented challenges for financial regulators and supervisors. The aim of the course is to\nidentify these legal and regulatory challenges and discuss, compare, and propose possible policy options in establishing a framework conducive to innovation,\ncreativity, and social inclusiveness, without compromising the protection of interests and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5480", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5480V", "title": "Economic Analysis of Private Law (Contract and Torts)", "description": "The purpose of the course is to analyse the legal phenomenon through the notions of neoclassical economics. The course covers the main topics of the Economic Analysis of the law of obligations (i.e., of Torts law and of Contracts Law), with a special focus on contractual remedies. The course offers an in-depth analysis of the different doctrines that govern unforeseen supervening events and changes of circumstances in the common law and the civil law systems. Through the adoption of the economic analysis of law methodology, the course will shed light on the economic rationale behind such different doctrines."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5481", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region: in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5481V", "title": "Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region", "description": "This subject explores the influence and potential of trusts law in the Asia-Pacific region. It begins by considering the history of trusts diffusion, how trusts law has been used to regulate customary and religious property-holding forms, and assesses the ways in which the trust has been (re)conceptualised in non-common law jurisdictions. It then examines the different uses of the trust in the region: in the family and commercial contexts, as well as a financial product. The subject also considers the reach of constructive and resulting trusts in the region. Finally, it will discuss trusts law\u2019s private international law perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5482", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5482V", "title": "Transitional Justice in Asia", "description": "This course examines the law, institutions, and practices set up in Asia to facilitate political transitions. It examines the international and domestic legal frameworks and principles governing these transitional mechanisms as well as their critique. It studies the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition and how these different needs are captured in transitional mechanisms, such as trials, truth and reconciliation commissions, and reparation schemes. Using Asian case studies (e.g. Timor Leste, Cambodia, Indonesia), this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different measures adopted to address past injustices and facilitate transition."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5483", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5483V", "title": "Aviation Financing", "description": "The course introduces aircraft financing and the law, the documentation implementing such financing, \u201ctitle\u201d to aircraft and the unique features of title financing. It explores the anatomy of aircraft loan agreements, the types of collateral securing such loans, the cross-border characteristics of financing, insurance, the modular feature of engines and how Export Credit Agencies and capital markets provide financing. The role of Lease financing and Lessors is considered as alternative means for financing aircraft acquisition. Lastly, the course covers airline debt restructuring (following airline insolvencies during the pandemic) and the impact of international treaties, particularly the Cape Town Convention/Protocol."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5486", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5486V", "title": "Investment Banking and Investment Firms", "description": "This course examines the legal and regulatory framework for investment banks and investment firms from both an international and a common law perspective. The background is the international nature of investment business, and the complexity of modern investment products, including various species of derivatives (such as interest rate swaps) and the role played by the trade association ISDA. The respective roles of international standard setting, standard form contracts and private law (including contract, tort, fiduciary obligations, and unjust enrichment) are examined against the backdrop of the Global Financial Crisis and related mis-selling and other financial scandals."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5487", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5487V", "title": "China's State Capitalism & Future of Int'l Economic Law", "description": "The coexistence, interaction and competition between China\u2019s state capitalism and liberal capitalism has brought forth a host of challenging ideological, conceptual and practical issues to the liberal international economic order (LIEO). This course is designed to provide students with a sophisticated understanding of China\u2019s state capitalism and the future of international economic law. It will focus on why China\u2019s state capitalism is viewed as a challenge to the LIEO, how international trade, investment, and financial laws facilitate or constrain China\u2019s practice of such a unique political-economic model, and what the future holds for China and international economic law."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5488", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5488V", "title": "Digital Technologies and Human Rights", "description": "Affecting every aspect of our life, digital technologies have a controversial impact on human rights. On the one hand, they provide new opportunities for the realization of human rights and holding human rights abusers accountable. On the other hand, they are increasingly being used as a means for violating human rights and deepening inequality, social exclusion, and marginalization of people. The course is aimed at introducing students to the pressing challenges surrounding the application of various digital technologies (including robotics, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and blockchain) and analyzing how international human rights law should adequately respond to them."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5489", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5489V", "title": "Corporate Law and Economics", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore\u2019s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5490", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5490V", "title": "Advanced Trusts and Wealth Management Law", "description": "With the leaks of the \u2018Panama Papers\u2019 ( ) and the \u2018Paradise Papers\u2019 ( ) the so-called \u2018offshore\u2019 financial industry has come under increasing scrutiny. The main question this course will cover is how, in legal terms, the offshore financial industry works. The emphasis will be on the offshore law of trusts, where many of the modern trusts employed to safeguard the assets of the wealthy were developed. The course will also consider the use of offshore companies and trust-company structures, and the civil law foundation as an alternative to the trust as a wealth management vehicle.URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5491", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5491V", "title": "Law and the Humanities", "description": "This course explores the value of the humanities to legal education. Together we close read some exemplary texts in literature, philosophy, history, and critical theory that bear upon questions of law and justice. This equips us to rethink the limits and potentiality of our legal inheritances."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5492", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5492V", "title": "Principles of Financial Regulation", "description": "Principles of financial regulation familiarises students with the concepts underlying the rules that legitimise providers of financial services and draw limits to their activities. Students learn about the roles of financial markets, financial intermediaries and financial products. They are taught about the risks that result from activities in financial markets for relevant stakeholder groups and financial stability. Since banks are the most prominent providers of financial services and rely on extremely risky business models, their activities and regulation form a core part of the course. In addition, the course covers the principles of financial markets regulation."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5493", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This course equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5493V", "title": "Law and Technology", "description": "Laws and regulations must contend with increasingly complex and fast-moving advances in technology. This module equips law students with the basic technical knowledge necessary to appreciate the interface between technology and law in areas such as copyright, virtual assets, data protection and evidence. Through a series of simple basic Python coding exercises, students will also be exposed to elements of programming so that they will have a better appreciation of artificial intelligence and quantitative empirical legal analysis issues that are increasingly posing legal and ethical challenges for lawyers, regulators, and judges."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5494", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5494V", "title": "Law of Money and Central Banking", "description": "This course provides a detailed understanding of the role of central banks, their monetary policy operations, and the legal frameworks that draw limits on their activities. It focuses on the roles that central banks play as guardians of monetary and financial stability and discusses current developments. In its second part, the course analyses the concept of money, the changes to the understanding of money over time, and the current surge of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins as well as the concept of central bank digital currency."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5496", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5496V", "title": "The Law and Economics of Competition Policy", "description": "Competition law maintains a close relationship with the field of economics. Expert witnesses are frequently invited to offer economic insights in litigation, and economists often play a pivotal role in shaping both the enforcement and legal framework. This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which informs the competition laws of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the intellectual movements in competition law, the economics of collusion, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, common ownership, tying and exclusive dealing, loyalty rebates, predatory pricing, refusals to deal, vertical agreements, antitrust remedies, and digital platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5499", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies, performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make of law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5499V", "title": "Law and Aesthetics", "description": "This course aims to explore the multiple relations between law and aesthetics. It builds law as a cultural product that creates its own layer of meaning in the social world and does that through clear aesthetic media. It explores how law\u2019s ideals and workings can be engaged and experienced aesthetically through such media. These include, among others, visual arts, comics, movies, performances. This interrelationship between law and aesthetics reveals then the intrinsically ideological nature of the legal phenomenon and the need to decipher the different mythologies that make of law, lawyers, and legal theory neutral and impartial actors and practices."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5500", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5500V", "title": "Recalibrating Multilateral Trading Regime", "description": "This course aims to provide the students with an opportunity to assess the current global trade regime, mainly enshrined in the WTO Agreements and FTAs, from a critical perspective. Students are expected to understand the success and failures of the existing trade regime and the reasons behind the current struggles. This course will examine key disputes that have led to continuing confrontation among states. It will also examine new norms emerging in trade agreements such as labour, environment, competition, SOEs and digital trade. Through this course, the students together with the instructor will explore possible avenues to revitalize multilateralism."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5501", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5501V", "title": "The Diplomat's Toolbox for Int'l Conflicts and Claims", "description": "Diplomats and their legal advisers play a key role in developing the legal framework for resolving international disputes. This course will consider international dispute resolution systemically from the government negotiator\u2019s perspective, employing case studies and group exercises to simulate such work. The course seeks to (1) understand and critically appraise key dispute-resolution tools in the diplomat\u2019s toolbox, (2) evaluate States\u2019 legal and policy choices more systematically, to better inform current decision making and reform options, and (3) provide useful insights for practitioners, revealing how private and public clients use or influence the development and application of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5502", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5502V", "title": "Sustainable Development and International Law", "description": "Article 28 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) will provide the cue for exploring how international law fares in providing a social and international order where the rights and freedoms of the UDHR are realized. Concomitantly, the course considers how international law relates to the promise of \u2018leaving no one behind\u2019, linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The approach will be inter-disciplinary, meaning that the outcomes of research in the natural sciences (planetary boundaries, Anthropocene) and in the social sciences (teleconnections), will be used to formulate the challenges the international community faces in realizing sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5504", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5504V", "title": "Issues and Authors in Legal Theory and Philosophy", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the most important authors, concepts and issues or Western legal philosophy and legal theory from the Enlightenment to the present. The authors will be studied through a close reading of their original texts, thus providing students the opportunity of directly engaging with philosophical texts and arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5505", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5505V", "title": "Policies & Public Interest in International Arbitration", "description": "The course examines the normative, theoretical and doctrinal issues that arise from the policy favouring arbitration: \u2022 How did the pro-arbitration policy arise historically? \u2022 What exactly does the pro-arbitration policy mean? \u2022 What are the main legal doctrines that implement the pro-arbitration policy? \u2022 In which international legal instruments and national laws is the pro-arbitration policy enshrined? \u2022 How does the pro-arbitration policy sit next to competing public policies? \u2022 What are the implications of the pro-arbitration policy for the protection of the public interest? \u2022 What are the procedural and substantive legal concepts that protect the public interest in commercial, public-private and investment arbitration?"}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5506", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5506V", "title": "Tax Treaties", "description": "This course deals with tax treaties: (bilateral) agreements among states which provide the rules that eliminate double taxation when a resident of one country derives income from the other country. Such income may be income from business operations in the other country (e.g., trading, rendering services, manufacturing), from foreign employment or in the form of dividends, interest and royalties. In addition, tax treaties aim at countering international tax avoidance that may result from mismatches between the domestic taxing rules of the two treaty states and, through administrative assistance, tax evasion through nonreporting and (other) fraud."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5507", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5507V", "title": "Anglo-American Corporate Governance", "description": "This seminar introduces students to the regulatory, policy, and theoretical framework that determines decision-making power and accountability within large (public) companies. The course will take a comparative perspective, with a special focus on Anglo-American law. Major topics to be covered include the purpose of corporations; the roles of boards and shareholders; corporate and managerial liability; and executive pay. The course will be conducted in a highly participative manner. All students are expected to contribute regularly to class discussions and deliver individual or group presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5508", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5508V", "title": "Int'l Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility", "description": "This course provides students with perspectives into corporate social responsibility as a governing mechanism. It will examine the theoretical paradigms surrounding the corporate objective, international CSR movements led by organisations such as the OECD and the UN, and explore the legal frameworks in human rights protection from an international and comparative perspective. The course will focus on the role of corporations in respecting human rights and the environment. This course will challenge students into viewing the role and responsibility of the corporation from perspectives beyond the traditional paradigm of shareholder primacy and questioning international law\u2019s governance of corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5509", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5509V", "title": "International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World", "description": "International commercial litigation involves various substantive, procedural and conflict-of-laws issues. This course aims to present a full picture of how those disputes are resolved in the civil law jurisdictions in Europe and Asia Pacific region. The courts first decide on the jurisdictional issues and determine the appliable law before proceeding to the merit of the case. Then the courts assess the parties\u2019 contractual claims and defences under the applicable law to the contract. This course will tackle these issues arising from distinct types of international commercial contracts. Extensive case law of European and Asian civil law countries will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5511", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LLJ5511V", "title": "Contract Interpretation", "description": "Interpretation \u2013 also known as construction \u2013 is the most important aspect of contract law in real-world practice. Despite its significance, the field was relatively quiescent until the 1970s. It has exploded in the past 40 or so years, with numerous cases on interpretation principles being decided by apex courts around the Commonwealth. Intense academic and professional scrutiny has followed. This course introduces students to core concepts in interpretation: the role of intention; contractual context; exclusionary rules; choice of meaning; standards of application; generalised and specific construction rules; and the interplay between construction and contract doctrines such as implication and rectification."}, {"moduleCode": "LSE6101", "title": "Fundamentals of Environmental Life Sciences Engineering", "description": "Experienced teachers from SCELSE and highly selected guest instructors both local and international, give lectures, interact in discussions and hold tutorials/hands-on session on the following topics: \n1) Emerging concepts of microbial physiology and ecology in biofilms context.\n2) Experimental systems and their design, statistical analyses and interpretation.\n3) Developments in systems biology \u2013 metagenomics, proteomics, metabolomics and systems biology.\n4) Applications on engineering processes, human health and the Environment.\n5) Academic research skills in discussions and presentations"}, {"moduleCode": "LSE6201", "title": "Biofilm Processes", "description": "Study of biofilms in a variety of natural and engineered\nsystems. The emphasis will be on understanding unique\ncharacteristics and on critically evaluating old and new\nbiofilm literature. We will formulate and test working\nhypotheses regarding development of biofilms, spatial\nstructure (\u201carchitecture\u201d), existence of steady states, and\nthe determining factors for biofilm function as well as\nadhesion and detachment. Specific examples include\nquantitative characterization of processes occurring in\nbiofilm reactors for the treatment of water and wastewater."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM1111", "title": "Biological Challenges and Opportunities for Humankind", "description": "Designed as a gateway for the Life Sciences Major, this course explores biological challenges faced by humankind today and how solutions are being developed. We will use three main case studies to illustrate current struggles and how distinct approaches from sub-disciplines of Biology contribute to providing solutions. The nature of scientific inquiry and concepts in genetics, ecology, and evolutionary biology will be explained via the case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM1301", "title": "General Biology", "description": "This is an introductory course that explores what a living thing is, the basics of life, and the science behind it. The course will introduce the chemistry of life and the unit of life. The question of how traits are inherited will be discussed and the field of biotechnology, including its applications and the ethical issues involved be will introduced. The diversity of life on earth will be explored, with discussions how life on earth possibly came about and how biologists try to classify and make sense of the diversity. The course will also introduce the concept of life functions from cells to tissues and from organs to systems. The concept of how organisms maintain their internal constancy and organisation of major organ systems will be discussed. The focus will be to introduce the unifying concepts in biology and how they play a role in everyday life."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM1303", "title": "Animal Behaviour", "description": "Understanding animal behaviour awakens the individual to the complexity of daily phenomenon in the animal kingdom - how animals live and survive in their environment. Much of this occurs around us every day and everywhere we go. But the city-dweller lives in increasing isolation of animals and understands little of the world around them. This course will highlight behaviours such as learning, sociality, territoriality, predation and defense, courtship and communication, with examples from across animal diversity. How behaviors have evolved to fit specific ecological conditions will be examined. Students will gain understanding of and empathy for animals."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM1307", "title": "Waste and Our Environment", "description": "All living organisms generate waste. The prehistoric waste generated by animals and humans gives us clues to past climate and living conditions. Today\u2019s waste generation by humans is higher than ever. This course examines the relationship between human and waste generation. It also studies the various types of waste generated from current food production, households and industries and examines their impact on the environment. Various options will be explored to manage waste better in order to ensure environmental sustainability and to create business opportunities such that they can be made useful. Singapore\u2019s waste management issues will also be investigated."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM1601", "title": "Biology Advanced Placement", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2105", "title": "Molecular Genetics", "description": "This course covers topics on (i) the patterns of inheritance, (ii) the molecular properties of genes and chromosomes, (iii) transcription and translation, (iv) genetic methods and technology, and (v) genetic analysis of individuals and populations. This will include an in-depth understanding of mendelian patterns of inheritance and variations that could occur due to multiple alleles, lethal genes, chromosomal variations, linkage, gene interaction and other genetic phenomena. Emphasis is placed on the understanding of the underlying molecular and biochemical basis of inheritance. Quantitative and population genetics will also be discussed with the emphasis of understanding the processes and forces in nature that promote genetic changes."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2106", "title": "Fundamental Biochemistry", "description": "The objective is to provide the student with a firm and rigorous foundation in current concepts of the structure and functions of biomolecules in molecular cellular biology. These fundamental concepts form the basis of almost all recent advances in biological and the biomedical sciences. The lectures will introduce various cellular organelles as models to gain insights into how structures and functions of classes of biomolecules participating in important cellular processes."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2107", "title": "Evolutionary Biology", "description": "Evolutionary biology covers the history of life on our planet and the processes that produced the multiple life forms of Earth. Topics include: the origins of life, the eukaryotic cell, and multicellularity; the generation of genetic variation and the sorting of that variation through random processes and through natural and sexual selection; the origin of new traits, new life histories, and new species; the origins of sex, sociality, and altruism; the evolution of humans; and applications of evolutionary biology to solving modern-day problems."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2191", "title": "Laboratory Techniques in Life Sciences", "description": "This course introduces the theory and practical applications of techniques used in molecular biology and protein biochemistry. Factual knowledge in recombinant DNA techniques, such as RNA isolation, reverse transcription, polymerase chain reaction, recombinant DNA construction and recombinant protein expression; and in protein purification, such as liquid chromatography, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and western blotting, will be integrated with laboratory practice."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2212", "title": "Human Anatomy", "description": "This course provides a basic introduction to human structure and function, comprising gross anatomy integrated with microscopic anatomy. Histological organization of the primary tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular and nervous tissues will also be covered. Clinical relevance of the anatomical structures will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2233", "title": "Cell Biology", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive understanding of sub-cellular structures, functions and interactions in unicellular and multi-cellular systems. Emphasis is on cellular functions. Topics include structures and functions of organelles, organelle biogenesis (including organelle inheritance and import of proteins into organelles), intracellular protein trafficking, the cytoskeleton, and cell movements. In addition, students will be introduced to the current concepts of intercellular and intracellular signalling, molecular basis of cell proliferation and apoptosis."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2234", "title": "Introduction to Quantitative Biology", "description": "Over the past 30 years, there has been an explosion in the amount of quantitative biological data. This is due to advances in imaging, genetics, and sequencing. This course introduces methods necessary for understanding and analysing such quantitative biological data. We use systems from across biology, from photosynthesis to human sleep cycles, to demonstrate the power and applicability of these approaches. We introduce the mathematical and physical concepts necessary through the course. This course is suitable for all Life Sciences students regardless of background in the physical sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2241", "title": "Introductory Bioinformatics", "description": "Students will be introduced to the concepts, tools and techniques of bioinformatics, a field of immense importance for understanding molecular evolution, individualized medicine, and data intensive biology. The course includes a conceptual framework for modern bioinformatics, an introduction to key bioinformatics topics such as databases and software, sequence analysis, pairwise alignment, multiple sequence alignment, sequence database searches, and profile-based methods, molecular phylogenetics, visualization and basic homology modelling of molecular structure, pathway analysis and personal genomics. Concepts emphasized in the lectures are complemented by hands-on use of bioinformatics tools in the practicals."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2251", "title": "Ecology and Environment", "description": "This course introduces students to the science of ecology and its role in understanding environmental processes. It covers both the major concepts and their real-world applications. Topics will include models in ecology, organisms in their environment, evolution and extinction, life history strategies, population biology, ecological interactions, community ecology, ecological energetics, nutrient cycling, landscape ecology."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2252", "title": "Biodiversity", "description": "The course aims to inculcate in students an understanding for the need of a diverse and intricate balance of nature and the morality of conservation. It involves an introduction to the diversity of major groups of living organisms, and the importance of maintaining diversity in natural ecosystems. Emphasis is on the need for conservation of biodiversity to maintain a balance of nature. The course will highlight to the students the biodiversity in the major habitats and vegetation types in and around Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2254", "title": "Fundamentals of Plant Biology", "description": "This course introduces students to contemporary plant biology. It focuses on the flowering plants (angiosperms), one of the most successful plant groups that sustains all life on earth, and examines how they are organized, grow, and respond to the environment. A major theme that the course will highlight is that plant growth is highly dynamic \u2013 plants control growth and development through integrating intrinsic and external signals to best adapt to the changing surroundings. The concepts and techniques of gene manipulation for studying plants, as well as their applications in plant biotechnology, will also be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2288", "title": "Basic UROPS in Life Sciences I", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2288R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Life Sciences I (REx)", "description": "This is a UROPS Course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2289", "title": "Basic UROPS in Life Sciences II", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2289R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Life Sciences II (REx)", "description": "This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2291", "title": "Fundamental Techniques in Microbiology", "description": "Embark on a captivating exploration of Microbiology where students will gain a deeper understanding of microbes and techniques for studying them, through a combination of theoretical knowledge and hands-on experiments. Students will delve into the invisible world of microbes, investigating microbiomes of skin, soil and water, and exploring the role of probiotics. Moreover, students will have the unique opportunity to visit a microbiology-related industry and witness real-world applications of their learnings. By the end of the course, students should possess fundamental knowledge of microbiology and the experimental tools used and will be inspired to probe deeper into this exciting field."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2302", "title": "Computational Thinking for Life Sciences", "description": "Computational thinking is becoming increasingly important across the life sciences, from molecular and cell biology to evolution and ecology. This course will introduce students to computational thinking and will focus on how to solve biological problems using computational approaches. How can you become a computational thinker? How do computers represent and solve problems? How can computers and computational thinking be used to solve problems of relevance to biology? The applied component of the course will teach the basics of programming in R and will focus on biological problems including population growth modelling, epidemic modelling, and analysis of biological data."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 1ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10-week period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18-week period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM2313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3201", "title": "Research and Communication in Life Sciences", "description": "This course introduces students to the philosophy, principles and processes of life sciences research and communication. It aims to equip students with the essential knowledge that complements the hands-on research training which students undertake for UROPS and Honours projects\u2019 requirements. The course covers the essentials of scientific research including: importance and pitfalls of problem formulation and hypothesis generation; essentials of experimental designs; practical tips and pitfalls during experimental execution; good and bad practices of data collection, analysis and evaluation; form and function of scientific communication; and research ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3210", "title": "Metabolism and Regulation", "description": "Overview of the biosynthesis and catabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids in the context of human health and disease. Emphasis on the integration and regulation of metabolic pathways in different tissues and organs. Principles of bioenergetics and mitochondrial energy metabolism, free radicals, enzyme deficiencies in metabolic disorders will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3211", "title": "Fundamental Pharmacology", "description": "This course aims to provide basic principles of receptor pharmacology and of pharmacokinetics with emphasis on molecular and cellular mechanisms of action, clinical uses and adverse effects using lectures, tutorials and practicals. The lecture topics will start with the classical drug receptor theory followed by pharmacokinetics and molecular pharmacology of drug receptors and their regulation including receptor-mediated signal transduction and membrane ion channel function. Autonomic pharmacology (adrenergic and cholinergic) will be introduced. The course also focuses on the pharmacology of autacoids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents, corticosteroids, immunosuppressants, anti-asthma drugs, and anti-arthritic drugs."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3212", "title": "Human Physiology: Cardiopulmonary System", "description": "The heart and lungs are central to the maintenance of homeostasis in the human body by bringing essential materials to and removing wastes from the body's cells. This course covers the basic physiology of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems using exercise to illustrate the onset of homeostatic imbalances and the body's responses to restore homeostasis. Students will be able to identify the benefits that exercise imparts to cardiorespiratory fitness and overall health."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3214", "title": "Human Physiology - Hormones and Health", "description": "This course covers several human physiological systems using hormonal control of homeostasis as a basis for understanding normal function and health. The student will be able to appreciate the interactions occurring amongst the endocrine, digestive, renal, and reproductive systems, and be able to relate them to the body's biological rhythms (or clocks), growth, responses to stress, and reproductive processes. Major Topics Covered: endocrine system, central endocrine glands, peripheral endocrine glands, digestive system, digestive processes, energy balance, urinary system, fluid processing, fluid balance, reproductive system, male reproductive physiology, female reproductive physiology."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3215", "title": "Neuronal Signaling and Memory Mechanisms", "description": "The course will provide fundamental knowledge about how neuronal signaling and its higher functions, such as encoding and retrieval of memory, occur in our brain. Learning and memory mechanisms are conserved in all organisms. This course covers topics including the ionic basis of resting and action potentials, molecular biology of ion and TRP channels, ion channelopathies, and the auditory system. It also focuses on neurotransmission with particular emphasis on the glutamate receptors and neuropharmacology. In addition, it touches the cellular and molecular basis of learning and memory, and energy utilization in the brain."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3216", "title": "Neuronal Development and Diseases", "description": "This course will focus on key events that take place in different stages of vertebrate nervous system development including neural induction, neurogenesis, glial biology, neuronal growth and polarity, axonal guidance, synapse formation, and regeneration. Pathological states such as muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injury, Parkinson\u2019s disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases will be studied, both in terms of understanding the deficits as well as examining potential solutions to improve the outcomes of these neuronal diseases. Latest findings will be discussed, allowing students to learn the current state of research in developmental neurobiology."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3217", "title": "Human Ageing", "description": "This course will explore the physiological changes during ageing. Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality globally and sarcopenia is a major cause of disability and frailty among older adults, which decrease healthy lifespan. We will review the mechanism underlying the functional deterioration of system ageing. Moreover, we will also discuss the emerging evidence to explain how motor neuron and immune cells might contribute and respond to system ageing."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3218", "title": "Cardiopulmonary Pharmacology", "description": "This course focuses on drugs used to treat cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. It provides an understanding of the pharmacological basis of cardiovascular therapeutics and addresses the pharmacological properties of clinically useful drugs for cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. This course demonstrates the scientific basis of the therapeutic applications of these drugs, and these foundation principles will enhance understanding of safe and rational use of drugs in cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3219", "title": "Neuropharmacology", "description": "This course introduces the pharmacological treatment of nervous system. It covers the actions of drugs and how they affect cellular function in the nervous system, and the neural mechanisms through which they influence behavior. Examples of drugs used to treat diseases and disorders of the nervous systems will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3220", "title": "Genes, Genomes and Biomedical Implications", "description": "This course deals with the structure, organization and function of genes and genomes in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes (e.g. DNA topology, hierarchy of packaging of DNA in chromosomes and relationship to gene activity and genome dynamics). The functional roles of DNA regulatory cis-elements and transcription factors involved in gene expression will be examined. The molecular events in the control and regulation of transcription; post-transcriptional modifications and RNA processing; temporal and spatial gene expression will be examined in detail. The cause and/or effect of dysfunction of gene expression in diseases will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3222", "title": "Human Neuroanatomy", "description": "A working knowledge of human neuroanatomy is essential for many fields of biomedical science, practice and research. The purpose of this course is to cover the basic functional neuroanatomy of the human nervous system, including overview, neurohistology, peripheral nervous system, autonomic nervous system and central nervous system. It takes a regional-systemic approach to understanding human nervous system structure and function - that parallels the core knowledge used in clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on the unique anatomical features and neurochemistry of different parts of the central and peripheral nervous system, while demonstrating their synaptic connectivity and interrelatedness of their functions."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3223", "title": "Immunology", "description": "This course provides the central concepts of immunology and the foundation for understanding how immunity functions. The subjects of innate immunity and haematopoiesis introduce the origin and role of different cell types in immunity. The mechanisms of how the body protects itself from disease are explored in relation to T and B cell biology, antibodies, cytokines, major histocompatibility complex and antigen presentation. Other topics include hypersensitivity, immunodeficiencies, tolerance, autoimmunity, resistance and immunization to infectious diseases."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3225", "title": "Molecular Microbiology in Human Diseases", "description": "By the application of advanced technologies in molecular biology to studying microbes, we can identify and detect microbes, as well as treat and prevent diseases caused by both existing and newly emerged pathogens. In this course, students will be taught molecular principles of physiological processes involved in the life cycles of different types of microbes, and how these affect human health. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of using multiple methodologies to discover, detect and study pathogens. Specialised talks by guest lecturers will illustrate the use of molecular microbiology in laboratories handling the diagnosis and surveillance of infectious diseases."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3226", "title": "Medical Mycology and Drug Discovery", "description": "With the growing aging population and number of immunocompromised patients, fungal infections are increasingly becoming relevant. This course will re-examine Koch\u2019s postulates in relation to the roles opportunistic and primary fungal pathogens play in mycoses. Issues surrounding the molecular, physiological and biochemical aspects of fungal cells that make them successful microbial pathogens will be discussed. Key mechanisms of anti-fungal resistance in relation to challenges facing the discovery of new therapeutics will be examined. Students will have the opportunity to design and conduct a typical drugsusceptibility screen and drug discovery process."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3227", "title": "General Virology", "description": "This course explores virology, which is the study of viruses that infect different forms of living organisms. It introduces general concepts related to the viral structure, host spectrum and replication. We will elaborate how viruses are identified, how viruses go \u201cviral\u201d and how we can live with viruses. The impacts of viral diseases on human health, food security and environment will be discussed. The course also includes new developments in how viruses can be used as vectors for drug delivery, nanomaterials and bio-control agents. Students will have chances to practice virus culture, isolation and infectivity assay."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3228", "title": "Microbiomes and Biofilms", "description": "In nature, microbes exist as multispecies communities (microbiota) interacting with each other and also the environment/host. This typically occurs in the context of biofilms where organisms are in close proximity within a protected environment of the biofilm matrix. This course primarily explores the human microbiome and its effect on development and disease and explore the role of pre- and pro-biotics in health. Mechanistic insights into microbial communities can also be gained through more controlled studies focusing on experimental biofilms. Appreciating the biology of biofilms allows us to understand the context that both human and environmental microbiota operate in."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3231", "title": "Protein Structure and Function", "description": "This course aims to provide a strong foundation in the study of protein structure and function. The following topics that will be covered: structures and structural complexity of proteins and methods used to determine their primary, secondary and tertiary structures; biological functions of proteins in terms of their regulatory, structural, protective and transport roles; the catalytic action of enzymes, their mechanism of action and regulation; various approaches used in studying the structure-function relationships of proteins."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3232", "title": "Microbiology", "description": "Principles of Microbiology, with emphasis on the properties, functions and classification of the major classes of microorganisms, especially bacteria, fungi and viruses. Understanding microbial activities and their influence on microbial diseases, industrial applications, ecology, food and water quality."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3233", "title": "Developmental Biology", "description": "This course will showcase and examine embryogenesis, starting from fertilisation to birth in the case of animal development; and to germination, growth and differentiation in plants. Students will be exposed to concepts, principles and mechanisms that underlie development in plants and animals. Different organism models will be studied to demonstrate the rapid advances in this field of life sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3234", "title": "Biological Imaging of Growth and Form", "description": "Growth and form are fundamental to all living organisms, crucial to health and diseases. Development in imaging methods and tools has transformed biological and biomedical sciences. This course will introduce basic concepts in imaging and their applications. The major topics include basic optics, light and electron microscopy, fluorescence and related methods. Introduction of each imaging technology will be linked with a set of biological problems of fundamental interests and biomedical implications."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3235", "title": "Biomedical Applications of Human Epigenetics", "description": "This course introduces the concept of epigenetics, the relationship between the genome and the epigenome, and the translational applications of epigenetics in relation to human health and diseases. It focuses on helping students understand the relevance of epigenetic processes in human physiology (e.g., embryonic development, ageing) and how their mis-regulation underlies diseases such as cancer. It also highlights how the study of epigenetic mechanisms is important for modern biomedical research such as regenerative medicine therapies (e.g., induced pluripotency and trans-differentiation). Students will be exposed to various state-of-the-art next-generation (epi)genomic sequencing technologies widely used in biomedical research."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3236", "title": "Pattern Formation and Self-organisation in Biology", "description": "From zebra stripes and rose petal spirals to swarming bird flocks, the biological world is full of mesmerizing patterns. How do these patterns form, and what is the underlying mechanism that explains these seemingly unrelated phenomena? This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to introduce how complex biological phenomena can emerge from simple rules. Through interactive lectures, guided reading and hands-on tutorials and simulations, students will learn to appreciate how basic concepts like feedback and robustness generate biodiversity across multiples scales."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3241", "title": "Genomic Data Analysis", "description": "This course introduces practical, real-world genomic data analysis: when a genomic experiment is performed, and bioinformatics analysis is required, how is it done? In \u201cData Access and Integration\u201d, students will learn how to distinguish databases and integrate data. In \u201cGenomics and NGS\u201d, students will learn practical analysis of microarray and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. Students will learn how to map sequencing data to genomes in a variety of problem settings and interpret results. In \u201cIntegrative Analysis\u201d, students will learn how approaches including pathway analysis and analysis of gene regulatory networks can add power to interpretation of genomic experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3242", "title": "Translational Microbiology", "description": "This course covers the underlying principles and wide-ranging industrial, environmental, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications of microbiology. The objectives are (a) to gain an understanding of the role of microorganisms for biotechnology applications in the fields of medicine, agriculture, organic chemistry, synthetic biology, public health, biomass conversion, bioremediation, and biomining; and (b) to review advances in genetics and molecular biology of industrial microorganisms, enzyme engineering, environmental microbiology, food microbiology, and molecular biotechnology. A particular focus will be on the meaning and impact of microbiology on human health and the development of new therapeutic approaches."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3243", "title": "Molecular Biophysics", "description": "This course provides a physical background of macromolecular conformations and a description of biophysical techniques for studies of structure, dynamics and interactions of biomolecules. Topics will include conformation of biological macromolecules, protein folding, protein-ligand interaction, biological membrane, and biophysical techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3244", "title": "Molecular Biotechnology", "description": "Traditional genetic engineering has been relatively successful for modern applied biotechnology, however its limitations in direct manipulation of genome is apparent. For this, genome engineering has emerged as the next wave in biotechnology. Genome engineering is a direct and precise approach to whole-genome design and mutagenesis to enable a rapid and controlled exploration of an organism's phenotypic landscape for biotechnology. Key advances included de novo genome synthesis, and genome-editing technology. This course will focus on how genome engineering is used together with existing or new applications of biotechnology to tackle global problems ranging from human and animal health to agriculture."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3245", "title": "RNA Biology and Technology", "description": "This course examines the roles of RNA, coding and in particular non-coding (ncRNA), in regulation of gene expression, host\u2013pathogen interaction, and catalysis as well as their applications in research, diagnosis, and therapy of human diseases. The topics cover the \u2018RNA world hypothesis\u2019, 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."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3246", "title": "Synthetic Biology", "description": "The ability to rationally engineer living cells has been a long-anticipated goal dating back for more than half a century. With the advent of DNA synthesis and genome engineering tools, biological systems can now be systematically designed for a myriad of industrial applications including disease prevention, biochemicals production and drug development. This course aims to provide basic principles to the engineering of biology with emphasis on the design and construction of synthetic gene circuits in living cells. The course also discusses current and emerging applications driven by synthetic biology, and the socio-ethical responsibilities that are required of synthetic biologists."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3247", "title": "Practical Synthetic Biology", "description": "Synthetic biology is the science of engineering biology, and is very much an experimental science. Building on the basic principles of synthetic biology introduced in the theoretical course LSM3246, this course aims to emphasize on the experimental techniques required for the design and construction of synthetic metabolic pathways and genetic circuits in living cells. The course also introduces advanced experimental protocols including CRISPR-Cas genome editing tools that are revolutionising fields in life and biomedical sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3252", "title": "Evolution and Comparative Genomics", "description": "The objectives are to build on the students' foundation in evolutionary concepts and to advance their knowledge and skills related to comparative biology. The lectures present the theory of evolution as the unifying discipline in biology, and enhance the integrated understanding of four main themes: natural selection, palaeobiology, the tree of life and comparative genomics. Overall the course emphasises the importance and application of evolutionary biology for explaining a wide variety of phenomena in biology, from the history of life to genes, genomes and cellular processes."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3254", "title": "Ecology of Aquatic Environments", "description": "Aquatic environments make up more than 70% of the Earth\u2019s surface. They host a huge diversity of life and ecosystems, many of which are vital to man. Topics covered in this course include diversity and ecology of freshwater and marine habitats and organisms, the impacts of humans on these environments, and the conservation and management of these critical resources. Overall learning outcomes include an appreciation and understanding of aquatic habitats, their physical and biological properties and their associated ecosystems. The importance of both marine and freshwater environments to Singapore will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3255", "title": "Ecology of Terrestrial Environments", "description": "This course will introduce students to principles of terrestrial ecology. Major topics will include diversity and distributions of terrestrial environments, soils and nutrient cycling, animal-plant interactions [pollination, seed dispersal, herbivory], disturbance ecology and succession, energy flow and food webs, population biology, and fragmentation. The course will have a strong quantitative focus. The course will also cover ecological processes in rural (agricultural) and urban terrestrial environments."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3256", "title": "Tropical Horticulture", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamentals of tropical horticulture, with emphasis on the situation in Singapore, a tropical garden city. Topics include plant growth and development and factors affecting them, pests and diseases and their control, growing media, plant nutrition, tropical urban horticulture of ornamentals, vegetable and fruit crops, and native plants, vertical and roof greening, turf grass management, landscape design, organic methods and impact of horticulture on conservation. Field trips, demonstrations, and projects will enable students to enjoy hands-on experience in cultivating plants."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3257", "title": "Applied Data Analysis in Ecology and Evolution", "description": "Managing, analyzing, interpreting and displaying data to support-decision making has become a fundamental skill for environmental biology. This course will train students with the skills and knowledge to design and perform data analysis on typical problems in the areas of ecology, conservation and environmental sustainability. Students will learn the R language with an emphasis on spatial data, on the-ground ecological data collection and geographic information systems. Students will use the collected spatial data to support environmental impact assessment and sustainability reporting."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3258", "title": "Comparative Botany", "description": "This course explores the basic relationships between the diverse forms and functions in plants. Each plant group shares a common basic structural plan but contains many members that deviate from the basic plan in response to selection pressures from the environment. Knowledge of organismal biology is enhanced through selected topics in morpho-anatomical designs and functional adaptions."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3259", "title": "Fungal Biology", "description": "This course provides an overview of the diversity of fungi which include the mushrooms, yeasts, molds, rusts, and toadstools. Fungal symbionts such as lichens and mycorrhizae are also covered. Fungi are one of the four main eukaryotes on Earth (the other three being animals, plants and protists). Without fungi, decomposition and nutrient recycling will be severely impacted. Almost all land plants form symbiotic relationships with fungi which help the living plants absorb scant minerals such as phosphates and nitrates and to protect the hosts from diseases. Fungi are exploited for food, medicine, bioremediation and biotechnology."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3260", "title": "Plant-Microbe Interactions", "description": "Plants and microbes interact with each other on different levels and in various ways. Plant-microbe interactions have played a vital role in shaping the ecosystems since the emergence of plants on the planet. This course covers different types of plant-microbe interactions at general and detailed levels. Students will learn about the microbial infection mechanisms, establishment of symbiotic relationships, and plant immunity system responses to different microbes. There will be discussions on the broad impact of plant-microbe interactions from evolutionary, ecological and economical perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3265", "title": "Entomology", "description": "Insects and other related terrestrial arthropod groups are the most diverse forms of life on earth. Insects are ideal models for studies in evolution, ecology, behaviour and the environment as the same body plan has been adapted to diverse functions, in almost all terrestrial environments, and in most human endeavour. This course will equip students with knowledge in insect dentification, phylogeny, ecology, beneficial and pestiferous interactions with humans, and methods for their control."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3266", "title": "Avian Biology and Evolution", "description": "Birds are widely studied and constitute a model for many scientific disciplines from genetics to ecology. This course explores bird biology from an evolutionary perspective. Topics include: (1) birds\u2019 dinosaur origins; (2) present-day diversity with emphasis on Asian bird families; (3) evolutionary processes that may have led to avian flight, small genome size and other avian traits; and (4) challenges birds face in Earth\u2019s modern extinction crisis. This course is suitable for students passionate about biological processes ranging from organismic evolution at the molecular level to broad ecological and biogeographic contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3267", "title": "Behavioural Biology", "description": "This course provides an in-depth coverage of the relationships that organisms have with each other and with the environment. Key concepts in organismal interactions, illustrated with examples from general diverse animals and ecological systems, to ultimate and proximate explanations of animal interactions and other life history characteristics, will be covered. Students will be given the opportunity to assimilate and critically evaluate contemporary literature on relevant current issues. Experimental studies will be designed, proposed and carried out by students to improve the understanding of animal behaviour and to appreciate the significance of behaviour in ecology as well as other related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3272", "title": "Global Change Biology", "description": "The objective of this course is to promote an understanding of Global Change Biology from a multidisciplinary approach. Students will discuss and explore selected themes of prevailing environmental, biological, socio-economical and technological issues and solutions through lectures based on literature reviews and documentaries of relevant themes, field trips and group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3288", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Life Sciences I", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3288R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Life Sciences I (REx)", "description": "This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3289", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Life Sciences II", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3289R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Life Sciences II (REx)", "description": "This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10-week period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3311", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students from Cohorts AY2020/2021 and before, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10-week period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM3313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18-week period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4199", "title": "Honours Project in Life Sciences", "description": "Undertake a year-long research project and submit a written thesis for examination."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4210", "title": "Topics in Biomedical Science: Brain, Metabolism, Ageing", "description": "Biomedical science is the spectrum of Life Sciences that addresses human health and diseases. From genetics to metabolism, developmental biology to ageing, neurobiology to physiology, these key topics interplay to build up our understanding of the human body and how it responses to internal disruptions and external disturbances especially in disease conditions. This course puts a focus on selected topics in biomedical science with strong emphasis on the techniques used to study metabolic disorders and ageing, and how the human brain faces both challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4211", "title": "Toxicology", "description": "This introductory course is aimed at providing the basic principles and modern concepts of toxicology ? adverse effects of chemicals on humans and the biosphere. The students will understand how to make quantitative risk assessments from exposure to hazardous compounds, how to extrapolate from animal data, and how to link adverse effects at the molecular level to overall toxic responses in humans. Lecture topics include health hazards from drugs, naturally occurring toxins, industrial chemicals, or environmental toxicants; toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics; cellular and molecular mechanisms of toxicity; organ-selective toxicity; and safety evaluation of drugs and other chemicals. The general concepts will be illustrated with a number of both classical and highly topical examples."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4213", "title": "Systems Neurobiology", "description": "The primary goal of this course is to understand how (a) neurons, assembled into circuits, mediate behaviour and (b) pathophysiology of neurons leading to dysfunctional cellular and molecular processes and behaviour. It draws on basic knowledge of the cell biology and physiology of neurons, as well as the use of elementary calculus which will be gently introduced from scratch and needs no prior background in calculus."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4214", "title": "Cancer Pharmacology", "description": "This course will introduce students to the general principles of drug actions that underpin their therapeutic applications against cancers, from conventional (non-specific) chemotherapy to target-specific drugs. It will provide details of drugs used in specific cancer types, ranging from those with proven efficacy in clinics (e.g. Gleevec) to experimental agents in trials. Conceptual and theoretical targets (e.g. RNAi and gene therapies) will also be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4215", "title": "Extreme Physiology", "description": "This course describes how the human body responds to exposure and exercise in environmental extremes such as hypoxic and hyperbaric conditions, thermal stressors, microgravity and trauma. Latest research findings, including some of the controversial topics, will be presented and discussed. Students will understand what the physiological changes are under extreme conditions and how acute and chronic adaptations occur in response to these stresses. This will allow students to appreciate how the human body adapts to changing environments."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4216", "title": "Molecular Nutrition and Metabolic Biology", "description": "Nutrients are essential for sustenance. Nutrients and metabolites have a deep impact on cellular response and adaptation at the genetic, epigenetic and signalling level and vice versa. Nutrients also have an effect on intestinal microbiota, which in turn alters the absorption and utilization of nutrients. This module will cover interactions between nutrients and genes, epigenetics, cell signalling and microbiota. Molecular approaches to conduct nutrition related research would be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4217", "title": "Functional Ageing", "description": "Populations around the world are rapidly ageing and it is important to understand the functional decline in ageing populations. Functional age is defined as a combination of chronological, biological and psychological ages. Molecular processes governing ageing will be covered during the first half while the second half will be on societal perception, burden of disease, healthy ageing interventions and ageless society. The ageing process will be explained based on the experimental and epidemiological studies. This course will integrate biology and sociology of ageing which will provide avenues for better understanding of ageing in a society."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4218", "title": "Biotechnology and Biotherapeutics", "description": "The revolutionary advances of modern biotechnology and biomedical science have had significant impacts on how a drug is discovered and developed. This course focuses on the contributions of biotechnology to the advancement in drug discovery and development by exploring how genes, proteins and cells are transformed into biotherapeutic drugs. Topics covered include recombinant protein and peptide drugs, antibody and nanobody therapeutics, DNA and siRNA drugs, cell therapeutics, new technology in vaccine generation and cancer vaccines, diagnostics-based targeted therapeutics (theranostics), as well as how the omics technology (genomics, proteomics and metabolomics) changes drug discovery."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4220", "title": "Molecular Basis of Human Diseases", "description": "This course aims to provide students with in-depth knowledge of the basic molecular mechanisms of common human diseases, such as genetic diseases, metabolic diseases, cancers and infectious diseases. The course is structured around discussions of data and ideas from current research articles and reviews. Students are expected to participate in presentations and discussions. As the focus of this course is on the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of each disease, prospective students should have basic knowledge of molecular and cell biology, genetics and general human physiology before registering for this course."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4221", "title": "Drug Discovery and Clinical Trials", "description": "This course will cover the stages that a drug that is developed for clinical use goes through before it is marketed: discovery/synthesis, preclinical studies, clinical drug trials, registration and post-market surveillance. The different phases of clinical drug trials and the guidelines for ethics and good clinical practice will be discussed. Students are also divided into groups to design clinical trials. At the end of the course the students will have an overview of the processes involved in bringing a drug from the laboratory to the market."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4222", "title": "Advanced Immunology", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with a current and up-to-date view of immunology. Breakthrough areas will certainly vary from year to year, but the broad subject matter will remain. The highly competitive areas of immunology research focus on innate immunity, macrophage and dendritic cell biology, anti-viral defence, molecular mechanisms of cell death and inflammation, mucosal immunity and host-microbiome interaction, lymphocyte development and differentiation, induction of tolerance, mechanism of autoimmunity and allergy, and vaccine development."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4223", "title": "Advances in Antimicrobial Strategies", "description": "An advanced course in the study of infectious diseases of man with emphasis on new and emerging infections as well as those of major clinical/economic importance. Core topics include understanding the principles and practice of Medical Microbiology, the nature and emergence of antimicrobial resistance, changing epidemiology of infections and laboratory diagnosis using classical diagnostic techniques and current molecular approaches. Seminars will be conducted as team presentations to explore current topics on infectious diseases in depth. A strong practical component is included."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4225", "title": "Genetic Medicine in the Post-Genomic Era", "description": "This course is intended to provide a good foundation and stimulate students\u2019 interest in specialized topics in Genetics and Genomics related to translational research. The course will provide students with knowledge of current practices in Genetic Medicine. Students will also know how gene identification, diagnostic and therapeutic strategies are formulated and performed. They will also be expected to show how to translate new genetic and genomic discoveries into novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Major topics covered are gene identification, genetic diagnosis, and gene therapy. Ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) in genetic medicine will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4226", "title": "Infection and Immunity", "description": "This course aims at providing an in-depth knowledge in the field of host-pathogen interactions, i.e., how the immune system deals with pathogens, and how the pathogens deal with the host\u2019s immune system. An introductory lecture series covers the basics in microbiology (bacteriology, virology, parasitology), immunology, vaccinology, and general principles of host-pathogen interactions. Selected diseases illustrate host-pathogens interactions along with the consequences for vaccine and drug design. The following set of lectures covered by clinicians and professionals focus on patient management, field study, as well as safety aspects when working with pathogens in a research lab. Tutorials are broken into 'journal club', 'article write-up exercise' and 'problem-based study' and are directly related to the topics developed during the lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4227", "title": "Stem Cell Biology", "description": "This course will provide a detailed and critical introduction in the biology of stem cells and regenerative medicine. Students will investigate the origin of embryonic and adult stem cells and learn biological concepts relating to pluripotency, self-renewal, transdifferentiation, reprogramming and regeneration. The cell-fate determination and differentiation of selected types of cells, with a focus on their potential biological and medical applications, will be presented. Specialized topics on cancer stem cells, wound healing and tissue regeneration will provide a glimpse of how mankind's future could be further shaped."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4228", "title": "Experimental Models for Human Disease and Therapy", "description": "Experimental models including animal and cellular models are pivotal for the study of human diseases and development of therapeutics. They help to characterize disease pathophysiology, evaluate the mechanism of action of existing drugs, discover and validate new drug targets and candidates, establish pharmacodynamic/pharmacokinetic (PK/PD) relationships, estimate clinical dosing regimens and determine safety margins and toxicity. Recent advancement of genomic and gene editing technology facilitated the establishment of more disease models that can closely mimic human diseases, including diseases that involve environmental factors. In this course, we will discuss the technology, application as well as limitations of the current experimental models."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4229", "title": "Therapeutic and diagnostic agents from animal toxins", "description": "Toxins are thought as villains as they cause death and debilitation. In reality, they have contributed more to improving our lives than cause death. This course will introduce the contributions of toxins to our knowledge in biomedical and pharmacological fields. Toxin research has helped in understanding molecular mechanisms of a number of processes such as neurotransmission, blood coagulation and platelet aggregation. Toxins have been useful in the development of therapeutic agents, diagnostic reagents and research tools. The course will examine the recent advances and future prospects in toxin research."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4231", "title": "Structural Biology", "description": "This course provides an overall view on the structure determination of protein molecules, protein complexes, protein ? DNA complexes and viral assemblies. Topics will include the theory and practice of the three major methods ? electron microscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and X-ray crystallography."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4232", "title": "Advanced Cell Biology", "description": "Technological advances allow us to study and modulate various cellular processes generated from the dynamic remodeling of cytoskeleton in cells and explore the roles and interplay of mechanical forces and biochemical signaling on how they migrate the cell, mediate intracellular trafficking and eventually move our body. This course explores the mechanism of cytoskeleton dynamics and apply it to the process of cell movement and intracellular trafficking, which are important for our body physiology such as skeletal muscle performance. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that lend themselves to experimental manipulation and for future therapeutic intervention."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4234", "title": "Mechanobiology", "description": "This course introduces students to mechanobiology, an emerging field of life sciences that explores mechanical regulation and implications underlying numerous biological events from prokaryotes to higher organisms. It covers regulation of cell functions by cytoskeletal networks, mechanics of movement of tissue/cell/sub-cellular organelle, cellular/molecular force-sensing, mechanical modulation of biochemical signaling, physical landscapes of peri-/trans-/intra-nuclear events including transcription, and mechanical control of multicellular living organization. It also refers to physical and engineering aspects of physiological or pathological backgrounds of human health and diseases. In addition, students learn cutting-edge technologies to dissect mechanical/physical aspects of cellular/molecular functions."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4236", "title": "Human Microscopic Anatomy", "description": "This course develops the foundations of human microscopic anatomy essential for research or clinical applications. It covers the visualization of biomolecules in tissues of the body. Interpretation of images occurs in the context of knowledge about the normal microscopic anatomy of different tissues and organs of the human body. Suitable clinical problems will be introduced throughout the course to show the application of scientific knowledge."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4241", "title": "Functional Genomics", "description": "This course aims to introduce selected topics on functional genomics. Areas covered include: the assignment of functions to novel genes following from the genome-sequencing projects of human and other organisms; the principles underlying enabling technologies: DNA microarrays, proteomics, protein chips, structural genomics, yeast two-hybrid system, transgenics, and aspects of bioinformatics and its applications; and to understand the impact of functional genomics on the study of diseases such as cancer, drug discovery, pharmacogenetics and healthcare."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4242", "title": "Protein Engineering", "description": "This course will familiarize students with the technologies that can be used to produce and engineer various proteins for basic biological research and biotechnology applications. The fundamental principles for manipulating protein production as desired and the common expression systems will be presented. The emphasis will be on the experimental strategies and approaches to improve protein properties and to create novel enzymatic activities. The topics include gene expression and protein production systems, uses of gene fusions for protein production and purification, directed molecular evolution and DNA shuffling, and engineering of proteins and enzymes for improved or novel properties. Some specific examples in protein engineering will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4243", "title": "Tumour Biology", "description": "This course deals with the understanding of processes that regulate cell growth and proliferation, and the intricate mechanism(s) that result in abnormal proliferation and oncogenesis. Molecular basis of immortalization and the acquisition of the neoplastic phenotype, namely oncogene activation, immune evasion, potential for local and distant spread, and resistance to cell death etc. will be discussed. Role of DNA damage/repair, telomere/telomerase in genome instability and tumourigenesis will be examined. A brief session on target therapies including gene therapy approaches will also be included. Tumour immunology role of inflammation in tumours will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4245", "title": "Advanced Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology", "description": "The aim of this course is to introduce concepts and molecular mechanism of epigenetics. Students will learn the historic discoveries of epigenetic research, DNA methylation, post-translational histone modifications, noncoding RNA, chromatin remodelling and epigenetic reprogramming. The course will focus on the role of epigenetic modifications in biological functions. The clinical applications of epigenetics will also be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4251", "title": "Plant Growth and Development", "description": "Growth and development of higher vascular plants through their life cycles. Discussion in this course include selected topics in gamete development, fertilization, embryo development, seed germination, development of various plant organs and flowering, the role of plant growth regulators, and the cellular, physiological and molecular basis of plant morphogenesis. The molecular basis of various stages of plant development will be discussed using developmental mutant analyses."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4252", "title": "Reproductive Biology", "description": "This course covers the events and mechanisms leading to the development and differentiation of gonads and sexes in animals and humans, and eventually to the reproduction and propagation of a new generation. It describes the use of invertebrate (Drosophila, C. elegans) and vertebrate models (fish, mouse) in reproduction research, and discusses selected topics to highlight the current trends in animal and human reproduction. This includes new trends in hormonal control of human reproduction (endocrinology), cellular mechanisms and genetic control underlying gonad differentiation, and diseases of the reproductive system."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4254", "title": "Principles of Taxonomy and Systematics", "description": "This course introduces students to taxonomy and systematics, i.e., the science of grouping biodiversity into species, describing the species, and classifying this diversity into higher-level taxa that reflect evolutionary history. The course has two main goals: (1) It introduces the main concepts and goals of taxonomy and systematics. (2) It teaches the qualitative and quantitative techniques that are today used to describe/identify species and higher-level taxa based on the analysis of morphological and DNA sequence evidence. The aim is to equip environmental as well as other biologists with a thorough understanding of taxonomic/systematic units and the tools needed for evaluating and quantifying diversity in samples of plant and animal specimens."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4255", "title": "Methods in Mathematical Biology", "description": "The use of mathematics has a long history in the life sciences, allowing scientists to clearly articulate their assumptions, rigorously test their ideas about how biological systems work, and make predictions. In this course, students will explore both current and classical questions in mathematical biology, such as: What factors constrain and contribute to the species diversity of an ecosystem? Under what conditions can we expect the stable coexistence of predator and prey populations, or competitors in an ecosystem? What proportion of a human population do we have to vaccinate to prevent an epidemic?"}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4256", "title": "Evolution of Development", "description": "The objective of this course is to integrate two disciplines, Evolutionary Biology and Developmental Biology into a common framework. The course explores the evolution of animal bodies, e.g., legs, segments, eyes, wings, etc., by focusing on changes at the molecular and developmental levels. This course will introduce important concepts such as hox genes, selector genes, homology, serial homology, modularity, gene regulatory networks, genetic architecture, developmental basis of sexual dimorphism, and phenotypic plasticity, and give a broad organismic-centred perspective on the evolution of novel traits."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4257", "title": "Aquatic Vertebrate Diversity", "description": "Aquatic vertebrates are essential components of freshwater and marine ecosystems, often occupying higher trophic/food web levels with wider ecological influence. As relatively sizeable and abundant elements of aquatic ecosystems, these organisms are also central to the ecosystem goods and services provided. Besides fishes, the most speciose extant vertebrate group, the remaining four vertebrate classes all include aquatic lineages. This course offers a firm foundation in the global diversity of aquatic vertebrates in the context of their biology, ecology, and conservation. Emphasis on Southeast Asian aquatic vertebrate biota provides a framework that informs management of regional imperiled freshwater and marine ecosystems."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4259", "title": "Evolutionary Genetics of Reproduction", "description": "Why do some species invest all their resources in securing a mate to reproduce with whilst others avoid sex altogether by cloning themselves? This course takes an integrative approach to understanding the mechanisms of inheritance and reproduction from an evolutionary perspective across plants and animals. We will adopt evidence-based learning, review both classic and current primary literature, as well as offer hands-on practicals on analysing datasets (e.g.: selection experiments, population genome data etc.). Topics covered include the evolution of sex, operation of sexual selection, the genetics of reproduction and the rapid evolution of immune function and reproduction."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4260", "title": "Plankton Ecology", "description": "Phytoplankton and zooplankton are a vital part of aquatic ecosystems and form the basis of aquatic food webs. Understanding the role of plankton in aquatic ecosystems will help in advancing the solutions to problems facing today\u2019s water resources (harmful algal blooms, eutrophication and pollution). This course focuses on the biodiversity and ecology of phytoplankton and zooplankton, the roles they play in marine and freshwater ecosystems, their potential uses as biofuel and in aquaculture. The course will consist of lectures, practicals and a hands-on application of modelling on phytoplankton datasets."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4261", "title": "Marine Biology", "description": "Main focus on the understanding and appreciation of marine environment, the diversity of marine life, and the constant interaction between man and the sea. Marine biology as the scientific study of marine animals and the marine environment. Fundamentals of oceanography. The range of marine environments and variety of organisms inhabiting them. Benefits of the marine environment and its resources to humans. The impact of exploitation and human activities on the oceans."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4262", "title": "Tropical Conservation Biology", "description": "Conservation and the loss of biodiversity and natural ecosystems are currently regarded as one of the most pressing problems facing mankind. The course will highlight the impact of habitat loss on biodiversity and the basis for formulation of effective conservation management strategies. The course will also introduce students to the theory of current conservation biology as illustrated by applications in tropical areas, species conservation issues, ecological challenges, role of zoological gardens, legal challenges etc. Conservation of tropical biota, management of local and regional environmental problems, appreciation and consideration of the socio-economic issues will also be treated."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4263", "title": "Field Studies in Biodiversity", "description": "LSM4263 will introduce students to field biology, the basic techniques involved, sampling design and basic data gathering and data management. From field practicals, students will experience and encounter tropical environs and habitats, namely coastal, mangrove, primary and secondary forest. A 6-day field course is incorporated and will be conducted in Pulau Tioman, Malaysia. There are students, who will be divided into small groups, will conduct 4 mini-projects in 4 separate habitats, under the supervision of experienced field-orientated teaching assistants. This course will involve overseas university students as well as NUS Life Sciences students."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4264", "title": "Freshwater Biology", "description": "Freshwater is essential to life, yet constitutes less than 3% of Earth\u2019s total water. With many freshwater ecosystems under threat, understanding the biology of freshwaters is fundamentally important to their management, conservation and restoration. This course introduces the study of inland waters, with emphasis on aquatic ecology, structure and function, and aquatic conservation. Topics discussed will include diversity and ecology of freshwater habitats and aquatic organisms, and aquatic conservation issues including policies, regulation and management of freshwater resources in local and international contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4266", "title": "Aquatic Invertebrate Diversity", "description": "Invertebrate biodiversity is an important component of aquatic environments and ecosystems. Its study is essential for conservation and management of such environments. This course aims to enhance students\u2019 knowledge of tropical aquatic biodiversity through directed studiesin freshwater and marine invertebrates. Biota in Singapore will be highlighted. Emphasis is on organismal diversity, taxonomy and classification. Other topics such as structure and function, ecology, conservation, and economic importance will be covered within the context of selected organismal groups. Appreciation of the importance of aquatic biodiversity as well as knowledge, familiarity, and understanding of selected groups of aquatic biodiversity are the learning outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4267", "title": "Light & Vision in Animal Communication", "description": "Animals rely on various sensory systems to detect environmental information; a common mode involves light detection. Many rely on visual stimuli for numerous behavioural activities; humans often fail to understand these light signals. This course will introduce: (i) the fundamentals of light detection, (ii) the instrumentation and software involved in accurate detection, quantification/characterisation of animal/plant light signals, (iii) the formulation of hypotheses in animal-animal and animal-plant visual communication from interdisciplinary sciences (e.g., behaviour, conservation, optics), and (iv) relevant industrial applications. This course will also visit some other systems beyond the visible light spectrum, for example: infrared reception and thermoreception."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4268", "title": "Environmental Bioacoustics", "description": "Although animals sense their physical and biotic environments via various modalities, how they sense the environment acoustically is still poorly understood. From low frequency minute vibrations to infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies, from waterborne to air-transmitted sounds, this course will introduce what sound is (i.e. fundamentals of sound, how sound travels etc.), how and why it matters to animals (i.e. mechanisms and adaptive functions of sound production and reception) in both terrestrial and marine habitats, bioacoustic instrumentation and software, industrial applications, and how environmental issues involving sounds such as terrestrial and ocean noise pollution are affecting animals and humans."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4288C", "title": "Research Project in Life Sciences", "description": "For students completing the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Life Sciences to undertake a two-regular-semester research project."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4288E", "title": "Research Project in Life Sciences", "description": "For students completing the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Life Sciences to undertake a two-regular-semester research project."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4288M", "title": "Research Project in Life Sciences", "description": "For students completing the Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Life Sciences to undertake a two-regular-semester research project."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4299", "title": "Applied Project in Life Sciences", "description": "For Bachelor of Science (Honours) students to participate full-time in a six-month-long project in an applied context that culminates in a project presentation and report."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "LSM4351", "title": "Vegetation and Plant Diversity of Southeast Asia", "description": "The vegetation types and plant diversity of Southeast Asia, including Singapore, will be introduced from ecological, evolutionary and biogeographical perspectives. Plant classification and major evolutionary lineages will be discussed, along with the fundamental importance of exploration, herbarium and living reference collections and taxonomic research. Plant identification, an indispensable tool in resource and conservation assessment, and for supporting management approaches including in urban landscapes, will be highlighted through practical sessions and fieldwork. The significance of plants for human societies, against a background of deforestation, agriculture, climate change, diseases and new medicines, will be underscored."}, {"moduleCode": "LX5103", "title": "Environmental Law", "description": "Objective - This course is aimed at giving students an overview of environmental law and its development, including the legal and administrative structures for their implementation, from the international, regional and national perspectives. It will focus on basic pollution laws relating to air, water, waste, hazardous substances and noise; nature conservation laws and laws governing environmental impact assessments. Singapore's laws and the laws of selected ASEAN countries will be examined. Targeted Students - For students on the M.Sc. (Environmental Management) program. Research students and students from other graduate programmes in NUS may apply subject to suitability of candidate and availability of places."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1100", "title": "Basic Discrete Mathematics", "description": "This is the entry-level course for a sound education in modern mathematics, to prepare students for higher level mathematics courses. The first goal is to build the necessary mathematical foundation by introducing the basic language, concepts, and methods of contemporary mathematics, with focus on discrete and algebraic notions. The second goal is to develop student\u2019s ability to construct rigorous arguments and formal proofs based on logical reasoning. Main topics: logic, sets, maps, equivalence relations, natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, congruences, counting and cardinality. Major results include: binomial theorem, fundamental theorem of arithmetic, infinitude of primes, Chinese remainder theorem, Fermat-Euler theorem."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1100T", "title": "Basic Discrete Mathematics (T)", "description": "The objective of this course is to develop the learning capabilities and hone the problem solving skills of talented students at a mathematically deeper and more rigorous level. It is intended for students with strong mathematical inclination and motivation. The emphasis will be on rigour, depth, and conceptual understanding. The contents of this course will consist of those in the regular course (MA1100) and the following additional topics: axiomatic development of basic mathematics, equivalence relations, congruences."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1301", "title": "Introductory Mathematics", "description": "This course serves as a bridging course for students without GCE Advanced (A) Level Mathematics. It aims to equip students with appropriate mathematical knowledge and skills so as to prepare them for further study of mathematics-related disciplines. At the end of the course, students are expected to attain a level of proficiency in algebra and calculus equivalent to GCE A Level Mathematics. Major topics include: Sets, functions and graphs, polynomials and rational functions, inequalities in one variable, logarithmic and exponential functions, trigonometric functions, sequences and series, techniques of differentiation, applications of differentiation, maxima and minima, increasing and decreasing functions, curve sketching, techniques of integration, applications of integration, areas, volumes of solids of revolution, solution of first-order ordinary differential equations by separation of variables and by integrating factor, complex numbers and vectors."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1301X", "title": "Introductory Mathematics", "description": "This course serves as a bridging course for students without GCE Advanced (A) Level Mathematics. It aims to equip students with appropriate mathematical knowledge and skills so as to prepare them for further study of mathematics-related disciplines. At the end of the course, students are expected to attain a level of proficiency in algebra and calculus equivalent to GCE A Level Mathematics. Major topics include: Sets, functions and graphs, polynomials and rational functions, inequalities in one variable, logarithmic and exponential functions, trigonometric functions, sequences and series, techniques of differentiation, applications of differentiation, maxima and minima, increasing and decreasing functions, curve sketching, techniques of integration, applications of integration, areas, volumes of solids of revolution, solution of first-order ordinary differential equations by separation of variables and by integrating factor, complex numbers and vectors."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1311", "title": "Matrix Algebra", "description": "This course introduces the basic concepts in matrix algebra which has applications in science, engineering, statistics, economics and operations research. The main objective is to equip students with the basic skills in computing with real vectors and matrices. Specially designed for students not majoring in mathematics, in particular those who read a minor in mathematics, it is also suitable for students who are keen to pick up mathematical skills that will be useful in their own areas of studies. Major topics: Gaussian elimination, solutions to simultaneous equations, matrices, vectors, special matrices, matrix inverses, linear independence, rank, determinants, vectors in geometry, and cross product, introduction to eigenvalues and eigenvectors."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1312", "title": "Calculus with Applications", "description": "This course contains the main ideas of calculus that are often encountered in the formulation and solution of practical problems. The approach of this course is intuitive and heuristic. The objective is to develop a competent working knowledge of the main concepts and methods introduced. This course is also designed for students who intend to do a minor in mathematics or for those who are keen to pick up some mathematical skills that might be useful in their own areas of studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1505", "title": "Mathematics I", "description": "This course provides a basic foundation for calculus and its related subjects required by engineering students. The objective is to equip the students with various calculus techniques for their engineering courses. The course emphasises problem solving and mathematical methods in single-variable calculus, sequences and series, differential calculus for functions of several variables, multiple integrals, vector-valued Functions and vector fields."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1508E", "title": "Linear Algebra for Engineering", "description": "This course is targeted at Engineering students from the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) and it provides the basic fundamental principles of Linear Algebra relevant to the field of Engineering. Topics include: System of linear equations and their solutions, Gaussian elimination, Matrices, Matrix operations and Invertibility, Determinant of a matrix, Euclidean space and vectors, Subspaces, Linear combinations and linear span, Linear independence, Basis and coordinate vectors, Dimension of a vector space, Rank and nullity theorem for matrices, Linear approximation and least squares solution to a linear system, Orthogonal projection, Eigenvalues, eigenvectors and diagonalisation, Complex numbers and Applications of eigenvalues and eigenvectors to differential equations."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1511", "title": "Engineering Calculus", "description": "This is a seven-week course specially designed for students majoring in Engineering. It introduces the basic concepts in one variable and several variable calculus with applications in engineering. Main topics: One variable calculus. Power series. Partial differentiation. Multiple integrals. Vector Calculus."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1512", "title": "Differential Equations for Engineering", "description": "This is a seven-week course specially designed for students majoring in Engineering. It introduces the basic concepts in differential equations with applications in engineering. Major topics: First order ordinary differential equations and applications. Second order ordinary differential equations and applications. Partial differential equations and applications. Laplace transforms and applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1513", "title": "Linear Algebra with Differential Equations", "description": "This is a seven-week course specially designed for students majoring in Engineering. It introduces the basic concepts in linear algebra with applications in engineering. Major topics: Matrix algebra, linear system of equations, vector spaces, linear independence, basis, orthogonality, rank, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalisation, linear systems of differential equations, linearisation of nonlinear systems."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1521", "title": "Calculus for Computing", "description": "This course provides a basic foundation for calculus and its related subjects required by computing students. The objective is to train the students to be able to handle calculus techniques arising in their courses of specialisation. In addition to the standard calculus material, the course also covers simple mathematical modeling techniques and numerical methods in connection with ordinary differential equations. Major topics: Preliminaries on sets and number systems. Calculus of functions of one variable and applications. Sequences, series and power series. Functions of several variables. Extrema. First and second order differential equations. Basic numerical methods for ordinary differential equations."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1522", "title": "Linear Algebra for Computing", "description": "This course is targeted at students from School of Computing. It introduces basic concepts in linear algebra that are routinely applied in computer science, in the context of the Euclidean spaces, and will develop basic skills in computing with vectors and matrices with and without using computational software (MATLAB). Students are expected to acquire computational facilities and geometric intuition about vectors and matrices. Major topics: Systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, Euclidean spaces, linear combinations and linear span, subspaces, linear independence, bases and dimension, rank of a matrix, inner products, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalisation, linear transformations between Euclidean spaces, applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA1601", "title": "Mathematics Advanced Placement", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MA2001", "title": "Linear Algebra I", "description": "This course is a first course in linear algebra. Fundamental concepts of linear algebra will be introduced and investigated in the context of the Euclidean spaces R^n. Proofs of results will be presented in the concrete setting. Students are expected to acquire computational facilities and geometric intuition with regard to vectors and matrices. Some applications will be presented. Major topics: Systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, Euclidean spaces, linear combinations and linear span, subspaces, linear independence, bases and dimension, rank of a matrix, inner products, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalisation, linear transformations between Euclidean spaces, applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2002", "title": "Calculus", "description": "This is a course in single-variable calculus. We will introduce precise definitions of limit, continuity, derivative, and the Riemann integral. Students will be exposed to computational techniques and applications of differentiation and integration. This course concludes with an introduction to first order differential equations. Major topics: Functions; limit and continuity; derivative; Intermediate Value Theorem; chain rule; implicit differentiation; higher derivatives; Mean Value Theorem; Riemann integral; Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; elementary transcendental functions and their inverses; techniques of integration; computation of area, volume and arc length using definite integrals; first order differential equations."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2101", "title": "Linear Algebra II", "description": "This course is a continuation of MA2001 Linear Algebra I intended for second year students. The student will learn more advanced topics and concepts in linear algebra. A key difference from MA2001 is that there is a greater emphasis on conceptual understanding and proof techniques than on computations. Major topics: Matrices over a field. Determinant. Vector spaces. Subspaces. Linear independence. Basis and dimension. Linear transformations. Range and kernel. Isomorphism. Coordinates. Representation of linear transformations by matrices. Change of basis. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Diagonalisable linear operators. Cayley-Hamilton Theorem. Minimal polynomial. Jordan canonical form. Inner product spaces. Cauchy-Schwartz inequality. Orthonormal basis. Gram-Schmidt Process. Orthogonal complement. Orthogonal projections. Best approximation. The adjoint of a linear operator. Normal and self-adjoint operators. Orthogonal and unitary operators."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2101S", "title": "Linear Algebra II (S)", "description": "The objective of this course is to develop the learning capabilities and hone the problem solving skills of talented students at a mathematically deeper and more rigorous level. In addition to the classes of the regular course, one extra special hour each week will be devoted to solving challenging problems and studying some additional topics and those topics briefly mentioned in the regular course. The contents of this course will consist of those in the regular course (MA2101) and the following additional topics: proofs of Jordan Normal Form Theorem, Cayley Hamilton Theorem, introductory module theory, further applications of linear algebra."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2104", "title": "Multivariable Calculus", "description": "This is a course on the calculus of functions of several real variables, applications of which abound in mathematics, the physical sciences and engineering. The aim is for students to acquire computational skills, ability for 2- and 3-D visualisation and to understand conceptually fundamental results such as Green\u2019s Theorem, Stokes\u2019 Theorem and the Divergence Theorem. Major topics: Euclidean distance and elementary topological concepts in Rn, limit and continuity, implicit functions. Partial differentiation, differentiable functions, differentials, chain rules, directional derivatives, gradients, mean value theorem, Taylor\u2019s formula, extreme value theorem, Lagrange multipliers. Multiple integrals and iterated integrals, change of order of integration, applications, Jacobian matrix, change of variables in multiple integrals. Line integrals and Green\u2019s theorem. Surface integrals, Stokes\u2019 Theorem, Divergence Theorem."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2108", "title": "Mathematical Analysis I", "description": "This course is a continuation of MA1100. The main objective is to further develop the student's mastery of the mathematical language, concepts, and methods. The focus here is more on the analytic and topological notions such as convergence and continuity, which are essential for a rigorous treatment of mathematical analysis. The student's ability to read and write mathematical proofs is also further developed in this course. Main topics: real numbers, sequences and series of real numbers, metrics in Euclidean spaces, open and closed sets, continuous functions, compact sets, connected sets, sequences of functions. Major applications include: intermediate value theorem, extreme value theorem."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2108S", "title": "Mathematical Analysis I (S)", "description": "The objective of this course is to develop the learning capabilities and hone the problem solving skills of talented students at a mathematically deeper and more rigorous level. In addition to the classes of the regular course, one extra special hour each week will be devoted to solving challenging problems and studying some additional topics and those topics briefly mentioned in the regular course. The contents of this course will consist of those in the regular course (MA2108) and the following additional topics: conditions equivalent to the completeness axiom, rearrangement of series, trigonometric series."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2116", "title": "Probability", "description": "This course gives an elementary introduction to probability theory for students with knowledge of elementary calculus. It will cover not only the mathematics of probability theory but will work through diverse examples to illustrate the wide scope of applicability of probability, such as in engineering and computing, social and management sciences. Topics covered are: counting methods, sample space and events, axioms of probability, conditional probability, independence, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions, joint and marginal distributions, conditional distribution, independence of random variables, expectation, conditional expectation, moment generating function, central limit theorem, and weak law of large numbers."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2202", "title": "Algebra I", "description": "This course introduces basic concepts in group theory. Major topics: Modular arithmetics. Binary operations. Groups. Sugroups. Group homomorphisms. Examples of groups Symmetric groups and Cayley's theorem. Cyclic groups. Cosets and Theorem of Lagrange. Fermat's Little Theorem and Euler's phi function. Direct products of groups. Normal subgroups. Quotient groups. Isomorphism Theorems. Group actions. Stabilisers and orbits. Examples and applications. Major topics: Divisibility, congruences. Permutations. Binary operations. Groups. Examples of groups including finite abelian groups from the study of integers and finite non-abelian groups constructed from permutations. Subgroups. Cyclic groups. Cosets. Theorem of Lagrange. Fermat\u2019s Little Theorem and Euler's Theorem. Direct products of groups. Normal subgroups. Quotient groups. Isomorphism Theorems"}, {"moduleCode": "MA2202S", "title": "Algebra I (S)", "description": "The objective of this course is to develop the learning capabilities and hone the problem solving skills of talented students at a mathematically deeper and more rigorous level. The contents of this course will consist of those in the regular course (MA2202 Algebra I) and the following additional topics: Group action, group representations, profinite groups and classical groups."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2213", "title": "Numerical Analysis I", "description": "This is a first course on the theory and applications of numerical approximation techniques. Through the study of this course, the students will gain an understanding of how in practice mathematically formulated problems are solved using computers, and how computational errors are analysed and tackled. The students will be equipped with a number of commonly used numerical algorithms and knowledge and skill in performing numerical computation using MATLAB. The course is intended for mathematics majors and students from engineering and physical sciences. It will provide a firm basis for future study of numerical analysis and scientific computing. Major topics: Computational errors, direct method for systems of linear equations, interpolation and approximation, numerical integration, use of MATLAB software."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2214", "title": "Combinatorics and Graphs I", "description": "The main objective of this course is to introduce to students fundamental principles and techniques in combinatorics as well as the basics of graph theory, which have practical applications in such areas as computer science and operations research. The major topics from combinatorics are: Permutations and Combinations, Binomial and Multinomial Coefficients, The Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion, Generating Functions, Recurrence Relations, Special Numbers including Fibonacci Numbers, Stirling Numbers, Catalan Numbers, Harmonic Numbers and Bernoulli Numbers. The major topics from graph theory are: Basic Concepts and Results, Bipartite graphs and trees."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2219", "title": "Introduction to Geometry", "description": "This course gives a first introduction to various kinds of geometries ranging from elementary Euclidean geometry on the plane, inversive geometry on the sphere, as well as projective geometry and Non-Euclidean geometry. Topics covered include: Conics, Quadric surfaces, Affine geometry, Affine transformations, Ceva's theorem, Menelaus' theorem, Projective geometry, projective transformations, homogeneous coordinates, cross-ratio, Pappus' theorem, Desargues' theorem, duality and projective conics, Pascal's theorem, Brianchon's theorem, Inversions, coaxal family of circles, Non-Euclidean geometry, Mobius transformations, distance and area in Non-Euclidean geometry."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2288", "title": "Basic UROPS in Mathematics I", "description": "This course is entirely project based. It allows the student the opportunity to engage in independent learning and research. It also affords the student the chance to delve into topics that may not be present in the regular curriculum."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2288R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Mathematics I (REx)", "description": "This course is entirely project based. It allows the student the opportunity to engage in independent learning and research. It also affords the student the chance to delve into topics that may not be present in the regular curriculum. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2289", "title": "Basic UROPS in Mathematics II", "description": "This provides a continuation of work done in MA2288 and the project should be of two semester's duration. Please see section 4.4.3."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2289R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Mathematics II (REx)", "description": "This provides a continuation of work done in MA2288 and the project should be of two semester's duration. Please see section 4.4.3. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2301", "title": "Basic Applied Mathematics", "description": "This is a course providing students fundamental mathematical knowledge that is useful in a wide range of scientific disciplines. The scope of this course covers the basic mathematical concepts and techniques in linear algebra, calculus, and probability. Major topics include: matrices and vectors, solving linear systems, diagonalisation of matrices, differentiation and integration, random variables and probability density functions, law of large numbers, and central limit theorem."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 1ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2311", "title": "Techniques in Advanced Calculus", "description": "This course applies advanced calculus to practical mathematical problems, and is for students with advanced calculus background and with interest in the applications of calculus. Major topics: Sequences, series, power series. Vector algebra in R2 and R3. Scalar- and vector-valued functions of several variables. Partial derivatives, total differentials. Mean value Theorem. Taylor's formula. Jacobian. Chain rule. Lagrange multiplier. Multiple integrals."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2312", "title": "Introduction to Differential Equations", "description": "This course introduces the basic concepts and techniques of differential equations. The objective is to develop a competent working knowledge of the main concepts and methods introduced. It is designed for students who read a minor in mathematics or for those who are keen to pick up some mathematical skills that might be useful in their own areas of studies. Major topics: First-order differential equations. Linear differential equations of second order or higher. System of linear differential equations. Power series solutions and Laplace transforms."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2312U", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA2401", "title": "Introductory Mathematics with R", "description": "This course presents a gentle introduction to programming using the statistical software R and uses R to introduce essential concepts in calculus, linear algebra and probability for data analytics. Topics include: getting started with R; functions and graphing, derivatives, integrals, dynamics; vectors and matrices, solving systems of linear equations, projections, eigenvalues and eigenvectors; probability, conditional probability and Bayes\u2019 Theorem, random variables and their properties, useful discrete, continuous and bivariate/multivariate distributions, the Central Limit Theorem. Strong emphasis is placed on computation and simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3201", "title": "Algebra II", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide the essentials of ring theory and module theory. Major topics: rings, ring isomorphism theorems, prime and maximal ideals, integral domains, field of fractions, factorization, unique factorization domains, principal ideal domains, Euclidean domains, factorization in polynomial domains, module isomorphism theorems, cyclic modules, free modules of finite rank, finitely generated modules, finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3205", "title": "Set Theory", "description": "This is an introductory mathematical course in set theory. There are two main objectives: One is to present some basic facts about abstract sets, such as cardinal and ordinal numbers, axiom of choice and transfinite recursion; the other is to explain why set theory is often viewed as foundation of mathematics. This course is designed for students who are interested in mathematical logic, foundation of mathematics and set theory itself. Major topics: Algebra of sets. Functions and relations. Infinite sets. Induction and definition by recursion. Countable and uncountable sets. Linear orderings. Well orderings and ordinals. Axiom of choice."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3209", "title": "Metric and Topological Spaces", "description": "This course revisits ideas in analysis from a more abstract point of view, in the settings of metric spaces and topological spaces. These abstract notions form the basis for much of modern mathematics, especially in geometry and analysis. Main topics: metric spaces, convergence, completeness, contraction mappings, topological spaces, compactness, compact spaces of functions and locally compact spaces."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3210", "title": "Mathematical Analysis II", "description": "This is a continuation of MA2108 Mathematical Analysis I. The objective of this course is to develop rigorously all the basic results in one- and multi-variable calculus. The emphasis is on logical rigour. Major topics: total and partial derivatives, Jacobian matrix, differentiable functions, chain rule, mean value theorem, l\u2019Hopital\u2019s rule, Taylor\u2019s theorem, convergence of derivatives; Riemann and Darboux integrals, Fubini\u2019s theorem, convergence of integrals, improper integral of functions, fundamental theorem of calculus, integration by parts, differentiation under integral sign, change of variable formula."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3211", "title": "Complex Analysis I", "description": "This course is a first course on the analysis of one complex variable. In this course, students will learn the basic theory and techniques of complex analysis as well as some of its applications. Target students are mathematics undergraduate students in the Faculty of Science. Major topics: complex numbers, analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, harmonic functions, contour integrals, Cauchy-Goursat theorem, Cauchy integral formulas, Taylor series, Laurent series, residues and poles, applications to computation of improper integrals."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3211S", "title": "Complex Analysis I (S)", "description": "The objective of this course is to develop the learning capabilities and hone the problem solving skills of talented students at a mathematically deeper and more rigorous level. The contents of this course will consist of those in the regular course (MA3211 Complex Analysis I) and the following additional topics: Casorati-Weierstrass Theorem, infinite products of analytic functions, normal families of analytic functions."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3218", "title": "Applied Algebra", "description": "Modern algebra is used in a variety of areas such as coding theory and cryptography. The focus of this course is to introduce elementary concepts of abstract algebra and some of their applications. Upon completing this course, the student will have some basic knowledge of modern algebra and an understanding of some applications such as those in coding theory and cryptography. Major Topics: Integers, binary operations, groups, cosets, rings, division domain, polynomial rings, fields, finite fields. Introduction to coding theory, block codes, linear codes, Hamming distances, Hamming codes, Reed-Muller codes, cyclic codes, Reed-Solomon codes. Introduction to cryptography, substitution ciphers, permutation cipher, block ciphers. Other applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3219", "title": "Computability Theory", "description": "This is an introductory course on the formal theory of computable functions. In particular, we will describe the notion of computability and answer the question whether every function from N (the set of natural numbers) to N is computable. Major topics: Turing machines. Partial recursive functions. Recursive sets. Recursively enumerable sets. Unsolvable problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3220", "title": "Ordinary Differential Equations", "description": "The study of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) has been a centrepiece in both pure and applied mathematics, such as in mathematical analysis, dynamical systems and mathematical modeling. The aim of this course is to give a thorough treatment on the fundamental theory of ODEs and the methods of solving ODEs. Major topics: Review of first order equations, Basic theory of linear differential equations, Variation of parameters, Principle of superposition, Wronskian, Abel's formula, Adjoint and self-adjoint equations, Lagrange and Green's identities, Sturm's separation and comparison theorems, Linear differential systems, Series solutions of second order linear differential equations, Method of Frobenius, Initial value problems, Lipschitz condition, Picard's method of successive approximations, Existence and uniqueness of solution, Gronwall\u2019s inequality, Continuous dependence on initial value."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3227", "title": "Numerical Analysis II", "description": "This course is a continuation of MA2213 Numerical Analysis I. It introduces and analyzes important numerical methods for solving linear and nonlinear systems, two-point boundary value problems, as well as Monte Carlo methods and their applications in such fields as quantitative finance and physics. The course aims at developing students\u2019 problem-solving skills in emerging applications of modern scientific computing, and is intended for mathematics and quantitative finance majors and students from engineering, computer science and physical sciences. Major topics: Iterative methods for systems of linear equations and their convergence analysis, numerical solutions of systems of nonlinear equations, methods for solving two-point boundary value problems, Monte Carlo methods and their applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3229", "title": "Intro. to Geometric Modelling", "description": "Geometric modelling combines elementary geometry, analysis and computing for applications in various disciplines in science and technology, such as computer aided design, computer graphics, biomedical modeling and visualization. The course involves modeling, design and analysis of freeform curves and surfaces and covers the basic mathematics and algorithms. Topics covered include Bernstein polynomials, de Casteljau algorithm, Bezier curves, curve splitting, composite Bezier curves, geometric continuity, tensor product Bezier surfaces; Chaikin's algorithm, uniform Bsplines, refinement equations, uniform B-spline curves and surfaces, uniform B-spline subdivision algorithms; Non-uniform B-splines, recurrence relations, derivatives, discrete B-splines, nonuniformm B-spline curves and surfaces, discrete B-spline algorithm, homogeneous coordinates and projective transformations, non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS), NURBS curves and surfaces. NURBS is the current industry standard in computer aided design and computer graphics."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3233", "title": "Combinatorics and Graphs II", "description": "This is a continuation of MA2214 Combinatorics and Graphs I. The objective is to introduce to students fundamental principles and techniques in Graph Theory."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3236", "title": "Non-Linear Programming", "description": "Optimisation principles are of undisputed importance in modern design and system operation. The objective of this course is to present these principles and illustrate how algorithms can be designed from the mathematical theories for solving optimisation problems. Major topics: Fundamentals, unconstrained optimisation: one-dimensional search, Newton-Raphson method, gradient method, constrained optimisation: Lagrangian multipliers method, Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions, Lagrangian duality and saddle point optimality conditions, convex programming: Frank-Wolfe method."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3238", "title": "Stochastic Processes I", "description": "This course introduces the concept of modelling dependence and focuses on discrete-time Markov chains. Topics include discrete-time Markov chains, examples of discrete-time Markov chains, classification of states, irreducibility, periodicity, first passage times, recurrence and transience, convergence theorems and stationary distributions. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3252", "title": "Linear and Network Optimisation", "description": "The objective of this course is to work on optimisation problems which can be formulated as linear and network optimisation problems. We formulate linear programming (LP) problems and solve them by the simplex method (algorithm). We also look at the geometrical aspect and develop the mathematical theory of the simplex method. We further study problems which may be formulated using graphs and networks. These optimisation problems can be solved by using linear or integer programming approaches. However, due to its graphical structure, it is easier to handle these problems by using network algorithmic approaches. Applications of LP and network optimisation will be demonstrated. This course should help the student in developing confidence in solving many similar problems in daily life that require much computing. Major topics: Introduction to LP: solving 2-variable LP via graphical methods. Geometry of LP: polyhedron, extreme points, existence of optimal solution at extreme point. Development of simplex method: basic solution, reduced costs and optimality condition, iterative steps in a simplex method, 2-phase method and Big-M method. Duality: dual LP, duality theory, dual simplex method. Sensitivity Analysis. Network optimisation problems: minimal spanning tree problems, shortest path problems, maximal flow problems, minimum cost flow problems, salesman problems and postman problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3256", "title": "Applied Cryptography", "description": "Major topics: Historical review. Modern cryptosystems. Data Encryption Standard (DES). Stream cipher. Introduction to complexity theory. Public key cryptosystems (including RSA and knapsack schemes). Authentication. Digital signature and cryptographic applications (e.g. smart card)."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3259", "title": "Mathematical Methods in Genomics", "description": "This course is an introduction to methods and popular software tools for solving computational problems in genomics. It studies exact algorithms for those problems that can be solved easily and approximation and/or heuristic algorithms for hard problems. The objective is to develop competitive knowledge in formulating biological problems in computational terms and solving these problems using algorithm approach. This course is for students with interests in computational molecular biology and bioinformatics. Major topics: Sequence analysis, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic analysis, genome sequencing, gene prediction and motif finding, genome rearrangement."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3264", "title": "Mathematical Modelling", "description": "The objective of this course is to introduce the use of mathematics as an effective tool in solving real-world problems through mathematical modelling and analytical and/or numerical computations. By using examples in physical, engineering, biological and social sciences, we show how to convert real-world problems into mathematical equations through proper assumptions and physical laws. Qualitative analysis and analytical solutions for some models will be provided to interpret and explain qualitative and quantitative phenomena of the real-world problems. Major topics: Introduction of modelling; dynamic (or ODE) models: population models, pendulum motion; electrical networks, chemical reaction, etc; optimisation and discrete models: profit of company, annuity, etc; probability models: president election poll, random walk, etc; Model analysis: dimensional analysis, equilibrium and stability, bifurcation, etc; and some typical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3265", "title": "Introduction to Number Theory", "description": "Number theory is an area that attracts the attention of many great mathematicians. Attempts to solve some number theoretic problems (such as the Fermat's Last Theorem) often lead to new areas of mathematics. A recent application of an elementary number theoretic result called the Euler's Theorem to cryptography (RSA system) has further established the importance of this area in applied mathematics. The aim of this course is to introduce various topics in number theory and to connect these topics with algebra, analysis and combinatorics."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3288", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Mathematics I", "description": "This course is entirely project based. It allows the student the opportunity to engage in independent learning and research. It also affords the student the chance to delve into topics that may not be present in the regular curriculum. Projects registered under MA3288 are intended to be at a more advanced level than those under MA2288/9."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3288R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Mathematics I (REx)", "description": "This course is entirely project based. It allows the student the opportunity to engage in independent learning and research. It also affords the student the chance to delve into topics that may not be present in the regular curriculum. Projects registered under MA3288 are intended to be at a more advanced level than those under MA2288/9. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3289", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Mathematics II", "description": "This course provides a continuation of work done in MA3288 and the project should be of two semesters' duration. Please see section 4.4.3."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3289R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Mathematics II (REx)", "description": "This course provides a continuation of work done in MA3288 and the project should be of two semesters' duration. Please see section 4.4.3. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3291", "title": "Undergraduate Seminar in Mathematics", "description": "The seminar course aims to train the students\u2019 ability to present, discuss and write about mathematics. The topic(s) for the course will be chosen by the instructor and may change from year to year. Students will give presentations and contribute to the discussion at seminars. They may collaborate in studying the topics, but each will write an individual report. Students may also be tested on their grasp of the mathematical content through other forms of assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3311", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. Course is open to FoS undergraduate students from Cohorts AY2020/2021 and before, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA3313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4198", "title": "Mathematics Capstone Project", "description": "This is a capstone project course for Majors in Mathematics for Cohorts AY2021/22 and later. In this course, a student will complete a project, either individually or as a group, in a mathematical discipline under the guidance of a supervisor. The topics of the project can involve any applications of pure or applied mathematics in industry, higher-level academic studies, or research works. It provides students opportunities to foster skills in independent mathematical studies. The course culminates in a written report and a project presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4199", "title": "Honours Project in Mathematics", "description": "The Honours project is intended to give students the opportunity to work independently, to encourage students develop and exhibit aspects of their ability not revealed or tested by the usual written examination, and to foster skills that could be of continued usefulness in their subsequent careers. The project work duration is one year (including assessment)."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4201", "title": "Commutative Algebra", "description": "This is a second course on commutative rings and is targeted at aspiring undergraduates who intend to pursue a graduate course in pure mathematics and wish to have some commutative algebra background. Commutative algebra has applications in many areas of abstract algebra, including representation theory, number theory and algebraic geometry. Major topics: Radicals of commutative rings, Nakayama's lemma, localisation, integral dependence, primary decomposition, Noetherian and Artinian rings."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4203", "title": "Galois Theory", "description": "The objective of this course is to study field theory and its application to classical problems such as squaring a circle, trisecting an angle and solving the quintic polynomial equation by radicals. Major topics: Field extensions, finite and algebraic extensions, automorphisms of fields, splitting fields and normal extensions, separable extensions, primitive elements, finite fields, Galois extensions, roots of unity, norm and trace, cyclic extensions, solvable and radical extensions."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4207", "title": "Mathematical Logic", "description": "This is an introductory mathematical course in logic. It gives a mathematical treatment of basic ideas and results of logic, such as the definition of truth, the definition of proof and Godel's completeness theorem. The objectives are to present the important concepts and theorems of logic and to explain their significance and their relationship to other mathematical work."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4211", "title": "Functional Analysis", "description": "This course is for students who are majors in pure mathematics or who need functional analysis in their applied mathematics courses. The objective of the course is to study linear mappings defined on Banach spaces and Hilbert spaces, especially linear functionals (real-valued mappings) on L(p), C[0,1] and some sequence spaces. In particular, the four big theorems in functional analysis, namely, Hahn-Banach theorem, uniform boundedness theorem, open mapping theorem and Banach-Steinhaus theorem will be covered. Major topics: Normed linear spaces and Banach spaces. Bounded linear operators and continuous linear functionals. Dual spaces. Reflexivity. Hanh-Banach Theorem. Open Mapping Theorem. Uniform Boundedness Principle. Banach-Steinhaus Theorem. The classical Banach spaces : c0, lp, Lp, C(K). Compact operators. Inner product spaces and Hilbert spaces. Orthonormal bases. Orthogonal complements and direct sums. Riesz Representation Theorem. Adjoint operators."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4221", "title": "Partial Differential Equations", "description": "The objective of this introductory course is to provide the basic properties of partial differential equations as well as the techniques to solve some partial differential equations. Partial differential equations are the important tools for understanding the physical world and mathematics itself. This course will cover three types of partial differential equations and will provide a broad perspective on the subject, illustrate the rich variety of phenomena and impart a working knowledge of the most important techniques of analysis of the equations and their solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4229", "title": "Fourier Analysis and Approximation", "description": "Fourier analysis occupies a central position in both pure and applied mathematics. This course introduces some of the main ideas of Fourier analysis while trying to keep the technical prerequisites to a minimum. In particular, Lebesgue integration is not required. Selected applications to approximation problems are presented. Main topics: Fourier series, summability, pointwise and mean square convergence of Fourier series. Fejer\u2019s Theorem, localisation principle and Dini\u2019s test. Applications: Weierstrass Approximation Theorem, orthogonal polynomials, mean square approximation, best uniform polynomial approximation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4230", "title": "Matrix Computation", "description": "This course provides essential ideas and techniques as well as algorithms in numerical linear algebra that are needed in scientific computing and data analytics for effectively working with vectors and matrices. The major difficulties faced in solving problems in linear algebra numerically are discussed, as well as the associated applications often seen in practice. The emphasis is on the development of elegant and powerful algorithms and their applications for solving practical problems. Major topics include basic vector and matrix manipulation, the singular value decomposition, QR factorisation, least squares problems, conditioning and stability, eigenvalue problems, and various applications in scientific computing and data science."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4233", "title": "Dynamical Systems", "description": "The theory of dynamical systems studies the long-term behaviour of evolving systems. The aim of the course is to introduce fundamental elements of the mathematical theory of dynamical systems, understand nonlinear phenomena including chaos and bifurcation, and illustrate some of the most important ideas and methods to analyze nonlinear systems. Major topics: dynamics of circle maps, structural stability; dynamics of interval maps, symbolic dynamics and chaos, kneading sequence; bifurcation theory for one-dimensional maps; examples of higher dimensional dynamics."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4235", "title": "Topics in Graph Theory", "description": "This course covers some advanced as well as special topics in Graph Theory. The topics are to be chosen from: Domination Theory, Edge Coloring, List Coloring, Graph Ramsey Theory, Chromatic Polynomials, Reconstruction Problem, Planar Graphs, Perfect Graphs, Matroid Theory."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4247", "title": "Complex Analysis II", "description": "This is a second course in complex analysis which aims to introduce the student to some of the beautiful main results and applications of complex analysis. The nature of the topic allows the student to learn and understand the proofs and applications of some very strong results with relatively little background, it also shows the interplay between geometry, analysis and algebra.\n\nMajor topics: Argument principle (including Rouche's Theorem), open mapping theorem, maximum modulus principle, conformal mapping and linear fractional transformations, harmonic functions, and analytic continuation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4251", "title": "Stochastic Processes II", "description": "This course builds on ST3236 and introduces an array of stochastic models with biomedical and other real world applications. Topics include Poisson process, compound Poisson process, marked Poisson process, point process, epidemic models, continuous time Markov chain, birth and death processes, martingale. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4252", "title": "Advanced Ordinary Differential Equations", "description": "The field of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is a fundamental area in mathematics. There is a great range of real-world phenomena to which the theory and methods of ODEs can be applied. The central aim of this course is to study the qualitative aspects of ODEs. Major topics: Review of firstorder non-linear equations (including continuous dependence on initial conditions). Linear systems, periodic systems, asymptotic behaviour. Stability theory, stable, unstable and asymptotically stable solutions. Lyapunov\u2019s direct method. Two dimensional autonomous systems, critical points, phase portrait, limit cycles and periodic solutions, Poincare-Bendixson Theorem."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4254", "title": "Discrete Optimization", "description": "Discrete optimisation deals with problems of maximising or minimising a function over a feasible region of discrete structure. These problems come from many fields like operations research, management science and computer science. The primary objective of this course is twofold: (a) to study key techniques to separate easy problems from difficult ones and (b) to use typical methods to deal with difficult problems. Major topics: Integer programming: cutting plane techniques, branch and bound enumeration, partitioning algorithms, the fixed charge and plant location problems. Sequencing and job-shop scheduling. Vehicle routing problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4255", "title": "Numerical Methods in Differential Equations", "description": "Ordinary and partial differential equations are routinely used to model a variety of natural and social phenomena. This course is concerned with the basic theory of numerical methods for solving these equations. Through the study of this course, students will gain an understanding of (1) various numerical integration schemes for solving ordinary differential equations, and (2) finite difference methods for solving various linear partial differential equations. Major topics: (ODE) One-step and linear multistep methods, Runge-Kutta methods, A-stability, convergence; (PDE) Difference calculus, finite difference methods for initial value problems, boundary value problems, and initial-boundary value problems, consistency, stability analysis via von Neumann method and matrix method, convergence, Lax Equivalence Theorem."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4260", "title": "Stochastic Operations Research", "description": "This is a stochastic operations research course and has many applications in production planning, warehousing and logistics. This course gives an introduction on how operations research models (with emphasis on optimisation models) are formulated and solved. Many inventory and queuing models are derived to cater for different situations and problems in the real world. The solutions of these models can be obtained analytically. The tools of dynamic programming, heuristics and simulation are also introduced to derive the solutions. Major topics: The basic economic order quantity model and its extension. Dynamic lot sizing models. Inventory models with uncertain demands: single-period decision models, continuous review and periodic review policies. Recent developments in inventory theory. Modelling arrival and service processes. Basic queuing models. Cost considerations in queuing models. Queuing network. Simulation of inventory and queuing models."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4261", "title": "Coding and Cryptography", "description": "Error-correcting codes and security codes are very important in the data communication and storage. The focus of this module is the mathematical aspect of coding theory and cryptography. Upon completing this module, the student will have a basic appreciation of some key issues in coding theory and cryptography, some understanding of the basic theory concerning codes and ciphers and a good knowledge of some well-known codes and ciphers. Major Topics: Communication channels and Shannon\u2019s theorem, block codes and linear codes, maximum-likelihood decoding and syndrome decoding, bounds on codes and optimal codes, cyclic codes, BCH codes, encoding and decoding of cyclic codes. Public-key cryptography, RSA cryptosystem, public-key cryptosystems based on the discrete logarithm problem, elliptic curve cryptosystems, factorization algorithm and pseudoprime."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4262", "title": "Measure and Integration", "description": "This is an introduction to the theory of Lebesgue measure and Lebesgue integration, with an eye to examples and applications drawn from probability theory. In addition to those majoring in mathematics, it may be of interest to students in statistics, science, engineering or economics who wish to acquire a working knowledge of the modern approach to integration. Major topics include: construction of Lebesgue measure, definition of Lebesgue integral, convergence theorems, applications to probability such as the Borel-Cantelli Lemma, Law of Large Numbers and the Central Limit Theorem."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4263", "title": "Introduction to Analytic Number Theory", "description": "The aim of this course is to introduce the standard techniques in analytic number theory through the study of two classical results, namely, the prime number theorem and Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions. Major topics: Arithmetical functions. Mertens' estimates. Riemann zeta function. Prime number theorem. Characters of abelian groups. Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4264", "title": "Game Theory", "description": "Game theory provides a mathematical tool for multi-person decision making. The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to game theory, studying basic concepts, models and solutions of games and their applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4266", "title": "Topology", "description": "The (point-set) topology covered in this course is an abstraction of metric space concepts, and was largely developed in the first half of last century. It forms the basis for much modern mathematics, especially in geometry and analysis, and beyond mathematics is important in computer science, mathematical economics, mathematical physics and robotics. Major topics: metric and topological spaces, continuous maps, bases, homeomorphisms, subspaces, sum, product and quotient topologies, orbit spaces, separation axioms, compact spaces, Tychonoff's theorem, compactness in metric spaces, Urysohn's lemma, Tietze Extension Theorem, connected and path-connected spaces, components, locally compact spaces, function spaces and the compact-open topology."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4267", "title": "Discrete Time Finance", "description": "Major topics:\n\n(I) Single-Period Financial Markets\n[1] Modeling and Pricing: The single-period market model, Absence of arbitrage, Risk-neutral probability measures, Pricing contingent claims, Complete and incomplete markets, Risk and return.\n[2] Portfolio Optimization: Optimal portfolios, The risk-neutral computational approach, Mean-variance analysis, Optimal portfolios in incomplete markets.\n\n(II) Multi-Period Financial Markets\n[1] Modeling: The multi-period market model, Filtration, Conditional expectation and martingales, Trading strategies, Absence of arbitrage, Martingale measures, The binomial or Cox-Ross-Rubinstein model.\n[2] Pricing Contingent Claims: Contingent claims, Complete and incomplete markets, European options, American options, Snell envelopes, Futures.3. Portfolio Optimization:Dynamic programming approach, The risk-neutral computational approach, Optimal portfolios in incomplete markets"}, {"moduleCode": "MA4268", "title": "Mathematics for Visual Data Processing", "description": "This multi-disciplinary course focuses on various important mathematical methods addressing problems arising in imaging and vision. Topics covered include: Continuous and discrete Fourier transform, Gabor transform, Wiener filter, variational principle, level set method, applied differential geometry, linear and nonlinear least squares, regularisation methods."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4270", "title": "Data Modelling and Computation", "description": "This course aims at presenting important mathematical concepts and computational methods that are often used for modelling and analysis of big data sets and complex networks. The emphasis is on mathematical modelling and computational methods for practical problems in data science. Major topics include: basics on convex analysis, numerical methods for large-scale convex problems, dimensionality reduction, numerical methods for machine learning, kernel methods for pattern analysis, sparse coding and dictionary learning."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4271", "title": "Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces", "description": "Students of this course will learn how to apply their knowledge in advanced calculus and linear algebra to the study of the geometry of smooth curves and surfaces in the three dimensional Euclidean space. Major topics: theory of smooth space curves, differentiable structures on a smooth surface, local theory of the geometry of smooth surfaces, the first and second fundamental form, Guass map, parallel transport, geodesics, global properties of surfaces: triangulation, Euler number and orientation, global Gauss-Bonnet formula and its applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4272", "title": "Mathematical Tools for Data Science", "description": "This course introduces the mathematical tools for data science. Its objective is for students to develop competitive knowledge for working in the industry. It is offered to students with interests in industrial applications of mathematics. Major topics include basic mathematics in visualization and analyses of big data, basic principles and computational tools for high-dimensional data from imaging and sensing, basic programming techniques for optimization modelling, and popular software tools for data analytics."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4273", "title": "Algebraic Geometry of Curves and Surfaces", "description": "The main objective of this course is to introduce modern algebraic geometry to advanced undergraduates, with a focus on curves and some discussion of surfaces. Topics covered in this course are: affine spaces and varieties, Zariski topology, projective spaces and varieties, function fields, algebraic morphisms and rational maps, birational equivalence, smoothness and singularities, algebraic curves, Bezout's theorem, divsors and differentials, genus, Riemann-Hurwitz theorem, Riemann-Roch theorem, elliptic curves, algebraic surfaces, 27 lines on a cubic surface."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4274", "title": "Fast Iterative Solvers with Applications", "description": "This course introduces efficient iterative solvers for linear and nonlinear systems. These solvers are designed for solving partial differential equations that arise in physical and engineering models. Through this course, the students will understand how the basic mathematical techniques are combined to solve practical problems and learn some modern techniques in numerical methods of differential equations. Major topics: Classical iterative methods for systems of linear equations, iterative methods for large linear systems, preconditioning of linear solvers, applications in partial differential equations (e.g. Poisson\u2019s equation and Stokes equations)."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4288D", "title": "Undergraduate Project in Mathematics", "description": "In this course, a student will complete a project in a mathematical discipline at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level under the guidance of his or her supervisor. The topics of the project can involve any applications of pure or applied mathematics in industry, higher-level academic studies, or research works. It provides students opportunities to foster skills on independent mathematical studies. The course culminates in a written report and a project presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4288O", "title": "Undergraduate Project in Mathematics", "description": "In this course, a student will complete a project in a mathematical discipline at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level under the guidance of his or her supervisor. The topics of the project can involve any applications of pure or applied mathematics in industry, higher-level academic studies, or research works. It provides students opportunities to foster skills on independent mathematical studies. The course culminates in a written report and a project presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4288P", "title": "Undergraduate Project in Mathematics", "description": "In this course, a student will complete a project in a mathematical discipline at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level under the guidance of his or her supervisor. The topics of the project can involve any applications of pure or applied mathematics in industry, higher-level academic studies, or research works. It provides students opportunities to foster skills on independent mathematical studies. The course culminates in a written report and a project presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4291", "title": "Undergraduate Topics in Mathematics I", "description": "This topics course is intended as an elective course for strong and motivated students specialising in mathematics. The topics for the course will be chosen from a fundamental area of mathematics and may change from year to year. Besides regular lectures, each student will do independent study, give presentations and submit a term paper. There will be opportunities in the course for the students to conduct individual or group research on the topics discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4292", "title": "Undergraduate Topics in Mathematics II", "description": "This topics course is intended as an elective course for strong and motivated students specialising in mathematics. The topics for the course will be chosen from a fundamental area of mathematics and may change from year to year. Besides regular lectures, each student will do independent study, give presentations and submit a term paper. There will be opportunities in the course for the students to conduct individual or group research on the topics discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MA4310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5198", "title": "Graduate Seminar Course in Mathematics", "description": "A theme or one or several topics in mathematics, which may vary from semester to semester, will be chosen by the lecturer-in-charge or students enrolled in the course. Students will take turns to give seminar presentations on the chosen topics. Students will also be required to provide verbal critique and submit written reports on selected presentations. This course is only for students from the PhD and Masters (by Research) programmes."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5202", "title": "Number Theory", "description": "This course is an introduction to classical algebraic number theory. It covers topics chosen from: algebraic integers, unique factorization of ideals, class group, unit theorem, ramification, decomposition and inertia groups, geometry of numbers, zeta functions and L-functions. If time permits, further topics which may be covered include: p-adic numbers, adeles and ideles, prime number theorem and modular forms."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5203", "title": "Graduate Algebra I", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in both pure and applied mathematics. It covers topics from the five basic areas of groups, rings, modules, fields and multi-linear algebra, including group actions, Sylow theorems, Jordan-Holder theorem, semisimple modules, chain conditions, bimodules, tensor products and localizations, algebraic, separable and normal field extensions, algebraic closures, multilinear forms, quadratic forms, symmetric and exterior algebras."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5204", "title": "Commutative and Homological Algebra", "description": "This course is a basic introduction to commutative and homological algebra. It covers the following topics: prime spectrum of a commutative ring, exact sequences, projective, injective and flat modules, Ext and Tor, integral ring extensions, Noether\u2019s normalization and Hilbert\u2019s Nullstellensatz, Noetherian and Artinian rings and modules, dimension theory, Dedekind domains and discrete valuation ring."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5205", "title": "Graduate Analysis I", "description": "This course covers Lebesgue integration and related topics. It is intended for graduate students in mathematics. Major topics: (1) Quick review of properties of Rn, Lebesgue measure on Rn, Borel sets, Lebesgue nonmeasurable sets, Riemann-Lebesgue function, Lusin\u2019s and Egoroff\u2019s Theorems, convergence in measure. (2) Lebesgue integration, convergence theorems, evaluation of the integral in terms of the distribution function, Lp spaces, density of smooth functions, abstract integration. (3) Product integration, Fubini\u2019s and Tonelli\u2019s Theorems, application to convolution, approximate identities and maximal function. (4) Lebesgue Differentiation Theorem, Vitali covering, functions of bounded variation, Riemann Stieltjes integrals, absolutely continuity."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5206", "title": "Graduate Analysis II", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It focuses on the foundations of modern analysis. It covers the following major topics: distribution theory, Sobolev spaces, Littlewood-Paley theory, Hilbert transform, singular integral, Calderon-Zygmund theory."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5208", "title": "Algebraic Geometry", "description": "This course is a first course in algebraic geometry, introducing the basic objects (varieties) and basic geometric constructs and notions (products, fibers of morphisms, dimensions, tangent spaces, smoothness) with applications to curves and surfaces. It is suitable for students who intend to work in number theory, representation theory, algebraic geometry and topology and geometry in general."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5209", "title": "Algebraic Topology", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It studies topology using algebraic methods. It covers the following major topics: van Kampen theorem, covering spaces, simplicial and singular homology, cellular homology, Mayer-Vietoris sequences, homology with coefficients, Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms, categories and functors, cohomology groups, cup product."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5210", "title": "Differentiable Manifolds", "description": "This course studies differentiable manifolds and the calculus on such manifolds. It covers the following topics: tangent spaces and vector fields in Rn, the Inverse Mapping Theorem, differential manifolds, diffeomorphisms, immersions, submersions, submanifolds, tangent bundles and vector fields, cotangent bundles and tensor fields, tensor and exterior algebras, orientation of manifolds, integration on manifolds, Stokes' theorem. The course is for mathematics graduate students with interest in topology or geometry."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5211", "title": "Lie Theory", "description": "This course studies Lie groups/algebras and their finite dimensional representations. Major topics include Lie groups and Lie algebras, compact Lie groups, compact Lie algebras, basic notions of representation theory, Theorem of highest weight, Weyl character formula. The course is suitable for graduate students with interest in number theory, representation theory, functional analysis, geometry or topology."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5213", "title": "Advanced Partial Differential Equations", "description": "This module is an advanced course on partial differential equations. It covers the following topics the Laplace equations, subharmonic functions, Dirichlet and Neumann problems, the Poisson equations, hyperbolic equations, Cauchy problems, mixed boundary value problems, parabolic equations, initial value problems, maximum principle, mixed boundary value problems. The course is for mathematics graduate students with interest in differential equations and its applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5216", "title": "Differential Geometry", "description": "The course is a course on differential geometry aimed at students who have had some exposure to differentiable manifolds. Major topics include: Riemannian metrics, connections, curvatures, warped products, Hyperbolic spaces, metrics on Lie Groups, Riemannian submersions, geodesic and distance, sectional curvature comparison, Killing fields, Hodge Theory, harmonic forms, curvature tensors, curvature operators."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5217", "title": "Graduate Complex Analysis", "description": "This course is intended to be a rigorous introduction to the study of functions of one complex variable, aimed at the first year graduate level. Major topics: Holomorphic functions, Cauchy\u2019s integral formula and applications, residue and poles, Argument Principle, Maximal Modulus Principle and the Schwarz Lemma, conformal mappings, harmonic functions and analytic continuation."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5218", "title": "Representation Theory", "description": "This course is an introduction to representation theory of finite groups and other related topics. The first two-thirds of the course deals with the generalities of representations and characters, culminating in Burnside\u2019s theorem for finite groups. The remainder of the course is concerned with the representation theory of symmetric groups and its connection with the combinatorics of Young tableaux. If time permits, other related topics may be discussed, such as rationality questions, branching relations on symmetric groups, the representation theory of alternating groups, and Schur-Weyl duality."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5219", "title": "Logic and Foundation of Mathematics I", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics, and students in computer science and philosophy who have sufficient mathematical background. The core of the course is Gdels incompleteness theorem. Before that, some basic knowledge on first order logic, such as compactness theorem and properties of reducts of number theory, will be discussed. After that, some basic topics in Recursion Theory and Model Theory are introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5220", "title": "Logic and Foundation of Mathematics II", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics, and students in computer science and philosophy who have sufficient mathematical background. The course will be devoted to prove the consistency and independence of Continuum Hypothesis (CH) as well as Axiom of Choice. The topics include Gdels constructible universe and Cohens forcing method. This course will provide the students not only some basics in modern Set Theory, but also deeper understanding of fundamental phenomena in logic, such as constructibility and independence."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5232", "title": "Modeling and Numerical Simulations", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It focuses on modeling problems in real life and other disciplines into mathematical problems and simulating their solutions by scientific computing methods. Major topics covered include modeling and numerical simulations in selected areas of physical and engineering sciences, biology, finance, imaging and optimization."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5233", "title": "Computational Mathematics", "description": "This course studies computational methods in mathematics. It covers the following topics: computational linear algebra, numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations, parallel algorithms. The course is for mathematics graduate students with interest in computation methods."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5235", "title": "Advanced Graph Theory", "description": "This course is an advanced course on graph theory. It covers the following topics: tournaments and generalizations, perfect graphs, Ramsey theory, extremal graphs, matroids. The course is for mathematics graduate students with interest in graph theory and its applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5236", "title": "Homology Theory", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It covers the following major topics: Homological algebra: categories and functors, chain complexes, homology, exact sequences, Snake Lemma, Mayer-Vietoris, Kunneth Theorem. Homology theory: Eilenberg-Steenrod homology axioms, singular homology theory, cellular homology, cohomology, cup and cap products, applications of homology (Brouwer fixed-point theorem, vector fields on spheres, Jordan Curve Theorem), H-spaces and Hopf algebra. Manifolds: de Rham cohomology, orientation, Poincare duality."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5238", "title": "Fourier Analysis", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It covers the following major topics: Fourier series, Fourier transform on R^n, distributions and generalized functions, Sobolev spaces and their applications to partial differential equations. Introduction to singular integrals."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5240", "title": "Finite Element Method", "description": "This course studies the finite element method. It covers the following topics: variational principles, weak solutions of differential equations, Galerkin/Ritz method, Lax-Milgram theorem, finite element spaces, stiffness matrices. Shape functions, Barycentric coordinates, numerical integration in Rn, calculation of stiffness matrices, constraints and boundary conditions, iterative methods and approximate solutions, error estimates. The course is for mathematics graduate students with interest in finite element method and its applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5241", "title": "Computational Harmonic Analysis", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in applied mathematics and other related disciplines in science and engineering. It covers the following topics: discrete wavelet transform, discrete wavelet frame and tight frame, sparse approximation in redundant systems, variational methods for ill-posed inverse problems, sampling theory, compressed sensing, low rank matrix approximation, and non-local image restoration approaches."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5242", "title": "Wavelets", "description": "This course is a course focusing on the theory of wavelets and frames. It covers the following topics: Gabor transform and continuous wavelet transform, Gabor frame and wavelet frame, multi-resolution analysis, tight wavelet frame and orthonormal wavelet basis, applications of wavelet and frame in signal/image processing. The course is for graduate students who are interested in the theory or applications of wavelets and frames."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5243", "title": "Advanced Mathematical Programming", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It covers the following major topics: Introduction to convex analysis; Theory of constrained optimization; Lagrangian duality; Algorithms for constrained optimization, in particular, penalty, barrier and augmented Lagrangian methods; Interior-point methods for convex programming, in particular, linear and semidefinite programming."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5244", "title": "Advanced Topics in Operations Research", "description": "This course is an advanced course on operations research. It covers topics which will be chosen from the following: Large-scale linear and nonlinear programming; Global Optimisation; Variational inequality problems; NP-hard problems in combinatorial Optimisation; Stochastic programming; Multi-objective mathematical programming. The course is for mathematics graduate students with interest in operations research."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5245", "title": "Advanced Financial Mathematics", "description": "This course is designed for honours students in the Quantitative Finance programme and post-graduate students in mathematical finance or quantitative finance. It aims to further students\u2019 understanding in various areas of financial mathematics. Topics include selected materials in the following aspects: Stochastic analysis, stochastic control, and partial differential equations with applications in financial mathematics, exotic options, bond and interest rate models, asset pricing, portfolio selection, Monte Carlo simulation, credit risk analysis, risk management, incomplete markets."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5248", "title": "Stochastic Analysis in Mathematical Finance", "description": "This course introduces the basic techniques in stochastic analysis as well as their applications in mathematical finance. Major topics: Brownian motion, stochastic calculus, stochastic differential equations, mathematical markets, arbitrage, completeness, optimal stopping problems, stochastic control, risk-neutral pricing, and generalized Black-Scholes models."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5249", "title": "Stochastic Processes and Algorithms", "description": "This course discusses theories for Markov chain, and how to implement them in various stochastic algorithms. We investigate Markov chains in both discrete and continuous-time settings. We discuss how to implement one step analysis and derive equations for important quantities such as hitting times. We also discuss how to derive martingales to control the process. Finally, we investigate how does a Markov chain converges to its invariant measure using coupling techniques. These theoretical tools will be applied to design and analyze various stochastic algorithms."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5250", "title": "Computational Fluid Dynamics", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It focuses on high-resolution numerical methods and their analysis and applications in computational fluid dynamics. It covers the following major topics: Hyperbolic conservation laws and shock capturing schemes, convergence, accuracy and stability, high-resolution methods for gas dynamics and Euler equations, applications in multi-phase flows and combustion."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5251", "title": "Spectral Methods and Applications", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It focuses on some basic theoretical results on spectral approximations as well as practical algorithms for implementing spectral methods. It will specially emphasize on how to design efficient and accurate spectral algorithms for solving PDEs of current interest. Major topics covered include: Fourier-spectral methods, basic results for polynomial approximations, Galerkin and collocation methods using Legendre and Chebyshev polynomials, fast elliptic solvers using the spectral method and applications to various PDEs of current interest."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5252", "title": "Methods of Applied Mathematics", "description": "This course is intended for graduate students interested in pursuing research in applied and computational mathematics. It provides a concise and self-contained introduction to important methods used in applied mathematics, especially in the asymptotic analysis of differential equations involving multiple scales. Major topics include scaling analysis, perturbation methods, the WKB method, the averaging method, multi-scale expansion and the method of homogenization."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5253", "title": "Riemann Surfaces", "description": "This course will be an introduction to Riemann surfaces, focusing on topics such as topology of Riemann surfaces, divisors and line bundles, differential forms and Hodge theory, the Riemann-Roch theorem, period mappings, the Poincar\u00e9-Koebe uniformisation theorem. We will also discuss more advanced topics such as algebraic curves, hyperbolic geometry and discrete groups of automorphisms."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5259", "title": "Probability Theory I", "description": "This graduate level course introduces the measure theoretic formulation of probability theory and covers the following fundamental topics: probability space and random variables, different modes of convergence, law of large number, central limit theorem, Markov chain theory, martingale theory, and Brownian motion."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5260", "title": "Probability Theory II", "description": "The objective of this course to introduce students the basics of Brownian motion and martingale theory. For Brownian motion, we cover topics such as existence and uniqueness of Brownian motion, Skorokhod embedding, Donsker's invariance principle, exponential martingales associated with Brownian motion, sample path properties of Brownian motion. As for martingales, we confine ourselves to discrete time parameter martingales and cover topics such as conditional expectations and their properties, martingales (submartingales and supermartinmgales), previsible processes, Doob's upcrossing lemma, Doob's martingale convergence theorem, stopping times, martingale transforms and Doob's optional sampling theorems, martingale inequalities and inequalities for martingale transforms."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5261", "title": "Applied Stochastic Processes", "description": "This course is a course on stochastic processes and their applications. It covers topics in stochastic processes emphasizing applications, branching processes, point processes, reliability theory, renewal theory. The course is for graduate students with interest in the applications of stochastic processes."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5262", "title": "Stochastic Operations Research Models", "description": "This course studies stochastic operations research models. It covers the following topics: stochastic dynamic programming, reliability theory, selected topics in inventory theory, selected topics in queuing theory. The course is for graduate students with interest in operations research."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5264", "title": "Computational Molecular Biology Ii", "description": "The course is for graduate students with interest in computational molecular biology. The objective is to develop knowledge and research ability in the subject. This course studies computational biology problems along both algorithmic and statistical approaches. It covers different methods for multiple sequence alignment, genome sequencing, comparative analysis of genome information, gene prediction, finding signals in DNA, phylogenetic analysis, protein structure prediction. Other topics covered include micro-array gene expression analysis and computational proteomics."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5265", "title": "Advanced Numerical Analysis", "description": "Basic iterative methods. Projection methods. Krylov subspace methods. Preconditioned iteration and preconditioning techniques. Methods for nonlinear systems of equations: fixed point methods, Newton's method, quasi-Newton methods, steepest descent techniques, homotopy and continuation methods. Numerical ODEs: Euler's methods, Runge-Kutta Methods, multi-step method, shooting method. Numerical PDEs: Introduction to finite difference and finite element methods. Fast linear system solvers: FFT and multi-grid methods."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5266", "title": "Optimization", "description": "Linear optimization: simplex method, duality, sensitivity analysis, formulations of integer linear programming, cutting plane algorithm, branch and bound algorithm. Unconstrained nonlinear optimization: gradient method, Newton's method, quasi-Newton methods. Constrained nonlinear optimization: Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions, penalty, barrier, and augmented Lagrangian methods, sequential quadratic programming methods. Convex optimization: proximal mapping, proximal gradient algorithm, alternating direction method of multipliers."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5267", "title": "Stochastic Calculus", "description": "Brownian motion. Quadratic variations. Martingales. Levy's martingale characterisation. Ito integral: Definition and construction. Properties of Ito integrals. Stochastic differential and Ito formula. Ito processes. Integration by parts formula. Stochastic differential equations (SDEs). Examples of some solvable SDEs. Girsanov transform."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5268", "title": "Theory and algorithms for nonlinear optimization", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic theory and algorithms for nonlinear optimization problems with polyhedral and non-polyhedral constraints. Major topics to be covered include: smooth optimization, constraint qualifications, second order necessary and sufficient conditions, composite nonsmooth optimization, first and second order methods for large scale problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5269", "title": "Optimal Stopping and Stochastic Control in Finance", "description": "This course covers the fundamental theory of optimal stopping and stochastic control. Two typical examples arising from finance will be elaborated: American option pricing and portfolio selection. Major topics include optimal stopping problems, stochastic control problems, HJB equations, viscosity solution, variational inequality equations, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5270", "title": "Game Theory and applications", "description": "This course is about game theory and its applications. It is designed for master by coursework students in mathematics. The course first provides students with the basic solution concepts for different types of games, including both non-cooperative games and cooperative games. Then it will cover various applications in economics and business."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5271", "title": "Introduction to Computational Mathematics", "description": "The main objective of this course is to introduce basic computational methods in mathematics. It covers the following topics:polynomial interpolation, numerical integration, numerical solution of nonlinear equations, computational linear algebra, numerical methods for ordinary differential equations."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5295", "title": "Dissertation For Msc By Coursework", "description": "Student is expected to conduct research on a topic or area in mathematics, write a report and give an oral presentation on it."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5401", "title": "Graduate Internship in Mathematics I", "description": "In addition to having academic foundation, students with good soft skills and industrial experience often stand a better chance when seeking for jobs upon their graduation. This course gives postgraduate Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internship/s during their candidature. The course requires students to perform a minimum of 20 hours per week structured internship in an approved company/institution for stipulated minimum period of 6 weeks."}, {"moduleCode": "MA5402", "title": "Graduate Internship in Mathematics II", "description": "In addition to having academic foundation, students with good soft skills and industrial experience often stand a better chance when seeking for jobs upon their graduation. This course gives postgraduate Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internship/s during their candidature. The course requires students to perform a minimum of 20 hours per week structured internship in an approved company/institution for stipulated minimum period of 12 weeks."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6201", "title": "Topics in Algebra and Number Theory I", "description": "Selected topics in algebra and number theory are offered"}, {"moduleCode": "MA6202", "title": "Approximate Subgroups", "description": "For a group G equipped with a natural notion of size (cardinality, measure, etc), we are interested in classifying subsets A of G whose product set A^2={a_1a_2: a_1, a_2 in A} is not much larger than the set A itself (e.g., A is a subgroup of G). The answers to the above simple looking question in various settings play important roles in many mathematical works and can be seen from many areas of mathematics. This course discusses a number of selected results on this topic including the recent resolution of a conjecture by Breuillard and Green by myself and collaborators."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6205", "title": "Topics in Analysis I", "description": "Selected topics in real analysis, complex analysis, Fourier analysis, functional analysis, operator theory and harmonic analysis are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6206", "title": "Topics in Analysis Ii", "description": "Unipotent flows play a central role in the modern study of homogeneous dynamics, which has various applications in the number theory, such as the solution of the Oppenheim conjecture by Margulis, the solution of Raghunathan conjecture by Ratner. This course aims to understand the unipotent flows\u2019 behaviour on the homogeneous space generated by semisimple Lie groups and arbitrary lattices. We will start from some elementary knowledge of the Lie group and ergodic theory, then proceed to polynomial divergence of unipotent flows and finally establish some rigidity theory for unipotent flows, such as isomorphic rigidity, measure rigidity and time change rigidity."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6211", "title": "Topics in Geometry and Topology I", "description": "Selected topics in differential geometry, algebraic geometry and topology are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6212", "title": "Topics in Geometry and Topology II", "description": "Selected topics in differential geometry, algebraic geometry and topology are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6215", "title": "Topics in Differential Equations", "description": "Selected topics in ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6216", "title": "Advanced Dynamical Systems", "description": "This course is an advanced course on dynamical systems. It covers the following topics: higher dimensional real dynamics, one-dimensional complex dynamics, hyperbolic dynamical systems, symbolic dynamics, chaos, strange attractors, fractals in higher dimensions. Julia sets, Meldebrot sets, quasi-conformal mappings. The course is for mathematics graduate students with interest in dynamical systems."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6217", "title": "Homotopy Theory", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics. It covers the following major topics: Homotopy theory: homotopy groups, fibrations, Hurewicz Theorem, Whitehead Theorem, Postnikov systems and Eilenberg-MacLane spaces, simplicial homotopy theory, simplicial groups, James construction, Hopf invariants, Whitehead products, Hilton-Milnor Theorem, cohomology operations and the Steenrod algebra. Homology theory: homology of fibre spaces and Leray-Serre spectral sequences. Geometry: homotopy and homology of Lie groups and Grassmann manifolds, fibre bundles."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6219", "title": "Recursion Theory", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics who are interested in mathematical logic. It consists of the following parts: (a) background knowledge in recursion theory; (b) basic techniques in degree theory, such as forcing and priority methods; (c) some generalizations and applications of recursion theory."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6220", "title": "Model Theory", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics, who have sufficient background in mathematical logic. The course will be structured around Morley\u2019s Categoricity Theorem. To set up the stage of the proof of Morley\u2019s Theorem, some necessary knowledge is also introduced, which turns out to be a good training in model theory."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6221", "title": "Topics in Combinatorics", "description": "Selected topics in combinatorics and graph theory are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6222", "title": "Topics in Logic I", "description": "Selected topics in logic are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6223", "title": "Topics in Logic II", "description": "Selected topics in logic are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6225", "title": "Topics in Coding Theory and Cryptography", "description": "Selected topics in coding theory and cryptography are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6235", "title": "Topics in Financial Mathematics", "description": "Selected topics in financial mathematics are offered."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6241", "title": "Topics in Numerical Methods", "description": "Topics offered will be of advanced mathematical nature and will be selected by the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6251", "title": "Topics in Applied Mathematics I", "description": "Topics offered will be of advanced mathematical nature and will be selected by the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6252", "title": "Topics in Applied Mathematics Ii", "description": "Topics offered will be of advanced mathematical nature and will be selected by the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6253", "title": "Conic Programming", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in mathematics whose research areas fall within optimization and operations research. It focuses on fundamental theory and algorithms for linear and nonlinear conic programming problems. Major topics covered include first order optimality conditions, second order necessary and sufficient conditions, sensitivity and perturbation analysis, and design and convergence analysis and various Newton's methods."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6291", "title": "Topics in Mathematics I", "description": "Topics offered will be of advanced mathematical nature and will be selected by the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6292", "title": "Topics in Mathematics Ii", "description": "Topics offered will be of advanced mathematical nature and will be selected by the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MA6293", "title": "Topics in Mathematics Iii", "description": "Topics offered will be of advanced mathematical nature and will be selected by the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MB5002", "title": "External Institution Module 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MB5003", "title": "External Institution Module 3", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MB5004", "title": "External Institution Module 4", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MB5006", "title": "External Institution Module 6", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MB5008", "title": "External Institution Module 8", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MB5010", "title": "External Institution Module 10", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MB5012", "title": "External Institution Module 12", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MB5101", "title": "The Cell as a Machine", "description": "To provide a working understanding of the basic cell functions and processes with the physical and chemical principles underlying them. In practical terms, we will attempt to solve a number of important problems relevant to replication, transcription, translation, translocation, motility, and other important functions. The assignments will primarily involve the solution of practical cellular problems using quantitative measurements and parameters given in class and original literature will be critically discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MB5102", "title": "Topics in Mechanobiology", "description": "To provide a working understanding of basic problems of mechanobiology. In practical terms, we will present to the students a number of important problems relevant to force-generation and force-sensing in living systems, and how the cells interpret the mechanical cues for regulation of their functions. The teaching will primarily involved the discussion of the studies that are performed at MBI and reading original literatures under the guidance of MBI investigators. The \nassignment will involve writing of several science features devoted to the studies conducted at MBI, 1 mini-review devoted to selected mechanobiology field analysed indepth and an oral presentation of the mini-review in class."}, {"moduleCode": "MB5103", "title": "Research Seminars in Mechanobiology", "description": "This module, required for doctoral students in Mechanobiology, studies the scientific seminar as a mode of communication, as well as studying a variety of\nmechanobiology topics that will be presented in seminar format. Students will have opportunities to work on 1) extracting information from research seminars;\n2) critical listening; 3) constructive criticism and identifying areas for\nimprovement; and 4) presenting a brief seminar on material directly related to\ntheir own research. Seminars will be presented by visiting scientists, members\nof the RCE, and the students themselves. Seminars are an effective way for students to interact with the broader scientific community and to keep abreast of the most recent research. The ultimate goal for this module is to\nenable students to get the greatest benefit from research seminars, whether they are participating as audience members or as speakers."}, {"moduleCode": "MB5104", "title": "Integrative Approach To Understand Cell Functions", "description": "The module provides an intensive 2-week \u201cBootcamp\u201d course aimed at introducing new graduate students from biology or physical science backgrounds to key fundamental concepts and practical approaches in understanding cellular function. The focus is to develop a breadth of knowledge that allows students to pursue further depth in their respective research work. Major topics include the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, gene cloning and editing, microscopy and bioimaging, coding and quantitative methods in biology, the choice and limitations of model organisms. These topics will be covered in lectures and reinforced in thematic-based practicals."}, {"moduleCode": "MB5105", "title": "Microfabrication for Biologists", "description": "This modules aims at teaching the basic principles of soft lithography techniques that are classically used by biologists. Although clean room techniques will be presented to help understand the whole fabrication process and limitation, a strong emphasis will be placed on post processing that is often performed at the bench such as surface treatment, protein adsorbtion, UV treatment, polymerization. The modules will be articulated around \ni- a theoretical description of fabrication process, polymerization schemes and surface treatment scheme.\nii- Practical fabrication work at the bench in small groups. We will study both \u201cclassic\u201d devices and processes as well as \u201ccustom\u201d devices proposed by students."}, {"moduleCode": "MB5106", "title": "Advanced Optics for Microscopy", "description": "The aim of the course is to describe the physical principles at stake in a microscope. The principles of light emission, the notion of coherence, of diffraction, of adsorption, of interferences and of spatial filtering will be\npresented in the context of imaging of biological samples. The course aims at providing a deeper understanding and physical grounds to the various practical approaches implemented in a microscope. The idea is to follow the imaging path of a light microscope and to introduce physical principles and mathematical simplest formalism to understand the underlying mechanism in the acquisition of biological relevant images."}, {"moduleCode": "MCI5001", "title": "Design and Planning of Clinical Studies", "description": "This course provides a broad overview of the design and planning of clinical studies. The course begins with an introduction to the research process before introducing various study types, including first-in-human, Phase 1 and dose-finding trials, Phase II trials, Phase III trials and cross-over trials. More advanced topics will also be covered, such as cluster randomized and stepped-wedged trials, adaptive trials, and real-world evidence studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MCI5006", "title": "Design and Planning of Epidemiological Studies", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive overview of the design and planning of epidemiological studies. The course first introduces critical concepts related to observational studies before covering common study designs such as cohort studies and case-control studies. More specialized topics will also be covered, such as screening and diagnostic studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and survey studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MCI5007", "title": "Scientific Writing", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MCI5008", "title": "Research Project", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MCI5009", "title": "Health Services Research Methods for Clinicians", "description": "This course introduces health services research topics and methods most relevant to clinical researchers. The research methods covered include assessment of patient-reported outcomes, economic evaluation, analysis of qualitative data, and systematic review. The model integrates elements of epidemiology, statistics, health economics, and incorporates a diverse range of subjects including survey methods, decision analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis. Students will also be taught to design their own health services research."}, {"moduleCode": "MD1120A", "title": "Biochemistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD1130A", "title": "Physiology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD1140", "title": "Foundation of Body Systems in Health and Diseases I", "description": "This module is the part one of our two-year preclinical curriculum. It prefaces with a foundational block for understanding health and diseases, followed by the circulatory and digestive systems: how they work/should work, how they break down, how can doctors work with the healthcare team and our patients to restore health, and what we can do when we cannot fix them. Students can also expect continuous and relevant early clinical experiences that provides there are opportunities for contextualisation and experiential learning."}, {"moduleCode": "MD1902", "title": "Professional Practice 1: The Foundations of Health Professionalism", "description": "This is the first of two sequential courses focusing on professional practice. This course introduces students to, and explores the importance of, communication, ethics, law and the attributes of professional roles in health care as a basic foundation to professional practice for health care students. Learning opportunities will focus on developing professionalism and inter-professional collaboration, understanding ethical principles and common legal and regulatory frameworks to guide decision making in health care settings. Students will also be equipped with the knowledge and skills around compassionate, empathetic and person-centred, inter-personal communication."}, {"moduleCode": "MD1902C", "title": "Professional Practice 1: The Foundations of Health Professionalism", "description": "This is the first of two sequential courses focusing on professional practice. This course introduces students to, and explores the importance of, communication, ethics, law and the attributes of professional roles in health care as a basic foundation to professional practice for health care students. Learning opportunities will focus on developing professionalism and inter-professional collaboration, understanding ethical principles and common legal and regulatory frameworks to guide decision making in health care settings. Students will also be equipped with the knowledge and skills around compassionate, empathetic and person-centred, inter-personal communication."}, {"moduleCode": "MD2112A", "title": "Microbiology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD2140", "title": "Abnormal Structure and Function", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "MD2141A", "title": "Pathology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD2150", "title": "Clinical Skills Foundation Programme", "description": "The programme is a revamp of the former elementary clinical course, to keep in line with the curricular changes in the School of Medicine. The Clinical Skills Foundation Programme has three main components 1. Clinical Skills in history taking and physical examination 2. Skills in effective communication and professional behaviour with patients and their relatives 3. Competencies in basic set of procedural skills The learning activities include lectures, tutorials, simulation, direct experience with patients, and feedback."}, {"moduleCode": "MD3000", "title": "Medicine", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD3011A", "title": "Medicine", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD3012A", "title": "Paediatrics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD3021A", "title": "Surgery", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MD3140", "title": "Core Clinical Practice", "description": "MD3140 Core Clinical Practice aims to provide a solid foundation for the management of core medical problems, and equip students with necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviour to commence training as an effective junior doctor within Singapore\u2019s health care system upon graduation. There will be five postings: Medicine, Family Medicine, Surgery, and Orthopaedic Surgery, as well as CHP (Community Health Project), where students will be integrated within the health care teams in the teaching hospitals."}, {"moduleCode": "MD4140", "title": "Acute and Specialty Clinical Practice", "description": "Acute and Speciality Clinical Practice consists of four major postings (Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Paediatrics, Psychological Medicine, and Acute Care comprising of Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine), as well as four shorter postings (Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Simulation). Four major postings will constitute four blocks and four shorter posting will constitute one block. There will be one CA for each of the five blocks. The postings will allow the students to expand their knowledge, skills, and attitudes obtained from the Core Clinical Practice and focus on more in-depth clinical care experience."}, {"moduleCode": "MD4150", "title": "Community Health Posting", "description": "Community Health Posting (CHP) seeks to create an environment and experience for students to \n\na. provide a direct community perspective towards health and disease by defining a specific health problem in the community, conducting a simple survey to assess the health problem and providing recommendations for improvement of the health to the community;\n\nb. participate in research that allows application of the theory of epidemiology and biostatistics and to further develop potential for research;\n\nc. understand scientific integrity and comply with ethical frameworks for good research and clinical practice; and\n\nd. experience and appreciate working in teams."}, {"moduleCode": "MD5140", "title": "Medicine", "description": "The focus of the medicine module will consist of the following student internship programme (medicine, paediatric medicine, geriatric medicine) and clinical postings (Infectious Disease and Dermatology). The Student Internship Programme (SIP) and clinical postings will allow the students to expand their knowledge and skills obtained from the core clinical practice year and acute and speciality clinical practice year, as well as to apply the knowledge and skills in a clinical setting as student interns under supervision."}, {"moduleCode": "MD5150", "title": "Surgery", "description": "The focus of the surgery module will consist of the following student internship programme (surgery, orthopaedic surgery) and simulation posting. The Student Internship Programmes (SIP) and simulation posting will allow the students to expand their knowledge and skills obtained from the core clinical practice year and acute and speciality clinical practice year, as well as to apply the knowledge and skills in a clinical setting as student interns under supervision."}, {"moduleCode": "MD5160", "title": "Electives", "description": "The Electives module is a self-planned and self-directed learning program, where students are given the discretion to decide the institutions, venues, dates and duration for their elective posting, within a specified elective term. They will have the opportunity to pursue areas of study or scholarship that are of interest to them and beyond the traditional curriculum, and to develop skills in independent, self-directed learning. Electives may be in the form of clinical attachments in a hospital or ambulatory care setting, non-clinical attachments, and research attachments to a laboratory, or a research program/institute."}, {"moduleCode": "MD5171", "title": "Urop", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5102", "title": "Techniques in Biomedical Research", "description": "This course aims to develop understanding of the fundamental principles underlying common experimental techniques, as well as the advantages and limitations of each technique for specific research applications. This in turn will facilitate the critical analysis of experimental data. Techniques covered will include different ways to study nucleic acids, proteins and lipids, key recent advances such as next-generation sequencing and CRISPR, disease-specific approaches such as in stem cell and cancer biology, and the importance of big data analysis in the fast-evolving biomedical research landscape."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5108", "title": "Biostatistics For Basic Research", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5204", "title": "Advanced Topics in Fundamental and Applied Pharmacology", "description": "The course aims to help students gain an in-depth understanding of advanced topics in (1) General pharmacology, (2) Neuropharmacology and (3) Cancer pharmacology using lectures and journal clubs given by clinical and basic science experts."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5205", "title": "Neuroscience", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5207", "title": "Clinical immunology and Immunotherapeutics", "description": "In the last decade significant advances have been made in our understanding of the molecular and cellular control of immune responses. These discoveries are now being translated into the design and testing of immunotherapeutic interventions for a range of diseases including cancer, autoimmunity, respiratory and infectious diseases. This course is for graduate students who wish to extend their knowledge and skills in both immunology and its translation to immunotherapeutics. The course aims to allow the students to understand the research process, from the fundamental discoveries at the forefront of immunological research, to the application of novel interventional immune-based therapies."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5214", "title": "Research Skills", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5215", "title": "Healthcare Law & Ethics", "description": "This course is an introduction to healthcare law and clinical ethics. No experience in law or bioethics is needed. The course will cover the core legal and ethical issues in clinical practice including clinical decision-making (consent, mental capacity, refusal, end of life, role of family, mature minors, lasting powers of attorney, advance plans, best interests), medical negligence, patient confidentiality and disclosure, vulnerable adults and children at risk, innovative treatments and telemedicine. The course aims to develop skills of critical thinking and analysis to equip participants to apply bioethical and legal principles to various healthcare issues in healthcare practice."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5216", "title": "Ethics in Infectious Disease and Public Health", "description": "This course aims to equip students to identify and critically evaluate ethical considerations in policies, systems and interventions intended to protect and promote the health of populations. Students will be introduced to ethical theories and frameworks used in infectious disease and public health, and asked to consider the role of culture, values and context in applying these in practice. Seminars will revolve around topics in disease prevention and control, resource allocation in healthcare, and global health. Case studies in, e.g. vaccination ethics, use of technology in healthcare, tobacco control, etc, will illustrate the application of key principles. Students will be assessed via presentations and written submissions, and participation in class discussions and an online forum."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5218", "title": "Biochemical and genetic approaches to understanding cell biology", "description": "This course focusses on transferrable skills, with an emphasis on developing writing, presentation, teaching and debate skills, using examples from the area of cell biology and the students\u2019 own research. The first of two assessments is a writing assignment, which consists of partially writing a research paper based on cell biology related data. The second assignment is either a short oral presentation about the students\u2019 research project, a teach your peers assignment or participation in a panel discussion. In addition, there will be an emphasis on the development of impromptu speaking skills and class sessions on a number of topics, including experimental design and interpretation, creative thinking, writing and presentation skills."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5220", "title": "Array and Omics", "description": "The dawn of the human genome project in the 1990s has fueled advances in 2 key technologies. They are the microarray technology for genomics and mass spectrometry for proteomics. From these platforms, many other specialty fields have emerged including array comparative genomic hybridization, microRNA array, phosphoproteomics, protein arrays and metabolomics, etc. These tools have propelled discoveries in basic and translational research. The course will educate students on these tools and their diverse applications of \u201carray and omics\u201d in this era of functional genomics."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5221", "title": "Viral vectors for manipulating gene expression", "description": "The ability to manipulate gene expression in a cell, an organ or a whole organism is an important aspect in the delineation of the molecular mechanisms in health and disease. Hence, many conventional, as well as newly developed techniques for gene expression manipulation, are being used in biomedical research. One of the most used strategies involves the use of genetically engineered viruses to infect mammalian cells. This course will highlight the principles and practical considerations on the research use of viral gene delivery vectors for (i) exogenous expression of genes, and (ii) knockdown of genes by RNA interference. To this end, the course will consist of lectures, paper discussion, and group presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5222", "title": "Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the fundamental concepts in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. The curriculum approaches the diseases from both the scientific and clinical perspectives with lecturers who are practising clinicians and cardiovascular scientists. Students will have the opportunity to visit the cardiac catheterization laboratory."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5223", "title": "Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to stem cell biology, their origins, properties, function in tissue repair/regeneration, and utility in therapy. Major topics are 1) ES cells 2) Neural stem cells 3) Muscle stem cells 4) Stem cells and cancer 5) Hematopoeitic stem cells 6) Mesenchymal stem cells 7) Induced pluripotent stem cells."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5224", "title": "Animal Models of Human Diseases", "description": "This 2MC course is designed to introduce students to commonly-used animal replica of key human diseases including cancer, muscular diseases, neurological and immune disorders. Major topics to be covered include non-mammalian models as well as rodent and non-human primate models of human diseases, with an emphasis of mammalian disease models, including iPSCs derived from human patients, and how animal disease models are used in drug discovery."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5226", "title": "Antimicrobial resistance and drug discovery", "description": "The objective of this course is to explore antimicrobial resistance and programs in drug discovery. Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant strains are responsible for deadly outbreaks and hospital-acquired infections around the globe, undermining advances in health and medicine. The purpose of the course is to become cognizant of the growing threat of drug resistant and current programs in antimicrobial discovery. Besides of traditional antimicrobial discovery programs; alternative, novel therapies including antibody based immunotherapy; CAR-T-cell and microbiome therapies are explored. The course addresses critical issues of antimicrobial-resistance, mechanisms of resistance, and programs in drug discovery from target and lead finding to clinical trials."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5227", "title": "Bio-Innovation & Entrepreneurship", "description": "This course covers comprehensively the important elements required to build and develop a bio-business through a series of lectures and highly interactive tutorials, workshops and panel discussions with experts. A diverse team of lecturers will bring in expert practitioners\u2019 with a broad experience and knowledge on different aspects of a bio business including company executives, founders, serial entrepreneurs, economic ambassadors, patent lawyers, and representatives of funding agencies. The course will guide the students through the process of finding an idea, forming a team, preparing a pitch deck, writing a business plan to a business pitch."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5229", "title": "Advanced Topics in Signal Transduction", "description": "This course is designed to give the students a system understanding of the key signal transduction pathways in the cell, with close implication in health and disease. The main topics include the following: (1) PI3K-MTOR pathways (2) MAPK pathways (3) Tyrosine kinase pathways (4) GPCR (5) Small GTPase (6) TNF signaling pathways (7) NF-kB pathways (8) Jak-STAT pathways (9) TGFb-Smad pathways (10) Hippo signaling (11) Hedgehog signaling (12) AMPK signaling (13) Ubiquitination and protein degradation These topics will be taught by leading experts with strong research background from NUHS, Duke-NUS and IMCB."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5230", "title": "Bioethics: Core Philosophical and Empirical Approaches", "description": "Ethical issues (questions about values, right and wrong) pervade many areas of biomedicine and biomedical science. This course will provide students with the theoretical understanding and practical skills necessary to reflect critically upon bioethical issues and engage effectively in discussions about them. Students will be introduced to methodological techniques of argumentation via an analysis of some of the major contemporary debates in the ethics of health care and the biomedical sciences developing highly transferrable skills in ethical reasoning, critical reflection and moral justification. Students will also learn how empirical research can, in various ways support the process of developing arguments"}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5231", "title": "Topics in Biomedical and Behavioural Research Ethics", "description": "History and theoretical foundations of ethics in biomedical and behavioural research as well as examination of major ethical issues arising in the conduct of such research; topics covered include history of research ethics, theories and concepts in research ethics review, ethical issues relating to various research methodologies, and ethical issues arising in various types of biomedical and behavioural research"}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5232", "title": "Current Practices in Biotechnology", "description": "The unique aspect of this course is that it allows students to meet successful members of the local biotechnology community. This course provides an opportunity to learn directly from industry leaders about commercially viable technologies, and about the job roles and their career transition from academia to industry. Students will experience the steps involved in taking a product from the research laboratory to the market, intellectual property rights and infringement, regulatory requirements, market competition and the use of real-world data in pharmaceutical industries. The course also provides students with an opportunity to \u201celevator pitch\u201d their pharma business proposal to \u201cstakeholders.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5233", "title": "Current Topics in Drug Design and Development", "description": "Introduction to a range of existing and emerging therapy modalities including how compounds are identified and developed. This will lead into the mechanism of drug action, drug delivery and drug metabolism specific to each class of drug. Additionally, an emphasis on advanced techniques for drug design and development specific to each class of drug will also be given. Furthermore, drug candidate selection, patenting, clinical trial design, objectives and roles of regulatory bodies will be covered. This course is ideal for students considering careers in drug development. Students should consider taking the companion course, MDG5232 Case studies in the biotechnology industry."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5234", "title": "Independent Study Course (CBmE)", "description": "PhD and MSc candidates may undertake independent study of a topic in bioethics under the supervision of a Centre for Biomedical Ethics (CBmE) faculty. They can formulate a topic of interest in advance and approach their prospective supervisor (with relevant research interests) to discuss and write a proposal for the Independent Study Course (ISC). They are advised to start working on the project several weeks before the start of the semester so that they can have sufficient time for any project revision if necessary. Students and supervisors are required to submit the CBmE ISC Contract agreeing to a plan of work and assessment. Students may check with CBmE to check for the list of ISC projects and prerequisites."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5236", "title": "Pathways to Biomedical Innovation and Enterprise", "description": "This course covers the various pathways from fundamental to applied research in the biomedical field. Using major diseases as a backdrop, dynamic researchers with established track records in interdisciplinary and translational research will teach on various topics, with the objective of illustrating the evolution of projects from bench to bedside / industry. Focus areas have been infectious diseases, cancer but also social enterprises."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5237", "title": "Biomedical Innovation Capstone", "description": "The purpose of the Capstone Project is for the students to engage in research and apply multi-disciplinary knowledge they have acquired from their MSc program, to a real-world problem focused on clinical health issues. During the project, students utilize the entire process of solving a real-world team-based project, from collecting to processing the actual data, to applying suitable analytic methods to the problem. Students will work in small teams on a project supervised by a mentor from various departments of NUH and NUS. The final project will be delivered in a written report and a formal presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5238", "title": "Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics I", "description": "This course aims to prepare students with the general principles and concepts of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in humans. A sound understanding of these foundation principles, which constitute the scientific basis of therapeutics, will promote the safe and rational use of drugs in disease conditions. The course will then progress to the study of the pharmacological properties of various classes of clinically useful drugs, starting with autonomic nervous system and general principles of antimicrobial use, and followed by cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and gastrointestinal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5239", "title": "Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics II", "description": "The module is a continuation from MDG5238 Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics I on the study of pharmacological properties of various classes of clinically useful drugs. It is organized according to drugs acting on various body systems; namely the neurology, musculoskeletal, pain and endocrinology. The whole group of antimicrobials for the treatment of infections and anti-cancer drugs will also be included. The scientific basis of the therapeutic applications of these drugs will be demonstrated to the students, thus promoting the safe and rational use of drugs in clinical therapeutics."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5240", "title": "Independent Study Course \u2013 Innovation Capstone Project", "description": "The purpose of the ISC is for the students to engage and promote self-study, critical thinking and independent research abilities, to a real-world problem focused on clinical health issues. The team-based project, from solving a real-world clinical health issue to commercialising the product or process, must be relevant to industrial and clinical areas. Students will work in small teams on a project which must be approved by the course coordinator before thay are allowed to proceed. The students should identify a supervisor/mentor who is willing to oversee the projects and obtain their approval before submitting the proposal for consideration."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5241", "title": "Advanced Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics", "description": "The course will present modern statistical methods for analyzing large-scale -omics data, with emphasis on application to real-world data. A variety of statistical methods and computing approaches will be covered, including hypothesis testing for high-dimensional data, dimension reduction techniques, and machine learning methods commonly employed in -omics data analysis such as tree-based methods and support vector machine. The course will also include in-class computing exercise for model estimation and inference, such as the expectation-maximization algorithm and sampling-based Bayesian inference. The course will end with advanced statistical approaches for the integration of two or more -omics data."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5242", "title": "Advances in Microscopy and Chemical\nMicroanatomy", "description": "This module develops the foundations of microscopy and\nchemical microanatomy essential for research and clinical\napplications. It covers the visualization of biomolecules in\ntissues and cells, including nuclei acids, proteins, lipids,\nmetabolites, inorganic materials and elements, in the fixed\nand living state, and in the context of human microscopic\nanatomy. Students will be introduced to different\nmicroscopy techniques with emphasis on structure-function\nrelationships, and shown examples of how these can be\napplied to solve problems in biomedical sciences. Suitable\nclinical problems will be introduced throughout the course\nto show the application of scientific knowledge, and to\nintegrate across disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5243", "title": "Biology of Disease", "description": "To deliver an understanding of human disease from a bench to bedside perspective. \n\nTo introduce students to the basic biology and clinical pathology underlying human disease. \n\nThe discussion of each disease will be led by two faculty members, highlighting the fundamental molecular basis of cellular function, followed by a clinical perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5244", "title": "Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience", "description": "In this course, we take multidisciplinary approach to understand the cellular and the neural basis of cognition We will discuss: 1. The encoding of noxious stimuli and the neural basis of the affective-motivational and cognitive effects linked to pain, 2. Reinforcement learning: modulation of synaptic plasticity, prediction errors, comparison of machine learning algorithms and biologically plausible models, 3. Approaches to studying cognition in healthy humans and current insights into how cognitive processes are represented in the brain from synaptic to behavioural level, 4. Animal models of cognitive and behavioural abnormalities associated with psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5245", "title": "Neuronal Signaling and mechanisms of effective Learning", "description": "In this course, we take multidisciplinary approach to understand the cellular and molecular basis of neuronal signalling and the mechanisms of memory and effective learning: We will discuss: 1.Basic functions of neurons, memberane potential, action potential and channel properties and functions. 2. Pre and Post synaptic mechanisms of neurotransmission. 3. Taxonomy of memory and functions of different brain areas for the formation , storage and retrieval of memory. 4. Synaptic Plasticity and its mechanisms for short and long-term memory formation. 5. Molecular mechanisms of memory. 6. Disorders of brain function and memory."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5246", "title": "Infectious Diseases: Principles & Research Methods", "description": "This course will provide students with an overview of the molecular pathogenesis of infectious diseases in general, followed by a focus on current research methods being used and discussions on infectious disease-related research ethics. Field trip visits (pending COVID-19 restrictions) to the investigational medicine unit are being planned to allow students the opportunity to understand infectious disease-related clinical research. The course is designed for entering M.Sc. or Ph.D. students in their first year, to help provide perspective for their choice of labs and basic concepts that will be useful for their future thesis work. Topics include, viruses; bacteria; parasites and fungi with integration of molecular pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, disease physiology/pathology, innate & adaptive immunity and laboratory models of infectious disease and treatment challenges discussed throughout each pathogen family. Other topics include epidemiology and global health and research ethics related to infectious disease. In addition, there will be interactive sessions for students to strengthen communication and presentation skills through debates and journal club presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5247", "title": "Bio-Imaging: Advanced Tools and Applications", "description": "This course will introduce principles and applications of novel and evolving imaging technologies relevant to biological applications. Elucidation of molecular and structural characteristics of living cells with a focus on Microbiology and Immunology will be addressed through different techniques such as correlative light-electron microscopy (CLEM), ultra-microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Holotomography (HT), Super Resolution Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), AFM- Infrared Radiation Spectroscopy (AFM-IR) and Focused ion beam/scanning electron microscope (FIB/SEM). This course will integrate didactic lectures, seminars and tutorials to introduce theory and applications of the above-mentioned techniques across disciplines of biology, bio-engineering and medicine."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5248", "title": "Ethics of Health Data and Artificial Intelligence", "description": "This course will explore the ways in which ethical values, analysis, and reflection can inform the use of health data and artificial intelligence/machine learning, enabling students to critically engage with ethical nuances and tradeoffs that pervade the area. We will provide general tools for ethical analysis, then apply these to various facets of data and AI ethics: Privacy, consent, public interest, bias, transparency, governance, and public engagement. Focus will be on application of analysis to cases involving health data and healthcare settings, though many of the principles and issues discussed have application much more widely."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5249", "title": "Ageing and Ethics", "description": "This course approaches the ethics of ageing from the contemporary ageing person\u2019s moral choices. It invites learners to theorise more fully the study of our universal concerns as ageing subjects, and gain proficiency in framing their thinking in terms of consequences, duties, responsibilities, perspectives and communitarian principles. This study supports personal, professional and institutional decision-making, as well as scholarly and inter-disciplinary discussion. The course covers contemporary bioethical debates on extending or ending life, healthcare resource allocation and inter-generational justice, making advance care decisions, caregiving responsibilities and just distribution, autonomy and dependence, and robot companions."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5250", "title": "Foundations and Methods in Bioethics: Part I", "description": "Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with addressing the practical ethical issues that arise in healthcare and the biomedical sciences. This course will enable graduate students to navigate the field of bioethics, equipping them with foundational knowledge and skills to identify bioethics questions, to make practical ethical arguments to answer these questions, and to determine the correct place of law, social science and philosophy in bioethical inquiry. The course will provide the the groundwork to enable students to pursue further specialized research in bioethics, or to explore the ethical aspects of particular research interests in healthcare and the biosciences."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5251", "title": "The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching in Higher Education", "description": "This course is designed as a primer for teaching in higher education, specifically contemporary teaching pedagogies, education principles and best practices as well as conducive learning environments, and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL). The major topics that will be covered are: 1) Contemporary pedagogies and teaching strategies 2) Technology in education (Teaching online) 3) Conducive learning environments 4) Assessment and Feedback 5) SOTL 6) Science of learning in teaching and education - Large classroom teaching/Small group facilitation\n - Supervision, coaching and mentoring"}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5600", "title": "Industry Experiential Internship", "description": "Internships are an essential platform to gain experiential skills to be Future Ready for careers in an increasingly competitive employment landscape. This course provides graduate research students an opportunity of completing an internship of 3 to 6 months, the Industry Experiential Internship (IEI) programme, before graduation. IEI positions may be embarked upon with the following partners: 1) Clinical entities associated with Research Programmes. 2) NRF Technology Consortiums. 3) Corporate Laboratories like WIL@NUS, NUSAgilent Hub, etc. 4) NUS Enterprise which comprise Block 71, NUS GRIP 5) The Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM). 6) The University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) Rosenman Institute."}, {"moduleCode": "MDG5771", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "Graduate Research Seminar"}, {"moduleCode": "ME1102", "title": "Engineering Principles and Practice I", "description": "This is part 1 of a 2-module package \u2013 Engineering\nPrinciples and Practice - that introduces Year 1 students\nto what engineers do and the engineer's thought process.\nEPP I focuses on the engineering principles of how\nsystems work and fail, and the engineering practice of\nhow they are designed, built and valued. Given a\npractical engineering system, e.g. a drone, or an\nengineering event, e.g. the Challenger space shuttle\ndisaster, students are guided to deconstruct the system\ninto inter-connected sub-systems. Following which they\nwill develop an understanding of how forces, energy flow\nand/or mass flow between sub-systems impact the whole."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2101", "title": "Fundamentals Of Mechanical Design", "description": "This module provides the student with the fundamental knowledge to do calculations on design components like bolts, fasteners, joints, welds, springs, gears, brakes, cluthes. Other areas covered will include material selection, fatigue, bearings, shafts, as well as design mechanisms like linkages and cams. This is a compulsory module with no final exam. Assessment will be based purely on continuous assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2101E", "title": "Fundamentals of Mechanical Design", "description": "This module provides the student with the fundamental knowledge to do calculations on design components like bolts, fasteners, joints, welds, springs, gears, brakes, clutches. Other areas covered will include material selection, fatigue, bearings, shafts, as well as design mechanisms like linkages and cams. This is a compulsory module with no final exam. Assessment will be based purely on continuous assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2102", "title": "Engineering Innovation and Modelling", "description": "This module introduces the students to the various\nstandards and techniques of sketching, prepare\nengineering drawings and specifications, and interpreting\ndrawings. Students also get to use advanced commercial\nCAD software to do 3D solid modeling. Above all, this\nmodule expands the students\u2019 creative talent and enhances\ntheir ability to communicate their ideas in a meaningful\nmanner. Major topics include: Principles of projections;\nIsometric; Orthographic and Isometric sketching; 3D solid\nmodeling; Sectioning and Dimensioning; Drawing\nstandards; Limits, Fits and Geometrical Tolerances.\nThis module also provides the student with the fundamental\nknowledge to do calculations on design components like\nbolts, screws, fasteners, weld joints, springs, gears,\nmaterial selection, fatigue, bearings and shafts.\nThis is a 100% CA core module for all Mechanical\nEngineering students.\nThis module is also open to cross-faculty students."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2103", "title": "Engineering Visualization & Modeling", "description": "The module enables students to learn the various standards and techniques of geometrical sketching, prepare engineering drawings and specifications, and interpreting drawings. Students also get to use advanced commercial CAD software to do 3D solid modeling. Above all, this module expands the students' creative talent and enhances their ability to communicate their ideas in a meaningful manner. Major topics include: Principles of projections; Isometric and Auxiliary views; Interpenetration of solids and Development of surfaces; 3D solid modeling; Sectioning and Dimensioning; Machine and Assembly drawings; Drawing standards and Limits and Tolerances. This is a core module for all Mechanical Engineering students and is also open to all cross-faculty students."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2104", "title": "Engineering Principles and Practice II", "description": "Part II of Engineering Principles and Practice will focus on\nthe engineering principle of how systems are energized\nand controlled and the engineering practice of how they\nare designed, built and valued. Most modern engineering\nsystems are powered electrically. They convert some raw\nform of energy such as fuel (petrol, diesel) or battery\n(electrochemically stored energy), into electrical energy.\nHence energy sources and energy conversion, electrical\nenergy utilization through conversion into various\nfunctions, measurement of functions through their\nperformance parameters will form the backbone of this\nmodule"}, {"moduleCode": "ME2112", "title": "Strength of Materials", "description": "This course provides basic mechanical engineering\nknowledge and theory of mechanics of materials, and how\nthey are used to solve practical engineering problems. The\ncourse includes introduction to statics, concept of stress\nand strain, analysis of stresses and deflections in a loaded\nbeam, torsion of a circular bar as well as analysis of\nframes and machines."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2113", "title": "Mechanics Of Materials I", "description": "This course provides a foundation for an understanding of the basic principles of solid mechanics and its applications to simple engineering structures. It provides a foundation for the understanding of basic principles of solid mechanics and its applications to simple engineering structures. The topics covered are: Introduction to Mechanics of deformable bodies; Concepts of Stress and Strain; One-dimensional systems; Shear force and Bending moment; Deflection of laterally loaded symmetrical beams; Stresses in laterally loaded symmetrical beams; Torsion. It is a core module."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2114", "title": "Mechanics of Materials", "description": "ME2114 is an intermediate mechanics module on the failure and deformation of elastic structures. Common criteria for determining failure of brittle and ductile materials will be introduced and applied for the failure analyses of thin-walled pressure vessels and slender structures. Failure of slender structures due to buckling is included. The module will also present several energy based methods for determing the deformation of slender structures and show how energy methods lead to the Finite Element Method \u2013 a common tool for computational stress analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2114E", "title": "Mechanics of Materials II", "description": "This course provides for a further understanding of concepts and principles of solid mechanics and its applications to engineering problems. The topics covered are: Two-dimensional systems; Combined stresses; Energy methods; Columns; Experimental stress analysis; Inelastic behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2115", "title": "Mechanics Of Machines", "description": "This course covers the fundamental engineering principles on kinematics and kinetics. The topics of rigid body dynamics and vibration will be covered, including the theoretical development and practical application to mechanisms and machinery. The salient features of dynamics to be applied for each instance will be clearly explained and the interpretation of the results obtained will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2115E", "title": "Mechanics of Machines", "description": "This course covers the fundamental engineering principles on kinematics and kinetics. The topics of rigid body dynamics and vibration will be covered, including the theoretical development and practical application to mechanisms and machinery. The salient features of dynamics to be applied for each instance will be clearly explained and the interpretation of the results obtained will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2121", "title": "Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer", "description": "This module develops a good understanding of 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."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2121E", "title": "Engineering Thermodynamics", "description": "This course develops a good understanding of the basic concepts and application of thermodynamics required for the analysis, modeling and design of thermal-fluid systems in engineering practice. Major topics include: Review of First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and their applications; Reversible and Irreversible processes; Entropy; Non-flow and flow processes; Cycles involving entropy changes; Power/refrigeration and air cycles; Ideal gas mixtures; Psychrometry and applications; Fuels; Combustion and First Law applied to combustion."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2134", "title": "Fluid Mechanics I", "description": "This is an introductory course to fluid mechanics as applied to engineering. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification of fluid and flow, students are taught fluid statics, which cover hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies, surface tension forces, buoyancy, metacentric height and stability of floating bodies. Numerous examples of engineering applications pertaining to each aspect\nof fluid statics are presented. In the section on fluid dynamics, basic principles of fluid motion are introduced. This covers the continuity equation, Bernoulli and energy equations. The momentum equation and its engineering application using the control volume approach are included. In the analysis of fluid-mechanics problems, dimensional analysis and similitude are taught with engineering examples. On viscous flow in pipes, laminar and turbulent pipe flows, Hagen-Poiseuille law, friction factor, losses in pipe fittings and use of Moody\u2019s Chart will be covered. This module ends with an introduction to pumps, their elementary theory and matching pump and system. characteristics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2134E", "title": "Fluid Mechanics I", "description": "This is an introductory course to fluid mechanics as applied to engineering. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification of fluid and flow, students are taught fluid statics, which cover hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies, surface tension forces, buoyancy, metacentric height and stability of floating bodies. Numerous examples of engineering applications pertaining to each aspect of fluid statics are presented. In the section on fluid dynamics, basic principles of fluid motion are introduced. This covers the continuity equation, Bernoulli and energy equations. The momentum equation and its engineering application using the control volume approach are included. In the analysis of fluid-mechanics problems, dimensional analysis and similitude are taught with engineering examples. Finally, laminar and turbulent pipe flows, Hagen-Poiseuille law, friction factor, losses in pipe fittings and use of Moody\u2019s Chart will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2135", "title": "Intermediate Fluid Mechanics", "description": "This module aims to introduce fundamentals of fluid dynamics covering notions of the continuum hypothesis, flow kinematics, mathematical tools for flow visualization, material derivative, fluid acceleration, conservation laws, Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations, inviscid flows, potential flows, viscous flows, creeping flows and boundary layer flows. Review of relevant mathematical tools to support the theory will accompany the topics when and where it is required."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2135E", "title": "Fluid Mechanics II", "description": "This course introduces the students to the operating principles of hydraulic pumps and turbines, their applications and methods of selecting pumps to match system requirements and how to avoid cavitation damage. We also focus on the mathematical theory of potential (non-viscous) fluid flow as well as the structure of basic vortices. This is followed by treatment of the fundamentals of viscous fluid flow and boundary layers. The major topics covered therein are the Navier-Stokes equations and some of their exact solutions, boundary layer flow theory, estimation of drag force on a flat plate, boundary layer separation and control, equations of motion for turbulent flow and turbulent boundary layers, turbulent models and velocity profiles in turbulent boundary layers. Boundary layer with transition. Flow around bluff and streamlined bodies: their flow patterns, drag and lift."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2142", "title": "Feedback Control Systems", "description": "This module introduces students to fundamental concepts in control system analysis and design. Topics include mathematical modeling of dynamical systems, time responses of first and second-order systems, steady-state error analysis, frequency response analysis of systems and design methodologies in both the time and the frequency domains."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2142E", "title": "Feedback Control Systems", "description": "This is a compulsory module and it introduces students to various fundamental concepts in control system analysis and design. Topics include mathematical modeling of dynamical systems, time responses of first and second-order systems, steady-state error analysis, frequency response analysis of systems and design methodologies based on both time and frequency domains. This module also introduces computer simulation as a means of system evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2143", "title": "Sensors & Actuators", "description": "This module introduces various components that are useful in the analysis, design and synthesis of mechatronic systems. The topics mainly include electronic circuits (analog and digital), sensors, actuators, etc. For the analog circuits, the operational amplifiers and its applications will be introduced. The working principles of semiconductor devices such as diodes and transistors will be explained. The digital circuits will then be introduced for digital electronics applications. For the sensors part, the basic principles and characteristics of various sensors for the measurement of physical quantities such as position, strain, temperature, etc will be introduced. The actuators section mainly covers the electric motors which include DC motors, stepper motors and AC motors."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2143E", "title": "Sensors and Actuators", "description": "Primarily a core subject for mechanical engineering students, this course introduces the basic principles and characteristics of various sensors for the measurement of mechanical quantities such as position, velocity, acceleration, force, and temperature. Topics that are also introduced are actuators for achieving motion, primarily various types of electric motors. This course also covers the generalised measurement and instrumentation system, the associated electronics, drivers and power supplies for the processing of the signals from the sensors and transducers and for driving the various actuators. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge required for the application of these sensors and actuators rather than on their design."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2151", "title": "Principles of Mechanical Eng. Materials", "description": "This module provides the foundation for understanding the structure-property-processing relationship in materials common in mechanical engineering. Topics explore the mechanical properties of metals and their alloys, the means of modifying such properties, as well as the failure and environmental degradation of materials. Practical applications are demonstrated through laboratory experiments to illustrate the concepts taught during lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2151E", "title": "Principles of Mechanical Eng. Materials", "description": "This module provides the foundation for understanding the structure-property-processing relationship in materials common in mechanical engineering. Topics explore the mechanical properties of metals and their alloys, the means of modifying such properties, as well as the failure and environmental degradation of materials. Practical applications are demonstrated through laboratory experiments to illustrate the concepts taught during lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2162", "title": "Manufacturing Processes", "description": "Manufacturing processes and technologies have evolved and diversified to fulfil society\u2019s ever-increasing demands for better products. In this module, students will learn how to convert raw materials into useful products through conventional and advanced manufacturing processes. They will learn to appreciate and determine the appropriate manufacturing pathways for producing specific products. The major topics that are covered include an introduction to manufacturing, metal casting, powder metallurgy, ceramic processing, bulk deformation processing, sheet metalworking, machining, cutting tool technology, welding, and additive manufacturing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME2162E", "title": "Manufacturing Processes", "description": "This course covers the principles of computer-aided tools: CAD and CAM, which are widely used in modern design and manufacturing industry. By introducing the mathematical background and fundamental part programming of CAD/CAM, this course provides the basics for students to understand the techniques and their industrial applications. The topics are: CAD: geometric modelling methods for curves, surfaces, and solids; CAM: part fabrication by CNC machining based on given geometric model; Basics of CNC machining; Tool path generation in CAD/CAM (Option to introduce a CAM software to generate a CNC program for the machining of a part); Verification of fabricated part by CNC measurement based on given geometric model. The module is targeted at students specializing in manufacturing engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3000", "title": "Independent Study 1", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "ME3001", "title": "Independent Study 2", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "ME3101", "title": "Mechanical Systems Design I", "description": "This is a group-based project that focuses on the design of a complete mechanical design product, emphasizing the design process, analysis and drawings. The major project may be preceded by smaller projects to instill familiarity and experience. Elements of commercialisation (e.g. market survey) and form-giving (aesthetics) may be incorporated. Students are required to submit a report, drawings, do a presentation, and take oral examinations. This is a core module."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3102", "title": "Mechanical Systems Design II", "description": "This is a follow-up module from ME3101 in which students fabricate and commission the prototype design worked on in Semester 5. Emphasis is placed on the integration of the components of the complete system and the optimization of the final design. Effective group dynamics and the experience of the process and problems involved in translating paper design to prototype are key objectives of this module. This is a core module."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3103", "title": "Mechanical Systems Design", "description": "This course consists of a project which is either (i) an industrysponsored project, (ii) an in-house project linked to external competitions, or, (iii) a project according to a prescribed theme proposed by a group of students. The students will work in groups to complete the design of a mechanical product/system in the first half of the semester to be followed by the fabrication/testing of prototype(s) in the second half. In the course of project work, students will be exposed to the working of team dynamics, the engineering design process, report writing, oral presentation and project management."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3112E", "title": "Mechanics of Machines", "description": "This course covers the fundamental engineering principles on kinematics and kinetics. The topics of rigid body dynamics and vibration will be covered, including the theoretical development and practical application to mechanisms and machinery. The salient features of dynamics to be applied for each instance will be clearly explained and the interpretation of the results obtained will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3122", "title": "Heat Transfer", "description": "This course covers the key concepts related to the different modes of heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation) and principles of heat exchangers. It develops the students\u2019 proficiency in applying these heat transfer concepts and principles, to analyse and solve practical engineering problems involving heat transfer processes. Topics include introduction to heat transfer; steady state heat conduction; transient heat conduction; lumped capacitance; introduction to convective heat transfer; external forced convection; internal forced convection; natural/free convection; blackbody radiation and radiative properties; radiative exchange between surfaces; introduction to heat exchangers and basic calculation of overall heat transfer coefficient."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3122E", "title": "Heat Transfer", "description": "This course covers the key concepts related to the different modes of heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation) and principles of heat exchangers. It develops the students\u2019 proficiency in applying these heat transfer concepts and principles, to analyse and solve practical engineering problems involving heat transfer processes. Topics include introduction to heat transfer; steady state heat conduction; transient heat conduction; lumped capacitance; introduction to convective heat transfer; external forced convection; internal forced convection; natural/free convection; blackbody radiation and radiative properties; radiative exchange between surfaces; introduction to heat exchangers and basic calculation of overall heat transfer coefficient."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3163", "title": "Introduction to Cyber Physical Systems", "description": "The course introduces recent technological developments enabling cyber-physical systems, which in turn define Industry 4.0. Topics are organized under Internet of Things, Data Analytics, Robotics and Automation, and Additive Manufacturing. The course provides a common technology foundation for students in the Industry 4.0 Specialisation programme. This course is a core course in the Industry 4.0 Specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3211", "title": "Mechanics Of Solids", "description": "The module covers topics on: Linear elasticity in which the general equations of equilibrium and compatibility are derived and its applications are illustrated for complex problems; Unsymmetrical bending of beams; Stresses in pressurized thick-walled cylinders in elastic and elasto-plastic regions; Stresses in rotating members; Introduction to mechanics of composite materials; and Experimental stress analysis with particular emphasis on optical methods. This is an elective module and is intended for students in Stage 3 and 4 who have an interest in the stress analysis of isotropic and composite materials. The materials in this module are applicable to chemical, civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3211E", "title": "Mechanics of Solids", "description": "The course covers topics on: Linear elasticity in which the general equations of equilibrium and compatibility are derived and its applications are illustrated for complex problems; Unsymmetrical bending of beams; Stresses in pressurized thick-walled cylinders in elastic and elasto-plastic regions; Stresses in rotating members; Introduction to mechanics of composite materials; and Experimental stress analysis with particular emphasis on optical methods. This is an elective course and is intended for students in Stage 3 and 4 who have an interest in the stress analysis of isotropic and composite materials. The materials in this course are applicable to chemical, civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3221", "title": "Sustainable EnergyConversion", "description": "This elective module provides an introduction to advanced topics in engineering thermodynamics and their applications to engineering thermal processes. The following topics are covered: Efficiency improvement of steam power cycles through the use of regeneration and binary fluids processes; Real gases: equation of state, enthalpy and entropy; Available energy and available energy changes in thermal processes, Second Law efficiency; Combustion processes; Analysis of energy and work interactions of basic mechanical engineering thermal processes such those of reciprocating and centrifugal compressors and axial flow turbines. This module is for students who wish to extend their understanding of engineering thermodynamics beyond the first course, and understanding and appreciation of the operation, efficiency and energy conversion of mechanical engineering thermal processes."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3231", "title": "Compressible And Unsteady Flow", "description": "This course introduces to students the principles of gas dynamics in subsonic and supersonic flow, and the fundamental concepts in unsteady confined flow. Upon completion, students should be able to analyse a broad range of flow situations. Major topics in compressible flow covered: subsonic and supersonic flow, converging?diverging nozzle, normal and oblique shock waves, Prandtl-Meyer flows, flow with friction and heat exchange, Fanno line, Rayleigh line, two-dimensional compressible flows, thin airfoils in supersonic flow, method of characteristics, optical methods in compressible flow measurements. Major topics in unsteady flow covered: Elastic pipe theory; Analysis of pressure surges; Various types of boundary devices; Numerical solutions; and Various methods of controlling pressure surges in industrial fluid system."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3232", "title": "Compressible Flow", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3233", "title": "Unsteady Flow in Fluid Systems", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3233E", "title": "Unsteady Flow in Fluid Systems", "description": "systems typically encountered in Mechanical Engineering applications. Unsteady flow fluid theories, real-life unsteady flow problems and practical design solutions will be described, explained and analysed in this course. These include Analysis and Designs of Water pumping stations and their distribution systems, petroleum products (i.e. crude oil and natural gas) transportation pipelines systems, Oil and Gas flow systems, Thermal Power Stations flow systems etc"}, {"moduleCode": "ME3241", "title": "Microprocessor Applications", "description": "In this course, students are taught how the logic circuits and microcontrollers are applied as the brain of a mechatronic system. Major topics include: Digital Electronics; Basic operations of the microprocessor; Introductory assembly language programming; Basic interfacing with external devices. Upon successful completion, students will be able to design, analyze, and explain logic circuits, describe the inner workings of a microprocessor and microcontroller, and program in ARM assembly language. Examples of applications, tailored specifically to mechanical engineers, are used to illustrate these principles."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3241E", "title": "Microprocessor Applications", "description": "In this module, students are taught how the microprocessor/microcomputer is applied as the brain in an intelligent mechatronic system. Major topics include: Basic operations of the microprocessor; Introductory assembly language programming; High-level language programming; Basic interfacing with external devices and working with real-time devices. Upon successful completion, students will be able to have the confidence to design and implement smart products and systems, including intelligent robotic devices and machines, and intelligent measurement systems. This is a technical elective with the main target audience being mechanical engineering students in their third year of study. Examples of application, tailored specifically for mechanical engineers, are used to illustrate the principles."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3242", "title": "Automation", "description": "Students will learn the approaches used in the design of sequencing circuits applied to machine-level industrial automation. Special emphasis is given to electromechanical and pneumatic systems. After a quick review of input sensing, pneumatic actuators, basic switching logic and elements, the design of sequential control systems using electromechanical ladder diagrams, purely pneumatic circuits and programmable logic controllers are introduced. Upon successful completion, students should be able to read and understand pneumatic circuits and electromechanical ladder diagrams and be able to quickly design and implement such circuits for any sequencing problem. This is a technical elective course targeted at third year mechanical engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3242E", "title": "Automation", "description": "Students will learn the approaches used in the design of sequencing circuits applied to machine-level industrial automation. Special emphasis is given to electromechanical and pneumatic systems. After a quick review of input sensing, pneumatic actuators, basic switching logic and elements, the design of sequential control systems using electromechanical ladder diagrams, purely pneumatic circuits and programmable logic controllers are introduced. Upon successful completion, students should be able to read and understand pneumatic circuits and electromechanical ladder diagrams and be able to quickly design and implement such circuits for any sequencing problem. This is a technical elective course targeted at third year mechanical engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3243", "title": "Robotic System Design", "description": "This course will introduce the mobile robot systems\u2019 architecture and key components such as various sensor and actuator technologies. Various locomotion mechanisms adopted by robotic systems will be discussed. The course will also introduce basic principles of robot motion control. Robot Operating System (ROS) will be utilized for simulation in virtual environments."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3251", "title": "Materials For Engineers", "description": "This module equips students with basic knowledge in materials selection for mechanical design. The major topics are: Classification of engineering materials; Materials properties in design using case studies; Ferrous alloys (carbon and low-alloy steels, tool steels, stainless steels, cast irons); Non-ferrous alloys (Cu-, Al-, Mg-, Ti-, Zn-, Ni-alloys, etc.); Engineering plastics and composites; Engineering ceramics; Surface engineering and coating techniques; Joining processes; Material selection in design; Product costing and case studies. The module is aimed at students who want to specialise in mechanical product design."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3252", "title": "Materials for Mechanical Engineering", "description": "This module equips students with knowledge on the unique properties of materials useful in engineering design selection. Commonly used materials in different engineering designs and emerging materials and processes, and life cycle assessment will be taught. Concepts on surface engineering, strengthening and hardening techniques, hardenability, heat treatment, friction and wear properties will be provided. Key material properties and testing such as tensile testing, compression testing, torsion test, 3-point bending test will be introduced along with their specific relevance. Finally, students will be introduced to the different ways of degradation of materials when it reacts with environment."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3261", "title": "Computer-Aided Design And Manufacturing", "description": "This course covers the principles of computer-aided tools: CAD and CAM, which are widely used in modern design and manufacturing industry. By introducing the mathematical background and fundamental part programming of CAD/CAM, this course provides the basics for students to understand the techniques and their industrial applications. The topics are: CAD: geometric modelling methods for curves, surfaces, and solids; CAM: part fabrication by CNC machining based on given geometric model; Basics of CNC machining; Tool path generation in CAD/CAM (Option to introduce a CAM software to generate a CNC program for the machining of a part); Verification of fabricated part by CNC measurement based on given geometric model. The module is targeted at students specializing in manufacturing engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3261E", "title": "Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing", "description": "This course covers the principles of computer-aided tools: CAD and CAM, which are widely used in modern design and manufacturing industry. By introducing the mathematical background and fundamental part programming of CAD/CAM, this course provides the basics for students to understand the techniques and their industrial applications. The topics are: CAD: geometric modelling methods for curves, surfaces, and solids; CAM: part fabrication by CNC machining based on given geometric model; Basics of CNC machining; Tool path generation in CAD/CAM (Option to introduce a CAM software to generate a CNC program for the machining of a part); Verification of fabricated part by CNC measurement based on given geometric model. The module is targeted at students specializing in manufacturing engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3263", "title": "Design For Manufacturing And Assembly", "description": "This module teaches product design for manufacture and assembly. It covers the details of design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) methods for practicing engineers and also allows for learning of concurrent or simultaneous engineering. The topics covered: Introduction, Selection of materials and processes; Product design for manual assembly; Design for automatic assembly and robotic assembly; Design for machining; Design for rapid prototyping and tooling (rapid mould making); Design for injection moulding. The module is targeted at students majoring in manufacturing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3263E", "title": "Design for Manufacturing and Assembly", "description": "This module teaches product design for manufacture and assembly. It covers the details of design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) methods for practicing engineers and also allows for learning of concurrent or simultaneous engineering. The topics covered: Introduction, Selection of materials and processes; Product design for manual assembly; Design for automatic assembly and robotic assembly; Design for machining; Design for rapid prototyping and tooling (rapid mould making); Design for injection moulding. The module is targeted at students majoring in manufacturing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3273E", "title": "Understanding Experimental Data", "description": "Fundamental concepts of statistics and the analysis of experimental data for engineers. Topics include hypothesis testing, linear/curvilinear/multiple regression, correlation, testing of fitted lines/curves, comparing different batches of experimental data, analysis of variance (ANOVA)."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3281", "title": "Microsystems Design And Applications", "description": "The module generates an appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of Microsystems and their impact on technology. Secondly, it enables students to apply engineering principles that have been learnt earlier in other modules. The major topics include: An overview of the principles, fabrication and system-level design and applications of Microsystems; Properties of semiconductor; Fundamentals of dynamics and vibration; Piezoelectricity; Piezoresistivity and applications in sensors; Electrostatics and Capacitance; Electromagnetism; Thermal sensors; Biosensors; Fabrication in MEMS; The target students are those with a good grasp and have a keen interest in both mechanical and electrical engineering subjects."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3291", "title": "Numerical Methods In Engineering", "description": "This elective module introduces students to fundamental concepts of numerical analysis as a powerful tool for solving a wide variety of engineering problems. The topics covered include numerical solution of linear systems of algebraic equations, numerical solution of nonlinear algebraic equations and systems of equations, elementary unconstrained optimization techniques, regression and interpolation techniques, numerical differentiation and integration, as well as the numerical solution of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE). Applications are drawn from a broad spectrum of diverse disciplines in Mechanical Engineering. The module will also introduce the use of scientific computing software packages for the numerical solution of practical engineering problems."}, {"moduleCode": "ME3661", "title": "Technical Elective", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3662", "title": "Technical Elective", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3663", "title": "Exchange Technical Elective", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3991", "title": "OOGT Exchange Elective 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3992", "title": "OOGT Exchange Elective 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3993", "title": "OOGT Exchange Elective 3", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME3995", "title": "Technical Elective", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4101", "title": "Bachelor Of Engineering Dissertation", "description": "This module consists mainly of an industrial or research-based project carried out under the supervision of one or more faculty members. It introduces students to the basic methodology of research in the context of a problem of current research interest. The module is normally taken over two consecutive semesters, and is a core requirement of the B.Eng. (Mech) program."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4101A", "title": "Bachelor Of Engineering Dissertation", "description": "This module consists mainly of a research-based project carried out under the supervision of one or more faculty members. It introduces students to the basic methodology of research in the context of a problem of current research interest. The module is normally taken over two consecutive semesters, and is a core requirement of the B.Eng. (Mech) programme."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4101B", "title": "Mechanical Systems Design", "description": "This module aims at educating students to work as a team to empathise, define, ideate, design and fabricate to respond to either one of the following: industrial projects, in-house projects linked to external competitions, and research projects. The team will comprise of not more than 5 students per team. Each student will work on the project amounting to 260 hours over two semesters."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4102", "title": "Standards in Mechanical Engineering", "description": "Standards provide requirements, specifications, guidelines or characteristics that can be used consistently to ensure that products, processes and services are fit for their purposes.\n\nIn this module, we aim to create awareness of, demonstrate and teach various standards currently used in mechanical engineering practices. Two key categories in mechanical engineering are selected, namely sustainable energy and medical technology. After giving a broad overview of the standards landscape in mechanical engineering, it will focus on the standards associated with the two identified categories, and relate them to real world examples. They will be discussed in lectures, student group discussions/projects, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4103", "title": "Mechanical Engineering and Society", "description": "Part 1 \u2013 Introduction to Project Management\nIn addition to leadership, motivation and communications\nskills, Project Management involves task planning, cost\nestimation, measuring and controlling the execution of\ntasks. Through a combination of lectures, seminars, case\nstudies/tutorials, students will be introduced to the relevant\nquantitative processes and tools of project managements.\n\nPart 2 \u2013 Humanitarian Engineering\nTo understand the roles of engineers in advancing the\nsociety, student will first be introduced to Professional\nEngineering Societies to understand how they help them\nadvance their careers. Students will then work on a group\nproject to address one of the grand challenges in\nHumanitarian Engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4105", "title": "Specialization Study Module", "description": "This module is designed to link staff research to teaching in the selected areas of specialisation offered by the Department. The module comprises a structured programme of seminars, term papers, and mini-projects to be given by a group of faculty members based on their current research interests in the specialisation area. The programme content differs for different specialisation areas. The module is intended for students pursuing a specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4212", "title": "Aircraft Structures", "description": "This module covers torsion of open and closed non-circular thin-walled sections; bending of unsymmetric thin-walled beams; idealized beams; multi-cell torque boxes and beams; tapered beams; introduction to mechanics of fiber-reinforced composites; classical lamination theory; failure theories for composites. This is an elective module and is intended for students who are interested in the design and analysis of thin-walled structures, especially aircraft structures."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4213E", "title": "Vibration Theory & Applications", "description": "This module develops students\u2019 understanding of various methods used to determine the shock and vibration characteristics of mechanical systems and instills an appreciation of the importance of these characteristics in the design of systems and their applications in vibration isolation, transmission, and absorption problems; Natural frequencies and normal modes; Dynamic response and stability. Single and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems will be treated using continuous and discrete system concepts, including Lagrange\u2019s equations. Approximation methods for solution as well as instrumentation for vibration measurement will be discussed. Examples will be drawn mainly from mechanical disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4214", "title": "Vehicle Dynamics", "description": "This module covers the topics for analysis of vehicle dynamics. These include forces acting on a vehicle and the resulting dynamics and motions. Forces from tires, brakes, steering and power train will be discussed. Students will learn how to analyze the longitudinal and turning motions as well as the vibration of a vehicle."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4223", "title": "Thermal Environmental Engineering", "description": "This module aims to integrate knowledge in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics to design and simulate air-conditioning systems, as well as to estimate and analyse the energy performance of buildings. Major topics include: Applications and basics; Psychrometrics; Comfort and health; Heat gains through building envelopes; Cooling load calculations; Air conditioning design calculations; Air conditioning systems; Air conditioning plants and equipment., Energy estimation and energy performance analysis. The module is designed for third and final-year students who are interested in the Cooling and Energy Efficiency of Buildings."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4223E", "title": "Thermal Environmental Engineering", "description": "This course aims to integrate knowledge in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics to design and simulate air-conditioning systems, as well as to estimate and analyse the energy performance of buildings. Major topics include: Applications and basics; Psychrometrics; Comfort and health; Heat gains through building envelopes; Cooling load calculations; Air conditioning design calculations; Air conditioning systems; Air conditioning plants and equipment., Energy estimation and energy performance analysis. The course is designed for third and final-year students who are interested in the Cooling and Energy Efficiency of Buildings."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4225", "title": "Applied Heat Transfer", "description": "The main topics include: 2D steady state heat conduction; transient heat conduction; turbulent heat transfer, boiling; condensation; heat exchangers with phase change; mass transfer"}, {"moduleCode": "ME4225E", "title": "Applied Heat Transfer", "description": "This elective course extends the basic heat transfer principles covered in earlier courses to engineering applications. Although some important new physical processes are introduced, the main emphasis is on the use of these to the design-analysis of industrial systems. The use of empirical data for situations where detailed analysis is difficult will be demonstrated through the solution of design examples. The main topics include: Heat exchangers with phase change; Boiling; Condensation; Combined heat and mass transfer; Heat transfer enhancement; Cooling of electronic equipment; and Design examples."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4226", "title": "Energy and Thermal Systems", "description": "This course covers a number of topics beginning with a treatment the properties, heat and work transfers of real gases vapours. The module focuses on the sub-systems related to energy efficient systems such as cogeneration. The major topics are the design procedure of heat exchangers, performance of absorption refrigeration systems. Two main topics under cogeneration are introduced. These are microturbine cogeneration and biomass cogeneration. The students are provided with the status of these technologies, and provided with the technical, financial and environmental performance. Case studies of cogeneration plants found locally and regionally provide students with actual operating experience."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4227", "title": "Internal Combustion Engines", "description": "This module provides a detailed introduction to the working principle of all kinds of internal combustion (IC) engines, the major components and their functions of spark-ignition and compression-ignition engines, the parameters and\ncharacteristics used to describe IC engine operation, the necessary hermodynamics and combustion theory required for a quantitative analysis of engine behavior, the measurement of IC engine performance, the design of\ncombustion chamber and its effect on the performance of IC engines, the formation of emissions and their control, supercharging, heat transfer and heat losses, friction and lubrication etc."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4231", "title": "Aerodynamics", "description": "This module introduces to students the basic concepts/ theories/applications in aerodynamics. Major topics are: Characteristics and parameters for airfoil and wing aerodynamics; Incompressible flow past thin airfoils and finite-span wings; Aerodynamic design considerations; Compressible subsonic, transonic and supersonic flows past airfoils and supersonic flow past thin wings. The module is targeted at students who are interested in aerodynamics, especially those who intend to work in the aviation industry or those who intend to conduct R & D work in the aerodynamics area."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4232", "title": "Small Aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles", "description": "This module introduces the concepts of small aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, related systems (UAS) and their applications. Students will learn to apply basic concepts from aerodynamics, aircraft design, structures, propulsion, guidance, control, navigation, sensors, communications, vision technology, mission planning, multi-agent operations, UAS application, anti-drone technology, the latest R&D in UAS with integration of artificial intelligence and related systems to UAS. There will be a problem-based design project for this module. There will be involvement and collaboration with the industry. There will be a combination of lectures, tutorials, case studies, seminars and project activities."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4233", "title": "Computational Methods In Fluid Mechanics", "description": "This module introduces students to the application of numerical methods for solving incompressible viscous fluid flow and convective heat transfer problems. Students will acquire an understanding of the basic principles of fluid flow simulation, a basic working knowledge of numerical implementation and an appreciation of the power of computational methods in solving complex problems.\n\nMajor topics covered are: \n\u2022\tBasic theory of numerical discretization; \n\u2022\tFinite difference discretization; \n\u2022\tStability and accuracy analysis; \n\u2022\tSolution methods for Poisson and elliptic type equations arising from incompressible flows. \n\u2022\tConservation laws and finite volume discretization.\n\u2022\tFormulation and solution methods for viscous incompressible fluid flows by (1) Stream function-Vorticity method for 2D flows, (2) Projection method for Navier-Stokes equations, (3) Finite-volume discretization and SIMPLE/R-based procedures and (4) Others methods as time allows.\n\nAssignments on (1) an elliptic equation problem and (2) a 2D fluid flow problem (by a method of their choice) allow students to acquire generic skills and experience in implementing their own codes."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4241", "title": "Aircraft Performance, Stability and Control", "description": "The module is concerned with the flying qualities of flight vehicle and the impact of aerodynamics, propulsion, structures and control systems on flight performance. The module is designed for aeronautical specialization students who intend to work in the aerospace and defence industries. As such there is a strong emphasis on practical methods to estimate flight performance metrics required by industrial specifications e.g. Federal Air Regulations Part 23, & 25 and MIL-SPEC-8785. Industrial software e.g., MatLab (or open source equivalent Octave, SciLab) will be used to compute flight performance metrics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4242", "title": "Soft Robotics", "description": "Soft Robotics introduces the usage of soft materials to construct and design integral parts of a robot like soft actuators and soft sensors. This module will introduce different types and genre of soft robots, mechanics of soft robots and the design, kinematics of control and applications of soft robots. The objective of this module is to introduce students to a new field of robotics that are made up of, in-part or as a whole, with soft materials and systems."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4245", "title": "Robot Mechanics and Control", "description": "The module facilitates the learning of the fundamentals of robotic manipulators for students to appreciate and understand their design and applications. Successful completion allows student to formulate the kinematics and dynamics of robotic manipulators consisting of a serial chain of rigid bodies and implement control algorithms with sensory feedback. The module is targeted at upper level undergraduates who have completed fundamental mathematics, mechanics, and control modules. Students will also gain a basic appreciation of the complexity in the control architecture and manipulator structure typical to new-generation robots."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4245E", "title": "Robot Mechanics and Control", "description": "The course facilitates the learning of the fundamentals of robotic manipulators for students to appreciate and understand their design and applications. Successful completion allows student to formulate the kinematics and dynamics of robotic manipulators consisting of a serial chain of rigid bodies and implement control algorithms with sensory feedback. The course is targeted at upper level undergraduates who have completed fundamental mathematics, mechanics, and control courses. Students will also gain a basic appreciation of the complexity in the control architecture and manipulator structure typical to new-generation robots."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4246", "title": "Modern Control System", "description": "This is a second module on control of linear dynamical systems. It focuses on analysis and synthesis of controllers in the time domain. The module introduces students to the techniques and analysis of dynamical systems using state-space models. The major topics covered are: Introduction to State-Space Model; Solution of State-Space Model; Canonical Forms of State-Space Model; Controllability and Observability; State Feedback and State Estimation; Linear Quadratic Optimal Control, Stability; Discrete Time Systems; Controller Design of Discrete-Time Systems. Students are required to have knowledge of basic classical control theory and linear algebra."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4247", "title": "Introduction to Fuzzy/Neural Systems", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4248", "title": "Manufacturing Simulation and Data Communication", "description": "This module covers fundamental concepts and techniques related to the simulation of (discrete) manufacturing systems and data transfer between machines and devices in such systems. Topics covered in the module include concepts of discrete-event modelling and simulation, elements in modelling, design and implementation of manufacturing simulation models, petri-nets, input information collection and analysis, interpretation of outputs, data communication standards, communication topology, medium access control, and real-time data communication protocols."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4251E", "title": "Thermal Engineering Of Materials", "description": "This elective course in materials science examines the importance of temperature and its effects on the structure and properties of materials common in mechanical engineering. Besides the thermodynamic principles of phase equilibria and the kinetics of phase transformations, students will be introduced to standard industrial practices, as well as the latest techniques in non-conventional processing of materials. Topics include thermodynamics and kinetics in metallic alloy systems, thermal modification processes, surface modification processes and rapid thermal processing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4252", "title": "Nanomaterials for Energy Engineering", "description": "This module starts with a brief introduction on semiconductors, ionic conductors and mixed conductors. Various transport measurements, with an emphasis on impedance studies, will be introduced. After a brief discussion of methods for the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials, the importance of nanomaterials in the context of thermodynamics, electrical conduction and thermal conduction will be highlighed. Various energy systems (solar cells, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, batteries, and supercapacitors) using nanomaterials focusing on energy conversion and storage will be covered. Course will end with remarks on the engineering aspects such as safety issues and development of miniaturised energy devices using nanomaterials."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4253", "title": "Biomaterials Engineering", "description": "Biomaterials involve the integration of engineering materials with biological entities in the body. The success of any implant or medical device depends very much on the biomaterial used. This course introduces students to life science topics. Students gain an appreciation of multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. Topics include metals, polymers, ceramics and composites use as implants, host-tissue response, materials selection, relationship between structure-composition-manufacturing process, evaluation of implants, sterilization and packaging, regulatory approvals, and suitable case studies. Video presentations and lectures complement the breadth covered in this course. Students enjoy project-based case studies which provoke curiosity, peer evaluation and group dynamics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4254E", "title": "Materials in Engineering Design", "description": "This module highlights various engineering properties of the materials that are of paramount importance to a design engineer along with various design philosophies that are commonly practised. It develops the analytical ability of students in choosing the most appropriate material from a design engineer\u2019s perspective. The topics are covered: Introduction of eng-ineering materials; Materials selection for weight-critical applications; Materials for stiffness based designs; Materials for strength-based designs; Materials for damage tolerant designs; Materials and fatigue-based designs; Materials and design against corrosion; Materials for wear critical applications; Materials for biomedical applications; and Materials Selection for special applications."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4255", "title": "Materials Failure", "description": "This module addresses the failure of engineering systems governed by the end service conditions. Commonly encountered service conditions are introduced in this module, including their impact on the service life of the individual components as well as the assembly of components. This module enables students to understand the deterioration of materials due to service conditions and how to minimize them. The topics are covered: Introduction to failure of materials; Service failure analysis practice; Failure due to overloading; Failure due to cyclic loading; Failure due to corrosion; Failure due to friction and wear; Failure at elevated temperatures, Failure of weld joints; Inspection and remaining life prediction techniques; and case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4256", "title": "Functional Materials and Devices", "description": "Functional materials belong to a special category that is different from traditional structural materials. This category of materials provides special functionalities and is able to convert energy from one from to another. They can be found naturally and can also be engineered based on different requirements. This course covers principles of functional materials in inorganic and organic materials, and metals. The course will also provide applications of some functional materials in devices."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4256E", "title": "Functional Materials and Devices", "description": "Functional materials belong to a special category that is different from traditional structural materials. This category of materials provides special functionalities and is able to convert energy from one from to another. They can be found naturally and can also be engineered based on different requirements. This course covers principles of functional materials in inorganic and organic materials, and metals. The course will also provide applications of some functional materials in devices."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4261", "title": "Tool Engineering", "description": "All mechanical engineering students need the basic knowledge of metal machining and tool design for mass production and the design of cutting tools. This module provides the fundamental understanding of metal machining and tool design."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4261E", "title": "Tool Engineering", "description": "All mechanical engineering students need the basic knowledge of metal machining and tool design for mass production and the design of cutting tools. This module provides the fundamental understanding of metal machining and tool design."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4262", "title": "Automation In Manufacturing", "description": "This module provides a comprehensive introduction to automation technologies applied in discrete part manufacturing. It also introduces essential principles and provides analytical tools for manufacturing control. Major topics covered include: Economic justification of automated systems; Fixed and transfer automation; Automated material handling and automated storage/retrieval systems, Flexible manufacturing systems, Internet-enabled manufacturing, Group technology, Process planning, Automated assembly and Automated operation planning for layered manufacturing processes."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4262E", "title": "Automation in Manufacturing", "description": "This module provides a comprehensive introduction to automation technologies applied in discrete part manufacturing. It also introduces essential principles and provides analytical tools for manufacturing control. Major topics covered include: Economic justification of automated systems; Fixed and transfer automation; Automated material handling and automated storage/retrieval systems, Flexible manufacturing systems, Internet-enabled manufacturing, Group technology, Process planning, Automated assembly and automated operation planning for layered manufacturing processes."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4263", "title": "Fundamentals of Product Development", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4264", "title": "Automobile Design & Engineering", "description": "This module will help students learn to make engineering decisions regarding power-train, braking, suspension, steering and body systems in order to meet acceleration, braking, ride & handling, safety, durability and NVH performance specifications."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4265", "title": "Automotive Body & Chassis Engineering", "description": "This module will help students understand the specifications for the design of body and chassis systems, design architectures, methods of component engineering, material selection, corrosion treatment & water management, manufacturing methods."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4283E", "title": "Micro-Fabrication Processes", "description": "This module enables students to learn the micromachining of both Silicon and non-Silicon materials. The major topics include the basic micro-fabrication as well as the micro-machining processes for microsystems. Some of the processes to be covered: Bulk Processes; Surface Processes; Sacrificial Processes and Bonding Processes; Micro-machining based on conventional machining processes; Micro-machining based on non-conventional machining processes; Special machining; The module is targeted at students seeking to specialise in the Microsystems Technology."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4291", "title": "Finite Element Analysis", "description": "This course introduces the fundamental concepts of the finite element method, practical techniques in creating an FEM model, and demonstrates its applications to solve some important stress and thermal analysis problems in Mechanical Engineering. Some necessary background in mechanics will be briefed before the foundations of the FEM theory, concept and procedures are covered. Various formulations and applications to one- two- and three-dimensional problems in solid mechanics and heat transfer will be covered to reinforce the theory and concepts. The precautions in the actual practice of FE analysis such as mesh design, modeling and verification will also be covered. Some instruction in the use of a commercial FEM software package will be given and students are expected to carry out one or more projects with it independently. This course should give students a good foundation for numerical simulation, and basic skills for carrying out stress and thermal analysis for a mechanical system."}, {"moduleCode": "ME4661", "title": "Exchange Elective", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4662", "title": "Exchange Technical Elective", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4663", "title": "Exchange Technical Elective", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4991", "title": "OOGT Exchange Elective 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4992", "title": "OOGT Exchange Elective 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4993", "title": "OOGT Exchange Elective 3", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4994", "title": "OOGT Exchange Elective 4", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME4995", "title": "Exchange Elective 5", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5001", "title": "Mechanical Engineering Project", "description": "This course involves supervised project over two semesters, on a topic approved by the Programme Manager of Department. The project work should relate to one of the areas of Mechanical Engineering: Applied Mechanics, Control & Mechatronics, Energy and Bio-Thermal Systems, Fluid Mechanics, Manufacturing and Materials."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5001A", "title": "Mechanical Engineering Project", "description": "This course involves supervising project in one semester, on a topic approved by the Programme Manager of Department. The project work should relate to one of the areas of Mechanical Engineering: Applied Mechanics, Control & Mechatronics, Energy and Bio-Thermal Systems, Fluid Mechanics, Manufacturing and Materials."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5101", "title": "Applied Stress Analysis", "description": "This course covers introduction to optical techniques, such as holography and shearography, in stress analysis of structures and one and two dimensional problems, thermal stress analysis, thermoelasticity and impact mechanics. Topics include parallel and series bar assemblies, plane strips, plates and bars, cylindrical and spherical shells, circular plates, cylinders and sphere. Stress waves in solids and the resultant failure and damage are studied. This course is targeted at engineers working in the manufacturing, aerospace and defense industries."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5103", "title": "Plates and Shells", "description": "Students learn to analyse the deformation and stresses developed in plates and shell structures under load. They are able to apply the fundamental concepts in solid mechanics to the analysis of these structures, model the structural problem using mathematical techniques and obtain solutions to deformation and stress distributions. Topics: Basic concepts of mechanics. Plate bending theory. Circular and rectangular plates. Elements of shell theory. Membrane and bending stresses in shells. Axis-symmetric shells with general meridian. This is an elective course and the target students are engineers engaged in structural analysis of mechanical components."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5105", "title": "Shock and Vibration Control", "description": "With the advances in technological processes and the demand for high precision, the vibration levels that can be tolerated by new machines are getting lower. It is therefore critically important to have a thorough understanding of the nature of vibration, its spectral characteristics and shock response. The course will cover the important aspects of vibration as well as measurement techniques, interpretation and the means of controlling vibration and shock. The emerging technique of active vibration control will also be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5106", "title": "Engineering Acoustics", "description": "Acoustic engineering is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration, typically including the design, analysis and control of sound, such as acoustic designs in building and marine structures, and acoustic signal analysis in industrial detections, and noise controls in daily life. This course will cover various aspects of acoustics: the basic fundamentals of acoustics, noise sources, control and mitigation, acoustic design in building and marine structures, modeling and simulation of acoustics, acounstic monitoring in 3D printing processes. The emphasis will be on the physical pictures and real-life applications particularly in cutting-edge techniques rather than mathematical."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5107", "title": "Vibration Theory and Applications", "description": "This course introduces the principles of vibration for linear discrete and continuous systems. It will start\nwith the revision of the single degree of freedom spring mass system and then expanded into the study\nof the free and forced vibration of one degree-of-systems and multiple degree-of-freedom-systems\nincluding damping. Major topics includes the natural modes of vibration and the associated eigenvalue\nproblems. Students will aslo be exposed to vibration simulation using SOLIDWORKS. The remaining\ntopics include the vibration of continuous systems such as string, rods and beams and techniques for\nvibration measurement."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5161", "title": "Optical Techniques in Experimental Stress Analysis", "description": "This is a basic course which aims at providing a good foundation and understanding of optical techniques for research and industrial applications. Experimental stress analysis is a core area for engineers and scientists. With the invention of the laser, newer optical methods such as holography, shearography and electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) have been developed for research and industrial use. The traditional methods of moir\u00e9 and photoelasticity have also been re-developed using the laser, as well as using state-of-the-art computer technology. This development has brought optical techniques to a new dimension in measurement and nondestructive testing. The course is targeted at postgraduate students seeking to use optical techniques in research and development."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5201", "title": "Thermal Systems Design", "description": "The aim of this course is to introduce the design, simulation and optimization methodologies for generic thermal systems. Students will develop the ability to simulate thermal systems and apply optimization techniques. They will be required to carry out 3 to 5 assignments to gain hands-on experience in design-simulation. The topics include: design analysis process, fluid flow equipment, heat exchanger design options, system simulation and modelling, process integration for industry, system optimization using suitable techniques such as calculus method, Langrange multipliers, search methods, linear, dynamic and geometric programming."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5202", "title": "Industrial Transfer Processes", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5204", "title": "Air Conditioning and Building Automation", "description": "The purpose of this course is to introduce the various design aspects of generic air conditioning systems. Students will develop the competence to size and select the sub-components of a typical air conditioning plant to meet prescribed conditions. The topics of the course include: psychrometrics, heat load calculation, energy analysis of buildings, air conditioning systems for commercial and industrial applications, performance of refrigeration systems, cooling and dehumidifying coils, air and water distribution, sub-component selection and specification, building automation systems, energy management strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5205", "title": "Energy Engineering", "description": "The objective of this course is to approach the study of energy conversion systems from an overall thermo-economic perspective. Students will gain the ability to integrate the various energy related topics covered in the undergraduate programme to evaluate the performance and make economic decisions on energy systems. The course will cover the following topics: energy perspectives, energy sources, thermodynamic aspects of energy conversion systems, performance evaluation of energy systems, improvement of energy efficiency, energy management, environmental aspects of energy use, thermo-economics, future trends in energy conversion, introduction to energy policy issues."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5207", "title": "Solar Energy Systems", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5209", "title": "Energy Technologies and Systems", "description": "The course is designed to give an overview and selected deep-dives of different energy conversion systems. It comprises three main parts \u2013 (is) renewable technologies and conventional energy/power systems, (ii) different fuel uses for reduction of carbon emission, (iii) energy/power distribution systems and (iv) life cycle cost analysis. Firstly, the course introduces renewable systems including solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, biomass, and fossil-fuel driven energy conversion systems. In addition to electric energy systems, different thermal energy generation systems will be introduced. Secondly, electric energy systems with different fuel uses for current and future will be analysed. Thirdly, students will learn about energy distribution systems (both electric and thermal) and the changes that arise from distributed generation of renewable energies. Finally, the long-term economic viability will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5300A", "title": "Special Project in Computation and Modelling I", "description": "The course will be an independent study based on an industry or internal project related to computation and modelling. The 1st semester works will be focusing on thorough literature survey on papers, problems and issues, and proposing some likely methods to resolve the problems. Some analysis, simulation or computation may be needed to verify the solutions proposed."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5300B", "title": "Special Project in Computation and Modelling II", "description": "As a continuation from ME5300A, the 2nd semester works will be focusing on realising the proposed solutions identified from ME5300A, and continuing on detail analysis, computation and modelling."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5301", "title": "Flow Systems Analysis", "description": "In this course, students will learn to analyse and design fluid system under steady and unsteady operations. It covers the steady flow system analysis, transient flow analysis, fluid power and control, flow characteristics of system components, computer applications in flow system analysis and pressure surge control. This course further develops their knowledge on various aspects of fluid mechanics covered in their undergraduate course. This course is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in the analysis and design of complex fluid systems, including accurate gas flow models."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5302", "title": "Computational Fluid Mechanics", "description": "This graduate level course introduces students to the application of numerical methods for solving incompressible fluid flow and convective heat transfer problems. Major topics covered include: review of theory of numerical discretisation/approximations numerical techniques for elliptic and parabolic PDEs; conservation form; finite-volume discretisation; boundary layer problems; solving Navier-Stokes equations in streamfunction-vorticity and primitive-variables formulations; SIMPLE/R and related procedures; Artificial Compressibility Method; Marker-Cell procedures; steady-state, transient and pseudo-transient methods/approaches. Knowledge in fluid dynamics and heat transfer is presumed. Theory is reinforced by mini-projects. The course is recommended for students who intend to pursue graduate research that requires the application of CFD."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5303", "title": "Industrial Aerodynamics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5304", "title": "Experimental Fluid Mechanics", "description": "This course teaches techniques and skills in carrying out fluid mechanics experiments and data analyses. Major topics include: Similitude and modelling; Wind tunnel design; Velocity measurement; Pressure measurement; Shear stress measurement; Volume flow rate measurement; Wind tunnel blockage correction; End plate configurations; Flow visualization; Signal analysis. This course is primarily targeted at graduate students who are conducting experimental fluid mechanics research and those who have interests in experimental fluid mechanics. This course is also appropriate for undergraduate students enrolled in the department\u2019s Aeronautical Engineering Specialization, especially those who are working on experimental fluid mechanics research for their final year projects."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5305", "title": "Fundamentals of Aeroelasticity", "description": "This is an introductory course on aeroelasticity as applied to aerospace specialization. Aeroelasticity is defined as the interactions of the deformable elastic structures in free airstream and the resulting aerodynamic force, which\nbroadly falls under fluid-structure interaction. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification, the basics of statics and dynamics of fluid-structure interaction will be given. Topics covered include static aeroelasticity\n(divergence, control surface reversal), dynamic aeroelasticity (flutter, buffeting, and gust response), aeroservoelasticity (fluid-structure-control interaction), unsteady aerodynamics over lifting surfaces, and experimental methods for flutter prediction."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5306", "title": "Compressible and High-Speed Flow", "description": "This course introduces students to some of the physical phenomena in compressible flow. The theories in one- and two-dimensional flow will be described, explained and analysed in this course. Topics include subsonic and supersonic flow, converging\u2013diverging nozzle, normal and oblique shock waves, Prandtl-Meyer flows, flow with friction and heat exchange, Fanno line, Rayleigh line, twodimensional compressible flows, thin airfoils in supersonic flow, method of characteristics, hypersonic and high temperature gas dynamics, and optical methods in compressible flow measurements. Real-life applications, such as sonic boom, gas turbine, ramjet and scramjet combustion, supersonic nozzle design, space shuttle reentry will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5309", "title": "Aircraft Engines and Rocket Propulsion", "description": "In this course, the graduate students will apply the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics to jet and rocket propulsion. The emphasis of this course will be on thermodynamic cycles, the mechanics and thermodynamics of combustion, component and cycle analysis of jet engines, and the performance characteristics of chemical rockets. The detailed analysis of operating characteristics of turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, afterburning, and ramjet propulsion systems will be covered. The major focus will be placed towards the analysis and design of inlet, diffuser, combustor, compressor, turbine, and nozzle."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5311", "title": "Data-Driven Engineering and Machine Learning", "description": "The course covers basic linear algebra principles to provide the formalism to reveal coherent patterns and behaviors in data. We will introduce system identification methods, dimensionality reduction techniques, dynamical system theory, inverse problems in their Bayiesian form and machine learning techniques, with a special focus on neural networks. These will provide students with the necessary tools to analyze real-world datasets that are commonly found in practical engineering and scientific applications."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5361", "title": "Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics", "description": "This is an advanced course on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) at the graduate level. The course introduces some newly-developed numerical techniques for simulation of fluid flows as well as convective heat transfer problems. Major topics covered in this course include: high-order numerical approaches for solving boundary-layer and Navier-Stokes equations; boundary integral method for linear systems; upwind and Godunov-type schemes for compressible flow simulation; lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible flow simulation. There is a compulsory Term Paper project for this course. The course is recommended for research students and engineers who intend to do research project in the CFD area."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5362", "title": "Advanced Fluid Transients Computation and Modelling", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5400A", "title": "Robotics Project 1", "description": "This course consists of an individual project carried out by the student, with lecturer\u2019s supervision, in one semester. The topic of the project is defined by the student and approved by the lecturer. It is related to robotics, either within the scope of the core fundamental courses of the MSc in Robotics, or in a specific topic of the elective courses. The course provides the students with an opportunity to challenge themselves in an individual projectual activity, practicing the use of the techniques learned during the MSc."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5400B", "title": "Robotics Project 2", "description": "Similarly to Robotics project 1, this course consists of an individual project carried out by the student, with lecturer\u2019s supervision, in one semester. This second course gives the opportunity for a longer project, across 2 semesters. The topic of the project is defined by the student and approved by the lecturer. It is related to robotics, either within the scope of the core fundamental courses of the MSc in Robotics, or in a specific topic of the elective courses. The course provides the students with an opportunity to challenge themselves in an individual projectual activity, practicing the use of the techniques learned during the MSc. Where appropriate, opportunities for confronting with the international scientific community will be considered."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5401", "title": "Linear Systems", "description": "Linear system theory is the core of modern control approaches, such as optimal, robust, adaptive and multi-variable control. This course develops a solid understanding of the fundamentals of linear systems analysis and design using the state space approach. Topics covered include state space representation of systems; solution of state equations; stability analysis using Lyapunov methods; controllability and observability; linear state feedback design; asymptotic observer and compensator design, decoupling and servo control. This course is a must for higher degree students in control engineering, robotics or servo engineering. It is also very useful for those who are interested in signal processing and computer engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5402", "title": "Advanced Robotics", "description": "The aim of the course is for students to develop an in-depth understanding of the fundamentals of robotics at an advanced level. It is targeted towards graduate students interested in robotics research and development. The focus is on in-depth treatments and wider coverage of advanced topics on (a) kinematics, (b) trajectory planning, (c) dynamics, and (d) control system design. At the end of this course, the student should have a good understanding of all the related topics of advanced robotics, and be able to derive the kinematics and dynamics of a given robot, plan appropriate path, and design advanced control systems."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5404", "title": "Neural Networks", "description": "In this course students will learn various neural network models and develop all the essential background needed to apply these models to solve practical pattern recognition and regression problems. The main topics that will be covered are: single and multilayer perceptrons, support vector machines, radial basis function networks, Kohonen networks, principal component analysis, and recurrent networks. There is a compulsory computer project for this course. This course is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in learning about neural networks and using them to solve real world problems."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5405", "title": "Machine Vision", "description": "This course introduces machine vision devices and techniques in image processing and pattern recognition. It also discusses the integration of the above to form a cohesive machine vision system. Students will learn how machine vision systems in robotics and medical applications are designed and implementation. This course is based on a basic knowledge of geometry and linear algebra, and does not require previous knowledge in machine vision. The accent is more on global understanding than on mathematical derivations. The main topics that will be treated are: vision hardware, visual perception, optical properties, image transforms, image enhancement, segmentation, encoding, representations, and applications."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5405A", "title": "Machine Vision Fundamentals", "description": "Students will learn how machine vision systems in robotics, industrial and medical applications are designed and implemented. The focus is more on global understanding than on mathematical derivations. The main topics that will be treated are: visual perception, vision hardware, optical properties, image representation, imaging geometry and basic image processing techniques. With the basic understanding of the various technology and methods used to provide imaging-based inspection and analysis for robot guidance, process control and automatic inspection, this course prepares students for further studies and research in vision and image processing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5406", "title": "Deep Learning for Robotics", "description": "This course will familiarise students with recent deep learning tools and their application to robotics, in particular deep reinforcement learning (RL). The first part of this course focuses on the fundamental mathematical background to RL, from Markov Decision Processes (MDP) all the way to Q-learning. Students will then dive into deep learning methods and their application to a variety of core robotics problem: control, perception, manipulation, path planning, and multirobot collaboration. This course includes mandatory assignments and a compulsory group project. This course is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in deep (reinforcement) learning and its applications to real-world robotics tasks."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5408", "title": "Kinematics of Robot Manipulators", "description": "This course aim to develop basic understanding of fundamental mathematics and terms used to describe the geometry of robot manipulators. In particular, the students will learn to model the kinematics of a manipulator which maps from joint displacement vector to end-effector position and orientation. The students will also learn to model the differential kinematics of a manipulator and derive its Jacobian matrix. The relationship between the joint torques and the endpoint contact force and moment under static condition will be studied. Trajectory planning in joint space will be explored for robot motion generation."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5409", "title": "Robot Dynamics and Control", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of dynamics and control for robot manipulator. The basic robot dynamic models are described in this course and main control approaches are explained."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5410", "title": "Materials, Sensors, Actuators & Fabrication in Robotics", "description": "This course introduces the enabling technologies and components for robots. It gives an overview of the materials used in robotics, not limited to metals, and related fabrication techniques, including rapid prototyping. It describes the different technologies used for building robot sensors and actuators, with example of devices used in robotics, explaining their working principles and basic input-output mathematical relations."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5411", "title": "Robot vision and AI", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of robot vision and the main techniques from AI used in robotics for learning and perception."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5412", "title": "Robotics for Healthcare", "description": "This course provides a systematic description of specific application fields in healthcare, like surgery, diagnosis, artificial organs. The technological challenges and requirements for robotics given by this field of application are discussed for providing a method for designing and developing healthcare robots, compatible with the human body. The robotics technologies used in healthcase are analyzed, also through case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5413", "title": "Autonomous Mobile Robotics", "description": "This course introduces the techniques used in robotics for autonomous navigation of mobile robots. It gives a basic knowledge of kinematic configurations of mobile, wheeled, robots and focuses on the algorithms for trajectory planning and for trajectory following. They include mapping and localization techniques, as well as obstacle avoidance techniques, in path planning and reactive obstacle avoidance, which involve the use of sensors onboard the robot. Case studies will be analysed with special attention to self-driving cars."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5414", "title": "Optimization Techniques for Dynamic Systems", "description": "This course will cover standard optimization, variational approaches, and other optimization schemes (e.g., dynamic programming)."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5415", "title": "Advanced Soft Robotics", "description": "This course teaches the field of soft robotics and provides knowledge of the main approaches and techniques used in this field. The course includes the technologies for building soft robots and the techniques for modelling and for controlling soft robots. The course also analyses few case-studies and illustrates examples of application of soft robotics technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5416", "title": "Mathematics for Robotics engineering", "description": "This course teaches the mathematical methods frequently used in robotics. The topics include: frequency analysis, dynamical systems, robotics modelling, embodied intelligence and its modelling."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5417", "title": "Autonomous Spacecraft Dynamics and Control", "description": "This course addresses dynamics, control, and state estimation for satellites, rockets, and planetary landers. The main emphasis is on attitude dynamics, involving advanced kinematics and modern invariant filtering theory for rotational state estimation and control. The role of angular momentum management and Lagrangian formulations of dynamics will be used to understand passive gravity-gradient orientation stabilization, as well as active control use momentum wheels, thrusters, and electromagnetic devices. Orbital mechanics, propulsion, and landing systems will also be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5418", "title": "Machine Learning in Robotics", "description": "The course provides the basics of machine learning, in terms of most commonly used techniques in robotics, including neural networks. The students will apply their learnt knowledge on a robotic task."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5419", "title": "Probabilistic Robotics for Manipulation", "description": "\"Probabilistic Robotic\" involves modelling uncertainty and fusing sensory measurements. It is usually used in robot navigation and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). However, the same methods can be employed in robot manipulation. This course therefore uses the same Bayesian formulations of uncertainty modelling as in navigation and localization, but applied to robot arms and grippers manipulating objects, rather than to mobile robotic systems."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5420", "title": "Advanced Robot Mechanics and Control", "description": "The course will cover advanced topics in modeliing of robotic mechanisms and control strategies. The topics will include latest state-of-the art methods for modeliing and control."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5421", "title": "Robot Kinematics", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of robot kinematics. It provides basic knowledge on robot typical mechanical joints and links configurations and introduces the typical kinematic transformations used in robotics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5422", "title": "Computer Control and Applications", "description": "The course aims to introduce the concepts and design of computer/microprocessor based control schemes with a focus on industrial automation. Techniques for discretetime control realization, will also be discussed. After attending the course, the students will acquire the basic skills on designing simple controllers for real time systems, know how to analyze the system responses and evaluate the controller performance. The topics covered are: discrete system analysis; pole-placement design, basic predictive control, digital PID controllers; implementation issues (sampling theorem, aliasing, discretization errors) and real-time realization using system control software such as. Matlab and Labview."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5423", "title": "Topics in Robotics", "description": "In this course, a selection of current research topics in robotics will be explored. The specific topics will be introduced to students through a series of lectures. Guest lecturers from the industry will be engaged to present these topics from an industry perspective. Students are required to attend the lectures, read several research papers, undertake a term project and write a term paper. For instance, one of the selected topics in this course is neuro-robotics, i.e., the application of brain models to robots, for motor control, perception, learning and sensory-motor coordination. It is a field that explores the fascinating ways suggested by neuroscience in which robots interpret and interact with their surroundings. The course aims to equip students with understanding of robotics and ignites a passion for innovation and discovery in the realm of robotics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5506", "title": "Corrosion of Materials", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5513", "title": "Deformation, Fracture and Fatigue of Materials", "description": "The objective is to expose students to the various engineering methods to tackle practical problems related to deformation, fracture and fatigue of materials so that they can apply them to real situations. Major topics include: Complex and principle states of stress and strain, yielding and fracture under combined stresses, linear elastic fracture mechanics, standard tests for fracture toughness; fatigue analysis and testing, factors affecting fatigue properties of materials, fatigue crack propagation, fracture and fatigue mechanisms and control, statistical vairaion of mechanical properties. This course is useful for students interested on materials failure analysis and/or materials design and applications."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5513A", "title": "Fatigue Analysis for Additive Manufacturing", "description": "The objective is to expose students to various methods to tackle practical problems related to fatigue of materials and structures additive manufacturing processes, so that students can apply them to real situations. Particular emphasis is placed on fatigue properties of materials and structures. Major topics include: high and low cycle fatigue, factors affecting fatigue properties of materials and structures, conventional and fracture mechanic fatigue design, fatigue crack propagation, fatigue life prediction and monitoring, fatigue mechanisms and control, and fatigue surface analysis. This course is useful for students in a career related to service failure analysis and/or materials applications."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5516", "title": "Emerging Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies", "description": "The course provides an overview of emerging technologies for environment-friendly power generation and large-scale storage, focusing on post-silicon (organic) photovoltaics, fuel cells, and electrochemical batteries. The science behind each technology will be taught and related to the long-term economic viability, including resource limitations when going from small to large scale production, and externalities. The course will consider the link between the technology and economics of intermittent (solar, wind) energy production and those of storage as well as financial factors determining the final cost of energy."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5517", "title": "Nature-inspired Materials and Design", "description": "Nature is an eternal source of inspiration. This course will provide an introduction to nature-inspired materials and designs. Such inspirations can come from the aspects of living and non-living things to solve engineering problems in surface engineering, optics, biomedical applications, fracture mechanics, robotics, sustainable materials, etc. The students will be examining successful applications upon utilization of nature-inspired materials and designs. This course will also cover state-of-the-art case studies in producing novel innovation with natural inspiration in interdisciplinary settings. The students will learn that the nature-inspired materials and design could offer energy- and resource-optimized products, processes and systems."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5600A", "title": "Project in Advanced Manufacturing I", "description": "The course will be an independent study based on an industry project related to biomedical, healthcare or key local industry sectors. The 1st semester works will be focusing on thorough literature survey on patents, papers, problems and issues, and proposing some likely methods to resolve the problems either on processes or designs. Some analysis, simulation or simple experiments may be needed to verify the solutions proposed."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5600B", "title": "Project in Advanced Manufacturing II", "description": "As a continuation from ME5600A, the 2nd semester works will be focusing on realising the proposed solutions identified from ME5600A by prototyping, implementation or design improvement. 3DP techniques will be adopted for realising such solutions, methods and designs. Evaluation, improvement and final solution will be concluded for likely commercialisation or industry use."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5607", "title": "Smart Factories", "description": "This course provides an introduction to automation technologies applied in future part manufacturing: the smart factory. It will see machines, raw materials, and products communicating within an IoT to cooperatively drive production. Products will find their way independently through the production process. The goal is highly flexible, individualized mass production that is cost-effective. In this course, conventional automation technologies are first introduced, followed by the introduction of RFID and its applications in these areas. The focus will be on its application in smart factory to achieve highly flexible, individualized mass production that is cost-effective."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5608", "title": "Additive and Non-Conventional Manufacturing Processes", "description": "This course focuses on principles, techniques and applications of additive manufacturing (AM or 3D printing), abrasive and non conventional machining process and latest techniques on material additive and material removal in micron-scale. Topics include AM, grinding, ultrasonic machining, electrical discharge machining, laser beam machining, layered manufacturing, et. cetera. Students are expected to carry out an independent study by a project and/or term paper on the related topics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5608A", "title": "Principles and Processes of Additive Manufacturing", "description": "This introductory course emphasizes additive manufacturing processes. Topics include 3D printing processes/materials, metal printing, etc. Students are expected to carry out an independent study by project or term paper on the related topics. A structured programme of lectures, term papers, and a final examination are included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5608B", "title": "Hybrid Manufacturing", "description": "This introductory course emphasizes on hybrid manufacturing techniques. This will focus on how to use two or more non-conventional material additive and removal processes in macro, micro and nano-scale to machine features. Topics include: bio-micro printing, chemicalmechanical polishing (CMP), electrical-chemical machining (ECM), ultra-precision diamond turning (UPDG), Electrolytic in-process dressing (ELID) grinding, laser-based machining, Ultrasonic Machining, Abrasive Machining Processes, etc. Students are expected to carry out an independent study by project or term paper on the related topics. A structured programme of lectures, term papers, and a final examination are included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5609", "title": "Rapid Response Manufacturing", "description": "This course introduces the techniques and strategies in rapid response manufacturing. Topics include: an overview of rapid product development techniques and strategies; data capture and shape reconstruction techniques; various types of rapid prototyping techniques such as SLA, SLS, LOM and FDM; concept of rapid tooling; design for X and concurrent engineering; life cycle assessment methods and environmental risks in products. Topics in virtual manufacturing include: virtual factory, distributed manufacturing, virtual prototyping, and the human aspects. The course will be useful to engineers and designers who are concerned with the rapid changes in manufacturing as well as the shortening product lead-times."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5610", "title": "Product Development", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5611", "title": "Sustainable Product Design & Manufacturing", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME5612", "title": "Computer Aided Product Development", "description": "Product development relates to the processes and techniques employed in the design and manufacture of a product. This course will focus on the early (conceptual) stages of design and development of mainly mechanical products, looking at the technologies available to convert new ideas into a manufactured reality. Emphasis will be on the practical implications, constraints and in-depth analysis, with an integrated assignment that encourages student groups to investigate the technologies for generation of a product."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5613", "title": "Optimal Design of Multi-Functional Structures", "description": "This course focuses on analysis, optimal design techniques and fabrication methods of multi-functional structures and devices. The underlying principles of calculus of variations, constrained minimization, and design parameterization and solution methods of topology optimization will be fully studied. Key applications include compliant structures/mechanisms and multi-material soft robots. These devices lie at the interface of principles and procedures of structures and machines. The course will bring out methodologies for designing multi-functional structures/machines and fabrication techniques of 3D printing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5614A", "title": "Special Project in Additive Manufacturing", "description": "This course introduces applications and practices for additive manufacturing in terms of special project. The project is intended to integrate pre-processing, additive manufacturing processes, and post-processing for additive manufacturing processes. Topics include additive manufacturing practices and applications in engineering, design, healthcare, etc. Students are expected to carry out hand-on studies of additive manufacturing machines in project on the related topics. A structured programme of lectures and projects is included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5615A", "title": "Design and Pre-Processing for Additive Manufacturing", "description": "This course introduces design and pre-processing for additive manufacturing. Topics include design analysis and guidelines for parts in additive manufacturing, and procedure for pre-processing before additive manufacturing processes. Students are expected to carry out an independent study by project or term paper on the related topics. A structured programme of lectures, project/term papers, and a final examination is included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5615B", "title": "Post-processing for Additive Manufacturing", "description": "Post-processing is an indispensable step to improve the final quality of the additively manufactured metal parts. This course exposes the students to a series of key machining and finishing methods as well as their applications in AM post-processing. This course covers the major topics about post-processing of the additively manufactured metal parts including surface integrity and material characterisation of AM, heat treatment for 3DPed metal parts, post machining technology, magnetic assisted finishing technology, conventional and non-conventional post-processing methods, etc. This course provides the knowledge and practical expertise to the students who are and will be engaged in a career related to additive manufacturing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5616", "title": "Material Processing of Cellular Solids", "description": "Cellular solids refer to materials that contain cavities, channels, or interstices, which are widespread in nature and engineering. Engineering cellular solids, including honeycomb, foam, and lattice structure, can be made from nearly any type of materials: ceramics, polymers, metals, and composites. Their cellular structure give rise to a unique combination of structural and functional properties, which are highly dependent on their manufacturing process. This course aims at introducing the process-structure-properties relationship of cellular solids. The manufacturing process of cellular solids for different functional and structural applications will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5666", "title": "Industrial Attachment", "description": "This course provides engineering research students with work attachment experience in a company."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5701", "title": "Mathematics for Engineering Research", "description": "This course teaches graduate students the various mathematical methods frequently used in the engineering research work. The topics include: Boundary value problems: classification of types and boundary conditions, hypergeometric equations, integral methods of solutions, numerical methods, finite difference and finite element methods, complex variables, conformal mapping, perturbation methods, statistics and probability. There is a compulsory Term Paper project for this course. This course is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in learning more of the various mathematical methods for solving advanced level engineering problems."}, {"moduleCode": "ME5999", "title": "Graduate Seminars", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "ME6101", "title": "Research Topics in Applied Mechanics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME6102", "title": "Topics in Applied Mechanics: Mechanics of Materials", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME6103", "title": "Optical Measurement and Quality Inspection", "description": "With the growing need for non-contacting whole-field measurement and inspection, the development and implementation of optical techniques have rapidly become major activities in universities, research institutions and industries. This course aims to provide a good foundation and understanding of these techniques for research and industrial applications. Topics to be covered include: Depth gauging using laser triangulation. Surface contouring using Moire techniques. Displacement measurement and surface contouring using holography. Surface strains and slope measurements using shearography. Surface profiling and deformation measurement using projection grating. Nondestructive testing and surface quality inspection."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6104", "title": "Fracture Mechanics and Applications", "description": "Understanding and prevention of fracture in engineering applications require the integration of several fundamental concepts in solid mechanics and material behaviour. In this course, major topics to be covered include linear elastic and elastic-plastic fracture mechanics, energy approach to fracture, introduction to finite element analysis, interfacial fracture mechanics and its applications to thin film and multilayered structures in electronic packaging."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6105", "title": "Continuum Mechanics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME6107", "title": "Plasticity and Inelastic Deformation", "description": "This class will cover the fundamental and physical basis of plastic/inelastic deformation and other dissipative processes. Here we will develop continuum-based isotropic plasticity and crystal-plasticity-type constitutive equations through a rigorous thermodynamic approach. The first part of the course will be devoted to the teaching of continuum mechanics/balance laws/thermodynamics, the second part will focus on the development of constitutive equations for plasticity and the third part will concentrate on the application of plasticity theory through numerical techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6108", "title": "Advances in Vibroacoustics", "description": "Students will learn advanced topics related to vibroacoustics systems. A special topic for vibroacoustics will be chosed for each semester, such as sonic crystals, inerter systems, acoustic metamaterials, energy harvesting, shock and vibration mitigation. Practical examples and case studies will be discussed. Students will work on a mini project for half of the semester, demonstrating the ability to do literature review, design and analysis of the system, prototyping, modelling and experimentation. The course is100% continuous assessment based on a mini project. This course is for graduate students interested in learning about research techniques and state-of-the-art topics in vibration and acoustics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6201", "title": "Research Topics in Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer", "description": "This course provides an avenue to offer courses on special topics of current research interest in the area of thermodynamics and heat transfer. The objective of the course is to expose in the area of thermodynamics and heat transfer. The objective of the course is to expose students to specialised knowledge in a research area of a faculty member. The topics offered will vary depending on the research trends in the field. Students who have similar research interests would benefit from these courses. The target audience for these courses will be mainly the graduate research students."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6202", "title": "Topics in Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer", "description": "This course provides an avenue to expose students to advanced topics in the area of thermodynamics and heat transfer that are not covered the regular graduate courses. The objective of the course is to introduce deeper knowledge in a subject that would benefit graduate students in general. The topics offered will vary depending on the current importance of the topic and its relevance to the research trends in the field. The target audience for these courses will be mainly graduate students."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6203", "title": "Mass Transport", "description": "The objective of the course is to introduce the principles of diffusive and convective mass transfer. Students will acquire the ability to critically assess technical literature, develop physical models for engineering systems and obtain numerical solutions. The course outline is: principles of transport phenomena; differential formulations of conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy; scale analysis; diffusion in gases, liquids and solids; estimation methods for diffusivities; free and forced and forced convection mass transfer; inter-phase mass transfer overall mass transfer coefficients; simultaneous heat and mass transfer; engineering applications involving absorption, drying etc."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6204", "title": "Advanced Heat Transfer", "description": "The aim of this course is to introduce advanced topics in convective, conductive and radiative heat transfer. Students will gain a deeper understanding of fundamental heat transfer mechanisms and will develop the ability to formulate and solve advanced heat transfer problems. The topics include: conservation principles, fluid stresses and flux laws, differential equations of the laminar boundary layer, integral equations of the boundary layer, momentum and heat transfer for laminar flow, kinetic theory and atomistic basis to understand heat transfer at the micro-/nano-scale, phonon transport by the Boltzmann transport equations, influence of lower dimensionality as well as industrial application topics on heat dissipation."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6205", "title": "Advanced Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer", "description": "Advanced Topics in Heat and Mass Transfer"}, {"moduleCode": "ME6301", "title": "Research Topics in Fluid Dynamics", "description": "In this course, students will learn research-based materials through topics reflecting the special interests and research of faculty members in Fluid Dynamics. Lectures will be given by both department faculty members and visiting specialists. Practical examples and case studies will be presented and discussed. Course marks are based on 100% Continued Assessments. This course is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in learning more on the current state-of-the-art in specialised research topics in Fluid Dynamics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6302", "title": "Topics in Fluid Dynamics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME6302A", "title": "Topics in Fluid Dynamics: Theory of Hydrodynamic Stability", "description": "In this course, students will learn advanced-level materials through topics reflecting the special interests and research of faculty members in Fluid Dynamics. Lectures will be given by both department faculty members and visiting specialists. Practical examples and case studies will be presented and discussed. course marks are based on 100% Continued Assessments. This course is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in learning more on the current state-of-the-art in advanced material topics in Fluid Dynamics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6303", "title": "Advanced Fluid Dynamics", "description": "This course introduces graduate students to the fundamental theory underlying the motion of both inviscid and viscous fluids. Vector and tensor, and tensorial operations in different coordinate systems are introduced. The general differential equations of motion, i.e., Navier-Stokes equation and its different variants are derived. Exact solutions to canonical flows are presented. Nondimensionalization, dimensional analysis, and scaling arguments are shown. Other topics include the potential theory based on the velocity potential and stream-function, Stokes flow along with exact solutions to certain scenarios, and the boundary layer theory. Next, students are given a broad introduction to important topics relating from low to high Reynolds number. Non-Newtonian flows, capillary flow, fluid instabilities, turbulence and compressible flows are discussed. The mean Reynolds equation is derived and the problem of closure discussed. These topics are explored through a selection of journal articles."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6304", "title": "Turbulence in Fluid Flows", "description": "This is an advanced course dealing with various physical and dynamical aspects of turbulence. It covers mean flow equations, isotropic turbulence and their properties, length scales and their determination, transport processes, coherent structures, and structures of wall-bounded and free-shear flows. Statistical tools used in the description of turbulence as well as the measurement techniques and experimental details to measure various flow parameters will be adequately covered. Mathematical turbulence models will be briefly discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6401", "title": "Topics in Mechatronics 1", "description": "In this course, several selected advanced topics in mechatronics that are of current research interest will be offered. Each student has to choose two of those topics. Topics covered are typically in the areas of robotics, control, machine vision, and artificial intelligence. Each topic chosen will require the student to read several research papers, write a term paper and do a term project. The course is mainly meant for research students to help them specialise in selected topics in mechatronics. ME6401 will be offered in Term I while ME6402 will be offered in Term II. The two courses typically cover a different set of topics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6402", "title": "Topics in Mechatronics 2", "description": "In this course, several selected advanced topics in mechatronics that are of current research interest will be offered. Each student has to choose two of those topics. Topics covered are typically in the areas of robotics, control, machine vision, and artificial intelligence. Each topic chosen will require the student to read several research papers, write a term paper and do a term project. The course is mainly meant for research students to help them specialise in selected topics in mechatronics. ME6401 will be offered in Term I while ME6402 will be offered in Term II. The two courses typically cover a different set of topics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6405", "title": "Autonomous Mobile Robotics", "description": "Today many robots such as the self-driving cars and drones are no longer rigidly fixed behind safety barricades in factories. These robots are mobile and operate autonomously in environments that are shared with human beings. In this course, we will look at some of the basic mathematical concepts and algorithms that make up the brain of autonomous mobile robots. Topics that are covered include collision avoidance, motion planning, probabilistic methods and 3D robotics vision."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6406", "title": "Optimization Techniques for Dynamical Systems", "description": "Optimization technique has become a fundamental tool for many applications in science and engineering. Optimization for dynamic system is of particular interest in today\u2019s system design and integration. This course will cover both optimization in the static case, as well as modelling dynamic system as Markov system and optimize its performance via\ndynamic programming."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6501", "title": "Research Topics in Materials Science", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME6502", "title": "Topics in Material Sciences", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME6503", "title": "Theory of Transformations in Metals", "description": "The course is designed for graduate students who study in the area of metallic materials. It deals with fundamentals of thermodynamics and kinetics related to metals. The course starts with introduction on thermodynamics followed by ideal and regular solutions. Different atomic mechanisms of diffusion will be discussed. The course will underline transformations from thermodynamics point of view. The following topics will be taught in this course: fundamentals of phase diagrams, chemical equilibrium, diffusion, interfaces, diffusional transformations, diffusionless transformations structure of liquid metals, nucleation and growth in liquid metals, solidification related structures and defects."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6504", "title": "Mechanical Failure Analysis: Learning from Examples", "description": "This course introduces students to various mechanical failure modes (eg. wear, creep etc.) in real life applications, to identify failure mechanism (eg. defects, dislocations etc.) along with an account of available tools for making recommendations on materials selection, manufacturing routes and failure prevention. This course is suitable for engineering graduate students who are keen in mechanical failure."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6505", "title": "Engineering Materials in Medicine", "description": "This course is designed to provide an in-depth graduate level foundation in biomaterial science and engineering principles. Students will be introduced to the practical aspects of biomaterials in medical devices, in particularly the fabrication of devices, including materials selection, processing, performance, biocompatibility issues and regulatory requirements. Topics of interest include hip prostheses, articular joints, surgical sutures, tissue engineering scaffolds for hard and soft tissues, and case studies of failed medical prostheses. A short research proposal on implanted material for medical devices will be prepared by students, in place of continuous assessment. A problem base approach teaching ethodology will be used to encourage the learning process. On completion of this lecture course, students should be able to suggest suitable biomaterials and plan appropriate processing techniques for given biomedical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6508", "title": "Atomistic Simulations of Materials", "description": "This course teaches methods and tools for simulations of material properties without experimental input (e.g. ab initio based). The topics include: (1) Elements of solid state theory; (2) Introduction to the electronic structure theory, Density Functional Theory and software; (3) Molecular dynamics simulations, their types and uses to compute dynamics as well as static properties."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6509", "title": "Materials and Sustainability", "description": "This course is aimed at the graduate students, and introduce them to the key concepts of sustainability and United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students will learn sustainability policies and articulations such as net-zero 2050, towards zero-waste, circular economy, life cycle thinking, circularity performance, and Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) reporting. Special emphasis will be on the sustainability aspects of materials i.e. synthetic materials and nature sourced renewable materials. Students will be introduced basics as well as case studies illustrating net-zero emissions and materials circular economy."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6601", "title": "Research Topics in Manufacturing", "description": "Students will learn research-based materials through special research topics reflecting the interests and research expertise of faculty members in the Manufacturing Divisional Group. Lectures will be given mainly by department faculty members and/or visiting specialists. Practical examples and case studies will be presented and discussed. The course is based on 100% continued assessments consisting of research essays or term papers. This course is intended for graduate students (especially those pursuing Ph.D.) interested in learning more on advanced research techniques and current state-of-the-art specialised research topics."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6602", "title": "Topics in Manufacturing", "description": "In this course, students will learn advanced-level materials through topics reflecting the special interests of faculty members in the Manufacturing Divisional Group or visiting experts. Lectures, given by either/both department faculty members and visiting experts, will consist of practical examples and case studies. Grades are based on 100% continued assessments. This course is intended for graduate students and engineers interested in learning more about advanced manufacturing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6604", "title": "Modelling of Manufacturing Processes", "description": "The main objective of this course is to introduce the students to modelling of manufacturing processes. The major topics include an overview of major manufacturing and machining processes, modelling of chip formation in machining, heat generation and temperature distribution in metal cutting, tool characteristics in metal cutting, chip control, machining characteristics and surface generation of grinding, ultraprecision microcutting processes, workpiece material properties in machining, physical-field-assisted machining processes, and modelling and simulation methods for manufacturing processes. The target students include postgraduate students in the areas of materials and manufacturing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6607", "title": "Optimal Design of Multi-Functional Structures", "description": "This course focuses on analysis, optimal design techniques and fabrication methods of multi-functional structures and devices. The underlying principles of calculus of variations, constrained minimization, and design parameterization and solution methods of topology optimization will be fully studied. Key applications include compliant structures/mechanisms and multi-material soft robots. These devices lie at the interface of principles and procedures of structures and machines. The course will bring out methodologies for designing multi-functional structures/machines and fabrication techniques of 3D printing."}, {"moduleCode": "ME6701", "title": "Topics in Mechanical Engineering Research 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "ME6999", "title": "Doctoral Seminars", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "MEM5101", "title": "Business and Sustainable Development", "description": "What is the relationship between Business and Sustainable Development? This module is designed around three inter-related themes. The first theme is about understanding the evolution of thought about Business and Sustainable Development. The second theme centres around the ways in which Business can be a Friend or Foe to Sustainable Development. How have businesses threatened or facilitated sustainable development? What can businesses gain from integrating sustainable development into their work? The third theme examines new forms of Business with aspects of Sustainable Development as their primary objective. These include social ventures and benefit corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "MEM5102", "title": "Applied Research Methodology", "description": "This course is to help students understand quantitative and qualitative research. Major topics and questions to be covered include the development of testable research questions, research design, and quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. This course also introduces tools for assessing social impact."}, {"moduleCode": "MEM5103", "title": "Capstone Project for Environmental Management", "description": "This is a project- or practice-based course enabling students to apply their learnings in a practical, hands-on setting \u2013 i.e. learning and contributing at the same time. It will be done on a group work basis with around 5 students per group. The capstone project shall be interdisciplinary in nature. The duration will be 6 months long. Project selection can be done in 2 ways: (1) student makes a selection from a slate of curated projects offered by partner faculties/schools; and (2) student proposes project(s) for Programme PMC\u2019s consideration."}, {"moduleCode": "MEM5104", "title": "Seminars on Environmental Management", "description": "The MEM Seminar Series will cover various educational related topics in the field of Environmental Management and feature one or more experts on the subject matter. Participants will engage in the discussion of an academic subject for the aim of gaining a better insight into the subject. At least 3 specially curated seminar sessions that are of high impact and quality will be organised for MEM students over their study period."}, {"moduleCode": "MIC2000", "title": "Infection and Immunology", "description": "This is module focuses on the microbes which cause infections in man and the defences deployed by the body against them. The module is presented as two distinct components with the relationship between the components established throughout the module."}, {"moduleCode": "MIC2000A", "title": "Infection and Immunology", "description": "This is module focuses on the microbes which cause infections in man and the defences deployed by the body against them. The module is presented as two distinct components with the relationship between the components established throughout the module."}, {"moduleCode": "MIH1101", "title": "What Impacts Health?", "description": "Health, as defined by WHO, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease. This course provides an evidence-based platform for the critical evaluation and discussion on topics pertaining to the immediate determinants of health. Students will gain deeper insights on the complex interplay of factors that may influence one's health or access to health determinants, including but not limited to factors of physiological, environmental, lifestyles, socioeconomics, and cultural origins."}, {"moduleCode": "MIH1102", "title": "Improving Health: Beyond Medicine", "description": "The human body is a remarkable system which adapts to different environments efficiently. How does the body achieve this? What happens when its adaptation is impaired? This course examines how the body adapts in a healthy state, and how internal and external factors disrupt its function leading to medical conditions. Students will learn how knowledge of body systems can be applied in different disciplines to promote and manage healthfulness. Team-based learning will allow students from different fields to propose a multi-modality approach (such as technology, devices, design, behavioural or psychosocial interventions) in the prevention or management of medical conditions."}, {"moduleCode": "MIH2201", "title": "Barriers to Health", "description": "This course is designed to increase awareness of the social, financial and structural barriers to health using different population/demographic groups of interest (e.g. ageing population) to learn about these barriers. Recognising these health access-related barriers will be imperative for students to contribute meaningfully towards more equitable and inclusive health measures for our society. In this course, students will participate in seminars, and group discussions as well as engage facilitators from community groups and other relevant stakeholders to critically analyse how they can utilise their discipline background to explore the barriers to health to enable solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1601", "title": "Marketing Advanced Placement", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705A", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705B", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705C", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705D", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705E", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705F", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT1705X", "title": "Principles of Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to provide knowledge, techniques and understanding of marketing principles. It provides students with a conceptual framework to analyse and interpret marketing phenomena and to suggest courses of action in response to marketing problems. It covers topics such as the marketing concept, the marketing environment and the marketing mix which includes product, pricing, distribution and promotion. Other related topics include consumer behaviour, market segmentation and targeting, marketing research and information system, marketing planning, implementation and control, and public issues in marketing. This is a foundation course for business students and provides the basis for later concentration in the marketing area."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT2711", "title": "Marketing Venture Challenge", "description": "Every day new products are created that help fuel new ideas and innovation.\n\nToday, marketing helps these ideas become a successful business due to the abundance of digital tools that are available to small enterprises and online marketing solutions that help businesses find the right customers anywhere in the world.\n\nThis class offers a unique opportunity for enterprising students to develop a marketing strategy to turn their ideas into real, viable businesses. From a marketing perspective, the class will cover digital tools, social media, and mobile marketing solutions to help students formulate their business plans and go-to-market strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT2711A", "title": "Marketing Venture Challenge", "description": "Every day new products are created that help fuel new ideas and innovation. Today, marketing helps these ideas become a successful business due to the abundance of digital tools that are available to small enterprises and online marketing solutions that help businesses find the right customers anywhere in the world. This class offers a unique opportunity for enterprising students to develop a marketing strategy to turn their ideas into real, viable businesses. From a marketing perspective, the class will cover digital tools, social media, and mobile marketing solutions to help students formulate their business plans and go-to-market strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT2711B", "title": "Marketing Venture Challenge", "description": "Every day new products are created that help fuel new ideas and innovation. Today, marketing helps these ideas become a successful business due to the abundance of digital tools that are available to small enterprises and online marketing solutions that help businesses find the right customers anywhere in the world. This class offers a unique opportunity for enterprising students to develop a marketing strategy to turn their ideas into real, viable businesses. From a marketing perspective, the class will cover digital tools, social media, and mobile marketing solutions to help students formulate their business plans and go-to-market strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3401", "title": "Marketing Strategy: Analysis and Practice", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to acquaint students with the marketing planning and marketing management process; with a focus on Asian markets. Students are encouraged to apply marketing concepts, tools and techniques in the analysis of marketing situations and problems that are commonly faced in Asian markets and in the development of marketing strategies and programmes that are appropriate for Asian markets. Topics include the roles of planning in marketing, the reasons for planning, the pitfalls in planning, environmental analysis, market analysis, customer analysis, competitive analysis, company analysis, SWOT analysis, issue analysis, objective setting, strategy development, assembling of marketing mix, marketing implementation and control, and marketing evaluation and audit. The course is taught with a practical and applied orientation. Asian cases are used to a large extent for class discussion, supplemented by computer simulated marketing games, projects, exercises and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3401A", "title": "Marketing Strategy: Analysis and Practice", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to acquaint students with the marketing planning and marketing management process; with a focus on Asian markets. Students are encouraged to apply marketing concepts, tools and techniques in the analysis of marketing situations and problems that are commonly faced in Asian markets and in the development of marketing strategies and programmes that are appropriate for Asian markets. Topics include the roles of planning in marketing, the reasons for planning, the pitfalls in planning, environmental analysis, market analysis, customer analysis, competitive analysis, company analysis, SWOT analysis, issue analysis, objective setting, strategy development, assembling of marketing mix, marketing implementation and control, and marketing evaluation and audit. The course is taught with a practical and applied orientation. Asian cases are used to a large extent for class discussion, supplemented by computer simulated marketing games, projects, exercises and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3401B", "title": "Marketing Strategy: Analysis and Practice", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to acquaint students with the marketing planning and marketing management process; with a focus on Asian markets. Students are encouraged to apply marketing concepts, tools and techniques in the analysis of marketing situations and problems that are commonly faced in Asian markets and in the development of marketing strategies and programmes that are appropriate for Asian markets. Topics include the roles of planning in marketing, the reasons for planning, the pitfalls in planning, environmental analysis, market analysis, customer analysis, competitive analysis, company analysis, SWOT analysis, issue analysis, objective setting, strategy development, assembling of marketing mix, marketing implementation and control, and marketing evaluation and audit. The course is taught with a practical and applied orientation. Asian cases are used to a large extent for class discussion, supplemented by computer simulated marketing games, projects, exercises and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3402", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "This course provides an overview of consumer behaviour theories, research, and applications. It is designed to develop knowledge and skills that will facilitate an understanding of buyer behaviour which can be integrated into the formulation of marketing strategies. This will be accomplished by surveying the social science underpinnings of consumer behaviour as well as various types of consumer research which may be valuable for specific marketing decisions. The course thus emphasises the content and logical application of theories and research in analysing consumer behaviour for solving marketing management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3402A", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "Consumers make decisions regarding the acquisition, use and disposal of a variety of products, services and experiences. In this course, we seek to understand and appreciate consumers as unique individuals and as members of their social and cultural groups. We will examine the many facets of consumer behavior (e.g., from the experiential perspective, incorporating insights from sociology and anthropology), with an emphasis on symbolic forms of consumption, and the use of qualitative research methods."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3402B", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "This course provides an overview of consumer behavior concepts, theories, research, and applications. It is designed to develop knowledge and skills that will facilitate an understanding of buyer behavior which can be integrated into the formulation of marketing strategies. This will be accomplished by surveying the social science foundations of consumer behavior, in particular, the contributions from psychology and sociology. During the course, various types of consumer research will be introduced. While students should learn to recognize what types of consumer research are valuable for specific marketing decisions, the course does not focus on the technical aspects of research design. Rather, its emphasis is on the content and logical application of concepts and theories in the analysis of consumer behavior for solving marketing management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3402C", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "This course provides an overview of consumer behaviour theories, research, and applications. It is designed to develop knowledge and skills that will facilitate an understanding of buyer behaviour which can be integrated into the formulation of marketing strategies. This will be accomplished by surveying the social science underpinnings of consumer behaviour as well as various types of consumer research which may be valuable for specific marketing decisions. The course thus emphasises the content and logical application of theories and research in analysing consumer behaviour for solving marketing management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3402D", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "This course provides an overview of consumer behaviour theories, research, and applications. It is designed to develop knowledge and skills that will facilitate an understanding of buyer behaviour which can be integrated into the formulation of marketing strategies. This will be accomplished by surveying the social science underpinnings of consumer behaviour as well as various types of consumer research which may be valuable for specific marketing decisions. The course thus emphasises the content and logical application of theories and research in analysing consumer behaviour for solving marketing management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3415", "title": "Digital Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to wire the students to the digital economy and provides students with Web tools and e-marketing knowledge to compete effectively in the e-business world. Emphasis will be placed on tapping the enormous potential of the Internet as a new marketing medium and exploring the unique characteristics of computer-mediated marketing environments that distinguish them in significant ways from traditional, terrestrial markets of opportunity. Course content includes detailed assessment of issues related to: information economy, e-marketing research, shopping bots and consumer behavior, permission marketing and viral marketing, Internet shopping and e-tailing models, auctions and affiliate marketing, Net community and CRM (customer relationship management), clickstream analysis and online personalisation, and public policy and e-business ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3416", "title": "Business-to-Business Marketing", "description": "This course seeks to acquaint participants with the basic concepts, tools and frameworks in business-to-business marketing. Participants are exposed to the unique challenges in operating in the business market and provided with opportunities to carry out marketing analyses and to make marketing decisions in the business marketing context. The topics to be covered are: (a) importance and unique aspects of business marketing, (b) business buying behaviour, (c) business market analysis and competitor analysis, (d) business market strategy formulation, (e) business product management, (f) business pricing strategies and decisions, (g) management of distribution channels in the business market, (h) management of salesforce in the business market, (i) development and maintenance of customer relationships in the business market, (j) customer negotiations in the business market, and (k) marketing communications in the business market. This course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion. The various business marketing management concepts and principles will be taught through brief lectures, class discussions, class exercises and videos. The participants will learn how to make business marketing decisions, solve business marketing problems and develop business marketing plans through individual analysis and class discussion of marketing cases as well as group involvement in a business marketing project or simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3416A", "title": "Business-to-Business Marketing", "description": "This course seeks to acquaint participants with the basic concepts, tools and frameworks in business-to-business marketing. Participants are exposed to the unique challenges in operating in the business market and provided with opportunities to carry out marketing analyses and to make marketing decisions in the business marketing context. The topics to be covered are: (a) importance and unique aspects of business marketing, (b) business buying behaviour, (c) business market analysis and competitor analysis, (d) business market strategy formulation, (e) business product management, (f) business pricing strategies and decisions, (g) management of distribution channels in the business market, (h) management of salesforce in the business market, (i) development and maintenance of customer relationships in the business market, (j) customer negotiations in the business market, and (k) marketing communications in the business market. This course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion. The various business marketing management concepts and principles will be taught through brief lectures, class discussions, class exercises and videos. The participants will learn how to make business marketing decisions, solve business marketing problems and develop business marketing plans through individual analysis and class discussion of marketing cases as well as group involvement in a business marketing project or simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3416B", "title": "Business-to-Business Marketing", "description": "This course seeks to acquaint participants with the basic concepts, tools and frameworks in business-to-business marketing. Participants are exposed to the unique challenges in operating in the business market and provided with opportunities to carry out marketing analyses and to make marketing decisions in the business marketing context. The topics to be covered are: (a) importance and unique aspects of business marketing, (b) business buying behaviour, (c) business market analysis and competitor analysis, (d) business market strategy formulation, (e) business product management, (f) business pricing strategies and decisions, (g) management of distribution channels in the business market, (h) management of salesforce in the business market, (i) development and maintenance of customer relationships in the business market, (j) customer negotiations in the business market, and (k) marketing communications in the business market. This course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion. The various business marketing management concepts and principles will be taught through brief lectures, class discussions, class exercises and videos. The participants will learn how to make business marketing decisions, solve business marketing problems and develop business marketing plans through individual analysis and class discussion of marketing cases as well as group involvement in a business marketing project or simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3417", "title": "Customer Relationship Management", "description": "Customer Asset Management focuses on acquiring, retaining, and winning back customers. It highlights the need to move from merely satisfying customers to building strong bonds with them. Apart from the theoretical perspectives, this course also utilises software to analyse customer purchase data so as to differentiate customers and develop different relationship strategies for different customer groups."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3418", "title": "Product And Brand Management", "description": "This course aimed at developing skills towards the management of new and existing products, where products cover both tangible goods as well as intangible services. Possible topics to be covered include: the changing role of the product manager; product portfolio management; product planning and concept testing; test marketing and new product introduction; and packaging. Several teaching methods will be used. Apart from lectures, students may be given assigned readings and cases to develop their skills. In addition, students may have the opportunity to apply their skills in group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3418A", "title": "Product and Brand Management", "description": "This course aimed at developing skills towards the management of new and existing products, where products cover both tangible goods as well as intangible services. Possible topics to be covered include: the changing role of the product manager; product portfolio management; product planning and concept testing; test marketing and new product introduction; and packaging. Several teaching methods will be used. Apart from lectures, students may be given assigned readings and cases to develop their skills. In addition, students may have the opportunity to apply their skills in group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3418B", "title": "Product and Brand Management", "description": "This module aimed at developing skills towards the management of new and existing products, where products cover both tangible goods as well as intangible services. Possible topics to be covered include: the changing role of the product manager; product portfolio management; product planning and concept testing; test marketing and new product introduction; and packaging. Several teaching methods will be used. Apart from lectures, students may be given assigned readings and cases to develop their skills. In addition, students may have the opportunity to apply their skills in group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3420", "title": "Advertising & Promotion Management", "description": "This course focuses on the use of communication to influence consumer decision making. The module will address the principles and practice of advertising, sales promotion, personal selling and public relations. Possible materials to be covered include setting promotional objectives; copy development and execution; media decisions; consumer and trade promotion; and sales force management. In addition to lectures, students will also be exposed to published research in promotion. Case studies as well as group projects involving the development and execution of a promotional campaign may also be used to allow students apply their knowledge and skill."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3420B", "title": "Promotional Management", "description": "This module focuses on the use of communication to influence consumer decision making. The module will address the principles and practice of advertising, sales promotion, personal selling and public relations. Possible materials to be covered include setting promotional objectives; copy development and execution; media decisions; consumer and trade promotion; and sales force management. In addition to lectures, students will also be exposed to published research in promotion. Case studies as well as group projects involving the development and execution of a promotional campaign may also be used to allow students apply their knowledge and skill."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3421", "title": "Marketing Analysis & Decision Making", "description": "The objective of this course is to show you the benefits of using a systematic and analytical approach to marketing decision-making, and to build your skills and confidence in undertaking such analyses and decision making. An analytical approach will enable you to: (1) identify alternative marketing options and actions, (2) calibrate the opportunity costs associated with each option, and (3) choose one or more options that have the highest likelihood of helping you achieve your business goals. By completing this course, you will be well on your way to making the ROI case for marketing expenditures that companies are increasingly asking of their executives. This course follows up on the marketing core course by operationalizing several marketing concepts such as segmentation, targeting, positioning, and marketing resource allocation. By the end of this course, you will learn how to segment customers, recognize different ways to segment markets, understand the data required for segmentation, identify attractive customers to target, determine the best positioning of your brand in customers\u2019 minds, and develop new products that add value to consumers and firms. The course is designed for students who have extensive background in or understanding marketing research and marketing principles, and who know or are prepared to learn to build \u201csmart\u201d spreadsheets in EXCEL. Using market simulations and related exercises tied to PC-based computer software, students will develop marketing plans in varying decision contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3422B", "title": "TIM: Marketing in Developing & Emerging Economies", "description": "Emerging Markets have been driving global growth in the past and are poised to continue over the next 50 years. Marketing to them involves a multiple levers of old school and new age marketing techniques. These economies are dichotomous with old world media and retail, and new age retail like ecommerce and digital media. Crises also change the media and content landscape dramatically. While marketing to mature economies is familiar, students need to understand that the positioning, messaging, and communication will be adapted for developing economies so that the market can appreciate the offering, and management optimize its marketing strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3422C", "title": "TIM: Social Impact Marketing", "description": "No longer a nice-to-have, social values are now increasingly integrated as an anchoring point for whether consumers engage with a company. Businesses without a core impact will eventually be at a competitive disadvantage. But, history has shown that social value creation and economic value are not always aligned. This course aims to examine how social impact marketing is being deployed in the context of for profit companies, non-profit organizations and within social enterprises. The aim is to explore how marketing has been able to build brand value, social value and economic value given different and often competing performance metrics."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3422D", "title": "TIM: Sustainability Marketing", "description": "Sustainability is an evolving process. Business leaders acknowledge that organisational culture and change agents play an integral role in embedding sustainability in the day-to-day business decisions and processes. Students learn about the challenges affecting sustainability, environmental and international policies, what makes an effective sustainability leader and what constitutes circular economy. The module, Sustainable Marketing, places the role of marketing and communications as key to framing the right message and narrative in the sustainability agenda. In understanding the attitudes of consumers towards sustainable consumption and production, students learn to use marketing and communications for behavioural change towards a more sustainable lifestyle."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3422E", "title": "TIM: Marketing in Social Networks", "description": "Customers are usually connected with each other in various implicit or explicit social networks, and influence each other\u2019s opinions and decisions. This module first introduces the basic terminology of social network research. It then discusses different intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors that drive customers\u2019 preferences and behaviors, and whether and how these motivational factors work differently without and in the presence of other customers. The module then teaches modern and advanced techniques to conduct social network analysis, in particular in the context of marketing, including advanced visualization methods, representation learning, among others."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3422X", "title": "Topics in Marketing:selected Topics 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3422Z", "title": "Topics in Marketing", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3424", "title": "Branding Strategy", "description": "This course is designed to help students learn how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a brand, and understand how to successfully develop technical branding strategy at different levels: corporate level, product level, and communication level. That is, this course concerns how to monitor and manage a brand over time to keep it healthy and strong by assessing important technical branding factors. Students will learn how to make branding decisions such as brand portfolio, co-branding ideas, brand revitalization, and branding beyond geographical boundaries. Beyond learning frameworks and theories, students will also conduct hands-on brand audit and brand portfolio projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3425", "title": "Retail Marketing", "description": "The course will introduce retail marketing concepts covering both the mechanics and management of retailing from an entrepreneurial perspective. A range of topics, including the role and tasks of an entrepreneur, store and non-store retailing, location and site selection, retail environment and the application of new technologies, retail marketing mix components (such as merchandising, pricing and margin planning, store management, layout and visual merchandising), as well as internal and external promotions will be covered. In addition, short case studies and projects will be used to supplement lectures and readings. Students will acquaint themselves with current and future retailing environments and developments in Singapore and other countries as well as the processes that go on behind the scenes in retailing. While the module will cover theories in retail marketing discipline, it is generally approached with a practical and applied orientation. Lectures will be supplemented with store visits, video clips and talks. Students will also get a chance to learn about assessing retail outlets and developing retail strategies for real-life businesses through hands-on projects. By the end of the course students should be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to start up a retail business. Aside from business students who are interested in retailing, this course is targeted at students who are enterprising and may aspire to start their own retail business in the future."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3427", "title": "Research for Marketing Insights", "description": "Effective marketing research is necessary for successful management of all phases of the marketing process, ranging from product development and introduction to selling through growth and maturity stages. In today's information-oriented environment, a marketing manager cannot succeed without a thorough understanding of the research process. By understanding the research process, he can better judge the suitability, reliability and the validity of a research study in his decision-makings. While we will use class time to discuss appropriate research topics, students are required to do lots of activities by themselves in order to facilitate their learning by doing. In doing so, this course incorporates an experimental element in marketing research and consulting. As a marketing information provider, students will be assisting a firm by collecting and interpreting market data as a means toward the development of a superior marketing plan. This course is intended to acquaint students with the fundamental marketing research process. More specifically, this course aims: (i) To familiarise the student with the fundamental marketing research skills of problem formulation, research design, questionnaire design, data collection, data analysis, and report presentation and writing. (ii) To have the student gain perspective and practice in applying these skills through a research project. (iii) To develop an understanding of decision making in marketing, its inherent difficulties and pitfalls and the importance of information in marketing research."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3428", "title": "Wealth Management Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the world of wealth management marketing, and to give them an indepth understanding of the challenges and complexities of marketing in a highly regulated and rapidly evolving industry. Students will get practical insights into the use of marketing applications in product, segment and service marketing in the retail, affluent and private banking sectors. It aims to hone their skills to improve the effectiveness of the marketing strategies, techniques and programs to meet the demanding priorities of the client, the business and the regulators in this fast-changing and regulated landscape."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3429", "title": "Independent Study in Marketing", "description": "Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3439", "title": "Independent Study in Marketing", "description": "Independent Study courses are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3513", "title": "Game Theory And Strategic Analysis", "description": "This course is an introduction to game theory and its applications in the realm of business. It aims to provide an overview of non-cooperative and cooperative games through the analysis of strategic interactions in conflict situations such as bargaining, market competition, monetary policy, auction, international trade, to name a few. Recurring themes include threatening and bluffing, punishing and rewarding, building reputations, and sustaining cooperation in non-cooperative environments through repeated interactions. More advanced topics on games with incomplete information such as moral hazard and incentives theory, mechanism design and the Revelation Principle will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3701", "title": "Marketing Strategy: Analysis and Practice", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to acquaint students with the marketing planning and marketing management process; with a focus on Asian markets. Students are encouraged to apply marketing concepts, tools and techniques in the analysis of marketing situations and problems that are commonly faced in Asian markets and in the development of marketing strategies and programmes that are appropriate for Asian markets. Topics include the roles of planning in marketing, the reasons for planning, the pitfalls in planning, environmental analysis, market analysis, customer analysis, competitive analysis, company analysis, SWOT analysis, issue analysis, objective setting, strategy development, assembling of marketing mix, marketing implementation and control, and marketing evaluation and audit. The course is taught with a practical and applied orientation. Asian cases are used to a large extent for class discussion, supplemented by computer simulated marketing games, projects, exercises and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3701A", "title": "Marketing Strategy: Analysis and Practice", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to acquaint students with the marketing planning and marketing management process; with a focus on Asian markets. Students are encouraged to apply marketing concepts, tools and techniques in the analysis of marketing situations and problems that are commonly faced in Asian markets and in the development of marketing strategies and programmes that are appropriate for Asian markets. Topics include the roles of planning in marketing, the reasons for planning, the pitfalls in planning, environmental analysis, market analysis, customer analysis, competitive analysis, company analysis, SWOT analysis, issue analysis, objective setting, strategy development, assembling of marketing mix, marketing implementation and control, and marketing evaluation and audit. The course is taught with a practical and applied orientation. Asian cases are used to a large extent for class discussion, supplemented by computer simulated marketing games, projects, exercises and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3701B", "title": "Marketing Strategy: Analysis and Practice", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to acquaint students with the marketing planning and marketing management process; with a focus on Asian markets. Students are encouraged to apply marketing concepts, tools and techniques in the analysis of marketing situations and problems that are commonly faced in Asian markets and in the development of marketing strategies and programmes that are appropriate for Asian markets. Topics include the roles of planning in marketing, the reasons for planning, the pitfalls in planning, environmental analysis, market analysis, customer analysis, competitive analysis, company analysis, SWOT analysis, issue analysis, objective setting, strategy development, assembling of marketing mix, marketing implementation and control, and marketing evaluation and audit. The course is taught with a practical and applied orientation. Asian cases are used to a large extent for class discussion, supplemented by computer simulated marketing games, projects, exercises and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3702", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "This course provides an overview of consumer behaviour theories, research, and applications. It is designed to develop knowledge and skills that will facilitate an understanding of buyer behaviour which can be integrated into the formulation of marketing strategies. This will be accomplished by surveying the social science underpinnings of consumer behaviour as well as various types of consumer research which may be valuable for specific marketing decisions. The course thus emphasises the content and logical application of theories and research in analysing consumer behaviour for solving marketing management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3702A", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "This course provides an overview of consumer behaviour theories, research, and applications. It is designed to develop knowledge and skills that will facilitate an understanding of buyer behaviour which can be integrated into the formulation of marketing strategies. This will be accomplished by surveying the social science underpinnings of consumer behaviour as well as various types of consumer research which may be valuable for specific marketing decisions. The course thus emphasises the content and logical application of theories and research in analysing consumer behaviour for solving marketing management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3702B", "title": "Consumer Behaviour", "description": "This course provides an overview of consumer behaviour theories, research, and applications. It is designed to develop knowledge and skills that will facilitate an understanding of buyer behaviour which can be integrated into the formulation of marketing strategies. This will be accomplished by surveying the social science underpinnings of consumer behaviour as well as various types of consumer research which may be valuable for specific marketing decisions. The course thus emphasises the content and logical application of theories and research in analysing consumer behaviour for solving marketing management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3711", "title": "Services Marketing", "description": "This course applies marketing principles to service organisations both in the private and public sectors. Students will be taught the unique characteristics that separate services from goods, the managerial problems stemming from these characteristics, and the strategies suggested as appropriate to overcome the problems. Case studies will be used in addition to lectures in conducting this course and students may also be required to complete a project concerning the marketing of services."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3714", "title": "Digital Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to wire the students to the digital economy and provides students with Web tools and e-marketing knowledge to compete effectively in the e-business world. Emphasis will be placed on tapping the enormous potential of the Internet as a new marketing medium and exploring the unique characteristics of computer-mediated marketing environments that distinguish them in significant ways from traditional, terrestrial markets of opportunity. Course content includes detailed assessment of issues related to: information economy, e-marketing research, shopping bots and consumer behavior, permission marketing and viral marketing, Internet shopping and e-tailing models, auctions and affiliate marketing, Net community and CRM (customer relationship management), clickstream analysis and online personalisation, and public policy and e-business ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3714A", "title": "Digital Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to wire the students to the digital economy and provides students with Web tools and e-marketing knowledge to compete effectively in the e-business world. Emphasis will be placed on tapping the enormous potential of the Internet as a new marketing medium and exploring the unique characteristics of computer-mediated marketing environments that distinguish them in significant ways from traditional, terrestrial markets of opportunity. Course content includes detailed assessment of issues related to: information economy, e-marketing research, shopping bots and consumer behavior, permission marketing and viral marketing, Internet shopping and e-tailing models, auctions and affiliate marketing, Net community and CRM (customer relationship management), clickstream analysis and online personalisation, and public policy and e-business ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3714B", "title": "Digital Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to wire the students to the digital economy and provides students with Web tools and e-marketing knowledge to compete effectively in the e-business world. Emphasis will be placed on tapping the enormous potential of the Internet as a new marketing medium and exploring the unique characteristics of computer-mediated marketing environments that distinguish them in significant ways from traditional, terrestrial markets of opportunity. Course content includes detailed assessment of issues related to: information economy, e-marketing research, shopping bots and consumer behavior, permission marketing and viral marketing, Internet shopping and e-tailing models, auctions and affiliate marketing, Net community and CRM (customer relationship management), clickstream analysis and online personalisation, and public policy and e-business ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3715", "title": "Business-to-Business Marketing", "description": "This course seeks to acquaint participants with the basic concepts, tools and frameworks in business-to-business marketing. Participants are exposed to the unique challenges in operating in the business market and provided with opportunities to carry out marketing analyses and to make marketing decisions in the business marketing context. The topics to be covered are: (a) importance and unique aspects of business marketing, (b) business buying behaviour, (c) business market analysis and competitor analysis, (d) business market strategy formulation, (e) business product management, (f) business pricing strategies and decisions, (g) management of distribution channels in the business market, (h) management of salesforce in the business market, (i) development and maintenance of customer relationships in the business market, (j) customer negotiations in the business market, and (k) marketing communications in the business market. This course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion. The various business marketing management concepts and principles will be taught through brief lectures, class discussions, class exercises and videos. The participants will learn how to make business marketing decisions, solve business marketing problems and develop business marketing plans through individual analysis and class discussion of marketing cases as well as group involvement in a business marketing project or simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3715A", "title": "Business-to-Business Marketing", "description": "This course seeks to acquaint participants with the basic concepts, tools and frameworks in business-to-business marketing. Participants are exposed to the unique challenges in operating in the business market and provided with opportunities to carry out marketing analyses and to make marketing decisions in the business marketing context. The topics to be covered are: (a) importance and unique aspects of business marketing, (b) business buying behaviour, (c) business market analysis and competitor analysis, (d) business market strategy formulation, (e) business product management, (f) business pricing strategies and decisions, (g) management of distribution channels in the business market, (h) management of salesforce in the business market, (i) development and maintenance of customer relationships in the business market, (j) customer negotiations in the business market, and (k) marketing communications in the business market. This course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion. The various business marketing management concepts and principles will be taught through brief lectures, class discussions, class exercises and videos. The participants will learn how to make business marketing decisions, solve business marketing problems and develop business marketing plans through individual analysis and class discussion of marketing cases as well as group involvement in a business marketing project or simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3715B", "title": "Business-to-Business Marketing", "description": "This course seeks to acquaint participants with the basic concepts, tools and frameworks in business-to-business marketing. Participants are exposed to the unique challenges in operating in the business market and provided with opportunities to carry out marketing analyses and to make marketing decisions in the business marketing context. The topics to be covered are: (a) importance and unique aspects of business marketing, (b) business buying behaviour, (c) business market analysis and competitor analysis, (d) business market strategy formulation, (e) business product management, (f) business pricing strategies and decisions, (g) management of distribution channels in the business market, (h) management of salesforce in the business market, (i) development and maintenance of customer relationships in the business market, (j) customer negotiations in the business market, and (k) marketing communications in the business market. This course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion. The various business marketing management concepts and principles will be taught through brief lectures, class discussions, class exercises and videos. The participants will learn how to make business marketing decisions, solve business marketing problems and develop business marketing plans through individual analysis and class discussion of marketing cases as well as group involvement in a business marketing project or simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3716", "title": "Customer Relationship Management", "description": "Customer Asset Management focuses on acquiring, retaining, and winning back customers. It highlights the need to move from merely satisfying customers to building strong bonds with them. Apart from the theoretical perspectives, this course also utilises software to analyse customer purchase data so as to differentiate customers and develop different relationship strategies for different customer groups."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3717", "title": "Product & Brand Management", "description": "This course aimed at developing skills towards the management of new and existing products, where products cover both tangible goods as well as intangible services. Possible topics to be covered include: the changing role of the product manager; product portfolio management; product planning and concept testing; test marketing and new product introduction; and packaging. Several teaching methods will be used. Apart from lectures, students may be given assigned readings and cases to develop their skills. In addition, students may have the opportunity to apply their skills in group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3717A", "title": "Product & Brand Management", "description": "This course aimed at developing skills towards the management of new and existing products, where products cover both tangible goods as well as intangible services. Possible topics to be covered include: the changing role of the product manager; product portfolio management; product planning and concept testing; test marketing and new product introduction; and packaging. Several teaching methods will be used. Apart from lectures, students may be given assigned readings and cases to develop their skills. In addition, students may have the opportunity to apply their skills in group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3717B", "title": "Product & Brand Management", "description": "This course aimed at developing skills towards the management of new and existing products, where products cover both tangible goods as well as intangible services. Possible topics to be covered include: the changing role of the product manager; product portfolio management; product planning and concept testing; test marketing and new product introduction; and packaging. Several teaching methods will be used. Apart from lectures, students may be given assigned readings and cases to develop their skills. In addition, students may have the opportunity to apply their skills in group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3718", "title": "Advertising & Promotion Management", "description": "This course focuses on the use of communication to influence consumer decision making. The course will address the principles and practice of advertising, sales promotion, personal selling and public relations. Possible materials to be covered include setting promotional objectives; copy development and execution; media decisions; consumer and trade promotion; and sales force management. In addition to lectures, students will also be exposed to published research in promotion. Case studies as well as group projects involving the development and execution of a promotional campaign may also be used to allow students apply their knowledge and skill."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3719", "title": "Branding Strategy", "description": "This course is designed to help students learn how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a brand, and understand how to successfully develop technical branding strategy at different levels: corporate level, product level, and communication level. That is, this course concerns how to monitor and manage a brand over time to keep it healthy and strong by assessing important technical branding factors. Students will learn how to make branding decisions such as brand portfolio, co-branding ideas, brand revitalization, and branding beyond geographical boundaries. Beyond learning frameworks and theories, students will also conduct hands-on brand audit and brand portfolio projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3720", "title": "Retail Marketing", "description": "The course will introduce retail marketing concepts covering both the mechanics and management of retailing from an entrepreneurial perspective. A range of topics, including the role and tasks of an entrepreneur, store and non-store retailing, location and site selection, retail environment and the application of new technologies, retail marketing mix components (such as merchandising, pricing and margin planning, store management, layout and visual merchandising), as well as internal and external promotions will be covered. In addition, short case studies and projects will be used to supplement lectures and readings. Students will acquaint themselves with current and future retailing environments and developments in Singapore and other countries as well as the processes that go on behind the scenes in retailing. While the module will cover theories in retail marketing discipline, it is generally approached with a practical and applied orientation. Lectures will be supplemented with store visits, video clips and talks. Students will also get a chance to learn about assessing retail outlets and developing retail strategies for real-life businesses through hands-on projects. By the end of the course students should be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to start up a retail business. Aside from business students who are interested in retailing, this course is targeted at students who are enterprising and may"}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3722", "title": "Research for Marketing Insights", "description": "Effective marketing research is necessary for successful management of all phases of the marketing process, ranging from product development and introduction to selling through growth and maturity stages. In today's information-oriented environment, a marketing manager cannot succeed without a thorough understanding of the research process. By understanding the research process, he can better judge the suitability, reliability and the validity of a research study in his decision-makings. While we will use class time to discuss appropriate research topics, students are required to do lots of activities by themselves in order to facilitate their learning by doing. In doing so, this course incorporates an experimental element in marketing research and consulting. As a marketing information provider, students will be assisting a firm by collecting and interpreting market data as a means toward the development of a superior marketing plan. This course is intended to acquaint students with the fundamental marketing research process. More specifically, this course aims: (i) To familiarise the student with the fundamental marketing research skills of problem formulation, research design, questionnaire design, data collection, data analysis, and report presentation and writing. (ii) To have the student gain perspective and practice in applying these skills through a research project. (iii) To develop an understanding of decision making in marketing, its inherent difficulties and pitfalls and the importance of information in marketing research."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3723", "title": "Wealth Management Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the world of wealth management marketing, and to give them an indepth understanding of the challenges and complexities of marketing in a highly regulated and rapidly evolving industry. Students will get practical insights into the use of marketing applications in product, segment and service marketing in the retail, affluent and private banking sectors. It aims to hone their skills to improve the effectiveness of the marketing strategies, techniques and programs to meet the demanding priorities of the client, the business and the regulators in this fast-changing and regulated landscape."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3724", "title": "Sustainability Marketing", "description": "Sustainability is an evolving process. Business leaders acknowledge that organisational culture and change agents play an integral role in embedding sustainability in the day-to-day business decisions and processes. Students learn about the challenges affecting sustainability, environmental and international policies, what makes an effective sustainability leader and what constitutes circular economy. The course, Sustainable Marketing, places the role of marketing and communications as key to framing the right message and narrative in the sustainability agenda. In understanding the attitudes of consumers towards sustainable consumption and production, students learn to use marketing and communications for behavioural change towards a more sustainable lifestyle."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3751", "title": "Independent Study in Marketing", "description": "Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3752", "title": "Indep Study in Mkting (2 Units)", "description": "Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761", "title": "Topics in Marketing", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity for advanced study in one or more specialised areas in marketing, which is not explicitly covered in other marketing electives in the programme. Topics include, but are not restricted to, services and non-profit marketing, sales force management, industrial marketing strategy, and brand management."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761B", "title": "TIM: Marketing in Developing & Emerging Economies", "description": "Emerging Markets have been driving global growth in the past and are poised to continue over the next 50 years. Marketing to them involves a multiple levers of old school and new age marketing techniques. These economies are dichotomous with old world media and retail, and new age retail like ecommerce and digital media. Crises also change the media and content landscape dramatically. While marketing to mature economies is familiar, students need to understand that the positioning, messaging, and communication will be adapted for developing economies so that the market can appreciate the offering, and management optimize its marketing strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761C", "title": "TIM: Social Impact Marketing", "description": "No longer a nice-to-have, social values are now increasingly integrated as an anchoring point for whether consumers engage with a company. Businesses without a core impact will eventually be at a competitive disadvantage. But, history has shown that social value creation and economic value are not always aligned. This course aims to examine how social impact marketing is being deployed in the context of for profit companies, non-profit organizations and within social enterprises. The aim is to explore how marketing has been able to build brand value, social value and economic value given different and often competing performance metrics."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761D", "title": "TIM: Sustainability Marketing", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity for advanced study in one or more specialised areas in marketing, which is not explicitly covered in other marketing electives in the programme. Topics include, but are not restricted to, services and non-profit marketing, sales force management, industrial marketing strategy, and brand management."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761E", "title": "TIM: Marketing in Social Networks", "description": "Customers are usually connected with each other in various implicit or explicit social networks and influence each other\u2019s opinions and decisions. This course first introduces the basic terminology of social network research. It then discusses different intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors that drive customers\u2019 preferences and behaviors, and whether and how these motivational factors work differently without and in the presence of other customers. The course then teaches modern and advanced techniques to conduct social network analysis, in particular in the context of marketing, including advanced visualization methods, representation learning, among others."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761X", "title": "Topics in Marketing", "description": "This module provides students with an opportunity for advanced study in one or more specialised areas in marketing, which is not explicitly covered in other marketing electives in the programme. Topics include, but are not restricted to, services and non-profit marketing, sales force management, industrial marketing strategy, and brand management."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761Y", "title": "Topics in Marketing", "description": "This module provides students with an opportunity for advanced study in one or more specialised areas in marketing, which is not explicitly covered in other marketing electives in the programme. Topics include, but are not restricted to, services and non-profit marketing, sales force management, industrial marketing strategy, and brand management."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3761Z", "title": "Topics in Marketing", "description": "This module provides students with an opportunity for advanced study in one or more specialised areas in marketing, which is not explicitly covered in other marketing electives in the programme. Topics include, but are not restricted to, services and non-profit marketing, sales force management, industrial marketing strategy, and brand management."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3811", "title": "Marketing Analysis & Decision Making", "description": "The objective of this course is to show you the benefits of using a systematic and analytical approach to marketing decision-making, and to build your skills and confidence in undertaking such analyses and decision making. An analytical approach will enable you to: (1) identify alternative marketing options and actions, (2) calibrate the opportunity costs associated with each option, and (3) choose one or more options that have the highest likelihood of helping you achieve your business goals. By completing this course, you will be well on your way to making the ROI case for marketing expenditures that companies are increasingly asking of their executives. This course follows up on the marketing core course by operationalizing several marketing concepts such as segmentation, targeting, positioning, and marketing resource allocation. By the end of this course, you will learn how to segment customers, recognize different ways to segment markets, understand the data required for segmentation, identify attractive customers to target, determine the best positioning of your brand in customers? minds, and develop new products that add value to consumers and firms. The course is designed for students who have extensive background in or understanding marketing research and marketing principles, and who know or are prepared to learn to build ?smart? spreadsheets in EXCEL. Using market simulations and related exercises tied to PC-based computer software, students will develop marketing plans in varying decision contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT3812", "title": "Game Theory and Strategic Analysis", "description": "This course is an introduction to game theory and its applications in the realm of business. It aims to provide an overview of non-cooperative and cooperative games through the analysis of strategic interactions in conflict situations such as bargaining, market competition, monetary policy, auction, international trade, to name a few. Recurring themes include threatening and bluffing, punishing and rewarding, building reputations, and sustaining cooperation in non-cooperative environments through repeated interactions. More advanced topics on games with incomplete information such as moral hazard and incentives theory, mechanism design and the Revelation Principle will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4413", "title": "Pricing Strategy", "description": "Pricing is one of the important decisions that a marketing manager must make. In fact a firm's profitability critically depends on how its products or services are priced. Pricing decisions however are difficult to make and can be quite complex. Effective pricing decisions draw upon a variety of disciplines such as economics, marketing, psychology and law. The purpose of the course will be to introduce students to some of the key concepts and practical issues involved in making effective pricing decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4415F", "title": "SIM: Growing and Marketing the Next On-Demand Unicorn", "description": "The nature of unicorn-sharing businesses is different and marketing is changing to keep pace with business needs. Understanding these trends and how to leverage the immense volume of data, interface with other marketing functions, and scale quickly are critical to remain relevant. This class will equip students with the fundamentals to tackle these demands."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4415G", "title": "SIM: Customer Analytics and Visualization", "description": "Many firms have extensive information about consumers' behaviour, but few firms have the expertise to act on such information. This course will enable students to understand a scientific approach for creating data driven marketing strategies leveraging customer information. Customer analytics addresses how data from customer behavior is used to help drive business outcomes. The course will use practical approach of using large amount of customer data and buying pattern to describe past buying behavior, predict future ones and prescribe best ways to influence future buying decisions. This course provides an overview of analytical techniques to make informed business decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4415H", "title": "SIM: Media Strategy for a Digital Economy", "description": "With the explosion in media channels and formats, importance of Media in the Marketing Mix has been on a rapid ascent for the past two decades. Infusion of latest communication technologies has made media the most dynamic part of the marketing world. Estimated 2019 Worldwide media spends, were upwards of US$650Billion, 50% on digital platforms. With CoVID accelerating move to a digital economy, understanding media and related technology has become an imperative. Apart from students targeting careers in Sales, Marketing or Media, the course will be relevant for those targeting careers in start-ups, finance and consultancies."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4415J", "title": "SIM: Personal Selling & Sales Management", "description": "This course provides students with an overview of the theory and practice of personal selling and sales management. The objective of this course is to develop skills and competencies that allow students to manage sales territories, and provide them with a set of unique techniques that students will develop to enable them to build successful sales careers.\n\nThis course will focus on how technology is changing the customer\u2019s buying process and sales strategy. Course content includes topics on automation, lead generation/nurturing, account-based marketing, sales enablement, data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), etc."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4415K", "title": "SIM: Distribution Management: Channels and Platforms", "description": "Channels and platforms are the distribution structures that match demand and supply. These structures (both physical and virtual) enable the transactions between buyers and sellers through the exchange of information, product (service) and payment. This course teaches the learner about these structures, paying particularly attention to the efficiency and effectiveness of their distribution. \n\nThis course has theoretical, empirical, and practical components. It equips the students with the theoretical background to evaluate empirical phenomena. Students use the knowledge to appreciate the challenges and opportunities of the existing distribution structures in various product categories, and possibly to design an efficient alternative."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4415L", "title": "SIM: Disruption and Marketing", "description": "We live in an era of disruption: Long-held business beliefs, processes or technology are replaced by innovative new approaches that threaten incumbent industry leaders. \n\nKodak, Nokia and Blockbuster are few examples of disrupted firms in the past who were unable to adapt to trends and changes in consumer choice, digital technology and dynamic business models.\n\nIn this course, students will learn how disruption is impacting the field of Marketing, and what future marketers should do to prepare themselves for a world of infinite consumer choice, fragmenting media consumption and an analytics-first marketing mind set."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4415M", "title": "SIM: Product Experience Management", "description": "Product Experience Management has become the centrepiece of marketing strategies today. The journey to product success begins with onboarding user-centric product design and ends with personalized product recommendations. It is both stable and dynamic, involving a sustainable customer centric strategy as well as a faster time-to-market. \n\nThis course complements Product & Brand Management by examining product management from the customer experience perspective. It focuses on the customer journey that takes place within the product itself. It provides students with a \u2018hands on\u2019 exploration of the principles, tools, and frameworks such as design thinking, customer journey analytics and data-driven decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4417", "title": "Consumer Decision Making", "description": "Multitudes of research, spanning economics, psychology, sociology among the various behavioral and decision sciences, have been done to understand why we shop the way we shop, why we choose the way we choose, and why we buy the way we buy. Beginning with the foundation of a rational consumer, we systematically examine the choice, purchase and shopping behaviors which deviate from standard rational predictions, the circumstances/contexts of such deviations, and understand their causes and consequences. Key elements underlying choice, purchase and shopping are examined under a generic context before moving to specific contexts such as personal finance, health and consumption."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4418", "title": "Consumer Culture Theory", "description": "Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) is a synthesizing framework that examines the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic and ideological aspects of consumption. The tenets of CCT research are aligned with consumer identity\nprojects, marketplace cultures, the sociohistorical patterning of consumption, and mass-mediated marketplace ideologies and consumers\u2019 interpretive\nstrategies. In this course, we will explore the dynamic relationships among consumer actions, the marketplaces and cultural meanings using theories and methods from multiple disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4419", "title": "Advanced Independent Study in Marketing", "description": "Advanced Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The courses may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4420", "title": "Marketing Analytics", "description": "The digital age has fundamentally altered the manner we collect, process, analyse and disseminate market intelligence. Driven by advances in hardware, software and communications, the very nature of market research is rapidly changing. New techniques are emerging. The increased velocity of information flow enables marketers to respond with much greater speed to changes in the marketplace. Market research is timelier, less expensive, more actionable and more precise ... all of which makes it of far greater importance to marketers. Applied Market Research is primarily designed for marketing professionals to train them to use market knowledge for day-to-day marketing decisions. It will provide good understanding of many prevalent research techniques and their application. The course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion through lectures, class discussions and case studies. Students will acquire critical analysis and decision making abilities to prepare them to tackle the marketing and business issues they are likely to confront in a career in marketing."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4429", "title": "Advanced Independent Study in Marketing", "description": "Advanced Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The courses may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4714", "title": "Consumer Decision Making", "description": "Multitudes of research, spanning economics, psychology, sociology among the various behavioral and decision sciences, have been done to understand why we shop the way we shop, why we choose the way we choose, and why we buy the way we buy. Beginning with the foundation of a rational consumer, we systematically examine the choice, purchase and shopping behaviors which deviate from standard rational predictions, the circumstances/contexts of such deviations, and understand their causes and consequences. Key elements underlying choice, purchase and shopping are examined under a generic context before moving to specific contexts such as personal finance, health and consumption."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4715", "title": "Business Strategy Simulation for Marketers", "description": "This strategic marketing programme combines theory with practice, linking the classroom with the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) workplace. It employs Destiny\u00a9, a business simulator that mirrors the buying behaviour of\nFMCG decision makers, to give participants the unique experience of running a virtual organization. Participants strive to successfully manage and grow their organization; they engage in a broad array of business processes ranging\nfrom product development, marketing, retailing, category management, trade marketing and negotiations, financial planning and business strategy."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4716", "title": "Consumer Culture Theory", "description": "Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) is a synthesizing framework that examines the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic and ideological aspects of consumption. The tenets of CCT research are aligned with consumer identity\nprojects, marketplace cultures, the sociohistorical patterning of consumption, and mass-mediated marketplace ideologies and consumers\u2019 interpretive\nstrategies. In this course, we will explore the dynamic relationships among consumer actions, the marketplaces and cultural meanings using theories and methods from multiple disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4719", "title": "Distribution Management: Channels and Platforms", "description": "Channels and platforms are the distribution structures that match demand and supply. These structures (both physical and virtual) enable the transactions between buyers and sellers through the exchange of information, product (service) and payment. This course teaches the learner about these structures, paying particularly attention to the efficiency and effectiveness of their distribution.\n\nThis course has theoretical, empirical, and practical components. It equips the students with the theoretical background to evaluate empirical phenomena. Students use the knowledge to appreciate the challenges and opportunities of the existing distribution structures in various product categories, and possibly to design an efficient alternative."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4720", "title": "Product Experience Management", "description": "Product Experience Management has become the centrepiece of marketing strategies today. The journey to product success begins with onboarding user-centric product design and ends with personalized product recommendations. It is both stable and dynamic, involving a sustainable customer centric strategy as well as a faster time-to-market.\n\nThis course complements Product & Brand Management by examining product management from the customer experience perspective. It focuses on the customer journey that takes place within the product itself. It provides students with a \u2018hands on\u2019 exploration of the principles, tools, and frameworks such as design thinking, customer journey analytics and data-driven decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4721", "title": "Customer Analytics & Visualization", "description": "Many firms have extensive information about consumers' behaviour, but few firms have the expertise to act on such information. This course will enable students to understand a scientific approach for creating data driven marketing strategies leveraging customer information. Customer analytics addresses how data from customer behavior is used to help drive business outcomes. The course will use practical approach of using large amount of customer data and buying pattern to describe past buying behavior, predict future ones and prescribe best ways to influence future buying decisions. This course provides an overview of analytical techniques to make informed business decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4722", "title": "Personal Selling & Sales Management", "description": "This course provides students with an overview of the theory and practice of personal selling and sales management. The objective of this course is to develop skills and competencies that allow students to manage sales territories, and provide them with a set of unique techniques that students will develop to enable them to build successful sales careers.\n\nThis course will focus on how technology is changing the customer\u2019s buying process and sales strategy. Course content includes topics on automation, lead generation/nurturing, account-based marketing, sales enablement, data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), etc."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4723", "title": "Customer Experience Management", "description": "In today\u2019s volatile business environment, management that is customer-focus, and can manage and deliver a branded customer experience can attain significant competitive advantage. Customers of today look for both great products and customer experience. This course aims to equip students with an understanding of Customer Experience (CX) Design, that enables them to construct value-creation strategy for organizations through adopting customer-centric culture, mind-set and related processes, for transformation of customer experience across different types of interactions. Adopting an omni channel approach, students will learn to design customer interactions that optimize customer satisfaction and nurture strong customer-brand relationship, loyalty and advocacy."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4751", "title": "Advanced Independent Study in Marketing", "description": "Advanced Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The courses may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4752", "title": "Advanced Independent Study in Marketing (2 Units)", "description": "Advanced Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The courses may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761", "title": "Seminars in Marketing", "description": "This module will furnish an in-depth treatment of one or more areas in marketing. Intensive class participation and discussion of research articles will be the mode of instruction. Topics will range from, but are not restricted to, advanced marketing research, marketing theory, philosophy of marketing science, and marketing decision models."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761A", "title": "SIM: Growing and Marketing the Next On-Demand Unicorn", "description": "The nature of unicorn-sharing businesses is different and marketing is changing to keep pace with business needs. Understanding these trends and how to leverage the immense volume of data, interface with other marketing functions, and scale quickly are critical to remain relevant. This class will equip students with the fundamentals to tackle these demands."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761C", "title": "SIM: Media Strategy for a Digital Economy", "description": "With the explosion in media channels and formats, importance of Media in the Marketing Mix has been on a rapid ascent for the past two decades. Infusion of latest communication technologies has made media the most dynamic part of the marketing world. Estimated 2019 Worldwide media spends, were upwards of US$650Billion, 50% on digital platforms. With CoVID accelerating move to a digital economy, understanding media and related technology has become an imperative. Apart from students targeting careers in Sales, Marketing or Media, the course will be relevant for those targeting careers in start-ups, finance and consultancies."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761F", "title": "SIM: Disruption and Marketing", "description": "We live in an era of disruption: Long-held business beliefs, processes or technology are replaced by innovative new approaches that threaten incumbent industry leaders. Kodak, Nokia and Blockbuster are few examples of disrupted firms in the past who were unable to adapt to trends and changes in consumer choice, digital technology and dynamic business models. In this course, students will learn how disruption is impacting the field of Marketing, and what future marketers should do to prepare themselves for a world of infinite consumer choice, fragmenting media consumption and an analytics-first marketing mind set."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761H", "title": "SIM: Marketing Strategy & Execution", "description": "This course extends the core course of Marketing Strategy by bringing diverse marketing theories and models into a universal framework practice in business. While the earlier Marketing course emphasizes strategy development, ties how Marketing and other business functions work together for an effective implementation of these strategies. Lessons on monitoring and management to prepare for disruption are also included. This course will also delve into how Marketing works with outside partners for seamless implementation and growth opportunities. Insights from industry will be gleaned to provide students the key to succeed as a Marketer in industry. Marketing Strategy & Execution"}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761J", "title": "SIM AI in Marketing", "description": "In recent years, as the quantity of business data has exploded and computing power has continued to improve, opportunities to automate many parts of the marketing function have emerged. In this course, we approach this ever-evolving topic holistically, including identifying the business opportunities and pitfalls AI presents, and a close look at the algorithms that make such automation possible. The course will present business applications, some of the theory behind machine learning, and implement examples."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761K", "title": "Seminars in Marketing: Marketing Technology", "description": "Rapidly evolving technologies, like ChatGPT, are a double-edged sword for marketers. While they offer unprecedented access to MarTech tools and solutions, they also reshape consumer behavior and experiences. Companies are increasingly leveraging MarTech, such as chatbots, AR/VR, and the metaverse, to develop high-tech touchpoints that deliver new customer value. This course, designed as a marketer\u2019s guide to MarTech, presents through experiential learning on the latest MarTech tools and solutions augmenting customer journeys. Through hands-on workshops and real-world case studies, students will learn how to assess and develop effective MarTech strategies for customers of tomorrow."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4761L", "title": "SIM: Consumer Insights for Business Growth", "description": "Organizations that use consumer insights wisely have an edge. Globally, companies spend more than 100 billion USD on market research alone. If you ever wonder how world\u2019s leading FMCG, Technology, Government and Pharma companies utilize consumer insights to launch new brands, target profitable customers, position strategically and measure advertising and brand effectiveness, this course will give you answers. This course will enable you to see the world of market research and consumer insights from a practitioner\u2019s point of view. This will enable you to get an insider\u2019s perspective of a market research or marketing career."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4811", "title": "Pricing Strategy", "description": "Pricing is one of the important decisions that a marketing manager must make. In fact a firm's profitability critically depends on how its products or services are priced. Pricing decisions however are difficult to make and can be quite complex. Effective pricing decisions draw upon a variety of disciplines such as economics, marketing, psychology and law. The purpose of the course will be to introduce students to some of the key concepts and practical issues involved in making effective pricing decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4811A", "title": "Pricing Strategy", "description": "Pricing is one of the important decisions that a marketing manager must make. In fact a firm's profitability critically depends on how its products or services are priced. Pricing decisions however are difficult to make and can be quite complex. Effective pricing decisions draw upon a variety of disciplines such as economics, marketing, psychology and law. The purpose of the course will be to introduce students to some of the key concepts and practical issues involved in making effective pricing decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4811B", "title": "Pricing Strategy", "description": "Pricing is one of the important decisions that a marketing manager must make. In fact a firm's profitability critically depends on how its products or services are priced. Pricing decisions however are difficult to make and can be quite complex. Effective pricing decisions draw upon a variety of disciplines such as economics, marketing, psychology and law. The purpose of the course will be to introduce students to some of the key concepts and practical issues involved in making effective pricing decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "MKT4812", "title": "Marketing Analytics", "description": "The digital age has fundamentally altered the manner we collect, process, analyse and disseminate market intelligence. Driven by advances in hardware, software and communications, the very nature of market research is rapidly changing. New techniques are emerging. The increased velocity of information flow enables marketers to respond with much greater speed to changes in the marketplace. Market research is timelier, less expensive, more actionable and more precise ... all of which makes it of far greater importance to marketers. Applied Market Research is primarily designed for marketing professionals to train them to use market knowledge for day-to-day marketing decisions. It will provide good understanding of many prevalent research techniques and their application. The course will be taught in an application-oriented fashion through lectures, class discussions and case studies. Students will acquire critical analysis and decision making abilities to prepare them to tackle the marketing and business issues they are likely to confront in a career in marketing."}, {"moduleCode": "ML5201", "title": "Principles, Technology and Properties of Thin Films", "description": "Thin-film growth techniques, plating, vaporization, sputtering, chemical vapour deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, hot-wall epitaxy and laser ablation, gas transport and pumping, vacuum and related theories and technology for thin film growth, pumps and systems, condensation, nucleation, phase stability and basic modes of thin film growth, zone models for evaporated and sputtered coatings, factors on properties of thin films, columnar structure and epitaxial growth, thin film reactions, optical and electrical properties. Learning objectives: Various technologies and principles for thin solid film growth, electrical and optical properties of thin films. Target students: Graduate students of Materials Science and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "ML5202", "title": "Structural and Electronic Ceramics", "description": "Fundamentals of ceramic processing, sintering theories, microstructural control of structural and electronic ceramics; defect chemistry for structural and electronic ceramics; important structural ceramics - alumina, zirconia, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, sialons; functional properties of ceramic materials; important electronic ceramics - ferroelectric, piezoelectric, relaxors, PTC, NTC, and varistors. Learning objectives: Examine and understand the fundamental of ceramic processing, sintering theories, control of microstructures for structural and electronic ceramics; defect chemistry, important structural and electronic ceramics. Target students: Graduate Students of Materials Science and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "ML5203", "title": "Electrochemical Techniques in Environmental Engineering", "description": "Environmental control: electrochemical sensing techniques, gas and vapour phase sensors, electrochemical treatments in waste disposal. Solar power: semiconductor electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, wet and solid state solar cells, light emitting diodes and detectors, conducting polymers, battery systems, fuel cells, biomedical control: electrochemical bio-sensors, batteries for implants and hearing aids. Learning objectives: Solid/solution interface in terms of Fermi levels and redox potentials; requirements in generating photocurrents; way materials selection and design influences battery performance; interactions between gases and solid surfaces and how these can be used to design practical sensors. Target students: Graduate students of Materials Science and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "ML5206", "title": "Nanomaterials: Science and Engineering", "description": "Major topics include nano-scale phenomena and the related chemical, physical and transport properties, size effect and quantum mechanics, nanothermodynamics and nano phase diagrams, interface and surface of nanoparticles and their effects, processing of organic, inorganic and bio-based nanoparticles, nanocomposites and thin films, advanced characterization of long range and short range orders, x-ray scattering, anomalous x-ray scattering, extended absorption fine structure. Learning objectives: Introductory knowledge of nanostructured materials. Target students: Graduate students of Materials Science and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "ML5208", "title": "Mechanical Properties of Solid Films", "description": "Methods for analyzing stresses in elastically dissimilar films deposited on structures and their applications in modern industries, stress concentrations on a wavy film surface, the criteria for the formation of threading dislocations in heteroepitaxial thin films and in layered structures, surface shapes and growth modes, the morphological stability of a stressed flat films against roughening and its application in the self-assembly of nano-structures. Learning objectives: Apply basic knowledge of the mechanical properties of materials to thin film-substrate films. Target students: Graduate students of Materials Science and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "ML5209", "title": "Fundamentals of Materials Science", "description": "Atomic and bonding orbital, types of bonds, energy band structure, short range & long range orders, imperfections, interfacial phenomena, effects on material properties, structure/bond dependent properties such as electrical, magnetic and mechanical, solubility, solid solution, composite, compositional control of material properties, nanostructured materials: length scale phenomena; size effects; quantum size effects; interface effects on properties, examples of effects of different structural length scales on properties (macroscopic, micron, nanometer and below). Learning objectives: To develop an understanding of material properties based on bonding, band structure, composition and structural control, and nanoscale phenomena. Target students: Graduate students of Materials Science & related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1001", "title": "Materials Science & Engrg Principles & Practice I", "description": "Written & oral communication skills. Basics of computer tools used by materials engineers. Notations for points, directions and planes. Basic crystal structures of metals. (BCC, FCC, and HCP), Basic crystal structures of ceramics and semiconductors. Imperfections in Solids covering point defects, line defects, surface defects and grain boundaries, Noncrystalline and semicrystalline materials Mechanical Properties. XRD and impact testing. Tension test and work hardening. Basic phase diagrams."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1001A", "title": "Materials Science & Engineering Principles & Practice I", "description": "Notations for points, directions and planes. Basic crystal\nstructures of metals. (BCC, FCC, and HCP), Basic crystal\nstructures of ceramics and semiconductors. Imperfections\nin Solids covering point defects, line defects, surface\ndefects and grain boundaries, Noncrystalline and\nsemicrystalline materials Mechanical Properties. XRD and\nimpact testing. Tension test and work hardening. Diffusion\nin solids; phase diagrams, inclusive of Gibbs phase rule,\nbinary phase diagram and equilibrium diagrams."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1001B", "title": "Materials Science & Engineering Principles & Practice 1", "description": "This is the first of a two module set: Engineering Principle and Practice I and II (EPP I and EPP II) to introduce first year students to how materials engineers think and address societal problems. EPP I will use hands-on lab experiences with state-of-the-art applications of both soft materials (e.g. polymers whose applications span drug delivery to aircraft windows) and hard materials (e.g. silicon, whose applications span transistors to solar cells) integrated with targeted chemistry and physics lecture content to understand how these materials work. Instruction on experimental methods, and both oral and written scientific communication are key learning objectives."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1002", "title": "Materials Science & Engineering Principles & Practice II", "description": "Oral communication situations relevant to engineering practice. Diffusion in solids; phase diagrams, inclusive of Gibbs phase rule, binary phase diagram and equilibrium diagrams. Metals, properties and processing. Ceramics, properties and processing. Polymers, properties and processing. Composites, properties and processing. Corrosion & materials degradation. How to choose the best material? Matching materials to design. Selecting a Manufacturing process. Aspects beyond the technical domain in materials selection & design."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1010", "title": "Materials Engineering Principles & Practices", "description": "Students will be introduced to the mechanical and\nelectrical properties of the main classes of materials,\nmetals, polymers, ceramics, composites and\nsemiconductors followed by techniques used to select\nsuitable materials for future design projects. The module\nwill cover the correlation between these fundamental\nmaterials properties and both chemical composition and\nmicrostructure, including the impact of the fabrication\nprocess."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1101", "title": "Introductory Materials Science And Engineering", "description": "Introductory aspects of materials science and engineering (i.e. structure, properties and function). Structure on the Atomic scale. Energy levels, atomic orbitals, molecular orbitals; Interatomic bonding, types of bonds (metallic, ionic, covalent, molecular and mixed); Structure of metals, ceramics and polymers; Basic crystallography, imperfection in solids, point and line defects, non-crystalline and semi-crystalline materials, diffusion and diffusion controlled process; Correlation of structure to properties and engineering functions (mechanical, chemical). Discussion of examples for main materials categories (metals, ceramics, polymers and composites); Corrosion and degradation of materials; Basic materials selection for chemical engineering applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1111", "title": "Foundation Materials Science and Engineering I", "description": "This module is a pure materials science and materials engineering module, which focuses on foundation and core concepts that practicing materials engineer must know. A number of applications will be used to help emphasise the importance of this core knowledge. Major topics covered in depth include: Atomic structure and bonding; structures, crystal systems, crystalline, noncrystalline and semicrystalline materials; Imperfections in Solids covering point defects, line defects, surface defects and grain boundaries; Fundamental concepts into mechanical properties of materials, involving statics and mechanics of materials, beam structures and beam bending will be covered here."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE1112", "title": "Foundation Materials Science and Engineering 2", "description": "This module is a continuation of MLE1111 deals with the properties, processing and applications of the main classes of engineering materials, namely metals and alloys, ceramics polymers and composites. It will cover Diffusion in solids; Phase diagrams, inclusive of Gibbs phase rule, Binary phase diagram and equilibrium diagrams, isomorphous and eutectic systems; Phase transformation, development of Microstructure and alteration of mechanical behaviour; Corrosion and Degradation. Finally, Economic Environmental and Societal Issues relevant to Materials Engineering will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2001", "title": "Materials Science & Engineering Principles & Practice II", "description": "Metals, properties and processing. Ceramics, properties\nand processing. Polymers, properties and processing.\nComposites, properties and processing. Corrosion &\nmaterials degradation. How to choose the best material?\nMatching materials to design. Selecting a Manufacturing\nprocess. Aspects beyond the technical domain in\nmaterials selection & design."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2001A", "title": "Materials Science & Engineering Principles & Practice II", "description": "We will explore what makes materials the way they are and why. We will discover the structure of the materials that make up our modern world and learn how it influences the properties, performance and applications of these materials. We will learn the difference between amorphous and crystalline materials, learn how the materials structure can be measured, and show that materials defects are responsible for the functionality of our computers, steel bridges or airplanes. The significance of these issues in modern industry will be emphasized through case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2101", "title": "Introduction to Structure of Materials", "description": "Overview: symmetry, bonding, coordination number, packing fraction, order and disorder; Noncrystalline state: short-range order (SRO), pair distribution function, random walk, network and fractal models; Crystalline state: basic crystallography and structures, reciprocal lattice, quasicrystals, liquid crystalline state; Crystal vibrations, Brillouin zone; free electron model, energy bands; Structural effects on phase transformation; Fourier series."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2102", "title": "Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy Technologies", "description": "The laws of thermodynamics enable materials to convert solar energy into electricity, but not with 100% efficiency. As global warming causes the polar icecaps to undergo a phase change (melting), new materials harvest and store energy through phase changes. This course introduces MSE students to fundamentals of thermodynamics, including the laws of thermodynamics, entropy, thermodynamic relationships, chemical and phase equilibrium, etc. This course also explores their application in renewable energy technologies. For example, we will examine the separation of oxygen from air, which appears to violate the second law. Overall, this course expands upon fundamental thermodynamics to provide a brief overview of renewable energy technologies as well as design considerations, energy efficiency, and global market potential."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2103", "title": "Phase Transformation and Kinetics", "description": "Diffusion in solid-state: Ficks first and second laws of diffusion, diffusion mechanisms; Diffusional & diffusionless transformations: solidification, phase transformation in solid, nucleation and growth, solidification of alloys and eutectics, TTT diagram, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states, spinodal transformation, martensitic phase transformation; Applications of phase transformations: precipitation, grain growth, devitrification, development of microstructures and nanostructures."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2103A", "title": "Materials Kinetics & Processing", "description": "Thermodynamics controls what can happen, but kinetics determines how fast it occurs. The rate at which a material is grown massively affects its properties; nickel alloys, for example, can be grown slowly to form single-crystal jet engine turbine blades or rapidly to make the nanowires used in optoelectronic devices and biomedical sensors. Controlled drug delivery can be achieved by designing polymeric materials that react inside the patient to release their payload at a pre-specified rate. Students reading this module will examine the mechanisms that underlie meta-stable materials, precipitation, grain growth, devitrification, the development of microstructures and nanostructures, and more."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2104", "title": "Mechanical Properties of Materials", "description": "Stress and strain of material; Elastic deformation: Young\u2019s modulus,\nPoisson\u2019s ratio, stress-strain relation, stiffness/compliance matrix; Dislocations: Edge/screw/mixed dislocation, burgers vectors, twining, stress field of dislocation, dislocation interaction; Plastic deformation of single and polycrystalline materials: Schmid\u2019s law, plastic flow; Inelastic deformation:\nViscosity, deformation of inorganic glasses, deformation of noncrystalline and crystalline polymers; Mechanical fracture: ductile and brittle facture, creep, fatigue; Testing methods, Introductory mechanics of materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2105", "title": "Electronic Properties of Materials", "description": "Did you know your smartphone contains at least 75 different elements from the periodic table? These elements are combined in a variety of different ways to produce materials with a full spectrum of electronic properties from electric conductors to insulators; from optically transparent to light admitting materials; and that\u2019s just the start. Tomorrow\u2019s devices will utilise unique material properties as their dimensions approach the nano- or atomic scale. Students will be introduced to the materials that enable electronic devices, via basic quantum mechanics, conduction, energy, potential, doping, and related theories, focussing on examples of current devices and applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2106", "title": "Metallic Materials and Processing", "description": "Overview of crystal structure and bonds; Structures of metallic elements and alloys; Phase formation and development of microstrcutures; Basic processing technologies; Ferrous and non-ferrous metals; General properties and engineering applications: mechanical and functional."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2107", "title": "Ceramic Materials and Processing", "description": "Overview of ceramics and classification; Structure and stability of ceramics; Phase formation and development of microstructures; Basic synthesis, processing and characterisation methods; Processing of advanced ceramics and applications; General properties and applications of advanced ceramics: electronic; mechanical; optical."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2111", "title": "Materials Properties Laboratory", "description": "Laboratory class in which students will conduct hands on experiments to probe the mechanical (e.g. hardness, strength, etc), chemical (e.g. corrosion) and electrical (e.g. semiconducting, superconducting) properties of polymers, ceramics, metals and composites."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE2301", "title": "Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering", "description": "This module equips students with the basic knowledge of materials science and engineering. The topics covered include basic crystallography; the structure of metals, ceramics, and polymers; point and line defects; mechanical properties; binary phase diagram; metals and alloys; ceramics; polymers; composites; correlation of structure, properties, functions, and applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3101", "title": "Materials Characterization Laboratory", "description": "Laboratory class in which students will conduct hands on experiments to understand and appreciate common Materials Characterization techniques through a combination of imaging and spectroscopic techniques, such as optical Microscopy; X-ray diffraction; and electron microscopy (SEM, TEM)."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3101A", "title": "Materials Characterization", "description": "Being able to characterize the structure of materials over length scales ranging from millimetres to angstroms, is a fundamental skill for all Materials Scientists & Engineers. It is vital that Materials Scientists & Engineers are trained in selecting the most appropriate materials characterization technique for a given application. This requires mastering the operational principles behind a wide range of techniques to interpret their data. This includes: SEM, TEM, XRD, surface characterization, optical spectroscopy and thermal analysis. This will be illustrated in case studies from identifying the secrets of new materials to failure analysis. This module complements the lab based MLE3101."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3102", "title": "Degradation and Failure of Materials", "description": "Corrosion of metals and alloys: Economics of corrosion, Thermodynamics and electrochemistry of corrosion, Types of corrosion, Environmental effects on corrosion, Corrosion of selected metals and alloys, Corrosion protection, Corrosion monitoring; Degradation of nonmetallic materials: Biological, chemical and photodegradation of polymers, Environmental degradation, Photocorrosion of semiconductors; Failure mechanisms of materials. Failure analysis and Non-destructive testing: techniques and\n\nmethodology, case histories."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3103", "title": "Materials Design: Aerospace to Biomedical Applications", "description": "The Wright brothers built their aeroplane out of wood, Spitfires were all-metal constructions, and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is 80% composite by volume. Materials Scientists and Engineers have enjoyed remarkable success in developing superior materials, but with the huge range of materials available to us today, how does one pick the right material for a given application? This course focusses on the engineering aspects of materials design and selection, considering, for example, the intended function, constraints and limits, performance criteria, environmental conditions, economics and business issues. Case studies across a wide range of application areas will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3104", "title": "Polymeric and Composite Materials", "description": "Classification of polymers, polymer structure, molecular weight distribution; Basic synthetic and characterisation methods; Amorphous state and glass transition, crystalline state; General properties of polymers: physical, chemical, mechanical and electrical; Engineering and specialty polymers: processing and applications; Polymer-based composite materials: fabrication, structure and properties."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3105", "title": "Dielectric and Magnetic Materials", "description": "Polarisation mechanisms; ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity; domain structure and hystereisis;\n\npermittivity and dielectric loss; optical properties of dielectric materials; fundamental of magnetism: magnetic moment, magnetic coupling and magnetic anisotropy; technical magnetisation: domain structure, magnetic hysteresis; introduction to magnetic materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3111", "title": "Materials Properties & Processing Laboratory", "description": "Laboratory class in which students will conduct hands on experiments"}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3111A", "title": "Materials Properties & Processing Laboratory", "description": "Laboratory class in which students will conduct hands on experiments on ceramic and polymer processing, 3D printing technologies, and fabrications of devices such as battery, solar cells, and magnetic information storage."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3112", "title": "Machine Learning Approaches in Materials Laboratory", "description": "The module equips students interested in the application of machine learning to problems of materials science and engineering with an understanding of the current state-ofthe-art in the application of machine learning in material research. Students will develop an interdisciplinary skillset in programming as well as applying engineering and mathematical concepts in designing and building AIsupported machines for material science. They will also implement machine learning algorithms to solve realistic problems within the domain of the material science."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3202", "title": "Materials for Biointerfaces", "description": "Introduction to the interdisciplinary nature of biomedical materials; biology, chemistry, and materials science and engineering. Classes and properties of materials used in medicine and dentistry. Biological and biochemical properties of proteins, cells and tissues. Biocompatibility and host reactions to biomedical implant materials. Testing of biomedical materials. Degradation of biomedical materials. Past, present and future applications of materials in medicine and dentistry. Learning objectives: Introductory knowledge on biomedical materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE3203", "title": "Engineering Materials", "description": "This module focuses on engineering materials \u2013 metals and ceramics. Crystalline structure of important industrial metals and ceramics. Mineral processing and materials fabrication. Phase formation and development and\nmicrostructure optimization for engineering applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4101", "title": "B.Eng. Dissertation", "description": "Every student majoring Materials Science and Engineering is assigned a research project, which is normally over 2 semesters. This project is carried out under the supervision of an academic staff of the Department and is closely related with the research activities in the Department with the two focus areas of Biomateirals and Nanomaterials/Nanotechnology."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4101A", "title": "BEng Dissertation", "description": "A research project conducted over one semester carried out under the supervision of an academic staff of the Department. The project will be closely related with the research activities in the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4101B", "title": "B.Eng. Dissertation", "description": "Every student majoring Materials Science and Engineering is assigned a research project, which is normally over 2 semesters. This project is carried out under the supervision of an academic staff of the Department and is closely related with the research activities in the Department with the two focus areas of Biomateirals and Nanomaterials/Nanotechnology."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4101N", "title": "B.Eng Dissertation", "description": "A research project conducted over two semesters carried out under the supervision of an academic staff of the Department. The project will be closely related with the research activities in the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4101R", "title": "Integrated B.ENG./B.SC. (Hons) Dissertation", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4102", "title": "Design Project", "description": "Students are assigned with a Design Project. Students have the opportunity to work in a team to use their knowledge of Materials Science and Engineering in problem solving. This project has the emphasis in Independent Study. Students are required to submit a report at the end of the project."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4102A", "title": "Design Project", "description": "In this module, which extends over two semesters, the students are divided into small groups and asked to work on a complex engineering problem that involves designing a product within the constraints posed by economic, environmental, social and safety consideration. The importance of teamwork in a multicultural group is also emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4201", "title": "Advanced Materials Characterisation", "description": "This module equips students with the basic knowledge of advanced characterization techniques of materials and the abilities in basic interpretation of measured spectrum. The topics covered include: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; Auger electron spectroscopy. Secondary ion Mass spectroscopy, Vibrational spectroscopies: infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy; Scanning Electron Microscopy; Transmission Electron Microscopy; X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy; Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4202", "title": "Selected Advanced Topics on Polymers", "description": "Introduction to polymer physics: chain statistics, static light scattering, hydrodynamics of polymer solutions, thermodynamics of polymer solutions, polymer blends, solubility parameters and group contribution methods; Overview of selected topics in advanced and emerging specialty polymer science and technology; Current interests in nanopatterning and nanoimprinting, layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte assembly, advanced photoresists, liquid-crystalline polymer science and device technology, conducting polymer science and technology, semiconducting polymer device science and technology, polysiloxanes and microcontact printing, low-k (and high-k) dielectric materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4203", "title": "Polymeric Biomedical Materials", "description": "Properties and processing of polymeric biomaterials; Biological responses to biomaterials and their evaluation. Biocompatibility issues; Biodegradable polymeric materials; Application of polymeric biomaterials in medicine will be discussed with emphasis on drug delivery systems and tissue engineering application."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4204", "title": "Synthesis And Growth Of Nanostructures", "description": "This module teaches the synthesis and growth of various nanostructures. Major topics are: techniques that are used in synthesis and growth of nanostructures, including clusters, nanodots, nanowells, nanotubes, nanowires, nanocomposite particles, nanostructured thin films and multi-layers; patterning and self-assembly techniques; thermodynamics and kinetics of nanostructures; characterization techniques for nanostructures."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4205", "title": "Theory and Modelling of Materials Properties", "description": "Introduction to quantum chemistry and quantum electronics, band theory of solid materials, transport phenomena in solids from the microscopic viewpoint, random processes in solids, Monte-Carlo calculations of diffusion, introduction to the theory of phase transitions, crystal growth and precipitation, self-organization in open non-equilibrium solid state systems, molecular dynamics modeling of properties and processes in condensed materials. Learning objectives: Introductory knowledge on theory and modeling of solid state systems with the emphasis of nanomateirals. Target students: Students of Materials Science and Engineering and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4206", "title": "Current topics on Nanomaterials", "description": "This module provides students with an understanding of the size effect of properties; students will learn unique properties of nanomateirals: mechanical, electronic, magnetic and optical. This module is designed for students who has materials science and engineering background and interested in properties of nanomaterials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4207", "title": "Microfabrication Process and Technology", "description": "The module presents an overview of CMOS fabrication process with the focus on the materials engineering and the physics behind the technologies used in the fabrication process. The technologies include cleaning process, photolithography and resist, the formation of thermal oxides and Si/SiO2 interface, dopant diffusion and ion implantation, etching, thin film deposition technology, and interconnects/contacts."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4208", "title": "Photovoltaics Materials", "description": "This module teaches materials aspects for a wide variety of photovoltaic devices covering conventional p-n junction cells based on Si wafers, amorphous or nanocrystalline Si, bulk heterojunction solar cells, nanostructured solar cells including dye-sensitised solar cells, organic solar cells and quantum structured solar cells, etc. emphasising the materials science and engineering aspects of advanced photovoltaic devices. Therefore students will gain an understanding of the role of materials development and characterisation for current and emerging photovoltaic technologies. Specific objectives include understanding of the physics of photovoltaics, general working principles of individual photovoltaic devices, the roles of photovoltaic materials and how they are incorporated in various photovoltaic devices; attain an informed view on the current aspects of photovoltaic technologies and photovoltaic materials, ability to select materials for device application based on their optical, electrical properties."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4209", "title": "Magnetism and Magnetic Materials", "description": "This module focuses on a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of magnetism and magnetic materials, and integrating the physics and engineering applications. It is intended for advanced MSE undergraduates and also for MSE postgraduates who do not have previous training in this area. Topics covered in this module are agnetostatics, magnetism of electrons, magnetism of localized electrons on the atom, ferromagnetism and exchange, antiferromagnetism, micromagnetism, domains and\nhysteresis, nanoscale magnetism, selected topics of current advanced magnetic materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4210", "title": "Materials for energy storage and conversion", "description": "Starting from a summary of solid state defect chemistry, electrochemistry and nanotechnology the module will introduce the basics of designing and processing materials for energy storage and conversion, their integration into batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells as well as methods for the performance characterisation and optimisation of these devices."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4211", "title": "Nanoelectronics and information technology", "description": "Mesoscopic electron transport, spin dependent electron transport- giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), Tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR), spin transfer Torque (TMR), Logic gate and digital circuit, optical and particle beam lithography; Logic device-metal-oxide-semiconductor fieldeffect transistor, spin based logics; memory device and storage systems-flash memory, capacitor based Radom access memories, magnetic random access memories, information storage based on phase change materials and redox-based resistive memory. Students will be expected to have previously taken an electric, magnetic and dielectric materials course."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4212", "title": "Advanced Structural Materials", "description": "The course will illustrate the critical role that advanced structural materials play in twenty-first century industries, such as aerospace, biomedical & dental, automotive, sporting goods, energy generation, transportation and utilities."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4213", "title": "Innovation & Product Development for Material Engineers", "description": "This module provides an introduction on the innovation & product development processes that materials scientists and engineers are likely to face in their future workplaces. This course will be conducted with a mixture of MSE relevant case-studies and experiential group learning. Students will start from the pre-development process: building up their problem statements, ideation and developing their minimum viable product (product concept) by considering the technical feasibility, business viability as well as customer desirability; and then followed by development and manufacturing processes: i.e. samples development, test & certification, production etc. Continuous improvement upon product development will also be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4217", "title": "Application of Big Data in Materials Science", "description": "Students will learn how Machine Learning utilizes the major materials databases to push the boundaries of materials science & engineering. This will include: Introduction to materials databases; foundation of databases together with python; foundation of data curation; applications of machine learning techniques to the analysis of data-entries; and data visualization."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4218", "title": "AI for Biomaterials Discovery", "description": "The module introduces students to how new functional materials can be discovered via the application of machine learning, with a particular emphasises on drug discovery. Students will learn how to choose chemicals, as well as describe and select descriptors. From this, students will comprehend which molecular features are responsible for particular molecular activities. Additional application areas covered will include the discovery of new functional materials with physical and chemical characteristics that are relevant for catalysis, sensors, membranes and energy related materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4219", "title": "Materials for Optics: from Quantum Light to Nanodevices", "description": "In this course we will explore material science from the point of view of optical techniques. Students will learn how to select appropriate optical tools to get insight into electronic band structure of metals, semiconductors and insulators based on analysis of raw experimental data obtained in realistic experiments. We will discuss the fabrication of luminescent devices in nanoscale and engineering of the crystal lattice at atomic level to create quantum emitters. We will introduce simple modelling techniques for optical processes in solids illustrated by schematic diagrams prepared by students."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4220", "title": "Two-Dimensional Materials", "description": "This module outlines many key aspects of 2D material science from fundamental properties through to cutting-edge applications. Students will learn about the key two-dimensional systems that are presently being used and studied across the world, including graphene and its broader class of material: van der Waals crystals. This course is designed for students who are interested in pursuing an academic or industrial career involved in 2D materials and wish to understand the principles behind next generation applications based on 2D materials. The topics covered include fabrication, fundamental properties, interlayer interactions, and experimental techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4221", "title": "Emerging materials for renewable fuels and clean water", "description": "This module explores emerging materials and technologies toward addressing the grand sustainability challenge, focusing on (photo)electrochemical systems for renewable fuels and clean water. This class will introduce the design principles of (photo)electrochemical materials, their integration into realistic devices at different scales, techno-economic analysis of related renewable technologies, and other frontier areas at the energy-water nexus."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4222", "title": "Electron transport in novel quantum materials", "description": "Students will explore the electronic properties of novel quantum materials. We will start from the classification of materials based on their dimensionality, electronic band structure and topology. Then we will explore mechanisms of electron conduction in novel material systems. Students will deal with real experimental data to analyze the electrical response of low-dimensional electron systems, topological insulators, superconductors and more as well as extract their properties as a function of external parameters. Next, we will discuss how to fabricate devices out of the novel material systems as well as how to perform measurements to characterize their electronic properties."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4225", "title": "Electrocatalytic Materials for Sustainability", "description": "The course introduces the students to the foundational aspects of electrochemistry and the use of materials for electrocatalysis and electrocatalytic reactions pertaining to sustainability. This course will cover a broad range fundamentals and applications to electrocatalysis. This course will also present the development of electrocatalytic technologies for sustainability. Potential applications for the conversion of CO2 will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4227", "title": "Sustainable Water Harvesting Technologies", "description": "The course introduces the students to the global water crisis and hydrological cycle. This course will cover a broad range of conventional and advanced water harvesting technologies. This course will also emphasise the importance of material development in achieving sustainable water resources management. Atmospheric water harvesting and solar desalination technologies will be highlighted in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4228", "title": "Materials For Robotic Sensing And Actuation", "description": "This course focuses on the materials design aspect of robotic systems. The two core functions of robots: sensing and actuation will be introduced, and design principles explained. The students will learn about the advances and the physics behind robotic sensor materials, devices and form factors, including piezoelectric polymers, piezoresistive and piezocapacitive sensor design. The students will also learn about the advances in robotic actuator materials, the physics behind them, devices, and form factors. This will include elastomers, piezoelectric materials, electrostrictive polymers, shape-memory polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers, fiber actuators, 3D printed actuators and wearable actuators."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE4231", "title": "Optoelectronics with Organics and Nanocrystals", "description": "In this course, we will explore optoelectronic applications of two classes of nanomaterials: organic small molecules and semiconductor nanocrystals. We will discuss the unique, advantageous physical properties of these materials for optoelectronics. We will gain a deeper understanding of the optical and electronic properties through quantum mechanics. We will then study optoelectronic devices based on these materials, including light-emitting diodes, photodetectors and lasers, discussing their characteristics and working principles. Finally, we will review current challenges and opportunities in nanomaterial-based optoelectronics in research and industry."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5001", "title": "Basics of Structures & Properties of Materials", "description": "This course equips students with the basic knowledge of structures and properties of engineering materials. The topics covered include atomic bonding and condensed phases; crystal structures, crystallography and crystal imperfections; the thermodynamics of alloys, phase equilibrium and phase diagrams; thermally activated processes, diffusion, kinetics of phase transformation, non-equilibrium phases; mechanical properties and strengthening mechanisms, fracture of materials, corrosion and oxidation resistance, other properties. Working engineers and graduate students who have no former training in materials but wish to pursue further studies and R&D in engineering materials should attend this course."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5002", "title": "Materials Characterization", "description": "MLE5002 is a core course that teaches modern techniques and methods for the structural and spectroscopic characterisation of materials. Besides X-ray-, electron-, and vibrational spectroscopy, the course focuses on different types of microscopy, electron microscopy in particular. The concepts are treated from a mechanistic point of view; letting the students gain deeper insight into the ideas behind the techniques, without the need to perform advanced calculations. This course is designed to help students select the most relevant microscopy or spectroscopy methods, and let them interact knowledgeably with equipment experts to optimize their own future materials characterisation experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5003", "title": "Materials Science &Engineering Project", "description": "This course involves independent study over two Semesters, on a topic in Materials Science and Engineering approved by the Programme Management Committee. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey, and critical evaluation and analysis, design feasibility study, case study, minor research project or a combination."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5004", "title": "Innovation & Translation Research Project in MSE", "description": "In this course, which extends over two semesters, the students are divided into small groups and asked to work on a complex engineering problem in MSE that involves designing a product within the constraints posed by economic, environmental, social and safety consideration. The importance of teamwork in a multicultural group is also emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5101", "title": "Thermodynamics for Sustainability", "description": "The course introduces the students advanced thermodynamic concepts of sustainable development especially those related to various energy technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5102", "title": "Mechanical Behaviours of Materials", "description": "The mechanical behaviours of materials, with the emphasis on the dependence of the behaviours on the structures of the materials, The elastic properties of single and polycrystalline materials, Rubber elasticity, polymer elasticity, and viscoelasticity, Tensile test and hardness test, Nano-indentation, Dislocations and twining, Yielding in crystalline solids, Applications of the dislocation theory to material strengthening mechanisms. Overview of the mechanical behaviours of thin films, nano-materials, and cells."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5104", "title": "Physical Properties of Materials", "description": "Physical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers and their hybrids are covered. These include overview of electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, magnetic properties, ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and optical properties of different classes of materials. The correlations of length-scale, structure, microstructures, and interfaces of materials with their properties are emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5206", "title": "Nanomaterials: Science and Engineering", "description": "Major topics include nano-scale phenomena and the related chemical, physical and transport properties, size effect and quantum mechanics, nanothermodynamics and nano phase diagrams, interface and surface of nanoparticles and their effects, processing of organic, inorganic and bio-based nanoparticles, nanocomposites and thin films, advanced characterisation of long range and short range orders, x-ray scattering, anomalous x-ray scattering, extended absorption fine structure. Learning objectives: Introductory knowledge of nanostructured materials. Target students: Graduate students of Materials Science and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5208", "title": "Photovoltaic Materials", "description": "This course provides an in-depth study of materials used in a diverse range of photovoltaic devices, covering conventional p-n junction cells based on Si wafers, amorphous or nanocrystalline Si, bulk heterojunction solar cells, nanostructured solar cells, etc. The focus is on the materials science and engineering of these devices. Students will learn the importance of materials development and their role in current and emerging photovoltaic technologies. They'll grasp the physics of photovoltaics, working principles of each device, and the function of photovoltaic materials in different devices. Objectives also encompass understanding current photovoltaic technology trends and selecting materials based on their optical and electrical properties."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5210", "title": "Modelling and Simulation of Materials", "description": "This course provides a foundation for students interested in doing research in computational materials. It teaches students modelling methods ranging from continuum, microscopic, atomistic scales. Molecular dynamics modelling of properties and processes in condensed materials. Continuum modelling of properties and processes in materials. Transport phenomena in solids from both continuum, microscopic viewpoint, random processes in solids. Fundamentals of ab initio modelling approaches."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5211", "title": "Nanomaterials", "description": "This course provides a foundation for students interested in doing research into nanomaterials. It starts by explaining to students how as a material\u2019s dimensions enters the nanoscale its mechanical, electronic, magnetic and optical properties are altered in manner that results in unique behaviours that are vastly different from their bulk counterparts. The course will finish with aspects of current research on nanomaterials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5212", "title": "Energy Conversion & Storage", "description": "The course provides a foundation for students interested in doing research into materials related to energy storage and conversion. It will start by introducing the basics of designing and processing materials for energy storage and conversion, their integration into batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells as well as methods for the performance characterisation and optimisation of these devices. The course will finish with aspects of current research on materials for energy storage and conversion."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5213", "title": "Magnetic Materials", "description": "This course provides a foundation for students interested in doing research into magnetic materials The course focuses on a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of magnetism and magnetic materials, integrating the physics and engineering applications. It is intended for advanced MSE undergraduates and MSE postgraduates who do not have previous training in this area. Topics covered in this course are magnetostatics, magnetism of electrons, magnetism of localized electrons on the atom, ferromagnetism and exchange, antiferromagnetism, micromagnetism, domains and hysteresis, nanoscale magnetism, selected topics of current advanced magnetic materials. The course will finish with aspects of current research on magnetic materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5214", "title": "Advances in Polymeric Materials", "description": "This course provides a foundation for students interested in doing research into polymeric materials. It starts with the thermoplastics, elastomers and thermosets. Application of polymers as membranes will be presented, particularly their application for water purification and gas separation. Photoresists that are essential materials in electronic industry will be included. Two display technologies, liquid crystal displays and organic lightemitting diodes will be introduced. Advanced polymers, including liquid crystalline polymers, semiconductive polymers and conductive polymers, will be discussed. The course will finish with aspects of current research on polymeric materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5215", "title": "Atomistic Modelling of Molecules and Materials", "description": "The course equips students interested in computational chemistry and materials science materials with: 1. Foundation of force-field and interatomic potentials 2. Foundation of first principles methodologies 3. Foundation of the methodologies aforementioned when applied in molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo studied. 4. Hands-on application of computational techniques to chemical and materials science problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5216", "title": "Introduction to Microscopy for Materials Research", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of various microscopy and spectroscopy methods. Techniques covered include photon-based techniques (X-ray diffraction and fluorescence, light microscopy, infrared spectroscopy), scanning probe techniques (atomic force microscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy), and electron-beam techniques (scanning and transmission electron microscopy and related techniques). This course will help students in selecting the most relevant microscopy or spectroscopy methods and optimizing them for their own future materials characterisation experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5217", "title": "Foundations of Machine Learning for Materials Science", "description": "The course equips students interested in the application of machine learning to problems of materials science and engineering with: Foundation of linear algebra; Foundation of statistics; Foundation of python programming; and Foundation of machine learning."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5218", "title": "Materials Discovery with AI", "description": "The course focuses on application of machine learning as a useful tool for discovery of new functional materials. It emphasises using machine learning for drug discovery as one of the most developed application area to date. we will learn how to choose chemicals, as well as describe and select descriptions. The course demonstrates which molecular features are responsible for particular molecular activities. Application areas includes not only drug discovery but also discovery of new functional materials with physical and chemical characteristics that are relevant for catalysis, sensors, membranes, and energy related materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5219", "title": "Materials Informatics: The Role of Big Data", "description": "The course Introduces the students to the major data repositories (Databases) of materials and their utilization in Machine Learning applications. This will include: Introduction to materials databases; Foundation of databases together with python; Foundation of data curation; Applications of machine learning techniques to the analysis of data-entries; and Data visualization"}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5220", "title": "Computation of Macroscopic Materials Behaviours", "description": "Strong and weak forms and the finite element formulation of one-dimensional mass diffusion problem in the steady and the transient states. Strong and weak forms and the finite element formulation of one-dimensional elastic deformation in materials. Formulating and solving twodimensional mass diffusion problems by finite elements software. Formulating and solving two-dimensional elastic deformation by finite elements software. Formulating and solving two-dimensional problems of coupled mass diffusion and elastic deformation by finite element software."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5221", "title": "Designing materials for renewable fuels and clean water", "description": "This course explores emerging materials and technologies toward addressing the grand sustainability challenge, focusing on (photo)electrochemical systems for renewable fuels and clean water. This class will introduce the design principles of (photo)electrochemical materials, their integration into realistic devices at different scales, techno-economic analysis of related renewable technologies, and other frontier areas at the energy-water nexus."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5222", "title": "Nano and 2D materials for Energy applications", "description": "This course will cover selected key nanomaterials for green energy harvesting, energy storage, conversion and catalysis, including their design, nanomaterials fabrication, energy performance, and applications. They include: introduction to energy nanomaterials; design principles; selected key energy nanomaterials in different dimensions (0D, 1D, 2D and 3D); processing and synthesis, and relationships among key variables at both nanomaterials and energy device levels."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5223", "title": "Rational Materials Design for Sustainability", "description": "The course introduces the students to advanced rational materials design concepts and their application in the Sustainable materials design. Application examples will demonstrate how the application of these concepts leads to a resource-efficient low-carbon design of materials, processes and devices for energy storage and conversion, water management and urban housing."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5224", "title": "Degradation of Materials", "description": "Saving energy is far more environmentally friendly than creating it. Thus, making materials last longer has to be at the heart of any practical sustainable policy. For example, in the UK alone 1 tonne of steel converted to rust every 90 seconds, the energy required to make this 1 tonne of steel is sufficient to provide average family with power for 3 months, plus 2.5 tonnes of CO2 are generated for every tonne of steel produced; more if one includes transporting the iron ore and the steel itself. The course includes corrosion of metals, degradation of polymers and photocorrosion of semiconductors."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5225", "title": "Electro-Active Materials for Sustainability", "description": "The course introduces the students to the foundational aspects of electrochemistry and the use of electro-active materials in different electrochemical systems. This intensive course will cover a broad range fundamentals and applications of electro-active materials. This course will also present the development of electro-active materials enabling technologies for sustainability."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5226", "title": "Problem Solving for Future Sustainability Challenges", "description": "The course challenges students to apply knowledge towards problem solving in a series of challenging weekly scenarios. These scenarios will be set in the future, and these scenarios will share the common theme of applying knowledge towards developing practical and workable solutions to sustainability challenges in group settings. This course will consist of both lecture introduction to relevant topics in sustainability and the context in the discipline of MSE. Students will be pushed to think creatively to develop submit workable solutions towards resolving the weekly scenario under time constraints."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5228", "title": "Superconductivity and Superconducting Devices", "description": "This course will introduce a phenomenological description of superconducting materials and their applications to modern technologies. For this, the course will cover bulk and thin-film superconducting materials and introduce the Josephson junction, which is the basis of many superconducting devices. From this, we will introduce the main parameters that are relevant to the design of modern superconducting devices, namely resonators, qubits, SQUIDs and photodetectors. Finally, we will cover how the choice of materials and geometry influences the functioning of these devices."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5229", "title": "Advanced Materials for Microelectronics", "description": "This course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of different classes of advanced materials at the nanoscale for microelectronic applications. In the first part of this course, the classification of electronic materials and the fundamental operational principles of technologically relevant electronic and spintronics devices will be studied. In the second part of this course, advanced materials and processes required for realizing such devices will be extensively studied. The course will familiarize students with existing and emerging device applications through case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5230", "title": "Characterizations of Microelectronic Materials", "description": "This course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of experimental tools for characterizing nanometer-scale dimension electronic devices. The course will concentrate primarily on topics include basic principles of materials and solid-state physics, electrical and electronic measurements, optical imaging and spectroscopy, surface characterization techniques, X-ray techniques, and electron-beam characterization techniques. Strength and weakness of each technique for specific material characterisation will be explored. Case studies on advanced materials will be conducted throughout the course to enhance practical understanding."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5232", "title": "Dielectric Materials and Applications", "description": "Dielectric materials are at the heart of modern electronics, shaping the landscapes of microelectronics, power systems and telecommunications. This course offers an in-depth exploration of the science concepts and practical applications of dielectric materials. It covers core concepts including permittivity, polarization mechanisms, dielectric dispersion, dielectric strength, and insulation breakdown. Various phenomena including paraelectricity, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, pyroelectricity, and electro-optic processes are introduced with emphasis on the physical insight of the mechanisms and real-world applications. This course equips students with a comprehensive understanding of dielectric materials and their roles across industries, from microelectronics to cutting-edge technologies like soft robotics and quantum computing."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5233", "title": "Functional Electronic Devices of Tomorrow", "description": "Functional electronic devices are an essential part of modern technology, and they are used in a wide range of applications, including communication systems, computers, medical devices, and consumer electronics. In this course, we will discuss the working principles of a variety of functional electronic devices, such as transistors, diodes, and different photodetectors. We will focus on the physical concepts behind their work and how those devices can be built and/or improved using novel artificial materials such as van der Waals heterostructures and 2D materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5235", "title": "Two-Dimensional Materials", "description": "This course outlines many key aspects of 2D material science from fundamental properties through to cutting-edge applications. Students will learn about the key two-dimensional systems that are presently being used and studied across the world, including graphene and its broader class of material: van der Waals crystals. This course is designed for students who are interested in pursuing an academic or industrial career involved in 2D materials and wish to understand the principles behind next generation applications based on 2D materials. The topics covered include fabrication, fundamental properties, interlayer interactions, and experimental techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5236", "title": "Electron Transport in Novel Quantum Materials", "description": "Students will explore the electronic properties of novel quantum materials. We will start from the classification of materials based on their dimensionality, electronic band structure and topology. Then we will explore mechanisms of electron conduction in novel material systems. Students will deal with real experimental data to analyse the electrical response of low-dimensional electron systems, topological insulators, superconductors and more as well as extract their properties as a function of external parameters. Next, we will discuss how to fabricate devices out of the novel material systems as well as how to perform measurements to characterise their electronic properties."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5301", "title": "Metallic & Ceramic Materials in Additive Manufacturing", "description": "The objective is to expose students to different metallic and ceramic materials used in additive manufacturing (AM) and their applications. Major topics include: a brief overview of metallic materials, their applications & market and conventional fabrication techniques; AM techniques suitable for metals and technical challenges; Metals used in additive manufacturing including steels, aluminium alloys, titanium alloys and superalloys; current status of additive manufacturing of ceramic materials."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5302", "title": "Polymer Materials in Additive Manufacturing", "description": "The objective is to expose students to different polymer materials used in additive manufacturing (AM) and their applications. Major topics include: a brief overview of thermoplastics, thermoset and composites materials, their applications & market and conventional fabrication techniques; AM techniques used for thermoplastic, thermoset and composites materials such as extrusion deposit 3D printing and vat photopolymerisation 3-D printing. The advantage and challenges of AM."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5303", "title": "Failure Analysis in Electronic Device", "description": "The objective is to expose students to different characterization tools for evaluation of the devices, failure modes and mechanism for various devices. Major topics include: a brief overview of techniques for decapsulating the device and for sample preparation; various characterization techniques such as electrical techniques, optical microscopy, electron microscopy, x-ray technique, spectral techniques, acoustic technique, laser technique, emission microscopy, Electromagnetic Field Measurements etc.; failure modes and mechasim of . Various Process Steps, Passive Electronic Parts, Silicon Bipolar Technology; MOS Technology; Optoelectronic and Photonic Technologies; Various case studies of failure analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5304", "title": "Introduction to Electron Microscopy of Materials", "description": "The objective is to expose students to different techniques of scanning and transmission electron microscopy including imaging, analysis and diffraction techniques. Major topics will include conventional diffraction contrast imaging of crystals and defects, scanning transmission electron microscopy (high angle annular dark field and annular bright field imaging, electron energy loss spectroscopy, energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, nanodiffraction), including the benefits of aberration correction. Specialized and new imaging modes will also be included: imaging of electric, magnetic and strain fields, and in-situ TEM techniques for dynamic experiments, Experimental limitations due to the sample, the microscope design, or physics itself will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5666", "title": "Industrial Attachment Module", "description": "This course provides engineering research students with work attachment experience in a company."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE5999", "title": "Graduate Seminars", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MLE6101", "title": "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials", "description": "This course teaches thermodynamics and kinetics of different engineering materials including metals, ceramics and polymers. The major topics cover: Equilibrium and non-equilibrium. Introduction to statistical thermodynamics, Transition state theory and field effects, Solution theory, Phase diagrams. Diffusion mechanisms, Nucleation in condensed phases, Surface energy, Crystal growth, Defects in crystals, Phase transformation theories, Formation of nanostructures: nano-dots, nano-wells, nano-wires and nano-tubes."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE6103", "title": "Structures of Materials", "description": "Periodic trends in atomic properties, bonding generalization based on periodic trends, generalization about crystal structures based on periodicity. Structural concepts: crystal lattice, reciprocal lattice, diffraction, crystal structures, lattice dynamics, and energy band structure. Examples of effects of structure on physical and chemical properties are discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE6205", "title": "Magnetic Materials and Applications", "description": "Magnetism fundamentals: atomic magnetism; types of magnetism; anisotropies; exchange interactions; domains and magnetization process; thin films and nanostructures. Current topics in magnetic technologies and research (examples): dynamics in high frequency application, magnetic recording media, and types of magnetoresistances, current and voltage induced magnetic switching;\nspin torque transfer."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE6206", "title": "Nanomaterials: Science and Engineering", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MLE6207", "title": "Advanced Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy", "description": "This course will cover aberration-corrected electron microscopy, and spectroscopy techniques in electron microscopy, including but not limited to as X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy and cathodoluminescence"}, {"moduleCode": "MLE6208", "title": "Practical Transmission Electron Microscopy", "description": "In this module, the students are divided into small groups and will do practical labs and gain hands-on experience on transmission electron microscopes. The students will be able to operate Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) independently and carry out material research. The importance of teamwork in a multicultural group is also emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "MLE6999", "title": "Doctoral Seminars", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706A", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706B", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706C", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706D", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706E", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706F", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706G", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706H", "title": "Organisational Behavior", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO1706X", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to human behavior in organizational contexts. The study of organizational behavior involves examining processes at the individual, group and organizational levels. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be developed. Instructional methods include lectures, experiential exercises, group activities, videos and case studies. Extensive class participation is expected."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2705", "title": "Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty", "description": "The decisions you make every day will shape your life. In an organization, the decisions you make will impact outcomes for you, your team, and cumulatively affect the trajectory of your career. This course aims to help you navigate the pathways of decision making in organizations. We will undertake an evidence-based approach, tapping on several streams of research \u2013 including behavioral psychology and economics, error management, and intuitive judgment \u2013 to give a rigorous account of what separates good decisions from the rest. These conceptual tools will empower you to make good decisions in an uncertain world, to influence, and to lead."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2705A", "title": "Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty", "description": "The decisions you make every day will shape your life. In an organization, the decisions you make will impact outcomes for you, your team, and cumulatively affect the trajectory of your career. This course aims to help you navigate the pathways of decision making in organizations. We will undertake an evidence-based approach, tapping on several streams of research \u2013 including behavioral psychology and economics, error management, and intuitive judgment \u2013 to give a rigorous account of what separates good decisions from the rest. These conceptual tools will empower you to make good decisions in an uncertain world, to influence, and to lead."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2705B", "title": "Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty", "description": "The decisions you make every day will shape your life. In an organization, the decisions you make will impact outcomes for you, your team, and cumulatively affect the trajectory of your career. This course aims to help you navigate the pathways of decision making in organizations. We will undertake an evidence-based approach, tapping on several streams of research \u2013 including behavioral psychology and economics, error management, and intuitive judgment \u2013 to give a rigorous account of what separates good decisions from the rest. These conceptual tools will empower you to make good decisions in an uncertain world, to influence, and to lead."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2705C", "title": "Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty", "description": "The decisions you make every day will shape your life. In an organization, the decisions you make will impact outcomes for you, your team, and cumulatively affect the trajectory of your career. This course aims to help you navigate the pathways of decision making in organizations. We will undertake an evidence-based approach, tapping on several streams of research \u2013 including behavioral psychology and economics, error management, and intuitive judgment \u2013 to give a rigorous account of what separates good decisions from the rest. These conceptual tools will empower you to make good decisions in an uncertain world, to influence, and to lead."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2705D", "title": "Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty", "description": "The decisions you make every day will shape your life. In an organization, the decisions you make will impact outcomes for you, your team, and cumulatively affect the trajectory of your career. This course aims to help you navigate the pathways of decision making in organizations. We will undertake an evidence-based approach, tapping on several streams of research \u2013 including behavioral psychology and economics, error management, and intuitive judgment \u2013 to give a rigorous account of what separates good decisions from the rest. These conceptual tools will empower you to make good decisions in an uncertain world, to influence, and to lead."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2705E", "title": "Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty", "description": "The decisions you make every day will shape your life. In an organization, the decisions you make will impact outcomes for you, your team, and cumulatively affect the trajectory of your career. This course aims to help you navigate the pathways of decision making in organizations. We will undertake an evidence-based approach, tapping on several streams of research \u2013 including behavioral psychology and economics, error management, and intuitive judgment \u2013 to give a rigorous account of what separates good decisions from the rest. These conceptual tools will empower you to make good decisions in an uncertain world, to influence, and to lead."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2705F", "title": "Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty", "description": "The decisions you make every day will shape your life. In an organization, the decisions you make will impact outcomes for you, your team, and cumulatively affect the trajectory of your career. This course aims to help you navigate the pathways of decision making in organizations. We will undertake an evidence-based approach, tapping on several streams of research \u2013 including behavioral psychology and economics, error management, and intuitive judgment \u2013 to give a rigorous account of what separates good decisions from the rest. These conceptual tools will empower you to make good decisions in an uncertain world, to influence, and to lead."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO2706", "title": "Business Communication for Leaders (ACC)", "description": "The primary purpose of this course is to cultivate a mindset shift \u2013 to be an effective leader, one has to be an effective communicator. This course weighs heavily on oral communication skills, and is centred on real-life business examples to facilitate students\u2019 understanding of the factors that are critical for business communication. The ability to communicate effectively affects one\u2019s employability and career success. Achieving success in one\u2019s career depends on one\u2019s ability to develop relationships, collaborate across teams, present ideas clearly, ask thoughtful questions and listen skillfully. This course is for students pursuing the Bachelor of Business Administration (Accountancy) programme."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3301", "title": "Organisational Behaviour", "description": "This course deals with the study of human behavior in organisations: how people influence organisational events and how events within the organisation influence people's behaviour. Organisational behavior is a field that draws ideas from psychology, social psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and management and applies them to the organisation. The field of organisational behaviour covers a wide range of topics: organisational culture, motivation, decision making, communication, work stress and so on. In the end, the field of organisational behavior asks two questions: (1) why do people behave as they do within organisations? (2) how can we use this information to improve the effectiveness of the organisation?"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3303", "title": "Organisational Effectiveness", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to the field of organisational theory - which applies concepts from various disciplines such as management studies, sociology, psychology, political sciences and economics to study organisations. The course is designed to encourage students to actively and critically use these concepts to make sense, diagnose, manage and respond to the emerging organisational needs and problems. The course covers topics such as organisational goals, strategy and effectiveness; dimensions of organisational structure; organisational design and environments; technology and organisational change; and organisational decision-making. The emphasis of this course is on the practical value of organisation theory for students as future members and managers of organisations. Developing an understanding of how organisations (should) operate is effectively critical so that students will able to fulfill their roles as future managers."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3313", "title": "Topics in Leadership and Human Capital Management", "description": "The topic(s) addressed in this course will involve specialised issues that are worthy of more in-depth treatment than what is provided in the other courses. The specific topics may range from current theoretical debates to the strategies and tactics that are utilised by leading organisations to resolve practical problems. The primary mode of instruction will feature discussion of research articles, case studies and/or projects involving practical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3313F", "title": "TIMHC:Managing High Performance Teams", "description": "Organisations have increasingly relied on teams to accomplish a wide variety of objectives, from day-to-day shop floor operation to new product development to long term strategic planning. It is critical for anyone who wants to achieve career success to understand the characteristics of effective teams and how to lead high performance teams in an organisational context. This course will examine the dynamics of teams from the individual, group, and organisational perspectives. After taking this course, students will (1) gain a better understanding about external and internal factors determining team success, (2) develop insights on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges facing teams, (3) learn methods and develop skills to lead and facilitate high performance teams, and (4) gain teamwork experience by participating in group exercises and team project."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3313H", "title": "TIHMC: Negotiations and Bargaining", "description": "The course will highlight the components of an effective negotiation and teach students to analyse their own behavior in negotiations. The course will be largely experiential, providing students with the opportunity to develop their skills by participating in negotiations and integrating their experiences with the principles presented in the assigned readings and course discussions. This course is designed to foster learning through doing, and to explore your own talents, skills, and shortcomings as a negotiator. The negotiation exercises will provide you with an opportunity to attempt strategies and tactics in a low-risk environment, to learn about yourself and how you respond in specific negotiation situations. If you discover a tendency that you think needs correction, this is the place to try something new. The course is sequenced so that cumulative knowledge can be applied and practiced."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3313J", "title": "TILHCM: Employee and Organizational Misbehaviours", "description": "This course examines deviant behaviors at the workplace, corporate misconduct and organizational ethics. Both the employee and organization will be the focus of our analysis. Topics examined include the role of personality and situation in explaining employee and organizational deviance, employee theft, deceit, lying and whistle-blowing among others."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3313K", "title": "TILHCM: Managing China Venture", "description": "This course aims to expose students to the emerging role China plays in the global political/ economic scene and the market opportunities China offers to business investors worldwide. Latest plans on China\u2019s economic restructuring and regional integration to boost domestic consumption will be reviewed. The course also discusses critical challenges executives face in managing a China venture. These include decisions and actions on modes of entry; access to target market segments; sourcing of suppliers and choice of venture partners; creation of distribution network; control of product/service quality; management of government relations; containment of costs; and talent acquisition and retention."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3313L", "title": "TILHCM: Crisis Management", "description": "Crisis management and crisis management planning can protect organizations against complete failure if/when a catastrophic disruption happens. This course is intended to prepare and guide aspiring leaders to manage through a crisis, whether it is a pandemic like COVID-19 or an accident in an organization\u2019s production facilities."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3315", "title": "Legal Issues in Employee Management", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3317", "title": "Advanced Leadership", "description": "Students will be exposed to leadership decisions at the advanced level. Senior and top executives typically have to create and deal with a leadership environment and culture at the organizational level that is consistent and supportive of organizational mission and strategy. The challenges facing these executives at the institutional level are quite different from those actually practising leadership skills at the operational level. Students will learn the skills needed to do the following: 1. Creating Leadership Vision and Strategic Directions 2. Shaping leadership Culture and Values 3. Designing and Leading a Leadership Learning Organization 4. Leading Leaders in Change Situations"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3318", "title": "Creativity and Innovation Management", "description": "This course explores the facilitation of innovation from various perspectives: \u2022 Strategy \u2022 Organizational culture \u2022 Organizational structure \u2022 Processes \u2022 Psychology and characteristics of people"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3319", "title": "Power and influence in Organizations", "description": "This course is organized around three major themes: 1. What are power and influence? How are they acquired? 2. How are power and influence exercised in and by organizations? 3. How can power be abused or used? How can leaders exercise power responsibly? How do organizational policy, structure, systems and behaviour affect the use of power? Students will learn and explore using simulations, role-play and cases. Power and influence have their theoretical roots in various disciplines. Hence, this course will apply perspectives from Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology, in addition to Organization & Management Science."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3320", "title": "Managing Change", "description": "All of us have experienced change in our lives. Change is often regarded with mixed feelings of excitement, fear and uncertainty. As a business graduate there will be instances in which you will be a participant and observer in organisational change. At other times, you will have the opportunity and responsibility of managing planned changes in organisations. This course aims to prepare you for such opportunities. This course is organised around these major questions: Why is organisational change so difficult? How can I lead and manage change in organisations? What tools and processes can I use to manage change? When and how should these tools be used and what are the strengths and drawbacks of each? Why do some change efforts fail? Why do some others succeed?"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3321", "title": "Training and Development", "description": "This course aims to prepare students for the challenging task of training and developing effective employees to help organisations realise their missions and visions. Students will be given the role of an internal or external training consultant and tasked to conduct simulated consulting projects to put theories and concepts into action. Learning by doing will be the theme of this course. The course will uncover the practical value of T&D (training and development) methods and learning theories/concepts to promote continuous learning in organisations. Students are expected to be knowledgeable about the field of human resource development (HRD) and the systematic approach to employee T&D efforts by the end of the course. The course is highly application oriented and student assessment will be based solely on the experiential exercises designed for the course. Both students presentation skills and knowledge about training and development will be assessed. This course is designed to equip students for the roles of HR (human resource)/training specialists and/or non-HR managers/executives/supervisors with training and development responsibilities. Hence, this course does not require students to have taken an HRM (human resource management) course before, i.e., HRM is desired but not a compulsory prerequisite to this course. Note however that Lesson 10 requires students to apply basic HRM concepts when dealing with the lesson on Selecting and Managing Trainers. Regardless of whether students have taken an HRM course previously, they must read or reread the recommended HRM textbook in advance in order to fully benefit from the lesson."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3322", "title": "Negotiations and Bargaining", "description": "The course focuses on negotiations and conflict management in the context of leading and managing interpersonal relationship at work and life in general. Participants first focus on principles and skills required to gain mastery as fair and ethical negotiators. Following which participants progress to acquire the theory and skills of facilitating conflict resolution. This involves 1) influencing counter-parties to behave in an efficient and amicable manner and engage in joint problem solving; 2) playing the role of a mediator in helping others resolve issues at work. Both these roles will be set in a leadership context."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3323", "title": "Management of Employee Relations", "description": "This course aims to train students to effectively handle employee relations in Singapore. It will address various environmental and structural constraints managers face when dealing with employees in Singapore. It delves into such topics as the history, key institutions, and the tripartism philosophy adopted in Singapore, as well as several key legislations and their applications. Because of its strong orientation towards real-world practices, students will find this course useful when looking for employment or actually managing employees in the future. Students are expected to keep themselves updated with regard to the current trends in employee relations, as well as to demonstrate their ability to apply concepts and skills learned from the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3325", "title": "CEOs as Leaders", "description": "This is an independent study course about leadership at the highest level of an organization. As the ultimate \u201csynergizing force\u201d to create value for the organization by uniting, coordinating, and synchronising all elements of an organization to strive to attain organizational objectives, the CEOs are the most critical component in the leadership \u201cfood chain\u201d. What must a leader add to the system to ensure that the organization will function like a well-oiled machine to generate value for shareholders?"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3326", "title": "Personal Leadership Development", "description": "This independent study course delves into the leadership experiences a leader may go through as an individual. Leaders are also individual persons like you and me. How to deal with the leadership role and personally make sense of what a person does as a leader thus constitutes an essential part of leadership training. This course will address these topics: 1. The Leader as an Individual 2. Personality Traits and Leader Behavior 3. Leadership World View and Attitude 4. Leadership Mind and Heart 5. What Does It Mean to be a Follower 6. Developing Personal Potential"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3328", "title": "Business Leadership Case Analysis", "description": "This course is designed for students who want to learn about the complex responsibilities and contextual factors facing business leaders today. It will enhance students\u2019 awareness of the role that context plays in the making of business leaders. Through interactive in-class case analyses and actual field work, students are expected to come to realize how context influences business leadership over time. The course will introduce how the interactions among the elements in the environmental context (government intervention, technology, globalization, labor market, etc.) impact the effectiveness of business leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3329", "title": "Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgmt", "description": "Independent Study courses are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3330", "title": "Social Entrepreneurship", "description": "Social entrepreneurship presents an alternative approach to community development. It advocates the adoption of innovative solutions (often incorporating market mechanisms) to address social problems. This course discusses the concepts associated with social entrepreneurship, and examines the practices and challenges of social entrepreneurship in the Asian context. Topics to be covered include identification of social problems; marginalization and the poverty cycle; varied conceptualizations of social entrepreneurship and innovation; different types of social enterprises; sustainable social enterprises as an effective means of community development; developing a social enterprise business plan; establishing a social enterprise; scaling up a social enterprise; social impact measurement."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3331", "title": "Business with a Social Conscience", "description": "Whether, how, and to what degree businesses use social considerations to inform their goals, strategies, behaviours, and profits is contestable in Asia and globally. This course critically examines a host of issues related to these questions including corporate charitable giving, product development, market placement, pricing strategies, labour relations, strategic and venture philanthropy, public policy, advocacy, environmental sustainability, investing, and sponsorships. Students will better understand and evaluate the ways in which national and multinational corporations affect large-scale changes in Asian societies via their practices and the tradeoffs associated with various means these companies employ as they seek to positively impact society."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3332", "title": "Leading Groups and Teams", "description": "Groups and Teams are among the most important work formats in our modern organization. This course\u2019s objective is to focus on evidence-based management to try and understand what drives the behaviour of groups and their members. Our job is to try and understand when, if, and how phenomena change as we place people in situations where they need to rely on others to get the job done. The course will loosely follow Tuckman\u2019s (1965) forming, storming, norming, and performing model of group development. However, much of our attention will be focused on the forming stage, as everything that follows depends on successfully building the team."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3333", "title": "Human Capital Management", "description": "This course introduces students to the frameworks and concepts underpinning the contribution of human capital management (HCM) in a constantly changing environment. Students will take a strategic and leadership-oriented approach to examine human capital-related practices using both the employer's and the employee's perspectives. The key areas to be discussed include environmental challenges and strategic HCM, talent acquisition, talent development, talent retention, and global workforce deployment. As environmental challenges are constant (globalisation, technology, and sustainability), this course will address the alignment of key HCM issues with corporate missions, visions, and values in the context of changing environment."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3334", "title": "Principles of Global Management", "description": "This course is designed to cultivate, challenge, and enrich a \u2018global managerial mind\u2019. Numerous conceptual and theoretical frameworks will be introduced to help the students explore and internalize the various complex organizational structures and processes facing all managers operating in today\u2019s turbulent global environment. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be adopted. Given that Asia is and will be the driver of global economic growth for the next few decades, we will adopt an Asian perspective as we explore ongoing global management and organizational issues."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3339", "title": "Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgmt", "description": "Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3701", "title": "Human Capital Management", "description": "This course introduces students to the frameworks and concepts underpinning the contribution of human capital management (HCM) in a constantly changing environment. Students will take a strategic and leadership-oriented approach to examine human capital-related practices using both the employer's and the employee's perspectives. The key areas to be discussed include environmental challenges and strategic HCM, talent acquisition, talent development, talent retention, and global workforce deployment. As environmental challenges are constant (globalisation, technology, and sustainability), this course will address the alignment of key HCM issues with corporate missions, visions, and values in the context of changing environment."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3702", "title": "Negotiation and Conflict Management", "description": "The course focuses on negotiations and conflict management in the context of leading and managing interpersonal relationship at work and life in general. Participants first focus on principles and skills required to gain mastery as fair and ethical negotiators. Following which participants progress to acquire the theory and skills of facilitating conflict resolution. This involves 1) influencing counter-parties to behave in an efficient and amicable manner and engage in joint problem solving; 2) playing the role of a mediator in helping others resolve issues at work. Both these roles will be set in a leadership context."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3703", "title": "Leading in the 21st Century", "description": "Taking an interdisciplinary approach to leadership, this module prepares students to re-examine the nature of work, organization and leadership. Looking from outside in, this module begins by examining the impact of the external environment on organizations, and transformations in the nature of doing business on employee-employer relationships The module will also highlight the implications that the changing nature of work has on how leaders\u2019 manage work performance and organizational control. Key issues and\nimpact of this new norm on organization performance and diverse workforce will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3711", "title": "Managing Change", "description": "All of us have experienced change in our lives. Change is often regarded with mixed feelings of excitement, fear and uncertainty. As a business graduate there will be instances in which you will be a participant and observer in organisational change. At other times, you will have the opportunity and responsibility of managing planned changes in organisations. This course aims to prepare you for such opportunities. This course is organised around these major questions: Why is organisational change so difficult? How can I lead and manage change in organisations? What tools and processes can I use to manage change? When and how should these tools be used and what are the strengths and drawbacks of each? Why do some change efforts fail? Why do some others succeed?"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3712", "title": "Training and Development", "description": "This course aims to prepare students for the challenging task of training and developing effective employees to help organisations realise their missions and visions. Students will be given the role of an internal or external training consultant and tasked to conduct simulated consulting projects to put theories and concepts into action. Learning by doing will be the theme of this course. The course will uncover the practical value of T&D (training and development) methods and learning theories/concepts to promote continuous learning in organisations. Students are expected to be knowledgeable about the field of human resource development (HRD) and the systematic approach to employee T&D efforts by the end of the course. The course is highly application oriented and student assessment will be based solely on the experiential exercises designed for the course. Both students presentation skills and knowledge about training and development will be assessed. This course is designed to equip students for the roles of HR (human resource)/training specialists and/or non-HR managers/executives/supervisors with training and development responsibilities. Hence, this course does not require students to have taken an HRM (human resource management) coursebefore, i.e., HRM is desired but not a compulsory prerequisite to this course. Note however that Lesson 10 requires students to apply basic HRM concepts when dealing with the lesson on Selecting and Managing Trainers. Regardless of whether students have taken an HRM course previously, they must read or reread the recommended HRM textbook in advance in order to fully benefit from the lesson."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3713", "title": "Management of Employee Relations", "description": "This course aims to train students to effectively handle employee relations in Singapore. It will address various environmental and structural constraints managers face when dealing with employees in Singapore. It delves into such topics as the history, key institutions, and the tripartism philosophy adopted in Singapore, as well as several key legislations and their applications. Because of its strong orientation towards real-world practices, students will find this course useful when looking for employment or actually managing employees in the future. Students are expected to keep themselves updated with regard to the current trends in employee relations, as well as to demonstrate their ability to apply concepts and skills learned from the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3714", "title": "Business with a Social Conscience", "description": "Whether, how, and to what degree businesses use social considerations to inform their goals, strategies, behaviours, and profits is contestable in Asia and globally. This course critically examines a host of issues related to these questions including corporate charitable giving, product development, market placement, pricing strategies, labour relations, strategic and venture philanthropy, public policy, advocacy, environmental sustainability, investing, and sponsorships. Students will better understand and evaluate the ways in which national and multinational corporations affect large-scale changes in Asian societies via their practices and the tradeoffs associated with various means these companies employ as they seek to positively impact society."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3715", "title": "Leading Groups and Teams", "description": "Groups and Teams are among the most important work formats in our modern organization. This course's objective is to focus on evidence-based management to try and understand what drives the behaviour of groups and their members. Our job is to try and understand when, if, and how phenomena change as we place people in situations where they need to rely on others to get the job done. The course will loosely follow Tuckman's (1965) forming, storming, norming, and performing model of group development. However, much of our attention will be focused on the forming stage, as everything that follows depends on successfully building the team."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3716", "title": "Principles of Global Management", "description": "This course is designed to cultivate, challenge, and enrich a \u2018global managerial mind\u2019. Numerous conceptual and theoretical frameworks will be introduced to help the students explore and internalize the various complex organizational structures and processes facing all managers operating in today\u2019s turbulent global environment. Both theoretical and applied approaches will be adopted. Given that Asia is and will be the driver of global economic growth for the next few decades, we will adopt an Asian perspective as we explore ongoing global management and organizational issues."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3717", "title": "Business Innovation & Cross-Cultural Communication", "description": "This is a 5-day intensive study tour where students will travel to Kyoto/Osaka and visit many Japanese organizations. This course delves into Japanese technological innovation and cross-cultural business communications, providing a comprehensive and in-depth examination of their innovative business practices and strategies within a rich, unique historical context. Key topics include Japanese businesses and innovation, cross-cultural communication and negotiation, and sustainability in Japanese businesses."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3751", "title": "Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgmt", "description": "Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3752", "title": "Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgmt (2 Units)", "description": "Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will be exposed to individual-based research and report-writing while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3761", "title": "Topics in Leadership and Human Capital Management", "description": "The topic(s) addressed in this course will involve specialised issues that are worthy of more in-depth treatment than what is provided in the other courses. The specific topics may range from current theoretical debates to the strategies and tactics that are utilised by leading organisations to resolve practical problems. The primary mode of instruction will feature discussion of research articles, case studies and/or projects involving practical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3761A", "title": "TILHCM: Employee and Organizational Misbehaviours", "description": "This course examines deviant behaviors at the workplace, corporate misconduct and organizational ethics. Both the employee and organization will be the focus of our analysis. Topics examined include the role of personality and situation in explaining employee and organizational deviance, employee theft, deceit, lying and whistle-blowing among others."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3761B", "title": "TILHCM: Managing China Venture", "description": "This module aims to expose students to the emerging role China plays in the global political/ economic scene and the market opportunities China offers to business investors worldwide. Latest plans on China?s economic restructuring and regional integration to boost domestic consumption will be reviewed. The module also discusses critical challenges executives face in managing a China venture. These include decisions and actions on modes of entry; access to target market segments; sourcing of suppliers and choice of venture partners; creation of distribution network; control of product/service quality; management of government relations; containment of costs; and talent acquisition and retention."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3761C", "title": "TILHCM: Crisis Management", "description": "Crisis management and crisis management planning can protect organizations against complete failure if/when a catastrophic disruption happens. This course is intended to prepare and guide aspiring leaders to manage through a crisis, whether it is a pandemic like COVID-19 or an accident in an organization\u2019s production facilities."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3761X", "title": "Topics in Leadership and Human Capital Management", "description": "The topic(s) addressed in this module will involve specialised issues that are worthy of more in-depth treatment than what is provided in the other modules. The specific topics may range from current theoretical debates to the strategies and tactics that are utilised by leading organisations to resolve practical problems. The primary mode of instruction will feature discussion of research articles, case studies and/or projects involving practical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3761Y", "title": "Topics in Leadership and Human Capital Management", "description": "The topic(s) addressed in this course will involve specialised issues that are worthy of more in-depth treatment than what is provided in the other courses. The specific topics may range from current theoretical debates to the strategies and tactics that are utilised by leading organisations to resolve practical problems. The primary mode of instruction will feature discussion of research articles, case studies and/or projects involving practical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3761Z", "title": "Topics in Leadership and Human Capital Management", "description": "The topic(s) addressed in this course will involve specialised issues that are worthy of more in-depth treatment than what is provided in the other courses. The specific topics may range from current theoretical debates to the strategies and tactics that are utilised by leading organisations to resolve practical problems. The primary mode of instruction will feature discussion of research articles, case studies and/or projects involving practical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO3811", "title": "Social Entrepreneurship", "description": "Social entrepreneurship presents an alternative approach to community development. It advocates the adoption of innovative solutions (often incorporating market mechanisms) to address social problems. This course discusses the concepts associated with social entrepreneurship, and examines the practices and challenges of social entrepreneurship in the Asian context. Topics to be covered include identification of social problems; marginalization and the poverty cycle; varied conceptualizations of social entrepreneurship and innovation; different types of social enterprises; sustainable social enterprises as an effective means of community development; developing a social enterprise business plan; establishing a social enterprise; scaling up a social enterprise; social impact measurement."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313", "title": "Seminars in Leadership and Human Capital Management", "description": "Current issues and/or essential topic areas within the field of management and organisation that merit extensive literature reviews and scholarly discussion will be studied under this heading. Students enrolled in these seminars are required to make presentations on topics that are of interest to them and relevant to the course. Lecturers will act as facilitators, evaluators and resource persons. Assessments will be based on a major project or term paper, in addition to more traditional indicators of performance. Examples of seminars in the Management and Organisation concentration are International and Comparative Industrial Relations; Leadership in Organisation; Comparative and Cross-National Study of Organisations and Power and Politics in Organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313B", "title": "SIMHC: Culture and Management in Asia", "description": "The objectives of this course are to: (1) Develop an understanding of culture and its variables, (2) Discuss the impact of culture on management in different countries, especially those in Asia, (3) Develop cultural knowledge, sensitivity and skills necessary for working in a culturally diverse business environment. Students are expected to read about current events that are related to cultural sensitivity. They must be prepared to discuss the implications of such events in a multi-cultural environment."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313C", "title": "SILHCM: Compensation and Performance Management", "description": "Compensation and appraisal systems are key contributors to organisational effectiveness. This course addresses how organisations use compensation and performance management practices to drive strategic business success. This course will cover a mix of theoretical concepts and organisational practices useful in developing and maintaining a motivated, committed and competent workforce. In this course students will learn how organisational systems operate to attract, retain and motivate a competent workforce. Further students will gain an understanding of how to assess reward and appraisal systems in terms of the criteria of equity and cost effectiveness and how to assess and diagnose compensation management issues and problems and develop appropriate solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313D", "title": "SILHCM: Corp Entrepreneurship & Busi Model Evaluation", "description": "This class emphasizes the cultivation of each student\u2019s ability to evaluate business models and their appropriateness for development in a corporate setting. As an advanced course the content is designed to improve students analytical, creative and communication skills. In a competitive environment, entrepreneurship is an essential and indispensable element in the success of every business organisation - whether small or large, new or long-established. This course focuses on corporate entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on the role of venture capital and spin-offs. Although corporate entrepreneurship encompasses a wide range of organisational activities, this course focuses primarily on managerial efforts aimed at the identification, development and exploitation of technical and organisational innovations and on effective new venture management in the context of large corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313E", "title": "SIMHC: Managerial and Organisational Cognition", "description": "This course will cover cognition and decision making in organisations. The course will begin with a brief exploration of the bases of cognition, including the topics of neurophysiology, sensation and perception, and cognitive science/psychology. Using this as a basis, the course will go on to explore biases in decision making, the role of emotion in cognition and cognitive styles, persuasion and influence, conformity and obedience, sensemaking and cognition in high-stress/high-reliability environments, cognition in groups and teams, ethical decision-making, and the importance of understanding what makes us happy... the latter of which is often difficult for us to predict and has implications for our (inevitable) lives as employees in organizations. Throughout the course an attempt will be made to understand the way students think, the biases they hold when making decisions and interpreting environmental stimuli in the context of organisations, and the ways in which their emotions influence their decisions and judgments. Also highlighted will be the usefulness of introspection and an awareness of their own thought processes and assumptions... an aim that almost all religions and many academic pursuits attempt forward, yet one which is often excluded from the study of business to the detriment of business people."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313G", "title": "SIMHC: SME Consulting", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313H", "title": "SILHCM: Job Attitudes", "description": "This course will involve studying the range of attitudes that individuals have toward their jobs and organization including job satisfaction, engagement, commitment, and other related topics. It will be an advanced module in that reading the scientific evidence will be part of the requirements."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313J", "title": "SILHCM: Talent Development and Performing with Impact", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills that will help prepare them for the transition to the global workforce. Specifically, the course will examine the critical success factors for sustaining high performance in a rapidly changing business environment. Some of the questions that will be discussed and addressed include: - What criteria do companies use to identify and assess talent? - How do companies develop talent, leadership and succession planning? - How do individuals sustain high performance in the ever-evolving global workplace?"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4313K", "title": "SILHCM: Industry 4.0, Technology, & Mgt Implications", "description": "Technology and innovation platforms are now major drivers of value creation. In the late 19th century, innovations such as the telephone, automobile (internal-combustion engine), and electricity have ushered in the 2nd industrial revolution with explosive growth due to rapidly lowering costs, while unleashing demand across multiple sectors. The 3rd industrial revolution with the ubiquitous access of information technology and smartphones and the internet created new technology giants and brought innovations as a value creation driver to the forefront. Today, especially with post-COVID, digitization and newly emergent technologies will usher in a new growth curve. Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, termed the upcoming change as Industry 4.0* . For you as final year business students, you need to understand the new emergent technologies, familiarize yourself with the use cases, and develop a set of skills and knowledge around the management implications in the next generation of growth drivers. *Primary Drivers of Industry 4.0 (Source: Wikipedia https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution)"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4314", "title": "Consulting to Management", "description": "Deep knowledge in management practices, employee motivation, and personnel selection are important when individuals are entering the workforce, especially in the OBHR space. Another career trajectory for individuals specialized in management topics is in consulting. Grounded in theory and research, consultants provide valuable service to clients/companies in advising the next steps in important decisions, such as recruitment, training and development, and other organizational practices. Important in this job is also the ability to interlace theory with practice, applying established knowledge to a practical setting, often with consideration of the organization's unique characteristics in mind. This course is designed for students interested in understanding the state-of-the-art management consulting practice used by management consultants to help organizations improve performance and become more effective. Through a combination of theory and simulation projects, students will learn both the hard and soft skills required to be a good management consultant"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4314A", "title": "Seminar in M&O: Consulting to Management", "description": "This class aims to generate interest and develop skills of participants to \u201cconsult\u201d to management and assist clients to take important managerial decisions in organisations. The class is targeted at participants with preliminary knowledge (about Consulting) and strong aspirations to become consultants. The course covers a broad range of topics from \u201ctypes of consulting\u201d to \u201chow consulting firms make money\u201d and includes a 2-day workshop helping participants develop their skills to consult. Strong analytical and reasoning skills form the prerequisite for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4314B", "title": "Seminar in M&O: Consulting to Management", "description": "This class aims to generate interest and develop skills of participants to \u201cconsult\u201d to management and assist clients to take important managerial decisions in organisations. The class is targeted at participants with preliminary knowledge (about Consulting) and strong aspirations to become consultants. The course covers a broad range of topics from \u201ctypes of consulting\u201d to \u201chow consulting firms make money\u201d and includes a 2-day workshop helping participants develop their skills to consult. Strong analytical and reasoning skills form the prerequisite for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4315", "title": "Global Management of Asian Multinationals", "description": "This course aims to expose students to the challenging paths of selected Asian Multinationals in their journey of globalization. The course will discuss major driving forces behind an overseas expansion of some pioneer Asian multinationals, including established corporations from Japan and South Korea; and the critical factors that shape their business success or failure. Next, the module will study the rapid rise of some emerging markets MNCs, especially those from China, India and selected S.E. Asian countries. Students will learn how visionary leadership and rapid changes in the domestic and global business contexts have shaped the internationalization strategies of Asian MNCs."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4316", "title": "Experiencing Work: Effects on Behavior and Well-Being", "description": "This course gives an overview of the ways in which work demands and experiences influence employee behaviour and well-being, and also explores the mechanisms that organizations and employees can use to minimize the negative effects of work demands on well-being as well as maximize the positive effects of certain work experiences on well-being."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4319", "title": "Adv Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgt", "description": "Advanced Independent Study courses are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The courses may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4329", "title": "Adv Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgt", "description": "Advanced Independent Study courses are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The courses may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4711", "title": "Consulting to Management", "description": "Deep knowledge in management practices, employee motivation, and personnel selection are important when individuals are entering the workforce, especially in the OBHR space. Another career trajectory for individuals specialized in management topics is in consulting. Grounded in theory and research, consultants provide valuable service to clients/companies in advising the next steps in important decisions, such as recruitment, training and development, and other organizational practices. Important in this job is also the ability to interlace theory with practice, applying established knowledge to a practical setting, often with consideration of the organization's unique characteristics in mind."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4712", "title": "Experiencing Work: Effects on Behaviour & Well-Being", "description": "This course gives an overview of the ways in which work demands and experiences influence employee behaviour and well-being, and also explores the mechanisms that organizations and employees can use to minimize the negative effects of work demands on well-being as well as maximize the positive effects of certain work experiences on well-being."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4713", "title": "Leading Across Borders", "description": "Globalization and changes in work patterns have created opportunities for people to work beyond borders as team members or leaders. Facing rising global challenges with people from different culture backgrounds - managers, leaders or people at work could opt to be (i) who they are, expecting others to adapt to them, or (ii) they can proactively work to develop greater multicultural competencies and lead. Competent leaders view leading across borders as a development process, requiring intelligences and competences to succeed. This course focuses on these intelligences and competences by enhancing students\u2019 knowledge and skills in the area. The course is divided into three parts, starting with an understanding of new global realities and their impact on business, management and people. The course continues with an examination of roles and competencies necessary to lead across borders, for example, communicating across cultures, motivating and inspiring people across cultures, building teams and trust, etc. Finally, the discussion on global management challenges aims to encourage students to critically think about what lies ahead when leading across borders. This will prepare students well to lead more successfully across borders."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4714", "title": "Developing Impactful Social Sector Solutions", "description": "In this course, students examine how management principles and concepts can be applied to address social problems. In particular, students experientially learn how management principles and concepts can be utilized to generate innovative ideas that offer solutions to social problems. The course also helps students appreciate the importance of effectively implementing and managing these solutions for maximum social outcomes and impact. Key topics covered include social issues and challenges in Singapore, the social sector in Singapore, identification and scoping of social problems, ideation of solutions to social problems, and implementation, management and impact measurement of solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4715", "title": "Foresight and Scenario Planning", "description": "This module aims to equip students with the capabilities of corporate foresight using techniques such as horizon scanning and scenario planning. The students will learn how to identify and harness the opportunities presented by future scenarios, as well as manage the risks associated with their ambiguity and complexity. Students will learn how to apply foresight methods and scenario planning in strategic processes in organizations. They will learn how to identify the specific role foresight activities play in the organization and support the activities involved in long-range planning for the organization."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4716", "title": "Using R for HR analytics and machine learning", "description": "This module introduces students to the key concepts in human resource (HR) analytics and machine learning. The module also introduces R programming for data analytics in HR and performing basic machine learning analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4717", "title": "Talent Acquisition", "description": "This module is about sharpening the talent assessment skills and strategic mindset of recruitment and selection decision makers that are critical for building successful organizations. The topics that will be covered include \u00b7 What Does a Talent Assessment & Selection System Try to Achieve? \u00b7 Attributes of Effective Talent Assessment & Selection \u00b7 Job Analysis, Job Description, & Job Specification \u00b7 Identifying, Recruiting, & Retaining Qualified Applicants \u00b7 The Job Application Form as a Selection Test \u00b7 The Interview as a Selection Test \u00b7 Personality & Values Test \u00b7 Integrity & Honesty Test \u00b7 Simulation & Ability Test \u00b7 Selection Decision Making Managerial, Political, Legal, & Ethical Considerations"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4751", "title": "Adv Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgt", "description": "Advanced Independent Study Courses (ISCs) are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The courses may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4752", "title": "Adv Independent Study in Leadership & Human Capital Mgt (2 MC)", "description": "Advanced Independent Study Modules (ISMs) are for senior students who are in the BBA and BBA(Acc) honors programs with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well-defined project in the respective specialization areas. (The modules may also be made available to students who are eligible for admission into the honors programs but choose to pursue the non-honors course of study.) Students will hone their research and report-writing skills while tackling a business issue under the guidance of the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4761", "title": "Seminars in Leadership and Human Capital Management", "description": "Current issues and/or essential topic areas within the field of management and organisation that merit extensive literature reviews and scholarly discussion will be studied under this heading. Students enrolled in these seminars are required to make presentations on topics that are of interest to them and relevant to the module. Lecturers will act as facilitators, evaluators and resource persons. Assessments will be based on a major project or term paper, in addition to more traditional indicators of performance. Examples of seminars in the Management and Organisation concentration are International and Comparative Industrial Relations; Leadership in Organisation; Comparative and Cross-National Study of Organisations and Power and Politics in Organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4761A", "title": "SILHCM: Compensation and Performance Management", "description": "Compensation and appraisal systems are key contributors to organisational effectiveness. This course addresses how organisations use compensation and performance management practices to drive strategic business success. This course will cover a mix of theoretical concepts and organisational practices useful in developing and maintaining a motivated, committed and competent workforce. In this course students will learn how organisational systems operate to attract, retain and motivate a competent workforce. Further students will gain an understanding of how to assess reward and appraisal systems in terms of the criteria of equity and cost effectiveness and how to assess and diagnose compensation management issues and problems and develop appropriate solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4761B", "title": "SILHCM: Job Attitudes", "description": "This module will involve studying the range of attitudes that individuals have toward their jobs and organization including job satisfaction, engagement, commitment, and other related topics. It will be an advanced module in that reading the scientific evidence will be part of the requirements."}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4761C", "title": "SILHCM: Talent Development and Performing with Impact", "description": "This module aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills that will help prepare them for the transition to the global workforce. Specifically, the module will examine the critical success factors for sustaining high performance in a rapidly changing business environment. Some of the questions that will be discussed and addressed include: \n\n- What criteria do companies use to identify and assess talent? \n- How do companies develop talent, leadership and succession planning? \n- How do individuals sustain high performance in the ever-evolving global workplace?"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4761D", "title": "SILHCM: Industry 4.0, Technology, & Mgt Implications", "description": "Technology and innovation platforms are now major drivers of value creation. In the late 19th century, innovations such as the telephone, automobile (internal-combustion engine), and electricity have ushered in the 2nd industrial revolution with explosive growth due to rapidly lowering costs, while unleashing demand across multiple sectors. The 3rd industrial revolution with the ubiquitous access of information technology and smartphones and the internet created new technology giants and brought innovations as a value creation driver to the forefront. Today, especially with post-COVID, digitization and newly emergent technologies will usher in a new growth curve. Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, termed the upcoming change as Industry 4.0*. For you as final year business students, you need to understand the new emergent technologies, familiarize yourself with the use cases, and develop a set of skills and knowledge around the management implications in the next generation of growth drivers.\n\n*Primary Drivers of Industry 4.0 (Source: Wikipedia https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution)"}, {"moduleCode": "MNO4861C", "title": "SILHCM: Corp Entrepreneurship & Busi Model Evaluation", "description": "This class emphasizes the cultivation of each student's ability to evaluate business models and their appropriateness for development in a corporate setting. As an advanced course the content is designed to improve students analytical, creative and communication skills. In a competitive environment, entrepreneurship is an essential and indispensable element in the success of every business organisation - whether small or large, new or long-established. This course focuses on corporate entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on the role of venture capital and spin-offs. Although corporate entrepreneurship encompasses a wide range of organisational activities, this course focuses primarily on managerial efforts aimed at the identification, development and exploitation of technical and organisational innovations and on effective new venture management in the context of large corporations."}, {"moduleCode": "MS1102E", "title": "Understanding the Contemporary Malay World", "description": "This is an introduction to studies on Malays and Malayness within countries in the Malay-Indonesian archipelago. The main question will be of conflict, change and continuity. Approaches in studying these responses will include topics on colonialism and the decolonisation of ideas, the interrogation of Malayness, development and political economy, Islam and its institutions, arts and literary aesthetics, gender, family and community, and state and Malay society in contemporary Singapore and the region."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2210", "title": "Malay Culture & Society", "description": "The main theme of this course is processes of change in Malay cultures and societies and how attempts at creating certainties are made. Part 1 introduces students to approaches in studying Malay culture and society. Malay culture and society does not exist in vacuum. In Part 2, we look at how in encountering \"others\" Malay culture and society has historically gone through and is going through massive changes. Part 3 highlights aspects of changes in contemporary Malay society including ethnicity and Malay identity, new Malay rich, Malay woman and femininity as well as national development and the indigenous people."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2211", "title": "Criticism in Modern Malay Literature", "description": "The course adopts the approach of literary criticism. It looks at modern Malay literature both in terms of literary creativity as well as ideas and content. This evaluation is set against the social-historical background which had inspired and shaped that literature, bringing out the contextual meanings of major works in modern Malay literature. A general assessment of modern Malay literature would be attempted, examining its role, achievement and direction for the future. This course is designed for students interested in literature and the sociology and history of ideas."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2212", "title": "Law and Malay Society", "description": "This course examines dominant perceptions of law in Malay society by focussing on ideas on adat law and Islamization of laws. It analyses socio\u2010historical factors conditioning perspectives and the function of ideas in relation to social groups that espouse them. The extent to which the mode of thinking on adat law is reflected in discourse on Islamising laws and its impact on legal development will be addressed. Concepts of ideology and Orientalism, Islam and adat law, Ideas on Islamization of laws and Shariah and the state are some major themes tackled."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2213", "title": "Families and Households - Lived Experiences", "description": "This course aims to provide an understanding of contemporary forms and practices of Malay families and households. It discusses the underlying concepts in family studies and prevalent notions of the Malay family and household derived from earlier studies. A major focus is to show the changing nature of Malay family and household structures as well as their diverse forms. Furthermore, the dynamic social relationships in households will be analyzed from different perspectives. In addition the course explores how Malay families \"design\" family styles in a context of changing societies. The course is targeted for students interested in family studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2215", "title": "Princes, Ports, Pomp, Piety and Pen in the Malay World", "description": "This course exposes students to indigenous political systems of the , commerce, material culture and Islam in the Malay world in the Early Modern period. This course examines a variety of approaches in the study of Malay pasts and the writing of Malay history by both indigenous and foreign scholars critically assessing these writings against wider developments in scholarship. This course decenters colonialism to reveal how the development of political culture, piety and commerce in the Malay world were results of pre-colonial inter-cultural borrowings during the period of early globalization through interactions with India, China and the Middle East. kerajaan"}, {"moduleCode": "MS2216", "title": "Fieldwork in Studies of Malay Society", "description": "In this course students will have a first\u2010hand experience of doing intensive field studies research in in either Singapore or overseas in Malaysia, Indonesia, Southern Philippines or Southern Thailand. A range of research themes and foci pertaining to Malay Studies will be offered based on the expertise of the faculty member teaching the course including socio\u2010history, development, religious life and gender relations."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2217", "title": "Singapore\u2019s Malay Built Heritage: Legacies of Diversity", "description": "Singapore\u2019s importance in the cosmopolitan circuits of the Malay World in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its position in the Straits of Malacca region, and the older legacies of fourteenth-century Singapura have produced significant built legacies. This course brings students through the range of places, sites, and building forms that constitute the diverse stories of the Singapore Malays from the urban to the rural. It discusses the roles of heritage landscapes and built works in identity debates and the discourses surrounding their transformations and developments. It also examines what has disappeared and how are they are being remembered."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2218", "title": "Malay-Islamic Cultural Encounters: Arts and Aesthetics", "description": "This course introduces the cultural art forms and aesthetics of the Malay World and their discursive frameworks. Part 1 surveys different categories of the visual arts \u2013 from woodcarving, metalwork, textiles, and weaponry to gravestones and religious ornament. It introduces the literary and other sources on their meanings and histories of formation and production, and discusses the cultural encounters they embody in their forms and meanings. Parts 2-3 discuss the concepts of art historical analysis that are relevant to a critical rethinking of the older ethnographic and orientalist perspectives and emerging contemporary and Islamic art discourses on the Malay World."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2219", "title": "Networks and the Malay World", "description": "This course examines various historical networks that flow across the Malay world from the 11th to the 21st centuries. It introduces students to the evolution, characteristics, and impact of commercial, diasporic, political, religious, educational, and media networks on the lives of Malays and other communities in the region. The three themes that recur throughout the course are: how networks are formed and sustained; how they interact with one another; how insights from different disciplines can aid in a more holistic study of these networks."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2220", "title": "Arts and Artists in the Nusantara", "description": "This course is about arts and artists in the Nusantara that refers to the archipelagic Malay \u2013 Indonesian world. Attention is drawn to the art making and distribution processes which are not only determined by artists but also involves other stakeholders. This includes critics, museum personnel, gallery owners, collectors, art consumers, interest groups as well as the state. The political, social, cultural and economic contexts in the Nusantara at different time periods will be considered to explain the kinds of artworks that emerge. Topics that will be covered include gender and race in the arts, art and activism, censorship and patronage."}, {"moduleCode": "MS2221", "title": "Sufism in Southeast Asia", "description": "Sufism is considered a mystical orientation in Islam. It constitutes an early formative phase in the history of Islamic transmission in Southeast Asia, incorporating Arabic, Persian, Turkish and South Asian influences, among others. In this course the origins, features, concepts and manifestations of Sufism in the Malay-Indonesian world are studied through various sources, among which are Malay classical texts and manuscripts produced between the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Sufi knowledges, personalities and practices in past and present contexts will also be drawn from contemporary historical, literary and social studies around the subject."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3209", "title": "Being Malays in Singapore", "description": "Who are the Malays of Singapore? How are they perceived and how do they perceive themselves? These and other related questions will be raised in this course. To answer these questions we will discuss the Malays in the socio-economic and political context they live in. The course is divided into five topics: Topic 1 looks at the socio-history of the Malays. Topic 2 introduces approaches in studying Malays of Singapore. Topics 3, 4 and 5 look at different dimensions of their life in Singapore i.e. as Singapore citizens, as part of the Malay \"community\" and as members of \"Malay families\"."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3210", "title": "Modern Indonesian Literature", "description": "The course studies the development of modern Indonesian literature, highlighting major themes and thought. The achievement of modern Indonesian literature in expressing the aspirations of the Indonesians would be evaluated. The dynamics between art, literature and society would be inquired into in the light of literary and cultural theories. The course aims not only at an understanding and appreciation of modern Indonesian literature but also the historical, cultural and intellectual experience of Indonesia as an evolving nation as reflected in literature. The course is beneficial for both students of Southeast Asian literature as well as its society and culture."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3211", "title": "Political Culture of the Malays", "description": "This course will examine the nature and origins of the current day Malay political behaviour as observed. It will focus on the Malay concepts regarding government (kerajaan); consensus building (musyawarah) authority/power; dissent; patronage; territoriality, loyalty; and leadership. Close attention will be given to the role of the traditional and modern political elites in the shaping of Malay political culture. Relevant theoretical perspectives will also be provided. This course is targeted for FASS students."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3212", "title": "Text and Ideology in the Malay World", "description": "The course explores the various forms which can be identified in classical Malay literature, such as folklore, historical romances, the legal digests as well the traditional verses of pantuns and the syair. The relationship between these art forms and society would be examined, with the aim of constructing the culture and worldview of traditional Malay society. The course also attempts at evaluation of the relevance and significance of classical Malay literature for contemporary Malay society and culture. The course applies the multidisciplinary approach to compliment relevant theories on literature and art."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3213", "title": "Ideology & Ideas on Malay Development", "description": "This course seeks to expose students to the thinking of Malay elite on Malay development. In discussing the ideas of the elite, various ideologies and styles of thought would be identified and examined as to their influence on development philosophy. A critique of the thinking of the Malay elite would be attempted. The conditioning of feudalism, colonialism, Islam, nationalism and capitalism on development thinking would be critically analysed. The course is designed for students interested in issues of Malay development and intellectual history."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3214", "title": "Asian Traditions and Modernisation", "description": "Tradition and modernisation are two concepts in need of deeper examination given their resonance in popular and scholarly discourse. This course will critically approach tradition as encompassing the plural \u201cAsian traditions\u201d and the notion of modernisation or modernity, as they relate to transformational experiences of nation-making, identity-formation and self and communal actualization. Debates and critiques on Asian traditions and modernity are examined in relation to nation, gender, intellectualism, spirituality, heritage, visual arts, architecture and aesthetics in the Malay world in comparison to other Asian and global experiences."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3215", "title": "Malays and Modernization", "description": "This course discusses the issue and significance of modernization, modernity and post modernity within the Malay world. It adopts a comparative and multi-disciplinary approach, using the tools of sociology, cultural studies and politics to critically understand and revisit the notions of modernisation in the Malay experience and in the global context. The aim is to understand the concept, nature, dynamics and the impact of modernization and its antecedents on phenomena such as economic development, social movements, intellectual discourse, political mobilization, religious institutions, art, architecture and popular culture in Malay society."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3216", "title": "Gender and Islam", "description": "This course studies gender relations and the social construction of femininities and masculinities within the Malay-Muslim world. Theories and concepts analysing gender roles and representations in the spheres of family, work, arts, media, social movements and religious texts and laws will be examined. An understanding and appreciation of debates and contestations around questions of gender agency, empowerment or disempowerment as they relate to Islam forms one of the main thrusts of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3217", "title": "Political Economy, Ethnicity, Religion", "description": "The development of capitalism may affect cultural communities differently, hence the necessity for studying the political economy of Malay society from pre-colonial to contemporary periods. How and why do ethno-religious identities such as being Malay and Muslim shape distinct policies and practices of economics, business and entrepreneurship? Case studies examined will include forms of ethnic-oriented economic affirmative action policy, halal and Islamic financial services industry and the corporatisation of certain Syariah activities."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3218", "title": "The Religious Life of the Malays", "description": "This course aims to provide students with critical understanding and awareness of the religious orientations and institutions of the Malays, the major factors that influence these, their significance, potentials and challenges in the context of the demands of technological change and modernisation. It also seeks to develop perspectives on the study of Malay religious life. Major topics examined include theoretical insights into the sociology of religion, socio\u2010historical factors and their impact on Malay religious orientations."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3550", "title": "Malay Studies Internship", "description": "Internships vary in length but all take place within organisations or companies. All internships are vetted and approved by the Department of Malay Studies, have relevance to the major in Malay Studies, involve the application of subject knowledge and theory in reflection upon the work, and are assessed.\n\nAvailable credited internships will be advertised at the beginning of each semester. In exceptional cases, internships proposed by students may be approved by the department."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student\u2019s Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Malay Studies department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Malay Studies department."}, {"moduleCode": "MS3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4101", "title": "Theory and Practice in Malay Studies", "description": "The theoretical underpinnings of each phase of the development of Malay studies would be examined based on representative works. The contribution and pitfalls of each phase of its development would be critically appraised. A general and critical evaluation of the present state of Malay Studies as an area study would be undertaken. The significance and relevance of Malay studies in relation to the social sciences and the other humanities would be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4101HM", "title": "Theory and Practice in Malay Studies", "description": "The theoretical underpinnings of each phase of the development of Malay studies would be examined based on representative works. The contribution and pitfalls of each phase of its development would be critically appraised. A general and critical evaluation of the present state of Malay Studies as an area study would be undertaken. The significance and relevance of Malay studies in relation to the social sciences and the other humanities would be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4201", "title": "Social Change in the Malay World", "description": "The course looks in depth at the nature and significance of various social changes in Malay society 1900-1950. Some topics to be covered would be changes in education, economic life, urbanization, ethnic relations, westernization, religious life and administration of Islam, the changing roles of Malay rulers and traditional Malay elite, the development of Malay nationalism, the development of modern literature, the issue of tradition and change, the challenges of social reform. Course is meant for students interested in the study of social change among the Malays, as well as Southeast Asia in general."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4201HM", "title": "Social Change in the Malay World", "description": "The course looks in depth at the nature and significance of various social changes in Malay society 1900-1950. Some topics to be covered would be changes in education, economic life, urbanization, ethnic relations, westernization, religious life and administration of Islam, the changing roles of Malay rulers and traditional Malay elite, the development of Malay nationalism, the development of modern literature, the issue of tradition and change, the challenges of social reform. Course is meant for students interested in the study of social change among the Malays, as well as Southeast Asia in general."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4202", "title": "Traditional and Colonial Society in the Malay World", "description": "This course focuses on the conditions of traditional Malay society and covers the following topics: The nature and function of the Malay ruling class, the social and political position of the subject class, the position and function of Islam, the structure and nature of traditional administration, impact of the introduction of Western rule on Malay administration, the nature of traditional economy, aspects of Malay education, traditional Malay recreations. This course is meant for students interested in Malay cultural history in particular and Southeast Asian history in general."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4202HM", "title": "Traditional and Colonial Society in the Malay World", "description": "This course focuses on the conditions of traditional Malay society and covers the following topics: The nature and function of the Malay ruling class, the social and political position of the subject class, the position and function of Islam, the structure and nature of traditional administration, impact of the introduction of Western rule on Malay administration, the nature of traditional economy, aspects of Malay education, traditional Malay recreations. This course is meant for students interested in Malay cultural history in particular and Southeast Asian history in general."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4204", "title": "The Malay Middle Class", "description": "This course examines the emergence of a new social group in Malay history, namely the Malay middle class. In the past, the dominant Malay elite had always been associated with the hierarchy of traditional Malay society. With the introduction of Malay capitalism in the 70s under the New Economic Plan (NEP), there has been the emergence of the Malay middle class. This course looks at the background of its emergence, identifies its socio-historical characteristics, and evaluates its influence on society and nation in general. Insights on the Malay middle class can contribute to an understanding of Southeast Asian affairs."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4204HM", "title": "The Malay Middle Class", "description": "This course examines the emergence of a new social group in Malay history, namely the Malay middle class. In the past, the dominant Malay elite had always been associated with the hierarchy of traditional Malay society. With the introduction of Malay capitalism in the 70s under the New Economic Plan (NEP), there has been the emergence of the Malay middle class. This course looks at the background of its emergence, identifies its socio-historical characteristics, and evaluates its influence on society and nation in general. Insights on the Malay middle class can contribute to an understanding of Southeast Asian affairs."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4207", "title": "Reading the Malay-Indonesian Film", "description": "This course invites students to reflect on Malay and Indonesian films in their various genres and historical periods. The main themes, ideas and values reflected in films of the Malay world are analysed and understood against the social, political, and economic contexts of their times. Through a reflection on films which centrally revolve around tropes and motifs of the Malay world and Muslim societies, the course provides insights into the evolution and development of global trends such as modernization, Islamization, and pluralization."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4207HM", "title": "Reading the Malay-Indonesian Film", "description": "This course invites students to reflect on Malay and Indonesian films in their various genres and historical periods. The main themes, ideas and values reflected in films of the Malay world are analysed and understood against the social, political, and economic contexts of their times. Through a reflection on films which centrally revolve around tropes and motifs of the Malay world and Muslim societies, the course provides insights into the evolution and development of global trends such as modernization, Islamization, and pluralization."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4208", "title": "Syariah Law in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course analyses perspectives on Shariah and their implications on rights and well-being of Malays in modern nation states in Southeast Asia. Concepts such as neo-Orientalism, traditionalism, revivalism and reformism will be utilised to analyse discourse on Shariah based on sources that include articles, reports, fatwa, judgements and legislation. The overriding aim is to understand how modes of thought embody and condition the selection, conceptualisation and application of Syariah law in specific areas the region. Challenges posed to its compatibility with constitutional norms and human rights conventions as well as prospects for its adaptation to change will also be analysed."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4208HM", "title": "Syariah Law in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course analyses perspectives on Shariah and their implications on rights and well-being of Malays in modern nation states in Southeast Asia. Concepts such as neo-Orientalism, traditionalism, revivalism and reformism will be utilised to analyse discourse on Shariah based on sources that include articles, reports, fatwa, judgements and legislation. The overriding aim is to understand how modes of thought embody and condition the selection, conceptualisation and application of Syariah law in specific areas the region. Challenges posed to its compatibility with constitutional norms and human rights conventions as well as prospects for its adaptation to change will also be analysed."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "For the Honours Thesis, students are required to carry out a research under the supervision of a staff member from the Department. Topics will be chosen by students in consultation with and approved by the staff member. Students will learn how to do research based on primary and secondary data and write a thesis of 8000-10000 words. Honours Thesis is equivalent to three courses."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "For the Honours Thesis, students are required to carry out a research under the supervision of a staff member from the Department. Topics will be chosen by students in consultation with and approved by the staff member. Students will learn how to do research based on primary and secondary data and write a thesis of 10,000 to 12,000 words. Honours Thesis is equivalent to three courses."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This course allows for student to define a topic and a list of readings under the guidance of an academic staff of the Department leading to a project work. Students are required to write a paper of 5,000 to 6,000 words. The Independent Study is equivalent to one course."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This course allows for student to define a topic and a list of readings under the guidance of an academic staff of the Department leading to a project work. Students are required to write a paper of 5,000 to 6,000 words. The Independent Study is equivalent to one course."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4880", "title": "Topics in Malay Studies", "description": "This course is designed to allow faculty members or visiting staff to teach specific topics in their areas of interest and expertise."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4880A", "title": "Orientations in Muslim Resurgence Movements", "description": "This course investigates the role of Islam in the contemporary Malay world in an historical and comparative manner. The focus is on contemporary Muslim movements while the historical background is discussed to provide the necessary context for the understanding of the origins of the current Muslim revival. The course also looks at the nature and function of Muslim reform in Malay society in the socio, political, economic and legal arenas. Comparative references to similar phenomena in other parts of the Muslim world are made. Empirical cases are discussed in the context of theoretical problems raised in the social scientific study of religion."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4880AHM", "title": "Orientations in Muslim Resurgence Movements", "description": "This course investigates the role of Islam in the contemporary Malay world in an historical and comparative manner. The focus is on contemporary Muslim movements while the historical background is discussed to provide the necessary context for the understanding of the origins of the current Muslim revival. The course also looks at the nature and function of Muslim reform in Malay society in the socio, political, economic and legal arenas. Comparative references to similar phenomena in other parts of the Muslim world are made. Empirical cases are discussed in the context of theoretical problems raised in the social scientific study of religion."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4880B", "title": "Malays Encountering Globalization: Culture and Identity", "description": "This course examines the encounters between Malay culture and globalization. Dimensions of these encounters include the dissolving of frontiers and divisions of Malay culture associated with global consumer citizenship, the active interpenetration and combination of cultural elements as a consequence of human flows and availability of information and, developments revolving around rejection or turning away from changes that have come out of global integration. Empirical cases drawn from the Malay world in the areas of media, internet, tourism, popular culture and music etc will be discussed towards understanding the factor of diversity and difference in the Malay cultural experience of"}, {"moduleCode": "MS4880BHM", "title": "Malays Encountering Globalization: Culture and Identity", "description": "This course examines the encounters between Malay culture and globalization. Dimensions of these encounters include the dissolving of frontiers and divisions of Malay culture associated with global consumer citizenship, the active interpenetration and combination of cultural elements as a consequence of human flows and availability of information and, developments revolving around rejection or turning away from changes that have come out of global integration. Empirical cases drawn from the Malay world in the areas of media, internet, tourism, popular culture and music etc will be discussed towards understanding the factor of diversity and difference in the Malay cultural experience of"}, {"moduleCode": "MS4880C", "title": "Topics in Malay Art Forms", "description": "This course is designed to allow instructors to teach specific topics in their areas of interest and expertise. It enables students to pursue in-depth studies on particular topics in Malay art forms, which can include literature, film, theatre, dance, martial arts, fine arts, design and architecture. This course will compare art forms from various parts of the region, with a focus on Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The course will study past and contemporary art forms while possible concepts such as identity, subjectivity, gender, and religion, will be used to navigate the meanings through these forms."}, {"moduleCode": "MS4880CHM", "title": "Topics in Malay Art Forms", "description": "This course is designed to allow instructors to teach specific topics in their areas of interest and expertise. It enables students to pursue in-depth studies on particular topics in Malay art forms, which can include literature, film, theatre, dance, martial arts, fine arts, design and architecture. This course will compare art forms from various parts of the region, with a focus on Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The course will study past and contemporary art forms while possible concepts such as identity, subjectivity, gender, and religion, will be used to navigate the meanings through these forms."}, {"moduleCode": "MS5101", "title": "Social Science and Malay Studies", "description": "This course explores the relevance and applicability of selected major theories in the social sciences for Malay Studies. As far as possible the course aims at combining theoretical reflection with research materials on major aspects of Malay society and culture. The course encourages the exploration of creative methodology and theorising in Malay Studies research beyond mere exposition of social scientific theories. The course is highly relevant for students interested in understanding the promises as well as the pitfalls of the social sciences in Southeast Asian research."}, {"moduleCode": "MS5201", "title": "Critiques in Malay Studies", "description": "This course examines the state of Malay Studies through critiques of existing works, aiming towards theoretical refinement, as well as the building up of research materials. The course aims towards placing Malay Studies on stronger foundation, both theoretically and substantively. It is also the objective to identify new areas of research that could be developed. The course is relevant to students interested in understanding the socio-cultural history of the Malays, as well as appreciating the state of the social sciences in Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "MS5202", "title": "Critical Issues on Islam in Southeast Asia", "description": "A global classroom graduate course that examines contemporary issues and challenges confronting the Malays in the region and their social institutions under the impact of social change. Themes include approaches to the study of Islam, Muslim personal law, religious education, the impact of the network society on religion, commodification of religion, social mobility, public health, social problems and the role of the modernising elite. Themes will be reviewed periodically to capture changing discourse and trends. The physical/online course with a fieldtrip component is also open to FASS alumni (CET), honours MS/USP/University College students and those from partner universities."}, {"moduleCode": "MS5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Malay Studies in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed upon topic, readings and assignments for the course. A formal written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, number of contact hours, assignments, evaluation, and other relevant details. The Head\u2019s and/or Graduate Coordinator\u2019s approval is required. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "MS6101", "title": "Social Science Theories and Malay Studies", "description": "SOCIAL SCIENCE THEORIES AND MALAY STUDIES"}, {"moduleCode": "MS6102", "title": "Critiques in Malay Studies", "description": "CRITIQUES IN MALAY STUDIES"}, {"moduleCode": "MS6201", "title": "Literature and Art in Malay Society", "description": "The course examines Malay literature and art through the perspective of the sociology and history of ideas. Emphasis would be placed both on form and essence of Malay literature and art with the aim of understanding the world view which had given expression to them. The course investigates the relationship between literature and art as an expression of the cultural identity of the Malays, both from the point of view of aesthetics as well as cultural meanings. The course is relevant for students interested in cultural history and sociology of art in general."}, {"moduleCode": "MS6202", "title": "Elite and Intellectuals in Malay Society", "description": "The course examines the nature of Malay elite and intellectuals in Malay history and evaluates their influence or impact on Malay society. This would be done through recourse to major theoretical studies on elite and intellectuals and their roles in society. As elite and intellectuals represent the more influential elements in their society, the course would also inquire into the contemporary problems of leadership and the development of democracy in Malay society and culture."}, {"moduleCode": "MS6203", "title": "Religion and Modernisation", "description": "This course proposes to study the role of Islam in influencing the response of the Malays to modernization and social change in general. In examining the dynamics between Islam and modernization, the course looks at both the doctrines of Islam, as well as the particular orientation of Islam that Malay society had evolved in history. The course aims not only at an understanding of how the challenge of modernization is being faced by the Malays but also seeks to understand and evaluate general theories on religion, modernization and social change through the social-historical experience of Malay society and culture."}, {"moduleCode": "MS6205", "title": "Approaches to Studying Islam in Society", "description": "In approaching the study of Islam and its various dimensions in society, pertinent themes, theories and methods relevant for graduate research on religion will be explored. Subject themes will cover established and contested Islamic traditions throughout the history of Islamic transmission in the Malay-Indonesian world. Methods of study can include the use of various data sources and epistemologies in analysing Islam\u2019s cultural, political and social manifestations. Case studies drawn globally will provide the comparative contexts in the uses of theme, theory and method."}, {"moduleCode": "MS6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Malay Studies in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed upon topic, readings and assignments for the course. A formal written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, number of contact hours, assignments, evaluation, and other relevant details. The Head\u2019s and/or Graduate Coordinator\u2019s approval is required. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "MS6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation"}, {"moduleCode": "MST5001", "title": "Structures And Properties Of Materials", "description": "This course equips students with the basic knowledge of structures and properties of engineering materials. The topics covered include atomic bonding and condensed phases; crystal structures, crystallography and crystal imperfections; the thermodynamics of alloys, phase equilibrium and phase diagrams; thermally activated processes, diffusion, kinetics of phase transformation, non-equilibrium phases; mechanical properties and strengthening mechanisms, fracture of materials, corrosion and oxidation resistance, other properties. Working engineers and graduate students who have no former training in materials but wish to pursue further studies and R&D in engineering materials should attend this course."}, {"moduleCode": "MST5002", "title": "Materials Characterisation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MST5666", "title": "Industrial Attachment", "description": "This course provides engineering research students with work attachment experience in a company."}, {"moduleCode": "MT2001", "title": "Experiencing Engineering Leadership", "description": "Leadership is a learnable skill developed through experiencing, reflecting and\ninternalizing. Crafted specifically for students from engineering disciplines, in\nthis module, students will be provided with a foundational knowledge of\nleadership theories and principles as guiding tools as they find their own path\ntowards becoming leaders in engineering. Varied opportunities will then be\nprovided for students to use this knowledge to learn what it means to be an\nengineer\u2010leader including reflection on experience sharing from engineer-leaders who have made a difference, experiential workshops to sharpen communication and soft\u2010skills, as well as project work to start putting these skills to use."}, {"moduleCode": "MT3001", "title": "Systems Thinking and Engineering", "description": "This course offers students a foundation for analysing diverse elements of a complex problem as a coherent, interacting system. The major topics covered include comparison of reductionist to systems thinking, characteristics of systems thinking, frameworks and tools of Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering, applied in the context of Engineering and Technology Management."}, {"moduleCode": "MT4001", "title": "Innovation and Entrepreneurial Strategy", "description": "This experiential and case-based learning course will provide an innovation and entrepreneurial strategy framework for students who are interested to engage in innovation-based entrepreneurship. The course aims to provide an in-depth understanding of technological innovations, strategic choices confronting innovators interested in start-ups and commercialization, and a framework for the development and implementation of entrepreneurial ventures and business plans in dynamic environments. Major topics such as leveraging open innovation, selecting an appropriate market, innovation and IP strategy, as well as strategic learning and experimentation in entrepreneurial strategy will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "MT4002", "title": "Technology Management Strategy", "description": "The aim of this course is to help engineering students commercialize new products and services, which is key part of an engineer's career. Effective commercialization requires engineers to think about a product\u2019s value proposition, customers, method of value capture, scope of activities, and method of strategic control, all of which can be defined as a \u201cproduct\u2019s strategy.\u201d By providing good theory, examples, and cases, this course helps students understand these necessary aspects of commercialization and to the changes that are occurring in industry that facilitate commercialization. These changes include standards, vertical disintegration, open innovation, and open science."}, {"moduleCode": "MT4003", "title": "Engineering Product Development", "description": "Companies live or die by their ability to successfully launch new products into the market place. The basic tenets are: know your market, know your customers and develop products that will delight your customers. The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the theory and practice of New Product Development and New Product Introduction (NPI) methods. The course explores various NPI systems, frugal innovation, disruptive innovation and portfolio management skills. Students will gain insight into how to influence multi-disciplinary teams with engineering best practices and design thinking for NPI."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5001", "title": "Intellectual Property Management & Innovation Strategy", "description": "The objective of this course is to understand the management of intellectual property (IP) assets which have become increasingly more valuable than conventional physical assets in the knowledge economy. We will focus on how to use IP to defend the position of a firm, manage costs, create and capture value, synthesize opportunities and shape the future. The emphasis is on technology-based firms and the needs and strategies of owners of IP and complementary assets in the innovation ecosystem. We will study innovation and commercialization strategies to maximize IP values and improve the decision-making process for innovation, R&D and corporate activities."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5002", "title": "Management of Industrial R&D", "description": "The first part of this course will introduce the 3rd-generation R&D practice which is used currently by successful industrial organizations. The strategic role of R&D in innovation, organization issues in R&D and the evaluation of returns and risks will be presented. The second part of this course will introduce the emerging 4th-generation R&D practice which will augment the current practice in addressing news issues due to discontinuous innovation, increasing importance of tacit knowledge and the need to embrace knowledge management in R&D."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5003", "title": "Creativity and Innovation", "description": "The first part covers the fundamentals of creativity and includes topics on different ways of thinking, understanding and communications, methods for inventive thinking and problem solving (e.g., TRIZ). The second part studies innovation and how creativity can lead to innovation. Examples, case studies (e.g., \u201cbreakthroughs\u201d) and exercises are used throughout to demonstrate concepts in practice. The course aims to equip the students with knowledge and provide an avenue for students to practice concepts learned so as to enhance the students\u2019 creative thinking ability and thereby facilitate the student\u2019s ability to realize innovations."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5004", "title": "User-Centred Engineering & Product Development", "description": "The first part covers fundamentals of User-Centred Engineering, various techniques and tools for obtaining Voice of Customers, Data analyses, Utilization of multi-source data, and application of these to create decision support tools for product Design and implementation of Product Development roadmaps. The second Part covers case studies in different product domains with relevant small projects to familiarize students with the various usability-engineering processes and reinforce classroom learning. The course aims to provide the students with knowledge of user-centred engineering principles and tools and equip them to manage and better leverage User-centred Engineering resources in product development."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5005", "title": "IP Law For Engineers and Scientists", "description": "The fields of science and engineering have a direct correlation to the creation and protection of intellectual property (IP). This course intends to offer the engineering and science students at graduate-level, but senior undergraduates can be considered, an introduction of Intellectual Property Law, emphasizing more on patent related subjects. It aims to equip the students with a practical IP knowledge which leads to a handy resource for them to use in the professional career. The main topics are: (i) the Overview of IP Law, (ii) Technological Aspects of Patent Law and Practice, and (iii) Business Aspect of IP Management."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5006", "title": "Value Creation Through Product Development", "description": "The development of new products and services is value creation. Success relies on obtaining critical information, whether you are with a start-up or from a large company. This course focuses on important aspects of market and customer engagement, value creation, design thinking and innovative business models. The goal is to create a holistic view of a new business opportunity and then credibly pitch that information to gain support and financing for your idea. It's about managing risk and making informed decisions to create a sustainable, profitable business while creating value for yourself and your customers."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5006A", "title": "New Product Development Process", "description": "This course introduces the key processes in new product development from opportunity identification to product launch. Relevant tools and techniques such as user observation, survey and prototyping, will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5006B", "title": "New Product Development and Corporate Strategy", "description": "This course introduces the links between new product development and the corporate strategy of a company. The relationships between the different types of organizational structure and new product development strategy will also be discussed. Other topics that will be covered include platform and derivative product development and also product technology roadmap."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5007", "title": "Management of Technological Innovation", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students develop a strong conceptual foundation for managing technological innovation. It introduces concepts and frameworks for how firms can create, commercialize and capture value from technology-based products and services. The course is designed for business managers and engineers who are involved in the research and development, marketing, acquisitions, and strategic assessments of new technologies. Topics covered include (i) the evolution of industries; (ii) technological discontinuities and vertical disintegration; (iii) network effects and standards; (iv) profiting from innovation and intellectual property (IP); (v) R&D management; and (vi) managing knowledge and learning."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5007A", "title": "Types and Patterns of Technological Innovation", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students develop conceptual foundation for managing technological innovation. It introduces concepts and frameworks for analysing how firms can create, commercialize and capture value from technology-based products and services. The focus is on management rather than the specific details of any particular technology."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5007B", "title": "Technological Innovation Strategies", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students develop a strong foundation pertaining to technology and innovation strategies. The course will cover various strategies that technology managers can adopt in introducing innovations to the marketplace and maximizing economic rents from them. The focus is on management rather than the specific details of any particular technology."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5007G", "title": "Management of Technological Innovation", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students develop a strong conceptual foundation for managing technological innovation. It introduces concepts and frameworks for how firms can create, commercialize and capture value from technology-based products and services. The course is designed for business managers and engineers who are involved in the research and development, marketing, acquisitions, and strategic assessments of new technologies. Topics covered include (i) the evolution of industries; (ii) technological discontinuities and vertical disintegration; (iii) network effects and standards; (iv) profiting from innovation and intellectual property (IP); (v) R&D management; and (vi) managing knowledge and learning."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5007H", "title": "Management of Technological Innovation", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students develop a strong conceptual foundation for managing technological innovation. It introduces concepts and frameworks for how firms can create, commercialize and capture value from technology-based products and services. The course is designed for business managers and engineers who are involved in the research and development, marketing, acquisitions, and strategic assessments of new technologies. Topics covered include (i) the evolution of industries; (ii) technological discontinuities and vertical disintegration; (iii) network effects and standards; (iv) profiting from innovation and intellectual property (IP); (v) R&D management; and (vi) managing knowledge and learning."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5008", "title": "Internal and Collaborative Corporate Entrepreneurship", "description": "Entrepreneurship is to the company what speed is to the athlete. In the quest for sustainable competitive advantage, companies are finding that lower costs, higher quality and better customer service are not enough - they must be faster, more flexible, more aggressive and more innovative. Most managers acknowledge this, but few seem to understand how to make it happen. Building on management and entrepreneurship theories and real-life cases, this course will provide a deep understanding the entrepreneurial orientation of a firm and how firms can build entrepreneurial capabilities, both through internal corporate venturing and collaborative corporate venturing."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5008A", "title": "Corporate Venture Creation", "description": "Entrepreneurship is to the company what speed is to the athlete. In the quest for sustainable competitive advantage, companies are finding that lower costs, higher quality and better customer service are not enough - they must be faster, more flexible, more aggressive and more innovative. Most managers acknowledge this, but few seem to understand how to make it happen.\n\nThe focus of this course is on will be on understanding the firm and its environment and how firms can build entrepreneurial capabilities."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5008B", "title": "Collaborative Corporate Entrepreneurship", "description": "Companies need to be agile and to continually innovate. In the quest for sustainable competitive advantage, companies are finding that lower costs, higher quality and better customer service are not enough - they must be faster, more flexible, more aggressive and more innovative. But companies do not need to do it alone. They can collaborate with other firms and organizations to develop its corporate entrepreneurship capabilities.\n\nThe focus of this course is on will be on understanding the firm and how it can build entrepreneurial capabilities through collaboration."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5009", "title": "Analyzing Hi-Technology Opportunities", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students understand how technological change creates opportunities for new products and services. Students learn about how improvements in performance and cost, including the drivers of them, cause new technologies to become economically feasible over time. This is done in general and for many specific technologies. This enables students to better understand the timing of economic feasibility and thus the opportunities that are currently emerging for specific technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5010", "title": "Technology Forecasting, Intelligence & Foresighting", "description": "Successful R&D engineers and managers should have the foresight to anticipate and drive technological changes and convert them into strategic assets to organizations. This course will equip students with technology forecasting, intelligence and foresighting skills, make use of the foresight to generate strategic intellectual assets and realize value from them to succeed in competitive environment. Effective collection and transformation of information into intelligence requires awareness of enterprise niches and alternatives, as well as the search and analytical skills of data and information. The course will emphasize these skills and impart a thorough understanding business & technology related strategic frameworks."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5010A", "title": "Technology Intelligence Process and Methods", "description": "A very important quality of successful R&D engineers and managers is to anticipate and drive technological changes and convert them into strategic assets to organizations. This course aims to equip students with technology forecasting and intelligence skills, and make use of the intelligence to create commercially successful innovations."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5010B", "title": "Technology Intelligence with IP Strategies", "description": "This course aims to equip students with strategic insights and analytical skills of technology, intellectual property (IP) and business competition. Effective collection and transformation of information into competitive intelligence requires a comprehensive awareness of enterprise niches and alternatives. It needs a thorough understanding of the strategic frameworks and decisions with regard to business, technology and IP. This course covers main topics such as : (1) In-house IP management and strategy (2) Hands-on training of information search and intelligence analysis and (3) IP roadmapping to support technological roadmap."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5011", "title": "Business Finance in the Technology Industry", "description": "The objective of this course is to prepare students to be future leaders in technology companies and technopreneurs in today\u2019s digital economy. It is an interdisciplinary introduction to business finance with students learning how to read financial statements and use basic finance tools and concepts, which are fundamental to understand various business issues such as business models and strategies, ecosystem, fund raising strategy, borrowings, IPO, valuations, stock options, etc. Complementary skills such as teamwork, problems identification and solving, information gathering and data analysis will also be cultivated through group projects and current case studies on international and Singaporean technology companies."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5012", "title": "Marketing of Technology Products in the Digital Era", "description": "In the digital era, in addition to concepts of marketing, students should also get exposed to latest tools and techniques that successful firms use to market technology products. It should be supported by numbers. Therefore, the course will additionally emphasize on 1. Which tools and techniques work better with the target segment? What are the upcoming trends? 2. How are these decisions made anchoring back to numbers?"}, {"moduleCode": "MT5013", "title": "Global Innovation Management", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students to analyze issues concerning global innovation management of multinational firms and to learn how to apply what they learn to real cases in high technology industries. After introducing key concepts and frameworks in the fields regarding global innovation management (such as international management, national innovation systems, international product\ndevelopment), the professor will use these to explain the management of multinational firms, which straddle multiple countries and regions and arbitrage different national and regional environments for innovation in order to compete internationally. Students, both individually and in teams, will use this information to\nchoose and analyze specific firms and countries (regions) to understand better the issues related to the subjects taught in this course, concerning issues."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5014", "title": "Systems Approach to Tech and Innov Mgt", "description": "The systems approach to technology and innovation management courses provides the student with a foundation for understanding and managing technology and innovation. The emphasis is on \"system thinking\" and problem solving as applied to technology and innovation management."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5015", "title": "The Financial and Business Aspects of Intellectual Property (IP)", "description": "The objective of this subject is to train professionals for the technology sector who may be involved in technology and intellectual property management areas (R&D project management, licensing management, etc) to understand the business and financial considerations that go into IP deals and IP strategies, to articulate\nthese at higher management or Board-levels, and to apply their knowledge in development of long-term strategies for the management of IP portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5016", "title": "Business Models for Hi-Tech Products", "description": "The aim of this course is to help students create business models for high-technology products and services. A successful business model includes consistency among choice of customers, value proposition, scope of activities, method of value capture, and method of strategic control. This course uses examples from a broad set of industries and detailed cases to help students understand the elements of a business model and the importance of consistency among them. It uses group projects, individual papers, and class participation (particularly in cases) to assess student performance."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5017", "title": "Integrative Design Thinking Workshop", "description": "This course introduces students to the core philosophy of Design Thinking, a methodology which integrates design, technology and business research to facilitate service and product innovation as well as strategic planning and\ndecision making for future scenarios.\n\nStudents are expected to develop three necessary skills: Ideation/observational abilities \u2013 \u201clistening with their eyes\u201d; prototyping - \u201cthinking with their hands\u201d; and innovate collaboratively in an interdisciplinary work environment."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5018", "title": "Managing and Organizing Open Innovation", "description": "The theme of this course is how open innovation and open\nbusiness models can generate competitive strategies for\nboth small and large companies. We look at both the\nstrategy making as well as at the strategy implementation.\nThe course draws on recent research and thinking in\n(open) innovation management and books/materials by\nleading experts. The course will help students to integrate\ntheir knowledge about strategic management,\nentrepreneurship, and innovation management and it\nprovides new ways of thinking that will lead to the creation\nof highly differentiated strategies and business models.\nMore specifically, the course focuses on open innovation\nto particular cases in large companies, the strength and\nweaknesses of open innovation strategies, and the\norganization and implementation of open innovation\npractices.\nThe course also extends beyond open innovation and\nexplores more complex systems such as innovation\necosystems where different types of partners are\ncollaborating to jointly establish a new product or solve a\nsocietal problem (e.g. in healthcare or pollution control).\nStudents are requested to apply the knowledge examined\nin the course to new technologies or scientific disciplines.\nIn particular, group assignments are developed in areas\nsuch as healthcare, sustainability and cleantech\ntechnologies, and big data."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5020", "title": "Managing the Human elements of Technology Management", "description": "The successful management of the human aspects of technological innovation has been increasingly recognised as an essential element for project success. Building on engineering, psychology and management literatures, the aim of this course is to provide students with a theoretical understanding and a foundation for developing skills related to motivations, team work, role transition, conflict management and productivity management. As such, this course is a valuable complement to traditional engineering courses that focus much on the technical developments."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5020A", "title": "Human Aspects of Technological Innovation", "description": "To succeed in today\u2019s technological world characterised by short-life-cycles and disruptions, there is a need for engineers to understand human issues and behaviour commonly found in modern technology\u2013centric organisations. Integrating engineering, psychology and management, this course will equip students with the fundamental concepts in aspects such as team work, communication, motivations and conflict management. These knowledge will complement knowledge in innovation theories, product development and project management, enabling students to have a better and more complete understanding on initiating and implementing innovation in organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5021", "title": "Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills", "description": "Engineers often have to deal with problems that go beyond their technical domains. How can one solve problems that we are not trained in? What are the guiding principles for good problem-solving? This course introduces students to the craft and science of problem-solving and creativity. We will examine the similarities and differences between established problem-solving methodologies such as design thinking, business process re-engineering (BPR) and TQM\u2019s DMAIC. Participants will learn the importance of comprehensiveness, creativity, and convergence in problem-solving, By learning the language and terminologies common in problem-solving, participants will learn the principles and skills of creative problem-solving."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5022", "title": "Digital Disruption and Technology Strategy", "description": "This course introduces students to digital technologies such as platforms, big data and predictive analytics, machine learning, block chain, and internet of things. Digital corporations (e.g. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Uber, Netflix, Bitcoin\u2026) are changing the status quo and revolutionizing business as they have few products and many services, and they connect people to one another. This course introduces students to digital strategies and prepares them to think of innovation in a digital context, and export this to their organizations to engage in disruptive transformation."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5023", "title": "Technology-Based Entrepreneurial Strategy", "description": "This experiential and case-based learning course will provide an entrepreneurial strategy framework for students interested to engage in technology-based entrepreneurship. The course aims to provide an in-depth understanding of technological innovations, focusing on the strategic choices confronting innovators interested in start-ups and venture formation. Through the course, students will build a strategy framework for the development and implementation of entrepreneurial and business ventures based on technological innovations in dynamic environments. Topics to be covered include choosing an appropriate technology, market, competition and entrepreneurial identity as well as formulating a sound innovation and entrepreneurial strategy through learning and experimentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5024", "title": "Maximising Innovation Value through Patent Analytics", "description": "80% of the technical information is found only in patent. Patent database provides a valuable source of information to guide business decisions. By performing various types of patent analytics throughout the innovation cycle, companies can be guided to benchmark, design around and identify collaboration and commercialization opportunities. Desirably, also to save costs in building up its IP portfolio. The course aims to equip the students with essential IP knowledge to allow the innovation managers to make informed decision to mitigate IP risks and maximize the value of innovation through patent analytics."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5025", "title": "Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship", "description": "Intellectual property (IP) management, together with technology innovation and entrepreneurship culture are key pillars to support innovation in chemicals, materials and biotechnology businesses. This module covers the essentials of: (i) IP Management, covering landscape, commercialization, technology, economic, and business aspects, including value maximization strategies; (ii) Patent Analytics, covering patent database searches, analysis, and essential patenting knowledge in chemicals, materials and biotechnology domains; (iii) New Product Development, covering new product introduction methods and systems, including market analysis, design and development, sustainability, and product launch; (iv) Technology Innovation and Technology-based Entrepreneurship, covering principles, technology forecasting, R&D management, and case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5026", "title": "Experiential Learning: Applied Project", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students an excellent opportunity to bring together the theory and practice of technology and innovation management. An important feature of innovation is to meet the challenges that arise in a business as they exist at the time. The students will work on a project from real business."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5027", "title": "Embracing the future: Entrepreneurship in Emerging Technologies", "description": "This course provides an in-depth examination of the key principles and practices of entrepreneurship in emerging technologies. Students will explore the process of starting and growing a technology-based venture, with a particular focus on understanding the unique challenges and opportunities associated with emerging technologies. Throughout the course, students will gain an understanding of the key concepts and frameworks for entrepreneurship in emerging technologies, including market analysis, product development, financing strategies, and business models. They will also examine the role of technology in driving innovation and explore the ethical and social implications of emerging technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5666", "title": "Industrial Attachment", "description": "This module provides engineering research students with\nwork attachment experience in a company."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5766", "title": "Technology Management Internship", "description": "In this four-month course, students will be placed in a Singapore-based organization working on core and emerging topics related to Management of Technology (e.g. new product development, technology intelligence and forecasting, product technology roadmapping, technology strategy, intellectual property management and business models). In addition, students will also be exposed to other industry practices related to technology management. Students will be jointly supervised by a team comprising of NUS academic staff and the company\u2019s appointed manager. Assessments will be done periodically, leading to a project report and presentation at the end of the attachment."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5866", "title": "Industrial Project and Attachment", "description": "In this six-month course, students will be placed in a Singapore-based organization working on core and emerging topics related to Management of Technology (e.g. new product development, technology intelligence and forecasting, product technology roadmapping, technology strategy, intellectual property management and business models). In addition, students will also be exposed to other industry practices related to technology management. Students will be jointly supervised by a team comprising of NUS academic staff and the company\u2019s appointed manager. Assessments will be done periodically, leading to a project report and presentation at the end of the attachment."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5880", "title": "Topics in Management of Technology", "description": "The topics for the course may be revised each time it is offered. In general, the topics will be in the area of Management of Technology, with a focus or bias on more recent developments in this area and/or topics that are specialized in nature. Example topics include \u201cTechno- Economics\u201d and different types of innovation. For AY09/10, the topic to be covered is \u201cTechno-Economic Systems\u201d."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5880A", "title": "Topics in Management of Technology - Techno-Economics Systems", "description": "The topics for the course may be revised each time it is offered. In general, the topics will be in the area of Management of Technology, with a focus or bias on more recent developments in this area and/or topics that are specialized in nature. Example topics include \u201cTechno- Economics\u201d and different types of innovation. For AY09/10, the topic to be covered is \u201cTechno-Economic Systems\u201d."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5880B", "title": "Topics in Management of Technology - Institutional Innovation", "description": "The topics for the course may be revised each time it is offered. In general, the topics will be in the area of Management of Technology, with a focus or bias on more recent developments in this area and/or topics that are specialized in nature. Example topics include \u201cTechno- Economics\u201d and different types of innovation."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5880C", "title": "Topics in MOT - Disruptive Technologies and Value Innovation", "description": "This course explores the theory of Disruptive Technologies, the most significant advance in high-tech business strategy in the last few decades. Value Innovation builds on this foundation with a set of frameworks to create commercial value from emerging technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5900", "title": "Mot Research Project", "description": "This course involves independent research work by students on a relevant topic in MOT. The aim is to promote self-study, critical thinking, independent research and initiative on the student. The student will learn how to plan and implement a research project."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5901", "title": "Management Practicum", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MT5902", "title": "Management Extended Practicum", "description": "In this course, students will either write a business plan based on the proposed commercialization of a product invention by one of science / engineering R&D groups in NUS, Research Institute or company, or a practical consulting report based on an actual study of a technology management issue in a company. The students may work in a small group of not more than 3. Students from the NUS MBA, MSc (MOT) and PhD research programmes are encouraged to form such interdisciplinary groups, Supervisors from Faculty of Engineering and Business School will be appointed accordingly."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5903", "title": "Technological Innovation Management Practicum", "description": "Students taking this module will conduct an in-depth analysis of a contemporary technological innovation management problem, preferably those that provided by companies, using theories and concepts in the field of technological innovation management.\n\nSupervised by academic and company experts, the students will perform the relevant literature review, collect and analyze primary data (if applicable), and propose solutions to the problem. In doing so, the students will also acquire problem-solving and management consulting skills, other than the ability to apply and integrate relevant technological innovation management theories into a realworld problem."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5910", "title": "LaunchPad: Experiential Entrepreneurship", "description": "LaunchPad is a unique action learning project that assembles cross-disciplinary teams of graduate and Ph.D. students from the Faculty of Engineering & School of Business. Each team will work with a selected technology developed at NUS that has a promise to generate a large market impact. The students will learn how to actually start a high-tech company based on a particular technology. This course is NOT about how to write a business plan or create a presentation for VCs. It\u2019s about taking action - talking to customers, partners, competitors in search for the right market and the right business model that can leverage the uniqueness of a technology. It\u2019s about\nexperiencing the typical creative start-up process that is often full of uncertainty to turn a new technology into a great company."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5911", "title": "Venture Capital Funding for TechVenture", "description": "This is an action learning course on venture capital and technology venture funding. It adopts a systems engineering approach in building technology company from inception, to acceleration and wealth creation. It covers the essentials of technology-focused venture capital from investment evaluation, to due diligence and realisation of investment return. The course will equip the students with fund raising know-how through experiential learning activities and networking with venture capitalists. Project teams will be guided through the development of a strategy for fund raising, ways of engaging investors, responding effectively to due-diligence, drafting and negotiating term sheets and closing the financing round."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5912", "title": "Frugal Innovation", "description": "Frugal Innovation is one which avoids over-engineering by adopting a \u201cgood-enough\u201d technology approach to meet the needs for an identified market constrained in different ways such as requiring reducing cost or address unique usability or societal considerations. This course provides a unique action-learning experience that assembles cross-disciplinary teams to work on identifying technological solutions for specific pre-selected real problems in the emerging markets and from industry. The intent is to create minimum viable organisations or propose and demonstrate solutions for enterprises. Students learn to lead innovation which involves creating more value with less resources."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5913", "title": "TechLaunch - Experiential Entrepreneurship", "description": "TechLaunch is a unique experiential course in which students develop skills in identifying and capturing value from technological innovation. Students, working in cross-disciplinary teams, are assigned patented technology from NUS R&D, A*STAR, or local enterprises and will learn to validate a market application & business plan through primary research ensuring that it satisfies the criteria of customer desirability, technology feasibility and business viability. They will learn how to differentiate and validate a business idea from a business opportunity. They will experience the typical creative and unstructured start-up process that will challenge and develop their innovation and leadership skills."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5920", "title": "Enterprise Development", "description": "Enterprises need to keep innovating to stay competitive - this can be through new applications for existing technologies, or through the discovery and realization of new products/services for new markets. The process of identifying and qualifying opportunities requires an understanding of the business in terms of focus & constraints within, as well as the external market forces to result in value creation. This course will introduce students to the process of value creation - finding a new relevant market for existing technologies or company competency \u2013 in a corporate setting. The method of teaching follows Experiential Learning as student teams will experience the innovation process through close interaction with existing enterprises that are providing real-life problem statements. Techniques/frameworks/concepts for market validation, Business Model Innovation and technology/product commercialization will be introduced and discussed during the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5921", "title": "Market Gaps - A Search for Innovation Opportunities", "description": "This course deals with the questions that CEOs of companies and serial entrepreneurs always ponder: \u201cWhere is the next big opportunity?\u201d, \u201cWhere should we look?\u201d, \u201cHow do we leverage our existing knowledge?\u201d Market Innovation introduces a rarely taught, analytical framework for systematic innovation - identifying and screening unmet market opportunities. It is an experiential course where students apply this framework to identify and screen opportunities in pre-selected markets. The objective of the course is to teach students how to systematically identify gaps in the selected market and match them with existing technical capabilities to recognize opportunities for economic or social innovation."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5922", "title": "Concepts and Application of Engineering Leadership", "description": "This course is intended for fresh engineering graduates, as a launchpad into leadership roles. Leadership is not just about power and management. The leader, the follower, the context, and the interactions amongst all these elements must be considered. This course introduces the basic concepts of leadership, and discusses them in the context of - leading oneself for being an effective engineer or entrepreneur, to leading small teams of specialists. Topics related to the latest leadership theories, self-leadership, managing emotions, ethics, change, and diversity will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5966", "title": "Overseas Industrial Project and Attachment", "description": "In this one-semester course, students will be placed in a company abroad working on selected topics which are important to engineering and technology management. The students will be jointly supervised by a team comprising NUS academic staff, the company\u2019s appointed manager, and an academic staff from the overseas partner university. Assessments will be done periodically (every 2 months), leading to a project report and presentation at the end of the attachment."}, {"moduleCode": "MT5999", "title": "Graduate Seminars", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MT6001", "title": "Research in Tech & Innovation Management", "description": "This course surveys theory and research on innovation and technology management. This includes models of technological change, technological discontinuities, vertical integration versus disintegration, organizational design, competencies/capabilities, and management of R&D. Through readings, papers and discussions, students will know about conceptual and methodological issues, how innovations are developed over time, and the processes leading to successful/unsuccessful development, adoption and implementation of innovations."}, {"moduleCode": "MT6999", "title": "Doctoral Seminars", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MTM5001", "title": "Maritime Industry Fundamentals", "description": "This course covers the fundamentals of the maritime industry and their role in global economies. Topics covered include ports and their roles in the economy and shipping, the business of shipping and its role in maritime logistics, the maritime services eco-system and the role of marine engineering. Topics in fundamental statistics will also be included such as descriptive statistics, basic concepts of probability, sampling distribution, regression models, hypothesis testing and statistical estimation."}, {"moduleCode": "MTM5002", "title": "Port Logistics and Supply Chain", "description": "Lectures --- Ports are the gateways of goods for export and import. They are looking for ways to enhance efficiency and competitiveness --- containerization, key port processes, operation strategies, and port connectivity.\n\nSeminars --- academics and practitioners will give seminars on emerging technology, port digitalization, ICT innovations with the highest impact on port.\n\nThe course coordinator will decide on the proporation of lectures and seminars."}, {"moduleCode": "MTM5004", "title": "Maritime Data Analytics", "description": "This course is a continuation of IE5005 where knowledge learnt about data analytics is applied to tackle maritime-related problems. Students are expected to apply problem solving methodologies by analysing real-world data, define the objectives and scope of the problems, and then design, develop and implement systems. CMS will work with maritime related companies for real world data sets."}, {"moduleCode": "MTM5005", "title": "Intermodal Freight Transport and Logistics", "description": "This course aims to develop in students a solid competency in intermodal freight transport and logistics. Students learn to identify roles of various transport modes together with their importance in logistics. Topics covered include practical aspects (sea transport, road, rail, inland waterways etc.), geography of intermodal transport, policy and planning, and challenges. Frameworks and tools imparted in the course allow The course syllabus will also emphasize on how the system works, to provide students with a number of for analysis of main problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MTM5101", "title": "Maritime Industrial Attachment", "description": "This practicum course is a 15-week long internship practicum in a maritime-related company which aims to provide students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and theory on maritime technology and management acquired during the programme into practical application and skill development in a professional setting. Students will work in collaboration with other maritime professionals to solve existing company and maritime industry problems."}, {"moduleCode": "MTM5101P", "title": "Maritime Team Project", "description": "This course (3 to a team) aims to provide students with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and theory on maritime technology and management acquired during the programme. Students will work on maritime related issues/problems. There will be two mentors (a faculty member and another from the industry). Examples of project topics are maritime safety and security, green shipping and logistics, and impact of ICT on maritime operations, port efficiency and effectiveness."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1101", "title": "Composition Major Study 1A", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMus programme in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly lecture and one-to-one consultation with a major study teacher. Additionally, students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study. Students are required to compose a minimum of 8 minutes of music and submit a portfolio of works at the end of the semester for juried evaluation. In consultation with their instructor, students define their composition projects in terms of form and instrumentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1102", "title": "Composition Major Study 1B", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMus programme in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly lecture and one-to-one consultation with a major study teacher. Students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study. Students are required to compose a minimum of 10 minutes of music and submit a portfolio of works at the end of the semester for juried evaluation. In consultation with their instructor, students define their composition projects in terms of form and instrumentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1107", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1108", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1109", "title": "Foundations for String Chamber Music", "description": "The study and performance of selected works from the\nclassical string quartet repertory (by Haydn, Mozart,\nBeethoven and/or Schubert). Students will work in\nassigned groups and be assessed on their weekly\nprogress as well as their active participation in the studio\nclass, which will provide an overview of the repertory as\nwell as dimensions of ensemble playing specific to string\nplayers. Students are expected to participate in at least\none public performance and final examination on one of\nthe prepared movements."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1111", "title": "Piano Ensemble 1A", "description": "This course provides first year piano students with an introduction to the study and performance of piano ensemble repertoire, with specific focus on compositions written for one piano four hands (piano duet). Students will receive weekly coaching in the classroom, participate in studio class performances and prepare for a final, public class recital."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1112", "title": "Piano Ensemble 1B", "description": "This course provides first year piano students with an introduction to the study and performance of piano ensemble repertoire, with specific focus on compositions written for two pianos (piano duo). Students will receive weekly coaching in the classroom, participate in studio class performances and prepare for the final, public class recital."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1115", "title": "Foundations of Vocal Accompaniment / Sight-Reading", "description": "This course provides first-year piano students with an introduction to vocal accompaniment, equipping students with knowledge and skills essential for working professionally with singers. Students will receive coaching on various selected works and attend classes which provide a general overview and delve into the common issues of vocal accompaniment; as well as participate in public performances and masterclasses. In addition, students will also learn various sight-reading techniques in order to achieve basic proficiency in playing at sight."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1116", "title": "Foundations of Instrumental Accompaniment", "description": "This course provides first-year piano students with an introduction to instrumental accompaniment, equipping students with knowledge and skills essential for working professionally with instrumentalists. Students will receive coaching on various selected works, as well as participate in classes which will provide a general overview and delve into the common issues of instrumental accompaniment."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1153", "title": "Noon Recital Series 1A", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1154", "title": "Noon Recital Series 1B", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1157", "title": "Solfege 1", "description": "This course covers the practical study of solfege as taught in many conservatories around the world. The course caters to those students who have little or no background in solfege but those with some solfege background may also register for it. The texts used are classics: George Dandelot\u2019s \u201cManuel Practique\u201d, Dannhauser\u2019s sight-singing books and Pasquale Bona\u2019s \u201cRhythmical Articulation.\u201d Students will be learning the Fixed Do solfege system. Four of the seven clefs used in music reading and transposition will also be covered. These are the Treble, Bass, Alto and Tenor clefs."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1158", "title": "Solfege 2", "description": "This course continues the practical study of solfege covered in MUA1157. The class will again be exposed to many sight-reading opportunities from single line melodies to orchestral scores. Atonal sight-singing will also be covered. The texts used are George Dandelot\u2019s \u201cManuel Practique\u201d, Dannhauser\u2019s sight-singing books, Pasquale Bona\u2019s \u201cRhythmical Articulation\u201d, as well as excerpts from Lars Edlund\u2019s \u201cModus Novus.\u201d The final three of seven clefs not covered in MUA1157 will also be studied. These are the Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano and Baritone clefs."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1159", "title": "A Pianist's Toolbox 1", "description": "This course, offered in the second semester of first year study, is the first in a series of three mandatory courses for piano majors. It aims to develop all necessary skills that connect to the main area of piano study, such as keyboard harmony, harmonic reduction, sight-reading, the relationship between analysis and interpretation, and improvisation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1161", "title": "Foundational Studies on Principal Instrument", "description": "This is the first course in a sequence, focusing on building a foundation in the technical and performance skills on an instrument for the BMus Majors in piano, string, brass, wind and percussion."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1162", "title": "Juried Performance Presentation", "description": "Focused study on an instrument forms the central pillar for the BMus Majors in piano, strings, brass, winds and percussion. For BMus instrumentalists, this is the first performance which is assessed formally as a contribution to the overall graduation requirement. The course functions effectively as the audition requirement for transfer for the Young Artists to the BMus programme and for those NUS students seeking to move into a second major focus in the instrument."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1163", "title": "The Profession of Music 1", "description": "The first of two compulsory courses for first year students focusing on acquiring relevant knowledge and skills necessary for their self-development as a professional musician. This particular course focuses on the themes of Mind and Body, Performance Pathways, and Strategy and Arts Management. Students set up and maintain reflective blogs, so as to apply reflective practice in music learning. Students also get a chance to engage with various current practitioners and professionals in music and related fields corresponding with the abovementioned themes."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1164", "title": "Recording as Creative Practice", "description": "This course introduces practical and creative uses of sound recording - covering microphone types, stereo recording, signal routing, basic signal processing, and MIDI mockup with virtual instruments. The course takes a blended learning approach, with online materials preparing students for in-class activities. Assessment is project based. The course is mandatory for all BMus students majoring in composition at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory. For those students, it should be taken during the first semester of study."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1165", "title": "Music and Machines", "description": "This course examines the use of machines to create music in the last 70 years. It focuses on the topics of audio recording and editing, synthesis, signal processing, and computer-aided composition, and introduces important repertoire that uses technology from this period. Students will work to create sound collage compositions, develop virtual synthesizers, and even use a programming environment to create musical passages. Course projects will involve creating electro-acoustic works. The course is mandatory for all BMus students majoring in Composition at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. For those students, it should be taken during the second semester of study."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1166", "title": "Introduction to Computing Media in Max", "description": "The course offers an introduction to programming of music and image within Max, a popular graphical programming environment for sound, music, and visual computing. Aside from general familiarity with the Max workflow, students learn computing basics such as iteration, list processing, working with data structures, data collection, and probability, and how these are applied to drawing, image manipulation, and sound playback."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1167", "title": "The Profession of Music 2", "description": "The second of two compulsory courses for first year students focusing on acquiring relevant knowledge and skills necessary for their self-development as a professional musician. This particular course focuses on the themes of Personal Branding and Community Engagement. Students continue to maintain reflective blogs, so as to apply reflective practice in music learning. These reflective blogs are further developed into professional websites in this course. Students also get a chance to engage with various current practitioners and professionals in music and related fields corresponding with the abovementioned themes."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1168", "title": "Foundational Area Study 1", "description": "This course is the first course in a sequence, focusing on building a foundation in the technical and performance skills on an instrument, or in the area of compositional or creative fields."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1169", "title": "Foundational Area Study 2", "description": "This course is the second course in a sequence, focusing on building a foundation in the technical and performance skills on an instrument, or in the area of compositional or creative fields."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1170", "title": "Fundamentals of Music Production and Recording 1", "description": "This course will provide students with introductory knowledge of microphone design, the working principles of mixing consoles, and the principles of stereo image creation. Additional topics will include principles and application of different stereo microphone techniques like XY, ORTF, NOS and AB. Students will be requested to participate in recording all YSTCM concert events."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1171", "title": "Fundamentals of Music Production and Recording 2", "description": "Continuing from Basic Recording 1 this course will introduce students to the basics of loudspeaker design and the principles and operation of outboard signal processing equipment. The development of surround sound recording and reproduction technology and related microphone techniques will be also be introduced. Students will participate in recording all YSTCM events and finish at least 5 studio recording sessions."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1172", "title": "Critical Listening 1", "description": "Critical listening involves technical listening skills for people who work in the audio engineering domain. It is an ear training programme for audio engineers. Critical Listening 1 offers students basic experiences and skills of estimation of frequency of sound, estimation of sound level changes, judgement of sound quality, voice coloration and masking effect. The topics of this course will also cover judgement and appreciation of balance and spatial expression of different types of music from piano solo to Symphony Orchestra."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1173", "title": "Critical Listening 2", "description": "Along with Critical Listening 1, Students in Critical Listening 2 will be more focused on the skills training on locating the sound, binaural listening, microphone position, effect of audio signal processor, pop music structure and surround sound appreciation. Students will be requested to design, process and conclude their own critical listening project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1188", "title": "Music Initiatives and Projects 1", "description": "This course is a core component of the requirements for the Music and Society/Music, Collaboration and Production (MS/MCP) majors. Central to the course is the conception and execution of a Mini Project, which is inquiry-based and has research and/or production dimensions, that will build the skills required for MS/MCP majors in their third- and fourth-year projects. Students will receive intensive one-to-one mentoring to guide their progress in these Mini Projects. The course also includes a weekly seminar, in which students benefit from a collaborative, peer-to-peer learning environment, with faculty guidance. This course is the first in a series of four courses spanning the first and second years of study."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1189", "title": "Music Initiatives and Projects 2", "description": "This course is a core component of the requirements for the Music and Society/Music, Collaboration and Production (MS/MCP) majors. Central to the course is the conception and execution of a Mini Project, which is inquiry-based and has research and/or production dimensions, that will build the skills required for MS/MCP majors in their third- and fourth-year projects. Students will receive intensive one-to-one mentoring to guide their progress in these Mini Projects. The course also includes a weekly seminar, in which students benefit from a collaborative, peer-to-peer learning environment, with faculty guidance. This course is the second in a series of four courses spanning the first and second years of study. Students are expected to demonstrate a higher level of critical thinking, planning, and communication skills as compared to their first semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1190", "title": "Applied Voice Major Study 1A", "description": "Individual voice lessons specially designed for first semester, freshman performance majors. Technical skills, competency and suitable repertoire are expected at the appropriate levels."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1191", "title": "Applied Voice Major Studies 1B", "description": "Individual voice lessons specially designed for second semester, freshmen year performance majors. Technical skills, competency and suitable repertoire are expected at the appropriate levels. An individual performance jury will be required at the end of the semester"}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1192", "title": "Chamber Singers 1", "description": "Required for voice majors during the first 4 semesters of enrolment, these courses allow students to develop their skills through participation in a vocal performance ensemble. Students will participate in regular rehearsals, and will learn and perform choral music from the Renaissance period to modern day. Through these courses students will gain knowledge of diverse repertoire, composers, genres, styles, and period performance practices. Students will also learn fundamentals of vocal production and choral technique and will experience working together ensemble situations. Open to Non-Voice majors as an elective."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1193", "title": "Chamber Singers 2", "description": "Required for voice majors during the first 4 semesters of enrolment, these courses allow students to develop their skills through participation in a vocal performance ensemble. Students will participate in regular rehearsals, and will learn and perform choral music from the Renaissance period to modern day. Through these courses students will gain knowledge of diverse repertoire, composers, genres, styles, and period performance practices. Students will also learn fundamentals of vocal production and choral technique and will experience working together ensemble situations. Open to Non-Voice majors as an elective."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1196", "title": "Diction for Singers 1", "description": "This course will address diction for singing in Italian and English. Students will study and acquire the rules for pronouncing these languages through use of the International Phonetics Alphabet (IPA). The class will be taught in two basic sections; the first section will be the study of the rules of IPA and the second will be the application of this study through in-class performances which will be evaluated by the instructor and class members."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1201", "title": "Rudiments of Musicianship", "description": "A practical course to introduce students to the rudiments of musicianship (namely singing melody, understanding rhythm and hearing harmony). Strategies for teaching these materials may be learned through the creative assignments and modelling exercises from the instructor. The pedagogical approach is the employment of a spiral curriculum as influenced by the ideas of Jerome Bruner."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1223", "title": "Desktop Mixing and Production", "description": "The course introduces the mixing of different styles of music in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Topics include audio routing, effective use of volume, pan, filtering, reverb, dynamic and other creative FXs. Projects start simply with the enhancement of a stereo recording and move up to mixing a 4-6 channel session, mixing a multi-mic\u2019d drum kit, and mixing a large project of 10 or more channels."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1240", "title": "Exploration in Musical Production", "description": "This course engages students to think and express themselves through the production process of a musical. By introducing the various aspects of mounting a musical production, it empowers the students to transmit this understanding into an actual display of intrinsic ideas. The course will be executed through classroom seminars and an experiential component culminating in the form of a micro-musical. The content coverage embodies a survey and appreciation of Singapore musicals; and to expound on the hardware and software requirements in mounting a musical. This include individual elements like acting, singing, writing, composing, music-making and dancing which are interwoven in the creation of this art form; as well as the financial and budget planning, safety measures and basic aspects of stage management."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA1270", "title": "Interdisciplinary Electronic Arts Survey", "description": "Interdisciplinary collaboration involving electronics is common in today's art world. This course offers an introduction to some of the artistic issues in this field as well as some of its practioners. In addition to readings and class discussion, professional artists from different disciplines (music, dance, visual art, multimedia, theatre) visit to share their knowledge, experiences, and aesthetic approaches in their works."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2101", "title": "Composition Major Study 2A", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMus programme in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly lecture and one-to-one consultation with a major study teacher. Additionally, students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study. Students are required to compose a minimum of 10 minutes of music and submit a portfolio of works at the end of the semester for juried evaluation. In consultation with their instructor, students define their composition projects in terms of form and instrumentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2102", "title": "Composition Major Study 2B", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMUS program in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly lecture, and one-to-one consultation with a major study teacher. Students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study, and receive training in atonal aural skills and advanced rhythm. Students are required to compose a minimum of 10 minutes of music and submit a portfolio of works at the end of the semester for juried evaluation. In consultation with their instructor, students define their composition projects in terms of form and instrumentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2107", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2108", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2109", "title": "Chamber Music", "description": "Students will form undirected ensembles of three or more players, consisting of instruments within a single instrumental family: - strings (including harp) - woodwinds - brass - percussion in order to study and perform selected works of chamber music. The standard wind quintet configuration is considered to fall under this course. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s), and to reflect upon their learning process in the context of this course by updating their e-portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2110", "title": "Chamber Music in Mixed Ensemble", "description": "Students will form undirected ensembles of three or more players, consisting of instruments from at least two different instrumental families: - piano (and other keyboard instruments) - strings (including harp) - woodwinds - brass - percussion in order to study and perform selected works of chamber music. The standard wind quintet configuration is NOT considered a mixed ensemble. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s), and to reflect upon their learning process in the context of this course by updating their e-portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2153", "title": "Noon Recital Series 2A", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2154", "title": "Noon Recital Series 2B", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2157", "title": "Contemporary Musicianship A", "description": "The course offers advanced aural and rhythmic skills training necessary for early 20th century and modern repertoire. The aural training addresses late Romantic and early modern harmony, including advanced chromaticism, common modes used in modern music, and pitch collections. Rhythmic training addresses additive versus divisive rhythm, odd and mixed meters, tuplets, and polyrhythms. Improvisational skills are used as a catalyst to develop vocabulary, aural imagination, memory and fluency."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2158", "title": "Contemporary Musicianship B", "description": "The course is a continuation of Contemporary Musicianship A in developing advanced aural and rhythmic skills training necessary for early 20th century and modern repertoire. The aural training addresses late Romantic and early modern harmony, including advanced chromaticism, common modes used in modern music, and pitch collections. Rhythmic training addresses additive versus divisive rhythm, odd and mixed meters, tuplets, and polyrhythms. Improvisational skills are used as a catalyst to develop vocabulary, aural imagination, memory and fluency."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2159", "title": "A Pianist's Toolbox 2", "description": "This course is offered to all piano students in the second semester of Year 2, and is a continuation of A Pianist\u2019s Toolbox 1. It aims to develop all necessary skills that connect to the main area of piano study, such as keyboard harmony, harmonic reduction, the relationship between analysis and interpretation, and improvisation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2161", "title": "Advanced Juried Performance Presentation", "description": "Focused study on an instrument forms the central pillar for the BMus Majors in piano, strings, brass, wind and percussion. Normally undertaken in the second year of study, this course usually follows as the third in a sequence of eight courses and as the second performance presentation formally assessed for the degree if the student is pursuing an instrumental major. The course may also be taken by those pursuing a second major in the relevant instrument, by Young Artists, and electively by some students on the Music & Society or Music, Collaboration & Production majors."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2162", "title": "Continuing Studies on Principal Instrument", "description": "Focused study on an instrument forms the central pillar for the BMus Majors in piano, strings, brass, wind and percussion. Normally undertaken in the second year of study, this course usually follows the completion of Advanced Jury Performance and acts as a preparatory period for the student\u2019s Junior Recital. Students should be finding a clearer focus in relation to their future artistic and professional direction, with dimensions of the studies undertaken beginning to include evolving capacities in self-promotion and production, the exploration of summer programmes, and critical reflection on their relative progression and trajectory within the specific instrumental field."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2163", "title": "Leading and Guiding Through Music", "description": "The compulsory course for second year students focuses on the practical application of relevant knowledge and skills previously acquired in The Profession of Music 1 & 2 whilst forging collaboration and resourcefulness through groupwork. The year-long course requires students to craft their own small-scale projects and execute them outside of YST through different themes: Hatching Ideas, Creating Impact, Workshop Skills, Ideas into Action, Mentorship and Project Execution. Depending on their interest areas, these projects can be performance or education focused."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2168", "title": "Continuing Area Study 1", "description": "This course is the third course in a sequence, strengthening and developing core skill-sets in the technical and performance skills on an instrument, or in the area of compositional or creative fields."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2169", "title": "Continuing Area Study 2", "description": "This course is the fourth course in a sequence, strengthening and developing core skill-sets in the technical and performance skills on an instrument, or in the area of compositional or creative fields."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2170", "title": "Multitrack Recording 1", "description": "This course will introduce the theory and practice of studio near-distance microphone techniques for a variety of acoustic and electric/electronic instruments. More in-depth coverage of mixing consoles for multitrack recording and basic mixing will also be covered, as will analysis of recording work and basic concepts of musical acoustics and digital audio. Students will be required to finish at least 2 multi-track projects independently during the course of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2171", "title": "Multitrack Recording 2", "description": "This course will provide students with extensive practical hands-on experience to consolidate the theory and skills they learned in courses up to and including Multitrack Recording 1. Students will work with local Pop, Rock or Jazz bands to finish at least 5 professional multi-track recording projects the course of the semester. Lectures and lab sessions will introduce and expand upon relevant course topics in microphone use, signal processing, digital audio, musical acoustics, and mixing console operation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2172", "title": "Room Acoustics", "description": "Acoustics is an integral component that recording engineers need to take account of regarding sound for live music. This course will introduce students to the physics, perception and control of sound. The topics of this course cover topics such as sound diffusion related phenomena and noise reduction related processing."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2175", "title": "AAS Project 1", "description": "The course provides the basic concept of the sound of the classical music and some basic stereo microphone techniques for the live classical music concert. Students will be requested to finish at least 2 hours live concert recording each week, at least 20 hours of total recording time. In this course, students need to finish each project session with the course supervisor together. Each project session should be fully under the direction of the course supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2176", "title": "AAS Project 2", "description": "Beside continually handling the live concert recording, AAS Project 2 also provides the critical concept and skills of classical music production in the recording studio environment. Students will learn how to set up main stereo microphone and spot microphones in the recording studio for generating both studio and live concert style sound. In this course, students will be requested to finish at least 20 hours live concert recording, and at least 4 studio sessions. In this course, students need to finish each project session with course supervisor together. Each project session should be fully under the direction of the course supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2177", "title": "Audio Networks", "description": "The course will show students the latest technology of designing and applications of digital audio networks for recording studio, live sound and broadcasting system. The course will focus on teaching of Digital Audio Transmission Protocol (SPDIF, ADAT,MADI, Optical Fibre ) and digital audio networking and routing for AV. Topics will also include Digital Audio Transmission Protocol and some key protools skills for broadcasting and livestreaming."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2188", "title": "Music Initiatives and Projects 3", "description": "This course is a core component of the requirements for the Music and Society/Music, Collaboration and Production (MS/MCP) majors. Central to the course is the conception and execution of a Mini Project, which is inquiry-based and has research and/or production dimensions, that will build the skills required for MS/MCP majors in their third- and fourth-year projects. Students will receive intensive one-to-one mentoring to guide their progress in these Mini Projects. The course also includes a weekly seminar, in which students benefit from a collaborative, peer-to-peer learning environment, with faculty guidance. This course is the third in a series of four courses spanning the first and second years of study. Students are expected to demonstrate a higher level of critical thinking, planning, and communication skills as compared to their previous semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2189", "title": "Music Initiatives and Projects 4", "description": "This course is a core component of the requirements for the Music and Society/Music, Collaboration and Production (MS/MCP) majors. Central to the course is the conception and execution of a Mini Project, which is inquiry-based and has research and/or production dimensions, that will build the skills required for MS/MCP majors in their third- and fourth-year projects. Students will receive intensive one-to-one mentoring to guide their progress in these Mini Projects. The course also includes a weekly seminar, in which students benefit from a collaborative, peer-to-peer learning environment, with faculty guidance. This course is the fourth in a series of four courses spanning the first and second years of study. Students are expected to demonstrate a higher level of critical thinking, planning, and communication skills as compared to their previous semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2190", "title": "Applied Voice Major Study 2A", "description": "Individual voice lessons specially designed for first semester, sophomore year performance majors. Technical skills, competency and suitable repertoire are expected at the appropriate levels."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2191", "title": "Applied Voice Major Study 2B", "description": "Individual voice lessons specially designed for second semester, sophomore year performance majors. Technical skills, competency and suitable repertoire are expected at the appropriate levels. A jury will be presented at the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2192", "title": "Chambers Singers 3", "description": "Required for voice majors during the first 4 semesters of enrolment, these courses allow students to develop their skills through participation in a vocal performance ensemble. Students will participate in regular rehearsals, and will learn and perform choral music from the Renaissance period to modern day. Through these courses students will gain knowledge of diverse repertoire, composers, genres, styles, and period performance practices. Students will also learn fundamentals of vocal production and choral technique and will experience working together ensemble situations."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2193", "title": "Chambers Singers 4", "description": "Required for voice majors during the first 4 semesters of enrolment, these courses allow students to develop their skills through participation in a vocal performance ensemble. Students will participate in regular rehearsals, and will learn and perform choral music from the Renaissance period to modern day. Through these courses students will gain knowledge of diverse repertoire, composers, genres, styles, and period performance practices. Students will also learn fundamentals of vocal production and choral technique and will experience working together ensemble situations."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2196", "title": "Diction for Singers 2", "description": "This course will address diction for singing in German and French. Students will study and acquire the rules for pronouncing these languages through use of the International Phonetics Alphabet (IPA). The class will be taught in two sections; the first section will be the study of the rules of IPA and the second will be the application of this study through in-class performances which will be evaluated by the instructor and class members."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2203", "title": "Keyboard Literature: Genres throughout History", "description": "Pianists have a wealth of repertoire available to them, including both works within the musical canon and those without. This course explores the various genres of keyboard music throughout history, acknowledging the composers who have gained widespread popularity, while simultaneously delving into the works of those who have received less attention. Topics covered include variation sets, preludes, fugues, suites, studies, and single-movement works. Students will think critically about the significance and evolution of each genre over time, and emerge with a fuller picture of music written for the keyboard and a curiosity to continue discovering and rediscovering this repertoire."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2204", "title": "Keyboard Literature: Sonatas in Context", "description": "The genre of the sonata has a rich history and comprises a significant portion of the repertoire available to pianists. This course explores various meanings and incarnations of the keyboard sonata, approaching works from historical, sociological, and theoretical perspectives, and including both works that traditionally appear in the repertory and those that do not. Students will think critically about the genre and the larger conceptual issues surrounding it, acquire and apply analytic tools to understand and reflect upon the works studied, and emerge with a fuller picture of keyboard sonatas and a curiosity to continue discovering and rediscovering this repertoire."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2205", "title": "Rhythmic Devices in Performance 1", "description": "A practical course for a clear understanding of rhythmic\nsubdivisions and groupings. These concepts\nare the foundation for a thorough understanding of how\nrhythm works in composed music,\nimprovised music and interactive musical performance.\nThe devices learned include a system of\nrhythmic counting based on South Indian Konnakkol.\nScore examples will be studied in order to\nshow students how the learned skills are applied in\npolyrhythm and score memorization."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2206", "title": "Harmonic Hearing for Performers", "description": "A practical course for developing the ability to hear harmonic progressions in all kinds of music (including classical, popular music and jazz). Students will learn to hear various basic chord voicings as well as chord extensions. 2 voice intervals will also be covered. The chord progressions learned in the course will be a good foundation for students to take into their professional endeavours."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2210", "title": "Rhythmical Devices in Performance 2", "description": "The continuing practical study of rhythmic subdivisions and groupings covered in MUA 2205 (Rhythmical Devices in Performances). These concepts are the foundation for a thorough understanding of how rhythm works in composed music, improvised music and interactive musical performance. The devices learned include a system of rhythmic counting based on South Indian Konnakkol and its applications."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2229", "title": "Music and Health", "description": "This course examines the impact of music on health and wellness, situating music practices within the larger context of Arts and Health. In addition to considering how musical activities are particularly well-suited to support well-being in the general population, students will learn about the benefits of music-based interventions for various clinical populations. Emphasis will be placed on how music may support different functional domains, such as cognition, emotion regulation, movement and motor coordination, pain management, and mental health. In-class discussions will also consider the important role of evaluation methodologies for capturing the impact of arts-based activities, and will feature the up-and-coming role of technology in music therapy and music medicine. The course employs a blend of traditional teaching methods with project-based learning to provide students with an opportunity for hands-on, student-driven learning and discovery."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2230", "title": "The Psychology of Music Performance", "description": "The course is tailored for musicians, presenting findings from the Psychology of Music, and Cognitive Science more generally, that can be used to enhance one\u2019s practice and performance of music. Topics include efficient practicing, learning and memory, mental rehearsal strategies, performance anxiety, and more. It is a hands-on, project-based learning course, featuring a mixture of traditional lectures with group discussions, blogging with peers, and application of the ideas through individual projects centered around practice and/or performance techniques. The course is meant to foster critical enquiry and reflection, giving students relevant knowledge and hands-on experience to help them become better musicians."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2240", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Piano Ensemble", "description": "As a logical progression from courses MUA1111 and MUA1112, students will continue to study and perform works for piano ensemble - either piano duos or duets. Coaching sessions provide in-depth insight into the specific piece(s) chosen for study; whilst active participation is expected in the studio class, which provides an overview of the most significant works relevant to the genre. Students must participate in a public, assessed performance as the final examination of the prepared work(s); and to reflect upon their learning process in the context of this course by updating their e-portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2241", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Vocal Accompaniment", "description": "Continuing and building on course MUA1115, piano students will work closely with the Voice department. Students will receive individual coaching on the piano part specifically, as well as lessons together with their singer; and also participate actively in studio classes. Students will participate in at least one public performance and/or a final examination of the prepared work(s); and to reflect upon their learning process in the context of this course by updating their e-portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2242", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Instrumental Accompaniment", "description": "Continuing and building on course MUA1116, piano students will work closely with selected instrumental students on repertoire for instrumental/piano duos. Students will receive individual coaching on the piano part specifically, as well as lessons together with their instrumentalist; and also participate actively in studio classes. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s); and to reflect upon their learning process in the context of this course by updating their e-portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2243", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Chamber Music", "description": "Piano students will collaborate with students from other departments, forming undirected groups consisting of three or more players, to study and perform selected works of chamber music. Coaching sessions provide in-depth insight into the specific piece(s) chosen for study; whilst active participation is expected in the studio class, which provides an overview of the most significant works relevant to the genre. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s); and to reflect upon their learning process in the context of this course by updating their e-portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2251", "title": "Live Interactivity", "description": "This course develops skills for creating interactive artistic computer systems. In an interactive system, sensors are used by the artist to incorporate touch, gesture, motion, sound, and light to influence the work, common in live interactive music and installation art. The course will introduce simple sensors and systems for beginners, but allow for more advanced students to work with other tools - Arduino, Max, Processing, etc. It is, therefore, appropriate for students of different experiences and backgrounds with programming. Students will create an artistic work that involves live interactivity. Students may work with image/video, audio, or both."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2255", "title": "Applied Secondary A", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2255A", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2255B", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2256", "title": "Applied Secondary B", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2256A", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2256B", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2266", "title": "Navigating Community Music Projects", "description": "This course focuses on the context-driven and practice-led approaches in music-making while honing in on time management and organisation skills. Students enrolled in this course will pick from a list of community music projects in which they can choose their roles, focusing on at least one of the following aspects: music performance, production and publicity. Implemented by YST students, these projects provide an opportunity for them to design and lead in collaboration with the external partners involved, tailoring their ideas to specific contexts and audiences. A faculty mentor will be assigned to oversee each project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2267", "title": "Navigating Community Music Projects", "description": "This course focuses on the context-driven and practice-led approaches in music-making while honing in on time management and organisation skills. Students enrolled in this course will pick from a list of community music projects in which they can choose their roles, focusing on at least one of the following aspects: music performance, production and publicity. Implemented by YST students, these projects provide an opportunity for them to design and lead in collaboration with the external partners involved, tailoring their ideas to specific contexts and audiences. A faculty mentor will be assigned to oversee each project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2270", "title": "Synthesis and Signal Processing", "description": "The course explores the techniques of digital synthesis and signal processing within the Max programming environment. In-class activities and project-based assignments address simple synthesizer and effects unit creation utilizing both time-domain and frequency-domain techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA2271", "title": "Virtual Instrument Sound Design", "description": "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 will 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."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3101", "title": "Composition Major Study 3A", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMus program in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly one-hour consultation with a major study teacher. Students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study. Students are required to compose a minimum of 12 minutes of music and submit a portfolio of works at the end of the semester for juried evaluation. In consultation with their instructor, students define their composition projects in terms of form and instrumentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3102", "title": "Composition Major Study 3B", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMus program in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly one-hour consultation with a major study teacher. Students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study. Students are required to compose a minimum of 12 minutes of music and submit a portfolio of works at the end of the semester for juried evaluation. In consultation with their instructor, students define their composition projects in terms of form and instrumentation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3105", "title": "Conducting", "description": "This course equips learners with fundamental conducting techniques through practical experiences in conducting ensembles, score-reading and terminology. It introduces to the student fundamental orchestral conducting skills of baton, rehearsal and score organisation techniques. The course also explores rehearsal dimensions and conductor/orchestra relationships as well as the interpretive and historical dimensions of conducting, in both discussion and rehearsal contexts. In addition to orchestra, students will also experience and learn about conducting other ensemble settings such as band and choir."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3107", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3108", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3109", "title": "Chamber Music", "description": "A continuation of MUA2109, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2109. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3110", "title": "Chamber Music in Mixed Ensemble", "description": "A continuation of MUA2110, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for mixed ensembles, as specified in the description of course MUA2110. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3113", "title": "Keyboard Skills for Piano Majors", "description": "Continuation of Keyboard Skills for Piano Majors I-II that requires a higher degree of score-reading skills at the keyboard."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3115", "title": "Orchestral Studies for Pianists", "description": "An in-depth, compulsory course for all conservatory piano majors covering the skill sets associated with the learning and performing of orchestral repertoire. The class ensemble will be known as the Yong Siew Toh Electone Orchestra (YSTEO). Using the Conservatory\u2019s newly acquired Stagea Electones, students will be assigned additional projects, such as score reading and memorisation of the standard excerpts their instrumentalist counterparts typically prepare for orchestral auditions."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3116", "title": "Pedagogy for Orchestral Instrumentalists", "description": "This course introduces to students whose specialisation is in orchestral performance some of the fundamental principles of instrumental pedagogy, with a particular focus on early learning. Students will explore fundamental generic pedagogical principles, didactics for their specific instrument and be exposed to some initial experiential learning in real-life settings."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3117", "title": "Contemporary Music Performance", "description": "The course introduces contemporary music repertoire in solo, chamber, and sinfonietta ensemble settings for all orchestral instruments and piano. Students work with coaches in repertoire appropriate for their instrument, learning new techniques necessary for the performance of contemporary works. Participation in rehearsals and concerts by OpusNovus, the conservatory\u2019s contemporary music ensemble, is required. This course is mandatory for all students majoring in performance on an orchestral instrument or piano. For those students, the course is generally taken in Year 3 of study."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3133", "title": "Compositional Discourse", "description": "The course develops skills in discourse on contemporary music composition. It serves as a pedagogy requirement for YSTCM composition majors. Through surveying a broad repertoire of compositional approaches, students develop analytical skills and awareness of differing aesthetic approaches so to critically evaluate aesthetically diverse works in terms of design, concepts, and craft. Additionally, the course introduces strategies for communicating with performers about one\u2019s compositional ideas during rehearsal and writing program notes to communicate with audiences."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3153", "title": "Noon Recital Series 3A", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3154", "title": "Noon Recital Series 3B", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3159", "title": "A Pianist's Toolbox 3", "description": "This course is offered to all piano students in the second semester of Year 3, and is a continuation of A Pianist\u2019s Toolbox 1 and 2. It further develops two elements that have been present in the first two courses: analysis and interpretation, improvisation, and adds jazz harmony, lead-sheet and chord symbols."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3161", "title": "Junior Recital", "description": "Focused study on an instrument forms the central pillar for the BMus Majors in piano, strings, brass, wind and percussion. Normally undertaken in the third year of study, this course forms an initial capstone for instrumental Majors on the BMus programme, serving otherwise as the final capstone for those undertaking instrumental studies as a second major. The course continues and consolidates processes initiated in previous semesters, manifesting their outcome in a shorter professional level performance of approximately half an hour\u2019s duration (usually either a recital and piano-accompanied concerto performance). The performance should demonstrate the emerging professional capacities of each student."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3162", "title": "Intermediate Studies on Principal Instrument", "description": "Focused study on an instrument forms the central pillar for the BMus Majors in piano, strings, brass, wind and percussion. Normally undertaken in the third year of study, this course usually follows the completion of the Junior Recital; the first of two capstone courses in relation to the Major. In following on from a Junior Recital, the course is largely about beginning the process of evolution from undergraduate study either towards graduate entry or professional life."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3163", "title": "Musical Pathways", "description": "The compulsory course for third year students builds upon the practical experiences in MUA2163 Leading and Guiding Through Music, expanding knowledge and transferable skills necessary to become future-ready professionals. These include exploring areas of music entrepreneurship, deepening planning, collaborative, and communication skills. The course also encompasses field trips where students get to visit industry professionals at work. These trips allow students to gain further insights about the music ecosystem as they continuously develop their artistic identities and explore future career trajectories."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3168", "title": "Intermediate Area Study", "description": "This course is the fifth and last course in a sequence, broadening and deepening the skill-sets in the technical and performance skills on an instrument, or in the area of compositional or creative fields. The course also acts as a preparatory period towards the capstone project for second major students."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3169", "title": "Music Project and Design", "description": "Conceiving, creating, and implementing artistic projects are an integral part of many musicians\u2019 portfolios. This is a required course for Second Majors in Music and Society; and Music, Collaboration and Production, which focuses on the processes and skills required to survey existing arts ecosystems, design, and develop engaging and innovative projects to bring them to fruition as part of their Capstone Project later on. Students will gain an understanding of the factors involved in helming a music-related project and develop their identity as a musician in a direction unique to their trajectory."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3170", "title": "Audio Postproduction I", "description": "This course will cover the concepts, techniques, and aesthetics of mixing sound for stereo and multi-channel formats. Topics of the course will include signal processing in time, dynamic and frequency domain; creating stereo image. Students will be requested to finish at least 5 mixing projects for different types of music from pop, jazz to rock and rap."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3172", "title": "Audio Postproduction 2", "description": "Audio mastering is the final creative step in producing recordings for distribution. This course will introduce the aesthetic and technical concepts, issues, and strategies employed in final mastering for pop, rock, jazz, and classical genres. Topics will include frequency balance, stereo and multi-channel imaging, dynamics and overall program level control, signal path for analog and digital mastering, file formats and storage for distribution and replication."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3173", "title": "Electroacoustics", "description": "This course covers electroacoustic transducers and systems. Transducers commonly used in audio recording and production include a variety of types of microphones and speakers including dynamic moving coil, condenser, ribbon, piezo, and electrostatic. Electroacoustic systems will be explored including the basics of analog and digital electronics for recording, amplification, signal processing, and reproduction."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3175", "title": "AAS Project 3", "description": "This course covers fundamentals of large format digital console design and applications. The course will also provides concepts, skills and hands on experience with regards to close miking techniques. The course will also cover some basic audio editing skills on Protools software. Students will be requested to finish at least 40 hours of recording studio sessions, and submit one 5 tracks CD with technical description. In this course, students need to finish each project session with course supervisor together. Each project session should be fully under the direction of the course supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3176", "title": "AAS Project 4", "description": "This course provides students with the theory and skills required for audio recording and editing techniques for the video programs. Students will be requested to finish at least 2 projects of audio production for video programs. In this course, students need to finish each project session with course supervisor together. Each project session should be overviewed by the course supervisor."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3177", "title": "Music Programming & Production", "description": "The course is designed to provide students with leadership skillsets in curating and producing musical events and productions. Through this course, students will understand the process of content creation and its relationship to other forms of cross-genre productions within the arts ecosystem."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3178", "title": "MS / MCP 3rd Year Project", "description": "Students will design, develop and implement a musicrelated\nproject that demonstrates their musical and\norganisational capacities. Students are required to\nincorporate planning and resource strategies to produce a\nsmall-scale production, performance or community project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3179", "title": "Capstone Project for Second Major in Music", "description": "Second Major students in Music will research, design and\ndevelop a music-related project, performance, and/or\nthesis, which demonstrates their level of expert capacity in\ntheir concentration."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3181", "title": "Advanced Concepts in Orchestral Repertoire", "description": "Advanced Concepts in Orchestral Repertoire is a seminar for advanced orchestral players intending to prepare for professional-level auditions. Having acquired the necessary technical skills on their major study instrument to be able to perform standard orchestral repertoire, this course will intensify students\u2019 focus on developing appropriate audition techniques for professional-level orchestral auditions. Practical application of appropriate repertoire and emulation of current audition practices will be core components of this course. In preparation for the weekly sessions, students should also be involved in reflective practice\u2014specific to their instrument\u2014in relation to developing a broader appreciation of orchestral traditions."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3188", "title": "Live Sound Reinforcement", "description": "Live Sound Reinforcement provides students with thorough coverage of technology and techniques of microphone techniques, loudspeaker setup and signal connection. The topics will include techniques for both wired and wireless microphone, the principle of both analog and digital live console, the principle and application of loudspeaker for live sound purpose and music balance creation for live performances."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3189", "title": "Live Sound Reinforcement Project", "description": "This project course builds on the contents of MUA3188 Live Sound Reinforcement, allowing students to practice more independently in a professional environment. Students will be required to assemble a production team. In addition, they are required to plan and submit a project application to the project director. A final paper about the project they will be engaged in during the semester is also required. Students will need to finish the live sound projects for at least 2 classical music recitals and 2 pop concerts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3190", "title": "Applied Voice Major Study 3B", "description": "Individual voice lessons specially designed for junior year performance majors. Technical skills, competency and suitable repertoire are expected at the appropriate levels. \n\nAs a bridging semester into the fourth year and either preparation for graduate school or professional life, this semester will be focused on getting the student ready for the next phase of their careers."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3191", "title": "Junior Recital in Voice", "description": "Presented at the end of the term, students will be required to present 20-30 minutes of music in performance in a wide variety of styles in Italian, English and either German or French. One baroque cantata or group is strongly recommended."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3194", "title": "Voice Literature 1", "description": "This course will cover literature composed for the voice from the medieval period through approximately 1800. Repertoire covered will include music for solo voice as well as vocal chamber music and oratorio of various languages and styles. In-class performances and other class presentations will be required. There will be a final exam."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3195", "title": "Voice Literature 2", "description": "This course will cover literature composed for the voice from approximately1800 onwards. Repertoire covered will include music for solo voice as well as vocal chamber music and oratorio of various languages and styles. Inclass performances and other class presentations will be required. There will be a final exam."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3201", "title": "Advanced Contemporary Music Performance", "description": "Students in this course rehearse and perform with OpusNovus, the conservatory\u2019s new music ensemble. Students will perform contemporary works for solo, chamber, and large ensemble settings. Students work with coaches in repertoire appropriate for their instrument, learning new techniques necessary for the performance of contemporary work. Performance of learned repertoire is the main form of assessment. As this course is an elective ensemble in which students perform contemporary solo and chamber music, they are encouraged to propose works they would like to learn in the course, planning with their respective coach an appropriate set of pieces to work on over the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3202", "title": "Advanced Contemporary Music Performance", "description": "Students in this course rehearse and perform with OpusNovus, the conservatory\u2019s new music ensemble. Students will perform contemporary works for solo, chamber, and large ensemble settings. Students work with coaches in repertoire appropriate for their instrument, learning new techniques necessary for the performance of contemporary work. Performance of learned repertoire is the main form of assessment. As this course is an elective ensemble in which students perform contemporary solo and chamber music, they are encouraged to propose works they would like to learn in the course, planning with their respective coach an appropriate set of pieces to work on over the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3204", "title": "Conducting Contemporary Instrumental Music", "description": "This course will introduce students to score study, conducting techniques and rehearsal preparation that are essential especially in the performance of contemporary music. The course includes both theoretical and practical components, and serves as an elective option for students wishing to explore the conducting pathway in more detail, with a focus on contemporary music."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3205", "title": "Jazz Study and Performance 1", "description": "An introduction to the performance of jazz or popular music as practiced in the USA from the 1920s to the early 1950s. This course shows you how to perform and improvise jazz music as an instrumentalist or vocalist through the study and practice of class materials and listening. Theoretical materials will include chord scale theory, basic jazz musical forms, chord extensions, basic reharmonization techniques, and roman numeral analysis in jazz. The improvisational concepts taught are based on jazz theory and practice. There will be a listening list of about 80 well-known jazz pieces."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3206", "title": "Jazz Study and Performance 2", "description": "This course focuses on the performance and study of more contemporary jazz approaches including modal interchange, scale derivations, pentatonic scales, additional forms and stylistic considerations pertaining to jazz music as practiced in the USA from the 1950s to the present day. There will be some exploration into latin-music influenced jazz as well as blues, rock, and funk music. Creative projects include leadsheet style compositions and arrangements of jazz standards or popular music. There will be a listening list of about 80 well-known jazz pieces."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3208", "title": "Creative Producing for Music Majors", "description": "Through weekly seminars, students will gain insights into the role and scope of a creative producer, experiencing all aspects of mounting a production with practice-based approaches; from proposing and planning, to pitching, promoting, and producing. They will also acquire knowledge in administrative matters such as finance, marketing, and venue partnerships. In-class learning will be supplemented by hands-on experience through working with and learning from industry stalwarts. This course intends to foster interdisciplinary thinking and the skills necessary for Conservatory students to effectively engage in creative productions, in line with the increasing complexity and intersectionality in the current musical landscape."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3209", "title": "Business for Musicians", "description": "This course provides students entering the music business with knowledge in related areas of law, marketing and relevant research methodology necessary to successfully start or run a music business. It focuses on relevant aspects of company, labour and intellectual property law, the impact of arts marketing strategy and how effective survey methodologies can be applied to running a successful music business."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3213", "title": "Music Notation and Engraving", "description": "The course teaches skills for professional music notation. Genre-specific skills for vocal music, jazz, pop, and classical music as well as general issues related to layout and parts generation are addressed. Assessment is carried out through engraving projects in various styles. The course presumes students already have basic facility with a music notation program. The course is taught using Sibelius."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3216", "title": "Performance and Interaction", "description": "The main focus of the elective course is the completion of a major project that encompass elements of both performance and interaction, with strong connections to the student\u2019s major study area. Students submit a project proposal for approval of enrolment and can identify a faculty mentor to guide them in the project production."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3218", "title": "Introduction to Piano Technology", "description": "This project-based course will teach the basic theory of piano acoustics, piano tuning and piano repair."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3219", "title": "World Music Ensemble", "description": "The World Music Ensemble offers students a chance to\nplay and perform music from different cultures. The focus\nof the course will change from semester to semester\nallowing students a chance to participate in different\ntraditional musics in different terms. Students can see\nwhat music is covered each term by checking the NUS\nand YSTCM websites. Most semesters are available to\nany student regardless of musical background, some may\nrequire proficiency on an instrument."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3220", "title": "World Music Ensemble", "description": "The World Music Ensemble offers students a chance to\nplay and perform music from different cultures. The focus\nof the course will change from semester to semester\nallowing students a chance to participate in different\ntraditional musics in different terms. Students can see\nwhat music is covered each term by checking the NUS\nand YSTCM websites. Most semesters are available to\nany student regardless of musical background, some may\nrequire proficiency on an instrument."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3221", "title": "Intensive Music Engagement Practicum", "description": "The main focus of this course is the completion of a major project of significant career impact. The project should be directly connected to the student\u2019s future goals beyond graduation. Projects are expected to involve internship, international competitions, festivals or other similarly significant events of high rigour and visibility."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3222", "title": "SEAsian Regional Creative Project", "description": "This course has a local and overseas component. The overseas component will take place during the recess weeks at NUS typically between weeks six and seven.\nStudents will prepare for the project in the first six weeks, complete the project during the recess week, then return to NUS for follow up activities related to the project that can be done locally as well as reflection of their overseas experiences."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3223", "title": "Cultural Encounters - Bali Excursion and Study Tour", "description": "This course will take place over two weeks in Bali, Indonesia. The course will take place at the end of semester 2 (around the second week of May). During this\ntime students will work together to prepare traditional and group-composed music for performances in Bali."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3224", "title": "Intermediate Keyboard Studies", "description": "This course presents the study of intermediate piano repertoire and application of harmony at the keyboard. Students learn various important keyboard skills and techniques that enhance their understanding of and experience in making music. Such skills include harmonization, transposition, figured bass, improvisation, piano techniques, score reading, musical interpretation, solo and ensemble playing."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3225", "title": "Early Advanced Keyboard Studies", "description": "This course is a continuation of MUA3224 Intermediate Keyboard Studies. It presents the study of early advanced piano repertoire and application of more advanced harmony at the keyboard. Students continue to develop various important keyboard skills and techniques that enhance their understanding of and experience in making music. Such skills include harmonization, transposition, figured bass, improvisation, piano techniques, score reading, musical interpretation, solo and ensemble playing."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3226", "title": "Collaboratory", "description": "Through self-designed projects, Collaboratory allows students to pursue interests in experimental music realization, collaborative composition, free and structured improvisation, electronic music, or the realization of a student composer work. Students must select a mentor and receive his/her agreement. The project proposal must be approved by both the mentor and the course coordinator by the end of the semester prior to starting the project. Projects should include consistent meetings (weekly or fortnightly), guided by the mentor, and a public presentation of the final musical result."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3227", "title": "Collaboratory B", "description": "Through projects designed in collaboration between students and mentors, Collaboratory is a place to pursue interests in experimental music realization, collaborative composition, free and structured improvisation, electronic music, or the realization of student compositional work. Projects must be mentored. The project proposal must be approved by both the mentor and the course coordinator by the end of the semester prior to starting the project. Projects should include consistent meetings (weekly or fortnightly), guided by the mentor, and a public presentation of the final musical result."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3228", "title": "Re-imagining Pianism through Analysis", "description": "This elective offers an in-depth analysis of a diverse selection of piano repertoire. Students will study elements of music such as form, harmony and texture as part of a process of internalizing and interpreting works for the piano."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3230", "title": "Music Cognition", "description": "This course provides a general introduction to the cognitive science of music. It is intended for students in Psychology or Music, although students from other departments may enrol with permission from the instructor. The course will cover key topics in the field, such as memory, emotional responses, and social aspects of music listening and performance. The course will also touch upon recent computational approaches and neuroscientific findings that have clarified how music works in the mind and brain. Students will be encouraged to work in interdisciplinary teams to draw connections between their personal music experiences and findings from the literature."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3233", "title": "Contemporary Improvisation", "description": "In this course, students develop individual and collaborative ensemble improvisation skills. At the core is the building of musical vocabulary, the ability to develop musical ideas, and the development of listening skills. Students will learn and apply general improvisational techniques, as well as new playing techniques and extended techniques specific to their instruments and unique strengths as musicians, to further develop musical discourse. The course takes a non-idiomatic approach, allowing students to focus on the first steps of playing music without a score, generating their own musical ideas and sharing them. Nonetheless, students can be inspired and informed by Western classical, jazz and other styles. The learning outcomes of the course will be presented in performances at the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3240", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Piano Ensemble", "description": "A continuation from MUA2240, students will continue to further study and perform works for piano ensemble - either piano duos or duets. Students must participate in a public, assessed performance as the final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3241", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Vocal Accompaniment", "description": "A continuation from MUA2241, piano students will continue to work closely with the Voice department. Students will participate in at least one public performance and/or a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3242", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Instrumental Accompaniment", "description": "A continuation from MUA2242, piano students will continue to work closely with instrumental students on repertoire for instrumental/piano duos. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3243", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Chamber Music", "description": "A continuation from MUA2243, piano students will continue to collaborate with students from other departments, forming undirected groups consisting of three or more players, to study and perform selected works of chamber music. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3255", "title": "Applied Secondary C", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3255A", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3255B", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3256", "title": "Applied Secondary D", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3256A", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3256B", "title": "Applied Secondary", "description": "Individual lessons on an instrument, voice, or in the area of compositional or specific musical fields such as Jazz, tailored for secondary level students. Available to Conservatory students only, this course is meant to complement the students\u2019 primary major studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3260", "title": "Internship in Music Related Pathways", "description": "The internship course provides opportunity for hands-on learning in a professional context. Students will intern in a Singapore based music related company or agency. The knowledge and experiences gained will be documented in a final self reflective submission."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3261", "title": "Career Development Group Project", "description": "The main focus of this course is the completion of a major project of community outreach. The project should in some way be connected to the student\u2019s future goals beyond graduation. The student(s) enrolled will develop the project and therefore will be unique by design. Students will identify a faculty mentor to guide them in the project production."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3263", "title": "Internship in Music Related Pathways 2", "description": "This internship course provides progression from a previous internship course. Students will intern in a Singapore based music related company or agency. The knowledge and experiences gained will be documented in a final essay of substantial length."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3264", "title": "Career Development Independent Project", "description": "Building on previously completed professional development courses, students will design, develop and implement a music-related project in an external environment. Students will also incorporate strategies and materials for promoting their careers using traditional and new media."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3265", "title": "Career Development Independent Project 2", "description": "The main focus of this course is the completion of a second project of community outreach. The project should in some way be connected to the student\u2019s future goals beyond graduation. The student(s) enrolled will develop the project and therefore will be unique by design. Students will identify a faculty mentor to guide them in the project production."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3266", "title": "Navigating Community Music Projects", "description": "This course focuses on the context-driven and practice-led approaches in music-making while honing in on time management and organisation skills. Students enrolled in this course will pick from a list of community music projects in which they can choose their roles, focusing on at least one of the following aspects: music performance, production and publicity. Implemented by YST students, these projects provide an opportunity for them to design and lead in collaboration with the external partners involved, tailoring their ideas to specific contexts and audiences. A faculty mentor will be assigned to oversee each project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3267", "title": "Navigating Community Music Projects", "description": "This course focuses on the context-driven and practice-led approaches in music-making while honing in on time management and organisation skills. Students enrolled in this course will pick from a list of community music projects in which they can choose their roles, focusing on at least one of the following aspects: music performance, production and publicity. Implemented by YST students, these projects provide an opportunity for them to design and lead in collaboration with the external partners involved, tailoring their ideas to specific contexts and audiences. A faculty mentor will be assigned to oversee each project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3271", "title": "Acoustics and Sound Production for Performers", "description": "This course offers students introductory knowledge about audio and video production that is related to their own instrument. The topics will include stereo recording techniques for solo instrument and ensemble, acoustics design for performing and practicing space, sound reinforcement for live performance, digital video and audio editing techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3274", "title": "Sonic Environments", "description": "This course will investigate the changing relationships between humans and their surrounding sonic environments. Students will gain an understanding of the effects of the sonic environment on the human species, as individuals and as larger societies, and the ways in which humans are in turn responsible for drastic changes in the sonic environment, primarily since the advent of electronic and electroacoustic media technology. Another component of the course will be individual and group creative and research projects documenting the local sonic environment, accompanied by analytical essays. The semester will culminate in public presentations of all projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3275", "title": "Sonic Circuits", "description": "This course is a hands-on project-based introduction to electronic audio circuits for artistic purposes. Through hardware hacking, circuit bending, and circuit building, students will gain an understanding of basic electronics theory as well as develop valuable hands-on experience with battery-powered sound-making and sound-processing projects. From repurposing games, toys, and radios to building oscillators, filters, mixers, and amplifiers, and finally interfacing between the physical world and computers via microcontrollers, students will explore the artistic potential of electronic circuits. An introduction to the history and current practice of electronic sound art will be integral to the course. The course will culminate in a group installation/performance. No prior experience in electronics or music is assumed, though either would be helpful."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3277", "title": "Computer-Aided Composition", "description": "The course aims to offer an introduction to concepts and techniques of algorithmic music composition. The following tools and concepts for generating structure of musical parameters will be covered: list processing, random number generators, Markov chains, distribution functions, interpolation, perturbation, sets, series, and sieves. The course will use IRCAM's OpenMusic, a software environment for algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. Assessment will be based on composition projects realized during the semester. The course will mostly address algorithmic composition of acoustic music, but composition of electronic music will also be possible, if the student wishes to pursue that in a project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA3301", "title": "Preparing for International Competition", "description": "For the most dedicated instrumental performers, participation in international competitions is a significant milestone in their professional development. Such participation requires a dedicated period of preparation in advance of the competition itself, with a primary focus on self-reflective practice and study\u2014in conjunction with intensive mentoring with the major-study teacher and area. This course is designed to offer space for such preparation, with the assessment emulating, in process, the normal expectations of international competition. Students taking this course should have a specific competition in mind. Details of assessment, while generically similar, can be tailored more specifically to the competition involved."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4101", "title": "Composition Major Study 4A", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMUS program in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly one-hour consultation with a major study teacher. Students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study. This is the first of a 2-semester departmentapproved capstone project. The capstone project (Final Year Project) must include a minimum of 25 minutes of music and fulfil the requirements set out in the department's handbook. At the end of the semester, students submit a portfolio reflecting the state of the FYP for evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4102", "title": "Composition Major Study 4B", "description": "The course offers instruction in music composition for students enrolled in the BMUS program in music composition or appropriate related majors. Its main component is a weekly one-hour consultation with a major study teacher. Students attend weekly composition seminars and other events related to contemporary music study. This is the 2nd of a 2-semester departmentapproved capstone project. The capstone project (Final Year Project) must include a minimum of 25 minutes of music and fulfil the requirements set out in the department's handbook. At the end of the semester, students submit a portfolio and give a presentation on their project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4107", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4108", "title": "Conservatory Orchestra", "description": "Provides large ensemble collaborative music making rehearsal and performance experience, exposing students to music of the 17th through 21st centuries. Each season, the Orchestral Institute performs a cross-section of the standard orchestral repertoire - supplemented by new works and lesser-known compositions - presented in creatively curated productions, utilising innovative pedagogical approaches. Seating assignments are rotated as much as possible."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4109", "title": "Chamber Music", "description": "A continuation of MUA3109, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2109. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4110", "title": "Chamber Music in Mixed Ensemble", "description": "A continuation of MUA3110, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for mixed ensembles, as specified in the description of course MUA2110. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4113", "title": "Piano Pedagogy", "description": "This course is designed to introduce the art of teaching to piano major students. It focuses on the principles, materials and techniques in the teaching of piano/music to children in private studio settings. Students have the opportunity to: \uf09f Understand the nature of teaching and learning. \uf09f Grasp and explore basic principles and practical application of music and pedagogy for teaching young beginners. \uf09f Acquire and develop the attitude and skill of teaching. \uf09f Relate and explore innovative teaching methods suitable for studio teaching. \uf09f Experience and develop effective and fun learning concepts, materials and games through hands-on teaching."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4153", "title": "Noon Recital Series 4A", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4154", "title": "Noon Recital Series 4B", "description": "These recitals offer student performances covering all historical periods and a variety of genre. Attendance is compulsory for all students throughout the course of the undergraduate programme. Students need to maintain a 80% attendance rate in order to receive a S (Satisfactory) designation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4161", "title": "Advanced Studies on Principal Instrument", "description": "Focused study on an instrument forms the central pillar for the BMus Majors in piano, strings, brass, wind and percussion. Normally undertaken in the fourth year of study, this course usually begins the journey for students towards their capstone Senior Recital and assures that their instrumental readiness is appropriate for the next stage in their professional journey, whether to graduate school or into prefoessional work."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4162", "title": "Senior Recital - Instrumental Performance Capstone", "description": "Focused study on an instrument forms the central pillar for the BMus Majors in piano, strings, brass, wind and percussion. Normally undertaken in the fourth year of study, this course forms the capstone for instrumental Majors on the BMus programme. The course continues and consolidates processes initiated in previous semesters, manifesting their outcome in the form of a recital of approximately one hour\u2019s duration, demonstrating the emerging artistic and professional identity of each student."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4172", "title": "Internship in Audio Arts and Sciences 1", "description": "The internship course provides opportunity for hands-on learning in a professional context. Students will intern in a local radio or TV station, recording studio, production house, A/V support company, live sound company, or other approved audio-related business. The knowledge and experiences gained will be documented in a final essay of substantial length."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4173", "title": "Audio for Media 1", "description": "This course covers the theory and hands-on operation of sound design, foley recording, and post-production for video programme. The topics of sound effect recording, dialog recording and editing, background noise recording and editing, and surround sound mixing will be included. Students will be requested to finish at least 3 sound design projects during the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4174", "title": "Audio for Media 2", "description": "Continuing with the skills and knowledge acquired in Audio for Media 1, the project based course Audio for Media 2 will offer students more opportunities to practice on the sound design and foley recording production. Students will be requested to finish at least three multichannel projects with both project proposal and conclusion attached during the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4175", "title": "AAS Final Project", "description": "2nd major AAS students need to finish the final project under supervision. Students will be requested to finish one CD production with at least 3 multitrack productions that should focus on pop, jazz and rock music and at least 2 tracks stereo recordings that should focus on the classical music. Students will also need to finish the technical description of their recordings. The description should include the information of equipment operation like microphone set up and parameter adjustment on the outboard equipment, and some consideration about the acoustics. Students should finish the final project individually. Course instructor will be present in the session if necessary."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4176", "title": "Music Production and Marketing", "description": "This course offers students knowledge about music production with logic pro, acoustics design and microphone techniques for the performing space, and history and theory for pop music."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4177", "title": "Music Production and Marketing II", "description": "This course offers students knowledge about music production promotion, music production skills on protools, and internet video and audio technology."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4178", "title": "MS / MCP Capstone Project", "description": "Students will design, develop and implement a significant\nmusic-related project related to their major study area.\nStudents are required to incorporate planning and\nresource strategies to lead a professional-equivalent\nevent/production or community project."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4179", "title": "Final Project", "description": "The final project consists of a final paper and a recording project that is related to the topic of the paper. The title of the paper needs to be approved by the department. Students will need to pass the Thesis Defence of Bachelor degree before graduation."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4180", "title": "Internship in Audio Arts and Science 2", "description": "After taking a series of fundamental and advanced courses, students are ready to practice in a more professional environment rather than in a production lab in a school environment. Students will be encouraged to work as an intern at local broadcasting units, production house or in an approved sound related business. Students will need to work at least 10 hours per week. The feedback of the intern company will largely determine the student\u2019s grade in the course. The student will also be graded based on an essay detailing the valuable experiences which the student has gained from the practice."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4181", "title": "Professional Concepts in Orchestral Repertoire", "description": "Professional Concepts in Orchestral Repertoire is the capstone seminar for advanced orchestral players intending to audition for professional ensembles. Building on the repertoire and audition-skills acquired in MUA3181, this course will emulate the experience of professional level orchestral auditions from both the auditionee and panel perspectives by combining instrumental groups for selected sessions. Practical application of appropriate repertoire and of current best practices for professional level orchestral auditions will be core components of this course. In preparation for the weekly sessions, students should also be involved in reflective practice in relation to developing a broader appreciation of orchestral traditions and hiring practices."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4190", "title": "Applied Voice Major Study 4A", "description": "Individual voice lessons specially designed for first semester, senior year performance majors. Technical skills, competency and suitable repertoire are expected at the appropriate levels."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4191", "title": "Senior Recital in Voice", "description": "Presented at the end of the senior year, students will be required to present a full-length recital (50-55 minutes of music) in a wide variety of styles in Italian, English, German and French. Students may petition the Head of Vocal Studies to present a thematic, chamber music or other recital and, based upon the students\u2019 individual background and performance experiences, this may be allowed."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4201", "title": "Foundational Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context", "description": "Foundational Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context (FLSOC) is an introductory course designed for students who aspire to prepare for positions in professional large ensembles. Students are expected to explore leadership skills in an orchestral context with focus on the following learning outcomes: 1) understanding professional artistic leadership in large ensemble and sectional rehearsals, including exploration of activities such as part assignments, section rotation, string bowings (and other ensemble-related administrative oversight), through consultation with ensemble faculty (and other titled players within their respective sections) and 2) a self-reflection component including dialogues with ensemble faculty members evidencing contemplation of best practices for orchestral leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4202", "title": "Intermediate Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context", "description": "Intermediate Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context (ILSOC) is an intermediate course designed for students who aspire to prepare for positions in professional large ensembles. Students are expected to expand their leadership skills in an orchestral context with focus on the following learning outcomes: 1) achieve a good understanding of professional artistic leadership in large ensemble and sectional rehearsals, including organisational activities such as part assignments, section rotation, string bowings (and other ensemble-related administrative oversight), through consultation with ensemble faculty (and other titled players within their respective sections) and 2) a self-reflection component including dialogues with ensemble faculty members evidencing contemplation of best practices for orchestral leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4203", "title": "Advanced Conducting I", "description": "The course advances concepts and techniques already covered in the Conducting course and serves as an elective option for students wishing to explore the conducting pathway in more detail."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4205", "title": "Advanced Conducting II", "description": "The course advances concepts and techniques already covered in the Advanced Conducting 1 course and serves as an elective option for students wishing to explore the conducting pathway in more detail."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4207", "title": "Advanced Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context", "description": "Advanced Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context (ALSOC) is the penultimate course designed for students who are intending to prepare for leadership positions in professional large ensembles. Students are expected to expand upon the skills set developed in Intermediate Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context (ILSOC), with continued focus on the following learning outcomes: 1) emulating professional artistic leadership in large ensemble and sectional rehearsals 2) organisation of their respective sections via leadership activities such as part assignments, section rotation, string bowings (and other ensemble-related administrative oversight), through consultation with ensemble faculty (and other titled players within their respective sections) and 3) a self-reflection component including dialogues with ensemble faculty members evidencing contemplation of best-practices for orchestral leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4208", "title": "Professional Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context", "description": "Professional Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context (PLSOC) is the culminating course designed for students who are intending to prepare for leadership positions in professional ensembles/large ensembles. Students are expected to expand upon the skills set demonstrated in Advanced Leadership Skills in an Orchestral Context (ALSOC), with continued focus on the following learning outcomes: 1) professional artistic leadership in large ensemble and sectional rehearsals 2) organisation of their respective sections via leadership activities such as part assignments, section rotation, string bowings (and other ensemble-related administrative oversight), through consultation with ensemble faculty (and other titled players within their respective sections) and 3) a self-reflection component including dialogues with ensemble faculty members evidencing contemplation of best-practices for orchestral leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4209", "title": "Chamber Music 4", "description": "A continuation of MUA4109, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2109. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4210", "title": "Chamber Music in Mixed Ensemble 4", "description": "A continuation of MUA4110, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2110. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4215", "title": "Vocal Pedagogy", "description": "This course will serve as an introduction to Vocal Pedagogy and will consist of a survey of the current literature on the subject as well as supervised teaching of a beginning level voice student. Course requirements include extensive reading, written assignments, in-class presentations, and mid-term and final examinations."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4226", "title": "Collaboratory C", "description": "Through projects designed in collaboration between students and mentors, Collaboratory is a place to pursue interests in experimental music realization, collaborative composition, free and structured improvisation, electronic music, or the realization of student compositional work. Projects must be mentored. The project proposal must be approved by both the mentor and the course coordinator by the end of the semester prior to starting the project. Projects should include consistent meetings (weekly or fortnightly), guided by the mentor, and a public presentation of the final musical result."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4227", "title": "Collaboratory D", "description": "Through projects designed in collaboration between students and mentors, Collaboratory is a place to pursue interests in experimental music realization, collaborative composition, free and structured improvisation, electronic music, or the realization of student compositional work. Projects must be mentored. The project proposal must be approved by both the mentor and the course coordinator by the end of the semester prior to starting the project. Projects should include consistent meetings (weekly or fortnightly), guided by the mentor, and a public presentation of the final musical result."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4240", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Piano Ensemble", "description": "A continuation from MUA3240, students will continue to further study and perform works for piano ensemble \u2013 either piano duos or duets. Students must participate in a public, assessed performance as the final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4241", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Vocal Accompaniment", "description": "A continuation from MUA3241, piano students will continue to work closely with the Voice department. Students will participate in at least one public performance and/or a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4242", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Instrumental Accompaniment", "description": "A continuation from MUA3242, piano students will continue to work closely with instrumental students on repertoire for instrumental/piano duos. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4243", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Chamber Music", "description": "A continuation from MUA3243, piano students will continue to collaborate with students from other departments, forming undirected groups consisting of three or more players, to study and perform selected works of chamber music. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4271", "title": "Advanced Live Sound Reinforcement 1", "description": "Advanced Live Sound Reinforcement 1 is an elective course for those students who would like to work in the live sound domain after their graduation. The course offers students advanced live sound knowledge, skills through different case studies and practice opportunities through different practical live sound sessions from classical music recitals to rock concerts. Students will work more professionally with the course director and be better equipped to work as a professional live sound engineer. Students will be requested to finish at 5 live sound projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4272", "title": "Advanced Live Sound Reinforcement 2", "description": "Similar to MUA4271 Advanced Live Sound Reinforcement 1, MUA4272 Advanced Live Sound Reinforcement 2 is also an elective course for those students who would like to focus their career on live sound after graduation. The students in this class will be requested to plan and organize their own live sound sessions by submitting a project proposal on microphone selection and setup, loudspeaker selection and setup, power supply, and signal connection. Students will be asked to finish at least 3 live sound sessions independently through the whole semester. The session report also needs to be attached with each live sound session."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4301", "title": "Advanced Preparation in International Competition", "description": "For the most dedicated instrumental performers, participation in international competition is a significant milestone in their professional development. This course is designed to offer space and support for actual participation, with the assessment mirroring the requirements of the competition itself. Students taking this course would normally have a specific competition in mind. Details of assessment, while generically similar to each other, can be tailored more specifically to the competition involved. It is anticipated that students will generally be needing to prepare a minimum of an hour of competition material."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4309", "title": "Chamber Music 5", "description": "A continuation of MUA4209, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2109. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4310", "title": "Chamber Music in Mixed Ensemble 5", "description": "A continuation of MUA4210, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2110. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4340", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Piano Ensemble 4", "description": "A continuation from MUA4240, students will continue to further study and perform works for piano ensemble \u2013 either piano duos or duets. Students must participate in a public, assessed performance as the final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4341", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Vocal Accompaniment 4", "description": "A continuation from MUA4241, piano students will continue to work closely with the Voice department. Students will participate in at least one public performance and/or a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4342", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Instrumental Accompaniment 4", "description": "A continuation from MUA4242, piano students will continue to work closely with instrumental students on repertoire for instrumental/piano duos. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4343", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Chamber Music 4", "description": "A continuation from MUA4243, piano students will continue to collaborate with students from other departments, forming undirected groups consisting of three or more players, to study and perform selected works of chamber music. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4409", "title": "Chamber Music 6", "description": "A continuation of MUA4309, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2109. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4410", "title": "Chamber Music in Mixed Ensemble 6", "description": "A continuation of MUA4310, students will further study and perform works of chamber music for undirected ensembles as defined in the description of course MUA2110. Students should participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4440", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Piano Ensemble 5", "description": "A continuation from MUA4340, students will continue to further study and perform works for piano ensemble \u2013 either piano duos or duets. Students must participate in a public, assessed performance as the final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4441", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Vocal Accompaniment 5", "description": "A continuation from MUA4341, piano students will continue to work closely with the Voice department. Students will participate in at least one public performance and/or a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4442", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Instrumental Accompaniment 5", "description": "A continuation from MUA4342, piano students will continue to work closely with instrumental students on repertoire for instrumental/piano duos. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4443", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Chamber Music 5", "description": "A continuation from MUA4343, piano students will continue to collaborate with students from other departments, forming undirected groups consisting of three or more players, to study and perform selected works of chamber music. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4540", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Piano Ensemble 6", "description": "A continuation from MUA4440, students will continue to further study and perform works for piano ensemble \u2013 either piano duos or duets. Students must participate in a public, assessed performance as the final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4541", "title": "Collaborative Piano Vocal Accompaniment 6", "description": "A continuation from MUA4441, piano students will continue to work closely with the Voice department. Students will participate in at least one public performance and/or a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4542", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Instrumental Accompaniment 6", "description": "A continuation from MUA4442, piano students will continue to work closely with instrumental students on repertoire for instrumental/piano duos. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA4543", "title": "Collaborative Piano - Chamber Music 6", "description": "A continuation from MUA4443, piano students will continue to collaborate with students from other departments, forming undirected groups consisting of three or more players, to study and perform selected works of chamber music. Students are expected to participate in at least one public performance as well as in a final examination of the prepared work(s)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5105", "title": "Leadership in Orchestral Conducting", "description": "This course explores at a graduate level how modern leadership thinking and people management strategies can translate to orchestral conducting skillsets and help develop conductor effectiveness particularly in the context of rehearsing/training orchestras."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5115", "title": "Ensemble Study 5A", "description": "This course revolves around chamber / orchestral and related ensemble study specially designed for performance / composition majors. It allows the time and opportunity for students to become able ensemble participants in a variety of contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5116", "title": "Ensemble Study 5B", "description": "This course continues to consoldate and hone experience around chamber / orchestral and related ensemble study specially designed for performance / composition majors. Students gain greater responsibility in their roles within the ensembles, including assuming leadership and organizational roles where applicable."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5121", "title": "Professional Practices in Music", "description": "This course revolves around self-directed learning appropriate to each student\u2019s career trajectory through one-to-one mentoring. The course consolidates and hones technical, musical and professional skills appropriate to a variety of career contexts. Through developing independence, self-reflection, and flexibility, preparing students to deal with professional expectations and demands with confidence, and navigate within the constantly evolving cultural landscape."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5122", "title": "Graduate Practicum in Pedagogy", "description": "The Graduate Practicum provides students with the opportunity to work in a professional context within the Conservatory. The scope of the workplan will be discussed with a mentor, taking into consideration the student\u2019s career trajectory/interest. Where appropriate, the student may assist the mentor/faculty in actual teaching assignments for undergraduate studies and related administrative tasks."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5123", "title": "Collaborative Portfolio", "description": "The Collaborative Portfolio course is self-directed and documents students\u2019 practical/real-world applications in leading collaborative activities. Students will work individually with a mentor to discuss planned output over the course of the semester and how it might help in personal development. Students are also required to present their reflections at the end of the semester to detail learning processes and outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5124", "title": "Musical Explorations", "description": "This is a self-directed, portfolio-based course that encourages students to document, reflect upon, and evaluate their artistic practices within their chosen fields. Students will produce traceable output from projects that can take a variety of formats, such as ensemble collaborations, pedagogy-facing outreach projects, and multimedia creation. Students are also required to present their reflections at the end of the semester to detail learning processes and outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5160", "title": "Leadership in Musical Contexts", "description": "Established musicians advancing their careers often assume leadership positions where they lead and manage teams of people. These could be made up of musicians with minimal administrative background or administrative teams with little musical understanding. This course aims to provide musicians with a solid understanding of leadership strategies building out of their transferable musical skills, to help them navigate both environments effectively as a leader."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5161", "title": "Major Study 5A", "description": "This course revolves around individual instrumental / composition lessons specially designed for performance / composition majors. It consolidates and hones technical and musical skills appropriate to a varied range of musical styles and professional performance contexts. It develops confidence, independence, self-reliance and self-reflection in preparation for advanced study and a life of changing professional expectations and demands."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5162", "title": "Major Study 5B", "description": "This course revolves around individual instrumental / composition lessons specially designed for performance / composition majors. It continues to consolidate and hone processes initiated in the previous semester, with a view to the presentation of a preliminary major Public Recital during the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5163", "title": "Research Practices in Music", "description": "Research in music encompasses a diverse range of focus areas and approaches. This course surveys and evaluates a breadth of methodologies and outputs, drawing on the expertise of leading practitioners in fields such as performance practice, music education, music cognition, and ethnomusicology. By engaging with current research, students will gain an understanding of the research landscape and acquire skills to critically assess their own practice. Students will be empowered to conceptualise projects as part of developing their individual artistic identities and situate themselves in an evolving 21st-century ecosystem."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5170", "title": "Critical Listening Laboratory", "description": "The Critical Listening Laboratory further hones students\u2019 critical listening abilities through equipping students with the technical expertise and analytical abilities required to translate audio specifications into practical applications for consumers. From analysing and listening to elements in solo instrument recording to appreciating surround sound production, from listening to the balance in pop band to studying different historical and contemporary jazz recording, this course offers students with the opportunity to experiment with various audio production techniques in diverse range of genres and acoustic spaces."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5171", "title": "Recording Production in Classical Music", "description": "This project and practice-based course will equip students with the specialised skills of audio recording and production in classical music. Students will have routine recording and live streaming practice with a wide range of repertoire and techniques; from solo instrument to chamber music to orchestral pieces, from two microphone to multi-microphone techniques, from two-channel stereo production format to surround sound production format. Through these, the students will be equipped to perform the roles of a recording engineer, editor, music producer and livestreaming producer. The course will also cover some recording production related topics under acoustics and concert hall acoustics, computer technology, and audio networks."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5172", "title": "Multitrack Recording Production", "description": "This project and practice-based course will equip students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills of audio recording in both two-channel stereo and surround format for Pop and Jazz music. Students will have routine recording, editing, mixing, and mastering practice on pop and jazz music in the roles of recording engineer, editor, music producer. The topics of computer technology, and audio networks will also be covered in the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5173", "title": "Audio System Design", "description": "This project and practice-based course equips students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to design and install audio systems. Through training in traditional two-channel stereo to 7.1 surround sound codec conversion, sound system design for both home and mobile environments, acoustics and room reflection, students will develop high level competencies to apply their technical expertise directly to the consumer market. Students will also have the opportunity to undertake practical, hands-on training with key industry partners through the duration of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5264", "title": "Musical Engagement in the Community", "description": "In today\u2019s rapidly evolving musical landscape, the diverse role of an artist in the community provides infinite possibilities to engage, understand and encourage positive social change. This course introduces current thinking and best practices in community music-making through an understanding of theories and examples that feature dynamic interplay between the different contexts where community music intersects with pedagogical processes. Play! Lab sessions will also include practical hands-on application of facilitative and explorative skills in community music-making."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA5770", "title": "AAS Graduate Seminar", "description": "This course is for graduate students in Audio Arts and Sciences and focuses on collaborative learning and communication. Students will have multiple opportunities to share and discuss research, both theirs and that of others, in seminar-style sessions that centre on material chosen by the students themselves. Class sessions will include elements of roundtable discussion, presentation, collective ideation and presentations from industry leading experts. Students will hone their skills in live presentation, collaboration, and apply learning takeaways to their research within their degree programme and in their careers more broadly."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA6115", "title": "Ensemble Study 6A", "description": "This course further consoldates and hones experience around chamber / orchestral and related ensemble study specially designed for performance / composition majors. In addition to greater responsibility in their roles within the ensembles, students also develop extended repertoire acquisition and experiences in a variety of ensemble contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA6116", "title": "Ensemble Study 6B", "description": "The final graduate ensemble course brings to a summation a wide range of training and experience relevant to the professional instrumentalist\u2019s / composer\u2019s abilities and success within a professional music context in the realms of chamber music, orchestral music, and related ensemble combinations."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA6161", "title": "Major Study 6A", "description": "This course revolves around individual instrumental / composition lessons specially designed for performance / composition majors. It continues to consolidate and hone technical and musical skills appropriate to a varied range of musical styles and professional performance contexts. It develops confidence, independence, self-reliance and selfreflection in preparation for advanced study and a life of changing professional expectations and demands."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA6162", "title": "Major Study 6B", "description": "This course revolves around individual instrumental / composition lessons specially designed for performance / composition majors. It continues to consolidate and hone processes initiated in previous semesters, with a view to the presentation of a final major Public Recital during the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA6178", "title": "Graduate Capstone Project in Music Leadership", "description": "The capstone project is an individualised, self-directed application of research thinking and skills, building upon the work done in the Research Practices in Music course. Students will conceive and independently develop a project that investigates their chosen topic, demonstrating skills such as experimentation, literature review and quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. The final output for each project will vary based on the nature of the research, but must include a public presentation (e.g., lecture-recital) and a defence. Each student will be supported by at least one supervising mentor from the YST faculty."}, {"moduleCode": "MUA6771", "title": "Doctoral Seminar", "description": "This course is for doctoral students in music and focuses on collaborative learning and communication. Students will have multiple opportunities to share and discuss research, both theirs and that of others, in seminar-style sessions that centre on material chosen by the students themselves. Class sessions will include elements of roundtable discussion, presentation, and collective ideation. Students will hone their skills in live presentation and collaboration, and apply learning takeaways to their practices both within their degree programme and in their careers more broadly."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH1100", "title": "Understanding and Describing Music", "description": "This course seeks to introduce students to a variety of core strategies for engaging with, understanding, and communicating about music at a tertiary level. Through listening, performing, discussion, reading, and writing, the course will expose students to diverse musical styles, forms, and genres, introduce various analytical and aesthetic approaches to music, and enhance students\u2019 ability to engage critically in musical dialogue using appropriate terminology and media."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH1101", "title": "Critical Approaches to Musical Discovery", "description": "Our understanding and experience of music are intrinsically linked to the cultural, historical, socio-economic and critical contexts in which music-making occurs. In this course, students will examine music as a cultural and social phenomenon, analysing and evaluating values and ideologies that have shaped historical and contemporary musical practice. Students will acquire shared vocabulary and frameworks to research and communicate effectively about music, and gain an understanding of essential musical concepts and genres. Students will develop confidence in expressing their own artistic perspectives and reflect on their individual roles in an evolving musical ecosystem."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH2201", "title": "Classical Styles and Romantic Spirits", "description": "Today\u2019s most widely-known, international concert repertoire is primarily made up of 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century European and North American composers and their music. This course presents a look, listen, and study of their music and legacy focusing on two parallel movements in the European tradition: the classical, rococo, galante, emfindsamer stil, and neo-classical; and sturm und drang, romantic, and neo-romantic. The focus of learning in this course is through primary source materials. (Non-conservatory students that can read music are invited to enrol in this course as free elective.)"}, {"moduleCode": "MUH2202", "title": "What Was, and Is, Popular Music?", "description": "What musicians, singers, and composers have, and had, the most, and least, followers, and why? This course is a detailed study of the dynamics among music, music makers, and audiences in history. Central to this course is a critical comparison of historical and present case studies. Historical case studies draw from the western music legacy, and contemporary case studies will draw from the global as well as Singapore and Asia. Students will analyse common patterns, discriminate differences, and make inferences from these case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH2203", "title": "Music of the Church and State", "description": "This course studies music produced in and for religious and political environments from the earliest Greek and Chinese civilizations through to the present day. The course explores the origins of music as a symbol of both the church and the state, looking at both in their wider meanings as bodies of people with common beliefs and purposes. It covers religioso and ceremonial music from the ancient civilizations of Greece and China, looks at the Patronage of the European courts and the Catholic and Protestant Churches, and investigates the purpose and value of music in contemporary religious and political ideologies especially those affecting South East Asia. No previous knowledge of music theory or history is required as the course is primarily focused on religious, political and social elements."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH2204", "title": "Music after World War II", "description": "This course explores music after the Second World War through examining the variety of approaches adopted by music creators and performers, and drawing connections between their music and the surrounding socio-cultural contexts. Students will critically consider various issues that continue to be relevant to music today, including artistic responses to historical events, indeterminacy, cultural appropriation, and the ramifications of technology. While the course content will primarily focus on Western classical music, students are encouraged and given opportunities to apply course concepts to other genres as well."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH3202", "title": "Musicology", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to the concept of musicology, including critical theories of music and various approaches to presenting researches in music. It aims to inculcate in students both an enquiring mind and a means of addressing issues which affect music on a variety of platforms. It aims to strengthen students\u2019 writing and cognitive skills and to understand the implications of various approaches to presenting research findings. It also aims to broaden students\u2019 minds in the way they both perceive music and understand its implications to society, both academic and artistic."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH3203", "title": "The Evolution of Music for the Stage", "description": "This course traces the history of opera and musical theatre, and their socio-cultural contexts, from the creation of the Western opera tradition in the late 16th century to popular stage and movie musicals, and the current scene in Singapore today. From a celebration of mythical heroes and ancient greek ideals, to biting commentary on contemporary issues, to exploring the lives and loves of ordinary people, the course examines how opera and musical theatre have been vehicles for powerful ideas and social change. Through selected works, students will consider topics including performance practice, catalytic cultural and political ideas, and depictions of race and gender."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH3205", "title": "Chamber Music: An Interdisciplinary Approach", "description": "This course explores significant genres, styles, and representative chamber works from the common practice period to the present day. Also considered are: relationships between chamber music and its socio-political and cultural contexts; the changing social function of chamber music and musicians; various performance contexts; trends in musical aesthetics; and the evolution of chamber music\u2019s languages and styles. Students undertake individual research projects on selected chamber works, and lead discussions on their chosen work in weekly seminars. Students acquire skills, knowledge, and confidence necessary to conduct independent research and critically engage with the repertoire they play."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH4203", "title": "Music Criticism", "description": "This course will investigate the skills involved in both writing and commenting critically about music and look at the various platforms for such criticism (i.e. print and broadcast media, social networking, assessment reportwriting). It will also study how performers and audiences react to criticism and assess its effect on music in performance."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH4204", "title": "Learning and Challenging the Historical Narrative", "description": "This course is an intensive survey of Western music that encourages students to critically assess and challenge existing historical narratives and canonic thinking. Students will review and study in detail all historical aspects associated with the creation of music, including genres, styles, historical periods, composers\u2019 lives and works, and patrons. Students will continually consider and question the motivations behind the inclusion and exclusion of artists and artworks in the constructed stories of music. Modes of teaching, learning, and assessment are designed to prepare students for graduate-level music history courses, with an emphasis on independent, inquiry-based learning."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH5201", "title": "Histories and Cultures of Amateur Music-Making", "description": "This course explores the role and impact of amateur music-making in diverse cultural contexts, critically examining contemporary exemplars of amateur music-making alongside historical case studies from both Western Classical and non-Western musical contexts. Topics discussed include the influence of/on technology, relationship with \"professionals\", as well as the complex political, economic and social conditions and motivations that allow amateur music-making to flourish. Students will be empowered to apply their insights in their own musical activities and interactions, cultivating a vibrant, engaged community of music-makers in our wider society."}, {"moduleCode": "MUH5202", "title": "Music in Interconnection", "description": "This course explores music as a locus of interaction: how it is situated in and relates to the wider world outside the concert hall, both in the abstract and in the real world. Music, like any other discipline, has both intrinsic and extrinsic connections to other fields, and adopting a multidisciplinary approach to music can lead to exciting and impactful results. Through both contemporary and historical case studies, each week of this course will critically consider the interconnection between music and another field, including areas within the arts (theatre, visual art etc.) and without (nature, gender studies, politics etc.)."}, {"moduleCode": "MUL1105", "title": "Italian for Musicians 1", "description": "This course serves as the first semester of Italian language studies for music majors. Basic grammar, morphology, syntax and, especially, conversation will be emphasised. Required for all voice majors. Open to all NUS students."}, {"moduleCode": "MUL1106", "title": "Italian for Musicians 2", "description": "This course serves as the second semester of Italian language studies for music majors. Basic grammar, morphology, syntax and, especially, conversation will be emphasised. Required for all voice majors. Open to all NUS students."}, {"moduleCode": "MUL2107", "title": "French for Musicians 1", "description": "This course will serve as the first semester of French language studies required for Voice Majors in the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Basic grammar, morphology, syntax and conversation with emphasis on situations which a musician in France will be emphasized. Open to NUS students."}, {"moduleCode": "MUL2108", "title": "French for Musicians 2", "description": "This course will serve as the second semester of French language studies required for Voice Majors in the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Basic grammar, morphology, syntax and conversation with emphasis on situations which a musician in France will encounter will be emphasized. Open to NUS students."}, {"moduleCode": "MUL2109", "title": "German for Musicians 1", "description": "This course will serve as the first semester of German language studies required for Voice Majors in the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Basic grammar, morphology, syntax and conversation with emphasis on situations which a musician in Germany will encounter will be emphasized. Open to NUS students."}, {"moduleCode": "MUL2110", "title": "German for Musicians 2", "description": "This course will serve as the second semester of German language studies required for Voice Majors in the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Basic grammar, morphology, syntax and conversation with emphasis on situations which a musician in Germany will encounter will be emphasized. Open to NUS students."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT1101", "title": "Musical Concepts and Materials 1", "description": "This course covers essential musical concepts and their application in music from different eras and genres. The aim is to develop the students' capacity to create meaningful musical realisations and important musicianship skills through four components\u2013Analysis, Creative Writing, Aural Skills, and Workshops. Musical concepts are utilised through recognition, description and creation in the following main categories\u2013melody and motivic development; harmonic structures and voice-leading schemata; phrase and formal structures. In the Workshops component, aurally-based performance skills are continued through world music ensemble and improvisation. This course is mandatory for all BMus students in their first semester of study."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT1102", "title": "Musical Concepts and Materials 2", "description": "This course is the continuation of MCM 1 and will be mandatory for BMus students in their second semester of study. MCM 2 continues the examination from the following components - melody and motivic development; harmonic structures and voice-leading schemata; phrase and formal structures. Aural skills will be an additional component to further develop the students\u2019 abilities to listen analytically and reflect upon the musical experience and its relationship to performance, listening and creativity. This course balances analytical, creative and aural-based activities and engages further connection with the curriculum and students\u2019 practice."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT1201", "title": "Introduction to Classical Music Composition", "description": "The course introduces students to style writing of the Classical period of European composers like Mozart. Topics on harmonic progression, voice leading, and texture are addressed as are relevant compositional concepts like repetition, variation, and elaboration. Class time is dedicated to lectures and demonstrations as well as hands-on practice in class. Simple compositions in the style of common practice European music form the bulk of the assessment. While prior experience with music composition is not required, a familiarity with music theory rudiments is highly recommended."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT2101", "title": "Musical Concepts and Materials 3", "description": "This course is the continuation of Musical Concepts and Materials (MCM) 2 and will be mandatory for BMus students in their second year of study. MCM 3 continues the examination from the following components in greater depth and complexity \u2013 counterpoint in two and three voices, formal structures, motivic/harmonic structures and voice-leading schemata as well as introduction to early 20th century concepts. The course balances analytical, creative and aural-based activities and engages further connection with the curriculum and students' practice."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT2102", "title": "Musical Concepts and Materials 4", "description": "This course provides the student with an understanding of different textures such as monophony, homophony, polyphony and heterophony. The study of texture and timbre is as important as other elements such as harmony, melody and formal structures. It examines different musical elements and the interrelations and interactions among them leading to the work's overall shape and character. The course will also include an introduction to basic orchestration techniques. Students will examine different combinations of instruments in various textural settings, write for combinations of instruments with attention to timbre, range, performance techniques and instrumental idioms. There will be exercises comprising formal analysis of musical works\u2014the aim of which is to show how composers shape melody, harmony and timbre to create large-scale musical structures."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT2201", "title": "Harmonic Practices", "description": "This course provides Conservatory students with an introduction to Western modal, tonal and post-tonal practices from 15th \u2013 20th centuries. The course surveys modal practices in the Renaissance period, tonal practices in the 18th-20th centuries, including jazz harmony, and post-tonal practices. The course includes both theoretical and practical components. Students analysis works to further their understanding of course topics and compose short works to demonstrate their comprehension of course content."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT2202", "title": "Counterpoint Through the Ages", "description": "This course explores counterpoint as a major compositional technique in music of different genres through the ages. The various topics range from the birth of polyphony to high renaissance polyphony, and the development of counterpoint during the common practice period through the 20th century. The course aims to bridge compositional thinking with performance and interpretative analysis. Because of this, analysis, composition, and performance are equally represented as modes of learning. Major assessment is in the form of analytical work and music compositions that are performed in class and/or public concerts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT2203", "title": "Texture and Timbre", "description": "This course explores common textures found in music, such as monophony, homophony, polyphony and heterophony, and examines the influence of textural and timbral elements on a work\u2019s overall shape and character. The course also includes an introduction to basic orchestration techniques. Students will examine different combination of instruments in various textural settings, write for combinations of instruments with attention to timbre, range, performance techniques and instrumental idioms. There will be exercises comprising formal analysis of musical works -- the aim of which is to show how composers shape melody, harmony and timbre to create large-scale musical structures."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT2204", "title": "Formal Practices", "description": "This course provides an overview of various formal procedures in music of different eras and genres. It examines how techniques of repetition, contrast, return, development and variation create form. Main topics examined include dance forms, sonata forms, variation forms, contemporary as well as common formal techniques. The course aims to bridge compositional thinking with performance and interpretative analysis. Because of this, analysis, composition, and performance are equally represented as modes of learning. Major assessment is in the form of analytical work and music compositions that are performed in class and/or public concerts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT2205", "title": "Text and Music", "description": "This course surveys the relationship between text and music in different eras and genres through vocal, instrumental, and electronic music. Students will examine works set to, inspired by, or including text from literary and non-literary sources in the medieval through contemporary eras. The course includes both theoretical and practical components. Students will analyse works to further their understanding of course topics and compose short works to demonstrate their comprehension of course content."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3113", "title": "Orchestration", "description": "This course begins with an overview of the different orchestral choirs: woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings. Looking at a variety of orchestral settings, the course surveys the orchestration possibilities available across musical styles, ranging from the modest chamber orchestra to the expanded large orchestra and beyond. Students will learn to interpret and execute the craft of orchestration through score-study, in-class listening, writing assignments, and orchestration projects. This course may be beneficial for all musicians including arrangers, composers, conductors, educators, performers, and tonmeisters."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3201", "title": "Modern Music", "description": "An introduction to new approaches to composition in the past 50 years, focusing on electronic, chamber, and orchestral music from America, Europe, and Asia. The course will be listening-intensive. It is appropriate for both performers and composers. Lectures will attempt to situate each composer/composition discussed on 5 spectra - Cultural Intersection, Politics, Notion of \u201cSound\u201d, Process/Systems, and Technology. Students will be required to perform and/or compose short works that address the compositional approaches presented."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3202", "title": "Sonata Form", "description": "This course is designed for students who wish to further explore the depth and diversity of the most complex of all tonal forms: sonata. Sonata form has been the most important vehicle of the idea of \u2018absolute\u2019 music and functioned as the archetypal formal design from the 18th to the 20th centuries. After reviewing its historical predecessors (binary and ternary forms), formal principles, and terminology,this course looks into the structure and techniques of the sonata form through analysis and some creative writing exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3213", "title": "Romantic Styles", "description": "This course begins with an overview of Beethoven\u2019s music and his influence on contemporaneous and later 19th century composers. The heart of this course explores the divide between absolute and programme music. \u2018Leipzigerisch\u2019 composers (Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms) versus the \u2018New German School\u2019 (Berlioz, Liszt). Nationalism is included. The final weeks are devoted to the Opera genre by examining the works of Wagner, Verdi and Puccini. It extends to Strauss and Mahler, who represent the final flowering of musical Romanticism. With the model of a Romantic composer/performer, Romantic Styles is designed to bridge compositional work with performance, supported by interpretative analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3214", "title": "Concerto and Cadenza", "description": "This course provides a focused study of the concerto as a genre and how the cadenza evolved from improvisation to being an integral part of a concerto. The chronological setting reinforces the historically-informed approach that encourages musicians to be sensitive to the stylistic differences of each era and composer. The course aims to bridge compositional thinking with performance and interpretative analysis. Hence, analysis, composition and performance are equally represented as modes of learning. Major assessment is in the form of analytical work and music compositions that are performed in class and/or public concerts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3215", "title": "Composition for Non-Majors", "description": "This course looks at recent approaches to form, melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture. It is appropriate for students who are interested in exploring music composition in more depth but are not majoring in music composition. It encourages individual creative writing while exploring contemporary techniques of music from 1920 to present. Class meetings will include a combination of lectures, private composition lessons and group tutorials. The first half of the semester focuses on solo writing while the second half focuses on chamber writing. Students will look into some models for composition in preparation for their two projects."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3216", "title": "Bach Suites", "description": "This course focuses on J.S. Bach\u2019s solo instrumental works, with an emphasis on the dance suite. Selected works include the unaccompanied Sonata and Partitas for Violin, Cello Suites, and the Keyboard Suites. The contextual use of dance rhythms and forms in other Bach works, and neo-baroque trends in the 20th century will also be topics of discussion. The course aims to bridge compositional thinking with performance and interpretative analysis. Thus, analysis, composition, and performance are represented as modes of learning. Major assessment is in the form of analytical work and music compositions that are performed in class and/or public concerts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3220", "title": "Wind Ensemble Arranging/Composition", "description": "This course will introduce students to the fundamental components of arranging and composing for wind ensemble through listening, score study, and scoring projects. The course includes both theoretical and practical components. Students will analyse works to further their understanding of course topics and create arrangements and/or compose original works to demonstrate their comprehension of course content."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3221", "title": "Writing for Chinese Ensembles", "description": "The course introduces students to writing for Chinese instruments in small and large ensemble settings to convey musical ideas or original compositions. Students will be introduced to works featuring a sound world different from the western traditions as well as performance techniques unique to Chinese instruments. Prior knowledge of (instrumentation/orchestration) is preferred."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3222", "title": "Choral Composition", "description": "This course provides an overview of various compositional approaches to choral music. Styles surveyed range from English madrigals to popular \u2018a capella\u2019 styles, and diverse modern composers such as Ligeti and Whitacre. Assignments will feature creative choral composition, arrangement, paying attention to details of idiomatic voicing, practical voice leading, text setting, and accompaniment. The course aims to bridge compositional thinking with performance and interpretative analysis. Thus, analysis, composition, and performance are represented as modes of learning. Major assessment is in the form of analytical work and music compositions that are performed in class and/or public concerts."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3223", "title": "Early Twentieth-Century Music", "description": "This course introduces students to the compositional ideas developed in the early twentieth century (1900-1945). It provides students the skills and techniques for analysing this repertoire and composing music in this style. Perspectives will include not only the musical materials of these works but also some insights into their cultural context and historical placement. Class meetings will include a combination of lectures and group tutorials. The first half of the semester focuses on organizations of pitch, rhythm, form, texture and orchestration in the early twentieth century while the second half focuses on pitch-class set theory and twelve-tone theory."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3224", "title": "Teaching Music Online", "description": "Students will develop and hone their pedagogical practices in teaching music over the Internet both synchronously and asynchronously across different age groups and settings. They will learn the best practices to incorporate online tools into their teaching curriculum and performance practice, including developing their own online platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT3225", "title": "Teaching Music Online 2", "description": "Building on the knowledge acquired in Teaching Music Online 1, students will continue to apply and hone their pedagogical approaches to teaching music over the Internet. Students will teach music students around the world in a variety of settings using various forms of elearning."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT4201", "title": "Graduate Theory Preparation", "description": "The course reviews key concepts and skills commonly assessed on graduate music school theory entrance exams. These include 4-part voice leading, 18th century contrapuntal techniques, post-tonal analysis, and common forms. This course assumes students are already familiar with these skills but are in need of reviewing them before entering graduate school. It is, therefore, appropriate for fourth year conservatory students whose future plans include graduate level studies in music."}, {"moduleCode": "MUT5201", "title": "Practical Approaches to Musical Analysis", "description": "This course presents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music analysis. The main objective is to realize that while a work may appear complicated, there is always a simple and practical approach to it. Music analysis is therefore linked to awareness and practicality. Forming a clear link between musical awareness and music analysis will offer a more fruitful opportunity to allow music practitioners to focus on aspects such as musical coherence, structural relationships and interpretative choices. This analytical strategies can be adapted and included within instrumental and group lessons as techniques to teach phrasing, musical understanding and musical knowledge."}, {"moduleCode": "MUX2102", "title": "Exchange Course (Music)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "MW5152", "title": "Communicating Science with the Public", "description": "This course introduces students to the history, theory and practice of science communication at an advanced level. It covers contemporary competing theories of what constitutes 'best practice' in science communication, the historical roots\nof the discipline, fundamental practical skills for communicating science with the public, and a deep understanding of science communication professional practice. It provides a solid foundation for further studies in science communication, touching on multiple communication mediums, considerations of different aims and audiences, and some specifics of communicating particular kinds of scientific information. Students will develop foundational science communication research skills in this course.\n\nThe course is compulsory for students in the Master of Science Communication and Master of Science Communication Outreach programs, but postgraduates in\nother disciplines, particularly in the sciences, can also benefit from its overview of the current science communication landscape.\n\nThe course will be run as a combination of online content, face-to-face or online classes and an intensive component on-campus."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5200", "title": "MSc Science Communication Project", "description": "The students will complete a project related to a topic in science communication. The project may be a combination of a written thesis, material for teaching/outreach, and IT components. The project will be assessed (when\napplicable) on scientific accuracy, quality of teaching/outreach material and presentation of findings."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5201", "title": "Essentials of Science Communication", "description": "Science communication is a vital skill for shaping public perception of innovation, adoption of technology, and resilience to misconceptions. This is important for journalists, public relations managers of technology firms/R&D institutes, project managers, advertising and regulatory agencies. This course provides the essential skills and knowledge to help the learner use both mainstream and online media to communicate science. Course topics/activities include: written, oral and interview skills, public sentiment survey skills, and data analysis, visualization and presentation skills. The learner will also receive practical training in writing real articles for the public and may participate in 'live' media interview."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5202", "title": "Innovative Strategies in Science Communication", "description": "Students will be introduced to a wide range of current innovative strategies in science communication with emphasis on the usage of demonstrations and technological resources to communicate and engage the public in Science. Topics covered include: basics of designing scientific experiments or demonstrations in lectures, classrooms or exhibitions; basic concepts of conducting interactive demonstrations; approaches to illustrate scientific principles; basic concepts, design in making online science videos for communication, developing STEM related IT-games to engage the wider public and illustrations in teaching enhancements throught IT resources. The topics will be introduced by lecturers who are known for their innovative science communication techniques and their experience, including lecture demonstrations and use of technology."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5203", "title": "Frontier Topics in Science", "description": "This is a proposed third course for the ANU-NUS Joint Master Programme in Science communication, Frontier topics in Science. It is a course that will present the latest and upcoming trends in scientific discovery with an emphasis to recognise and understand the scientific ideas behind cutting age discovery. The materials used in this course are those that non-specialised audience can relate to or has an impact on society. The scientific ideas in the development of the latest scientific technology and how they impact human society will be illustrated. Each individual topic will be presented by either an expert scientist or the lecturer from an academic scientist point of view. The subject material will be pitched at the level where students of different scientific background or discipline can understand. Classes will be conducted in a seminar style, followed by a focus group discussion session on the impact of the science on society."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5252", "title": "Engagement for Policy Impact", "description": "Scientists around the world consistently list achieving tangible impacts on policy and practice as a core career goal - yet few have the knowledge or skillset needed for turning this into a reality. This has arisen because traditional scientific training programs rarely teach the skill set and competencies required to operate effectively at this interface. Thus, this course focuses on providing students with the theory, as well as the practical knowledge, skills and tools that are needed to operate more effectively at the science-policy-practice interface to achieve tangible impacts from their research. This will be achieved by drawing on current research from the fields of knowledge exchange and research impact, as well as the inclusion of guest lecturers from the realms of policy and practice so that students gain a first hand account of the practical ways in which they can bridge the gap between science, policy and practice."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5253", "title": "Science Communication Project Design and Delivery", "description": "Science communication and outreach programs employ a range of methods to engage audiences, deliver impact and communicate science. From capacity building programs in the developing world to science puppet shows for early learners, science communicators employ different methods, often to better engage with underserviced audiences, create impact and social change, and explore topics in more intriguing ways. As part of this, they need to be skilled at conceiving ideas, logistics and program planning, \u2018selling\u2019 their ideas and securing funding, running events and evaluating their success. In this course, you\u2019ll come up with a novel program idea, trial it, report on your trial and then learn how to win funding for it through grant applications and a presented \u2018pitch\u2019. This course is about creating your own original science communication project. It represents an authentic opportunity to develop real-world skills that allow your ideas to become realities. As you\u2019ll discover in your future science communication careers, if you want to pursue your passions, your goals and your ideas, skills to develop them and just as importantly get them funded are critical. Many past students\u2019 ideas have turned into actual, fully funded, real-world ongoing projects that have had national and global impacts, so don\u2019t underestimate what you might achieve if you make the most of it! If you choose, this can be so much more than just another assignment."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5254", "title": "Public Events for Science Engagement", "description": "This is a practical course which aims to develop students' science event organisation, delivery and evaluation skills. The emphasis is on presenting science live, in a range of ways driven by theory and best practice, to a relevant\ngeneral audience. Students learn to consider a relevant audience, and to design, plan, market, deliver and evaluate a science communication event relevant to that audience."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5258", "title": "Science in Popular Fiction", "description": "How has Brave New World shaped the human cloning debate? Why did forensic science enrolments boom simultaneously with the popularity of CSI and Silent Witness? How is Doctor Who useful for engaging high school students in science learning? To what extent did Frankenstein establish a negative image of scientists? Why is theatre an effective HIV/AIDS education tool in South Africa and not in Australia? What role did Star Trek's Lt Uhura play in recruiting astronauts to the NASA space program? How might The Day After Tomorrow impact the public understanding of climate change?\n\nThis course provides an introduction to the impact of fictional representations of science and scientists on public perceptions of science. It introduces research, theory and methods from this growing area of science communication as applied to fictional works including films, television programs, plays, novels, short stories and comics. Students are encouraged to share their own experiences of science-based fiction and to pursue their areas of interest through assessment. The major piece of assessment is a research project testing students' hypotheses about the impact that a work of fiction might have on public perceptions of science. The research project will be completed individually, but the research ideas will be developed as a team with a view to obtaining publishable results."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5259", "title": "Cross Cultural Perspectives in Science Communication", "description": "This course will prepare students to communicate science across cultural boundaries. It will increase student\u2019s understanding about issues and effective strategies of communicating science and technology with culturally diverse audiences. Students will explore how values, beliefs and expectations differentiate science from other knowledge systems, and examine the Eurocentric privileging of modern science and its communication, which are integral parts of Western culture. In doing so, students will look closely at communities that are alienated from science, with particular reference to current science communication research."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5264", "title": "Health Promotion and Protection", "description": "This interdisciplinary course examines the ways in which societies attempt to enhance and promote health in a range of settings, while critically assessing the associated risks and barriers. This course will provide a sound theoretical\nunderstanding of dominant health promotion and protection theories and models, as they relate to contemporary health issues in Australia and internationally. This course emphasises practical application of theory in problem based learning scenarios. Students will gain a sound conceptual understanding enabling them to develop health interventions and communicate effectively with specialist and non-specialist audiences."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5270", "title": "Strategies in Science Communication", "description": "This course focuses on the creation of clearer and more effective ways to communicate scientific matters to larger audiences. It provides participants with a thorough and practical understanding of the process used in developing a communication plan including the development of a strategic framework and accompanying action plan that allocates resources, responsibilities and timeframes. It has a strong emphasis on relating theory to current industry best practice in implementing a strategic approach to planning communication activities. The major project component is based around field work and evaluation of real life science communication strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5271", "title": "Science Communication and the Web", "description": "The internet and social media sit at the heart of the modern communication of scientific information. But are you using the web in the best possible ways to communicate? This intensive course focuses on providing you with the skills and knowledge so you can triumph when using the internet to communicate your science. Topics include writing for the web, using analytics, best social media engagement, video and podcasting, mapping and infographics, Wikipedia and the frontiers of social media."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5272", "title": "Science Dialogue Theory and Practice", "description": "This course will provide a detailed exploration of the role of science dialogue in relation to contemporary science debates and science and technology governance. As well as providing a theoretical understanding informed by\nScience and Technology Studies, this course will provide you with the skills to plan, design and run science dialogue. It will also give you opportunities to learn and practice skills needed to participate in and facilitate dialogue. Assessment items will require students to plan and conduct a mini-dialogue.\n\nScience dialogue refers to communication about science that brings all parties to greater understanding. The key feature is that science dialogue is bi-directional - information and insights are gained on both 'sides'. In the\ncase of dialogue between scientists or science communicators and members of the public, then, the public participants learn about the science and the\nscientists' aims and aspirations, and the scientists learn something from the public, about their concerns and aspirations and generally about the social context of the science, which informs their thinking, and potentially their\ndecisions, about that science. Dialogue has a special place within science communication as a communication medium with particular aims that is increasingly being promoted as a best practice approach within government\nand community sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "MW5273", "title": "Making Modern Science", "description": "Politicians, chief scientists and others are increasingly calling for scientists to communicate their work with the public, but how, where and when did this start? Why have scientific societies like the Royal Society of London transitioned from doing scientific research in the seventeeth century to promoting the interests of science in the twenty-first? Are there parallels between eighteenth century amateur science and citizen science today, or\nbetween nineteenth century science popularisation and today's science journalism? How can we map institutional relationships between science and the bodies that promote it, popularise it, and link it to political processes? Is science communication an added extra in the world of science, or integral to its success and longevity?\n\nThis course applies historical and institutional approaches to science communication to explore the big picture view of how this discipline and its professional practices have developed across the world and through time. Students will map the relationships between science and the science\ncommunication-type activities and organisations that have always surrounded and supported western science as an institutionalised pursuit - scientific societies, advocacy for science funding, science professionalisation measures,\nscience popularisation efforts of different kinds, science museums and centres, and more. Course assessment emphasises reflection on the significance of this big picture for professional practice in science communication, as well as developing science communication research skills."}, {"moduleCode": "NE5999", "title": "Graduate Seminars", "description": "GRADUATE SEMINARS"}, {"moduleCode": "NEP3001", "title": "Impact Experience Project", "description": "This signature course is taken by NUS College students over two years and serves as a capstone course integrating experiential learning, interdisciplinarity, thoughtful social impact, as well as personal growth and effectiveness. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams in meaningful partnerships with community stakeholders to tackle wicked social and environmental problems. Dedicated lecturers will supervise the student teams to conduct the impact projects in Singapore or in the Southeast Asian region to found upstream solutions and share the results using the Research, Innovation, Service and Expression (RISE) framework. Student projects will culminate in the Impact Festival."}, {"moduleCode": "NEP3001A", "title": "Impact Experience Project (One Year)", "description": "The signature course is taken by approved groups of NUS College students over one year and serves as a capstone course integrating experiential learning, interdisciplinarity, thoughtful social impact, as well as personal growth and effectiveness. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams in meaningful partnerships with community stakeholders to tackle wicked social and environmental problems. Dedicated lecturers will supervise the student teams to conduct the impact projects in Singapore to found upstream solutions and share the results using the Research, Innovation, Service and Expression (RISE) framework. Student projects will culminate in an interim progress report."}, {"moduleCode": "NEP3001AH", "title": "Impact Experience Project (One Year)", "description": "The signature course is taken by approved groups of NUS College students over one year and serves as a capstone course integrating experiential learning, interdisciplinarity, thoughtful social impact, as well as personal growth and effectiveness. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams in meaningful partnerships with community stakeholders to tackle wicked social and environmental problems. Dedicated lecturers will supervise the student teams to conduct the impact projects in Singapore to found upstream solutions and share the results using the Research, Innovation, Service and Expression (RISE) framework. Student projects will culminate in an interim progress report."}, {"moduleCode": "NEP3001AS", "title": "Impact Experience Project (One Year)", "description": "The signature course is taken by approved groups of NUS College students over one year and serves as a capstone course integrating experiential learning, interdisciplinarity, thoughtful social impact, as well as personal growth and effectiveness. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams in meaningful partnerships with community stakeholders to tackle wicked social and environmental problems. Dedicated lecturers will supervise the student teams to conduct the impact projects in Singapore to found upstream solutions and share the results using the Research, Innovation, Service and Expression (RISE) framework. Student projects will culminate in an interim progress report."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3001", "title": "GEx Paris", "description": "What is the relationship between the arts, culture, diplomacy and social innovation? GEx Paris provides the opportunity to explore how these themes are intertwined through an immersion in the French capital and short trips to other emblematic European cities related to the course (Brussels and The Hague). GEx Paris offers a transformative journey where students will experience a new cultural environment and learn about the themes in an unparalleled manner. Participants will engage into different types of activities such as lectures, immersive workshops, field visits and masterclasses that will help them understand how these themes are relevant to the city."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3001S", "title": "GEx Paris", "description": "Paris is a Global City, a place for diplomacy and its cultural offer is countless, hosting many of the world's most renowned art pieces. The city has also been recognised for its specific approach to social innovation, promoting initiatives to accelerate environmental and social transitions. GEx Paris offers a transformative journey where students will learn about Paris and France with a focus on the themes of Arts, Culture, Diplomacy, and Social Innovation. Students will have access to different types of activities like lectures, immersive workshops, visits and masterclasses that will help them understand how these themes are intertwined with the city."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3002", "title": "GEx Stockholm", "description": "Humanity faces an array of challenging environmental issues that requires interdisciplinary understanding and actions. GEx Stockholm explores environmental and sustainability concerns through these lenses. Students will be exposed to topics including but not limited to water (in)security, marine conservation, climate change adaptation, and waste management. GEx allows students to engage Swedish cities, institutions and its people to explore how local, regional and global forces shape environmental and sustainability action. Students engage in critical reflections of their learning environments and craft their individual assessment and understanding of their chosen topic of choice."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3002S", "title": "GEx Stockholm", "description": "Humanity faces an array of challenging environmental issues that requires interdisciplinary understanding and actions. GEx Stockholm explores environmental and sustainability concerns through these lenses. Students will be exposed to topics including but not limited to water (in)security, marine conservation, climate change adaptation, and waste management. GEx allows students to engage Swedish cities, institutions and its people to explore how local, regional and global forces shape environmental and sustainability action. Students engage in critical reflections of their learning environments and craft their individual assessment and understanding of their chosen topic of choice."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3003", "title": "GEx New York", "description": "This module has one core question: How does a city become a global city? In the case of New York, did this development come about ineluctably or through design? Expressed in another manner, is New York an organic or willed creation? The module employs the theme of the city to understand the tension in all societies between the built () and the lived experience (). This tension cuts to the heart of the human experience as it is a springboard to study how what we construct determines us as much as what we are determines what we construct. ville Cit\u00e9"}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3004", "title": "GEx Toronto", "description": "Creating inclusive systems of governance which respect diversity is an important aspiration for many democratic societies in a globalised world. GEx Toronto critically examines the complexities involved in creating such systems for a heterogeneous population. Through an interdisciplinary framework, students will explore how narratives concerning diversity and inclusion are constructed and challenged, how communities are legitimised or pathologised by state institutions, and why struggles for recognition and autonomy succeed or fail as communities work to fashion unity out of difference. Students will engage in self-directed projects within a curated experiential environment, document accomplishments, and contribute to knowledge about Canada."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3004S", "title": "GEx Toronto", "description": "Creating inclusive systems of governance which respect diversity is an important aspiration for many democratic societies in a globalised world. GEx Toronto critically examines the complexities involved in creating such systems for a heterogeneous population. Through an interdisciplinary framework, students will explore how narratives concerning diversity and inclusion are constructed and challenged, how communities are legitimised or pathologised by state institutions, and why struggles for recognition and autonomy succeed or fail as communities work to fashion unity out of difference. Students will engage in self-directed projects within a curated experiential environment, document accomplishments, and contribute to knowledge about Canada."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3005", "title": "GEx Java", "description": "Despite its massive economic achievements, Indonesia still struggles with severe geographic and financial disconnectivity that has led to unequal access to goods and services amongst its population. A vibrant entrepreneurship scene has emerged to deal with such disparities, giving birth to unicorns like Gojek and Tokopedia. In this module, students will get to develop a deeper understanding of Indonesian entrepreneurship vis-\u00e0-vis its modernization trajectory. They will be exposed to the theories and practices of entrepreneurship and modernity contextualized to Indonesian histories and cultures, through a combination of e-learning, classroom activities, and an experiential trip to Bandung and Yogyakarta"}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3006", "title": "GEx Mekong", "description": "Development and migration are driving transformations in Asia. GEx Mekong explores pertinent issues around development and migration in the Mekong region through a transdisciplinary lens. Students will be exposed to major topics including histories, cultural identities and practices, demography, urbanisation and globalisation, as well as the innovation landscape of the region. Each iteration of the GEx allows students to dive into cities and places to explore how local and global forces shape social, cultural and economic lives. Students engage in self-directed projects within a curated experiential environment, document accomplishments, and contribute to knowledge about diverse innovations in the Mekong region."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3007", "title": "GEx Tokyo", "description": "How does a city\u2019s character evolve and develop? Does a city\u2019s character shape its cultures and technologies? How does culture and technology shape the way a city is built, managed, and lived? GEx Tokyo examines the roles culture and technology play in everyday lives, and how they complement and conflict with one another in processes of innovation and entrepreneurship to improve lives and drive development and growth. Through site visits, discussions and explorations, students will gain insights into how strategies are derived to develop enterprises, enhance livelihood, create value, and accumulate capital in and beyond the city."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3007S", "title": "GEx Tokyo", "description": "How does a city\u2019s character evolve and develop? Does a city\u2019s character shape its cultures and technologies? How does culture and technology shape the way a city is built, managed, and lived? GEx Tokyo examines the roles culture and technology play in everyday lives, and how they complement and conflict with one another in processes of innovation and entrepreneurship to improve lives and drive development and growth. Through site visits, discussions and explorations, students will gain insights into how strategies are derived to develop enterprises, enhance livelihood, create value, and accumulate capital in and beyond the city."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3008S", "title": "GEx Bali/Lombok", "description": "This course\u2019s theme is sustainable oceanic natural resource harvesting and alternative livelihoods. We\u2019ll explore this through one main question: How did local fishermen collectives on these two islands transition from destructive environmental harvesting methods to becoming regional and global models for conservation, sustainable development, and alternative social enterprises? In Bali/Lombok local fishermen collectives have emerged as the global paradigm for sustainable development for coastal communities. We will learn from fishermen collectives in areas such as global ornamental fish and coral trade, shark finning, and octopus aquaculture, as well as understand how these lessons and models can be applied throughout SEA."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3009", "title": "GEx Beijing", "description": "GEx Beijing aims to combine theory, history, and sociology to engage students deeply with the complexity and locality of Beijing and demystify the technological side of China. The course contends with the historical roots of China\u2019s embrace of modernity and why/how science was the key tool of this. Through the experiential environment, students are expected to gain experience in critical thinking and interdisciplinary learning. The trip\u2019s central question is: How does the employment of technology shape everyday Chinese culture and social change? Students are encouraged and supported to pursue their own research interests related to high technological development of/and China."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3010S", "title": "GEx Chicago", "description": "This course introduces students to the challenge of food in urban cities through the lenses of research, technology, business creation, as well as social equity and justice. Students will learn how a place like Chicago, which is within an agriculturally established state like Illinois, has managed (or not) these various trade-offs associated with food and farming in an urban city. Students will also encounter the \u201cglobal-ness\u201d of food, which suitably problematises the extent of \u201cself-sustainability\u201d that cities should aim for. Through this course, students will learn to understand food in a more complex but therefore also a more realistic way."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3011", "title": "GEx Sulawesi", "description": "This GEx examines the cultural, social, and environmental changes associated with Sulawesi\u2019s rapid economic development. Students will learn how nickel mining, tourism, and public investment have made Sulawesi one of Indonesia\u2019s fastest growing regions. However, the nickel that powers new, green technologies in Singapore and Silicon Valley also produces social and environmental effects that threaten the health and livelihoods of fishing and farming communities in Sulawesi. Thus, students will be able to better understand the ways in which global commodity chains, national investment priorities, and provincial development plans affect local communities."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3012S", "title": "GEx Upper Mekong", "description": "GEx Upper Mekong examines how Thailand and Laos manage their environmental and sustainability issues and the challenges they face. Students will learn to engage scientific data backed with an overview of the local and regional politics of Thailand and Laos through first-hand experiences. At the end of the course, they will gain critical insights on how environmental and sustainability science meets policy in a public context. Overall, students will be able to better understand the opportunities and challenges of science (mis)informed environmental policies practised in various locales, and apply them to study environmental and sustainability issues."}, {"moduleCode": "NEX3013", "title": "GEx Yogyakarta/Bandung", "description": "This course explores the idea of the Creative City as a resource for promoting social innovation, sustainable development, urban regeneration, social cohesion and participation, citizen well-being, and intercultural dialogue. Under the umbrella of UNESCO\u2019s Creative Cities Network, today there are nearly 300 creative cities worldwide, with an increasing number of these cities in Asia. Students in this GEx will gain an experiential understanding of the creative city through two highly regarded cities in Indonesia, Yogyakarta and Bandung. Students will better appreciate how these two cities offer different approaches to what creative city is and what it can do."}, {"moduleCode": "NFB2001", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Humanities & Social Sciences)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFB2002", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Humanities & Social Sciences)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFB2003", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Humanities & Social Sciences)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFB2004", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Humanities & Social Sciences)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFB2005", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Humanities & Social Sciences)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFB2006", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Humanities & Social Sciences)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFB2007", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Humanities & Social Sciences)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFC2001", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Sciences & Technologies)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFC2002", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Sciences & Technologies)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFC2003", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Sciences & Technologies)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFC2004", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Sciences & Technologies)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFC2005", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Sciences & Technologies)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFC2006", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Sciences & Technologies)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFC2007", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course (Sciences & Technologies)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFS2001", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NFS2002", "title": "Overseas Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NG5001", "title": "Academic Communication for Graduate Researchers", "description": "Designed for all PhD students of the NUS Graduate School (NUSGS), this module facilitates further development of students\u2019 academic literacies in critical reading, writing and oral presentation. For critical reading, students will be guided to deconstruct and evaluate arguments \u2013 competences which students will then deploy by writing a proposal. In writing the proposal, students will need to demonstrate the ability to use suitable academic conventions. This proposal will subsequently be delivered as an oral presentation to a cross-disciplinary audience. This module utilizes a blended learning approach, where students\u2019 learning experiences will comprise in-class and online synchronous and asynchronous lessons and activities.Academic Communication for Graduate Researchers"}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001A", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001B", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001C", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001D", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001E", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001F", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001G", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001H", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001I", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001J", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001K", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001L", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001M", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001N", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001O", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001P", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001Q", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGN2001R", "title": "Global Narratives", "description": "This course introduces students to the enduring concerns of the human imagination across many global traditions. It explores how these concerns represent cultural narratives, values, and questions that encapsulate historical moments and communicate beyond their specific contexts. Students will examine different media and genres across a variety of world traditions and periods."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001A", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001B", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001C", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001D", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001E", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001F", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001G", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001H", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001I", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001J", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NGT2001K", "title": "Global Social Thought", "description": "What does it mean to be a social being in a complex, globally interconnected world? By engaging with key debates and perspectives in social thought, this course critically examines how ideas and practices of the social are transformed as a result of global interconnectivity. Students will investigate, through a range of theoretical frameworks, the social and cultural effects of globalism, and ask how scale affects and shapes social processes and problems. Students will further explore potential solutions to contemporary global issues and consider the distribution of duties and responsibilities these solutions might entail."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2001", "title": "Representing War", "description": "War is the greatest common, man-made trauma that human beings undergo. We imagine war before, during and after we fight it. We imagine it socially, as tribes or nations, generating a common understanding through books, movies, songs and other representations. Those shared visions of war enable us to fight it and confront its trauma. This course examines the changing imagination of war across history. Focusing mainly on English-speaking cultures, it examines poems, books, films, songs, plays, news reports, letters, speeches and tv programmes. It asks how they represent war, and how representations change over time and under pressure from technology, events and political thought."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2002", "title": "Understanding Irony", "description": "This course aims to provide students with an introduction to irony, a central term in literary and cultural studies. Irony presupposes disjunctions \u2013 between what is said and what is meant, what is perceived and what is real. It thus involves a critical attitude in exploiting and/or perceiving disjunctions. It is often directed with negative effect towards figures and structures of authority, and is sometimes an integral part of a world-view. Students will engage closely with a variety of texts of\ndifferent types, including poems, tracts, short stories, speeches, plays, sketches, songs and pictures. In doing so, they will reach a better understanding of the roles irony can play not only in literature, but also in society more generally. Since the texts are drawn from different historical times, media and geographical locations, students will get a sense of the widespread use of irony in culture and society."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2003", "title": "Topics in Lit. 2: The Subject of Reading", "description": "Where does meaning come from? Some people think that it resides in the text; some suggest that it originates from the author; others argue that meaning is created by the reader. This course examines the possibilities and problems of the last answer. To what extent does the reader of a text determine its meaning? Is there a universal, objective reader, or are readers historically specific, biased and always \"subjects\"? If a reader constructs the text, can the text in turn construct the reader? We will think about these questions by operating on several levels: (1) by discussing literature and films that thematise reading; (2) by assessing how thinkers have debated the reader's role; and (3) by examining our own processes of reading."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2004", "title": "The Politics of Language and Literacy in Singapore", "description": "Whereas the goal of many literacy studies is to determine who is literate or what counts as literacy, the goal of this course is to examine the political, economic, and social assumptions, factors, and effects of the distinction between literacy and illiteracy. Although such a study could take place within any national context, this course will focus on Singapore as a location for taking up this issue. Organized around the literacy narratives and histories of USP students older generations of Singaporeans, and people from other cultures and nations, this course explores the impact of the distinction between those who are literate and those who are not on Singaporean identity, history, politics, and ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2005", "title": "Appealing Arguments: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos", "description": "A standard way of thinking about arguments privileges reasoning over other modes of persuasion. In other words, good arguments persuade by only relying on logic. They avoid an overreliance on excessive emotional language or on a speaker\u2019s expertise. This course challenges these understandings of argumentation and demonstrates that logic must be considered in its relation with emotions and ethics for arguments to be persuasive. Students will begin with the Aristotelian tradition and read contemporary treatments of the issues. Further, students will put rhetorical theory into practice by constructing logical, affective, and ethical arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2006", "title": "Close Reading and Its Vicissitudes", "description": "What are the possibilities and problems of \u201cclose reading\u201d? Close reading has long been a foundational tool in, and beyond, literary studies. By looking at its formalist manifestations and political uses, this course first explores what close reading is. We then discuss recent critiques, which has led to alternatives such as: distant reading; reparative reading; surface reading; thin description; just reading; and too-close reading. In so doing, the course raises bigger questions about the \u201cproper function\u201d of analysis. Should it expose and uncover, or \u201cmerely\u201d describe? To make small claims (about a literary work), or large ones (e.g., about society)?"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2007", "title": "The Modern History of Southeast Asia through Fiction", "description": "This course examines the modern history of Southeast Asia through the reading of novels and short stories set or composed in the region. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, with students exploring particular historical periods and topics such as race and ethnicity, gender, conflict, and work and labour. To do so, they will be introduced to different approaches in literary theory, such as New Historicism and Postcolonialism, in order to understand and interpret the historical context in which fiction is written. Ultimately, students will evaluate the advantages and difficulties of using fiction as a means to understand the past."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2008", "title": "Creating 'Reality'", "description": "Framed around the production of non-fiction short films, Creating \u201cReality\u201d explores the visual representation of factual material. The intellectual core of the course focuses on the complexities of visual approaches to data collection and narrative, especially when observing and depicting real life practices, stories, and behaviours. In the course, non-fiction film is used as tool to explore critical issues of the nature of reality, subjectivity/objectivity, selection bias, and the manipulation of data \u2013 which are broad based concerns in all academic disciplines. The course draws upon literature from a wide range of disciplines from visual anthropology and new media, to film studies to contextualize the diversity of theoretical and practical approaches involved in creating non-fiction film. The course utilizes practical learning exercises, including the group production of a short documentary film about some aspect of current events, or everyday life in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2009", "title": "Reinventing Intercultural Exchanges", "description": "Intercultural understanding is crucial for solving global problems but face-to-face exchanges are not always possible due to emerging crises, political barriers and income inequality. This course invites students to imagine new modes of intercultural exchange. In the first half of the semester, we will borrow tools and concepts from a variety of disciplines (cultural anthropology, intercultural theatre, interaction design, and translation theory) to devise different \u201cinteraction playbooks\u201d. In the second half of the semester we will test these by working with students in partner universities around the world, through digital platforms and, when feasible, face-to-face interactions."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2010", "title": "From Lab to Stage: Writing the Science Play", "description": "How do we turn science into art? This creative writing course examines how theatre explores issues of science - - the personal, institutional and social dimensions of scientific inquiry \u2013 as students create new original dramatic works. Students read and analyse science plays from a playwright\u2019s perspective, and apply the techniques learned to their own short weekly creative writing exercises based on scientific developments. These will be critiqued by their peers, and will culminate in the research and writing of their own one-act plays."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2011", "title": "Ethics And The Environment", "description": "The environmental crisis, manifested in air and water pollution, environmental degradation, the rate of extinction of animal and plant species, and the depletion of natural resources, has many different aspects, the most important being, arguably, the philosophical aspect. In this course, students will be introduced to the philosophical debate about environmental issues. The objective is to equip students with concepts and theories that will help them think about the environment at the fundamental level. Major topics include anthropocentrism and non-anthropocentrism, bio-centred ethics, deep ecology, eco-feminism and environmental virtues."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2012", "title": "Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Value of Representational Art", "description": "This course examines the intersections between ethics (the study of what is right and wrong) and aesthetics (the study of beauty and taste) in light of two questions: (1) whether the appreciation of artworks makes us morally better persons, and (2) whether a moral defect make an artwork less beautiful. Students will study both historical and contemporary philosophical debates on these two issues, and make use of examples of representational art \u2013 i.e., artworks which depict an object, event or mental state \u2013 to explore their own positions. Examples of representational art examined include: novels, paintings, films, photographs, and museum exhibits."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2013", "title": "Imagining Animals", "description": "How have artists, philosophers, and writers of fiction imagined the relation between humans and animals? Have they imagined humans as a species of animal, or as belonging to a realm of being that exceeds the lives of animals? What, if anything,\ndistinguishes us from animals: language, clothing, reason, or something else? In this course we will examine some of the ways these questions have been explored in art, advertising, philosophy, and literature. Students will consider how we look at\nanimals, read the views of influential philosophers, and immerse themselves in literary texts that imagine animals. The course will conclude with an examination of a provocative text by the novelist J. M. Coetzee, who stages a confrontation between philosophy and literature on the question of imagining animals."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2014", "title": "Arts of Memory: Public Recollection & Memory Training", "description": "Before technology created augmented reality, the ancient practice of \u201cmemory palaces\u201d combined mental visualization with material environments. Over 2,000 years, this practice split along different paths: (1) an analytical tool and (2) a technique for memorizing large chunks of information. The memory palace is method people used for memorizing, organizing, and recalling large amounts of information before there were computers. In this course, students will learn and draw from rhetorical theories of memory to analyse communication. Simultaneously, they will use the memory palace to train for a mini-memory championship, held in the last two weeks of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2015", "title": "Utopia: Ideal Places from Plato to the Smart City", "description": "From the ancient world to the present day, philosophers, novelists, and social thinkers have attempted to envision ideal states. Utopian texts often present us with provocative thought experiments, addressing fundamental questions about justice, leadership, and human flourishing. In this course, we will critically examine representations of ideal states ranging from Plato's Republic to contemporary visions about smart cities. We will focus in particular on the roles of governance, labor, and technology in the construction of utopian projects and discuss whether the utopian imagination is still relevant in the present day."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2016", "title": "Technologies of the Self: from Socrates to Self-Help", "description": "In this course, we will study technologies of the self, practices that individuals adopt in order to transform themselves in light of their ideals. We will look at the origins of this concept in the study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and discuss texts drawn from Western and Eastern traditions that recommend particular practices of self-transformation. Throughout the course, we will also consider whether ancient technologies of the self are still relevant today and to what extent contemporary selfimprovement approaches and forms of digital selffashioning are modern examples of technologies of the self or a qualitatively different phenomenon."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2017", "title": "Making Sense of Colonial Ideology and Its Legacies", "description": "The rule of Britain, France and the Netherlands in the 18th-20th centuries have left behind a conflicting legacy in different parts of Asia. On the one hand, they destroyed\u2014even if only partially\u2014the cultural traditions as well as socio-economic infrastructure of their colonies. On the other, they established political, economic, social and cultural institutions that colonialized subjects have to different degrees benefitted from till this day. This course will examine how this conflicting legacy came about, so that students will be more analytically equipped in making sense of it."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2018", "title": "Multidisciplinary Inquiries Into the Mystery of \u201cMinds\u201d", "description": "What is \u201cthe mind\u201d and where does it fit in the interdependent histories of nature and culture on our planet? Does \u201cmind\u201d reduce to brain activity \u2013 or is it more than just the electro-chemical exchange between neurons? As minded creatures with brains ourselves, the ways in which we delimit the mind/brain relation has enormous consequences for the ongoing construction of our legal, social, medical and ethical lives. In this course, we will study some of the major approaches to this issue, and attempt to discover what it is that we are really talking about when we are talking about \u201cmind.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2019", "title": "Virtue And Leadership", "description": "This course will examine the Biblical, Confucian, Socratic, and Modern or Machiavellian conceptions of the virtuous leader. The course is aimed at exposing students to the most representative texts of each tradition in order to gain depth of understanding of the competing conceptions of leadership, and their underlying assumptions about the nature of human beings. Students will also be expected to interrogate each tradition with a view to discovering its relevance to contemporary life."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2020", "title": "Leadership in a Complex World", "description": "This course adopts an eclectic, multi-disciplinary approach towards leadership. \n\nThrough a section on Core Ideas and Great Texts, it highlights the key tensions and complexities involved in leaders\u2019 decision-making, exemplified in seminal thinkers\u2019 work on how to determine the \u201cright\u201d and / or \u201cgood\u201d; and explores how these tensions/complexities play out in a selection of Great Texts, both literary and philosophical. \n\nA section on Contemporary Issues applies the ideas of leadership tension/complexity to current leadership challenges. A student-selected USPitch Project provides a first-hand practical experience of the issues explored in earlier sections."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2021", "title": "Language, Cognition, and Culture", "description": "This course explores the deep interconnections between language, cognition and culture. It begins with a consideration of the \u2018discursive mind\u2019 - that is, the particularly human way of knowing that uses language as its primary tool and medium. Realizing how much of human cognition is language-dependant, we then explore the relations between language, cognition and culture by looking at such everyday linguistic phenomena as code-switching, metaphor and gesture. Augmenting the reading of sociolinguistic and cognitive science texts in this course, students will also learn how to collect and to analyze empirical evidence of language phenomena in order to more critically assess the claims of such texts."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2022", "title": "Immigration and the City", "description": "In this course we will investigate and analyse key conceptual and theoretical ways of examining the relationships between immigration and the city through readings on migration processes and theories, the conceptualization of places such as immigrant enclaves, immigrant identity, immigrant entrepreneurship, the \ngendered nature of some immigrant flows and the mutual influence of immigrants and urban landscapes and cultures. Readings in this seminar will draw from research by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and economists. We will learn how geographers conduct research and also conduct research on immigration and its effects in Singapore, using data available from archival \nsources, the Singapore government and information gathered by students."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2023", "title": "Polycentric Governance: Possibilities and Pitfalls", "description": "This course takes an inter-disciplinary look at the multifarious concept of \u201cgovernance\u201d - how resources, issues and groups are organised and managed by a range of actors from the public, private and people sectors. Through a combination of academic work and case studies, the course explores (i) under what circumstances, and how, governance in the modern world needs to be more \u201cpolycentric\u201d \u2013 taking place at multiple interlocking levels, including the global, national and local; (ii) key determinants of success or failure in different instances of polycentricity; (iii) both the benefits and limitations inherent in polycentric governance arrangements, as well as the challenges and obstacles to achieving greater polycentricity."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2024", "title": "Emotion in Daily Life", "description": "The ability to experience emotions has numerous consequences, both desirable and undesirable, as emotions can colour our perception, drive or deter our daily pursuits, and, in the long run, shape whether we feel satisfied or disgruntled with life. This course focuses on the roles that emotions play in various areas of life, such as arts, religion, and material consumption. There will be multi-disciplinary, reflective discussions, grounded on updated and rigorous psychological research so as to enhance appreciation of abstract theories and to motivate effective application of these theories in real life."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2025", "title": "Welcome to the Anthropocene: Agency in the Era of Climate Change", "description": "The Anthropocene is the proposed term meant to designate a new epoch in Earth\u2019s geological history in which we, the anthropos, have become a geological force. From rising sea levels, spiking temperature, to mass extinctions, humanity has not simply changed the biogeochemical profile of the Earth but done so to the point of threatening its very survival. In its altered state, the Earth appears increasingly unable to sustain the agricultural, energy, and capital networks that humanity has built to drive itself. The Anthropocene, in other words, figures man as a primary agent of a grand planetary drama at the same time it stymies his ability to act. This course examines the notion of agency in the conditions of the Anthropocene. It asks what a warming, liquefying, dying world might reveal about the realities and limits of our agency?"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2026", "title": "Singaporean Nostalgia", "description": "\u201cOur generation,\u201d Singaporean playwright Joel Tan remarks, \u201cis sick with nostalgia.\u201d From the popularity of retro and vintage styles to the proliferation of artwork\n(some state-sanctioned, some not) that lovingly look to and at our past, Singapore seems to be in the firm grip of nostalgia. Are these indeed manifestations of nostalgia? Is any interest in the past nostalgic, or does nostalgia consists of a style or a way of regarding the past? More importantly, how should we understand these nostalgic tendencies? In what senses is nostalgia a \u201csickness,\u201d and can Singaporean practices of nostalgia help us rethink this characterization? (100 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2027", "title": "Engaging and Building Communities", "description": "This course introduces students to the theory and practice of community development (i.e., engagement of communities so that they become empowered agents of social change). The community development models and frameworks that would be discussed in the course include asset-based community development; community capitals framework; networking approach to community development; community empowerment models; sustainable livelihoods models; and radical community development. Students would develop competencies in applying qualitative research techniques that can be used to map communities. Additionally, students would be exposed to community participation, consensus building and design thinking techniques that can be adopted to generate solutions to community issues."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2028", "title": "Effective Decision Making", "description": "Research has established that we often fall prey to cognitive biases unknowingly, leading to us making suboptimum decisions. This module seeks to examine some of these biases and how they affect our decision making as we re-look at decision making theories. In this module, we seek answers to the question of, \u201cWhat constitutes a good decision and what makes for a good decision maker?\u201d We will also discuss the implications of these biases from the social welfare perspective and explores how we can overcome these biases."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2029", "title": "Globalizing Asian-Pacific Identities", "description": "Growing up with social media, cinema, the Internet, and more, you have had the globe at your fingertips. But have you probed effects of this accessibility on your ability to act as an independent, adaptable thinker and doer? Have visualist media encouraged you to act as a spectator, only, rather than as a curious (maybe courageous) world citizen when you study abroad, travel, consider foreign-labor or migrancy issues, or seek employment? This module explores integrity, openness and expressivity through one strand of identity, Asian-Pacificness."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2030", "title": "Singapore: The Making Of A Nation", "description": "The course serves as an introduction to history in general and the history of modern Singapore in particular. It adopts a wide-angled approach to an understanding of national heritage, history and identity, with due attention to both international and internal developments which have together shaped present-day Singapore. These developments include the formation of a colonial plural society under British rule, the impact of the Japanese Occupation, the rise of nationalism and political contestation, statehood, merger with and separation from Malaysia, the politics and economics of survival, and the governance of an independent city-state."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2031", "title": "Southeast Asia: The Making Of A Region", "description": "In the aftermath of colonialism, a host of decolonizing experiences produced different successor regimes - from democratic to semi-authoritarian to communist. This module focuses on the geographical basis, historical background, and contemporary birthing of regionalism, amidst such diversity. It aims to introduce students to the political, strategic and economic aspects of regional cooperation, particularly through ASEAN. It also encourages them to consider the cumulative impact of such cooperation on the formation of a Southeast Asian regional identity, and the prospect of an indigenous collective political imagination bridging the diverse communities."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2032", "title": "Disasters and Responses", "description": "Focusing upon disasters and responses, this course interrogates the core issues underlying humanitarian interventions and development programs. This includes consideration of environmental and social vulnerabilities, resilience, local capacities, the roles of beneficiaries, governments and NGOs, aid governance, and accountability. The course draws upon literature from a wide range of disciplines to contextualize the diversity of theoretical and practical approaches involved in complex humanitarian emergencies. The course utilizes extensive problem-based learning in which students engage with real world scenarios. The course is aimed for students interested in the inner workings of government, NGO and beneficiary interaction in humanitarian and development situations."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2033", "title": "HIV/AIDS: From Microbes to Nations", "description": "In the past 30 years HIV/AIDS has gone from being an unknown disease to being one of the key issues of the 20th and 21st centuries, killing millions and threatening entire nations and even continents. This course explores the various aspects of this disease from the perspective of multiple academic disciplines ranging from microbiology on through psychology, sociology, art, literature, economics, public health, geography and political science. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the various phenomena involved from multiple perspectives so as to grasp the overall significance of HIV/AIDS in a holistic fashion."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2034", "title": "New Media and Politics", "description": "This course explores and examines the dynamics between politics and new media in various realms. Earlier scholarship focused on politicians, parties and their electorate. However, with the increasing ubiquity of Internet technologies and user-generated content, political actors soon took on myriad dimensions and forms. Students will acquire knowledge of foundational communication and political participation theories, as well as critically examine the relationship between media and political processes. The course also inculcates insights and knowledge on how media and politics play out in various arenas, such as political parties and campaigning, civil society organizations and grassroots movements."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2035", "title": "Ordinary Politics", "description": "This course will explore the ways in which seemingly nonpolitical everyday practices bear, or can come to have, ethical and political significance. We will look at philosophers and political theorists concerned with the ordinary activities of Speaking, Eating, Thinking and Walking, and how such activities reveal or inform, among other things, our concepts of responsibility, the human and the animal, the moral and political necessity of selfreflection, and the interactions between the individual and the natural and built environment. Thinkers to be read include Arendt, Austin, Benjamin, Cavell, Diamond, Singer, Thoreau, Rousseau and others."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2036", "title": "Questioning Sustainable Development", "description": "This course examines the tension between \u2018need\u2019 to \u2018develop\u2019 and imperatives of conserving natural resources in the backdrop of enormous socio-economic and environmental challenges we face today. Sustainable development (SD) emerged as a response to confront these challenges; whether it has served its purpose or not remains debatable. Different scientific, technological, economic and political instruments encompassing sustainable development (SD) will be critically evaluated. The criticality of natural resources and their consumption patterns will be presented to the students. The need to engage local communities in new ways in social construction of SD would be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2037", "title": "Archives, Biography, Memory in Singapore", "description": "This module examines the intersections between archival materials, historical memory, and the writing of biography. It takes as a subject an archive in Singapore which has not been extensively used. Students will not only do practical work in terms of archival cataloguing and notation, but they will also study theoretical work on archives and biography, and critically examine biographical work in different media, before producing biographical work of their own. This module fulfils the Singapore Studies requirement."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2038", "title": "Nationalism and the Arts", "description": "What makes diverse people a nation? Though no single answer covers all nations or nationalisms, analysts agree that modern nations are less a natural formation than a construction in need of constant upkeep. Art can and does play a role here. This course introduces several theories of nationalism and of art on the understanding that these discourses do not mesh easily. This course fosters probing interdisciplinary comprehension of potential intersections between nation-building and paintings, music, photography, poems and a great deal more."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2039", "title": "Understanding Law and Social Change", "description": "How does law affect people and society? How do people and society influence law? Can law bring about social change? In what ways? This course approaches the study\nof law as a social institution, and examines law, legal actors, and legal institutions from various perspectives such as sociology, psychology, political science, and legal\nscholarship. We will discuss theoretical perspectives on the relationship between law and society, the relationship between law and social behaviour, law in action in various social contexts, the role of law in social change, and the roles of lawyers, judges, and juries."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2040", "title": "Politics and Emotion", "description": "Emotions, it is often said, has no place in politics. Where the former is thought to be primal and unruly, the latter is regarded as the realm of reason, of pragmatic and thoughtful deliberations. But how accurate is such a view? Don\u2019t emotions typically accompany our political judgments and actions? Might they perhaps condition such responses, priming them and orienting us towards certain political attitudes and dispositions? Organized around five emotions\u2014fear, disgust, grief, compassion, and hope\u2014 this course explores how emotions circulate within political life, how they emerge and are deployed for the mobilization of identities, sovereign legitimacy, ethical responsibility, and resistance."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2041", "title": "Participatory Social Development in Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asia is widely regarded as a model for economic development due to its advances in alleviating poverty, improving infrastructure, and fostering education \nand healthcare. But economic success often overshadows critical social problems that arise in tandem with such rapid development. This module, offered only in special summer sessions, takes a hands-on approach to examining critical issues in social development, in particular those revolving around local empowerment, democratization, and sustainability. Working within a framework of participatory action research, and collaborating with peers at another ASEAN university, this rigorous course includes substantial fieldwork conducted among development projects outside \nof Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2042", "title": "Satires and (Un)Serious Histories", "description": "This module examines social and political satire across a broad range of historical eras and cultural settings. Our approach is historical and ethnographic, and rests on the idea that there exist various traditions of satire, each deeply embedded in social and political contexts. Rather than treating satire as mere commentary upon culture and politics, we examine it as a particular form of social practice that can shape politics and culture. We explore throughout the question of whether satires can in fact be viewed as unique historical and cultural documents that reveal certain dynamics and truths that more \u201cserious\u201d documentation cannot."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2043", "title": "Multiculturalism in Singapore and Its Contested Meanings", "description": "Multiculturalism is a foundational pillar and defining feature in Singapore\u2019s history and society. At once celebrated and contested, Singapore\u2019s multiculturalism is imbued with various themes and meanings, and poses many important issues and challenges central to personal, group and national cultural identities as well as to political, economic and social life. How did it come to be a core principle in nation-building? What are state imperatives and social processes and state imperatives in its historical making and constant remaking? Why are race, language and religion its core constitutive elements and how have their saliency evolved over time? What are its main controversial features and areas of tensions, and how do these affect identities, social relations between individuals, groups and communities, and impact social cohesion, citizenship and belonging? How is it further impacted by massive immigration? Is its present official form still valid in light of immigration, changing demographics and competing claims of rights and responsibilities? What does multiculturalism mean in citizens\u2019 memories of the past, experiences in their present everyday lives, and imaginings of the future? It explores and discusses these central questions and significant dimensions, issues and problems in Singapore\u2019s contested multiculturalism through a combination of lectures, seminars, on-site learning, research projects, class presentations and personal reflections. It also has a strong research component in which students discover and understand multiculturalism through research on selected topics using a variety of research methods, and relate their research and other observations to readings drawn from various disciplines of anthropology, sociology,"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2044", "title": "Managing Cultural Difference:Theorizing the S\u2019pore Model", "description": "The question of managing ethnocultural diversity\u2014i.e. of how to reconcile particular ethnic and cultural claims with the broader demands of national cohesion and citizenship\u2014is a challenging and pressing issue faced by all multiethnic states and met with a variety of responses that draw from different intellectual traditions. For Singapore, this question has been a key feature of its nation-building process since 1965 and its response has been the cultivation of an ostensibly \u2018Asian\u2019 multiculturalism styled in contradistinction to \u2018Western\u2019 liberal models. \n\nThis module examines and evaluates the conceptual framework of the Singaporean model of multiculturalism. It does so by positioning it in relation to other existing theories of ethnocultural identity and rights. In so doing, it asks: \n1. What are the theoretical and normative underpinnings of the Singaporean model? \n2. How does it stand up against the liberal-democratic model? \n3. What might be its differences between both the \u2018Western\u2019 communitarian and \u2018Confucian\u2019 communitarian models of multiculturalism? \n4. Does it adequately account for the complexities of identity? \n5. Can, given a changing ethnic and cultural demography, the Singaporean model survive?"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2045", "title": "Social Movements, Law, and Society", "description": "This course provides theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge about social movements and their relationship with law and society. How does collective mobilization emerge? We begin with this question and then\nturn to the different approaches of analyzing social movements. We will also consider how states and other movement opponents suppress and control social movements, and how movements respond to repression, and deploy, even spread, their ideas, strategies, and tactics within and across movements, as well as across national borders. In examining these issues, we will use\ncase studies, and discuss the role of law, including how it matters to the social control of social movements, movement strategies, tactics, and decision-making, and movement effects."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2046", "title": "Transitional Justice and War Crimes Trials: Case Studies from Singapore and Asia", "description": "War crimes trials are commonly used to address mass violence and facilitate political transition. This course examines the potential and limits of war crimes trials as transitional mechanisms, comparing them with non-legal complements and alternatives. What transitional objectives do these trials seek to achieve and how do these trials contribute to a society\u2019s political transition? Given the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition, should the organisation of such trials be prioritised? What are possible alternative transitional measures? What role should the law play, if at all? Using Singapore\u2019s Second World War experience as a central case study, this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different legal and non-legal measures adopted."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2047", "title": "Examining Local Lives", "description": "Everyone hears advice that the unexamined life is not worth living. Yet how often do we examine lives across print, visuals, sound, and more? How often, moreover, do we consider lives that are not human? Students in this integrative course explore lives human and non-human, including their own, marshalling varied media and analytical modes. The first lives that we examine are in the form of science writing about non-human lives. Next, we move to human lives, real and imagined. This course puts local (and \u2018glocal\u2019) spin on expressive and critical narration to strengthen critical and communication skills."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2048", "title": "Situating Singapore in the Wider World", "description": "This module charts the roles of Lee Kuan Yew, S Rajaratnam and Goh Keng Swee in shaping the foreign policy of Singapore from 1965. Key Singapore policymakers and diplomats such as Tommy Koh, Kishore Mahbubani & Bilahari Kausikan acknowledge that in particular the longevity of Lee\u2019s tenure and his strategic philosophy structures Singapore\u2019s actions internationally. This module examines the impact of the leadership\u2019s ideological assumptions on how Singapore navigates its relations with 3 major areas, ASEAN, the US and the regional powers, China and India and adapts to the current inflection point in the international diplomacy of Indo-Pacific region."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2049", "title": "Culture and Technology", "description": "It is commonly known that technology and culture are intricately interconnected to each other, existing in a relationship that is mutually constitutive. Technology\nproduces culture as much as the other way around. But such a relationship is complex and controversial. Both technology and cultural producers are not often selfreflexive about how the relationship impacts on their work, and unaware of the resulting ethical dilemmas and politics. This module introduces students to critical concepts in culture and technology studies focusing on social and political change, transformations in the way we think about civilization, and the formation of identity."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2050", "title": "Gender and Ecology in Asia", "description": "Women around the world struggle with the various fallouts from climate crisis. This vulnerable demographic struggles to combat both real and ideological conditions connecting women and Nature. Cognizing this, the field of Ecological feminism [Ecofeminism] has grown rapidly in the past few decades. This introductory module to ecofeminism will combine literary analysis, environmental humanities and feminism. It will extend students\u2019 knowledge of feminism and environmental issues relating to women. Fundamental to the study will be the literary analysis of texts taught in a scaffolded way. The module will examine literary texts by Asian women across South, East and Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2051", "title": "Democracy and Inequality", "description": "Does social inequality matter? This module aims to examine different theories of the link between social equality and democracy, and related concerns pertaining to the value of social equality and the significance of equality of opportunity in a democratic society. These discussions will form the theoretical background for this module. In the second half of the module, students will apply this theoretical framework to contemporary issues related to democracy, in the global and Singaporean context, as well as evaluate policy proposals aimed at mitigating social inequality, specifically Universal Basic Income."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2052", "title": "Politics of Heritage : Singapore and the Region", "description": "The module focuses on the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary political and social situations. It is designed to provide students with opportunities to explore a range of theoretical and intellectual issues from the fields of anthropology, geography and archaeology on cultural heritage and the roles that place and material culture play within the enactment of social practices. It draws upon historical and contemporary case studies provide real world problems for engaging with the theoretical components of the module. There is an emphasis upon debate, discussion, and problem oriented individual and group projects. Several day trips around Singapore, as well as an extended field trip to Cambodia are offered as part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2053", "title": "The Heterogeneous Indians of Contemporary Singapore", "description": "Straddling the fields of faith, civilisations and culture, migration, diaspora, political economy, foreign policy and international politics, this module, being multidisciplinary in complexion, provides for a multifaceted understanding of India-Singapore relations in the contemporary world."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2054", "title": "Reimagining Work / Life", "description": "This module explores the relationship between work and life. Does work make life fulfilling, or does a fulfilling life take place beyond or apart from work? Is the tension between work and life, albeit deeply entrenched, even necessary? What roles do young people have in shaping new work-life arrangements? We will first examine major transformations in the organization of work and shifting notions of leisure and life in unit one. In unit two, we will consider some possibilities for sustainable lifestyles and the challenges of flexible and alternative work."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2055", "title": "\"Curating\" Singapore: Museums, Heritage and Spaces", "description": "This course has a interdisciplinary approach, to allow students to understand how Singapore\u2019s culture and heritage are considered and presented on the local and global stage. It is pitched at students with a broad diversity of backgrounds and disciplines, and intended to be offered at the inquiry level to give students some background on the issues discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2056", "title": "Law and the City: Divisions, Aesthetics, Transgressions", "description": "How does law shape the urban built environment? How do we experience these legal interventions in our everyday lives? And what happens when we transgress them? This module introduces students to the multiple intersections between law, urban life and the built environment in Singapore and other cities. Topics to be explored include the urban landscape of legalized \u201cvices\u201d, the architectural expression of \u201cjustice\u201d and the enclaves of privilege/disadvantage where certain laws are suspended or magnified. The module encourages interdisciplinary inquiry and experimental expression, and students will explore specific sites in Singapore through mapping, photography and writing."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2057", "title": "Social Design and Worldmaking in Singapore", "description": "In recent years, design practice has moved beyond commercial products to become a resource for tackling complex social problems, including issues of (in)accessibility, food waste, sustainability, migration, civic urbanisms. In so doing, it has increasingly turned to ethnographic methods for a more inclusive and community-focused practice. This module explores the intersections of design and anthropology in community worldmaking in Singapore by critically examining and proposing creative alternatives to designed sites, such as community gardens, playgrounds, wet markets. At the core of the module is an attention to how we design our world and how our world designs us."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2058", "title": "Dance Narratives", "description": "This introduction to dance-making course is based on the central outcome of \u201cdancing for wellness\u201d as all art forms have inherent healing properties. Students will go on a journey of self-exploration to answer the research question on \u201cWho am I? Where am I going and how do I get there?\u201d Students will learn basic dance composition techniques, experiment, choreograph, reflect, and perform their own solo work using their individual stories as an impetus for personal healing, transformation, and growth. This performative practice will encourage the development of artistry as well as impact an audience consisting of their peers."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2059", "title": "Law in the Making From Protecting to Policing Society", "description": "This module explores how law is meant to mediate risk. But with every law passed that is meant to protect society, a right is restricted. Thus, this module will explore how law is made and the fine line between what is gained and what is lost when a law is passed. Three domains will be examined the legislature, the courts, and the police. Students will have the opportunity to examine specific legal cases and interact with the institutions that handle these cases. Traditional lectures will be replaced with in-class discussions, field trips, and guest lectures with law and policy makers."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2060", "title": "Food Production and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "Nothing features more prominently among fundamental human activities than the production of food. In this course, we examine various modes of primary food production and the array of socioeconomic issues each entails, including subsistence agriculture, lowland rice farming, industrial food production, and emergent forms of organic produce by small- and medium-sized enterprises. Topics focus on how social dimensions of food production intersect with other areas of inquiry, including environmental sustainability and degradation, social mobility and marginalization, food security, public health, and globalization. This course includes an intensive fieldwork component in which students experience first hand different modes of food production."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2061", "title": "Postconflict Cambodia", "description": "This course presents students with the opportunity to design and implement a study on a topic of interest in Cambodia, rapidly development, post-conflict society society. Course readings and discussions focus how Cambodia has changed since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and the agents that have made these changes possible. The course also includes an introduction to qualitative research methods, which will enable students to conduct their own research. The student project, carried out in Cambodia, may engage issues of environmental degradation, changing urbanism, migrant labor, the promotion of the arts, issues in education, and public safety, among other possibilities."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2062", "title": "Agency, Service and Social Change in the Philippines", "description": "This course examines Filipino conceptions of agency and service as a basis for enacting economic, social and political change in the Philippines. The primary objective is for students to collaborate with each other in conceptualizing sustainable service learning projects that address community-identified problems and challenges. Students will learn about local cultural, religious, political and philosophical bases for community responsibility, innovation and collective action. The course features a field study trip to the Philippines that will enable students to participate in community projects with a view to forming a foundational core of best-practices for creating and sustaining transformative IEx projects."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2063", "title": "Indigeneity and the Politics of Representation in Sabah", "description": "This course examines cultural identity of the Bajau Laut, widely known as indigenous sea nomads in Sabah, with attention to the discourses around indigeneity and representation. We will explore topics include the rights of indigenous peoples, the politics of representation, cultural stereotypes and commodification of culture. A 10-weekday study trip to Semporna in summer is integrated with the course where students will have an opportunity to interact with the indigenous community. Students will undertake a documentary project with the community to co-produce new narratives and other creative forms of representation for subverting stereotypes that associated with the stateless Bajau Laut."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2064", "title": "Social Norms: Compliance, Game and Evolution", "description": "Much of social life is conducted under the watch of social norms. But, what are social norms? What do they do for us? How do they evolve over time? While different disciplines have attempted to provide answers to these questions, disciplinary insights, in isolation, only contribute, piecemeal, to a partial and incomplete understanding of social norms. This course challenges students to integrate these disparate hypotheses, using game-theoretic frameworks, to produce a comprehensive, interdisciplinary understanding of social norms and apply this understanding to illuminate cross cultural variation in normative content and compliance as well as contemporary social phenomena and problems."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2065", "title": "Moral Emotions in Everyday Life", "description": "While emotion has often been seen as antithetical to reason and morality, contemporary philosophers and cognitive scientists have shown that emotions incorporate rational thought, and as such can play important roles in guiding our moral decision-making. In this course, we will explore the benefits and risks of being guided by moral emotions such as anger, empathy, awe, shame, and anxiety, and discuss what role they should play in our lives and our societies. To address this question, we will discuss readings drawn from philosophy, psychology, political science, and related disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2066", "title": "Techno-Futures: Technology, Progress, and Inequality", "description": "Does technology support social progress? This seminar course explores the social, ethical, and political dimensions of technological development. We start by examining the longstanding yet contested idea that technology drives societal change and, therefore, can be engineered to improve it. In the first part of the course, students will acquire a critical understanding of technology as a socio-material phenomenon transversed by global economic structures, political imaginaries, and social inequalities. The second part surveys a variety of case studies of how technology has been deployed to transform society, from ambitious infrastructural projects to small humanitarian designs and new forms of community-making in the digital era. Throughout the course, students will examine a wide range of topics and geographies, such as gender and racial biases in Artificial Intelligence, the distribution of computers in low-income Latin American countries, independent hackerspaces in Asia, etc. Combining social studies of technology with design approaches, students will develop a multimodal final project in which they critique an existing technology using the concepts of the course and/or speculate about how to build better and fairer techno-futures."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2067", "title": "Writing Food", "description": "\u201cTell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are,\u201d wrote Brillat-Savarin in 1825. Food is important to us - a backbone of identity, an indicator of taste, both a biological necessity and, at times, the ultimate luxury. This course explores the linkage between food and identity by reading food memoirs and practicing our own writing about food. Food has never been a simple pleasure, and food writing, while enjoyable, can be provocative. We will consider the difference between self and other, foreign and familiar, and learn to tell our own stories about food and identity."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2068", "title": "What is Love?", "description": "Why do we love who we love? If we were to isolate ourselves from societal norms, would our romantic preferences be the same? This course explores the biological, societal and media influences that shape our views on what love is and whether some types of love are more important than others. More provocatively, it also examines how deeply romantic and sexual preferences may be shaped by society, and the implications of such a view. Along the way, we will apply the theories and concepts learnt in class to the Singaporean context, closely examining your own conceptions of love."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2069", "title": "Film and the Mind", "description": "We watch mainstream movies for fun and usually think of it as a passive, mindless activity. Yet it actually takes a remarkable amount of mental processing to understand and respond to movies. This course uses film theory, philosophy, and cognitive psychology to investigate the process of viewing films. While some film courses focus on interpreting films\u2019 hidden meanings or cultural impact, this course aims to understand how people can look at patterns of light and color on a screen and somehow come to understand and care about fictional characters in an imaginary world."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2070", "title": "Tragedy, Culture, and Society", "description": "How do crises and catastrophe change us and our societies? How do art and popular culture reflect and respond to trauma caused by wars, the climate crisis, major economic recessions, and global pandemics? And what can we learn about fragility, resilience, and collective memory? This course uncovers how tragedy serves as a conceptual lens for examining identity and socio-political issues, and how we can bear witness to trauma. Through critically analysing artistic representations of tragedy across media forms including performance, film, literature, and anime, students will develop an understanding of how societies define, and are defined by tragedy."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2071", "title": "Beyond belief: religious experience and encounter", "description": "Why does religion conjure deep feelings among believers? How does religion condition personal behavior, organize communal action, build institutions, and sustain communities? In this course, we investigate the cognitive and cultural roots of religious ideas and sentiments and how they serve to order and classify the world around us. In turn, we examine how these ordering structures and classification systems build and bind a community of believers."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2072", "title": "Caring for Ourselves: Being Well in the World", "description": "The World Health Organisation defines health as \u201c\u201d. This course fleshes out this definition through investigating how the physical, cultural, and social environments relate to our individual well-being, and the ways in which we engage in self and others-care. a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity Through studying the history and political-economy of medicine, how modernization and biomedicine shape health and healthcare, ethnomedicines, communities and living environments, new-age well-being, and healthcare technologies, students will learn how to empathise with and ideate solutions for those who do not feel so well."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2073", "title": "Unseen Risks: Gender and the Everyday", "description": "What is risk? Why does one take risk? Who can take risk? Do we take risk in the everyday? Does risk determine how we interact with people and spaces around us? Is risk always a negative phenomenon? Does risk offer possibilities? The course introduces students to risk as an analytical and intersectional concept in the everyday through an evidence-based approach. The course explores and demonstrates risk as comprehended and activated by women and marginalized genders in society who are dominantly viewed as risk-averse and passive. The course offers a new approach to comprehending gender, sexuality, and society through risk analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2074", "title": "What is Race?", "description": "Race can determine a lot about people\u2019s lives. It can determine the targets of discrimination. It can determine who benefits from progress. It can impact a person\u2019s sense of self. But what does it mean to belong to a certain group? This course will explore different academic answers to the question of \u2018what is race?\u2019. Is race biological? Or is race a social construction? Is race a political or cultural category? What are the consequences of these accounts? By engaging with these questions, students will cultivate their ability to articulate their thoughts and question assumptions they hold about race. racial"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2075", "title": "Life at the Bottom: Theory, Policy and Praxis", "description": "What is life like for someone earning less than $1,000 per month? This course examines the experiences and conditions of those in the lower SES in Singapore. It focuses on three major challenges they face: housing, food, and education. How they navigate challenges and the nature and impact of dominant perceptions, policies and programmes aimed at tackling them will be analysed. Relevant concepts and perspectives from multidisciplinary fields such as urban studies, public health, social work, and sociology will inform the methodology and content of the course. Field trips and guest lectures involving stakeholders from the \u201cground\u201d, including the social service providers and NGOs, are a central feature of this course."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2076", "title": "What Can I Know?", "description": "Faced with fake news, an ever-increasing plurality of opinions, and instant and unlimited access to information: What can I know? To answer this pressing question, we review challenges to the scientific method, psychological discoveries about biases in our belief formation, and social science research on the causes and effects of misinformation. To provide a holistic answer to the question, we relate these findings to philosophical arguments about the possibility and ethics of, as well as challenges to, believing the truth. Besides traditional reading and writing assignments, we conduct reflective experiments that culminate in individual, well-reasoned, written answers to the question."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2077", "title": "Interdisciplinary Policy-Making: A Case Study Approach", "description": "Many policy challenges facing governments require insights from different disciplines. Consequently, effective policy makers need insights and skills drawn from a range of these disciplines to identify and evaluate policy options and the ability to bring those insights and skills together when working in teams. To that end, this course introduces students to a selection of key concepts relevant to modern policy-making from philosophy, economics, sociology, political science and legal regulation. And it will do that in a problem-based, student-directed learning environment built around a central case study that will vary from year to year."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS2078", "title": "Death, Memorial, and Mourning", "description": "How do we articulate experiences of loss? What are our responsibilities toward the dead in piecing together their history? How do works of elegy or memorial give enduring form to what is absent or transient? This course asks how we make sense of our own and others\u2019 mortality through literature and art, how we translate grief into works of mourning and recollection. We will consider how works experiment with form to evoke the pliable nature of memory, non-linear patterns of grief, and the limits of representation. The course will culminate in a creative piece reflecting on loss, memory, or mortality."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3001", "title": "What is Gender?", "description": "What is \"gender\"? What kinds of definitions have been advanced or implied for this perplexing word? How have thinkers - in fields as diverse as anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, science studies, and sociology - helped to define and even invent this category that we call \"gender\"? How have these definitions changed the way we think? What kinds of problems have these definitions created? In this module, we will analyse various moments in intellectual history when there has been a struggle over the meaning of \"gender\" (and seemingly related terms like \"sex\" and \"sexuality\") in order to understand the term's function as a category of analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3002", "title": "Asianism and Singapore", "description": "It is becoming increasingly popular in Singapore to identify oneself as Asian, to consume products and services that appear Asian in origin, and perhaps even to think of the future of the global economy and culture to be centred in this part of the world. However, considering the fact that such an intense fascination with Asianism is of a more recent origin a number of important questions are raised. How has the state attempted to convey Asia as a natural and unproblematic an entity? How is knowledge about it influenced and conditioned by changing social, political, and economic forces? Why did Singapore at its earliest historical phase seek to dissociate itself with the region, only to openly embrace it a few decades later? This module, therefore, introduces students to critical ways of challenging and contesting what is understood by the term Asia. Is it a geographical region, a political and cultural construction, or transnationalized space? In particular it provides students the theoretical tools needed to grapple with these questions, introduces cultural texts that could be used in assessing the way Asia is represented, and gives students opportunities for fieldwork and other out of classroom activities."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3003", "title": "Religious Issues in the Contemporary World", "description": "This module develops a nuanced understanding of multifaceted expressions of religiosity in the contemporary global context, appropriately grounded in a historical perspective. It explores various socio-cultural, political, economic and technological forces and processes that impact the manifold expressions and manifestations of religion in different societies, and vice-versa. Beginning with problematizing the category \u201creligion\u201d and tracing its emergence historically and contextually as an analytical domain, the material is organized to introduce the multiple, complex and sometimes opposing strands and arguments in many social science studies of religion. This multidisciplinary module emphasises both the empirical and the theoretical."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3004", "title": "Law and Violence", "description": "The concept and practices of law are inseparable from the concepts and practices of force and/or violence. In this module we will investigate three questions. First, is there a difference between legitimate and illegitimate violence, and so, what is the difference and how is it explained? Secondly, what is the, and why is there an, internal relationship between law and violence? Finally, why do we punish? We will read texts from various thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Bentham, Robert Cover, Derrida, Foucault, Kant, Locke, Nietzsche, Rousseau, A. John Simmons, Robert Paul Wolff and others."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3005", "title": "Reason, Secularization & Multiculturalism", "description": "This module investigates three inter-connected questions: Can science prove that religion is irrational? When reason becomes so powerful that it dominates nature, what ethical problems will arise? Is reason or religious faith more suitable in providing a foundation for multiculturalism? These three questions, which are still much debated today, actually arose in the Age of Enlightenment, an 18th century\nintellectual movement so important that it shaped the modern West, and even, arguably, the East. We will examine representative Enlightenment treatises on these questions, and reflect on how beliefs and principles involved are still operative in our age."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3901", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3902", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3903", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3911AN", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3911AX", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3911CH", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3911CL", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3911EC", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3911EL", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, 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"Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912PE", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912PH", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912PL", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912PS", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912SC", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912SE", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912SN", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912SW", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS3912TS", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4001", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. The module will be taught by a multidisciplinary faculty of four and will examine a theme from several disciplinary perspectives. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4001A", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4001B", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4001C", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4001D", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4001E", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4001F", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4002", "title": "Reflection and Reflexivity in Disciplinary Practices", "description": "This course gives the 3rd year and fourth-year students at the NUS College guided opportunities to think and write critically and reflexively about their areas of disciplinary expertise, thus equipping students with the tools for critical disciplinary literacy. At the intermediate levels, students develop understanding of the language, methodologies, and approaches to truth claims in their own disciplines, while situating these against the same in other fields of study. Crucially, the course emphasizes the analysis of disciplinary discourse \u2013 how knowledge is produced, how disciplinary histories are narrated, and how methodologies and research topics are rationalized in their fields of study. The course also facilitates acquisition of critical reflection skills by allowing students to situate their own disciplines in the broader context of society and a multidisciplinary university environment, while examining personal experiences and values that emerge in these academic pursuits."}, {"moduleCode": "NHS4002A", "title": "Reflection and Reflexivity in Disciplinary Practices", "description": "This course gives the 3rd year and fourth-year students at the NUS College guided opportunities to think and write critically and reflexively about their areas of disciplinary expertise, thus equipping students with the tools for critical disciplinary literacy. At the intermediate levels, students develop understanding of the language, methodologies, and approaches to truth claims in their own disciplines, while situating these against the same in other fields of study. Crucially, the course emphasizes the analysis of disciplinary discourse \u2013 how knowledge is produced, how disciplinary histories are narrated, and how methodologies and research topics are rationalized in their fields of study. 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{"moduleCode": "NHS4912TSC", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2201", "title": "Food Production and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "Nothing features more prominently among fundamental human activities than the production of food. In this module, we examine various modes of primary food production and the array of socioeconomic issues each entails, including subsistence agriculture, lowland rice farming, industrial food production, and emergent forms of organic produce by small- and medium-sized enterprises. Topics focus on how social dimensions of food production intersect with other areas of inquiry, including environmental sustainability and degradation, social mobility and marginalization, food security, public health, and globalization. This module includes an intensive fieldwork component in which students experience first hand different modes of food production."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2202", "title": "Power, Identity, and Citizenship in Democratic Athens", "description": "In this module, students will examine how the people of democratic Athens expressed their power, identity, and civic values through literature, visual art, and public architecture. In class, we will discuss both primary texts and secondary literature that shed light on how 5th and 4th century BCE Athenians represented themselves and their society. In Athens, we will visit key sites closely associated with democracy, study works of arts and monuments that reflect or contest its civic ideology, and meet with students at the University of Athens to discuss the contemporary legacy of ancient Athenian democracy."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2203", "title": "Medium and Meaning in Cinema", "description": "Motion pictures of all types\u2014including cinema, television, advertising--pervade our everyday lives, shaping how we construe meaning and experience, yet we tend to know very little about how that meaning is constructed. The medium of motion pictures relies on a limited and identifiable set of concrete technologies-- lighting, angle, aspect ratio, sound, editing, mise en sce\u0300ne, etc.--that serve to manipulate temporality and spatiality and to thereby create meaning. This module leads students to examine the affordances and constraints of the medium of film for the making of meaning in motion pictures, with a focus on cinema."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2204", "title": "Dance Narratives", "description": "This introduction to dance-making module is based on the central outcome of \u201cdancing for wellness\u201d as all art forms have inherent healing properties. Students will go on a journey of self-exploration to answer the research question on \u201cWho am I? Where am I going and how do I get there?\u201d Students will learn basic dance composition techniques, experiment, choreograph, reflect, and perform their own solo work using their individual stories as an impetus for personal healing, transformation, and growth. This performative practice will encourage the development of artistry as well as impact an audience consisting of their peers."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2205", "title": "Brevity of Love: (Short) Storytelling", "description": "This course covers theories of love and the practice of storytelling through a study of patterns of expressing and enframing desire within short literary works. It surveys micro fiction, short stories, and a selection of essays from the twentieth century to the present, marking the shifts in writing formulas and communicative means in an exploration of the role of socio-cultural grammar and narrative conventions in shaping the discourse of love. This course combines critical reading and creative writing, giving students the opportunity to practice and experiment with techniques of romance writing and receive feedback in a workshop setting."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2206", "title": "Comics as Multimodal Composition and Communications", "description": "This course explores the theory and creative practice of multimodal composition and communications through the popular art of comics. Students will develop their understanding of how to make informed writing and graphic design choices by investigating how comics employ a unique visual grammar to create imaginary worlds on paper that allow us to reimagine the world around us. The course combines artistic practice with theories of multimodality from composition, communications, and applied linguistics. Students will put theory into practice by creating and workshopping comics of their own. Previous drawing training not required."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2207", "title": "Documentary filmmaking: reality, perception and truth", "description": "This course is an introduction to documentary filmmaking and storytelling, based on the central question of whether documentary is purely an act of documenting, or deliberate and intentional selecting. How real is reality in documentary? How do the stories we choose to tell reflect who we are as filmmakers, and also as individuals? What are the choices and consequences that come with crafting narratives? Students will learn and discuss the theory and practice of documentary making, basic filmmaking techniques, and create their own short documentary film inspired by an issue, concern, or question that they are interested in exploring. This course is targeted at students with a broad diversity of background and disciplines. This is not a filmmaking course in that students are not expected to become professional filmmakers by the end of this course. No knowledge of camera techniques, editing skills etc. is required to take this course. Storytelling, the narrative craft, and the analysis of documentary filmmaking, take center stage above and beyond technical skills. Only basic filmmaking techniques will be taught to students for the purposes of fulfilling their group film projects"}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2208", "title": "The Power of Storytelling through Photography", "description": "This multimedia course provides an introduction to visual literacy and story telling with photography as the primary medium. Students will be equipped with skills - learning to use the DSLR, mobile phone photography and creating multimedias - to empathetically translate their everyday knowledge and ideas to still images and compelling photography essays. At the end of the course, students will also have a deeper appreciation of photography as a tool in critically engaging and interpreting the aesthetical and socio cultural meanings in local and global issues."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2209", "title": "Theatre-Making Laboratory", "description": "A practice-based course exploring creative roles and processes to make original theatrical works. Participants apply two seminal theatre practice techniques \u2013 Viewpoints and Stanislavski \u2013 to create and perform short works in varying theatrical forms. In doing so, directing, playwriting, devising, and performing are introduced. The course is highly collaborative. Extensive rehearsal time is required outside course meetings. Artistic practice is augmented by readings and short written Reflections. Theatre practice develops skills such as creative thinking, collaboration, awareness of space and time, visual literacy, and close reading."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2210", "title": "Dancing Communities", "description": "Community dance provides opportunities for people to engage in dance activities that contributes to a sense of well-being, irrespective of their age, class, or cultural background. Through the examination of the social, cognitive, personal and cultural dimensions of case studies, this practice-based course will enable students to design, deliver and evaluate a community dance programme to impact the well-being of their family and friends (course-mates)."}, {"moduleCode": "NHT2211", "title": "Introduction to Poetry Writing", "description": "This is an introduction to the art and craft of poetry writing. Focusing on the fundamental elements of poetry and the relationship of critical reading and creative writing, it explores role of imitation and innovation in writing poetry. It approaches poetry in dynamic relation to multiple traditions and in dialogue with other disciplines and ultimately as a form of investigation. Generative exercises highlight the importance of craft in poetic practice. The writing workshop, meanwhile, allows students to share their work and develop their skills in giving critical and productive feedback. Through the process of revision, students complete a portfolio of poems."}, {"moduleCode": "NM1101E", "title": "Communications, New Media and Society", "description": "This course introduces fundamentals of study in communications and new media, exploring ways in which people create and use the variety of emerging networked, mobile, and social media channels to communicate meaning in globalized world. It explores organizational and societal contexts in such areas as games, health, politics, business, public relations, design and activism, with attention paid to creating applications with social impact. Phenomena such as relationships and social life in cyberspace, activism for social change, performance art, deviant behaviour online, communication and community, new business paradigms and economic models of organizing and issues in human computer interaction are explored in\u2010depth."}, {"moduleCode": "NM1101X", "title": "Communications, New Media and Society", "description": "This course explores ways in which people create and use the variety of emerging networked, mobile and social media channels to communicate meaning in a globalized world. It explores organizational and societal contexts in such areas as games, health, politics, business, public relations, design and activism, with attention paid to creating applications with social impact. Phenomena such as relationships and social life in cyberspace, activism for social change, performance art, deviant behaviour online, communication and community, new business paradigms and economic models of organizing and issues in human-computer interaction are explored in-depth."}, {"moduleCode": "NM1742", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NM2101", "title": "Theories of Communications and New Media", "description": "This is a foundational course introducing students to theories and analytical frameworks essential for understanding developments in communications and new media. Students will be introduced to, amongst others, media effects theory, media representations, semiotics, systems theory, agenda-setting theory and computer-mediated communication."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2103", "title": "Quantitative Research Methods", "description": "This course is to help students understand what quantitative research is (more specifically, how they can develop testable research questions and hypotheses), how to conduct the research and how to interpret the results. It covers fundamental concepts in research design, instrumentation, data collection, and data analysis. This course also introduces basic concepts of statistics such as descriptive statistics, sampling distribution, hypothesis testing. A set of computer lab assignments will give students extensive opportunities to become familiar with the relevant computer software package and experience at computing the various statistics reviewed in the class."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2104", "title": "Qualitative Communication Research Methods", "description": "This course is designed to help students understand what qualitative communication research is, the role it plays in the development of communication theories and applications, and the steps in carrying out qualitative research projects. It covers fundamental concepts in qualitative research design, sampling strategies and protocol development, data collection, data analysis, and evaluation. This course also introduces basic concepts of qualitative methods such as interpretation, meaning making, co\u2010construction, and performance. A set of field\u2010based experiences will be designed to give students opportunities to become familiar with specific forms of qualitative data gathering such as in\u2010depth interviews, focus groups, and ethnography."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2207", "title": "Computational Media Literacy", "description": "Communication, including scientific and corporate endeavours, is deeply intertwined with the world of computing. From social media to public relations campaigns, from data reporting to web design, from business decision-making to news, from democratic participation to interactive art \u2013 the ability to understand and interpret computational media is of fundamental importance. 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."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2209", "title": "Social Psychology of New Media", "description": "Theories of social psychology can be applied to our understanding of how new media is produced, marketed, resisted, adopted and consumed. This course highlights these key stages in the developmental trajectory of new media and introduces relevant theories, while considering issues such as why some technologies succeed where others fail, how marketers should promote new technology, which services are likely to become tomorrow's killer applications and what goes through the minds of new media adopters."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2219", "title": "Principles of Communication Management", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the field of communication management and to the organizational, societal and legal contexts in which the profession takes place. Emphasis is placed on ethics, social responsibility, the role of mass communication in the formation of public opinion, the role of organizational communication in democracy, the global practices of communication management and major influences that affect organizational behaviour. This is the foundation course for students pursuing careers in communication management."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2220", "title": "Introduction to Media Writing", "description": "This introductory course provides instruction and practice in writing for the mass media, including the Internet. It explores the similarities and differences in writing styles for all mass media and for the professions of journalism, public affairs, public relations, advertising and telecommunications. It emphasizes accuracy, responsibility, clarity and style in presenting information through the various channels of mass communication. It surveys communication theories of various professions that communicate via the mass media, establishing the basis for advanced studies in writing and communication. It helps students acquire the writing skills they need in communication management careers"}, {"moduleCode": "NM2223", "title": "Media Law and Policy", "description": "This course will provide students with basic knowledge of Singapore\u2019s media law and policy with socio-legal and socioeconomic analysis, which is essential for good media practice. Students will learn about legislation that consolidates the media legal framework in traditional areas such as broadcasting, print, advertising, film and art, etc.; as well as the new areas of concern such as social media, platform media, digital minorities, etc. Students will develop an understanding of the historical, cultural and particular contexts in the implementation and function of media law and policy by studying and contrasting different approaches in other nation-states."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2224", "title": "Creativity, Culture and Media", "description": "This course introduces students to concepts and practices of creative thinking focusing on the arts, culture, media technologies and popular entertainment. It examines the theoretical assumptions of \u201ccreativity\u201d, \u201ccreative work\u201d, \u201ccreative industry\u201d and the \u201ccreative class\u201d, and; offers a grounded engagement in both creative processes and the contexts in which creative processes are employed. Students learn the cultural history of creativity in the arts, media and many other creative industries; synthesise ideas, images and concepts in new and original ways; analyse the relation of creativity to critical thinking, and; explore concepts of creativity in local, regional and/or global challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2225", "title": "Communication and Culture", "description": "Effective communication requires cultural understanding based in shared systems of meaning. This course focuses on how shared meanings are produced, circulated, and consumed via contemporary cultural sites such as photography, advertising, social media, digital storytelling, pop music, and urban spaces. This course introduces students to cultural and critical communication studies by examining theories of popular media and culture, representation and power. Students completing the course will acquire skills in: semiotic and narrative analysis; audience reception studies; critical approaches to everyday life, and identity formation; as well as, ritual communication studies."}, {"moduleCode": "NM2723", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NM3205", "title": "Digital Media Cultures", "description": "Digital media is dominating and transforming twenty-first century culture and society. This course introduces students to the origins and impact of these changes, and explores the nexus between media, culture and society in the digital age. It examines the developments in digital transformation and its implications on everyday life, with emphasis on media/cultural industries, connective media, new media art and design, civil society and public cultures. It gives students an understanding of how digital media and culture are being transformed by networks, convergence and algorithms, and the training to approach and make use of digital media critically, creatively and productively."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3211", "title": "News Writing, Editing and Publishing", "description": "This course builds on the skills and knowledge about journalistic writing taught in NM2220 Introduction to Media Writing. Students will learn how to pitch, organise, and develop strong news stories, and ways to publish them to increase audience appeal and engagement. They will also be introduced to a broad range of news beats, including politics, lifestyle, sport, business, environment, science, and investigative reporting, and gain an understanding of the work and considerations of news editors."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3217", "title": "Principles of Visual Communication Design", "description": "This course examines the principles of visual communication design. Students will tap into the various domains of visual communication theories and concepts of visual communication, and communication design and production processes. The course is designed to aid students in examining how visuals can come to influence our understanding and perspectives of communication. Students will explore how one can communication through visual media; experiment with techniques of visual communication expression and presentations; plan and manage the communication design process from initial development to the final product; and ideate, curate and critique independent and group projects to promote collaborative classroom learning."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3219", "title": "Writing for Communication Management", "description": "This course teaches students to write for internal and external organizational communication vehicles using traditional and new media. These include business proposals, memoranda, backgrounders, position statements, crisis communication plans, stakeholder newsletters, news releases, fact sheets, speeches, persuasive and informative pieces to key publics, annual reports and campaigns. Students will design and execute polished, audience-directed, professional communication pieces intended for traditional and new media. The course involves extensive comprehensive research and writing."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3230", "title": "Digital Storytelling", "description": "The most compelling media content makes use of evocative images, and sometimes an image itself is the story. Knowing how to make, edit, and communicate with images are key skills in the digital age. Students enrolled in this course will be introduced to the skills, theories and methods around communicating with both moving and still imagery. The course will focus on using digital tools to capture, edit and present images as data and for storytelling, communicating with visual imagery in the digital age, and the study and use of visual images for research and communication."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3241", "title": "Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice", "description": "This course introduces students to some of the major theoretical traditions in cultural studies ranging from studies of mass culture, to feminist, ethnographic, postcolonial and digital cultural studies. These theoretical traditions will be used by students to produce detailed and specific studies of contemporary cultural practices. By understanding diverse national and international tendencies in cultural studies, students will engage with some of the significant problems of the cultures we inhabit. This course is a capstone for the Cultural Studies Minor."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3242", "title": "Organisational Communication and Leadership", "description": "This course will provide students with the knowledge and professional development for the 21st century organisation. Students will master contemporary organisational communication theories and concepts, the dynamism of working in teams and diversity, as well as leadership communication skills essential in today\u2019s technology-driven and digitally-connected global workplace. Students will apply case studies to solve the problems and challenges faced by the contemporary globally-connected workplaces, learn how to manage intercultural sensitivities and interactions, and demonstrate effective decision-making and conflict-management processes in the workplace through a strong understanding of organisational communicative processes and relationships."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3243", "title": "User Experience Design", "description": "This is an introductory course to the field of user experience (UX) design which involves the study, planning, and design of the interaction between people (users) and computers, and the resulting user experience. This course will cover the basics of relevant issues, theories, and insights about the human side, the technical side, and the interaction (interface) between the two, and the process involved in designing the user experience. The course involves both theoretical and practical work."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3244", "title": "Consulting as a Communication & Career Skill", "description": "Drawing on organizational communication research and management scholarship, this course aims to help students develop consulting skills to demonstrate their value creation at work. As consulting involves communicative processes, students will learn about the role of self-, others-, and situational-awareness in identifying what is considered of value, to whom, and in which contexts when working with their organizational stakeholders. Building on awareness, students will learn how to develop their domain, process, and context expertise, and better manage workplace stakeholders, thus unlocking value for the firm and enhancing their own career employability."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3245", "title": "Managing Arts and Cultural Events", "description": "What goes behind managing an arts and cultural event? What processes and considerations do we need to be aware of when communicating our vision to our stakeholders and audiences? We explore these questions using the key theories and practical techniques of events management and applying it to the arts and cultural industry. We place focus on understanding the planning process of producing an event through the context of programming, budgeting, risk assessment and strategic communication and how it impacts the execution of an event within the industry."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3550C", "title": "CNM Internship Programme", "description": "NM3550C is a capstone course of the Communications and New Media Department. All CNM majors will undertake a CNM-related Internship in their third year of study. Students acculturate for their careers ahead through their immersive experience in the industry. In addition, they demonstrate their hard and soft skills gleaned from their time in tertiary studies in CNM and NUS in general. The course seeks to prepare students for their careers by turning their attention to the entire process of job search, interviews, negotiation skills, and employment opportunities. The department provides support and scaffolds to assist students undergoing this experiential course."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3550Y", "title": "Communications & New Media Internship", "description": "Internships vary in length but all take place within organisations or companies, are vetted and approved by the Communications and New Media Programme, have relevance to the major in NM, involve the application of subject knowledge and theory in reflection upon the work, and are assessed. Available credited internships for each semester will be advertised at the beginning of the semester before. Internships proposed by students will require the approval of the department. Student must apply for and be accepted to work in the company/organization offering the internship for a duration of 20 weeks on full time basis."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "NM3880", "title": "Topics in CNM", "description": "This course deals with specialised topics in Communications and New Media. The topics covered reflect the expertise of staff members of emerging issues in Communications and New Media."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4102", "title": "Advanced Communications & New Media Research", "description": "This course is to help honours students conduct independent empirical research using the key social science research methods. Students will learn detailed procedures and executable techniques of selected research methods such as survey research, experimental design, in-depth/focus group interviews, and content analysis. The course adopts a Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach, as students will select their own research topics, develop research questions and hypotheses, and design the structure of research activities including measurement, sampling, data collection, and data analysis. Key issues in each step (e.g., instrument development for multi-dimensional constructs) will be discussed through presentations, Q & As, and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4102HM", "title": "Advanced Communications & New Media Research", "description": "This course is to help honours students conduct independent empirical research using the key social science research methods. Students will learn detailed procedures and executable techniques of selected research methods such as survey research, experimental design, in-depth/focus group interviews, and content analysis. The course adopts a Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach, as students will select their own research topics, develop research questions and hypotheses, and design the structure of research activities including measurement, sampling, data collection, and data analysis. Key issues in each step (e.g., instrument development for multi-dimensional constructs) will be discussed through presentations, Q & As, and lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4206", "title": "Media Policy and Regulation", "description": "This course examines policies and regulations associated with infocomm and media technologies in different nation states, and the implications at the national, regional, and global levels. This course also explores the relevance of the new media governance processes that involve governments, the private sector and civil society. Students will learn about the legal, political, and cultural foundations of policymaking; the creation of law and regulation frameworks; and the challenges faced when creating standards, policies, rules, enforcement mechanisms, and dispute resolutions procedures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4206HM", "title": "Media Policy and Regulation", "description": "This course examines policies and regulations associated with infocomm and media technologies in different nation states, and the implications at the national, regional, and global levels. This course also explores the relevance of the new media governance processes that involve governments, the private sector and civil society. Students will learn about the legal, political, and cultural foundations of policymaking; the creation of law and regulation frameworks; and the challenges faced when creating standards, policies, rules, enforcement mechanisms, and dispute resolutions procedures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4207", "title": "Managing Communication Campaigns", "description": "As the capstone course of the communication management sequence, this course will give greater opportunity for students to apply theory, their skills and creativity to public relations problems facing companies. It is designed to strengthen students\u2019 understanding of communication management principles and provide opportunities for practical application of those principles to public relations problems. Students will design and implement campaigns and at the same time, manage relationships with stakeholders such as clients, the media, and key community leaders. They will produce the collaterals needed for their campaigns and design realistic evaluation exercises to test their campaigns and assess their efficacy."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4207HM", "title": "Managing Communication Campaigns", "description": "As the capstone course of the communication management sequence, this course will give greater opportunity for students to apply theory, their skills and creativity to public relations problems facing companies. It is designed to strengthen students\u2019 understanding of communication management principles and provide opportunities for practical application of those principles to public relations problems. Students will design and implement campaigns and at the same time, manage relationships with stakeholders such as clients, the media, and key community leaders. They will produce the collaterals needed for their campaigns and design realistic evaluation exercises to test their campaigns and assess their efficacy."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4208", "title": "Strategic Communication Design", "description": "In our world where audiences demand instant and varied channels of information, this capstone course navigates students in messaging and production through print and interactive platforms to achieve strategic communication outcomes. This course expands on skills acquired in NM3217 Principles of Communication Design, but with a core focus on designing for strategic communication, specifically in the production of publications to meet communication objectives. The course helps in: communicating effectively through research and strategy; applying and packaging communication messages and design in print/interactive publications; mastering the planning and management of the design workflow; and developing an appreciation for visual literacy."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4208HM", "title": "Strategic Communication Design", "description": "In our world where audiences demand instant and varied channels of information, this capstone course navigates students in messaging and production through print and interactive platforms to achieve strategic communication outcomes. This course expands on skills acquired in NM3217 Principles of Communication Design, but with a core focus on designing for strategic communication, specifically in the production of publications to meet communication objectives. The course helps in: communicating effectively through research and strategy; applying and packaging communication messages and design in print/interactive publications; mastering the planning and management of the design workflow; and developing an appreciation for visual literacy."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4212", "title": "Race, Media, and Representation", "description": "This course introduces students to how the concept of race has been represented across a global range of media forms, including photography, documentary, mainstream and arthouse cinema, network television and social media. The course investigates a broad range of critical theories on race, representation, and globalisation, including (but not limited to) colour-blindness, cultural difference and diaspora, raced bodies, and multiculturalism. Upon completing this course, students will be able to critically analyse representations of race within both contemporary and historical global media productions."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4212HM", "title": "Race, Media, and Representation", "description": "This course introduces students to how the concept of race has been represented across a global range of media forms, including photography, documentary, mainstream and arthouse cinema, network television and social media. The course investigates a broad range of critical theories on race, representation, and globalisation, including (but not limited to) colour-blindness, cultural difference and diaspora, raced bodies, and multiculturalism. Upon completing this course, students will be able to critically analyse representations of race within both contemporary and historical global media productions."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4213", "title": "Digital Economies", "description": "Our economy is increasingly influenced by digital elements \u2014 ranging from platforms to cryptocurrencies, financial derivatives to smart cities. This course approaches the analysis of digital economies from the multidisciplinary perspectives of economics, communication, political economy, cultural studies, and critical theory. We will review the geographically and historically uneven ways that digital economies are developed, and examine the impact they have on populations, urban cities, and natural ecologies. Focused especially on contemporary trends, the course will also reveal opportunities for experimenting and rethinking what digital economies can do to promote fairer societies, and better lives."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4213HM", "title": "Digital Economies", "description": "Our economy is increasingly influenced by digital elements \u2014 ranging from platforms to cryptocurrencies, financial derivatives to smart cities. This course approaches the analysis of digital economies from the multidisciplinary perspectives of economics, communication, political economy, cultural studies, and critical theory. We will review the geographically and historically uneven ways that digital economies are developed, and examine the impact they have on populations, urban cities, and natural ecologies. Focused especially on contemporary trends, the course will also reveal opportunities for experimenting and rethinking what digital economies can do to promote fairer societies, and better lives."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4228", "title": "Risk and Crisis Communication", "description": "This course introduces students to risk and crisis communication by exploring research, theories, and practices in these two related fields. Through exploring risk and crisis communication from the psychological, social, and cultural perspectives, students will learn to manage risk and crisis communication in both traditional and new media landscapes. The course will cover risk and crisis communication theories, types of risk and crisis, risk and crisis communication plans, and communication strategies. Using case studies and experiential learning activities, the course will illustrate the applications of risk and crisis communication theories."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4228HM", "title": "Crisis Communication", "description": "This course, which focuses on crisis communication and management of traditional and new media, emphasizes application of theories, strategies and tactics from a communication management perspective. Students will learn the fundamentals about how organizations and corporations manage and communicate during crises. Students will develop an understanding of crisis communications theory, types of crisis, crisis communications plans, and crisis responses. The course will focus on effective communicative approaches to emphasize renewal, growth and opportunity in crises including rumors and cybercrises, natural disasters, product failure and product tampering, environmental crises and consumer\u2010caused crises."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4230", "title": "Communications for Social Change", "description": "This course focuses on approaches, strategies, and tactics that communities can employ to communicate the changes they seek, and inspire action. In particular, this course will discuss how communication can be used by community organisations and groups to engage, advocate and inspire action. The aim of the course is to help students situate and apply communications strategically, while engaging with underserved communities or issue-based communities (sustainability, heritage, or well-being). Students will be introduced to approaches in the field of development communication, as well as work with communities on strategic communications that are impactful and useful to them."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4230HM", "title": "Communications for Social Change", "description": "This course focuses on approaches, strategies, and tactics that communities can employ to communicate the changes they seek, and inspire action. In particular, this course will discuss how communication can be used by community organisations and groups to engage, advocate and inspire action. The aim of the course is to help students situate and apply communications strategically, while engaging with underserved communities or issue-based communities (sustainability, heritage, or well-being). Students will be introduced to approaches in the field of development communication, as well as work with communities on strategic communications that are impactful and useful to them."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4231", "title": "Digital Media Storytelling Strategies", "description": "The aim of this course is to deepen the knowledge of students who have foundational digital storytelling experience and expand on advanced principles of digital storytelling methods, platforms, academic discourse, reflection, and analysis. Students will utilise these principles through creative application across text, audio-visual, and social media. The culmination of the course will be a final portfolio project which combines theory with practice."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4231HM", "title": "Digital Media Storytelling Strategies", "description": "The aim of this course is to deepen the knowledge of students who have foundational digital storytelling experience and expand on advanced principles of digital storytelling methods, platforms, academic discourse, reflection, and analysis. Students will utilise these principles through creative application across text, audio-visual, and social media. The culmination of the course will be a final portfolio project which combines theory with practice."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4238", "title": "Software Studies", "description": "Software has worked its way in to almost every aspect of our lives. Code is not just neutral technology, but is subject to cultural, economic, and political interests. Similarly our cultural lives are profoundly influenced by software \u2013 by its development and dissemination (collaboration and open-source), how we work (the paperless office, outsourcing), communicate (friends networks), conduct transactions (bitcoins), enact subversion, its reflection of race and gender divisions, its expressive capabilities (new media art), and reconceptualization of knowledge in programmatic form. This course approaches software from the perspective of humanities and social sciences to critically examine the relationship and interdependencies between culture and software."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4238HM", "title": "Software Studies", "description": "Software has worked its way in to almost every aspect of our lives. Code is not just neutral technology, but is subject to cultural, economic, and political interests. Similarly our cultural lives are profoundly influenced by software \u2013 by its development and dissemination (collaboration and open-source), how we work (the paperless office, outsourcing), communicate (friends networks), conduct transactions (bitcoins), enact subversion, its reflection of race and gender divisions, its expressive capabilities (new media art), and reconceptualization of knowledge in programmatic form. This course approaches software from the perspective of humanities and social sciences to critically examine the relationship and interdependencies between culture and software."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4242", "title": "Critical Perspectives on Technology", "description": "Technologies are not value-neutral artefacts. This course develops this proposition by providing students with critical theoretical perspectives to examine power relations in media technologies. Students will explore contemporary issues of technoscience through a study of media history, and learn how historical concerns are transformed with modern technological features and structures. Moving through the topics of datafication, algorithms, networking, and ubiquitous computing, students are taught the importance of critical reflection, and the urgency required for ethical inquiry into technological development."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4242HM", "title": "Critical Perspectives on Technology", "description": "Technologies are not value-neutral artefacts. This course develops this proposition by providing students with critical theoretical perspectives to examine power relations in media technologies. Students will explore contemporary issues of technoscience through a study of media history, and learn how historical concerns are transformed with modern technological features and structures. Moving through the topics of datafication, algorithms, networking, and ubiquitous computing, students are taught the importance of critical reflection, and the urgency required for ethical inquiry into technological development."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4244", "title": "Sex in the Media", "description": "This course explores questions of sex, gender, sexuality, and power in contemporary media and popular cultures. It examines issues and themes such as gender identity and representation of sex, women in media production and consumption, and reception and fandom of pop culture, from critical approaches in cultural studies, feminist theory, film theory, queer studies and communication theory. Materials discussed include film, music, television, advertising, comics, animation, video games, and social media. Students completing this course will be able to analyse the representation of gendered and sexual identities and desires in the media."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4244HM", "title": "Sex in the Media", "description": "This course explores questions of sex, gender, sexuality, and power in contemporary media and popular cultures. It examines issues and themes such as gender identity and representation of sex, women in media production and consumption, and reception and fandom of pop culture, from critical approaches in cultural studies, feminist theory, film theory, queer studies and communication theory. Materials discussed include film, music, television, advertising, comics, animation, video games, and social media. Students completing this course will be able to analyse the representation of gendered and sexual identities and desires in the media."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4245", "title": "Political Communication", "description": "The process of political communication has been undergoing transformation across the world through the rise of digital media. The transformation is also the result of the way established institutions, including political parties and news organisation, have changed, and the ways citizens are engaging with politics and news media. The course is designed to introduce students to the most important and up-to-date empirical and theoretical work in field of political communication \u2013 an interdisciplinary field of study. The course will help develop a stronger conceptual understanding of contemporary political communication processes and enable you to conduct independent analysis of current issues."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4245HM", "title": "Political Communication", "description": "The process of political communication has been undergoing transformation across the world through the rise of digital media. The transformation is also the result of the way established institutions, including political parties and news organisation, have changed, and the ways citizens are engaging with politics and news media. The course is designed to introduce students to the most important and up-to-date empirical and theoretical work in field of political communication \u2013 an interdisciplinary field of study. The course will help develop a stronger conceptual understanding of contemporary political communication processes and enable you to conduct independent analysis of current issues."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4247", "title": "Creative Writing in the Marketplace", "description": "Creative writing is not limited to the literary arts. Stories are increasingly the driving force behind successful branding, events and campaigns. They are a way to cut through the white noise in an era of information overload. In the first half of this course, students will learn the importance of narratives and the techniques of crafting them through personal essays. In the second half of the course, students will apply what they have learnt to a narrative video script for a brand or cause. Classes will include a mix of lectures, in-class writing, assignments, readings, project work, workshop and presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4247HM", "title": "Creative Writing in the Marketplace", "description": "Creative writing is not limited to the literary arts. Stories are increasingly the driving force behind successful branding, events and campaigns. They are a way to cut through the white noise in an era of information overload. In the first half of this course, students will learn the importance of narratives and the techniques of crafting them through personal essays. In the second half of the course, students will apply what they have learnt to a narrative video script for a brand or cause. Classes will include a mix of lectures, in-class writing, assignments, readings, project work, workshop and presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4249", "title": "Media & Audiences", "description": "As old media (radio, film, TV) passes through the process of digitisation, so its audience is implicated in this transformation. This course investigates the complex disruptions in national identities, media institutions and changing consumption habits by interrogating the categories of audiences, media history and media texts. In understanding the relationships between media texts, audience and society, this course endeavours to empower student participation in a dialogue about contemporary media and society issues. This course investigates the interstices of this media trajectory with emphasis on television texts and audiences."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4249HM", "title": "Media & Audiences", "description": "As old media (radio, film, TV) passes through the process of digitisation, so its audience is implicated in this transformation. This course investigates the complex disruptions in national identities, media institutions and changing consumption habits by interrogating the categories of audiences, media history and media texts. In understanding the relationships between media texts, audience and society, this course endeavours to empower student participation in a dialogue about contemporary media and society issues. This course investigates the interstices of this media trajectory with emphasis on television texts and audiences."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4250", "title": "Data Journalism and Analysis", "description": "This course will teach students the fundamentals of data journalism, that is, how to obtain, analyse, visualise and report on data-driven stories in the news media. This class will hone students\u2019 writing and journalistic skills while teaching them how to make sense of large datasets and gain insights from them to generate news stories, equipping them with essential skills for the contemporary newsroom in the digital age. Students will learn about why data journalism matters, how it is used in the real world and receive guided practice on the use of data visualisation and analytics tools to create compelling narratives."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4250HM", "title": "Data Journalism and Analysis", "description": "This course will teach students the fundamentals of data journalism, that is, how to obtain, analyse, visualise and report on data-driven stories in the news media. This class will hone students\u2019 writing and journalistic skills while teaching them how to make sense of large datasets and gain insights from them to generate news stories, equipping them with essential skills for the contemporary newsroom in the digital age. Students will learn about why data journalism matters, how it is used in the real world and receive guided practice on the use of data visualisation and analytics tools to create compelling narratives."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4253", "title": "Communications, Culture, and Environment", "description": "This course will explore issues of communications infrastructure, media environment, culture and sustainability, and the media as purposive actors in covering, polluting, and shaping the environment. It will engage new, emergent, and established fields in media, communication and cultural studies, and draw on key relevant debates from those domains. It will form part of the suite of courses for students interested in cultural studies, media studies, critical cultural communication, and communication and culture."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4253HM", "title": "Communications, Culture, and Environment", "description": "This course will explore issues of communications infrastructure, media environment, culture and sustainability, and the media as purposive actors in covering, polluting, and shaping the environment. It will engage new, emergent, and established fields in media, communication and cultural studies, and draw on key relevant debates from those domains. It will form part of the suite of courses for students interested in cultural studies, media studies, critical cultural communication, and communication and culture."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4254", "title": "The City and Public Culture", "description": "This course investigates the city as a public culture arena through cultural consumption and the curation of urban neighbourhoods. We will study place narratives and visual-communication environments, focusing particularly on the production and reception of portrayals of cultural identities and race/ethnicity framed by multiculturalism and critical heritage perspectives. Studying Singapore with global comparisons, we examine four arenas of public culture negotiations: the cultural framing of places and their exclusions; urban spectacles and rituals as symbolic expressions of communal and civic identities; museums\u2019 roles in shaping or challenging popular opinion on identities; and media portrayals and interpretations of urban cultures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4254HM", "title": "The City and Public Culture", "description": "This course investigates the city as a public culture arena through cultural consumption and the curation of urban neighbourhoods. We will study place narratives and visual-communication environments, focusing particularly on the production and reception of portrayals of cultural identities and race/ethnicity framed by multiculturalism and critical heritage perspectives. Studying Singapore with global comparisons, we examine four arenas of public culture negotiations: the cultural framing of places and their exclusions; urban spectacles and rituals as symbolic expressions of communal and civic identities; museums\u2019 roles in shaping or challenging popular opinion on identities; and media portrayals and interpretations of urban cultures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4255", "title": "Social Media and Computational Communication", "description": "An understanding of how people communicate on social media, and how to mine insights from it, is now imperative in most future careers, ranging from marketing to medicine. The course will first provide hands-on knowledge in designing data science projects with social media data. Next, it will provide training for collecting and analysing social media data. Finally, it will help you understand how you can interpret the findings in the wider context of social psychology and communication theory, and frame your arguments in the wider context of social media and communication scholarship."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4255HM", "title": "Social Media and Computational Communication", "description": "An understanding of how people communicate on social media, and how to mine insights from it, is now imperative in most future careers, ranging from marketing to medicine. The course will first provide hands-on knowledge in designing data science projects with social media data. Next, it will provide training for collecting and analysing social media data. Finally, it will help you understand how you can interpret the findings in the wider context of social psychology and communication theory, and frame your arguments in the wider context of social media and communication scholarship."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4256", "title": "Communication and Digital Collaborations", "description": "In this course, students will explore the current issues and developments in virtual networked environments, such as online groups and communities, virtual organisations, distributed working teams, and digitally enabled learning. Students will conceptualise and critically analyse the impacts of emerging media technologies on the way people communicate, work, play, and learn by focusing on the critical and effective application of social science theories. At the end of the course, students will demonstrate mastery of the communication dynamics and processes central to collaborative work and communication, team play and dynamics, and collaborative learning in computer-mediated and socially networked environments."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4256HM", "title": "Communication and Digital Collaborations", "description": "In this course, students will explore the current issues and developments in virtual networked environments, such as online groups and communities, virtual organisations, distributed working teams, and digitally enabled learning. Students will conceptualise and critically analyse the impacts of emerging media technologies on the way people communicate, work, play, and learn by focusing on the critical and effective application of social science theories. At the end of the course, students will demonstrate mastery of the communication dynamics and processes central to collaborative work and communication, team play and dynamics, and collaborative learning in computer-mediated and socially networked environments."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4257", "title": "Multiplatform Advertising Strategies", "description": "This course places advertising within the integrated marketing communications (IMC) framework in the local and international context. Students will learn about the advertising process, as well as how to plan, implement and control IMC campaigns. Emphasis will be placed on advertising on multiplatform including social and digital media. In addition, students will learn to recognise the social responsibility as well as ethical implications of advertising in the context of a global community, especially with the advent of new media technologies. The highlight of the course will be the advertising campaign that students will work in groups to develop."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4257HM", "title": "Multiplatform Advertising Strategies", "description": "This course places advertising within the integrated marketing communications (IMC) framework in the local and international context. Students will learn about the advertising process, as well as how to plan, implement and control IMC campaigns. Emphasis will be placed on advertising on multiplatform including social and digital media. In addition, students will learn to recognise the social responsibility as well as ethical implications of advertising in the context of a global community, especially with the advent of new media technologies. The highlight of the course will be the advertising campaign that students will work in groups to develop."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4258", "title": "Health Communication", "description": "This course introduces students to the theories and practices related to health communication in various domains and perspectives, such as doctor-patient communication, healthcare organisation, cultural understanding of health, health news and campaigns, technologically mediated health delivery, and health risk communication. An essential theme is the role and impact of new media in developing meaningful communicative practices and in building the conditions that are conducive to promote healthy behaviour change. The course will also equip students with practical knowledge on the effective ways in which health communication projects and strategies can be conceptualised and delivered in today\u2019s digitally connected age."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4258HM", "title": "Health Communication", "description": "This course introduces students to the theories and practices related to health communication in various domains and perspectives, such as doctor-patient communication, healthcare organisation, cultural understanding of health, health news and campaigns, technologically mediated health delivery, and health risk communication. An essential theme is the role and impact of new media in developing meaningful communicative practices and in building the conditions that are conducive to promote healthy behaviour change. The course will also equip students with practical knowledge on the effective ways in which health communication projects and strategies can be conceptualised and delivered in today\u2019s digitally connected age."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4259", "title": "Mobile Interaction Design", "description": "This course addresses the growth of mobile computing and the move of computing away from the desktop and into everyday lives, activities, and environments. This change poses a challenge for existing desktop-oriented evaluation methodologies and design practices. Students in this course will explore the theory and practice of such relevant concepts as situatedness, context, and mobile media in the context of designing for mobile platforms. At the end of this course, students will be able to participate in the research agenda of designing for mobile interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4259HM", "title": "Mobile Interaction Design", "description": "This course addresses the growth of mobile computing and the move of computing away from the desktop and into everyday lives, activities, and environments. This change poses a challenge for existing desktop-oriented evaluation methodologies and design practices. Students in this course will explore the theory and practice of such relevant concepts as situatedness, context, and mobile media in the context of designing for mobile platforms. At the end of this course, students will be able to participate in the research agenda of designing for mobile interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4260", "title": "Game Design", "description": "This course explores the factors that make a game successful. Students learn how to critically evaluate game development and gain an understanding of the basic elements of gameplay: balancing game mechanics, creating tension between risk and reward, and encouraging replayability. Students also learn how to document a game design using a game design document. The course includes theories of play as well as an introduction to the game industry and the context of game design in the game development process. It also examines the history of gameplay and the different types of games that have developed in different cultures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4260HM", "title": "Game Design", "description": "This course explores the factors that make a game successful. Students learn how to critically evaluate game development and gain an understanding of the basic elements of gameplay: balancing game mechanics, creating tension between risk and reward, and encouraging replayability. Students also learn how to document a game design using a game design document. The course includes theories of play as well as an introduction to the game industry and the context of game design in the game development process. It also examines the history of gameplay and the different types of games that have developed in different cultures."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "Each student is required to either conduct an independent research project on an approved topic, or work individually or in a group to develop a creative folio, under the supervision of a faculty member. The student may select a topic in any field of Communications and New Media. The topic may entail a technical aspect of Communications and New Media or an aspect which explores the application of Communications and New Media to an area of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The project will be submitted as an Honours Thesis."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "Each student is required to either conduct an independent research project on an approved topic, or work individually or in a group to develop a creative folio, under the supervision of a faculty member. The student may select a topic in any field of Communications and New Media. The topic may entail a technical aspect of Communications and New Media or an aspect which explores the application of Communications and New Media to an area of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The project will be submitted as an Honours Thesis."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and Honours Coordinator's approvals of the written agreement are required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Module is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the module. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and Honours Coordinator's approvals of the written agreement are required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4851", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NM4852", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "NM4880", "title": "Topics in CNM", "description": "This course deals with specialised topics in Communications and New Media. The topics covered reflect the expertise of staff members of emerging issues in Communications and New Media."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4880H", "title": "(Special Topics): Entertainment for social good", "description": "This course offers students the theoretical and practical tools to create audiovisual fictions that promote attitude changes and foster more just, equitable, and diverse societies. Combining concepts from entertainment psychology and social psychology with principles of fiction creation, the course seeks to offer an understanding of creative, narrative, and perceptual mechanisms for the effective use of entertainment fictions in education and social change. The course complements the general curriculum, filling a training gap in entertainment creation while boosting students\u2019 creative self-esteem, sensibility towards audiovisual aesthetics and cultural engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "NM4880HHM", "title": "(Special Topics): Entertainment for social good", "description": "This course offers students the theoretical and practical tools to create audiovisual fictions that promote attitude changes and foster more just, equitable, and diverse societies. Combining concepts from entertainment psychology and social psychology with principles of fiction creation, the course seeks to offer an understanding of creative, narrative, and perceptual mechanisms for the effective use of entertainment fictions in education and social change. The course complements the general curriculum, filling a training gap in entertainment creation while boosting students\u2019 creative self-esteem, sensibility towards audiovisual aesthetics and cultural engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5201", "title": "State and Civil Society in the Information Age", "description": "This course will expose students to advanced topics in state-society relationship and governance within the context of rapid changes in information and communication technologies (ICTs). It addresses how the notions of `community', 'citizenship', and 'democracy' have been changed by the creation of a transnational public sphere due to ICTs. The course will also address how the emergence of an informational economy changes the role of the state, especially in terms of preparing society for the challenges ahead. Works of John Urry, Manuel Castells, Bob Jessop, Frank Webster and David Lyon, among others, will be discussed and critiqued."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5201R", "title": "State and Civil Society in the Information Age", "description": "State and Civil Society in the Information Age"}, {"moduleCode": "NM5209", "title": "Interactive Media Arts", "description": "This course will cover major artistic threads, such as networked art, that involve large numbers of geographically distributed participants, large-scale public works as well as virtual and augmented reality works that blur the distinction between real-world and synthetic information. The course will focus on interactive works where media consumers participate in creating their own artistic experience. It will also cover the historical development of ideas, put them into a social context and examine contemporary critical reflections about art. The course will culminate in the study of several works by some of the most important emerging new media artists."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5209R", "title": "Interactive Media Arts", "description": "This course will cover major artistic threads, such as networked art, that involve large numbers of geographically distributed participants, large-scale public works as well as virtual and augmented reality works that blur the distinction between real-world and synthetic information. The course will focus on interactive works where media consumers participate in creating their own artistic experience. It will also cover the historical development of ideas, put them into a social context and examine contemporary critical reflections about art. The course will culminate in the study of several works by some of the most important emerging new media artists."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5212R", "title": "Theories of Public Relations", "description": "Theories of Public Relations"}, {"moduleCode": "NM5218", "title": "Cultural Policy", "description": "This course introduces cultural policy studies as a distinct domain of cultural studies. It examines the stakes involved in defining and operating within cultural policy studies by analysing the practices of cultural industries, art institutions, cultural planning and participation, and creative economies. Students will evaluate specific instances of cultural policy development, and produce studies of cultural practices in order to re-think perceived notions of identity, representation and power. Students completing the course will appreciate the relationship between critical analysis and policy orientation in cultural studies and be familiar with specific instances of cultural policy development at national and international levels."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5218R", "title": "Cultural Policy", "description": "This course introduces cultural policy studies as a distinct domain of cultural studies. It examines the stakes involved in defining and operating within cultural policy studies by analysing the practices of cultural industries, art institutions, cultural planning and participation, and creative economies. Students will evaluate specific instances of cultural policy development, and produce studies of cultural practices in order to re-think perceived notions of identity, representation and power. Students completing the course will appreciate the relationship between critical analysis and policy orientation in cultural studies and be familiar with specific instances of cultural policy development at national and international levels."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5219", "title": "Critical Design", "description": "The course explores, from a critical stance, various techniques of design thinking and user experience design in the context of emergent technologies and near future scenarios. Critical and speculative design practices, such as design fiction, action research and community-based technology and citizen science initiatives are employed to reflect upon new technologies through prototyping, storytelling and speculative design scenarios. These techniques bridge philosophical modes of inquiry and design practices, encouraging debate about the social, cultural and ethical impact of emerging and future technologies by exploring alternative futures and involving various actors and stakeholders in the decision making related to new technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5219R", "title": "Critical Design", "description": "The course explores, from a critical stance, various techniques of design thinking and user experience design in the context of emergent technologies and near future scenarios. Critical and speculative design practices, such as design fiction, action research and community-based technology and citizen science initiatives are employed to reflect upon new technologies through prototyping, storytelling and speculative design scenarios. These techniques bridge philosophical modes of inquiry and design practices, encouraging debate about the social, cultural and ethical impact of emerging and future technologies by exploring alternative futures and involving various actors and stakeholders in the decision making related to new technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "NM5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Communications and New Media in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6101", "title": "Advanced Theories in Cnm", "description": "In this course, students will review classical and contemporary readings in communications and new media studies, including key concepts and areas of investigation. It will provide students with a comprehensive and critical overview of theoretical frameworks of communications and new media. Students will also examine the role of theory in the research process."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6103", "title": "Quantitative Research Methods in Communications and New Media", "description": "This course will prepare graduate students for their thesis writing by delving into selected quantitative research methods in depth in the area of communications and new media. Students will have hands-on experience in developing their own research agenda, designing methodologies and conducting independent research work. It will give an introduction to a variety of quantitative and research methods including survey research, experimental design, content analysis, and social network analysis. Students will also learn how to analyse empirical data using appropriate statistics and analytical tools."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6104", "title": "Qualitative Research Methods in Communications and New Media", "description": "This course is designed to help graduate students understand what qualitative communication research is, questions of design in qualitative communication research, and the steps in carrying out qualitative research projects. It covers fundamental concepts in qualitative research design, sampling strategies, data generation, data analysis, evaluation, writing and performance. This course also introduces basic concepts of qualitative methods such as interpretation, meaning making, reflexivity, poetics, and co-construction. A set of field based experiences will be designed to give students opportunities to become familiar with specific forms of qualitative data gathering such as in-depth interviews, focus groups, and ethnography."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6201", "title": "Communication as Culture", "description": "How should we understand the relationships among media and the social and cultural contexts in which they operate? How should we think through the relationship of technology, culture and communication? How do certain cultures create and naturalise particular modes of media form and content? How do media technologies interact with/create forms of community and identity? This course addresses these concerns by introducing students to cultural approaches to communication. It examines debates on culture in the field of communication studies, and approaches the study of communication as culture."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6211", "title": "Political Communication", "description": "This course is an advanced introduction to theory and research in political communication. It explores important theoretical developments and debates in the field of political communication, which include, but are not limited to deliberation, public opinion, political participation, and topics more directly related to new media technologies. The purpose of this course is to aid students in developing theoretical insights and prepare them to effectively and efficiently navigate through the broad research literature on political ommunication."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Communications and New Media in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6880", "title": "Topics in CNM", "description": "Topics in CNM introduces special, advanced or rotating topics currently not included in the regular curriculum, or builds on the basic courses in the curriculum. Topics in this course offer instruction on various specialisations related to communication and new media, more advanced instruction on the topics/issues covered in the current courses, and/or research, discussion and analysis of issues of current interest related to the communication and new media practices. The content of the course will therefore vary according to the specialised interests of the lecturer teaching the course."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6882", "title": "Advanced Topics in Media Design", "description": "Topics in Media Design introduce special, advanced or rotating topics currently not included in the graduate-level Communications and New Media curriculum. Topics in this module offer instruction in the various specializations of the interactive media design field, more advanced instruction on the basic skills and knowledge covered in the current modules, and/or research, discussion and analysis of issues of current interest in the field of interactive media design."}, {"moduleCode": "NM6882A", "title": "Intelligent Interactive Media", "description": "This is an advanced course for graduate students who are doing thesis work that involves prototyping and evaluation of adaptive/intelligent interactive digital media. Students will learn about research challenges and solutions specific prototyping and evaluating such media by developing working prototypes and conducting user studies with them."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5301", "title": "Strategic and Global Communication", "description": "This course covers key aspects of strategic communication, to be planned, implemented, and evaluated in global contexts. Students will examine the dynamism of strategic and global communication by corporate, governmental, and civil society organisations at regional, national and transnational levels. Students also explore the integration of multiple forms of public communication, including advertising, branding, public relations, and social media advocacy, for both public- and private-sector initiatives. Upon completing this course, students will have knowledge and skills for developing integrated strategic campaigns involving a range of media and communication activities with global reach and worldwide impact."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5302", "title": "Digital Communications and Analytics", "description": "This course explores the fundamental concepts and principles that underlie techniques for extracting useful information and knowledge from digital communication data. It will focus on introducing technical data skills within both social and societal contexts. Data-analytic thinking will be applied in various ways, including customer relationship management, social media marketing and analysis, data-driven decision making and strategic communication. Students will gain an understanding of the nature of data and its significance for society by learning to view problems from a data perspective, and understanding how to critically analyse such problems."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5303", "title": "Globalisation: Theories, Communication, and Society", "description": "This course focuses on the impact of globalisation on communication and society. It introduces key theories of media globalisation, including cultural imperialism, cultural globalisation, disjunctive modernity and de-Westernisation, to consider how these flows affect communication and society. Further using international and comparative case studies, it examines global communication approaches with a focus on intercultural communication, global and migrant media, multiculturalism, mobile and urban communication. Students will engage with current debates centring on questions of globalisation/localisation, transnationalism and neoliberalism, and their impacts on identity, citizenship, markets and publics."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5304", "title": "Mentorship", "description": "Mentorship is a key experiential learning platform for students who have more than two years of industry experience. This provides a formal opportunity for students to join organisations for 12 weeks plus 1 week of orientation (over special terms) to take on a mentored position with a senior communications leader focused on relevant area to their field of study, research and/or specialisations. These leaders and organisations are vetted and approved by the Department, and the students\u2019 positions must have relevance to the issues undertaken that involve the application of subject knowledge and theories in communication."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5305", "title": "Internship", "description": "The Internship Course for Master students is a key experiential learning platform for students who have less than two years of experience in the industry. It provides a formal opportunity for students to join organisations for 12 weeks and 1 week of orientation (over Special Terms) to take on an internship position in an area relevant to their field of study, research and/or specialisation. Organisations are vetted and approved by the CNM Department, their positions must have relevance to the issues undertaken; they involve the application of subject knowledge and theory in reflection upon the work will be assessed."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5306", "title": "Communications and Leadership", "description": "This course guides leaders on how to effectively leverage communications as a strategic tool for organisations. Students learn to maximise the effects of communication in an organisation, integrate all communications plans, and educate senior management on the strategic roles that communications play as well as its contributions to the different teams in an organisation. The course will highlight case studies of successful chief communication officers and the importance of having strategic communication position in the C-suite. Senior leaders in communications both from consultancy and in-house positions will be invited as feature speakers in this class."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5307", "title": "Final Year Project in Communication", "description": "This course is an application-led innovative project that allows students to blend direct hands-on industry experience with theory in analysing research data in order to solve communication problems in an intensive mode during one weekend. It simulates real-world processes by situating the learning within an application framework \u2013 students are to interpret a given dataset from an organisation and propose communication solutions to the client. As this is a capstone course, students will apply theory and practice to consultancy work by producing a research presentation and a brief research report that are industry ready."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5322", "title": "Interactive Media Marketing Practices", "description": "This course examines current theories, models, and management approaches in the field of interactive media marketing communications. Students will examine the use of interactive media in campaigns real-world case studies to learn how to stand out in the marketplace. Students will also learn to design for interactive experiences with digital tools and platforms for marketing and other promotional purposes. Upon completing this course, students will be able to employ interactive media in marketing communications in an integrative manner informed by a deep understanding of the capabilities of new media platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5323", "title": "Crisis Communications and Leadership", "description": "This course introduces students to crisis and risk communication. As managing crisis situations effectively is an essential skill for communication leaders, students in this course will develop analytical skills in examining crisis situations as well as strategic communications skills to cope with risk, crisis, and issues in both online and traditional media environments. The course will highlight the latest practices and theoretical frameworks in managing crisis communication. Students will learn from case studies and guest speakers who are crisis communication experts. Students will also participate in hands-on crisis communication simulations in order to develop their crisis management skills."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5324", "title": "Uses of Communication Research", "description": "This course aims to help students learn how to conceptualise research questions and answer such questions by collecting and analysing relevant data. Students will learn essential skills on how to conceptualise problems and how to obtain and interpret relevant data. The course covers fundamental concepts in research design, instrumentation, data collection, and data analysis. The focus of this course is on problem solving through the application of communication research methods."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5325", "title": "Managing Organisational Reputation", "description": "This course examines the relationship between communication and reputation and provides a comprehensive overview of research and best practices of reputation management based on stakeholders\u2019 perspectives. Various communication strategies including CSR, Corporate Citizenship, and internal communication to help organisations develop and maintain reputation via both online and traditional media will be explored. With the awareness of today\u2019s societal expectations of organisations, students will learn to conduct reputation audit for their organisations and develop effective reputation management strategies. Ethical considerations in reputation building will be discussed and case studies of best practices will be provided."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5326", "title": "Strategic Decision in Visual Storytelling", "description": "With the rise of visual media as a form of strategic and corporate communication, this course provides students with an opportunity to apply strategic decisions using visual storytelling as a medium. Students will apply theory, their skills and creativity to strengthen their knowledge of internal and external communication practices in organisations while providing an opportunity for practical application. Throughout the course, students will be working on a video-based project for digital platform/s, from conceptualisation to production and post-production for strategic communication purposes."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5341", "title": "Visualising Data", "description": "This foundational unit provides you with some fundamental knowledge and skills in data visualisation, such as design, techniques and methods for the visual communication of complex datasets. To produce the simplest bar graph and scatter plot to highly complex network diagrams requires an understanding of the principles of visual communication and data analytics. Across the communication and media industries there is a growing demand for communication specialists to be able to effectively communicate complex datasets to non-specialist audiences. You will learn how to make sense of data for diverse audiences through appropriate visual representation."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5342", "title": "Introduction to Applied Social Media Analytics", "description": "This foundational unit introduces the skills and knowledge necessary for data-driven insights into social media content. It introduces the theoretical perspectives and approaches for data analytics, and the standard social media analytic tools that are used in the industry for understanding and building engagement on social media platforms. The skills would have direct applications for careers in new media, public relations, journalism, and health communication. Students will learn how to analyse messages, channels and audiences and apply their learnings towards a final project report."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5343", "title": "Introduction to Audience Analytics", "description": "This foundational unit introduces basic understanding and reporting of the consumer and audience analytics that are valuable in most contemporary workplaces. This course will first familiarise students with the wide array of online audience/consumer analytics and their relation to specific marketing/communications situations. Next, it will familiarise them with the leading analytical approaches for evaluating audiences. It will also give them an overview of the range of analytics/tools that are important in forming today\u2019s consumer/audience related strategies. Finally, it will provide some hands-on experience with each of these objectives with mock or real datasets."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5344", "title": "Coding for Communicators", "description": "This foundational unit provides a hands-on approach to the field of computational communication. It is intended to help communication professionals to develop and apply programming skills to work with data, for future careers in human resource management, policy strategy, public relations, data-focused journalism, and scientific communication. Students will learn how to apply computational thinking for problem solving, and develop foundation skills in languages like R or Python for the purpose of collecting, processing, and reporting data about people."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5362", "title": "Media in Asia", "description": "This module examines the Asian media industries in terms of their production, regulation, distribution, audiences and media genres as they undergo digital transformations and adapt to new audiences and markets. The media industries in Asia face particular challenges that are local, regional and global in nature in this phase of development. While it is not as mature as in Western countries, it is not a young industry either. These conditions are uniquely historical, political and cultural. Furthermore, it will examine how media, in return frame the conditions for engaging with social change including nation-building, development, globalisation and engagement with new international markets."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5364", "title": "Digital Journalism, Law, and Society", "description": "Digital news and information are being generated, circulated and consumed in new and unexpected ways. Trending items quickly go viral as a result of user actions, social media algorithms, and botnets. Such changes in news production and consumption practices have resulted in new implications for society and raised new legal concerns. This course takes a holistic approach to understanding journalistic transformations and how they impact and are impacted by society and legal frameworks in the era of digital news, examining contemporary processes of news production, distribution, and consumption, and providing crucial insights to media industry professionals and policymakers."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5367", "title": "The Global Audience", "description": "Who or what is a global audience? How are the meanings of commercial cultural products interpreted as they traverse the world? What are the dynamics at play between local audiences and global media products? How do media technologies alter relations between producers and consumers of popular cultural products? This course reflects on the open nature of media audiences and how they have been conceptualised by global media producers of TV, music and film. It explores how message makers or producers (artists, broadcasters, filmmakers, advertisers) try, and sometimes fail, to shape and adapt their messages for different social and cultural contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "NMC5368", "title": "Media, Policy, and Markets", "description": "Media policy has been a crucial instrument for governments to shape social and political climates, and more importantly, for organising global media industries within national boundaries. Nowadays, prolific personal social media and institutional media usage creates integral roles for media policy to play and administer. This course addresses the role of media policy from a transnational perspective in the contemporary digital media environment. Approaching policy from a perspective that emphasises the dynamics between the media industry and consumers enables it to investigate key parameters for producing, promoting, distributing, exhibiting, and consuming media outside of technical policy development confinements."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001A", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001B", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001C", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001D", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001E", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001F", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001G", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NPS2001H", "title": "Matrix Unplugged:Using Computer for Real-World Problems", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts, computational tools and techniques necessary to solve complex problems. The focus is on computer science and information technology, but course objectives are more general in nature, with the goal of developing essential skills for approaching and understanding new technology to critically assess potential benefits and risks. By having a comprehensive understanding of the potential of new technologies, students will be able to formulate a problem, outline potential technological solutions and set up a team to implement the solutions that can help achieve project goals."}, {"moduleCode": "NRM3301", "title": "NUSC Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on a research project, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs may be with NUSC faculty, joint appointees, or other NUS faculty and, exceptionally, with other NUSC partners. All are vetted and approved by the NUSC, and are assessed. UROPs are proposed by a supervisor, and require approval of the NUSC."}, {"moduleCode": "NRM3301R", "title": "NUSC Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on a research project, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs may be with NUSC faculty, joint appointees, or other NUS faculty and, exceptionally, with other NUSC partners. All are vetted and approved by the NUSC, and are assessed. UROPs are proposed by a supervisor, and require approval of the NUSC. REx enhancement to NUSC UROP courses."}, {"moduleCode": "NRM3302", "title": "NUSC Undergraduate Research Opportunity (S&T - UROP))", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on a research project, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs may be with NUSC faculty, joint appointees, or other NUS faculty and, exceptionally, with other NUSC partners. All are vetted and approved by the NUSC, and are assessed. UROPs are proposed by a supervisor, and require approval of the NUSC."}, {"moduleCode": "NRM3302R", "title": "NUSC Undergraduate Research Opportunity (S&T UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on a research project, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs may be with NUSC faculty, joint appointees, or other NUS faculty and, exceptionally, with other NUSC partners. All are vetted and approved by the NUSC, and are assessed. UROPs are proposed by a supervisor, and require approval of the NUSC. REx enhancement to NUSC UROP courses."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001A", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001B", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001C", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001D", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001E", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001F", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001G", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001H", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001I", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001J", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This course explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the course, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NSS2001L", "title": "Science and Society", "description": "This module explores the intersection and interplay of science and society, how scientific knowledge and technological development influence and shape institutions, societies, and environments. Students will examine how social, cultural, political, economic, and material realities instigate scientific discovery and research. . The complex interactions between society and science will be examined in the context of some of the most pressing problems that humans and non-humans face such as those related to climate change and biodiversity loss. Throughout the module, examples of established science, contested science and pseudo-science will be highlighted/discussed to illustrate their intersections with socio-economic and political reality."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2001", "title": "The Biomolecular Revolution", "description": "This course aims to give an overview of a living cell, genetic basis of diseases, biological molecules and their applications in undertaking clinical challenges. In brief, the student will learn the basic concepts of molecular biology, genetics, genetic engineering and biotechnology relevant to the biomolecular revolution. New frontiers of the revolution will be discussed with the emphasis of their impacts on the individual and society. Through contemporary readings, students will be provoked to think of issues arising from the biomolecular revolution."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2002", "title": "Evolution", "description": "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of Evolution This bold statement by the Russian population geneticist T. Dobzhansky emphasizes the importance of evolution as the only unifying concept in biology. Yet, the theory of evolution is more controversial and opposed by more forces in society than any other theory in science. The course will revisit many of these objections and reveal that they are based on reasoning that is incompatible with the principles of science. We will investigate, why it is \"Neo-Darwinism\" and not \"Intelligent Design\" that is currently the best supported paradigm for explaining \"adaptation.\" We will then challenge the power of the neo-Darwinian paradigm by asking how seemingly incompatible phenomena like altruism and excessive male ornamentation can possibly be explained by natural selection. We will also study several key events in evolution such as the origin of sex and its numerous consequences and the origin of the human species. We will conclude with discussing the importance of the theory of evolution for understanding cultural evolution (\"memes\") and human health and senescence (\"Darwinian medicine\")."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2003", "title": "Biodiversity And Conservation Biology", "description": "Biodiversity conservation became one of the important environmental themes of global concern after UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The realisation that human development has to complement and not to compete with biological conservation ultimately developed into the famous Agenda 21. This protocol bound all the nations into accepting various responsibilities towards conservation of nature and natural resources. This module is aimed at imparting knowledge to students to help them understand and appreciate various concepts and issues concerning biodiversity and conservation at local, regional and global levels."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2004", "title": "Biosemiotics: Signs In Nature", "description": "Sign processes permeate the lives of all creatures in the natural world. Sign use makes possible not only such higher-order human abilities as spoken language and written texts, but also underlies such communicative animal behaviour as the calls and songs of birds and cetaceans; the pheromone trails of insect colony organisation and interaction; the mating, territorial, and hierarchical display behaviour in mammals; as well as the deceptive scents, textures, movements and coloration of a wide variety of symbiotically interacting insects, animals and plants. This course will introduce you to the recently developed field of biosemiotics the interdisciplinary study of sign processes as they occur variously across the biological spectrum. Looking at the close relation between living systems and their sign systems (hence the term: bio-semiotics), this still-emerging discipline seeks to traces the evolutionary development of sign-mediated ways of being in the world from its beginnings in the transmission of information across single cells to its most complicated realisation in the abstract forms of human thought."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2005", "title": "The Doors of Perception: Biology, Technology & Culture", "description": "When we open our eyes, we feel that we are seeing the world as it is in front of us. But scientific studies reveal that we are seeing only a tiny fraction of that world, and that what we do see (and hear, and smell, and touch) is not the world \u201cas it is\u201d \u2013 but as it is represented to us through the filters of our biology, or technology, and our culture. This course will examine the ways in which these three important forces enable, limit and shape the ways that we perceive \u201cthe world in front of us\u201d."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2006", "title": "The Biology and Phenomenology of Pain", "description": "When asked, \u201cwhat is pain?\u201d many respond: \u201cthe response to something painful.\u201d That answer is tautological. To escape tautology, we need to understand pain independent of any stimulus; we need to understand pain subjectively. A subjective focus, however, causes problems. The need for subjectivity might deny pain to the unborn and to animals, and seemingly leads to the conclusion that we can \u201cthink\u201d ourselves into, and out of, pain. Consequently, many argue that pain should be understood objectively as the expression of biological changes (hormonal increases, brain activity) that are mobilised to defend the organism from injury."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2007", "title": "Biodiversity and Natural History in Singapore", "description": "Situated within a megadiverse biodiversity-hotspot, Singapore has drastically-reduced natural areas yet remains surprisingly species-rich. Combined with her colonial legacy, infrastructural capabilities and cultural biases, Singapore offers a unique situation for studying biodiversity. In this course, we study how Singapore\u2019s biodiversity landscape as well as the motivations and methods for studying biodiversity have evolved across Singapore\u2019s history. Retracing how prominent naturalists explored Singapore\u2019s biodiversity in the past, we imagine how they would do it today using current techniques. This course has a strong fieldwork component, imbuing students with naturalist sensibilities which heightens their awareness of Singapore\u2019s diverse but oft-neglected natural heritage."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2008", "title": "Invertebrate Innovations", "description": "Invertebrates are the animals lacking backbones that comprise >90% of the animal kingdom. Despite this, they remain superficially known to most people. This course gives much-needed attention to this megadiverse group, focusing on the varied biological innovations in aspects of their anatomy, physiology, and behaviour, which enable them to survive in particular habitats. We examine how such innovations in invertebrates have inspired man-made designs, materials and technologies across disciplines, which lead to human innovations that benefit society; and how the study of invertebrates more broadly contributes understanding of the natural world that also indirectly benefits society."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2009", "title": "Space, Time & Matter: The Shape and Size of the Cosmos", "description": "This course concerns the concepts of space, time and matter. Students explore the nature of these primitive concepts and their evolution of our understanding of physical reality from the pre-Socratics to Einstein. Beginning with intuitive ideas, the course examines how these have had to be radically revised in order to correctly describe nature. Three strands, philosophical, mathematical and physical, are the framework for an exploration of the implications of these profound ideas for : Indeed, is it even meaningful to pose such questions in the first place? cosmology What is the shape and size of the universe; how old is it?"}, {"moduleCode": "NST2010", "title": "Waves in Nature", "description": "Although diverse in scale and nature, the dynamics of tsunamis, the formation and breaking of chemical bonds, the development of stripes on a zebra, the transmission of nerve impulses, and the precession of binary pulsars are natural phenomena that can be described and understood in terms of waves. We will discuss the nature of waves by starting with the idea that a wave is simply a disturbance that propagates in a medium via the interaction of its parts. Using the above and other phenomena, we examine what we can learn about matter from the various kinds of waves. We will also trace the important steps in scientific thinking that has taken the idea of a wave from a mere description of empirical observations to the abstract but powerfully predictive concept of a quantum wave."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2011", "title": "Nature's Threads", "description": "This module seeks to explore the importance of various key ideas in the history of physics by considering a selection of examples each semester as a means of examining the whys and hows of certain scientific revolutions. The theme underlying the choice of topics to be covered will be to explore the evolutionary aspect of scientific understanding which finds inter-connections (often, only much later, sometimes even centuries later) between seemingly unrelated ideas. The student should take away from this module a sense of the revolutionary nature and scientific importance of the ideas explored that semester, as well as the deep inter-connections which science establishes - 'Nature's Threads' as it were."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2012", "title": "The Nature of Natural Law", "description": "This module examines the evolution of our present theoretical understanding of some basic aspects of the physical world around us. It explores the role of certain\nprimitive concepts of science and how these key ideas have been used to construct a coherent \u2018mental\u2019 picture of the physical world. The particular focus this semester will be on a wellestablished and \u2018deterministic\u2019 law of nature: the Law of Universal Gravity and how this led to Newton\u2019s prediction of the motion of the planets.\nThe module will also question, on a higher level, the nature of \u2018scientific explanations\u2019: how these are extended over time and inevitably get modified by having to take into account new \u2018facts\u2019 provided by observation and experiment."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2013", "title": "Complexity and Recursion", "description": "How is it possible that only a small number of genes can code for the shape of a tree? Or more generally, where does the complex behaviour so common in the natural world come from? Indeed, how is it conceivable that trillions of neurons create intelligent behaviour? A key to answer these questions lies in interaction and recursion. In this module, the world of complex systems and their fundamental mechanisms are explored through lectures, seminars and hands-on programming. It will be shown how in many cases complex systems can be modelled with recursive processes leading to emergent phenomena that defy an atomic explanation."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2014", "title": "Quantum Reality and Appearance", "description": "Can physics allow us to know the reality of nature or does it merely tell us how nature appears? Or for that matter, what are the limits of knowledge in physics, constrained as it is to giving responsible proof for the claims it makes? This module explores some of the developments of quantum physics and how they bear on the philosophical notions of reality and appearances. The enquiry here will consist of an in-depth examination of the theoretical and experimental observations that claim to elucidate the notion of realism. Students will be taken through a journey that showcases the developments that have shaped our current views on the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2015", "title": "Mathematics and Reality", "description": "What is the nature of Reality and how can we be sure about what we know? Do mathematical constructs such as symmetry groups and infinity point beyond themselves to a higher reality? How do we account for the fact that mathematics is so effective in describing nature? Is it mere language or is it the reality itself? This module explores the intimate link between reality and mathematics and how the latter has been unreasonably effective in providing a description of nature. Students will be taken through a journey that showcases the developments that have shaped our current views on the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2016", "title": "Decision Analytics", "description": "This module aims to sharpen students\u2019 analytical minds, and to develop skills for decision making such as might be useful in management consulting. Students will appreciate the general decision framework and be familiar with some decision models in this quick and challenging course.\nThe focus will be on data-analytic and microeconomic approaches to decision making, with as little use of formulas as practicable. Rather, grasping of broad concepts, extension of intuition and, where appropriate, use of information technology to arrive at decisions, will be emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2017", "title": "Passing Time: Processes, Temporality, and Econometrics", "description": "This module aims to sharpen students\u2019 analytical minds, and to develop skills for decision making such as might be useful in management consulting. Students will appreciate the general decision framework and be familiar with some decision models in this quick and challenging course.\nThe focus will be on data-analytic and microeconomic approaches to decision making, with as little use of formulas as practicable. Rather, grasping of broad concepts, extension of intuition and, where appropriate, use of information technology to arrive at decisions, will be emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2018", "title": "How Linguists Work", "description": "Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguists study the range of possible human languages, how languages differ, and what they have in common, and formulate explicit and consistent theories of linguistic structures and relations. The data of linguistics are all around us, on every written page and in every conversational interaction. How do linguists who are interested in the grammar of languages collect and analyse linguistic data, and how do linguists use these data to build theories of human language? This module focuses on the theory of grammar, and examines the broader goals of linguistics and the methodology of grammatical theory by means of hands-on exploration of these processes."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2019", "title": "Generative Syntax", "description": "This course focuses on matters that are truly linguistic. After separating linguistic problems from ones that should be studied in other fields, the course introduces students to genuinely scientific study of human language. More specifically, by (critically) reading Radford 2009, the course provides a concise and clear introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of\nChomsky\u2019s Minimalist Program. By looking at data mainly from English, it will also introduce students to quite a few linguistic mysteries."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2020", "title": "Developing Meaningful Indicators", "description": "Indicators are measured concepts that monitor development and track progress. Indicator reports are an indispensable element in the information system of a democratic society, providing government, researchers, business and the public with data driven evidence to inform policy, research and debate. Developing innovative indicators to monitor the progress of difficult to measure concepts (i.e. sustainability, cultural wellbeing, community cohesion), using novel techniques of data collection and analysis (experience sampling, social media, IoT monitoring), are necessities for a society to thrive in an increasingly complex world."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2021", "title": "Thoughtful Learning with Machines", "description": "A tools-and-soft-skills module introducing Python machine learning, with hands-on modelling via pre-programmed templates. Students will be gently ushered into the artificial intelligence landscape, so that they might henceforth\u2014as an insider\u2014keep abreast with the ecosystem\u2019s constant reshaping.\nBroad appreciation of introduced models from a decision-maker\u2019s perspective will be emphasized, without deep dive into program coding. Students will learn to communicate responsively and congenially with senior management and technical colleagues alike.\nWe will equip students to thoughtfully follow the accelerating analytics transformations within modern organizations. Students may then deservedly take a seat with enlightened movers and shakers digitizing future workplaces."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2022", "title": "Chemicals And Us", "description": "The main goal of course is to describe chemical technology as one of foundations of our global economy. In this course a variety of chemical technologies (i.e., products, processes and reactors) will be presented. The trans-disciplinary aspects of chemical technology will be stressed, especially since chemical technology is based on fundamental laws and approaches taken from math and physical sciences. The responsibility of the chemical engineer for the global and regional environment will be explained."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2023", "title": "Nanoscale Science And Technology", "description": "Nanotechnology is a relatively new field, and there is still controversy over its future potential. This course aims to acquaint students with the current topics in nanoscience, while engaging them in a dialogue on future possibilities, as well as the social and environmental implications of nanotechnology. Students will first be introduced to fundamentals of the nanoscale and learn to appreciate what the world is like when things are shrunk to this scale. They will then explore the special tools and fabrication methods required and have some hands-on experience with nano-instrumentation in a group project."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2024", "title": "The Technology of Life - Machines That Go Squish", "description": "Can we learn how man-made technologies work by taking a deeper, more quantitative look at how living organisms function? The nature of physical law imposes unique constraints on the evolution and functioning of living organisms \u2013 the same constraints (and opportunities) we encounter when inventing technologies. This module will investigate how living organisms of all shapes and sizes have evolved creative solutions around natural constraints, and indeed turned these into opportunities for amazing feats of \u2018natural\u2019 engineering. To do this, students will learn important engineering fundamentals such as fluid mechanics and chemical and heat transport. The overall goals are to assemble a conceptual toolkit to analyse physical and chemical technologies, and to also highlight how nature can inspire new man-made technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2025", "title": "Molecular Courtship", "description": "How does an understanding of molecular interactions help us to make sense of everyday chemical phenomena to important chemical technologies? For example why are plastics non-biodegradable? Why and how an LED lights up or gets quenched, or one drug molecule works while another results in side effects? These are important outcomes resulting directly or indirectly from initial intermolecular forces. Environmental issues such as differentiation between biodegradable and \u201cunfriendly\u201d materials can also be discussed. Stereochemical or 3D-controlled intermolecular forces allow an understanding of many chemical processes in biological systems."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2026", "title": "Pollution Control Engineering in Singapore", "description": "Clean air and water are crucial for public health and to ensure a safe supply of drinking water. Pollution to our air and water can pose health risks and increase treatment costs. This module explores topics related to environmental pollution that threatens clean air and water. What are the main air and water pollutants? From what sources do they come? How do these contaminants get transported? How do we monitor and keep tabs on the quality of the environment? Relevant examples from Singapore and other countries will be used to demonstrate concepts taught in class."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2027", "title": "Energy in Singapore: Is Technology the Answer?", "description": "Energy permeates all aspects of our everyday lives, yet the goal of ensuring secure, affordable, and sustainable energy for all remains a major global challenge. Significant technological progress has been made towards achieving this goal. However, implemementation of new technology can prove difficult for various reasons such as lack of suitable sites and strong public opposition. In this module, we shall explore key energy technology, and discuss the challenges facing their widespread adoption. We will also talk about the energy situation in Singapore, and highlight the challenges and opportunities in the local context."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2028", "title": "Re-examining the Deterministic World of Matter", "description": "People was once benefited from the method of science and the idea of determinism to gain knowledge about our material world. However, it is still debatable whether or not science and determinism were sufficient to understand the whole material world. Through reviewing our understanding of the origins of the Universe, Earth, Life, Mankind and Civilisation, the module helps us to reflect our understanding of the material world along the historical timeline and we would analyse the role of determinism in our perception of the material world."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2029", "title": "Computer Science & The I.T. Revolution", "description": "We live in a world where technological advances and technology related decisions constantly impact society in many different ways. Being able to critically assess technological claims helps one make better judgments that could significantly affect our world. This module looks at central ideas and major technological advances in the field of computer science, and how these developments have shaped modern society through the IT revolution. Although the specific subject matter deals with computer science and information technology, the module objectives are more general in nature. We aim to develop in students, a balanced perspective of science, technology and their impact on modern society."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2030", "title": "Quantum Computation", "description": "One of the most recent advances in the area of computer science and information theory is the emergence of a new notion, the concept of quantum information. The module aims to provide an introduction to the field of quantum computing. While very much a technology of the future, the module will examine some of the possibilities that the quantum world offers in advancing the capabilities of computers and how our notion of information has evolved. Essentially the module showcases, two major paradigm shifts; one from classical physics to quantum physics and the other from the standard Turing principle in computer science to its modern quantum counterpart."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2031", "title": "The Importance of Being Formal", "description": "Formal methods of reasoning have been studied in all major civilizations, but the appearance of automatic computing devices in the 20th century has led to an explosion of interest in and applications of formal logic. Today, the advantages of formal reasoning are recognized and utilized far beyond computer science. Students of this module will discover the power as well as the limitations of formal methods for philosophy and mathematics, and learn to apply them in diverse areas such as political speeches and arguments, analysis of detective novels and the scheduling of sports tournaments."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2032", "title": "Computational Thinking and Modelling", "description": "Computational thinking is a way of understanding the world and solving problems. We will explore a wide range of programming languages, systems, and activities designed to help children and the general public acquire computational thinking skills. Students will build and explore computer models of complex systems in the life and social sciences in order to acquire a deeper understanding of the underlying phenomena. No programming experience required. \n\nThis module is also about the pedagogical theories that underlie attempts to create environments designed to support learners in becoming creative problem solvers and capable of doing scientific research via computer simulations."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2033", "title": "Thinking 4.0", "description": "The 4th industrial revolution, combining notions from fields such as cybernetics, the maker world and artificial intelligence, is rapidly starting to take shape. The key underlying human thought process is often represented by the term \u2018computational thinking\u2019 but this thought process is much more than thinking like a programmer or computer-like. It is a broadly interdisciplinary process encompassing both the arts and the sciences, and essential for succeeding in an interconnected and data driven world. Indeed, thinking computationally is often more like art than like math. This module, explores the thought processes behind computational thinking and considers applications in finance."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2034", "title": "AI Projects and Case Studies", "description": "Learn about AI and machine learning from hands-on project work, case studies of how AI is impacting nearly every field of study, and explorations of its societal, ethical, and philosophical impacts. No prerequisite programming experience or advanced mathematics required. This module is an opportunity to do an AI project of your choice in your field of study (including physical, life, and social science, business, art, language, and humanities)."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2035", "title": "Hormesis and Life", "description": "What doesn\u2019t kill you makes you stronger\u201d is a common saying that implies a positive response to external stress. Yet, beyond the rhetorics, this notion is grounded in scientific principles. The goal of this module is to first discuss the theoretical basis behind this effect, and then to explore the reach of this phenomenon across different disciplines. These include addressing the risk-benefits of medications and health supplements, the effects of exercise on the physical body, concept of immunity and others. Beyond that, we hope to generate a platform for a deep dialogue on the potential analogies of the concept in far-reaching domains such as sociology, psychology and even economics (antifragility). Through this, we hope to advocate the theories and practice of taking \u201ccalculated risk\u201d in life situations."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2036", "title": "Creating Wolverine in Real Life", "description": "This course serves as an introductory course for students interested in regenerative medicine entrepreneurship and its associated intricacies, including ethical issues and socioeconomic impact. This course will broadly cover the fundamental concepts in regenerative medicine such as stem cell biology and tissue engineering. With this knowledge, examples of regenerative medicine technologies will be used as anchors for discussion throughout the course to enable students to truly appreciate the complexities involved in bringing these typically controversial technologies from bench to commercialization."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2037", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Epidemics", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and indeed moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. While the most important element of the class will be a hands-on quantitative exploration of the problem in question, students will conclude by considering the limits of quantitative analysis in the chosen case."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2038", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Quantifying Our Eco-Footprint", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of one important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach.\n\nIn this particular iteration of the module, we will learn to make appropriate measurements to quantify the ecofootprint arising out of our current personal lifestyle choices, conduct systematic thought/real experiments to explore improvement opportunities, and propose a modelbased sustainable alternative for ourselves, our families or communities such as the USP Residential College."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2039", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Calculating Risks", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of one important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach.\n\nIn this module, we will learn quantitative tools to understand and to quantify risks encountered in daily life; to compare and to weigh the consequences of these risks for a more insightful decision-making. We will examine the underlying limitations of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2040", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Quantifying Nuclear Risks", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. This module focuses on quantifying aspects of nuclear risks. Students will pose a question related to nuclear risks (e.g. What is the lowest dose of radiation that can lead to cancer?), propose a method to measure the relevant variables, collect the necessary data, and make scientifically justifiable inferences from it. Students will thus perform all aspects of a genuine scientific study, from problem formulation to decision making and final reporting."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2041", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Quantifying Environmental Quality", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach.\n\nThis module looks at environmental quality and human health. Students will learn how environmental quality is measured, air and water quality parameters, and health effects of pollution. They will apply quantitative analyses in understanding our environment and its link to our wellbeing."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2042", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Pursuit of Happiness", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. What factors contribute to positive life outcomes? Is successful living predicated simply by demographics or do social attitudes lead to a happy life? Are these two factors linked? We explore 40 years of data to answer questions surrounding the relationship between demographics, attitude, and the quality of life of individuals."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2043", "title": "In Search of Soulmate", "description": "This topic-based course develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. This course uses the searching of romantic relationship as an example to demonstrate the usefulness of quantitative reasoning. Students will learn to use survey and data analysis to validate some claims about dating, and to investigate dating strategies from mathematical modelling. The cross-discipline potential of quantitative methods will be reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2044", "title": "Solving Energy and Environmental Problems", "description": "This course explores and scrutinizes the current energy and environmental problems the world is facing, by critically evaluating the main causes and finding ways to alleviate and solve them. Key topics include energy conservation, alternative or renewable energy, climate change, carbon footprint, decarbonization, pollution, forestation/reforestation and science-based policy making. Students will be poised to make a difference not just through their awareness but by translating their knowledge into concrete action."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2045", "title": "Food Production and Security in Urban Singapore", "description": "The \u201c30 by 30\u201d vision by Singapore has placed emphasis on developing local food production capability, but this objective is challenging especially in Singapore. In this module, we explore farming methods and technologies that underlie this drive toward achieving a more secure and sustainable local food supply. The module addresses: 1) The need for high-tech farming equipment and methods in Singapore; 2) The types of technologies available; and 3) The viability and implementation of these methods. In this module, students will also be invited to develop research questions that can be developed into larger study opportunities during their undergraduate term."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2046", "title": "Deus Ex Machina: Generative AI and Society", "description": "Creativity was one of the characteristics humanity was always proud of. With recent technological advancements, machines are starting to get good at creating: not only useful, but sensical and beautiful things. It looks like almost every domain where humans create original work \u2014 from advertising to literature, from coding to graphics, from marketing to law \u2014 is up for reinvention. Would Generative AI become not just faster and cheaper, but a better alternative to human hands and minds? How would it affect the creative process? We will discuss these questions, look at limitations and perspectives and build generative AI models."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2047", "title": "Rethinking Sustainability in a Green City", "description": "By 2050, half of the world\u2019s population will live in cities, placing additional demand on core infrastructure such as food, water, transportation, and healthcare. Throughout the course, we will explore the concept of urban sustainability in general with emphasis on intersectional climate change challenges here in Singapore. But is sustainability enough in our changing world? And what are some ways we can redesign our cities in ways that make efficient use of the resources we have? We\u2019ll look at potential solutions such as the circular economy, industrial symbiosis, and work with Mandai Parks to analyse their own resource flows."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2048", "title": "Elixir of Life: Manufacturing Cells as Medicine", "description": "Our immune system is one of the best defense systems to protect us against diseases, but it is challenging to pick the best immune cells and manufacture them for therapy. Here, we will cover manufacturing technologies of immune cells and using these cells to fight a broad range of diseases including cancer. There will also be guest lectures from clinical, academic, business, regulatory and ethics stakeholders to collectively enable students to assess Singapore\u2019s position on cell therapy."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2049", "title": "Geometry and the Emergence of Perspective", "description": "Geometry is the branch of mathematics concerned with questions of shape, size, and space. Part of the Quadrivium, it was one of the seven liberal arts in the classical world that every free citizen was expected to learn. Today it remains one of the pillars of modern mathematics. This course explores the role of geometry in the emergence of perspective drawing during the Italian Renaissance. Through comparisons of Euclid\u2019s and Leon Battista Alberti\u2019s , students will rediscover what motivated the development of non- Euclidean geometries in seventeenth century. No prior knowledge of geometry or advanced mathematics is required. Elements On Painting"}, {"moduleCode": "NST2050", "title": "Light and Lenses: Reimagine imaging with technology", "description": "Have you ever wondered why your reflection in the mirror is different from the selfie you take with your camera? We interact with light all the time and the field known as imaging has became an integral part of our lives; from everyday photography, to medical applications. This course aims to equip you with an understanding of the science behind the interaction between light and objects. We will then explore various applications, including distortion in optics in real world, and their impact on society."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2051", "title": "Friction - May The Force Be With You", "description": "What if\u2026there was no friction? We often think of friction as something we want to avoid. Despite inconveniences, friction is a practical force; to be negotiated with and manipulated rather than eliminated. Understanding frictional interactions (aka Tribology) is used not only in fields of science and engineering, but also in domains of sustainability, medicine, crafts and aesthetics, or even everyday scenarios. This course introduces various types of friction, explores their usefulness and necessity over history, inviting students to take an interdisciplinary and novel perspective to its application in, e.g. medicine and sustainability"}, {"moduleCode": "NST2054", "title": "Instrumenta Mathematica", "description": "It has been said that the loom upon which the fabric of the universe is woven is mathematics. The very fact the universe is understandable through the language of mathematics is perhaps the least understandable part of the universe. In this course, I want to introduce a number of mathematical tools, , that can be used to understand our universe, from the bonds that bring atoms together, to the progress of disease during a pandemic, to the systems that influence the changes in our climate, and to the forces that describe the motions of the planets. instrumenta mathematica"}, {"moduleCode": "NST2055", "title": "Comprehending Sound Around Us", "description": "Ever wondered why we perceive some sounds as soothing while others are jarring? How are the sound effects in movies created and what causes them? Why do some rooms echo more than others? This course investigates the physical production of sound, integrating insights from physics, while delving into the psychological intricacies of human sound perception, drawing from psychology and cognitive science. Students will develop quantitative reasoning skills to model sound interactions and apply these principles to practical scenarios such as music, speech, room acoustics, and noise control, while integrating perspectives from physics, psychology, and data science."}, {"moduleCode": "NST2056", "title": "Computing Machines, Models, and Mind", "description": "With startling breakthroughs in AI repeatedly making the news, where is this taking us, and how should we respond? Are we on the brink of \u201cArtificial General Intelligence\u201d, and what are the implications? What are the foundations of the computer revolution, and how can algorithmic thinking, AI techniques and computer modelling shed light on humanity and society? This course brings together insights from both Computer Science and Philosophy to explore these fascinating issues. In the process, students will experience both practical coding of computer models and philosophical discussion, and join an interdisciplinary debate informed by both classic and contemporary contributions."}, {"moduleCode": "NST3901", "title": "Independent Study Module (ST)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "NST3902", "title": "Independent Study Module (ST)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "NST3903", "title": "Independent Study Module (ST)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module explores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, influencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001A", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001B", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001C", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001D", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001E", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001F", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001G", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001H", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001I", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001J", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001K", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001L", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001M", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001N", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001O", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001P", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001Q", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NSW2001R", "title": "Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond", "description": "The social world and how it\u2019s experienced is complex and mediated by one\u2019s social identity, interpersonal relationships, and broader social forces. This module \nexplores how social scientists approach the study of social norms, relations, and institutions as experienced by different groups and how they interact and intersect, \ninfluencing each other. In investigating these complexities, students analyse these interactions and their consequences and develop critical perspectives on the social world. Singapore will feature as a key case study to be compared globally with other societies and students will gain a deeper understanding of Singapore and other societies undergoing rapid change."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2001", "title": "Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship", "description": "\u201cWhat is the meaning of the term \u201cglobal citizenship\u201d? What is its significance? And what are the obstacles and challenges to it? This module teaches academic writing through a critical exploration of the concept of global citizenship. Topics discussed include the historical doctrine of cosmopolitanism, the relevance of global citizenship as a moral, economic and cultural ideal as well as the institutionalization of global citizenship in the education curriculum. The module encourages students to reflect on the notion of global citizenship in the contemporary world, as well as their responsibilities as cosmopolitan citizens.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2002", "title": "Civic Discourse in a Fractious World", "description": "This module teaches writing and critical thinking through a critical exploration of theories of civic and public discourse as they were configured by the ancient Greeks. Topics discussed include the political, ethical, and emotional uses and impacts of civic discourse. The module thus provides the chance for students to gain a critical awareness of the natures of their own engagement with public discourses, to contextualise these discourses both locally and internationally, and to explore the possible futures of communities of which they are a part."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2003", "title": "Monuments, Memorials, and Commemoration", "description": "This course explores how monuments, memorials and other forms of public commemoration represent the past and influence culture and politics in the present. It takes a comparative approach, using case studies from different societies. The course highlights the complexity and contested nature of commemoration and memorialization. Although monuments and memorials may be intended to tell the \u201ctrue\u201d version of historical events, the end result often hides controversies that may have been part of the process of designing these structures. Similarly, the meanings attached to monuments and memorials can change dramatically over time, as societies change and these structures are reinterpreted."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2004", "title": "Narrative in Everyday Life", "description": "Everyday narratives are those informal stories we tell each other about ourselves and our quotidian experiences. In this course, such narratives will be analyzed in terms of identity politics, how they instantiate social power, and how they frame epistemological knowledge, such as scientific discourse, not normally associated with narrative as a mode of representation. Students will generate a corpus of genuine sociolinguistic narrative data and analyze it in an interdisciplinary framework."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2005", "title": "Literature and Ethics", "description": "This course investigates the relations between literature and the realm of the ethical. As the course does not take the categories of 'literature' and 'ethics' for granted, it challenges students to do more than simply read literary texts for ethical content. Exploring the relationship between literature's representation of ethical concerns and the demands that a work of literature makes upon the reader's moral judgement, students can articulate their own understanding of the values, choices, and responsibilities involved in writing and reading."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2006", "title": "Human Trafficking and Labour Migration", "description": "This course teaches writing and critical thinking through forms of human trafficking in the contemporary world. Topics discussed include sex workers, migrant labour, abolitionist and human rights approaches to human trafficking, as well as media representations. The course thus provides the opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of problem in the contemporary world, as well as their responsibilities as global citizens."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2007", "title": "Apocalyptic Cultures", "description": "This course primarily introduces fundamental skills of writing that are appropriate to the interdisciplinary context of the USP. It does so by advancing various topical questions surrounding our fascination with and anxieties about the portentous and cataclysmic events leading to the end of world. Are these concerns new or culturally specific? Are these apocalyptic visions obsessed with finality or are they genuinely more interested in new beginnings? In exploring these topics, students develop skills necessary in reading primary and secondary texts, to ask focused questions and explain why they matter, and ultimately to respond with well-formed arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2008", "title": "Power, Space and Pleasure", "description": "This course examines the ways power, space, and pleasure are interconnected. The course is divided into three units. First, we will look at how space is related to questions of power, focusing in particular on surveillance. Then, in the second unit, we will consider more closely the relation between space, power and pleasure as exemplified in voyeurism and surveillance : here we will be watching people watching other people. Finally, we'll consider the relations between space, power and pleasure in Singapore, in particular as this applies to the tensions between traditional practices and urban planning in city spaces here."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2009", "title": "Interpreting Consumerism", "description": "This course will develop students' critical reading and writing abilities through an active, seminar-style engagement with a variety of materials related to the nature and impact of modern consumer culture. We will begin by examining a number of key theoretical positions concerning the relationship between human nature and the need or desire for material things. Once we have interrogated some of these arguments, we will examine the phenomenon of modern advertising and consider the extent to which individual ads shape our buying habits and even our values. The course concludes by investigating the relationship between today's corporations and youth culture."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2010", "title": "Sites of Tourism", "description": "This course like others in the Writing and Critical Thinking area helps students become better writers of argumentative essays. To do this, we will specifically examine the modern phenomenon that is tourism, asking questions such as: What is a tourist? Why do we become tourists? Why do we send postcards, take photographs, or collect souvenirs? Do tourists find ourselves when we go abroad? Do we lose ourselves? How are cultures packaged for tourists, and is this packaging always reductive? Such questions will help us to understand the assumptions behind tourism, and to explore issues of modernity, nationality, self and other, identity and culture."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2011", "title": "Questioning Evolution and Progress", "description": "A multidisciplinary course that examines crises and debates generated by different concepts of evolution and progress in areas of: natural science and technology; sociology and theology, history and politics, economics and literature. Evolution is examined from Darwin's Origin of Species to the present day. We address such issues as: telling the difference between \"true\" science and pseudo-science; use and interpretation of \"scientific\" evidence; social Darwinism; the ethics and principles of \"survival of the fittest\" and eugenics. Lastly, the concept of progress is examined in the context of debates about Singaporean history and identity."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2012", "title": "Conditions of Happiness", "description": "In this course, we will investigate a fundamental human question: what is happiness, and what do we need to attain it? Is happiness in our own control or does it depend on external circumstances, such as wealth or freedom? Are pleasure or virtue necessary or even sufficient conditions of happiness? What constitutes a meaningful life, and how is meaning related to happiness? To reflect on such questions, we will investigate the arguments of philosophers, psychologists, economists, and other thinkers over the course of three thematic units."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2013", "title": "Scholarly Pursuits", "description": "Scholarly Pursuits examines colonialism as an ethnic experience that shaped schooling into an institution designed to socialize people living in colonial societies into accepting identities like \"the coloniser\" and \"the colonised\". It also examines contradictions within these identities as polarising the colonised and colonisers into becoming challengers or defenders of the moral and social legitimacy of colonialism. Students will write papers that contribute to constructing a theoretical framework that explains how colonialism shapes the policies and practices of schooling, interpret their impact on students and teachers, examine paradoxes, contradictions, mysteries to modify or create new interpretations for understanding colonial schooling."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2014", "title": "Clothing Identities", "description": "The subject students will think, read, and write about in this course is clothing and identities. Do clothes make the man or woman? Most people accept that the clothes we wear say something about us? Particularly about our race, gender, class, and power status. But what do they say, exactly? How do they say this? Why have we learned to see clothes as speaking thus? Furthermore, if clothes say certain accepted things, what happens when people dress in inappropriate ways?"}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2015", "title": "News and the Public", "description": "Students will examine three aspects of the role of journalism in an ongoing debate over whether citizens have the capacity to understand and make decisions about public issues in democratic communities: (1) A news audience's role in establishing \"journalistic truth\", (2) Ideological assumptions driving social commentators to different positions in this debate, and (3) News as propaganda. Through a series of smaller sequenced assignments leading up to three larger essays, students will read, respond, and question ideas generated by published writers as well as their classmates."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2016", "title": "Civility in the World City", "description": "A topic of profound interest to philosophers, social scientists and moralists, civility sets the conditions in which differences of opinion are admitted and aired. All too often, civility is taken for granted : just good manners. But actually, civility is one of the most intricate social frameworks, perhaps especially in a world city such as Singapore. This course surveys recent ruminations about civility in personal, professional and civic life to foster discussion of real-world interactions."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2017", "title": "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on 'Mind'", "description": "What is \"the mind\" and where does it fit in the interdependent histories of nature and culture on our planet? Does \"mind\" reduce to brain activity? Or is it more than just the electro-chemical exchange between neurons? As minded creatures with brains ourselves, the ways in which we delimit the mind/brain relation has enormous consequences for the ongoing instruction of our legal, social, medical and ethical lives. In this course, we will study some of the major approaches to this issue, and attempt to discover what it is that we are really talking about when we are talking about \"mind.\""}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2018", "title": "Danger and National Security", "description": "This course introduces students to skills necessary for writing an academic essay. It does so by facilitating students' ability to think critically about the relationship between the concepts of \"danger\" and \"national security\". In particular, it asks if the process by which danger is identified by national communities are unquestionable and self-evident, or if they are historically contingent and mutable. In this regard, is \"danger\" constructed to foster national solidarity and identity? This course examines different cultural and political texts attesting to the changing nature of the national security community, and uses them as the basis of teaching the elements of essay writing."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2019", "title": "The Politics and Rhetoric of Green", "description": "Increasingly, discussion regarding the debate over the \u201cglobal war on global warming\u201d presents us with a number of unsettled questions regarding the interplay of science, politics, and personal morality. This course focuses closely on the contemporary debates regarding \u201cgreen\u201d policy and lifestyle as a way of examining the broader phenomenon of public advocacy and resistance discourse per se \u2013 i.e., on disputants\u2019 various ways of speaking about, and attempting to get others to think about, issues of mutual importance. In so doing, students will learn the skills of analytical argument and expository writing necessary for their own successful participation in such debates."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2020", "title": "Technologies of Home", "description": "Domestic life is routinely held up for admiration as pure or natural. But how many of us experience family time/space in that way? Challenging the truism that domesticity offers a refuge from the modern world, this course recognises that technology makes it possible for modern people to be, and feel, at home. Some relevant technologies involve engines or electronics. But others organise ideas about gender, room, place and belonging. By enhancing awareness of domesticity\u2019s \u201cconstructed nature,\u201d this course deepens understanding of home sweet home."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2021", "title": "Language, Culture and 'Natives' People", "description": "Depictions of \u2018natives\u2019, \u2018primitives\u2019 and \u2018savages\u2019 abound in the popular cultures of developed countries worldwide. In this course we will examine common stereotypes of native people and primitive cultures to uncover the underlying ideologies driving them, and analyze what cultural purpose such stereotypes serve in modern day life. We will seek to discern what palpable differences exist between primitive and modern people, and to confront the cultural and ethical conundrums entailed by those differences. Finally, we will explore how primitive people view modern society, and assess what the future may hold for native cultures in our fast globalizing world."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2022", "title": "Genocide and Memory", "description": "The various twentieth-century genocides raise profound questions for individuals and societies. Why did they happen? How could they happen? Who did the killing and what motivated them? How should we remember? What do the events mean today? \n\nThe last two questions are particularly pertinent to us. The history and memory of genocide are seldom simple. People select which details to include and exclude in order to fashion narratives and interpretations. Often those interpretations have implications not only about the topic itself, the genocide, but about the people who are remembering, and their relations to the past and to other groups. This leads to the second question. Many have suggested that genocide, as we understand it, is a relatively recent phenomenon, and indeed, belongs to modernity. It is important to consider whether and in what ways this might be true."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2023", "title": "The Idea of the University", "description": "This course teaches writing and critical thinking through a critical exploration of the nature of the university as an institution. Topics discussed include the many social roles of the university, the history of the university as a contested space in Singapore, and the effects of globalization and transnational education markets on contemporary tertiary education. The course thus provides the chance for students to gain a critical awareness of the nature their own educational experiences, to contextualise them both locally and internationally, and to explore the possible futures of learning communities of which they are a part."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2024", "title": "Issues in and Around Justice", "description": "This course teaches writing and critical thinking by introducing students to the assumptions that inform, and the arguments for, different concepts and practices of justice. Students will engage topics such as human rights, the place and limits of legal institutions, justifications for civil disobedience, and whether violence is justified in the pursuit of justice. This course enables students to think critically about theories of justice and how these theories shape the pursuit of justice in political life."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2025", "title": "Vice, the State & Society", "description": "This course examines how social attitudes and government policies towards vices such as alcohol use, gambling, and prostitution have evolved in Singapore from the colonial period to the present day. Students will develop their critical thinking and writing skills through analyzing a range of historical primary sources, including newspaper opinion pieces and government reports, and studying relevant case studies from other countries and theoretical works. The main assessment component is an individual research project on issues related to the control of a selected vice in Singapore, utilizing archival sources."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2026", "title": "Religion in Public Life", "description": "Religion in Public Life concerns the intersection of religion and society and the role of religion in the officially secular state of Singapore. Students will study how religion is discussed in both academic and popular literatures and examine how religious organizations present themselves in order to participate in discussions of social, political or economic importance. The course will include a fieldwork component that will provide students with the data needed to write meaningful research papers based on real sites in Singapore. As a WCT Course, this course will give students the skills to produce rhetorically effective academic writing."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2027", "title": "What is Wisdom?", "description": "The University Scholars Program aims to be a \u201ccommunity of people who are curious, critical, courageous, and engaged\u201d. Although we rarely think of it in this way, an older tradition would call such qualities aspects of wisdom. In this course, we will study the concept of wisdom from different disciplinary angles, ranging from philosophy to neurobiology and cultural studies. We will discuss key aspects of wisdom such as judgment and self-transcendence, study how wisdom can be developed, and consider how it might be relevant in professional life or even help to solve world problems."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2028", "title": "The Social Life of Science", "description": "This course explores how science, as a fundamentally human endeavor, is shaped by the social contexts in which it is practiced. Students will study the social production, circulation, and uptake of scientific knowledge through a series of case studies drawn from the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies. Students will gain an appreciation of the social processes scientists rely upon to arrive at truths and how scientific ideas and techniques transform once publically circulated. The course will culminate in individual research projects analysing the social contours and consequences of current scientific debates."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2029", "title": "Evolutionary Psychology and Art", "description": "Although we enjoy watching movies, reading novels, and listening to music, we might think that these are not very productive ways to spend our time. Yet every society throughout history has devoted significant resources to creating and enjoying art. Why is this the case? Some scholars have proposed that there is an evolved, biological \"human nature\" that can help explain why people are psychologically inclined to create and consume art, particularly art that tells stories. This course will teach students to write effective arguments through discussing and evaluating theories that use evolutionary psychology to understand art."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2030", "title": "Art as Action: Caring about the Climate Crisis in SEA", "description": "When it comes to addressing the climate crisis, one usually assumes that viable forms of action include protests, advocacy, and political interventions. But what about art? How does art making intersect with and propel social and environmental activism? Visual artists and makers from across Southeast Asia seek to effect climate justice through the fundamental practice of art, and they imagine and propose caring futures through their works. This course situates \u201ccare\u201d as a method and a mode of attention to ground writing and research about ongoing eco-social crises as explored in collaborative art projects from around the region."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2031", "title": "Equity and Education", "description": "This course teaches writing and critical thinking by exploring questions about an activity all students are immersed in: education. It is one of the main ways of acquiring knowledge, it shapes the frameworks with which new information is processed, and it leads to improved qualities of life. We discuss the goals of education, the nature of education, and how education intersects with inequality. This course gives students the ability to critically reflect on their own educational goals, apply useful epistemological concepts to their own experiences, and interrogate beliefs about the role education does and should play in our society."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2032", "title": "Identity, Death, and Immortality", "description": "How does our conception of personal identity shape our understanding of health and longevity? This course will teach students how to read, think, and write critically through discussions in philosophy, medicine, and technology. We will explore what it is to be a person and what it takes to be the same person over time. Our views about our identity will shape our attitudes towards our health and intuitions about puzzles of personal identity that arise in medical practice. Our attitudes towards personal identity and health go on to determine how far we will go in the pursuit of longevity."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2033", "title": "Conceptions of Human Nature", "description": "What is human nature like, and can knowledge of it tell us how to live? In this course we hone our ability to read, think, and write critically by exploring these questions from the perspectives of philosophy, biology, psychology, and anthropology. We discuss and compare influential historical and contemporary conceptions of human nature and investigate their potential implications for our well-being, social organization, morality, and self-understanding. We thus critically reflect on (i) how such conceptions underlie public policy, moral norms, and scientific inquiry, and (ii) how our own conception of human nature shapes our beliefs and lived experience."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2034", "title": "Wild and Simple: Living and Thinking Sustainably", "description": "This course teaches academic writing and critical thinking skills through a consideration of questions about the environment, including: Do we need to make radical changes to our values in response to the environmental crisis? How about to our lifestyles? And how can we teach people, both adults and young people, to better care for the environment? This course focuses on the question of deep changes to environmental values and lifestyles in developed countries: whether such changes are necessary, and on how they may be effected through policy and education."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2035", "title": "Art and the Attention Economy", "description": "We live in an era where information is abundant and distractions are rife; consequently, attention is treated as a scarce resource or commodity. The artworld has responded to this \u201cattention economy\u201d by drawing our attention with controversy, spectacular artworks, and interactive technologies. Are these innovations a capitulation to the glib aesthetics of our social-media-obsessed era, or do they represent exciting and meaningful ways of creating, sharing, and engaging with art? In this course, students consider how the attention economy has transformed the way art is being produced, promoted, consumed, and valued, while learning fundamental research and academic writing skills."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2036", "title": "Space, Place and the Human Experience", "description": "This course teaches writing and critical thinking by exploring the topic of space. We will interrogate scholarly debates that have been posed across multiple disciplines: what is space, and how does it shape our identities and interpersonal relationships? How are different communities\u2019 access to space structured by social and political institutions? And how does the emergence of virtual reality technologies complicate our relationship to physical space? By the end of this course, students will learn to formulate educated opinions of their own, and express their arguments in the form of a clearly written academic essay."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2037", "title": "Absences: Beyond the Edges of the Material World", "description": "This course teaches academic writing and critical thinking skills by examining the importance of absences, such as holes, gaps, and shadows, as studied from a range of disciplinary perspectives. We begin by exploring a selection of topics where absences seem to play an important role in a specific domain of inquiry or activity, such as art, human cognition, and justice. Then we consider whether we are right to treat such phenomena as genuine parts of the world, or whether a conception of the world which contains only material objects can provide an adequate understanding of the subject areas in question."}, {"moduleCode": "NTW2038", "title": "Screening Historical Trauma", "description": "This course will examine the interdisciplinary and multimodal discourse on trauma, and it will ask what is at stake in articulating the horrors of history and their lasting impact on communities. Towards that end, we will read texts across multiple academic disciplines alongside cinematic representations. Finally, as a writing course, students will develop critical reading practices and media literacy skills to contribute to this conversation through their own interdisciplinary and multimodal compositions, which will include analytical, argumentative, and research writing as well as a short videographic essay."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1107B", "title": "Clinical Practice: Community Care I", "description": "This course aims to enable students to integrate theory and practice through acquiring clinical experience in the aged care facilities. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating care using evidence based practice. This course requires a 100% attendance. (37 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1108B", "title": "Clinical Practice: Medical/Surgical I", "description": "The course enables students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in medical, surgical and/or community care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated client. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of clients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1108C", "title": "Clinical Practice: Medical/Surgical I", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in medical, surgical and/or community care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated client. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of clients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory. (60 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1110", "title": "Effective Communication for Health Professionals", "description": "This course explores the importance and need for nurses to communicate in an effective manner with patients, family members and other health care professionals in order to facilitate optimal health outcomes for the patients."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1110A", "title": "Communication and Cultural Diversity", "description": "This course explores the importance and need for nurses to communicate in an effective manner with patients, family members and other health care professionals across culture in order to facilitate optimal health outcomes for the patient. Students will also develop culture competency by operating with sensitivity and respect in a diverse culture of communities."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1113", "title": "Health and Wellness for Older Adults", "description": "This course aims to provide students the opportunity to focus on the holistic needs of the older adults\u2019 population and explore means to support them to achieve optimal level of functioning and quality of life. Students will examine theories and concepts of ageing, normal physiologic and psychosocial changes and the bio-psychosocial issues associated with these processes. By developing an understanding of the specific needs of older adults, students will be able to promote health and wellness for this population. Ethical and legal aspects of caring for older adults are addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1113A", "title": "Healthy Ageing and Well-being", "description": "This course aims to provide students the opportunity to focus on fostering health and well-being of seniors at different ageing milestones. Students will examine and apply theories and concepts of ageing, normal physiologic and psychosocial changes and the biopsychosocial issues associated with these processes. (44 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1114A", "title": "Fundamentals of Care", "description": "This course aims to focus on the development of foundation knowledge and skills for provision of nursing care to patients in a variety of health care settings. The focus is on enabling the nurse to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care around the fundamental care needs to promote ownership of patients\u2019 own health and self-care."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1123", "title": "Anatomy, Physiology and Physical Assessment I", "description": "This course will aim to develop knowledge and understanding of the normal structure and function of the human body. Following an introduction to the basic principles of anatomy and physiology, learning will take from \u2018cell to organ-systems\u2019 approach to guide student learning. Body systems covered will include cardiovascular, blood, respiratory, endocrine and integumentary system. Deviations from normal will be considered to situate the student\u2019s understanding of health problems and to foster an appreciation for the complexity of the human organism. Correlated physical assessment parameters and related procedural skills will be integrated into each of the topics."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1124", "title": "Anatomy, Physiology and Physical Assessment II", "description": "This course aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the normal structure and function of the human body. Following an introduction to the basic principles of anatomy and physiology, learning will take from \u2018cell to organ-systems\u2019 approach to guide student learning. Body systems covered will include musculoskeletal, digestive, urinary, nervous and the special senses. Deviations from normal will be considered to situate the student\u2019s understanding of health problems and to foster an appreciation for the complexity of the human organism. Correlated physical assessment parameters and related procedural skills will be integrated into each of the topics."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1125", "title": "Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Nursing Practice I", "description": "This course aims to enable students to integrate knowledge of pathophysiology, health assessment, principles of medical and nursing management and pharmacology related to cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and integumentary. Students will also develop critical thinking skills through conducting health assessments, interpreting results of diagnostic investigations and problem-solving."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR1202C", "title": "Clinical Experience I", "description": "This course aims to enable students to integrate theory and practice through acquiring clinical experience in the aged care facilities. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating care using evidence-based practice. This course requires a 100% attendance."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2106B", "title": "Clinical Practice: Medical/Surgical II", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in surgical wards and/or operating theatre settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated client. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of clients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory. (60 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2107B", "title": "Clinical Practice: Specialty Care", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in in mental health, obstetrics/gynaecology or paediatric settings, and elder care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated patients. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of patients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2113", "title": "Mental Health Nursing", "description": "This course aims to develop students\u2019 knowledge and skills in the nursing care of patients with mental illnesses in institutional and community settings. The course emphasizes assessment, early intervention, health promotion and prevention and the identification of at risk behaviours."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2120", "title": "Professional Nursing Practice, Ethics and Law", "description": "This course will introduce students to the foundations of the profession and discipline of nursing including the principles of ethics and legal accountability. It will equip students with knowledge of the evolution of nursing in the historical and social context, nursing epistemology and theoretical frameworks of nursing practice. It will provide opportunities to examine ethical and legal factors influencing the performance of nurses in the healthcare setting within a multi-professional team in a collaborative inquiry process."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2124", "title": "Health Promotion in the Community", "description": "This course aims to enable students to gain knowledge on a range of behavioral change theories as well as the Salutogenic Theory to promote health in the community. The course helps students better understand how to apply principles of behavior change, health literacy, and coaching to plan, conduct, and evaluate a health promotion intervention for a targeted population in the community."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2125", "title": "Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Nursing Practice II", "description": "This course aims to enable students to integrate knowledge of pathophysiology, health assessment, principles of medical and nursing management and pharmacology related to the common gastrointestinal, renal, musculoskeletal, and haematological conditions. Students will also develop critical thinking skills through conducting health assessment, interpreting results of diagnostic investigations and problem solving."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2203C", "title": "Clinical Experience II", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in medical, surgical and community care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated client. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of clients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2204C", "title": "Women and Children Health", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to women and children health within the context of family-centred care. It allows students to acquire knowledge and skills on the care of infants, children, adolescents and women including pathophysiology, principles of health assessment, diagnostic investigations and management of common problems and conditions"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2441A", "title": "Cross-cultural Experience for Nursing Students I", "description": "This elective course aims to enhance cross-cultural experience of undergraduate nursing students by providing opportunities to visit an overseas country for short-term student exchange of a minimum 1 or 2 consecutive weeks. Students will be expected to use the visit to the overseas host institution to build networks and ascertain similarities and differences in health care practices, models of service delivery, and policies between Singapore and the overseas partner universities."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2441B", "title": "Cross-cultural Experience for Nursing Students II", "description": "This elective course aims to enhance cross-cultural experience of undergraduate nursing students by providing opportunities to visit an overseas country for short-term student exchange of a minimum of three consecutive weeks. Students will be expected to use the visit to the overseas host institution to build networks and ascertain similarities and differences in health care practices, models of service delivery, and policies between Singapore and the overseas partner universities."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2442", "title": "Cross-cultural Experience for Nursing Students (OCIP)", "description": "This elective course aims to enhance cross-cultural experience of undergraduate nursing students by providing opportunities to visit an overseas country for Overseas Community Improvement Projects (OCIP) of a minimum 1 or 2 consecutive weeks. OCIP offer students opportunities to experience community settings in a rural area."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2500", "title": "Applied Pathophysiology and Clinical Pharmacology", "description": "This module will focus on developing knowledge in both pathophysiology and pharmacology relevant for nursing practice. Learners will gain an understanding of the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and management of some major disease states or disturbances in homeostasis. Learners will gain a comprehensive understanding of drugs used to treat disorders addressed within this module."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2501", "title": "Clinical Health Assessment and Reasoning", "description": "This module aims to develop learner\u2019s history taking, physical examination and clinical decision-making skills. There are both academic and clinical aspects in the module which allow the learners to develop clinical reasoning and critical thinking skills. The module will enable learners to develop their knowledge and skills in order to make safe and effective clinical judgements."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2502", "title": "Healthcare Policy", "description": "This course aims to provide learners with in-depth knowledge of the relationship between healthcare policies, health economics and health systems in Singapore. Learners will be able to analyse and understand social, economic and political contexts of health policies and develop a critical appreciation of healthcare policies and health systems."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR2503", "title": "Global and Community Health", "description": "This course introduces learners to the challenges of community health from a global perspective, providing a platform for education and research about health challenges facing the community."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3105B", "title": "Clinical Practice: Community Care II", "description": "The course enables students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in community health care settings, such as home/ transition care/ intermediate long term care and primary health care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for clients in the community health services and facilities. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the integrated clinical management, health promotion and education of patients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3105C", "title": "Clinical Practice: Community Care II", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in primary health care and community health care settings, such as home/ transition care/ intermediate long term care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for clients in the community health services and facilities. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the integrated clinical management, health promotion and education of patients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3106B", "title": "Clinical Practice: Medical/Surgical II", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in medical, surgical and/or community care settings and emergency care. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated client. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of clients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3114", "title": "Leadership and Management", "description": "This course focuses on the effectiveness of nursing leadership and management in healthcare delivery systems. The course prepares students to make decisions, minimize, manage risks to ensure patient safety, and work collaboratively within teams to improve quality of care."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3116B", "title": "Transition to Professional Practice Experience", "description": "This course allows students to integrate theory and practice through acquiring clinical experience for transition into the role and competencies of a newly registered nurse."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3116C", "title": "Transition to Professional Practice Experience", "description": "The current curriculum aims to include 10 weeks of consolidation clinical placement in healthcare institutions, and 1 week of clinical simulation programme in campus to allow the final year students to consolidate and integrate theory and practice through acquiring clinical experience for transition into the role and competencies of a newly registered nurse. This course requires a 100% attendance. (56 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3117A", "title": "Public and Community Health", "description": "This course aims to apply concepts of the curriculum to complex nursing situations in community settings. Nursing and public health concepts are integrated to provide a theoretical base for the care of families, aggregates, and communities. The role of the community health nurse in caring for specific aggregates is addressed by advocating self-empowered practice, utilizing primary health care, and implementing community resources to the patient-centered care plan."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3119", "title": "Palliative and End-of-Life Care", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to basic principles of palliative care and end-of-life care across the life span (children, adolescents and older adults). Students will acquire knowledge on pain and symptoms management and end-of-life care, and will raise their awareness in spiritual care and ethical issues; and providing bereavement support."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3120", "title": "Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Nursing Practice III", "description": "This course aims to enable students to integrate knowledge of pathophysiology, health assessment, principles of medical and nursing management and pharmacology related to neurological, ear, nose, throat conditions, and to patients requiring emergency or critical care management. Students will also develop critical thinking skills through conducting health assessment, interpreting results of diagnostic investigations and problem solving."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3202C", "title": "Research and Evidence-based Healthcare", "description": "This course aims to provide students the knowledge of research and evidence-based healthcare. It allows students to acquire critical appraisal skill and briefly introduces them to SPSS in data analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3204C", "title": "Clinical Experience III", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in mental health, and acute care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated patients. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of patients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory. (67 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3205C", "title": "Clinical Experience IV", "description": "This course allows students to integrate theory and practice through acquiring clinical experience in in acute care (medical & surgical wards, emergency department) and community settings (palliative care, home care)."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3205D", "title": "Clinical Experience IV", "description": "The course aims to enable students to integrate nursing theory and clinical knowledge through experience in clinical placement attachments in acute care (medical & surgical wards, emergency department), obstetrics/gynaecology or paediatric settings, primary health and community care settings. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care for allocated patients. Students will apply knowledge from nursing and clinical sciences in the clinical management of patients. Attendance for the scheduled clinical practicum is mandatory. (72 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3206C", "title": "Transition to Practice", "description": "This course aims to enable students to integrate theory and practice through acquiring clinical experience for transition into the role of a registered nurse. This course requires a 100% attendance. (28 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3500", "title": "Practice of Palliative and End-of-Life Care", "description": "This course aims to introduce learners to the philosophy and principles of palliative and end-of-life care. It will equip the learners with skills needed to provide holistic care to patients requiring palliative and end-of-life care and families. Learners will acquire knowledge and skills on pain and symptoms management and advance care planning."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3501", "title": "Professionalism, Ethics and Law in Healthcare", "description": "This course aims to enhance the learner\u2019s awareness surrounding accountability, liability and professionalism in clinical practice. Learners will explore ethical and legal structures in the local context and develop in-depth understanding of the role of the nurse and their professional duty of care. This course will prepare learners to practice according to current legal and professional standards. Learners will be also be equipped with skills necessary to carry out academic writing and presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3502", "title": "Teaching and Learning in Clinical Practice", "description": "This module aims to prepare the learner to assume the role as an educator in clinical practice. Learners will be introduced to the principles of teaching and learning and a range of teaching, learning and assessment methods relevant to their practice. The module focuses on the development of the learner\u2019s competence, confidence and reflective abilities, capable of evaluating and developing teaching and learning in clinical practice."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3503", "title": "Leadership, Innovation and Change in Healthcare", "description": "This module aims to enable learners to evaluate, examine and critically reflect on leadership knowledge and apply capabilities to leading innovation and change in the healthcare setting. Learners will explore related quality and patient safety issues and align the role of the nurse to develop competencies to meet the needs of the continually changing workplace environment."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3504", "title": "Chronic Disease Management", "description": "This module aims to advance students\u2019 understanding of chronic disease management. Students will explore integrated disease models of care including the need for inter-professional collaboration. Emphasis will be placed on promoting and supporting behavioral changes as well as application of principles of self-management of chronic diseases."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3505", "title": "Research Methodology and Statistics", "description": "This course is designed to build on and enhance learner\u2019s skills and knowledge on research methodology and statistics. The course aims to advance the learner\u2019s research-mindedness by developing skills required to continually improve practice through research."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3506", "title": "Translation of Evidence into Practice", "description": "This course aims to provide learners with the knowledge and skills of translating evidence into practice to achieve better patient outcomes. Learners will have the opportunity to develop an evidence-base workplace proposal under the supervision of a mentor."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR3507", "title": "Clinical Practice Development Project", "description": "This module aims to provide a framework for learners to specialize in an area of study and engage in a research, quality or evidence-base work-based project. In this module, the learners will design, develop and implement a work-based project that demonstrates practice development. Learners are required to draw on their clinical experiences, theoretical knowledge and research skills gained through the programme to conduct a work-based project."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR4101B", "title": "Evidence-based Health Care Practice", "description": "This module provides students with the knowledge and skills on how to change their practice based on up-to-date evidence-based practice. It will also challenge students to critically appraise the literature to provide the information needed to answer specific clinical questions. Major topics covered include qualitative and quantitative systematic review processes, models of evidence-based implementation, barriers to implementation and strategies to overcome these barriers."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR4102B", "title": "Consolidated Clinical Practice", "description": "This course conducted over two semesters enables students to integrate theory and clinical knowledge through experience in the clinical setting. Students will focus on planning, implementing and evaluating care using evidence based practice in their selected area of interest."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR4103B", "title": "Applied Research Methods", "description": "This module provides the grounding for students to apply research in nursing. Major topics include an introduction to research; framing a research question; collection and analysis of quantitative data, qualitative data collection and analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR4104B", "title": "Honours Project in Nursing", "description": "In this course, the student draws together the clinical experiences, theoretical knowledge and research skills gained through the programme to conduct a supervised research project. The student will design a research project (protocol), apply for ethical approval, and undertake a clinically focused research project under the supervision of an academic staff member and a clinical advisor. The student will undertake a clinically focussed, six month research project under the supervision of an academic staff member and clinical advisor."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5002", "title": "Statistics for Health Research", "description": "This course provides an overview of descriptive and inferential statistics used in health care research. Emphasis is placed on how and when to use statistical techniques as well as interpretation of statistics. Computer applications also are explored."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5003", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This elective course involves an individual programme of study undertaken in conjunction with an overseas university with which NUS has a signed collaborative agreement. Students will be expected to use the visit to the overseas host institution to build networks and ascertain similarities and differences in health care practices, models of service delivery, and policies between Singapore and the host country. The minimum placement will be two consecutive weeks. On return to Singapore students will present an oral seminar on outcomes of the visit and write a 2000 word critical review of key issues."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5013", "title": "Grant Writing and Writing for Publications", "description": "This course will provide students a practical approach in appraising the process, steps and rigor in academic writing; grant writing and writing for publications. It will enable students to draft funding proposals for their graduate studies, and draft manuscripts for publications. The topics include principles of academic writing, common problems in academic writing, and good style in academic writing."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5609", "title": "Integrated Clinical Decision Making and Management I (Paediatric)", "description": "This course provides a foundation to enhance patient-centred care through acquisition of knowledge of pathophysiology of common problems and conditions, diagnostic investigations and principles of management related to cardiovascular, respiratory and gastrointestinal systems and neonates. It also develops clinical reasoning and health assessment skills, shared decision-making and effective communication."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5610", "title": "Integrated Clinical Decision Making II (Paediatric)", "description": "This module provides a foundation to enhance patient-centred care\nthrough acquisition of knowledge of pathophysiology of common\nproblems and conditions, diagnostic investigations and principles of\nmanagement related to central nervous, endocrine and renal system. It\nalso develops clinical reasoning and health assessment skills, shared\ndecision-making and effective communication."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5613", "title": "Paediatric Care Across Care Continuum", "description": "This module aims to provide in-depth understanding of integrated care for paediatric population at different stages of health status across care continuum. It focuses on essential knowledge, skills and professional attitude required to manage paediatric patients in collaboration with other care providers."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5701", "title": "Learning Needs Analysis", "description": "This module aims to identify the learning needs of healthcare\nprofessionals using the learning needs analysis framework."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5702", "title": "Curriculum Design", "description": "This module aims to provide participants with the knowledge and\nskills to plan and design a curriculum that fulfil desired outcomes\nto build workforce capability."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5703", "title": "Assessment and Evaluation", "description": "This module prepares participants to apply principles of\nassessment and select appropriate assessment methods to\nassess learners\u2019 knowledge and skills. In addition, this module\nfocuses on the process of programme evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5704", "title": "Capstone Project", "description": "This module strives to enhance participants\u2019 ability to integrate\nknowledge acquired from multiples modules. Participants will\nembark on a real-work project within their own organization, to\nconduct a training needs analysis, design a curriculum, lesson\nplan and assessment documents."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5711", "title": "Principles of Child and Family Health", "description": "This course explores the determinants of health and the factors influencing primary care for Child and Family Health (CFH). Learners will incorporate life course perspective to support parents of child and promote family health. Learners will develop effective communication skills to work with multidisciplinary team to provide holistic care and support to children and their families"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5712", "title": "Maternal and Infant Health Across Perinatal Period", "description": "This course emphasizes on promoting maternal and infant health across the perinatal period. Learners will incorporate evidence- based care to promote health and well-being of pregnant women, new mothers, and their new-borns across the perinatal period in primary care. The course will allow learners to practise and promote family-centred care to support new parents in the community settings."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5713", "title": "Child Health", "description": "This course emphasizes on promoting and maintaining child health by applying the principles of primary health care. Learners will be able to engage and enable parents to enhance overall wellbeing among children in the community settings. The course will prepare learners to demonstrate evidence-based care for children aged 0-6 years\u2019 old by recognizing individual child\u2019s needs and initiating appropriate referrals to the multi-disciplinary professionals."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5714", "title": "Women and Reproductive Health", "description": "This course emphasizes on promoting women and reproductive health. Learners will be able to apply knowledge of the physiological, psychological, sociological, and cultural aspects to influence women\u2019s health. The course will prepare learners to demonstrate understanding of the ethical and professional framework for delivery of reproductive health services by recognizing individual needs and initiating appropriate multidisciplinary interventions."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5801G", "title": "Integrated Clinical Decision Making and Management I", "description": "This course aims to enhance patient-centred care through acquisition of knowledge of pathophysiology of common problems and conditions, diagnostic investigations and principles of management related to cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and gastrointestinal systems. It also develops clinical reasoning and health assessment skills, shared decision-making and effective communication"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5802G", "title": "Integrated Clinical Decision Making and Management II", "description": "This module aims to enhance patient-centred care through acquisition of knowledge of pathophysiology of common problems and conditions, diagnostic investigations and principles of management related to central nervous, endocrine and renal systems, common general medicine and psychological abnormalities. It also develops clinical reasoning and health assessment skills, shared decision-making and effective communication. During the work-based practice, students will have the opportunity to further develop and apply knowledge and skills learnt in the module."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5803G", "title": "Community Health Practice", "description": "This module aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the health needs of adult clients living in the community. A systems approach has been chosen to provide a holistic framework as the module is underpinned by the belief that health is shaped by biological, psychosocial, politico-economical dimensions. An emphasis is placed on using clinical decision making skills and techniques to perform comprehensive health needs assessment of clients.\n\nThis module builds upon the existing communication skills of the students to develop enhanced communication skills when dealing with complex and challenging situations.\n\nDuring the work-based practice, students will have the opportunity to further develop and apply knowledge and skills learnt in the module."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5804G", "title": "Chronic Disease Management in the Community", "description": "This module aims to advance students\u2019 understanding of contemporary issues in chronic disease management across the life span in the community. Students will explore integrated disease models of care including inter-professional collaboration. Emphasis will be placed on promoting and supporting behavioral change as well as application of principles of self-management\nof chronic diseases. The module will also introduce students to the principles\nof palliative care including symptom management, advanced care planning and end-of-life care in clients with non-malignant conditions.\n\nDuring the work-based practice, students will have the opportunity to further develop and apply knowledge and skills learnt in the module"}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5805G", "title": "Chronic Wound Management in the Community", "description": "This module aims to prepare students to function and excel in the rapidly changing landscape of wound care practices in community setting. Students will use the approach of realist review to develop structurally coherent explanations of wound interventions when applied in diverse context. They will unpack the relationships between context, mechanism and outcomes (abbreviated as C-M-O) and explore on how and why a particular wound intervention works or does not work in complex situation.\n\nDuring the work-based practice, student will have the opportunity to further develop and apply knowledge and skills learnt in this module."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5806G", "title": "Evidence-based Practice", "description": "This module allows students to gain an in-depth\nknowledge in utilising the process of evidencebased\npractice to solve a clinical question.\nStudents will develop critical inquiry and\nanalytical skills through asking compelling\nquestions,critical appraisal and synthesis of the\nliterature."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5807", "title": "Professional Development and Ethical Healthcare", "description": "This course aims to provide students with an understanding of APN development in providing high quality care to meet the national healthcare needs. This course focuses on APN role development with relevant APN models as well as health care systems, leadership, ethical considerations and principles of healthcare policies and finances."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5808", "title": "Adult Care Across Care Continuum", "description": "This module aims to provide in-depth understanding of integrated care for adults at different stages of health status across care continuum. It focuses on essential knowledge, skills and professional attitude required to manage adult patients in collaboration with other care providers."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5811A", "title": "Clinical Practicum I", "description": "This course allows the students to translate their theory knowledge and learnt skills into actual clinical practice through clinical placements in the medical discipline."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5811B", "title": "Clinical Practicum II", "description": "This module allows the students to translate their theory knowledge and learnt skills into actual clinical practice through clinical placements in the surgical discipline."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR5811C", "title": "Clinical Practicum III", "description": "This module allows the students to consolidate their theory knowledge and learnt skills into actual clinical practice through clinical placements in the medical and surgical disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR6001", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This course provides students with opportunities to gain and apply the knowledge and skills needed to understand the research process, prepare for the written components of a PhD thesis, and present research findings in a professional forum. Content is broad and provides students with independent elements of study (attendance at a series of seminars of the students choosing) as well as structured sessions and guidance to produce a PhD research proposal and obtain ethical approval, and opportunities to present preliminary work."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR6003", "title": "Research Methods", "description": "This course will spread over two semesters providing students with the opportunity of analysing the processes involved in nursing research and evaluating different research methodologies. It will enable students to develop a research proposal for their graduate studies. The topics include quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research designs, methods of sampling and sample size planning, data collection as well as methods of quantitative and qualitative data analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR6004", "title": "Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis", "description": "This course provides comprehensive discussion in the theoretical and practical issues in conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis. Students will learn the importance of evidence-based practice in nursing and the steps in conducting a systematic review. Topics covered include judging the quality of a review, how and why high quality reviews can reach different conclusions, and steps in conducting a systematic review."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR6005", "title": "Measurement Theory and Instrument Validation", "description": "This course provides an overview of the psychometric measurement theory and the best practice in measurement. The course will cover the topics of essential concepts of measurement, essential tools and characteristics of psychological measurement, development and validation of instrument, and application of measurement."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR6006", "title": "Intervention Research in Nursing and Health Sciences", "description": "This course will introduce principles and in depth knowledge of designing and conducting an intervention research in nursing and/or health sciences successfully. The knowledge conveyed in this course will enable MSc/PhD students who are interested in conducting intervention studies to generate research questions and hypotheses, design their study scientifically, select a relevant theoretical/conceptual framework to guide their intervention to achieve intended outcomes, calculate sample size, conduct randomisation, select appropriate outcomes and measurements, as well as conduct the data collection and analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "NUR6007", "title": "Research Leadership and Professional Development", "description": "This course will provide students a practical approach in appraising the development and leading research, the team research, and the challenges and opportunities for academics with leadership aspirations. The topics include attributes of research leaders, collaboration and leadership in research and academia, and frameworks for academic and professional development."}, {"moduleCode": "OL1000", "title": "Oral Biology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "OMS2100", "title": "Oral & Maxillofacial Medicine, Pathology & Radiology", "description": "This module provides undergraduates with a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to identify, diagnose and understand the aetiology and pathogenesis of common pathologies affecting the oral and maxillofacial structures using a combination of history taking, clinical, histological and radiographic investigations. At the end of the module, undergraduates will be empowered to apply the knowledge in planning patientcentric treatment plans to manage patients who present with common oral maxillofacial pathologies."}, {"moduleCode": "OMS3010", "title": "Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "OMS3100", "title": "Oral & Maxillofacial Medicine, Pathology & Radiology", "description": "This module provides undergraduates with a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to identify, diagnose and understand the aetiology and pathogenesis of common pathologies affecting the oral and maxillofacial structures using a combination of history taking, clinical, histological and radiographic investigations. At the end of the module, undergraduates will be empowered to apply the knowledge in planning patientcentric treatment plans to manage patients who present with common oral maxillofacial pathologies."}, {"moduleCode": "OMS4000", "title": "Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "OMS4010", "title": "Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "OMS4020", "title": "Oral Medicine", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "OT5001", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "This course involves independent study over two semesters, on a topic in Offshore Technology approved by the Programme Management Committee. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey, and critical evaluation and analysis, design feasibility study, case study, minor research project or a combination."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5001A", "title": "Independent Study Course: Subsea Engineering", "description": "This course involves independent study over two semesters, on a topic related to subsea engineering in Offshore Technology approved by the Programme Management Committee. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey, and critical evaluation and analysis, design feasibility study, case study, minor research project or a combination."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5001B", "title": "Independent Study Course: Petroleum Engineering", "description": "This course involves independent study over two semesters, on a topic related to petroleum engineering in Offshore Technology approved by the Programme Management Committee. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey, and critical evaluation and analysis, design feasibility study, case study, minor research project or a combination."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5001C", "title": "Independent Study Course: Offshore Structures", "description": "This course involves independent study over two semesters, on a topic related to offshore structures approved by the Programme Management Committee. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey, and critical evaluation and analysis, design feasibility study, case study, minor research project or a combination."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5101", "title": "Exploration and Production of Petroleum", "description": "The course objective is to provide a broad understanding of the petroleum industry, as a foundation for more advanced work and as a context and background. Areas that are covered include the sources of petroleum, the geological context, how petroleum is discovered, how it is produced and transported, the environmental, historical and societal impact of petroleum, and the special problems of production deep water and in the Arctic. Care is taken to go into some problem areas in depth, so that the course is more than just a superficial survey."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5102", "title": "Oil & Gas Technology", "description": "The course objective is to provide students with an broad overview of the technologies, processes and hardware used in the upstream oil & gas industry. Areas covered include exploration, drilling, completions, oil & gas production, Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) & Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), floating production systems, subsea systems and oil & gas processing technologies on both onshore and offshore"}, {"moduleCode": "OT5201", "title": "Marine Statics & Dynamics", "description": "The course covers the main topics on marine hydrodynamics and structure dynamics in offshore engineering. It first discusses the hydrostatics and stability of offshore structures, which is followed by the special properties of potential and viscous flows. The wave forces on offshore structures of different sizes are then discussed, including Morison equation for small structures, and diffraction theory for large structures. Accordingly, the corresponding numerical techniques are introduced. The course also covers random wave forces on offshore structures. Lastly, the dynamic response of offshore structures in waves is discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5202", "title": "Analysis & Design of Fixed Offshore Structures", "description": "This course provides students with design knowledge on steel offshore structures. The major topics covered include planning considerations; design criteria and procedures; methods for determining loads; structural analysis methods; member and joint designs; material selection and welding requirements; and design for fabrication, transportation and installation phases. The course will be valuable to students interested in offshore engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5202A", "title": "Analysis of Fixed Offshore Structures", "description": "This course provides students with knowledge in the analysis of steel offshore structures. The major topics covered include planning considerations; design criteria and procedures; methods for determining loads; member and joint selection; and structural analysis methods. The course will be valuable to students interested in offshore engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5202B", "title": "Design of Fixed Offshore Structures", "description": "This course provides students with design knowledge on steel offshore structures. The major topics covered include platform design; bracing patterns and role of redundancy; member and joint designs; material selection and welding requirements; and design for fabrication, loadout, transportation, installation and inplace phases. The course will be valuable to students interested in offshore engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5203", "title": "Analysis & Design of Floating Offshore Structures", "description": "This course is concerned with the design of floating offshore structures and elements. Floating structures dealt with in this course include semi-submersibles, FPSOs, spar platforms, floating jack-up structures and elements such as reinforced (hull) plating and mooring turntables. The important design parameters for floating structures will be highlighted. Also covered are the methods of analysis and criteria in design such as wave loading and motion in waves, floating stability, (dynamic) positioning, structural strength and fatigue. Safety assessment and codes in relation to design will also be treated."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5203A", "title": "Analysis of Floating Offshore Structures", "description": "This course is concerned with the hydrostatics and hydrodynamics of floating structures, which include semisubmersibles, FPSOs, spar platforms and tension-leg platforms. Stability analysis, wave loads and dynamic analysis of floating structures will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5203B", "title": "Design of Floating Offshore Structures", "description": "This course will cover the practical design of different types of floating structures, including semi-submersibles, FPSOs, spar platforms and tension-leg platforms. Design criteria in relation to design codes will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5204", "title": "Offshore pipelines, risers and moorings", "description": "The course covers the fundamental concepts of mooring, riser and pipeline systems. The topics covered include introduction to pipeline/riser/mooring systems, catenary equations, review of hydrodynamics, dynamic analysis, fatigue design, and vortex-induced vibration, rigid and flexible riser mechanics, flow assurance, material/coating specification, strength/stability design, installation, precomissioning, flowline integrity."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5204A", "title": "Pipeline System", "description": "Pipelines are critical components of offshore floating and subsea systems. In this course, the students will learn the fundamental concepts of a pipeline system, covering rigid and flexible riser mechanics, flow assurance, material/coating specification, strength/stability design, installation, precomissioning, and pipeline integrity."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5204B", "title": "Mooring and Riser Systems", "description": "Moorings and risers are critical components of offshore floating systems. In this course, the students will learn the fundamental concepts of analysis and design of different mooring and riser systems."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5205", "title": "Offshore Pipelines", "description": "The course is concerned with the design, fabrication, installation and operations of offshore pipelines. Students will be learn advanced concepts on various aspects of offshore pipelines, 16 including material selection; loads; hydrodynamic and on-bottom stability; collapse & buckling; pipeline design & evaluation; fabrication; installation methods and controls; pipeline operations; risk and safety"}, {"moduleCode": "OT5206", "title": "Offshore Foundations", "description": "This course is concerned with the analysis and design of foundations for offshore structures. Students will learn the principles, concepts and design considerations that are peculiar to the offshore environment. The major topics covered include: offshore design considerations; foundations for jack-up rigs and offshore gravity platforms; offshore pile foundations installation, analysis and design."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5206A", "title": "Shallow Offshore Foundations", "description": "This course is concerned with the analysis and design of shallow foundations for offshore structures. The major topics covered include: site investigation, gravity based foundation, and jack-up spudcan foundation. Students gain an understanding of the design methodology for shallow foundations for offshore structures."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5206B", "title": "Deep Offshore Foundations", "description": "This course is concerned with the analysis and design of deep foundations for offshore structures. Students will learn the principles, concepts, analysis methodology and design considerations. The major topics covered include: pile driving analysis, piles subject to axial load, and lateral and moment loads. Students gain an understanding of the design methodology for deep offshore foundations for fixed and floating structures."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5207", "title": "Arctic Offshore Engineering", "description": "This course is useful for engineers dealing with offshore structures for cold climate regions as well as students wanting to specialise in Arctic Offshore Engineering. It provides the knowledge of arctic technology for safe and sustainable development, and exploitation of petroleum resources in Arctic waters. Substantial use of recent offshore developments in Arctic regions is made in class discussions to provide students with the broadest possible insights as well as the basis to evaluate different structural concepts. Major topics include: Ice features, Physical and mechanical properties of ice, Ice-structure interaction, Design of offshore structures for ice-infested waters, and Ice management."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5208", "title": "Fatigue and Fracture for Offshore Structures", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to equip graduatelevel students in civil engineering with sufficient fundamental knowledge and skills on the fatigue and fracture mechanics for offshore structures, which will build a firm technical ground for their future research work and engineering professions. This course introduces the principles of mechanics for fracture and fatigue covering the linear-elastic fracture mechanics, elastic-plastic fracture theories, fatigue and fracture mechanism, stress and strain based approaches for fatigue design in offshore structures, with assignments and projects cultivating the students\u2019 understanding on both the fundamental principles and the practical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5301", "title": "Subsea Systems Engineering", "description": "This course is designed for persons interested in the subsea systems engineering in offshore oil and gas production. Its contents are focused on giving an overview and understanding of subsea systems employed in the subsea production and processing of oil & gas. Contents to cover subsea systems, equipment and their architecture, offshore exploration, drilling, well completion, subsea processing of oil & gas, subsea control systems, flowline, pipline and risers, etc. A structured programme of lectures, seminars, term papers, mini-projects and a final examination are included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5302", "title": "Flow Assurance", "description": "Flow Assurance is a relatively new term in the Oil & Gas industry which is all about ensuring the safe and uninterrupted transportation of a multiphase mixture of oil, gas and water from the reservoir to the delivery location. This course is designed for students interested in offshore oil and gas production and the multiphase transportation of oil, water and gas. Its contents are focused on giving an overview and understanding of the various aspects in both single phase and multiphase flow transportation and assurance issues in the oil & gas industry with emphasis on the subsea production and transportation of oil, gas and water. A structured programme of lectures, term papers, mini-projects and a final examination are included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5303", "title": "Subsea Control", "description": "Subsea Control is an essential and integral part of all subsea systems. This course introduces the fundamentals and principles of subsea control used in subsea systems for oil & gas production. Subsea data communication systems as well as various subsea protocols used are also addressed in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5304", "title": "Subsea Construction & Operational Support", "description": "The design of subsea systems is significantly affected by operational considerations and can radically change a system configuration. Key considerations that must be taken into account in a subsea system design include vessel availability, design for weather window, reduction in number of operations, elimination of construction risk and ability to perform an early production start-up. This course considers key operational aspects that will be encountered in everyday offshore operations, and will look specifically at technologies that are used in subsea operations that are essential to understand their use and limitations."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5305", "title": "Pressures Surges in Oil & Gas Flow Systems", "description": "This course is suitable for persons interested in the design and analysis of pressure surge protection in Oil & Gas Systems. It is also suitable for R&D engineers working in the Oil & Gas field flow systems. Its contents are focused on giving an overview of the pressure surges in fluid systems; Methods of solutions and analysis of transient flow for Oil & liquid systems; Gas flow systems; Two phases Oil & Gas flow systems; Analysis and Solutions of Industrial Fluid Transients Problems; Industrial Pressure Protection methods. A structured programme of lectures, seminars, term papers, mini-projects and a final examination are included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5401", "title": "Geoscience for Petroleum Exploration", "description": "Geoscience is integral to the petroleum industry and understanding the principles and applications of petroleum system geoscience is important for Petroleum Engineers. This course introduces the fundamental principles of geology and its application for petroleum exploration. This shall address the theoretical, practical and applied aspects of geoscience used for the upstream petroleum industry."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5401A", "title": "General and Sedimentary Geology", "description": "Geoscience is integral to the petroleum industry and understanding the principles and applications of petroleum system geoscience is important for Petroleum Engineers. This course introduces the fundamental principles of geology."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5401B", "title": "Petroleum Geology", "description": "Geoscience is integral to the petroleum industry and understanding the principles and applications of petroleum system geoscience is important for Petroleum Engineers. This course introduces the applications of geology for petroleum exploration. This shall address the applied aspects of geoscience used for the upstream petroleum industry."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5402", "title": "Geophysical Imaging of the Earth Interior", "description": "This course introduces the basics of seismic surveys for petroleum reservoirs, from the physics to the acquisition and processing of seismic data. Both land and marine acquisition will be covered. Traditional and modern methods of seismic imaging will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5402A", "title": "Seismic Acquisition", "description": "This course introduces the basics of seismic surveys for petroleum reservoirs, from the physics to the acquisition and processing of seismic data. Both land and marine acquisition will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5402B", "title": "Seismic Processing and Imaging", "description": "Seismic processing and imaging is the corner stone for the oil and gas exploration and production. This course introduces the basics of seismic processing techniques. Traditional and modern methods of seismic imaging will be covered. Methods to build seismic velocity models are introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5403", "title": "Petrophysics and Downhole Measurements", "description": "This course introduces the commonly used downhole measurements of petroleum reservoirs. The course will cover electrical, acoustic, nuclear, NMR, and seismic measurements. The course will cover the physics, hardware, data processing and interpretation of each kind of measurement. Both wireline and Logging While Drilling measurements will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5403A", "title": "Petrophysics for Petroleum Engineering", "description": "This course introduces the commonly used downhole measurements of petroleum reservoirs. The course will cover electrical, acoustic, nuclear, NMR, and seismic measurements. The course will cover the physics, hardware, data processing and interpretation of each kind of measurement. Both wireline and Logging While Drilling measurements will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5403B", "title": "Downhole Measurements for Petroleum Engineering", "description": "Together with OT5403A, this course introduces the commonly used downhole measurements of petroleum reservoirs. The course will cover electrical, acoustic, nuclear, NMR, and seismic measurements. The course will cover the physics, hardware, data processing and interpretation of each kind of measurement. Both wireline and Logging While Drilling measurements will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5404", "title": "Reservoir Characterization and Rock Physics", "description": "This course introduces the methodology commonly use in the characterization of the physical properties of petroleum reservoirs. Topics covered include downhole measurements, rock physics modelling, fluid substitution, seismic well tie, AVO (amplitude versus offset) analysis, and pre-stack inversion for reservoir properties."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5405", "title": "Enhanced Oil Recovery", "description": "This subject will provide basic as well as advanced concepts in the area of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). It will deliver the concepts of microscopic and macroscopic displacement of fluids in a reservoir, displacement efficiencies, mobility control processes, chemical EOR, miscible processes, thermal recovery processes, and novel EOR methods (e.g. low-salinity waterflooding, nano-EOR)."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5405A", "title": "Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery", "description": "This course will cover the basics of enhanced oil recovery including two phase flow in porous media, relative permeability, capillary pressure, Buckley-Leverett equation, displacement and sweep efficiency, mobility control, capillary desaturation curves."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5405B", "title": "Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods and Application", "description": "Topics to be covered include polymer flood, micellarpolymer flood, ASP, miscible and immiscible carbon dioxide flood, thermal recovery, SAGD and advanced topics such as low-salinity waterflood and nano-enabled EOR."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5406", "title": "Petroleum Production Engineering", "description": "This subject will provide basic as well as advanced concepts in the area of Petroleum Production Systems. Topics covered will include: the role of petroleum production engineering, production from undersaturated oil reservoirs, production from two-phase reservoirs, production from natural gas reservoirs, near wellbore skin effects, wellbore flow performance, well\ndeliverability, and numerical modelling of well inflow and outflow."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5406A", "title": "Petroleum Production Engineering", "description": "This course will cover basic concepts of Petroleum Production Systems including inflow-outflow, skin concept, production from undersaturated oil reservoirs two-phase reservoirs and natural gas reservoirs."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5406B", "title": "Petroleum Production Engineering - Wellbore", "description": "This course will cover basic concepts in well completion, sand control, well testing, artificial lift and stimulation."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5407", "title": "Petroleum Geomechanics", "description": "This course will provide basic as well as advanced concepts related to Geomechanics and Rock Mechanics issues in the exploitation of Oil and Gas Petroleum. Topics covered will include: 1) Fundamentals of Petroleum Geomechanics, with review of rock strain and stress, impact of fluid pressure; Rock deformation and failure; deformation of natural fractures and stresses in\ndepth earth. 2) Rock mechanical characterisation, from laboratory core testing to field data collection. 3) Key subsurface processes involving the principles of\nGeomechanics \u2013 borehole stability while drilling, predicting rock failure behaviour during production, analysis of reservoir compaction and subsidence,\nmechanics of injection from hydraulic fracturing in unconventional resources to waterflooding in deep water reservoirs."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5408", "title": "Unconventional and Renewable Energy Resources", "description": "This course will give an overview of various unconventional and renewable energy resources and technical challenges facing their production and usage. Issues around energy security, sustainability and affordability will be addressed. In addition, the role of disruptive innovations on energy systems will be discussed. The student will develop both a global and regional view on energy production and usage with emphasis on Singapore and Asia-Pacific region."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5409", "title": "Drilling and Completion Engineering", "description": "This course is part of the core curriculum in the Petroleum Engineering specialization under Offshore Technology. It will cover the fundamentals of drilling and completion engineering related to petroleum production. Major topics to be covered are drilling fluids, cementing, drilling hydraulics, casing design, directional drilling, completion components, perforating, completion fluids, tubing design, intelligent wells, and sandface completion etc."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5881", "title": "Topics in Offshore Engineering", "description": "This course is designed to cover advanced topics of current interests in offshore engineering that will not be taught on a regular basis. The requirement and syllabus will be specified when the course is offered. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitor from the industry."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5882", "title": "Topics in Subsea Engineering", "description": "This course is designed to cover advanced topics of current interests in subsea systems engineering that will not be taught on a regular basis. The requirement and syllabus will be specified when the course is offered. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitor from the industry."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5882A", "title": "Topics in Subsea Engineering - Flow Assurance", "description": "Flow Assurance is a relatively new term in the Oil & Gas industry which is all about ensuring the safe and uninterrupted transportation of a multiphase mixture of oil, gas and water from the reservoir to the delivery location, especially from any subsea well. This course is designed for students interested in offshore oil and gas production and the multiphase transportation of oil, water and gas. Its contents are focused on giving an overview and understanding of the various aspects in both single phase and multiphase flow transportation and assurance issues in the oil & gas industry with emphasis on the subsea production and transportation of oil, gas and water. A structured programme of lectures, term papers, mini-projects and a final examination are included in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5883", "title": "Topics in Petroleum Engineering", "description": "This course is designed to cover advanced topics of current interests in petroleum engineering that will not be taught on a regular basis. The requirement and syllabus will be specified when the course is offered. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitors from the industry."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5883B", "title": "Topics in Petroleum Engineering: Petroleum Reservoir", "description": "This course will cover the fundamental of petroleum reservoir engineering which is a foundational subject for petroleum engineering. Topics cover will include primary and secondary recovery and decline curve analysis of conventional reservoirs. Students will learn to use the state-of-the-art petroleum softwares on material balance and reservoir simulation. In addition, the course will highlight the reservoir engineering aspects of unconventional reservoirs."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5883C", "title": "Topics in Petroleum Engineering: Geophysical Inverse methods", "description": "This course covers the theory and applications for inverse problems in geophysical imaging, with a strong emphasis on the practical aspects and hands-on experiments. Topics include linear and nonlinear inversion, constrained and unconstrained inversion, convex and nonconvex inversion, deterministic and stochastic inversion techniques. It is intended for students to gain knowledge and use of inversion techniques for applications in geophysical imaging and general engineering context."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5901", "title": "Reservoir Fluid Characterization", "description": "This subject will provide concepts in the area of Reservoir\nFluid Characterization. Topics covered will include:\ncomponents of petroleum fluids, phase behaviour,\nequations of state, the five reservoir fluids, properties of\ndry gas, properties of wet gas, properties of black oil, and\nfluid sampling."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5902", "title": "Petroleum Geoscience & Drilling", "description": "The formation, distribution and preservation or destruction of oil and natural gas resources are governed by geologic histories of basins. Good understanding of geological principles and aspects of petroleum geoscience, therefore founds the basis for successful exploration, development and production in the petroleum industry. This course aims to provide students with a knowledgebase to understand the (1) fundamental principles of geology and its use for sedimentary basins studies. (2) nature and origin of petroleum and the methods for characterizing and evaluating hydrocarbon basins and prospects (3) direct experience of studying sedimentary rocks in an oilfield. This course also serves as an introduction to oil & gas drilling and completion process. Starting from a typical Drill Rig and its major systems, to the process of drilling onshore and offshore, to casing & cementing, through to well completion."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5903", "title": "From Reservoir to Wellhead", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of subsurface production including reservoir studies and well performance considerations for the production forecast and optimization."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5904", "title": "Petroleum Process", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of process engineering, including principles of oil, gas and water treatment, design and modelling of the process. HSE concerns are explained and taken into consideration in the design."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5905", "title": "Petroleum Fluid Valorisation", "description": "This course focuses on the monetization of petroleum resources. It covers the technological challenges and the economics of resource monetization."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5906", "title": "Offshore Field Architecture and Subsea System", "description": "This course introduces concepts of subsea systems engineering and associated offshore field architecture. The course considers key decision criteria and options available for both shallow and deep-water field developments and covers aspects of subsea equipment design, control and well intervention systems."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5907", "title": "Design of Offshore Structures", "description": "This course is concerned with the design of offshore structures and elements including fixed and floating offshore structures, like semi-submersibles, FPSOs, spar platforms, floating jack-up structures and elements such as reinforced (hull) plating and mooring turntables. Topsides design principles, key hydrodynamic effects and environmental loading will be highlighted. Important concepts such as the design process, construction and installations requirements and interactions among platform elements are introduced. Also covered are the methods of analysis and criteria in design such as stability, wave loading and motion in waves, (dynamic) positioning, mooring system components, structural strength and fatigue, and design safety assessment codes."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5908", "title": "Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines Design", "description": "Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF) are the conduits that connect Subsea Systems and Offshore Structures, to allow the export of petroleum fluid from the offshore wells to onshore refineries. SURF also serves as a conduit for communication and control of the different systems offshore. The course covers the design of Subsea Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines (SURF). The syllabus include Flow Assurance, Pipeline Definition and Detailed Design of Pipeline System. It will also include an introduction to Flexibles & Risers, and Umbilicals."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5909", "title": "From Construction to Decommissioning", "description": "This course will provide the students the understanding of key technical and operational parameters that drive the offshore construction, commissioning and decommissioning operations, and the impact on the intrinsic design of a fixed, floating or subsea asset. After completion of the course, the students will be able to select appropriate marine spread and methodology for the offshore construction of a fixed, floating or subsea asset."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5910", "title": "Special Topics on Energy", "description": "This course completes the portfolio of hydrocarbon resources \u2013i.e. outside the domain of conventional oil and gas accumulations in reservoirs. Main differences are highlighted and production technics described."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5911", "title": "Offshore Materials, Welding and Corrosion", "description": "This subject will provide students with fundamental\nunderstanding of materials, properties, corrosion, welding\nand inspection techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5912", "title": "Development of Offshore Upstream Projects", "description": "Apply the whole knowledge acquired during the master\nduring the final Project, based on a real case of offshore\nfield development."}, {"moduleCode": "OT5913", "title": "Professional Integration (Internship)", "description": "Apply the overall knowledge acquired throughout the\ncoursework period to work on real issue/s in an industrial\nenvironment."}, {"moduleCode": "OY3000", "title": "Oral Pathology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PA1113", "title": "Basic Pharmacology", "description": "This is a team-taught module that aims to prepare pharmacy students with the fundamental principles in how drugs influence human body and how human body handles these agents. These principles are key to introducing system pharmacology here which includes major topics: autonomic, corticosteroid, steroid hormone and immune-pharmacology."}, {"moduleCode": "PA2131", "title": "Pharmacology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PC1101", "title": "Frontiers of Physics", "description": "In this course, we will give students with different scientific backgrounds the opportunity to understand the underpings and development of modern physics. Students will be exposed to the big ideas and fundamental concepts in modern physics with necessary depth, learn about the key historical experiments as well as the revolutionary ideas at frontiers of physics, including quantum physics and Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1201", "title": "Fundamentals of Physics", "description": "This course aims to bridge the gap between \u2018O\u2019-level physics and first-year-level university physics. The course covers two branches of fundamental physics: mechanics and electricity & magnetism. Topics included in mechanics are linear motion, circular motion, Newton\u2019s laws of motion, work and energy, conservation of energy, linear momentum, and simple harmonic motion. Topics included in electricity & magnetism are electric force, field & potential, current & resistance, DC circuits, electromagnetism and electromagnetic induction."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1346", "title": "A Basic Introduction to Medical Physics", "description": "This course provides an insight into the scientific principles and the use of new and powerful technologies that are the basis for many high-tech diagnostic and therapeutic systems, including Proton Beam Therapy, Medical Imaging (MRI/CT/PET) and other advanced Medical Technology. In lab sessions, the students will gain hands-on experience with such systems, among them MRI and CT imaging and other medical physics devices. Elements of basics of radiation physics, radiation detection and radiation protection will also be covered both via lectures and experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1421", "title": "Physics for Life Sciences", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive and basic physics training within a single semester for first-year students from life sciences. It will cover mechanics, thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics plus a few topics in atomic and nuclear physics. The specific contents have been chosen according to their relevance to life sciences as well as their importance in the conceptual framework of general physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1431", "title": "Physics IE", "description": "The course is designed to provide a clear and logical introduction to the concepts and principles of mechanics and thermodynamics, with illustrations based on applications to the real world. Topics covered include motion in one dimension; curvilinear motion; circular motion; relative motion; Newton's laws; friction; work and energy; conservative forces, conservation of energy; linear momentum and conservation, collisions; rotational kinematics; moment of inertia and torque; rotational dynamics; conservation of angular momentum; gravitational force, field and potential energy; planetary motion; temperature and the zeroth law, temperature scales; thermal expansion of solids and liquids; heat and internal energy, specific heat capacities, enthalpy and latent heat, work for ideal gases, first law of thermodynamics; equipartition of energy, mean free path; entropy and the second law, heat engines; entropy changes for reversible and irreversible processes. The course is targeted essentially at Engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1431X", "title": "Physics IE", "description": "The course is designed to provide a clear and logical introduction to the concepts and principles of mechanics and thermodynamics, with illustrations based on applications to the real world. Topics covered include motion in one dimension; curvilinear motion; circular motion; relative motion; Newton's laws; friction; work and energy; conservative forces, conservation of energy; linear momentum and conservation, collisions; rotational kinematics; moment of inertia and torque; rotational dynamics; conservation of angular momentum; temperature and the zeroth law, temperature scales; heat and internal energy, specific heat capacities, work for ideal gases, first law of thermodynamics; equipartition of energy, entropy and the second law, heat engines; entropy changes for reversible and irreversible processes. The course is targeted essentially at Engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1432", "title": "Physics IIE", "description": "This course introduces fundamental concepts of physics and is illustrated with many practical examples. Topics covered include a) Electricity and magnetism, where the basic concepts of electric and magnetic fields, forces on charged particles, electric potential, electromotive force, work and energy, are described. The properties of basic electrical circuits comprising resistors, inductors and capacitors are discussed, along with analysis of their transient and steady-state behaviour. Understanding the role of Maxwell's equations in electromagnetism is emphasized; b) Waves, introducing properties of waves, including geometric optics, propagation, interference and diffraction, and electromagnetic waves; and c) Quantum physics, where new physics concepts which led to the quantization of energy are introduced, leading to an explanation of atomic transitions, atomic spectra and the physical and the chemical properties of the atom. The uncertainty principle, wave-mechanics and wave particle duality concepts are covered, together with the use of wavefunctions in predicting the behaviour of trapped particles. The course is targeted essentially at Engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1432X", "title": "Physics IIE", "description": "This course introduces fundamental concepts of physics and is illustrated with many practical examples. Topics covered include a) Electricity and magnetism, where the basic concepts of electric and magnetic fields, forces on charged particles, electric potential, electromotive force, work and energy, are described. The properties of basic electrical circuits comprising resistors, inductors and capacitors are discussed, along with analysis of their transient and steady-state behaviour. Understanding the role of Maxwell's equations in electromagnetism is emphasized; b) Waves, introducing properties of waves, including geometric optics, propagation, interference and diffraction, and electromagnetic waves; and c) Quantum physics, where new physics concepts which led to the quantization of energy are introduced, leading to an explanation of atomic transitions, atomic spectra and the physical and the chemical properties of the atom. The uncertainty principle, wave-mechanics and wave particle duality concepts are covered, together with the use of wave functions in predicting the behaviour of trapped particles. The course is targeted essentially at Engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1433", "title": "Mechanics and Waves", "description": "The course consists of two parts. In Part 1, students will be introduced to the concepts and principles of mechanics of rigid bodies and their applications to solve practical problems. The topics to be covered include: force systems, equilibrium, kinematics of particles, kinetic of particles, work and energy, impulse and momentum, kinetics of system of particles, kinematics of rigid bodies, damped and undamped vibrations. In Part 2, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of wave mechanics. General description of wave propagation; types of waves: longitudinal, transverse and circular waves; speed of a travelling wave; propagation of energy and momentum; power and intensity; sound waves, oscillations of a string; light waves; superposition of waves; interference; standing waves, resonant waves; harmonics; resonance."}, {"moduleCode": "PC1601", "title": "Physics Advanced Placement", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PC1602", "title": "Physics Advanced Placement", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PC2020", "title": "Electromagnetics for Electrical Engineers", "description": "This course is an introduction to electromagnetics (EM) for electrical engineers. Electromagnetics is essential in all disciplines of electrical engineering. At the end of this course, students will be able to explain many physical phenomena in everyday life, such as electricity energy transmission, wave reflection/transmission, and the impact of skin depth on wave propagation. Topics covered include: static electric fields, static magnetic fields, timevarying fields, electromagnetic waves, transmission lines and antennas."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2031", "title": "Electricity & Magnetism I", "description": "Among the four fundamental forces in nature, the electromagnetic force has great technological importance and is critical for the understanding of many subjects in Engineering and Science. This essential course for Physics majors is intended for students who wish to acquire a deep understanding of Electricity and Magnetism. It considers the fundamentals of Electricity and Magnetism and covers topics such as: electrostatic fields, Coulomb\u2019s law and Poisson\u2019s equation; magnetostatic fields, Biot-Savart\u2019s law and Poisson\u2019s equation; time-varying electric and magnetic fields, Faraday\u2019s and generalised Ampere\u2019s laws; Maxwell\u2019s equations and electromagnetic waves in vacuum. Knowledge from PC2032 is desirable."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2032", "title": "Classical Mechanics I", "description": "This essential course for Physics majors gives a first look at and serves as a model for the mathematical treatment of all later Theoretical Physics courses. It assumes knowledge from H2 Mathematics (or equivalent) and is intended for students who wish to acquire a deep understanding of our Mechanical Universe. It considers the principles of Newtonian Mechanics and covers topics such as kinematics, inertial and non-inertial reference frames, linear momentum, kinetic energy, and angular momentum; Newton's laws of motion, forces and torques; systems of many particles including rigid bodies; conservation laws; Newtonian gravity and Kepler\u2019s laws of planetary motion."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2130", "title": "Quantum Mechanics I", "description": "This course provides a rigorous introduction to quantum mechanics. It begins with a brief introduction to the development of quantum physics. Then it discusses topics like particle-wave duality, the Schr\u00f6dinger equation, one dimensional systems like free particle, square potential well, quantum tunnelling, harmonic oscillator, and the formal description of quantum systems including Hilbert space, observables and operators, eigenfunctions, the uncertainty relations, the Dirac notation and simple two-level systems. The course ends with discussions of some stationary problems in three dimensions like particle in a box and degenerate states, the Schr\u00f6dinger equation in spherical coordinates, and the hydrogen atom."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2130B", "title": "Applied Quantum Physics", "description": "Introductory aspects of quantum physics. Two state quantum systems. The wave function and Schrodinger equation. Quantum harmonic oscillator; hydrogen atom; spherical harmonics. Atomic spectra. Scattering theory. Applications such as semiconductors, lasers, quantum dots and wires."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2134", "title": "Mathematical Mtds in Physics I", "description": "This course aims to give students the necessary mathematical skills for other physics courses. The topics to be covered include: complex numbers and hyperbolic functions; multivariable calculus; elements of vector calculus; Taylor series; Fourier series, Dirac delta-function, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, physical applications; second-order ordinary and partial differential equations, wave equation, diffusion equation, Poisson\u2019s equation; Green\u2019s functions; Sturm-Liouville theory; special functions associated with physical systems, Hermite polynomials, Bessel functions, Legendre functions."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2135", "title": "Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics", "description": "This essential course for Physics majors is intended for students who wish to acquire a deep understanding of systems of many particles. It considers the fundamentals of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and is a prerequisite to advanced statistical mechanics. It covers topics such as: the laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic functions, ideal gases, heat engines; microcanonical ensemble, canonical ensemble, Boltzmann distribution and partition function; introduction to quantum gases."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2174A", "title": "Mathematical Methods in Physics I", "description": "This course aims to give students the necessary mathematical skills for other physics courses. The topics to be covered include: complex numbers and hyperbolic functions; series and limits, Taylor series; partial differentiation; multiple integrals; matrices and vector spaces, eigenvalues and eigenvectors; vector calculus; line, surface and volume integrals, Green\u2019s theorem, divergence theorem and Stokes\u2019 theorem; physical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2193", "title": "Experimental Physics and Data Analysis", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive training of both experimental and data analytical skills in mechanics, electronics, magnetism, nuclear physics, semiconductors, optics and lasers. In particular, emphasis is placed on the basic measurement skills in physics experiments, familiarisation of the commonly used experimental apparatus, as well as the collection, handling, and analysis of real world data. While this course is mainly targeted at physics majors, it is also suitable for science and engineering students who are interested in a career in the industries of semiconductors, optical communications, and life sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2232", "title": "Physics for Electrical Engineers", "description": "This 2000 level course is designed to give students an indepth grounding in fundamental aspects of modern physics. The course concentrates on modern optics and quantum mechanics (QM), with a focus on the applications of these two topics in electrical engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2239", "title": "Special Problems in Undergrad Physics I", "description": "The course is intended for a small cohort of undergraduates who have a strong aptitude for physics and who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship. The problems will be assigned on a case-by-case basis."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2267", "title": "Biophysics I", "description": "This course introduces the underlying principles and mechanisms of physics behind life sciences. It incorporates introductory concepts of physics into the phenomena associated with biological functions. The topics to be covered include: biological structures and the relation to biophysics; principles and methods of physics applied to biology; physical aspects of structure and functionalities of biomolecules, physical principles of bioenergy conversion and membrane-bound energy transduction; physical processes of bio-transport, nerves and bioelectricity. The course includes some basic biophysics experiments. It is targeted at both physics and non-physics students who already have basic knowledge in physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2288", "title": "Basic UROPS in Physics I", "description": "Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major requirements in case that a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC2288 and PC2289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2288R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Physics I (REx)", "description": "Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major requirements in case that a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC2288 and PC2289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2289", "title": "Basic UROPS in Physics II", "description": "Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major requirements in case that a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC2288 and PC2289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2289R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Physics II (REx)", "description": "Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major requirements in case that a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC2288 and PC2289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 1ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2411", "title": "Practical Astronomy", "description": "This course introduces the use of telescopes and data collection in astronomy. Students will learn how to set up and competently operate a telescope. Then students will learn how to plan and conduct astronomical observations for scientific purposes. Finally, students will learn how to process and analyse astronomical data."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2412", "title": "Celestial Exploration", "description": "This course will adopt a heuristic approach to celestial dynamics. Mathematics will be introduced only when necessary. Participants will also be enthused with the historical and philosophical development of celestial adventures discussed. Topics covered include elements of Newton and Kepler\u2019s Laws, Planetary Orbits and Rocketry, Apollo program, Saturn V & SpaceX Boosters."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2421", "title": "Physics of Everyday Phenomena", "description": "The satisfaction of understanding how rainbows are formed, how ice skaters spin, or why ocean tides roll in and out \u2014 phenomena that we have know \u2014 is one of the best motivators available for building scientific literacy. This course aims to make the physics of the world around us accessible to non-science majors. The coverage will be broad, and include Newtonian mechanics, fluid and heat, electricity and magnetism, waves and optics, and modern physics, with emphasis on relevance to everyday phenomena. The use of mathematics will be limited in this course and subordinated to the physical concepts being addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2422", "title": "Physics of Climate Change", "description": "Climate change and global warming are currently some of the most pressing problems that the world has to address. This course aims to provide a basic introduction to the processes that are involved in climate change, based on a physics perspective. Students will learn about climate processes, solar radiation and the energy budget of the earth, as well as basic thermal and radiation physics behind the greenhouse effect and the phenomenon of global warming. The phenomena of loss of sea ice and accelerated sea level rise will also be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PC2423", "title": "Energy for a Better World", "description": "The solutions to the global energy crisis lie in harnessing what Mother Nature has already provided. This course aims to help students discover the scientific underpinnings of natural phenomena that can be tapped for energy production and storage. Students will learn about the physical principles behind harnessing energy from the sun, ocean, wind and atomic nuclei (nuclear energy), as well as forms of energy storage such as batteries and fuel cells. The impact of these technologies on the environment will also be discussed. All physics concepts will be taught as needed. The course is suitable for students from diverse backgrounds."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3130", "title": "Quantum Mechanics II", "description": "This course continues from PC2130 and aims to complete basic introductions of quantum mechanics to physics oriented students. This course will mainly cover the following: angular momentum albegra, spin, identical particles, time-independent perturbation theory, variational principle, time-dependent perturbation theory, and basics of quantum scattering theory, with applications including the Zeeman effect, atomic fine structure and hyperfine structure, ground state of the helium atom, the Fermi golden rule, atom in a classical electromagetic field, stimulated and spontaneous emission, s-wave scattering."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3193", "title": "Experimental Physics II", "description": "This continuous assessment course is intended to provide training in experimental techniques and analytical skills. Experiments are based on various areas of physics such as spectroscopy, nuclear physics, laser physics, optics and electronics. Some experiments involve the use of research-grade equipment like the electron microscope, the atomic force microscope and the FTIR spectrophotometer. Project-type experiments are also available. The course is targeted at science and engineering students who have a foundation in Level 2 experimental physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3231", "title": "Electricity & Magnetism II", "description": "This elective course assumes knowledge of and is a sequel to PC2031. A good command of calculus and linear algebra is desirable. It is intended for students who wish to acquire a deeper understanding of Electricity and Magnetism. It prepares students for more advanced study at the postgraduate level. This course provides a comprehensive treatment of electromagnetic fields and forces. It covers the following topics: Electrostatic fields in matter, magnetostatic fields in matter, time-varying electric and magnetic fields in matter, relativistic electrodynamics, and radiation."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3232", "title": "Nuclear & Particle Physics", "description": "This is an intermediate course in nuclear physics, with an introduction to particle physics. Properties of nuclei, e.g., masses, spins, and moments, are introduced and an introductory discussion of nuclear models is presented, the semi-empirical mass formula, the Fermi gas model, the shell model and some aspects of the collective model are discussed. The energy balances and spin/parity selection rules of alpha, beta and gamma decay processes are discussed in considerable detail. The various types of interaction between radiation and matter are discussed, and an introduction to radiation detectors is given. A discussion of the operational principles and technological aspects of accelerators and an introductory survey of particle physics completes the material covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3232B", "title": "Applied Nuclear Physics", "description": "This course explores elements of nuclear physics and its applications for students who are not physics majors, beginning with a concise introduction to the relevant elements of quantum mechanics. After a discussion of basic nuclear properties (masses, radii, spins, binding energies), elements of nuclear structure are introduced (liquid drop, Fermi gas and Shell model). Then alpha, beta and gamma decays, their selection rules and transition probabilities are discussed. The general properties of nuclear reactions, their conservation laws and energetics and the general features of the different reaction mechanisms are illustrated. The various interactions between radiation and matter are discussed, and an introduction to radiation detectors and technological applications (nuclear medicine, PET, accelerators, fusion, fission) are covered, and lastly the basics of radiation protection are discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3233", "title": "Atomic & Molecular Physics I", "description": "This course presents the basic concepts and principles of atomic and molecular physics. In particular, the course revolves around the energy level schemes of atoms and molecules which are essential to the interpretation of atomic and molecular spectra. Topics covered include the hydrogen and helium atoms, spin-orbit coupling schemes, hyperfine interaction, Lamb shift, atoms in magnetic fields, multi-electron atoms, Pauli exclusion principle, Hund's rules, diatomic molecules, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, electronic, vibrational, rotational and rotational-vibrational spectra; The course is targeted at students who have background in quantum mechanics and want to build the foundations for studying the interactions of matter and light in modern atomic physics contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3235", "title": "Solid State Physics I", "description": "This is a first course in solid state physics. It aims to lay the foundations for students seeking to major in physics as well as students studying in materials science and engineering. The lectures emphasize on the fundamental concepts of condensed matter, covering crystal structure and reciprocal lattice, crystal binding and elastic constants, crystal vibrations and thermal properties, free electron theory and physical properties of metals, electron in periodic potentials, and basic semiconductors. Simple model prediction data and the experimental data from real systems would be compared and discussed to help students develop an intuitive understanding of the subject."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3235B", "title": "Applied Solid State Physics", "description": "The course covers fundamental solid state physics concepts (crystal structure, reciprocal lattice, free electron theory) and the physical properties of metals, electrons in periodic potentials, and basic semiconductor physics: Doping, p-n junctions, crystal defects, diffusion processes, energy bands of the nearly free electron model, tight binding approximations, Fermi surfaces and their experimental determination, optical processes, piezoelectricity, basic ideas of magnetism."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3236", "title": "Computational Methods in Physics", "description": "The course presents basic computational methods useful for physics and science students. The lectures cover: (1) Basic numerical methods - differentiation, integration, interpolation, root-finding and random number generators, (2) Differential equations - finite difference method, shooting method and relaxation method; applications to chaotic dynamics of a driven pendulum, one-dimensional Schr\u00f6dinger equation, and fast Fourier transform, (3) Matrices - Gaussian elimination scheme for a system of linear equations, eigenvalues of Hermitian matrices; Hartree-Fock approximation, (4) Monte Carlo simulations - sampling and integration; random walk and simulation of diffusion equation, stochastic differential equation, Brownian dynamics; variational Monte Carlo simulation; Metropolis algorithm and Ising model, and (5) Finite element methods - basic concepts; applications to the Poisson equation in electrostatics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3238", "title": "Fluid Dynamics", "description": "This course introduces fundamental aspects of fluid dynamics, with emphasis on topics relevant to atmospheric and ocean dynamics. The Navier-Stokes equations are derived from first principles. After an introduction to potential flow theory, the study of water waves is taken up to illustrate the behaviour of dispersive wave propagation and nonlinear shock forming tendency. Effects of vertical stratification and rotation on fluid flows are then discussed, and applied to the analysis of atmospheric and ocean flow phenomena. The course closes with an introduction to the theories of turbulence, with application to the atmospheric boundary layer."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3239", "title": "Special Problems in Undergrad Physics II", "description": "The course is intended for a small cohort of undergraduates who have a strong aptitude for physics and who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship. The problems will be assigned on a case-by-case basis."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3240", "title": "Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics", "description": "This course will cover the basic physical principles and mathematical theories essential for understanding the dynamics of the atmosphere, ocean and climate. The aim is to provide students with an introductory but rigorous course, so that they will be well-prepared for postgraduate studies or a career as research scientist at weather services or climate research establishments. The major topics to be covered include: radiative energy balance and green-house effect, dynamics of the atmosphere in the mid-latitudes and the tropics, dynamics of the wind driven, thermohaline ocean circulations, and numerical simulations of the atmosphere-ocean systems for weather prediction and climate projects."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3241", "title": "Solid State Devices", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to solid state devices. The topics covered include: introduction to semiconductors, charge carrier concentrations, drift of carriers in electric and magnetic fields, diffusion and recombination of excess carriers, p-n junction physics, junction diodes, tunnel diodes, photodiodes, light emitting diodes, bipolar junction transistors, junction field effect transistors (JFET), metal-semiconductor contacts metal-insulator-semiconductor interfaces, basic MOSFET."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3242", "title": "Nanofabrication and Nanocharacterization", "description": "The ability to create and characterize nanomaterials and nanostructures is important for many emerging advanced materials industries, from silicon electronics to intelligent nanosystems. Two general approaches to create nanostructures are bottom-up (colloidal-based chemistry) and top-down (nanofabrication and nanopatterning) methods. The course covers the essential physical chemistry principles and synthesis of bottom-up nanomaterials. Principles and practical aspects of top-down nanostructuring using nanolithography (optical, electron beam, ion beam) and pattern replication methods, including 3D-printing are discussed. Finally, nanocharacterisation using electrons, ions and scanning probe techniques are covered. Knowledge gained will be invaluable to design current and future nanosystems for diverse industries."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3243", "title": "Photonics", "description": "This course is a first course on photonics that combines fundamentals with important applications, and is targeted at students interested in modern optical technology. The course covers planar dielectric waveguides, basics of optical fibre communication, optical properties of crystals and semiconductors, interband transitions and radiative recombination, semiconductor detectors, stimulated emission and population inversion, diode laser threshold and output power, argon and YAG lasers, Q-switching and mode-locking, electro-optics modulators and flat panel displays. The course strives to maintain succinctness in physical meaning and simplicity in approach with generous allotment of numerical examples to help in understanding the equations."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3246", "title": "Astrophysics I", "description": "This course introduces the application of physics to astronomy. The students will be introduced to some astronomical phenomena, and they will learn to understand these fascinating phenomena by using basic physics. The course allows the physics students to review, and to extend their knowledge. The course cover two basic classes of celestial objects: the stars and planets. The topics include Kepler\u2019s laws, telescopes, binary stars, stellar spectra, stellar interiors, stellar formation and evolution, solar magnetic field, planetary tidal forces, planetary atmospheres, and Newtonian cosmology."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3247", "title": "Modern Optics", "description": "The objective of this course is to establish the interconnectedness of knowledge between principles of optics and modern sciences/technologies and identify the applications in our daily life. It covers wave properties, refraction and dispersion, interference, Michelson interferometer, Fabry-Perot cavity and optical resonator, interference filter, Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction, resolution limit, Fourier transformation, holography; polarisation, birefringence and wave plates, light absorption and emission, lasers. This course is targeted at physics and non-physics students, who are interested in principles of modern optics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3251", "title": "Nanophysics", "description": "The changes to physical properties (electronic, optical and magnetic) due to formation of structures at the nanoscale will be the main emphasis of this course. Properties differing from the bulk due either to an increase in surface area/volume ratio or quantum confinement will be studied in structures ranging from quantum wells, wires and dots to self-assembled mono-layers and heterostructure formation. The kinetics and thermodynamics driving the formation of these nanostructured surfaces and interfaces will be discussed. The course will also highlight current and potential applications of these nanoscale systems. Examples of materials systems will include metals, oxides, III-V, II-VI, CNT, SiC and SiGe systems."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3261", "title": "Classical Mechanics II", "description": "This elective course assumes knowledge of and is a sequel to PC2032. A good command of calculus and linear algebra is desirable. It is intended for students who wish to acquire a deeper understanding of our Mechanical Universe. It considers the principles of relativistic, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, and aims to establish a bridge to the principles of modern Physics. Topics covered include: dynamics with central forces, bound and unbound orbits, scattering; relativistic kinematics and dynamics of a particle, Lorentz transformations, four-dimensional notations; Lagrangian mechanics, the action principle, Euler-Lagrange equation; Hamiltonian mechanics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3267", "title": "Biophysics II", "description": "This course aims to introduce the principles and approaches of physics in the area of molecular biophysics. It includes molecular complexes of biomolecules; physical and symmetrical relationships between biomolecules; physical and structural characteristics of proteins and amino acids; symmetric and statistical descriptions of nucleic acids; first law and second law of thermodynamics in biological systems; bonding and non-bonding potentials, and stabilizing interactions in biomacromolecules, and the correlation to macromolecular structures; molecular mechanics in biological systems; bio soft condensed materials, bio-membrane and biomembrane structure, principles of molecular self assembly of biomolecules. There is a lab component included in this course. This course is targeted at both physics and non-physics students who already have basic knowledge in physics and life sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3270", "title": "Machine Learning for Physicists", "description": "By extracting and predicting insightful correlations within observations of complex physical phenomena, Machine Learning (ML) models push the boundaries of data-driven scientific exploration. This couse introduces ML models and their underlying principles, including a short overview of foundational statistics and information theory. Furthermore, students will see applications of ML models to the Physical Sciences (e.g. optics, statistical physics, condensed matter, biological physics). Although this course will be taught in the Python programming language, prior experience in any programming language will nonetheless be helpful."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3274", "title": "Mathematical Methods in Physics II", "description": "This course introduces important mathematical methods for the solution of a variety of mathematical problems in physics. The following topics are covered: functions of a complex variable, singularities and residues, contour integration; calculus of variations; transformations in physics, symmetries and group theory, discrete groups, group representations and their applications in physics; tensor analysis, application to classical mechanics, electrodynamics, and relativity."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3274A", "title": "Mathematical Methods in Physics II", "description": "This course aims to give students the necessary mathematical skills for other physics courses. The topics to be covered include: Fourier series, Dirac delta-function, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms; first-order and second-order ordinary differential equations, Green\u2019s functions, Sturm-Liouville theory; partial differential equations, separation of variables; special functions: Hermite polynomials, Bessel functions, Legendre functions; physical applications."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3280", "title": "Senior Student Seminar", "description": "This student seminar series offers the opportunity to study a particular subject directly supervised by a faculty member whose research is related to the subject. The subjects are presented in form of seminar talks with time for questions and discussions, and are to be summarized in a report. Emphasis is made on further developing presentation and communication skills by supervision of the preparation of seminar talks and feedback on presentation style involving fellow students. The actual physical field that is covered by the seminar series depends on the particular lecturer(s) and will be announced online. Please refer to the following website for more information: http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/corporate/student/ugrad_course_PC3280.html"}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Physics I", "description": "Please note also that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major requirements in case that a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288A", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Astrophysics I", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288AR", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Astrophysics I (REx)", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288N", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Nanophysics I", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288NR", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Nanophysics I (REx)", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288Q", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Quantum Technologies I", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288QR", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Quantum Technologies I (REx)", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3288R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Physics I (REx)", "description": "Please note also that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major requirements in case that a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Physics II", "description": "This course is a continuation of PC3288. Please note that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289A", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Astrophysics II", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289AR", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Astrophysics II (REx)", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289N", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Nanophysics II", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289NR", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Nanophysics II (REx)", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289Q", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Quantum Technologies II", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4 Units can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8 Units for both PC3288 and PC3289."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289QR", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Quantum Technologies II (REx)", "description": "Variants of PC3288 or PC3289. Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3289R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Physics II (REx)", "description": "This course is a continuation of PC3288. Please note that only 4MCs can be accredited towards major or specialisation requirements in the case a student undertakes 8MCs for both PC3288 and PC3289. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3294", "title": "Radiation Laboratory", "description": "The course provides hands-on experience with modern detectors, electronics, data acquisition systems, radiation sources and other nuclear physics equipment that forms the basis for the applications of nuclear physics to medical physics, radiation protection and other fields. The course will be restricted to the students in the Medical Physics minor."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3295", "title": "Radiation for Imaging and Therapy in Medicine", "description": "The course gives an introduction to the basic physics, the biology and the applications of radiation in medical imaging and radiation therapy. After a review of basic radiation physics and the relevant radiobiology, the currently used major modes of diagnostic and interventional imaging are covered. This will be followed by a discussion of the major methods of radiation cancer therapy (by photons, protons and electrons)."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3311", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. Course is open to FoS undergraduate students from Cohorts AY2020/2021 and before, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3411", "title": "The First 3 Minutes of the Universe", "description": "This course adopts a heuristic approach to understanding the current paradigm of the first 3 minutes of the Big Bang. Mathematics will be introduced only when necessary. Participants will also be enthused with the historical and philosophical development of Space and Time discussed. Topics covered include Relativity, Quantum Physics and Cosmology."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3412", "title": "How Stars Work", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of stars. It covers the physical properties of stars, the measurements of these properties, and the relevant laws of physics. It discusses the relationship among stellar physical properties as a step towards understanding star formation and stellar evolution. Some advanced topics, including variable stars, supernovae and black holes, are briefly discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3413", "title": "From Data to a Galaxy", "description": "This course covers the structure of galaxies starting from star formation and star clusters with a strong focus on the analysis of observational data and insights from simulations. We discuss the underlying physics that give rise to the various shapes and structures that we see in galaxies, and briefly discuss the role of the supermassive black hole in the centre of many galaxies. Finally, we end off with clusters of galaxies and the large-scale structure of the universe."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3421", "title": "Quantum Technologies", "description": "Quantum phenomena based on the superposition principle and quantum entanglement have attracted significant attention in the past. Nowadays, strong efforts are being made to develop applications based on these phenomena. Such Quantum Technologies includes use cases in quantum communication and information processing, quantum enabled sensing, and quantum computations and simulations. The aim of this course is to provide the student with an overview of the applications and underlying principles. This covers a broad range of topics from quantum key distribution, over atomic clocks, inertial sensors, to early types of quantum computers."}, {"moduleCode": "PC3422", "title": "Physics of Medical Technology", "description": "With the rapid ageing of the world population and an increasing world-wide prevalence of chronic and infectious diseases, the demand for medical infrastructure is expected to rise over the foreseeable future. A basic understanding of the various forms of modern medical technology is therefore important as a form of health literacy among the general population. This course provides a basic introduction to the major forms of diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy from a physics perspective. The course content is taught from an introductory level and prior knowledge in biology and medicine is not required."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4130", "title": "Quantum Mechanics III", "description": "This course is a continuation of module PC3130. It is targeted at physics majors. The algebraic structure of angular momentum is developed with an emphasis on the addition of two angular momenta. The properties of systems consisting of identical particles are studied. The last part of the course focuses on time-dependent perturbation calculus and scattering theory. The course is mainly targeted at physics majors."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4199", "title": "Honours Project in Physics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PC4199R", "title": "Integrated B.ENG./B.SC. (Hons) Dissertation", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PC4228", "title": "Device Physics for Quantum Technology", "description": "Quantum technology is a field of physics and engineering which exploits quantum phenomena, such as entanglement, superposition and tunneling, for advanced applications, including quantum computing, quantum key distribution, quantum metrology, and information processing. This is a fast emerging field with strong industry potential. In this course, students will be equipped with essential knowledge in the physics and technology of a wide range of quantum devices, including quantum detectors, quantum light sources, quantum number generators, quantum sensors, and quantum computers. Students will also learn skills in the characterization of these devices, including data analysis and interpretation of quantum behavior."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4230", "title": "Quantum Mechanics III", "description": "This third undergraduate course in quantum mechanics starts with a recap of the main contents covered by lower-level quantum mechanics courses, in particular time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, with more depth. Matlab is introduced to implement the discrete variable representation to solve time-independent Schrodinger equations, and the Split-Operator technique to solve time-dependent Schrodinger equations, with necessary coding from the stratch. This course also covers a number of frontiers topics, including adiabatic theorem, adiabatic control, shortcuts to adiabaticity, geometric phases, density matrix, reduced density matrix, quantum measurement models, quantum master equations, spin-boson model, decoherence, and dynamical decoupling."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4232", "title": "Cosmology", "description": "The topics covered include galaxies, cosmology, cosmological parameters, large scale structures of the universe, dark matter and dark energy, negative energies, cosmic microwave background, baryon genesis, big bang, inflation, open and closed universe, gamma ray burst (standard candles), cosmic acceleration."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4236", "title": "Computational Condensed Matter Physics", "description": "Computation is playing an increasingly important role in materials discovery. This course introduces the basic concepts and provides an overview of methods in modern computational condensed matter physics. Major topics to be covered include a brief review on empirical and semi-empirical approaches in electronic structure calculation, density functional theory, methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equation, applications to different types of materials, modelling effects of external fields and transport property. The course is suitable for upper level undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in computer modelling and simulation in condensed matter physics and materials science."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4240", "title": "Solid State Physics II", "description": "This course introduces students to elements of the physics of crystalline solids. Topics covered include: energy bands of the nearly free electron model, tight binding method, Fermi surfaces and their experimental determination, plasmons, polaritons and polarons, optical processes and excitons. We will also cover superconductivity, dielectrics and ferroelectrics, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism, and magnetic resonance. This course is targeted at physics majors, and is useful for science and engineering students who already have background knowledge of solid state physics on par with PC3235 Solid State Physics I."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4241", "title": "Statistical Mechanics", "description": "This course presents the fundamentals of statistical mechanics. Starting with the classical and quantum postulates, the three ensembles of Gibbs are derived. The statistical interpretation of thermodynamics then follows. The thermodynamic quantities are obtained in terms of the number of states, partition and grand partition functions. Applications to independent electron systems, with and without magnetic field, and Bose-Einstein condensation are given. The course ends with a brief introduction to phase transitions. This course is targeted at physics students with at least one year of thermal physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4242", "title": "Electricity and Magnetism III", "description": "This advanced module presents the fundamentals of classical electrodynamics in much depth. It covers the following topics: relativistic formulation of the electromagnetic field, covariance of electrodynamics, conservation laws, radiation by moving charges, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, Larmor's formula, angular distribution of radiation, spectral properties of radiation, Cherenkov radiation, Bremsstrahlung, synchrotron radiation, multipole expansions, and applications. A good mathematical foundation is required."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4243", "title": "Atomic & Molecular Physics II", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with a background to the important developments in atomic physics over the last 30 years that have now become standard techniques utilized in many laboratories around the world. The lectures provide a detailed description of the interaction of atoms with electromagnetic fields and applies this analysis to a number of applications such as laser spectroscopy, laser cooling, and magnetic and optical trapping. The course will provide students with a comprehensive background to the tools of modern atomic physics"}, {"moduleCode": "PC4245", "title": "Particle Physics", "description": "This is an introductory course on the fundamental constituents of matter and their basic interactions; important concepts and principles, recent important experiments, underlying theoretical tools and calculation techniques in elementary particles physics will be expounded. The topics covered are: basic properties of elementary particles and the standard model, relativistic kinematics; symmetries: isospin and SU(3), quark model; parity and CP violation; Feynman diagrams and rules; quantum electrodynamics; cross sections and lifetimes: deep inelastic scattering; and introductory gauge theories and unified models. This course is mainly targeted at physics majors."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4246", "title": "Quantum Optics", "description": "This course is an introduction to the quantum description of the electromagnetic field, with a special focus on phenomena at optical frequencies; in short, \u201cquantum optics\u201d. It starts with two introductory chapters: a concise reminder of important facts and devices of classical optics; and a presentation of typical quantum phenomena that have been observed with light (entanglement, violation of Bell's inequalities, teleportation\u2026). The core of the course is the canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field and the introduction of the corresponding vector space (\u201cFock space\u201d) and field operators. Then, we present the main families of states (number, thermal, coherent, squeezed) and the most typical measurement techniques (photo-detection, homodyne measurement, first- and second-order coherence, Hong-Ou-/Mandel bunching). The statistical nature of light fields is highlighted. Finally, we present the basic case studies of photon-atom interactions in the full quantum approach: cavity quantum electrodynamics (Janyes-Cummings model), spontaneous decay (Wigner-Weisskopf approach)."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4248", "title": "General Relativity", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the theory of general relativity. The topics covered are: general tensor analysis, the Riemann tensor, the gravitational field equation, the Schwarzschild solution, experimental tests of general relativity, black holes, and Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models of the expanding universe. While this course is mainly targeted at physics majors, it is also suitable for science students with a strong mathematical foundation."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4249", "title": "Astrophysics II", "description": "Starting with an introduction to the nuclear physics of stars and the processes of nucleosynthesis, following a brief introduction to nuclear physics. nucleosynthesis via quiescent burning, and the processes that lead to the production of heavy (A>60) elements are covered. The endstages (brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes) are discussed in detail. In the second part of the course, large structures in the universe, are discussed, including star clusters, galaxy structure, and galaxy clustering. The course ends with a discussion of the cosmological scale structure of the universe. This course is a continuation of PC3246 Astrophysics I."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4253", "title": "Thin Film Technology", "description": "The scope of the course embraces the basic principles of thin-film deposition techniques such as chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition as well as their applications in the microelectronics industry. The basic principles include vacuum technology, gas kinetics, adsorption, surface diffusion and nucleation. These are the fundamental features which determine the film growth and the ultimate film properties. Common thin-film characterization methods which measure film composition and structure as well as mechanical and electrical properties are also covered. This course is for senior physics students with an interest in pursuing a career in industry."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4259", "title": "Surface Physics", "description": "This course provides an introduction to surface physics, its techniques and applications. The topics include: surface tension, surface crystallography, surface physical processes such as relaxation, reconstruction and defects, surface chemical properties, surface segregation, surface electronic structures including surface states, band bending, dipole layer, work function, core-level-shifts, Fermi level pining, plasmon, and surface vibrational properties. Experimental techniques, such as LEED, RHEED, XAS, SEXAFS, XPS, UPS, AES, SIMS and EELS, will be also addressed with examples and applications. This course is targeted at physics or materials science students, who have a basic knowledge of quantum mechanics and solid state physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4262", "title": "Remote Sensing", "description": "Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about a target from a distance, in particular from satellites, aircrafts, and drones. This course equips students with knowledge to understand, and model, satellite orbital dynamics and global positioning, radiometry, multi-spectral and hyper-spectral imaging of atmosphere, land, and ocean. Students will also learn skills in data processing of real-life satellite images through project work, including the application of radiometric, terrain and atmospheric corrections. The course will also leverage on access to Singapore's Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4264", "title": "Advanced Solid State Devices", "description": "This course is a follow-up of PC3241 Solid State Devices and is designed for those intending to join the semiconductor industry. The course is intended to give the students an understanding of the physics behind selected devices and that of some of their fabrication technologies. Devices examined are: MOSC & MOSFET, CCD, majority carrier diodes, transferred electron devices, non-volatile memory devices, thyristors and heterojunction devices."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4267", "title": "Biophysics III", "description": "This course covers the principles of statistics in relation to biophysics and bio soft materials. It focuses on: modeling of biomacromolecular structure and statistical complexities; molecular mechanics of biomolecules; statistical models for structural transitions in biopolymers, statistical physical description of structural transitions in macromolecules, simulation of macromolecular structure, structural transitions in polypeptides and proteins; coil-helix transitions; prediction of protein secondary and tertiary structures; statistics of structural transitions in polynucleotides and DNA; modeling of non-regular structures of biomacromolecules. This course is targeted at both physics and non-physics students who already have basic knowledge in physics, thermodynamics and molecular biology."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4268", "title": "Biophysical Instrumentation & Biomolecular Electronics", "description": "This course introduces the techniques applied in biophysics and biomolecular electronics. It covers absorption and emission spectroscopy associated with biomolecules; infrared and Raman spectroscopy; magnetic resonance; symmetry of crystal, x-ray crystal structure analysis for macromolecular-structures; principles of light scattering, Rayleigh scattering, scattering from particles comparable to wavelength of radiation, static light scattering, dynamic light scattering, low angle X ray/neutron scattering, scanning probing microscopy; chemical, somatic, and visceral receptors, elements of integrated technologies and applications for biosensors; bio-molecular devices, protein computer. There is a lab component included in this course. This course is targeted at both physics and non-physics students who already have basic knowledge in physics, electronics and molecular biology."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4274", "title": "Mathematical Methods in Physics III", "description": "This course introduces advanced mathematical methods that are essential in many areas of theoretical physics. The topics covered are: differentiable manifolds, curved manifolds, tangent and dual spaces, calculus of differential forms, Stokes' theorem, and applications to electromagnetic theory; symmetries of manifolds, Lie derivatives, Lie groups and algebras, their representations and physical applications. The course is targeted at students who wish to study theoretical physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4274A", "title": "Mathematical Methods in Physics III", "description": "This course introduces important mathematical methods for the solution of a variety of mathematical problems in physics. The following topics are covered: functions of a complex variable, singularities and residues, contour integration; calculus of variations; transformations in physics, symmetries and group theory, discrete groups, group representations and their applications in physics; tensor analysis, application to classical mechanics, electrodynamics, and relativity."}, {"moduleCode": "PC4310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5101", "title": "Physics and Technology", "description": "This is a new course which aims to highlight the relevance and importance of physics in many aspects of technology. It aims to serve as the overview course to expose the students to a few key technological development when Physics plays a vital role. This course will be conducted by our own lecturers. The selected topics will be current and directly relevant to the potential career options that the MSc students will be considering. Discussion of each topic shall cover the basic physics principles leading to the state of the art development in the technology. The duration on each topic can last from 2 weeks to 3 weeks. Examples of the topics include energy and batteries, solar energy systems, quantum technologies, computer modelling in Physics, sensor devices, microelectronics, advanced functional materials, communication systems, biophysical instruments, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5102", "title": "Physics in Industry", "description": "This course covers a series of lecture clusters/seminars in industrial physics co-taught by our lecturers and our industrial partners and collaborators. Students will be exposed to the multiple-faceted career options that a physicist can choose in the industry. Our industrial partners will provide an overview of a certain industry sector and share their experience on the role a physicist plays in this sector. Our partners shall also emphasize the important skillsets to learn in order to be well-prepared for the career chosen. The range of industrial sectors shall cover Semiconductors, Engineering, Material Science, IT, Data Sciences, Energy Sector etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5102D", "title": "Physics Practices in Industry", "description": "This is a new lecture course covering a series of lecture clusters/seminars in industrial physics cotaught by our lecturers and our industrial partners and collaborators. Students will be exposed to the multiple-faceted career option that a physicist can choose in the industry. Our industrial partners will provide an overview of a certain industrial sector and share their experience on the role a physicist plays in this sector. Our partners shall also emphasize on the important skillsets to learn in order to be well prepared for the career chosen. The range of industrial sector shall cover Semiconductor MNC, Space Technologies, Engineering, Material Science, IT, Finance, Data Sciences, Health Science. Medical Physics, Energy Sector etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5198", "title": "Graduate Seminar Course in Physics", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The main purpose of this course is to help graduate students to improve their presentation skills and to participate in scientific seminars/exchanges in a professional manner. The activities of this course include giving presentations during the lecture hours and attending seminars organised by the Department. Students are also required to write summaries of some departmental seminars attended. The grade of this course will be \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" based on student's talk presentations, participation of seminars and the summary writing."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5201", "title": "Advanced Quantum Mechanics", "description": "This course is an introduction to advanced topics in quantum mechanics. Topics include relativistic quantum mechanics and the Dirac equation, identical particles and second quantization, and the path-integral formulation of quantum mechanics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5202", "title": "Advanced Statistical Mechanics", "description": "This course presents an introduction to phase transitions and fluctuations. For phase transitions, the course starts with the treatment of Landau and mean field. Exact Ising model results are then discussed. Critical exponents are introduced and their relations obtained using the scaling hypothesis and Kadanoff's scheme. Real space renormalization is then used to show how the critical exponents can be calculated. For fluctuations, Langevin, Fokker-Planck equations will be used. Time dependence and fluctuation dissipation theorem then follow. Brownian motion will be used as an example. This course is targeted at physics graduate students with at least one year of statistical mechanics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5203", "title": "Advanced Solid State Physics", "description": "This course aims to give graduate students additional training in the foundations of solid state physics and is intended to prepare them for research work and other graduate coursework courses. Topics to be covered include: translational symmetry and Bloch's theorem, rotational symmetry and group representation, electron-electron interaction and Hartree-Fock method, pseudopotential and LCAO schemes of energy band calculations, Boltzmann equation and thermoelectric phenomena, optical properties of semiconductors, insulators and metals, origin of ferromagnetism, models of Heisenberg, Stoner and Hubbard, Kondo effect. Berry phase and topological insulators. Students are expected to read from a range of recommended and reference texts, and"}, {"moduleCode": "PC5204", "title": "Magnetism and Spintronics", "description": "Spintronics is the study of the intrinsic spin of the electron and its application in spin-logic and devices, spin-polarized injection devices, and storage media. This is important for a variety of current and emerging applications in magnetic memories. This course equips students with essential knowledge of magnetism, and exchange interactions in solids; half metals, and dilute magnetic semiconductors; spin injection, transport and detection; and magnetic nanostructures, and their applications in: GMR read-write heads, MRAM, spinFET, spin-torque oscillators."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5204A", "title": "Soft Materials and Flexible Devices", "description": "Flexible electronics/devices and integrating various flexible electronics, sensors, and energy harvesting devices, etc. into fabrics have been attracting considerable interests in many areas due to the great potential applications in the smart, living, health care and medication. What makes them so different? In this course, we will explore the latest break-through in materials, flexible devices design and fabrication. It also potential applications and future perspectives. The course will combine the semiars with projects, and lecturing with classroom discussion."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5204B", "title": "Selected Topics in Physics: Analytic Approximations", "description": "This course covers advanced mathematical methods for obtaining approximate analytical solutions to physical problems. It is designed to help graduate students build the skills necessary to analyse equations, integrals, and series that they encounter in their research. Topics include local analysis of differential equations, asymptotic expansion of integrals, and summation of series."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5205", "title": "Topics in Surface Physics", "description": "This course provides an introduction to surface physics for graduate and year-4 undergraduate students major in physics, chemistry and materials science and engineering. It covers the properties of solid surfaces, experimental techniques and applications. The topics include the importance of surfaces in science & technology, surface crystallography and topography, surface energy and stress, surface electronic properties (surface states, work function, band bending and Fermi level pining at semiconductor surface/interface, magnetism), surface phonon and plasmon, adsorption, desorption and reaction on surfaces. The applications of basic surface science knowledge in semiconductor technology, materials growth and processing, heterogeneous catalysis, nanoscience and thin film technology will be demonstrated. Experimental techniques, such as XPS, UPS, AES, LEED, STM, AFM, SIMS, EELS, TPD and vacuum technology, will be addressed with examples and applications. To take this course, students should have a basic knowledge of quantum physics, thermodynamics and solid state physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5206", "title": "Quantum Field Theory", "description": "This is a course on quantum field theory aimed at students who have had some exposure to relativistic quantum mechanics. The topics covered are: canonical quantization and the path-integral formulation of quantum field theory, Feynman rules for scalar, spinor, and vector fields, regularization and renormalization, and the renormalization group."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5207", "title": "Topics in Optical Physics", "description": "The course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding on the principles of nonlinear optics. The course is targeted at postgraduate students who have acquired a background in optics, and who are involved in optics-related studies and research. The course presents the principles of nonlinear optics and photonics devices, which includes: nonlinear optical susceptibility, wave propagation in nonlinear media; sum and difference frequency generation, parametric amplification and oscillation, photonic crystals; phase conjugation, optical-induced birefringence, self-focusing, nonlinear optical absorption, photonic devices; ultrafast laser."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5208", "title": "Superconductivity", "description": "The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the microscopic and phenomenological theories of superconductivity. It lays the analytical foundation for the understanding a wide range of modern applications of both low- and high- temperature superconductors. The lecture links established theories with current research activities in the development of the physics and technology of the superconductors. Students should have a background in quantum mechanics and thermal physics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5209", "title": "Accelerator Based Materials Characterisation", "description": "This course gives an in-depth introduction to the field of Ion Beam Analysis (IBA). IBA methods allow the composition of unknown material systems to be quantitatively determined through the use of ion beams that are produced by small particle accelerators. Theoretical fundamentals will be covered in detail, e.g. Thomas-Fermi statistical model, screened inter-atomic potentials, scattering cross sections, stopping powers etc. Accelerators, detectors and basic pulse processing instrumentation will be discussed. A range of analytical techniques will be discussed in detail: Rutherford Backscattering (RBS), Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE), Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis (ERDA), Nuclear Reaction Analysis NRA, and Accelerator Mass"}, {"moduleCode": "PC5210", "title": "Advanced Dynamics", "description": "The course aims to understand Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, and basic ideas of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. Topics discussed are: variational principle and Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, the Hamiltonian formulation of relativistic mechanics, symplectic approach to canonical transformation, Poisson brackets and other canonical invariants, Liouville theorem, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, Hamilton's characteristic function, action-angle variables, integrable systems, transition from a discrete to continuous system, relativistic field theory, Noether's theorem, Lie groups and group actions, Poisson manifolds, Hamiltonian vector fields, properties of the Hamiltonian fields, conservative chaos, the Poincare surface of section, KAM theorem, Poincare-Birkhoff theorem, Lyapunov exponents, global chaos, effects of double dissipation and fractals."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5211", "title": "Advanced Electrodynamics", "description": "This advanced course presents the fundamentals of classical electrodynamics in much depth. It covers the following topics: Maxwell's equations to define conservations laws for energy and momentum, properties of electromagnetic waves, light scattering from interfaces, the concept of optical dispersion, and investigate how waves propagate in bounded structures such as waveguides and transmission lines. In depth investigations of radiation by moving charges, special relativity from Maxwell's equations such as relativistic length contraction, and covariant formulation of E&M. An understand of applications ranging satellites to fiber optics to transmon qubit would be related to E&M. A good mathematical foundation is required."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5212", "title": "Physics of Nanostructures", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the physics of nanostructures. Students taking this course will be introduced methods of fabrication and characterization of nanostructured materials and nanodevices, common types of nanostructures, their properties and applications. More importantly, the underlying physics of the intricate properties and functions of nanostructures will be discussed. The course starts with a brief review of relevant topics of quantum mechanics and solid state physics in reduced dimensions. Common techniques for nanostructure fabrication and characterization are introduced next. Transport in low-dimensional systems, optoelectronics of nanostructures, nanotubes and nanowires, clusters and nanocrystallites are discussed. Finally, magnetic nanostructures, and molecular electronics (optional), will be covered. This course is designed for postgraduate students who are interested in nanoscience and nanotechnology research and applications. Understanding the physics of nanostructures will allow the students to better appreciate the interesting properties and their tunability of nanostructures, understand the operating principles of nanodevices, and to design and optimize nanostructures for different applications."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5213", "title": "Advanced Biophysics", "description": "This course discusses the molecules in cells and the physics behind their functions. At the core is the understanding of biomolecular conformations, structural stability and interactions under physical constraints such as force, geometry and temperature, by theory and state-of-art experimental technologies. Besides homework and quiz, projects are an important component of assignments. Multiple projects are provided for students to choose, which may involve numerical/Monte Carlo simulation of biomolecular conformations, analysis of experimental data, or investigation of the DNA micromechanics by analyzing DNA conformations. This course is targeted at students who have a basic knowledge in general physics and thermodynamics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5214", "title": "Essential techniques in experimental physics", "description": "The ability to setup high-quality experiments and measurements is fundamental to innovation in many areas of sciences and engineering, including materials and devices. Therefore a good understanding of, and practical training, in experimental physics techniques is essential to a lot of research and development work in both academia and industry. This course equips students with the essential knowledge and practical skills in a broad range of modern experimental physics techniques, including: mechanical design and materials selection; vacuum technology, cyostats, and thin-film deposition techniques; Gaussian beam laser optics; photodetectors; stepper motors and piezoelectric actuators; feedback and control loops; techniques in analog, digital and pulse signal processing; weak-signal detection and lock-in amplifiers; fast-signal detection and transmission lines. The practical skills will be taught in laboratory classes, which are part of this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5215", "title": "Numerical Recipes With Applications", "description": "Covers computational techniques for the solution of problems arising in physics and engineering, with an emphasis on molecular simulation and modelling. Topics will be from the text, \u201cNumerical Recipes\u201d, Press et al, supplemented with examples in materials and condensed matter physics. This course insures that graduate students intending to do research in computational physics will have sufficient background in computational methods and programming experience."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5216", "title": "Advanced Atomic & Molecular Physics", "description": "This course introduces from an experimentalists point of view to the modern world of ultracold quantum gases that so much changed atomic physics in the past two decades. The lectures present the basic experimental methods of laser cooling, magnetic and optical trapping, and evaporative cooling that produce matter near absolute zero temperature. We then discuss basic effects like Bose-Einstein condensation and Pauli pressure. Further, selected research examples are presented that give insight to some of the many close relations between quantum matter designed in many labs worldwide and other physical systems found in the range of quantum information science, condensed matter physics, metrology, nuclear physics, and astronomy. Solid background in quantum mechanics, atomic physics, and statistical mechanics is desired."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5218", "title": "Superconductivity and Superconducting Devices", "description": "This course will introduce a phenomenological description of superconducting materials and their applications to modern technologies. For this, the course will cover bulk and thin-film superconducting materials and introduce the Josephson junction, which is the basis of many superconducting devices. From this, we will introduce the main parameters that are relevant to the design of modern superconducting devices, namely resonators, qubits, SQUIDs and photodetectors. Finally, we will cover how the choice of materials and geometry influences the functioning of these devices."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5220", "title": "The Physics and Technology of 2D-Materials and Devices", "description": "This course serves as an introduction to the physics of 2D-materials, the technological aspects of devices based on 2D-materials, and some of the experimental techniques used to investigate 2D-materials. We cover topics of basic science such as the Quantum Hall effects, Berry curvature, the role of defects, and strain induced gauge fields. We also treat experimental aspects such as fabrication and design of samples, and low temperature equipment. A range of experimental techniques used in this field of research will be covered, such as non-local voltage measurements, valley-selective optical excitation, spin-valves and more."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5221", "title": "Quantum Many-Body Physics: an Informational Perspective", "description": "This course will introduce modern theoretical concepts and methods of quantum many-body physics. It will cover tensor networks, a graphical framework for manipulating and classifying quantum many-body states based on quantum entanglement. It will discuss bounds on quantum information propagation, and how they constrain the behavior of correlation functions of phases of matter. It will also introduce quantum circuit models as testbeds to probe collective dynamical phenomena like thermalization and emergence of random matrix theory. This course is relevant for understanding and describing the novel physical regimes realized by emerging quantum simulator and quantum computational technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5228", "title": "Quantum Information and Computation", "description": "The course provides an introduction to quantum information and quantum computation. In addition to physics majors, the course addresses students with a good background in discrete mathematics or computer science.The following topics will be covered: (1) Introduction: a brief review of basic notions of information science (Shannon entropy, channel capacity) and of basic quantum kinematics with emphasis on the description of multi-qubit systems and their discrete dynamics. (2) Quantum information: Entanglement and its numerical measures, separability of multi-partite states, quantum channels, standard protocols for quantum cryptography and entanglement purification, physical implementations. And (3) Quantum computation: single-qubit gates, two-qubit gates and their physical realization in optical networks, ion traps, quantum dots, Universality theorem, quantum networks and their design, simple quantum algorithms (Jozsa-Deutsch decision algorithm, Grover search algorithm, Shor factorization algorithm). The course is tightly integrated with IBM quantum computer hands-on experience via IBM Q Experience cloud services. Students will learn fundamentals of Qiskit, a modern and rapidly developing quantum computer programming language, by directly implementing concepts learnt in the classroom."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5233", "title": "Functional Electronic Devices of Tomorrow", "description": "Functional electronic devices are an essential part of modern technology, and they are used in a wide range of applications, including communication systems, computers, medical devices, and consumer electronics. In this course, we will discuss the working principles of a variety of functional electronic devices, such as transistors, diodes, and different photodetectors. We will focus on the physical concepts behind their work and how those devices can be built and/or improved using novel artificial materials such as van der Waals heterostructures and 2D materials."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5239", "title": "Special Problems in Physics", "description": "The problems will be assigned on a case-by-case basis."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5239B", "title": "Variational Principles", "description": "This course will present a unified look at the basic branches of physics (classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics and statistical physics) from the perspective of variational principles, which offer compact statements of the fundamental laws and are also an important tool for designing models and finding approximate solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5247", "title": "Photonics II", "description": "The course is intended to provide detailed treatment of the principles of lasers and working knowledge of major optical techniques used in manipulating laser spatial mode properties and their temporal and spectral characteristics. The topics being covered include laser beams, laser theory, laser survey, modulation techniques, non-linear optics, and fiber optics. This is a graduate-level course and is to prepare students for using lasers and related techniques in either academic research or industrial R&D. Students will acquire a solid understanding of laser principles, will learn characteristics and applications of various types of lasers, and will become familiar with major techniques on manipulating laser outputs based on electro-optic, acousto-optic, and non-linear effects for different kinds of applications. At the end of the course, students will be equipped with sufficient theoretical and working knowledge to effectively apply commercially available laser instruments in their research as well as build from basic optical components their own coherent light sources where lasers for particular experiments and applications may not be readily available. This course should be relevant to any student who is or will be working in R&D areas involving laser-related techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5251", "title": "Applied Machine Learning and Data Science", "description": "This course exposes graduate students to examples of Machine Learning and Data Science that are commonly encountered in data analyses in the Physical Sciences (e.g. optics, statistical physics, condensed matter, biological physics). We will take a hands-on approach to implementing, training, and evaluating machine learning models. This course will be taught in the Python programming language. Prior experience in any programming language will be helpful."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5252", "title": "Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning", "description": "In the age of big scientific data, Bayesian statistical methods and machine learning techniques are becoming a vital part of the modern scientist's toolkit. This course provides a graduate level introduction to the two related fields, with equal emphasis on both. Key topics for the first part include: fundamentals of probability and inference, hierarchical modelling, model validation and comparison, and Monte Carlo methods; for the second part, they include: classification and regression, kernel methods, variational methods, and neural networks. The course will be largely theoretically oriented, with the occasional computational component."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5253", "title": "Complex Systems Analysis and Modelling", "description": "Much of our real world data are manifestations or measurements of their underlying complex interactions. Hence, modelling and analysis of the underlying complex systems can reveal understandings and predictions that complement black-box machine learning tools. This course will cover the basic concepts and tools in analysing complex systems and simulation models, and more importantly why and when we need such white-box tools derived from statistical physics. Certain key concepts in complexity science will be intrudcued. It will also provide hands-on experience with system analysis and simulation modelling in Python."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5267", "title": "Physics of Small Machines and Active Matters", "description": "This course covers the physical principles behind a wide variety of nano/micromachines and active matters involving these small energy-consuming building blocks. Specifically, the course covers molecular motors, nano/micro-robots, microswimmers, related active matters, and applications (e.g., actuation, precise control, chemistry, biotechnology, precision medicine, etc.). This course aims at a unified physical understanding, mainly based on stochastic thermodynamics, fluid dynamics at low Reynolds numbers, and active soft matter theories. The course focuses on artificial systems but also touches biological counterparts. Advanced design and fabrication methods like DNA nanotechnology will be discussed too."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5271", "title": "Physics of Sensors", "description": "In this course, the physics behind a wide spectrum of modern sensors is covered, capturing basic properties like temperature, distance, forces, pressure, magnetic fields, and light that are relevant in everyday applications, as well as more advanced sensors for acceleration and rotation that became commonplace in mobile devices for orientation and navigation. Furthermore, advanced sensing techniques used in microbalances, particle detection and advanced optical and acoustic sensing techniques will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5286", "title": "MSc Physics Coursework Project", "description": "This is a project course in the self-funded M.Sc. Physics programme (by coursework). It carries 8 Units, which is equivalent to two regular NUS courses. Students will complete a research project (normally within two semesters) under the supervision of an academic staff, submit a project thesis, and present the results to a panel of examiners."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5287", "title": "M.SC Coursework Thesis for Physics And Technology", "description": "The course is intended to provide an opportunity to our MSc students in carrying out a substantial and relatively independent research project under the supervision of a supervisor. It also serves to help a student to gain practical experience in problem-solving, This is directly relevant to student who plans to pursue a career in industrial company. During the course of the training, the student will develop their advanced research skills and contribute to new development in applied physics. The wide-ranging of academic staffs and industrial partners will give the student opportunities to develop specialist knowledge and honed research skills in the following areas: Advanced Characterisation Techniques, Biophysics and Biological physics, Computational Modelling of Matter, Thin Film Techniques, Surface Physics, Physics of Nanomaterials, Computer Modelling of Dynamic Systems, Quantum Information and Quantum Optics, Quantum Devices and Sensors, Radiation and Medical Physics, Magnetic Materials System, and other relevant topics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5287D", "title": "M.sc Coursework Thesis For Physics and Technology", "description": "The course is intended to provide an opportunity to our MSc students in carrying out a substantial and relatively independent research project under the supervision of a supervisor. It also serves to help a student to gain practical experience in problem solving, This is directly relevant to student who plans to pursue a career in industrial company. During the course of the training, the student will develop their advanced research skills and contribute to new development in applied physics. The wide-ranging of academic staffs and industrial partners will give the student opportunities to develop specialist knowledge and honed research skills in the following areas: Advanced Characterisation Techniques, Biophysics and Biological physics, Computational Modelling of Matter, Thin Film Techniques, Surface Physics, Physics of Nanomaterials, Computer Modelling of Dynamic Systems, Quantum Information and Quantum Optics, Quantum Devices and Sensors, Radiation and Medical Physics, Magnetic Materials System, and other relevant topics."}, {"moduleCode": "PC5288", "title": "M.sc Coursework Thesis For Physics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PC5289", "title": "M.sc.(coursework) Thesis For Applied Physics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PC5731", "title": "Smart Devices for Physics Teachers", "description": "In this course, participants will learn the working principles of several important smart devices that are already embedded in everyday life, from traffic control sensors to devices built into modern cell phones, and also emerging ones based on quantum technologies. Participants will also learn how to use these stories, as well as sensors in smart phones, to promote curiosity-driven and authentic learning of selected physics topics, engaging students to appreciate the emerging Internet-of-Things revolution."}, {"moduleCode": "PE1741E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE1741P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE1741S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE1742E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE1742P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE1742S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE2101P", "title": "Introduction to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics", "description": "This course will introduce students to PPE as a endeavour, by showing them how social and political philosophy can be done in a way that is strongly informed by the findings of social science. The course will be organized around discussing a few specific issues \u2013 such as inequality, nudging, climate change, and the formation of the state. Analysing these issues will introduce students to the methods and results of philosophy, political science, and economics, and show how they could be integrated to better understand and tackle social and political phenomena. interdisciplinary"}, {"moduleCode": "PE2741E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE2741P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE2741S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE2742E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE2742P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE2742S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE3101P", "title": "Decision and Social Choice", "description": "This course is an introduction to decision and social choice theory. The first half introduces the theory of expected utility, according to which rational actions maximise the probability of desirable consequences. The second half introduces utilitarianism, according to which the right action is one which maximises the satisfaction of desire for the population at large. Both theories are controversial for their highly quantitative nature, their demanding conception of rationality and rightness, their insensitivity to risk and inequality, their prioritization of ends over means, and their tenuous relationship to actual human behaviour and morality. These controversies are discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PE3551E", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, possibly in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student\u2019s Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project.\n\nUROPs usually take place within FASS or ARI, possibly with other external involve international partners. All are assessed. They may be proposed by the supervisor or student and require the vetting and approval of the Specialization Department. All will be assessed by the Specialization Department (Economics)."}, {"moduleCode": "PE3551P", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, possibly in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student\u2019s Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project.\n\nUROPs usually take place within FASS or ARI, possibly with other external involve international partners. All are assessed. They may be proposed by the supervisor or student and require the vetting and approval of the Specialization Department. All will be assessed by the Specialization Department (Philosophy)."}, {"moduleCode": "PE3551S", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, possibly in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student\u2019s Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS or ARI, possibly with other external involve international partners. All are assessed. They may be proposed by the supervisor or student and require the vetting and approval of the Specialization Department. All will be assessed by the Specialization Department (Political Science)."}, {"moduleCode": "PE3741E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE3741P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE3741S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE3742E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE3742P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE3742S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE4101E", "title": "Political Economy of Money", "description": "This course studies money and its role in economic systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. We examine 5,000 years of monetary development and trace the changes in the institutions of monetary governance and stability, both domestic and international. We examine the development of monetary economics and the interplay between theory and actual monetary arrangements. We then discuss contemporary philosophical and political debates surrounding the allocation and use of the powers of money creation and destruction, including digital currencies, quantitative easing, and \u201cmodern monetary theory\u201d."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4101EHM", "title": "Political Economy of Money", "description": "This course studies money and its role in economic systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. We examine 5,000 years of monetary development and trace the changes in the institutions of monetary governance and stability, both domestic and international. We examine the development of monetary economics and the interplay between theory and actual monetary arrangements. We then discuss contemporary philosophical and political debates surrounding the allocation and use of the powers of money creation and destruction, including digital currencies, quantitative easing, and \u201cmodern monetary theory\u201d."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4101P", "title": "The Ethics and Politics of Nudging", "description": "Nudge policy uses people\u2019s cognitive biases to steer them towards decisions that they would have made if they were rational. This course takes an in-depth look at nudge policy, and the ethical and political issues surrounding it. We first review nudge policy and the psychological theories underpinning it. We then tackle issues such as: whether governments can identify a citizen\u2019s true/rational preferences and help citizens satisfy them, whether nudges are manipulative or paternalistic, whether nudges violate principles of publicity and transparency, and what public choice analysis could tell us about nudge policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4101PHM", "title": "The Ethics and Politics of Nudging", "description": "Nudge policy uses people\u2019s cognitive biases to steer them towards decisions that they would have made if they were rational. This course takes an in-depth look at nudge policy, and the ethical and political issues surrounding it. We first review nudge policy and the psychological theories underpinning it. We then tackle issues such as: whether governments can identify a citizen\u2019s true/rational preferences and help citizens satisfy them, whether nudges are manipulative or paternalistic, whether nudges violate principles of publicity and transparency, and what public choice analysis could tell us about nudge policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4102E", "title": "Institutions and Political Economy", "description": "Political economy studies conflict management: it explains political and economic behaviour by characterizing the incentives of actors and the context in which these actors make decisions and influence outcomes. This course will introduce students to a broad class of potential interactions between political and economic actors, not only in the context of economically developed countries and consolidated democracies, but also exploring autocratic regimes, failed states, and emerging economies. Course materials will describe important empirical regularities in order to help identify key questions, guide model-building efforts, evaluate the usefulness of the economic models, and provide perspective on major politico-economic developments."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4102EHM", "title": "Institutions and Political Economy", "description": "Political economy studies conflict management: it explains political and economic behaviour by characterizing the incentives of actors and the context in which these actors make decisions and influence outcomes. This course will introduce students to a broad class of potential interactions between political and economic actors, not only in the context of economically developed countries and consolidated democracies, but also exploring autocratic regimes, failed states, and emerging economies. Course materials will describe important empirical regularities in order to help identify key questions, guide model-building efforts, evaluate the usefulness of the economic models, and provide perspective on major politico-economic developments."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4102P", "title": "Welfare and Distribution", "description": "What makes a good life? This course aims to examine different theories of welfare (or wellbeing) as they appear in economics and philosophy, and related concerns pertaining to the distribution and measurement of the goods possessed by members of society. Topics covered might include: theories of wellbeing, cost-benefit analysis and its ethical assumptions, the value of equality, the \u2018equality of what\u2019 debate, the contrast between resources and capabilities, and the value of social equality."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4102PHM", "title": "Welfare and Distribution", "description": "What makes a good life? This course aims to examine different theories of welfare (or wellbeing) as they appear in economics and philosophy, and related concerns pertaining to the distribution and measurement of the goods possessed by members of society. Topics covered might include: theories of wellbeing, cost-benefit analysis and its ethical assumptions, the value of equality, the \u2018equality of what\u2019 debate, the contrast between resources and capabilities, and the value of social equality."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4103S", "title": "Meritocracy", "description": "Meritocracy is a controversial ideal, both in Singapore and elsewhere. In this module, we trace meritocracy\u2019s genealogy, conditions of possibility, and the debates it has generated. We will investigate meritocracy as an ideal that demands certain political and economic arrangements, and as a legitimation of existing distributions of power. We will ask whether meritocracy is the ideal we should follow\u2014whether there are alternatives to meritocracy\u2014and whether it legitimates extant inequalities. In pursuing these matters, we will incorporate political, philosophical, and economic controversies related to power, competition, equality, discrimination, freedom, and responsibility."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4103SHM", "title": "Meritocracy", "description": "Meritocracy is a controversial ideal, both in Singapore and elsewhere. In this module, we trace meritocracy\u2019s genealogy, conditions of possibility, and the debates it has generated. We will investigate meritocracy as an ideal that demands certain political and economic arrangements, and as a legitimation of existing distributions of power. We will ask whether meritocracy is the ideal we should follow\u2014whether there are alternatives to meritocracy\u2014and whether it legitimates extant inequalities. In pursuing these matters, we will incorporate political, philosophical, and economic controversies related to power, competition, equality, discrimination, freedom, and responsibility."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4401E", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, under the supervision of a faculty member from the Economics Department. The research project, which is intended to be multidisciplinary, engaging the intellectual tools and insights from the disciplines of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis. The maximum length of the thesis is 10,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4401EHM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, under the supervision of a faculty member from the Economics Department. The research project, which is intended to be multidisciplinary, engaging the intellectual tools and insights from the disciplines of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis. The maximum length of the thesis is 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4401P", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, under the supervision of a faculty member from the Philosophy Department. The research project, which is intended to be multidisciplinary, engaging the intellectual tools and insights from the disciplines of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis. The maximum length of the thesis is 8,000 to 10,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4401PHM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, under the supervision of a faculty member from the Philosophy Department. The research project, which is intended to be multidisciplinary, engaging the intellectual tools and insights from the disciplines of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis. The maximum length of the thesis is 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4401S", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, under the supervision of a faculty member from the Political Science Department. The research project, which is intended to be multidisciplinary, engaging the intellectual tools and insights from the disciplines of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis. The maximum length of the thesis is 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4401SHM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, under the supervision of a faculty member from the Political Science Department. The research project, which is intended to be multidisciplinary, engaging the intellectual tools and insights from the disciplines of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis. The maximum length of the thesis is 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4402E", "title": "Research Internship Project", "description": "This course requires PPE students to pursue a policy research internship with an external organization. Interested students must secure (i) a position in suitable organizations either full time in the vacation period or part time in a regular semester (ii) a workplace supervisor; and (iii) an academic supervisor. They will submit journal entries; reflection reports; a final research paper (4-5,000 words); and make an oral presentation. The course enables PPE students to apply their multidisciplinary academic learning to real world policy research while gaining work experience."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4402P", "title": "Research Internship Project", "description": "This course requires PPE students to pursue a policy research internship with an external organization. Interested students must secure (i) a position in suitable organizations either full time in the vacation period or part time in a regular semester (ii) a workplace supervisor; and (iii) an academic supervisor. They will submit journal entries; reflection reports; a final research paper (4-5,000 words); and make an oral presentation. The course enables PPE students to apply their multidisciplinary academic learning to real world policy research while gaining work experience."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4402S", "title": "Research Internship Project", "description": "This course requires PPE students to pursue a policy research internship with an external organization. Interested students must secure (i) a position in suitable organizations either full time in the vacation period or part time in a regular semester (ii) a workplace supervisor; and (iii) an academic supervisor. They will submit journal entries; reflection reports; a final research paper (4-5,000 words); and make an oral presentation. The course enables PPE students to apply their multidisciplinary academic learning to real world policy research while gaining work experience."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4408E", "title": "Research Internship Project", "description": "This course requires PPE students to pursue a policy research internship with an external organization. Interested students must secure (i) a position in suitable organizations either full time in the vacation period or part time in a regular semester (ii) a workplace supervisor; and (iii) an academic supervisor. They will submit journal entries; reflection reports; a final research paper (4-5,000 words); and make an oral presentation. The course enables PPE students to apply their multidisciplinary academic learning to real world policy research while gaining work experience."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4408P", "title": "Research Internship Project", "description": "This course requires PPE students to pursue a policy research internship with an external organization. Interested students must secure (i) a position in suitable organizations either full time in the vacation period or part time in a regular semester (ii) a workplace supervisor; and (iii) an academic supervisor. They will submit journal entries; reflection reports; a final research paper (4-5,000 words); and make an oral presentation. The course enables PPE students to apply their multidisciplinary academic learning to real world policy research while gaining work experience."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4408S", "title": "Research Internship Project", "description": "This course requires PPE students to pursue a policy research internship with an external organization. Interested students must secure (i) a position in suitable organizations either full time in the vacation period or part time in a regular semester (ii) a workplace supervisor; and (iii) an academic supervisor. They will submit journal entries; reflection reports; a final research paper (4-5,000 words); and make an oral presentation. The course enables PPE students to apply their multidisciplinary academic learning to real world policy research while gaining work experience."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4660E", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course enables the student to explore an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics in depth. The student should approach an Economics lecturer to identify a topic, readings, and assignments. A written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISM Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and agreed between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4660EHM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course enables the student to explore an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics in depth. The student should approach an Economics lecturer to identify a topic, readings, and assignments. A written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISM Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and agreed between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4660P", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course enables the student to explore an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics in depth. The student should approach a Philosophy lecturer to identify a topic, readings, and assignments. A written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISM Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and agreed between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4660PHM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course enables the student to explore an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics in depth. The student should approach a Philosophy lecturer to identify a topic, readings, and assignments. A written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISM Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and agreed between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4660S", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course enables the student to explore an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics in depth. The student should approach a Political Science lecturer to identify a topic, readings, and assignments. A written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISM Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and agreed between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4660SHM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course enables the student to explore an approved topic at the intersection of Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics in depth. The student should approach a Political Science lecturer to identify a topic, readings, and assignments. A written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISM Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and agreed between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PE4751E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE4751P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE4751S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE4752E", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE4752P", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PE4752S", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PF1101", "title": "Fundamentals of Project Management", "description": "The course covers the fundamental concepts of project management, identifying nine broad project management knowledge areas. Students are given an introduction to theories relating to the management of project scope, time, cost, risk, quality, human resources, communications and procurement. The overall integration of these eight knowledge areas and the management of externalities as the ninth project management knowledge area is also emphasised."}, {"moduleCode": "PF1103", "title": "Digital Construction", "description": "This course is designed to provide an overview of the concepts and applications of digital construction. The concepts of computational thinking will form the theoretical basis of this course and will be incorporated to teach how computation can be used to accomplish a variety of goals. It will also provide students with a brief introduction to programming skills with applications to digital construction. The major topics include basics of computational thinking, basic coding, and applications in digital construction such as Building Information Modelling (BIM)."}, {"moduleCode": "PF1107", "title": "Infrastructure and Project Management Law", "description": "This module covers the fundamental principles of law in Singapore. Topics include the Singapore legal system; legal system and method including statutory interpretation; basic principles of the law of contract and the tort of negligence. These principles will be applied to and explained with examples from infrastructure and project management and the built environment."}, {"moduleCode": "PF1108", "title": "Introduction to Building Performance", "description": "This module covers aspects of building performance in relation to technical and human requirements. Major topics include external and climatic effects including pollution, humidity, solar radiation sky illuminance, and noise; role and performance of building elements; passive and active control; air?conditioning and natural ventilation, artificial and daylighting; indoor air quality; building acoustics; human requirements."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2102", "title": "Structural Systems", "description": "This module covers the principles underlying the performance and safety of structures. The major topics include concepts of forces, moments and equilibrium; structural design lifecycle; principles of structural analysis; properties of common structural materials; principles of foundation design; structural behaviour of simple buildings; and high rise systems."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2103", "title": "Measurement (Building Works)", "description": "This course covers the fundamental principles for the measurement of work items on projects with special focus on building works. It also covers the writing of specifications for such items. It develops students' skills in conventional and e-measurement of building works covering foundations, frame, building envelope, fenestration and architectural finishes."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2107", "title": "Construction Technology", "description": "This module covers the evaluation, selection and performance of specialised advanced construction technology for tall buildings with emphasis on the integration of construction systems. The major topics are deep foundation systems, proprietary wall and floor systems, advanced formwork and scaffolding technology, precast and prestressed concrete construction, envelope systems, and roof construction. Also covered are the basic principles relating to the selection, operation and integration of specialised equipment for construction work, and the fundamentals of site surveying, setting out and alignment systems for high-rise buildings."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2108", "title": "Project Cost Management", "description": "This course covers the basic principles relating to estimating of items of the work to be undertaken on projects, and tendering. Major topics are quantitative techniques in cost analysis, cost planning, approximate estimating and tendering procedures. The principles governing the pricing of items and building up rates for items of work are also covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2109", "title": "Project Feasibility", "description": "This course covers the pre-development stage of a project. Major topics include the real estate development cycle; market study and site selection; site control; due diligence; sketch of scheme; preliminary cost estimate; financial analysis; financial close; site acquisition; development of Project Brief; project programming; and design development. A basic understanding of cost-benefit analysis is required for public infrastructure projects."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2110", "title": "Infrastructure and Facilities Management", "description": "This module covers the fundamental concepts of facilities management for different types of real assets. It explores the principles that underpin sustainable facilities management and the perspectives of stakeholders. Topics include FM activities, FM strategy, outsourcing, maintenance management, performance management and safety, resource management, FM technology, financial management, and procurement."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2203", "title": "Quality and Productivity Management", "description": "The course enables students to develop knowledge of the role of management in improving quality and productivity in projects and within firms. Major topics covered include management principles, models and tools that have the potential to improve the level of quality and productivity at the project and corporate levels."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2205", "title": "Project Finance", "description": "This module covers project financing for infrastructure projects. Major topics include time value of money; balance sheets and income statements; financial ratios and returns; project finance structures; major stakeholders in project finance; contracts and agreements; and risk management."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2305", "title": "Event Management", "description": "This module covers aspects of event management in the context of project and facilities management. Major topics include event context, event planning, operation and evaluation, event risk management, event sponsorship, and case studies on the management of different types of events."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2402", "title": "Work Experience Internship", "description": "This internship module is open to full-time undergraduate students who have completed at least 60MCs as at 1 January of that year and plan to proceed on an approved internship of at least 10 weeks in duration in the vacation period. This module recognizes work experiences in fields that could lead to viable career pathways that may or may not be directly related to the student\u2019s major. It is accessible to students for academic credit even if they had previously completed internship stints for academic credit not exceeding 12MC, and if the new workscope is substantially differentiated from previously completed ones."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2504", "title": "Materials Technology", "description": "This course introduces the properties, characteristics, selection, specification, assembly and inter-relationship of materials utilised in modern facilities, focusing on construction materials. Major topics are materials suitable for application in relation to weather resistance, stability, durability, damp prevention, insulation, energy conservation and fire protection. Principles relating to the weathering and corrosion of materials, especially building materials, are also covered. The coverage includes practical tests to evaluate the behaviour of selected materials under various conditions."}, {"moduleCode": "PF2505", "title": "M&E Systems", "description": "This module covers the mechanical and electrical systems in modern facilities, with special focus on a building. It considers the design principles, operation and maintenance of major systems such as:\nheating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, power generation and distribution, vertical and horizontal transportation systems, fire fighting systems, communication and security systems, as well as piping and plumbing systems. This module also covers the engineering principles and key factors influencing the thermal environments and quantification of these factors, functional requirements of\nutilities, and the design of systems to local codes."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3104", "title": "Project Execution", "description": "This module covers the execution of project baseline plans. Major topics include managing stakeholders; project control for time, cost, quality, safety, risk, health, and the environment; scope changes; variation orders; submittals and shop drawings; claims and disputes; progress payments; status reports; documentation; and use of logs, diaries, images and other control forms."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3105", "title": "Research Methods", "description": "The module covers both qualitative and quantitative research. Major topics include philosophies of science; the research process; problem formulation; literature review and hypothesis or framework; common research designs; methods of data collection; data collection and processing; data analysis; concluding the study; writing the report; and research ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3201", "title": "Measurement (Specialist Works)", "description": "This module develops further the students' skills in the measurement of items of work on projects, with a special focus on the quantification of specialist building works. Major topics are measurement of fluid flow systems, specialist and civil engineering construction works and building services."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3205", "title": "Advanced Measurement", "description": "This modules covers the more advanced aspects of building measurement found in projects including the use of IT in integrating measurement works and project management. Topics include measurement of deep excavation, substructures, underpinning, structures, additions and alterations and complex building forms."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3207", "title": "Project Management Law", "description": "This course covers the fundamental principles relating to the various legal relationships in a project; laws relevant to procurement, contract administration, termination and insolvency; and professional negligence and concurrent liability. Students are recommended to take PF2101 Project and Facilities Management Law before taking this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3208", "title": "Project Leadership", "description": "This module covers how a project manager leads the project team. Major topics include theories of leadership; traits of project leaders; and leadership competencies such as visioning, strategizing, team building, decision-making, empowering, influencing, planning, and communicating."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3209", "title": "Building Information Modelling", "description": "This module covers the nature and potential of BIM as a new format for exchanging digital and spatial information in project and facilities management. Topics include the principles of BIM, the supporting infrastructure, implementation, and the financial, legal, and other nontechnical aspects of BIM."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3210", "title": "Total Building Performance", "description": "This module covers aspects of building performance and diagnostics, systems integration and their implementation throughout building delivery. Major topics include building systems and performance; performance mandates; total building performance; building diagnostics; integration for performance; building delivery; and stakeholder involvement."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3211", "title": "AI Applications for the Built Environment", "description": "This course introduces the main AI applications in the built environment. Students will study the fundamental background of AI, machine learning, data processing and uncertainty analysis, followed by AI applications in the built environment. Major topics include fundamentals of AI, classification, prediction, clustering, fault detection and diagnosis of HVAC system, energy consumption forecasting and solar energy generation optimization."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3301", "title": "Maintainability of Facilities", "description": "This course covers the maintainability issues of various categories of facilities under tropical conditions, focusing on buildings. It aims to improve the standard and quality of design, construction and maintenance practices so as to produce efficient buildings that require minimal maintenance. The course examines the durability, sustainability and maintainability of various materials and components to set benchmarks for the selection of materials, components and systems for better maintainability. The basic principles involved in building pathology-diagnosis and repair are covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3305", "title": "Facilities Planning and Design", "description": "This course covers the fundamental principles of planning and designing of facilities such as space allocation, planning and implementation. The topics include facilities management planning process, space and design basics, human factors, universal design, programming, site analysis, master planning, environmental planning, capital planning, space management, design for various facility types."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3306", "title": "Facilities Management Law And Contracts", "description": "This module covers the legal aspects of facilities management (FM) in Singapore. Major topics include legal aspects of property; town councils; building maintenance; strata management; building control; occupational safety and health; environment and waste management; fire safety; FM operations; torts in FM; FM contracts; and events management."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3307", "title": "Strategic Facilities Management", "description": "This module covers the strategic aspects of facilities management: strategy formulation, planning, studying options, delivery and review. Emphasis is put on the strategy and business of the organisation and how this translates into the outcomes for the physical workplace. Topics include strategic facilities management framework; the need for coordination between workflow and space; facilities management system and tools; the procedures; automation; integrated FM systems; and strategic FM case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3401", "title": "Practical Training Scheme", "description": "This course covers the application of knowledge gained from academic studies to practical situations in the relevant local or foreign industry. There are also opportunities for students to be employed on funded research projects undertaken by staff members of the department. Through practical work experience, the course facilitates the development of valuable workplace and communication skills. Students are required to undergo twelve (12) weeks of approved practical training at the end of the second semester in their Second or Third Year of study. They are to submit a Log Book, an Interim Report, and an Academic Report for assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3502", "title": "Smart Facilities", "description": "Smart Facilities ensure that the various \u201cintelligent\u201d aspects of buildings such as building management systems, automated building systems ( ACMV, Water, Fire, Lighting etc ) all work in sync to optimize the overall functionality of a building. Major topics include Internet of Things (IoT), design and use of sensors to collect data, data analysis and visualization, and building control and automation."}, {"moduleCode": "PF3504", "title": "Sustainable Energy Management", "description": "This course adopts a two-pronged approach towards energy management that involves 1) reducing electrical energy consumption and 2) increasing renewable energy generation for sustainable green buildings. Topics include the Plan-Do-Check-Act principles under the ISO 50001 for Energy Management, quantitative energy analysis, relevant codes of practice, building energy performance, and benchmarking. Current topics such as scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and carbon calculations will be introduced, along with discussions on renewable energy certificates and incorporating solar photovoltaic systems. Furthermore, students will be provided with skills to assess energy projects."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4101", "title": "Dissertation", "description": "In this course, students demonstrate their research, analytical and communication skills by investigating a topic of interest to them, and of relevance to the programme. The student is expected to demonstrate an ability to pursue unaided investigations relevant to the topic chose, to communicate the findings clearly, concisely and with detachment, to draw relevant conclusions, and to offer suitable recommendations."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4102", "title": "Contract and Procurement Management", "description": "This course covers the fundamental principles of administering projects from the client\u2019s perspective by developing further, and applying, students\u2019 knowledge of project management law. Major topics are procurement systems, valuation of work done based on the Security of Payment Act, valuation of variations and financial control of projects. Students are recommended to take PF1107 Infrastructure and Project Management Law and PF3207 Project Management Law before taking this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4203", "title": "Project Dispute Management", "description": "This course covers the fundamental legal principles relating to disputes on projects in the various stages of preparation of documents, formation of contract, contract administration including documentation and issues of evidence; methods of dispute resolution including contractual mechanism, summary judgment, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), statutory adjudication, arbitration; enforcement and insolvency; and legal approaches to disputes with third parties."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4208", "title": "Safety and Health Management", "description": "This module covers the knowledge required to manage projects to comply with safety and health standards, codes and regulations. Major topics include incident causation model; risk assessment and management; design for safety; safety management system; safety culture; incident investigation; and common construction safety hazards and controls."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4209", "title": "Construction Enterprise Management", "description": "This course covers aspects of construction enterprise management. Major topics include the nature of construction enterprise; productivity and innovation; business ethics; business structure; leadership and organization behaviour; bonds and insurance; financial analysis and management; strategic planning and management; business development; human resource management; information management; and enterprise quality management."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4211", "title": "Construction 3D Printing", "description": "This course covers 3D printing construction techniques (additive manufacturing) with a strong focus on 3D and 4D printable materials for smart digital construction and fast prototyping applications. Major topics include 3D printing fabrication techniques, additive materials and nanomaterials, and material properties enhancement."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4212", "title": "Advanced Building Information Modelling", "description": "This module covers the nature and potential of BIM to integrate with spatial information in facilities management. Topics include the principles of Integrated Digital Delivery Management, the supporting infrastructure, implementation and the financial aspects of Integrated Digital Delivery Management (IDDM) and Building Information Modelling (BIM)."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4213", "title": "Building Energy Analysis and Simulation", "description": "This course discusses the main concepts and applications of building energy simulation. The main focus of the course is on design decision support using simulation tools to evaluate the impact of different passive designs and active systems. We will also review various key performance indicators, such as peak loads, energy consumption, thermal, and visual comfort. Students will also learn about the energy modelling methodology for Green Mark."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4306", "title": "REITs Facilities Management", "description": "This course examines the theories and industry practices of facilities management in Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). It examines the strategic planning, designing for maximum efficiency and managing of lettable spaces for various REITs facilities and how it develops into a viable working model for the business. Emphasis is put on the coordination of the physical REITs workplace with the tenants and the work of the organisation."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4309", "title": "Infrastructure Operations and Maintenance", "description": "This course covers aspects of operations and maintenance for typical infrastructure and facilities. Major topics include the organization of O&M teams; resource deployments; O&M contracts & execution; management; insurances; use of various systems related to building works/ mechanical/electrical/ plumbing/ fire protection; and O&M management systems."}, {"moduleCode": "PF4502", "title": "Green Development", "description": "This multi-disciplinary studio-based course integrates environmentally responsive development, design and construction. The emphasis is on how environmental considerations affect the entire project cycle. Major topics include feasibility study; site planning; building designs; Green Mark assessment; approvals; construction; and occupancy."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2112", "title": "Non-Classical Logic", "description": "Non-classical logic builds on classical logic in two ways.\nFirst, classical logic can be extended with modal\noperators, to reason about necessity and possibility,\nobligation and permission, and past and future.\nClassical logic can also be weakened, to accommodate\nvagueness, paradox, failures of relevance and circular\nreasoning. In this course, non-classical logic is\nexplored in both these directions."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2113", "title": "Computation and Philosophy", "description": "This course introduces students to the basic principles of computation, particularly as they pertain to philosophy and related fields. Along the way, students will develop fluency with Python, a popular and easyto-learn programming language. Although the course will contain philosophical themes, it may serve as a general introduction to computation for students in all disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2114", "title": "Logic and its Limits", "description": "This is a course on the metatheory of first-order predicate logic. It focuses on the strengths and limits of first-order languages, their semantics, and the calculi for first-order logic, along with some first-order theories, such as Peano Arithmetic and Zermerlo-Fraenkel set theory. It also explores these strengths and limitations, and their consequences, from a philosophical point of view."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2201", "title": "Introduction to Philosophy Of Science", "description": "This course provides a broad overview of the major philosophical issues related to natural science to students of both science and humanities without a background in philosophy. It introduces the views on the distinctive features of science and scientific progress espoused by influential contemporary philosophers of science such as Popper and Kuhn. There is also a topical treatment of core issues in philosophy of science, including causation, confirmation, explanation, scientific inference, scientific realism, and laws of nature."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2202", "title": "Major Political Philosophers", "description": "This course will introduce students to some of the major political philosophers in the Western tradition by examining their different views on such issues as the nature and basis of justice, its relation to equality and liberty, the justification of the state, and the basis of political obligation."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2203", "title": "Major Moral Philosophers", "description": "This course will introduce students to some of the major moral philosophers in the Western tradition by examining their different approaches to the question of what we should do or how we should be, including deontological, consequentialist and virtue-based approaches. We will critically analyze these philosophers\u2019 approaches using historical and contemporary sources."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2204", "title": "Introduction to Indian Thought", "description": "This course is designed to survey the history of Indian philosophy both classical and modern. The course will begin with lectures on the Rig Veda and the Upanishads. It will proceed with the presentation of the main metaphysical and epistemological doctrines of some of the major schools of classical Indian philosophy such as Vedanta, Samkhya, Nyaya, Jainism and Buddhism. The course will conclude by considering the philosophical contributions of some of the architects of modern India such as Rammohan Ray, Rabindrananth Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2206", "title": "Founders of Modern Philosophy", "description": "This course looks at the beginnings of modern Western philosophy in the seventeenth century, when philosophers conceived of themselves as breaking away from authority and tradition. It will deal with central themes from the thought of Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz and Spinoza; in particular, the attempt to provide foundations for knowledge and science."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2207", "title": "Hume and Kant", "description": "Two major philosophers are studied in this course: David Hume, in the first half, and Immanuel Kant, in the second. We will try to determine what each philosopher's fundamental approach to philosophy consists in, and how it gives rise to his views on the nature of causation, the external world, the self, and the limits of knowledge. As Kant's first Critique was a response to Hume's philosophical scepticism, we will pay close attention to his diagnoses of Hume's difficulties and his proposed solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2208", "title": "Applied Ethics", "description": "This course considers some of the significant normative ethical theories in the history of moral philosophy and examines how their principles may be applied to ethical issues of practical concern. There is a wide range of topics that are typically understood to come under the category of applied ethics. These include ethical issues pertaining to the family, food, race relations, poverty, punishment, conduct in war, professional conduct in general, and so on. The specific topics to be dealt with may vary from semester to semester, and the selection will be announced at the start of the semester in which the course is offered."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2209", "title": "Philosophy of Art", "description": "Art and aesthetics raises deep philosophical puzzles. Sunsets are beautiful because they\u2019re pleasing. But they seem pleasing because they\u2019re beautiful. Galleries display some things because they\u2019re art. But some things are art because galleries display them. Just as the Mona Lisa resembles Lisa, she resembles it. But she does not represent it as it represents her. When one watches a horror film one feels fear, but one does not run away. When one listens to instrumental music one feels sad, but there\u2019s nothing one is sad about. This course addresses the central philosophical questions with which these puzzles are entangled."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2211", "title": "Philosophy of Religion", "description": "This course will introduce students to the main issues in contemporary philosophy of religion. Topics covered will be selected from the following (other topics may also be considered): arguments for the existence of God (cosmological, ontological, teleological), argument for atheism (problem of evil), religious pluralism, nature of mystical experiences, the nature of miracles, the nature of religious language."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2212", "title": "Introduction to Continental Philosophy", "description": "An introduction to some of the main figures and movements of Continental European Philosophy. The purpose is to provide a broad synoptic view of the Continental tradition with special attention paid to historical development. Topics to be discussed include phenomenology, existentialism, structuralism, hermeneutics, Critical Theory, and post\u2010structuralism/post\u2010modernism. Thinkers to be discussed include Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Levi\u2010Strauss, Derrida, Gadamer, Habermas, Lyotard and Levinas. The main objective is to familiarize the student with the key concepts, ideas and arguments in the Continental tradition."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2213", "title": "Metaphysics", "description": "Broadly speaking, Metaphysics is the study of fundamental conceptual categories, including that of space and time, appearance and reality, mind and body, substance and existence, objects and their properties, and God. These concepts pertain to the structure of \"ultimate reality\" and generate perplexing philosophical issues, a sample of which will be discussed in this course. Some topics: the problem of universals, paradoxes of the infinite, the concept of God, paradoxes of time travel, problems of cause and effect, free will, fatalism and determinism, the mind-body problem, realism and idealism, existence, identity, and individuation, essentialism, the relation between logic and metaphysics."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2216", "title": "Environmental Philosophy", "description": "This course will provide an introduction to some standard accounts of how humans ought to relate to the natural environment. We begin by examining the issue of whether only humans are entitled to moral consideration, and go on to consider what other objects might be deserving of such consideration. We then explore how our attitude towards the natural world is shaped by what we take to be morally considerable."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2218", "title": "Business Ethics", "description": "This course will help students identify and think critically about the ethical dimensions of markets and business organizations and provide tools for making informed and ethically responsible decisions relating to workplace issues. Specific topics may include justifications for free markets and government intervention, corporate governance and economic democracy, managerial compensation, price discrimination, hiring discrimination, employment at will, privacy and safety in the workplace, advertising, product liability, the environment, whistle-blowing, and international business."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2219", "title": "Critical Theory and Hermeneutics", "description": "This course will trace an intellectual dialogue between two central traditions in 20th Century European philosophy: the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and post-Heideggerian Hermeneutics. The course will provide an introduction to the main thinkers of both traditions: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse for the Frankfurt School and Martin Heidegger, Hans Georg Gadamer and Paul Riceour for the Hermeneuticists. We will also examine different conceptualisations of reason and how both schools were shaped by their attempts to grapple with, and respond to, the implications of understanding reason as a practice conditioned by particular histories and forms of life."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2220", "title": "Social Philosophy and Policy", "description": "This course is a study of the different ways societies organize their political, economic, and other social institutions, with an emphasis on the philosophical principles that justify (or don\u2019t) alternative social arrangements. Topics will include different systems of social organization (capitalism, socialism, and democracy), specific policies (taxation, redistribution), and related normative concepts and theories (feminism, individualism, collectivism, community, freedom, equality, rule of law)."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2221", "title": "Medical Ethics", "description": "This course will help students identify and think critically about the ethical dimensions of the medical profession and the provision of medical care and provide tools for making informed and ethically responsible decisions relating to healthcare issues. Specific topics may include the ethics of abortion, euthanasia, physician assisted suicide, physician-patient relationships, organ procurement, bio-medical research, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2222", "title": "Greek Philosophy (Socrates and Plato)", "description": "Socrates and Plato stand at the source of the Western Philosophical tradition. Alfred Whitehead said that \u201cthe safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.\u201d Through a close reading and analysis of several representative Platonic dialogues, this course introduces the student to the philosophy of Plato and Socrates (Plato\u2019s teacher and main interlocutor in his dialogues), and prepares him/her for PH 3222 on Aristotle\u2019s philosophy and the Honours seminar on Greek Thinkers. The course may include material on earlier Philosophy forming the background to Socrates and Plato."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2223", "title": "Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology", "description": "This course looks at the philosophical problems arising from technology and its relation to nature and human values. In doing so, it draws on a number of philosophical approaches and traditions. Among the topics to be discussed are the relation between science and technology, the way technology has shaped our perception of nature and human experience, and the ethical challenges posed by technological progress. Potential topics to be discussed will include the concept of risk, issues in environmental ethics, and socialepistemological problems arising from communication technology."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2224", "title": "Philosophy and Film", "description": "\"Philosophy and Film\" means, in part, philosophy of film, in part, philosophy in film. Philosophy of film is a sub-branch of aesthetics; many questions and puzzles about the nature and value of art have filmic analogues. (Plato's parable of the cave is, in effect, the world's first philosophy of film.) Philosophy in film concerns films that may be said to express abstract ideas, even arguments. (Certain films may even be thought-experiments, in effect.) Questions: are philosophical films good films? Are they good philosophy? The course is intended for majors but - film being a popular medium - will predictably appeal to non-majors as well. (This course is offered as special"}, {"moduleCode": "PH2226", "title": "Concept of Nature in Inquiry", "description": "This course examines the development of the concept of nature, the different roles it serves in the inquiry of various disciplines, from philosophy, the natural sciences, to literature and art, how these disciplines transform our conceptions of nature over time, and influence our interactions with nature. The course will compare different cultural traditions in their understandings of, attitudes towards, and practical interactions with, nature. It will also examine the barriers created by disciplinary differences and specializations and consider the potential of more integrated approaches to human interactions with nature."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2227", "title": "Games and Philosophy", "description": "Games can and do serve as a medium for communicating philosophical ideas. For instance, what is freedom? Are moral dilemmas possible? What is reality? Equally, philosophy can shed light on the nature of games. For instance, can games be art? What is skill and luck? What is the nature of artificial intelligence? This course will serve to explore some of these issues, using games and philosophical texts in tandem to explore various issues about what it is to be a human, and what it is to be a gamer."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2241", "title": "Philosophy of Mind", "description": "What is the nature of mind and its relation to physical body? The mental realm is among the last great unknowns in the modern view of sentient beings and their place in the Universe and is a fertile field of philosophical inquiry. This course examines central conceptual issues surrounding the idea of mind and its relation to physical body. These include the distinction between the mental and the physical, the nature of consciousness, personal identity, disembodied existence, mental representation, and the attempt to tame the mental in purely physical terms."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2242", "title": "Philosophy of Language", "description": "Topics in the philosophy of language, especially concerning truth, meaning and reference. In particular, we will consider questions such as but not limited to whether language is mediated by convention or intention, whether understanding a language is tacitly knowing a theory of that language, whether the meaning of a name is simply its referent, whether mathematical and moral statements are true in virtue of meaning and whether sentences such as \u2018breaking promises is wrong\u2019 are statements of moral fact or simply expressions of emotion."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2243", "title": "Epistemology", "description": "Epistemology is the study of knowledge. Epistemologists want to know what knowledge is, how we acquire it, and how we should respond to arguments for philosophical scepticism, according to which there is very little that we know. We shall read the works of philosophers who have grappled with such perennial issues in philosophy, and explore and discuss various theories of knowledge. Along the way, we shall also discuss related issues having to do with justification, rationality, and the reliability of memory, testimony, intuition, sensory perception, and inductive reasoning."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2301", "title": "Classical Chinese Philosophy I", "description": "This is the first half of a two-part course which offers an introduction to philosophical debate in the Warring States period of ancient China, the Classical Age of Chinese Philosophy and the seedbed from which grew all of the native currents of thought that survived from traditional China. It will begin by considering the intellectual-historical background to the ancient philosophies and focus primarily on the Confucius (the Analects), Mozi, Yang Zhu, Mencius and Laozi, closing with a brief introduction to some of the later developments that will be covered more fully in Part II. The approach of the course will be both historical and critical, and we will attempt to"}, {"moduleCode": "PH2302", "title": "Chinese Philosophical Traditions I", "description": "This is the first half of a two-part course on Chinese Philosophy. This course surveys the philosophical discourse of the period from early Han dynasty up to the close of the Tang dynasty. We begin by considering the philosophical developments in Confucianism and Xuan Xue thought. Then, we turn to the arrival of Buddhism in China and survey the transformations in Chinese Buddhist philosophy through the Tang. We will treat these thinkers and their ideas in their proper historical contexts and evaluate their philosophies critically. We will also address and assess the relevance of these ideas to contemporary philosophical debates."}, {"moduleCode": "PH2880", "title": "Topics in Philosophy", "description": ":Topics\" designates a category of course, not a specific course. The category exists to allow the occasional teaching of specialised subjects outside of the department's set of standard offerings."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3201", "title": "Philosophy of Social Science", "description": "The founding of social science as a special discipline for the study of social phenomena in the late nineteenth century and its development through the twentieth century will be examined in this course. The critique of the physical science model, which was originally used to ground the theory of social science research, will be considered. This course guides students through the various philosophical debates, which shaped the development of modern social science. Attention will also be given to how social science research bears, directly or indirectly, on social practices."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3202", "title": "Philosophy of Law", "description": "This course examines the relationship between law and morality. Is there a necessary connection between law and morality? Must a valid law, or legal system, satisfy certain minimal moral requirements? Is there a moral obligation to obey a valid law, irrespective of its content, or is there a significant difference between moral obligation and legal obligation? How should a judge decide hard cases where no legal rule applies? Should these decisions be based on sound moral considerations? The course will discuss these issues in the light of contemporary debates in legal and political theory, and in the context of some important texts."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3203", "title": "Moral Philosophy", "description": "This course is concerned with an area in Moral Philosophy called 'meta-ethics'. Meta-ethics is a discussion of the nature of ethics. It is a second-order, reflective activity about ethics, and not a first-order discussion of the rights and wrongs of particular issues within ethics. Beginning with non-naturalism, the course proceeds to discuss emotivism, prescriptivism, descriptivism or naturalism, culminating in current discussion of moral realism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3204", "title": "Issues in Indian Philosophy", "description": "This course is designed to survey developments in Indian Philosophy in post-independence India. Figures may include, among others, Radhakrishnan, K. C. Bhattacharya, Kalidas Bhattacharya, J. N. Mohanty, Bimal Krishna Matilal, J. L. Mehta and Daya Krishna. Two broad topics will be considered first, the contemporary re-evaluation of the classical Indian tradition; and secondly, the efforts at situating the Indian tradition within the global philosophical discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3206", "title": "Recent Philosophy", "description": "This course looks at the development of twentieth century analytic philosophy through the works of some of its major exponents. These include Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore, Austin and Quine. The fundamental assumption in analytic philosophy is the idea that all philosophical problems are really problems of language and may be solved either by reformulating them in a perfect language or by a better understanding of the language that we actually speak. One of the aims of this course is to show how certain problems in ethics, metaphysics and epistemology may be solved (or dissolved) through the careful analysis of language and meaning."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3207", "title": "Continental European Philosophy", "description": "Using Existentialism as a springboard, the course discusses recent movements in Continental Philosophy. Objectives: (1) Introduce major movements in Continental Philosophy, (2) Promote understanding of the characteristics of Continental Philosophy, (3) Encourage further study in Continental Philosophy. Topics include existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism. Target students include all those wanting to major in philosophy and those wanting to have some knowledge of European philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3208", "title": "Buddhist Philosophy", "description": "As Buddhist philosophical issues and logic were only established in the course of Mahayanic development, we will study Mahayanic issues such as icchantika and the Mahayanic theory of knowledge. Under the latter, topics such as the concept of Buddha nature, reality, sources of knowledge, sensations, reflexes, conceptions, judgement, inferences, etc. will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3213", "title": "Knowledge, Modernity and Global Change", "description": "This course focuses on the ways in which modern science and technology impact on the forms-of-life which cultures and societies have built up for their collective self-understanding and biological survival. Issues in epistemology and how changes in the concept of \"reason\" have contributed to the project of modernity will be explored. The role of technology in its simultaneous creation and destruction of social-material wealth will also be considered. This discussion will be tied to an examination of certain key issues in environmental ethics, social theory, and cultural studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3214", "title": "Philosophy and Literature", "description": "The course will consider, side by side, certain `philosophical' works of literature and more orthodox philosophical works. The idea is to explore the ways and degrees to which it makes sense - also, the ways and degrees to which it does not make sense - to say that this work of fiction (a novel, say) is really about the same thing that this philosophical text is about. Turning the point around: when philosophers - like Plato or Nietzsche - employ literary techniques more characteristic of fiction, what philosophical work is hereby done?"}, {"moduleCode": "PH3216", "title": "Comparative Environmental Ethics", "description": "This course examines how various traditions, both East and West, perceive the relationship between humans and the natural world. It will compare how, e.g., Christianity, the secular West, Hinduism, Taoism and Confucianism conceive of this relation. Commonalities and differences in the respective approaches will be discussed and highlighted. Environmental issues are now in the forefront of global attention. Our current environmental problems may arguably be said to ultimately trace their roots to (implicit) metaphysical assumptions, to cultural or religious attitudes towards the natural world, to ethical perspectives that do not accord moral consideration to non-humans."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3217", "title": "Feminist Philosophy", "description": "This course deals with philosophy by women (eg Christine de Pisan, Hildegaard von Bingen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ban Zhao, Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum) and philosophy about women, to counter the perceived neglect of these in many philosophical discourses. Students are encouraged to reflect critically about their own experiences as men and women who live in a gendered world, to think through the implications of gender: how women's experience may challenge some fundamental assumptions regarding human nature, femininity and masculinity, sexuality and the body, public and private life, subjectivity and representation. We will explore how these challenges to philosophy may be met."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3218", "title": "Introduction to Comparative Philosophy", "description": "This course, designed for students with some philosophical training in both western and non-western philosophy, brings together traditions of philosophy that have developed in relative isolation from one another for the purpose of comparing how different cultures have approached and thematized major issues such as knowledge, truth, values (ethical, religious, social, political and aesthetic) and the practices they inform, language and the place of the human. It aims to elucidate the assumptions implicit in different ways of thinking about these issues and investigate how issues may be related in the light of these assumptions."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3222", "title": "Greek Philosophy (Aristotle)", "description": "Aristotle is one of the two most important ancient Greek philosophers. This course complements the level 2000 course, PH 2222 Greek Philosophy (Socrates and Plato), and adds to the preparation for the Honours seminar on Greek Thinkers. Readings will be selected from various works representing the wide range of Aristotle\u2019s philosophical interests and achievements. In-depth exploration of a specific area (e.g. metaphysics, or ethics) or topic (e.g. theory of the soul or practical wisdom) will focus on one or two key texts. The course may include later Hellenistic philosophy (e.g. Epicureanism, stoicism, or scepticism) or contemporary development of Aristotle\u2019s philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3230", "title": "Normative Ethical Theory", "description": "This course is a study of the main contending contemporary views about goodness and virtue, principles of moral evaluation, and moral decision-making. These include deontological, consequentialist, and contemporary virtuebased and contractarian theories. Emphasis will be placed on securing a thorough understanding the arguments used to derive fundamental moral principles and to justify claims about our moral obligations. Such study aims to reveal the kinds of issues that are involved in analyzing what constitutes rational considerations for moral action, and the strengths and weaknesses of the rival theories."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3241", "title": "Consciousness", "description": "One of the main problems of consciousness concerns whether consciousness can be explained solely in terms of brain activity and the like. Some philosophers think so. After all, science has successfully explained various cognitive functions in such terms, and it\u2019s natural to think that its success will eventually extend to consciousness. Other philosophers disagree, finding it hard to fathom how consciousness can arise from the purely physical. To help us decide which answer is correct, we shall examine various important positions on the nature of consciousness including physicalism, dualism, eliminativism, and idealism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3242", "title": "The Self", "description": "The self is a philosophical crossroads where mind, metaphysics, and morals come together to bear on questions of profound interest to all who partake of the human condition. Topics to be covered include the spatial and temporal boundaries of the self, the rationality (or otherwise) of the fear of death, the idea that the self is an illusion, the idea that it is a social construction, and the relative importance of biology, psychology, and phenomenology to the question of who we are."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3243", "title": "Chance and Uncertainty", "description": "We often appeal to probabilistic notions in everyday life. We say things such as \u2018It\u2019ll probably rain later\u2019, \u2018It\u2019s unlikely that an asteroid will collide with Earth any time soon\u2019, and \u2018There\u2019s a chance that the restaurant will be open\u2019. But what exactly is probability? We shall investigate various answers to this question by looking at various theories of probability, including the subjective theory, the epistemic theory, the frequency theory, and the propensity theory. Along the way, we\u2019ll see how issues in the philosophy of probability bear on issues in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3244", "title": "Appearance and Reality", "description": "Plato holds that the world of sensible objects is a mere shadow of an ideal realm that transcends experience. Locke maintains that sensible objects have intrinsic natures that are exhausted by a small number of basic spatial and temporal properties. Kant argues that we can never know the natures of things in themselves, beyond the fact that they give us certain senseimpressions. Mill construes a physical object as a bare propensity for sensations to occur in certain patterns. In this course, students engage with the major metaphysical systems of Western philosophy, examining how each coordinates subjective experience with objective reality."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3245", "title": "Language and Thought", "description": "Topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind and language, such as whether thought depends on talk or vice versa, whether we think in words or images, whether those words are words of English or a sui generis mental language just for thinking, whether animals which can\u2019t talk can think and whether the mind is like a computer. These questions are central to contemporary philosophy and language and are also an important case study in the relationship between the methods of analysis, experiment and introspection in philosophical psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3246", "title": "Paradoxes", "description": "This course is a survey of classic paradoxes, ancient and modern. No mere brain\u2010teasers, these riddles have exercised some of history\u2019s best minds, often with startling results. How is motion possible? What is a gamble at given odds worth? Is time travel possible? Why do nations honor their treaty obligations? What are numbers? The contemplation of paradoxes drives the search for answers to these questions and more, and by grappling with the paradoxes, students gain familiarity with key techniques and concepts of decision theory and logical analysis which are useful both in philosophy and other fields of inquiry."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3247", "title": "Philosophical Logic", "description": "This course considers topics in philosophical logic. Consider, for example: 'This sentence is false'. If it is true, it is false. But if it is false, it is true. Resolving the paradox is extremely difficult, requiring revision to classical logic or the theory of truth. The course will cover this and other topics in philosophical logic such as vagueness and the sorites paradox, the paradoxes of material implication, essentialism and necessity, and probability and induction, all of which turn out to be deeply entangled with hard philosophical questions."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3250", "title": "Quantification and Modality", "description": "According to classical logic all names refer to existing things, and it\u2019s a tautology that something exists. Moreover, the simplest combination of propositional modal logic with classical predicate logic is constant domain modal logic, according to which everything which in fact exists necessarily exists. This course investigates free logics, which relax the assumptions of classical predicate logic, and variable domain modal logics, which allow different things to exist in different possibilities. Finally, it covers quantification in intuitionist, many-valued and relevant logics."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3251", "title": "The Nature of Truth", "description": "This course investigates controversies surrounding the nature of truth, a notion which is of central interest but which generates widespread and fundamental disagreement. We will address questions like: Is truth an objective matter, independent of how we conceive it, or is it relative to cultures or worldviews? Can there be truths that are unknowable in principle? How should our understanding of truth be affected by fundamental and far-reaching paradoxes involving the concept? Does truth even have a nature at all? Discussing these questions will also shed light on other important philosophical notions, such as reality, objectivity, knowledge, justification, and representation."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3252", "title": "Introduction to Philosophy of Mathematics", "description": "This course investigates some of the deep and puzzling philosophical issues arising from mathematics. Some are metaphysical and semantic: What is mathematics about? Are there such things as mathematical objects (numbers, functions, sets, etc), and if so, do they exist in the same way as more familiar entities such as tables and chairs? Others are epistemological: How do we obtain mathematical knowledge? Does it arise from pure reason alone, or does the empirical world play a role? In the course of addressing such questions, we will examine a number of influential views, including logicism, constructivism, platonism, fictionalism, and structuralism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3261", "title": "Kant's Critique of Pure Reason", "description": "Kant is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers, if not the greatest, and his Critique of Pure Reason is widely considered his greatest work. This course will delve into this work, entering into the intricate framework of Kant\u2019s Transcendental Idealism. Major topics include Space and Time, the Categories, the Analogies (focusing on causation) and the Antinomies (focusing on the issue of freedom). Although the course focuses primarily on Kant\u2019s metaphysics and epistemology, this grounding is expected to improve one\u2019s understanding of the basis of Kant\u2019s ethics, particularly when dealing with the Transcendental Dialectic."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3301", "title": "Classical Chinese Philosophy II", "description": "This is the second part of a two part course which offers an introduction to philosophical debate in the Warring States period of ancient China, the Classical Age of Chinese Philosophy and the seedbed from which grew all of the native currents of thought that survived from traditional China. Continuing from Part I, we will be discussing Later Mohist Logic, Gongsun Long and other \u2018Sophists\u2019, Zhuangzi, Xunzi and Hanfeizi in this course. The approach of the course will be both historical and critical, and we will attempt to both situate Classical Chinese philosophical discourse in its intellectual-historical context and to bring out its continuing relevance."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3302", "title": "Chinese Philosophical Traditions 2", "description": "This second half of a two-part course on Chinese Philosophical Traditions focuses on Early Modern Chinese Philosophy. This course focuses on the changes in the Confucian tradition between the late Tang through the Qing. We cover the main figures in Neo-Confucianism, and examine in detail the philosophies of Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and Wang Yangming (1472-1529). We close with a discussion of the philological turn in the Qing dynasty. We treat these thinkers and their ideas in their proper historical contexts and evaluate their philosophies critically. We also address and assess the relevance of these ideas to contemporary philosophical debates."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3311", "title": "Applied Epistemology", "description": "Epistemologists have recently been applying the tools of their trade to issues of practical import. Some examples include the issue of how to define fake news, of who to believe when purported experts disagree, of whether or why it is good to have a diversity of views, of whether stereotyping or profiling is ever epistemically beneficial when making medical diagnoses or designing algorithms, and of how we should balance any potential epistemic benefits against ethical costs in such cases. This course aims to equip students with the epistemological tools required to understand, discuss, and analyse such issues in depth."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project.\n\nUROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed.\n\nUROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "PH3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4201", "title": "Philosophy of Science", "description": "This course addresses important issues concerning the structure and development of scientific knowledge. These involve questions regarding the character of scientific method, the demarcation of scientific theories from other types of theories, whether the growth of science can be characterised as cumulative and progressive, the role of socio-cultural factors in shaping the content of scientific theories, the criteria deployed to determine which of a number of competing theories are scientifically acceptable, and the extent to which scientific theories can be said to give a realistic description of the world."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4201HM", "title": "Philosophy of Science", "description": "This course addresses important issues concerning the structure and development of scientific knowledge. These involve questions regarding the character of scientific method, the demarcation of scientific theories from other types of theories, whether the growth of science can be characterised as cumulative and progressive, the role of socio-cultural factors in shaping the content of scientific theories, the criteria deployed to determine which of a number of competing theories are scientifically acceptable, and the extent to which scientific theories can be said to give a realistic description of the world."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4202", "title": "Political Philosophy", "description": "This module will discuss some of the central issues in political philosophy such as the basis and limits of toleration and individual liberty, the importance of a shared morality, and the role of the state in meeting the claims of different conceptions of what a worthwhile life should be. In plural societies, with a diversity of different values, what would be a fair basis for social co-operation?"}, {"moduleCode": "PH4202HM", "title": "Political Philosophy", "description": "This course will discuss some of the central issues in political philosophy such as the basis and limits of toleration and individual liberty, the importance of a shared morality, and the role of the state in meeting the claims of different conceptions of what a worthwhile life should be. In plural societies, with a diversity of different values, what would be a fair basis for social co-operation?"}, {"moduleCode": "PH4203", "title": "Issues in Moral Philosophy", "description": "This course examines different issues in meta-ethics or normative ethics. It asks questions such as: Can ought be derived from is? Are there natural laws? Is morality about an agent\u2019s character or actions? Are actions morally justified by consequences or compliance with moral laws or principles? It may also examine and assess different schools of moral philosophy, such as utilitarianism, Kantian ethics or virtue ethics, or a current debate among moral philosophers, for example, the nature and role of intuition, or emotions, in acting morally."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4203HM", "title": "Issues in Moral Philosophy", "description": "This course examines different issues in meta-ethics or normative ethics. It asks questions such as: Can ought be derived from is? Are there natural laws? Is morality about an agent\u2019s character or actions? Are actions morally justified by consequences or compliance with moral laws or principles? It may also examine and assess different schools of moral philosophy, such as utilitarianism, Kantian ethics or virtue ethics, or a current debate among moral philosophers, for example, the nature and role of intuition, or emotions, in acting morally."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4204", "title": "Topics in Indian Philosophy", "description": "An in-depth study of a major topic in Indian philosophy. We may study a particular philosopher such as Sankara or Nagarjuna. We may concentrate on a particular school of Indian Philosophy such as Advaita Vedanta or Madhyamika. We may also consider modern Indian thought within the context of contemporary cultural theory by considering figures such as Tagore or Gandhi."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4204HM", "title": "Topics in Indian Philosophy", "description": "An in-depth study of a major topic in Indian philosophy. We may study a particular philosopher such as Sankara or Nagarjuna. We may concentrate on a particular school of Indian Philosophy such as Advaita Vedanta or Madhyamika. We may also consider modern Indian thought within the context of contemporary cultural theory by considering figures such as Tagore or Gandhi."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4205", "title": "Topics in East Asian Philosophy", "description": "Specific topics from in East Asian Philosophy (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean) will be discussed in the course. The aim is to introduce students to a more in depth study of traditional East Asian Philosophical texts and issues debated in them. The texts selected will focus on specific topics and traditions and will vary from year to year."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4205HM", "title": "Topics in East Asian Philosophy", "description": "Specific topics from in East Asian Philosophy (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean) will be discussed in the course. The aim is to introduce students to a more in depth study of traditional East Asian Philosophical texts and issues debated in them. The texts selected will focus on specific topics and traditions and will vary from year to year."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4206", "title": "A Major Philosopher", "description": "A study of the work of a major figure in philosophy. The philosopher studied may be from the Asian or Western tradition, from any period up to the present day. The philosopher selected may be someone important who has not been given much coverage in other courses."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4206HM", "title": "A Major Philosopher", "description": "A study of the work of a major figure in philosophy. The philosopher studied may be from the Asian or Western tradition, from any period up to the present day. The philosopher selected may be someone important who has not been given much coverage in other courses."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4207", "title": "Phenomenology", "description": "This course will deal with the thought of the four major classical phenomenologists: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean Paul Sartre. Readings will be selected from Husserl's Ideas and Cartesian Meditations, Heidegger's Being and Time, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and Sartre's Being and Nothingness."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4207HM", "title": "Phenomenology", "description": "This course will deal with the thought of the four major classical phenomenologists: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean Paul Sartre. Readings will be selected from Husserl's Ideas and Cartesian Meditations, Heidegger's Being and Time, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception and Sartre's Being and Nothingness."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4208", "title": "Topics in Buddhism", "description": "A study of the work of a major figure in philosophy. The philosopher studied may be from the Asian or Western tradition, from any period up to the present day. The philosopher selected may be someone important who has not been given much coverage in other courses. This course deals with specific Buddhist thinkers and philosophical schools. Topics chosen vary from year to year, and could include the philosophy of Madhyamaka, Zen Buddhism, the Three Treatise School, Vasubandhu, Nagarjuna, and major figures in Chinese Buddhism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4208HM", "title": "Topics in Buddhism", "description": "A study of the work of a major figure in philosophy. The philosopher studied may be from the Asian or Western tradition, from any period up to the present day. The philosopher selected may be someone important who has not been given much coverage in other courses. This course deals with specific Buddhist thinkers and philosophical schools. Topics chosen vary from year to year, and could include the philosophy of Madhyamaka, Zen Buddhism, the Three Treatise School, Vasubandhu, Nagarjuna, and major figures in Chinese Buddhism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4209", "title": "Greek Thinkers", "description": "An examination of selected texts from the pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, as well as philosophers of the Stoic, Epicurean and Sceptic schools of thought. The emphasis may vary from year to year, and may focus on ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, or philosophy of mind."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4209HM", "title": "Greek Thinkers", "description": "An examination of selected texts from the pre-Socratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, as well as philosophers of the Stoic, Epicurean and Sceptic schools of thought. The emphasis may vary from year to year, and may focus on ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, or philosophy of mind."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4210", "title": "Topics in Western Philosophy", "description": "This course deals with specific topics of current interest and controversy in Western philosophy. The topics to be discussed may be in, but are not limited to, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, or social and political philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4210HM", "title": "Topics in Western Philosophy", "description": "This course deals with specific topics of current interest and controversy in Western philosophy. The topics to be discussed may be in, but are not limited to, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, or social and political philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4211", "title": "Issues in Epistemology", "description": "This course will explore an advanced topic in epistemology in depth. Some possible topics are the problem of scepticism, including realist and anti\u2010realist responses to it, the nature of certainty and the relationship of knowledge to chance and credence, the internalism versus externalism debate about the nature of knowledge and justification, and the definability of knowledge in terms of truth, belief, justification and their cognates. The course may also explore a problem from formal epistemology, such as the lottery paradox, the problem of logical omniscience, or probabilistic approaches to the problem of induction."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4211HM", "title": "Issues in Epistemology", "description": "This course will explore an advanced topic in epistemology in depth. Some possible topics are the problem of scepticism, including realist and anti\u2010realist responses to it, the nature of certainty and the relationship of knowledge to chance and credence, the internalism versus externalism debate about the nature of knowledge and justification, and the definability of knowledge in terms of truth, belief, justification and their cognates. The course may also explore a problem from formal epistemology, such as the lottery paradox, the problem of logical omniscience, or probabilistic approaches to the problem of induction."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4212", "title": "Issues in Philosophy of Mind", "description": "This course will explore in depth an advanced topic in the philosophy of mind. Possible topics are the unity of consciousness, the relationship between consciousness and time and the relationship between phenomenology and intentionality. The course may also focus on alternative conceptions of the mind to physicalism, such as dualism, panpsychism, or phenomenalism, issues from the philosophy of perception, such as the problems of illusion, hallucination, and the inverted spectra, or issues from philosophical psychology and cognitive science, such as the modularity of mind, the nature of tacit knowledge, or the relationship between neural states and mental states."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4212HM", "title": "Issues in Philosophy of Mind", "description": "This course will explore in depth an advanced topic in the philosophy of mind. Possible topics are the unity of consciousness, the relationship between consciousness and time and the relationship between phenomenology and intentionality. The course may also focus on alternative conceptions of the mind to physicalism, such as dualism, panpsychism, or phenomenalism, issues from the philosophy of perception, such as the problems of illusion, hallucination, and the inverted spectra, or issues from philosophical psychology and cognitive science, such as the modularity of mind, the nature of tacit knowledge, or the relationship between neural states and mental states."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4213", "title": "Comparative Philosophy", "description": "This course identifies and compares the philosophical traditions generally labelled Eastern and Western. Aspects of comparative analysis include philosophical reasoning, linguistic style, logic of arguments, and substantive content. Comparison between traditions is cross-cultural and can result in dialogues across boundaries of space and time, and can also provide a forum to demonstrate the universality of human thought. Possible topics include, for example, Wittgenstein and Daoist philosophy, Nietzsche and Buddhism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4213HM", "title": "Comparative Philosophy", "description": "This course identifies and compares the philosophical traditions generally labelled Eastern and Western. Aspects of comparative analysis include philosophical reasoning, linguistic style, logic of arguments, and substantive content. Comparison between traditions is cross-cultural and can result in dialogues across boundaries of space and time, and can also provide a forum to demonstrate the universality of human thought. Possible topics include, for example, Wittgenstein and Daoist philosophy, Nietzsche and Buddhism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4214", "title": "Recent Continental European Philosophy", "description": "The course examines at least one recent movement in Continental European Philosophy. Recently, the course has been concerned with Philosophical Hermeneutics. Objectives: (1) Promote understanding of the main arguments in one or more of the recent movements in Continental Philosophy, (2) Familiarize students with the main debates, (3) Encourage further work in Continental Philosophy. Topics covered include hermeneutics, Critical Theory and post-structuralism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4214HM", "title": "Recent Continental European Philosophy", "description": "The course examines at least one recent movement in Continental European Philosophy. Recently, the course has been concerned with Philosophical Hermeneutics. Objectives: (1) Promote understanding of the main arguments in one or more of the recent movements in Continental Philosophy, (2) Familiarize students with the main debates, (3) Encourage further work in Continental Philosophy. Topics covered include hermeneutics, Critical Theory and post-structuralism."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4215", "title": "Freedom and Moral Responsibility", "description": "The self image of human beings as morally responsible agents to which praise and blame may be legitimately ascribed, entities to which autonomy and dignity might be attributed, appear conditioned upon our having a robust freedom to will and to do. But do we really have such a freedom? And just what is presupposed in the area of free will by our practice of assigning moral responsibility to each other in the first place? Through discussing a series of seminal writings on the topic, the student is introduced to the philosophical controversies in the area of freedom and moral responsibility."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4215HM", "title": "Freedom and Moral Responsibility", "description": "The self image of human beings as morally responsible agents to which praise and blame may be legitimately ascribed, entities to which autonomy and dignity might be attributed, appear conditioned upon our having a robust freedom to will and to do. But do we really have such a freedom? And just what is presupposed in the area of free will by our practice of assigning moral responsibility to each other in the first place? Through discussing a series of seminal writings on the topic, the student is introduced to the philosophical controversies in the area of freedom and moral responsibility."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4216", "title": "Topics in Environmental Philosophy", "description": "Environmental issues are now in the forefront of global attention. Our current environmental problems may arguably be said to ultimately trace their roots to (implicit) metaphysical assumptions, to cultural or religious attitudes towards the natural world, to ethical perspectives that do not accord moral consideration to nonhumans. This course will involve a critical and thorough discussion of specific topics in environmental philosophy. These may include topics in both Eastern and Western environmental traditions. Examples of topics that may be discussed are: the ethical problem of future generations, intrinsic values in nature, varieties of eco-feminism, and ecology in Neo-Confucian thought."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4216HM", "title": "Topics in Environmental Philosophy", "description": "Environmental issues are now in the forefront of global attention. Our current environmental problems may arguably be said to ultimately trace their roots to (implicit) metaphysical assumptions, to cultural or religious attitudes towards the natural world, to ethical perspectives that do not accord moral consideration to nonhumans. This course will involve a critical and thorough discussion of specific topics in environmental philosophy. These may include topics in both Eastern and Western environmental traditions. Examples of topics that may be discussed are: the ethical problem of future generations, intrinsic values in nature, varieties of eco-feminism, and ecology in Neo-Confucian thought."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4217", "title": "History of Philosophy", "description": "This course aims to examine specific philosophical topics or issues (e.g. causation, the nature of mind, moral motivation) from a historical perspective. The topics or issues in question may be examined within the framework of different philosophical traditions (e.g. Chinese, Indian and Western), or across traditions. It is aimed at providing philosophy students with an understanding and appreciation of the history of the discipline, so that they gain a wider perspective, and can better locate current philosophical debates in the context of broader movements in intellectual history."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4217HM", "title": "History of Philosophy", "description": "This course aims to examine specific philosophical topics or issues (e.g. causation, the nature of mind, moral motivation) from a historical perspective. The topics or issues in question may be examined within the framework of different philosophical traditions (e.g. Chinese, Indian and Western), or across traditions. It is aimed at providing philosophy students with an understanding and appreciation of the history of the discipline, so that they gain a wider perspective, and can better locate current philosophical debates in the context of broader movements in intellectual history."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4240", "title": "Issues in Metaphysics", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in metaphysics. Some possible topics include whether similar things have universals in common, whether time flows, whether past and future exist, whether a whole is something over and above the sum of its parts, whether chance is objective, whether there are other possible worlds, and whether numbers, gods, or chairs and tables exist."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4240HM", "title": "Issues in Metaphysics", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in metaphysics. Some possible topics include whether similar things have universals in common, whether time flows, whether past and future exist, whether a whole is something over and above the sum of its parts, whether chance is objective, whether there are other possible worlds, and whether numbers, gods, or chairs and tables exist."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4241", "title": "Issues in Philosophical Logic", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in philosophical logic. Possible topics include extensions to classical logic, such as modal logics and higher order logics, non\u2010classical logics, such as intuitionistic, many\u2010valued and relevant logics, or philosophical questions about logic."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4241HM", "title": "Issues in Philosophical Logic", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in philosophical logic. Possible topics include extensions to classical logic, such as modal logics and higher order logics, non\u2010classical logics, such as intuitionistic, many\u2010valued and relevant logics, or philosophical questions about logic."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4242", "title": "Issues in Philosophy of Language", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in philosophy of language. Possible topics are the nature of truth, Dummettian anti\u2010realism, contextualism, relativism, or two\u2010dimensionalism. We may also consider the application of philosophy of language to issues in other areas of philosophy, such as the debate between cognitivists and noncognitivists in metaethics, or the question of whether metaphysical disputes are merely verbal."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4242HM", "title": "Issues in Philosophy of Language", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in philosophy of language. Possible topics are the nature of truth, Dummettian anti\u2010realism, contextualism, relativism, or two\u2010dimensionalism. We may also consider the application of philosophy of language to issues in other areas of philosophy, such as the debate between cognitivists and noncognitivists in metaethics, or the question of whether metaphysical disputes are merely verbal."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4243", "title": "Issues in Aesthetics", "description": "This course will explore in depth an advanced topic in aesthetics. Possible topics are the ontology of art, the nature of the imagination, the definition of art, subjectivism about beauty, relativism about taste, or the appreciation of nature. Alternatively, we may consider the aesthetics of a particular artform, such as music, film, fiction, painting or dance, or of a particular philosopher, such as Immanuel Kant or Nelson Goodman. Finally, we may consider issues that arise at the intersection of aesthetics and other areas in philosophy, such as the debate over fictionalism in metaphysics."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4243HM", "title": "Issues in Aesthetics", "description": "This course will explore in depth an advanced topic in aesthetics. Possible topics are the ontology of art, the nature of the imagination, the definition of art, subjectivism about beauty, relativism about taste, or the appreciation of nature. Alternatively, we may consider the aesthetics of a particular artform, such as music, film, fiction, painting or dance, or of a particular philosopher, such as Immanuel Kant or Nelson Goodman. Finally, we may consider issues that arise at the intersection of aesthetics and other areas in philosophy, such as the debate over fictionalism in metaphysics."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4244", "title": "Issues in Philosophy of Mathematics", "description": "This course will explore advanced issues in philosophy of mathematics. The purpose of the course is to examine a small number of advanced topics at the forefront of contemporary philosophy of mathematics. While the topics may vary from year to year, possibilities include logicism and neo-logicism, set theory and the search for new axioms, structuralism, the applicability of mathematics, determinacy and categoricity, informal provability and the mechanism vs anti-mechanism debate. The literature considered will raise and discuss fundamental philosophical questions concerning the ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and semantics of mathematics and mathematical discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4244HM", "title": "Issues in Philosophy of Mathematics", "description": "This course will explore advanced issues in philosophy of mathematics. The purpose of the course is to examine a small number of advanced topics at the forefront of contemporary philosophy of mathematics. While the topics may vary from year to year, possibilities include logicism and neo-logicism, set theory and the search for new axioms, structuralism, the applicability of mathematics, determinacy and categoricity, informal provability and the mechanism vs anti-mechanism debate. The literature considered will raise and discuss fundamental philosophical questions concerning the ontology, metaphysics, epistemology, and semantics of mathematics and mathematical discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4261", "title": "Kant", "description": "Immanuel Kant is one of the most important philosophers and his major works are influential in many areas of contemporary philosophy. This course allows students to study the philosophy of Kant in some depth. Each offering of this course will select a key body of works from Kant\u2019s philosophical corpus, such as (1) his Critique of Pure Reason or (2) his main texts in Moral Philosophy or (3) his philosophy of the natural and/or human sciences. It may also include the study of major contemporary scholarship on Kant."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4261HM", "title": "Kant", "description": "Immanuel Kant is one of the most important philosophers and his major works are influential in many areas of contemporary philosophy. This course allows students to study the philosophy of Kant in some depth. Each offering of this course will select a key body of works from Kant\u2019s philosophical corpus, such as (1) his Critique of Pure Reason or (2) his main texts in Moral Philosophy or (3) his philosophy of the natural and/or human sciences. It may also include the study of major contemporary scholarship on Kant."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4262", "title": "Nietzsche", "description": "This course will focus on the philosophy of the 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It will proceed chronologically through Nietzsche's most significant writings, such as The Gay Science; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality. Most of the attention will be on primary sources. All materials will be in English."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4262HM", "title": "Nietzsche", "description": "This course will focus on the philosophy of the 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It will proceed chronologically through Nietzsche's most significant writings, such as The Gay Science; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morality. Most of the attention will be on primary sources. All materials will be in English."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4311", "title": "Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts", "description": "This course introduces students to Classical Chinese through close reading and practice at translation of selected passages from philosophical texts, including a philosophically oriented grammatical introduction in English to the Classical Chinese language. It is intended for students who have little or only average second language reading ability in Mandarin. Topics include the fundamentals of Classical Chinese grammar and readings from philosophical texts written in Classical Chinese from different periods. This course will provide the language foundation required for students intending to do graduate work in Chinese Philosophy, and enable them to work with primary materials."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4311HM", "title": "Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts", "description": "This course introduces students to Classical Chinese through close reading and practice at translation of selected passages from philosophical texts, including a philosophically oriented grammatical introduction in English to the Classical Chinese language. It is intended for students who have little or only average second language reading ability in Mandarin. Topics include the fundamentals of Classical Chinese grammar and readings from philosophical texts written in Classical Chinese from different periods. This course will provide the language foundation required for students intending to do graduate work in Chinese Philosophy, and enable them to work with primary materials."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4312", "title": "Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy", "description": "A selection of contemporary discussions on East Asian Philosophy (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean) will be discussed in the course. The aim is to introduce students to the more recent scholarly developments in the modern study of traditional East Asian Philosophy. The readings selected will focus on specific topics and will vary from year to year."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4312HM", "title": "Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy", "description": "A selection of contemporary discussions on East Asian Philosophy (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean) will be discussed in the course. The aim is to introduce students to the more recent scholarly developments in the modern study of traditional East Asian Philosophy. The readings selected will focus on specific topics and will vary from year to year."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "A dissertation of 8,000 to 10,000 words on an approved research topic."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "A dissertation on an approved research topic not exceeding twelve thousand words."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4550", "title": "Internship: Philosophy for Teaching", "description": "Students will intern in an educational organization approved by the Department. (e.g. Logic Mills, which specializes in courses on analytical thinking skills to schools and other educational organizations). During the internship, they will learn to use their philosophical skills to teach, and through practice, reflect on the usefulness of Philosophy in education practice and intellectual development."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4550HM", "title": "Internship: Philosophy for Teaching", "description": "Students will intern in an educational organization approved by the Department. (e.g. Logic Mills, which specializes in courses on analytical thinking skills to schools and other educational organizations). During the internship, they will learn to use their philosophical skills to teach, and through practice, reflect on the usefulness of Philosophy in education practice and intellectual development."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PH4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PH5420", "title": "Advanced Political Philosophy", "description": "This course invites students to engage in normative thinking about a range of issues related to politics, most of which have to do with questions about the legitimate exercise of political power. We will consider liberal views of political legitimacy and various criticisms of these views. These debates concern issues such as liberty, equality, moral values, and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "PH5420R", "title": "Advanced Political Philosophy", "description": "This course invites students to engage in normative thinking about a range of issues related to politics, most of which have to do with questions about the legitimate exercise of political power. We will consider liberal views of political legitimacy and various criticisms of these views. These debates concern issues such as liberty, equality, moral values, and rights."}, {"moduleCode": "PH5423", "title": "Philosophy of Science and Technology", "description": "The course is intended to provide a framework for discussing thematically related questions arising in contemporary philosophy of science and technology. The focus will be on an in-depth study of a specific debate within general philosophy of science (e.g., scientific realism), or on a close examination of a branch within the philosophy of special sciences (e.g., philosophy of biology, philosophy of physics). In exceptional cases, the course may be structured around a suitable recent monograph or collection of papers."}, {"moduleCode": "PH5423R", "title": "Philosophy of Science & Technology", "description": "Philosophy of Science & Technology"}, {"moduleCode": "PH5430", "title": "Ethics", "description": "The course will focus on the sustained study of ethical theory involving one or more of the following four theoretical approaches to ethics: Utilitarianism, Deontology, Virtue Theory and Contractarianism. If necessary, the course may additionally study applications of the theory/theories to a variety of applied issues."}, {"moduleCode": "PH5430R", "title": "Ethics", "description": "The course will focus on the sustained study of ethical theory involving one or more of the following four theoretical approaches to ethics: Utilitarianism, Deontology, Virtue Theory and Contractarianism. If necessary, the course may additionally study applications of the theory/theories to a variety of applied issues."}, {"moduleCode": "PH5510", "title": "Comparative Philosophy", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PH5650", "title": "Topics In Continental Philosophy", "description": "The course will intensively study a major movement in twentieth century Continental Philosophy. The course will consider phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction or postmodernism. Other topics from the Continental tradition or a combination of more than one topic may also be considered under exceptional circumstances. Focus will be on the historical development and contemporary uses of the movement under consideration."}, {"moduleCode": "PH5650R", "title": "Topics in Continental Philosophy", "description": "Topics in Continental Philosophy"}, {"moduleCode": "PH5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Philosophy in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6210", "title": "Topics in History of Western Philosophy", "description": "The course will intensively examine a historical period in Western Philosophy. Historical traditions that may be studied may include (but is not restricted to) Greek Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy, Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy, and Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy. The course will especially attend to the major philosophical problems that define each of these historical frameworks. The relations between the major thinkers of the period under consideration will be profiled."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6211", "title": "Advanced Epistemology", "description": "This course will explore an advanced topic in epistemology in depth. Some possible topics are the problem of scepticism, including realist and anti\u2010realist responses to it, the nature of certainty and the relationship of knowledge to chance and credence, the internalism versus externalism debate about the nature of knowledge and justification, and the definability of knowledge in terms of truth, belief, justification and their cognates. The course may also explore a problem from formal epistemology, such as the lottery paradox, the problem of logical omniscience, or probabilistic approaches to the problem of induction."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6212", "title": "Advanced Philosophy of Mind", "description": "This course will explore in depth an advanced topic in the philosophy of mind. Possible topics are the unity of consciousness, the relationship between consciousness and time and the relationship between phenomenology and intentionality. The course may also focus on alternative conceptions of the mind to physicalism, such as dualism, panpsychism, or phenomenalism, issues from the philosophy of perception, such as the problems of illusion, hallucination, and the inverted spectra, or issues from philosophical psychology and cognitive science, such as the modularity of mind, the nature of tacit knowledge, or the relationship between neural states and mental states."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6216", "title": "Advanced Environmental Philosophy", "description": "This course involves an advanced examination of some key ethical positions in environmental philosophy. It will focus on the meta-ethical questions raised in respect of the different ethical positions. Coverage of these positions will be both wide and deep."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6240", "title": "Advanced Metaphysics", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in metaphysics. Some possible topics include whether similar things have universals in common, whether time flows, whether past and future exist, whether a whole is something over and above the sum of its parts, whether chance is objective, whether there are other possible worlds, and whether numbers, gods, or chairs and tables exist."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6241", "title": "Advanced Philosophical Logic", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in philosophical logic. Possible topics include extensions to classical logic, such as modal logics and higher order logics, non\u2010classical logics, such as intuitionistic, many\u2010valued and relevant logics, or philosophical questions about logic."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6242", "title": "Advanced Philosophy of Language", "description": "This course will explore in depth some advanced topics in philosophy of language. Possible topics are the nature of truth, Dummettian anti\u2010realism, contextualism, relativism, or two\u2010dimensionalism. We may also consider the application of philosophy of language to issues in other areas of philosophy, such as the debate between cognitivists and noncognitivists in metaethics, or the question of whether metaphysical disputes are merely verbal."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6243", "title": "Advanced Aesthetics", "description": "This course will explore in depth an advanced topic in aesthetics. Possible topics are the ontology of art, the nature of the imagination, the definition of art, subjectivism about beauty, relativism about taste, or the appreciation of nature. Alternatively, we may consider the aesthetics of a particular artform, such as music, film, fiction, painting or dance, or of a particular philosopher, such as Immanuel Kant or Nelson Goodman. Finally, we may consider issues that arise at the intersection of aesthetics and other areas in philosophy, such as the debate over fictionalism in metaphysics."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6320", "title": "Traditions in Asian Philosophy", "description": "The course will intensively examine philosophical traditions from the histories of Chinese or Indian Philosophy. Traditions may include (but is not restricted to) Confucianism, Taoism, neo-Confucianism, Legalism from Chinese Philosophy and Vedanta, Indian Buddhism, Nyaya, modern Indian philosophy from the Indian tradition. The emphasis will be on the building of a solid foundation in the philosophical grammar of a non-Western philosophical tradition."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6540", "title": "Topics in Analytic Philosophy", "description": "The course is designed to provide an intensive grounding in one of the major areas in contemporary Analytic Philosophy. The course will consider philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, or metaphysics. Other topics from the analytic tradition or a combination of more than one topic may also be considered under exceptional circumstances. Focus will be on contemporary issues and problems currently engaging the philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Philosophy in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6760", "title": "Philosophical Topics", "description": "The course will study a topic in various areas of philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, political philosophy, a topic that crosses area boundaries. An example might be \"Theories of Human Nature\". The course might approach the topic from within the perspective of one philosophical school or from a comparative perspective that examines the views of more than one philosophical school, eastern or western."}, {"moduleCode": "PH6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5001", "title": "Human Genomics in Precision Medicine", "description": "This Course aims to provide students with a strong foundation of the role genetics / genomics in the entire pathway of Precision Medicine including 1) Understanding the genetic/genomic basis of Diseases (inherited, complex, infectious) 2) Employing state-of-the-art OMICs and Analytic tools to a. Identify Disease causing genes/biomarkers b. Diagnose / Prognose Disease 3) Developing genetic / genomic strategies to a. Prevent / mitigate severity of disease b. Treat disease"}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5002", "title": "Proteomics and Metabolomics in Precision Health and Medicine", "description": "This course covers analytical methods and technologies that enables profiling of functional biomolecules, including proteins, metabolites, and lipids, as high-resolution molecular descriptors of human health and disease. The first half of the course introduces the experimental workflows, instrumentation, and data quality control procedures across different application areas. The second half will be followed by a series of application-oriented lectures by experts who routinely deploy proteomic and metabolomic profiling methods in their own research areas. We will summarize the current practice and future outlook in the context of emerging applications in precision medicine."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5003", "title": "Applied Statistics for Precision Medicine", "description": "Precision medicine leverages on insights derived from the analysis of high-throughput datasets containing multiple parameters. This course aims to provide foundational knowledge and skills for students to apply appropriate statistical approaches in evaluating and analysing high-throughput datasets in precision medicine. Students will develop the skills in designing experiments based on the statistical principles, evaluating data quality, analysing and interpreting high throughput data for precision medicine."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5004", "title": "High Performance Computing for Precision Medicine", "description": "Healthcare is becoming more data-driven with the advent of \u2018omics technologies and the ability to profile multi-dimensional parameters. High-performance or supercomputing systems have increasingly being used to accelerate data-intensive pipelines used in precision medicine that take advantage of multiple nodes and high-speed interconnect systems for parallel computing This course provides the foundational knowledge and skills for big data processing by leveraging on high performance computing resources. Students will be introduced to the theory and application of high performance systems covering HPC architecture and workflows as well as approaches to accelerate analytical pipelines."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5005", "title": "AI and Machine Learning for Precision Medicine", "description": "The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and precision medicine is poised to transform healthcare in the coming years. This course aims to introduce fundamental knowledge and skills in the application of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) in Precision Medicine. This course will allow students to develop the skills to pre-process and analyse data using AI/ML techniques, generate insights, as well as build and explain predictive models for precision medicine."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5006", "title": "Ethics, Regulation and Managerial Economics In Precision Medicine", "description": "To ensure delivery and utility of quality healthcare in Precision Medicine, this course will guide students on the critical considerations \u2013 ethics, regulation and economics, that will affect healthcare accessibility to patients. An overview of ethical values, analysis, and reflection that can inform the development, promulgation, and use of genomics and big data science in precision medicine will be taught. We will first provide an ethical framework with practical steps for guiding decision-making and then teach students how to apply to case studies. An overview of the underlying principles in the regulation of health products in precision medicines that guide responsible and well-informed decision for the patients, and uphold the need for safe, quality and efficacious interventions will be taught A brief overview of microeconomics, the types of questions it addresses, the tools it employs, and uses in the context of precision medicine will be taught. Basic concepts in economics, including demand, supply, market equilibrium, and elasticity will be included. Basic principles of decision making, and useful tools for identifying the choice that strikes the best balance between benefits and costs, and various degrees of price discrimination will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5007", "title": "Seminars in Precision Medicine", "description": "With Precision Medicine (PM) progressing at breakneck speed, it is pertinent for all students to be kept \u2018up-to-date\u2019 with the latest developments in this field. In this course, leading experts in academia, medical, PM research institutions, regulatory agencies, as well as industry (including healthcare, pharmaceutic, etc) leaders will share their insights / latest developments in PM. There will also be opportunities for the students to interact with these PM experts/leaders."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5008", "title": "Clinical Perspective in Precision Medicine", "description": "This course will cover several Clinical Perspectives in Precision Medicine i.e. the patient journey, the current state, the promises and the potential pitfalls"}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5009", "title": "Precision Oncology", "description": "This course aims to highlight the state-of-the-art Precision Oncology strategies for genetic testing and treatment of cancer. This includes 1) Methods in Precision Oncology 2) Lessons in Precision Medicine from Lung Cancer 3) Targeting the DNA Damage Response (DDR) in cancers 4) Germline Genetic Testing in Precision Oncology 5) Immuno-oncology and Precision Medicine 6) Implementation Science in Precision Oncology"}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5010", "title": "Precision Biomarkers", "description": "Biomarkers, with potential to inform disease risk, state, treatment response and prognosis, are essential tools driving Precision Medicine to guide clinical decision making. This course aims to guide students through the entire journey from the biomarker discovery phase to the development phase of demonstrating analytical and clinical validity as well as clinical utility of biomarkers. This course will primarily focus on big-data omics-based approach to biomarker discovery. We will also discuss clinical applications of omics-based biomarkers as well as challenges in biomarker development."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5011", "title": "Precision Diagnostics", "description": "This course will cover areas of adult, pediatric, prenatal and pre-implantation genetic testing and cancer diagnostics."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5012", "title": "Precision Therapeutics", "description": "This course aims to provide students with a deep understanding of how Precision Therapeutics can be applied in the areas of: 1) N-of-1 Medicine 2) Vaccines 3) Immunotherapy 4) Cell Therapy 5) Gene Therapy"}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5013", "title": "Precision Drug Discovery and Development", "description": "This course will introduce how advances in target identification and validation help in precision drug discovery and development. Here, we will discuss on drug discovery and development process and the involvement of big data omics and artificial intelligence in this process, guided by precision pharmacogenomics. With relevant industry partners, this course will integrated understanding of all aspects of precision drug discovery and development process ranging from pharmacogenetics to pharmacogenomics to pharmaco-omics."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5014", "title": "Causal Inference in Precision Medicine", "description": "We cover the basics of predictive modelling and an overview of machine learning, including common and useful algorithms. We discuss causal inference techniques like instrumental variables, and difference-in-differences. Finally, we briefly discuss Multi-Armed Bandits and their algorithms."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5015", "title": "Technological Innovation in Precision Medicine", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to the latest technological innovations enabling Precision Medicine. Some of the latest industry trends will be examined. Topics will be grouped under - 1) Diagnostics a. Biomarker discovery (tools and devices) b. Digital biomarkers (wearables, implantables) 2) Therapeutics a. Drug development b. Materials/implants c. Devices Distinguished guest speakers from industry will be invited to present their technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5016", "title": "Capstone project in Precision Medicine", "description": "This course is compulsory for Students who opt for the Masters in Precision Health and Medicine (PHM) (with Capstone) to consolidate their learning in the various courses and equip them with valuable practical skills to address real-world PHM problems in research or industry so that they will be competitive in this fast-changing field. This courses prepares students to be \u00b7 Competent practitioners in PHM in the working world if they choose to do an internship project in a PHM company as their capstone project or \u00b7 Competent PHM researchers if they choose to do a research project in an academic, healthcare or research institute as their capstone project. These students will have opportunities to upgrade and pursue a PhD in PHM if they show promise and would like to pursue a career in academia or research in PM."}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5017", "title": "Mini-Capstone project in Precision Medicine", "description": "This course is specially designed for practising doctors or potential medical students who would like to pursue an in their intercalated year and would also like some practical research experience in PM. These students will be able to appreciate every aspect of precision medicine (including the practical aspects) so that they can apply Precision Medicine in their Clinical Practice or become a Clinical Leader in Precision Medicine. These students will be closely supervised by specially selected academic mentors at NUS who do not assume prior knowledge / experience in PM before the commencement of the project. accelerated MSc in PHM with mini-capstone"}, {"moduleCode": "PHM5018", "title": "Precision Health and Medicine for Cardiometabolic Diseases", "description": "This course will cover two areas current progresses: 1). complexity in cardiometabolic diseases from genetics to life-style 2). Application of precision medicine based on biomarkers, mechanistic stratification and targeted therapy"}, {"moduleCode": "PHS1101", "title": "The Billion-Dollar Pill - Bench to Bedside Drug Development", "description": "This course will provide the knowledge and understanding on the complete development plan ensuring successful lead identification in the drug discovery process, describing preclinical studies, formulation and product developments, clinical trials and post-marketing studies. The importance of quality, quality assurance and control and key global/regional regulatory frameworks and strategies for product development will be covered. Following post-marketing approval, upcoming innovative regulatory and marketing strategies for effective lifecycle management of a pharmaceutical product such as improved patient compliance, revenue growth, expanded clinical benefits, cost advantages, life extension exclusivity etc will also be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS1110", "title": "Foundation for Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry", "description": "This course covers essential topics in medicinal and synthetic organic chemistry that serve as the foundation for understanding the principles of drug discovery and development. Functional groups and ring structures are the key features that confer physicochemical and reactivity properties to chemical and biological drug molecules. Physicochemical properties that contribute to variation in drug likeness will be dealt with in detail. Functional groups and rings that are susceptible to structural derivatisation will be discussed in terms of the reaction mechanism involved illustrating how structural modifications can create better drug likeness."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS1111", "title": "Fundamental Biochemistry for Pharmaceutical Science", "description": "This course is aimed to provide fundamental biochemistry knowledge which is important and relevant for pharmaceutical science students to relate the knowledge to drug discovery and development. The course will emphasize the relevance and application of biochemistry in pharmaceutical practices."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS1120", "title": "Essential Topics in Pharmaceutical Chemistry", "description": "This module adopts a biological approach to explain and illustrate foundational pharmaceutical chemical principles that are essential for the understanding of pharmaceutical science related to drug synthesis, drug properties, drug action and preparation of biomaterials. Three broad topics will be covered, including bio-organic chemistry, radical chemistry and enzymatic catalysis."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2101", "title": "Physiology for Pharmaceutical Science", "description": "This course is aimed to provide fundamental knowledge and understanding of the normal function of the human body. The underlying physiological processes within each of the following human body systems will be covered: 1. musculoskeletal system, 2. cardiovascular system, 3. blood and immune system, 4. respiratory system, 5. endocrine system, 6. digestive system, 7. renal system, and 8. nervous system."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2102", "title": "Physicochemical and Biochemical Principles of Drug Action", "description": "Building on PHS1101, this course introduces the fundamental principles behind drug-receptor theory that serve as a foundation for understanding both the drug and the target in drug development. Theory of drug-receptor binding and impact on drug action and design will be exemplified with pharmaceutically relevant and clinically approved drug products to illustrate the application of fundamental knowledge of cellular and biochemical processes in drug target identification and pharmacophore optimization. Completion of this course will further prepare students for future courses on biopharmaceutics, drug metabolism and strategic development of pharmaceutical drug products."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2103", "title": "Essentials of Pharmaceutical and Synthetic Chemistry", "description": "Building on PHS1101, this course covers topics in pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmaceutical analysis that are key to drug synthesis, stability and analysis in the process of drug discovery and development. The importance of the concept of quality control and quality assurance in the drug development process will be highlighted in light of pharmacopoeial requirements for ensuring product safety and quality based on both active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients. Assays validation will be covered in light of pharmaceutical regulatory requirements. Completion of course will prepare students for courses on development and regulation of pharmaceutical and health products."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2104", "title": "Macromolecules in Pharmaceutical Science", "description": "Protein- and nucleic acid-based biopharmaceutical products and therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies, growth hormones, vaccines and biotechnologically derived diagnostic aids/tests are making significant medical advances in improving human health. This course therefore provides students with the knowledge in the physicochemical properties, pharmacology and production of such biopharmaceuticals, as well as the principles and advances in biotechnological techniques that have increasing applications in medicine. The principles and practical capability of various analytical instruments for macromolecule characterization and quality assurance of biopharmaceuticals will be also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2105", "title": "Principles of Pharmaceutical Formulations I", "description": "This course gives insights into the pre-formulation considerations covering different physicochemical properties important to pharmaceutical formulation development, as well as giving an introduction to dosage forms including solutions and disperse systems. The fundamental knowledge of the physicochemical properties, manufacture, and applications of these dosage forms will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2115", "title": "Basic Principles of Drug Design and Development", "description": "This module will demonstrate the application of chemical and pharmacological sciences in the processes of drug discovery beginning from lead identification phase to pre-clinical study phase. The main learning will focus on how molecules are modified into potential drug candidates through achieving suitable pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic profiles. Approaches in pharmacophore identification and principles in lead optimisation will be introduced. Chemical diversity in drugs will be illustrated through a selection of commercially available drugs. Structure-activity relationship will be elucidated using drugs of different pharmacological actions. The approaches to how drug disposition (ADMET) is optimised in the pre-clinical phase will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2120", "title": "Drug Product Development and Lifecycle Management", "description": "This module will provide the knowledge and understanding on the complete development plan ensuing successful lead identification in the drug discovery process, describing preclinical studies, formulation and product developments,\nclinical trials and post-marketing studies. The importance of quality, quality assurance and control and key global/regional regulatory frameworks and strategies for product development will be covered. Following postmarketing\napproval, upcoming innovative regulatory and marketing strategies for effective lifecycle management of a pharmaceutical product such as improved patient\ncompliance, revenue growth, expanded clinical benefits, cost advantages, life extension exclusivity etc will also be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2143", "title": "Analytical Techniques and Pharmaceutical Applications", "description": "This module aims to train students in the principles and practical capability of pharmacopeia assays and various analytical instruments for pharmaceutical analysis. In particular, students will apply the analytical techniques in the characterization of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), the quality assurance of dosage forms and the analysis of biological fluids, coupled with hands-on experience with instrumentation and real-life problem solving."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2191", "title": "Laboratory Techniques in Pharmaceutical Science I", "description": "This course introduces the theory and practical applications of major tools and techniques used in drug discovery and development. Factual knowledge in pharmaceutical/medicinal chemistry techniques, such as synthesis, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) analysis and identification, API and dosage form analysis will be integrated with laboratory practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 1ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS2313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3101", "title": "Principles of Pharmaceutical Formulations II", "description": "This course gives an introduction to solid dosage forms including tablets, capsules, powders and granules, as well as topical products and transdermal delivery. Formulations of emerging importance including biologics, polymers and biomaterials will be discussed. Fundamental knowledge of product quality and stability will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3102", "title": "Principles of Drug Design and Development", "description": "This course will demonstrate the application of chemical and pharmacological sciences in the processes of drug discovery beginning from lead identification phase to pre-clinical study phase. The main learning will focus on how molecules are modified into potential drug candidates through achieving suitable pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic profiles. Approaches in pharmacophore identification and principles in lead optimisation will be introduced. Chemical diversity in drugs will be illustrated through a selection of commercially available drugs. Structure-activity relationship will be elucidated using drugs of different pharmacological actions. The approaches to how drug disposition (ADMET) is optimised in the pre-clinical phase will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3116", "title": "Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics", "description": "This module provides students with a comprehensive foundation of the concepts of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics. The application of these concepts are important in the drug discovery and development process. Major topics include basic principles, concepts and processes of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, kinetics of drugs following intravascular and extravascular routes of administration, design of appropriate dosage regimens, and application of pharmacokinetic concepts in drug design and development."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3122", "title": "Pharmaceutical Quality Management", "description": "The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of the important guidelines, tools and practices of quality risk management that can be applied to all aspects of pharmaceutical quality including development, manufacturing, distribution, and the inspection and submission/review processes throughout the lifecycle of drug. The module will cover the history and philosophy of product quality management, the concept of quality by design, overview of major quality management systems such as \"Six Sigma\", \"Total Quality Management\", \"Lean\nManagement\" etc. The module will also provide an overview of various types of audits and inspections that occur in the pharmaceutical industry."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3123", "title": "Biotechnology for Pharmaceutical Science", "description": "Students will gain knowledge of the various techniques in biotechnology and their applications in the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals and biomedical research, the physicochemical properties, pharmacology and the formulation of commonly used biopharmaceuticals, as well as the principles of the mechanism of some biotechnologically derived diagnostic aids/tests. Major topics to be covered include biotechnologically derived therapeutics such as insulin, growth hormones, cytokines, enzymes, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, blood products, diagnostic aids/tests for urine analysis, plasma glucose, plasma lipids, HIV and pregnancy, as well as gene therapy, transgenic technology, gene silencing and gene editing technology."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3191", "title": "Laboratory Techniques in Pharmaceutical Science II", "description": "This course extends from PHS2191 to introduce the theory and practical applications of further major tools and techniques used in the continuum of drug discovery and development. Factual knowledge in drug metabolism, such as enzyme kinetics; and in pharmaceutical biology, such as cell viability/toxicity test and protein assay; and in formulation science, such as emulsion and tablets will be integrated with laboratory practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3220", "title": "Microbiology for Pharmaceutical Science", "description": "This course aims to equip students with knowledge and practical skills in the fundamentals of pharmaceutical microbiology and controls in microbial contamination of pharmaceutical products, medical devices and the environment. This course will give an insight into the nature of microorganisms, with greater emphasis on bacteria and their significance to the pharmaceutical industry and medicine. It will discuss the characteristics and morphology of microorganisms, their growth requirements, reproduction, enumeration and identification and relate this knowledge to disinfectants and disinfection, and the concept of sterility and sterilization methods for pharmaceutical products and medical devices."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3288", "title": "UROPS in Pharmaceutical Science I", "description": "The courses, PHS3288 and PHS3289, are part of the UROPS program in Faculty of Science to provide students with the unique opportunity to gain research experience via hands-on project work under the mentorship of faculty members and research staff. The UROPS experience allows students to pursue research to address real-world problems in the pharmaceutical setting, and to enhance their creative thinking as well as communication and presentation skills. Such experience prepares students for future careers in the pharmaceutical sector and for postgraduate training."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3288R", "title": "UROPS in Pharmaceutical Science I (REx)", "description": "The courses, PHS3288 and PHS3289, are part of the UROPS program in Faculty of Science to provide students with the unique opportunity to gain research experience via hands-on project work under the mentorship of faculty members and research staff. The UROPS experience allows students to pursue research to address real-world problems in the pharmaceutical setting, and to enhance their creative thinking as well as communication and presentation skills. Such experience prepares students for future careers in the pharmaceutical sector and for postgraduate training. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3289", "title": "UROPS in Pharmaceutical Science II", "description": "The courses, PHS3288 and PHS3289, are part of the UROPS program in Faculty of Science to provide students with the unique opportunity to gain research experience via hands-on project work under the mentorship of faculty members and research staff. The UROPS experience allows students to pursue research to address real-world problems in the pharmaceutical setting, and to enhance their creative thinking as well as communication and presentation skills. Such experience prepares students for future careers in the pharmaceutical sector and for postgraduate training."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3289R", "title": "UROPS in Pharmaceutical Science II (REx)", "description": "The courses, PHS3288 and PHS3289, are part of the UROPS program in Faculty of Science to provide students with the unique opportunity to gain research experience via hands-on project work under the mentorship of faculty members and research staff. The UROPS experience allows students to pursue research to address real-world problems in the pharmaceutical setting, and to enhance their creative thinking as well as communication and presentation skills. Such experience prepares students for future careers in the pharmaceutical sector and for postgraduate training. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3311", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. Course is open to FoS undergraduate students from Cohorts AY2020/2021 and before, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS3994", "title": "Exchange Enrichment Level 3000", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PHS4121", "title": "Regulation of Healthcare Products", "description": "The availability of healthcare products is governed by the regulations of individual jurisdictions, resulting in the disparity of requirements hindering patient access to therapeutics. As such, the development of therapeutics should always consider the regulations involved and the impact to timely availability to patients, and eventually effectiveness of the healthcare system. It introduces fundamental concepts of regulatory affairs, covering major frameworks, trending innovation in regulatory processes, key influencers and concerns arising from gaps in regulatory capacities. This knowledge expands on the understanding of product life cycle management, and enables further appreciation of the intricate relationships among stakeholders in healthcare."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS4199", "title": "Honours Project in Pharmaceutical Science", "description": "This course aims to nurture the passion of final year students for inquiry and knowledge creation through fostering their intellectual rigor in tackling research questions related to pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences. It also aims to not only provide hands-on research experience gained through project work, but also to develop students\u2019 higher order thinking skills, such as the critical evaluation of information, as well as hone students\u2019 written and oral academic communication skills in the context of pharmaceutical sciences and practice. Students will carry out their projects under the supervision of Pharmacy academic staff and/or approved external industrial or academic partners."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS4220", "title": "Synthetic Strategies for Drug Substances", "description": "This module focuses on synthetic strategies for the construction and synthesis of new bioactive small molecules with potential therapeutic properties. It also\ncovers topics in peptide and oligonucleotide syntheses which are fundamental in the production of some small sized biologics. The module supplements knowledge in medicinal chemistry to give students an appreciation on how to manipulate molecules through chemical synthesis to achieve better bioactivity."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS4310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PHS4991", "title": "Exchange Enrichment Level 4000 Course", "description": "Exchange Enrichment Level 4000 course"}, {"moduleCode": "PHS4992", "title": "Exchange Enrichment Level 4000 Course", "description": "Exchange Enrichment Level 4000 Course"}, {"moduleCode": "PHS4993", "title": "Exchange Enrichment Level 4000 Course", "description": "Exchange Enrichment Level 4000 Course"}, {"moduleCode": "PL1101E", "title": "Introduction to Psychology", "description": "This course introduces psychology as an empirical social science. The aim is to provide students with a broad overview of the different areas of psychology. There are two emphases: (1) expose students to the diversity of topics within the discipline of psychology; (2) provide students with questions and approaches used by psychologists. In doing so, we look at the biological basis for perception, cognition and behaviour, and introduce students to the subfields of behavioural, developmental, social, cognitive, and clinical psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL2131", "title": "Research and Statistical Methods I", "description": "This course is aimed at equipping students with the critical thinking and analytical skills necessary as a foundation for evaluating or carrying out empirical research in psychology. It is an essential course for psychology major students. It consists of two sections: the first deals with the design of psychological research; the second covers basic descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. Students will be taught how to design their own empirical study, to carry out appropriate statistical analyses on the data collected so as to draw valid conclusions, and how to write up their findings. Ethical aspects of psychological research are covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PL2132", "title": "Research and Statistical Methods II", "description": "This course builds on the methodological and statistical base prepared by PL2131. An essential course for psychology major students, it aims to provide knowledge and experience in conducting a psychological study. Methods of data collection in laboratory and field settings are taught alongside commonly-used statistical techniques for data analysis. Students are introduced to issues of design and analysis in factorial experiments and correlational studies. Students also do experiments in class and learn the use of computer statistical packages for data analysis. A group empirical project is required."}, {"moduleCode": "PL2711", "title": "Psychology Exchange Course", "description": "Psychology Exchange Course"}, {"moduleCode": "PL2721", "title": "Psychology Exchange Course", "description": "Psychology Exchange Course"}, {"moduleCode": "PL3102", "title": "Biological Psychology", "description": "This course offers a comprehensive, one-semester overview of the connection between the brain and behaviour. The course is geared towards psychology majors and serves as a starting point for those looking to take advanced courses in cognitive neuroscience. The course will examine nervous system function, brain organization, vision and other sensations, emotion, and cognitive and motor processes. Clinical topics such as the impact of drugs on behaviour, sleep disorders, Parkinson's disease, and schizophrenia will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3103", "title": "Cognitive Psychology", "description": "This course deals with the psychological study of human information processing; learning and memory; acquisition, retrieval, and forgetting; and general knowledge, concepts, reasoning, and related issues in cognition. The impact of computational approaches on cognition is considered."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3104", "title": "Developmental Psychology", "description": "This course is primarily for psychology major students, for whom it is a core area. It aims to provide an overview of the major issues in developmental psychology, with a main focus on infancy and childhood. The development of individual differences is reviewed. Stage and process theories of cognitive, social and linguistic development are evaluated. The extent to which research findings have pan-cultural and local application is considered throughout the course. The importance of empirical research is stressed, and students are recommended to take PL2131 before reading this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3105", "title": "Social Psychology", "description": "This course provides a broad foundation for the study of human social behaviour. Topics such as attitudes, social cognition, interpersonal relations and group processes are discussed. One aim of this course is to introduce students to the theories and research of social psychology. A second aim is to help students appreciate how the findings of social psychologists are relevant and applicable to the day-to-day situations in our lives."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3106", "title": "Mental Health and Distress", "description": "This core course covers most of the common mental health problems identified for children and adults, e.g. eating disorders, behavioural problems, attention deficits, learning disabilities, schizophrenia, anxiety, stress, depression, personality disorders, sexual adjustment, substance abuse, suicide, and dementia. The lectures and discussion groups provide an introduction to clinical intervention, but emphasis is placed on the theoretical formulation of problems. Whenever possible, films and case studies are used to supplement the textbook and readings, and a visit to the local Institute of Mental Health will usually be arranged."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3231", "title": "Independent Research Project", "description": "This course allows students to undertake an individual research project under staff supervision. Students wishing to take this course are advised to obtain additional details from the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3238", "title": "Social Cognition", "description": "Social Cognition uses cognitive processes to explain how people think and behave in the social world. It operates on the assumption that interpersonal behaviour is cognitively mediated in that social interactions are determined by what we know and believe about ourselves, other people, and the situations in which we encounter them. Topics to be covered include person perception, person memory, social categorization, social judgment, unconscious processes, motivation and emotion, and the development of social cognition."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3239", "title": "Industrial and Organisational Psychology", "description": "This course is intended to expose students to applications of the facts and principles of scientific psychology to industrial and organisational settings. Topics include the structure and function of organisations; selection and training; management of efficiency (motivation, working conditions, and coping attitudes); and group processes in organisations. Lectures build the knowledge base of the students; case discussions encourage applications of their knowledge."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3240", "title": "Group Dynamics", "description": "This course is built around applications of theoretical and experimental psychology to group processes. The psychological processes underlying human interactions in groups are the principal foci. Topics included are group formation, development of group structure, formulation of group goals, team building, leadership and power within groups, conflicts, group decision-making, and group changes. Psychological tools and skills relevant for research in field settings are also examined."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3241", "title": "Personality & Individual Differences", "description": "This course introduces students to research on personality and individual differences. The main theories and measurement of related constructs will be discussed with an emphasis on normal, rather than abnormal, populations. Topics covered may include personality traits, motivational constructs, cognitive ability constructs and cognitive styles. Reference will also be made to some current applications such as personnel selection."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3242", "title": "Health Psychology", "description": "This course explores the role of psychological factors in physical health. Topics covered may include the relationship of mind and body, the role of human behaviour in health, stress and coping as they relate to health, the nature of illness, patient-practitioner relations, chronic illness and disability, death and dying, and the relationship of psychology to such important health problems as AIDS, cancer, heart disease and pain."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3244", "title": "Adolescent Psychology", "description": "Adolescence is a period of many transitions. This course will explore some of these transitions, ranging from the physical changes related to puberty to the psychological processes of identity formation to the social challenges of negotiating new patterns of relationships with family and peers."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3248", "title": "Learning and Conditioning", "description": "Learning is a fundamental area of psychology and everyday life. This course focuses on how humans and other animals learn information, for example associations between different stimuli in their environment, or between their actions and the outcomes of those actions. The concepts of classical (Pavlovian) conditioning and instrumental (operant) conditioning will be introduced, alongside various learning phenomena (e.g. acquisition, extinction, spontaneous recovery, overshadowing, blocking, sensory preconditioning, latent inhibition). While some mathematical learning theories such as the Rescorla-Wagner model will be discussed, an effort will be made to relate these more abstract concepts to adaptive everyday life functioning as well as clinical issues such as anxiety disorders, addiction and behavioural therapy."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3249", "title": "Memory", "description": "The course will examine contemporary theories of human memory. Topics range from sensory memory all the way to long-term memory. Evidence for different types of memory systems such as episodic, generic, implicit, and procedural will be discussed. Biological and developmental bases for human memory will also be covered. The course will use these topics to explore the link between research, theory, and data on human memory."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3250", "title": "Human Performance", "description": "This course concerns the application of experimental psychology research to the improvement of human-machine/environment interactions. This is not designed as a \"cookbook\" course where the principles of good human factors are merely enumerated. Rather, the emphasis will be placed on the theoretical principles underlying information processing and human performance. The topics include: signal detection and information theory; attention; spatial displays; navigation; memory and training; selection of action, manual control; time-sharing and workload; and the effects of stress on human error."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3251", "title": "Atypical Development and Language", "description": "In this course, we will focus on areas of development in infants and young children: these include cognitive, language, and emotional development. This course aims to give students who are interested in child development a chance to examine in further depth aspects of child development, as well as some areas of atypical development. In particular, we will explore how current research informs our understanding of normal development in infants and children. Topics covered include developmental disorders such as autism, atypical language such as speech language impairment and aspects of parent-child attachment."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3253", "title": "Psychobiological Perspectives on Emotion", "description": "The course will provide an overview of past and current theories on how emotions are implemented in the brain and how they interact with cognitive, behavioural and psychophysiological systems. In accord with current insights, individual emotion systems including happiness, anger, fear, and disgust will be introduced and potential dysfunctions of these systems in relation to psychological and psychiatric disorders will be discussed. The knowledge provided in this course will be applicable to other areas of psychology including but not limited to clinical, social, industrial/organizational and experimental psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3254", "title": "Trauma Psychology", "description": "This course provides an overview of current psychological theories in the understanding of human responses to psychological trauma and life adversities. Topics include traumatic guilt, acute stress reactions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), complex PTSD, and other disorders (e.g. personality disorders, depression) resulting from interpersonal, relational and family violence, sexual victimization, traumatic loss and death, disaster, and other critical life events. Resilience and post-traumatic growth in the face of life challenges will also be discussed. This course focuses on understanding trauma in the context of comorbidities and complexities, and how to adapt treatment to a wide range of trauma reactions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3255", "title": "Introduction to Paediatric Psychology", "description": "This course is an intermediate level course in child psychology. It is intended to build greater understanding of the interface between child psychology and medicine, with a focus on how illness can affect development in children. The impact of acute and chronic illness on children transcends their physical health and this course is aimed at teaching students about distinct neuropsychological, emotional, interpersonal and daily living issues that emerge for children who become ill."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3256", "title": "Infant Development", "description": "Infant development refers to changes in cognitive, social and motor abilities that occur during the first year of life. The course will include an overview of\nresearch methods in psychological research on infants and of psychological theories that have inspired infancy research. Research in prenatal development that bears\non infant cognitive development will be covered. In addition, recent research on visual perception, linguistic development, numerical knowledge, categorization, social\u2010emotional development and motor development will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3257", "title": "Introduction to Clinical Psychology", "description": "This course will introduce students to the history, evolution, and contemporary practices of clinical psychology. Students will use the scientist practitioner model to study underlying theoretical frameworks and the skills and practices of clinical psychologists. Ethical and professional issues covered include classification and diagnosis, clinical research, assessment, case formulation and treatment planning, interventions, and prevention. The materials will be discussed in the context of typical work settings of clinical psychologists (e.g. mental health, forensic or neuropsychological) and across varied client populations (e.g. children, adults, couples)."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3258", "title": "Decision Neuroscience", "description": "Decision Neuroscience is the study of the neural mechanisms of human decision making. This course will provide a broad introductory examination of this topic, to facilitate an intermediate understanding of cognitive neuroscience. This course builds upon the introductory level Biological Psychology course and helps prepare students for honours level discussion courses in the area."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3259", "title": "Psychology of Ageing", "description": "This course is an introduction to the study of ageing that views the ageing process as a normal part of lifespan development. This includes exploring what ageing means, examining which factors are involved in healthy and pathological aspects of ageing, and distinguishing between ageing stereotypes and reality. Students will study the research for age\u2010related change (and stability) in several psychological domains in the context of changing paradigms of ageing, examining various issues in ageing (e.g., transition to retirement, health\u2010related changes, optimal ageing factors), as well as multiple influences on the experience of ageing (e.g., caregiving, societal policies, attitudes toward elderly)."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3261", "title": "Statistical Techniques in Psychological Research", "description": "This course aims to further develop students\u2019 skills in statistical analyses for psychological research, with emphasis on the use of statistical software (e.g., SPSS, R) and a focus on applications to PL4401 Honours Thesis. It adopts a hands-on approach to various statistical techniques, some of which extend from the techniques covered in PL2131 and PL2132 while others are more advanced topics. Four recurring themes underlie the learning of these techniques: (i) formulating research questions into statistical hypotheses, (ii) selecting the right statistical tests for the hypotheses, (iii) carrying out the tests, and (iv) properly interpreting the results and drawing conclusions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281", "title": "Lab in Cognitive Psychology", "description": "Students will be introduced to the different methodologies used in cognitive research such as classical psychophysics, signal detection theory, reaction time paradigms, judgment tasks, similarity ratings, memory measures, and psycholinguistic methods. Selected topics on perception, attention, memory, categorisation, language, problem solving, and decision making will be used to illustrate these methods. Students will work in small groups to design and conduct an experiment using these methodologies and submit individual research reports. Prior background and interest in cognitive psychology will be very helpful."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281A", "title": "Lab in Perception and Attention", "description": "The focus of this lab will be perception and attention. Students will be introduced to the different methodologies used in cognitive research such as classical psychophysics, signal detection theory, and reaction time paradigms. Selected topics on perception and attention will be used to illustrate these methods."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281B", "title": "Lab in Memory and Cognition", "description": "Students will be introduced to the different methodologies for assessing memory performance such as simple and complex memory spans, direct and indirect tests of memory. Selected techniques in manipulating encoding and studying retrieval in short-term memory, working memory, and long-term memory will be covered. Students will work in small groups to design and conduct an experiment using these methodologies and submit individual research reports. Prior background and interest in cognitive psychology will be very helpful."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281C", "title": "Lab in Reading Processes", "description": "This course extends students' experience of laboratory work to the fields of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. On a general level, students will learn about the principles of experimental design, ethics appraisal, data collection, and statistical analysis. More specifically, students will identify a research question, conduct their own experiment, and write up a laboratory report on topics relevant to models of word recognition and reading."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281D", "title": "Lab in Music Perception and Cognition", "description": "Lab in Music Perception and Cognition introduces students to experimental music psychology. Specifically, students will ask research questions, conduct experiments, and write research manuscripts on topics relevant to music perception and cognition. Prior training in cognitive psychology and music will be essential."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281E", "title": "Lab in Speech and Language Processes", "description": "This lab course focusses on key research topics within the area of psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. Students are introduced to different methodologies used to study the cognitive and mental processes related to speech perception and spoken word recognition. Students will work in small groups to identify a research question, conduct their own experiment, and write up a laboratory report on topics relevant to models of speech perception and spoken word recognition."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281F", "title": "Lab in Learning Sciences", "description": "Students will be introduced to the different methods used in psychology research pertaining to the learning sciences. The learning sciences is an emerging interdisciplinary field that aims to understand learning processes and how those processes can be optimised in educational contexts. Major investigative approaches\u2014including experimental, qualitative, replication, survey, systematic review, and meta-analytic techniques, as well as laboratory, online, and classroom research\u2014will be addressed. This course will culminate in the opportunity to conduct learning sciences research via a group project on a topic of students\u2019 own choosing."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3281G", "title": "Lab in Associative Learning and Behavior", "description": "Students will be introduced to research methods pertaining to associative learning and behavior. Students will gain experience synthesizing literature, designing and conducting experiments, and writing lab reports. Students will also be introduced to theories that are used to create hypotheses and explore different paradigms for studying learning, such as aversive and appetitive conditioning. Topics will vary by semester but will be key phenomena from associative learning research, such as overshadowing and reinforcement. Prior background in associative learning is strongly recommended. Students without this background will be provided with extra materials that they will be expected to learn on their own."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3282", "title": "Lab in Social Psychology", "description": "This laboratory is intended to expose students majoring in psychology with both correlational and experimental approaches to research on how people feel, think, and act in relation to others. Studies will include topics such as attitudes and social cognition (e.g., beliefs, attitudes and values, social influence, attribution and impression formation) and interpersonal and group relations (e.g. aggression, altruism, attraction, prejudice and discrimination, followers and leaders). Both laboratory and field methods of testing hypotheses will be covered. Importance of using personality and culture of people as moderators of their social behaviors will be emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3282A", "title": "Lab in Interpersonal Relationships", "description": "This first half of the course will explicate different methods and paradigms in social psychology with interpersonal relationships studies. The design aims to provide students a broad overview of methodologies as well as a deeper understanding of the important issues in interpersonal relationship research. In the second half of the course, students would carry out group projects, applying their knowledge to conducting a research study. They will have hands-on experiences at different research stages, from how a research study is formulated, crystallized and carried out to data analysis, results presentation and writing-up."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3282C", "title": "Lab in Attitudes", "description": "This first half of the course will explicate different methods and paradigms in social psychology with attitudes and persuasion studies. The course aims to provide students with a broad overview of methodologies as well as a deeper understanding of the important issues in attitudes research at the same time. For the second half of the course, students will carry out group projects, applying their knowledge to conducting research. They will have hands-on experiences at different research stages, from how a research question is formulated, operationalized and investigated, to data analysis, result presentation and writing-up."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3282D", "title": "Lab in Mindsets and Motivation", "description": "Studying what motivates people and how to influence their mindsets requires a disciplined scientific approach. This course introduces research methods that are foundational skills for social psychological research in the area of mindsets and motivation. Students will develop an understanding of how to articulate a research question relevant to mindsets or motivation, and conduct a study using the appropriate methods to test it. They will gain an appreciation of the basic theories and practice of quality research in mindsets and motivation topics."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3282E", "title": "Lab in Self-Regulation and Goal Pursuit", "description": "This course presents students with a practical introduction to self-regulation and goal pursuit research. How individuals regulate their behaviour to overcome obstacles and combat temptations in pursuing long-term goals is a critical psychological process in modern society. Academic success, dieting, financial security, and long-term relationships all benefit from optimised regulation and pursuit. In this course, the major concepts, methods, and techniques of conducting quantitative research on the relevant topics will be discussed, culminating in the opportunity to conduct hands-on research via a group project."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3282F", "title": "Lab in Social Perception", "description": "This lab course, focused on social perception within social psychology, introduces methodologies for studying the cognitive processes of social perception. Students, working in small groups, will identify a research question, conduct a relevant experiment, and compile a laboratory report on social perception. The course emphasizes hands-on, empirical research experience, culminating in a group project applying theoretical knowledge into practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3283", "title": "Lab in Developmental Psychology", "description": "This lab course will give students a practical introduction to methods and techniques in developmental psychology. The exact age range and techniques targeted may vary from infancy to adolescence to the aged depending on the instructor and the availability of participants. The aim is to cover essential ethical, theoretical, methodological, and practical issues of importance when conducting research. Observational and experimental methods will be covered, and basic techniques and tools of developmental assessment will be introduced. Target students are single psychology majors, especially those who are also taking or intending to take theoretical courses in Developmental Psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3283A", "title": "Lab in Adolescent Psychology", "description": "This course seeks to give students a practical introduction to some of the concepts, methods, and techniques used in research or practical interventions involving adolescents. The aim of the course is to cover essential conceptual, methodological, ethical, and practical issues of importance when conducting research or designing practical interventions on adolescents, especially in Singapore and Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3283B", "title": "Lab in Development of Communication", "description": "This lab course will introduce to students linguistic and non-linguistic ways of human communication from psycholinguistic perspectives. It addresses the following issues: 1) How do speakers communicate? 2) How do they modify the ways of communication to accommodate different circumstances? 3) When and how do children develop different ways of communication? 4) Are there cross-linguistic differences in ways of communication? 5) How do communication-impaired adults and children incorporate other modalities to communicate? Theoretical and empirical issues will be discussed. Students will also conduct scientific studies to examine the latest issues of human communication."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3283C", "title": "Lab in Early Childhood Development", "description": "This course seeks to give students a practical introduction to the concepts, methods, and techniques used in developmental psychology research involving early childhood. The aim of the course is to cover essential conceptual, methodological, ethical, and practical issues of importance when conducting research in early childhood development."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3284", "title": "Lab in Applied Psychology (Scale Construction)", "description": "This course is designed to provide psychology majors with hands-on experience using research designs and methods commonly used in applied psychology such as health, engineering, education, and industrial/organizational psychology. Students will work in teams to carry out research exercises on specific topics in applied psychology. Topics to be covered will vary depending on the specific application of psychology. The focus will be an understanding the rationale, design, and interpretation of empirical research in the specific application. Target students are psychology majors who intend on a career in psychology or to pursue a postgraduate degree."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3285", "title": "Lab in Biological Psychology", "description": "Biological Psychology (cognitive neuroscience) is a fast-moving multidisciplinary and fundamental area at the cutting-edge of psychology research that involves psychology, neuroscience, medicine, statistics and physics. Students will be introduced to functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) and event-related potentials (ERP) as well as the underlying physiological processes, technical design issues and cutting-edge experiments. Students will then work in small groups to propose experimental designs. The best design will be selected and all students will help conduct the experiment at one of the local hospitals. Individual student groups will then independently process, analyze and interpret these data. Prior background in biological psychology is essential."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3286", "title": "Lab in Health Psychology", "description": "This module is designed to provide psychology majors with hands-on experience using research designs and methods commonly used in health psychology, including both questionnaire and experimental methods. Students will work in teams to carry out research exercises on specific topics in health psychology. Topics to be covered may include health attitudes, health behaviours, and psychophysiological responses to stress among others. The focus will be an understanding the rationale, design, and interpretation of empirical research in the specific application within health psychology. This module is particularly relevant for psychology majors interested in a career in psychology or who wish to pursue a postgraduate degree."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3287", "title": "Lab in Clinical Psychology", "description": "This course provides the foundation training in the use of major research skills and techniques in clinical and abnormal psychology. Students will have opportunities to observe and conduct research in clinical settings. This course is particularly relevant for psychology major students who are interested in pursuing a postgraduate research or professional training program in clinical psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3287A", "title": "Lab in Personality and Psychopathology", "description": "Students will be introduced to theories/models in personality, psychopathology, and the interface between the two fields. The course will provide students with a broad overview of the commonly-used designs, methods, and statistical techniques, while at the same time cultivate an appreciation of specific design issues in personality-psychopathology research. In the second half of the course, students will take on group projects, and apply their knowledge to conducting a research study. They will have hands-on experiences at different research stages, from how a research study is formulated and carried out to data analysis, results presentation, and report writing."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3289", "title": "Lab in Decision Science", "description": "This course is designed to provide psychology majors with hands-on experience using research designs and methods commonly used in decision science. Topics to be covered include the decoy effect, framing effect, ambiguity aversion, delay discounting, fairness, game theory, and cooperation. We will review seminal and most recent research on these topics and discuss implications for understanding human decision making in real-life situations. Students will then work in small groups to design and conduct an experiment using these methodologies/paradigms and submit individual research reports."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3880", "title": "Topics in Psychology", "description": "Topics not already covered by level-3000 modules can be taught under this module. The contents will vary from time to time, contingent upon the interests and expertise of the teaching staff."}, {"moduleCode": "PL3880C", "title": "Alcohol, Drugs and Behaviour", "description": "The overarching objective of the class is to allow students to become knowledgeable about basic pharmacology and understand how neuro-pharmacology can lead to changes in behaviour. The teaching style will be lecture with discussion of relevant scientific studies from the animal and human literature. Major topics covered will be neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, effects of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and nicotine on humans."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4201", "title": "Psychometrics and Psychological Testing", "description": "The course is designed for students to acquire important scientific knowledge and practical professional skills in the areas of psychometrics and psychological testing. Topics covered include paradigms in psychological testing and research, conceptual bases of test construction, principles of reliability, and validation strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4201HM", "title": "Psychometrics and Psychological Testing", "description": "The course is designed for students to acquire important scientific knowledge and practical professional skills in the areas of psychometrics and psychological testing. Topics covered include paradigms in psychological testing and research, conceptual bases of test construction, principles of reliability, and validation strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4202", "title": "History and Systems of Psychology", "description": "The course aims to provide students with an integrated overview of the development of modern psychology since around 1850. Special attention will be given to the emergence of biological, behavioural, cognitive and social theoretical approaches. The intention is to help students appreciate the paradigm changes that have taken place in the last 150 years, and thus also appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of current paradigms."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4202HM", "title": "History and Systems of Psychology", "description": "The course aims to provide students with an integrated overview of the development of modern psychology since around 1850. Special attention will be given to the emergence of biological, behavioural, cognitive and social theoretical approaches. The intention is to help students appreciate the paradigm changes that have taken place in the last 150 years, and thus also appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of current paradigms."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4203", "title": "Cognition", "description": "This course introduces the student to the fundamental issues of cognitive science. Specifically, the main concern is how we might model cognition. The topics include the modes of representation, issues relating to the processing of information, and the nature of cognitive architectures. Both classical models of cognition and connectionist models will be considered. There will be several sessions of computer simulation of basic connectionist models. This course is mounted for students interested in how we might study how the mind works."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4203HM", "title": "Cognition", "description": "This course introduces the student to the fundamental issues of cognitive science. Specifically, the main concern is how we might model cognition. The topics include the modes of representation, issues relating to the processing of information, and the nature of cognitive architectures. Both classical models of cognition and connectionist models will be considered. There will be several sessions of computer simulation of basic connectionist models. This course is mounted for students interested in how we might study how the mind works."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4205", "title": "Developmental Processes", "description": "This course concerns development in infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. It reviews in depth important cognitive, social and emotional changes during these phases, the theories of development that document these changes and the rich variety of research methodology that track these changes. Students will get a genuine understanding of how current information on human development contribute to, modify or challenge extant theories of development and how far developmental psychology has progressed in the last 50 years."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4205HM", "title": "Developmental Processes", "description": "This course concerns development in infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. It reviews in depth important cognitive, social and emotional changes during these phases, the theories of development that document these changes and the rich variety of research methodology that track these changes. Students will get a genuine understanding of how current information on human development contribute to, modify or challenge extant theories of development and how far developmental psychology has progressed in the last 50 years."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4206", "title": "Cognitive Neuroscience", "description": "This course introduces recent research findings in Cognitive Neuroscience - in particular, functional brain imaging (fMRI and ERP). We will explore whether brain imaging techniques have illuminated what each part of the brain actually does, and how these different parts interact functionally, before finally discussing recent applications of such findings. Two currently popular application areas are brain-machine/computer interfaces (using brain-waves to directly control robotic devices) and creating new \"sensory abilities\" in those people who have sensory impairments (e.g., the blind or deaf). The style of the course will be an informal one, and the \"lectures\" should be treated more like seminars/discussions. The emphasis will therefore rely heavily on preparation work outside the lectures that culminates in a fruitful debate during the lectures. To facilitate this style, several lectures will begin with students' critiques of research articles before \"opening up the floor\" for general discussion."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4206HM", "title": "Cognitive Neuroscience", "description": "This course introduces recent research findings in Cognitive Neuroscience - in particular, functional brain imaging (fMRI and ERP). We will explore whether brain imaging techniques have illuminated what each part of the brain actually does, and how these different parts interact functionally, before finally discussing recent applications of such findings. Two currently popular application areas are brain-machine/computer interfaces (using brain-waves to directly control robotic devices) and creating new \"sensory abilities\" in those people who have sensory impairments (e.g., the blind or deaf). The style of the course will be an informal one, and the \"lectures\" should be treated more like seminars/discussions. The emphasis will therefore rely heavily on preparation work outside the lectures that culminates in a fruitful debate during the lectures. To facilitate this style, several lectures will begin with students' critiques of research articles before \"opening up the floor\" for general discussion."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4207", "title": "Social Psychology: Theories and Methods", "description": "This course deals with contemporary social psychology. Topics include cognitive and learning perspectives in social psychology, quantitative methods in social psychology, attitudes and attitude change, attribution and social perception, altruism and aggression, sex roles, interpersonal attraction, social influence, leadership and power, intergroup relations, and cultural psychology. In discussing these topics, illustrations are given of how research programmes are conducted in social psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4207HM", "title": "Social Psychology: Theories and Methods", "description": "This course deals with contemporary social psychology. Topics include cognitive and learning perspectives in social psychology, quantitative methods in social psychology, attitudes and attitude change, attribution and social perception, altruism and aggression, sex roles, interpersonal attraction, social influence, leadership and power, intergroup relations, and cultural psychology. In discussing these topics, illustrations are given of how research programmes are conducted in social psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4208", "title": "Counselling Psychology", "description": "This course aims to provide students with an overview of the content area of counselling psychology. This is an introductory course that can serve as a foundation to specialised training in counselling assessment and interventions. Students will learn basic helping skills and interviewing techniques, receive didactic and experiential training applicable to human service related fields."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4208HM", "title": "Counselling Psychology", "description": "This course aims to provide students with an overview of the content area of counselling psychology. This is an introductory course that can serve as a foundation to specialised training in counselling assessment and interventions. Students will learn basic helping skills and interviewing techniques, receive didactic and experiential training applicable to human service related fields."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4213", "title": "Cognitive Neuropsychology", "description": "Cognitive neuropsychologists analyze case-study data from brain-injured children and adults in order to develop and evaluate models of normal cognitive processes. This course provides an opportunity for students with core knowledge in cognitive psychology, to examine how patterns of impaired performance have informed models of bilingualism, speaking, listening, reading, writing, object recognition, face perception, memory and attention. Wherever possible, video-tapes of patients with these deficits will be used to supplement the main textbook and journal articles. The ensuing discussion will hold implications for rehabilitation, but the emphasis will be on theoretical and methodological issues in the field."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4213HM", "title": "Cognitive Neuropsychology", "description": "Cognitive neuropsychologists analyze case-study data from brain-injured children and adults in order to develop and evaluate models of normal cognitive processes. This course provides an opportunity for students with core knowledge in cognitive psychology, to examine how patterns of impaired performance have informed models of bilingualism, speaking, listening, reading, writing, object recognition, face perception, memory and attention. Wherever possible, video-tapes of patients with these deficits will be used to supplement the main textbook and journal articles. The ensuing discussion will hold implications for rehabilitation, but the emphasis will be on theoretical and methodological issues in the field."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4214", "title": "Evolutionary Psychology", "description": "The aim of this course is to give students an understanding of evolutionary theory and its implications for psychological theory. The idea that behaviour, like physical structure, is evolved in response to selection pressures carries implications for understanding phenomena in a range of diverse fields such as logical reasoning, altruism, competition, mate selection, aggressive behaviour, attachment and child maltreatment. Pitfalls and limitations in the speculative use of evolutionary explanations will be considered, and the way in which such explanations complement those couched in terms of psychological processes or mechanisms will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4214HM", "title": "Evolutionary Psychology", "description": "The aim of this course is to give students an understanding of evolutionary theory and its implications for psychological theory. The idea that behaviour, like physical structure, is evolved in response to selection pressures carries implications for understanding phenomena in a range of diverse fields such as logical reasoning, altruism, competition, mate selection, aggressive behaviour, attachment and child maltreatment. Pitfalls and limitations in the speculative use of evolutionary explanations will be considered, and the way in which such explanations complement those couched in terms of psychological processes or mechanisms will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4216", "title": "Personnel Selection", "description": "This course is primarily for psychology major students. The course covers the science and practice of personnel selection. The purpose of the course is to familiarise students with personnel selection research and heighten students' awareness of validity and utility issues that emerge in the practice of personnel selection. Topics covered include job analysis, theories and measurement of performance and individual difference characteristics, design of validation research, and evaluation of validation data."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4216HM", "title": "Personnel Selection", "description": "This course is primarily for psychology major students. The course covers the science and practice of personnel selection. The purpose of the course is to familiarise students with personnel selection research and heighten students' awareness of validity and utility issues that emerge in the practice of personnel selection. Topics covered include job analysis, theories and measurement of performance and individual difference characteristics, design of validation research, and evaluation of validation data."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4218", "title": "Psychological Assessment", "description": "This course introduces the techniques of psychological assessment that are widely used by practising psychologists. Content will include the properties of assessment techniques; the context of assessment and its applications in a clinical setting; practical, social, and ethical considerations in assessment; and an introduction to the assessment of individual differences in intelligence, cognition and ability/disability. Students will be exposed to some commonly used psychological tests. They will learn to follow the standardised rules of administration, how to use test manuals to interpret test scores, and how to construct a professional psychological report from their findings."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4218HM", "title": "Psychological Assessment", "description": "This course introduces the techniques of psychological assessment that are widely used by practising psychologists. Content will include the properties of assessment techniques; the context of assessment and its applications in a clinical setting; practical, social, and ethical considerations in assessment; and an introduction to the assessment of individual differences in intelligence, cognition and ability/disability. Students will be exposed to some commonly used psychological tests. They will learn to follow the standardised rules of administration, how to use test manuals to interpret test scores, and how to construct a professional psychological report from their findings."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4219", "title": "Advanced Abnormal Psychology", "description": "This course is an advanced course in Abnormal Psychology. It builds on the fundamental concepts introduced in PL3106/PL3236, by focusing on some specific areas, e.g., mood, psychotic and anxiety disorders. The role of stress and emotion in psychopathology, and the treatment of these disorders, with drug therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy will be considered. The student will be introduced to recent advancement in research and practice in these and other cognate domains. The focus of the seminars will be discussion of current basic and clinical research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4219HM", "title": "Advanced Abnormal Psychology", "description": "This course is an advanced course in Abnormal Psychology. It builds on the fundamental concepts introduced in PL3106/PL3236, by focusing on some specific areas, e.g., mood, psychotic and anxiety disorders. The role of stress and emotion in psychopathology, and the treatment of these disorders, with drug therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy will be considered. The student will be introduced to recent advancement in research and practice in these and other cognate domains. The focus of the seminars will be discussion of current basic and clinical research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4221", "title": "Early Language Development", "description": "This course explores topics on language development in infants and young children: these topics include speech perception, development of phonology, syntax and morphology, vocabulary development, and bilingual language development. We will examine theoretical issues and research methods in these areas. Through the series of seminars which make up this course, we will read and discuss journal articles, with particular attention to current research. Students may benefit from taking PL3234 (Developmental Psychology) before this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4221HM", "title": "Early Language Development", "description": "This course explores topics on language development in infants and young children: these topics include speech perception, development of phonology, syntax and morphology, vocabulary development, and bilingual language development. We will examine theoretical issues and research methods in these areas. Through the series of seminars which make up this course, we will read and discuss journal articles, with particular attention to current research. Students may benefit from taking PL3234 (Developmental Psychology) before this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4222", "title": "Neuroscience of Memory", "description": "This course focuses on the neural underpinnings of memory. This course will cover the biological bases of the different memory systems and how these may interact with biological systems that support other cognitive functions like attention, language etc. Additionally, the various neuroscience methods that are used to study these will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4222HM", "title": "Neuroscience of Memory", "description": "This course focuses on the neural underpinnings of memory. This course will cover the biological bases of the different memory systems and how these may interact with biological systems that support other cognitive functions like attention, language etc. Additionally, the various neuroscience methods that are used to study these will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4223", "title": "Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology", "description": "This course introduces advanced students to the field of neuropsychology in the medical environment. The work of neuropsychologists in hospitals is discussed with clinical case examples. Students are familiarised with basic concepts of clinical practice, case formulation, and ethical principles in working with hospital patients. They are also provided with site visit opportunities to increase their appreciation for the work of the helping professions among people with neurological impairment and psychosocial dysfunction."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4223HM", "title": "Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology", "description": "This course introduces advanced students to the field of neuropsychology in the medical environment. The work of neuropsychologists in hospitals is discussed with clinical case examples. Students are familiarised with basic concepts of clinical practice, case formulation, and ethical principles in working with hospital patients. They are also provided with site visit opportunities to increase their appreciation for the work of the helping professions among people with neurological impairment and psychosocial dysfunction."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4224", "title": "Mental Health and Distress in Children", "description": "This course is an advanced course in child mental health issues. It is intended to build a foundation of knowledge and concepts necessary in the specialized area of child clinical psychology, by focusing on theory, research and clinical application in the area of childhood mental health. Theories that will be highlighted include developmental psychopathology, the diathesis-stress model and cultural diversity models. Mental health issues relevant to the following periods of development will be discussed: infancy/early childhood; school age; adolescence. The seminars will consist of lectures, as well as in-class, small-group discussion of current clinical topics and selected research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4224HM", "title": "Mental Health and Distress in Children", "description": "This course is an advanced course in child mental health issues. It is intended to build a foundation of knowledge and concepts necessary in the specialized area of child clinical psychology, by focusing on theory, research and clinical application in the area of childhood mental health. Theories that will be highlighted include developmental psychopathology, the diathesis-stress model and cultural diversity models. Mental health issues relevant to the following periods of development will be discussed: infancy/early childhood; school age; adolescence. The seminars will consist of lectures, as well as in-class, small-group discussion of current clinical topics and selected research papers."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4225", "title": "Psychology of Gender", "description": "This course reviews historical and cultural perspectives of the psychology of gender. Various genetic, biological, and social determinants of gender differences in physical and sexual attributes, cognitive abilities, personality, and social behaviours are examined. Socialization processes by way of parenting, play, school and media will be explored with regard to gender roles and stereotypes. Consequences of gender bias will be discussed in relation to individual development, education, vocation, media, and physical and mental health. New trends in gender relations, as well as gender conflicts and abuses of power such as battering, sexual assault, and sexual harassment will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4225HM", "title": "Psychology of Gender", "description": "This course reviews historical and cultural perspectives of the psychology of gender. Various genetic, biological, and social determinants of gender differences in physical and sexual attributes, cognitive abilities, personality, and social behaviours are examined. Socialization processes by way of parenting, play, school and media will be explored with regard to gender roles and stereotypes. Consequences of gender bias will be discussed in relation to individual development, education, vocation, media, and physical and mental health. New trends in gender relations, as well as gender conflicts and abuses of power such as battering, sexual assault, and sexual harassment will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4226", "title": "Correctional Psychology", "description": "This course seeks to equip students with an understanding of criminal behaviour and the criminal justice agencies\u2019 response to offending in the local settings. Students will be introduced to psychological theories of criminal behaviours, psychopathology associated with offending, offender assessments, offender programming, re-entry initiatives, professional practice and research."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4226HM", "title": "Correctional Psychology", "description": "This course seeks to equip students with an understanding of criminal behaviour and the criminal justice agencies\u2019 response to offending in the local settings. Students will be introduced to psychological theories of criminal behaviours, psychopathology associated with offending, offender assessments, offender programming, re-entry initiatives, professional practice and research."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4227", "title": "Behavioral Genetics for Social Scientists", "description": "The DNA revolution is coming of age also in the social sciences. The purpose of this course is to introduce students, without a biology or chemistry background, to the basic concepts needed to understand genomics and how to apply these ideas in their own field of study. Topics to be covered include Mendelian Genetics, Quantitative Genetics QTL (twin studies, heritability), Basics of Molecular Genetics, Complex Traits - Relationship between Phenotype and Genotype, Nature and Nurture, Epigenetics, Imaging genetics, Personality Genetics, Social Behavior, Addiction, Mental Disorders & Human Diversity."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4227HM", "title": "Behavioral Genetics for Social Scientists", "description": "The DNA revolution is coming of age also in the social sciences. The purpose of this course is to introduce students, without a biology or chemistry background, to the basic concepts needed to understand genomics and how to apply these ideas in their own field of study. Topics to be covered include Mendelian Genetics, Quantitative Genetics QTL (twin studies, heritability), Basics of Molecular Genetics, Complex Traits - Relationship between Phenotype and Genotype, Nature and Nurture, Epigenetics, Imaging genetics, Personality Genetics, Social Behavior, Addiction, Mental Disorders & Human Diversity."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4228", "title": "Criminal Forensic Psychology", "description": "Criminal forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and the criminal justice system, which involves the understanding of criminal law in the relevant jurisdictions in order to interact appropriately with the legal professionals. The course will introduce students to the relevant sentencing and evidentiary issues, as well as the literature on the assessment and management of violent and sexual offending behaviours, amongst other problem behaviours. In addition, the course will explore areas relating to eyewitness testimony in children. Further, the association between personality disorders and offending behaviours, as well as the relevant assessment and management issues will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4228HM", "title": "Criminal Forensic Psychology", "description": "Criminal forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and the criminal justice system, which involves the understanding of criminal law in the relevant jurisdictions in order to interact appropriately with the legal professionals. The course will introduce students to the relevant sentencing and evidentiary issues, as well as the literature on the assessment and management of violent and sexual offending behaviours, amongst other problem behaviours. In addition, the course will explore areas relating to eyewitness testimony in children. Further, the association between personality disorders and offending behaviours, as well as the relevant assessment and management issues will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4229", "title": "Psychological Therapies", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to the main orientations of psychological therapy including psychodynamic psychotherapy, behavioural and cognitive therapies, and systemic therapies, amongst others. Theoretical underpinnings, specific therapeutic techniques, applications to particular psychiatric disorders or psychological problems, methods of evaluation, levels of empirical support, mechanisms of change, and ethical and professional issues will be covered. Seminars will include didactic teaching, class discussions, clinical case studies, selected articles, and where possible, video footage."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4229HM", "title": "Psychological Therapies", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to the main orientations of psychological therapy including psychodynamic psychotherapy, behavioural and cognitive therapies, and systemic therapies, amongst others. Theoretical underpinnings, specific therapeutic techniques, applications to particular psychiatric disorders or psychological problems, methods of evaluation, levels of empirical support, mechanisms of change, and ethical and professional issues will be covered. Seminars will include didactic teaching, class discussions, clinical case studies, selected articles, and where possible, video footage."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4230", "title": "Mindful Psychology", "description": "Mindful Psychology is an integration of Western and Buddhist psychology, mindfulness and neuroscience. This unique integration takes essential elements of these disciplines and blends them into a new way of understanding the human psyche, emotional suffering and healthy psychological development. The aim of this course is to address questions such as: What is Mindful Psychology and how does mindfulness practice relate to healthy psychological development? What are the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of this emerging discipline? This course will introduce students to the scientific research, applications and future trends in Mindful Psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4230HM", "title": "Mindful Psychology", "description": "Mindful Psychology is an integration of Western and Buddhist psychology, mindfulness and neuroscience. This unique integration takes essential elements of these disciplines and blends them into a new way of understanding the human psyche, emotional suffering and healthy psychological development. The aim of this course is to address questions such as: What is Mindful Psychology and how does mindfulness practice relate to healthy psychological development? What are the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of this emerging discipline? This course will introduce students to the scientific research, applications and future trends in Mindful Psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4231", "title": "Personality Biology, Economics and Wellbeing", "description": "Personality measures have gained traction in Economics, Psychiatry and Health Psychology as potential predictors of wellbeing and social and economic achievement. Students will read key article showing the relationship between personality, economics, wellbeing and social success. The student will explore through interactive discussions the role of hard wiring mediated by genetic polymorphisms, as well as environment, in shaping individual personalities and how personality impacts individual trajectories across the life span."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4231HM", "title": "Personality Biology, Economics and Wellbeing", "description": "Personality measures have gained traction in Economics, Psychiatry and Health Psychology as potential predictors of wellbeing and social and economic achievement. Students will read key article showing the relationship between personality, economics, wellbeing and social success. The student will explore through interactive discussions the role of hard wiring mediated by genetic polymorphisms, as well as environment, in shaping individual personalities and how personality impacts individual trajectories across the life span."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4232", "title": "Psychology of Organizational Processes", "description": "This course provides students with knowledge of organizational psychology and the behavior of people in today\u2019s complex organizations. A variety of organizational processes will be examined, including motivation, leadership, group dynamics, justice and ethics, organizational climate, and decision\u2010making. The effective management of people is a key requirement for organizational functioning. This course covers the psychological concepts and theories concerning the administration and management of organizations, groups, and individuals."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4232HM", "title": "Psychology of Organizational Processes", "description": "This course provides students with knowledge of organizational psychology and the behavior of people in today\u2019s complex organizations. A variety of organizational processes will be examined, including motivation, leadership, group dynamics, justice and ethics, organizational climate, and decision\u2010making. The effective management of people is a key requirement for organizational functioning. This course covers the psychological concepts and theories concerning the administration and management of organizations, groups, and individuals."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4233", "title": "Psychology of Negotiation", "description": "This course will provide an overview of the science of negotiation, drawing largely upon the theories and research in organizational psychology and social psychology. Students will learn basic and classic issues in the field including distributive and integrative bargaining, as well as the cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes that inhibit or facilitate effectiveness in negotiating. Students will also be introduced to complex issues including multi\u2010party negotiations, third\u2010party negotiations, agency and ethics, and cross\u2010cultural negotiations."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4233HM", "title": "Psychology of Negotiation", "description": "This course will provide an overview of the science of negotiation, drawing largely upon the theories and research in organizational psychology and social psychology. Students will learn basic and classic issues in the field including distributive and integrative bargaining, as well as the cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes that inhibit or facilitate effectiveness in negotiating. Students will also be introduced to complex issues including multi\u2010party negotiations, third\u2010party negotiations, agency and ethics, and cross\u2010cultural negotiations."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4234", "title": "Patient and Health Care", "description": "This course is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of health psychology as an applied science. The course focuses on understanding developmental and lifespan frameworks in the experience of illness and disease; exploring patients\u2019 experiences in the health\u2010care system; and developing an appreciation of factors that may lead to patient harm and adverse events in the context of health care delivery."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4234HM", "title": "Patient and Health Care", "description": "This course is designed to increase knowledge and understanding of health psychology as an applied science. The course focuses on understanding developmental and lifespan frameworks in the experience of illness and disease; exploring patients\u2019 experiences in the health\u2010care system; and developing an appreciation of factors that may lead to patient harm and adverse events in the context of health care delivery."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4235", "title": "The Psychology of Moral Judgments", "description": "This course will introduce students to the study of the origins, development, and cognitive processing of morality. The course will cover the history of moral psychology, and the shift from cognitive\u2010developmentalist theories of reasoning\u2010based morality to the current social intuitionist theory of intuition and emotion based morality. The course debates whether morality is innate, intuitive, emotion\u2010driven, reasoned, learned, or a dual process. In doing so, we will explore infants\u2019 and children\u2019s moral development, moral emotions, morality through neuroscience, morality across culture and in politics, and moral dilemmas from philosophical thought experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4235HM", "title": "The Psychology of Moral Judgments", "description": "This course will introduce students to the study of the origins, development, and cognitive processing of morality. The course will cover the history of moral psychology, and the shift from cognitive\u2010developmentalist theories of reasoning\u2010based morality to the current social intuitionist theory of intuition and emotion based morality. The course debates whether morality is innate, intuitive, emotion\u2010driven, reasoned, learned, or a dual process. In doing so, we will explore infants\u2019 and children\u2019s moral development, moral emotions, morality through neuroscience, morality across culture and in politics, and moral dilemmas from philosophical thought experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4236", "title": "Autism Spectrum and Related Conditions", "description": "Autism Spectrum Conditions affect social and communication development in approximately 1 in 100 individuals. This course will cover the history, presentation, diagnostic process and challenges, genetics and neurobiology, etiological theories, assessment and evidence\u2010based interventions for individuals with Autism Spectrum and related neurodevelopmental conditions across the life\u2010span. Emphasis will be given to recent research and empirically validated neurobiological, developmental and psychological theoretical perspectives and understanding the high comorbidity in ASC. This course will also explore the presentation of autistic traits in the general population, family and relatives of those with ASC and in those with other disorders (\u201cthe autism continuum\u201d)."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4236HM", "title": "Autism Spectrum and Related Conditions", "description": "Autism Spectrum Conditions affect social and communication development in approximately 1 in 100 individuals. This course will cover the history, presentation, diagnostic process and challenges, genetics and neurobiology, etiological theories, assessment and evidence\u2010based interventions for individuals with Autism Spectrum and related neurodevelopmental conditions across the life\u2010span. Emphasis will be given to recent research and empirically validated neurobiological, developmental and psychological theoretical perspectives and understanding the high comorbidity in ASC. This course will also explore the presentation of autistic traits in the general population, family and relatives of those with ASC and in those with other disorders (\u201cthe autism continuum\u201d)."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4237", "title": "Evidence-Based Treatments for Trauma", "description": "This course will provide an overview of evidence- based treatments that are empirically supported as efficacious for treating trauma and stress-related disorders, including cognitive-behavioural therapies such as trauma-focused therapy, cognitive processing therapy, skills training in affective and interpersonal regulation, prolonged exposure, acceptance and commitment therapy, virtual reality, motivational interviewing among others, and body-focused treatments such as meditation and mindfulness. Theoretical underpinnings of stress-related disorders, application of specific therapeutic techniques for trauma treatment, methods of evaluation, empirical support for mechanisms of change, and ethical and cultural considerations will be covered. Seminars will include didactic presentations, video vignettes, and discussion."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4237HM", "title": "Evidence-Based Treatments for Trauma", "description": "This course will provide an overview of evidence- based treatments that are empirically supported as efficacious for treating trauma and stress-related disorders, including cognitive-behavioural therapies such as trauma-focused therapy, cognitive processing therapy, skills training in affective and interpersonal regulation, prolonged exposure, acceptance and commitment therapy, virtual reality, motivational interviewing among others, and body-focused treatments such as meditation and mindfulness. Theoretical underpinnings of stress-related disorders, application of specific therapeutic techniques for trauma treatment, methods of evaluation, empirical support for mechanisms of change, and ethical and cultural considerations will be covered. Seminars will include didactic presentations, video vignettes, and discussion."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4238", "title": "Social Neuroscience", "description": "Social Neuroscience uses biological concepts and methods to understand social emotion and behaviour. Topics to be covered include the neural basis of selfrepresentation and theory of mind; the neural signature of social pain and social reward; and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying cooperation, emotion regulation, and inequity aversion. The influence of culture on the neural responses to social stimuli and the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition deficits in psychiatric disorders such as autism will also be explored. In this course, we will review seminal and most recent research on these topics and discuss implications for understanding human behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4238HM", "title": "Social Neuroscience", "description": "Social Neuroscience uses biological concepts and methods to understand social emotion and behaviour. Topics to be covered include the neural basis of selfrepresentation and theory of mind; the neural signature of social pain and social reward; and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying cooperation, emotion regulation, and inequity aversion. The influence of culture on the neural responses to social stimuli and the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition deficits in psychiatric disorders such as autism will also be explored. In this course, we will review seminal and most recent research on these topics and discuss implications for understanding human behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4239", "title": "Social Psychology of the Unconscious", "description": "Conscious awareness is a prized possession of mankind. Lay people and philosophers alike ascribe sacred values to people\u2019s capacity for conscious thoughts, reasoning, and behaviour. However, social psychology research demonstrates the powerful influence of the unconscious, mechanisms that occur without conscious awareness, on high-level mental processes. In this course, students will be exposed to an array of research revealing how the unconscious affects social perception, social behaviour, goal pursuit, and complexed decision making. Students will acquire a basic understanding of how the unconscious operates and appreciate the real-life implications of the unconscious in consumer behaviour, public opinion, and legal decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4239HM", "title": "Social Psychology of the Unconscious", "description": "Conscious awareness is a prized possession of mankind. Lay people and philosophers alike ascribe sacred values to people\u2019s capacity for conscious thoughts, reasoning, and behaviour. However, social psychology research demonstrates the powerful influence of the unconscious, mechanisms that occur without conscious awareness, on high-level mental processes. In this course, students will be exposed to an array of research revealing how the unconscious affects social perception, social behaviour, goal pursuit, and complexed decision making. Students will acquire a basic understanding of how the unconscious operates and appreciate the real-life implications of the unconscious in consumer behaviour, public opinion, and legal decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4240", "title": "Emotion and Psychopathology", "description": "This course will examine the history and current status of research on emotion especially in relation to psychopathology. The background philosophy and two different traditions stemming from Plato and Aristotle will be summarised. Modern day approaches will be considered, and dimensional versus categorical approaches will be reviewed with their implications for clinical practice. Approaches to normal versus abnormal emotions will be considered, with analysis of how the five basic emotions of anxiety, anger, disgust, sadness, and happiness provide a framework for understanding emotional disorders. Therapy that focuses on emotion experience, expression, and regulation will be reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4240HM", "title": "Emotion and Psychopathology", "description": "This course will examine the history and current status of research on emotion especially in relation to psychopathology. The background philosophy and two different traditions stemming from Plato and Aristotle will be summarised. Modern day approaches will be considered, and dimensional versus categorical approaches will be reviewed with their implications for clinical practice. Approaches to normal versus abnormal emotions will be considered, with analysis of how the five basic emotions of anxiety, anger, disgust, sadness, and happiness provide a framework for understanding emotional disorders. Therapy that focuses on emotion experience, expression, and regulation will be reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4241", "title": "Exploring Consciousness \u2013 Theory and Neuroscience", "description": "Perceptual consciousness allows us to interact with the world that we live in through touch, sight, sound, smell and taste. In addition, conscious decision-making (free will) allows us to interact with our surroundings in ways that fulfil our goals and desires. In this course, we will discuss neuroscientific, psychological and philosophical investigations on conscious perception and decision-making. We will discuss the methods used to study it, and importantly, highlight the limitations of our current understanding in the field."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4241HM", "title": "Exploring Consciousness - Theory and Neuroscience", "description": "Perceptual consciousness allows us to interact with the world that we live in through touch, sight, sound, smell and taste. In addition, conscious decision-making (free will) allows us to interact with our surroundings in ways that fulfil our goals and desires. In this course, we will discuss neuroscientific, psychological and philosophical investigations on conscious perception and decision-making. We will discuss the methods used to study it, and importantly, highlight the limitations of our current understanding in the field."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4242", "title": "Historical Controversies in Psychology", "description": "Historical Controversies in Psychology will expose students to pertinent issues and challenges the field has faced throughout its history. Each controversy will be explored through debate, discussion and critical analysis inside, and outside of, the classroom. A range of controversies will be explored spanning the different subfields of psychology (e.g., social psychology, neuroscience), and across different timelines (e.g., pre and post cognitive revolution). The aim of this course is to present students with an opportunity for critical thinking to tackle difficult questions that shed light on psychology\u2019s failings and advances."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4242HM", "title": "Historical Controversies in Psychology", "description": "Historical Controversies in Psychology will expose students to pertinent issues and challenges the field has faced throughout its history. Each controversy will be explored through debate, discussion and critical analysis inside, and outside of, the classroom. A range of controversies will be explored spanning the different subfields of psychology (e.g., social psychology, neuroscience), and across different timelines (e.g., pre and post cognitive revolution). The aim of this course is to present students with an opportunity for critical thinking to tackle difficult questions that shed light on psychology\u2019s failings and advances."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4243", "title": "Intellectual Developmental Disorder", "description": "This course provides a deeper understanding on Intellectual Developmental Disorder. It is intended for students who have interest to learn more about special needs. The course will cover key topics in the field, such as assessment, emotional and behavioural presentation, intervention and specialist topics. The course will also adopt a life-span approach and pertinent developmental issues will be presented."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4243HM", "title": "Intellectual Developmental Disorder", "description": "This course provides a deeper understanding on Intellectual Developmental Disorder. It is intended for students who have interest to learn more about special needs. The course will cover key topics in the field, such as assessment, emotional and behavioural presentation, intervention and specialist topics. The course will also adopt a life-span approach and pertinent developmental issues will be presented."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4244", "title": "Sleep: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective", "description": "Why is sleep so important that we need to spend one-third of our life on this (in)activity? Although sleep is important for many aspects of health, this course will address sleep primarily from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. This course will provide a basic introduction to how sleep is regulated and measured, and how sleep changes across the lifespan. The cognitive importance of sleep in multiple age groups will be discussed. This course will also address how sleep can be improved. Sleep research in Singapore will be reviewed to help students understand some of the topics in a local context."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4244HM", "title": "Sleep: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective", "description": "Why is sleep so important that we need to spend one-third of our life on this (in)activity? Although sleep is important for many aspects of health, this course will address sleep primarily from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. This course will provide a basic introduction to how sleep is regulated and measured, and how sleep changes across the lifespan. The cognitive importance of sleep in multiple age groups will be discussed. This course will also address how sleep can be improved. Sleep research in Singapore will be reviewed to help students understand some of the topics in a local context."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4245", "title": "Data Science for Psychology: Methods and Applications", "description": "The course aims to introduce psychology students to modern methods of prediction called data science or machine learning. The course will cover both the foundations of these methods and their use in areas of applied interest to social scientists such as psychometrics. The methods covered include regularized regression, trees and random forests, neural networks, and support vector machines. The course will focus not on derivations and proofs, but instead on gaining an intuitive conceptual understanding of the techniques, how and when to use them for data analysis, and how to assess performance of these methods."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4245HM", "title": "Data Science for Psychology: Methods and Applications", "description": "The course aims to introduce psychology students to modern methods of prediction called data science or machine learning. The course will cover both the foundations of these methods and their use in areas of applied interest to social scientists such as psychometrics. The methods covered include regularized regression, trees and random forests, neural networks, and support vector machines. The course will focus not on derivations and proofs, but instead on gaining an intuitive conceptual understanding of the techniques, how and when to use them for data analysis, and how to assess performance of these methods."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4246", "title": "Networks in Psychology", "description": "This course provides an overview of how network science methods are applied to investigate diverse topics in psychology. Networks are commonplace in core domains of psychology, ranging from social and cognitive psychology, to the clinical and brain sciences. Students will learn about current research on lexical and semantic networks, social networks, brain networks, and symptom networks, and understand how psychologists can make use of network science methods to analyse the structure of psychological and social systems. The course includes an accessible introduction to the basics of network analysis and several opportunities to apply these techniques on real datasets."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4246HM", "title": "Networks in Psychology", "description": "This course provides an overview of how network science methods are applied to investigate diverse topics in psychology. Networks are commonplace in core domains of psychology, ranging from social and cognitive psychology, to the clinical and brain sciences. Students will learn about current research on lexical and semantic networks, social networks, brain networks, and symptom networks, and understand how psychologists can make use of network science methods to analyse the structure of psychological and social systems. The course includes an accessible introduction to the basics of network analysis and several opportunities to apply these techniques on real datasets."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4247", "title": "Application of Psychology to Fears and Phobias", "description": "This course takes an in-depth look at the acquisition and extinction of phobias from an experimental psychopathology framework. It also examines how and why fears relapse after successful exposure therapy and how to reduce return of fear (ie, recovery from extinction effects). These topics are investigated within the context of fear conditioning with the translational focus on phobias and other anxiety disorders. This class will discuss the biological and theoretical mechanisms of these phenomena, and the research that has investigated these topics. Animal and human research from associative learning, experimental psychopathology, cognitive, and behavioral neuroscience will guide the discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4247HM", "title": "Application of Psychology to Fears and Phobias", "description": "This course takes an in-depth look at the acquisition and extinction of phobias from an experimental psychopathology framework. It also examines how and why fears relapse after successful exposure therapy and how to reduce return of fear (ie, recovery from extinction effects). These topics are investigated within the context of fear conditioning with the translational focus on phobias and other anxiety disorders. This class will discuss the biological and theoretical mechanisms of these phenomena, and the research that has investigated these topics. Animal and human research from associative learning, experimental psychopathology, cognitive, and behavioral neuroscience will guide the discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4248", "title": "Hallucinations and Delusions: A Cognitive Perspective", "description": "Distressing experiences of hallucinations and delusions might serve as clinical indicators of psychosis, a severe and complex form of mental ill-health. Despite a considerable prevalence of psychotic-like experiences in the general population, individuals with psychiatric diagnoses of schizophrenia would often be exposed to stigma and discrimination in their communities, leading to social disengagement and exclusion. This course aims to equip students with introductory empirical, academic, and clinical knowledge related to cognitive understanding of hallucinations and delusions. It will provide a normalising, destigmatising, depathologising, socially inclusive, and compassionate evidence-based framework to reflect on and formulate experiences of psychosis."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4248HM", "title": "Hallucinations and Delusions: A Cognitive Perspective", "description": "Distressing experiences of hallucinations and delusions might serve as clinical indicators of psychosis, a severe and complex form of mental ill-health. Despite a considerable prevalence of psychotic-like experiences in the general population, individuals with psychiatric diagnoses of schizophrenia would often be exposed to stigma and discrimination in their communities, leading to social disengagement and exclusion. This course aims to equip students with introductory empirical, academic, and clinical knowledge related to cognitive understanding of hallucinations and delusions. It will provide a normalising, destigmatising, depathologising, socially inclusive, and compassionate evidence-based framework to reflect on and formulate experiences of psychosis."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4249", "title": "The Psychology and Neuroscience of Mindfulness", "description": "Mindfulness-based techniques and interventions have become established as an empirically supported means of treating psychopathology and enhancing well-being. In this seminar, we will undertake a broad survey of the field, focusing on how mindfulness meditation changes the body, the brain and the mind. We will examine the evidence for the effects of mindfulness on cognition, emotion, stress, sleep, brain structure and function, physiology, and its uses in treating psychopathology. Mindfulness teachers, practitioners, clinicians, and app developers will be invited to share their experience and knowledge with the class."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4249HM", "title": "The Psychology and Neuroscience of Mindfulness", "description": "Mindfulness-based techniques and interventions have become established as an empirically supported means of treating psychopathology and enhancing well-being. In this seminar, we will undertake a broad survey of the field, focusing on how mindfulness meditation changes the body, the brain and the mind. We will examine the evidence for the effects of mindfulness on cognition, emotion, stress, sleep, brain structure and function, physiology, and its uses in treating psychopathology. Mindfulness teachers, practitioners, clinicians, and app developers will be invited to share their experience and knowledge with the class."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4250", "title": "Language & Cognitive Processes", "description": "This course covers aspects of current research in the fields of psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. The aim of the course is to provide a broad theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of the cognitive processes underlying how people understand, produce, and learn language. Lectures, tutorials and workshops will include the following topics: speech perception, word recognition, language production, semantics, bilingualism, language acquisition, acquired and developmental disorders of language."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4250HM", "title": "Language & Cognitive Processes", "description": "This course covers aspects of current research in the fields of psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. The aim of the course is to provide a broad theoretical and empirical foundation for the study of the cognitive processes underlying how people understand, produce, and learn language. Lectures, tutorials and workshops will include the following topics: speech perception, word recognition, language production, semantics, bilingualism, language acquisition, acquired and developmental disorders of language."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4251", "title": "Behind the scenes of human perception", "description": "This course explores the incredible process through which the human sensory system produces our conscious experience of the world. Visual perception, for example, feels effortless and objective, but relies on psychological processes operating \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d to flexibly shape what we see. These processes will be illustrated by considering everyday and unusual perceptual experiences, including the striking individual differences in colour perception that occur for the viral image of #TheDress, how our brain is tricked by visual illusions, and conditions such as \u201cphantom limb syndrome\u201d and face prosopagnosia. Practical demonstrations allow students to experience, measure and compare interesting perceptual phenomena."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4251HM", "title": "Behind the scenes of human perception", "description": "This course explores the incredible process through which the human sensory system produces our conscious experience of the world. Visual perception, for example, feels effortless and objective, but relies on psychological processes operating \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d to flexibly shape what we see. These processes will be illustrated by considering everyday and unusual perceptual experiences, including the striking individual differences in colour perception that occur for the viral image of #TheDress, how our brain is tricked by visual illusions, and conditions such as \u201cphantom limb syndrome\u201d and face prosopagnosia. Practical demonstrations allow students to experience, measure and compare interesting perceptual phenomena."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4252", "title": "Emotion Science - Social and Personality Perspectives", "description": "This course offers an in-depth exploration of emotion with perspectives from social, cognitive, motivational, and personality psychology. Emotions are complex states that influence subjective experience, cognitive processes, motivational drive, expression, behavior, as well as mental and physical health. Accordingly, this class presents deep, integrative, and advanced discussion of emotion processes that include their adaptive functions, antecedents, and consequences, taking into account the many, often contrasting, theories, and the last empirical findings based on advanced methods."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4252HM", "title": "Emotion Science - Social and Personality Perspectives", "description": "This course offers an in-depth exploration of emotion with perspectives from social, cognitive, motivational, and personality psychology. Emotions are complex states that influence subjective experience, cognitive processes, motivational drive, expression, behavior, as well as mental and physical health. Accordingly, this class presents deep, integrative, and advanced discussion of emotion processes that include their adaptive functions, antecedents, and consequences, taking into account the many, often contrasting, theories, and the last empirical findings based on advanced methods."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4253", "title": "Moral Development", "description": "This course will introduce students to the study of the origins, development and cognitive processing of morality. The course will cover the beginnings of moral psychology, the early theories of moral development, the contemporary developmental research on infants\u2019 and children\u2019s moral decision-making, and the influence of society (e.g., media, law, parenting) on children\u2019s moral development. Through lectures, discussions, course readings, projects, and essay writing, we will analyse and debate whether morality is innate, adaptive, and unique from other aspects of cognitive development."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4253HM", "title": "Moral Development", "description": "This course will introduce students to the study of the origins, development and cognitive processing of morality. The course will cover the beginnings of moral psychology, the early theories of moral development, the contemporary developmental research on infants\u2019 and children\u2019s moral decision-making, and the influence of society (e.g., media, law, parenting) on children\u2019s moral development. Through lectures, discussions, course readings, projects, and essay writing, we will analyse and debate whether morality is innate, adaptive, and unique from other aspects of cognitive development."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4254", "title": "Animal Behaviour and Cognition", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the fundamental themes encompassing the field of animal cognition. Students will gain insight into the principal methodologies employed to investigate the acquisition and processing of information in animals, while also becoming acquainted with the divergent perspectives prevalent in this field. Special emphasis is placed on the evolutionary and comparative aspects of non-human and human mental faculties, accompanied by explorations into animal consciousness, animal rights, and general intelligence."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4254HM", "title": "Animal Behaviour and Cognition", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the fundamental themes encompassing the field of animal cognition. Students will gain insight into the principal methodologies employed to investigate the acquisition and processing of information in animals, while also becoming acquainted with the divergent perspectives prevalent in this field. Special emphasis is placed on the evolutionary and comparative aspects of non-human and human mental faculties, accompanied by explorations into animal consciousness, animal rights, and general intelligence."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "Each student selects a topic for research and works under the supervision of a member of the teaching staff. The research work is presented as a thesis for examination. The Honours Thesis carries an equivalent weight of two courses. Please register PL4401 manually with the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "Each student selects a topic for research and works under the supervision of a member of the teaching staff. The research work is presented as a thesis for examination. The Honours Thesis carries an equivalent weight of three courses. Please register PL4401HM manually with the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4501", "title": "Integrated Thesis", "description": "The Integrated Thesis is a single thesis that satisfies both the Master\u2019s thesis and Honours thesis requirements of the Psychology Concurrent Degree Programme. The Integrated Thesis is pitched at the Master\u2019s level and should thus entail original research that contributes to new knowledge. Similar to PL4401 Honours Thesis, the Integrated Thesis carries an equivalent weight of two 4000-level courses and is done under the supervision of a member of the teaching staff."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4501HM", "title": "Integrated Thesis", "description": "The Integrated Thesis is a single thesis that satisfies both the Master\u2019s thesis and Honours thesis requirements of the Psychology Concurrent Degree Programme. The Integrated Thesis is pitched at the Master\u2019s level and should thus entail original research that contributes to new knowledge. Similar to PL4401HM Honours Thesis, the Integrated Thesis carries an equivalent weight of three 4000-level courses and is done under the supervision of a member of the teaching staff."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/ or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval. Please register PL4660 manually with the Department. Note: Students are reminded that performing a literature review alone will not be sufficient to meet the requirements of this course. Some form of data processing/analysis need to be conducted. The data may come from a primary source (data collection from participants) or an archival source."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/ or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval. Please register PL4660HM manually with the Department. Note: Students are reminded that performing a literature review alone will not be sufficient to meet the requirements of this course. Some form of data processing/analysis need to be conducted. The data may come from a primary source (data collection from participants) or an archival source."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880", "title": "Topics in Psychology", "description": "One or more topics not covered in other Honours courses can be periodically offered under this heading, depending upon the interests of students and staff."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880C", "title": "Issues in Testing and Research", "description": "Every aspect of the scientific enterprise, from conception of a project to dissemination through the popular media, is fraught with conflict. This course will sensitize students to some of the concerns, including the role of funding agencies, publication decisions, measurement issues, null hypothesis significance testing, selective reporting of data, double blind studies, introspection, and philosophical challenges to scientific methodology. There will be discussion of potential problems of various research designs, including surveys, comparative research, and archival research."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880CHM", "title": "Issues in Testing and Research", "description": "Every aspect of the scientific enterprise, from conception of a project to dissemination through the popular media, is fraught with conflict. This course will sensitize students to some of the concerns, including the role of funding agencies, publication decisions, measurement issues, null hypothesis significance testing, selective reporting of data, double blind studies, introspection, and philosophical challenges to scientific methodology. There will be discussion of potential problems of various research designs, including surveys, comparative research, and archival research."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880F", "title": "Addictive Behaviours", "description": "This course introduces students to major contemporary perspectives on addictive behaviours. Topics to be covered include the aetiology, assessment, prevention, and treatment of substance-related and \"behavioral\" (e.g., gambling, eating) addictions. Recent research and clinical advances in related areas such as behavioural genetics, dual diagnosis, contingency management, cognitive expectancy, and motivational enhancement will also be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880FHM", "title": "Addictive Behaviours", "description": "This course introduces students to major contemporary perspectives on addictive behaviours. Topics to be covered include the aetiology, assessment, prevention, and treatment of substance-related and 'behavioral' (e.g., gambling, eating) addictions. Recent research and clinical advances in related areas such as behavioural genetics, dual diagnosis, contingency management, cognitive expectancy, and motivational enhancement will also be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880G", "title": "Positive Psychology", "description": "Positive Psychology is the study of how people thrive despite external obstacles and their own human frailties. The aim of this course is to address questions such as: What are the positive psychological mind-states and action sequences that promote flourishing lives, and how can we live life well? What are the behaviours and cognitions that undermine wellbeing? This course will introduce students to the scientific research and issues in positive psychology, and will explore the meaning and implications of positive psychology towards a global understanding of wellbeing."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880GHM", "title": "Positive Psychology", "description": "Positive Psychology is the study of how people thrive despite external obstacles and their own human frailties. The aim of this course is to address questions such as: What are the positive psychological mind-states and action sequences that promote flourishing lives, and how can we live life well? What are the behaviours and cognitions that undermine wellbeing? This course will introduce students to the scientific research and issues in positive psychology, and will explore the meaning and implications of positive psychology towards a global understanding of wellbeing."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880H", "title": "Sport Psychology", "description": "The application of sport psychology is becoming an integral part of elite sports performance. The purpose of this course is to introduce students, without a background in sport psychology, to the basic concepts needed to understand sport psychology and its application. Topics to be covered include Psychological Skills Training, Peak Performance, Performance Profiling, Goal Setting, Performance Review, Motivation, Psychophysiology, Relaxation, Activation, Imagery, Self\u2010Talk, Concentration, Team Building, and, Competition Routines."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880HHM", "title": "Sport Psychology", "description": "The application of sport psychology is becoming an integral part of elite sports performance. The purpose of this course is to introduce students, without a background in sport psychology, to the basic concepts needed to understand sport psychology and its application. Topics to be covered include Psychological Skills Training, Peak Performance, Performance Profiling, Goal Setting, Performance Review, Motivation, Psychophysiology, Relaxation, Activation, Imagery, Self\u2010Talk, Concentration, Team Building, and, Competition Routines."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880HM", "title": "Topics in Psychology", "description": "One or more topics not covered in other Honours courses can be periodically offered under this heading, depending upon the interests of students and staff."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880J", "title": "The Right and Left Brain", "description": "Brain lateralization is the notion that each of our cerebral hemispheres (\u201cthe left and the right brain\u201d) has its own unique processing strength. Among the various techniques employed to understand how the left and right brain function, divided visual field (DVF) stands out as a widely\u2010used non\u2010invasive behaviour\u2010based method and thus will constitute a major focus of this course. Students will be exposed to discussions on the historical and theoretical background to, and application of DVF in understanding brain lateralization, either by itself or combined with brain recording/imaging methods. A demonstration of divided visual field method will be conducted."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880JHM", "title": "The Right and Left Brain", "description": "Brain lateralization is the notion that each of our cerebral hemispheres (\u201cthe left and the right brain\u201d) has its own unique processing strength. Among the various techniques employed to understand how the left and right brain function, divided visual field (DVF) stands out as a widely\u2010used non\u2010invasive behaviour\u2010based method and thus will constitute a major focus of this course. Students will be exposed to discussions on the historical and theoretical background to, and application of DVF in understanding brain lateralization, either by itself or combined with brain recording/imaging methods. A demonstration of divided visual field method will be conducted."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880K", "title": "Parenting and Child Development", "description": "This course examines the various aspects of parental influence on children\u2019s development, with a focus on cultural differences in parenting practices. Topics to be covered include a critical evaluation of the crosscultural relevance of parenting styles and the concept of emotional availability in accounting for differences in children\u2019s developmental outcomes. The notion of \u201cgood enough parenting\u201d and parenting as a bidirectional process will be analysed. The course concludes with a discussion of whether parents are the most important source of influence, bearing in mind the many other domains of influence in children\u2019s lives, such as peers."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880KHM", "title": "Parenting and Child Development", "description": "This course examines the various aspects of parental influence on children\u2019s development, with a focus on cultural differences in parenting practices. Topics to be covered include a critical evaluation of the crosscultural relevance of parenting styles and the concept of emotional availability in accounting for differences in children\u2019s developmental outcomes. The notion of \u201cgood enough parenting\u201d and parenting as a bidirectional process will be analysed. The course concludes with a discussion of whether parents are the most important source of influence, bearing in mind the many other domains of influence in children\u2019s lives, such as peers."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880L", "title": "Applying Cognitive Psychology to Learning & Instruction", "description": "This course will explore the cognitive processes that underlie learning in educational contexts. We will examine: (i) the factors that influence effective encoding, organisation, and subsequent retrieval of knowledge, (ii) how learners monitor and regulate their learning, and (iii) how expertise is acquired. We will also delve into the scientific literature to evaluate the effectiveness of various study/instructional strategies, and compare the research findings against our own intuitions (i.e., how we learn best may not correspond to how we think we learn best). We will consider the implications of cognitive science research for enhancing educational practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880LHM", "title": "Applying Cognitive Psychology to Learning & Instruction", "description": "This course will explore the cognitive processes that underlie learning in educational contexts. We will examine: (i) the factors that influence effective encoding, organisation, and subsequent retrieval of knowledge, (ii) how learners monitor and regulate their learning, and (iii) how expertise is acquired. We will also delve into the scientific literature to evaluate the effectiveness of various study/instructional strategies, and compare the research findings against our own intuitions (i.e., how we learn best may not correspond to how we think we learn best). We will consider the implications of cognitive science research for enhancing educational practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880M", "title": "Social Psychology and Technology", "description": "Technology has changed the way humans live, think and interact. New technologies that emerged over the past few decades have also changed the way that psychologists study human behaviour. This course aims to provide students with broad-based overview of social psychological theories and principles in technologically-supported social interactions. Through this course, students will also be introduced to new methodological techniques of studying social behaviour, e.g. mobile and social sensing to measure real-life behaviour, as well as state-of-the-art technology in studying behaviour in teams and organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880MHM", "title": "Social Psychology and Technology", "description": "Technology has changed the way humans live, think and interact. New technologies that emerged over the past few decades have also changed the way that psychologists study human behaviour. This course aims to provide students with broad-based overview of social psychological theories and principles in technologically-supported social interactions. Through this course, students will also be introduced to new methodological techniques of studying social behaviour, e.g. mobile and social sensing to measure real-life behaviour, as well as state-of-the-art technology in studying behaviour in teams and organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880P", "title": "Psychology of Religion", "description": "Religion is ubiquitous across cultures and highly influential in many individuals\u2019 lives, society, and history. This course examines religion through cognitive, developmental, social, and evolutionary psychology. Key questions that will be examined are: Why do people believe in gods and perform rituals? What psychological processes support religious beliefs, behaviours, and experiences? What are the social effects of religion? What is the relationship between religion and morality? The course also examines methods and issues in studying religion empirically."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880PHM", "title": "Psychology of Religion", "description": "Religion is ubiquitous across cultures and highly influential in many individuals\u2019 lives, society, and history. This course examines religion through cognitive, developmental, social, and evolutionary psychology. Key questions that will be examined are: Why do people believe in gods and perform rituals? What psychological processes support religious beliefs, behaviours, and experiences? What are the social effects of religion? What is the relationship between religion and morality? The course also examines methods and issues in studying religion empirically."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880Q", "title": "Psychology of Bilingualism", "description": "This course covers central issues in the fields of bilingualism/multilingualism. Seminars will include the following topics: bilingual language acquisition and processing; bilingual literacy skills; brain bases of bilingualism; cognitive consequences associated with bilingualism. Reading material is supplemented with local case studies to facilitate discussion of issues relevant to language and cognitive processes in bilingual populations. Students are expected to become familiar with the nature of language and cognitive processing in bilinguals."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880QHM", "title": "Psychology of Bilingualism", "description": "This course covers central issues in the fields of bilingualism/multilingualism. Seminars will include the following topics: bilingual language acquisition and processing; bilingual literacy skills; brain bases of bilingualism; cognitive consequences associated with bilingualism. Reading material is supplemented with local case studies to facilitate discussion of issues relevant to language and cognitive processes in bilingual populations. Students are expected to become familiar with the nature of language and cognitive processing in bilinguals."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880R", "title": "Issues in Adolescent Developmt", "description": "This course will focus on developmental processes of adolescence, and will seek to further examine these processes in the context of Singapore and Asia. Specifically, themes such as parent-adolescent relations, educational experiences and processes, and various adolescent challenges would be explored in depth."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880RHM", "title": "Issues in Adolescent Developmt", "description": "This course will focus on developmental processes of adolescence, and will seek to further examine these processes in the context of Singapore and Asia. Specifically, themes such as parent-adolescent relations, educational experiences and processes, and various adolescent challenges would be explored in depth."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880S", "title": "Programme Evaluation in the Social Service Sector", "description": "Programme evaluation is essential in the social service sector. It helps policy makers and practitioners to determine whether a programme, for instance a psychological intervention, fundamentally improves its clients\u2019 wellbeing. Through this systematic process, evaluators identify opportunities for improvements and make recommendations to programme owners for subsequent implementation. This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to conduct a simple programme evaluation within the social service sector. Students will also learn to appreciate the challenges of conducting real world research and develop strategies to overcome these challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880SHM", "title": "Programme Evaluation in the Social Service Sector", "description": "Programme evaluation is essential in the social service sector. It helps policy makers and practitioners to determine whether a programme, for instance a psychological intervention, fundamentally improves its clients\u2019 wellbeing. Through this systematic process, evaluators identify opportunities for improvements and make recommendations to programme owners for subsequent implementation. This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to conduct a simple programme evaluation within the social service sector. Students will also learn to appreciate the challenges of conducting real world research and develop strategies to overcome these challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880T", "title": "Applying Psychology In Education", "description": "This course will explore the theoretical issues in applying psychology in the context of education, and present students with the opportunity to critically analyse the contribution of psychological theories and research to educational issues and school practices. It is also intended for those who wish to have a sound and current understanding of the role of educational psychologists in shaping school practices and policies in general, early childhood and special education."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880THM", "title": "Applying Psychology In Education", "description": "This course will explore the theoretical issues in applying psychology in the context of education, and present students with the opportunity to critically analyse the contribution of psychological theories and research to educational issues and school practices. It is also intended for those who wish to have a sound and current understanding of the role of educational psychologists in shaping school practices and policies in general, early childhood and special education."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880V", "title": "Culture and Human Development", "description": "This course examines the core topics within cultural psychology using a developmental lens. Two major questions guide the course. First, how do diverse aspects of human development (e.g., emotion, cognition, psychopathology, relationships) converge and diverge across cultures? Second, how may culture shape differential developmental experience and outcomes among people? Focusing on childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood, we explore perspectives and critiques of the study of culture within the field of developmental psychology. Emphasis will be on developing an understanding of recent cultural theory, research methods, and critical interpretation of research results."}, {"moduleCode": "PL4880VHM", "title": "Culture and Human Development", "description": "This course examines the core topics within cultural psychology using a developmental lens. Two major questions guide the course. First, how do diverse aspects of human development (e.g., emotion, cognition, psychopathology, relationships) converge and diverge across cultures? Second, how may culture shape differential developmental experience and outcomes among people? Focusing on childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood, we explore perspectives and critiques of the study of culture within the field of developmental psychology. Emphasis will be on developing an understanding of recent cultural theory, research methods, and critical interpretation of research results."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5221", "title": "Analysis of Psychological Data Using Glm", "description": "This course addresses the use of the general linear for the analysis of psychological data including multiple regression and various forms of analysis of variance. Among the topics that may be covered are correlation and multiple regression, randomized groups analysis of variance, repeated measures analysis of variance, and mixed models. Emphasis will be placed on the development of skills through hands-on data analysis and interpretation."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5221R", "title": "Analysis of Psychological Data using GLM", "description": "This course addresses the use of the general linear for the analysis of psychological data including multiple regression and various forms of analysis of variance. Among the topics that may be covered are correlation and multiple regression, randomized groups analysis of variance, repeated measures analysis of variance, and mixed models. Emphasis will be placed on the development of skills through hands-on data analysis and interpretation."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5222", "title": "Multivariate Statistics in Psychology", "description": "This course introduces students to the use of multivariate methods for the analysis of psychological data. Included among the methods to be covered may be canonical correlation, discriminant function analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. Emphasis will be placed on the development of skills for multivariate data analysis through hands-on analysis and interpretation of datasets."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5222R", "title": "Multivariate Statistics in Psychology", "description": "This course introduces students to the use of multivariate methods for the analysis of psychological data. Included among the methods to be covered may be canonical correlation, discriminant function analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. Emphasis will be placed on the development of skills for multivariate data analysis through hands-on analysis and interpretation of datasets."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5225", "title": "Structural Equation Modeling", "description": "This course with introduce the ideas of structural equation modeling and its relationship to other current statistical models. Specifically, regression analysis, path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis will be formulated within the general framework of structural equation modeling. Advanced topics, such as ordinal data analysis, missing data, multiple-group analysis and latent growth models, will also be covered. After the course, students are expected to know how to conduct the analysis and interpret the results themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5225R", "title": "Structural Equation Modeling", "description": "This course with introduce the ideas of structural equation modeling and its relationship to other current statistical models. Specifically, regression analysis, path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis will be formulated within the general framework of structural equation modeling. Advanced topics, such as ordinal data analysis, missing data, multiple-group analysis and latent growth models, will also be covered. After the course, students are expected to know how to conduct the analysis and interpret the results themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5303", "title": "Advanced Cognitive Psychology", "description": "This course surveys recent advances in cognitive psychology and is targeted at graduate students and advanced undergraduates who have an interest in cognitive science. Students will be introduced to the foundations and basic philosophy behind contemporary approaches to cognition such as the symbolic, connectionist, ecological, dynamic, and embodied movements. We will examine the applications of these approaches to recent research in selected topics from the areas of perception, memory, language, creativity, consciousness, and intelligent behaviour. Prior exposure to cognitive psychology at the undergraduate level is required."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5303R", "title": "Advanced Cognitive Psychology", "description": "This course surveys recent advances in cognitive psychology and is targeted at graduate students and advanced undergraduates who have an interest in cognitive science. Students will be introduced to the foundations and basic philosophy behind contemporary approaches to cognition such as the symbolic, connectionist, ecological, dynamic, and embodied movements. We will examine the applications of these approaches to recent research in selected topics from the areas of perception, memory, language, creativity, consciousness, and intelligent behaviour. Prior exposure to cognitive psychology at the undergraduate level is required."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5304", "title": "Advanced Developmental Psychology", "description": "The course explores current research in developmental psychology and is relevant to students with research interests in this area. Current research and research methodology will be covered from selected topics in the areas of infant, child, and/or adolescent development. Contemporary issues, such as those relating to the ethics of research, may also be covered. Prior exposure to developmental psychology at the undergraduate level is strongly advised."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5304R", "title": "Advanced Developmental Psychology", "description": "The course explores current research in developmental psychology and is relevant to students with research interests in this area. Current research and research methodology will be covered from selected topics in the areas of infant, child, and/or adolescent development. Contemporary issues, such as those relating to the ethics of research, may also be covered. Prior exposure to developmental psychology at the undergraduate level is strongly advised."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5305", "title": "Advanced Social Psychology", "description": "The aim of this course is to provide postgraduate students with an in depth knowledge of selected topics in social psychology, such as social influence, interpersonal relationships and applied social psychology. This knowledge is based on both a historical perspective and an overview of the current research and theory in this field. Students will read a sampling of classic articles as well as review current research and theory on selected topics. Classes will consist of lectures, discussion and student presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5305R", "title": "Advanced Social Psychology", "description": "The aim of this course is to provide postgraduate students with an in depth knowledge of selected topics in social psychology, such as social influence, interpersonal relationships and applied social psychology. This knowledge is based on both a historical perspective and an overview of the current research and theory in this field. Students will read a sampling of classic articles as well as review current research and theory on selected topics. Classes will consist of lectures, discussion and student presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5306", "title": "Advanced Clinical Psychology", "description": "This course provides students with advanced knowledge in clinical psychology from historical as well as from the latest conceptual and empirical perspectives. The implications of life-span psychology, psychopathology, personality theory, neuropsychology, and competing systems of clinical psychology for multi-cultural clinical understanding, clinical epistemology, and clinical judgment will be critically reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5306R", "title": "Advanced Clinical Psychology", "description": "This course provides students with advanced knowledge in clinical psychology from historical as well as from the latest conceptual and empirical perspectives. The implications of life-span psychology, psychopathology, personality theory, neuropsychology, and competing systems of clinical psychology for multi-cultural clinical understanding, clinical epistemology, and clinical judgment will be critically reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5307", "title": "Advanced Health Psychology", "description": "This course provides an overview of current research being undertaken in health psychology. Topics to be covered will vary from semester to semester but may include, health behaviour, stress and its relationship to health, illness cognition, illness behaviour, patient-practitioner interaction, psychological factors in hospitalization, chronic illness, death and dying, psychological research on pain as well as applications of health psychology for cancer, heart disease and other health conditions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5307R", "title": "Advanced Health Psychology", "description": "This course provides an overview of current research being undertaken in health psychology. Topics to be covered will vary from semester to semester but may include, health behaviour, stress and its relationship to health, illness cognition, illness behaviour, patient-practitioner interaction, psychological factors in hospitalization, chronic illness, death and dying, psychological research on pain as well as applications of health psychology for cancer, heart disease and other health conditions."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5308", "title": "Advanced Social and Cognitive Neuroscience", "description": "Over the last decades, the study of human cognition has extended its focus to include neuroimaging techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) among others. This allowed researchers to investigate cognitive processes as they unfold in time and to relate these processes to neuronal structures and networks. In this course, students will review this research and critically evaluate whether and how it advanced our understanding of human cognition."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5308R", "title": "Advanced Social and Cognitive Neuroscience", "description": "Over the last decades, the study of human cognition has extended its focus to include neuroimaging techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) among others. This allowed researchers to investigate cognitive processes as they unfold in time and to relate these processes to neuronal structures and networks. In this course, students will review this research and critically evaluate whether and how it advanced our understanding of human cognition."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5309", "title": "Motivation and Behaviour Change", "description": "Effective teachers, leaders, entrepreneurs, and advertisers have one thing in common \u2013 they have mastered the skill of motivating others. Whether you are trying to persuade people, inspire teams, negotiate strategically, or nudge people towards better decisions, you need to understand what drives people. In this course, we will read research papers on motivation theories, ranging from the older classics to more cutting\u2010edge research. We will also learn about interventions that successfully motivate behavior change and apply this knowledge to addressing real-world issues."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5309R", "title": "Motivation and Behaviour Change", "description": "Effective teachers, leaders, entrepreneurs, and advertisers have one thing in common \u2013 they have mastered the skill of motivating others. Whether you are trying to persuade people, inspire teams, negotiate strategically, or nudge people towards better decisions, you need to understand what drives people. In this course, we will read research papers on motivation theories, ranging from the older classics to more cutting\u2010edge research. We will also learn about interventions that successfully motivate behavior change and apply this knowledge to addressing real-world issues."}, {"moduleCode": "PL5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Psychology in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/ or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6208", "title": "Empirical Research Project", "description": "The ability to conduct independent psychological research is a prerequisite for embarking on a doctoral dissertation. As such the course is aimed at advancing the research skills of doctoral students prior to their qualifying examinations. They will achieve this advancement by working on a research project under the close supervision of their doctoral supervisor. All doctoral students must take this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6215", "title": "Selected Applications in Psychology", "description": "Various courses requiring applied expertise in the selected fields of psychology will be offered from time to time by visiting or local staff."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Psychology in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/ or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6883", "title": "Selected Topics in Cognitive Psychology", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in cognitive psychology, which include, but are not limited to, attention, perception, memory, language, consciousness, reasoning, problem-solving, judgement, and decision-making. The topic(s) to be covered in any particular year that the course is offered will depend on student demand, faculty expertise, and faculty availability. This course will follow a seminar format, requiring high levels of student participation, writing-intensive assignments, and analytic skills."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6885", "title": "Selected Topics in Social, Personality, I-O Psychology", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in the broad disciplines of social, personality, and/or industrial-organizational psychology. Topics in social psychology may include social attitudes, emotion and cognition, and motivation. Topics in personality psychology may include personality structure and processing dynamics. Topics in industrial organizational psychology may include personnel selection, human performance, and job analysis. The topic(s) to be covered in any particular year that the course is offered will depend on student demand, faculty expertise, and faculty availability. This course will follow a seminar format, requiring high levels of student participation, writing-intensive assignments, and analytic skills."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6888", "title": "Selected Topics in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in social and cognitive neuroscience, which include, but are not limited to, affective neuroscience, decision making neuroscience, and neuroscience of attention and/or memory. The topic(s) to be covered in any particular year that the course is offered will depend on student demand, faculty expertise, and faculty availability. This course will follow a seminar format, requiring high levels of student participation, writing-intensive assignments, and analytic skills."}, {"moduleCode": "PL6889", "title": "Selected Topics in Emotion Psychology", "description": "The field of emotion contributes too many subdisciplines within psychology including cognitive, social, clinical, and health psychology. This course aims to provide students with a solid foundation in emotion by introducing them to relevant research done internationally and within the Department of Psychology. Topics to be covered will include, but not limited to, emotion theories, the interplay between cognition and emotion, the physiological underpinnings of emotion and its associated outcomes. A range of formats, including lectures, student presentations, and guest seminars, will be used to engage students on these topics."}, {"moduleCode": "PLB1201", "title": "Psychology in Everyday Life", "description": "The course is designed to equip students who are not planning to major in psychology with basic literacy in the discipline. Students will acquire basic understanding of common human experiences, such as sleep, dreams, learning, and memory from a psychological perspective; and apply psychological knowledge to understand some of the common problematic behaviours we encounter, such as forgetfulness, sleep problems, addiction, eating disorders, depression, and mental retardation. Students will also learn about some of the practical issues, such as whether it is beneficial to boost one\u2019s self\u2010esteem, whether subliminal persuasion works, and how we could find happiness."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5001", "title": "Psychological Assessment", "description": "This course provides students with essential background in psychological and neuropsychological assessment. Students will be exposed to a variety of assessment techniques used for the collection of data in order to evaluate psychological functioning of an individual. They will learn about the application of these techniques to a wide range of clinical psychological problems. Students will become familiar with widely used clinical and neuropsychological tests, methods for evaluation of these tests and issues surrounding psychological assessment in professional settings. These include diagnostic decision making, test administration and interpretation, and the integration of material derived from patient history with the mental state examination and other sources."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5002", "title": "Adult Psychopathology", "description": "This course offers an advanced critical understanding of various theories of aetiology and maintenance of adult psychological problems. Students will also acquire an understanding in the appropriate use of diagnostic classification systems and critical appraisal of such systems. The course has a strong emphasis on linking theory to applied clinical practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5003", "title": "Health across the lifespan", "description": "This course is intended to facilitate acquisition of knowledge and expertise on: 1) normal and abnormal developmental issues affecting health and mental health across one\u2019s lifespan with specific focus on early childhood and adolescent stages, midlife crisis, aging and gero\u2010psychological issues; 2) basic concepts of mind\u2010body interactions and psychoneuroimmunology; 3) role of clinical psychologists in the identification, assessment, and treatment of mental health and health problems across lifespan; 4) psychological management of chronic health and mental health conditions."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5004", "title": "Psychological Intervention and Therapy", "description": "This course provides students with fundamental skills that are the foundation of clinical psychological interventions, including interviewing and counselling, basic interventions and theoretical concepts, processes and techniques which underlie cognitive-behaviour therapy. Students will begin to develop core practical skills in the use of these techniques for therapeutic management of a range of problems and disorders across settings. Content includes basic behavioural change strategies, brief intervention techniques, critical case analysis, assessment and case formulation, and cognitive behavioural therapeutic techniques. Students will also explore the role of the psychologist and the boundaries and responsibilities of this role in different cultural contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5005", "title": "Child Psychopathology", "description": "This course offers an advanced critical understanding of various theories of aetiology and maintenance of disorders of childhood and adolescence. Students will also acquire an understanding in the appropriate use of diagnostic classification systems and critical appraisal of such systems. The course has a strong emphasis on linking theory to applied clinical practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5006", "title": "Ethics and Professional Issues", "description": "Through this course, students will develop an understanding and appreciation of ethical principles in clinical psychology practice. The course aims for students to (i) be familiar with international ethical standards and their application in Singapore, (ii) demonstrate awareness of potential ethical dilemmas across different contexts and approach these using appropriate decision-making strategies, (iii) understand the importance of developing and maintaining professional skills and competencies, (iv) demonstrate good insight into ethical obligations as professional clinical psychologists, and (v) appreciate the importance of practising with cultural sensitivity."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5007", "title": "Advanced Psychological Practice", "description": "This course provides an introductory training in advanced intervention strategies utilised in clinical psychology practice. Students will become familiar with current developments in evidence-based cognitive-behavioural therapies, with particular focus on complex, severe, and enduring presentations of mental ill-health, such as psychosis, bipolar affective disorder, selected personality disorders, and complex PTSD. A repertoire of empirically grounded specialist treatment models will be introduced, including CBT for psychosis (CBTp), Metacognitive Therapy (MCT), and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). Elements of Behavioural Family Therapy (BFT) and Family Intervention for psychosis (FIp) will also be presented. Positive and strengths-based approaches in psychological therapies will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5008", "title": "Graduate Research Methods and Statistics", "description": "This compulsory course provides an introduction to evidence-based practice and focuses on research skills for clinical psychologists. Students will acquire a solid grasp of the scientific and statistical methods relevant to psychology. There will be an emphasis on statistical skills and methods required for the analysis of different types of data required for conducting a Master-level research thesis. The course covers the basics of statistics, including analysis of variance (ANOVA), analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), repeated measure ANOVA, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), regression analyses, as well as qualitative analysis, and small n-studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5009", "title": "Research Proposal", "description": "The course prepares students for research project that must be submitted in semester 4 of their training. In seminars, students will gain a critical understanding of the development and presentation of master\u2019s research proposals and theses, and consider clinical applicability of proposed research projects. Throughout the academic year, students will need to identify a specific area of their empirical study, secure an academic supervisor, submit application for ethical clearance, and develop, write up and submit a structured research proposal for a formal academic examination, following which they will receive a critical feedback to be incorporated in their final research theses."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5010", "title": "Research Project", "description": "This course aims to help students prepare a scholarly report of their proposed applied research project submitted in PLC5009 Research Proposal. Under the supervision of a member of the faculty, students will make appropriate modifications to the planned design, complete data collection and analyses, and prepare draft reports. Students will also receive comments and feedback from other faculty, clinical supervisors and peer students. Students then submit the final draft of the report as a thesis of about 20,000 words in APA style for examination."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5011A", "title": "Clinical Placement 1", "description": "This course provides an introduction to professional practice in a community or hospital clinic setting. This first clinical placement will involve guided and structured observation of experienced clinicians delivering clinical psychology services to adult and/or paediatric patients. Students will develop some familiarity with a range of psychiatric presentations. There will be the opportunity for students to interact with patients and they will be encouraged to begin to function as practitioners, while closely supervised by field supervisors."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5012B", "title": "Clinical Placement 2", "description": "This course provides professional practice experience related to the theoretical foundations on clinical psychopathology covered in coursework courses. Students will undertake direct clinical experience either in a hospital or a community setting, under the close supervision of an experienced clinical psychologist. The focus of this second placement is on the gradual development of the clinical skills required for assessing, describing, diagnosing and treating adult and/or paediatric psychological disorder."}, {"moduleCode": "PLC5013C", "title": "Clinical Placement 3", "description": "This course provides professional practice experience related to the theoretical foundations of clinical psychopathology, assessment, diagnosis and intervention covered in coursework courses. Students will undertake an intensive block of direct clinical experience either in a hospital or a community setting, under the supervision of an experienced clinical psychologist. The focus of this third placement will be on the continued development of clinical skills in planning and carrying out intervention with psychiatric patients with minimal guidance. If considered appropriate by their supervising clinician, students may progress to independent management of clients by the end of the placement."}, {"moduleCode": "PLS8001", "title": "Cultivating Collaboration", "description": "This course is part of the Roots & Wings 2.0 programme. It focuses on soft skills on the interpersonal level in terms of more effective working with other people and reaching for better outcomes jointly. Through various experiential activities (e.g., role-play, negotiation exercises), students learn to understand the importance of collaboration in various settings and to apply basic techniques to help resolve conflicts and to strive for win-win situations when collaborating with other people in task accomplishment."}, {"moduleCode": "PLS8002", "title": "Cultivating the Self", "description": "This course is designed to help students achieve better self-awareness through the understanding of basic psychological concepts such as self-esteem, social comparison, self-perception and self-handicapping. Students learn about how they acquire knowledge about themselves, how low self-esteem came about, and what psychologists learned about happiness. The course consists of two lectures and two tutorials. After each lecture, students will meet in small groups to share their own experience in relation to the concepts covered during lecture. By responding to a set of questionnaires, students will also have the opportunity during small group discussion to achieve a better understanding of themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "PLS8002A", "title": "Cultivating the Self", "description": "This course is designed to help students achieve better self-awareness through the understanding of basic psychological concepts such as self-esteem, social comparison, self-perception and self-handicapping. Students learn about how they acquire knowledge about themselves, how low self-esteem came about, and what psychologists learned about happiness. The course consists of two lectures and two tutorials. After each lecture, students will meet in small groups to share their own experience in relation to the concepts covered during lecture. By responding to a set of questionnaires, students will also have the opportunity during small group discussion to achieve a better understanding of themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "PLS8002B", "title": "Cultivating the Self", "description": "This course is designed to help students achieve better self-awareness through the understanding of basic psychological concepts such as self-esteem, social comparison, self-perception and self-handicapping. Students learn about how they acquire knowledge about themselves, how low self-esteem came about, and what psychologists learned about happiness. The course consists of two lectures and two tutorials. After each lecture, students will meet in small groups to share their own experience in relation to the concepts covered during lecture. By responding to a set of questionnaires, students will also have the opportunity during small group discussion to achieve a better understanding of themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "PLS8003", "title": "Cultivating Resilience", "description": "This course is part of the Roots & Wings 2.0 programme. This course focuses on helping students recognize potential self-defeating beliefs and biases, and to overcome those beliefs. Students will engage in experiential activities that foster positive emotions, engagement with the work they do and the people they interact with, and a positive narrative of their lives. The general aim of this course is to increase students\u2019 awareness of self-limiting beliefs and to equip them with mindsets/behaviors that build psychological resilience."}, {"moduleCode": "PLS8004", "title": "Optimizing Performance", "description": "This 1 unit course is part of the Roots & Wings 2.0 programme. It focuses on soft skills derived from psychological research for students to better manage their performance level in tasks. Through various experiential activities (e.g., visualization, attention regulation), students learn to develop a set of skills that will be useful for them to optimize their work performance by setting up effective goals, enhancing productivity, and dealing with the challenges of working in demanding and multi-tasking situations."}, {"moduleCode": "PLS8005", "title": "Elevating Interpersonal Communication", "description": "This 1 unit course is part of the Roots & Wings 2.0 programme. It focuses on soft skills derived from psychological research for students to develop effective interpersonal communication in everyday social interactions. Through various experiential in-class activities (e.g., role play, conversation planning, speech practice), students learn about useful concepts and techniques for effective communication such as formulating an argument, asking effective questions, active listening, non-verbal communication, attempting a persuasion, and building relationships."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5000", "title": "Dissertation", "description": "Objective - This graded course provides students with the opportunity to conduct independent research under the guidance of a supervisor. Students are required to submit a 10,000-word written dissertation."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5101", "title": "Project Management", "description": "Objective - The course offers an overview of project management. It covers the strategic use of projects as part of business strategy, the project cycle in terms of its conception, planning, and execution, and the factors that underpin the success of projects. The project manager as an effective leader in managing projects is emphasized at each stage of the cycle."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5103", "title": "Contract Management", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PM5105", "title": "Development Finance", "description": "Objective - This course introduces capital budgeting, project finance, and risk analysis. It covers the capital allocation framework, project cash flows, investment criteria, cost of capital, financial risk analysis, and how various types of projects are financed."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5106", "title": "Design Management", "description": "Objective - This course is designed to provide project managers with an appreciation of the role of design as well as the designer in projects. It covers the concept of design for value, integrated designs, the client's brief, design evaluation, and the impact of design on procurement and construction."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5107", "title": "Time and Cost Management", "description": "Objective - This course focuses on management of the construction project from the perspective of the contractor. It covers tendering and estimating, material and equipment procurement, subcontracting, and cost and financial control of projects incorporating cash flow analysis, financial reporting, and project scheduling."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5109", "title": "Project Management Law", "description": "Objective - This course provides an understanding of aspects of construction law and mechanisms for resolving disputes. It covers the law of contract, the duties and liabilities of different parties in a project, negligence, claims, procurement, risk allocation, and remedies."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5111", "title": "Special Topics in Project Management", "description": "Objective - This course is designed to allow students to conduct independent studies on special topics in project management under the guidance of a team of staff members. Students are required to submit a 6,000-word report."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5112", "title": "Research Methods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PM5113", "title": "Managing Projects using BIM", "description": "This course is designed to provide project managers with an appreciation of the role of BIM as the project manager in projects. It covers the concept of BIM in design matters, contract and dispute management, and post contractual matters."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5114", "title": "Managing Complex Projects", "description": "This course focuses on the management of complex projects. It covers the design and planning for beyond the project itself, the work package structure of such projects and issues related to the sourcing of suitably experienced contractors, consultants, and other personnel, the impact of variations and consequential claims, and matters concerning termination, completion and handing over."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5115", "title": "Project Finance Contracts and Agreements", "description": "This course provides an understanding of aspects of different project finance contracts and agreements. It covers the issues of risk management through contractual terms, duties and liabilities of lenders and borrowers, dispute management and contractual remedies, and issues relating to international contracts."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5116", "title": "Project Finance Case Studies", "description": "To provide an opportunity for students to study how project\nfinance plays an important role in a major development project by a review of relevant\ncase studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5117", "title": "Urban Managment", "description": "This course deals with how cities are managed at the local and city levels. The major topics include urbanisation trends, urban challenges, the urban management approach, building capacity, spatial planning and strategies, local economic development, housing, urban service delivery, public utilities, and the provision of urban services."}, {"moduleCode": "PM5118", "title": "Case Studies in Infrastructure Planning", "description": "This course provides an opportunity for students to study how the principles of infrastructure planning is applied through a review of airport infrastructure case studies. It covers infrastructure and facilities planning, programming, development rules, developing infrastructure projects, capital improvement planning, managing infrastructure and facilities, as well as financing infrastructure in the context of airport infrastructure and facilities."}, {"moduleCode": "PM6103", "title": "Construction Management", "description": "CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT"}, {"moduleCode": "PM6104", "title": "International Project Management", "description": "INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT"}, {"moduleCode": "PP2131", "title": "Pharmacology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5010", "title": "The LKY School Course", "description": "The LKY School Course is a core course comprising a series of lectures on public policy innovations in Singapore and elsewhere, against a broad background of Asia's development trajectory. The course will provide students with broad appreciation of the philosophy and principles that inform governance and public policy. Notably, it will explore specific public policy innovations in Singapore, like housing and healthcare, and analyse thinking behind the formulation and implementations of such policies."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5011", "title": "Leading Stakeholders", "description": "Creating, implementing, and delivering programmes, policies, and services effectively increasingly requires the involvement of a highly diverse set of \u2013 supportive as well as adversarial \u2013 stakeholders. This module will address questions such as: Which stakeholders matter the most and why? How do leaders ensure the negligence of stakeholders will not lead to future legitimacy gaps? What engagement strategy should be employed?"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5012", "title": "Leading Innovation and Change", "description": "The course will examine how public and privte managers respond to external disruptive innovations in industries and markets, and how they balance existing labour laws, consumer protection, and quality control with the emerging economic opportunities and customer demand. It will examine how managers have to innovate their own policies, practices, and assumptions in responding to assertive stakeholder demands and technological developments. The course will also examine the role of public sector managers in creating a conducive climate for entrepreneurship and overcome pervasive institutional and individual forces constraining change and renewal, and the inherent \u2018risk averse\u2019 cultures of many bureaucracies."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5013", "title": "Ethical Leadership", "description": "21st century managers encounter brand new types of ethical issues, including the blurring between public and private time in new media usage, tensions created by increasing diversity and internationalization, security risks and ethical risks created by big data and artificial intelligence, and the advent of virtual whistleblowing. The course will examine the kind of analyses required, the difficulties involved, and what strategies are likely to be effective. It also examines where unethical behavior comes from and how ethical behavior can be incentivized; and the link between compliance, awareness and values."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5014", "title": "Leading Collaboration", "description": "It is clear that governments can no longer \u2018go it alone\u2019 in effectively addressing 21st century challenges. Collaborating within, between and across sectors is paramount. The course will examine the need for horizontal, collaborative leadership and management. It will examine how governments can establish trust and accountability especially when they are often held formally responsible and accountable for policy outcomes, and when they are blamed when things go wrong."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5015", "title": "Principles and Applications of Risk Management", "description": "Understanding risk is the first step in developing action plans to build greater resilience. The degree of uncertainty assigns probabilities to types of risks ranging from climate change to pandemics. The intensity of impact also varies across risk categories. The product of the probability and impact is a first approximation of the seriousness of the risk. The nature of interaction among government, business and households contributes to the effectiveness of solutions. The responses are also synergetic across sectors like energy and education. Case studies bring out the degree of effectiveness of risk mitigation and suggest the dos and the don\u2019ts."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5016", "title": "Environmental Threats and Management Response", "description": "To address environmental threats, there needs to be a foundation of understanding of how natural capital is systematically being disinvested in while physical and human capital are invested in. Natural resource management needs to prioritize better management of coastlines, coral reefs, forestry, and waterways while zoning, land use management and greening of cities must become higher priorities in urban areas. Specific action areas include urban air pollution, city congestion as well as water pollution, water conservation and water management economy-wide. Case studies from different regions bring out good practices in environmental protection and natural resource management within Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5017", "title": "Climate Change and Managing Uncertainty", "description": "To appreciate the implications of climate change, there needs to be a diagnostic of the sources of changing sealevel temperatures, precipitation and climatic phenomena. The implications need to be clearly drawn for climatic changes that are secular versus those that are anthropogenic, for the need for prevention as opposed to only responding. Two sets of actions are called for: climate mitigation involving a switch to a low-carbon economy and climate adaptation involving the building of better defenses and coping capabilities. The needed responses vary across country and locational typologies, and case studies illustrate the types of investments and policies needed."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5018", "title": "Disaster Scenarios and Resilience Building", "description": "To deal with risk, it is useful to build disaster scenarios. Typically, these scenarios combine the chances of the disaster occurring and the impact it would have if it occured. Scenarios would also differ across country typologies, low-, middle- and high-income economies, as well as across broad types of disasters, climate disasters, geological ones, pandemics, terrorism etc. Resilience building in response span governments, businesses and households. It also needs to take into account the capabilities and weaknesses in the sectors involved, such as water and health. It also draws on financing needed to implement policies and investments for greater resilience."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5019", "title": "Economic Development Strategy", "description": "This module provides students with a robust understanding about government strategy and its role in promoting national prosperity in the 21st century. The module addresses concepts and skills that policy makers in developing countries should master in overseeing the formulation of effective economic development strategies. The module connects theory and practical application through case studies and class discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5020", "title": "Analysis of Economic Growth", "description": "This module introduces the key techniques for analysis of economic growth and productivity performance. Through practical exercises, students will gain familiarity with the patterns and drivers of economic growth in selected Asian countries over the past two decades. The module demonstrates how analytical tools can provide valuable insights for designing strategies to promote economic growth and productivity performance."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5021", "title": "Digital Transformation and Economic Prosperity", "description": "This module provides students with a robust understanding about the impacts of digital technologies on efficiency improvement and value creation. The module introduces key concepts for designing an effective national strategy to promote digital transformation. Class discussions around case studies and international best practices will enhance student familiarity of and appreciation for practical policy steps in implementing digital transformation strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5022", "title": "Embracing Globalisation for Economic Growth", "description": "This module equips students with the tools and knowledge to understand globalisation and its impacts on national economic growth and competitiveness. The module explores strategic issues and international best practices in embracing globalisation to generate economic growth. The module is focused in particular on policy designs and initiatives to attract FDI and promote exports."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5023", "title": "Artificial Intelligence, Data and Public Policy", "description": "This module will 1) explore the features, applications, benefits and risks of AI and Data on social policy (education, healthcare, insurance, social safety nets), employment and wages, fiscal policy (taxation and expenditure), transport and smart cities and implications for politics and social cohesion (fakenews, deep fake, election manipulation); 2) understand their implications for Singapore; and 3) understand the policy and regulatory implications in terms of growth, equity, security, privacy, efficiency and risk management. The module will be comparative in perspective and will draw from the experience of the US, China, Europe, Japan and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5024", "title": "Bitcoin, Ethereum, Digital Currencies and Public Policy", "description": "This module will 1) explore the features, benefits and risks of blockchain and ethereum, cryptocurrencies, tokens and digital fiat currencies including Libra; 2) understand their implications for fiscal policy (taxation), monetary policy (digital fiat currency, payment systems), black markets, intermediation, authentication, stock exchanges, e-commerce, use of smart contracts as legal instruments; 3) applications and implications to Singapore and lessons from other countries in terms of growth, efficiency and equity, competitiveness. The module will be comparative in perspective and will draw from the experience of the US, China, Europe, Japan and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5025", "title": "Cloud, 5G, IoT and Public Policy", "description": "This module will 1) explore the features, applications, benefits and risks of 5G, Cloud and Internet of things in the areas of healthcare, transport, manufacturing, smart cities, banking and finance, small and medium enterprises, digital government; 2) understand their implications for Singapore; and 3) understand the policy and regulatory implications in terms of security, privacy, efficiency and risk management. The module will be comparative in perspective and will draw from the experience of the US, China, Europe, Japan and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5026", "title": "3D Printing, Robots and Public Policy", "description": "This module will 1) explore the features, applications, benefits and risks of 3D printing and robotics in the areas of manufacturing, construction, defense and security, healthcare, aviation, and other industries; 2) understand their implications for Singapore in terms of job losses/gains, competitiveness, industrial restructuring; and global value chains; 3) understand the policy and regulatory implications in terms of growth, efficiency and equity, competitiveness. The module will be comparative in perspective and will draw from the experience of the US, China, Europe, Japan and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5027", "title": "Food Security", "description": "This module provides a basic understanding of the concept and measurement of food security. Key issues to be addressed include the definitions and dimensions of food security and the measurement of various food security indicators across global, national, sub-national and household levels. The module also gives an overview of the trends, current status and future projections of food security in developed and developing countries. It also discusses the nature and sources of vulnerability to chronic and seasonal food insecurity across gender, race, ethnicity, age and occupation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5028", "title": "Food System Resilience", "description": "This module provides a detailed understanding of the various components of a food system, its resilience and its interlinkage with food security. The resilience of the food system during an external shock such as a natural disaster or a pandemic will receive special focus in this module. Government sponsored food and nutrition assistance programs and their effectiveness will be discussed at length by drawing on case studies from both developed and developing countries. Global food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic and government response strategies to mitigate the adverse impacts of the shock will be critically assessed."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5029", "title": "Agricultural Economics and Policy", "description": "This module introduces students to economic tools and concepts that are commonly used to influence food production and consumption, technology adoption, domestic and international trade and natural resource use and environmental degradation. The module will critically assess the impacts of commonly used food and agricultural policy tools, such as trade restrictions, price control, price subsidy, supply management, agricultural credit, quota etc. on producers, agribusinesses, consumers, and the environment. These concepts, methods and issues will be illustrated with case studies in food, agricultural, natural resource, and environmental policies from both developed and developing countries."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5030", "title": "Sustainable Urban Food System", "description": "This module will discuss concepts, theories, policy issues and best practices on sustainable urban food system management in megacities of Asia. It will address policy challenges that are specific to urban food systems. Topics will cover the problems and prospects of urban agriculture (e.g. community gardens, vertical farming), reducing food waste, changing consumption pattern of urban consumers and associated health risks and technology for a sustainable urban food ecosystem in Asia. Singapore\u2019s approach to building and maintaining a sustainable food system will be receive a special focus and scrutiny."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5031", "title": "Industrialisation and Growth", "description": "This module introduces students to the history of industrialisation and growth strategies adopted by Singapore since its independence. Emphasis will be placed on developing simple frameworks that will allow students to analytically understand the evolution of Singapore\u2019s transition from the third world to the first. The module will also provide a comparative perspective of how Singapore has differed from the rest of the South East Asian economies in terms of its development strategies, as well as discuss the contemporary challenges it faces in a post-Covid-19 world."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5032", "title": "Financial Globalisation and Financial Development", "description": "This module provides students an in-depth understanding of the nuances of the multi-dimensional nature of financial globalisation and financial development. as it relates to Singapore and the broader East Asian region. Apart from understanding the cost and benefits attached to financial globalisation, students will be taught Singapore\u2019s pragmatic approach to financial globalisation and how it has managed to maximize the benefits while mitigating risks, compared to other countries in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5033", "title": "Monetary, Exchange Rate Policy and Reserves", "description": "This module provides students with a thorough understanding of the evolution of the international monetary system. Students will learn about the definitions, determinants, importance, as well as the costs and benefits of different exchange rate regimes in the East Asian region and elsewhere, ever since the breakdown of the historical Bretton Woods system. Specific emphasis will be placed on understanding the choice of Singapore\u2019s exchange rate regime and its implications for its macroeconomic and financial stability."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5034", "title": "Regionalism in Asia: Free Trade Agreements and Beyond", "description": "This module includes a comprehensive discussion of the drivers and consequences of free trade agreements (FTAs) in East Asia, where students will be introduced to the details of the types and characteristics of FTAs that exist in the region. The module will also develop simple analytical models that will be used to explain the economic and welfare implications of FTAs, with specific reference to Singapore\u2019s approach and how they have tried to maximize the benefits from FTAs while mitigating the costs. Beyond FTAs, students will also learn about regionalism in Europe and how it compares with the one in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5103", "title": "Politics and Public Policy", "description": "This course introduces students to the relationship between politics and public policy, by familiarizing them with three major concepts in the study of the modern state\u2014public administration, power, and legitimacy\u2014and related concepts such as good governance, democratic accountability, democratization, corruption, inequality, social mobility, and foreign policy. Our approach shall be varied, with texts drawn from literatures in political science, political theory, public administration, constitutional studies, sociology, and ethics. Each seminar pays attention to a particular policy area of some country, and thereby combines theoretical inquiry with applied questions."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5104", "title": "Empirical Analysis For Public Policy", "description": "This course is an introduction to statistical methods. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, sampling, inference and bivariate and multiple regression analysis. Emphasis is on the application of these statistical techniques to public policy issues. Students will be introduced to the use of the computer. This module is mounted for MPP students."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5105", "title": "Cost Benefit Analysis in Public Policy", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5110A", "title": "Policy Analysis Exercise", "description": "POLICY ANALYSIS EXERCISE"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5136", "title": "Public Finance", "description": "This course is concerned with the economic analysis of the public sector and how government policies affect the economy. It covers topics in state capacity development, tax and fiscal policies, and public good provision. The approach in this course is analytical rather than descriptive, with a focus on recent topical issues, such as tax evasion and avoidance, tax competition, and public debt sustainability. There are no formal prerequisites, but students will be expected to reason based on graphical representations of economic models, and link empirical economic research to policy. Practical policy implications will be at the forefront throughout."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5137", "title": "Introduction to Public Management", "description": "PP5137 introduces students to the study of organizations and management in the public sector (government organizations and non-profit organizations). For students who want to analyze public problems and evaluate public policy, this course is a building block for understanding that the successes and failures of public policies cannot be fully understood apart from the management process that converts policies into action. Students will learn to recognize individual- and organizational-level management phenomena that not only affect public policy outcomes but also affect the whole policy cycle."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5138", "title": "Econometrics for Public Policy Analysis", "description": "This module is for students who have some background in statistics and want to acquire additional techniques and experience. Methods covered in this course include: latent class analysis, multinomial and nested logit models, power analysis, regression discontinuity etc. Many classes will take the form of one hour of lecture followed by two hours of workshop, where each group will be provided with a choice of international datasets and independently test out the models and produce their own novel findings. Students will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and data skills to address a real-world policy problem."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5141", "title": "The Global Financial Crisis-Policy Implications in Asia", "description": "This course takes a multi-disciplinary, practitioner-driven approach to analyse Singapore\u2019s public policies. It does this by integrating and applying three conceptual lenses, namely standard economics, the cognitive sciences, and organisation behaviour. We will first examine policies in Singapore through the lens of market failures and how economists have traditionally viewed the role of governments. We then examine the cognitive limits of economic agents and consider how behavioural economics offers the possibility of better policy design by taking into account people\u2019s cognitive biases and limitations. In the third segment, we analyse the Singapore government through the lens of organisation behaviour. Throughout the course, we apply these lenses to various policy successes and failures in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5142", "title": "Liveable & Sustainable Cities - Lessons from Singapore & Other Cities", "description": "An unprecedented level of urbanization is expected worldwide, presenting immense resource challenges as well as opportunities for cities. \n\nIt is critical that the future city leaders learn from urban pioneers and case examples, to gain insights into the urban development challenges of cities, and to make informed decisions based on the principles and practice of dynamic urban governance. \n\nSingapore is an example of a very dense city that is also highly liveable. The module will therefore focus on Singapore, analysed through the lens on the Liveability Framework, and brought to life by experts in various fields of urban development."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5143", "title": "Games, Decisions and Social Choice", "description": "This course introduces the main concepts, methods and paradigm of game theory, decision theory and social choice through short cases borrowed from the current economic, political and business scene. It examines how these tools might lead us to make better decisions, from both an individual and a collective viewpoint. It explores the extent (and limitations) of rationality in individual and collective decision making; it characterizes normatively the outcome of such decisions. Examples from everyday life, sport, military operations or political conflicts will be used to illustrate the reach of game theory and decision theory as tools for strategic analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5144", "title": "Decision and Game Theory for Public Managers", "description": "This course introduces the main tools of game theory and decision theory through short cases borrowed from the current economic, political and business scene. It examines how these tools might lead us to make better decisions, from both an individual and a collective viewpoint; especially it introduces the biases and mistakes that were documented in the psychological literature, and examine their relevance to decision making. It explores the extent (and limitations) of rationality in individual and collective decision making, and characterizes normatively the outcome of such decisions. Examples from everyday life, sport, military operations or political conflicts will be used to illustrate the reach of game theory and decision theory as tools for strategic analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5145", "title": "Political Economy of Reform", "description": "Public managers need to master the skills of not only managing organizations but also managing projects, programs, and particularly larger-scale policy reforms. Good understanding of the political economy embedded in policy and administrative reforms are thus essential. This course examines the political-economic dynamics embedded in the reform process from various institutional\nperspectives. It is a master\u2013level course designed for practitioners in the field of public administration and public policy. It discusses strategies for achieving and enhancing reform outcomes. Studies and practices from different policies written by both academics and practitioners will be drawn on as reading materials and learning resources for the class."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5146", "title": "Decentralization, Governance & Sustainable Development", "description": "Today, a number of local governments and communities are expected to play vital roles in improving people\u2019s lives. This module introduces normative theories and timely real-world cases pertinent to decentralization and local governance. These are discussed in relation to topics of government\nefficiency, equity, corruption, conflict management, democratization, and sector-specific issues in education, health, and environmental and disaster management. Students will learn theoretical and empirical approaches to\nstudying the topics and acquire analytical skills to address the challenges faced by localities and decentralizing states. The module is multidisciplinary, drawing on views from economics, public administration, and political science."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5147", "title": "Asian Global Cities", "description": "In today\u2019s globalization, many of the policy challenges are becoming urban issues, especially in the rapidly urbanizing Asia. This module focuses on examining the new policy challenges and opportunities of Asian global cities that are increasingly strengthening their presence in the world. It studies a number of rising and transforming global cities in East, Southeast and South Asia, in order to understand their experiences of globalization and urban policy priorities. A number of key policy-related topics will be covered, including global urban networks, urban gateways, megaprojects, privatization, land governance, housing development, informal economy, and participatory development."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5148", "title": "Macroeconomics in an Open Economy with Focus on Asia", "description": "This course focuses on selected analytical and policy issues relating to the international dimensions of macroeconomic policies. The course is not descriptive in nature and it is not just a survey of issues. Rather, the focus will be on developing simple analytical tools to understand key trends and macroeconomic policy issues in an open economy. Topics covered include Balance of payments, exchange rates (regimes and impacts), international financial crises and stabilization policies. An overall theme pertains to the implications of enhanced integration of Asia with global financial markets."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5149", "title": "Big Data, Official Statistics, and Public Policy", "description": "Empirical evidence is key to sound public policy formulatiom, monitoring, and evaluation. Official statistics, as trusted, organized information, have served this purpose for centuries; their production is institutionalized and governed by internationally-agreed ethics and practices. Unstructured information, including Big Data and Geoinformation, has emerged recently, offering public policy new empirical basis for making decisions. This has been described as \u2018Data Revolution\u2019 by international organizations. This course is designed for practitioners in the field of public policy to gain an indepth understanding of the design and intricacies of structured information (official statistics) and unstructured information such as Big Data and Geoinformation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5150", "title": "Social Welfare in East Asia", "description": "How is social welfare organised in East Asia? What are the unique strengths and vulnerabilities? This course examines the origins, structure, and performance of social welfare systems in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Korea, and analyses their distinctiveness relative to the mature welfare states of Europe and other developed economies. Students will be trained to combine major theoretical perspectives such as developmentalism, neoliberalism, and welfare regimes with empirical understanding of country cases using a critical and comparative approach."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5151", "title": "Comparative Case Study Method", "description": "Case studies are widely used in public policy analysis. But what assumptions do we rely on when we draw general lessons from specific policy events? What is the point of comparison and how can we do it fairly? This course examines what the systematic, close study of carefully chosen cases can teach us about political and policy processes. It will enable students to identify the major elements of comparative case studies as a research method, to consume published case studies in a critical manner, and to conduct an independent case study focused on public policy change."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5152", "title": "International Political Economy of Energy and Climate", "description": "As the energy demand from rising Asian economies grows and climate change concerns intensifies so does the need for redefining interstate and state-market relations. The pertinent questions are as to why there is a lack of international cooperation in areas of energy and climate; what are the trade-offs involve in choices between various energ resources; and what is the role of states, markets, international institutions, and civil society in tackling energy and climate challenges.\n\nThis module equips students with the necessary theoretical and analytical skills to analyse international and national energy policy problems and design policy\nsolutions."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5153", "title": "Urban Development Policy and Planning in Asia", "description": "Contemporary urban development policy and planning issues, and experiences in Asia. Assessments of goals, explanations of causes of successes and failures, policy options, planning and implementation. Part I Development Policy and\nPlanning: urban dimensions of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Part II The Livability of Cities: personal well-being (livelihoods and human capital) and social life (social capital, public space, the public sphere). Part III. The Ecology of Asia\u2019s Urban Transition: environmental sustainability, political ecology, global climate change and disaster governance. Part IV Globalization and the City: intercity competition, the rise of China and India, transborder networks, world cities, secondary cities."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5154", "title": "The Global Change Agent", "description": "In a world of uncertainty and complexity we need global change agents that can exercise leadership at the international and the local levels. The module is an intensive training program on how to be an agent of change by mobilizing people to face tough problems, do the adaptive work of change, build bridges of understanding, and create outcomes that add value to their communities and institutions. The module is for those who seek to be change agents in government, NGOs, civil society, and politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5156", "title": "Moral Reasoning in the Policy Process", "description": "This course discusses the fundamentals of logic, moral philosophy and the art of policy communications. It has a theoretical component in political and moral philosophy and a practical component in policy communications. It provides a foundation for the tool of moral reasoning, the processes of public decision-making and the critical and analytical tools for public discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5157", "title": "Economics of Environmental Regulation", "description": "This course provides an overview of the theory and analytical tools used by economists to analyze alternative regulations and policies for dealing with environmental problems including technology standards, emission taxes,and marketable permits. During this course we will analyze policies addressing various environmental problems including conventional air pollution, overuse of natural resources, and climate change as part of the general focus on the problem of economic growth and efficiency. We will employ tools from microeconomic theory, including consumer theory, firm theory, welfare economics, benefit-cost analysis, and general equilibrium theory to study the relationship between the economy and the natural environment."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5158", "title": "International Relations of Asia after WWII", "description": "The course explores the connections among events in Asia as they have unfolded since the end of World War II and examines them in relation to contemporary issues. It assesses competing explanations for longstanding issues, including the Taiwan issue, division of the Korean peninsula, South China Sea dispute, and trajectory of regionalism. These issues are playing out amid a major power shift, not only as a consequence of China\u2019s rise, but also with the emergence of Asia as a global agenda-setter. The course also examines the new threats to the region, from WMD proliferation to terrorism and competition for resources."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5160", "title": "America and Asia", "description": "What are America\u2019s interests in Asia? How has it gone about pursuing them and with what degree of success? The course explores these questions by examining U.S. perceptions of, and responses to, challenges in Asia since 1945. We will focus on the wars fought by America in Asia, the regimes it fostered, the economic/military institutions it built, and relate these activities to America\u2019s conceptions of its interests and its role as a great power. The approach of the course will be chronological and historical, with special focus on the most fateful episodes of America\u2019s engagement with Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5161", "title": "Mindful Transformations in Public Policy", "description": "Complex policy challenges in the 21st century call for fresh approaches and innovative solutions. Scientific evidence suggests that mindfulness will give policy makers an edge in dealing with these problems. Through cultivating and applying mindfulness in the study of key issues in Economics and International Relations, students learn to sharpen their focus, be alert to their biases, open their minds to new possibilities and think holistically. Issues to be covered include paradigms of economic thought, work and productivity, society\u2019s well-being, perceptions and misperceptions of global issues, cognitive biases in decision-making in crisis situations, and the role of joy and International Relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5162", "title": "Economics of the Family for Public Policy", "description": "The family is the fundamental building block of society and the level at which many important decisions such as fertility and retirement are made. This module discusses a) how families are formed and dissolved, b) how families make decisions in terms of division of labour and allocation of resources; and c) drivers of inequalities within and between families. We will use the economic perspective to explain dramatic changes to the family unit sweeping across Asia and the rest of the world. Students will have a chance to apply these insights to policy case studies in an Asian or comparative context."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5163", "title": "The Economics and Governance of Climate Change", "description": "This module provides a basic understanding of global climate change issues with a special focus on the economics and governance aspects. It begins with an introduction to climate change as a social scientific issue and discusses its history, economics, politics, the policy debates, international treaties, taxonomy of climate change scepticism, ethical dilemmas and, adaptation and mitigation policies and their limitations. The course uses a multi\u2010disciplinary framework which draws on theories and evidence from economics, sociology, human geography and political science."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5164", "title": "International Conflict Analysis and Resolution", "description": "We are all aware of the disruptive impacts of violence and conflict over the security, economic, and social wellbeing of our increasingly interconnected societies. In a time when conflicts are becoming more complex, a better understanding of their dynamics and of the peaceful means to address them is a paramount necessity for future leaders and policy makers. This course offers an opportunity to develop analytical skills to understand today\u2019s conflicts and to learn key tools of conflict resolution."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5165", "title": "Markets and Growth", "description": "This module is intended for individuals who are interested in the functions of the market in modern economies and who in the course of their careers may be in positions of regulating market behaviour for public policy purposes. The focus is to identify what makes the market imperfect or cause market failures. The course will also examine the appropriate form of governmental intervention."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5166", "title": "Globalization, Health, and Human Development", "description": "This course examines health and human development in the global economic context. We will begin with the life course perspective on health and development, drawing evidence from various settings. In light of the global pandemic, the course will look closely at: 1) the interaction between deforestation and public health, 2) the impact of infectious diseases on economic growth, 3) issues around new drug diffusion in low-and middle-income settings, and 4) behavioral and mental health. We will also discuss innovative ideas to solve global health problems and the emerging role and limitations of machine learning in global health."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5167", "title": "Public Policy and Economics of Health Systems", "description": "This module is an introduction to public policy and health economics, with a special focus on the health care systems in Asia. It examines the roles and relationships between public policy in planning, implementation and evaluation processes, and different approaches of national systems in providing, regulating and paying for health care. Regional innovations in the organization, delivery and financing of health care systems will be analysed through selected country case-studies. Seminars and exercises on current topical issues include comparative health and economic policies, private-public participation in the health care industry, stakeholder analysis in health sector reforms and a final project to conduct a public policy and economic analysis of a health system in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5168", "title": "Public Service Leadership", "description": "This module will help students to understand the concepts and practice of leadership and develop a better knowledge of public service. Students will be exposed to insights and best practices, with emphasis on the public service and learn the skills to develop into a capable leader. Students will learn to lead, anticipate the future, make decisions, know their bias, build teams, motivate, communicate, understand the public interest and become better leaders."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5169", "title": "Global Food Security", "description": "This module provides a basic understanding of global food security issues from economics, governance and climate change perspectives with an emphasis on low-income countries. Key issues to be addressed include definition and measurement of food security and its current status, food production, distribution, food price shock, poverty, hunger and malnutrition, agricultural policy, biotechnology, Green Revolution and the role of institutions and public\npolicies to achieve and sustain food security."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5170", "title": "Microeconomic Theory for Public Policy", "description": "The course will introduce students to the way economists use theories of consumer and producer behaviour, and welfare analysis to analyze complex public policy issues. We begin by formulating the assumptions and basic structure underlying the competitive model. In the process we will point out the strengths and weaknesses of each assumption as a description of the way economic decisions are made. We then proceed to create more realistic models by relaxing some of those assumptions. The emphasis in this class will be primarily theoretical, although how the theoretical models get applied to policy analysis will be continuously stressed."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5171", "title": "Advanced Applied Econometrics for Policy Analysis", "description": "The purpose of this course is to provide students with a \u2018toolbox\u2019 and working knowledge of advanced crosssectional and panel data econometric techniques\nfrequently used in applied microeconomic policy analysis and research. This course will cover major extensions to the standard OLS regression model and provide students with an introduction to the \u2018cutting edge\u2019 techniques used today to evaluate microeconomic theories and policies, including instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, matching estimators, regression discontinuity and quantile\nregressions. The emphasis of the course will be on estimating causal relationships that can then be used to make predictions about the consequences of changing a policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5172", "title": "Applications of Statistical Methods to Public Policy", "description": "Students will be expected to learn how to devise a feasible, policy relevant, research question, and to address they question using statistical methods. They\nwill undertake a literature review of the topic and find an appropriate data set. They will formulate a theory and devise and method of estimation and hypothesis test for\ntheir question and undertake robustness checks of their results. They will make presentations based on their project and write up a final project paper."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5173", "title": "Economics and Health in Developing Countries", "description": "The course will cover key issues in health economics. Students will learn why health is different from other goods and why health care markets are difficult to organize. They will examine the determinants of health and the demand and supply of health care services. They will study the health insurance market and why there is often market failure in health insurance. There will study cost effectiveness analysis. Through individual and group assignments they will apply this knowledge to the health sector problems of a particular country."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5174", "title": "International Politics: The Rules of the Game", "description": "That international politics can be conceived as a game with its own special rules is a truism for most analysts of the subject. Yet there does not exist a list of what the rules of the game are. This course will examine a list of ten possible contenders for inclusion in the list. The class will debate and dissect these \u201crules,\u201d with the aim of arriving at a mutually agreeable and defensible list of the key rules of the international politics game by the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5175", "title": "Decision-Making: Political and Psychological Influences", "description": "How do political and psychological factors feature and impact on human decision-making, with what implications? This course introduces students to some of the most important findings on the psychological and political factors that shape\nhuman decision-making. The cases to be examined will be drawn primarily from the foreign policy arena, but domestic public policy examples will also be included."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5176", "title": "China and the Global Economy", "description": "In recent years, China has emerged as a major global economic power. Moreover, China has become increasingly integrated with the rest of the global economy. It is important to have a good understanding of China\u2019s increasing importance to global economic growth. This course is intended to provide students with an intensive overview of China\u2019s growing role in the global economy with focus on the interactions between China\u2019s domestic economic reform and its cross-border trade and investment. The impact of China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative on both domestic economic growth and other developing, as well as developed economies are also discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5177", "title": "Progressive Cities in Asia", "description": "Focuses on the concept of progressive cities to assess cities in Asia. The class will form teams to cover four dimensions of the urban contribution to human flourishing: inclusion in public life and decisionmaking; distributive\njustice; conviviality of social life; and nurturing of the natural environment. Through a combination of lectures and workshop sessions, concepts will be deepened and\nevidence will be gathered about a select number of candidate progressive cities in Asia. In addition to individual reports, we will attempt to create a progressive city index to compare with liveable city, world city and other city performance measures."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5178", "title": "Leadership and Decision-making Skills", "description": "This module is intended to examine the leadership and decision-making skills relevant to public policy formulation and implementation.\nIt will be structured into 3 segments, namely:\n(a) the role and nature of leadership to public policy success;\n(b) the range of decision-making tools used in environmental analysis and the identification of the strategic objectives and policies, and\n(c) the role of behavioural economic insights and cognitive biases that public sector managers have to take into account in the choice and implementation of public policies.\nThe approach will be multi-disciplinary, and Singapore\u2019s experience will be used to illustrate the application of general analytical tools and approaches to public policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5179", "title": "Environmental Social Science", "description": "An inadvertent outcome of economic progress is pollution and environmental degradation. This trade off is faced by every decision-maker, and this module draws on knowledge from various disciplines in social sciences to characterize this problem and study possible policy responses. This module provides a economics and policy perspective on environmental challenges. It is divided into two parts with the first half on using economics frameworks to develop policy responses, and the second half on the process and politics of environmental policymaking. This course will equip students with skills and ways of thinking to better navigate environmental problems, policy design, and implementation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5180", "title": "Trade Policy and Global Value Chains", "description": "The course links trade policy to global value chains (GVCs), which are the driving forces of 21st-century international trade. The first part addresses specific issues in trade policy, such as trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment, intellectual property rights, trade and standards, free trade agreements (FTAs), and the WTO. The second part focuses on GVCs. First it covers GVCs from economic and business perspectives, and examines how they work sectorally and geographically. Then it links GVCs to trade policy \u2013 at the national and sub-national levels, and how GVCs are covered in FTAs and the WTO."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5181", "title": "State Fragility and Peacemaking", "description": "Fragile and failed states pose unique problems to\nthe international community. From the 1990s, wars\nin and among failed states have killed and displaced\nmillions. In an increasingly interconnected world,\ninternal insecurity fundamentally undermines\ninternational security.\nThis module focuses on understanding the main\ndrivers of state fragility and the impact on global\nsecurity. In understanding the root causes and\nconsequences of state fragility, students will work\nthrough appropriate and practical policy responses.\nThe module draws on contemporary case studies of\ncontested states and explores the issues through\nthe lenses of political science, international\nrelations, history, geography, sociology and public\npolicy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5182", "title": "Asia's Ascent: The Economics of World Order", "description": "Economies succeed not just from generating ever improved domestic social outcomes, but also by navigating successfully their foreign relations. Nation states commit a dangerous error if they situate injudiciously in world order, not least with the current model of global power relations under ongoing stress. Against a background of conventional approaches, this module provides an economic perspective on rethinking world order. It asks what a rational world order is and investigates the role of smaller states in it. The course compares current reality to a rational world order, and analyzes how critical elements of such a new order might emerge."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5184", "title": "Communications for Public Leadership", "description": "Public policy is not just made. It must also be explained. To\nbe effective in positions of authority, public leaders should\nbe able not just to analyse policy, but to talk and write\nabout it as well \u2014 to communicate succinctly and\npersuasively, to frame issues, and to grapple with the\nworlds of ideas and perceptions, all taking place within a\nfast-moving digital media environment.\nThis course is designed to help future leaders improve their\nability to speak and write in challenging situations, from\nwinning over hostile audiences to giving TED-style talks\nand writing punchy op-eds suitable for publication in global\nmedia outlets. Having taken it, students will emerge with a\ndeeper understanding of differing styles of communication\nin public life \u2014 and the ability to begin to develop their own."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5185", "title": "Energy Policy and Politics", "description": "This course equips students to engage in well-informed\ndebates on how to power our civilisation while protecting\nthe biosphere. The first half of the course positions energy\npolicy within the broader context of sustainable\ndevelopment and, consequently, helps cultivate an\nunderstanding of the problems and prospective solutions\nassociated with fostering a transition away from carbonintensive\nenergy technologies. The second half of the\ncourse introduces students to the policy cycle and aims to\ndevelop applied awareness of the multi-faceted challenges\nthat policymakers face in attempting to cobble together\nsustainable energy policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5186", "title": "Japan and ASEAN", "description": "Launched on the 50th Anniversary of Singapore-Japan Diplomatic Relations (SJ50), this module is designed to get students to consider future opportunities and challenges for sustainable development in ASEAN and Japan. It will\nbe taught by two professors, with distinguished public service and political leaders as guest speakers. Through interactive discussions, students will gain historical knowledge and new insights for broadening policy options in public administration, foreign affairs, the economy, trade, and international finance. The module will feature topics in energy, environment, agriculture, cyber\nsecurity, health/aging, science, technology and innovation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5187", "title": "Business and Politics", "description": "This course provides an overview to the study of business and politics. We will examine how politics and politicians affect the business world by analyzing topics such as regulation, lobbying, corruption, taxation, and trade. We will draw from comparative and international political economy, governance research, and related disciplines such as management and economics. The course will begin by discussing the role of the state in governing markets and business behavior. we then move forward to the discussion of the formation of business interests and preferences regarding public policy. Moreover, we will review how businesses can acquire and exert political power."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5188", "title": "Social Entrepreneurship", "description": "This is a course for changemakers \u2013 those committed to addressing world issues, interested in learning tools and concepts to maximize positive impact with limited resources by focusing on value creation. The course helps students get familiarized with social entrepreneurship concepts and practices, and build awareness of their multiple applications in the public and the private sectors. Topics include: problem and solution identification, business model innovation, piloting, impact assessment, scaling impact, funding, pitching, social entrepreneurship ecosystems and public policies. This is an applied course: students will choose a real-world social venture project and work on it in teams during the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5189", "title": "Practices in Better and Effective Governance", "description": "This module will help the student to understand better the practice of governance and learn how to build better and effective governance.\n\nThe student will be exposed to insights and practices of governance and the delivery of public services that draw from examples from across different countries. \n\nThe emphasis is on the practices of better and effective governance, rather than the theory. Each week, students will discuss an aspect of governance and then offer their own thoughts on the subject using their country (or another\ncountry that they have intimate knowledge of) as setting. Towards the end of the course, the student will propose solutions that may help towards achieving better governance in their country."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5190", "title": "Managing People", "description": "The purpose of this course is to help public management students hone and entrench the skills necessary to cultivate and implement good ideas and effective sustainable performance in public organizations. To do so, the course has been designed in a very unique manner. Firstly, prior to each class, students are asked to complete self-diagnostic exercises which help them to evaluate their current level of proficiency in the skill to be studied. Secondly, a comparably high number of case study discussions and group exercises will be undertaken in class. Accordingly, students need to come to class with\ntheir defences lowered."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5191", "title": "Public Administration, Technology and Innovation", "description": "Understanding the interplay of Public Administration, Technology and Innovation is the object of this course, and its aim is to stay at the \u201ctop of the game\u201d and therefore to be capable of dealing with this key aspect of the public\nsphere today. What is the relationship between PA and Technology \u2013 which drives the other, what are the motives and interests involved, does cultural context matter, are there any choices, and is the specific PA model relevant?\nShould the bureaucracy innovate itself or promote business innovation? And should the focus be on the future or on the present?"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5192", "title": "Data Analytics: Science, Art and Applications", "description": "Data analytics is a scientific approach to help organisations solve problems, make better decisions, and increase productivity. Despite its business origins, analytics has been applied in governments, hospitals, and even museums, spurning a $125 billion market. However, a significant number of analytics projects fail due, in part, to poor science (techniques), art (e.g., implementation, change management) or both. This module covers the critical success factors for organisations embarking on their analytics journeys with topics spanning: project scoping, psychometrics, statistical modelling, text analytics, and applications in government, people, and healthcare analytics."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5193", "title": "Asian International and Strategic Thought", "description": "This module will introduce students to international and strategic thought in four Asian countries \u2013 China, India, Japan, and Singapore. As world power shifts towards Asia, it is vital to provide students with insights into how key Asian societies have thought about the nature of international life and how to deal with the threats and opportunities to their countries. Students will read key texts and thinkers, will make comparisons across the four sets of thinkers and will critically assess the relevance of the ideas they encounter for contemporary foreign and security policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5194", "title": "Natural Disasters, Environment and Climate Change", "description": "This module is designed to provide students with a knowledge of natural disasters and climate change. It begins by establishing a link between climate-related disasters and human activity. It then considers the joint challenges of disaster risk reduction and management, and provides lessons for policy and investments. The module likewise examines the issue of climate change as an externality that can be addressed through policy tools geared towards mitigation and adaptation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5195", "title": "Russia in Eurasian and World Politics", "description": "Post-Soviet Russia, after an interval of relative inactivity, has recently pursued an assertive foreign policy in its geographic neighbourhood and further afield. This module will familiarize students with Russia\u2019s place in the surrounding region and in the world system and analyse drivers of its international conduct, its capacity to exert influence, and constraints on Russian power, The course\nwill be framed by international-relations theory and will brief participants on historical background from the Cold War period and before. Specific topics will include Russian relations with the West and with its former satellites, the\nMiddle East, China, and the Asia-Pacific."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5196", "title": "Education Economics and Policy", "description": "Education is one of the most fundamental areas of policy, as education impacts many aspects of life and society. This module uses the theoretical and empirical tools of economics to study education and education policy. Major topics include the monetary and non-monetary benefits of education; educational inequality with respect to gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status; and policy issues such as compulsory schooling, girl-friendly schools, and school choice. Examples are drawn internationally."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5197", "title": "Cultural Competence", "description": "The abiding opportunity of our globalized, multicultural world is to take advantage of cultural diversity. As individuals, we have to learn to live and work in multicultural settings. Our institutions need to learn how to deal with cultural diversity. As we learn and innovate, we have to understand how to take what seems to work in one culture and think about how to apply it in our own cultural setting. Finally, we need to understand cultural change, including how to shape or resist it. The course draws from many disciplines and uses examples from Asia and around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5198", "title": "Chinese Political Leadership and Economic Development", "description": "This course seeks to explore the role of political leadership in economic policy and performance. It starts with a discussion of politics at the central level and introduces the merits and problems in the Chinese economic context. Students will be exposed to two major debates about control mechanisms in managing central-local relations: fiscal decentralization and promotion tournament. They will critically engage these two theories by examining some recent empirical works. This course concludes with four important issues facing today\u2019s Chinese economy: urbanization, pollution, financial policy and corruption. Students will gain insights about policies that are crucial to China\u2019s future growth."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5199", "title": "The Economics of Corruption in Growth and Development", "description": "Corruption is now perceived as a major challenge to public policy and governance facing many countries, especially in the developing world. This module, which focuses on efficiency consequences of corruption, provides students with quantitative tools to analyze the essence of corruption. Through lectures and class discussions, students will learn how to interpret the incidence, existence and persistence of corruption as an economist and policy maker. Students will be exposed to the most recent empirical studies to comprehensively understand the influence of corruption on economic growth. Finally, this module will examine policy issues and evaluate the anti-corruption efforts in different countries."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5201", "title": "Singapore: Global City, Global Risks", "description": "Over the past decade, Singapore has been repeatedly assaulted by a variety of global risks such as disease pandemics; financial crises and terrorism that spread\nquickly in an inter-connected world. This module examines how Singapore as an open global city has been acutely exposed to the negative flows of globalisation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5202", "title": "'Soft' power in the Asia-Pacific", "description": "This module introduces students to the increasing importance of \u2018soft\u2019 power to International Relations in the Asia-Pacific region. It surveys the strategies and policies implemented by different states as they all seek, for their own national interests, to project their soft power. Countries surveyed include China, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Indonesia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5203", "title": "Behavioral Economics and Public Policy", "description": "Traditional economics, which is one of the key theoretical cornerstones of public policy, typically assumes that human behavior is rational, preferences are stable, and individuals are smart and unemotional. However, human behavior often deviates from standard assumptions due to psychological and social factors; analysis based on traditional economics can therefore misinform policies and lead to detrimental consequences. This course discusses behavioral regularities that are of potential importance for public policy. Students will be exposed to behavioral economic theory and its applications to public policy in the areas of savings, investment, healthcare, climate change, taxation, labor supply, and monetary policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5204", "title": "Evolving Practices of Governance in Singapore", "description": "Writing in The New York Times, Thomas Friedman encouraged policymakers to emulate the prevailing attitude in Singapore of \u2018taking governing seriously and thinking strategically\u2019. This module is a critical exploration of the basis and implications of such a claim, focusing on features of governance in Singapore that may be viewed as unique. To achieve this, such features \u2013 particularly Singapore\u2019s systematic attempt to manage risks and complexity \u2013 are discussed in the context of influential theories and models of governance. To bridge theory and practice, the module is team-taught by a top civil servant and a political scientist, both Singaporean."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5205", "title": "Economic Policy in a Global Economy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5206", "title": "Politics and Policy in Southeast Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5208", "title": "Water Law, Governance and Management in Asia", "description": "This module is focused on legal, policy and financial aspects of urban water management and infrastructure development in Asia. It examines how water is governed at the local and national levels in selected Asian countries, and provides some background on the regional and international contexts. Water issues are by their nature interdisciplinary, encompassing a wide range of legal, policy, economic, social and environmental aspects. This module is designed for policy makers, regulators, investors and educators. It will provide them with the knowledge and skills relating to the legal and policy-related aspects of water governance and management."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5209", "title": "Exercising Leadership", "description": "This is a skills-based course that focuses on the interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics that impact leadership. Participants are encouraged to clarify their own\nleadership direction and personal motives so they may make effective progress in pursuing their ambitions while avoiding typical areas of derailment. The classroom is used for both didactic learning, e.g., of diagnostic tools for\nanalyzing interactions in case studies and in class, and for practicing new strategies of action. Other sources of learning include readings, lectures, plenary discussions, small group work, film, and cases provided by participants\u2019 of their experience with leadership challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5210", "title": "UN and Global Governance", "description": "The module will provide students with a thorough understanding of the structures underpinning contemporary global governance. This will include detailed study of the multilateral institutions, in particular of the UN and the WTO, that provide its principal bulwark. The manner in which key global players pursue their perceived national interests within these institutions would be examined. The \u2018rise of Asia\u2019 against the matrix of changing global power relations, and the accommodation of re-emerging China and India would be analyzed. The role of small powers and their contribution to shaping global values and actions would be studied. All along, public policy perspectives and angles would be emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5211", "title": "Analytical Issues in Money & Banking", "description": "This course links the fields of macroeconomic and financial policies. It provides coverage of economic principles that underlie the operation of banks and other financial institutions. The role of money in the economy and the impact of the central bank and monetary policy on the macroeconomy are emphasized, as is understanding the foreign exchange market and some basics of monetary\ntheory and international finance. The focus of this course is on analytics."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5212", "title": "Financial Issues, Trade and Investment in Asia", "description": "This course is an introduction to selected aspects of Asian economic development and the region's interactions with the rest of the world. It will focus on developing simple analytical tools to understand key trends and macroeconomic, financial and trade policy issues that confront Asia in the world economy. Topics covered include sources of growth in the Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs) in East Asia, the rise of China and India and their impact on the global trading system, foreign direct investment to Asia, currency crisis in Asia, Asia in the global financial system, and issues relating to Asian economic regionalism."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5213", "title": "Contemporary Financial Policy Issues in Emerging Asia", "description": "Asia's share of the world's GDP, which is currently little above twenty percent, is likely to double by 2030. This has drawn much attention to the dynamic emerging Asian region, especially to the economic giants China and India. This course explores different aspects of contemporary international economic issues in the\nregion. Coverage will be broad, focusing on financial crises, reserve accumulation, capital flows and currency wars, on the one hand, and issues relating to foreign\ndirect investment and developments in China and India, on the other."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5214", "title": "Ethics & the Public Official", "description": "The public official is constantly confronted with choices that have ethical dimensions. An obvious one is the attempt to influence officials' decisions by corrupt means. However, ethical issues facing public officials are usually more subtle. They range from the way officials define their political mandate to how they think about policy options that profoundly affect the lives of others. This course will explore the range of ethical issues and choices that confronts public officials and develop skills in recognising and resolving them. This module is targeted at students who are interested in ethics and public official."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5215", "title": "Changes in Singapore Political Economy", "description": "This course is an overview of opportunities taken and the strengths obtained in the changes of the political economy of Singapore. It will cover Singapore from an East India Company settlement to its status as a Straits Settlement colony and then as a colony by itself, full internal self-government, merger with Malaysia and now an independent republic. Topics covered include how the political economy of Singapore coped with changes in the region, new commodities in the hinterland, population movements, global ideology, national aspirations, international finance, multinational corporations and economic volatility."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5216", "title": "Economic Growth in Developing Asia", "description": "The module provides a comprehensive view with rigorous comparative analyses that are essential for understanding the dynamics of economic growth in developing Asia.\n\nThe module also introduces to students concepts and analytical frameworks that enhance their competence in policy analysis for the issues related to economic growth and competitiveness."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5217", "title": "Innovation", "description": "Innovation leads to higher productivity and economic growth. However, typical innovation metrics focus on input measures which may be necessary but are not sufficient to guarantee outcomes either in terms of adoption or diffusion. This course discusses a number of themes in innovation including network industries; the importance of country context and the role of innovation in developing countries; open data and cloud computing which provide new platforms for citizen participation in the public policy process."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5218", "title": "Foresight Methods and Analysis for Public Policy", "description": "This course examines the intersection of Public Policy and Futures Studies. The course will develop an understanding of how anticipatory practices can support public policy. A methodological overview of futures research and studies\nand hands on knowledge of the Singapore Government\u2019s Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning (RAHS) system, as well as other futures research tools and methods are given. Case studies of policy-foresight programs will be\ncomprehensively surveyed. A theoretical understanding of the convergence of public policy and futures studies is developed. Emerging issues in public policy (eGoveCitizen, Sino-global dynamics, alternative futures of\nglobalization and policy) are explored."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5220", "title": "Innovation and Technology Policy", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5221", "title": "The EU: Special Topics", "description": "The objective of this course is for students to understand the EU and current topics in relation to this economic and political grouping, and its impact on the rest of the world. The course is directed both at European and non-European students."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5222", "title": "Population Health and Social Policy", "description": "This course introduces social policies \u2013 which are policies directed towards meeting a population\u2019s social needs\u2014can support better overall health of, as well as a more equitable distribution of health outcomes within, a population. Focusing on countries in Asia, students will be introduced to trends and challenges affecting population health, including but not limited to climate change, demographic shifts; income inequality; globalization and migration. We will also examine how social policy across various domains (e.g. education, public health, social support, and housing) affect population health, with a focus on socially vulnerable populations and health disparities."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5223", "title": "Population Ageing, Public Policy, and Family", "description": "This course covers policy issues of modern ageing societies, with special emphases on families and comparisons between Asian and Western countries. To tackle the complex issues, we discuss both relevant theories and empirical evidence from various disciplines. The first part investigates demographic causes of population ageing\u2013decreased fertility and extended\nlongevity. The second part reviews public old-age support programs and discuss their challenges. We also describe policy options to mitigate the consequences of population ageing, and assess the effectiveness of the policies. The third part examines why families provide elder support, and how public and private old-age provisions are interrelated."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5224", "title": "Value- Focused Negotiations", "description": "This course explores systematic ways to negotiate with a focus on value. It aims to help students increase awareness of the negotiation process as well as their own assumptions and behaviours, and to improve negotiation and influencing skills and results by developing systematic approaches to prepare and conduct negotiations. This is an experiential course, where students will engage in negotiation exercises, role plays and discussions. Other sources of learning include lectures, readings, videos and journals."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5225", "title": "India's Foreign Policy and National Security", "description": "India is a rising power. Its foreign policy and national security choices will be consequential for South Asia, for neighbouring regions such as Southeast Asia, for Asia as a whole, and increasingly for the world. India has always played a fairly large role diplomatically, beyond its neighbourhood. It is poised to extend its military influence as well. The course attempts to provide students with an overview of the problems that India confronts and how it typically goes about dealing with those problems."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5226", "title": "Social Policy Design", "description": "The module offers a critical introduction to essential concepts, approaches, and analytical tools in social policy from a comparative perspective with the purpose of improving the design of social policies. It will focus on the substance and context of social policies, the forms in which they are delivered and financed, and how they might be improved. Adopting a problem-solving approach from a design perspective, we will first understand the scope and magnitude of a number of social problems and then explore ways to address them effectively. To maintain focus, we will concentrate on education, health, housing, and pension in select countries in East, South and Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5227", "title": "Principles and Policies in Sustainability and the Environment", "description": "This course is designed to improve the understanding and applications of the principles and policies of sustainability and the environment. It examines the policy challenges of achieving global sustainability where strides have been made in some respects, notably poverty alleviation, while others, strikingly climate change and mass species extinction, have accelerated at alarming rates. The course will shift attention from \u201cimplementing\u201d what are often self-standing and competing sustainability goals, to focusing on developing \u201cfit for purpose\u201d policy designs for effectively and urgently prioritizing make or break sustainability conundrums."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5228", "title": "Evidence-Informed Policy Development", "description": "The module will address the salient aspects of how evidence informs policy making, covering the following areas: needs assessment; evidence generation and synthesis; presentation of evidence in an appropriate, useful and\nactionable manner; strengthening evidence generating and presenting capacity in low income countries; barriers and aids to use of evidence by policy-makers; engaging the public; and effectiveness of methods and processes to achieve evidence-informed policy. Health policy is used to illustrate concepts and practice, but principles are equally applicable to policy development in other sectors. The module will emphasize case studies from real policy situations but will also address the importance of sound conceptual frameworks."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5229", "title": "Education policy in Singapore: comparative perspectives", "description": "Education is a significant area in public policy impacting individuals, families specific communities and society as a whole. It is widely seen as crucial to economic competitiveness, social cohesion and human development. In this module, students will learn about policy dilemmas, choices and consequences both in Singapore and in East Asia. Topics covered include access and equity issues, medium of institution, values and citizenship education and higher education."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5230", "title": "Strategic Management in Public Organisations", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5231", "title": "Ethics and Global Governance", "description": "Good governance and managing conflicting ethical demands are key skills for policy makers. This course seeks to introduce students to the ethical aspects of some major problems in global governance. Topics include foundations of ethical theory, human rights, intervention, climate change, immigration and trade. Background readings come mostly from moral philosophical, political theory and political science. Each session pays special attention to a particular policy area in the international domain and thereby combines philosophical inquiry with applied questions. The course does not have any formal prerequisites."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5232", "title": "Applied Environmental Economics", "description": "Understanding environmental economics and how it affects policy decisions is an important part of modern policy making. This module builds on the gateway module (PP5451 Foundations of Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics) and introduces advanced level economic analyses of natural resource management. The analyses involve critical reviews of concepts and methods \nin both microeconomics and macroeconomics leading to the formulation of resource management policies some of which deviate from acknowledged norms. Central to both the microeconomic and macroeconomic analyses is the recognition of the role of laws of thermodynamics and ecological systems balance on the functioning of economic systems."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5233", "title": "Organization Theory and Management", "description": "The art of organizing is foundational to public policy design and implementation. Public managers need to master the skills of not only making policies but also managing their organizations, as well as working effectively with other organizations. This course examines fundamental theories of organization. It discusses strategies for enhancing organizational performance and puts them into the context of the public sector. Studies and practices from organizations in both public and private sector will be drawn on as resources for the class when considering how public organizations can be managed effectively."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5234", "title": "Economics of Developing Countries", "description": "This course aims to provide students with an understanding of some of the challenges and solutions to problems faced by developing countries across four key themes: public health, education, finance and financial technologies, and labour markets. The course will draw on recent advances in development economics and focus on new challenges faced by developing countries post-COVID-19. Students will develop a set of empirical tools that can be applied to the analysis of development related policy problems. This course will focus on empirical microeconomic development economics."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5235", "title": "Development Policy in Southeast Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5236", "title": "Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy", "description": "The objective of this module is to get an understanding of what is poverty, how to measure poverty, who is poor, what causes poverty, and what are the policy responses to poverty alleviation. In addition, the module will also examine the concept of inequality and its interlinkages with poverty. The module will combine theory, measurement, and policy with an emphasis on policy examples from Asia.\n\nIn addition to introducing students to mainstream conceptualizations of poverty and inequality such as predetermined poverty lines and Gini index, this module will bring in contemporary and alternative paradigms such as multi-dimensional poverty, capability deprivation, and inequality of opportunity."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5237", "title": "Strategies for Poverty Alleviation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5238", "title": "Urban Growth and Development", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5239", "title": "Understanding and Managing Corruption", "description": "Ethics and good governance are essential to the continuing development of the public sector, in developing as well advanced nations. This module will help you to develop authentic moral positions on public management issues and essential competencies for ethical leadership. You will approach this through first exploring the underlying concepts and philosophical underpinnings of ethical governance and the threats facing it. You will then develop your skills and ethical standpoints by putting your learning into practice with assignments and practical exercises, many of which involve actual cases and dilemma trainings used in professional programs all over the world."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5240", "title": "Topics in Applied Policy Analysis", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5240A", "title": "Comparative Strategic Policy", "description": "This is an ambitious, interdisciplinary survey course that covers much of the world and its regions in order to examine, through dynamic comparison, how different countries and regions of the world approach national strategy \u2013 that is, the framing, planning and execution of major national projects (ends) through the mobilization of key national means \u2013 across a number of policy sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5240B", "title": "Measuring and Monitoring Governance", "description": "This course examines the \"measuring and monitoring\" of public sector performance from several perspectives: the emphasis on measuring performance and the different types of measures and their strengths and weaknesses; how international agencies are at the centre of global efforts to stimulate reform; the dynamics of \"policy transfer\" and \"policy diffusion\"; the spread of so-called \"best practices\"; and how governments respond to these efforts."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241", "title": "India's Economic Development and Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241A", "title": "Topics in Economics or Quantitative Analysis: Developmenteconomics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241D", "title": "Role of Microfinance in Developing Countries", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241E", "title": "Special Topics on Development Policy in SE Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241F", "title": "India's development: a comparative perspective with China", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241G", "title": "Asean", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241H", "title": "Social Movements and Social Markets", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241J", "title": "Asia in the World Economy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5241K", "title": "Political Economy of International Trade", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242", "title": "Policy Responses to Disasters", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242A", "title": "Integrated Approaches To Sustainable Development", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242C", "title": "Human Rights and International Relations", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242E", "title": "Change Agents and Public Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242F", "title": "Strategic Thinking in Business & Government", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242H", "title": "Perspectives on the Global War on Terror: Implications for policy-making", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242I", "title": "Return of Great Power Politics in the Age of Globalisation", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242J", "title": "Effective Implementation: Learning from Effective Implementers", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242K", "title": "Policies for Urban Intervention", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242L", "title": "The EU as an International Actor", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242P", "title": "Asian Regionalism and Regional Order", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5242Q", "title": "Non-traditional Security Issues and Global Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5243", "title": "Infrastructure Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5244", "title": "Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5245", "title": "Network Economics & Strategies", "description": "Network industries (energy, telecommunication, hardwaresoftware, etc.) have pulled the world\u2019s growth during the two past decades. More generally, economic and social networks govern many aspects of humans\u2019 life. This course analyses the peculiarities of economic behaviour, social interaction and strategic thinking in a network structure. The first part of the course is practical and focuses on the strategies of firms and governments on markets characterized by substantial network external effects. The second part, more theoretical, will introduce \nthe basic concepts and tools to better understand economic, political and social interactions in a networked world."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5246", "title": "Public Policy and Management of Health Systems", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5247", "title": "International Economic Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5248", "title": "International Conflict Resolution", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5249", "title": "Media, Public Opinion & Public Policy", "description": "Public policy today is in no small part influenced by public opinion. Public opinion is in turn influenced by a diverse set\nof actors in an increasingly complex media environment. Public opinion today is also made increasingly more complex\nby diverse interests and aspirations across different segments of society, that go beyond traditional demographic\nmarkers. How can policy-makers seek to better gather and understand public opinion to better inform policy-making?\nHow does the evolving landscape impact public policy decision making and implementation?"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5250", "title": "Economic Development Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5251", "title": "Institutions and Public Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5252", "title": "Ethnic Politics and Governance in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5253", "title": "International Financial Policy and Issues", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5254", "title": "WMD Proliferation and International Security", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5255", "title": "Energy Policy & Security in Asia", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5256", "title": "Financial Regulation and Development", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5257", "title": "Urban Water Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5258", "title": "International Relations and Diplomacy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5259", "title": "Crisis Management", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5260", "title": "Intelligence, National Security & Policymaking", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5262", "title": "Public Roles of the Private Sector", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5263", "title": "Global Issues and Institutions", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5264", "title": "States, Markets and International Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5265", "title": "Law & Public Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5266", "title": "Global Health Policy and Issues", "description": "The changing social, economic, technological and political conditions across the diverse countries and populations of Asia, and the world mean that there is a need for policy professionals to have an overview of global health policies and associated issues. To do that, this module examines the roles and relationships among major players at the global level, and different approaches taken by various international organizations and national governments in tackling health and related problems in the context of the post-2015, post-MDG development agenda. The module will also compare and contrast global health policies with international policy instruments in other areas related to health. The module will examine global health trends and issues using a macro policy framework. Significant challenges in the organization of global health programmes and the complexities involved in international cooperation and the implementation of international policy instruments will be analysed through selected case-studies. Topics on current issues will include: role of international health organizations, international aid and development assistance, emerging epidemics and disasters, non-communicable diseases (including tobacco use), health impacts of climate change, cross-border health issues (e.g. food security), migration of health human resources (brain drain), international trade in health services, global health diplomacy, international health law and the future of global health."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5267", "title": "Urban Transport Policy: A Global View", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5268", "title": "Institutional Design and Analysis", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5269", "title": "Environmental Economics and Public Policy", "description": "This course introduces the concepts, principles, and methods of environmental economics and public policy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will learn to apply these principles and methods to analyze important environmental issues, such as pollution, climate change, and natural resources, and to explore solutions for sustainable development, at the local, regional, and international levels."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5269M", "title": "Environmental Economics and Public Policy", "description": "This core course for students of the MSc (Environmental Management) programme introduces the concepts, principles, and methods of environmental economics and public policy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will learn to apply these principles and methods to analyze important environmental issues, such as pollution, climate change, and natural resources, and to explore solutions for sustainable development at the local, regional, and international levels, in the context of business, law, environmental science and the built environment."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5270", "title": "China\u2019s Economic Development and Reforms 1978-2020", "description": "China\u2019s rise has been the most important economic event of the past 40 years. China has transformed itself from being one of the poorest countries in Asia to becoming the largest economy in the foreseeable future. China reforms transformed the country from a largely planned, agricultural, closed and rural economy to a more market, industrialized, open and urban economy. This course reviews China\u2019s key economic reforms since 1978, examines the sources of China\u2019s economic success, and discusses the challenges and policy issues that have resulted from China\u2019s emergence."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5271", "title": "Political Risk Analysis", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5272", "title": "Energy Systems and Climate Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5273", "title": "Political Islam and Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5274", "title": "Financial Management for Policy Makers", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5275", "title": "Central Banks and Economic Management", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5276", "title": "Dialogue, Facilitation and Consensus Building", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5277", "title": "Singapore's Development: A Comparative Analysis", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5278", "title": "Health Economics and Public Policy", "description": "This module provides an overview of the economic theories and concepts most relevant to health and healthcare. It introduces students to the theories of consumer and producer behavior, the interaction of economic agents in competitive markets, and market failures, with a focus on their implications for health policy. Topics include demand for health and health care, health insurance, physician and hospital behavior, pharmaceutical markets, and other related topics. This course seeks to help students develop intuition for thinking about challenges facing health care systems in an economic framework by connecting theories to contemporary health policy issues and empirical work."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5279", "title": "Clusters and National Competitiveness", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5280", "title": "Politics and Development: Approaches, Issues and Cases", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5281", "title": "Business and the Environment", "description": "Business enterprises today face new environmental challenges. Public demands for transparency on environmental performance, enhanced requirements for performing environmental impact assessments for new investments, and greater uncertainty about domestic and international environmental regulation. Businesses are\nincreasingly redefining how environmental drivers might define business value both in terms of opportunities and risks. This course will help students of public policy in better understanding how to engage these issues with stakeholders, including investors, regulators, and nongovernmental organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5282", "title": "Macroeconomic Programming and Policies", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5285", "title": "State-Society Relations in Singapore", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5286", "title": "Comparative Public Management Reform", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5287", "title": "Leadership and Teamwork", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5288", "title": "Labour Market Issues and Public Policy", "description": "This module aims to introduce students to various issues confronting workers, employers, and institutions in the labour market. By familiarizing ourselves with the canonical theories in labour economics and econometrics, we will improve our capacity to understand the modern-day challenges to the labour market, including labor fource participation, changing returns to education and job training, technological changes, mobility and migration, productivity and wage, discrimination, signaling in job search, and challenges entailing globalization. We will continue with an analysis of policy interventions implemented to resolve the issues, such as social welfare programs, anti-discrimination laws, immigration reform, minimum wage, and on-the-job training."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5289", "title": "Women, Leadership & Public Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5290", "title": "Policymaking in China: Structure & Process", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5291", "title": "Security in Asia-Pacific", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5292", "title": "The EU, ASEAN and Regional Integration", "description": "Using the European Union and ASEAN as examples, we will study the opportunities and challenges posed by regional (economic) integration. In particular, we examine the EU\u2019s institutional setup, its core policies, and its place on the international stage as the largest common market in the world. We will compare and contrast the EU's experience with that of ASEAN to see what conclusions can be drawn on the prospects of regional integration."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5293", "title": "Ruling the Net: It and Policy Making", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5294", "title": "Dynamic Modelling of Public Policy Systems", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5295", "title": "Aid Governance", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5296", "title": "Trade, Investment and Integration Issues in ASEAN", "description": "This module will explore trade and investment issues in goods and services, in the context of ASEAN\u2019s goal to establish an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by\n2015. The issues will be approached from a mix of theoretical, empirical and practical dimensions. The module will cover the measures that ASEAN members\nare undertaking to move towards an AEC, and the challenges as well as potential benefits of deeper regional economic integration. Students will learn to\nanalyse policy issues based on a sound understanding of the theories of trade and foreign direct investment and facility with the construction and use of statistical\nindicators."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5297", "title": "Public Policy for Sustainability", "description": "This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the sustainable development concept and entailing public policies trough an inter-disciplinary framework. The property rights will be explored while the concept of environmental valuation will be discussed. Attention will be given to urban wastewater and solid waste management by also focusing on the linkages between water-energy-food (WEF) nexus and sustainability.The role of decision-aiding tools in designing sustainable public polices will be introduced through simulation exercises. The parameters of climate change as an uncertainty factor will be presented while the role renewable energy scenarios for the future sustainable policy scenarios will be demonstrated."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5298", "title": "Singapore's Development Experience", "description": "This module provides a survey of Singapore\u2019s practices in public management and policy development from a comparative perspective. We will focus on innovations in public sector governance as main contributing factors for\nSingapore\u2019s strong economic growth in the last four decades, and discuss underlying principles and rationale for these innovations. The course consists of two parts. The first part of the course introduces to students key elements of public\nsector governance in Singapore, including governance structure, civil servant system, policy development, policy implementation, and financial management. The second part of the course examines Singapore\u2019s experience in policy development and implementation in selected sectors such as health care, housing, water supply, land transport, industrial development, information technology and telecommunication."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5299", "title": "Singapore: The City", "description": "Singapore is both an Asian and global leader in urban planning and sustainable development. This module, cotaught by a Singaporean and an American (both political scientists), analyzes how Singapore has transformed itself in little more than four decades from a Third World city with dismal apparent prospects to the vibrant highamenity First World city it is today. The module focuses\non public policy formation and implementation, with particular attention to Singapore\u2019s integrated pursuit of economic growth, environmental quality and\nsustainability, high-quality transport and housing, qualityof- life amenities, social peace, and nation building. Throughout, it links the analytics to real world examples, but mostly through sessions designed to enable direct interaction with policy-makers and civic organizations.Real world examples will also be drawn \nfrom other countries and urban regions."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5311", "title": "Globalisation and Public Policy", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5312", "title": "Public Financial Management", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5401", "title": "Policy Challenges", "description": "This year-long module is designed to get students to think in a practical, problem-oriented, and multidisciplinary way through critical lenses and analytical tools available in the disciplines of Public Management and Leadership, Political Science and International Relations, and Economics, all pillars of a traditional Public Policy education. Students will be presented with an Asia-focused wicked problem, a\ncomplex case study, or a hypothetical situation through which they can engage, throughout the year and in a sustained way, central ideas and tools associated with each discipline. The module will be team-taught and enhanced through flipped classroom approaches."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5402", "title": "Policy Process and Institutions", "description": "The module is about approaches, institutions and processes in public policy. Specifically, it examines: definition and approaches to the analysis and practice of public policy; the politicaleconomic context of public policy; and the process of framing, making, and evaluating public policy. The objective is to build students\u2019 capability to conceptualise policy problems, devise strategies for addressing them, and comprehend policy documents."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5403", "title": "Economic Foundations for Public Policy", "description": "The main objective of this module is to understand foundational economics concepts and principles and their application to public policy. The module is organized in six parts: Part 1 The basic demand and supply framework of microeconomic analyses; Part 2, market demand to gain insights into decisions made by consumers; Part 3, how market inefficiencies can arise, the special characteristics of public goods, and the incidental benefits and costs of an economic activity; Parts 4 and 5 focus on firm behaviour and market structures; and Part 6, basic macroeconomic concepts and goals. Throughout the course, the focus of study will be on the policy interventions that would lead to more efficient resource allocation outcomes and improved welfare of society."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5405", "title": "Public Administration and Politics", "description": "This MPP core module course covers the key\nfoundational topics of public administration and\npolitics, such as the role of government; public and\nprivate sector relations and dynamics; politicaladministrative\nrelations; collaboration and networks;\nperformance management; stakeholder\nmanagement; and values, ethics, and anti-corruption\nstrategies. It will provide students with knowledge,\ntools, and best practices of thinking about these\nadministrative, political and managerial problems\nnecessary to effectively continue their studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5406", "title": "Methods and Tools for Policy Analysis 1", "description": "To train students to be competent users and producers of quantitative evidence for policy analysis, this module will equip students with foundational quantitative analytic skills. The focus is on basic concepts of multiple regression analysis and its applications to real-world policy problems. Exercises through textbook examples, case studies, and group projects will enable students to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the method. PP5407, provided in sequence in the second semester, will provide students with more in-depth knowledge and skills required to understand and conduct policy evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5407", "title": "Advanced Research Methods for Public Policy", "description": "Policy evaluation is critical in helping to decide\nwhether to expand, modify, or terminate a program or\npolicy. The objective of this module is to provide\nstudents with the knowledge and skills required to\nunderstand and conduct policy evaluation. The\nmodule will build on the foundational analytical skills\ntaught in PP5406.\nThe focus is on rigorous quantitative evaluation tools.\nThese will be taught using case studies and datasets\nthat will allow students to identify the strengths and\nweaknesses of these methods and learn how to\napply them to a policy problem of their choice."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5408", "title": "Methods and Tools for Policy Analysis 2", "description": "How can qualitative research methods be used to answer questions about public policy development and outcomes? How do we overcome concerns about objectivity and representativeness? This course introduces students to the conceptual foundations of qualitative research in the social sciences. It covers a wide range of techniques for conducting research with policy makers and the public, and on country cases. The course will prepare students to consume and conduct qualitative research by combining both theoretical and procedural understanding."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5409", "title": "Foundations of Public Policy", "description": "This core MPP module provides students with a working knowledge of theories and methods for public policy, and practical lessons and experiences. It examines and evaluates foundations, approaches, institutions, actors, processes, and cycles in public policy. It explores the context within which public policy is carried out; the interface with politics, administration and policy; the manner in which problems reach the government agenda; policy instruments and design; innovation, change and transformation; and implementation challenges and evaluation. This module\nalso focuses on developing writing and presentation skills on topics of public policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5410", "title": "Working with clients: PAE Basics", "description": "This hybrid course (online and in-class components) equips future leaders and change makers with the knowledge base and skills needed to succeed in the\ngrowing job market at the nexus of international development, social impact, sustainability, and policy implementation. The core components of the course are\nfield-based action learning, team-based projects, and case assignments. These are designed to enhance empathy and collaboration, as well as develop cross-cultural\ncompetencies in select fields such as financial inclusion, small business and social enterprise development, corporate social responsibility, gender and development,\neducation and health policy, sustainable development, and post-conflict reconstruction and governance."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5414", "title": "Foundations of Sustainable Development and Environmental Economics", "description": "Consideration of environmental sustainability is a vital part of policy making. This module provides a comprehensive coverage of sustainable development and is structured on the following premises: (1) The natural environment is the core of any economy and economic sustainability cannot be attained without environmental sustainability; and (2) Sustainable development requires the maintenance of a steady stock of environmental capital. The module is designed to enable graduates to work in multidisciplinary teams, to understand the sustainable development perspective and to be able to critique policy and practice. The module has a constructive alignment between outcomes, activities, and assessment tasks set at a postgraduate level."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5415", "title": "Foundations of Public Management (Gateway)", "description": "This gateway to the Specialization in Public Management and Leadership focuses on the ways in which public managers and leaders mobilize resources to achieve important public purposes. In the module, we will discuss the roles and responsibilities of managers in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public programmes and policies. Since leaders try to anticipate and manage change strategically, they must have an appreciation of the integrative, interdependent nature of organizations, their environments, and their stakeholders. We will pay specific attention to the uniqueness of the public sector environment, and the relation between public managers and political principals and stakeholders. Required readings and cases represent a balanced mix of classical and recent materials and studies from around the globe, including Asia, USA, Europe and Africa."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5417", "title": "Capstone Project: Comparative Study of Asia & Europe", "description": "In the wake of global changes sweeping across national borders, adaptation, resistance and inertia have produced societal schisms, new vulnerabilities as well as opportunities from the perspective of public policy. The goal of this module is to identify and engage with a pressing policy problem spanning the continents of Asia and Europe, and to deliver insights from primary research, rigorous analysis and\nevaluation in collaboration with a client organisation. Students will learn to apply existing analytical skills in the service of a real-world policy issue and develop specific, actionable recommendations in a written report and presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5504", "title": "Financial Management for Public Organisations", "description": "In this introductory course in financial management, students will learn the fundamentals of budgeting and accounting for public and not-for-profit organizations. Through readings, lectures, real-world case studies, and assignments, students will gain an understanding of how to use financial information in organizational planning, implementation, control, reporting, and analysis. In addition, students will develop their spreadsheet skills by using Microsoft Excel to perform financial analysis and create financial documents. Key topics include operating budgets, cash budgets, break-even analysis, cost allocation, the time value of money, capital budgeting, long-term financing, and preparation and analysis of financial statements."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5507", "title": "Policy Innovation Lab", "description": "This project-based module allows students to develop innovative solutions to real-world policy problems. Students work in teams with external partners (government, corporate, incubators, non-profit organizations, foundations, etc.) to develop a concrete innovative \u201cproduct\" that addresses a specific public policy issue. Students work with their partner on a project. They participate in workshop-style lectures on key issues related to innovation including diffusion, disruption, and policy application, and on practical skills for policy innovation including design thinking, human-centered design, stakeholder analysis, and problem-solving processes. External partners reserve the right to select the student teams working on their proposed projects."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5508", "title": "Regional Integration - the cases of ASEAN and EU", "description": "This course addresses regional integration through the\nASEAN and the EU in a comparative manner, including\nhistorical origins, basic structures, decision-making\nprocesses and main policy domains, both internal and\nexternal. The course also examines bi-regional relations\nbetween the EU and ASEAN as well as future challenges\nfor the two regions and regionalism overall."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5509", "title": "Pensions and Retirement Policies", "description": "This course looks at pension systems design and public policy issues associated with retirement income provision in Singapore and internationally. It provides students with an understanding of different models of social security systems, the economics and finance of pensions, governments\u2019 role in pension provision, and reform options. Topics covered include: rationale for state involvement; types of pension schemes; plan design and policy choices; Singapore\u2019s Central Provident Fund scheme; fiscal sustainability of pension systems; distributional issues and risk sharing; recent reforms and policy developments; and international comparisons;. A special focus is given to the implications of population ageing on pension policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5510", "title": "Governing Cities of Tomorrow", "description": "This course examines the concepts and theories pertaining to the introduction and governance of novel technologies in cities. We will explore innovative practices, analyse the environmental, societal, and economic impacts of various technologies and study analytical approaches that can aid us in devising smart policy solutions to utilise them while minimising their risks and unintended consequences. Some of the topics covered are: conceptions of future cities, risk and unintended consequences, design for socio-technical transitions, and governance of risks of novel technologies. We will analytically explore issues around crowdsourcing, sharing economy, 3d printing, ridesharing, autonomous systems, blockchains and automation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5511", "title": "Systemic and Integrated Policy Design and Analysis", "description": "This course teaches students how to systematically analyse complex policy problems and conduct policy design to address long-term challenges. The skillset is generic and can be applied to different domains (e.g. Transport, Environment, Energy, Health, etc.). This makes this course crucial for professionals with functions that require long-horizon thinking and decision-making. Relevant theories and techniques and their limitations covered include system analysis, actor analysis, policy networks, problem formulation, definition of goal hierarchies, information gathering, generation of a library of policy measures, analysis and selection of policy measures, multi-criteria decision making, generation of alternative solutions, and analysis of their trade-offs."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5512", "title": "US-China Relations and Great Power Policy Making", "description": "This module covers contemporary issues in US-China foreign relations. It will connect key theories and empirical discoveries from academic research to inform policy questions about the nature of cooperation and conflict between the two great powers in a variety of domains. The course will also give students an opportunity to assess how US-China relations affects other important global actors. The course assignments emphasize reading, policy writing, and discussion and presentation, though students interested in data analysis and academic research will also have opportunities to build upon those skills if they choose."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5513", "title": "Governing Nation-State and Global-City Singapore", "description": "Singapore is a small postcolonial multicultural nation-state and a cosmopolitan global city. Its experience of rapid development led by a clean, elite, and pragmatic state has been codified into a model and in fact a nation brand, admired by developing and advanced countries alike. This module focuses on how Singapore\u2019s transformation into a top-rank global city has affected its policies surrounding social cohesion, urban development, social development, and foreign affairs. It examines the viability of the Singapore model in the face of complex global challenges, which may require fundamental adjustments to Singapore\u2019s strong state model."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5514", "title": "ASEAN and Regionalism in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course introduces the political, economic, and security issues in the interstate relations of Southeast Asia since the end of World War II. It studies regionalism and regional cooperation and conflict in Southeast Asia with a focus on ASEAN as the epicentre of Southeast Asian regionalism. It examines how ASEAN member states have coped with various challenges and sought to manage regional order and stability."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5515", "title": "Gender and Development", "description": "The objective of this course is to train future policy makers to perform gender analysis and to develop gender inclusive public policy in the context of international development. This course covers theoretical, methodological as well as practical aspects of gender analysis in various sectors of the economy and discusses how public policy and programmes can be designed to bridge gender inequality. The course puts a specific emphasis on methodological issues including the available qualitative and quantitative instruments to measure empowerment and gender disparity."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5516", "title": "Practical Political Risk Analysis", "description": "This module is an advanced course that will provide students practical experience in the field and expose them to practitioners of political risk analysis. The module is focused on completing an assigned political risk analysis project commissioned by real-world client which will be submitted to the client at the end of the module. Students will be organized into small teams that will conduct research, analyze data, prepare a political risk report to be presented to the client. Students will develop and demonstrate key skills related to political risk analysis and client management in a real-world environment."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5517", "title": "Gender and Public Policy: The life course approach", "description": "This module covers policy issues related to gender inequality in contemporary, developed societies in Asia. To understand the complex dynamics of gender inequality in the Asian region, we take the life course approach, compare developed Asian countries with their Western counterparts, and discuss both relevant theories and empirical evidence from various disciplines.The first half investigates causes of the inequality over the life course, and describes policy options to reduce the inequality at various life stages. The second half focuses on evaluating options and making policy recommendations, and examining additional topics to prepare governments for gender-sensitive policy design and implementation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5518", "title": "Pragmatism and Public Morality in Singapore", "description": "The idea that \u2018pragmatism\u2019 accounts for Singapore\u2019s successful development and governance is at the heart of the Singapore model. But its practical meaning \u2013 even in the most seemingly technocratic policy examples \u2013 has been multiple, unstable, contradictory, and increasingly ideological in an age of neoliberal globalization, when the market often gets to dictate what counts as pragmatic, and often in ways that obscure and thus secure elite interests. This module explores the policy and legislative debates surrounding: (1) Sex, including prostitution, homosexuality,\nand procreation; (2) Addiction, including drug use, gambling, and smoking; and (3) Censorship of the arts and popular culture."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5519", "title": "Financial Management for Nonprofit Organisations", "description": "This course focuses on financial management concepts and skills that are crucial for nonprofit organisations to achieve their mission, and it provides the opportunity to apply that knowledge to an operational context. Case methodology will be utilised to examine financial management practices of NGOs throughout the world. Through these cases, we will look at organisations' approach to cash flow management, revenue and earned income management, cost analysis and allocation, investment management, the analysis of new programmatic investments, project finance, and strategic financial analysis. This course is relevant to students interested in working with or in both domestic and international organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5520", "title": "The Political Economy of Reform in China", "description": "This module seeks to understand institutional changes in a single-party authoritarian state. Its goal is to explain how politics and the evolution of political institutions help explain the patterns and outcomes of major socioeconomic reforms."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5521", "title": "The Economic Analysis of Law", "description": "Judges make public policy through their decisions in individual cases. This observation is especially true of jurisdictions that recognize opinions as authoritative sources of law. Are case outcomes best explained by the economic notion of social efficiency? How should legal institutions and rules be designed to maximize welfare? This course provides an introductory survey of the answers to these questions, covering the economic analysis of both private and public law. Topics to be addressed include property, torts, contracts, crime, administrative law, and statutory interpretation. Critiques of the neo-classical law and economics tradition will also be considered."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5522", "title": "The Rule of Law", "description": "Appeals to the rule of law are ubiquitous in academia and politics. There is little agreement, however, about the ideals and practices entailed by a commitment to the rule of law. This course explores the rule of law from theoretical and applied perspectives. It begins by examining the different conceptions of the rule of law espoused by philosophers. Attention then turns to how the rule of law is invoked in legal and political debates over the administrative state, the war on terror, and the international order. Specific legal systems, like those of China and the United States, are also discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5524", "title": "Diversity Management in Public Organizations", "description": "This course introduces students to issues of diversity in contemporary organizations. The course will examine different perspectives on diversity, inclusion, and representation, their use in a global context, and their challenges and benefits for organizations. These issues will be explored through institutional, organizational, group, and individual lenses, and using a variety of theoretical and practical approaches, including psychological processes, group dynamics, and organizational interventions. These lenses will in turn be used to analyse core management issues such as recruitment, selection, and performance management."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5525", "title": "Understanding Global Trade and Asian Trade Policy", "description": "The module brings students up to date on the state of the field of international trade \u2013 both theory and empirics, without relying on overly technical models. The first part provides an overall understanding of international trade theory \u2013 comparative advantage, gains and losses, scale and scope, exporting vs non-exporting firms, offshoring and outsourcing; the second part resolves some common misconceptions about trade often seen in the media, and highlights key lessons from the latest empirical research; the third part focuses exclusively on trade policy in Asia, with episodes from Japan, China, India, South Korea, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and others."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5526", "title": "The Politics of Infrastructure", "description": "This module addresses the role infrastructure plays in society, and how it shapes power relations. By combining approaches from history and Science and Technology Studies (STS), it aims to equip students with a multi-disciplinary skill set needed to understand the diverse range of issues undergirding infrastructural projects, politics, and policies. The module examines how ethnography has helped us understand large organisations; how humanity has overcome logistical challenges in different geographical and temporal contexts; the different kinds of infrastructure, including communication, water, bureaucracy, and knowledge infrastructures; China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative; and new computing and digitalization technologies under \u2018Industry 4.0\u2019."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5527", "title": "Game Theory and Strategic Decision-Making", "description": "This course introduces game theoretic tools to examine strategic behavior and its consequences for a wide range of economic, political, and social applications. We develop important techniques to better navigate strategic interactions from decision-making under risk and uncertainty, collective decision-making, agenda setting and strategic voting, negotiating and bargaining, the value of common knowledge, information disclosure with signaling and screening, participating in auctions, and designing strategyproof mechanisms in practice. We also highlight the limitations of rationality in practice and develop strategic analysis and institutional design techniques in light of individual/collective decision-making given such empirical (ir-)regularities from behavioral economics."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5528", "title": "Designing Markets and Marketplaces", "description": "This course aims to broaden one's perspective on markets and marketplaces. We learn how to design markets, institutions, and organizations in practice, and analyze their allocative properties, induced incentives, and limitations, to help formulate regulatory policy. The course underscores practical takeaways in designing a wide range of markets, e.g., auctions for procurement and spectrum allocation, matching markets to assign students to schools, doctors to hospitals, and resettle refugees, centralized versus decentralized labor markets for civil servants, online market platforms, natural monopolies for electricity, and incentive schemes promoting pharmaceutical R&D. We cover issues like fairness, efficiency, simplicity, transparency, externalities, and collusion."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5529", "title": "Technological Changes and Work", "description": "Will technological change lead to mass unemployment and civil unrest? This module aims to introduce students to the implications of technological changes in the labour market, through the lens of economics, sociology, demography, and other subfields of social science. One of the central themes of the module is the notion that technology holds heterogenous effects on the labour market constituents. In this course, we will delve into the sources of the heterogeneity. We will also examine and evaluate the current individual- and firm- level efforts as well as policy efforts to regulate the nature and the pace of workplace technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5530", "title": "Introduction to Coding for Public Policy using Python", "description": "With the rapid advancement of technologies, the data available to us are becoming increasingly large and complex, making it difficult to analyze using traditional data-processing methods. In today\u2019s data-driven world, industries and organizations must embrace the challenges of big data to generate valuable insights to solve realworld problems. The ability to analyse big data has become an invaluable asset in the field of public policy. This course provides a gentle introduction for practitioners to big data analytics. Using Python, students will get hands-on experience working with big data sets, and applying visualization & data analysis methods to generate policy insights."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5531", "title": "Introduction to Coding for Public Policy using R", "description": "This module provides an in-depth and practical introduction to essential data analytics tools and techniques for public policy analysis. Students will learn how to use R, a versatile statistical programming language, to clean, organize, visualize, and analyze data, and to communicate and evaluate data analytics results for academic and professional purposes. This module also serves as a gateway to more advanced learnings in data science and analytics for public policy analysis. No prior coding experience is required for this module."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5532", "title": "Organizations and Management", "description": "This course is a broad introduction to organizations and management. It consists of lectures and discussions based on weekly reading assignments. Students will combine their practical knowledge with the class readings to gain new perspectives. The topics include data and decision-making, reengineering work, organizational structure, organizational network and institutional theories. Students are expected to keep up with the readings and be prepared to discuss them in class. Understanding organizations is important for public administration and decision making in public policy. Under new public management, we have to understand organizations outside the public sector as well as in the public sector."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5533", "title": "Green Transformation and Policy in Asia", "description": "This module provides a survey of energy transition and green transformation in Asia and related policy challenges from a global perspective. The module concentrates on three topics: (i) Energy sustainability challenges and the green transformation imperative; (ii) Efforts of Asian countries in renewable energy development; and (iii) International best practices in promoting green transformation and policy lessons for Asia/ASEAN countries."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5534", "title": "Geopolitics of Heritage", "description": "The SG Botanic Gardens, chicken rice, and pinisi boats - heritage is part of our lives, emotional attachments, memories, and identities. Because of its ubiquitous significance, heritage is also mobilized to facilitate international dialogue or legitimate shifts in geo-political landscapes. But whose heritage is invoked where international alliances and boundaries are concerned? How to make sense of competing heritage claims? This interdisciplinary, experiential course draws on politics, international affairs, heritage, geography and history in order to interrogate the geopolitical and economic significance of heritage. Combining theory and practice, the course also invites students to conceptualize individual \u201cgeopolitics of heritage\u201d projects."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5535", "title": "Strategic Management for Public Policy", "description": "This module takes an applied economics approach to strategic management for public policy. We introduce foundational toolsets from network theory, behavioral economics, matching theory, contract and incentive theory for designing effective institutions, efficient organizations, and robust policy implementation. We study applied econometric methods used for data-driven policy evaluation randomized control trials, regression discontinuity designs, survey designs, and difference-in-difference methods. We cover case studies across wide-ranging policy domains to understand why certain policies and organizations worked/failed and why. We discuss issues like leveraging behavioral economics in policy implementation, networks for optimal information dissemination, implementation of affirmative action, personnel economics, corruption, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5536", "title": "Drones, Data, Drawings - IA in the age of the image", "description": "From cartoons to political slogans, and from military parades to data visualization, images provide a most immediate way of understanding reality. Images have similarly long played a critical role in shaping international politics and our understanding of them. Over the past decade, images have also become the main source for Deep Learning, expediting the prowess of Artificial Intelligence. This course examines how visual sources influence international political phenomena, considering the implications for both humans and AI. Students will explore theoretical and methodological debates, delve into concrete cases, and have the option to engage in filmmaking and/or exhibition curation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5537", "title": "Century 21: (In)security and global challenges", "description": "The on-going wave of globalisation has changed the character of threats to human, national and international security. The present security discourse stands in major contrast to the traditional realist understanding of security that prevailed during the Cold War. This interdisciplinary, experiential learning course examines key global challenges, typically described under the umbrella of non-traditional security. The course comprises of three interlinked parts. First, a conceptual/theoretical explication of non-traditional security. Second, in-depth engagement with five non-traditional security topics: climate change, migration, technology, gender equality, and food security. Three, hands-on opportunities to design topic-specific interventions."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5538", "title": "Digital Technologies and Public Policy", "description": "The course will explore the features, applications, benefits and risks of emerging technologies such as Artifical Intelligence, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Digital Currencies, Cloud, 5G, IoT, 3D Printing and Robots on social policy (education, healthcare, insurance, social safety nets), employment and wages, fiscal policy (taxation and expenditure), transport and smart cities and implications for politics and social cohesion (fakenews, deep fake, election manipulation). It will explore policies and regulatory implications in terms of growth, equity, security, privacy, efficiency and risk management for Singapore. The course will be comparative in perspective and will draw from the experience of the US, China, Europe, Japan and Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5539", "title": "Economic Development in the age of paradigm shifts", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the concepts and analytical tools for designing policy to promote economic growth and sustainable prosperity in digital age. The course concentrate on five main areas: (i)Economic development strategy; (ii)Economic growth and productivity analysis; (iii) Globalization and economic growth; (iv) Digital transformation and (v)The energy revolution and sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5540", "title": "Survey Design for Researchers and Decision-makers", "description": "This module covers the major topics of social survey research. It focuses on questionnaire design but also covers topics like sampling, survey modes, interpreting survey data, using survey evidence in decision-making, and research ethics. The course is practical: students will not only learn about questionnaire theory and survey methodology, but they will also use that knowledge in developing their own questionnaires. While focusing on public opinion and internet-based social science survey research, the skills covered in this course will also be applicable for market and organizational research, policymaker surveys, and more."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5541", "title": "Policies for Healthy Cities", "description": "This course will provide students with an overview of how the environment affects health outcomes and health behaviors. Students will examine how policies that influence the various dimensions of the environment can affect population health, even if these policies do not directly target health as an outcome. For example, building a new expressway might have unanticipated negative effects on residents nearby due to the noise generated both by construction and car-traffic. Through this course, students will gain insights on how to integrate public health considerations into policy-making and planning, and help achieve better health and health equity in urban environments."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5542", "title": "Economics of Aging", "description": "Increasing longevity and declining fertility rates have shifted the age distribution of populations around the globe. Economics of Ageing as a field has become increasingly important as many countries are facing rapid population ageing. This course will examine the economic challenges and opportunities associated with an ageing population eg. how the demographic shift affects labor supply and productivity, retirement saving and wealth, intergenerational transfers, social security and pension design, healthcare financing, long-term care. Students will gain an understanding of how demographic changes shape the economy, as well as policy responses to address the challenges of an ageing population."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5543", "title": "Prediction and Forecasting for Public Managers", "description": "In this graduate course on prediction and forecasting, students will learn how to design, refine, and evaluate various models for prediction and forecasting using cross-sectional and time-series data. The emphasis will be on practical applications of forecasting concepts using Stata. Students will see applications in economics, budgeting, finance, and other quantitative fields."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5544", "title": "Urban Interventions To Achieve a Good City", "description": "The course examines why and how governments intervene in the development of urban areas. Students will review debates about a \u2018good city\u2019 should be and examine models of a \u2018good city\u2019 which have inspired planners past and present. We will examine the goals and urban interventions typically implemented as part of each model; as well as critiques. Students will be equipped with knowledge and skills to critically assess typical urban policies, plans and projects that contribute positively or otherwise to the many facets of a \u2018good city\u2019."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5545", "title": "Macroeconomics for Public Policy", "description": "This is a course on intermediate macroeconomics that introduces students to important concepts and analytical tools frequently used by economists to tackle a range of macroeconomic issues that are relevant to businesses, governments and households. It examines issues relating to long-term growth as well as business cycles. Significant attention is paid to macroeconomic stabilization (fiscal and monetary policy). The course also introduces some basic open macro economy issues such as balance of payments, exchange rates and currency crises. The aim will be to provide coherent analytical frameworks and theoretical foundations to understanding cotemporary global macroeconomic policy challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5660", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5661", "title": "Internship", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5662", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate public policy education. The Independent Study Module is designed to enable the student to research on an approved topic. The student should work with a faculty member to agree on a topic and a list of readings. The faculty member should provide a list of deliverables expected. A formal, written agreement outlining a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments and evaluation should be signed by the student and approved by the School prior to the start of the module. The student is expected to meet the faculty supervisor regularly. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5663", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate public policy education. The Independent Study Module is designed to enable the student to research on an approved topic. The student should work with a faculty member to agree on a topic and a list of readings. The faculty member should provide a list of deliverables expected. A formal, written agreement outlining a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments and evaluation should be signed by the student and approved by the School prior to the start of the module. The student is expected to meet the faculty supervisor regularly. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5664", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate public policy education. The Independent Study Module is designed to enable the student to research on an approved topic. The student should work with a faculty member to agree on a topic and a list of readings. The faculty member should provide a list of deliverables expected. A formal, written agreement outlining a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments and evaluation should be signed by the student and approved by the School prior to the start of the module. The student is expected to meet the faculty supervisor regularly. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5701", "title": "Economic Applications for Public Organizations", "description": "The main objective of this module is to describe how basic concepts in economics are applicable at different levels in public administration. The module commences with a presentation of the basic concepts and then illustrates the applicability and relevance of these concepts to decision making by recourse to a set of case\nstudies as well as widely cited examples in public administration. Topics covered include: Markets and Pareto Efficiency; Markets and Property Rights; Market Failure; Natural Monopolies; Strategic Outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5702", "title": "Public Administration in Theory and Practice", "description": "This module introduces the key concepts relating to the theory and practice of public administration. The module is organised around four themes: foundations (key concepts and contexts of public administration); core functions (different types of public organisation); key processes; values; and challenges. The module\nuses both a comparative approach and case studies from Asia to link theory to real-world practice of public administration. Upon completion of the module, students will be familiar with the key issues in public administration and will be able in better position to relate the various components of their degree programme."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5703", "title": "Public Finance and Budgeting", "description": "The objectives of this module are to understand the basic principles and logic of government fiscal activities and government budgets. This module helps MPAM students become familiar with analytical approaches for resource allocation and decision evaluations in the public sector. Major topics covered include rationale for public sector; options for financing government expenditure; taxation policy; expenditure policy; fiscal decentralisation; privatization; role of cost recovery and user charges; budgeting systems and techniques; capital budgeting."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5704", "title": "Policy Analysis and Programme Evaluation", "description": "Government officials are frequently confronted with decisions about whether or not to initiate, continue, modify, or terminate policies or programmes, and the skills in policy analysis and programme evaluation are essential for them to make intelligent choices. This module introduces the key concepts and tools in the professional\npractices of policy analysis and programme evaluation in the public sector. Main topics covered in the module are process of policy analysis, market failures, government failures, information structuring, data collection methods, decision matrices, cost-benefit analysis, and programme evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5705", "title": "Comparative Public Policy and Management: Singapore and Asia", "description": "This module provides a coherent analysis of Singapore\u2019s development experiences focusing on the economic outcomes, political leadership, policy design and implementation, institutions and the interaction between these components. The objective is to provide students with greater insights into the policies that have shaped Singapore\u2019s economic development, sharpen their understanding of policy making and implementation in Singapore and encourage them to reflect on its relevance to their own country and organisations. The module will draw upon the expertise of senior government policy- and decision-makers as well as those who have been involved or researched in policy-making. It will involve visits to relevant institutions in Singapore and a short attachment to a government agency in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5706", "title": "Economic and Business Environment", "description": "The module provides basic grounding for understanding macroeconomic indicators, economic development objectives and principles of market economy within an inclusive society. The study on open aggregate demand and supply model enables analysis pertaining to impact of monetary and fiscal policies on macroeconomic environment. Appreciating the role of the government on budget sustainability, financial liberalization and ease-of doing business would enhance understanding on dynamics balance of payments, capital, saving and investment flows. Ability to analyse impacts of financial crises and international reserve currencies would be combined with a good treatment on evaluating comparative advantage and rule-based global investment and trading system."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5711", "title": "Urban Development and Policy", "description": "This course examines the development of urban areas and the public policies that lead to rational and effective urban structures and institutions. The course begins with an examination of the theories and principles that explain the existence of regions and cities. These principles will then be used to establish criteria for evaluating urban policies and to look at several urban problems. Substantive areas which will be explored in the course include land use, housing, transportation, economic development, the environment, urban public finance, and intergovernmental organisations/institutions."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5712", "title": "International Economic Policy", "description": "This course addresses a number of cutting-edge issues in the international economic policy area. It addresses issues in the real trade area related in, particular, to the interaction between the economic and political dimensions of trade policy, the recent shifts from multilateral approaches to trade liberalization towards regional and bilateral approaches, and the status of the Doha Trade Round. Even though the focus of the course will be on global issues, extensive examples will be provided from Asia and the course will consider how the region is responding to the challenges of globalization, including in the context of he \u201cNew Asian\nRegionalism\u201d."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5713", "title": "Financial Regulation and Development", "description": "This course would seek to provide an in-depth understanding of the important role played by the financial sector in a modern economy, including the potential contribution of a vibrant financial sector to economic growth and financial stability. The course would examine the preconditions for a strong financial sector and measures available to policymakers for strengthening the financial sector. Particular emphasis would be placed on the special challenges of building strong financial sectors in developing countries. Much of the course would focus on financial regulation and supervision, its rationale and relationship to financial sector development. The two broad types of financial regulation, prudential and market conduct would be examined and consideration would be given to the characteristics of an effective system of regulation and supervision. Attention would also be given to financial crises, their capacity to undermine economic development and techniques available to policy makers, central bankers and regulators for minimizing the risks and consequences of financial crises."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5714", "title": "International Financial Policy and Issues", "description": "The course is aimed at providing the basic tools for analyzing a range of important internation alfinancial and macroeconomic policy issues. The course will cover balance of payments and exchange rate determination, the informational efficiency of the foreign exchange market, monetary and fiscal policies under alternative exchange rate regimes, currency volatility and crises, optimal currency areas, the choice of exchange rate regimes, external debt issues, and the behavior of international capital flows. In the process, the course will also review the broad evolution of the international\nmonetary system since the second half of the nineteenth century focusing on the nature of the international adjustment process under alternative exchange rate regimes, the Bretton Woods System of pegged but adjustable exchange rates, and the current period of generalized but differentiated floating (Bretton Woods II or Inflation Targeting Plus?). The course will also address a number of topical policy issues including the possible forms and rationales for the ongoing efforts to strengthen\nfinancial and monetary cooperation in Asia as well as the role the region is playing in financing global current account imbalances through massive reserve accumulation. Unlike discipline-oriented courses that focus mostly on analytical issues, this course will consider real world policy issues with particular attention to Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5715", "title": "Industrial Clusters and National Competitiveness", "description": "This module provides an understanding on policy objectives and impact of industrial clusters including infrastructure requirements, approaches in which investors were being attracted, incentivised, and managed. Linkages on operational efficiency of industrial clusters to transformation of national competitiveness in terms of tangible and non-tangible assets will be made. In particular, through commissioned case studies on global industrial parks including those in China, Indonesia, India, Europe and America, the critical role of the government in terms of positioning and planning of industrial clusters, reflecting shifts in production value chains, availability of factor of productions leading to comparative advantages will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5716", "title": "Security in Asia-Pacific", "description": "This course is to examine the key security issues in Asia-Pacific, with focuses on the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Straight. The principal questions include: the tension between the two Koreas, the nuclear issue and its impact, the tension between Mainland China and Taiwan, the policies and interactions of the United States, China, and other powers in the region, and the future prospect of the reunifications of the two Koreas and China/Taiwan. This course is aimed at enhancing the students\u2019 research and analytical ability, deepening their knowledge on Asia-Pacific affairs in which involves vital stakes USA, China, Japan, Korea, and ASEAN, and gaining insights on how security policies are produced and implemented, given the security environment in the Asia-Pacific region."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5717", "title": "Political Economy of East Asia", "description": "This course will examine the evolving role of the state in economic development and the developmental strategies and policies of the major economies in East Asia. It will examine issues relating to development/ underdevelopment, monetary management, regional integration, the World Trade Organization and government-business relationships. The question of the \u201crise of China\u201d and its\nimplications for the regional and international political economy will be discussed. By the end of the course students are expected to have developed sufficiently sophisticated skills and understanding of the complex realities of political economy of East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5718", "title": "Policymaking in China: Structure and Process", "description": "This course is designed for students who desire to have in-depth knowledge about China\u2019s policymaking structure and process. The course will examine how the policymaking process is structured, what are the internal dynamics, and how they impact on policy outcomes, given the China\u2019s political system. The aim is to provide students with a clear understanding that policymaking in China, as in the other politics, is essentially a process of compromise making, in which the actors (policy makers) make decisions according to not just their interests but also their structural positions and the procedures they have to follow in policymaking"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5721", "title": "Public Sector Risk Management", "description": "One of the major challenges faced by the public sector today is to manage risks and disasters caused by natural, social and ethnic factors at policy, institutional and operational levels. To cope with these challenges, public sector organizations must learn to discern the hidden risks in these areas, grasp predisaster mitigation and preparedness skills, optimize bureaucratic structure and inter-agency coordination mechanisms, mobilize social forces efficiently and adopt cutting-edge technology and equipments. The major topics of this module include: China\u2019s social reform, social protest management, natural disaster management and ethnic conflict management."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5722", "title": "Strategic Management", "description": "The public sector is under increasing pressure to improve outcomes and increase outputs of their organizations, while simultaneously improving efficiencies and effectiveness. To meet these challenges, public sector organizations must revisit their strategic management processes and measurement systems. While many strategic management frameworks have been developed for the private sector, the same is relatively scarce for the public sector organizations. The major topics of this module include: contemporary strategic management frameworks, appropriate measures for public sector organizations, strategic implementation tools, case studies of public organizations who are Singapore Quality Award winners, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5723", "title": "Political Economy of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore", "description": "High economic growth in Asia, led mainly by China, in the last three decades was a spectacular phenomenon. Both Hong Kong and Taiwan have contributed to and benefitted from China\u2019s growth. Singapore has deepened economic relationship with China since China\u2019s opening up in the 1980s.Its successful projects such as Suzhou Industrial Park, Tianjin Ecological City and Guangzhou Knowledge City\ndemonstrate the joint developmental potential between the two countries. Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore have had different historical experiences, and formed different social and political systems. Their socioeconomic elements, which are the products of the various systems, have been useful and have contributed to China\u2019s phenomenal economic expansion in recent years."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5724", "title": "Leadership Development", "description": "Sociological and psychological perspectives on management. The sociological perspective includes coverage of: organization structure and design; organization culture; control and coordination systems; the nature and functioning of small groups in organizations; and organization development and change. The \npsychological perspective addresses topics such as: comparative views on leadership; roles and functions of the chief executive; the role of power, influence and politics; establishing supportive communications; enhancing employee performance through motivation and empowerment; delegating for esponsiveness; managing conflict, change and varied stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5725", "title": "Behavioural Public Policy", "description": "Human behaviours in a variety of situations not only deviate from standard rationality assumptions, but they do so in systematic and predictable ways. These deviations are due to cognitive biases, psychological complications and limitations, and social influences. Analysis based on standard assumptions can therefore misinform policies and lead to detrimental consequences. This course presents and discusses behavioural regularities that are important for policy analysis and formulation, and discusses how those behavioural regularities can be used in policy design and implementation to achieve better policy outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5727", "title": "Real Estate Fundamentals and City Planning", "description": "This course exposes the students the key concepts of city planning, real estate market and development process. Recent years have witnessed rapid urbanization in the developing Asia and transitional China and some of its consequences \u2013 substantial urban growth, dramatic ups and downs of real estate markets, financial markets as well as regional economies. The government officials and state-owned enterprise (SOE) executives are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities, such as how urban planning theories may help to solve urban problems? How zoning regulation may affect urban land development? How bubbles in real estate market were formed? How do the fundamentals determine equilibrium demand, supply, and prices in the real estate market? How to make prudent real estate development decision?"}, {"moduleCode": "PP5728", "title": "Technology and Innovation Policy", "description": "This module covers technology, innovation, organization and policy broadly by discussing economic and sociological aspects of technology and innovation. In particular, the objective is to develop an understanding of the technological innovation process, the organization of innovation and how these are affected by the policy environment. The major topics of this module include key issues in innovation management, the dynamics of innovation, innovation-driven growth in large and small organizations, role of public sector investment in research, innovation and enterprise, intellectual property strategy and policy, and the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution caused by recent transformative technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5729", "title": "Public Sector Communications", "description": "Public sector organizations have traditionally been blamed for bureaucracy, inefficiency, and corruption, especially with the rise of new and social media. These apparent failings have resulted in poor relationships between the organizations and citizens. Many efforts aimed at improving the relationship seem to fail due to reasons that include a lack of understanding of citizens' changing expectations and an absence of strategic and planned communication. The major topics of this module include: evolution in public sector communications, closing communication gaps through intangible assets, building public reputation, building social capital, improving public engagement, building trust etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5730", "title": "Strategic Co-opetition Policy & Supply Chain Deployment", "description": "In the process of globalization, supply chain restructuring has not only promoted the efficient use of resources, but also led to the rise and fall of national power. From the perspective of globalization and supply chain, this module explores how countries can engage in international strategic co-opetition through policy formulation, and how related competition can reach the balance between fairness and efficiency. Specifically, the instructor will cover a range of issues inlcuding power shifting and transition in international relations, supply chain security and resilience, market research and development, intellectual property governance, and legislative competition related to S&T policy etc."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5731", "title": "Environment, Energy and Resource Policy", "description": "This module introduces students to the key concepts and approaches of policy design, implementation, and evaluation in environment, energy, and natural resources. We will first discuss the origins and consequences of major environmental, energy and resource issues, including pollution, climate change, energy market, ecosystem services, etc. We will then explore recent advances in research and practice to address these issues, including government regulation, market-based solutions, and other policy instruments, with a focus on quantitative methods and case studies globally. The emphasis is on how the interaction of natural science and social science can support evidence-based policymaking in sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5732", "title": "Social Development and Policy", "description": "Social policy plays an important role in promoting social development and fostering social solidarity. In the coming decades, social policy has to respond to profound economic, technological and demographic changes. This module draws on the literature as well as relevant Singapore and China studies to explore factors affecting social policy making, implementation and evolution. Specifically, this module covers key domains including social security, health care, housing, and aging. It also introduces new ways of steering and emerging practices in addressing socioeconomic challenges. To enrich the diversity, the instructor will also cover a small amount of Hong Kong and Korean policies."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5733", "title": "Global Business-Government Relations", "description": "This course offers a comprehensive overview of business-government relations across the globe. Drawing from comparative and international political economy, governance studies, and related fields like management and economics, we aim to provide a multidisciplinary perspective. To ensure relevancy and current insights, we incorporate case studies and media articles that highlight the latest developments in global politics and markets. We explore various facets of business-government engagements including lobbying, campaign financing, corruption, and international trade within diverse contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5734", "title": "Organisational Communication and Business Strategy", "description": "The course will cover topics including major communication theory related to public policy, communication strategy for public policy from government\u2019s perspective, communication practice for different international audience, response and management strategy for public crisis and how to use communication to serve company\u2019s business strategy as business leader. The course will study the real political and commercial cases aound the world to elaborate the organisational communication strategy."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5735", "title": "Financial Management for Organizational Managers", "description": "This course provides students with the foundations to understand the key concepts and tools used in Finance and equips students with the conceptual and analytical skills necessary to make sound financial management decisions for the organization that will maximize all stakeholders wealth as well as shareholders. Asian cases will be extensively used."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5736", "title": "Human Capital Mangement and Leadership", "description": "Human Capital Management and Leadership is an integrated course that combines two critical aspects of organizational success: effectively managing and nurturing human resources and cultivating leadership skills. This course offers an in-depth exploration of the strategies, principles, and best practices for effectively managing an organization's most valuable asset: its people. With a focus on the unique challenges and opportunities within the public and non-profit sectors, this course equips students with the knowledge and leadership skills necessary to attract, develop, motivate, and retain a talented workforce to achieve the goals and missions of the public and non-profit organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5801", "title": "Economic Analysis", "description": "This course is organized into two broad sections of microeconomics and macroeconomics. The course starts with an introduction to core concepts in microeconomics, including game theory, behavioural economics, and information economics. This sequence closes with a discussion of topics in labor economics and human capital accumulation. The macroeconomics sequence studies the macroeconomy in the short and long run. Topics include financial crises, the impact of automation on workers, and growth accounting. Broad topics are studies in each part through different lenses and include applications that draw insights from Singapore\u2019s policy landscape and contrast them with policies of other\ncountries."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5802", "title": "Policy Analysis", "description": "Public sector managers are frequently confronted with decisions about whether or not to initiate, continue, modify, or terminate policies or programs, and the knowledge and skills in policy analysis and program evaluation are essential for them to make intelligent choices. The module will cover important considerations in conducting policy analysis and evaluation, such as identifying policy problems, establishing criteria, assessing policy alternatives, choosing among policies, and evaluating policy impacts."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5803", "title": "Public Management", "description": "Public managers are answerable to various groups of people including those within hierarchical structures, political parties and politicians, citizens and civil society groups and also international actors and organizations. Also public managers are often caught in policy dilemmas and are tasked to carry out policy promises in very challenging contexts. This course aims to introduce students to key concepts in the discipline of public administration. Students will explore various ways to think about these public management problems. Students will be able to understand theoretical concepts and appreciate their applicability to real-world practices."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5804", "title": "Governance Study Project", "description": "The Governance Study Project (GSP) is a year-long team- based project. Consisting of a study trip at the end of the first semester, a seminar, and a final conference the end of the special term, the GSP connects the beginning to the end of the degree programme, requiring students to put to use the knowledge and skills learnt in each module. Through projects that are real public problems, students will acquire skills related to analysis of complex managerial\nproblems, basic research, and writing and other presentational modes. The GSP also aims to develop team building and a strong sense of cohort."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5901", "title": "International Relations: Theory and Practice", "description": "This course introduces students to the three main streams of IR theory: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. In particular we will explore theories of the balance of power, the balance of threat, the rise and decline of great powers, hegemony, cooperation theory, the role of international institutions in global governance, and the structures and relations of identity between and among states and societies. Major contemporary issues that will be addressed include the relations between China and the United States; the global political economy, including trade and development, and the prospects for global cooperation on issues such as climate change."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5902", "title": "International Security - Concepts, Issues & Policies", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP5903", "title": "International Political Economy", "description": "The course brings together politics, economics and international relations on issues relevant to the global economy. It is divided into three parts: 1) IPE theory; 2) history of the world economy, focusing on the post-1945 era; 3) modern policy. Policy issues covered are in macroeconomics and finance, trade and investment, and energy and environment. Major regions of the world economy are covered, as are the key actors \u2013 governments, international governmental organisations, business and NGOs."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5904", "title": "Research Methods in International Affairs", "description": "This module seeks to provide a graduate-level introduction to the main methods\u2014qualitative and quantitative\u2014commonly used in the analysis of international affairs. What is a good question and how do we go about assessing the answers given in the field of international relations? What\nare some of the most important methods or strategies of inquiry used by students of international studies to support or demonstrate their claims? These are the main questions addressed by module. The aim is to introduce you to some of the key methods of the field, encourage you to think critically about them, and where appropriate, apply them in your research and writing.\n\nEach session will consist of three segments. It will begin with a lecture by one or both the instructors. The lecture will be followed by a question and answer period, where students are encouraged to respond to the issues raised by the lecture and readings. The third segment will be devoted to group exercises or presentations that will allow students to apply and/or critically engage the methods and methodological issues raised by the lecture/discussion."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5905", "title": "Foreign Policy Analysis", "description": "This course focuses on how states formulate and implement their foreign policies. It is structured based on different levels of analysis: systems, state, leaders, bureaucracies/institutions, and society. The course analyses the various constraints that each of these actors face, how they interact with each other, and the processes and mechanisms through which they resolve their differences and formulate policy. It also examines the conditions in the implementation process that impact policy outcomes. Major themes include the state as rational actor, the role of personalities and their psychology, the impact of ideas and cultures, bureaucratic politics, and the role of interest groups and coalitions."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5906", "title": "International Economic Development", "description": "Countries interact economically via the flow of trade, capital, and migration. Changing policies that affect these\nmovements can have major implications for other countries. This course is an introduction to these concepts and will\nfocus on developing simple analytical tools to understand key trends and policy issues, with illustrations from Asian\neconomies. The first part is dedicated to the study of economic growth and the process of economic development,\nwith the goal of understanding why are some countries rich, whereas others remain poor? The second part of the\ncourse is dedicated to topics in international trade, migration, and exchange rates."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5908", "title": "Global Governance in a Changing World", "description": "Financial markets\u2019 meltdown, climate change, and cyber-threats are only some of the global problems that states cannot manage alone. All require cooperation among governments and increasingly with their citizens and the private sector; some need international norms and mechanisms; others call for international and regional organizations. This course provides an introduction to the evolving architecture, processes, and norms of global governance. It then provides an in-depth analysis of the actors, norms, and challenges in the supply of some of today\u2019s critical global public goods, including financial stability, economic development, trade, climate change mitigation, global health, and a secure cyberspace."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5909", "title": "Geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific", "description": "The Asia-Pacific is the most important region of the world with its economic vibrancy and strategic importance, and presents a plethora of important and puzzling security and economic challenges. In this course we will utilize various theoretical approaches to examine and explain a set of substantive issues in the international relations of the Asia-Pacific: US-China rivalry; territorial disputes; Taiwan issue; North Korean nuclear threat; Japan\u2019s foreign policy; the so-called \u2018history problem\u2019 issue; ASEAN; security institutions; economic patterns; human rights; and environmental and aging society problem. In addition, we seek to understand the future trajectory of the Asia-Pacific."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5910", "title": "MIA Thesis", "description": "The MIA thesis is an independent piece of writing that represents the culmination of a student\u2019s training in International Affairs. It is an opportunity for students to investigate a significant question in international affairs\u2014 and discover the answer--through research, reflection, analysis, and writing. Another way to think about the thesis is as an exercise where students tackle an important international affairs problem and come up with an original solution."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5911", "title": "MIA Capstone Project", "description": "The MIA Capstone Project is an internship-based project culminating in a paper/report on an international issue or challenge that students worked on or observed during the internship."}, {"moduleCode": "PP5912", "title": "MIA White Paper", "description": "The White Paper is a policy-focused report that addresses a current or emerging international issue facing an imagined/hypothetical client, which can be a government, international or transnational organization, private sector entity, or civil society entity such as an NGO. This is to provide an option to students who prefer a more policybased project but who are not able to secure internships."}, {"moduleCode": "PP6702", "title": "Foundations of Public Policy: Theories and Methods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP6703", "title": "Foundations of Public Administration", "description": "This course examines emerging directions in policy research in the contemporary literature in public administration and public management. It focuses on the\nidentification and critique of the research strategies and methodological choices made by prominent contemporary scholars in the field. It prepares students for Ph.d-Level comprehensive examinations in the subject"}, {"moduleCode": "PP6704", "title": "The Economics of Public Policy", "description": "This module aims to provide economic perspectives on selected features of economic systems, and on design, implementation, and outcomes of various public policy issues. The first part of the course covers broad areas\nsuch as the nature of market systems and capitalism, the economic boundaries of the State, and economics of globalization. The second part of the module focuses on selected public policy themes (such as, inequalities) and issues such as social security, health, education, state enterprise reform, taxes and subsidies, and environment. The module emphasizes that while economic principles are universal, their application must be contextual and capability-driven."}, {"moduleCode": "PP6705", "title": "The Politics of Public Policy", "description": "Doctoral-level research seminar on institutional theory, emphasizing: (i) frontiers of research on institutionalism (from the fields of public administration, organizational\nsociology, and political economy) and (ii) new research directions. The aim is to train students in theory-building and the conduct of original research in institutional analysis and design, which requires developing an ability to critique extant literature and identify open questions that are ripe for investigation. Open to masters students with instructor's permission. The course begins with an\ninvestigation of current frontiers in research, and ends with positing new directions for inquiry."}, {"moduleCode": "PP6706", "title": "Quantitative Methods for Public Policy Research", "description": "This is the second in a two-module series in research methods in public policy. This module provides a more in-depth understanding of the theory and practice of empirical methods, both quantitative and qualitative, used to study the\ncausal effects of policy on observed outcomes. It focuses on the applications of econometric techniques to policy research with real world data sets. Students apply these techniques to real-life case studies and present analyses in class."}, {"moduleCode": "PP6707", "title": "Qualitative Methods for Public Policy Research", "description": "The purpose of the course is to enable students to develop\nadvanced skills in designing and implementing qualitative\nand mixed research methods for public policy research.\nUpon completion, students should 1) be able to\ndifferentiate the various ontological and epistemological\napproaches to qualitative research; 2) have an in-depth\nknowledge of qualitative research designs for descriptive,\nexploratory and explanatory research, along with their\npotentials and limitations; 3) be able to put together a\nresearch proposal on a given research topic in their\nchosen fields; and 4) gain practical experience in applying\ntechniques of qualitative analysis using computer software."}, {"moduleCode": "PP6708", "title": "Research Design in Public Policy", "description": "This is the first and introductory of a three-module series on\nresearch methods that is required for all first-year PhD\nstudents in Public Policy. The purposes of the module are to\nintroduce to students key concepts in research methods,\nand to help them to develop skills in the design of empirical\nresearch used in the analysis of policy problems. The aim is\nthat students are able to apply various research designs in\nconducting rigorous policy research in their chosen fields, as\nwell as develop the ability to critically evaluate policy\nresearch outputs."}, {"moduleCode": "PP6770", "title": "Public Policy Graduate Seminar", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PP6770M", "title": "Public Policy Graduate Seminar", "description": "The purpose of this course is (1) to facilitate the development of students\u2019 conceptualization and execution of dissertation research. (2) to improve students\u2019 skill in critical analyses of other\u2019s research works by discussion with professors and fellow students. Senior PhD students and faculty members will present their research at the seminar, with emphasis on their insights into different stages in research development."}, {"moduleCode": "PPX5702B", "title": "Department Exchange Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PPX5704B", "title": "Department Exchange Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PPX5704C", "title": "Department Exchange Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PPX5704D", "title": "Department Exchange Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PPX5704E", "title": "Department Exchange Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PR1150", "title": "Professional Identity and Skills Development I", "description": "This course begins the journey of developing personal and professional identity, and skills for patient care. Pharmacist\u2019s roles, ethical principles and regulatory frameworks of the pharmacy profession will be introduced, along with early experiential encounters to reinforce core skills and concepts. Students will also acquire patient care skills through hands-on practice and use of simulated patients, before applying them on real patients during experiential encounters. In year 1, students will be taught to interpret prescription, obtain targeted history, adopt clinical reasoning and conduct physical assessment on the integumentary and ocular systems."}, {"moduleCode": "PR1151", "title": "Applied Patient Care Skills I", "description": "This course begins the journey of the development of pharmacist\u2019s skills for patient care. Skills will be demonstrated to the students who will learn to acquire them through hands-on practice. In some cases, students will practise the skills on standardized patients before applying them on real patients during the experiential encounters. Students are expected to reach targeted level of competence which will be determined through OSCE. In year 1, students will be taught to take medication history, conduct physical assessment on the skin, ear, nose and throat, counsel patient on physical assessment finding, interpret prescription."}, {"moduleCode": "PR1152", "title": "Pharmacy Foundations: Science & Therapeutics I", "description": "This course aims to deliver foundational concepts and principles in basic and clinical sciences. Students will acquire fundamental knowledge in human anatomy, physiology, cell biology and medical biochemistry with a focus on the healthy body. Armed with this foundation in biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, students will scaffold their learning in understanding clinical sciences and application of basic sciences to therapeutics. As an inquiry approach to learning, students will also learn to retrieve evidence-based information using various search engines and databases. Finally, students will integrate the basic scientific knowledge to propose solutions for pharmacy related case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PR1153", "title": "Pharmacy Foundations: Science & Therapeutics II", "description": "This course continues with more foundational concepts and principles in basic and clinical sciences. The focus is on the disease states and treatments building on the foundational knowledge of the healthy body. This course will facilitate a strong understanding of the fundamental knowledge and skills that will be applied repeatedly throughout the curriculum subsequently. In addition these fundamental knowledge and skills are building blocks for purpose of understanding the integrated themes in courses that follow. The key areas of study include pharmaceutical sciences (biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics) phathology, pharmacology and statistics."}, {"moduleCode": "PR1154", "title": "Pharmacy Foundations: Science and Therapeutics III", "description": "This course introduces Pharmacy students to subjects such as pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmaceutical analysis and physical pharmacy which are foundations for understanding the properties of the drug molecule and the health product in relation to their absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) in the human body. The course will cover organic chemistry that underpins the physicochemical properties of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and the chemical bases of drug-target interaction, drug metabolism and drug stability; analytical chemistry for the identification and purity determination of the API and dosage forms, and also physical pharmacy that explains the science of pharmaceutical formulation."}, {"moduleCode": "PR1301", "title": "Complementary Medicine and Health", "description": "At the end of the course, the student will be equipped with a breadth of knowledge to have a basic understanding and appreciation of various complementary medicine, as well as how to achieve and maintain good health. The knowledge brings about an open mind for critical thinking and further independent learning and inquiry, to discern facts from hearsay. Life long learning is emphasized. Major Topics Introduction to complementary medicine. Basic principles, concepts and uses of Homeopathy, Aromatherapy, Herbal medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine (including acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine)."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2114", "title": "Formulation & Technology I", "description": "This course studies the fundamental physical chemical principles which are important to the design and development of pharmaceutical formulations. The major topics to be covered include: phase diagrams; solutions; buffers & isotonicity; partition, diffusion & mass transfer; solubility & dissolution; reaction kinetics & drug product stability; physical properties of solids (crystallinity, polymorphism); interfacial phenomenon; colloidal systems."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2114A", "title": "Formulation & Technology I", "description": "This course gives an insight into various dosage forms, with greater emphasis on liquids and semi-solids. The fundamental knowledge of the properties, formulation, manufacture, quality control and applications of these dosage forms will be discussed. The rheological properties of liquids and the unit operations employed in the manufacture of these dosage forms will also be included."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2115", "title": "Medicinal Chemistry for Drug Design", "description": "This module provides the basic principles of medicinal chemistry for drug design, with the emphasis on the relationship between structure, physicochemical properties and the molecular basis of drug action. Students will learn to apply various synthetic reaction mechanisms to construct organic molecules. They will also learn to apply computational methodologies to derive lead compounds from\ndatabases, derive pharmacophore from bioactive compounds and rationalise the optimal drug-target interaction through docking experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2115A", "title": "Medicinal Chemistry for Drug Design", "description": "This module provides the basic principles of drug design, with the emphasis on the relationship between structure, physicochemical properties and the molecular basis of drug action."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2122", "title": "Biotechnology for Pharmacy", "description": "Students will gain knowledge of the various techniques in biotechnology and their applications in the manufacturing of biopharmaceuticals and biomedical research, the physicochemical properties, pharmacology and the formulation of commonly used biopharmaceuticals, as well as the principles of the mechanism of some biotechnologically derived diagnostic aids/tests. Major\ntopics to be covered include biotechnologically derived therapeutics such as insulin, growth hormones, cytokines, enzymes, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, blood products, diagnostic aids/tests for urine analysis, plasma glucose, plasma lipids, HIV and pregnancy, gene therapy, transgenic technology and RNA interference technology."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2131", "title": "Pharmacy Professional Skills Development II", "description": "This pharmacy professional skills development module is a lab based module on the elements of interpersonal and professional communication that is required of a pharmacist to communicate proficiently in addressing and\npromoting the public's health care needs. A series of class sessions may utilize interactive discussions and roleplaying scenarios to teach and develop effective oral and interpersonal skills for the purpose of professional pharmacy practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2133", "title": "Pharmacotherapeutics I", "description": "This is a team-taught module that aims to prepare pharmacy students in the management of noncommunicable diseases through the intergration of pharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics. Major topics include: asthma, COPD, peptic ulcer disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2134", "title": "Self Care", "description": "Self-care is a continuum of behaviour initiated by a patient to establish and maintain health, prevent and deal with illness. In this module, students will be taught to integrate knowledge of non-prescription medications and non-pharmacological measures to counsel patients on the appropriate options for self-care management."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2135", "title": "Pharmacotherapeutics II", "description": "This module aims to familiarize students with the epidemiology, clinical presentation and diagnosis of disease states including rheumatological conditions, renal diseases, clinical nutrition, heart failure, ischemic heart disease and thromboembolic disorders. In addition, the pharmacotherapeutic management and pharmacology of drugs used in the management of the above disease states will be covered, emphasizing on the monitoring of the clinical outcomes in terms of the efficacy and safety of each drug used."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2143", "title": "Pharmaceutical Analysis for Quality Assurance", "description": "This module aims to train students in the principles and practical capability of pharmacopeia assays and various analytical instruments for pharmaceutical analysis. In particular, students will apply the analytical techniques in the characterization of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), the quality assurance of dosage forms and the analysis of biological fluids, coupled with hands-on experience with instrumentation and real-life problem solving."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2150", "title": "Professional Identity and Skills Development II", "description": "This course builds on the concepts introduced in PR1150 Professional Identity Development I. In this course, students will continue to explore and experience what professionalism and ethics mean to pharmacists in practice. To develop stronger identity to the profession, an overarching introduction to the various challenges facing the Singapore\u2019s healthcare system will be conducted to provide a broader perspective to healthcare. In order to effect change, students will be gradually cultivated to fill leadership roles for future. Lastly, more legislative components regarding the practice of pharmacy in Singapore will be built upon what was imparted in PR1150."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2151", "title": "Applied Patient Care Skills II", "description": "Based on the philosophy and processes of pharmaceutical care, this course aims to further develop students\u2019 skills in patient-centered communication, critical evaluation and clinical reasoning essential in the entrustable professional activities identified by the Singapore Pharmacy Council for entry-to-practice pharmacists."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2152", "title": "Gastrointestinal System: Science & Therapeutics", "description": "The 6-week course, delivered by blended learning, aims to have students learn how to recognize, assess, prevent and therapeutically manage medical conditions affecting the human gastrointestinal system (GIS). The scientific component covers the medicinal chemistry and pharmacology of GI drugs; the formulation and manufacture of oral and rectal dosage forms; and factors governing absorption of drugs delivered to the GIS. The practice component includes pharmacist scope of practice, history taking approach, care plan design, health-believe model and disease risk communication. Randomized controlled trial and cost effectiveness of healthcare through colorectal screening will provide the systems perspective of GIS healthcare."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2153", "title": "Cardiovascular System: Science & Therapeutics", "description": "The cardiovascular system (CVS) is the focus of this 6-week course that is delivered by blended learning. The objective is to empower students to recognize, assess, prevent and therapeutically manage conditions affecting the CVS. The scientific principles include pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacology of CVS drugs, sublingual delivery systems, and factors that affect drug distribution in the human body. Applied therapeutics constitute the clinical reasoning for care planning. The impact of determinants of health and health equity on the person\u2019s ability to adhere to treatment plans, cost-effective care and cohort study analysis provide the systems outlook."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2154", "title": "Respiratory System: Science & Therapeutics", "description": "This 6-week course integrates pharmaceutical, clinical and systems sciences to help students recognize, assess, prevent and therapeutically manage conditions affecting the human respiratory system. The drug\u2019s physicochemical properties underpin the formulation of inhalation delivery system. Pharmacology and applied therapeutics inform students on clinical decision making and care plan development. The strong association of smoking to lung cancer, supported by case-control study, is used to illustrate how Trans Theoretical Model for behaviour change adopted in smoking cessation programme can instil health advocacy attitude in students. The classification of medical devices and therapeutic products is used to introduce principles of regulatory science."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2155", "title": "Hepatic and Renal Systems: Science & Therapeutics", "description": "This 6-week course is delivered by blended learning and integrates basic, clinical and systems sciences to enable students to recognize, assess, prevent and treat diseases affecting the human hepatic and renal systems. The basic sciences include physicochemical and pharmacological properties of the drugs, metabolism and excretion of drugs, principles of toxicodynamics and toxicokinetics, and pathological changes that affect ADME processes. Applied therapeutics and therapeutic drug monitoring will form the clinical bases for effective and safe care plans. Systematic review and meta-analysis provide essential evidence for positive predictive value and negative predictive value of screening tests for liver and kidney diseases."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2156", "title": "Integumentary & Ocular Systems: Science and Therapeutics", "description": "This course aims to provide an overview of the anatomy and physiology of the skin and eye followed by the pathophysiology of common conditions related to these structures. Students will learn the scientific theories and principles of medicinal chemistry, formulation sciences and pharmacokinetics that impact therapeutic outcomes, and integrate these with pharmacy practice, in the management of patients with common skin and eye conditions."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2202", "title": "Cosmetics & Perfumes", "description": "Learning objectives: To understand the development, usefulness, classification, composition and application of cosmetics and perfumes. To gain pertinent information for the selection and evaluation of these items. To acquire an overview of the marketing and regulatory aspects of the global industry for these products. Major topics: History of cosmetics and perfumes. Formulation, manufacture and use of perfumes. Biology of the skin, cosmetic preparations, consumer information and precautions. Regulatory and industrial aspects of these products.\n\n\n\nTarget students: All students outside the Faculty of Science. Science and Pharmacy students may read it as an elective"}, {"moduleCode": "PR2288", "title": "Basic UROPS in Pharmacy I", "description": "This course provides opportunity for pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students to engage in a research project in the area of pharmaceutical science and pharmacy practice. Student will conduct the research work under the supervision of a faculty member within the Department of Pharmacy. While developing specific experimental skills relevant to the research question, the student will also gain general skills in terms of performing a thorough background reading of the research question, analysis of the results as well as scientific communication through a written report and oral presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2288R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Pharmacy I (REx)", "description": "This course provides opportunity for pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students to engage in a research project in the area of pharmaceutical science and pharmacy practice. Student will conduct the research work under the supervision of a faculty member within the Department of Pharmacy. While developing specific experimental skills relevant to the research question, the student will also gain general skills in terms of performing a thorough background reading of the research question, analysis of the results as well as scientific communication through a written report and oral presentation. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2289", "title": "Basic UROPS in Pharmacy II", "description": "This course provides opportunity for pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students to engage in a research project in the area of pharmaceutical science and pharmacy practice. Student will conduct the research work under the supervision of a faculty member within the Department of Pharmacy. While developing specific experimental skills relevant to the research question, the student will also gain general skills in terms of performing a thorough background reading of the research question, analysis of the results as well as scientific communication through a written report and oral presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "PR2289R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Pharmacy II (REx)", "description": "This course provides opportunity for pharmacy and pharmaceutical science students to engage in a research project in the area of pharmaceutical science and pharmacy practice. Student will conduct the research work under the supervision of a faculty member within the Department of Pharmacy. While developing specific experimental skills relevant to the research question, the student will also gain general skills in terms of performing a thorough background reading of the research question, analysis of the results as well as scientific communication through a written report and oral presentation. his is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3116", "title": "Concepts in Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics", "description": "This module provides pharmacy students with a comprehensive foundation of the concepts of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics. The application\nof these concepts are important in clinical pharmacy and the drug discovery and development process. Major topics include: basic principles, concepts and processes of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, kinetics\nof drugs following intravascular and extravascular modes of administration, design of appropriate dosage regimens, and application of pharmacokinetic concepts in clinical pharmacy practice and drug design and development."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3117", "title": "Formulation & Technology II", "description": "This module gives an insight into various liquid, semi-solid and solid dosage forms. The fundamental knowledge of the properties, formulation, manufacture, quality control and applications of these dosage forms will be discussed. The behaviour of materials and unit operations employed in the manufacture of the various dosage forms will also be emphasised."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3124", "title": "Pharmacotherapeutics III", "description": "This is a team-taught module that teaches student on the pharmacology of a broad spectrum of antimicrobial agents and the use of these agents in the pharmacotherapeutic management of commonly encountered infectious disease conditions."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3136", "title": "Pharmacotherapeutics IV", "description": "This is a team-taught module that aims to prepare pharmacy students in the management of noncommunicable diseases through the integration of\npharmacology and pharmacotherapeutics. Major topics include psychiatry, neurology and oncology."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3137", "title": "Pharmacy Professional Skills Development III", "description": "This is a practical-based module that builds on the knowledge gained from other clinical and practice modules to enable students to integrate and apply what they have learnt in the pharmacy practice laboratory sessions. This\nmodule is focused on the provision of pharmaceutical care and involves a partnership between the patient, pharmacist and other healthcare providers to promote safe and efficacious use of medications to achieve desired patient outcomes. Students will undergo simulated practice-based training, and work individually and collaboratively to hone their knowledge and skills in dispensing, patient counselling, medication therapy management, and handling drug information requests, in preparation for pre-registration training."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3144", "title": "Principles of Research Methods", "description": "This module provides pharmacy students with a comprehensive understanding on the basic principles, concepts and methodology in clinical and pre-clinical research, including applying statistical knowledge in research design. Research examples are chosen to illustrate and facilitate the learning process. Major topics include: selection and formulation of research hypothesis, study designs used in pharmacy practice and clinical research, hierarchy of evidence, potential biases associated with various designs, data acquisition and handling approaches, statistical data analyses, general methodology in basic science research, and techniques in scientific communication."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3145", "title": "Compliance & Good Practices in Pharmacy", "description": "This module provides pharmacy students with the foundation in various aspects of good practices, regulation and accreditation standards in pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical industries. It serves to emphasize the pharmacist\u2019s obligation to ensure consumer/patient safety in the supply and use of medicines and health products."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3146", "title": "Pharmacy Law in Singapore", "description": "This module teaches pharmacy undergraduates about the legal and ethical aspects affecting the practice of pharmacy. It covers two areas; firstly, the regulation of pharmacists and the pharmacy profession according to the Pharmacists Registration Act and the Pharmacists Code of Ethics, and secondly, the regulation of medical and health-related products commonly handled by pharmacists. Product regulation introduces various types of health products and the different activities in the product distribution chain. Students will be acquainted with applicable regulatory controls and requirements in the health product regulatory laws."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3150", "title": "Professional Identity and Skills Development", "description": "Pharmacists must possess appropriate knowledge, skills, attitudes, professional and ethical values to deliver optimal patient-centered care. This course integrates and expands upon patient care skills, professional and ethical values introduced in PR1150, PR1151, PR2150 and PR2151. Students will be presented with more complex patient-care scenarios where they will be challenged to apply patient-care skills while demonstrating professionalism and ethical reasoning abilities. Students will participate in pre-employment clinical training to apply what has been learned in the classroom. Students will continue to adopt a reflective approach in their professional development journey as a pharmacy student and future pharmacist."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3151", "title": "Infection: Optimising Prevention & Treatment", "description": "This 6-week course expounds on the optimization of prevention and control of infectious diseases. The course reviews clinical microbiology and host-related factors associated with pathogenesis, transmission, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. Students will learn the principles of vaccine manufacturing, sterile preparations, pharmacology, medicinal chemistry and spectrum of activity of antimicrobials, and actions of disinfectants. The optimal use of vaccination and antimicrobials in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases will be emphasized. Students will also be introduced to principles of antimicrobial stewardship and interpret point prevalence studies to identify areas for improving antimicrobial use to hone systems thinking."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3152", "title": "Immune & Endocrine Systems: Science & Therapeutics", "description": "Blended learning is the way of instruction for this 6-week course. Students learn to recognize, assess, prevent and therapeutically manage conditions affecting the human immune and endocrine systems. Applied therapeutics and pharmacology provide the knowledge for clinical reasoning. The scientific topics include cellular and humoral components of the immune system; impact of physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties on the biologics\u2019 ADME profile; biotechnological techniques employed for biologics manufacture; immune mediated toxicity and risk; differentiation of proprietary products and their biosimilars. Pharmacist\u2019s value in a collaborative care team is discussed. The socio-economic impact on the use of therapeutic biologics is studied."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3153", "title": "Central Nervous System: Science & Therapeutics", "description": "This 6-week course is taught by blended learning. The integration of basic and clinical sciences enables students to recognize, assess, prevent and therapeutically manage conditions affecting the human central nervous system (CNS). Basic sciences include the morphology and pathophysiology of the CNS; medicinal chemistry of the CNS drugs; and transdermal drug delivery will be introduced. Pharmacology and applied therapeutics form the basis of clinical reasoning for achieving therapeutic goals of patients. Students are certified as mental health first aiders. Inquiry-based study is supported using qualitative and quantitative research methodologies."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3154", "title": "Haematological & Musculoskeletal Systems: Science & Therapeutics", "description": "Basic science and applied therapeutics of the human haematological and musculoskeletal systems are integrated in this 6-week course. Through blended learning, students learn about the structure and pathophysiology of the haematological and musculoskeletal systems; the various pharmacological bases of inflammatory and pain intervention; the management of rheumatoid arthritis, gout, muscular spasm and therapeutics for coagulation disorders and anaemia. Drug-related toxicity of the haematological and musculoskeletal systems is discussed. Systems thinking is instilled with cases on transition of care for the elderly; evaluation and improvement of medication use on a system level through medication use evaluation and concepts of pharmacovigilance."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3202", "title": "Community Health & Preventative Care", "description": "This elective module aims to equip students with knowledge, skills and attitudes to support contemporary development and delivery of community health services, meeting the evolving needs of the Singapore population. Students will learn to build on their prior knowledge on non-prescription medications and non-pharmacological measures, so that they can counsel and guide patients on the appropriate options for self-care management and preventive care."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3204", "title": "Medicinal Natural Products", "description": "This module focuses on the study of medicinal constituents that are derived from herbs that possess therapeutic value. Examples of how these natural products are used as sources for modern drug development will be covered. The module also provides information on how these constituents are extracted, standardized and formulated into various dosage forms which are convenient for clinical use. Students will gain an appreciation of how quality and efficacy of such medicinal products are assured during the manufacturing processes to ensure patient safety and effective outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3288", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Pharmacy I", "description": "Please see section 4.4.3. Target students: Pharmacy Year Three and Science"}, {"moduleCode": "PR3288R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Pharmacy I (REx)", "description": "Please see section 4.4.3. Target students: Pharmacy Year Three and Science. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3289", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Pharmacy II", "description": "Please see section 4.4.3. Target students: Pharmacy Year Three and Science"}, {"moduleCode": "PR3289R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Pharmacy II (REx)", "description": "Please see section 4.4.3. Target students: Pharmacy Year Three and Science. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PR3313", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme Extended", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4138", "title": "Pharmacy Professional Skills Development IV", "description": "This course will cover contemporary drug information skill and medication therapy management, with focus on geriatric medicine, hormones and contraception, travel medicines, weight managements, complementary medicines/herbal products, and the regulation of pharmaceutical products in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4150", "title": "Professional Identity and Skills Development IV", "description": "This is the capstone course for the development of professional identity and patient care skills among the senior pharmacy students before graduation. This course aims to integrate legal principles and norms of practice by empowering students to use ethical reasoning skills to navigate grey situations in practice. Professional and health products legislations will be included. Applied patient care skills in special patient populations will also be reviewed. The course will be delivered through blended learning using videos, workshops and skills labs. Students will be assessed by OSCE and a Forensic Examination recognized by the Singapore Pharmacy Council as registration requirement."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4151", "title": "Leading the Future of Pharmacy", "description": "Pharmacy services form an important integral part of the Singapore health system. Within a dynamic and complex healthcare landscape, healthcare resources allocation is important to ensure services are sustainable, and readily accessible. Pharmacists must play a role in influencing and leading the profession to a high level of excellence where optimal patient outcomes are key performance indicators. Therefore, pharmacists entering practice must be equipped with foundational competence in leadership, resource management, pharmacoeconomic evaluation, as well as cost-effectiveness analysis for meeting challenges in the future of pharmacy. This course provides those foundational competence in preparing graduates for the workforce."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4152", "title": "Integrated Management of Multi-Morbid Patients", "description": "In this 13-week course, students will describe the pharmacist\u2019s role and apply the principles of managing geriatric and palliative care patients with multimorbidity to optimize their care and health outcomes. The elderly, terminally-ill and multi-morbid patients will form the main patient population groups to be covered. Key areas of focus will include ensuring patient safety, applying clinical reasoning to identify and resolve drug-related problems and optimise drug regimens, principles of prescribing continuum (rationale prescribing/deprescribing) through interprofessional collaboration, as well as advising and advocating on issues pertaining to accessibility, affordability and quality of care."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4153", "title": "Introduction to Pharmacoeconomics", "description": "Pharmacoeconomics evaluation contributes to decisions around drug pricing, drug reimbursement and (in some health systems) market access. The Agency for Care Effectiveness (ACE) was established by the Ministry of Health, Singapore, in 2015 to drive better decision-making in healthcare through health technology assessment (HTA), clinical guidance and education. As pharmacoeconomics is a key component of HTA, it is thus pertinent that all pharmacists must be equipped with the basic knowledge of pharmacoeconomics."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4191", "title": "SCI-PhI Project", "description": "Student-led Collaborative Innovative Pharmacy Inquiry (SCI-PhI) Project is a year-long course that aims to provide opportunities for creative inquiry connected to the real world, using rigorous academic approaches in the derivation of innovative solutions. Students will work in teams to perform hands-on research and project work, with advisors from diverse disciplines and expertise. Teams will present their proposals and completed work or findings in written and oral academic communications at various timepoints of the academic year, appropriate to the audience."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4192", "title": "Direct Patient Care Internship", "description": "This course provides an opportunity for pharmacy undergraduates to undergo pre-employment clinical training (PECT). It will require the students to undertake full-time experiential learning in a direct patient care setting situated in the community. This will include attachment to primarily the retail pharmacies or polyclinic pharmacies. Students will hone competencies essential for managing primary care for patients or clients through actively participating in professional activities. These activities may include, and not limiting to the following: manage minor ailments, fulfil medication order, counsel patients on medicine use, promote health and respond to drug information."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4193", "title": "Indirect and Specialty Patient Care Internship", "description": "This course provides an opportunity for pharmacy undergraduates to undergo pre-employment clinical training (PECT) in either the indirect or specialty care sector. It will require the students to undertake full-time experiential learning in a selected setting which can be indirect or specialty patient care. The setting may be a (i) pharmaceutical company, (ii) regulatory agency, (iii) manufacturing facility (iv) specialty centre such as cancer centre, skin centre, or eye centre or (v) administrative pharmacy. It may include emerging areas of practice where a pharmacist has a new role to play. Students will undertake professional activities that will hone competencies in pharmaceutical care provision, communication, professionalism, leadership, collaboration, management and research."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4195", "title": "Scientific Evaluation, Analysis and Communication", "description": "This course aims to equip final pharmacy students with the skills of performing a literature-based scientific evaluation study in pharmaceutical science or pharmacy practice. It also aims to help students develop higher-order thinking and communication skills through critical review and analysis of literature as well as via a technical oral presentation. Students will perform their study under the supervision of Pharmacy academic staff with the final output as a written report in the format of a review paper. They will attend classes offered by Centre for English Language Communication (CELC) to gain knowledge and skills required for successful scientific communication."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4196", "title": "Pharmacy Research Project and Scientific Communication", "description": "This course aims to nurture the passion of final year Pharmacy students for inquiry and knowledge creation through fostering their intellectual rigor in tackling research questions related to pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, and developing their academic communication skills. It also aims to not only provide hands-on research experience gained through project work, but also to develop students\u2019 higher order thinking skills, such as the critical evaluation of information, as well as hone students\u2019 written and oral academic communication skills in the context of pharmaceutical sciences and practice."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4197", "title": "Pharmacy Internship I", "description": "The 12 week programme provides an opportunity for pharmacy undergraduates to undertake experiential learning in work environments and situations of different pharmacy practice sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4197A", "title": "Pharmacy Internship I", "description": "The 12 week programme provides an opportunity for pharmacy undergraduates to undertake experiential learning in work environments and situations of different pharmacy practice sectors. This course is to be taken by Pharmacy Major students from Cohort AY2016/17 and after."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4198", "title": "Pharmacy Internship II", "description": "The 12 week programme provides an opportunity for\npharmacy undergraduates to undertake experiential\nlearning in work environments and situations of different\npharmacy practice sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4198A", "title": "Pharmacy Internship II", "description": "The 12 week programme provides an opportunity for pharmacy undergraduates to undertake experiential learning in work environments and situations of different pharmacy practice sectors. This course is to be taken by Pharmacy students from Cohort AY2016/17 and after."}, {"moduleCode": "PR4201", "title": "Pharmaceutical Marketing", "description": "Learning objectives: To understand the systems and principles of marketing. To acquire an overview of the global pharmaceutical industry. To appreciate the unique features of pharmaceutical marketing namely, the players, the types of competitions, international regulations and technology innovation. Major topics: Marketing decisions. Understanding and identifying a market. Creating and managing a product. Assigning value and delivering a product. Communicating about a product. Emphasis is placed on marketing issues pertaining to pharmaceutical/healthcare products and services.Target students: Pharmacy Final Year"}, {"moduleCode": "PR4204", "title": "Special Drug Delivery", "description": "Learning objectives- To understand the science and technology of rate-controlled administration of therapeutic agents with comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts, fundamental principles, biomedical rationales and potential applications. Major topics: Fundamentals of rate-controlled drug delivery. The following delivery systems will be discussed: parenteral, oral and aerosols. Target students: Pharmacy Final Year"}, {"moduleCode": "PR4205", "title": "Bioorganic Principles of Medicinal Chemistry", "description": "Learning objectives: To learn the different approaches in the design of drugs that are capable of interacting specifically with enzymes, DNA and other cellular targets. Major topics: A mechanistic, chemical and biochemical approach to medicinal chemistry, emphasizing enzymatic and macromolecular targets of drug action. Peptide, peptidomimetics and oligonucleotides. Target students: Pharmacy Final Year and Applied Chemistry (Drug Option)"}, {"moduleCode": "PR4206", "title": "Industrial Pharmacy", "description": "Learning objectives: To understand that the total control of quality in drug industry is a plant-wide activity and involves careful attention to a number of factors including the selection of quality components and materials, adequate product and process design, and control (statistical) of process through in-process and end-product testing. Major topics: Good Manufacturing Practices. Statistical quality control. Microbiological quality control\n\ntechniques. Target students: Pharmacy Final Year"}, {"moduleCode": "PR4207", "title": "Applied Pharmacokinetics and Toxicokinetics", "description": "Paracetamol is one of the most frequently used medication in the world for treating fever and pain. Yet, it is also the most common agent to cause severe liver toxicity and emergency admissions to hospitals. So, is paracetamol a drug or a poison? Students will learn the fundamental toxicokinetic (TK)/toxicodynamic (TD) considerations to discuss when a drug is a drug or poison. The course also dives into the current and emerging trends in ADME and toxicity testing in drug discovery. Special PK topics such as nonlinearity and PK of protein drugs will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5113", "title": "Clinical Pharmacokinetics & Therapeutic Drug Monitoring", "description": "This course is designed to develop the students\u2019 ability to apply the basic knowledge of pharmacokinetics to the clinical situation and to understand the importance of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in patient care. Emphasis is placed on the adjusting dosage regimen as well as on patient monitoring with respect to plasma drug levels, efficacy, adverse events, drug interactions, and disease and population interactions."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5115", "title": "Drug Information, Critical Literature Evaluation and Biostatistics", "description": "Learning objectives: This course will introduce the students to the different study design commonly encountered in clinical research. The course also intends to equip the students with fundamental understanding of how to apply statistical tests commonly used in clinical medicine.Major topics? Basic concepts of research. Fundamental requirements in conducting clinical trials. Study designs commonly encountered in clinical medicine. Advantages and disadvantages of the various designs. Drug information. Statistical tests commonly used in clinical medicine.Target students? Master of Pharmacy (Clinical Pharmacy) students and postgraduates with permission."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5130", "title": "Advanced Pharmacotherapy I", "description": "This course is aimed at having students gain a fundamental understanding of the diagnosis and therapeutic management of infectious diseases pertinent for clinical pharmacists."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5131", "title": "Advanced Pharmacotherapy II", "description": "This course is aimed at having students gain a fundamental understanding of the diagnosis and therapeutic management of acute cardiovascular disorders, stroke, hypersensitivity reactions, as well as fluid and electrolyte disorders."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5131A", "title": "Advanced Pharmacotherapy IIA", "description": "This course is aimed at having students gain a fundamental understanding of the principles of emergency and critical care medicine pertinent for clinical pharmacists."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5132", "title": "Advanced Pharmacotherapy III", "description": "This course is aimed at having students gain a fundamental understanding of the diagnosis and therapeutic management of oncologic orders and supportive care in oncology"}, {"moduleCode": "PR5132A", "title": "Advanced Pharmacotherapy IIIA", "description": "This course is aimed at having students gain a fundamental understanding of the diagnosis and therapeutic management of haematologic and immunologic disorders."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5133", "title": "Advanced Pharmacotherapy in Special Populations", "description": "This course aims to provide an overview of the pathophysiology and management of common disease states in the areas of special populations (pediatrics and women\u2019s health): focusing on rational non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy to optimize patient outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5134", "title": "Advanced Skills in Pharmacy Practice", "description": "This course is aimed at imparting clinical and professional skills necessary for a successful patient encounter, with a focus on skills necessary to obtain thorough and accurate medical and medication histories, ensure proper documentation and writing of clinical SOAP notes, as well as, communicate effectively with patients and other healthcare professionals. It will also allow the students to gain an understanding of the principles and methods of basic physical examination."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5134A", "title": "Physical Assessment and Diagnostic Tests for Advanced Pharmacy Practice", "description": "This course is aimed at having students develop an understanding and skills of physical assessment of various organ systems, as well as common diagnostic tests and procedures used in clinical settings."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5135", "title": "Foundations in Advanced Pharmacy Practice", "description": "This course is aimed at having students acquire effective drug information retrieval skills, literature evaluation skills and gaining a basic understanding of common biostatistical and study design principles."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5136", "title": "Seminar and Teaching", "description": "Effective skills in oral presentation and teaching are fundamental to advanced pharmacy practitioners. This course is intended to improve students\u2019 oral communication skills by delivering professional presentations and teaching or precepting undergraduate students and pharmacists in-training. Students will be given the opportunities to demonstrate their clinical knowledge and apply their skills in literature evaluation to deliver professional presentations on healthcare-related topics. They will also participate in workshops to further their teaching and precepting skills and apply these skills in the small-group teaching of undergraduate pharmacy students."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5137", "title": "Advanced Pharmacotherapy in Geriatrics", "description": "This course is aimed at having students gain a fundamental understanding of the diagnosis and therapeutic management of disease states and/or conditions unique to the geriatric population. The topics covered will be applicable to pharmacists involved in care for geriatric patients in all care sectors."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5150", "title": "Ambulatory Care Clerkship", "description": "This is a 5-week full time clinical clerkship. Students will integrate their knowledge of therapeutics and pathophysiology to effectively provide pharmaceutical care in an ambulatory patient care environment while a licensed preceptor supervises them. Their activities will include: evaluate, assess and monitor pharmacotherapy of acute and chronic diseases in addition to providing drug information to patients and health care professionals. This is a compulsory clerkship."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5151", "title": "Acute Care Medicine Clerkship", "description": "This 5-week, full-time clinical clerkship is designed to develop the student\u2019s clinical knowledge and skills in the area of acute care medicine. Students will be able to apply this knowledge to the management of patients with a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions. This is a compulsory clerkship."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5152", "title": "Adult General Medicine Clerkship", "description": "This 5-week, full-time clinical clerkship is designed to develop the student\u2019s clinical knowledge and skills in the area of adult general medicine. Students will be able to apply this knowledge to the management of patients with a variety of acute and chronic medical conditions. This is a compulsory clerkship."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5153", "title": "Critical Care Clerkship", "description": "Critical care clerkship is a 5-week full time clerkship that is designed to train students to practice pharmaceutical care in a critical care setting. The aims are to provide patient care services to patients in a critical care area, to effectively communicate with patients and/or their caregivers and to be an effective member of the critical care team. This is a compulsory clerkship."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5154", "title": "Drug Information Clerkship", "description": "This 5-week, full-time clerkship is designed to develop the student\u2019s knowledge and skills in the area of drug information. After this five weeks clerkship, students should be able to retrieve, analyze, and communicate appropriate information on medications and healthcare issues to physicians, patients, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals. This is a compulsory clerkship."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5198", "title": "Graduate Seminar Course in Pharmacy", "description": "Lectures on literature survey, writing and assessing manuscripts and research proposals, as well as techniques in seminar and poster presentations will be introduced. The lectures and the corresponding assignments and tutorials in writing and reviewing manuscript/research proposal will serve to facilitate the fulfilment of the main objective in developing the skill set needed, including critical thinking, for effective scientific writing and communication. In addition, additional lectures for covering research methodology, ethics in basic and clinical sciences as well as basic concepts in Intellectual Property (IP) will be added to the course as these are fundamentally important concepts that must be understood by research students."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5211", "title": "Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis", "description": "This course is designed for those interested in advanced methods for pharmaceutical analysis, diagnosis, therapy, anatomical and functional studies, drug monitoring, drug discovery, research and development. The principles, pharmaceutical and biomedical applications of the following topics will be discussed mass spectrometry (MS), analytical method validation, sample preparations, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other bioimaging methods etc. At the end of the course, the students will be able to appreciate and understand the many different techniques and options available to them for analysis, diagnosis, therapy, anatomical and functional studies, drug monitoring, drug discovery, research & development."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5212", "title": "Advanced Topics in Medicinal Chemistry", "description": "Learning objectives: To introduce students to the principles of quantitative structure activity relationship and how to carry out and interprete QSAR studies based on multiple linear regression models. To introduce students to Comparative Molecular Field Analysis (CoMFA) and how to carry out and interprete CoMFA. To introduce students to the application of multivariate data analysis to QSAR and how carry out and interprete such analyses. To introduce the application of combinatorial chemistry in drug potential. To introduce rationale in computer-aided derivation of potential pharmacothore."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5213", "title": "Pharmaceutical Process Validation", "description": "To provide students an appreciation of current international regulatory guidance for process validation and common industry practices. Students completing this course should be able to understand the methodology of process validation, validation lifecycle documentation requirements and the handling of excursions during validation execution, and be able to apply the knowledge acquired appropriately for assuring process performance and product quality in the development and manufacture of pharmaceutical products. Topics to be covered include: \u2022 Introduction to Pharmaceutical Process Validation \u2022 Organizing for Validation and Regulatory Guidance \u2022 Retrospective, Prospective and Concurrent Validation \u2022 Validation Master Planning \u2022 Validation sequence \u2013 Validation Master Plan, Protocols, Tests, Reports and Review \u2022 Qualification - DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ \u2022 Validation Closure \u2022 Process Variability and Capability \u2022 Change Control \u2022 Data Integrity for Validation \u2022 Continuous Quality Verification \u2022 Cleaning Validation \u2022 Validation of Sterilisation Processes/Sterile Products"}, {"moduleCode": "PR5214", "title": "Advances in Solid Pharmaceutical Formulations", "description": "In this course, students will gain advanced knowledge in the area of tablet technology, with special emphasis on research and development aspects, along with an understanding of the physicomechanical attributes of drugs and excipients when compacted. Topics to be covered will include compaction press and tool design along with compaction physics required to fabricate compacts. Several specialized topics related to tablet production and compaction technologies as applicable to the pharmaceutical industry will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5216", "title": "Advances in Drug Delivery", "description": "Learning objectives: To critically examine the innovative approaches taken by pharmaceutical industries and scientists to develop optimized drug delivery systems. Major topics: Concept of optimized drug delivery systems. Cellular mechanisms of drug absorption. Basic pharmacokinetics. Biological and physiochemical factors influencing drug bioavailability. Challenges in delivering biopharmaceuticals. Design, principles, merit and disadvantages of selected innovative delivery systems for biopharmaceuticals."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5217", "title": "Formulation Science", "description": "The main objective of this course is to teach the principles of formulating active pharmaceutical ingredients into pharmaceutical products, including, for example, parenteral, and oral dosage forms. The students will acquire a body of technical knowledge on pharmaceutical manufacturing operations, excipients needed, and know-how in product development."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5218", "title": "Methodologies in Product Development", "description": "In this course, students will acquire knowledge on skills and techniques relevant to pharmaceutical product development through experiential learning via different modes of teaching/learning. Major topics covered include: Protein purification and related bioassays, formulation and process technologies for preparation of pharmaceutical products, product characterization and quality assurance of pharmaceuticals."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5219", "title": "Product Development & Quality Management", "description": "The course will provide a conceptual understanding of the complete process chain involved in product quality management systems, and practices that are implemented in pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, from product design to their use in patients along with aspects of regulatory oversight."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5220", "title": "Bioprocess Technology", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the theory and application of recombinant DNA and cell culture technologies leading to the development and manufacture of biopharmaceutical products. Students will acquire the basic biological and engineering concepts of cell culture, bioreactors and fermentation processes, and an overview of the current Good Manufacturing Practices and quality control practices in the biopharmaceutical industry. The course will be conducted through lectures, tutorials and journal presentations. Students will be expected to do simple mathematical calculations and work in groups for the tutorial and journal presentations."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5221", "title": "Molecular Targets in Drug Discovery", "description": "The aim of this course is to equip students with a better understanding of the molecular basis of modern drug discovery using selected examples of classes of drugs, with a special focus on drug target selection and validation. In this course, we will also discuss selected signaling cascades and pharmacological intervention in these processes. The use of animal and cellular models to validate molecular targets will also be covered. Students will gain an enhanced understanding of the drug discovery process which will complement their technical expertise in the field."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5222", "title": "Drug Metabolism", "description": "This course will be an introduction to drug metabolism focusing on topics such as biotransformation and kinetics, pharmacogenomics, metabolite elucidation, methodologies to improve drug metabolic profiles, metabolic reaction phenotyping, drug metabolizing enzyme inhibition and induction, drug-drug interactions and toxicity."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5224", "title": "Pharmacoepidemiology", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the principles and practical applications of pharmacoepidemiology in the evaluation of the utilization, safety and effectiveness of therapeutic products (drugs, vaccines, biologics). Examples of case reports, case series, cohort studies, case-control studies, intervention studies, and metaanalysis will be drawn from recent literature to illustrate the application of relevant methods and the challenges in postmarket assessment of therapeutic products. Major topics include: basic principles in pharmacoepidemiology, study designs for pharmacoepidemiologic studies, data sources, and therapeutic risk management. Methodological considerations relevant to pharmacoepidemiology, such as confounding by indication, will also be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5225", "title": "Preformulation Science", "description": "This course is developed to introduce the rationale, principles and practical applications of pharmaceutical preformulation science in the development and manufacture of pharmaceutical products.The importance of material attributes on final product quality will be highlighted. Topics to be covered will also include test methods to determine the quality attributes of materials. Students will also be introduced to relevant products and their preformulation requisites for screening, optimization or assessment of excipients to ensure end product quality and stability."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5230", "title": "Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research", "description": "Pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes research is a relatively new and rapidly evolving field. It encompasses both economic and humanistic issues and serves as a major tool that aims to decrease health expenditures and optimise healthcare results. This is particularly relevant in the provision of pharmaceutical care by practising pharmacists. Knowledge of this discipline aids the pharmacist in making decisions for the most optimal pharmaceutical products and health services that allow for fair and efficient utilisation of healthcare resources."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5230A", "title": "Pharmacoeconomics", "description": "This course is designed to help students develop skills to interpret and evaluate pharmacoeconomics studies and apply findings to make pharmaceutical products and health service decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5230B", "title": "Outcomes Research", "description": "This course is designed to help students develop skills to interpret and evaluate quality-of-life and outcomes research literature and use this information to make pharmaceutical products and health service decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5231", "title": "Complementary and Alternative Medicine", "description": "A large percentage of the population uses one or more complementary or alternative healing therapies, often in addition to seeking advice from mainstream healthcare practitioners. In order to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care services to their patients, pharmacists must have an understanding of these non-traditional therapies, and be able to communicate with patients and practitioners regarding the efficacy and safety of these therapies. Related to this is the importance of having an understanding of patients\u2019 health beliefs and rationales for using complementary and alternative therapies."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5233", "title": "Pharmacy Practice Management", "description": "The knowledge of practice requirements in various settings and management is fundamental to any individual who wishes to pursue a career in the management of a pharmacy or a pharmacy related business. Pharmacists in all practice settings also use a variety of management skills on a daily basis.\n\nThis course introduces students to the role of business management within pharmacy and exposes them to the variety of management theories, techniques, and tools that can used by pharmacists in the most effective and efficient manner."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5234", "title": "Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacogenetics", "description": "The science of pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics focuses on the variability of patients\u2019 response to medications, which are attributed to inherent genetic differences. In order for pharmacists to function as drug experts in the clinical setting, it is important for pharmacists to understand how pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics may play an important role in individualizing drug therapy to maximize therapeutics effects and reduce adverse drug events."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5234A", "title": "Concepts in Pharmacogenomics", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the principles and concepts of pharmacogenomics and pharmacogenetics. Through developing a knowledge and understanding of the molecular basis of polymorphisms in drug targets, drug metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters, students will appreciate how pharmacogenomics may play an important role in individualizing drug therapy to maximize therapeutic effects and reduce adverse drug events."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5237", "title": "Management of Older Patients", "description": "This course explores concepts the psychosocial and self-management behavioural issues of aging, and trains pharmacists in skills required for holistic assessment and advanced counseling intervention of complex older patients in the community with issues in medication management."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5238", "title": "Advanced Community Case Studies", "description": "This is an experiential learning course to provide candidates with the needed hands-on application of advanced pharmacy practice skills for managing real patients in the community and ambulatory care settings."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5239", "title": "Clinical Pharmacy Research Project", "description": "This course is designed to help students develop skills for clinical research. Areas covered include formulation of research ideas into protocols for clinical studies, gathering, analysis and presentation of clinical data."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5250", "title": "Elective Clerkship I", "description": "This course consists of one 5-week, full-time clerkships, and is designed to further develop the students\u2019 knowledge and skills in a variety of practice settings. Students will be able to select from a variety of patient care and non-patient care clerkship sites."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5251", "title": "Elective Clerkship II", "description": "This course consists of one 5-week, full-time clerkships, and is designed to further develop the students\u2019 knowledge and skills in a variety of practice settings. Students will be able to select from a variety of patient care and non-patient care clerkship sites."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5252", "title": "Elective Clerkship III", "description": "This course consists of one 5-week, full-time clerkships, and is designed to further develop the students\u2019 knowledge and skills in a variety of practice settings. Students will be able to select from a variety of patient care and non-patient care clerkship sites."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5253", "title": "Elective Clerkship IV", "description": "This course consists of one 5-week, full-time clerkships, and is designed to further develop the students\u2019 knowledge and skills in a variety of practice settings. Students will be able to select from a variety of patient care and non-patient care clerkship sites."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5299", "title": "Research Project in Pharmaceutical Innovation", "description": "The course PR5299 is an elective course in the MPST program in Faculty of Science that aims to provide students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on research experience via project work to construct and deliver innovative solutions to real-life pharmaceutical problems. Specifically, the duration of this course is two semesters, with students actively engaged in the daily activities in research labs and facilities during the day under the supervision of our expert faculty members from Department of Pharmacy."}, {"moduleCode": "PR5304", "title": "Fundamental Topics in Pharmaceutical Science", "description": "This course aims to provide students with basic principles and knowledge of selected fundamental areas in pharmaceutical science essential to appreciate and understand their relevance and applications in drug discovery to development of quality drug products. In the area on pharmacological science, this course will introduce the principles in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenetics, in order to appreciate the pre-clinical considerations in the pharmaceutical industry and the impact of dosage form design on drug release and action. In the area on formulation science, this course will introduce the principles of formulation, manufacturing technology and product quality assurance of a range of commonly used pharmaceutical dosage forms. Major topics include: Pharmacological science area \u2013 pharmacokinetics principles, concepts in drug target identification and druggability, influence of pharmacogenomics. Formulation science area \u2013 formulation, manufacture, quality compliance and presentation of major pharmaceutical dosage forms"}, {"moduleCode": "PR5399", "title": "MPST Industry Exposure Internship", "description": "This elective course offers MPST full-time students the opportunity to engage in experiential learning beyond the classroom and to gain transferable skills to be career-ready in the workplace. Students are expected to perform ~40h per week of structured internship in an approved, local company/institution for 10 \u2013 12 weeks, whereby the internship must have relevance to the application of domain knowledge and theories from the MPST program. The internships could be from a pre-approved list or self-sourced by students with approval from MPST program director. Students will be evaluated via a workplan, a reflection journal and a final report."}, {"moduleCode": "PRV1111", "title": "Cariology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV2110", "title": "Preventive Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV2120", "title": "Preclinical Periodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV3110", "title": "Preventive Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV3112", "title": "Dental Public Health", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV3120", "title": "Periodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV3210", "title": "Orthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV3220", "title": "Paediatric Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV4110", "title": "Preventive Dentistry & DPH", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV4120", "title": "Periodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV4210", "title": "Orthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PRV4220", "title": "Paediatric Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PS1101E", "title": "Introduction to Politics", "description": "The purpose of this course is to impart a preliminary overview of political science and its sub-fields so that students have a basic orientation of the discipline. It briefly explains the scope and components of each of the four sub-fields (political theory, comparative politics, international relations and public administration) and familiarises students with the major issues and arguments related to power, justice, political culture, national identity, accountability, ethics and world order. It also focuses on key political institutions. The course will be of interest to students across the university who want to gain a basic understanding of politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2203", "title": "Ancient Western Political Thought", "description": "This course explores basic political ideas from the ancient Greeks and Romans from the emergence of the polis to the collapse of the empire, including the ideas of justice, law, democracy, and politics itself, through the study of original works by Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and others. It also considers how these ideas shaped medieval and early modern political thought."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2204", "title": "Modern Western Political Thought", "description": "This course explores major political ideas and concepts from the modern Western tradition. Key political constructs such as power, authority, justice, liberty and democracy are examined in intellectual and historical context. Reading Thomas Hobbes\u2019s Leviathan and John Locke\u2019s Second Treatise on Government, among other influential writings, students will be exposed to the broader themes and ideas that have shaped political life in the West since 1600."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2231", "title": "Western Political Thought", "description": "This course introduces students to the major works of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, Rousseau, and Nietzsche. These thinkers help us to understand the sources of current and competing beliefs about social and political life. So, while we seem to cherish ideas such as freedom, progress, and creativity, we are also troubled by the impact of these ideas on our beliefs in the importance of culture, tradition, and community. This course would be helpful to students interested in the political implications of globalization and the new economy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2232", "title": "Islamic and Hindu Political Thought", "description": "This course is divided into two parts, namely, Hindu Political Thought (HPT) and Islamic Political Thought (IPT). HPT will expose students to the rich tradition of competing ideas that shape the evolution of Hindu political thought and philosophy and will cover the major ideas of classical Hindu epics such as Kautilya and Manu. IPT will help students understand the Islamic worldview in general and the Islamic conception of political theory in particular, and will deal with topics such as principles and sources of Islamic thought and governance of Islamic states, according to the primary sources of Islamic Law, the Qur'an and Sunnah. This course is suitable for beginning students interested in normative political theory in eastern civilizations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2233", "title": "Political Ideologies", "description": "This course begins with the examination of various strands of liberalism, including liberal versions of communitarianism, and then proceeds on that basis to survey various significant reactions to liberalism. In addition to communism and fascism, the course will also examine the ideological challenges to liberalism from radical/militant Islamism and the advocates of so-called \"Asian values\". This is an introductory course and is designed for any beginning student with an interest in the theoretical approach to the study of competing political belief systems."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2234", "title": "Introduction to Comparative Politics", "description": "This course introduces to students some major approaches to comparative politics, including system perspective, case study, comparative approach, rational choice, and cultural approach. Specific cases are used to illustrate how people have applied these approaches in research. It also covers selected topics in comparative politics, such as democratisation and democratic consolidation, revolution, and ethnic conflicts. Much of the discussion will be based on specific cases. This introductory course is offered to students who want to gain basic knowledge of comparative politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2236", "title": "European Politics", "description": "This introductory course gives students a basic understanding of the ideas, institutions, and actors that influence the political life of modern Europe. We explore the domestic politics of several European states including France, and the U.K., as well as relations among European states before and after World War II, with special attention to European integration. While most of our attention will be devoted to western Europe, we will discuss political transitions in eastern Europe and the process of EU expansion. The course is intended for students in European Studies, Political Science, and others with an interest in Europe."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2237", "title": "Introduction to International Relations", "description": "Designed as an introductory theoretical course, it covers the basic concepts of International Relations in two halves. The first introduces the concepts of nation, state, sovereignty, non-state actors and their implications for the coexistence of nation-states, as well as a brief roundup of the instruments of conducting relations among them. The other offers a grounding in the major schools of thought on International Relations, namely realism, liberalism/pluralism and revolutionism. Additionally, there will be topics on radical perspectives such as feminism, constructivism and postmodernism. It is hoped the course will provide students with a foundation for other courses in the sub-field."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2238", "title": "International Politics of Northeast Asia", "description": "The aim of this course is to understand the international relations of Northeast Asia. The first part of the course provides a historical and theoretical overview of the subject. The second part assesses competing explanations for the international behaviour and interactions of the region\u2019s major powers. The final part examines selected ultilateral/transnational issues as sources of potential conflict and cooperation."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2239", "title": "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy", "description": "This exciting field of study provides an understanding of the foreign policy processes and behaviour of actors in world politics. These actors are largely but not exclusively, the nation states. The course deals with various concepts, frameworks and approaches to the study of foreign policy and diplomacy. It explains both the external and internal determinants shaping foreign policies of different states. It also focuses on foreign policy implementation by analyzing the role of diplomacy, economic statecraft and the use of military force. The course is meant for students who want to understand how states conduct their external relations"}, {"moduleCode": "PS2240", "title": "Introduction to Public Administration", "description": "This introductory course defines the scope of public administration in terms of its structures, functions, sectors, and institutions. It familiarises students with some basic concepts used in public administration, including authority, organisation, bureaucracy, accountability, meritocracy, representation, ethics, professionalism, leadership, and decision making. The course also examines major approaches to studying public administration. Practical cases and examples are used in presenting these topics. The course is available to all year 1-3 students at NUS."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2241", "title": "Public Administration in Asia", "description": "The course briefly covers the origins, functions, and contexts of public administration, and various comparative approaches to administrative systems in Asian countries. On that foundation, it then focuses on some of the major administrative issues in Asian countries, including local government and decentralisation, privatisation and public sector reform, ethnic representation, bureaucratic corruption, and administrative accountability. The course can be read by year 1-3 students across all faculties at NUS."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2244", "title": "Public Administration in Singapore", "description": "This course deals with major themed and issues in public administration with specific reference to Singapore. It covers relevant domains of the city-state government and explores issues such as the relationship between politics and administration, meritocracy and performance, combating corruption, grassroots administration, and e-governance. It also discusses administrative trends and challenges in contemporary Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2245", "title": "Southeast Asian Politics", "description": "This course will serve an introduction to the nature and dynamics of government and politics in Southeast Asia, especially state-society relations. Hence, the course will look at government and politics in countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Burma. This course is aimed at students across all faculties and at all levels interested in learning about political dynamics in Southeast Asia. Its primary objective is to expose students to the region, and provide a basic foundation in government and politics of Southeast Asia from which students can further acquire/develop specialised knowledge."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2247", "title": "South Asian Politics", "description": "This course is divided into two parts. The first half of the course has a comparative politics focus. It will examine the contemporary politics of South Asian states, focusing on their political culture, institutions and processes and political change and development. It will also treat issues like ethnicity, religion, regime legitimacy and the relationship between violence and democracy. By studying these issues comparatively we can discern regular patterns in the behaviour of individuals and groups and understand how their demands are processed and met. The second part of the course will adopt a thematic approach to explain the various factors that have shaped intra-regional relations. This will include the role of external powers and also the spillover effect of domestic conflicts. Foreign policy objectives of the regional states and their threat perceptions will be the principal area of focus. The course will also deal with issues of regional order and stability. The target students are those enrolled in South Asian Studies Programme and Political Science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2248", "title": "Chinese Politics", "description": "This course is an introduction to contemporary Chinese politics. After a survey on China's political culture and tradition, the rise of modern China and Chinese Communism, it discusses a range of nation-building issues in the People's Republic of China. These include the role of ideology, developmental strategies, political institutions, and state-society relations. Having examined the domestic political issues, the course proceeds to analyse Chinese foreign policy. Topics to be dealt with include China's relations with the U.S., Japan, Russia, European Union, and ASEAN. The problems related to the reunification of mainland China and Taiwan are also covered."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2249", "title": "Government and Politics of Singapore", "description": "This course examines a number of areas in Singapore's domestic politics with the following objectives identify the key determinants of Singapore's politics; understand the key structural-functional aspects of Singapore's domestic politics; examine the extent to which nation building has taken place in Singapore; and analyse the key challenges facing Singapore and its future as far as domestic politics is concerned. The course examines both the structural-functional aspects of domestic politics as well as issues related to nation building, state-society relations and the likely nature of future developments and challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2250", "title": "International Politics of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course examines the evolution of Southeast Asia as a region in international politics. The emphasis of the course is on the impact of external actors on Southeast Asia, albeit the course will also deal with regional developments and indigenous initiatives. Initially, the course will deal with past developments that affected the region. The second half will deal with more contemporary regional developments, some of which are still ongoing. This course will be extremely useful for students who would like to understand regional political issues."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2251", "title": "The Region in the Postcolonial World", "description": "In this course, students will study postcolonial regions in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. They will discuss questions such as: What makes a region? Who makes a region? How has the experience of colonialism shaped the region? What are the models of regional cooperation and integration, and whose models are they? How do regions \u2018interact\u2019 with postcolonial global structures and dynamics? Students are encouraged to compare different regional experiences, and draw from this breadth of knowledge to critically evaluate the concepts and theories they will learn."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2254", "title": "American Government and Politics", "description": "The American system has been viewed as a model for countries around the world and, more recently, a lesson in the dangers of extreme individualism and irresponsible government. This course examines political institutions and practices in the United States, including the Constitution, the Presidency, Congress, and Judiciary, the federal system, the party system, and presidential and congressional elections. Because it has been intensively studied, the American political system provides a good introduction to the study of political science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2255", "title": "Politics of the Middle East", "description": "This course provides a comparative overview of politics in the Middle East, giving particular attention to the history, societies, and cultures of the region. It considers some of the forces shaping its politics and discusses, selectively, major issues and challenges facing states in the Middle East today."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2257", "title": "Contemporary African Politics", "description": "Drawing on the rich social science literature on the government and politics of contemporary Africa, the course will address a set of critical questions that will have important implications for the well\u2010being of the people of the continent and the world in the twentyfirst century. What have been the sources of political and economic crises in Africa? What has been the net impact of the international interventions in the continent in response to these crises? What explains the revival of democracy and economic growth in some parts of the continent? Will it last?"}, {"moduleCode": "PS2258", "title": "Introduction to Political Theory", "description": "Political theorizing considers basic questions about government, citizenship, equality, justice, rights, and the use of force. This course investigates these and related questions by reading and discussing classic and contemporary sources of different kinds, from letters, stories, and manifestos to systematic works of philosophy. By engaging with some of the most readable and interesting of these writings, one can learn how such questions have been answered in different times and places, as well as one\u2019s own."}, {"moduleCode": "PS2266", "title": "Politics, Music, and Society", "description": "Music has been politically important since ancient times in all cultures. In ancient Athens, Plato wrote that \u2018when the mode of music changes, the walls of the city tremble\u2019, and in traditional China, Confucians and Legalists engaged in extended controversy over the social desirability of music. Students will be asked to read theoretical writings on music and politics by these and other thinkers (including Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Adorno). No prior musical experience is required; the course is aimed at musicians and non-musicians alike. The focus is on the meaning of music and not its technical aspects."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3215", "title": "Equality and Justice", "description": "This course asks questions about the relationship between equality and justice, e.g. is it unjust for a society to be unequal? Unequal in what way? How do our political systems reproduce relations of equality or inequality? Do we have a responsibility to compensate for some inequalities, and which ones? We will read \"classic\" contributions from the contemporary debate on egalitarianism (e.g. from John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Walzer and others), as well as consider the application of theories of in/equality to current affairs in Singapore and elsewhere."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3225", "title": "Political Islam", "description": "This course explores the rise, transformation, and sources of appeal of Islamist movements and organizations around the world. It is divided in two parts: the first part reviews the development of Islamic political thought from late nineteenth century to the present, covering the work of modernist, neo-revivalist and liberal Islamic thinkers. The second part examines Islamist ideas in practice in order to flesh out the ways in which Muslim ideologues have inspired forms of political mobilization and contestation. Primarily focusing on the Middle East, the second part investigates specific Islamist movements in historical and comparative perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3232", "title": "Democratic Theory", "description": "This course introduces students to the core tenets of modern democratic theory in the context of real-world politics. Tracing democracy's historical evolution in the writings of Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Schumpeter among other prominent thinkers, this course examines the complex web of constitutional structures and institutions vital to its success. This course also examines various problems endemic to democracy as well as possible solutions to these problems by more recent democratic theorists such as Robert Dahl and Benjamin Barber. The course is intended for political science majors and students with a background in political science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3233", "title": "Political and International Ethics", "description": "This course examines the key concepts and problems associated with political ethics in the modern age. The first half of this course is a basic introduction to the major contemporary theories of distributive justice and political ethics. The second half of the course is an examination of just war theory and ethical problems in international relations. Drawing upon current events, this course will teach students how to make informed, ethical judgments about politics and war. This course is intended for students with a background in political science"}, {"moduleCode": "PS3236", "title": "Ethnicity and Religion in Asian Politics", "description": "One of the main features of Asian politics and government is the complex nexus of ethnicity, religion, and the state. This course focuses on the colonial formation and postcolonial continuation of these ethno-religious features of politics, known as the politics of identity in Asia. It explains some major ethnic and religious conflicts in Asia; their impacts on national politics, party systems, state structures, and government policies; and the role of the state in this regard. The course is available to all year 1-3 students at NUS."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3237", "title": "Women and Politics", "description": "This course examines established political theories and ideologies in addressing gender equality and representation in politics. It also presents various traditions in feminist political thinking and evaluates their intellectual contributions to politics. The second part of the course examines the practical dimensions of gender politics such as women's movements and national and international conventions and institutions. It analyses the relationship among gender, class, and ethnicity, and examines the cultural and religious perceptions of these identities. The course is available to all year 1-3 students at NUS."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3238", "title": "International Political Economy", "description": "This course presents a broad overview of international political economy (IPE). It introduces the student to main theoretical approaches, concepts and substantive issues in the IPE field, and help him/her better understand the relationship between power and wealth and the interplay of economics and politics in the world arena. After a critical evaluation of major theoretical perspectives on IPE, this course examines the politics in some core issue areas, such as economic interdependence, international division of labor, international trade, multinational corporations, regional cooperation, and North-South relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3239", "title": "International Conflict Analysis", "description": "The course aims to provide a broad understanding of international conflict situations, conflict behaviour and attitudes. It deals with the nature, type and sources of conflict. Based on insights from general conflict studies it explains conflict pathologies and the debilitating effects of protracted social conflicts. It also analyses various conflict resolution strategies by focusing on negotiation techniques, third party mediation and intervention. Bearing in mind that conflicts are mostly transformed rather than eliminated the course assesses the experience of peace-promotion and peace-building in post-conflict societies. The course is meant for students keen on a multi-disciplinary approach to international conflict."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3240", "title": "International Security", "description": "This course examines key issues pertaining to international security including: the various approaches to studying international security, the nature of interaction among various levels (national, regional, international) of security, and the major security threats caused by the expansion of conventional arms, proliferation of nuclear arsenal and the spread of biological and chemical weapons. The rise of non-traditional security threats in world politics, especially Southeast Asia, and of Asia, particularly China, as a security concern internationally is also analysed."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3242", "title": "US Foreign Policy", "description": "This course considers the foreign relations of the United States. It covers both the institutions and practices that shape the making of US foreign policy and the substantive policies that emerge from the policy process."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3243", "title": "Public Sector Organisational Behaviour", "description": "Why organizations behave as they do? What explains the creation, change, and prosperity of organizations? Social scientists have risen to the challenge to address these questions. In this course, students will learn the fundamental perspectives in organizational theory and their application to and transformation over time. The discussion pays particular attention to organizational and human behaviors in public sector organizations. As such, it is ideal for students interested in public management and those who aspire to work in the public sector."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3245", "title": "Public Personnel Administration", "description": "The course covers topics in public personnel administration, including personnel planning, job analysis, recruitment and promotion, performance appraisal, compensation, and training. It also examines some of the controversial issues like meritocracy, affirmative action, and comparable worth. The current trends of changes in these personnel functions and issues are also explored. In discussing these issues, the course uses selected country cases, including the US, the UK, Japan, and ASEAN countries. The course can be taken by all year 1-3 year students at NUS."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3246", "title": "Public Ethics and Corruption", "description": "This course examines the question of ethical standards governing the conduct of public officials and the linkage between corruption and governance in Asia and other regions. Attention is given to the causes of corruption and the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures as well as to broader issues of public service ethics and administrative responsibility."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3247", "title": "The Rise of China and International Order", "description": "This course explores a number of theoretical approaches in international relations to understand the rise of China as an example of the general phenomenon of hegemonic transition. In previous cases of hegemonic transition, there has been great power war. The various theoretical approaches covered will include: power transition theory, hegemonic stability theory, liberal interdependence, world-systems theory, democratic peace, neoliberal institutionalism, neorealism, balance of threat, neo-Gramscianism, and constructivism."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3249", "title": "Singapore's Foreign Policy", "description": "This course analyses Singapore's outlook towards the world with particular reference to countries in the West and Asia. It examines the following key issues affecting Singapore's foreign policy: problems of a small state, factors influencing the worldview, the key foreign policy principles and precepts, the operationalisation of relations towards different countries; and the key differences in outlook towards the world in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. The course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in Singapore and particularly its foreign policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3251", "title": "International Organisations", "description": "In this course , students will study the international organisations that constitute a crucial part of the global institutional architecture. Based on an understanding of the literature on international relations and organisations, the course will seek to address a set of critical questions: Why are international organisations created? What are their objectives, and how are these objectives achieved? What effects do international organisations have on the practices of international relations? Through the consideration of these questions, students will gain empirical and theoretical insights into global governance and international relations indispensable to any student of Political Science and International Relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3252", "title": "Human Rights in International Politics", "description": "This is a course that examines theories of human rights since 1945, and the practice of promoting or rejecting these ideas as universal \"goods\" in international relations. Students will critically examine NGO issue advocacy, western states' \"ethical\" foreign policies; and the \"Asian values\" counter-challenge. This course relates the subject of human rights to political philosophy, international law, the UN system, morality, national interest, and values/ideology in foreign policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3256", "title": "Politics and Film", "description": "Film and politics have always been closely related. Film-makers have created dramas, comedies, satires, and works of propaganda in order to comment on politics and advance political causes. But film also has off-screen effects, so we can talk about the politics of film as well as politics on film. The course combines concepts from film studies and political theory to explore the different ways in which film can be politically important, covering some of the most famous political films ever made from the beginning of the twentieth century all the way up to the contemporary era."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3257", "title": "Political Inquiry", "description": "This course examines the theories of knowledge and methods of inquiry appropriate to studying politics. It introduces students to alternative understandings of the social sciences and to the empirical, critical, and analytical skills they imply. It pays particular attention to helping students understand the basics of good research and to acquire skills essential to conducting their own research."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3258", "title": "Research Methods in Political Science", "description": "This course provides a survey of different methodological approaches to the study of political science: single case studies, qualitative comparative analysis, and a variety of quantitative methods. The course focuses more on applications than theories, and explains how political questions can be investigated using different types of data and methods. All students are expected to have completed PS2102B (Political Inquiry) or an equivalent introductory research methodology course. Students are required to work on group research projects and present their findings at the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3259", "title": "American Political Thought", "description": "This course examines the American political tradition, focusing on the ideas that inform America\u2019s unique system of governance during the past two centuries - revolution, self-determination, constitutional government, the separation of powers, the legal protection of basic moral rights, federalism, slavery, equality, and civil disobedience. Students will study the writings of America\u2019s most important political thinkers including Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln, Emerson, Thoreau, and Martin Luther King."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3260", "title": "Politics and the Visual", "description": "This course explores the many forms of relationship between politics and visual culture. From the ancient world to the present, politics, whether formal or popular, has had a visual dimension. Politicians have been concerned to control their appearance; various media (from painting to theatre to television to the internet) have been used to both serve and defeat this goal. The course surveys the relationship between politics and visual culture and allows students to engage with contemporary issues surrounding politics, film, and digital culture."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3262", "title": "Managing Non-Profit Organisations", "description": "This course presents a broad overview of non-profit organization management. Based on public administration and strategic management theory, it focuses on practical problem-solving ideas. Topics to be considered include: 1) shaping an organisation\u2019s vision and mission, 2) SWOT analysis, 3) decision-making, 4) establishing strategic management capacity, 5) inter-organizational cooperation and partnership, and 6) other management techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3263", "title": "Comparative Study of Development", "description": "This course examines the politics of economic development and underdevelopment. Students are introduced to major political issues in developing countries and to political science frameworks for understanding those issues. Themes covered include state-building, the relationship between development and democracy, the state\u2019s role in industrialisation, development problems and development policy. Specific countries are used as cases to illustrate \u2013 and criticise \u2013 arguments about politics and development, but the focus in this course is on common themes rather than the political histories of particular nations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3265", "title": "Civil-Military Relations", "description": "This course surveys major themes and debates in the study of civil\u2010military relations. The study of civil military relations addresses a simple puzzle: can we have a military strong enough to protect civilians yet not so strong as to ignore or subvert civilian authority? A military strong enough to defend the state from external enemies is also strong enough to seize power. How can a state have a strong military capability without being dominated by it? How do political leaders and military organizations interact with each other and with the larger society, and how do their cultures overlap and diverge."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3267", "title": "German Political Thought", "description": "This course studies German political thought since the Enlightenment. Reading selections in English translation from the political writings of nineteenth century luminaries such as Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche together with important twentieth\u2010century thinkers such as Weber, Heidegger and Habermas, it introduces students to the major thinkers, ideas and problems of the modern German political tradition. Among the topics covered are the intellectual origins of German idealism and communism, Weimar politics, Nazism, the Frankfurt School and Habermas\u2019s theory of deliberative democracy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3269", "title": "Medieval Western Political Thought", "description": "This course interrogates major concepts and institutions of Latin Christendom in the 12th\u201015th centuries. The course begins by examining the Greek, Roman, and Biblical foundations of medieval thought, followed by a series of conceptual issues. Topics include the nature of temporal and spiritual power, and the relation between them; different kinds of law\u2014divine, natural, and human\u2014and their bearing on human relations; theories of medieval government; notions of community and representation, and the relation of state and individual. The course will conclude by reflecting on what the modern world has inherited from the Christian Middle Ages."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3271", "title": "Public Policy-Making", "description": "This course covers the institutional and procedural dimensions of public policymaking. It introduces theories of policy\u2010making, such as rationality, incrementalism, and policy networks, and it explores how major political institutions\u2014including executives, legislatures, bureaucracies and interest groups\u2014affect the policy\u2010making process. The stages of policy\u2010making, such as agenda\u2010setting and policy formulation, implementation, evaluation and termination, are also considered. Case studies are used to illustrate these complex processes. The course is designed for students who are interested in governance and policy\u2010making and may be considering a career in the public sector."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3272", "title": "The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa", "description": "The course examines the insertion of Sub-Saharan Africa into the world, and looks at both intra-African international relations, as well as how African states have interacted with various external actors. Students will examine the implications of issues such as governance, security, and development aid for Africa\u2019s international relations. They will also learn about the international relations of key African states with countries outside Africa."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3273", "title": "Singapore Politics in Comparative Perspective", "description": "This course connects Singapore politics to important themes in the study of comparative politics. It examines the relevance of political science concepts for understanding local politics, and investigates how the study of Singapore might inform debates in comparative politics. The issues to be considered may include: statebuilding, democratization, party politics, racial politics, civil rights, judicial politics, identity and citizenship, and the state\u2019s role in industrialization."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3274", "title": "Environmental Politics", "description": "This course introduces students to competing concepts and arguments in environmental politics. The course will enhance students\u2019 understanding of the ways in which political and economic institutions, regimes, culture, and norms interact with environmental outcomes at local, regional, and global levels. Students will also learn the roles different actors and institutions play in global environmental governance."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3275", "title": "Regimes in Transition", "description": "Few things are more dramatic than the collapse of a political system, whether through violent conflict or peaceful negotiations. Explaining why regimes break down and why new ones emerge are among the most important questions in political science. This course looks at the conditions under which regimes unravel, focusing on the breakdown of democratic institutions, the rise of populism, and conversely, transitions away from various types of authoritarian regime, using case studies from Southeast Asia. PS2234, while not a pre-requisite, is strongly recommended."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3276", "title": "Comparative Political Behaviour", "description": "This upper-level seminar surveys the literature on comparative political behaviour with cases drawn from South, Southeast, and East Asia. Given how broad the comparative political behaviour literature is, we will cover only some of the most studied topics. These topics include voting behaviour, political identities, and political participation. Since no individuals live in a vacuum, we also will cover how individuals and political behaviour are constrained by political system and political culture."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3311", "title": "International Ethics", "description": "This course explores the ethical dimension of international relations. It takes as its point of departure the conviction that international relations, like all realms of human conduct, is intelligible in questions of obligation, right, good, and so forth. The course interrogates prominent ethical languages of international relations, including moral scepticism, sovereignty, war, international law, and human rights. It then considers how these languages arise and conflict in a range of contemporary international issues. Particular emphasis is placed on excavating the ground on which ethical choices are made, defended, and judged."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3312", "title": "World Orders", "description": "Ideas and concepts derived from European experience\u2014anarchy, sovereignty, balance of power, and so forth\u2014dominate thinking about world order. This course challenges this dominance by problematising European narratives and by examining extra-European approaches. Particular attention will be given to thematic issues, such as empire and race, as well as Asian, Islamic, and Pan-African understandings of world order. Consideration will also be given to the adequacy of European ideas and concepts, and to alternative vocabularies of world order. The course is historical and philosophical in orientation, with theoretical questions being at the centre of inquiry."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3550", "title": "Political Science Internship", "description": "Internships vary in length but all take place within an organisation, are vetted and approved by the Department\u2019s internship advisor, have relevance to the major in Political Science, involve the application of subject knowledge and theory in reflection upon the work, and are assessed. Available credited internships (if any) will be advertised at the beginning of each semester. In exceptional cases, internships proposed by students may be approved by the Department."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP )", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP )", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3880", "title": "Topics in Political Science", "description": "This course will offer special topics which may change from semester to semester. Students should check the topics on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3880A", "title": "Modern Chinese Political Thought", "description": "This course considers important transitions in Chinese political thought from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. We will survey the growth of critical consciousness from 1890 to the May Fourth Movement, the rise of and reactions to Communism, and the revival of Confucianism in the 1970s and after. We will consider such questions as: what concerns preoccupy Chinese political thinkers of this period? What is the value of Chinese traditions for thinking critically about China's political future? How can Chinese political thought be understood to have global relevance?"}, {"moduleCode": "PS3880D", "title": "Politics of the United Nations", "description": "This course examines the political dynamics entailed in and produced by the United Nations System. Using both traditional academic analysis and experiential learning (an in\u2010class simulation) the course probes three of the most politicized aspects of the UN: its institutional design; its mandate to pursue collective international security; and the UN\u2019s efforts to globally advance human development."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3880E", "title": "Topics in PS: Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course explores the politics of human trafficking in Southeast Asia. It critically examines questions such as the following: What are the causes and consequences of human trafficking in the region? What are the different forms of trafficking (e.g., sex trafficking, forced labour, child soldiers)? How does trafficking involve human rights and to what extent are these rights enforced? How do governments, the media, and others portray trafficked persons \u2013 and more importantly, how do they portray themselves? The course also provides students with educational exercises in the field, applying relevant theories and research methods."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3880F", "title": "Topics in PS: Quantitative Approaches to Intl Relations", "description": "This course introduces students to quantitative approaches to the scientific study of international political and economic relations. It focuses on current quantitative research on such diverse topics as conflict and peace, international trade, investment, and monetary relations, and the design and effectiveness of international institutions in protecting human rights and the environment. In addition to studying and evaluating the contemporary academic literature, this courses requires students to actively contribute to and improve on existing international relations research using advanced quantitative methods. The course provides students with the necessary statistical tools and skills to do so."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3880G", "title": "Topics in PS: Research Design and Methods", "description": "The course provides undergraduate students with intensive, focused, and hands-on training in specific research methods. It introduces students to and familiarizes them with such quantitative and qualitative methods as multiple regression, qualitative comparative analysis, and experimental methods. The course is linked to the IPSA-NUS Methods School established in 2012 and aims to give students an intensive introduction to the research methods used by political scientists and researchers in neighbouring social science disciplines which they can apply immediately and which will also serve as a foundation for further study."}, {"moduleCode": "PS3880H", "title": "The Politics of European Integration", "description": "This course considers European integration as an advanced experiment in supranational governance. It examines the main theories of European and regional integration, including neofunctionalism, liberal intergovernmentalism, and Europeanization theory, and applies these theories to understand debates about the EU\u2019s identity, its imagined \u2018end point\u2019, arrangements for sharing power between member states and central institutions, and possible futures."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4201", "title": "Contemporary Political Theory", "description": "In this course, students will investigate political-theoretic responses to one or more of the following contemporary issues: economic, racial, and gender inequality; political and economic power; the environmental crisis; the rise of authoritarianism; and questions of rights and liberties. Course content will vary according to instructor expertise. The overall goal will be to connect critical and positive theorizing to our political world so that we deepen our political education."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4201HM", "title": "Contemporary Political Theory", "description": "In this course, students will investigate political-theoretic responses to one or more of the following contemporary issues: economic, racial, and gender inequality; political and economic power; the environmental crisis; the rise of authoritarianism; and questions of rights and liberties. Course content will vary according to instructor expertise. The overall goal will be to connect critical and positive theorizing to our political world so that we deepen our political education."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4202", "title": "Political Parties & Elections", "description": "This course covers political parties and electoral systems in both established and new democracies. In the West, political party systems reflect highly institutionalised electoral systems and are relatively stable. In much of the world, however, political parties are less institutionalized and more responsive to volatile electorates than those in the West, and many new democracies have failed to develop even minimally stable party systems. The aim of the course is to provide students with a good grasp of the issues and current research on political parties and elections in the West, in Asia, and around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4202HM", "title": "Political Parties & Elections", "description": "This course covers political parties and electoral systems in both established and new democracies. In the West, political party systems reflect highly institutionalised electoral systems and are relatively stable. In much of the world, however, political parties are less institutionalized and more responsive to volatile electorates than those in the West, and many new democracies have failed to develop even minimally stable party systems. The aim of the course is to provide students with a good grasp of the issues and current research on political parties and elections in the West, in Asia, and around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4203", "title": "China's Foreign Policy", "description": "This course examines some major issues of contemporary Chinese politics, political economy, and policy processes as they affect Chinas relations with the rest of the world. It covers both the institutions and practices that shape the making of Chinese foreign policy and the substantive policies that emerge from the policy process."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4203HM", "title": "China's Foreign Policy", "description": "This course examines some major issues of contemporary Chinese politics, political economy, and policy processes as they affect Chinas relations with the rest of the world. It covers both the institutions and practices that shape the making of Chinese foreign policy and the substantive policies that emerge from the policy process."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4205", "title": "Contemporary Politics of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course aims to highlight contemporary issues besetting countries in this part of the world with the goal of helping students to better understand the myriad problems and challenges confronting Southeast Asian states, as well as assess their relative effectiveness in dealing with these challenges. This course will discuss the politics of key nation building issues such as ethnicity, religion, and class and examine how the governments manage other pressing challenges such as the forging of national identity, globalization and new security threats. This course is targeted at students in the advanced years, specifically the Honours Year."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4205HM", "title": "Contemporary Politics of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course aims to highlight contemporary issues besetting countries in this part of the world with the goal of helping students to better understand the myriad problems and challenges confronting Southeast Asian states, as well as assess their relative effectiveness in dealing with these challenges. This course will discuss the politics of key nation building issues such as ethnicity, religion, and class and examine how the governments manage other pressing challenges such as the forging of national identity, globalization and new security threats. This course is targeted at students in the advanced years, specifically the Honours Year."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4206", "title": "Regional Security in the Asia Pacific", "description": "The course introduces the trends, approaches, and limitations of security studies in the Asia-Pacific. It explores major institutional arrangements of regional security and linkages between these regional arrangements and international security structures. It also analyses contemporary changes in the issues and priorities of security and the newly emerging security concerns in the Asia-Pacific. The implications of domestic political changes for regional security are also considered. The course can be read by honours and postgraduate students in Political Science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4206HM", "title": "Regional Security in the Asia Pacific", "description": "The course introduces the trends, approaches, and limitations of security studies in the Asia-Pacific. It explores major institutional arrangements of regional security and linkages between these regional arrangements and international security structures. It also analyses contemporary changes in the issues and priorities of security and the newly emerging security concerns in the Asia-Pacific. The implications of domestic political changes for regional security are also considered. The course can be read by honours and postgraduate students in Political Science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4208", "title": "Theories of International Relations", "description": "This course explores major theoretical debates in international relations (IR). After discussing some of the standards by which we might evaluate theories, we will examine some realist, liberal, and 'alternative' theories of international relations, and the classic debates between these perspectives. Theories are applied to major aspects of international relations such as trade, war, alliances, and stability, for individual states, for particular groups of states, and in the international system as a whole. We will also explore the role of domestic politics in foreign policy. The course is designed for Political Science Honours students."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4208HM", "title": "Theories of International Relations", "description": "This course explores major theoretical debates in international relations (IR). After discussing some of the standards by which we might evaluate theories, we will examine some realist, liberal, and 'alternative' theories of international relations, and the classic debates between these perspectives. Theories are applied to major aspects of international relations such as trade, war, alliances, and stability, for individual states, for particular groups of states, and in the international system as a whole. We will also explore the role of domestic politics in foreign policy. The course is designed for Political Science Honours students."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4209", "title": "Public Organisation Theory and Practice", "description": "This is an advanced course on public organisation. It analyses various concepts and theories of organisation and examines critical organisational issues in the public sector. The major theories discussed in the course include the classical, neoclassical, systems, contingency, and critical theories of organization. It also focuses on specific organisational issues such as decision making, motivation, leadership, administrative ethics, and organisational change with special reference to the public sector. The target students for this course include both honours and postgraduate students in Political Science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4209HM", "title": "Public Organisation Theory and Practice", "description": "This is an advanced course on public organisation. It analyses various concepts and theories of organisation and examines critical organisational issues in the public sector. The major theories discussed in the course include the classical, neoclassical, systems, contingency, and critical theories of organization. It also focuses on specific organisational issues such as decision making, motivation, leadership, administrative ethics, and organisational change with special reference to the public sector. The target students for this course include both honours and postgraduate students in Political Science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4211", "title": "Political Theology", "description": "Political theology is a mode of inquiry that interprets politics in the context of theological concepts and categories. This course focuses on Christian theological debates, in the late medieval and early modern periods, and considers their impact on the vocabulary of contemporary politics and international relations. Representative topics include: state sovereignty, political rule, extra-legal action, and international order. In recovering this theological inheritance this course dispels widely held myths about the origins of this vocabulary and reinterprets canonical figures in this light. In doing so, it challenges the narrative of progressive secularisation that dominates modern Western political and international thought."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4211HM", "title": "Political Theology", "description": "Political theology is a mode of inquiry that interprets politics in the context of theological concepts and categories. This course focuses on Christian theological debates, in the late medieval and early modern periods, and considers their impact on the vocabulary of contemporary politics and international relations. Representative topics include: state sovereignty, political rule, extra-legal action, and international order. In recovering this theological inheritance this course dispels widely held myths about the origins of this vocabulary and reinterprets canonical figures in this light. In doing so, it challenges the narrative of progressive secularisation that dominates modern Western political and international thought."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4213", "title": "International Political Theory", "description": "The issue of morality in international politics is frequently treated as marginal to the contemporary concerns of states in their international relations. Developments such as the Nuremberg Trials, the Cold War, the African Famines of the 1980s, the Genocides in ex-Yugoslavia and the emergence of wrangles over resource exploitation and environmental pollution call attention otherwise. This course equips the student with the conceptual tools and frameworks with which to comprehend and make informed decisions about these cross-boundary ethical complexities. Both Political Science majors and non-Political Science students will find this a useful supplement to studies of international politics and philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4213HM", "title": "International Political Theory", "description": "The issue of morality in international politics is frequently treated as marginal to the contemporary concerns of states in their international relations. Developments such as the Nuremberg Trials, the Cold War, the African Famines of the 1980s, the Genocides in ex-Yugoslavia and the emergence of wrangles over resource exploitation and environmental pollution call attention otherwise. This course equips the student with the conceptual tools and frameworks with which to comprehend and make informed decisions about these cross-boundary ethical complexities. Both Political Science majors and non-Political Science students will find this a useful supplement to studies of international politics and philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4215", "title": "Politics of Non-Violence", "description": "This course examines the intellectual foundations, rationale, relevance and practicality of non-violence in the political arena. Reading early arguments for non-violent direct action in the writings of early 19th century thinkers, such as Leo Tolstoy, John Ruskin and Henry David Thoreau, the course analyses the effectiveness of non-violence as a political strategy in Gandhi's campaign for India's independence, the American Civil Rights Movement, and Nelson Mandela's struggle to liberate South Africa from Apartheid. To prepare for this course, it is suggested that students have taken PS3233 Political and International Ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4215HM", "title": "Politics of Non-Violence", "description": "This course examines the intellectual foundations, rationale, relevance and practicality of non-violence in the political arena. Reading early arguments for non-violent direct action in the writings of early 19th century thinkers, such as Leo Tolstoy, John Ruskin and Henry David Thoreau, the course analyses the effectiveness of non-violence as a political strategy in Gandhi's campaign for India's independence, the American Civil Rights Movement, and Nelson Mandela's struggle to liberate South Africa from Apartheid. To prepare for this course, it is suggested that students have taken PS3233 Political and International Ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4216", "title": "The Study of War", "description": "Traditionally, as a discipline, International Relations has treated war as the use of the military instrument by states. This course aims to introduce students to an elementary comprehension of war as a form of politics. A philosophical approach will be taken towards an exposition of general theories of war, as well as land, air, sea, guerrilla and nuclear warfare. It will round off by inquiring whether war studies should necessarily encompass human security today. In this way, the field becomes open to Critical Theory and Postmodern perspectives as well. Students are strongly encouraged to read PS2237 Introduction to International Relations before signing up."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4216HM", "title": "The Study of War", "description": "Traditionally, as a discipline, International Relations has treated war as the use of the military instrument by states. This course aims to introduce students to an elementary comprehension of war as a form of politics. A philosophical approach will be taken towards an exposition of general theories of war, as well as land, air, sea, guerrilla and nuclear warfare. It will round off by inquiring whether war studies should necessarily encompass human security today. In this way, the field becomes open to Critical Theory and Postmodern perspectives as well. Students are strongly encouraged to read PS2237 Introduction to International Relations before signing up."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4217", "title": "Major Political Thinkers", "description": "The Major Political Thinkers series examines the writings and historical contexts of the most important political thinkers throughout the history of political thought. Each course focuses on one or two thinkers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Rousseau, Kant, Rawls, and others"}, {"moduleCode": "PS4217HM", "title": "Major Political Thinkers", "description": "The Major Political Thinkers series examines the writings and historical contexts of the most important political thinkers throughout the history of political thought. Each course focuses on one or two thinkers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Rousseau, Kant, Rawls, and others"}, {"moduleCode": "PS4218", "title": "European Foreign Policy", "description": "The European Union is often viewed as an economic superpower but a military pygmy. This course aims to provide students with tools to evaluate whether the EU, as a non-state actor, can have a coherent and effective foreign policy. It considers theories and debates concerning the institutionalisation of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), and includes case studies of EU objectives and actions on selected issues (international trade, ethics, human security), in selected regions (Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa), and in relations with international organizations such as the UN."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4218HM", "title": "European Foreign Policy", "description": "The European Union is often viewed as an economic superpower but a military pygmy. This course aims to provide students with tools to evaluate whether the EU, as a non-state actor, can have a coherent and effective foreign policy. It considers theories and debates concerning the institutionalisation of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), and includes case studies of EU objectives and actions on selected issues (international trade, ethics, human security), in selected regions (Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa), and in relations with international organizations such as the UN."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4219", "title": "Comparative Political Thought", "description": "This course will explore the emerging field of comparative political theory by considering to what extent it stands as a coherent, independent subfield, and what if any are the questions it is specifically poised to answer. Our treatment will be both topical and methodological. We will begin by reading the work of contemporary scholars who explicitly situate themselves within \u201ccomparative\u201d as opposed to mainstream canonical political theory, and/or who use comparison as a tool for elucidating particular political problems. In the second part of the course, we will read primary sources that undertake comparative or synthetic perspectives on formulating theory in the modern world, but from selfconsciously \u201cindigenous\u201d perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4219HM", "title": "Comparative Political Thought", "description": "This course will explore the emerging field of comparative political theory by considering to what extent it stands as a coherent, independent subfield, and what if any are the questions it is specifically poised to answer. Our treatment will be both topical and methodological. We will begin by reading the work of contemporary scholars who explicitly situate themselves within \u201ccomparative\u201d as opposed to mainstream canonical political theory, and/or who use comparison as a tool for elucidating particular political problems. In the second part of the course, we will read primary sources that undertake comparative or synthetic perspectives on formulating theory in the modern world, but from selfconsciously \u201cindigenous\u201d perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4220", "title": "Rhetoric and Politics", "description": "The art of persuasion is central to political activity. Aristotle's treatise on rhetoric, which analysed legal and political discourse, set the agenda for discussion of the subject until the modern era and remains supremely relevant to politics today. Political theorists and historians of political thought have recently rediscovered the subject of rhetoric and there is a wide array of fresh writing available for students to study. This course will provide invaluable insight into the nature of political speech for all who opt for it and greatly enhance their ability to dissect the language of politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4220HM", "title": "Rhetoric and Politics", "description": "The art of persuasion is central to political activity. Aristotle's treatise on rhetoric, which analysed legal and political discourse, set the agenda for discussion of the subject until the modern era and remains supremely relevant to politics today. Political theorists and historians of political thought have recently rediscovered the subject of rhetoric and there is a wide array of fresh writing available for students to study. This course will provide invaluable insight into the nature of political speech for all who opt for it and greatly enhance their ability to dissect the language of politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4221", "title": "Contemporary Politics of Northeast Asia", "description": "This course seeks to explain similarities and differences between the countries of Northeast Asia and to broaden and sharpen students\u2019 understanding of the various political, economic and social issues confronting this region. Focusing on China, Japan and Korea, the course will consider the principles and practices of democracy and the obstacles to democratic transition. It will also consider a selection of overlapping topics and issues such as political parties and elections, corruption, nationalism, civil-military relations, civil society, local politics, women and politics, economic reform, leadership and the media."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4221HM", "title": "Contemporary Politics of Northeast Asia", "description": "This course seeks to explain similarities and differences between the countries of Northeast Asia and to broaden and sharpen students\u2019 understanding of the various political, economic and social issues confronting this region. Focusing on China, Japan and Korea, the course will consider the principles and practices of democracy and the obstacles to democratic transition. It will also consider a selection of overlapping topics and issues such as political parties and elections, corruption, nationalism, civil-military relations, civil society, local politics, women and politics, economic reform, leadership and the media."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4224", "title": "State and Society", "description": "This course introduces students to some of the major themes of comparative political sociology through the lens of a clearly established literature that draws from a variety of national and subnational case studies. It focuses on the relationship between civil society and the state and on the institutions and processes that mediate that relationship. Topics covered include contemporary theories of the modern state; political culture and civil society; revolutionary and non-revolutionary political regime change; clientelism; and corporatist and non-corporatist forms of interest group intermediation."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4224HM", "title": "State and Society", "description": "This course introduces students to some of the major themes of comparative political sociology through the lens of a clearly established literature that draws from a variety of national and subnational case studies. It focuses on the relationship between civil society and the state and on the institutions and processes that mediate that relationship. Topics covered include contemporary theories of the modern state; political culture and civil society; revolutionary and non-revolutionary political regime change; clientelism; and corporatist and non-corporatist forms of interest group intermediation."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4226", "title": "Emerging Markets and Economic Governance", "description": "This course offers a close study of emerging markets as rising powers that shape the governance of international economic exchange. The course is organized around two core questions: where are the emerging economies, and why are they important? The course emphasizes a dynamic definition of emerging markets that reflects the ongoing \u201cpower shift\u201d in the global economy, including but not limited to countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on political science and economics scholarship to examine emerging markets in international trade and investment, global financial governance, and foreign aid."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4226HM", "title": "Emerging Markets and Economic Governance", "description": "This course offers a close study of emerging markets as rising powers that shape the governance of international economic exchange. The course is organized around two core questions: where are the emerging economies, and why are they important? The course emphasizes a dynamic definition of emerging markets that reflects the ongoing \u201cpower shift\u201d in the global economy, including but not limited to countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on political science and economics scholarship to examine emerging markets in international trade and investment, global financial governance, and foreign aid."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4228", "title": "Comparative Democratic Politics", "description": "Democratic politics are an integral part of Comparative Politics. This course addresses major issues of democratic politics since World War II. The course has three parts: contemporary democratic theory, patterns of democratic transition since the 1980s, and democratic consolidation. The course combines historical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to help students understand the democracy as a political system, the merits and demerits of democracy, and the driving forces behind democratization in the contemporary world."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4228HM", "title": "Comparative Democratic Politics", "description": "Democratic politics are an integral part of Comparative Politics. This course addresses major issues of democratic politics since World War II. The course has three parts: contemporary democratic theory, patterns of democratic transition since the 1980s, and democratic consolidation. The course combines historical, theoretical, and comparative approaches to help students understand the democracy as a political system, the merits and demerits of democracy, and the driving forces behind democratization in the contemporary world."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4229", "title": "The Politics of Knowledge", "description": "Ways of knowing have always been connected with particular forms of political organisation. For example, the idea of an ascending hierarchy of forms of knowledge culminating in the knowledge of the good found in Plato\u2019s Republic also implies a hierarchical social order capped by an elite of \u2018guardians\u2019 who have mastered this sequence; the government of Confucian China required a scholarly elite distinguished by its knowledge of correct ritual essential for preserving the social order. The course examines the changing ways in which knowledge and political power have been mutually implicated in traditional, classical, and modern societies."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4229HM", "title": "The Politics of Knowledge", "description": "Ways of knowing have always been connected with particular forms of political organisation. For example, the idea of an ascending hierarchy of forms of knowledge culminating in the knowledge of the good found in Plato\u2019s Republic also implies a hierarchical social order capped by an elite of \u2018guardians\u2019 who have mastered this sequence; the government of Confucian China required a scholarly elite distinguished by its knowledge of correct ritual essential for preserving the social order. The course examines the changing ways in which knowledge and political power have been mutually implicated in traditional, classical, and modern societies."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4230", "title": "Public Sector Reforms in China", "description": "Chinese leaders in the reform era face a distinct governance challenge: economic transition requires major revamps in the ways China is managed while an overhaul of the political system is not a viable option. Against the backdrops, Chinese leaders have carried out substantial reforms in public sector organizations. This course examines the content, rationale, and outcomes of public sector reforms in China. Major topics include reforms on cadre personnel management, public finance, healthcare, education and enterprise systems. It helps students understand the significant role of public sector reforms in China\u2019s transition, and the new challenges caused by these reforms."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4230HM", "title": "Public Sector Reforms in China", "description": "Chinese leaders in the reform era face a distinct governance challenge: economic transition requires major revamps in the ways China is managed while an overhaul of the political system is not a viable option. Against the backdrops, Chinese leaders have carried out substantial reforms in public sector organizations. This course examines the content, rationale, and outcomes of public sector reforms in China. Major topics include reforms on cadre personnel management, public finance, healthcare, education and enterprise systems. It helps students understand the significant role of public sector reforms in China\u2019s transition, and the new challenges caused by these reforms."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4231", "title": "Social Theory and International Relations", "description": "Critical international relations theory argues that the social structures of the international system are the product of human interaction in specific historical circumstances. It also argues that these structures contribute to oppressing much of the world's population. How did these oppressive structures emerge, and why do they persist? Who gains from them and how do they maintain their privileged position? This course will explore such questions by examining major traditions in critical theory, including Marxism, constructivism, post\u2010modernism, and critical feminist theory and applying these theories to issues in international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4231HM", "title": "Social Theory and International Relations", "description": "Critical international relations theory argues that the social structures of the international system are the product of human interaction in specific historical circumstances. It also argues that these structures contribute to oppressing much of the world's population. How did these oppressive structures emerge, and why do they persist? Who gains from them and how do they maintain their privileged position? This course will explore such questions by examining major traditions in critical theory, including Marxism, constructivism, post\u2010modernism, and critical feminist theory and applying these theories to issues in international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4233", "title": "Existentialist Political Theory", "description": "This course is an in-depth study of Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s, Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s and Albert Camus\u2019s political ideas. Reading selections from Nietzsche\u2019s Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Sartre\u2019s Being and Nothingness, as well as Camus\u2019s The Rebel and Myth of Sisyphus, this course introduces students to the major political ideas, concepts and problems of existentialist philosophy. Among the topics covered will be Kafka and Kierkegaard\u2019s Nietzschean critique of democracy and Camus\u2019s famous break with Sartre over Stalinist-Leninism. This course is for students with a background in political philosophy and an interest in existentialism and democratic theory."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4233HM", "title": "Existentialist Political Theory", "description": "This course is an in-depth study of Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s, Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s and Albert Camus\u2019s political ideas. Reading selections from Nietzsche\u2019s Genealogy of Morals, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Sartre\u2019s Being and Nothingness, as well as Camus\u2019s The Rebel and Myth of Sisyphus, this course introduces students to the major political ideas, concepts and problems of existentialist philosophy. Among the topics covered will be Kafka and Kierkegaard\u2019s Nietzschean critique of democracy and Camus\u2019s famous break with Sartre over Stalinist-Leninism. This course is for students with a background in political philosophy and an interest in existentialism and democratic theory."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4234", "title": "Identity Politics", "description": "This is a course that explores the origins, reproduction, and effects of social identity from a variety of perspectives. The sources of identity that are investigated include the self, group, society, and state, as well as their more complicated combinations. The identities whose origins, maintenance, and effects we study are nation, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, and race. The approaches we take to make sense of identity politics include writings in political science, social psychology, sociology, history, anthropology, and cultural and post-colonial studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4234HM", "title": "Identity Politics", "description": "This is a course that explores the origins, reproduction, and effects of social identity from a variety of perspectives. The sources of identity that are investigated include the self, group, society, and state, as well as their more complicated combinations. The identities whose origins, maintenance, and effects we study are nation, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, and race. The approaches we take to make sense of identity politics include writings in political science, social psychology, sociology, history, anthropology, and cultural and post-colonial studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4235", "title": "War Termination and the Stability of Peace", "description": "This course examines some of the issues and challenges pertaining to the causes of, and the conditions associated with, conflict continuation and termination. The course surveys some of the major theoretical approaches to war termination and examines how some of the major wars have ended in the past century. In addition, this course also examines how other forms of conflict in the international system, such as civil wars, insurgencies, international rivalries and terrorism, have terminated. Lastly, policy and operational challenges linked to war termination are also examined."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4235HM", "title": "War Termination and the Stability of Peace", "description": "This course examines some of the issues and challenges pertaining to the causes of, and the conditions associated with, conflict continuation and termination. The course surveys some of the major theoretical approaches to war termination and examines how some of the major wars have ended in the past century. In addition, this course also examines how other forms of conflict in the international system, such as civil wars, insurgencies, international rivalries and terrorism, have terminated. Lastly, policy and operational challenges linked to war termination are also examined."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4236", "title": "Environmental Political Theory", "description": "In this course, we will discover how environmental problems have exceeded their boundary as an \u201cissue area\u201d and have altered contemporary political theorizing. This includes questions related to the roles of the state, the borders of the moral community, and matters of justice. We will trace the transformation of liberal, republican, conservative, socialist, and feminist political thought in the wake of environmental politics. Finally, we will ask whether there is such a thing as a distinctly \u201cgreen\u201d political theory."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4236HM", "title": "Environmental Political Theory", "description": "In this course, we will discover how environmental problems have exceeded their boundary as an \u201cissue area\u201d and have altered contemporary political theorizing. This includes questions related to the roles of the state, the borders of the moral community, and matters of justice. We will trace the transformation of liberal, republican, conservative, socialist, and feminist political thought in the wake of environmental politics. Finally, we will ask whether there is such a thing as a distinctly \u201cgreen\u201d political theory."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4237", "title": "Capitalism and Political Theory", "description": "This course investigates the ways in which political philosophers have legitimated, questioned, and critiqued property, markets, money, wage labour, and profit, as well as capitalism as a system. Students will become familiar with liberal, libertarian, Keynesian, Polanyian, and Marxist theories of capitalism and its institutions. In order to understand our contemporary political economy and how it came to be, the course will place particular emphasis on philosophies that justify capitalism and how capitalism has been linked to freedom, equality, justice, and utility."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4237HM", "title": "Capitalism and Political Theory", "description": "This course investigates the ways in which political philosophers have legitimated, questioned, and critiqued property, markets, money, wage labour, and profit, as well as capitalism as a system. Students will become familiar with liberal, libertarian, Keynesian, Polanyian, and Marxist theories of capitalism and its institutions. In order to understand our contemporary political economy and how it came to be, the course will place particular emphasis on philosophies that justify capitalism and how capitalism has been linked to freedom, equality, justice, and utility."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4238", "title": "The Politics of Recognition and Identity", "description": "This course examines some of the major debates surrounding the \u201cstruggle for recognition\u201d and its relation to the politics of identity and difference. It explores why recognition is an essential human need and how it is foundational to the ways in which we conceive of ourselves and others. It also studies how recognition struggles are often seen as underwriting many contemporary political and social movements, and how they relate to concerns about justice, equality and freedom. Finally, it examines if recognition might, oddly enough, itself become a means of oppression and injustice."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4238HM", "title": "The Politics of Recognition and Identity", "description": "This course examines some of the major debates surrounding the \u201cstruggle for recognition\u201d and its relation to the politics of identity and difference. It explores why recognition is an essential human need and how it is foundational to the ways in which we conceive of ourselves and others. It also studies how recognition struggles are often seen as underwriting many contemporary political and social movements, and how they relate to concerns about justice, equality and freedom. Finally, it examines if recognition might, oddly enough, itself become a means of oppression and injustice."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4239", "title": "Seminar in International Relations of Southeast Asia", "description": "This advanced seminar explores the international politics of Southeast Asia using new and innovative theories from International Relations (IR). Southeast Asia is at the crossroads of a range of contemporary dynamics: from US-China power-shifts, and South China Sea disputes, to democratic transitions (Burma) and populist authoritarian rollbacks (Philippines). The scholarly study of Southeast Asian IR has not kept pace with the region, however. This course draws on IR practice theory, international political sociology, feminist theory, emotions theory, and diplomatic history to examine how colonialism, class, ethnicity, gender, emotions, domestic politics, regime types (democracy/authoritarianisms) etc., shape Southeast Asian IR."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4239HM", "title": "Seminar in International Relations of Southeast Asia", "description": "This advanced seminar explores the international politics of Southeast Asia using new and innovative theories from International Relations (IR). Southeast Asia is at the crossroads of a range of contemporary dynamics: from US-China power-shifts, and South China Sea disputes, to democratic transitions (Burma) and populist authoritarian rollbacks (Philippines). The scholarly study of Southeast Asian IR has not kept pace with the region, however. This course draws on IR practice theory, international political sociology, feminist theory, emotions theory, and diplomatic history to examine how colonialism, class, ethnicity, gender, emotions, domestic politics, regime types (democracy/authoritarianisms) etc., shape Southeast Asian IR."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4308", "title": "Economic Interest, Identities, and Voting Behavior", "description": "The course provides an in-depth critical overview of the political science literature on vote choice in democratic elections, covering both some of the classics and some cutting-edge contributions. The frames of economic voting and of class politics are explored in detail, and their insights squared with perspectives that stress the importance of social identities like ethnicity and gender. We discuss also the general implications for democratic theory and for the prospects of democracy in the older democracies of north America, western Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and in younger democracies and emerging countries."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4308HM", "title": "Economic Interest, Identities, and Voting Behavior", "description": "The course provides an in-depth critical overview of the political science literature on vote choice in democratic elections, covering both some of the classics and some cutting-edge contributions. The frames of economic voting and of class politics are explored in detail, and their insights squared with perspectives that stress the importance of social identities like ethnicity and gender. We discuss also the general implications for democratic theory and for the prospects of democracy in the older democracies of north America, western Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and in younger democracies and emerging countries."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4311", "title": "International Relations in Political Thought", "description": "This course explores topics of international relations as they are treated in classical political thought. Topics include: nature and purpose of political order; causes of war; sovereignty and self-determination; balance of power, diplomacy, international law, family of nations, and the transformation of international political community. These topics are examined in the context of key international relations distinctions: inside/outside; universal/particular; and system/society. Particular attention will be given to identifying patterns of continuity and change that explain how these topics have been understood historically."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4311HM", "title": "International Relations in Political Thought", "description": "This course explores topics of international relations as they are treated in classical political thought. Topics include: nature and purpose of political order; causes of war; sovereignty and self-determination; balance of power, diplomacy, international law, family of nations, and the transformation of international political community. These topics are examined in the context of key international relations distinctions: inside/outside; universal/particular; and system/society. Particular attention will be given to identifying patterns of continuity and change that explain how these topics have been understood historically."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4312", "title": "Seminar in European Politics", "description": "This course introduces significant questions of politics in Europe. It teaches students to analyse the ideas, institutions, actors, and interests that influence European politics. We explore the domestic politics of European states including Germany, France, and the U.K., and relations among European states after World War II, with particular attention to European integration. While most of our focus will be devoted to Western Europe, we will discuss political transitions in Eastern Europe and the process of EU expansion. We will critically assess debates in European politics on issues like migration and refugees, Brexit, the European economy, foreign and security policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4312HM", "title": "Seminar in European Politics", "description": "This course introduces significant questions of politics in Europe. It teaches students to analyse the ideas, institutions, actors, and interests that influence European politics. We explore the domestic politics of European states including Germany, France, and the U.K., and relations among European states after World War II, with particular attention to European integration. While most of our focus will be devoted to Western Europe, we will discuss political transitions in Eastern Europe and the process of EU expansion. We will critically assess debates in European politics on issues like migration and refugees, Brexit, the European economy, foreign and security policy."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4313", "title": "Seminar in Comparative Political Economy", "description": "This course introduces theories of political economy in a comparative perspective \u2013 from classical liberalism to critical approaches. It covers institutional, interest- based and ideational analysis. It examines key topics in political economy including the causes of economic growth; state-market relations; markets for goods and services, finance and labour; macroeconomic management; debt, inequality, and redistribution; economic reform in industrial and developing states. This course is designed to help students critically assess the classic and current research literature on how states and markets are organised, justified, and transformed over time and across nations \u2013 with a particular focus on the varieties of capitalism."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4313HM", "title": "Seminar in Comparative Political Economy", "description": "This course introduces theories of political economy in a comparative perspective \u2013 from classical liberalism to critical approaches. It covers institutional, interest- based and ideational analysis. It examines key topics in political economy including the causes of economic growth; state-market relations; markets for goods and services, finance and labour; macroeconomic management; debt, inequality, and redistribution; economic reform in industrial and developing states. This course is designed to help students critically assess the classic and current research literature on how states and markets are organised, justified, and transformed over time and across nations \u2013 with a particular focus on the varieties of capitalism."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4314", "title": "Data Analytics in Political Science", "description": "Data analytics is an increasingly essential skill for political science research. This course teaches a range of analytical tools in data analysis and statistics to understand important and interesting questions about politics, societies and human behaviour. It covers data analysis concepts such as causality, measurement, prediction, probability, and statistical tools. It provides hands-on instruction using R programming and datasets from leading quantitative social science research."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4314HM", "title": "Data Analytics in Political Science", "description": "Data analytics is an increasingly essential skill for political science research. This course teaches a range of analytical tools in data analysis and statistics to understand important and interesting questions about politics, societies and human behaviour. It covers data analysis concepts such as causality, measurement, prediction, probability, and statistical tools. It provides hands-on instruction using R programming and datasets from leading quantitative social science research."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4332", "title": "Researching Singapore Politics", "description": "This course considers the conceptual, ethical and methodological issues surrounding research on Singapore politics. It asks, \u201cHow does the political context of Singapore affect academic study?\u201d Students will work on a proposed research topic throughout the course, considering how the issues examined impact their own projects. Topics to be covered include conceptual debates such as ethnocentrism, non-statist conceptions of politics and insider vs outsider researchers, and methodological questions of access to data, the duty of the researcher to respondents and managing political sensitivities."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4332HM", "title": "Researching Singapore Politics", "description": "This course considers the conceptual, ethical and methodological issues surrounding research on Singapore politics. It asks, \u201cHow does the political context of Singapore affect academic study?\u201d Students will work on a proposed research topic throughout the course, considering how the issues examined impact their own projects. Topics to be covered include conceptual debates such as ethnocentrism, non-statist conceptions of politics and insider vs outsider researchers, and methodological questions of access to data, the duty of the researcher to respondents and managing political sensitivities."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This is basically a research and writing exercise to be supervised by a Department staff. Those who qualify are expected to select a research topic in any subfield of Political Science, conduct research on the topic, collect and analyse data, present arguments, complete the thesis, and submit it within the stipulated deadline. The length of the thesis should not exceed 8,000 words. Each thesis is assessed by two examiners (including the supervisor), and it is meant only for Honours Year students in Political Science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This is basically a research and writing exercise to be supervised by a Department staff. Those who qualify are expected to select a research topic in any subfield of Political Science, conduct research on the topic, collect and analyse data, present arguments, complete the thesis, and submit it within the stipulated deadline. The length of the thesis should not exceed 10,000 words. Each thesis is assessed by two examiners (including the supervisor), and it is meant only for Honours Year students in Political Science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881", "title": "Topics in Comparative Politics", "description": "This course will offer special topics in comparative politics. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881B", "title": "Topics in CP: Malaysian Politics", "description": "This course examines major issues in Malaysia\u2019s political landscape today and in recent times. It considers tensions and controversies over ethnicity, religion, party politics, money politics, governance, democracy and civil society, national identity and national integration, and globalization."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881BHM", "title": "Topics in CP: Malaysian Politics", "description": "This course examines major issues in Malaysia\u2019s political landscape today and in recent times. It considers tensions and controversies over ethnicity, religion, party politics, money politics, governance, democracy and civil society, national identity and national integration, and globalization."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881C", "title": "Topics in CP: The Politics of Labour and Labouring", "description": "Studying labour is key to understanding the political economy. This course examines how human work shapes and is shaped by economic, political, and social structures, seeking to answer the question, \u201cWhat is so political about labour?\u201d Drawing upon literature from political science, economics, sociology, international law and critical theory, the evolution of work from Fordist to neoliberal practices is traced and its impact upon workers considered, with special focus on contemporary labour issues, such as the gig economy and increasing automation. Attention is also given to the effects of labour on politics through elections, union action and international labour standards."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881CHM", "title": "Topics in CP: The Politics of Labour and Labouring", "description": "Studying labour is key to understanding the political economy. This course examines how human work shapes and is shaped by economic, political, and social structures, seeking to answer the question, \u201cWhat is so political about labour?\u201d Drawing upon literature from political science, economics, sociology, international law and critical theory, the evolution of work from Fordist to neoliberal practices is traced and its impact upon workers considered, with special focus on contemporary labour issues, such as the gig economy and increasing automation. Attention is also given to the effects of labour on politics through elections, union action and international labour standards."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881D", "title": "Topics in CP: Money and Politics", "description": "This course provides theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded understandings of issues related to corruption and anti-corruption. Students are expected to gain proficiency in analysing problems of corruption using theoretical frameworks and analytical tools developed from disciplines including political science, economics, and law. Students will also apply the learned skills and knowledge to the design and evaluation of anti-corruption policy in both domestic and transnational settings. This course attempts to broaden students\u2019 understandings of the relationships between institutions and development and between public and private actors."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881DHM", "title": "Topics in CP: Money and Politics", "description": "This course provides theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded understandings of issues related to corruption and anti-corruption. Students are expected to gain proficiency in analysing problems of corruption using theoretical frameworks and analytical tools developed from disciplines including political science, economics, and law. Students will also apply the learned skills and knowledge to the design and evaluation of anti-corruption policy in both domestic and transnational settings. This course attempts to broaden students\u2019 understandings of the relationships between institutions and development and between public and private actors."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881G", "title": "Topics in CP: Politics of the Korean Peninsula", "description": "This course offers an introduction to key issues in Korean politics. We cover the politics of both regimes on the Korean Peninsula, as well as inter-Korean relations. Although the course focuses on the domestic politics of Korea, the peninsula's politics cannot be understood without reference to the broader regional and international context. The course therefore bridges comparative politics and international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881GHM", "title": "Topics in CP: Politics of the Korean Peninsula", "description": "This course offers an introduction to key issues in Korean politics. We cover the politics of both regimes on the Korean Peninsula, as well as inter-Korean relations. Although the course focuses on the domestic politics of Korea, the peninsula's politics cannot be understood without reference to the broader regional and international context. The course therefore bridges comparative politics and international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881H", "title": "Topics in CP: Chinese Politics", "description": "This course addresses some of the major issues of contemporary Chinese politics. The issues to be discussed include the politics of economic privatization, social stratification and emerging class conflicts, rural reforms, political corruption, new forms of representation and participation, social-political pluralism, central-local relations, Taiwanese democracy, and the prospects of China's political transition. To help the student better understand the dynamics, consequences, and implications of China's political, economic, and social developments since 1978, this course combines theoretical and comparative approaches that extend its scope beyond an empirical study of China."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881HHM", "title": "Topics in CP: Chinese Politics", "description": "This course addersses some of the major issues of contemporary Chinese politics. The issues to be discussed include the politics of economic privatisation, social stratification and emerging class conflicts, rural reforms, poltical corruption, new forms of representation and participation, social-political pluralism, central-local relations, Taiwanese democracy, and the prospects of China's politicial transition. To help the student better understand the dynamics, consequences, and implications of China's polticial, economic, and social developments since 1978, this course combines theoretical and comparative approaches that extend its scope beyond an empirical study of China."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4881HM", "title": "Topics in Comparative Politics", "description": "This course will offer special topics in comparative politics. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882", "title": "Topics in International Relations", "description": "This course will offer special topics in international relations. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882A", "title": "Topics in IR: Globalisation, Security and the State", "description": "This seminar studies the effects of globalization on security. It considers the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, crime, environmental degradation, migration, public health, and other issues. How do states and non-state actors deal with transnational threats? What are the implications of these issues for traditional understandings of sovereignty and non-intervention? What is the role of international institutions and global civil society in responding to these threats?"}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882AHM", "title": "Topics in IR: Globalisation, Security and the State", "description": "This seminar studies the effects of globalization on security. It considers the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, crime, environmental degradation, migration, public health, and other issues. How do states and non-state actors deal with transnational threats? What are the implications of these issues for traditional understandings of sovereignty and non-intervention? What is the role of international institutions and global civil society in responding to these threats?"}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882D", "title": "Topics in IR: Politics of Global Migration", "description": "This seminar examines the causes and consequences of transnational migration, a complex and little understood aspect of globalisation. How have governments and international organizations responded to mass population movements? How has transnational migration been treated as a political, economic, security, and human rights issue? What are the gender aspects of migration? We will explore these topics through historical and contemporary perspectives on migrants and refugees. We will consider a wide range of sending and receiving countries, focusing on states and movements in Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882DHM", "title": "Topics in IR: Politics of Global Migration", "description": "This seminar examines the causes and consequences of transnational migration, a complex and little understood aspect of globalisation. How have governments and international organizations responded to mass population movements? How has transnational migration been treated as a political, economic, security, and human rights issue? What are the gender aspects of migration? We will explore these topics through historical and contemporary perspectives on migrants and refugees. We will consider a wide range of sending and receiving countries, focusing on states and movements in Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882E", "title": "Topics in IR: Arms Control", "description": "This seminar will provide an in-depth examination of issues related to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the international institutions designed to reduce the threat of these weapons. It will examine the technology behind WMD, analyze the development of international arms control institutions, and consider emerging arms control issues such as the threat of terrorists using WMD, the weaponization of space, nuclear smuggling and small arms control."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882EHM", "title": "Topics in IR: Arms Control", "description": "This seminar will provide an in-depth examination of issues related to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the international institutions designed to reduce the threat of these weapons. It will examine the technology behind WMD, analyze the development of international arms control institutions, and consider emerging arms control issues such as the threat of terrorists using WMD, the weaponization of space, nuclear smuggling and small arms control."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882F", "title": "The Politics of International Trade", "description": "This course is designed as a research seminar for upper\u2010level Political Science majors. Students will survey the major areas of scholarship in international trade politics. Each student will also develop and complete a semester\u2010long research project on a topic to be decided in consultation with the instructor. This course strengthens the international relations program of the department."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882FHM", "title": "The Politics of International Trade", "description": "This course is designed as a research seminar for upper\u2010level Political Science majors. Students will survey the major areas of scholarship in international trade politics. Each student will also develop and complete a semester\u2010long research project on a topic to be decided in consultation with the instructor. This course strengthens the international relations program of the department."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882H", "title": "Topics in IR: Food Politics", "description": "What you eat can kill you. We all know that. Less well understood is that what you eat can kill many others, too. This course explores the politics of food from the local grocery store to the international trade in grain, sugar, and cacao. Topics to be covered include food production safety, labelling, and nutrition; environmental concerns relating to energy consumption and waste disposal; the politics of fast food; organic farming and sustainable agriculture; genetically modified foods; the ethics of animal care; vegetarianism, and the politics of hunger and malnutrition."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882HHM", "title": "Topics in IR: Food Politics", "description": "What you eat can kill you. We all know that. Less well understood is that what you eat can kill many others, too. This course explores the politics of food from the local grocery store to the international trade in grain, sugar, and cacao. Topics to be covered include food production safety, labelling, and nutrition; environmental concerns relating to energy consumption and waste disposal; the politics of fast food; organic farming and sustainable agriculture; genetically modified foods; the ethics of animal care; vegetarianism, and the politics of hunger and malnutrition."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882HM", "title": "Topics in International Relations", "description": "This course will offer special topics in international relations. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882I", "title": "Topics in IR: International Society", "description": "International society is classically defined as a group of states that are associated in respect of common norms, values, and institutions. This course explores the historical development of international society, from its Christian and European origins to its gradual expansion into a genuinely global political arrangement. It also explores fundamental institutions, such as war, diplomacy, international law, great powers, and the balance of power. Particular attention will be given to the role of culture in international society (western and non\u2010western), theories of empire, the revolt against the west, and alternatives to a society of states."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4882IHM", "title": "Topics in IR: International Society", "description": "International society is classically defined as a group of states that are associated in respect of common norms, values, and institutions. This course explores the historical development of international society, from its Christian and European origins to its gradual expansion into a genuinely global political arrangement. It also explores fundamental institutions, such as war, diplomacy, international law, great powers, and the balance of power. Particular attention will be given to the role of culture in international society (western and non\u2010western), theories of empire, the revolt against the west, and alternatives to a society of states."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4883", "title": "Topics in Political Theory", "description": "This course will offer special topics in political theory. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4883A", "title": "Topics in PT: Orientalism and Femininity", "description": "This course explores the construction of an Oriental femininity in western scholarly, journalistic, and artistic production in the 19th and 20th century. It begins by examining colonial representations of Oriental women mapped onto an exotic fantasy of the harem. It then traces the imprint of the Orientalist cosmology upon 20th century portrayals of Muslim women within the context of a \u201cclash of civilizations\u201d and American intervention in Afghanistan. It also addresses the \u201cheadscarf controversy\u201d that has erupted in France in the 1980s, and the linkages between the \u201cveil\u201d, agency, Islam, and secular modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4883AHM", "title": "Topics in PT: Orientalism and Femininity", "description": "This course explores the construction of an Oriental femininity in western scholarly, journalistic, and artistic production in the 19th and 20th century. It begins by examining colonial representations of Oriental women mapped onto an exotic fantasy of the harem. It then traces the imprint of the Orientalist cosmology upon 20th century portrayals of Muslim women within the context of a \u201cclash of civilizations\u201d and American intervention in Afghanistan. It also addresses the \u201cheadscarf controversy\u201d that has erupted in France in the 1980s, and the linkages between the \u201cveil\u201d, agency, Islam, and secular modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4883HM", "title": "Topics in Political Theory", "description": "This course will offer special topics in political theory. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4884", "title": "Topics in Public Administration", "description": "This course will offer special topics in public administration. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS4884HM", "title": "Topics in Public Administration", "description": "This course will offer special topics in public administration. Students should check the topics that are on offer in a given semester before enrolling in the appropriate section of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5111", "title": "Research Design in Political Science", "description": "This course is an introduction to some of the research methods used in the empirical study of politics and public policy. The objective is to familiarise students with (1) concepts in research design, and (2) practices in analytical methods. Topics covered include the logic of empirical research, sampling methods, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, statistical estimation and inference, and hypothesis testing in group comparisons and regression analysis. Besides regular homework assignments, there will also be a mid-term test, a project, and a final examination."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5111R", "title": "Research Design in Political Science", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "PS5201", "title": "Seminar in Political Theory", "description": "This is a core course in political theory designed for students in any subfield of political science. It selectively examines both the history of the subject and current ideas, theorists, and methodologies. Particular attention is given to alternative understandings of the activity of theorising (e.g. scientific explanation, historical explanation, cultural interpretation, moral prescription, and philosophical analysis of concepts and presuppositions) and to debates about the character and aims of political theorising."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5201R", "title": "Seminar in Political Theory", "description": "This is a core course in political theory designed for students in any subfield of political science. It selectively examines both the history of the subject and current ideas, theorists, and methodologies. Particular attention is given to alternative understandings of the activity of theorising (e.g. scientific explanation, historical explanation, cultural interpretation, moral prescription, and philosophical analysis of concepts and presuppositions) and to debates about the character and aims of political theorising."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5312", "title": "Seminar in Comparative Politics", "description": "This seminar will survey the methodology, dominant approaches and theories in comparative politics. The seminar will place emphasis on methodological and theoretical issues that are common to the study of comparative politics. Classic works by leading comparativists will be used to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the existing methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of comparative politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5312R", "title": "Seminar in Comparative Politics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PS5313", "title": "Seminar On State and Society", "description": "Every state tries to govern effectively and to win popular compliance with its rule. Why are some states more successful than others in achieving this paramount objective? This seminar explores some answers to this question through intensive reading and discussion of some major works in comparative politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5313R", "title": "Seminar On State and Society", "description": "Every state tries to govern effectively and to win popular compliance with its rule. Why are some states more successful than others in achieving this paramount objective? This seminar explores some answers to this question through intensive reading and discussion of some major works in comparative politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5314", "title": "Seminar in International Relations", "description": "This is a core course in international relations which also challenges post-graduate students to begin original research in the subfield. Masters and Ph.D. students who specialise in international relations will be required to read this course. The course will introduce to students important and influential theories on international relations, including realism and liberalism, that attempt to explain cooperation and conflict among nations. Students will also be exposed to some of the important methods of analysis - such as case studies, formal modeling, and statistical analysis - that help distinguish the current study of international relations from that of previous eras. Important approaches, such as constructivism and rational choice, will also be discussed. Under the instructor's guidance, students will undertake an academic-quality presentation to the class and write a paper which proposes in detail an original research project in international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5314R", "title": "Seminar in Int'l Relations", "description": "This is a core course in international relations which also challenges post-graduate students to begin original research in the subfield. Masters and Ph.D. students who specialise in international relations will be required to read this course. The course will introduce to students important and influential theories on international relations, including realism and liberalism, that attempt to explain cooperation and conflict among nations. Students will also be exposed to some of the important methods of analysis - such as case studies, formal modeling, and statistical analysis - that help distinguish the current study of international relations from that of previous eras. Important approaches, such as constructivism and rational choice, will also be discussed. Under the instructor's guidance, students will undertake an academic-quality presentation to the class and write a paper which proposes in detail an original research project in international relations"}, {"moduleCode": "PS5316", "title": "Seminar in Public Administration", "description": "This seminar is designed for graduate students in any subfield of political science. The course examines the intellectual history of public administration and the basic issues that confront it today. The seminar pays particular attention to administrative responsibility and ethics and to the formulation and implementation of public policy. To this end, it will emphasize the nexus of public administration and politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5316R", "title": "Seminar in Public Administration", "description": "This seminar is designed for graduate students in any subfield of political science. The course examines the intellectual history of public administration and the basic issues that confront it today. The seminar pays particular attention to administrative responsibility and ethics and to the formulation and implementation of public policy. To this end, it will emphasize the nexus of public administration and politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5318R", "title": "The Politics of Authoritarian Rule", "description": "This course explores the politics of authoritarian rule. It begins by investigating conceptual and operational differences between authoritarian and democratic regimes. It then proceeds to examine the question of \u201cwho governs\u201d in authoritarian regimes, looking in particular at personalist, monarchical, military, and single party regimes. Further topics include: conditions that give rise to authoritarianism; strategies of maintaining power; authoritarianism and economic growth; and domestic and international sources of authoritarian demise. Readings will cover theoretical approaches to the study of authoritarian rule and in\u2010depth (mainly qualitative) case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5319", "title": "The American Presidency", "description": "This course surveys the foundations of American presidential authority and power, traces the historical development of the institution, and evaluates various scholarly approaches to understanding the American presidency. The American presidency was the first of its kind, the distinguishing feature of one of two prototypical systems of government that has come to be known as presidentialism, in contrast to parliamentarism."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5319R", "title": "The American Presidency", "description": "This course surveys the foundations of American presidential authority and power, traces the historical development of the institution, and evaluates various scholarly approaches to understanding the American presidency. The American presidency was the first of its kind, the distinguishing feature of one of two prototypical systems of government that has come to be known as presidentialism, in contrast to parliamentarism."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5321", "title": "Seminar in Chinese Politics", "description": "This seminar addresses some major questions of politics in China in recent decades. These include leadership succession, economic privatization, new forms of social stratification, representation and elections, civil society, changing rural governance, corruption, protest politics, the role of the Internet, and ethnic politics. The course will review current scholarship and provide a foundation for masters and doctoral students planning to undertake research on Chinese politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5321R", "title": "Seminar in Chinese Politics", "description": "This seminar addresses some major questions of politics in China in recent decades. These include leadership succession, economic privatization, new forms of social stratification, representation and elections, civil society, changing rural governance, corruption, protest politics, the role of the Internet, and ethnic politics. The course will review current scholarship and provide a foundation for masters and doctoral students planning to undertake research on Chinese politics."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5408", "title": "International Institutions", "description": "There are various types of international institutions with implications for international politics, security, and economic affairs. In this regard, the course examines issues such as transnationalism, complex interdependence, regime theory, neo-functionalism, and neoliberalism. Apart from examining global institutions like the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organisation, special emphasis is placed on institutions that have direct impacts on international relations in Asia, including ASEAN, APEC, ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEM, and SAARC. Students interested in International Relations are encouraged to read this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5408R", "title": "International Institutions", "description": "There are various types of international institutions with implications for international politics, security, and economic affairs. In this regard, the course examines issues such as transnationalism, complex interdependence, regime theory, neo-functionalism, and neoliberalism. Apart from examining global institutions like the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organisation, special emphasis is placed on institutions that have direct impacts on international relations in Asia, including ASEAN, APEC, ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEM, and SAARC. Students interested in International Relations are encouraged to read this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5503", "title": "Decentralization and Local Governance", "description": "The last thirty years has seen a wave of enthusiasm for decentralization, with advocates suggesting its implementation as a remedy to some of the most intractable problems in governance. Yet the anticipated benefits of these reforms have since been distributed unevenly. By engaging cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research from economics and political science, this seminar will examine the promise and pitfalls of decentralization across diverse contexts. Looking across sectors, special attentions will be given to understanding the conditions under which decentralization achieves greater political accountability, improves service delivery, and boosts economic growth."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5503R", "title": "Decentralization and Local Governance", "description": "The last thirty years has seen a wave of enthusiasm for decentralization, with advocates suggesting its implementation as a remedy to some of the most intractable problems in governance. Yet the anticipated benefits of these reforms have since been distributed unevenly. By engaging cutting-edge empirical and theoretical research from economics and political science, this seminar will examine the promise and pitfalls of decentralization across diverse contexts. Looking across sectors, special attentions will be given to understanding the conditions under which decentralization achieves greater political accountability, improves service delivery, and boosts economic growth."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5504", "title": "Development Theory, Policy and Institutions", "description": "This course deals with theories, policies and institutions related to socioeconomic development. After introducing the major concepts and dimensions of development, it critically examines the major traditions of development theories (conservative, reformist, radical). It discusses major development policies practiced especially in the developing world.The course also covers alternative institutional choices \u2013 the state, local government, private sector and non\u2010government organization \u2013 in carrying out development plans and policies. It may also include recent debates on Asian models of development depending on the lecturer\u2019s interest or preference to cover such models."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5505", "title": "Public Administration Theory", "description": "The teaching and learning objectives of this course are to examine various administrative theories and their limitations; to explain recent theoretical developments in public administration; and to analyze these theories and issues in relation to practical administrative systems in various regions and countries. The topics covered in this course include theoretical approaches to public organization; new theories or models of public management; issues of administrative behaviour (e.g. decision making, leadership, ethics, accountability); limits of administrative theories; and relevance of western theoretical debates to non-western societies."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5506", "title": "Globalization and Public Governance", "description": "This graduate course explains how the powerful forces or actors of globalization led to pro\u2010market neoliberal reforms in the nature of state formation and introduced changes in public governance (policy and administration). In particular, it analyses the neoliberal mode of public management, known as the reinvention or new public management (NPM) model. The course examines major elements of NPM \u2010 type reforms (e.g.privatization, outsourcing, public\u2010private partnership, managerial autonomy, and financial decentralization) in East and Southeast Asia. It evaluates the impact of globalization\u2010led neoliberal reforms on democracy, citizen\u2010administration relations,and corruption by using a politic\u2010economic perspective on globalization, state formation, and governance."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5506R", "title": "Globalization and Public Governance", "description": "This graduate course explains how the powerful forces or actors of globalization led to pro\u2010market neoliberal reforms in the nature of state formation and introduced changes in public governance (policy and administration). In particular, it analyses the neoliberal mode of public management, known as the reinvention or new public management (NPM) model. The course examines major elements of NPM \u2010 type reforms (e.g.privatization, outsourcing, public\u2010private partnership, managerial autonomy, and financial decentralization) in East and Southeast Asia. It evaluates the impact of globalization\u2010led neoliberal reforms on democracy, citizen\u2010administration relations,and corruption by using a politic\u2010economic perspective on globalization, state formation, and governance."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5602", "title": "Introduction to Quantitative Methods", "description": "This course covers basic inferential statistics and its application to the systematic study of politics. Topics covered will include descriptive statistics, sampling and probability, simple and multiple regression, interpretation of regression coefficients, regression diagnostics, visualisation of data, and computation of quantities of substantive interest. The focus is on the statistical underpinnings of the ordinary least square regression model and on developing practical data analysis skills."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5602R", "title": "Introduction to Quantitative Methods", "description": "This course covers basic inferential statistics and its application to the systematic study of politics. Topics covered will include descriptive statistics, sampling and probability, simple and multiple regression, interpretation of regression coefficients, regression diagnostics, visualisation of data, and computation of quantities of substantive interest. The focus is on the statistical underpinnings of the ordinary least square regression model and on developing practical data analysis skills."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5603", "title": "Introduction to Qualitative Methods", "description": "This course is an introduction to qualitative methods in political science. After a review of the main competing epistemological approaches we concentrate on the most prevalent qualitative method in political science: the comparative case-study. We then turn to interpretivism, ethnography, and discourse analysis, and their respective applications in political science."}, {"moduleCode": "PS5603R", "title": "Introduction to Qualitative Methods", "description": "This course investigates the logic and the practice of qualitative research. It covers qualitative research designs such as case studies, comparative historical analysis, problems of interpretation, process tracing and systematic process analysis, analytic narratives, and \u201cfuzzy set\u201d analysis based on Boolean algebra. The course also covers practical techniques that researchers frequently employ to collect data in the field such as interviews, participant observation and ethnography, textual analysis, focus groups, and archival research."}, {"moduleCode": "PS6314", "title": "Advanced Studies in Asian Politics", "description": "This course is meant to familiarise students with some of the more important domestic political issues in Northeast and Southeast Asia. It will examine a number of common themes that are relevant to both regions like political development and stability, state-society and civil-military relations and comparative democratisation. The course is ideal for students who would like to acquire a broader and deeper understanding of Asia and reflect on sub-regional differences."}, {"moduleCode": "PS6402", "title": "International Conflict and Security", "description": "The main emphasis of the course will be to explore major theoretical concerns in international conflict. The connection between basic theories about the nature, determinants and dynamics of international conflict will be analyzed. Protracted conflicts like the ones in the Middle East, South Asia and Northeast Asia will be studied in depth. Conflict termination strategies and the role of track two diplomacy and third party mediation will also be explained. The seminar will also discuss other non-traditional security issues, including environmental protection, terrorism, and migration, in light of theories on conflict resolution and cross-country cooperation. Students interested in International Relations are encouraged to take this course."}, {"moduleCode": "PS6505", "title": "Development Policy and Administration", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "PS6603", "title": "Topics in Research Methods", "description": "The course provides graduate students with intensive, focused, and hands-on training in specific advanced research methods. It introduces students to and familiarizes them with such advanced quantitative and qualitative methods as multiple regression, structural equation modeling, qualitative comparative analysis, experimental design, and interpretative methods. Unlike existing methods courses, which aim to provide a general introduction to a wide variety of research methods, this course focuses on the development of highly specific methodological skills."}, {"moduleCode": "PS6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. This course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Political Science in depth. Student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal written agreement to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Graduate Coordinator's approval is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between student and lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PS6660A", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. This course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Political Science in depth. Student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal written agreement to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Graduate Coordinator's approval is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between student and lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "PS6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and Ph.D. students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "PX2108", "title": "Basic Human Pathology", "description": "Pathology involves both basic science and clinical medicine and is devoted to the study of structural and functional changes in cells, tissues and organs that underlie diseases. It attempts to explain the \"whys\" of the signs and symptoms manifested by patients while providing a sound foundation for rational clinical care and therapy.\n\nThe module includes some aspects of General Pathology, Haematology and Chemical Pathology. General Pathology is concerned with the basic reactions of cells and tissues to abnormal stimuli that cause disease. Haematology deals with diseases of the blood while Chemical Pathology deals with biochemical processes in disease states."}, {"moduleCode": "PY1131", "title": "Human Anatomy & Physiology II", "description": "The module encompasses core material on aspects of human anantomy and physiology with reference to relevant clinical examples. Topics for the module include the following human systems: 1. gastrointestinal, 2. nervous, 3. renal and acid base 4. reproductive"}, {"moduleCode": "QF1100", "title": "Introduction to Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course gives an overview of quantitative finance and introduces mathematical concepts and data analytic tools used in finance. The topics include interest rate mathematics, bonds, mean-variance portfolio theory, risk diversification and hedging, forwards, futures and options, hedging strategies using futures, and trading strategies involving options."}, {"moduleCode": "QF2103", "title": "Computing for Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course introduces computer programming (e.g. Python) techniques and packages customised for quantitative finance. Students will learn how to apply the computer programming for performing interactive financial data analytics, deploying automated algorithmic trading strategies, and calibrating parameters used for financial derivatives pricing and risk management. Empirical research and code implementations will be demonstrated."}, {"moduleCode": "QF2104", "title": "Fundamentals of Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course introduces the students to the basics of quantitative finance and targets all students who have an interest in building a foundation in quantitative finance. Topics include term structure of interest rates, fixed income securities, risk aversion, basic utility theory, single-period portfolio optimisation, basic option theory. Mathematical rigor will be emphasised."}, {"moduleCode": "QF2310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 1ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF2312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF2313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF3101", "title": "Investment Instruments and Risk Management", "description": "The course aims to present the student with the basic paradigms of modern financial investment theory, to provide a foundation for analysing risks in financial markets and to study the pricing of financial securities. Topics will include the pricing of forward and futures contracts, swaps, interest rate and currency derivatives, hedging of risk exposures using these instruments, option trading strategies and value-at-risk computation for core financial instruments. A programming project will provide students with hands-on experience with real market instruments and data. This course targets all students who have an interest in quantitative finance."}, {"moduleCode": "QF3103", "title": "Advanced Mathematics in Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course introduces advanced mathematical knowledge used in quantitative finance, including differential equations, numerical partial differential equations, optimisation and dynamic programming, advanced probability, and neural network. Motivating examples in finance will be given as well."}, {"moduleCode": "QF3201", "title": "Basic Derivatives and Bonds", "description": "The aim of this course is to enable students to acquire the financial domain knowledge in quantitative finance. Through computer-based exercise and laboratory work, students will acquire the quantitative tools in derivatives and bonds used by the finance industry. Topics will include Derivative Instruments and their applications, Bonds, Bonds Analytics, Fixed Income Derivatives, Risk Management using Fixed Income Derivatives and Credit Derivatives. This course targets all students who have an interest in quantitative finance."}, {"moduleCode": "QF3310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF3311", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. Course is open to FoS undergraduate students from Cohorts AY2020/2021 and before, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF3312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF3313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4102", "title": "Financial Modelling and Computation", "description": "This course aims to present students with the knowledge of modelling financial process for the purpose of pricing financial derivatives, hedging derivatives, and managing financial risks. The emphasis of this course will be on numerical methods and implementation of models. The course will have two basic elements. First, course work with topics includes: mathematical models for pricing exotic options, implementation of numerical methods such as binomial tree methods, finite difference lattices and Monte Carlo methods for pricing exotic options. The second element of the course will be a group project. Projects will involve financial modelling of exotic options as well as writing and presenting a project report. This course targets students in the Quantitative Finance programme."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4102A", "title": "Financial Modelling and Computation", "description": "The course will have two basic elements. First course work with topics includes: implied trinomial trees, finite difference lattices, Monte Carlo methods, model risk, discrete the course will be a group project to develop a financial modelling tool. Project tropics will be extensions of models contained in the course work. Projects will involve financial modelling as well as writing and presenting a project report. This course targets students in the Quantitative Finance programme."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4103", "title": "Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives", "description": "This course imparts to students in-depth knowledge of pricing and hedging of financial derivatives in equity markets, basic stochastic calculus, Ito\u2019s formula, Black-Scholes models for European, American and path-dependent options such as Barrier, Asian and Lookback options."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4104", "title": "Project in Quantitative Finance and FinTech", "description": "This module is to conduct a self-designed project with topics relevant to quantitative finance and fintech. Projects should be related to at least one of the QF modules. It is also encouraged to conduct projects with problems in quantitative finance, fintech and digital finance, preferably, but not necessarily, in the form of internship, applying quantitative finance knowledge to meet needs of industry. This is an independent project and there is no resource for provision of formal supervision of the project by any lecturer. Student is required to submit a proposal for approval by a module coordinator before starting the project."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4199", "title": "Honours Project in Quantitative Finance", "description": "The Honours project is intended to give students the opportunity to work independently, to encourage students to develop and exhibit aspects of their ability not revealed or tested by the usual written examination, and to foster skills that could be of continued usefulness in their subsequent careers. The project work duration is one year (including assessment)."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4205", "title": "Time Series Analysis for Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course introduces students to financial time series techniques, focusing primarily on Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) method, conditional volatility (ARCH/GARCGH models), stochastic volatility models, regime switching and nonlinear filtering, multiple time series analysis, co-integration, and their applications on real-life financial problems. Both the relevant time series concepts and their financial applications are covered. Potential application of financial time series models include modelling equity returns, volatility estimations, value-at-risk modelling and option valuation. This course targets students in the undergraduate Quantitative Finance programme."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4211", "title": "Digital Currencies", "description": "This course introduces digital currencies, one of the most demanded digital technologies. We present practically relevant methods and technologies from data science, mathematical finance, neuroeconomics and time series and network analysis, and elaborate with examples in cryptocurrencies market analysis, crypto-assets and derivatives, stable coins and blockchain-based solutions for the digital economy (e.g., P2P lending). The use of GitHub and network techniques will be taught. Empirical research and code implementations will be demonstrated. Guest lecturers with rich working and research experience in the area will be invited to share their expertise in the course."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4212", "title": "Data Science in FinTech", "description": "This course introduces several state-of-the-art data science methods and approaches in statistical modeling, machine learning and deep learning with data-driven applications in finance and FinTech such as derivative pricing, portfolio optimisation, robo-advising and risk management. Real-data analysis and code implementations will be demonstrated. Guest lecturers with rich working and research experience from academia and industry will be invited to share their latest research findings or their experience in and outlooks on data science techniques and implementations in the modern financial industry."}, {"moduleCode": "QF4310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5201", "title": "Interest Rate Theory and Credit Risk", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. It focuses on advanced topics in interest rate theory and credit risk modelling and emphasizes their analogies. The course covers the following major topics. Products of fixed-income markets, Short rate models, Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework, LIBOR market models. Financial instruments in credit risk management, Models of default: Firm value and first passage time models, intensity based models, models of credit rating migrations. The course also provides a discussion of advantages and shortcomings of synthetic credit-linked instruments; moreover, modeling dependence structure of default events and default contagion will be treated."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5201A", "title": "Interest Rate Theory and Credit Risk", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. It focuses on advanced topics in interest rate theory and credit risk modelling and emphasizes their analogies. The course covers the following major topics. Products of fixed-income markets, Short rate models, Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework, LIBOR market models. Financial instruments in credit risk management, Models of default: Firm value and first passage time models, intensity based models, models of credit rating migrations. The course also provides a discussion of advantages and shortcomings of synthetic credit-linked instruments; moreover, modeling dependence structure of default events and default contagion will be treated."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5202", "title": "Structured Products", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. It covers the valuation of various structured products in the financial markets, including convertible bonds, mortgage backed securities, annuity products in insurance, real options, volatility swaps, collateralized debt obligations. Numerical methods and implementations will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5202A", "title": "Structured Products", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. It covers the valuation of various structured products in the financial markets, including convertible bonds, mortgage backed securities, annuity products in insurance, volatility swaps, passport options, accumulators, callable bull/ bear contracts, etc. Numerical methods and implementations will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5203", "title": "Risk Management", "description": "This graduate course on quantitative finance provides a study of the nature, measurement, analysis of, and management of different types of financial risks, including market risk, credit risk, operational risk, liquidity and model risks. It develops the mathematical fundamentals and models for risk management, including a general framework of risk and credit measures, dynamic analysis of financial derivative parameters (Greeks) and their changes in real-time for trading risk management. Examples from current and/or past developments in financial markets will be chosen to provide illustrations so that students may understand the various types of risk and learn the methods to handle the management of risks."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5203A", "title": "Risk Management", "description": "This course develops the mathematical fundamentals and models for risk management, including a general framework of risk and credit measures, dynamic analysis of financial derivative parameters (Greeks) and their changes in real\u2010time for trading risk management. Examples from current and/or past developments in financial markets will be chosen to provide illustrations so that students may understand the various types of risk and learn the methods to handle the management of risks."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5204", "title": "Numerical Methods in Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. It covers the programming methodology, techniques, data structures and algorithms used by practitioners in finance in the valuation of investment instruments. Numerical methods and implementations will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5205", "title": "Topics in Quantitative Finance I", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. The objective of this course is to introduce students to some selected topics in quantitative finance not covered by other courses in the quantitative finance programme. The lectures will demonstrate how various mathematical instruments, such as stochastic analysis, stochastic control, partial differential equations, numerical methods, etc, can be used to solve practical problems in quantitative finance. Modeling, numerical implementation and the interplay between theoretical and modeling approaches will be emphasized. In particular, examples from current and/or past developments in financial markets will be chosen for illustrations of applications of theory and modeling techniques introduced. The actual topics covered may vary from year to year, and will be decided by the lecturers."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5205A", "title": "Topics in Quantitative Finance I", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. The objective is to offer topics in quantitative finance that are of current interest and not covered by other courses in the quantitative finance programme, with the aim of providing students with the knowledge and skills that are of current demand in the finance industry. The course demonstrates how various mathematical concepts and methods in disciplines such as stochastic analysis, stochastic control, partial differential equations and numerical methods that the students have learned in the other courses are used to solve practical problems in quantitative finance, and emphasizes mathematical modeling, algorithms and numerical implementation. The topics covered may vary from year to year, and will be decided by the lecturer."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5206", "title": "Topics in Quantitative Finance II", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. The objective is to offer topics in quantitative finance that are of current interest and not covered by other courses in the quantitative finance programme, with the aim of providing students with the knowledge and skills that are of current demand in the finance industry. The course demonstrates how various mathematical concepts and methods in disciplines such as stochastic analysis, stochastic control, partial differential equations and numerical methods that the students have learned in the other courses are used to solve practical problems in quantitative finance, and emphasizes mathematical modeling, algorithms and numerical implementation. The topics covered may vary from year to year, and will be decided by the lecturer."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5206A", "title": "Topics in Quantitative Finance II", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. The objective is to offer topics in quantitative finance that are of current interest and not covered by other courses in the quantitative finance programme, with the aim of providing students with the knowledge and skills that are of current demand in the finance industry. The course demonstrates how various mathematical concepts and methods in disciplines such as stochastic analysis, stochastic control, partial differential equations and numerical methods that the students have learned in the other courses are used to solve practical problems in quantitative finance, and emphasizes mathematical modeling, algorithms and numerical implementation. The topics covered may vary from year to year, and will be decided by the lecturer."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5207", "title": "Investment and Portfolio Selection", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. The topics include measuring risk and return the Markowitz\u2019s mean-variance analysis, the continuous time portfolio selection theory, the capital asset pricing model, and the arbitrage pricing theory. The course will also touch optimization theory and stochastic control."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5207A", "title": "Investment and Portfolio Selection", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. The topics include measuring risk and return the Markowitz\u2019s mean-variance analysis, the continuous time portfolio selection theory, the capital asset pricing model, and the arbitrage pricing theory. The course will also touch optimization theory and stochastic control."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5208", "title": "AI and FinTech", "description": "Targeted at graduate students. The course introduces the state-of-the-art AI approaches with selected topics, from e.g. data analytics and visualization, statistical modeling, machine learning, DNN to text mining, as well as selected topics in FinTech, from e.g. asset allocation to sentiment analysis. Besides lecturers, academic researchers and industry professionals will be invited to come to share their latest research, their understandings and outlooks of data science techniques and knowledge and their applications in financial services."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5209", "title": "Financial Derivatives: Modelling and Computation", "description": "This course aims to present students with the knowledge of modelling financial processes essential for the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. The modelling of financial derivatives such as vanilla options, barrier options, lookback options and Asian options will be covered. The emphasis of the course will be on the use of various numerical methods commonly used for various pricing applications of financial derivatives. Numerical methods covered include binomial tree methods, finite difference methods and Monte-Carlo simulation methods. Assignments will involve the implementation of numerical methods for pricing derivatives, and the preparation of reports presenting the numerical results. This course targets students in the Master in Quantitative Finance programme."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5209A", "title": "Financial Derivatives: Modelling and Computation", "description": "This course aims to present students with the knowledge of modelling financial processes essential for the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. The modelling of financial derivatives such as vanilla options, barrier options, lookback options and Asian options will be covered. The emphasis of the course will be on the use of various numerical methods commonly used for various pricing applications of financial derivatives. Numerical methods covered include binomial tree methods, finite difference methods and Monte-Carlo simulation methods. Assignments will involve the implementation of numerical methods for pricing derivatives, and the preparation of reports presenting the numerical results. This course targets students in the Master in Quantitative Finance programme."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5210", "title": "Financial Time Series: Theory and Computation", "description": "This course introduces students to financial time series techniques, focusing primarily on Box-Jenkins (ARIMA) method, conditional volatility (ARCH/GARCGH models), stochastic volatility models, regime switching and nonlinear filtering, diverse non-linear state models, co-integration, and their applications on real-life financial problems. We provide both the relevant time series concepts and their financial applications. Potential application of financial time series models include modeling equity returns, volatility estimations, Value at Risk modelling and option valuation. This course targets students in the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance Programme."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5210A", "title": "Financial Time Series: Theory and Computation", "description": "The course provides both the relevant time series concepts and their financial applications. Potential application of financial time series models include modelling equity returns, volatility estimations, Value at Risk modelling an option valuation. This course targetshonous students in the Quantitative Finance Programme and students in the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance Programme."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5211", "title": "Monte Carlo Methods in Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. It introduces the fundamentals of Monte Carlo methods and advanced variance reduction techniques, as well as applications to practical problems in financial markets. In addition, the course also introduces reinforcement learning methods and demonstrates how reinforcement learning, in conjunction with Monte Carlo methods, can be used to solve practical problems in quantitative finance. Major topics include: Review of probability; the basic Monte Carlo method; variance reduction techniques and importance sampling; simulation of stochastic differential equations; sensitivity analysis; reinforcement learning and applications to trading, option pricing, derivative hedging and portfolio allocation."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5211A", "title": "Monte Carlo Methods in Quantitative Finance", "description": "This module is designed for graduate students in quantitative finance. It introduces the fundamentals of Monte Carlo methods and advanced variance reduction techniques, as well as applications to practical problems in financial markets. In addition, the course also introduces reinforcement learning methods and demonstrates how reinforcement learning, in conjunction with Monte Carlo methods, can be used to solve practical problems in quantitative finance. Major topics include: Review of probability; the basic Monte Carlo method; variance reduction techniques and importance sampling; simulation of stochastic differential equations; sensitivity analysis; reinforcement learning and applications to trading, option pricing, derivative hedging and portfolio allocation."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5212", "title": "Introduction to Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course introduces the basic techniques in stochastic analysis as well as their applications in quantitative finance. Major topics: Brownian motion, stochastic calculus, stochastic differential equations, financial markets, arbitrage, financial derivatives, partial differential equation method, risk-neutral pricing, optimal stopping problems and generalized Black-Scholes models."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5212A", "title": "Introduction to Quantitative Finance", "description": "This course introduces the basic techniques in stochastic analysis as well as their applications in quantitative finance. Major topics: Brownian motion, stochastic calculus, stochastic differential equations, financial markets, arbitrage, financial derivatives, partial differential equation method, risk-neutral pricing, optimal stopping problems and generalized Black-Scholes models."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5213", "title": "Financial Management", "description": "This course aims to provide quantitative or mathematical students with basic knowledge of finance and equip students with analytical logic to make reasonable financial decisions. Besides introductory concepts, this course will cover various in-depth case studies and selected mathematical models/frameworks in business finance. It helps the students link their financial and mathematical knowledge to industrial practices and academic applications."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5214", "title": "Data Engineering for Quantitative Finance", "description": "Data engineering is essential to quantitative finance. Without good quality and time-efficient data, quantitative models and strategies cannot perform in the best way. This course will provide a full picture of data engineering knowledge and end-to-end practice, to prepare students for next-level study and equip them with demanding skills for their career."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5299", "title": "Quantitative Finance Project", "description": "To equip students with solid mathematical sciences and problem solving skills in quantitative finance, students are to work on a real-world problem oriented project that requires the adoption and implementation of quantitative finance theory, methodology and approach. Students may also work on a project aiming to produce new financial products, modelling idea, or a detailed case study, under the supervision of a faculty member."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5310", "title": "Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Finance", "description": "This course is an introduction to the tools and techniques of data analysis and machine learning, addressing to different problems of automated trading, dimension reduction and large data set exploration."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5311", "title": "Advanced Methods in Risk Management", "description": "This course focuses on the most advanced risk management methods following the regulatory rules of BASEL IV such as tail risk or systemic risk."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5312", "title": "Statistical Models and Methods in Finance", "description": "Provides the central bridge between the stochastic theory of financial markets and computational finance (risk management, pricing)."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5313", "title": "Advanced Computational & Programming Methods in Finance", "description": "This course addresses modern computational and programming methods with a focus on the special needs in finance."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5314", "title": "Basic Mathematics in Finance", "description": "This course is an elementary introduction to the basic mathematical theory of probability, stochastic calculus, PDEs and statistics with a focus on the special needs in finance"}, {"moduleCode": "QF5315", "title": "Selected Topics in FinTech", "description": "Targeted at graduate students. The course introduces the \nemerging developments with selected topics in FinTech, \ne.g., applications of artificial intelligence in finance, block\nchain, cypto\u2010currencies, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5401", "title": "Graduate Internship in Quantitative Finance I", "description": "In addition to having academic foundation, students with good soft skills and industrial experience often stand a better chance when seeking for jobs upon their graduation. This course gives postgraduate Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internship/s during their candidature. The course requires students to perform a minimum of 20 hours per week structured internship in an approved company/institution for stipulated minimum period of 6 weeks."}, {"moduleCode": "QF5402", "title": "Graduate Internship in Quantitative Finance II", "description": "In addition to having academic foundation, students with good soft skills and industrial experience often stand a better chance when seeking for jobs upon their graduation. This course gives postgraduate Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internship/s during their candidature. The course requires students to perform a minimum of 20hours per week structured internship in an approved company/institution for stipulated minimum period of 12 weeks."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5101", "title": "Quantum measurements and statistics", "description": "This course introduces the basic building blocks for the theory of quantum measurements. With this detailed knowledge, a rigorous discussion of measurement models, the von Neumann model in particular, error-disturbance relations, incompatibility of measurements, and sequential measurements becomes possible. During the introduction of these concepts, the students will also acquire knowledge in operational quantum theory as well as become fluent in the mathematical framework of Hilbert space quantum mechanics."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5102", "title": "Security of Practical Quantum Cryptography", "description": "This course introduces physics/engineering graduate students to the fundamentals of quantum cryptography technology, focusing on mature applications like quantum key distribution and quantum random number generation. The course covers the security definitions of quantum cryptography, security proofs in the finitekey regime, device modelling, side-channel attacks, and counter measures. Towards the end of the course, when most of the tools/concepts are in place, we will analyse the security of an actual quantum key distribution experiment, and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. This course requires some basic quantum information/optics knowledge."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5103", "title": "Boolean functions, and applications in computer science", "description": "Analysis of Boolean functions has over the years provided important tools that deepened our understanding and simplified the analysis of fundamental concepts in computer science. From the theory of voting to machine learning to pseudorandom generators, Boolean functions provide both technical tools and intuitive insight. In this classical course, we will give an introduction to these tools, and the corresponding applications."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5198", "title": "Graduate Seminar in Quantum Information", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201", "title": "Special Topics in Quantum Information", "description": "This course will introduce graduate students in CQT to specialized areas of research in quantum information in great technical detail. The course will typically be taught by a visiting expert, providing a unique opportunity to learn advanced techniques from an active researcher in the field of interest."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201B", "title": "Special Topics in Quantum Information", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201C", "title": "Special Topics in Quantum Information", "description": "This course covers 9 full days of lectures (approx 54 hours) presented by internationally renowned experts; some of the lecturers have visited CQT and are involved in research collaborations with CQT researchers"}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201D", "title": "Special Topics in Quantum Information", "description": "This course covers 12 full days of lectures (approx 60 hours) during special semester 1, presented by internationally renowned experts; some of the lecturers have visited CQT and are involved in research collaborations with CQT researchers. This lecture series will be held during the period May 30-June 11. Upon return to NUS, the students should select one topic of the lecture series and specialize in this area of disordered systems during special semester 2. Notes: Project: short written report on the special topic plus an oral presentation of chosen topic of the school. The exam will take place at the end of special semester 2 at NUS on 29 Jul: The exam will be oral, covering any topic presented at the school."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201E", "title": "Special Topics in Quantum Information", "description": "This course offers the opportunity to attend the lectures by visitors Prof Serge Haroche (ENS, Paris) and Prof Iacopo Carusotto (Trento, Italy) for credit. Prof Haroche will deliver his prestigeous \u201cColl\u00e8ge de France abroad\u201d lectures on Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics; Prof Carusotto will lecture on Solid State Optics. Additional lectures will be conducted by Prof BG Englert (CQT, Physics) and possibly other NUS faculty members."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201F", "title": "Special Topics in Quantum Information (Strong Light Matter Coupling)", "description": "The course consists of 4 fundamental courses (42h) on the conceptual tools to describe the physics of light-matter coupling in the quantum and in the classical regimes, in different physical systems covering topics like CQED in atomic physics, Strong coupling regimes in semiconducting systems, circuit QED, Quantum open Systems."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201H", "title": "Special Topics in Quantum Information", "description": "This course will introduce graduate students in CQT to specialized areas of research in quantum information in great technical detail. The course will typically be taught by a visiting expert, providing a unique opportunity to learn advanced techniques from an active researcher in the field of interest."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201I", "title": "Breakthrough techniques in atomic and many-body physics", "description": "This course will introduce graduate students in CQT tospecialized areas of research in atomic and many-bodyphysics. The course will be taught by research fellows, providing a unique opportunity to learn advanced techniques from active researchers in the field of interest."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201J", "title": "Semidefinite Programming and Quantum Information", "description": "This course will introduce graduate students in NUS to specialized techniques (semidefinite programming) used in the research of quantum information and computation. The course will be taught by research fellows, providing a unique opportunity to learn advanced techniques from active researchers in the field of interest."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201K", "title": "Quantum Information Processing", "description": "This course aims to introduce modern concepts and methods Quantum Information Processing, which provides broad, solid foundations in modern topics of quantum information science. Subjects covered include - Entanglement, tensor networks, matrix product states - Topological quantum computation - Coding and error correction - Quantum algorithms - Physical implementations of quantum computation and information processing - Majorana physics."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201L", "title": "Quantum Information and Cryptography", "description": "This course will introduce graduate students in NUS to\ntopics arising in quantum information, computation, and\ncryptography. The course will be taught by a research\nfellow, providing a unique opportunity to learn advanced\nmaterial from an active researcher in the field of interest."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201M", "title": "Quantum State Estimation", "description": "This course will introduce graduate students in NUS to the concepts and methods of quantum state estimation, and thereby enable them to draw inference from data acquired in quantum experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201N", "title": "Convex optimization and quantum foundations", "description": "This course will introduce graduate students in NUS to the use of techniques from convex optimization to study the foundations of quantum mechanics. The course will provide an unique opportunity to learn advanced techniques from active researchers in the field of interest."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201P", "title": "Atoms and photon", "description": "This course introduce the fundamental interacting mechanisms between an atom and the electromagnetic field."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201Q", "title": "Quantum Algorithms", "description": "This course will be devoted to in-depth study of quantum algorithms. The course will cover main research areas in this field, such as algorithms for number-theoretic problems, unstructured search and quantum walks, Hamiltonian simulation, query complexity lower bounds, and linear system solvers."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201R", "title": "Density Functionals for Many-Particle Systems", "description": "This course will cover density functional theory and its variants for many-particle systems (electrons in atoms, molecules, solids; ultracold atoms in traps and optical lattices) from the perspective of theoretical and mathematical physics and will also deal with applications and the intricacies of numerical implementations. A central component of the course are the lectures given during the IMS Programme on Density Functionals for Many-Particle Systems (2-27 September 2019)."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201S", "title": "Quantum Electronics", "description": "In this course, basic electronic techniques related to quantum technologies are introduced at a level that allows students to analyze, design, build and modify electronics encountered in experimental work on quantum technologies. It covers basic circuit design, with a focus on techniques related to typical signal conditioning and processing tasks encountered in experiments and application engineering involving quantum systems like single photon detection and generation, atom and ion traps, laser spectroscopy, optical modulators and some radio-frequency techniques to drive atomic transitions, and electronic techniques at cryogenic temperatures."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201T", "title": "Bell nonlocality", "description": "This course covers the theory of Bell nonlocality (a.k.a.\nviolation of Bell inequalities), its application to deviceindependent certification of quantum devices, and some\nfoundational aspects related to the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201U", "title": "Quantum control technology", "description": "In this course, various experimental techniques for manipulation of quantum systems will be explored, partly through introductory lectures ,partly through small handson projects. The topics tentatively covered are frequency control of laser systems, homodyne detection techniques, generation of pulse sequences, high voltage techniques, electro-optics, accousto-optics, and liquid crystals for light modulation, basic optical fiber technology, optical cavities paraxial optics, and practical aspects of superconducting systems."}, {"moduleCode": "QT5201V", "title": "Complementarity and wave-particle duality", "description": "The course will familiarize the students with Bohr\u2019s Principle of\nComplementarity (with a precise technical meaning) and with the\nquantitative aspects of Einstein\u2019s wave-particle duality, arguably\nthe most important consequence of complementarity. Thereby,\nthe students will acquire a solid understanding of the basic\ntenets of quantum theory."}, {"moduleCode": "RD1111", "title": "Occlusion", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD1210", "title": "Pre-Clinical Operative Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD2000", "title": "Dental Materials", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD2110", "title": "Preclinical Fixed Prosthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD2111", "title": "Occlusion", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD2120", "title": "Pre-Clinical Removable Prosthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD2210", "title": "Preclinical Operative Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD2220", "title": "Pre-Clinical Endodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD3110", "title": "Fixed Prosthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD3120", "title": "Preclinical Removable Prosthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD3210", "title": "Operative Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD3220", "title": "Endodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD4100", "title": "Prosthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD4110", "title": "Fixed Prosthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD4111", "title": "Occlusion", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD4120", "title": "Removable Prosthodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD4210", "title": "Operative Dentistry", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RD4220", "title": "Endodontics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RE1701", "title": "Urban Land Use and Development", "description": "This is an introductory course providing students with theories, concepts and components of the urban built environment. Discussions will cover the urbanisation process, development of urban forms and structures, land policy and development constraints, national development and the land use planning process, the role of government in the planning process, the property development process, and the roles and functions of parties involved in real estate as well as urban development."}, {"moduleCode": "RE1702", "title": "Real Estate Data Analytics", "description": "This is the first course in the real estate quantitative methods track. It introduces students to the types of data typically used in real estate analyses. Students will learn how to access the data and understand their distributions. Then, they will learn how to process the data to support real estate decision\u2010making. In the first half of the course, basic statistical concepts are taught through detailed applications in the real estate domain using REALIS transactions and spatial information. The second half of the course presents parametric and non\u2010parametric analyses that demonstrate their functions in real estate data analytics."}, {"moduleCode": "RE1703", "title": "Principles of Law for Real Estate", "description": "This course provides an understanding of fundamental principles relating to legal systems, contract and tort in Singapore. Topics covered include Law and Morality, Legal Systems of the World, the Law of Contract, and the Law of Tort."}, {"moduleCode": "RE1704", "title": "Principles of Real Estate Economics", "description": "This module helps students build up the foundation for the economic analysis of cities and real estate markets. In addition to introducing basic micro- and macro- economic concepts, this module combines microeconomic theories with application in urban topics and real estate markets. It also elaborates on relevant macroeconomics concepts to understand housing cycles, urban planning, and regional economic growth in the real estate market."}, {"moduleCode": "RE1705", "title": "Real Estate Finance and Accounting", "description": "This module equips students with the basic financial skills and knowledge necessary for further studies in real estate finance and investment track. The topics include an introduction to financial markets and financial institutions; understanding various interest rates; risks and returns; capital budgeting; accounting and financial statement analyses; financial securities; and shareholder and capital structures. Students will also have spreadsheet laboratory sessions to develop quantitative data processing skills."}, {"moduleCode": "RE1706", "title": "Design and Construction", "description": "The first part covers the development of the building form in terms of the design, functionality, structural and construction issues including building materials and technology, and major building elements and services. The second part comprises the fundamental principles and practice of design and construction for real estate developments by examining the key building elements and technologies, how design and construction affect property value, maintainability, function and use. Students will acquire skills in the interpretation of building drawings and appreciation of construction methods and materials."}, {"moduleCode": "RE1901", "title": "Real Estate Wealth Management", "description": "Real estate assets form the largest component of household wealth (and debt) in our nation. While the media tends to focus on the wealth created through real estate investment (speculation), there is much less discussion of the real estate wealth management (REWM) process. This course aims to provide a general understanding of the REWM. Impact of economic, social and policy factors on household property wealth including a review of general economic principles such as market supply and demand, the impact of government financial and regulatory policies as well as demographic considerations such as an ageing population will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2701", "title": "Urban Planning", "description": "The course will provide students with a thorough understanding of urban planning principles and processes that influence the function and design of cities. It will include an introduction to the history of modern city planning, and contemporary planning concepts such as Garden Cities, City Beautiful movement, Vertical Cities, etc. There will also be a discussion of New Town Planning, Urban Renewal and conservation. Singapore will be introduced as a case study, but selected cities elsewhere are discussed for comparison and better understanding."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2702", "title": "Land Law", "description": "The course covers basic concepts in Land Law, including the doctrine of estates and tenures, rights in land, transfer of title, strata law, landlord and tenant law and estate agency. Through content knowledge, students will gain an appreciation of legal analysis and reasoning, as well as the rationale for the current state of real estate law."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2704", "title": "Introduction to Real Estate Valuation", "description": "The course introduces students to theories that underpin real property valuation to develop an appreciation of fundamental concepts and principles of valuation. It includes a critical review of value theory, valuation theory and concepts of market value. Building from the fundamentals, various methods of real estate valuation are introduced. Topics include: nature and scope of valuation; concepts of value, particularly open market value and fair market value; foundations of valuation; role and functions of the valuer; characteristics of property and the property market; market study and valuation; the valuation process; professional standards and valuation report; and, the methods of valuation."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2705", "title": "Urban Economics", "description": "This course employs tools from microeconomic analysis to explain the urbanization process and the operation of real estate markets. The topics include economic factors driving city formation; market forces shaping the urban spatial structure; determinants of metropolitan and regional growth; quality of life measurements; urban sprawl and skyscrapers; urban transportation; neighbourhoods and racial/income segregation; land-use regulations; and urban governance."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2706", "title": "Real Estate and Infrastructure Finance", "description": "This course examines real estate and infrastructure finance institutions and instruments that focus on debt. It equips students with the essential skills to analyse and evaluate real estate and infrastructure financing decisions. The topics include: institutional landscape of real estate and infrastructure financing; mortgage mechanics; different mortgage instruments; residential financing analysis and borrower choices; residential underwriting and lending policies; development, project and infrastructure financing; and housing financing innovations."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2707", "title": "Asset and Property Management", "description": "This course discusses asset and property management concepts including aspects such as fire and risk management, maintenance management, lease management and investment management. It will also discuss the role and functions of facility management including design, benchmarking and space planning, building services management, building conservation, etc in relation to the business goals of real estate firms. The management of high-rise private developments, including the Land Titles Strata Act, responsibilities of management corporations and managing agents are also discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2708", "title": "Computational Thinking and Programming for Real Estate", "description": "This course introduces fundamental concepts in computational thinking and basic programming techniques (VBA and Python) to Real Estate (RE) students. It aims to strengthen students\u2019 quantitative skills and problem solving capability necessary to lead the future of the real estate and urban planning industry. Topics covered include problem solving by computing, basic problem formulation and problem solving, program development, coding, testing and debugging, fundamental programming constructs, fundamental data structures, simple file processing, basic recursion, and basic data visualization techniques. Students will apply their skills to solve practical problems in real estate and urban planning."}, {"moduleCode": "RE2801", "title": "Research Methodology in Real Estate", "description": "This module teaches the skills needed for scientific research in real estate and urban studies. It focuses on the applied econometrics. Major topics includes multiple regressions, simultaneous equation models, discrete choice models, time series analysis, differences-in-differences, fixed verse random effects and panel data analysis. The issues of model selections, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation, instrumental variables and identification are introduced. \n\nIt also addresses the whole research process including identifying research problem; defining research questions, objectives and significance; conducting literature review; developing research framework and research design; collecting data and performing survey; conducting qualitative or quantitative analyses; reasoning research results and writing up."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3000", "title": "Work Experience Internship", "description": "This internship course is open to full-time undergraduate students who have completed at least 60MCs and plan to proceed on an approved internship of at least 10 weeks in duration in the vacation period. This course recognizes work experiences in fields that could lead to viable career pathways that may or may not be directly related to the student\u2019s major. It is accessible to students for academic credit even if they had previously completed internship stints for academic credit not exceeding 12MC, and if the new workscope is substantially differentiated from previously completed ones."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3701", "title": "Real Estate Investment Analysis", "description": "This course examines real estate and infrastructure as an asset class and equips students with the essential skills for analysing a real estate and infrastructure investment problems. The topics include: investment objectives; leasing structure and income analysis; characteristics of real estate and infrastructure returns and risks; capitalization rates; capital budgeting; financial leverage and after-tax returns; equity versus debt investment; and real estate and infrastructure equity investment strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3702", "title": "Property Tax and Statutory Valuation", "description": "This course applies valuation theory to various types of valuation problems in Singapore with a special focus on valuation for property tax and other statutory purposes. It is aimed at helping students to understand the application of various methods of valuation to different types of properties under the Property Tax Act as well as various other statutory requirements for compulsory purchase and acquisition, stamp duty, GST, development charge, differential premium and upgrading premium. Other applied topics such as development appraisal and investment analysis will also be covered under this course."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3703", "title": "Advanced Real Estate Economics", "description": "This course covers three major components related to real estate economics from both theoretical and practical perspectives. First, it introduces the broad linkages between real estate markets and the macro-economy, and the relevant theoretical frameworks for analysing the demand, supply, and market equilibrium of properties in different real estate sectors. Second, it discusses the availability and interpretations of real estate market data in practice. Third, it touches upon popular modelling techniques to evaluate real estate market conditions using statistical softwares."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3704", "title": "Real Estate Marketing", "description": "This course comprises two parts. Part 1 covers the theoretical principles and concepts relating to the marketing of real estate, including aspects such as marketing mix, market research and segmentation, product management and pricing, negotiation and selling techniques, distribution methods, etc. Part 2 focuses the practical applications of marketing theories to actual case studies in the real estate market, emphasizing on residential, commercial and industrial properties."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3802", "title": "Real Estate Finance Law", "description": "This course deals with the legal aspects of conducting and participating in the business of investing in real estate. Topics covered include the formation, management and liability of business organisations as well as joint venture agreements. Students will also gain an understanding of the regulatory framework that governs real estate lending institutions and mortgages, real-estate backed securities and other forms of real estate financing. The original Trust concept and its adaptation to business trusts and real estate investment trusts (REITS) will also be discussed from the legal perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3803", "title": "Strategic Asset Management", "description": "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 will feature lectures by industry leaders so that students are better to develop a link between theory and current industry trends."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3804", "title": "Real Estate Development Law", "description": "This module deals with the legal issues that affect real estate development. It examines the regulatory framework for real estate development and taxation. It also deals with the regulations pertaining to the acquisition of land for public and private developments. Topics to be covered include: land use planning and zoning, development and building controls, betterment value and development charge, property tax, stamp duty, income tax, and goods and services tax."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3805", "title": "Corporate Investment in Real Estate", "description": "This module examines strategic dimensions of real estate in property companies and business firms. Topics include the business, financial and stock market perspectives of real estate as well as case studies. Students will learn basic theories, techniques and practices of corporate finance and asset management applicable to property companies and business portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3806", "title": "Advanced Real Estate Valuation", "description": "This course presents theoretical and practical issues relating to the role of valuation in real estate investment and development decisions, especially in investment valuation and market valuation. It aims to help students understand how the various methods of valuation are applied to different types of properties taking into consideration the purposes of valuation such as investment, divestiture, mortgage and insurance. Advanced topics include valuation of air and subterranean rights; specialised premises such as hospitals; recreational premises and hotels; and asset valuation for incorporation in financial statements. This course will be supported by relevant case studies and sharing sessions by practitioners."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3807", "title": "Corporate Finance for Real Estate", "description": "This course covers principles and methods in real estate corporate finance for listed real estate development and investment firms. The course addresses key corporate finance issues such as the theory and practice of stock analysis, financial statement analysis, corporate growth analysis and valuation, financial leverage and capital, cost of capital determination, firm valuation, shareholder wealth maximization, dividend policy and signalling , corporate governance and information transparency, corporate control and option pricing. At the end of formal instructions, course participants are expected to work competently on a real estate company project that cover some issues."}, {"moduleCode": "RE3901", "title": "Advanced Urban Planning", "description": "This module will extend beyond planning theory to cover recent developments in planning and development in the global, regional and local contexts. The main aim is to equip students with contextual knowledge of how planning is practiced in contemporary markets, recognising the dynamic nature of the development environment and the socio-political imperatives that drive planning decisions. The topics cover fundamental knowledge on how plans are formulated and translated into development projects, in the context of challenging economic, social and political /institutional environments and focus on professional development using case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4701", "title": "Real Estate Development", "description": "This module examines the development process for a range of property types. Discussions will cover a wide range of topics including the development cycle, land assembly, market & financial feasibility studies, planning and regulatory framework, design, construction management, and environmental concerns. Students will undertake a group project where different aspects of real estate studies will be brought to bear."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4702", "title": "Professional Practice and Ethics", "description": "This module discusses the professional practice in the real estate field covering among others, valuation, property and facility management, marketing and property consultancy. It aims to provide students with an appreciation of the challenges and practical issues involved in professional practice. It highlights the ethical issues in professional practice, and deals with professional communication and interactions with clients and other professionals. Career planning and management including interview skills and business etiquette will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4711", "title": "FYP Dissertation", "description": "This course aims at developing students\u2019 capability in conducting research. Students are expected to formulate a research problem, and to demonstrate the ability to pursue unaided investigations relevant to their research problem, in data collection, analysis, and interpretation of the results."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4712", "title": "FYP Academic Exercise", "description": "This course aims at developing students\u2019 capability in analysing and evaluating case studies. Students are expected to select a real estate development as a case study, examine the pertinent issues involved, collect relevant data relating to the case, analyse the case facts, and recommend appropriate solutions to problems."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4801", "title": "Real Estate Internship Programme", "description": "This course aims to provide real-world learning experience to third year undergraduates at private and public real estate organisations. Industry specialisation areas include development, professional consultancy, fund management and policy exposure in governmental agencies. Suitable candidates are chosen to be interns and are matched with participating firms. They will undergo training for ten weeks in May to July of each year. The selection criteria include, but are not limited to, the following: Scholastic ability, positive attitude, superior presentation and communication skills, and entrepreneurial drive. Each candidate is also required to submit a proposal outlining his/her potential contribution(s) to the organisation."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4802", "title": "Topics in Real Estate (Summer Programme)", "description": "This course examines country-specific issues in socioeconomic, demographic and political dimensions underlying the real estate processes. Students will attend lectures and seminars in both NUS and partner universities in the country of discussion. Site visits to projects and organisations are integral part of the course. Students will work on a project for in-depth study of selected aspects of the real estate industry in the country."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4803", "title": "REIT and Business Trust Management", "description": "The emergence and rapid expansion of REIT and Business Trust (BTs) markets globally and in Asia have been an important development in real estate and infrastructure capital market. This course is designed to cover topics on REIT and BT concepts and models; REIT experience in the US and other Asia markets; asset characteristics and types of REIT; tax efficient model; growth and acquisition strategies; financing and dividend policies of REITs and BTs; crossborder REITs and BTs, stapled REITs and UPREIT; and institutional investment in REITs and BTs."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4804", "title": "Real Estate Securitisation", "description": "This course represents the second part of the analysis of real estate capital markets. It covers the real estate debt capital markets. Topics include the economics of mortgage securitisation; the various mortgage-backed securitisation instruments, models and structures; the concepts of pooling and tranching; secondary mortgage institutions and the US experience in real estate debt securitisation; commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities; embedded pre-payment and default options; rating agencies and risk analyses; as well as the policy implications and relevant lessons for markets from the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4805", "title": "International Real Estate Development and Investment", "description": "This module prepares students for real estate development and investment in international markets. It integrates earlier modules and extends them with additional considerations that inform strategy formulation and decision-making when seeking offshore real estate opportunities. Topics include originating ideas; cultural and institutional factors such as fiscal and land codes; sourcing land and capital; forming joint ventures and other vehicles; risk mitigation; repatriation of income; and exit strategies. The main pedagogical method will be problem-based learning with real life case studies of foreign real estate and township development projects; overseas investments by large corporates and\nfunds; project financing; land procurement."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4806", "title": "Real Estate Finance Seminar", "description": "Institutional investment into real estate has increased both in scale and sophistication in recent years. This course is designed to enable student to study flows of fund into real estate markets and different instruments in structured real estate financing. Topics include real estate capital market private real estate funds, real estate hedge funds, mutual and close-end funds, fund of funds, Islamic financing and issues in cross border real estate investment."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4807", "title": "Real Estate Risk Analysis and Management", "description": "This module introduces the concepts, principles, theories, techniques and practices of risk analysis and management in real estate investments. Topics include concept of real estate market risks; real estate strategic risk management; Value-at-Risk (VaR); sensitivity and scenario analyses; Monte Carlo simulation; risk hedging and property derivatives; option pricing theory and real options."}, {"moduleCode": "RE4808", "title": "Urban Challenges and Policies", "description": "This course exposes students to current urban challenges faced by Singapore and cities around the world. It provides economic perspectives to link these challenges to fundamental global trends of technological, demographic and climatic changes. Urban development goals of sustainability, liveability and social equity will be discussed, and so will be various urban solutions, from land use pattern, urban transportation system and infrastructure investment, to smart-city technologies. Students are challenged, through case studies, to think about necessary collective choices, including land use policies, taxation and allocation of public resources, and urban governance models, in order to achieve urban goals."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5000", "title": "Dissertation", "description": "The dissertation offers the opportunity for candidates to individually conduct independent research work on a topic of interest and relevance to the program. The dissertation will be graded."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5001", "title": "Real Estate Development", "description": "This course introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques involved in understanding and managing the real estate development process. It examines the entrepreneurial, legal & institutional elements, which include real estate laws governing development, in the transformation of existing real estate to its highest and best use. Modeling the sequential events in the real estate development process, the course covers a wide range of issues encountered in the different phases of development \u2013 from site evaluation and land procurement, development team assembly, real estate market studies, preparation of development schemes, construction & project management, project marketing and finally to the hand-over of completed projects."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5003", "title": "Real Estate Investment", "description": "This course develops an understanding of the tools for assessing real estate investment opportunities at the micro-level paying attention to the characteristics that distinguish real estate from other assets. It covers the discounted cash flow models applied to evaluate financial feasibility for real estate investment. Specific techniques include developing cash flow proformas, ratio analyses and capitalization rate. The concept of leverage is also introduced in relation to cash flow projections. It covers portfolio theory, risk analysis, WACC, CAPM, risk diversification roles of real estate, different asset classes, asset management, and international real estate investment strategies, performance measures and options."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5004", "title": "Real Estate Economics", "description": "This course applies contemporary economic thinking and research to explain real estate market fundamentals. It offers knowledge to appreciating demand and supply determinants of the property market. It analyses how this market interacts with other asset markets, capital markets, and the broader economy, using theory with empirical evidence. It also covers the workings of the urban economy vital to the vibrancy of real estate. The course provides an integrative framework for understanding and forecasting the forces that shape the price, rent, and return of space markets, investment asset markets, and real estate industries."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5005", "title": "Real Estate Finance", "description": "This course examines how real estate can be financed. Students will learn the theories, techniques and practices of corporate finance applicable to property company portfolios. Major topics covered include: sources of finance, financial statement analysis, corporate growth and market valuation, net asset discount, the impact of leverage and dividend policy on capital structure decisions, corporate governance and transparency. In addition, the course deals with the implications of different arrangements such as partnerships, joint-venture structuring, sale-leaseback and other forms of development financing, both bridging and permanent, on deal viability."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5006", "title": "Portfolio and Asset Management", "description": "This course develops an understanding of the tools for assessing real estate investment opportunities at the macro or portfolio level, as well as the micro or asset level. It covers modern portfolio theory before examining the role of property in an institutional investment portfolio with particular attention given to property portfolio performance analysis, diversification benefits and investment strategy. Real estate asset management involves optimizing the cash flows generated from real estate assets by a direct real estate owner, investor or an organization which incidentally heads, owns or leases real estate to support its corporate mission. This course examines how direct real estate should to be managed proactively to enhance property value or the worth of the business operations the property facilitates."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5009", "title": "Real Estate Appraisal", "description": "This course seeks to develop an understanding of the theory and professional practice of real estate valuation. It aims to impart the foundational concepts of value and the significance of real estate valuation to the real estate market. The focus is on concepts, principles, process of market valuation and the contemporary approaches to the valuation of all types of property. It also covers more advanced appraisal issues and topics including the valuation of special properties & interests, business, equipment & intangible assets. It also examines the use of AVMs and the professional practice and standards of valuation as regulated by professional bodies in Singapore and globally."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5011", "title": "Asian Real Estate Markets and Field Study", "description": "This course provides exposure to the structure and organisation of real estate markets in emerging and developed markets in Asia. It will cover the institutional framework of the key Asian markets. The field study focuses on one of them with an in-depth appreciation of the institutional and market economy aspects of the subject country including real estate regulation, investment practices and development procedures. Students are expected to complete individual and group reports including recommendations for investment in real estate such as structuring a cross-border venture. However, in the event where actual field trips to another country/city is not possible, students will conduct virtual studies with online lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5013", "title": "Urban Policy & Real Estate Market", "description": "A distinctive characteristic of real estate is the extensive government regulation of both land and the built environment. Focusing on the development of urban and metropolitan areas and the dynamic forces that drive urban growth as well as shape urban spatial configurations, this course examines the impact of government regulations and public policies on real estate markets. Selected topics include planning and development controls, degeneration and urban renewal, private-public participation, leasehold policy, public versus private housing, and urban fiscal policy such as property taxation, local government finance and development and betterment levies. It also provides an overview of the incentives created by the legal and institutional framework on real estate development."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5014", "title": "Real Estate Investment Trusts & Property Funds", "description": "This course seeks to provide a practice-oriented understanding of the evolution of the REIT and property funds as vehicles for real estate investment. It delves into the motivations for creating a REIT and the institutional regimes such as taxation and other regulations that influence how a REIT operates. In addition, it studies the formation of business trusts and property funds to determine the relative merits for sponsors and investors. Topics to be covered include practical issues in property fund management for institutional and high net worth clients; establishing and managing a property fund management; fees of REIT managers; role of sponsors; interested-party transactions; internal versus external management structure. It will also examine the growth strategies of REITs, i.e. organic growth and accretive acquisitions and capital management strategy to drive the development of investment vehicles such as trusts and funds."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5015", "title": "Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Cartography", "description": "This course introduces geographic information systems (GIS) to students interested in real estate and urban planning. The course provides students with ample practical hands-on experience in geospatial and cartography basics with applications in geospatial information and technology across the domains of real estate and urban planning. The course consists of lectures and lab-based sessions. It explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of GIS, such as data entry, data manipulation, spatial analysis, and production of interpretable output (eg data visualisation and mapping). The course also introduces students to 3D GIS. The course is taught entirely using open-source software (mainly QGIS with plugins) and open data."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5016", "title": "Real Estate Securitisation", "description": "This course introduces real estate backed securitization and how investors make investment decisions. This would cover both debt (CMBS) as well as equity (REITs). As the Asian real estate markets are primarily debt financed via the loan markets, the course will spend most of it\u2019s focus on how real estate is financed via secured loans. We will cover the financing process through a master case study which runs through the course and evolves as different aspects of financing are discussed. Site inspections and term sheet negotiations will be undertaken. Emerging trends like sustainability and climate risk are also addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5017", "title": "Real Estate Case Study", "description": "This course aims at developing students\u2019 capability in analysing and evaluating case studies. Students are expected to select a real estate problems as a case study, examine the pertinent issues involved, collect relevant data relating to the case, analyse the case facts, and recommend appropriate solutions to problems."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5018", "title": "Real Estate Taxes and Statutory Valuation", "description": "This course aims to equip the participants with an understanding of the different statutory instruments adopted by tax jurisdictions and how they may be used to achieve fiscal, economic and social objectives. Participants will learn in-depth knowledge and techniques used in the valuation of real estate for a wide range of statutory purposes such as acquisition or disposal of properties, financial reporting, and taxation. The course focuses on the sharing and discussion of many past case examples and studies of statutory valuation assignments that valuation professionals in both private and public sectors had encountered. Students will gain insights into the various practical valuation issues and challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5019", "title": "Data & Analytics in Real Estate", "description": "This course equips students with the knowledge and skills to engage with and actively respond to technological disruptions in the urban environment. The first part introduces basic computational skills for urban data analytics using the R language and other open source tools. The second part builds the conceptual foundations needed to understand data analytics, financial innovation and the process of digitalisation in a coherent framework. This is an applied course for students in real estate and related fields with little-or-no programming experience. Students are guided towards designing, constructing and deploying data-driven urban analytics and PropTech applications."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5020", "title": "Sustainable Real Estate Development & Investment", "description": "This is a seminar type course, designed for students who are interested in sustainability challenges in real estate development and investment and who want to gain the knowledge and insights to implement solutions to address the challenges. As the real estate industry needs to transform its products and services, practitioners and service providers must know how to deal with such sustainability challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5021", "title": "Real Estate for Ageing Society", "description": "The ageing population has a profound impact on the real estate market. The adequacy of our built environment in catering to the specific needs of older people will be explored based on an inter-disciplinary learning approach. We will evaluate the demand and study the different senior housing models ranging from independent co-housing to assisted care housing. The topics within this course will be analysed holistically taking into consideration behavioural science, economics, public policy, sociology, the built and natural environment."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5022", "title": "The Past & Future of China\u2019s Real Estate Market", "description": "China\u2019s real estate market is a key pillar of China\u2019s economic growth, which is a major source of growth for other economies in the region and beyond. This course helps students to develop an understanding of China\u2019s real estate market and its future directions. Following an overview of the institutional background, the course discusses the market forces and policies that shape the development of China\u2019s real estate market, the current challenges, and the changes that need to take place to create a sustainable relationship between the real estate market and the wider economy in China."}, {"moduleCode": "RE5770", "title": "Graduate Seminar", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RE6004", "title": "Research Methodology in Real Estate", "description": "This course is intended to provide research students with necessary knowledge and skills on how to carry out real estate research. The course includes two parts. First, students will be taught the mechanics and process of research like reviewing literature, defining research questions, designing research methodology, analyzing research findings, and writing academic papers. It hopes to provide students with adequate knowledge to differentiate good research from a bad one. Statistical techniques will be introduced in the second half of the course. The emphasis, however, is on the application of the statistical tools to real estate research questions. As part of the course to get students to apply relevant statistical tools, instruction and hands-on practice on some sophisticated softwares will also be included. Students will be asked to read papers on selected applications of the tools, and they would also be given an assignment, which will require them to apply relevant tools to selected research questions. Student will also be required to do paper critiques."}, {"moduleCode": "RE6005", "title": "Real Estate Economics Research Seminar", "description": "This course provides an overview of theoretical and empirical research focusing on real estate markets and urban economics. It is designed to provide research students with (1) an improved ability to read and criticize theoretical and empirical papers in the field, (2) enhanced skills needed to undertake and present theoretical and empirical research and (3) an appreciation of the main econometric tools and theoretical modeling strategies that have been applied in recent research. The topics covered are intended to expose students to some major contributions in real estate research as well as a consideration of the current trends and methodological advances in recent papers."}, {"moduleCode": "RE6006", "title": "Real Estate Finance Seminar", "description": "This course is arranged primarily for research students to discuss advanced topics in real estate finance and review selected research papers. Students in this course will have to be active in the process of learning. The course will consists of paper critiques, topical and conceptual debates on contemporary issues in real estate finance research. Students are expected to carry out comprehensive review of literature and critical thinking. Guided contemporary research topics covered include corporate real estate, real estate securitisation, real options, asset pricing, capital structure, and real estate portfolio analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "RE6007", "title": "Research Topics in Real Estate", "description": "This self-study course is intended for research graduate students in their second semester. The content of this course will vary according to the research interests of the enrolling student and the supervising staff. Students are required to undertake an independent research project under the supervision of his/her supervisor. They are expected to participate actively in research seminars. Written assignments and seminar attendance and presentations constitute part of the evaluation in this course. Candidates will have to apply concepts learned to their research thesis. Topics that may be offered include Corporate & Securitised Real Estate, Institutional and Spatial Analyses of Real Estate, and Housing Studies. Students are expected to select a research topic, and conceptualise the research question and methodology. They are also required to present the paper in a seminar format."}, {"moduleCode": "RE6008", "title": "Urban Planning and Development Seminar", "description": "This course is primarily designed to enable research students to explore approved topics in urban planning and land development in depth. The topics include urban planning theories and methods, global cities, sustainable development of Asian cities and urban development literatures. Specific topics, readings and assignments will be worked out between the students and a lecturer."}, {"moduleCode": "RE6110", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": "Independent Study Courses (ISCs) in an area of specialization are for students with the requisite background to work closely with an instructor on a well defined project in the respective specialization areas. Students will conduct independent critical reading and research work on organizational behavior under the guidance of the instructor. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "RE6770", "title": "Phd Seminar", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RS4000", "title": "Urop", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RVC1000", "title": "How in the world do we get along?", "description": "Our world is figuratively shrinking. We increasingly encounter people who are different from us, such as in the areas of cultural backgrounds, language, religion, and values. We have to navigate these differences in our communities and workplace, and doing so requires us to effectively connect with people and work across cultures. With a focus on Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Cultural Intelligence (CI), this course empowers one to gain greater appreciation of cultural diversity and enhanced agility in collaborating and communicating in cross-cultural settings."}, {"moduleCode": "RVC1001", "title": "The Rocky Road to SDGs", "description": "Diverse cultural values and norms can enable or hinder meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this course, students will learn how culture impacts social sustainability and reassess their understanding of socio-cultural issues in regional and global contexts. Through team-led seminars, fieldtrips, roleplay, interviews, and critical discussions, students will learn to navigate cultural differences and develop solutions that address socio-cultural challenges in moving towards social sustainability. By exploring the complex relationships between individuals, society, governments, and supranational institutions, this course will develop students into sensitive global citizens with a holistic understanding of culture and the social pillar of sustainability."}, {"moduleCode": "RVC2000", "title": "Culture and Sustainability in Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asia is a region of diverse cultures with a myriad of sustainability challenges. It presents a rich context to explore concepts, practices, and issues in preserving the region\u2019s cultural and natural heritage while pursuing economic and social development. In this course, students will critically examine the relevance of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development, alongside economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental conservation. By connecting classroom learning with field experience within Southeast Asia, students will develop an appreciation of different ways in which diverse communities interact with nature and recognise the need for the localisation of sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "RVN1000", "title": "Engaging Communities in Sustainability", "description": "This interdisciplinary course takes a close look at how we consume resources in our daily activities and the resulting sustainability issues, through a holistic analysis of the underlying social, environmental and economic drivers. Through fieldtrips and direct engagement with local communities, we will contextualize these issues to highlight the ways in which planetary resource consumption impacts communities. We will work collaboratively with communities to combat sustainability issues. Synthesizing these learning experiences to evaluate current solutions, we will position ourselves on the issue of resource consumption with respect to the role of the industry, the community and the individual."}, {"moduleCode": "RVN1001", "title": "The Great Extinction: rewilding and conservation", "description": "This interdisciplinary course allows students to reassess their understanding of the natural world in a highly urbanised context. Through active participation in a community partner project, students will reassess their relationship with nature, and analyse the environmental, social, and economic consequences of current mass extinction and rapid biodiversity loss. Based on collaborative and outdoor learning, students will critically evaluate rewilding strategies and put them into action in service of the Singapore community. This course engages students in fieldtrips, surveys, peer-teaching, and participation in a community-based rewilding project, consolidating learnt skills in the proposal of a realistic local mini-rewilding project."}, {"moduleCode": "RVN2000", "title": "Engaging Communities in Sustainability", "description": "This interdisciplinary course takes a close look at how we consume resources in our daily activities and the resulting sustainability issues, through a holistic analysis of the underlying social, environmental and economic drivers. Through fieldtrips and direct engagement with local communities, we will contextualize these issues to highlight the ways in which planetary resource consumption impacts communities. We will work collaboratively with communities to combat sustainability issues. Synthesizing these learning experiences to evaluate current solutions, we will position ourselves on the issue of resource consumption with respect to the role of the industry, the community and the individual."}, {"moduleCode": "RVN2001", "title": "The Great Extinction: rewilding and conservation", "description": "This interdisciplinary course allows students to reassess their understanding of the natural world in a highly urbanised context. Through active participation in a community partner project, students will reassess their relationship with nature, and analyse the environmental, social, and economic consequences of current mass extinction and rapid biodiversity loss. Based on collaborative and outdoor learning, students will critically evaluate rewilding strategies and put them into action in service of the Singapore community. This course engages students in fieldtrips, surveys, peer-teaching, and participation in a community-based rewilding project, consolidating learnt skills in the proposal of a realistic local mini-rewilding project."}, {"moduleCode": "RVN2002", "title": "Wild Asia: Conservation Matters", "description": "Environmental sustainability is a highly complex field that needs to take into consideration the natural world as well as a large set of social and economic factors. Invariably, the participation of local communities and the benefits to indigenous people determine the success of conservation efforts. By connecting classroom learning with an Overseas Fieldtrip in Southeast Asia, students develop an appreciation for the rich biodiversity of the region, while examining current threats to wildlife and biodiversity. In this context students explore and participate in a range of conservation strategies, which actively engage local communities in order to implement sustainable solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "RVN2003", "title": "Understanding Disability and Fostering Inclusivity", "description": "An inclusive society offers numerous advantages encompassing social and economic realms. Studies have shown a diverse workforce, gender equality, and inclusion of people with disabilities (PWDs) in education and the workforce enhance social cohesion and contribute positively to economic growth. However, the implementation remains challenging for governments and international organizations. This course is designed to foster comprehension of inclusivity concerning PWDs. It provides students with a robust foundation of knowledge, discerning perspectives, and proficient abilities. These assets are pivotal for students in cultivating environments that embrace inclusiveness and champion parity of opportunities among those living with disabilities."}, {"moduleCode": "RVSS1000", "title": "Exploring Sense of Place", "description": "How does our perception of space influence how we experience, interact with and value different places? This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to consider the way that places themselves can reinforce ecological, historical, economic, political and other constructs, and how these in turn influence the way we relate to and ascribe meanings to places. Through analysis of case studies, field trips and digital tools, students will evaluate the contestations and shifting identities that arise when places undergo change and development in Singapore, and propose possibilities for the preservation, adaptation or transformation of a place of their choice."}, {"moduleCode": "RVSS1001", "title": "Imagining Wakanda: Cities for work, life, and play", "description": "The world stands at a pivotal time of intensifying urbanization and climate change. Grounded in the lived experience of Singapore\u2019s urban spaces, this course adopts a critical approach to understanding the impact of these factors on cities. Students will understand the makings of a city, particularly in meeting the United Nation\u2019s call of Sustainable Development Goal # 11 to \u201cmake cities and communities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.\u201d With these insights, students will participate in envisaging liveable cities of the future as they become an increasingly important magnet for work, life, and play."}, {"moduleCode": "RVSS1002", "title": "Feeding the belly of a nation", "description": "Singapore\u2019s present unique combination of cultures is a rich and diverse foodscape steeped in history. Our hawker culture listing to the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage highlights the importance and value we place in our food heritage. This course opens the doors to rethinking the role food plays in our daily lives, in our culture, in society, and globally. The various topics covered over the course of this course provide opportunities for thinking about the materiality of food (food sustainability and security), the social construction of foodways and food heritages, and how Singapore\u2019s food future should or could progress towards."}, {"moduleCode": "RVSS1004", "title": "Uniquely Singapore: Regardless of Race", "description": "Race has figured centrally in the discourse on Singapore\u2019s founding and existence. However, its prominence is matched by reticence towards the topic in public discourse. Through seminars, cultural immersion projects, and learning from external partners, this course adopts a critical lens to discuss the role and impact of race in societal relations in Singapore. In the process, students will learn to interrogate the notion of \u201crace\u201d through real-life examples and gain skills to respond more constructively to situations involving a cosmopolitan society such as Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "RVX1000", "title": "Citizen Speak: Persuasion and Polarization in Society", "description": "How do people engage with issues that matter to society? In this course, students will critically examine how citizens and their leaders use communicative resources to deal with issues pertaining to sustainability, processes of inclusion and exclusion, and public participation in various contexts, among others. What rhetorical strategies do they mobilize to encourage dialogue needed to create agreeable solutions to the burning issues of the day? What strategies hamper such a dialogue to take place? By pursuing these questions, the students will develop a critical disposition towards the role of civic discourse in shaping public issues."}, {"moduleCode": "RVX1001", "title": "Science Fiction and Society", "description": "Science Fiction serves as a launch pad that inspires innovative ideas and a space to critically evaluate contemporary issues such as race, gender, technology, and climate change. This course engages students\u2019 thinking on one of the most important and influential popular media to develop broader insights and perspectives on current social trends that will help them both within and after university. Students will construct a thoughtful critique of science fiction topics found in media like film, television, short stories, or video games. Working collaboratively, they will present questions and reflections to peers to increase their critical expression skills."}, {"moduleCode": "RVX1002", "title": "What do you mean? Meaning & Communication in Intercultural contexts", "description": "This course examines meaning and culture. It draws attention to issues in translation and intercultural communication, and advocates the use of a framework that facilitates effective communication with cultural others at work or elsewhere. As cultural beings, we express meaning in a cultural context, but do we understand the implications? We assume that English words have the same meaning across cultures, but how valid is this assumption? We learn Standard English but does it embody the cultural meanings we want to express? This course raises awareness of our cultural selves and helps students develop meaningful connections with cultural others."}, {"moduleCode": "RVX1003", "title": "Print to Screen: Analysing Film Adaptation", "description": "In this course, students will examine how various literary texts are adapted into films. They will do so by interrogating how directorial techniques, institutional constraints and related socio-cultural contexts inform adaptations. Specifically, students will watch and analyse cinematic adaptations of plays, short stories, and comics to bring to the surface how aesthetic elements ranging from mise-en-scene to socio-cultural factors influence filmmakers and studios\u2019 motivations. In the process, students will develop a systematic approach in carrying out a critique of adapted films they enjoy."}, {"moduleCode": "RVX1004", "title": "Cultural Expressions of Science, Technology and Warfare", "description": "Since the 20th century we have witnessed the increased intimacy between science and violence. Eugenics and nuclear warfare, for example, demonstrate the violence of rationalized progress when in the service of war. The increasing threat of rationalized violence today undermines sustainable development by hindering practices necessary for human vitality. In this course, students examine cultural expressions of modern warfare, critically reflecting on what they suggest about the relationship between science, technology and war. Students are thereby encouraged to reflect on the circumstances of armed violence and the need to prevent it."}, {"moduleCode": "RVX1005", "title": "Intersectionality, Identity and Inequality in Asia", "description": "Inequality is a persistent yet complex structural issue in modern societies. As a critical theory, intersectionality explains how inequality is informed by the interaction of multiple identities, including gender, class, race, sexuality, and nationality. By drawing on intersectionality theory, this course examines patterns, implications, and solutions for social inequality in the Asian context. What is intersectionality? How is intersectionality enacted in the way we interact with others in various social and professional settings? What does intersectionality imply in making a fair, sustainable society? By answering these questions, students will develop writing a critique of inequality and identity in their everyday lives."}, {"moduleCode": "RY2000", "title": "Oral And Dental Radiology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RY3000", "title": "Dental Radiology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "RY4000", "title": "Dental Radiology", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SA4101", "title": "Software Analysis and Design", "description": "- Fundamentals of Programming using C#\n- Object Oriented Programming using C#\n- User Interface Development with Visual Studio Net and C#\n- SQL Programming & DBMS\n- Enterprise System Development using .Net Framework"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4101C", "title": "Software Analysis and Design", "description": "- Fundamentals of Programming using C# - Object Oriented Programming using C# - User Interface Development with Visual Studio Net and C# - SQL Programming & DBMS - Enterprise System Development using .Net Framework"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4102", "title": "Enterprise Solutions Design and Development", "description": "- Application Development Life Cycle I\n- Application Development Life Cycle II"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4102C", "title": "Enterprise Solutions Design and Development", "description": "- Application Development Life Cycle I - Application Development Life Cycle II"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4103", "title": "Internet Application Development", "description": "- Distributed Computing Infrastructure\n- Multimedia for Internet\n- Internet Programming using ASP.NET\n- Internet Project"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4104", "title": "Digital Product Management", "description": "Planning, scheduling, resource allocation, execution, tracking and delivery of software projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4105", "title": "Web Application Development", "description": "- Java Programming\n- Java Object Persistence\n- Web-based J2EE Applications\n- Wireless Technology\n- J2EE Project"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4105C", "title": "Web Application Development", "description": "- Java Programming - Java Object Persistence - Web-based J2EE Applications - Wireless Technology - J2EE Project"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4106", "title": "AD Project", "description": "- Application Development Project\nThis is a pre-internship project where the students will work in a team to apply the project management, analysis, design, business communications and programming skills learnt earlier in the course. Based on a User Requirement Statement given to the students, they will go through a complete software development life cycle to develop and deliver the required system. The students will capture requirements through user interviews, produce a feasible design of the system, code, test and implement the solution in a distributed platform. This project provides a simulation of the real-life IT working environment, and tests their strengths in working closely as a project team."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4106C", "title": "AD Project", "description": "- Application Development Project This is a pre-internship project where the students will work in a team to apply the project management, analysis, design, business communications and programming skills learnt earlier in the course. Based on a User Requirement Statement given to the students, they will go through a complete software development life cycle to develop and deliver the required system. The students will capture requirements through user interviews, produce a feasible design of the system, code, test and implement the solution in a distributed platform. This project provides a simulation of the real-life IT working environment, and tests their strengths in working closely as a project team."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4107", "title": "Industrial Attachment Project", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SA4107C", "title": "Industrial Attachment Project", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SA4108", "title": "Mobile Application Development", "description": "The aim of this elective course is to allow students of the Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA) to specialise in mobile application development. Students will acquire the mobile-related skill-sets required by an increasing number of employers who need developers for their mobile-related projects. Students will learn to design and develop mobile applications using the Android and iOS platforms and the associated Java and Objective C programming languages. The course includes classroom teaching, lab exercises and hands-on design and development projects using both platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4108C", "title": "Mobile Application Development", "description": "The aim of this elective course is to allow students of the Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA) to specialise in mobile application development. Students will acquire the mobile-related skill-sets required by an increasing number of employers who need developers for their mobile-related projects. Students will learn to design and develop mobile applications using the Android and iOS platforms and the associated Java and Objective C programming languages. The course includes classroom teaching, lab exercises and hands-on design and development projects using both platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4109", "title": "Advanced Web Development", "description": "The aim of this elective course is to allow students of the Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA) to specialise in advanced web application design and development. Students will acquire the Web-related skillsets required by majority of local employers who need developers for their Web-related projects. Students will gain a robust foundation in web development techniques,\nfocusing on .NET and Java development skills, and will learn how to design, construct and test web applications on both platforms. The course includes classroom teaching, lab exercises and hands-on design and development projects using both platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4109A", "title": "Advanced Web Development", "description": "The aim of this elective course is to allow students of the Graduate Diploma in Systems Analysis (GDipSA) to specialise in advanced web application design and development. Students will acquire the Web-related skillsets required by majority of local employers who need developers for their Web-related projects. Students will gain a robust foundation in web development techniques,\nfocusing on .NET and Java development skills, and will learn how to design, construct and test web applications on both platforms. The course includes classroom teaching, lab exercises and hands-on design and development projects using both platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4110", "title": "Machine Learning Application Development", "description": "This course includes machine learning concepts and implementation of machine learning features in software solution using Python."}, {"moduleCode": "SA4110C", "title": "Machine Learning Application Development", "description": "This course includes machine learning concepts and implementation of machine learning features in software solution using Python."}, {"moduleCode": "SC1101E", "title": "Making Sense of Society", "description": "Students are introduced to the concepts used in Sociology and Anthropology. The main objective is to train students to use Sociology in analyzing social institutions and processes. For this reason, students are encouraged to relate their experiences in society to the discipline of Sociology and Anthropology. The topics covered in the course are the logic and methods of social investigation; family, work and organization; power and the state; social inequality (including gender and ethnicity); mass communication and popular culture; values and beliefs; and deviance and social control."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2101", "title": "Methods of Social Research", "description": "This is an introductory course to the basic concepts and tools of social research, covering the areas of research of problem definition, research design, measurement, and data collection, processing, and analysis. Students are given in-depth understanding of what qualitative, eg participant observation, in-depth interviewing, and quantitative, eg survey, data collection techniques involve. In addition, students are introduced to qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques. Students are taught the important aspects of making a good presentation of research findings. This course is mounted for all students in NUS with interest in research methods."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2202", "title": "Sociology of Work", "description": "Work is something we all do. But what \u201cwork\u201d actually means can vary widely depending on who you are, where you live, and when you were born. Drawing on ethnographic research, this course will focus on the lived experiences of workers across the globe. We will analyze how work has changed over time, especially in relationship to transformations in capitalism. We will examine how gender, race, and other social structures unevenly shape the work people are expected to do and how they are compensated for their labour. We will even challenge the notion of work itself."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2204", "title": "Social Inequalities : Who Gets Ahead?", "description": "This course addresses a seemingly simple question: who gets ahead? It introduces students to some of the key theoretical approaches and methodological tools for finding answers to this question. More specifically, it aims at helping students acquire a good understanding of relevant theories, measurement issues, and class maps, structures, societies, and dynamics. The course is accessible to all students who want to understand the impact of class and stratification on contemporary societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2205", "title": "Sociology of Family", "description": "This course focuses on theories of family and social change, by examining perspectives on families, drawing on literature from history, anthropology, sociology, and demography. Questions addressed include: What is a family? What is the relationship between family and household structure and economic, political, and cultural change both historically and in contemporary time? How do couples allocate their time and money in relationships? How do families vary by social class and race/ethnicity? How have attitudes, expectations, and behaviors surrounding childbearing and childrearing changed? Theoretical perspectives on the family are supplemented with case studies of change and variation in families and households."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2208", "title": "Baby or No Baby: Population Dynamics at a Crossroads", "description": "Why are Singaporeans having fewer babies? Why is Japan's population shrinking? Population dynamics affects our daily lives. This course aims to provide students with a critical overview of the key issues in demography with a focus on Asia. We adopt an international perspective to think about ways in which populations grow, shrink, and change over time, and uncover the linkages between seemingly distinct demographic processes. Fertility is a fundamental issue underlying many demographic processes - population growth, aging, migration and demographic dividend, and will be discussed in detail. This course also covers health and mortality, gender and marriage, and urbanization."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2209", "title": "Money, Business and Social Networks", "description": "\u201cA dollar is a dollar is a dollar\u2026\u201d Or is it? Money, business, and markets are phenomena embedded in society, informed by and informing cultural life. What do we understand from money? What do we think constitute fair terms of exchange? What groups of people get to decide those terms? The answers to these questions can look very different across cultural contexts. This course surveys the diverse meanings and functions of money, debt, finance, and corporations as intrinsic parts of social life. We will read ethnographic works that document people\u2019s lived experiences in contemporary capitalism from across the world. We will discuss why people create different currencies, what social networks form in the finance world, and what role corporations play in contemporary societies. We will reflect on class inequality, challenge common beliefs about debt and morality, and explore alternative economic imaginations. We will learn how to think critically about contemporary capitalism\u2014its heterogeneity, current transformations, and alternatives."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2210", "title": "Sociology of Popular Culture", "description": "This course examines the spread of consumption and its link to popular culture in the context of global capitalism. Emphasis will be given on the relationship between mass production and mass consumption, and the role of mass media in creating and widening the sphere of popular culture. Relationship between class and popular culture will be explored in this course. Issues such as changing leisure patterns, fashions, consumerism, role of advertisements and symbolic protests will also be examined in this course. The course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in the study of popular culture."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2211", "title": "Medical Sociology", "description": "This course will examine the relationship between society and health-related issues. The differing notions of \"illness\" and \"wellness,\" and how societies influence the type, definition and distribution of disease and illness will be examined. The social organization of medicine, the social functions of health-care institutions in society will also be explored. Special emphasis will also be given to the role of the state in providing health-care as well as the relationship between the state and the health industry. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in society and health-related issues."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2212", "title": "Sociology of Deviance", "description": "This course introduces students to the sociological study of deviance and social control, distinguishing it as a field of research from biological and psychological explanations of deviance. It will trace the historical development of sociological theories on deviance and introduce students to contemporary approaches to deviance and crime. These perspectives will be utilized and illustrated through a study of the changing patterns of defining and controlling deviance in modern societies with reference to selected substantive issues. Students who have a keen interest in issues of social order, social control and conformity will find this course attractive."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2213", "title": "Childhood and Youth", "description": "This course begins with an understanding of age as a social variable and the life-cycle approach. It then examines the social construction of childhood from a historical and cross-cultural perspective. The central focus of this course is youth as a particular stage of the life-cycle. Topics such as the life cycle approach in Sociology; the social construction of childhood: children and the state; the social construction of adolescence: images of youth will be dealt with. This course is mounted for all students throughout NUS with interest in childhood and youth."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2216", "title": "Emotions and Social Life", "description": "In this course we explore human emotions from different sociological perspectives paying specific attention to how emotions are shaped, learned, and embedded within power relations. We will address emotions\u2019 complex relations to bodies, states, families, economic systems, and racial, gender, and sexual categories. We will look at how emotions enter into the maintaining of social norms as well as their disruption and their multifaceted entwinement with social change. At the end of the course, you will have new tools for thinking about emotion and the significant roles they play in every facet of contemporary human experience and social life."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2217", "title": "Travel Matters", "description": "Travel is a popular activity, a major industry, and an important institution that plays a crucial role in shaping our contemporary society. By venturing out to investigate why people travel, how they travel, and what travellers obtain from their experiences, one will discover that travel is not merely a transitory experience or a recreational endeavour. It defines people\u2019s identities, shapes their interactions, and influences the economy, politics, and other social systems. Overall, this course will provide students with some valuable knowledge for applying travel as a toolkit in understanding the contradictions and complexities of our runaway world."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2220", "title": "Gender Studies", "description": "This course introduces the topic of gender by using basic concepts like biological sex, nature, nurture, roles, norms and culture. The meaning of gender categories is examined in relation to difference, exchange, reproduction, knowledge and social change. Although the main perspective is ethnographic, this course is intended to be an exercise in interdisciplinary thinking. Understanding gender provides a foundation to analyze social structures (power and inequality), social institutions (family, kinship, education, economy, the state, health) and cultural issues (science, food, emotions, popular culture)."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2222", "title": "Sports and Society", "description": "Sports have developed into a pervasive social institution. From living rooms to stadiums, sports extend to a multitude of arenas to influence economies, politics, and cultures as well as the everyday lives of many individuals. This course is designed to provide students the ability to evaluate the relationship between sports and society. Students do not need a background in sociology nor knowledge about the technicalities of sports to benefit from the course. The approach is comparative and interdisciplinary; covering historical and contemporary issues, foreign and local sporting cultures, as well as theories and methods that cut across several academic boundaries."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2224", "title": "Visual Anthropology Field-School", "description": "Conducted as an apprenticeship in Visual Anthropology, this course provides practical training in the use of contemporary and emerging image and audio technology for qualitative social science research, data collection, and analysis. Readings and discussions will expose students to classic and contemporary applications of photographic, film, audio and video methods employed in the field of Visual Anthropology and related issues of visual research design, project planning, proposal writing, data recording, data analysis, politics, ethics, project implementation, and collaborative research. Developing theoretical understandings through engagement in field research alongside Anthropologists, students will gain a hands\u2010on practical education in visual anthropology."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2226", "title": "Sociology of Mental Health", "description": "This course introduces students to the key issues in the sociology of mental health. It emphasizes the social influences on mental disorders, especially factors associated with the family-of-origin, while acknowledging the medical aspects of mental health. The consequences of mental disorders on individuals and their ecological systems will also be discussed. Students will be equipped with the knowledge to frame mental disorders from a biopsychosocial perspective, view mental disorders as social conditions and be able to attest to the social construction of medical diagnosis of mental disorders."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2227", "title": "Sociology of Religion", "description": "This course introduces students to the study of \u2018religions\u2019 as contemporary social phenomenon across both global north and global south. It examines various sociological and anthropological approaches in the study of religions, including both classical and critical theoretical positions. Its covers religions\u2019 complex relationships to politics, revolutions and social change, racialisation, citizenship and mobilities, rationality and science, gender and sexuality, the climate catastrophe, fundamentalism, and humanitarianism among other salient issues, debates, and contemporary challenges"}, {"moduleCode": "SC2228", "title": "Sociological Perspectives on the Digital Era", "description": "Digital technologies are transforming societies, economies, politics and cultures across the world. This course equips students with conceptual frameworks for analysing the socio-economic origins and impacts of these changes, and their ramifications for local and global politics and economics. Topics to be covered include the digital transformation of knowledge, work and expertise; the material economies and politics of digital infrastructure; the digitalization of money, markets and finance; and the intersections of race, class and Artificial Intelligence. Through these topics, students will learn how the sociological issues of identity, class, mobility and conflict are being remade by our rapidly evolving technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC2880A", "title": "Singapore: The Social Experiment", "description": "This course serves as a primer on Singapore society, covering its recent history and current issues. Students will get a good sense of what went into the construction of modern Singapore as a nation, an economy, and a home, as well as various policies and processes dealing with \u201cdeficits\u201d, such as low fertility rates, afflicting Singapore. Whenever possible, students will have the opportunity to go on field\u2010trips where they can get an immediate and better feel of the social changes taking place, through meeting the people \u2014 front\u2010line, back office or board room \u2014 who routinely work in keeping Singapore going."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3101", "title": "Social Thought & Social Theory", "description": "This is a critical examination of central problems in classical social theory, with emphasis on the multifaceted analysis of the larger social processes in the making of modern society. The course will concentrate on the original contributions of major theorists such as Marx, Weber, and Durkheim and explore how their works continue to influence current Sociology. This course is mounted for all students throughout NUS with an interest in classical social theories."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3202", "title": "From Modernization to Globalization", "description": "This is a course in macro-sociology. The course reviews the interdisciplinary literature on modernization, development and globalization in order to examine the formation and evolving dynamics of firms, regions, and markets within the global capitalist system. Ultimately, the course asks questions about Asia\u2019s place within the contemporary global economy and the role Asian political economies and industrial organization play within it. Students will learn about \u201cbig\u201d sociological questions regarding the transition to capitalism, global development and inequality, global trade and industry. They will understand how Asia developed and what their iPhones and Nike sneakers have to do with this."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3203", "title": "Race and Ethnic Relations", "description": "Concepts of race and ethnicity and theories/models of inter-group relations provide the tools for understanding and analyzing race/ethnic relations and ethnicity in selected societies. This course will refer to Malaysia/Singapore, Southeast Asian, and other societies where relevant. The topics explored also include race/ethnicity and the nation-state; ethnicity and citizenship/multiculturalism; ethnic identity; gender and ethnicity; race/ethnicity and its representations; race/ethnicity and crime. This course will appeal to students who are interested in understanding how race/ethnicity influences our perceptions of and responses to other races/ethnic groups, and why it continues to be a source of tension and conflict in societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3204", "title": "Sociology of Education", "description": "At school, students learn about a range of subjects. But education imparts far more lessons than these. Through the \u201chidden curriculum,\u201d students indirectly learn about dominant norms in their society and are shaped into certain kinds of people. In this course, we will draw on ethnographic research from around the globe to explore hidden curriculums. We will examine how schooling is part of broader political and economic processes and how it (re)produces social structures such as class, gender, and race. We will also investigate how students make sense of their educational experiences, and we will interrogate what education is for."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3205", "title": "Sociology of Power:Who Gets to Rule?", "description": "This course introduces students to political sociology which is broadly concerned with understanding such phenomena as power, state and society relations, and the nature and consequences of social conflict. The main concerns of this course are issues pertaining to modern society and capitalist development, referring to diverse cases from Western Europe to Southeast Asia. We will also be looking at the state, civil society and societal movements, including that of labour, and such contentious contemporary issues as economic globalization, US global hegemony, and terrorism."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3206", "title": "Urban Sociology", "description": "The course will look into the various external and internal forces shaping the development of cities. The following themes will be examined: the development and role of cities in Southeast Asia, cities and the new international division of labour (economic roles of cities in linking their respective countries to the global economy), and the social organization (culture, community, housing, social-economic opportunities) of cities. This course is mounted for all students throughout NUS with an interest in the development and social organization of cities."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3208", "title": "Religion in Society & Culture", "description": "This course concerns the observable phenomena of religion as lived by ordinary people. Analysing religion as part of human knowledge, we grapple with the meanings of the universe, suffering, self, choice and ethics. Comparing systems of symbolic thought, ritual action and moral imagination, we understand societies in terms of their own knowledge, practices, values and interests. We draw from\nvaried religious traditions including world religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam), indigenous traditions (shamanism, animism, ancestor-worship, folk religion), new religious movements and secular humanism. We engage with the interactions between piety, power and productivity in constituting social structures and producing human agency."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3209", "title": "Data Analysis in Social Research", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the basic tools for doing social research and data analysis. The course is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on data analysis, and introduces students to statistics which are best suited for different types and levels of data. During lab sessions, students will use SPSS to analyze both small and large data sets. The second part of the course focuses on methodology, and recaps the guiding principles of conducting and managing a large-scale survey. The course is mounted for NUS students with a keen interest in doing social research."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3211", "title": "Science, Technology & Society", "description": "This course introduces students to Science and Technology Studies (STS)\u2013a field that examines the work of scientists and engineers as sociocultural processes, informed by and informing society. How does an observation get accepted as a scientific fact? How do science and technology factor into our understanding of our bodies and our kin? Who counts as an expert and how does the meaning of expertise change over time? How do technologies get incorporated into the meaning of being human? To answer these questions and more, we will read ethnographic and historical accounts of scientific laboratories, medical clinics, everyday infrastructures, and computerized simulations, among others."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3212", "title": "Southeast Asia in a Globalizing World", "description": "The main theme of this course is social transformation in Southeast Asia, especially in relation to the processes of modernisation, economic development, state formation, and globalization. It focuses on such topics as colonial legacies, civil society, social movements, ethnicity and religion, the role of values in development, the role of the state, and the emergence of social classes. The course focuses on Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore. It is designed for Sociology undergraduates and those from the Southeast Asia Programme."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3213", "title": "Visual Ethnography: Theory and Practice", "description": "Explore how anthropologists and sociologists have used visual media such as photography, film and video to conduct ethnographic research and to produce and communicate knowledge about the lives and cultures of the other. We will study their works, both classic and contemporary, to see how they have experimented with the possibilities of visual media while trying to remain consistent with the intellectual demands of their disciplines. Armed with an understanding of the epistemological, methodological, ethical and practical issues involved, students are expected to try their hands at producing visual ethnographies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3214", "title": "Sociology of Life Course and Ageing", "description": "This course adopts a life course perspective to examine various issues of human aging. Themes covered include physical and mental health, retirement and pension, marriage and family, community and social network, and policy and business. Throughout these topics, students and adult learners are expected to comprehensively understand population aging and its implications, and develop analytical and practical skills of the life course perspective, especially in policy and business domains. The context of Singapore is highlighted with constant comparison with other countries."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3215", "title": "Law and Society", "description": "This course takes the idea and reality of law as a social phenomenon, drawing on classical and contemporary social theories and on empirical studies on the development of law in pre-modern, modern, and contemporary societies. Basic issues include the following: law versus custom; the idea of justice; types and processes of regulation, adjudication and punishment; law in relation to political power, social inequality and ideology; law as a mechanism for social change; the transformations of modern law; and the organization of modern legal systems. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in law and its implications on the society."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3216", "title": "Self and Society", "description": "This course is about the anthropology and sociology of understanding what it means to be a \u2018self\u2019 in \u2018society,\u2019 that is, to be a \u2018social self.\u2019 This course is NOT about a psychological study of the self. It analyses important theoretical debates about and ethnographic studies on the relationship between society and the self. Particular attention will be paid to examining how ideas about the self are socially constructed and re\u2010constructed by various processes, especially the roles played by the state and its institutions in shaping perceptions and practices the self in relation to ethnicity, the family, gender, marriage, work, leisure and friendship."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3219", "title": "Sexuality in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Sex, sexuality and sexual orientations are cultural forms rather than purely \"natural\" states. This course examines the variety of social dimensions that shape human sexuality. A range of theoretical perspectives and cross-cultural comparisons are drawn in order to unravel the complexities of sexualities and to see how sexualities are shaped by historical norms, social scripts, political structures, global forces and commodification. Students are required to read historical materials, anthropological research and be familiar with political economy and social constructionist paradigms."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3220", "title": "Ritual, Performance and Symbolic Action", "description": "Ritual, performance and symbolism have been core areas in social science analysis for some time. Initially studies of symbolism focussed on non-industrial peoples, whose ritual lives were very rich and visible. Increasingly social scientists have come to see that ritual is still an important activity in the contemporary world, and that analyzing performances can give us insights into nationalism, sports, tourism, media and other areas of life that deal with questions of identity. This course will offer students an overview of these important topics, in order to better understand communication, identity and community in the modern world."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3221", "title": "Qualitative Inquiry", "description": "This course introduces the key questions, issues, and tools necessary to conduct qualitative research. It guides students through devising a research question, choosing appropriate research epistemologies, ethical implications, selecting appropriate methods of data collection and analysis, and writing a research proposal. In doing this, it exposes students to the key techniques of qualitative sociological inquiry including interviews, focus groups, content and discourse analysis, archival research, participatory and action research, and various forms of ethnographic research. It further introduces relevant qualitative data analysis and research software, in addition to examining the analysis, writing, and reporting of qualitative research."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3222", "title": "Social Transformations in Modern China", "description": "China\u2019s transition from a command economy to a market economy has brought fundamental and rapid changes in its social structure and social relationships among members of different subgroups in society. The objective of this course is to offer an overview of emerging social issues in contemporary China, focusing on changes after 1949. This course offers sociological perspectives to examine topics such as changes and new challenges in Chinese families, gender roles, demographic structure and distribution, social safety net, and environment. The class will combine lectures, academic readings, films, sources from the mass media, and discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3225", "title": "Social Capital", "description": "The concept of social capital has gained popularity, both in sociology and outside the academia globally. The theoretical basis of social capital is that resources embedded in social relations affect the life chances of individuals and collectivities. It has also been argued that social capital has a significant impact on occupational mobility, civic engagement, social movement, and economic development. The course will explore (1) the theories of social capital, (2) the empirical work on social capital, (3) linkages between social capital and instrumental and expressive actions, (4) new directions for research extension of the theory of social capital."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3226", "title": "Markets and Society", "description": "This course offers a survey of economic life from a macro-sociological and historical viewpoint, with a focus on industrialization, the rise of market society, employment systems, property rights, and the role of the state in economic development. The course will equip students with knowledge (1) regarding the complex macro-environment surrounding economic organizations, and (2) on how the success and failure of different economic organizations depend on the institutional and regulatory ecology in which economic organizations operate. Furthermore, the course will teach students relevant knowledge on the conditions under which markets fail and the disruptive dynamics in market economies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3227", "title": "Modernity and Social Change", "description": "This course introduces students to the theoretical and methodological approaches through which sociologists analyze major historical changes that have deeply shaped the modern world, ranging from the emergence of capitalism and nation\u2010state, revolutions and democracy, empires and colonization, to the formation of modern subjectivity and citizenship. The course will examine various challenges, strategies and reflections on making generalizable arguments based on historical cases and events. Central issues in comparative thinking, understanding of historical specificity and analysis of temporality will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3228", "title": "Senses and Society", "description": "This course is about how the senses organise different dimensions of social life. How are race, gender, and class identities related to sensory perceptions? How do the senses shape power relations and knowledge production? In order to address these queries, the course interrogates how sensory experience lies beyond the realm of individual, physiological responses by analysing a range of sensory faculties through cross\u2010cultural comparative approaches. Students are introduced to key ideas in sensory scholarship and will be equipped with analytical tools to examine the senses in relation to selfhood and identity, urbanity, politics, religion, and heritage."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3229", "title": "Comparing Deviance: Perverts & Scandalous Improprieties", "description": "While norm violations occur everywhere, the responses to them vary. This course is a comparative study of deviance with a focus on empirical case studies. \u201cNuts, sluts, perverts\u201d is Alexander Liazo\u2019s phrase to refer to deviants from below like mental patients, sex workers and sexual outlaws. \u201cScandals\u201d involve deviance from above, committed by authorities such as clergy abuse, official corruption and corporate malfeasance. Analyzing the range of underdog and elite forms of deviance in terms of disparities in their social constructions, criminal processing and dispensing of justice would enhance our understanding of structures of inequality and power."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3230", "title": "Civil Society and Civic Engagement", "description": "Civil society is impossible without voluntarily engaging citizens. And the culture of civic engagement in the form of volunteerism is hard to grow in a milieu that lacks a tradition of civil society. Because civic engagement and volunteerism are crucial indicators of a livable society, many countries, including Singapore, have been concerned about increasing volunteers and voluntary associations. The course pursues three main themes: (1) the relationship between civil society and civic engagement, (2) the precursors of volunteering (i.e., what makes people volunteer?), and (3) the outcomes of volunteerism (e.g., status attainment, physical and mental health, and well-being)."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3231", "title": "Facing the Climate Crisis of the Anthropocene", "description": "We live an era in which humans have altered the atmospheric, oceanic, geological conditions of the planet. And yet, even as humans emerge as powerful agents, the contemporary moment is marked by extreme weather, pollution, and extinction. How do we rethink society, relations, economy, and history in order to live with the climate crisis? We will read recent scholarship in anthropology in combination with scholarship from history, STS, political theory, and feminist environmentalism, to think about more-than-human socialities, collective subjectivities, and long-term futures. The course combines critical reading with interactive exercises to think about climate change through the anthropological lens."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3232", "title": "Labour Market and Employment Relations", "description": "This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the structure and changes of labour market and employment relations in contemporary societies. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach by integrating perspectives from sociology, economics, management, psychology, public health and ecology. The topics covered in this course include concepts and theories of labour market and work organization; the relations between markets and work structures such as occupations, industries, classes, unions, and jobs; employment relations and labour market segmentation; professions and occupational control; occupational differentiation and inequality. We will place particular emphasis on comparative (historical, cross-national) perspectives on these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3550", "title": "Sociology Internship", "description": "The internship provides students with an opportunity to apply sociological knowledge to the workplace. In particular, students learn about the challenges of workplace situations, and reflect upon how practising sociology may provide clarity to problems encountered. Internships must take place in organizations or companies, be relevant to sociology, consist at least 120 hours for SC3550 (or 240 hours for ISC3550), and be approved by the Department to be considered for credit. This course is not compulsory and will be credited as a Major Elective or a combination of Major Elective and Unrestricted Elective."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "SC3723", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SC3724", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4101", "title": "Practising Anthropology and Sociology", "description": "This course aims to provide honours students with a final opportunity to recollect, summarize and reorganise the disparate courses in their four years of studying anthropology and sociology. The broad philosophical and pragmatic questions addressed in this course are: What is meant by thinking anthropologically and sociologically? How does one put anthropologically nuanced and sociologically framed analysis and subsequently knowledge derived to work at different scales in institutional activities. How does one practise anthropology and sociology in everyday life? In short, what does it meant to be an anthropologist or a sociologist?"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4101HM", "title": "Practising Anthropology and Sociology", "description": "This course aims to provide honours students with a final opportunity to recollect, summarize and reorganise the disparate courses in their four years of studying anthropology and sociology. The broad philosophical and pragmatic questions addressed in this course are: What is meant by thinking anthropologically and sociologically? How does one put anthropologically nuanced and sociologically framed analysis and subsequently knowledge derived to work at different scales in institutional activities. How does one practise anthropology and sociology in everyday life? In short, what does it meant to be an anthropologist or a sociologist?"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4201", "title": "Contemporary Social Theory", "description": "This course maps out the main currents of contemporary social theories ranging from the legacy of the classical tradition, comparative-historical sociology, interpretative sociology, functionalism and neo-functionalism, rational choice, globalization theories and the macro-micro debates. In exploring the nature and status of social scientific theories we deal with the universalism/relativism debate and link it to the problems of globalized vs. indigenized social theories. This course is mounted for students with a keen interest in social theories."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4201HM", "title": "Contemporary Social Theory", "description": "This course maps out the main currents of contemporary social theories ranging from the legacy of the classical tradition, comparative-historical sociology, interpretative sociology, functionalism and neo-functionalism, rational choice, globalization theories and the macro-micro debates. In exploring the nature and status of social scientific theories we deal with the universalism/relativism debate and link it to the problems of globalized vs. indigenized social theories. This course is mounted for students with a keen interest in social theories."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4202", "title": "Reading Ethnographies", "description": "Ethnography involves doing fieldwork and writing about it. We examine the tensions between fieldwork, the crafting of the ethnographic text, and its reception within the discipline of anthropology. Following the \u2018writing culture' debate, we aim to understand how ethnographers \u2018construct' data, frame their analysis, and produce a text. We examine ethnographic \u2018realism' as a style, how styles have changed over time, and how differently some researchers have written about the same culture area. The course will heighten students' critical skills and their awareness of how any representation of social reality has been put together."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4202HM", "title": "Reading Ethnographies", "description": "Ethnography involves doing fieldwork and writing about it. We examine the tensions between fieldwork, the crafting of the ethnographic text, and its reception within the discipline of anthropology. Following the \u2018writing culture' debate, we aim to understand how ethnographers \u2018construct' data, frame their analysis, and produce a text. We examine ethnographic \u2018realism' as a style, how styles have changed over time, and how differently some researchers have written about the same culture area. The course will heighten students' critical skills and their awareness of how any representation of social reality has been put together."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4203", "title": "Sociology of Organizations", "description": "This course deals with exciting theoretical and practical issues in the sociology of organizations. Some of the questions addressed are (1) What kind of 'animal' is this creature called organization? (2) What are its key characteristics: structure, culture, environment? (3) Who created this 'animal', or what goals, and with what strategies to achieve the goals set? (4) How does it influence the orientation and action of participants? (5) Is democracy possible within organizations? This course is mounted for students with interest in one of the most important social entities influencing key aspects of social, political, and economic life in modern societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4203HM", "title": "Sociology of Organizations", "description": "This course deals with exciting theoretical and practical issues in the sociology of organizations. Some of the questions addressed are (1) What kind of 'animal' is this creature called organization? (2) What are its key characteristics: structure, culture, environment? (3) Who created this 'animal', or what goals, and with what strategies to achieve the goals set? (4) How does it influence the orientation and action of participants? (5) Is democracy possible within organizations? This course is mounted for students with interest in one of the most important social entities influencing key aspects of social, political, and economic life in modern societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4204", "title": "Social Policy & Social Planning", "description": "An analysis of approaches to social policy and social planning, with emphasis on the social context of planning and development; social indicators for development planning; the formulation and implementation of social policy; and strategies and experience of social planning in East and Southeast Asian countries. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in policies and planning."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4204HM", "title": "Social Policy & Social Planning", "description": "An analysis of approaches to social policy and social planning, with emphasis on the social context of planning and development; social indicators for development planning; the formulation and implementation of social policy; and strategies and experience of social planning in East and Southeast Asian countries. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in policies and planning."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4205", "title": "Sociology of Language & Communication", "description": "This course focuses on the linguistic and communicative elements of social interaction and their consequences. Topics covered include the nature of human communication, symbols and power, speech and social interaction, the politics of linguistic diversity, language and social structure, mass communication, and popular communication like family photography, gossip, rumour and oral culture. This course is mounted for all students throughout NUS with interest in language and communication as a means of social interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4205HM", "title": "Sociology of Language & Communication", "description": "This course focuses on the linguistic and communicative elements of social interaction and their consequences. Topics covered include the nature of human communication, symbols and power, speech and social interaction, the politics of linguistic diversity, language and social structure, mass communication, and popular communication like family photography, gossip, rumour and oral culture. This course is mounted for all students throughout NUS with interest in language and communication as a means of social interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4206", "title": "Urban Anthropology", "description": "This course explores the relevance and importance of anthropological approaches toward understanding urban life using the ethnographic field method. Issues to be critically examined include the construction and production of space and place in relation to the dynamic interplay of urban structures; the politics of gender, ethnicity, consumption, work and leisure; and processes that \u201cglobalise\u201d cities and the urban nightlife. This course is useful for students who are interested in enhancing their analytical skills, conducting field ethnography and applying anthropology to analysing urban life."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4206HM", "title": "Urban Anthropology", "description": "This course explores the relevance and importance of anthropological approaches toward understanding urban life using the ethnographic field method. Issues to be critically examined include the construction and production of space and place in relation to the dynamic interplay of urban structures; the politics of gender, ethnicity, consumption, work and leisure; and processes that \u201cglobalise\u201d cities and the urban nightlife. This course is useful for students who are interested in enhancing their analytical skills, conducting field ethnography and applying anthropology to analysing urban life."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4209", "title": "Interpretive Sociology", "description": "This is a methodology course which examines the various approaches to doing sociological interpretation. The methodological texts of major theorists form the reading material. The theorists studied include: Durkhiem, Weber, Foucault, Barthes, Freud and Habermas. The approaches to be examined include inter-subjective understanding, discursive analysis, semiotics, elements of psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. The aim of the course is to prepare students for the analysis of qualitative and textual data for their research projects, therefore, it will use students' research topics as substantive illustrations of the appropriateness of the different approaches."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4209HM", "title": "Interpretive Sociology", "description": "This is a methodology course which examines the various approaches to doing sociological interpretation. The methodological texts of major theorists form the reading material. The theorists studied include: Durkhiem, Weber, Foucault, Barthes, Freud and Habermas. The approaches to be examined include inter-subjective understanding, discursive analysis, semiotics, elements of psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. The aim of the course is to prepare students for the analysis of qualitative and textual data for their research projects, therefore, it will use students' research topics as substantive illustrations of the appropriateness of the different approaches."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4210", "title": "Sociology of Migration", "description": "This course deals with the main contemporary issues and problems that have their roots in migration and its consequences at the individual, societal, and global level. It will focus on the following issues and processes: the migratory process and the formation of ethnic groups; postwar migration patterns, the globalization of international migration; new migration in the Asia-Pacific; migrants and minorities in the labour force; the migratory process: Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei compared; new ethnic minorities and society; immigration policies and politics; and migration in the New World order. This course is mounted for students with interest in human migration and its implications."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4210HM", "title": "Sociology of Migration", "description": "This course deals with the main contemporary issues and problems that have their roots in migration and its consequences at the individual, societal, and global level. It will focus on the following issues and processes: the migratory process and the formation of ethnic groups; postwar migration patterns, the globalization of international migration; new migration in the Asia-Pacific; migrants and minorities in the labour force; the migratory process: Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei compared; new ethnic minorities and society; immigration policies and politics; and migration in the New World order. This course is mounted for students with interest in human migration and its implications."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4211", "title": "Tourism and Culture: A Global Perspective", "description": "This course is a critical engagement with both anthropological and multi-angle analyses of tourism, culture and people. It examines diverse dimensions of tourism and its impact on host societies and local cultures. In particular, it probes interactions between tourists and local populations as well as locals\u2019 identity reformation, cultural adaptability and strategies with respect to the transformative power of tourism, among multiple local and extra-local socio-political forces at work. Major topics to be covered include tourism imaginaries, tourism display, heritage and museums, and tourism, hospitality and local-tourist interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4211HM", "title": "Tourism and Culture: A Global Perspective", "description": "This course is a critical engagement with both anthropological and multi-angle analyses of tourism, culture and people. It examines diverse dimensions of tourism and its impact on host societies and local cultures. In particular, it probes interactions between tourists and local populations as well as locals\u2019 identity reformation, cultural adaptability and strategies with respect to the transformative power of tourism, among multiple local and extra-local socio-political forces at work. Major topics to be covered include tourism imaginaries, tourism display, heritage and museums, and tourism, hospitality and local-tourist interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4212", "title": "Social Memory", "description": "This course examines new studies on memory as a social phenomenon. Not just for individuals, but for all kinds of social groups, memory is an indissoluble part of identity. Remembering is always a selective reconstruction, hence always political. 'Popular' (often oral) memory interacts with 'official' history, while itself containing differences relating to generation, class, gender and ethnicity. Memories of traumatic events of the C20th shape our moral universe and are driving developments in international human rights law. Our explorations of the politics of memory will be grounded in case studies of both regional and global relevance."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4212HM", "title": "Social Memory", "description": "This course examines new studies on memory as a social phenomenon. Not just for individuals, but for all kinds of social groups, memory is an indissoluble part of identity. Remembering is always a selective reconstruction, hence always political. 'Popular' (often oral) memory interacts with 'official' history, while itself containing differences relating to generation, class, gender and ethnicity. Memories of traumatic events of the C20th shape our moral universe and are driving developments in international human rights law. Our explorations of the politics of memory will be grounded in case studies of both regional and global relevance."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4213", "title": "Qualitative Data Collection", "description": "This is a seminar and workshop course that provides an understanding of the value of qualitative research as well as a practical grasp of a variety of qualitative research strategies adopted by researchers in the social sciences. While the focus of the course is intended to allow the student to understand and appreciate key theoretical issues that confront qualitative research, it will also provide the space for learning, experiencing and practising actual research. The course is meant for students who are interested in the use of qualitative research methods in relation to the particular study they undertake."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4213HM", "title": "Qualitative Data Collection", "description": "This is a seminar and workshop course that provides an understanding of the value of qualitative research as well as a practical grasp of a variety of qualitative research strategies adopted by researchers in the social sciences. While the focus of the course is intended to allow the student to understand and appreciate key theoretical issues that confront qualitative research, it will also provide the space for learning, experiencing and practising actual research. The course is meant for students who are interested in the use of qualitative research methods in relation to the particular study they undertake."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4217", "title": "Social Movements and Collective Action", "description": "The course focuses on developing a framework for constructing and rethinking factors (be they economic, political, cultural) that have led to the emergence, development, and maintenance of certain forms of collective behaviour. It will also examine these theories through various case studies of social movements such as historical revolutions, and the \"new\" social movements of Europe. Topics covered include the rationality of collective action; history of social movement theory; the role of individuals, social groups and institutions in social movements; and their impacts. This course is mounted for students with interest in social movements."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4217HM", "title": "Social Movements and Collective Action", "description": "The course focuses on developing a framework for constructing and rethinking factors (be they economic, political, cultural) that have led to the emergence, development, and maintenance of certain forms of collective behaviour. It will also examine these theories through various case studies of social movements such as historical revolutions, and the \"new\" social movements of Europe. Topics covered include the rationality of collective action; history of social movement theory; the role of individuals, social groups and institutions in social movements; and their impacts. This course is mounted for students with interest in social movements."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4218", "title": "Religions, Secularity, Post-Secularity", "description": "Much of classical sociology understood the modernization of the world to mean its secularization. By the early twenty-first century, this assumption had turned out to be unsatisfactory. Instead, various forms of \u2018religion\u2019 have persisted in myriad ways as key forces across the globe \u2013 both north and south. While the secularization thesis has been largely challenged, secularism and its meanings have been critically interrogated with the binary of religious and secular itself being re-thought. This seminar accordingly examines the key debates around religion, secularism, and post-secularity to ask what religion and secularism mean in modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4218HM", "title": "Religions, Secularity, Post-Secularity", "description": "Much of classical sociology understood the modernization of the world to mean its secularization. By the early twenty-first century, this assumption had turned out to be unsatisfactory. Instead, various forms of \u2018religion\u2019 have persisted in myriad ways as key forces across the globe \u2013 both north and south. While the secularization thesis has been largely challenged, secularism and its meanings have been critically interrogated with the binary of religious and secular itself being re-thought. This course accordingly examines the key debates around religion, secularism, and post-secularity to ask what religion and secularism mean in modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4219", "title": "Social Origins and Consequences of Financial Crises", "description": "This course is a sociological and anthropological study of the neoliberal transformations of work that has been shaped by global financial crises in recent decades, which have in turn led to suggest changes to employment choices and work patterns. Examining the opportunities and challenges that affect how individuals could, would, and actually work would enable students to better understand and manage diverse aspects of career demands, educational pursuits, family life, social relations, employment, cultural heritage, leisure and public services in today\u2019s rapidly changing global economy."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4219HM", "title": "Social Origins and Consequences of Financial Crises", "description": "This course is a sociological and anthropological study of the neoliberal transformations of work that has been shaped by global financial crises in recent decades, which have in turn led to suggest changes to employment choices and work patterns. Examining the opportunities and challenges that affect how individuals could, would, and actually work would enable students to better understand and manage diverse aspects of career demands, educational pursuits, family life, social relations, employment, cultural heritage, leisure and public services in today\u2019s rapidly changing global economy."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4220", "title": "Aging and Health", "description": "This seminar course examines how process of aging and health are socially patterned, normatively regulated, and/or historically structured. Students will be introduced to key theories, concepts, and empirical findings in the sociological study of aging and health. Through the course content and seminar discussions, we will address the following fundamental questions: How does aging impact health (and vice versa)? What are the social determinants of health for older persons? How do macrosocial, institutional, and life course factors influence systems of care, relationships between older adults and social/built environments, end of life decisions, as well as shape experiences of digital technologies, mental health, and cognition in later life?"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4220HM", "title": "Aging and Health", "description": "This seminar course examines how process of aging and health are socially patterned, normatively regulated, and/or historically structured. Students will be introduced to key theories, concepts, and empirical findings in the sociological study of aging and health. Through the course content and seminar discussions, we will address the following fundamental questions: How does aging impact health (and vice versa)? What are the social determinants of health for older persons? How do macrosocial, institutional, and life course factors influence systems of care, relationships between older adults and social/built environments, end of life decisions, as well as shape experiences of digital technologies, mental health, and cognition in later life?"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4221", "title": "Comparative Analysis of Human Rights", "description": "Human rights are one of the most globalized, yet often vigorously contested, political values of our time. This course takes a critical and empirical approach and focuses on the following human rights issues: the ontology of being human; relativist versus universalist positions on human rights issues; empirical case studies of human rights violations associated with ethnic conflict and civil war; minorities' rights; the rights of children; transnational capital, development and local community/ indigenous rights; and human rights, the state and the international system."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4221HM", "title": "Comparative Analysis of Human Rights", "description": "Human rights are one of the most globalized, yet often vigorously contested, political values of our time. This course takes a critical and empirical approach and focuses on the following human rights issues: the ontology of being human; relativist versus universalist positions on human rights issues; empirical case studies of human rights violations associated with ethnic conflict and civil war; minorities' rights; the rights of children; transnational capital, development and local community/ indigenous rights; and human rights, the state and the international system."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4222", "title": "Body and Society", "description": "This is a course that surveys the enormous intellectual growth of studies of the human body in sociology, anthropology and other social science disciplines. It will focus on the diverse social meanings of the body situated within a range of social contexts. Sociocultural notions of the body are examined through analyses of corporeal experiences in relation to religion, the senses, health, spectacles, commodification, technology, and other substantive dimensions."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4222HM", "title": "Body and Society", "description": "This is a course that surveys the enormous intellectual growth of studies of the human body in sociology, anthropology and other social science disciplines. It will focus on the diverse social meanings of the body situated within a range of social contexts. Sociocultural notions of the body are examined through analyses of corporeal experiences in relation to religion, the senses, health, spectacles, commodification, technology, and other substantive dimensions."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4223", "title": "Health and Social Behaviour", "description": "The course explores interactions between a variety of social forces and the phenomenon of health/illness. First, an important goal of the course is to clarify the extent to which mental and physical health/illness have been socially constructed and unevenly distributed in society. The course further identifies the effects of such social conditions as socioeconomic status, education, gender, and social networks on patterns of health inequality. Finally, it delves into specific issues like social epidemiology, stress process, and health care where possible causal relationships between a variety of social forces and health/illness are explored."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4223HM", "title": "Health and Social Behaviour", "description": "The course explores interactions between a variety of social forces and the phenomenon of health/illness. First, an important goal of the course is to clarify the extent to which mental and physical health/illness have been socially constructed and unevenly distributed in society. The course further identifies the effects of such social conditions as socioeconomic status, education, gender, and social networks on patterns of health inequality. Finally, it delves into specific issues like social epidemiology, stress process, and health care where possible causal relationships between a variety of social forces and health/illness are explored."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4224", "title": "Welfare and Social Justice", "description": "The term justice is used with many different meanings. Social justice concerns justice as it refers to the societal distribution of scarce goods and necessary burdens. One of the most important aspects of social justice is the way in which societies deal with the collective provision of welfare for their members. Following a brief introduction to influential theories of justice, this course will look at the historical roots of the welfare state and at the central features of various presently existing welfare regimes. Cases will be drawn from Europe, the United States, and East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4224HM", "title": "Welfare and Social Justice", "description": "The term justice is used with many different meanings. Social justice concerns justice as it refers to the societal distribution of scarce goods and necessary burdens. One of the most important aspects of social justice is the way in which societies deal with the collective provision of welfare for their members. Following a brief introduction to influential theories of justice, this course will look at the historical roots of the welfare state and at the central features of various presently existing welfare regimes. Cases will be drawn from Europe, the United States, and East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4225", "title": "The Sociology of Cities and Development Planning in Asia", "description": "This course covers the sociology of urban development planning in Asia at local, regional and global scales. We will assess the livability of cities: which includes looking at social lifeworlds, poverty, and the environment. We will discuss rural\u2010urban linkages and transitions, uneven spatial development, peri\u2010urban development and transborder intercity networks. Additionally we will explore national experiences in East, Southeast Asia and South Asia. This course is designed as a gateway for professional careers in applied research for urban planning."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4225HM", "title": "The Sociology of Cities and Development Planning in Asia", "description": "This course covers the sociology of urban development planning in Asia at local, regional and global scales. We will assess the livability of cities: which includes looking at social lifeworlds, poverty, and the environment. We will discuss rural\u2010urban linkages and transitions, uneven spatial development, peri\u2010urban development and transborder intercity networks. Additionally we will explore national experiences in East, Southeast Asia and South Asia. This course is designed as a gateway for professional careers in applied research for urban planning."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4226", "title": "Cultural Production: Power, Voice, Policies", "description": "This course considers cultural production as an arena of contestation for voice and visibility. It explores how creative performances and productions have been used to express, subvert, or redefine social realities and values, constitute publics, and initiate change. A variety of forms, such as street theatres, music, cartoons, community and online media, will be explored through an anthropological engagement with the everyday politics of recognition, narration, belonging, and indeed the valuation of one\u2019s voice. Power, performance, agency, creativity, audiences, art worlds and aesthetics are among the key concepts explored."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4226HM", "title": "Cultural Production: Power, Voice, Policies", "description": "This course considers cultural production as an arena of contestation for voice and visibility. It explores how creative performances and productions have been used to express, subvert, or redefine social realities and values, constitute publics, and initiate change. A variety of forms, such as street theatres, music, cartoons, community and online media, will be explored through an anthropological engagement with the everyday politics of recognition, narration, belonging, and indeed the valuation of one\u2019s voice. Power, performance, agency, creativity, audiences, art worlds and aesthetics are among the key concepts explored."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4227", "title": "Gender, Sex and Power", "description": "All societies are organized around gender and sexuality. Everywhere, the sex/gender system has implications for the relative power of men and women in society. Human societies have a tendency toward patriarchy. Some societies are relatively gender\u2010egalitarian. Others are strongly patriarchal. But none are strongly matriarchal. This course examines the social, cultural, psychological and biological arguments, including feminist and non\u2010feminist theories for how and why sex and gender relate to the distribution of power in society. It examines these questions in terms of broad comparison across cultures, in evolutionary history, in modern state societies and in today\u2019s transnational, globalizing world."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4227HM", "title": "Gender, Sex and Power", "description": "All societies are organized around gender and sexuality. Everywhere, the sex/gender system has implications for the relative power of men and women in society. Human societies have a tendency toward patriarchy. Some societies are relatively gender\u2010egalitarian. Others are strongly patriarchal. But none are strongly matriarchal. This course examines the social, cultural, psychological and biological arguments, including feminist and non\u2010feminist theories for how and why sex and gender relate to the distribution of power in society. It examines these questions in terms of broad comparison across cultures, in evolutionary history, in modern state societies and in today\u2019s transnational, globalizing world."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4228", "title": "Making Sense of Violence", "description": "What is violence? How is violence materialized, contested and reproduced? What can anthropology offer to understandings of violence? Exploring phenomena ranging from war, genocide and terrorism to domestic abuse, poverty and crime, this course examines violence as a domain of cultural understanding and a mode of social action. Involving both overt and spectacular expressions and implicit and everyday forms, our understandings of violence will span the intimacy of the family, the nationalisms of states and the economics of global corporations. Through the comparison of cross-cultural ethnographies, we look critically at the theoretical, empirical, methodological and ethical implications of analysing violence."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4228HM", "title": "Making Sense of Violence", "description": "What is violence? How is violence materialized, contested and reproduced? What can anthropology offer to understandings of violence? Exploring phenomena ranging from war, genocide and terrorism to domestic abuse, poverty and crime, this course examines violence as a domain of cultural understanding and a mode of social action. Involving both overt and spectacular expressions and implicit and everyday forms, our understandings of violence will span the intimacy of the family, the nationalisms of states and the economics of global corporations. Through the comparison of cross-cultural ethnographies, we look critically at the theoretical, empirical, methodological and ethical implications of analysing violence."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic under the supervision of an academic staff. The research project, which usually includes some fieldwork, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "This course requires students to conduct an independent research project on an approved topic under the supervision of an academic staff. The research project, which usually includes some fieldwork, will be submitted as an Honours Thesis."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4741", "title": "Sociology Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4742", "title": "Sociology Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880", "title": "Selected Topics in Socio'gy & Anthrop'gy", "description": "This course deals with specialized topics reflecting the expertise of staff members or emerging issues in the field of Sociology and/or Anthropology."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880A", "title": "Communication and Social Structure", "description": "This course analyzes the links between social structure and popular forms of communication like rumor, gossip and humor. How do group formation and social hierarchies facilitate rumor, gossip and humor? In turn, how do rumor, gossip and humor reflect social inequality, socio\u2010political values, dynamics of conflict, and organizational environments? How do cultural forms of communication (satire, parody, irony, camp) underscore gender, ethnic, religious, political and national divisions? What constitutes the offensive, the derogatory, the taboo? What is the impact of hate humor on social life in regard to free speech, artistic expression and social order?"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880AHM", "title": "Communication and Social Structure", "description": "This course analyzes the links between social structure and popular forms of communication like rumor, gossip and humor. How do group formation and social hierarchies facilitate rumor, gossip and humor? In turn, how do rumor, gossip and humor reflect social inequality, socio\u2010political values, dynamics of conflict, and organizational environments? How do cultural forms of communication (satire, parody, irony, camp) underscore gender, ethnic, religious, political and national divisions? What constitutes the offensive, the derogatory, the taboo? What is the impact of hate humor on social life in regard to free speech, artistic expression and social order?"}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880B", "title": "Advanced Sociological Analysis of Singapore Society", "description": "The course is an advanced sociological analysis of Singapore society. Throughout the undergraduate years, sociology students would have read and thought about Singapore society in almost all the substantive courses they have taken. This course provides an opportunity to bring further focus and reflection on students\u2019 knowledge of Singapore society. It aims to examine in depth the historical and ongoing developments of various social cultural institutions, public policies and everyday practices of contemporary Singapore society, including globalization, multiracialism, real estate speculation, family, NGOs and consumerism."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880BHM", "title": "Advanced Sociological Analysis of Singapore Society", "description": "The topic is an advanced sociological analysis of Singapore society. Throughout the undergraduate years, sociology students would have read and thought about Singapore society in almost all the substantive courses they have taken. This course provides an opportunity to bring further focus and reflection on students\u2019 knowledge of Singapore society. It aims to examine in depth the historical and ongoing developments of various social cultural institutions, public policies and everyday practices of contemporary Singapore society, including globalization, multiracialism, real estate speculation, family, NGOs and consumerism."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880C", "title": "Cultural heritage: The Politics of Protecting the Past", "description": "What is cultural heritage and how it is defined today in various societies? Is heritage a human right? What are the relationships between conservation and sustainable development? What are the existing threats to cultural heritage and how does it relate to tourism? These are some of the questions that this course will tackle. After introducing students to the concept of cultural heritage and how it is operationalized on the ground, we will look at various theories and politics regarding cultural heritage from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880CHM", "title": "Cultural heritage: The Politics of Protecting the Past", "description": "What is cultural heritage and how it is defined today in various societies? Is heritage a human right? What are the relationships between conservation and sustainable development? What are the existing threats to cultural heritage and how does it relate to tourism? These are some of the questions that this course will tackle. After introducing students to the concept of cultural heritage and how it is operationalized on the ground, we will look at various theories and politics regarding cultural heritage from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880D", "title": "Policing and Security: Past, Present and Future", "description": "What are the different histories, institutions, logics, and experiences of security regimes globally? Who polices who, for whose sake, on what scales and sites? What is militarism? What ideas of national security have become normalized in our everyday lives? This course introduces the concept of security, broadly taken to be one of the fundamental logics underlying the governmental functions of the modern state. To explore these questions, students will read ethnographic studies of policing, national security, militarism, and surveillance."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880DHM", "title": "Policing and Security: Past, Present and Future", "description": "What are the different histories, institutions, logics, and experiences of security regimes globally? Who polices who, for whose sake, on what scales and sites? What is militarism? What ideas of national security have become normalized in our everyday lives? This course introduces the concept of security, broadly taken to be one of the fundamental logics underlying the governmental functions of the modern state. To explore these questions, students will read ethnographic studies of policing, national security, militarism, and surveillance."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4880HM", "title": "Selected Topics in Socio'gy & Anthrop'gy", "description": "This course deals with specialized topics reflecting the expertise of staff members or emerging issues in the field of Sociology and/or Anthropology."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4881", "title": "Selected Topics in Health & Society", "description": "This course explores the linkages between health and society using sociological, demographic and epidemiological evidence on key social determinants of health. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to understand health and mortality transitions in developed and developing countries as well as health disparities within and across countries. It explores the influence of educational attainment, income and income inequality, social capital, discrimination, marriage and gender among others on health to illustrate how the social \u201cget under our skin\u201d. It provides students with a strong theoretical foundation in medical sociology and exposes them to various quantitative approaches to study population health."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4881HM", "title": "Selected Topics in Health & Society", "description": "This course explores the linkages between health and society using sociological, demographic and epidemiological evidence on key social determinants of health. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to understand health and mortality transitions in developed and developing countries as well as health disparities within and across countries. It explores the influence of educational attainment, income and income inequality, social capital, discrimination, marriage and gender among others on health to illustrate how the social \u201cget under our skin\u201d. It provides students with a strong theoretical foundation in medical sociology and exposes them to various quantitative approaches to study population health."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882", "title": "Issues in State and Society", "description": "This course deals with specialized topics focusing on the state as an actor, institution, and/or arena for politics as well as related issues pertaining to globalization, citizenship, nation-building, war, democracy, welfare and social justice."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882A", "title": "Perspectives on State & Society", "description": "What is the impact of globalization on the state, and how can we come to terms with these two concepts? What is the future form of state-society relations, and do concepts such as democracy, civil society, national identity and rethinking as we move into a highly connected world? Using cases from around the globe, students will be exposed to the very broad perspective offered by comparative and historical analysis. The course will initiate thinking about social welfare options and citizenship in a globalized world. Through historical and comparative analyses, critical questions about the role of the state in welfare provisions, economic development, and democratic development will be examined. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in the state-society relationship."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882AHM", "title": "Perspectives on State & Society", "description": "What is the impact of globalization on the state, and how can we come to terms with these two concepts? What is the future form of state-society relations, and do concepts such as democracy, civil society, national identity and rethinking as we move into a highly connected world? Using cases from around the globe, students will be exposed to the very broad perspective offered by comparative and historical analysis. The course will initiate thinking about social welfare options and citizenship in a globalized world. Through historical and comparative analyses, critical questions about the role of the state in welfare provisions, economic development, and democratic development will be examined. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in the state-society relationship."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882B", "title": "Citizenship, Nation and Globalization", "description": "The concept of citizenship has been understood as the mechanisms through which the individual is linked to the nation, involving a variety of processes, such as rights, culture, or race. There are new claims that with globalization, there has been the re-definition of the idea of the citizenship and the nation, leading to new concepts such as flexible citizenship and de-territorialized nation-states. This course will examine how that movement of people, capital, and ideas are affecting citizenship, and how this affects the relation between state and society. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in the concept of citizenship."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882BHM", "title": "Citizenship, Nation and Globalization", "description": "The concept of citizenship has been understood as the mechanisms through which the individual is linked to the nation, involving a variety of processes, such as rights, culture, or race. There are new claims that with globalization, there has been the re-definition of the idea of the citizenship and the nation, leading to new concepts such as flexible citizenship and de-territorialized nation-states. This course will examine how that movement of people, capital, and ideas are affecting citizenship, and how this affects the relation between state and society. This course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in the concept of citizenship."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882C", "title": "State, Governance and Governmentality", "description": "This course explores the relations between three lines of thought, respectively surrounding the concepts of state, governance and governmentality. Drawing on empirical examples from the global history with a focus on modern Asia, the course demonstrates how the different sets of theories may be integrated and further developed in addressing specific issues in modern social political life. Specific topics include paperwork, legality, market mimicry as a mode of governance, policy, rights, borders and boundary, intermediary."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882CHM", "title": "State, Governance and Governmentality", "description": "This course explores the relations between three lines of thought, respectively surrounding the concepts of state, governance and governmentality. Drawing on empirical examples from the global history with a focus on modern Asia, the course demonstrates how the different sets of theories may be integrated and further developed in addressing specific issues in modern social political life. Specific topics include paperwork, legality, market mimicry as a mode of governance, policy, rights, borders and boundary, intermediary."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4882HM", "title": "Issues in State and Society", "description": "This course deals with specialized topics focusing on the state as an actor, institution, and/or arena for politics as well as related issues pertaining to globalization, citizenship, nation-building, war, democracy, welfare and social justice."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4883", "title": "Selected Topics in Law and Justice", "description": "This course aims to increase students' breadth of empirical knowledge and the depth of their theoretical understanding on issues of law, justice and society. With urbanization and industrialization, modern societies have increasingly depended upon law to regulate the behaviour of its members and the activities of its institutions. In contemporary Singapore society, law underpins social policies from housing to marriage, political behaviour and economic activities. Among the wide variety of significant topics are policing theories, state violence and social justice, crime and punishment to the legal profession. This course is mounted for students with interest in law and justice."}, {"moduleCode": "SC4883HM", "title": "Selected Topics in Law and Justice", "description": "This course aims to increase students' breadth of empirical knowledge and the depth of their theoretical understanding on issues of law, justice and society. With urbanization and industrialization, modern societies have increasingly depended upon law to regulate the behaviour of its members and the activities of its institutions. In contemporary Singapore society, law underpins social policies from housing to marriage, political behaviour and economic activities. Among the wide variety of significant topics are policing theories, state violence and social justice, crime and punishment to the legal profession. This course is mounted for students with interest in law and justice."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5101", "title": "Graduate Research Methods", "description": "This course is designed as an intermediate level of research methods in Sociology. The course covers the following key areas (a) theorising and conceptualization, (b) measurement (c) sampling approaches (d) quantitative research methods (including survey research, nonreactive research, and experimental research); (e) qualitative research methods (including interviewing andobservational techniques); (f) qualitative analysis (grounded theory); (g) quantitative analysis. Following the change in content, SC5101 will be retitled as \u201cGraduate Research Methods\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "SC5101R", "title": "Graduate Research Methods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SC5102", "title": "Quantitative Data Analysis", "description": "This course provides a systematic exposition of general linear models in social science research.Topics include relative frequencies, probability distribution, model specification, estimation, hypothesis testing, and remedies for violations of statistical assumptions. The main emphasis is on the hands-on application of statistical techniques to social research. Research articles in sociology are used to illustrate the application of these models and techniques. Extensions to nonlinear models and panel data analysis are introduced in the latter part of the course. The course aims to help students to strengthen their understanding of statistical concepts and modelling techniques, and enrich their capacity to interpret statistical findings."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5102R", "title": "Quantitative Data Analysis", "description": "This course provides a systematic exposition of general linear models in social science research.Topics include relative frequencies, probability distribution, model specification, estimation, hypothesis testing, and remedies for violations of statistical assumptions. The main emphasis is on the hands-on application of statistical techniques to social research. Research articles in sociology are used to illustrate the application of these models and techniques. Extensions to nonlinear models and panel data analysis are introduced in the latter part of the course. The course aims to help students to strengthen their understanding of statistical concepts and modelling techniques, and enrich their capacity to interpret statistical findings."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5103", "title": "Qualitative Data Analysis", "description": "This course provides some introduction to the analysis of qualitative social science data. This course will cover several issues about qualitative research through several different pedagogical means. The course is 100% CA, and students will be assessed on various assignments and presentations designed to give them hands-on experience generating qualitative data, as well as opportunities to explore various qualitative traditions in some depth. Lectures in the course will provide information on what are the strengths and peculiarities of qualitative research. Lectures, exercises and assignments will suggest and explore various ways to record and organize data for qualitative analysis. Student presentations and assignments will offer overviews and in-depth examples of various types and varieties of qualitative data analysis, such as grounded theory, content analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis. There will be five short assignments over the course of the term, and several presentations, which will constitute the totality of work for this course (100% CA), these assignments will be designed to help you generate some data, and then try out different types of analysis on them."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5103R", "title": "Qualitative Data Analysis", "description": "This course provides some introduction to the analysis of qualitative social science data. This course will cover several issues about qualitative research through several different pedagogical means. The course is 100% CA, and students will be assessed on various assignments and presentations designed to give them hands-on experience generating qualitative data, as well as opportunities to explore various qualitative traditions in some depth. Lectures in the course will provide information on what are the strengths and peculiarities of qualitative research. Lectures, exercises and assignments will suggest and explore various ways to record and organize data for qualitative analysis. Student presentations and assignments will offer overviews and in-depth examples of various types and varieties of qualitative data analysis, such as grounded theory, content analysis, discourse analysis and narrative analysis. There will be five short assignments over the course of the term, and several presentations, which will constitute the totality of work for this course (100% CA), these assignments will be designed to help you generate some data, and then try out different types of analysis on them."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5205", "title": "Social Policy Analysis", "description": "This course evaluates the objectives, implementation, and outcomes of the different types of policies and programmes at the organisational and societal levels. It analyses the rationale underlying major policies and programmes; the problems encountered during the implementation process; as well as the possible and probable discrepancies between objectives and outcomes, whether intended or unintended. Course participants will examine specific cases and be exposed to the methodology and range of methods in assessing the effectiveness of various types of policies, programmes and projects. This course is mounted for postgraduate students with an interest in policy issues."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5209", "title": "Sociology of Everyday Life", "description": "This course provides sociological ways of looking at a multitude of patterns of everyday life, ranging from talking, touching, feeling, using space, waiting, relating to members of the opposite sex, choosing clothing, to presenting images of oneself to others. A large part of the course will focus on everyday life through the understanding of processes of interaction, as well as the mutually transformative connections between social structures and everyday face-to-face encounters. Using existing sociological frameworks and case studies, it analyses the form and character of everyday life experiences of Singaporeans."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5209R", "title": "Sociology of Everyday Life", "description": "This course provides sociological ways of looking at a multitude of patterns of everyday life, ranging from talking, touching, feeling, using space, waiting, relating to members of the opposite sex, choosing clothing, to presenting images of oneself to others. A large part of the course will focus on everyday life through the understanding of processes of interaction, as well as the mutually transformative connections between social structures and everyday face-to-face encounters. Using existing sociological frameworks and case studies, it analyses the form and character of everyday life experiences of Singaporeans."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5215", "title": "The Practice of Visual Ethnography", "description": "This course provides practical training in the use of digital video cameras and film editing, as a research tool in the social sciences. This knowledge will be grounded in an understanding of how ethnographic documentary film has developed as a medium, its essential stylistic features and its ethical responsibilities to the participants in a film. Students work in small groups to learn basic techniques, then make a ten-minute film on a subject of sociological relevance. The aim is to equip students to be able to use video in future field research, and to instill an understanding of the ethnographic potentials of visual media."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5215R", "title": "The Practice of Visual Ethnography", "description": "This course provides practical training in the use of digital video cameras and film editing, as a research tool in the social sciences. This knowledge will be grounded in an understanding of how ethnographic documentary film has developed as a medium, its essential stylistic features and its ethical responsibilities to the participants in a film. Students work in small groups to learn basic techniques, then make a ten-minute film on a subject of sociological relevance. The aim is to equip students to be able to use video in future field research, and to instill an understanding of the ethnographic potentials of visual media."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5216", "title": "Crime, Criminal Behaviour and Criminal Justice", "description": "This course presents a social history of the development of criminological thinking and contemporary criminological models in explaining crime, particularly sketching the influence of social sciences, in the way criminals and crime, are being viewed in contemporary society. But the study of crime, criminality, victimization and social policy is not dispassionate; it is inextricably linked to notions of social order and social control. The course, thus, will attempt to show that it is difficult, if not impossible, to study crime without examining the underlying assumptions and perspectives which account for how we come to regard crime as a phenomenon."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5218", "title": "Population Studies", "description": "By 2060, older Asian populations are projected to exceed 1.2 billion (He et al., 2022). To put it another way, one in every ten people of all ages in the world in 2060 would be an older Asian. As they approach older ages, are Asians more likely to stay in the labor force compared to adults from other regions? Do adult children remain the linchpin of support for older parents in Asia? Does welfare provision for older Asians crowd out intergenerational support? Given that Asia has some of the top countries with longest life expectancy at older ages, are the extra years lived in full health? What private and public mechanisms are available to financially support and care for older adults, especially those with poor health and the oldest old? This course will address many of the above questions, as it introduces students to the main issues in aging research from sociological and demographic perspectives. One of the course\u2019s central tenets is that age is socially constructed and that the various definitions of \u201cold\u201d are related to the historical, cultural, social, and economic conditions of a particular country. In addition, older persons are heterogeneous in terms of their socio-economic status, health status, and social integration. In the course, we will discuss the theoretical underpinnings, the social and policy implications of changing age structure, particularly rapid population aging. Other specific topics that will be explored include theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of aging; demography of aging; gender and aging;"}, {"moduleCode": "SC5218R", "title": "Population Studies", "description": "By 2060, older Asian populations are projected to exceed 1.2 billion (He et al., 2022). To put it another way, one in every ten people of all ages in the world in 2060 would be an older Asian. As they approach older ages, are Asians more likely to stay in the labor force compared to adults from other regions? Do adult children remain the linchpin of support for older parents in Asia? Does welfare provision for older Asians crowd out intergenerational support? Given that Asia has some of the top countries with longest life expectancy at older ages, are the extra years lived in full health? What private and public mechanisms are available to financially support and care for older adults, especially those with poor health and the oldest old? This course will address many of the above questions, as it introduces students to the main issues in aging research from sociological and demographic perspectives. One of the course\u2019s central tenets is that age is socially constructed and that the various definitions of \u201cold\u201d are related to the historical, cultural, social, and economic conditions of a particular country. In addition, older persons are heterogeneous in terms of their socio-economic status, health status, and social integration. In the course, we will discuss the theoretical underpinnings, the social and policy implications of changing age structure, particularly rapid population aging. Other specific topics that will be explored include theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of aging; demography of aging; gender"}, {"moduleCode": "SC5219", "title": "Tourism: Culture, Society and the Environment", "description": "Tourism is an important part of culture, society and the environment in the modern world. How have social scientists theorized about the role of tourism and its influence in the contemporary world? We will explore the history of the rise of tourism in the contemporary world and its rise as a type of \u201cordering\u201d that is integrated with other social, political and economic changes of the modern world.\nWhat role does tourism have in the lives of people in industrial and post-industrial society? We will explore what it means to be a \u201ctourist\u201d, and what being a tourist means in the social and culture life of contemporary society. What is touristic culture? How does tourism shape culture and nature in the contemporary world? What is eco-tourism? Is tourism a way of solving ecological problems in\nmarginalized and degraded environments? What is tourism\u2019s relationship with power, inequality and morality? This course will explore tourism as an important lens through which to understand our contemporary global situation."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5219R", "title": "Tourism: Culture, Society and the Environment", "description": "Tourism is an important part of culture, society and the environment in the modern world. How have social scientists theorized about the role of tourism and its influence in the contemporary world? We will explore the history of the rise of tourism in the contemporary world and its rise as a type of \u201cordering\u201d that is integrated with other social, political and economic changes of the modern world.\nWhat role does tourism have in the lives of people in industrial and post-industrial society? We will explore what it means to be a \u201ctourist\u201d, and what being a tourist means in the social and culture life of contemporary society. What is touristic culture? How does tourism shape culture and nature in the contemporary world? What is eco-tourism? Is tourism a way of solving ecological problems in\nmarginalized and degraded environments? What is tourism\u2019s relationship with power, inequality and morality? This course will explore tourism as an important lens through which to understand our contemporary global situation."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5223", "title": "Social Networks", "description": "We are living in a connected social world. The quest for a mechanism by which social connection is formed and dissolved and the pursuit of the impact of such mechanism on diverse areas such as economy, politics, culture, collective movement, technological development, or medicine have made social networks a popular topic in and beyond sociology. This is a graduate course of social network theories and methods with three purposes: (1) introducing the theories of social networks, (2) teaching varied methods to measure social networks, and (3) providing practical opportunities to apply the methods to students\u2019 research projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5223R", "title": "Social Networks", "description": "We are living in a connected social world. The quest for a mechanism by which social connection is formed and dissolved and the pursuit of the impact of such mechanism on diverse areas such as economy, politics, culture, collective movement, technological development, or medicine have made social networks a popular topic in and beyond sociology. The course is a graduate course of social network theories and methods with three purposes: (1) introducing the theories of social networks, (2) teaching varied methods to measure social networks, and (3) providing practical opportunities to apply the methods to students\u2019 research projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SC5770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar for Masters students", "description": "This course is designed as a seminar for graduate students (who have completed at least their first year of graduate studies at NUS) and faculty to share their research process and professional development and to engage with one another critically in dialogue revolving around their ongoing research projects or dissertations. The seminar will include presentations by faculty members (where relevant and available) on research ethics, methods of research, and dissertation writing. Concurrently, this course is undertaken as a platform to help you write and present your research clearly and effectively both in an academic setting and a professional environment. We will work on this agenda by reviewing some general rules, guidelines, and suggestions on research and writing, and most importantly, by learning to embark on peer editing and constructive critique and feedback on one another\u2019s work."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6102", "title": "Sociological Theory", "description": "Modern society is highly complex and differentiated. Sociological theories help us to make sense of this complexity, to understand and penetrate realities at all levels of social aggregation ? at the micro-level of individual interaction and of small collective units (such as the family), at the meso-level of organizations and intermediate institutions (such as business firms) and at the macro-level of society's basic structure. They enlighten us about hidden forces, principles and interests which shape our daily lives and the reproduction of social structures. This course aims to demonstrate the usefulness and limitations of different theories both as tools of analysis and as concrete guides to social practices."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6212", "title": "Global Transformations", "description": "This seminar will examine the complexities and the challenges to global social order and peace. With global transformation and the emergence of an interdependent world society, there has been a proliferation of risks. From ecological crises to the intensification of poverty, social inequality and social exclusion to the conflicts and violence on ethnic and religious lines have made the world a risky place. Theories of globalization will be applied to examine the social contexts and consequences of these crises, risks and violence. Globalization will be viewed as a complex process of cultural clashes intersecting with modern economy and polity. Using an inter-disciplinary framework, the seminar will explore the possibilities of minimizing risks and violence in a new global social order."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6213", "title": "Families in Transition", "description": "This graduate seminar examines changes in family behaviour and household relationships from a global perspective. Class discussion will consider major theoretical perspectives and debates about changing family forms and family variation around the world. Literature will be drawn from multiple disciplines to explain these changes. This course will stress the dynamic interaction between macrosocietal forces and the microsocietal forces that affect family member\u2019s lives around the world. We will study how the forms, functions, and definitions of the family vary across historical and cultural contexts and how social class, gender, and racial inequalities affect family changes."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6214", "title": "Gender, Culture and Society", "description": "This is a very advanced course which explores various societal domains in which gender plays a definitive role in structuring the way men and women interact, how it constrains or facilitates opportunities. The emphasis is on making sense of the production and reproduction of gender, gender inequalities and gender politics across a range of societal domains, its institutions and cultural practices ? using insights from micro-sociological and macro-sociological theoretical perspectives. It is crucial to adopt a critical approach towards the intellectual (including sociological) approach to theorizing gender, and the role of feminist theoretical positions in shifting the discourse and effecting concrete changes. The overall aim is to generate amongst students sophisticated and nuanced sociological understandings of how gender is understood in contemporary society, and how it intersects and interacts with race, class, political ideologies and sexuality."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6215", "title": "Religion in the Contemporary World", "description": "This course investigates the importance of religion in the contemporary world, cross-culturally, relying on the most recent conceptual and methodological frameworks. Despite a focus on the present, a historical perspective is nonetheless necessary to ground analyses of religious phenomena in the contemporary world. The course explores the variety of socio-cultural, political, economic and technological forces and processes that impact the manifold expressions and manifestations of religion and vice-versa. This is facilitated by scrutinizing the `secularisation-sacralisation-resecularisation? debates in the theoretical literature. The emphasis is not only empirical, but also theoretical in drawing together contributions on the subject from a variety of sociological and anthropological perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6216", "title": "The Anthropological Perspective", "description": "This course will examine concepts that have been prominent in the development of anthropology as a distinctive discipline. Concepts such as culture, cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, ethnography, participant observation, and social structure, will be analyzed in the context of their development and use by anthropologists over the past century. Other themes will include the historical relationship between anthropology and colonialism, critiques that have been made of anthropology in recent decades over questions of ethnographic authority, and the construction of anthropological objects and subjects."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6217", "title": "Identities & Nation State", "description": "This course examines the various forms of ethnicity, ethnic relations and the nation-state in Southeast Asia. Ethnic relations range from relatively peaceful, harmonious accommodation to armed (low-intensity) conflict. This course will survey conceptual and theoretical frameworks for understanding \u2018race\u2019, ethnicity and ethnic boundaries including: local-level communal interactions in a variety of socio-ecological contexts; social inclusion/exclusion and ethnic divisions of labour; indigenous-migrant relations; the relationship between migrant relations; the relationship between ethnicity, ethno-nationalism, nationalism and the nation-state. This course is offered to graduate students with an interest in cultural diversity and its social, economic and political consequences in relation to nation-state-making."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6220", "title": "Conflict/Power in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Among the themes covered are state power and formation, ideology, political violence and terror, democracy/authoritarianism, and social movements. These are addressed in relation to issues of political economy transformations within societies as well as the changing international political economy. It asks a number of fundamental questions, including: What are some of the defining features of social conflict and of the exercise of power in modern societies? What is the role of the state and of civil society-based organisations in defining social, political, and economic trajectories? Are major social transformations inevitably accompanied by conflict and violence? Has the nature of social conflict and power, domestic and international, been transformed in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 International Order? How has the recent world economic crisis affected the kinds of social conflicts that transpire in the developed and developing worlds? This course is comparative, providing case studies from the experiences of contemporary European, Latin American and Asian societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6222", "title": "Topics in Transnationalism", "description": "This course focuses on one of more of selected topics such as (a) travel flows, (b) migration and refugees, (c) diaspora, and (d) transnational networks, in order to examine broad questions. How does tourism intensify or transform local cultures? How does tourism affect nworking conditions, ideas of service, leisure and the culture industry? How does travel, migration and displacement create new identities in transnational spaces? What is the relationship between diaspora and global economics? How do diverse diasporic communities compare and relate to each other? What conditions shape the emergence of transnational networks and communities? What effects do transntioanl cultures have on governance at local and global levels? Topics may vary from year to year."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6223", "title": "The Government of Life in Contemporary Capitalism", "description": "This course provides graduate students with an opportunity to engage with current anthropological and sociological approaches to the government of life in contemporary capitalism. We will look at how researchers have employed concepts such as governmentality, biopolitics, neoliberalism and multi-culturalism to generate critical understandings of contemporary political conditions. More importantly, we will situate these works within a broader history of efforts in the human sciences to understand the relation of power and truth, and its implications for human life."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6224", "title": "Producing Ethnography", "description": "Ethnography is the central mode of documentation and representation in social and cultural anthropology. \u2018Ethnography\u2019, the detailed depiction of human social and cultural experiences and their focused analysis, can refer either to the process of conducting fieldwork and undertaking participant observation or the product of such research, in a written or a visual form. The course recognizes the diverse modes in which anthropologists represent their works \u2013 including in visual, oral and digital. The emphasis is on ethnographic writing/ representation in an effort to understand the various methodological, literary and conceptual choices made by authors in the process."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6225", "title": "Kinship, Relatedness and Personhood", "description": "The theorising of kinship relations has always had a central place in anthropological studies. This course will equip students with an understanding of kinship and personhood as essential aspects of human sociality, a knowledge of the key debates in kinship studies, and basic methods for the investigation of\nkinship and relatedness in field research.\n\nTopics covered will include current anthropological approaches to a wider field of \u2018relatedness\u2019 in a globalised world marked by new communicative \ntechnologies, voluntaristic friendships, changing family structures, the shifting significance of kin networks, the formation of transnational families, and the development of New Reproductive Technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6226", "title": "Asia as an Area of Ethnographic Study", "description": "This course proposes to look at the various \u201cculture areas\u201d or \u201cfields of ethnological study\u201d that anthropologists have traditionally identified in Asia,\nexamining specific ideas, theoretical and methodological issues that have emerged in these different regions; how have certain theoretical ideas shaped research in the different parts of the region? Have they facilitated exchanges of ideas and developments of theories within the broader discipline and in interdisciplinary research? How much does place, particularly our place in Asia, affect anthropological research and our understanding of theoretical issues that have become urgent in the contemporary world?"}, {"moduleCode": "SC6227", "title": "Economy and Society", "description": "This course covers all aspects of work, employment, and unemployment and their connections with wider social processes and social structures. The changing nature of work under global restructuring will provide the background context to this course, while the intersection of work and the contemporary family will take the center stage. Understanding of the ongoing changes in work and family in industrial societies contributes to the effective management of change at both the national and individual levels. The course will also discuss the nature of time use in contemporary social life, including the changing patterns of work, leisure and consumption."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6228", "title": "Social Stratification and Mobility", "description": "All human societies classify their members into categories that carry significant social meaning. A primary interest in sociology is stratification, which considers hierarchical social structures that rank people with respect to access to resources, and how such structure varies with space and time and enables individuals to move through different ranks over time at varying speed. This course will examine the concepts, methods, and facts in major literature about: class structure, intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status, factors that affect an individual\u2019s socioeconomic achievement and social inequality. Students will study in greater depth specific situations in some Asian countries."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6230", "title": "Institutional Varieties and Asian Capitalisms", "description": "This course explores distinctive institutional arrangements in Asian capitalism(s). The course is composed of three parts. The first part reviews foundational studies in comparative capitalism and economic sociology. The second part covers institutional varieties of Asian capitalism such as developmental states, business groups, social networks, and value systems. The last part provides case studies of key capitalist economies in the region. Towards the end of the course, students will assess the relevance and the limitations of existing theories, which have been established based primarily on Western experiences, in explaining the unique characteristics and the internal diversity of capitalisms in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Sociology in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, number of contact hours, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This course is designed as a seminar for graduate students (who have completed at least their first year of graduate studies at NUS) and faculty to share their research process and professional development and to engage with one another critically in dialogue revolving around their ongoing research projects or dissertations. The seminar will include presentations by faculty members (where relevant and available) on research ethics, methods of research, and dissertation writing. Concurrently, this course is undertaken as a platform to help you write and present your research clearly and effectively both in an academic setting and a professional environment. We will work on this agenda by reviewing some general rules, guidelines, and suggestions on research and writing, and most importantly, by learning to embark on peer editing and constructive critique and feedback on one another\u2019s work."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6780", "title": "Professional Writing in Sociology and Anthropology", "description": "This advanced course offers intensive and practical training of postgraduate students in professional writing in the disciplines of sociology and anthropology. Students will learn the intricacies of writing to publish in different types of academic publication. They will learn the different types of research writing involving qualitative inquiry, quantitative argumentation, ethnographic understanding, and theoretical reasoning. Students will have the opportunity to critically reflect on their own writing in the midst of completing their dissertation. Students will also learn how to present their writing in professional settings such as conferences and seminars."}, {"moduleCode": "SC6880", "title": "Topics in Social Organization", "description": "This course deals with specialised topics in Sociology. The topics covered reflect the expertise of visiting academics on emerging issues in Sociology which have practical implications for social research and/or social policy. Such topics include Demographic Transition: Facts and Theory. Major topics include: 1. Education Research & Policy Issues 2. Demographic Transition: Facts & Theory 3. Family Structure & Change 4. Civil Society & Governance 5. Culture & Institutions 6. Economic Change & Social Consequences"}, {"moduleCode": "SCI5750", "title": "External Institution Course 5", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SCI5800", "title": "External Institution Course 10", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SCI5820", "title": "External Institution Course 12", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SCI5850", "title": "External Institution Course 15", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SDM5001", "title": "Systems Architecture", "description": "Systems Architecture deals with principles of implementation and evaluation of complex systems. Developing architecture is the most abstract function in system/product development. The course examines various notions of systems architecting (including aspects of organizational and information architecture) and offers principles and tools for its development. A wide variety of real-world case studies (including examples of transportation, utility, electronic, mechanical, enterprise, traditional information and document management systems, etc.) will be drawn upon. The course addresses issues such as dealing with legacy and change, enterprise-wide interoperability as well as support for knowledge management."}, {"moduleCode": "SDM5002", "title": "Systems Engineering", "description": "Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to realize the successful creation of systems that meet customer and stakeholders requirements with due consideration of the system\u2019s performance and impact over the entire life-cycle. The course covers the fundamental methods and concepts of this approach including those to surface system requirements; architect options and alternatives; model systems; evaluate performance; and analyze tradeoffs."}, {"moduleCode": "SDM5003", "title": "Knowledge Management", "description": "As the knowledge economy and globalization intensifies, the field of knowledge management is becoming crucial to corporate competitiveness. Knowledge Management (KM) is a relatively new subject area which is in this course conceptualized as a strategy for improving organizational performance through a set of processes, tools and incentives designed to help people create, share, and integrate knowledge. The main idea is that knowledge can be purposefully managed in order to improve knowledge transfer, its re-use, adaptation to rapidly changing environments, and the creation of innovative new products and services. Course covers: (i) basic concepts of the nature of knowledge and its creation; (ii) organizational culture and learning organisations (iii) explicit and tacit knowledge as well as knowledge artifacts; (iv) technology and its role in knowledge creation, sharing, and management; (v) the information professional and ethical considerations."}, {"moduleCode": "SDM5004", "title": "Systems Engineering Project Management", "description": "Systems engineering project management shows how generic project management concepts and methods are used in the context of the systems engineering process to realize techno-centric systems. The course also develops the need for plans to manage change in systems development projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SDM5010", "title": "Model-Based Systems Engineering", "description": "Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is fast becoming the industry standard for describing systems to support performance of key systems engineering tasks. The course shows how a model-based view is fundamental to systems development. It describes the use of the four fundamental views of a system defined in SysML, for the purpose of performing SE tasks. It demonstrates how these views can be systematically developed using an MBSE methodology, and then used in requirements specification, architecting, trade-off analysis, testing and verification. The coverage also includes the transformation of SysML diagrams into executable models useful for systems-level analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "SDM5990", "title": "Sdm Research Project", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SE1101E", "title": "The Lands Below the Winds: Southeast Asia in the World", "description": "Southeast Asia is many things. Its past includes dinosaurs, ancient kingdoms and devastating wars, while its future is still being shaped. SE1101E explores this fascinating region in all its diversity: historical, cultural, economic, aesthetic, political, religious, gendered, environmental, and more. The course focuses on human experiences in Southeast Asia and how Southeast Asians engage with global processes. Lectures cover topics that move between the region\u2019s murky past to the cyber spaces of a seemingly borderless future. It provides both an insightful introduction to the region and a foundation for future studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2210", "title": "Popular Culture in Southeast Asia", "description": "Popular culture - in forms such as music, cinema and magazines - has been seen as a way for non-elite groups to make sense of their common experiences. In the modern era, these pop culture products have also been linked with mass-production and standardised, commercialised commodities which work to entertain and distract. However, more recent scholarship has seen popular culture as a possible means of contesting dominant ideologies. This course examines the debate by considering various forms of popular culture in Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2212", "title": "Cities and Urban Life in Southeast Asia", "description": "Are Southeast Asian urban models unique from those of the West? This course uses historical and emerging developments to re-evaluate debates on Southeast Asian urbanisation. The particularities of Southeast Asian urbanisation will be examined both in terms of its intertwined history with the rest of the world as well as the politics of time and space. The course aims at developing a critical understanding of the interaction between historical, political-economic, and cultural processes that constitute urbanization in Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2213", "title": "Democratisation in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course will cover a wide range of issues concerning the causes, processes, obstacles and consequences of democratic transition in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia - three of the largest and the most populous countries of Southeast Asia. The specific issues to be covered include economic growth and stagnation, the middle class, capitalist rule, rural politics, political parties, military coups, corruption, electoral violence, gangsters, social movements, street protests, the monarchy, communal conflicts and female politicians."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2214", "title": "Beyond the Frame: Arts and Lives in Southeast Asia", "description": "This interdisciplinary course explores the diversity of the visual and performing arts in Southeast Asia and helps students to appreciate and enjoy the arts: ancient temple art, living traditional art (such as textiles, puppets, weapons, painting, theatre, and music), as well as modern and contemporary art. The focus will be on understanding the arts as they are experienced in local contexts; and on change, cross-cultural inspirations, and global flows, in the past and today. In tutorials, students will learn to play traditional music. On an overseas fieldtrip, they will explore the arts in a particular area and interact with artists."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2217", "title": "War and Southeast Asia", "description": "The recent strengthening of the U.S. military presence in Southeast Asia is better understood in comparative, historical perspective. This course identifies and compares a number of periods in the past when a powerful imperial force succeeded in dominating parts, if not all, of the region. This course seeks to identify the attributes of imperial domination in Southeast Asia, how it establishes itself and deals with resistance, how it maintains itself through attraction and coercion, and eventually declines. The choice of specific topics will vary in relation to available expertise."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2218", "title": "Changing Economic Landscape of SE Asia", "description": "The Southeast Asian economies and the region as a whole have experienced a significant change in their economic landscapes in terms of high growth rates, rising income levels, improvement in the. standards of living, and the changing structures of production and trade. What accounts for this\ntransformation? We seek to answer this question by examining the experiences and problems of the various Southeast Asian economies in the context of the leading development models and policies that they have pursued in promoting and developing their domestic sectors (agriculture, manufacturing and services) and external sectors (trade, foreign capital and regionalism)."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2221", "title": "Old and New Music in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course introduces the variety of music in Southeast Asia, from traditional to pop, and contributes to students' understanding of the region. Lectures with audiovisual illustrations, which will emphasize cultural and contextual approaches, will be complemented by practical instruction in playing Javanese gamelan music. We will study the different musical aesthetics, changing cultural and social contexts and functions (from village and palace rituals to arts academies, the cassette industry, and concerts), musical and cultural interaction, and the changing musical ?landscape? of Southeast Asia. The course is appropriate both for students interested in Southeast Asian culture, and anyone who likes music."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2222", "title": "Southeast Asia in Context", "description": "This course introduces students to the transformations of ethnic, religious, national and regional identities in Southeast Asia across time as seen from a variety of perspectives. Students will have the opportunity to learn about the region's archaeology, seafaring trade and the meanings of its ancient monuments; the major religions of Buddhism, Isam, Christianity and \"Animism\" and how they figured in movements for change since the 19th century, the modern management of cultural resources and the impact of tourism; and recent anthropological studies with attention on new themes and the ways Southeast Asian societies are understood from the region itself."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2223", "title": "Doing Research In Southeast Asia", "description": "This course introduces different approaches to studying the region, with the aim of developing students\u2019 independent research skills. It covers issues such as identifying a research question, the role of theory in research, and selecting an appropriate research design. By looking at a range of exemplary works in Southeast Asian studies as well as explicit methodological discussions, students will gain understanding of theoretical debates and practical issues related to doing research in Southeast Asian Studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2224", "title": "Unmasked! An Introduction to Traditional Dance in SEA", "description": "This course introduces students to classical Southeast Asian dance with a particular emphasis on masked dance traditions. Drawing on an analysis of scholarly texts, videos and hands on sessions the course takes students on an exciting theatrical journey through Southeast Asia. Students enrolled in the class will be taught how to appreciate classical dance traditions in the region from a variety of angles, such as dramaturgical principles, music, aesthetics, ritual significance and change. They will also learn to perform and create compositions in a Southeast Asian dance form."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2225", "title": "Forbidden Pleasures: Vice in Southeast Asia", "description": "From the betel popular across the region for millenia, to colonial opium regimes, to Bangkok\u2019s Soi Cowboy, vice has always been a part of life in Southeast Asia. In this course, students investigate the economic, political, social, ecological, and cultural significance of a variety of substances and activities, from drugs like opium, alcohol and caffeine, to activities like paid sex and gambling. Students use a range of texts, including scholarly articles, memoirs, movies, and first\u2010hand observation to investigate the ways illicit substances and behaviors are deeply imbricated in everyday life in Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2227", "title": "Southeast Asian Gardens: History and Symbolism", "description": "This course will provide a historical introduction to Southeast Asian gardens, describe their situation and plan, and explore their aesthetic value (gardens as places of pleasure). Their philosophical significance (garden, microcosm, place of meditation) is equally important but less well known. Artificial gardens have existed in Southeast Asia (Sumatra, Java, Bali, Vietnam, Myanmar) since the seventh century. They contain Chinese and Indian influences, but exemplify a Southeast Asian view of the universe in microcosm. Gardens are a significant but overlooked medium of Southeast Asian symbolic representation. Persian, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese gardens will be invoked to provide context."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2229", "title": "Southeast Asia as a Field of Study", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to the rich intellectual heritage that has led to the development of Southeast Asian Studies as a distinct field of scholarly inquiry. We shall explore the critical debates, seminal texts and theoretical currents within the field in determining how different scholars have engaged with and conceptualized the region. We shall also consider the epistemological challenges of carrying out research in the region, and how Southeast Asians themselves have contributed new voices towards the evolution of the field."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2230", "title": "Modern Southeast Asia Through Film", "description": "This course introduces students to the making of modern Southeast Asia from the late colonial era through the Cold War through fiction and film. Fiction and films provide a means to access political history in an engaging way and for what they reveal about how outsiders as well as Southeast Asians themselves came to view the region. The course covers Southeast Asia integration into the global capitalist economy, national awakenings, colonial anxieties in the 1930s, World War II and the Japanese occupation, the Cold War and neocolonialism, the Vietnam War, and the promise of modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This Independent Study Course is specially designed for the Semester-in-SEA programme at the SEASP in order to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Southeast Asian Studies. We seek to develop three skills that could only be most fruitfully realised in a fieldwork context away from the campus environment. These are namely: the ability to conduct fieldwork; utilising a Southeast Asian language for academic study; and first-hand engagement with research methodological issues. Beyond the ability of writing a logical essay learnt in campus, the student will develop in-depth academic research capabilities."}, {"moduleCode": "SE2880", "title": "Topics in Southeast Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in Southeast Asian Studies. The topic to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff member in the department."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3210", "title": "Studies in Southeast Asian Arts", "description": "The course explores in depth a particular Southeast Asian art (visual or performing arts, music, or literature).The specific focus of the course varies (to be announced). Students are introduced to theoretical approaches relevant to the topic, in the context of larger theoretical frameworks (historical, anthropological, etc.) of the study of Southeast Asian arts; and they have a chance to experience the art directly by studying the basics of the artistic practice (e.g., learning to paint, play music, dance). The course emphasizes both an in-depth study of the art and the relevance of such study for broader understanding of Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3211", "title": "Religion, Society & Politics in SE Asia", "description": "Religion is a field of meanings that informs individual people's lives and also underpins social and political identities. While religions in Southeast Asia can be harnessed towards state construction or consolidation, they can also be embraced in ways that escape official control. In the past, religion has enabled people, through their local cults, religious schools, or social movements, to cope with daily existence or even voice their discontent. This course takes a comparative perspective and highlights the theoretical and practical problems related to this field of study."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3214", "title": "Heritage and Heritagescapes in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course provides critical knowledge of the historical, natural, political and socio-cultural \u2018work\u2019 underlying the making, management and marketing of heritage(scapes) in Southeast Asia. It begins by focusing on relevant concepts, before considering the contemporary material, symbolic and social uses and impacts of heritage(scapes) within the region. It offers a broad overview of how (spatial) practices, ideas, policies and technologies have been mobilised for multiple purposes, and discusses issues that emerge when planning for, and promoting, this heritage for diverse populations. Ultimately, heritage(scapes) here are also conceptualised as veritable lens to understand and further enhance Southeast Asian societies today."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3216", "title": "Migration, Diaspora and Refugees in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course seeks to understand the complex trajectories, meanings, and outcomes of human mobility in Southeast Asia. The main topics of this course include migration patterns, now and in the past; diasporic, cosmopolitan, subaltern, and hybrid identities; the formation of racial and ethnic, political, and, cultural minorities; citizenship; refugee crises and large-scale human displacement. Readings and discussion will include both theoretical approaches to these topics as well as empirical case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3218", "title": "Industrialising Singapore and SE Asia", "description": "Industrialisation involves the promotion and development of the industrial sector. Why have some countries industrialised faster than others? In particular, the manufacturing industries in some countries have remained backward and depended heavily on the use of labour while in other countries, they have become more advanced and relied more on the use of capital. This course discusses the theory and concepts that relate to industrialisation. It also investigates the industrial experiences of other countries and the lessons from them. Focus will be on Singapore, and how it compares with other SE Asian countries."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3219", "title": "Country Studies: Island Southeast Asia", "description": "The main countries of island Southeast Asia are Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. This course examines one or two of these countries for in-depth study, providing a multi-stranded approach to different facets of contemporary life in that country. The course will investigate a variety of themes, such as local democracy, military power, religion, ethnic identities and conflicts, justice and reconciliation, popular culture, music and food. Each theme is integrated, with the aim of developing a more comprehensive understanding of the country in question."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3220", "title": "Country Studies: Mainland Southeast Asia", "description": "The countries of Mainland Southeast Asia are Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. This course examines one or a group of these countries for an in-depth study, providing a multi-disciplinary approach to different facets of contemporary life in these countries. The course will place emphasis on a variety of themes, such as history of decolonization and the Cold War, military power, political change, peasantry, environment, economic reforms, ethnicity and nationalism, historiography, gender and religion. Each theme is integrated, with the aim of developing a more comprehensive understanding of these countries."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3221", "title": "Traditional Music in a SE Asian Country", "description": "This course will give you a chance to learn to play traditional music from one Southeast Asian country, to understand how the music works, and how music functions in society and reflects cultural values, specifically in the one country. While the first-hand experience of playing ensemble music is an important part of this course, no musical background is required all you need is a positive attitude. Discussions (with audiovisual illustrations) and readings will help you to understand the workings of the music and the historical, cultural and social setting, with an emphasis on understanding music in and as culture."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3222", "title": "Gender in Southeast Asia", "description": "What are the experiences of men and women during the pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary eras in Southeast Asia? How are gender identities and roles constructed? How do the interplays between local cultures, class, ethnicity, economy, politics and religion affect power relations between men and women in both the private and public spheres? Using interdisciplinary approaches, this course will examine these questions via recent literature, ethnographic studies, life histories, films and other audio-visual documentaries concerning men and women in different parts of the Southeast Asian region."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3224", "title": "Thai Drawing and Painting", "description": "This course introduces students to the art of Thai painting and drawing through an analysis of both scholarly texts and hands\u2010on sessions. The course takes students on a visual journey through all the major periods of Thai classical art. Emphasis will also be placed on regional and folk styles of painting as well as with new forms of traditional art. The course focuses primarily on the Rama 3 style of Thai painting as developed in nineteenth century Bangkok and which has become the most common form of Thai classical art seen in the country today. Students enrolled in the class will be taught not only how to appreciate traditional Thai painting but also how to draw, create compositions and critique art works."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3226", "title": "Hard at work: the changing face of labour in SEA", "description": "In this class, students are introduced to the history and ethnography of work in Southeast Asia. The class focuses on a particular country in the region depending on the instructor. Students read texts that explore the social, political, economic, cultural, and technological forces that have shaped work in the region since the 1800s. At the same time, students are introduced to the practices of ethnographic fieldwork, including observing, interviewing, writing, and editing. Students also read critically ethnographies of work from the region and the world. Students then apply these practices and insights through field research projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3227", "title": "Maritime History and Culture of Southeast Asia", "description": "For 2000 years, Southeast Asia has been an important crossroad of world maritime trade, but the study of maritime history and culture have not been well developed on a regional level. The study of maritime culture in Southeast Asia requires integration of data from numerous disciplines including archaeology, history, economics, engineering, and ecology, to name some of the most significant. Singapore\u2019s prosperity depends to a major extent on its port, yet students do not appreciate its importance. This course will explore commercial and cultural links between the Arabo\u2010Persian region, India, Southeast Asia, and China over the past two millennia."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3228", "title": "The Universe Unraveling: Narratives of War in Indochina", "description": "The course takes students from the origins of revolutionary anticolonial movements in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the 1920s, through the years of war in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s to their legacies in today\u2019s diasporic communities. In addition to a core text, students will read a variety of first\u2010person accounts written by anyone from revolutionary leaders to foot soldiers to children to doctors to Buddhist monks. The objective is to see the wars from multiple perspectives and to investigate how first\u2010person accounts may complement, complicate, or even contest orthodox narratives of revolution and war."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3231", "title": "Colonial Southeast Asia Through European Literature", "description": "Through a critical reading of European fiction set in Southeast Asia, students will gain a richer understanding of the region in the colonial period, as well as European experiences and images of Southeast Asia. The course will also reflect on the medium of fiction \u2013 is there something that one can express better through fiction than through academic writing? How do the conventions of academic writing limit what is thought and said? As part of the assessment, students will write short stories. In addition to fiction, we will examine paintings, photographs and watch movies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3232", "title": "Death and Dying in Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asians have been fascinated with the idea of death and dying for centuries. In fact, almost all Southeast Asian cultures and communities have developed highly intricate and complex ideas, ceremonies and rituals for all activities associated with death and dying. This course enables students to understand and demystify the topic of death and dying in Southeast Asia from a multidisciplinary perspective. It looks into how various communities, medical institutions, commercial enterprises and religious groups in the region cope and understand death and dying in order to further understand Southeast Asia, one of the most complex regions in the world."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3233", "title": "Martial Arts in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course introduces students to the study of martial arts in Southeast Asia from an academic and experiential perspective. Students analyse journal articles, books and materials from the social media in order to understand how various social, political, economic and historical forces impacted on the production and performance of martial arts in the region. Student\u2019s learning will be complemented with hands-on sessions that further their understanding of complex historical, sociological and cultural dimensions of various combat genres. Student assignments such as essays and group video projects will reveal new ways in how Southeast Asia can be understood from multi-disciplinary perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3234", "title": "Sea, Islands, Vessels: A Voyage of Exploration", "description": "At the heart of this course is a sailing voyage. We will visit coastal/island communities, explore marine environment, and experience life at sea and on remote islands. During that time, as well as at pre- and postvoyage seminars, we will reflect on diverse but interrelated issues in historical and contemporary perspectives: the roles of the sea and boats in Southeast Asia; archipelagic spaces and nations; \u201csea people\u201d and territory; colonialism; piracy; interrelation between people and natural environment; ships and the sea in myths, narratives, and visual culture; seafaring as a method of understanding Southeast Asia, and so on."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3235", "title": "Southeast Asia Laboratory: Power and Markets", "description": "How does politics affect economic outcomes and how does the economy influence political outcomes in Southeast Asia? This course explores these questions from the height of the Cold War in the 1960s until the present. Students will be introduced to different approaches to the study of political economy. We will pay particular attention to regional differences within countries \u2013 including resource endowments, social structures, economic policies and investment, labor and migration."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3550", "title": "Southeast Asian Studies Internship", "description": "Internships vary in length and take place within organisations or companies located in Singapore or Southeast Asian countries. Internships with organisations or companies in Southeast Asian countries will occur during the semester-in-SEA programme at the SEASP. \n\nAll internships are vetted and approved by the SEASP, have relevance to the major in Southeast Asian Studies, involve the application of subject knowledge and theory in reflection upon the work, and are assessed. Available credited internships will be advertised at the beginning of each semester. Internships proposed by students will require the approval of the department."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student\u2019s Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Southeast Asian Studies department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Southeast Asian Studies department."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This Independent Study Course is specially designed for the Semester-in-SEA programme at the SEASP in order to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Southeast Asian Studies. We seek to develop three skills that could only be most fruitfully realised in a fieldwork context away from the campus environment. These are: the ability to conduct fieldwork; utilising a Southeast Asian language for academic study; and first-hand engagement with research methodological issues. The student is expected to develop more reflexive research capacity and present a seminar at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "SE3711", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SE3712", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SE3880", "title": "Topics in Southeast Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in Southeast Asian Studies. The topic to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff member in the department."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4101", "title": "Southeast Asia Studies: Theory and Practice", "description": "The course prepares Honours students for their thesis exercise, particularly in the choice of analytical framework and appropriate research design. Students are introduced to various ideas about 'theory' and 'practice' in research on Southeast Asia. Different disciplinary approaches are compared and evaluated in terms of the way they formulate research questions, conceptualise research design and measure evidence. Attention will also be paid to modes of writing and representation adopted in texts under study. Seminar discussions are aimed at helping students think critically about the suitability of various approaches to their own research interests."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4101HM", "title": "Southeast Asia Studies: Theory and Practice", "description": "The course prepares Honours students for their thesis exercise, particularly in the choice of analytical framework and appropriate research design. Students are introduced to various ideas about 'theory' and 'practice' in research on Southeast Asia. Different disciplinary approaches are compared and evaluated in terms of the way they formulate research questions, conceptualise research design and measure evidence. Attention will also be paid to modes of writing and representation adopted in texts under study. Seminar discussions are aimed at helping students think critically about the suitability of various approaches to their own research interests."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4201", "title": "Southeast Asian Languages as Research Tools", "description": "This course enables students to use language as a research tool. They will learn about the importance of Southeast Asian languages as primary sources for research, explore issues in translation and reflect on research methodologies involved in using foreign languages. Students may use different languages they know to explore issues studied in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4201HM", "title": "Southeast Asian Languages as Research Tools", "description": "This course enables students to use language as a research tool. They will learn about the importance of Southeast Asian languages as primary sources for research, explore issues in translation and reflect on research methodologies involved in using foreign languages. Students may use different languages they know to explore issues studied in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4210", "title": "Ancient Kingdoms of Southeast Asia", "description": "Historical sources (writing) and archaeology (material culture) give very different perspectives on the development of civilisations. This course follows the development of classical civilisations in Southeast Asia from the first to the 16th centuries A.D. Data from archaeological excavations are utilised to create a picture of the achievements of early historic peoples of the region in such areas as the formation of kingdoms and cities; trade; architecture; and warfare. Relations with China and India are also analysed."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4210HM", "title": "Ancient Kingdoms of Southeast Asia", "description": "Historical sources (writing) and archaeology (material culture) give very different perspectives on the development of civilisations. This course follows the development of classical civilisations in Southeast Asia from the first to the 16th centuries A.D. Data from archaeological excavations are utilised to create a picture of the achievements of early historic peoples of the region in such areas as the formation of kingdoms and cities; trade; architecture; and warfare. Relations with China and India are also analysed."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4212", "title": "Elites of Southeast Asia", "description": "Aristocrats, bureaucrats and tycoons are just some of the different players that have occupied elite positions in Southeast Asian societies. This course looks at these and other elite groups in terms of the roles they have played and how they have acquired, maintained or lost elite status. Why, for example, is the military an elite group in some countries but not others? Do wealthy people inevitably hold political power? The course also investigates the effects of various types of elite rule on politics, economic growth and social justice."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4212HM", "title": "Elites of Southeast Asia", "description": "Aristocrats, bureaucrats and tycoons are just some of the different players that have occupied elite positions in Southeast Asian societies. This course looks at these and other elite groups in terms of the roles they have played and how they have acquired, maintained or lost elite status. Why, for example, is the military an elite group in some countries but not others? Do wealthy people inevitably hold political power? The course also investigates the effects of various types of elite rule on politics, economic growth and social justice."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4217", "title": "Southeast Asia in the Global Economy", "description": "Southeast Asia has been linked to the rest of the world through various channels: historically through colonisation, geographically by land, water and air, economically through trade, financial capital, technology and foreign aid, politically through regional and international organisations, and culturally through human mobility. This course examines these linkages and the various factors that have influenced them particularly in terms of the national, regional and international policies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4217HM", "title": "Southeast Asia in the Global Economy", "description": "Southeast Asia has been linked to the rest of the world through various channels: historically through colonisation, geographically by land, water and air, economically through trade, financial capital, technology and foreign aid, politically through regional and international organisations, and culturally through human mobility. This course examines these linkages and the various factors that have influenced them particularly in terms of the national, regional and international policies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4218", "title": "Majorities and Minorities in SE Asia", "description": "This course focuses on the relations between majorities and minorities in Southeast Asia. It aims are to understand how the relationships between the state and its peoples of different ethnicity and between the majority and the minority have brought about historical development and change, politically and economically, in the region. Discussions include the historical background of these peoples, their legends and myths of origins, cultures, relationships among ethnic groups and their perceptions of themselves and others, economic life and trade, migration, colonialism, the rise of the nation-state and its impacts on multi-ethnic societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4218HM", "title": "Majorities and Minorities in SE Asia", "description": "This course focuses on the relations between majorities and minorities in Southeast Asia. It aims are to understand how the relationships between the state and its peoples of different ethnicity and between the majority and the minority have brought about historical development and change, politically and economically, in the region. Discussions include the historical background of these peoples, their legends and myths of origins, cultures, relationships among ethnic groups and their perceptions of themselves and others, economic life and trade, migration, colonialism, the rise of the nation-state and its impacts on multi-ethnic societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4220", "title": "Special Studies on Southeast Asia", "description": "This course is intended to enable students to pursue in-depth readings on a topic which is relevant to the mission of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies but is not covered in the normal curriculum. It enables students to delve into a particular highly-specialized topic and engage critically in the relevant theoretical concepts that inform it. The students are responsible for defining their own research topic and composing a detailed bibliography in relation to the selected topic. Assessment for this course is primarily through seminar participation and/or project work."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4220HM", "title": "Special Studies on Southeast Asia", "description": "This course is intended to enable students to pursue in-depth readings on a topic which is relevant to the mission of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies but is not covered in the normal curriculum. It enables students to delve into a particular highly-specialized topic and engage critically in the relevant theoretical concepts that inform it. The students are responsible for defining their own research topic and composing a detailed bibliography in relation to the selected topic. Assessment for this course is primarily through seminar participation and/or project work."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4223", "title": "Knowledge, Power and Colonialism in Southeast Asia", "description": "Students of history usually mine Western accounts of Southeast Asia for the facts that they may contain, assuming that such texts are simply a means of accessing a vaguely apprehended reality \"out there\". This course examines the ways in which writers located themselves vis a vis the region; the kinds of images, themes and motifs they used to describe it; the ideas and doctrines that informed them; the institutions and other works they affiliated their writings with; and the power over the societies of the region that arose from their enterprise. Modern scholarship has largely inherited Orientalist ways of looking at Southeast Asia. What are the alternatives?"}, {"moduleCode": "SE4223HM", "title": "Knowledge, Power and Colonialism in Southeast Asia", "description": "Students of history usually mine Western accounts of Southeast Asia for the facts that they may contain, assuming that such texts are simply a means of accessing a vaguely apprehended reality \"out there\". This course examines the ways in which writers located themselves vis a vis the region; the kinds of images, themes and motifs they used to describe it; the ideas and doctrines that informed them; the institutions and other works they affiliated their writings with; and the power over the societies of the region that arose from their enterprise. Modern scholarship has largely inherited Orientalist ways of looking at Southeast Asia. What are the alternatives?"}, {"moduleCode": "SE4225", "title": "The Cold War in Southeast Asia", "description": "As Southeast Asian states achieved independence, new pressures reached the region. Between the late 1940s and the early 1980s, Southeast Asia represented an arena of competition between the communist and capitalist worlds. This competition took many forms: diplomatic, political, military, economic, ideological, and cultural. Some Southeast Asians took sides, for reasons ranging from the idealistic to the mercenary. Some Southeast Asian states became battle-grounds. For all the region's societies, the political and diplomatic history, journalism and student life, social and intellectual change, and fiction and film of the Cold War era reflected a process of reconciling international and local forces."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4225HM", "title": "The Cold War in Southeast Asia", "description": "As Southeast Asian states achieved independence, new pressures reached the region. Between the late 1940s and the early 1980s, Southeast Asia represented an arena of competition between the communist and capitalist worlds. This competition took many forms: diplomatic, political, military, economic, ideological, and cultural. Some Southeast Asians took sides, for reasons ranging from the idealistic to the mercenary. Some Southeast Asian states became battle-grounds. For all the region's societies, the political and diplomatic history, journalism and student life, social and intellectual change, and fiction and film of the Cold War era reflected a process of reconciling international and local forces."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4226", "title": "Doing Ethnography in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course provides students with both methodological and theoretical guidance for doing critical ethnography in Southeast Asia. Students will systematically learn about the fundamentals of practicing ethnography in Southeast Asia and consider philosophical\u2010theoretical, disciplinary and ethical issues underpinning each stage of the ethnographic process. Different forms of ethnographic texts on Southeast Asia (including films) will be introduced and students will learn how to critically evaluate ethnographies. Students will have the opportunity to directly apply what they learn to their own research projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4226HM", "title": "Doing Ethnography in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course provides students with both methodological and theoretical guidance for doing critical ethnography in Southeast Asia. Students will systematically learn about the fundamentals of practicing ethnography in Southeast Asia and consider philosophical\u2010theoretical, disciplinary and ethical issues underpinning each stage of the ethnographic process. Different forms of ethnographic texts on Southeast Asia (including films) will be introduced and students will learn how to critically evaluate ethnographies. Students will have the opportunity to directly apply what they learn to their own research projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4227", "title": "Nationalism in Southeast Asia", "description": "The course provides a critical study of various theories and practices of nationalism in Southeast Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective. What is the relationship between colonialism and the development of national attachments and nationalist politics? What roles have ethnicity and religion played in the emergence of national and state identities in Southeast Asia? Students will address these questions and examine the rise of nationalism as a leading political principle and the fate of the nation\u2010state in an increasingly globalized and globalizing world."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4227HM", "title": "Nationalism in Southeast Asia", "description": "The course provides a critical study of various theories and practices of nationalism in Southeast Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective. What is the relationship between colonialism and the development of national attachments and nationalist politics? What roles have ethnicity and religion played in the emergence of national and state identities in Southeast Asia? Students will address these questions and examine the rise of nationalism as a leading political principle and the fate of the nation\u2010state in an increasingly globalized and globalizing world."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4228", "title": "Contentious Politics in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course introduces students to the study of protest and contentious politics in Southeast Asia. The course will cover different theoretical approaches (behavioralism, Marxism, resource mobilization, political process, new social movements) as well as key analytical concepts (political opportunity structure, framing, social movement organizations, and transnational contention). Case studies, drawn from the late colonial and postcolonial periods, will examine individual social groups/sectors and major cycles of protest in the region (the Philippines in 1986 and 2001, Burma in 1988 and 2007, Indonesia and Malaysia in 1998, and Thailand in 1973, 1992, and 2006\u20108)."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4228HM", "title": "Contentious Politics in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course introduces students to the study of protest and contentious politics in Southeast Asia. The course will cover different theoretical approaches (behavioralism, Marxism, resource mobilization, political process, new social movements) as well as key analytical concepts (political opportunity structure, framing, social movement organizations, and transnational contention). Case studies, drawn from the late colonial and postcolonial periods, will examine individual social groups/sectors and major cycles of protest in the region (the Philippines in 1986 and 2001, Burma in 1988 and 2007, Indonesia and Malaysia in 1998, and Thailand in 1973, 1992, and 2006\u20108)."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "Students are required to conduct research on a Southeast Asian topic under the supervision of a member of staff. Topics will be chosen by students in consultation with staff. The length of the honours thesis should not exceed 12,000 words. The honours thesis is equivalent to three courses."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "Students are required to conduct research on a Southeast Asian topic under the supervision of a member of staff. Topics will be chosen by students in consultation with staff. The length of the honours thesis should not exceed 12,000 words. The honours thesis is equivalent to three courses."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SE4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5151", "title": "Approaches to the Study of Southeast Asia", "description": "Important contributions to the study of Southeast Asia in fields as diverse as archaeology and history, ethnography and anthropology, economics and political economy, and sociology and geography are surveyed in this course. It seeks both to familiarize students with the contributions of these disciplines to various contemporary and historical understandings of the region and with the assumptions and interests inherent in those understandings. The course is required of all Master's (coursework and research) students in their first year of enrolment."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5151R", "title": "Approaches to the Study of Southeast Asia", "description": "Important contributions to the study of Southeast Asia in fields as diverse as archaeology and history, ethnography and anthropology, economics and political economy, and sociology and geography are surveyed in this course. It seeks both to familiarize students with the contributions of these disciplines to various contemporary and historical understandings of the region and with the assumptions and interests inherent in those understandings. The course is required of all Master's (coursework and research) students in their first year of enrolment."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5201", "title": "Supervised Research Project", "description": "This is a dedicated research course for MA coursework students designed to enable them to complete a research\u2010based thesis."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5211", "title": "Socio Economic History of Southeast Asia", "description": "Adopting a regional perspective, this course will focus on economic and social developments within Southeast Asia between 1750 and 1950. In addition to examining topics such as the production of export commodities and trade, the course will assess the social and cultural impact of economic changes that have taken place during the 19th and 20th centuries."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5211R", "title": "Socio Economic History of Southeast Asia", "description": "Adopting a regional perspective, this course will focus on economic and social developments within Southeast Asia between 1750 and 1950. In addition to examining topics such as the production of export commodities and trade, the course will assess the social and cultural impact of economic changes that have taken place during the 19th and 20th centuries."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5224", "title": "Religion and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asia is located at the historical crossroads of world religious traditions. From its premodern and modern colonial pasts to postcolonial and \u2018globalization\u2019 times, various religions have continued to shape the region\u2019s cultural, economic, and political outlooks. The course explores religion - especially major world religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam- as a major venue to understand past and present of Southeast Asian societies. Its coverage deals with how and why religious traditions have persisted and continued to interact with changing societies across the region. It will focus on major religious traditions or a combination of many religions or common religious characteristics found across Southeast Asian countries."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5224R", "title": "Religion and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asia is located at the historical crossroads of world religious traditions. From its premodern and modern colonial pasts to postcolonial and \u2018globalization\u2019 times, various religions have continued to shape the region\u2019s cultural, economic, and political outlooks. The course explores religion - especially major world religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam- as a major venue to understand past and present of Southeast Asian societies. Its coverage deals with how and why religious traditions have persisted and continued to interact with changing societies across the region. It will focus on major religious traditions or a combination of many religions or common religious characteristics found across Southeast Asian countries."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5226", "title": "Race and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course deals with specialised topics reflecting the teaching expertise available. The aim is to study in detail one major ethnic group in Southeast Asia or a set of related ethnic groups. The emphasis will be placed on cultural values and the course may address how these are expressed in institutions, the way of life, and the mode of interaction with other ethnic groups in host societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5226R", "title": "Race and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course deals with specialised topics reflecting the teaching expertise available. The aim is to study in detail one major ethnic group in Southeast Asia or a set of related ethnic groups. The emphasis will be placed on cultural values and the course may address how these are expressed in institutions, the way of life, and the mode of interaction with other ethnic groups in host societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5229", "title": "Anthropological Approaches to Se Asia", "description": "This course looks at the relationship between culture, society and politics in Southeast Asia from an anthropological perspective. It highlights the main shifts in anthropological approaches to culture and society that have emerged with the newer understandings about power and history in social sciences. In particular, it examines changes within the interpretive perspective - a perspective most closely associated with Clifford Geertz, a celebratory figure in Southeast Asian anthropology ? to bring out the problems in the anthropological construction, interpretation and representation of culture to enable a more critical conceptualization of culture and society in Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5229R", "title": "Anthropological Approaches to SE Asia", "description": "Anthropological Approaches to SE Asia"}, {"moduleCode": "SE5233", "title": "Economies of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course reviews the economic development experiences of Southeast Asian economies in the post-second World War years in order to provide a broad picture of the transformation that have characterised these economies from low-income to medium- and high-income levels, and from agricultural, agrarian-based societies to manufacturing- and/or services-oriented economies. This course focuses on three aspects; namely, (a) the growth and development of Southeast Asian economies including their determinants, (b) an analysis of the different models of development including their relevance to Southeast Asian economies, with special attention paid to the importance of policy reforms, and (c) the various economic crises that have affected the Southeast Asian economies including their causes, consequences, policy responses and implications."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5233R", "title": "Economies of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course reviews the economic development experiences of Southeast Asian economies in the post-second World War years in order to provide a broad picture of the transformation that have characterised these economies from low-income to medium- and high-income levels, and from agricultural, agrarian-based societies to manufacturing- and/or services-oriented economies. This course focuses on three aspects; namely, (a) the growth and development of Southeast Asian economies including their determinants, (b) an analysis of the different models of development including their relevance to Southeast Asian economies, with special attention paid to the importance of policy reforms, and (c) the various economic crises that have affected the Southeast Asian economies including their causes, consequences, policy responses and implications."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5235", "title": "Infrastructures and Mobilities in Southeast Asia", "description": "Infrastructures enable and constrain the movement of people, goods, information and values across wide swaths of space and time. This course examines the dynamic interplay between infrastructures and mobilities across shifting historical and geographic settings in Southeast Asia. First, we survey influential approaches to the study of infrastructures, examining how they mediate and shape movement, mobilities and everyday modes of communication. We then explore these issues with reference to historical and contemporary case studies throughout Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5263", "title": "Cultural Resource Management in Se Asia", "description": "In this course, students will consider standing practices and policies, as well as identify problems and challenges associated with managing specific cultural resources over a variety of empirical contexts in Southeast Asia and beyond. In doing so, students will engage with relevant theories and develop a critical eye and practical skills towards evaluating/displaying myriad cultural resources for public consumption, such as for tourism, education or nation-building, whilst devising strategic interventions to mitigate some of the issues/challenges that may emerge out of these processes."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5263R", "title": "Cultural Resource Management in Se Asia", "description": "Rapidly changing political and economic factors are creating a number of different sets of problems and opportunities for the preservation and protection of cultural resources in Southeast Asia. In this course, students will compare the policies of different Southeast Asian countries as well as relevant neighbouring regions. The varying emphases placed on different components of the policy mix (museums, historic preservation, development and marketing) in different countries will be compared. Students will be required to devise suggested strategic plans for integrating heritage tourism into long-term preservation policies."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5264", "title": "Archaeology and Art of Ancient Southeast Asia", "description": "New techniques of research and analysis regularly yield important new insights on the forebears of modern Southeast Asia. Research projects currently in progress focus on such topics as prehistoric human demography, relationships between humans and the environment, early urbanization, the development of monumental architecture, and maritime trade with neighbouring regions. This course surveys the most important recent discoveries of sites and artifacts, and the new perspectives on Southeast Asian cultures and societies which these finds have already revealed or are likely to open up in the near future."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5264R", "title": "Archaeology and Art of Ancient Southeast Asia", "description": "New techniques of research and analysis regularly yield important new insights on the forebears of modern Southeast Asia. Research projects currently in progress focus on such topics as prehistoric human demography, relationships between humans and the environment, early urbanization, the development of monumental architecture, and maritime trade with neighbouring regions. This course surveys the most important recent discoveries of sites and artifacts, and the new perspectives on Southeast Asian cultures and societies which these finds have already revealed or are likely to open up in the near future."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Southeast Asian Studies in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SE5880", "title": "Topics in Southeast Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to cover specialized topics in Southeast Asian Studies. The topic(s) to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff members."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6214", "title": "Studies in Southeast Asian Politics", "description": "This course offers theoretical and comparative perspectives on contemporary Southeast Asian politics. It explores the specificities as well as transformations of government institutions, political parties, military institutions, electoral systems, interest groups, and civil society in Southeast Asia in the light of domestic, regional, and international forces and examines some of the theoretical and comparative challenges in analyzing contemporary political dynamics and configurations in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6219", "title": "Varieties of the State in Southeast Asia", "description": "What forms has the state taken in the Southeast Asian region? The course considers pre-colonial states and their ideological and material bases, the construction of colonial-style states in the nineteenth century, and the reshaping of those states during the late colonial era. It addresses efforts at nation-building and post-independence regime types in their Southeast variants. It introduces students to major works on Southeast Asian politics in critical perspective. The approach the course is comparative rather than chronological."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6220", "title": "Approaches to Southeast Asian Arts", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SE6221", "title": "Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asia", "description": "The course examines issues of gender and sexuality in historical and contemporary Southeast Asia, and considers how key texts and theories in the field of gender and sexuality studies might be applied in the Southeast Asian context. It shows that categories of gender and sexuality have long been implicated in the formation of such dichotomous cultural paradigms as \u2018East\u2019 and \u2018West,\u2019 modern and traditional, and religious and secular that continues to serve as constitutive sources of power, identity, and knowledge."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6227", "title": "Postcolonialism in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course explores ways of understanding the specificities and social realities of thought, action, and cultural subjectivities in Southeast Asia and how postcolonial approaches offer some answers but also pose further questions to the project of understanding local difference in Southeast Asia. It offers an introduction to major controversies in the study of local difference in Southeast Asia and explores their linkages as well as challenges to postcolonial premises, analytical concepts, and critical procedures."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6233", "title": "Economic Development Issues in Se Asia", "description": "This course is designed for Ph.D students who seek to understand the similarities and differences between the economies of the Southeast Asian states. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of their growth and development experiences. The various domestic and external factors affecting the growth and development performances of these economies, non-economic factors included, are also covered. The course also examines the contemporary political and social issues affecting the economies of the region. An interdisciplinary attitude towards the study of economic development issues is encouraged."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6251", "title": "Special Readings in a SE Asian Language", "description": "This Independent Study course offers an opportunity for students to develop and design their own special topics/contents pertinent to Southeast Asia\u2019s history, politics, economics, and culture. The emphasis is on critical reading and discussion of scholarship written and published in Southeast Asia\u2019s vernacular languages, e.g., Bahasa Indonesia, Burmese, Khmer, Laos, Malay, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese. It encourages students with advanced training or fieldwork experience to further engage critical and comparative scholarship from different perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6265", "title": "Studies on Early Southeast Asia", "description": "To understand the origin of Southeast Asian traditions requires a multidisciplinary approach including history, art history, and archaeology. This course will equip students to transcend gaps between various fields which share the goal of understanding the origins of modern Southeast Asian cultures and to make use of data from all of these fields in order to solve specific problems. Major topics covered include research priorities and methods of these fields, and exploration of methods to combine various kinds of data to create a holistic image of this region."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Southeast Asian Studies in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "SE6880", "title": "Topics in Southeast Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to cover specialized topics in Southeast Asian Studies. The topic(s) to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff members."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5101", "title": "History, Politics and Economics of Modern Southeast Asia", "description": "This course provides students with an overview of major events/dynamics in the politics and economics of modern Southeast Asia, with a focus on the period from 1900 to the present. The first set of topics covers colonial rule, the rise of national consciousness, rebellion, and pathways to independence. The second section covers democratic breakdown in island Southeast Asia and war and the rise of communist states in Indochina. The third section examines the long economic boom and 1997 financial crisis. The final section covers democratization, environmental issues, populism, and markets. Each week one or two countries will be featured."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5102", "title": "Societies and Cultures of Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asia is a region that has been deeply shaped by flows of ideas, peoples, and technologies, while retaining a cultural distinctiveness of its own. This course is an introduction to the complexity of Southeast Asian cultures and societies: ethnic and gendered identities that are often fluid and diverse; religious beliefs being reinterpreted and adapted to local needs; popular culture welcoming outside influences and cultivating local flavours. In this course, Southeast Asia is discussed as peoples, cultures and societies on the move, experiencing transformations and ever adapting to changes."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5201", "title": "Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course will examine the complexities of environmental issues in Southeast Asia. There is a need to unpack what really lies behind all sides of environmental problems. A political ecology approach will be used to examine the multiple layers of politics, money, power and neglect that lie behind these issues. We will travel across Southeast Asia, dive deep into its rich biodiversity and explore the extent of the environmental threats the region faces, as well as the plight of the people whose identity, lives and livelihoods depend wholly on the health of these highly endangered ecosystems."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5202", "title": "Southeast Asia by Sea", "description": "In this course, students will garner an alternative view of Southeast Asia, where land is pushed to the periphery and water becomes the central element that unites, not divides. Student will examine this maritime region with a line of sight that begins at sea, before traveling upriver to the hinterlands. From an understanding of both fresh and saltwater to an examination of connected people, fauna, cultures and histories, students will explore myriad areas of marine amalgamation; from the Moluccas to Makassar and Madura, through the Tebrau and Melaka Straits, then northwards towards the Mergui Archipelago and into the Mekong."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5203", "title": "Natural Disasters in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course analyses how Southeast Asian societies, past and present, perceive and interpret natural disasters. How have these societies coped with extreme climatic events? How natural are natural disasters? What do these events reflect and reveal about socio-economic structures such as inequality? Exploring literary narratives, ethnographic accounts, historical and policy case studies of natural disasters, this course focuses on disasters as agents for societal change, engaging with debates on environmental determinism and collapse. This course also invites us to examine and critique present approaches to climate policies that hedge against environmental risk and seek to build societal resilience."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5211", "title": "Landscapes of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course will provide an overview of the diversity of peoples and places in Southeast Asia, with the aim of examining its regional identity. It is grounded conceptually in the notion of \u201clandscape\u201d, situated across multiple scales of reality from the local to the global. Empirically, aspects of material and non-material cultures and dimensions of Southeast Asia will be discussed, including the economy, religion, environment and politics. The potential and limits of \u201clandscape geography\u201d in critically understanding Southeast Asia will also be assessed."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5212", "title": "Arts in Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asian images, objects and events lead us to rethink art-historical methods and dominant modern ideas about what is art. We will study particular kinds of objects, architecture, institutions, performances and events with attention to how they exist(ed) and function(ed) in their world, to continuities and change, and to the methodological issues involved. This will involve a critical reading of selected studies of Southeast Asian arts and reflection on artistic phenomena in their world. Topics include: art-historical preconceptions about art; temples and landscape; palaces and museums; collecting; textiles; masks and puppets; music and theatre; and modern and contemporary art."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5213", "title": "Food History of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course provides a systematic introduction to eating practices and associated ideologies in Southeast Asia from the early modern period until the present. Central to this course is the story of how the world changing phenomenon of modern middling cuisines translated within Southeast Asia, and the phenomenon\u2019s impacts on social inequality. The course will trace the transformation of the region\u2019s cuisines through the historical workings of societies, politics, empires, businesses, technologies, and environments in Southeast Asia. One core aim is to critically evaluate contemporary Southeast Asian food practices, using perspectives informed by both history and the social sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5221", "title": "Revolt and Revolution in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course examines the causes, processes and outcomes of the conflicts that have occurred in Southeast Asia. Consideration will also be given to the role of ideology and leadership. The course will attempt to cover as much ground as possible but emphasis will be placed on the major attempts at revolt and revolution."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5222", "title": "Technopolitics in Southeast Asia", "description": "Technopolitics refers to the strategic practice of designing or using technology for political ends as well as to intersections of technology and politics that lead to new modes of power. This course offers an overview of technopolitics in Southeast Asia and beyond with particular attention to contemporary digital platforms, innovation and industry, and developments in medicine, genomics and public health, among other topics. No prior knowledge is necessary; there are no pre-requisites other than a desire to understand better how technology shapes us and the world around us."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5223", "title": "Southeast Asia and Regionalism", "description": "The course focuses on ASEAN regional integration, its linkages within the region (intra-ASEAN) and with the rest of the world (extra-ASEAN). It discusses its historical, social/cultural, political and regional security, and economic dimensions. It examines the trends, patterns, determinants, challenges and prospects of ASEAN."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5224", "title": "Political Economy of Southeast Asia", "description": "This course traces the history of development in modern Southeast Asia by focusing on capitalism and its interplay with political, technological, environmental, and cultural factors. This course takes a transnational approach, seeing development both as embedded in local political economies and as integral to regional and global processes of political and economic change. Through the use of case studies, we will explore the various roles states have played in processes of development and the ways that state, capitalism, society, and environment are co-produced."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5231", "title": "Country Studies: Mainland Southeast Asia", "description": "Geographically, the countries of Mainland Southeast Asia are Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. The course first aims to examine the space of Mainland Southeast Asia and to explore its many names and forms, such as \u2018Indochina\u2019 and \u2018the Golden Peninsula.\u2019 Designed as an introduction to these countries and reflecting the lecturer's areas of expertise, this course has the dual objective of exploring not only these countries' unique traits but also their key commonalities, through the study of transversal themes such as revolution and nationalism, ethnic and religious identities, rural and urban change, and mobility and migration."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5232", "title": "Country Studies: Thailand", "description": "This course aims to study contemporary and recent economic, social and political trends in Thailand. In doing so, it will draw upon models and interpretations of Thai socio-economic and power structures which have been developed by political scientists and anthropologists. Topics for study will include the role of key institutions and interest groups - the monarchy, Buddhist Sangha, bureaucracy and military, political parties and the new middle class."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5233", "title": "Country Studies: Indonesia", "description": "This course examines political and social life in modern Indonesia. The first section, covering the period from 1900 until 1965, examines the nature of the colonial state and the rise of nationalism, societal divisions and revolution, the reasons for the failure of parliamentary democracy and the horrific violence against the Communist Party in 1965-1968. The second section explores the nature of Suharto\u2019s New Order (1965-1998), the role of the military, regional rebellions, gender relations, and civil society. The third section considers the transition from authoritarian rule, electoral politics and decentralization, ethnic and religious violence, and current struggles over the past."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5234", "title": "Country Studies: The Philippines", "description": "This course provides students with the foundations and tools to know and understand the problems and challenges the Philippines faces today. Using a multi- and inter-disciplinary framework, it aims to discuss the various dimensions of the Philippines: its geography, politics and history, religion and culture, media and society, uneven development, international migration, and its trading and investment relations."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5235", "title": "Country Studies: Malaysia", "description": "This course provides a multi-stranded approach towards understanding major political, economic and socio-cultural transformations in Malaysia. Topics such as ethno-religious conflicts, electoral politics, developmentalism, Islamism, arts and cultural activism, feminism and gender politics, and civil society mobilisation will be among those covered. The course aims to provide students with a critical, sensitive and perceptive understanding and appreciation of a uniquely \u2018Malaysian\u2019 process of nation-making and contestation."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5236", "title": "Country Studies: Myanmar", "description": "This course offers an in-depth and focused study of the socio-economic, political and cultural life of Burma- Myanmar. It will facilitate understanding of how historical, political and socio-cultural transformations in Myanmar, normally studied in disciplinary terms, are interconnected. Issues will be explored with the aim of developing integrated and critical perspectives on the various problems faced by the Myanmar state and its people."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5237", "title": "Country Studies: Vietnam", "description": "Vietnam is a country of apparent contradictions, where a ruling Communist party espouses free-market economics, a young and optimistic population traces its origins back more than 4000 years, and a sustained engagement with China coexists with a fierce commitment to national independence. This course makes sense of some of these contradictions by exploring key issues in Vietnam\u2019s past and present such as imperialism, nationalism, regionalism, Confucianism, colonial rule, war, Communism, economic reform, and the environment."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5301A", "title": "Masterclass", "description": "The MA in Contemporary Southeast Asia proposes to include masterclasses on topics of particular interest or importance to students. Each masterclass will be taught by a specialist instructor and will be conducted over 3-5 sessions of between 2-3 hours each, depending on the topic being covered. They will include pre-event preparatory materials and appropriate evaluation mechanisms (e.g., test or term paper) at the conclusion."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5301B", "title": "Masterclass", "description": "The MA in Contemporary Southeast Asia proposes to include masterclasses on topics of particular interest or importance to students. Each masterclass will be taught by a specialist instructor and will be conducted over 3-5 sessions of between 2-3 hours each, depending on the topic being covered. They will include pre-event preparatory materials and appropriate evaluation mechanisms (e.g., test or term paper) at the conclusion."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5302A", "title": "Field Trip", "description": "The MA in Contemporary Southeast Asia proposes to include field trips within and beyond Singapore as a novel elective component of the degree course. Each fieldtrip will be led by at least one specialist instructor and will be conducted over a day, weekend or as long as a week, depending on the place being visited and the distance from Singapore. Field trips will include preevent preparatory materials and appropriate evaluation mechanisms (e.g., diary entry, photo essay, group project, or term paper) at the conclusion."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5302B", "title": "Field Trip", "description": "The MA in Contemporary Southeast Asia proposes to include field trips within and beyond Singapore as a novel elective component of the degree course. Each fieldtrip will be led by at least one specialist instructor and will be conducted over a day, weekend or as long as a week, depending on the place being visited and the distance from Singapore. Field trips will include preevent preparatory materials and appropriate evaluation mechanisms (e.g., diary entry, photo essay, group project, or term paper) at the conclusion."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5302C", "title": "Field Trip", "description": "The MA in Contemporary Southeast Asia proposes to include field trips within and beyond Singapore as a novel elective component of the degree course. Each fieldtrip will be led by at least one specialist instructor and will be conducted over a day, weekend or as long as a week, depending on the place being visited and the distance from Singapore. Field trips will include preevent preparatory materials and appropriate evaluation mechanisms (e.g., diary entry, photo essay, group project, or term paper) at the conclusion."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5303A", "title": "Southeast Asian Studies Specialised Workshop", "description": "The MA in Contemporary Southeast Asia proposes to include short term (1-2 days) specialised workshops on topics of particular interest or importance to students. Each workshop will last for one or two days, depending on the topic being covered and will include pre-event preparatory materials and an evaluation mechanism (e.g., test or term paper) at the conclusion."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5303B", "title": "Southeast Asian Studies Specialised Workshop", "description": "The MA in Contemporary Southeast Asia proposes to include short term (1-2 days) specialised workshops on topics of particular interest or importance to students. Each workshop will last for one or two days, depending on the topic being covered and will include pre-event preparatory materials and an evaluation mechanism (e.g., test or term paper) at the conclusion."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5401", "title": "Thesis", "description": "This is a dedicated research course for MA coursework students designed to enable them to complete a research\u2010based thesis."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Southeast Asian Studies in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, study programme, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% CA and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer before seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SEA5880", "title": "Topics in Southeast Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to cover specialised topics in Southeast Asian Studies. The topic(s) to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2012", "title": "Introducing Indonesia", "description": "This course examines contemporary socio-political dynamics in Indonesia, its position within the ASEAN region and its future prospects. Surveying the culture and politics of the country while analysing globally resonant themes, the course asks: How did diverse peoples with various languages and beliefs system come to form a nation? How can state and society work together towards a just and sustainable political economy in local, national and regional scales? Through lectures, tutorials and experiential learning, this course facilitates a collective, cross-cultural discussion on social diversity and sustainable development that is centred on a particular place but holds wider lessons."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2014", "title": "Introducing Indonesia (with introductory Indonesian)", "description": "This course examines contemporary socio-political dynamics in Indonesia, its position within the ASEAN region and its future prospects. Surveying the culture and politics of the country while analysing globally resonant themes, the course asks: How did diverse peoples with various languages and beliefs system come to form a nation? How can state and society work together towards a just and sustainable political economy in local, national and regional scales? This course facilitates a collective, cross-cultural discussion on social diversity and sustainable development that is centred on a particular place but holds wider lessons. Basic Indonesian will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2022", "title": "Introducing Malaysia", "description": "Malaysia is popularly promoted as a nation which is \u201cTruly Asia\u201d. What does this mean, and to what extent is it factual or mythical? The understanding of Malaysia provided in this series of lectures facilitates meaningful engagement of students and stakeholders with the nation and its peoples. Whether they be scholars, travellers, entrepreneurs, business partners or cultural collaborators, this course will provide a more critical yet sensitive approach to the understanding of what is and what makes Malaysia. Three main themes of history, culture and ecology make up the lecture component of this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2024", "title": "Introducing Malaysia (with Introductory Malay)", "description": "Malaysia is popularly promoted as a nation which is \u201cTruly Asia\u201d. What does this mean, and to what extent is it factual or mythical? The understanding of Malaysia provided in this series of lectures facilitates meaningful engagement of students and stakeholders with the nation and its peoples. Whether they be scholars, travellers, entrepreneurs, business partners or cultural collaborators, this course will provide a more critical yet sensitive approach to the understanding of what is and what makes Malaysia. Three main themes of history, culture and ecology make up the lecture component of this course. Basic Malay will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2032", "title": "Introducing Thailand", "description": "To many Singaporeans, Thailand is a known for its food, temples, beaches, shopping and exhilarating nightlife. However, few tourists know about the country\u2019s history or culture and how what one experiences in Thailand is a result of the interplay of these two forces. This class explores Thailand from a cultural perspective. It moves the study of Thailand away from the lens of politics and economics to look at the complexity and multivocality of local interpretations of culture. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this course explores Thailand\u2019s complex history and culture with the objective of providing a helpful introduction to the country."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2034", "title": "Introducing Thailand (with Introductory Thai)", "description": "Thailand is known for its food, temples, beaches, shopping and exhilarating nightlife. However, few tourists know about the country\u2019s history or culture and how what one experiences in Thailand is a result of the interplay of these two forces. This class explores from a cultural perspective. It moves the study of Thailand away from the lens of politics and economics to look at the complexity and multivocality of local interpretations of culture. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this course explores Thailand\u2019s complex history and culture with the objective of providing a helpful introduction to the country. Basic Thai will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2042", "title": "Introducing Vietnam", "description": "Despite the many challenges it faces throughout its history, Vietnam is today one of the fastest developing countries in Southeast Asia. However, this country is not very well understood by students. Therefore, this course will introduce students to Vietnam, especially its unique and complex history, culture and society, from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will explain the characteristics that have made Vietnam unique and the social and economic challenges that it has had to overcome to become the successful country that it is today."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2044", "title": "Introducing Vietnam (with introductory Vietnamese)", "description": "Despite the many challenges it faces throughout its history, Vietnam is today one of the fastest developing countries in Southeast Asia. However, this country is not very well understood by students. Therefore, this course will introduce students to Vietnam, especially its unique and complex history, culture and society, from a multidisciplinary perspective. It will explain the characteristics that have made Vietnam unique and the social and economic challenges that it has had to overcome to become the successful country that it is today. Basic Vietnamese will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2052", "title": "Introducing the Philippines", "description": "Using a multidisciplinary framework of analysis, this course introduces the students to the study of the Philippines: its past, present and future. The Philippines is an interesting country to study given its geographical fragmentation, and colonial experiences that have contributed to the shaping of its politics, culture, and global connections through migration."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2054", "title": "Introducing the Philippines (with Introductory Filipino language)", "description": "Using a multidisciplinary framework of analysis, this course introduces the students to the study of the Philippines: its past, present and future. The Philippines is an interesting country to study given its geographical fragmentation, and colonial experiences that have contributed to the shaping of its politics, culture, and global connections through migration. Basic Filipino will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2072", "title": "Introducing Cambodia", "description": "Cambodia is a culturally and historically significant country in Southeast Asia. However, it is under appreciated by many Southeast Asians especially Singaporeans. Recent developments have led to significant improvements to its economy and this change is led by a new generation of Cambodians who, deeply inspired by its ancient past, greatly desires to transform the country to be among the most successful in Southeast Asia. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this course will explore Cambodia\u2019s ancient history and culture with the objective of providing a helpful introduction to the country."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2074", "title": "Introducing Cambodia (with introductory Vietnamese)", "description": "Cambodia is a culturally and historically significant country in Southeast Asia. However, it is under appreciated by many Southeast Asians especially Singaporeans. Recent developments have led to significant improvements to its economy and this change is led by a new generation of Cambodians who, deeply inspired by its ancient past, greatly desires to transform the country to be among the most successful in Southeast Asia. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this course will explore Cambodia\u2019s ancient history and culture with the objective of providing a helpful introduction to the country. Basic Vietnamese will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2082", "title": "Introducing Laos", "description": "Laos is one of the least well-known nation-states in Southeast Asia. Yet its rich culture and history reflect a turbulent past, including centuries-old relationships between lowland and upland societies. Marked by the conflicts of the twentieth century, Laos emerged devastated but resilient. Like Communist China and Vietnam, it has opened its economy, driven by the ambition to regain its place at the crossroads of trade routes in mainland Southeast Asia. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this course will explore Laos' key features and challenges with the objective of providing a helpful introduction to the country."}, {"moduleCode": "SFI2084", "title": "Introducing Laos (with Introductory Thai)", "description": "Laos is one of the least well-known nation-states in Southeast Asia. Yet its rich culture and history reflect a turbulent past, including centuries-old relationships between lowland and upland societies. Marked by the conflicts of the twentieth century, Laos emerged devastated but resilient. Like Communist China and Vietnam, it has opened its economy, driven by the ambition to regain its place at the crossroads of trade routes in mainland Southeast Asia. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this course will explore Laos' key features and challenges with the objective of providing a helpful introduction to the country. Basic Thai will be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5001", "title": "Fundamentals in Process Safety", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the foundational knowledge in chemical process safety, covering the key tenets of risk-based process safety to prevent potential process safety incidents. Participants will be exposed to industry, local and international standards and practices for effective process safety management."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5001C", "title": "Fundamentals in Process Safety", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the foundational knowledge in chemical process safety, covering the key tenets of risk-based process safety to prevent potential process safety incidents. Participants will be exposed to industry, local and international standards and practices for effective process safety management."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5002", "title": "Fundamentals in Industrial Safety", "description": "The course provides basic industrial and process safety knowledge for safety practitioners. It covers the life-cycle (birth-to-death principle) approach in preventing safety problems in industry. Introductory techniques to risk management such as hazard identification, risk assessment, risk evaluation and risk treatment will be covered. Concepts on system safety, inherently safe design, equipment/process reliability, redundancy and common cause failures in the prevention of industrial accidents will also be taught."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5002C", "title": "Fundamentals in Industrial Safety", "description": "The course provides basic industrial and process safety knowledge for safety practitioners. It covers the life-cycle (birth-to-death principle) approach in preventing safety problems in industry. Introductory techniques to risk management such as hazard identification, risk assessment, risk evaluation and risk treatment will be covered. Concepts on system safety, inherently safe design, equipment/process reliability, redundancy and common cause failures in the prevention of industrial accidents will also be taught."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5003", "title": "Fundamentals in Environmental Protection", "description": "The course provides knowledge in the fundamentals in environmental protection, for practitioners in the safety, health and environment technology industry. It deals with a range of concepts including pollution prevention, properties and fate of pollutants, air pollution and water pollution control, GHG emissions and solid waste management. Residuals management will also be covered. Emphasis is placed on industrial activities and the environment."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5003C", "title": "Fundamentals in Environmental Protection", "description": "The course provides basic environment protection knowledge for safety, health and environment protection practitioners. It will cover air emission control and assessment, water emission control and assessment, waste minimization, energy conservation, product stewardship, trade effluent, toxic industrial waste, theories behind current thinking on the effects of pollution on the environment to include ozone destroying CFCs, volatile organic compounds, particulates, oxides of sulphur and nitrogen etc. Other topics will include waste disposal techniques including incinerators, environmental impact assessments and the dispersion effects of pollutants on ecosystems and the public at large."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5004", "title": "Fundamentals in Industrial Hygiene", "description": "The course provides basic industrial hygiene knowledge for safety, health and environment protection practitioners. It will review the chemical, physical and biological and ergonomic hazards found in the workplace and their potential effect on human health, including an introduction to toxicology. The mechanism for exposure to the hazards and methods of estimation of employee exposures will be outlined. Employee exposure monitoring, sample analysis and data analysis will be discussed. The control of hazards and exposure in the workplace by inherently health analysis, engineering, personnel controls and personal protective clothing will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5004C", "title": "Fundamentals in Industrial Hygiene", "description": "The course provides basic industrial hygiene knowledge for safety, health and environment protection practitioners. It will review the chemical, physical and biological and ergonomic hazards found in the workplace and their potential effect on human health, including an introduction to toxicology. The mechanism for exposure to the hazards and methods of estimation of employee exposures will be outlined. Employee exposure monitoring, sample analysis and data analysis will be discussed. The control of hazards and exposure in the workplace by inherently health analysis, engineering, personnel controls and personal protective clothing will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5005", "title": "Risk Analysis & Safety Analytics", "description": "This course aims to equip students with a holistic view of risk and the management of occupational safety and health risk as part of enterprise risk management. Students will learn essential theoretical knowledge in risk analysis with a particular focus on SHE risk. Various risk analysis methodologies, from traditional event-chain approaches to more recent system\u2019s approach will be shared. Students will also be taught on the application of analytics to better manage SHE risks. Principles and methods of data analytics will be taught, along with application examples."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5005C", "title": "Risk Analysis & Safety Analytics", "description": "This course aims to equip students with a holistic view of risk and the management of occupational safety and health risk as part of enterprise risk management. Students will learn essential theoretical knowledge in risk analysis with a particular focus on SHE risk. Various risk analysis methodologies, from traditional event-chain approaches to more recent system\u2019s approach will be shared. Students will also be taught on the application of analytics to better manage SHE risks. Principles and methods of data analytics will be taught, along with application examples."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5101", "title": "Industrial Toxicology", "description": "The course covers the absorption of chemicals into human bodies, their bio-transformation, excretion and adverse effects on the target organs. Other topics cover including toxicological studies and the application of toxicological information in the prevention of occupational diseases in the workplace. Students must have a chemistry background or basic understanding of chemical safety measures at the workplace."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5101C", "title": "Industrial Toxicology", "description": "The course covers the absorption of chemicals into human bodies, their bio-transformation, excretion and adverse effects on the target organs. Other topics cover including toxicological studies and the application of toxicological information in the prevention of occupational diseases in the workplace."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5102", "title": "Occupational Ergonomics", "description": "The course covers human capability and job demands. The principles of job design and analysis, and their application in the prevention of occupational disorders arising from the mismatch worker and job will be covered. Other topics cover including anthropometry, biomechanics, work physiology and work psychology, job factors and environmental factors in occupational disorders."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5102C", "title": "Occupational Ergonomics", "description": "The course covers human capability and job demands. The principles of job design and analysis, and their application in the prevention of occupational disorders arising from the mismatch worker and job will be covered. Other topics cover including anthropometry, biomechanics, work physiology and work psychology, job factors and environmental factors in occupational disorders."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5103", "title": "Biosafety and Biosecurity", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with the a) knowledge to understand the underlying principles and regulatory requirements related to biological safety and security; b) skill to analyse the risks associated with the use and activities involving hazardous biological materials; and c) method to design and implement effective measures to manage the biological risks."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5103C", "title": "Biosafety and Biosecurity", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with the a) knowledge to understand the underlying principles and regulatory requirements related to biological safety and security; b) skill to analyse the risks associated with the use and activities involving hazardous biological materials; and c) method to design and implement effective measures to manage the biological risks."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5104", "title": "Occupational Health", "description": "The course aims to familiarise the non-medical practitioners in safety, health and environment protection with a working knowledge of how to identify, manage and prevent occupational issues arising from the workplace, enabling the practitioners to make knowledgeable and informed decisions with respect to the provision of occupational health services in the workplace. Topics cover including occupational health in general, occupational diseases, assessment and management of occupational health issues in workplace, shift work, occupational stress management, occupational lung diseases, occupational cancer, occupational dermatology."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5104C", "title": "Occupational Health", "description": "The course aims to familiarise the non-medical practitioners in safety, health and environment protection with a working knowledge of how to identify, manage and prevent occupational issues arising from the workplace, enabling the practitioners to make knowledgeable and informed decisions with respect to the provision of occupational health services in the workplace. Topics cover including occupational health in general, occupational diseases, assessment and management of occupational health issues in workplace, shift work, occupational stress management, occupational lung diseases, occupational cancer, occupational dermatology."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5105", "title": "Noise and Other Physical Hazards", "description": "This course will cover the health effects, measurements methods, regulations, and control technologies related to common physical health hazards encountered in occupational settings. The emphasis of the course will be placed on the identification, evaluation and management of the hazards of noise, temperature extremes, extreme pressures, vibration and lighting in the industry. The hierarch of control will be used to demonstrate the strategy of reducing the risk to the level of as low as reasonably practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5105C", "title": "Noise and Other Physical Hazards", "description": "This course will cover the health effects, measurements methods, regulations, and control technologies related to common physical health hazards encountered in occupational settings. The emphasis of the course will be placed on the identification, evaluation and management of the hazards of noise, temperature extremes, extreme pressures, vibration and lighting in the industry. The hierarchy of control will be used to demonstrate the strategy of reducing the risk to the level of as low as reasonably practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5106", "title": "Radiation Safety", "description": "The course provides knowledge in the safety aspects of the application of both ionising and non-ionising radiation. The students will be equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to comprehend the potential adverse health effects, type of exposure monitoring, engineering controls and personnel controls, to improve radiation safety. Essential topics include radiation physics, radiation detection, radiation units and radiobiology, specific applications used in medical/healthcare sector (Diagnostic, Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy) and industrial sector (Radiography, Nuclear Gauging, Analytical, Inspection/Screening and Sterilization); covering radiation protection in radioactive waste management, transportation and emergency response."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5106C", "title": "Radiation Safety", "description": "The course provides knowledge in the safety aspects of the application of both ionising and non-ionising radiation. The students will be equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to comprehend the potential adverse health effects, type of exposure monitoring, engineering controls and personnel controls, to improve radiation safety. Essential topics include radiation physics, radiation detection, radiation units and radiobiology, specific applications used in medical/healthcare sector (Diagnostic, Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy) and industrial sector (Radiography, Nuclear Gauging, Analytical, Inspection/Screening and Sterilization); covering radiation protection in radioactive waste management, transportation and emergency response."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5107", "title": "Industrial Ventilation", "description": "Ventilation systems used for the protection of the employee health will be studied. The design of effective ventilation systems from the capture hood, ducting, air cleaning equipment, fans and exhausts will be studied. The testing and maintenance of existing ventilation systems will be reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5107C", "title": "Industrial Ventilation", "description": "Ventilation systems used for the protection of the employee health will be studied. The design of effective ventilation systems from the capture hood, ducting, air cleaning equipment, fans and exhausts will be studied. The testing and maintenance of existing ventilation systems will be reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5108", "title": "Chemical Hazard Management", "description": "The course provides essential knowledge in toxic industrial chemicals (TIC) management, chemical hazards mitigation, control and management principles on chemicals usage, storage, handling, hazard and risk communication, administrative measures, transportation and disposal. Topics covered include implementation of engineering controls, administrative controls, selection, use and limitations of chemical protective emsembles such as respirators, chemical gloves and chemical protective clothings."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5108C", "title": "Chemical Hazard Management", "description": "The course provides essential knowledge in toxic industrial chemicals (TIC) management, chemical hazards mitigation, control and management principles on chemicals usage, storage, handling, hazard and risk communication, administrative measures, transportation and disposal. Topics covered include implementation of engineering controls, administrative controls, selection, use and limitations of chemical protective emsembles such as respirators, chemical gloves and chemical protective clothings."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5109", "title": "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", "description": "This course covers principles, methods, and quantitative techniques building on basic concepts of epidemiology. It prepares students to research in and interpret published reports from the specialized areas of occupational induced diseases and physiological conditions in the workplace as well as the use of statistical methods in the analysis of outcome studies and quality improvement."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5109C", "title": "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", "description": "This course covers principles, methods, and quantitative techniques building on basic concepts of epidemiology. It prepares students to research in and interpret published reports from the specialized areas of occupational induced diseases and physiological conditions in the workplace as well as the use of statistical methods in the analysis of outcome studies and quality improvement."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5110", "title": "Chemical Hazard Evaluation", "description": "The course provides essential concepts and techniques related to the evaluation of occupational exposure to gases, vapors, and aerosols. Topics covered include air flow measurements, aerosol science, particulate sampling with and without size separation, optical microscopy, active and passive sampling of gases and vapors, direct reading instruments, sampling strategy and statistical evaluation of exposure data, Singapore legislative and international guidelines on occupational exposure limits and threshold limit values."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5110C", "title": "Chemical Hazard Evaluation", "description": "The course provides essential concepts and techniques related to the evaluation of occupational exposure to gases, vapors, and aerosols. Topics covered include air flow measurements, aerosol science, particulate sampling with and without size separation, optical microscopy, active and passive sampling of gases and vapors, direct reading instruments, sampling strategy and statistical evaluation of exposure data, Singapore legislative and international guidelines on occupational exposure limits and threshold limit values."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5201", "title": "Process Hazard Analysis", "description": "This course provides the essential concepts, methodologies, tools and techniques for effective process hazard analysis. Topics covered include the various approaches to conducting process hazard analysis and the use of hazard identification tools and and evaluation techniques such as Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Analysis, What-if Analysis (WIA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Bowtie Analysis and the Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) methodology."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5201C", "title": "Process Hazard Analysis", "description": "This course provides the essential concepts, methodologies, tools and techniques for effective process hazard analysis. Topics covered include the various approaches to conducting process hazard analysis and the use of hazard identification tools and and evaluation techniques such as Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) Analysis, What-if Analysis (WIA), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Event Tree Analysis (ETA), Bowtie Analysis and the Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) methodology."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5202", "title": "Quantified Risk Analysis", "description": "The course will cover: Hazard evaluation, frequency and probability, probit concept, logic diagrams, failure rate data, FAR concept and criteria of acceptability, assessment of individual and societal risk. Source term estimation. Fire and explosion. Vapour, liquid and two phase release rate models. Hazard analysis case study, hazard control and mitigation. Atmospheric dispersion modelling, puff, plume and dense gas models. Consequence assessment of release, flammable and toxic releases, vapour cloud explosion, BLEVE. Radiant heat flux, blast and missile."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5202C", "title": "Quantified Risk Analysis", "description": "The course will cover: Hazard evaluation, frequency and probability, probit concept, logic diagrams, failure rate data, FAR concept and criteria of acceptability, assessment of individual and societal risk. Source term estimation. Fire and explosion. Vapour, liquid and two phase release rate models. Hazard analysis case study, hazard control and mitigation. Atmospheric dispersion modelling, puff, plume and dense gas models. Consequence assessment of release, flammable and toxic releases, vapour cloud explosion, BLEVE. Radiant heat flux, blast and missile."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5203", "title": "Resilience and Emergency Planning", "description": "This course provides the fundamentals of resilience and emergency planning, essential for capacity planning to build organizational resilience and emergency preparedness. Key aspects covered include enterprise resilience management framework, crisis and business continuity planning considerations, scenario and pre-incident planning approaches, and emergency response planning parameters to manage potential emergency incidents from the complex process industry (chemical and petrochemical plants) to the conventional built environment (malls, schools, hospitals, and hotels)."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5203C", "title": "Resilience and Emergency Planning", "description": "This course provides the fundamentals of resilience and emergency planning, essential for capacity planning to build organizational resilience and emergency preparedness. Key aspects covered include enterprise resilience management framework, crisis and business continuity planning considerations, scenario and pre-incident planning approaches, and emergency response planning parameters to manage potential emergency incidents from the complex process industry (chemical and petrochemical plants) to the conventional built environment (malls, schools, hospitals, and hotels)."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5204", "title": "Industrial Safety Engineering", "description": "This course provides the essentials of engineered systems and hazard controls from the early conceptual-design and construction stages, to managing and maintenance of conventional built environment (malls, schools, hospitals, and hotels), to safe operation of complex process industry (chemical and petrochemical plants). Key aspects covered include construction design for safety (DfS), design for maintainability (DfM), fall prevention and protection, lifting and material handling, inherent safer plant design, engineered mitigation and life-safety critical systems, equipment influence assessment and maintenance, alarms and safety-interlocks, safety-critical control points and safe work procedures, hazardous area and electrical equipment classifications, electrical, electrostatic and lightning protection."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5204C", "title": "Industrial Safety Engineering", "description": "This course provides the essentials of engineered systems and hazard controls from the early conceptual-design and construction stages, to managing and maintenance of conventional built environment (malls, schools, hospitals, and hotels), to safe operation of complex process industry (chemical and petrochemical plants). Key aspects covered include construction design for safety (DfS), design for maintainability (DfM), fall prevention and protection, lifting and material handling, inherent safer plant design, engineered mitigation and life-safety critical systems, equipment influence assessment and maintenance, alarms and safety-interlocks, safety-critical control points and safe work procedures, hazardous area and electrical equipment classifications, electrical, electrostatic and lightning protection."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5205", "title": "Crisis and Incident Management", "description": "This course provides the fundamentals of crisis and incident management, essential for capacity planning to build organizational crisis and incident management capability. Key aspects covered include enterprise incident management architecture; incident command and management framework; emergency operations, mutual aid and joint operations concept; crisis response functions and incident management priorities; business continuity and recovery management considerations to manage potential incidents from the complex process industry (chemical and petrochemical plants) to the conventional built environment (malls, schools, hospitals, and hotels)."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5205C", "title": "Crisis and Incident Management", "description": "This course provides the fundamentals of crisis and incident management, essential for capacity planning to build organizational crisis and incident management capability. Key aspects covered include enterprise incident management architecture; incident command and management framework; emergency operations, mutual aid and joint operations concept; crisis response functions and incident management priorities; business continuity and recovery management considerations to manage potential incidents from the complex process industry (chemical and petrochemical plants) to the conventional built environment (malls, schools, hospitals, and hotels)."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5206", "title": "Human Factors in Process Safety", "description": "An introduction to the human factors that arise from the interaction of the characteristics in the operators, organizations and facilities or equipment. Human factors influence the performance of the operators and the risk of the operators to commit human error in the industry. The course covers the identification and evaluation of these characteristics in the operators, organizations and facilities, as well as methods for preventing the human error in process safety."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5206C", "title": "Human Factors in Process Safety", "description": "An introduction to the human factors that arise from the interaction of the characteristics in the operators, organizations and facilities or equipment. Human factors influence the performance of the operators and the risk of the operators to commit human error in the industry. The course covers the identification and evaluation of these characteristics in the operators, organizations and facilities, as well as methods for preventing the human error in process safety."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5207", "title": "Process Safety Engineering", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the knowledge to identify Major Accident Scenarios that can give rise to consequences such as Fires, Explosions and Toxic releases. Participants will also be exposed to engineering and design guidelines based on industry, local and international standards and practices to demonstrate risk management to ALARP and prevent Major Accident Scenarios"}, {"moduleCode": "SH5207C", "title": "Process Safety Engineering", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the knowledge to identify Major Accident Scenarios that can give rise to consequences such as Fires, Explosions and Toxic releases. Participants will also be exposed to engineering and design guidelines based on industry, local and international standards and practices to demonstrate risk management to ALARP and prevent Major Accident Scenarios"}, {"moduleCode": "SH5208", "title": "Functional Safety for Process Industries", "description": "This course aims to equip process industry professionals to understand the detailed requirements for design, realization, validation, operations, maintenance, modifications and de-commissioning of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) for the process industry in accordance with the requirements of Functional Safety Standards (viz. IEC 61508/ 61511)."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5208C", "title": "Functional Safety for Process Industries", "description": "This course aims to equip process industry professionals to understand the detailed requirements for design, realization, validation, operations, maintenance, modifications and de-commissioning of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) for the process industry in accordance with the requirements of Functional Safety Standards (viz. IEC 61508/ 61511)."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5209", "title": "Process Safety Digitalization", "description": "The course will provide the participants with essential knowledge on the development and impact of digitalization on chemical process operation and safety. Process digitalization presents opportunities for better process efficiency. However, the use and dependence on data utilization and automated instrumentation can have implications on process safety. Industry, local and international standards and practices for effective process digitalization will be shared. Participants will be exposed to low-code development platform to identify Safety use cases and develop customised solution on their own to address their business needs. This course is for students pursuing MSc (SHE) Degree with specialisation in Process Safety."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5209C", "title": "Process Safety Digitalization", "description": "The course will provide the participants with essential knowledge on the development and impact of digitalization on chemical process operation and safety. Process digitalization presents opportunities for better process efficiency. However, the use and dependence on data utilization and automated instrumentation can have implications on process safety. Industry, local and international standards and practices for effective process digitalization will be shared. Participants will be exposed to low-code development platform to identify Safety use cases and develop customised solution on their own to address their business needs. This course is for students pursuing MSc (SHE) Degree with specialisation in Process Safety."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5401", "title": "Safety, Health, Environment & Quality Management System", "description": "This course provides an assessment of all the elements covered in current worldwide codes, standards, and legislature. The different models will be compared to determine overlaps and omissions. Models that will be covered in details include ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, OSHA Process Safety Management Rules, CCPS Technical Safety Management of Chemical Process Safety, API 750, Singapore Legislations on Safety & Health Management Systems related to the shipyard, construction, and COMAH-type chemical process industries and installations. In addition, the course will cover auditing techniques and skillsets needed to plan, lead and undertake management system auditing based on ISO 19011."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5401C", "title": "Safety, Health, Environment & Quality Management System", "description": "This course provides an assessment of all the elements covered in current worldwide codes, standards, and legislature. The different models will be compared to determine overlaps and omissions. Models that will be covered in details include ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, OSHA Process Safety Management Rules, CCPS Technical Safety Management of Chemical Process Safety, API 750, Singapore Legislations on Safety & Health Management Systems related to the shipyard, construction, and COMAH-type chemical process industries and installations. In addition, the course will cover auditing techniques and skillsets needed to plan, lead and undertake management system auditing based on ISO 19011."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5402", "title": "Safety Leadership and Management Practices", "description": "The course will provide the essentials of future-ready leadership and contemporary management practices in the evolving commercial and industrial business landscape in light of global and national drive for sustainability, sustainable business, and digital transformation in the management of safety, health and environmental issues. It covers the contemporary leadership, management theories, safety leadership, safety culture, organizational behaviour, human behaviour, motivation theories and their applications."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5402C", "title": "Safety Leadership and Management Practices", "description": "The course will provide the essentials of future-ready leadership and contemporary management practices in the evolving commercial and industrial business landscape in light of global and national drive for sustainability, sustainable business, and digital transformation in the management of safety, health and environmental issues. It covers the contemporary leadership, management theories, safety leadership, safety culture, organizational behaviour, human behaviour, motivation theories and their applications."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5403", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This course involves supervised self study over one semester on a topic approved by the Department. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey and critical evaluation, safety, health or environmental engineering study, industrial field study, or a combination of these. The study area is to be finalised, after consultation with the supervisor. The student has to find a suitable supervisor. The student must acquire interpret, evaluate relevant information in the area of study, and formulate a practical solution. Approval will be granted by the Program Manager. Students shall carry out the study within the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5403C", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This course involves supervised self study over one semester on a topic approved by the Department. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey and critical evaluation, safety, health or environmental engineering study, industrial field study, or a combination of these. The study area is to be finalised, after consultation with the supervisor. The student has to find a suitable supervisor. The student must acquire interpret, evaluate relevant information in the area of study, and formulate a practical solution. Approval will be granted by the Program Manager. Students shall carry out the study within the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5404", "title": "Safety Health and Environmental Project", "description": "This course involves a supervised project over two semesters, on a topic approved by the Department. The work may relate to safety design and analysis, safety engineering case study, field study, or a combination of these. The study area is to be finalised, after consultation with the supervisor. The student has to find a suitable supervisor. The student must acquire interpret, evaluate relevant information in the area of study, and formulate a practical solution. Approval will be granted by the Program Manager. Student shall carry out the project within the period of his/her candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5404C", "title": "Safety Health and Environmental Project", "description": "This course involves a supervised project over two semesters, on a topic approved by the Department. The work may relate to safety design and analysis, safety engineering case study, field study, or a combination of these. The study area is to be finalised, after consultation with the supervisor. The student has to find a suitable supervisor. The student must acquire interpret, evaluate relevant information in the area of study, and formulate a practical solution. Approval will be granted by the Program Manager. Student shall carry out the project within the period of his/her candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5405", "title": "Fire and Explosion Safety", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the essential knowledge to manage fire and explosion hazards in workplaces. Participants will be exposed to local legislative requirements, approaches in fire safety design, protection technologies, industry good practices, and key elements of an effective fire and explosion safety management program."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5405C", "title": "Fire and Explosion Safety", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the essential knowledge to manage fire and explosion hazards in workplaces. Participants will be exposed to local legislative requirements, approaches in fire safety design, protection technologies, industry good practices, and key elements of an effective fire and explosion safety management program."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5406", "title": "Research Methodology", "description": "This course aims to equip safety, health and environment practitioners with essential knowledge and skillset to conduct qualitative and quantitative research studies, using tools and techniques relevant to the practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5406C", "title": "Research Methodology", "description": "This course aims to equip safety, health and environment practitioners with essential knowledge and skillset to conduct qualitative and quantitative research studies, using tools and techniques relevant to the practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5407", "title": "Sustainable Energy and Environment", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with: (a) an understanding of the effect of climate change and energy on sustainable development, as the world transit from fossil fuels to low carbon energy and renewable energy; (b) Insights on the challenges and opportunities in achieving affordable, reliable and clean energy in major industry and transportation sectors; and (c) strategic thinking and skill-set to explore and evaluate the environmental impacts, hazards and risks associated with energy, across its value chain, from production to consumption."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5407C", "title": "Sustainable Energy and Environment", "description": "This course is designed to provide students with: (a) an understanding of the effect of climate change and energy on sustainable development, as the world transit from fossil fuels to low carbon energy and renewable energy; (b) Insights on the challenges and opportunities in achieving affordable, reliable and clean energy in major industry and transportation sectors; and (c) strategic thinking and skill-set to explore and evaluate the environmental impacts, hazards and risks associated with energy, across its value chain, from production to consumption."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5408", "title": "Electrical Safety", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the essential knowledge in electrical safety associated with electrical power supply and electrical installation; including understanding of power supply & quality, basic electrical design, earthing, safety hazards in Electrical installations, and equipment handling, overcurrent and earth fault protection for all occupancy types (residential, commercial and industrial). Covering LV, HV, since-phase (230V) and 3-phase (400V) power supplies, back-up Generator power supply, and renewable energy. Participants will be exposed to local power authority's requirement (Energy Market Authority, PowerGrid etc), local and international standards and practices for effective management of electrical safety."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5408C", "title": "Electrical Safety", "description": "The course will provide the participants with the essential knowledge in electrical safety associated with electrical power supply and electrical installation; including understanding of power supply & quality, basic electrical design, earthing, safety hazards in Electrical installations, and equipment handling, overcurrent and earth fault protection for all occupancy types (residential, commercial and industrial). Covering LV, HV, since-phase (230V) and 3-phase (400V) power supplies, back-up Generator power supply, and renewable energy. Participants will be exposed to local power authority's requirement (Energy Market Authority, Power Grid etc), local and international standards and practices for effective management of electrical safety."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5409", "title": "Sustainability and Environmental Analysis", "description": "The course is designed to explore the roles of Occupational Health and Safety professionals in driving organisation\u2019s sustainability and ESG performance. The course focuses on the transition to interpreting workplace and industrial settings in social well-being and ecological sense, considering biophysical, social, cultural, economic, human rights human health regarding industrial proposals, projects and regulatory requirements. It provides students with various reporting and environmental management tools to gain practical and theoretical knowledge. The course focuses on three toolkits to help students\u2019 capacity building on sustainability: a) ESG and sustainability disclosure b) Environmental Impact Assessment c) Product Life Cycle Assessment"}, {"moduleCode": "SH5409C", "title": "Sustainability and Environmental Analysis", "description": "The course is designed to explore the roles of Occupational Health and Safety professionals in driving organisation\u2019s sustainability and ESG performance. The course focuses on the transition to interpreting workplace and industrial settings in social well-being and ecological sense, considering biophysical, social, cultural, economic, human rights human health regarding industrial proposals, projects and regulatory requirements. It provides students with various reporting and environmental management tools to gain practical and theoretical knowledge. The course focuses on three toolkits to help students\u2019 capacity building on sustainability: a) ESG and sustainability disclosure b) Environmental Impact Assessment c) Product Life Cycle Assessment"}, {"moduleCode": "SH5666", "title": "Industrial Safety, Health and Environment Practices", "description": "This is an industrial attachment course that provides students with work attachment experience in the field of safety, health and environmental management in a company"}, {"moduleCode": "SH5880", "title": "Topics in Industrial Hygiene", "description": "Advanced topic in Industrial Hygiene that is of current interest. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitors."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5880C", "title": "Topics in Industrial Hygiene", "description": "Advanced topic in Industrial Hygiene that is of current interest. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitors."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5881", "title": "Topics in Process Safety", "description": "Advanced topic in Process Safety that is of current interest. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitors."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5881C", "title": "Topics in Process Safety", "description": "Advanced topic in Process Safety that is of current interest. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitors."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5882", "title": "Topics in Environment Protection", "description": "Advanced topic in Environment Protection that is of current interest. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitors."}, {"moduleCode": "SH5882C", "title": "Topics in Environment Protection", "description": "Advanced topic in Environment Protection that is of current interest. The course will be conducted by NUS staff and/or visitors."}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5101", "title": "Normal Functioning 1 (Biosciences Foundation)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5102", "title": "Normal Functioning 2 (Linguistics Foundation)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5103", "title": "Professional Practice 1", "description": "This module provides an introduction to professional practice in a community or hospital clinic setting. This first clinical placement will involve guided and structured observation of experienced clinicians delivering speech pathology services to adult and/or paediatric clients who have communication and/or swallowing impairments. Students will have opportunities to interact with and conduct hands-on assessment of clients under supervision. Students will be encouraged to reflect on normal communication processes through interaction with children in community educational settings and the elderly in residential/day-care and other healthcare settings."}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5104", "title": "Research Design and Statistics", "description": "This compulsory module introduces the hierarchy of research evidence underpinning clinical practice (i.e., single-case, matched pairs, group designs, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses), psycholinguistic and biomedical variables relevant to evidence-based Practice (EBP), principles of psychometric testing including reliability and validity, and basic parametric and non-parametric statistics. Workshops will focus on developing the ability to critically analyse and evaluate the contribution of published research on assessment and treatment of speech, language, swallowing, fluency, and voice disorders. Reference will be made to SLP5101 and SLP5102 PBL cases, and any assessment data collected during SLP5103, in order to facilitate integration of theoretical models and clinical practice"}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5105", "title": "Impaired Functioning - Children 1", "description": "This module provides an understanding of how speech and language development can be impaired in children. A range of language-based learning difficulties will be covered, focusing on the cause(s) and effect(s) of developmental language disorder (DLD) and related developmental disorders of perception, attention and memory. The administration and interpretation of language tests will be discussed in the context of local linguistic diversity and colloquial forms, notably Singapore Colloquial English (SCE). PBL seminars, lectures, and workshops, and skill classes will also include a review of cognitive assessment tools; reading and spelling disorders; assessment of dysfluency and voice problems; counselling families; working in multi-disciplinary teams in mainstream and special education settings."}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5106", "title": "Impaired Functioning - Adults 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5107", "title": "Impaired Functioning - Children 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5108", "title": "Impaired Functioning - Adults 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5109", "title": "Professional Practice 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5110", "title": "Intervention and Management - Children 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5111", "title": "Intervention and Management - Adults 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5112", "title": "Research Project 1", "description": "This module prepares students for submission of an APA-style report in semester 4. In consultation with an Academic and a Clinical Supervisor, they will be directed to conduct a project based either on primary data or on secondary data relevant to evidence based practice in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP). Students will make an oral presentation, complete ethics training, submit a written proposal, and present a poster to the SLP community. For primary data projects, the scope of the research, participants, and variables will be discussed with supervisors. For secondary data projects, students will conduct a comprehensive electronic database search, critically review identified publications, consider cultural and/or linguistic differences, and the developmental stage of the participants."}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5113", "title": "Professional Practice 3", "description": "This module provides professional practice experience related to the theoretical foundations of intervention and management covered in SLP 5110 and SLP 5111 and previous modules. Students will undertake an intensive block (5-6 weeks) of direct clinical experience in one clinic, either in a hospital or a community setting, under the supervision of an experienced speech and language pathologist. The focus of this third placement will be on the continued development of clinical skills in planning and carrying out intervention with adult and/or paediatric clients with communication and/or swallowing impairment. If considered appropriate by\ntheir supervising clinician, students may progress to independent management of one client at entry level by end of placement.In addition, students will participate in a 30-hour direct clinical experience involving assessment and clinical management of clients, from one of a range of specific client groups over an approximately 6 week period."}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5114", "title": "Intervention and Management - Children 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5115", "title": "Intervention and Management - Adults 2", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5116", "title": "Research Project 2", "description": "This module supports students preparation of the final draft of the research project that is submitted in Semester 4. Following consultation with the MSc(SLP) Research Coordinator and two supervisors (one Academic and one Clinical), students will complete the research projects developed in SLP5112, based on either (1) primary data requiring access to participants, or (2) secondary data involving published research, and then submit a written report (<10,000 words) in APA style."}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5117", "title": "Professional Practice Issues", "description": "This module prepares students for professional practice problems and issues beyond single case clinical work. It will include discussion of caseload and resource management, waiting lists and consumer issues; client-centred and/or family-centred practice; importance of support, post-qualification mentorship, and continuing professional development; avoiding burn-out; working with groups of clients and organisations; making referrals and working with other professions; cultural differences and expectations; working through interpreters; advanced ethical and legal principles, pertinent regulatory and ethical standards, and ethical decision frameworks for professional practice; promoting the profession through evidence-based practice and outcome research."}, {"moduleCode": "SLP5118", "title": "Professional Practice 4", "description": "management of majority of caseload at entry-level competence by\nend of placement"}, {"moduleCode": "SN1101E", "title": "Discover South Asia: People, Culture, Development", "description": "This course introduces students to contemporary South Asia and its linkages with Singapore, focusing on significant features of social, cultural and economic life. It outlines South Asia's key physical and human features, providing students with a bird's eye view of important developments and their wider implications. SN1101E includes an exciting fieldwork experience that students will conceptualize, design and implement. Finally, the course delves into aspects of the region's popular culture, festivals, and the arts, which are integrated into lecture and tutorial discussions to provide perspectives on the changing patterns of life that define and redefine dynamic South Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2213", "title": "South Asian Democracies - Violence, Conflict, and Hope", "description": "This course is about the politics of democratization in South Asia, a region with a long history of interstate and intra-state conflict. The post-colonial separation of India into India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh has caused cross border tensions and paved the way for military intervention in the domestic politics of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The diverse interests of ethnic and religious communities are testing the legitimacy of majoritarian democracy and the limits of claims for autonomous government. This course examines the institutional structures, State-citizen relations, and identity politics in South Asia\u2019s democratic experiments to find hope for democracy in a polarized world."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2232", "title": "South Asia:Poverty, Inequality, Power", "description": "This course explores linkages between economic and political structures in South Asia, the social organization of production in village and town, and the impacts of technological and demographic change. The focus is on poverty, inequality and social exclusion, as well as relationships of power and the exercise of force and violence. Topics covered include: peasant societies, migration, urbanization, industrialization, environmental degradation, ethnic conflict, women and gender disparity, working children, the state and the black economy. It is taught from basics without requiring any prior knowledge of economics, politics or South Asia, and is open to students of all disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2233", "title": "Globalizing India: The Politics of Economic Change", "description": "India is a large, poverty stricken, rapidly growing economy, which has witnessed substantial changes in its economic orientation and institutions since independence in 1947. This course focuses on economic change from import substitution to globalization, and from the command economy to economic deregulation. It engages with the political economy of India's industrialization, globalization and welfare. Relatively greater emphasis will be placed on the post-cold-war globalized world, which is the period when India embraced globalization and economic deregulation to a much greater extent than in the past."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2234", "title": "Gender and Society in South Asia", "description": "This course aims to expose students to women's position and gender discrimination in South Asia, relating these to broader aspects of society, economy and culture. Comparisons with the students' own experiences, leading to appreciation of cross-cultural perspectives on women and gender, are part of the envisaged learning outcomes. Topics covered include women's position in the family and the kin-group, the market, social and political institutions, violence and trafficking, feminist critiques, activism and resistance, cinematic and literary expressions. The course would be of general interest to all students concerned about women's position and gender, as well those interested in South Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2240", "title": "Disease Diplomacy: Global Health in Asia", "description": "This course introduces students to global health governance, maps the emergent landscape and institutions, covers the diseases and conditions tackled by international organizations and initiatives across Asia and how Asian countries like India, China and Japan have contributed to these interventions before unpacking how this fluid institutional architecture might change after the coronavirus pandemic. The course will also explore how globalization has intensified health challenges, like infectious and chronic diseases Asian countries have to address while reducing their capacity to deal with them."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2261", "title": "The Emergence of Contemporary South Asia", "description": "This course aims at giving students an understanding of the political developments that have shaped contemporary South Asia. It provides an awareness of the political geography of the region and explains the historical processes by which the political map of South Asia has been constructed. The emergence of the South Asian nations from colonial rule, their different conceptions of 'nationhood' and their search for identity in the post-colonial world are discussed, together with an analysis of the current challenges which the region faces."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2271", "title": "Religion and Society in South Asia", "description": "This course introduces the student to the scientific and comparative study of religion in general and to South Asian religions in particular. After an introduction into the discipline of Comparative Study of Religion, the history of this discipline, and the different approaches it offers, the great variety of South Asian religions will be described chronologically and studied from a comparative perspective. For each tradition a survey of the relevant original literature will be given. Further themes to be covered are the co-existence of different religious traditions, and the social and psychological implications of religious values, beliefs and rituals."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2273", "title": "Introduction to Indian Thought", "description": "This course is designed to survey the history of Indian philosophy both classical and modern. The course will begin with lectures on the Rig Veda and the Upanishads. It will proceed with the presentation of the main metaphysical and epistemological doctrines of some of the major schools of classical Indian philosophy such as Vedanta, Samkhya, Nyaya, Jainism and Buddhism. The course will conclude by considering the philosophical contributions of some of the architects of modern India such as Rammohan Ray, Rabindrananth Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2274", "title": "South Asian Cultures: An Introduction", "description": "Popular culture as an academic subject provides a compelling lens to analyse a vast range of topics from family life and urbanisation to leisure and ethics. This course focuses on the different patterns of culture and their mutual exchange in South Asia, through study of a variety of media like art, theatre, TV, advertising, and cinema, in order to arrive at a general understanding of the cultural situation in contemporary South Asia, and to gain deeper insight into emerging trends and fashions."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2275", "title": "Wicked Words: Contemporary Tamil Literature", "description": "The Tamil literary landscape has experienced seismic shifts since the beginning of the twentieth century. New literary forms have emerged while existing ones have changed to reflect concomitant sociocultural realities. From its moorings in the classics, Tamil literature currently comprises a dizzyingly diverse, ever-burgeoning collection of texts, several of which have provoked a volley of resistance on the grounds of their being irreverent, and even, anti-cultural. The course examines this corpus of contemporary writings with an abiding focus on controversy, its meanings and implications, specific to Tamil contexts. Why is it that some words become wicked?"}, {"moduleCode": "SN2276", "title": "Islam: Society and Culture in South Asia", "description": "This course introduces the student to South Asian Islamic society, culture and religious thought. Especially in Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Maldives, the three South Asian countries with a Muslim majority, Islam forms an important cultural element. The focus of this course will be on the period from c. 1750-1950, during which important developments took place in South Asian Islam. The course will outline the role of Islam in pre-colonial society as well as the movements for religious and political reform of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Questions of language and literature will also be addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2277", "title": "Indian Communities in Southeast Asia", "description": "The Indian presence has had considerable influence on the development of Southeast Asian societies: in terms of its economic, commercial and political influence; and its role in the everyday life of Southeast Asian multicultural societies. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this course seeks to examine the historical, political, social and economic development of the people from the Indian subcontinent who have come to settle in Southeast Asia. The course will provide students with the necessary framework to analyse the historical and socio-economic development of these communities and their identity concerns. The course will develop critical and analytical skills guiding students in the process of social scientific enquiry."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2278", "title": "Introduction to Sikhism", "description": "Sikhism is one of the most interesting religious traditions of India on account of rich history and unique practices. In this course, students will be introduced to the foundational tenets of Sikhism through an overview of its major texts, practices and practitioners, as well as its historical development in pre-colonial and colonial India. With an appreciation both of the unique history of the Sikh tradition and its place among the world religions, students will acquire a strong foundation in the study of religion and of Indian religions in particular."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2279", "title": "The Making of Modern India, 1856-1947", "description": "This course offers a broad survey of the key issues and ideas that have contributed to the making of modern India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a combination of thematic and chronological approaches, it will focus on the themes of colonialism and resistance. Some of the key issues to be discussed would include the way the British constructed knowledge about India, Indian responses to colonial rule, the coming of mass nationalism, the communal divide and events leading to decolonization and partition. No prior background in Indian History is required for students to study this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2280", "title": "Marriage, Sex, Love in South Asia", "description": "In South Asia, marriage is classically understood as an alliance between families or social groups for economic, social and political reasons. However, as recent studies show, the notions of love, marriage and sex intersect with political, and legal structures, on the one hand, and notions of gender, morality, and modernity on the other. Through this course, we critically analyse such regnant claims and examine how love and sex are shaped politically, culturally, legally and ideologically. Moreover, by studying the intersecting fields of \u2018marriage, love, and sex,\u2019 we unpack such dualities as \u2018private/public,\u2019 \u2018individual/community, and \u2018modern/ traditional\u2019 in South Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2281", "title": "Nations at Play: History of Sport in South Asia", "description": "This course looks broadly at the evolution of sport and play, especially those that enjoy mass popularity in South Asia, and what it says about the region\u2019s society, economy and politics. Cricket, the emblematic sport of South Asia, is of course given particular attention but hockey, football and wrestling are also looked at in some detail. The course examines the story of sport in South Asia through its evolution from an elite, kingly pastime and its encounter in successive stages with colonialism, nationalism, the state and globalization."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2282", "title": "Music in South Asia", "description": "This course examines the way music shapes social, political and cultural identities in South Asia. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course will serve as an introduction to current trends in the fields of ethnomusicology, critical musicology, and popular music studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2283", "title": "China-India Interactions: Changing Perspectives", "description": "This course is structured keeping in view the different understanding of Sino-Indian relations and competing economic and political policy discourses in the new millennium. In the light of the above, the course re-examines the connections and interactions in India-China relations through historical and contemporary contexts to enhance the awareness of difference in perspectives and raise the level of mutual understanding, particularly from South Asian perspectives. It will enable students to critically analyse the \u2018realist\u2019 and \u2018neo-liberal\u2019 debates in view of a more holistic analysis and better understanding of the bilateral relations between China and India."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2284", "title": "Making Sense of Regions in South Asia", "description": "This course interrogates the concept of the \u2018region\u2019 and considers processes which have shaped regionmaking. The ways in which regions contribute to the diversity of South Asia are discussed. The role of language, culture and cuisine in shaping regional identities is also explored. Finally, the complex relationship between region and nation is examined using specific case-studies across South Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN2285", "title": "What\u2019s Cooking: Food and Drink in South Asian Cultures", "description": "This course examines the centrality of food, drink and dining practices in Tamil and other South Asian cultures. The course probes a fascinating facet of South Asian gastro politics by exploring such themes as the relationship between taste and nourishment, food and gender roles, the politics of commensality, and representations of eating and drinking across various visual media. The thematically organised lectures and tutorials incorporate perspectives from history, literature, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3223", "title": "International Relations of South Asia", "description": "This course focuses on the International Relations of the South Asian region. It looks at intra-regional relations, the impact of domestic politics on foreign policy, issues of conflict and cooperation and the role of external powers in the region. The foreign policy behaviour of India and Pakistan in particular will be considered. Key issues like the Kashmir conflict, nuclearization of South Asia and terrorism will be explored. The increasing significance of the South Asian region in the emerging global order, regional integration and inter-regional relations will also be analysed."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3231", "title": "South Asia and the World Economy", "description": "This course examines the role of South Asia in the world economy. The analysis will be conducted at two levels. The first is how the region as a whole interacts with other regional organizations such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and multilateral institutions such as the Asian Development Bank, The World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. The second level concerns external economic linkages and relations of selected individual South Asian countries."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3232", "title": "South Asia : Development, Issues, Debates", "description": "This course is concerned with understanding and assessing the development experiences of the South Asian countries. Students are expected to grapple with concrete case studies of development programmes in their work. The coursework covers issues pertaining to rural, agricultural, urban, industrial and human development, as well as their impact upon people and the environment. Particular attention is given to the situation of the poor and the weak, including disadvantaged children, women, and ethnic minorities. The course is taught from basics without requiring any prior knowledge of development theory, economics or South Asia, and is open to students of all disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3261", "title": "Exile, Indenture, IT: Global South Asians", "description": "This course studies the background leading to the mass migration of the South Asians to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century, and examines their economic, political and cultural contributions towards the development of the Southeast Asian countries in the twentieth century. It will also examine the roles played by South Asian communities living outside the region in the globalisation of South Asian economies."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3262", "title": "The Struggle for India, 1920-1964", "description": "This course is concerned with the political evolution of the Indian nation in two of its most formative periods: the late nationalist struggle from 1920-47 that led to the withdrawal of the colonial power; and the years of Jawaharlal Nehru's prime ministership, 1947-64. The course looks at both decolonisation and nation-building as processes characterised by debate and contestation in relation to (a) social, regional and group identity and (b) political rights and power. The course will study the impact of that debate and contestation on the character, institutions and political life of the nation."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3272", "title": "Issues in Indian Philosophy", "description": "This course is designed to survey developments in Indian Philosophy in post-independence India. Figures may include, among others, Radhakrishnan, K. C. Bhattacharya, Kalidas Bhattacharya, J. N. Mohanty, Bimal Krishna Matilal, J. L. Mehta and Daya Krishna. Two broad topics will be considered first, the contemporary re-evaluation of the classical Indian tradition; and secondly, the efforts at situating the Indian tradition within the global philosophical discourse."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3274", "title": "South Asian Cinema", "description": "This course begins with a historical overview of cinema in South Asia. It then focuses on the regional production centres and their specific specialisations. Other topics covered are 'Genres of SA Cinema' and their stylistic elements, and 'Cinema and Local Politics in South Asia'. Important films will be viewed and discussed as case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3275", "title": "Subtle Tamil Traits? Tamil Culture and Society", "description": "The course is designed to study the Tamil society and culture through various texts and visual media about Tamil world(s) such as films, documentaries, scholarly articles and books. The course is designed to incorporate students who both want to follow Tamil studies as a language course and students who want to learn about Tamil culture and society through the English language. The students will be assessed in either Tamil or English. At the end of the course, all students would have learned and gained advanced knowledge about Tamil culture and society."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3276", "title": "Introduction to Classical Indian Texts", "description": "This seminar-style course provides an introduction to the foundations of classical Indian literature through a survey of traditional texts from the Dharmasutras and the Kamasutra to the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita. The religious, cultural and literary influence and the changing interpretations of the texts will be discussed. All primary texts will be studied in English translation and supplemented with secondary source readings. This course is recognised towards the requirements of the Minor in Religious Studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3277", "title": "South Asia:Field Studies", "description": "This course aims at providing students with a first-hand experience of the South Asian region in general, and with a deep insight and understanding of selected aspects/problems of South-Asia in particular. The topics of the tours are different and formulated in accordance to the region chosen for the visit. Possible topics are : (A) Tamil History and Culture (Tamil Nadu Tour), (B) India and IT development (Bangalore etc. Tour), (C) Struggle for Independence; Partition (Tour around Delhi), etc. The overall structure of the course would be as follows: 1 week of lectures (in situ in South Asia, so that 'hands-on' sessions are possible), 4 weeks of guided travel, 1 week for students' report-and-essay-writing (in South Asia) = 6 weeks."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3278", "title": "Rivers of India: Divinity & Sacred Space", "description": "Most major rivers of South Asia are major pilgrimage centers for Hindus and are often considered as manifestations of female divinities. In this seminar\u2010style course, students will develop a unique appreciation of the confluence between geography, environment and divinity in South Asia through study of the region\u2019s major river systems. No prior knowledge of South Asian religion is required and will be introduced in the context of weekly study topics."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3279", "title": "Language, Culture and Identity in India", "description": "This course focuses on the relationship between language, culture and identity in India. It looks at the roles that languages, cultures, and literatures play in regional identities in India. Through case studies of Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi and Bengali it investigates the significance of language in regional identities. It also addresses the issue of how language and culture have been arenas in which contending notions of Indian identity have been developed. The course introduces students to the importance of understanding cultural diversity in India in relation to the rise of India as a contemporary world power."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3281", "title": "The Story of Indian Business", "description": "This course is about the history of business in India and its significance in the contemporary context. The lectures will be based on historical analysis and effects of the colonial enterprise, different business communities and their networks, post\u2010colonial approaches and changes in the socio\u2010political and economic trajectories. It gives students opportunities to look into the traditional big business houses and corporations and the subsequent changes in the present generations, and also into the emerging paradigms of new production networks and their relevance in the South Asian economies as well as in Asia and the world."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3282", "title": "Violence and Visual Cultures in South Asia", "description": "This course will examine how conflict and violence in contemporary South Asia have been understood and represented in different visual cultures such as popular film, photography, documentaries and online spaces. This course will interrogate the role of representations of violence within the societies at conflict in India, Sri Lanka, Burma and Nepal and how these are received abroad. It will provide tools for an increased visual awareness and understanding of ethical dialogues that shape violence in South Asia. This interdisciplinary course considers the relationship between images and disciplines such as history, politics, philosophy and anthropology."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3550", "title": "Internship", "description": "Internships vary in length but all take place within organisations or companies, are vetted and approved by the South Asian Studies Programe, have relevance to the major in South Asian Studies, involve the application of subject knowledge and theory in reflection upon the work, and are assessed. Available credited internships will be advertised at the beginning of each semester. Internships proposed by students will require the approval of the department."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3880", "title": "Topics in South Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in South Asian Studies. The topics to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting faculty in the Programme."}, {"moduleCode": "SN3880A", "title": "Art of India", "description": "This course focuses on the South Asian visual culture. It looks at this material not in isolation but in a global context. It will cover the history of South Asian art, that is, the art of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, from the time of the Indus Valley Civilization to the present day."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4101", "title": "Approaches to the Study of South Asia", "description": "The course will provide a basis for a close study of the foundations of the study of South Asia, particularly in the three areas around which the Programme operates: historical and political; cultural and religious; and social and economic. It will look closely at the work of major figures in order to provide an understanding of important shifts in the study of the region. These studies will include work on historical writing in colonial and postcolonial times, the rise of village studies, the development of the significant scholarly work on South Asian religions and caste, and the nature of the colonial and postcolonial economies of the region. Thus, the course will provide a basis for understanding the literature in the three areas of study and the major advances that have taken place in the study of South Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4101HM", "title": "Approaches to the Study of South Asia", "description": "The course will provide a basis for a close study of the foundations of the study of South Asia, particularly in the three areas around which the Programme operates: historical and political; cultural and religious; and social and economic. It will look closely at the work of major figures in order to provide an understanding of important shifts in the study of the region. These studies will include work on historical writing in colonial and postcolonial times, the rise of village studies, the development of the significant scholarly work on South Asian religions and caste, and the nature of the colonial and postcolonial economies of the region. Thus, the course will provide a basis for understanding the literature in the three areas of study and the major advances that have taken place in the study of South Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4102", "title": "Critical Debates in South Asian Studies", "description": "The course will be an interdisciplinary seminar which is intended as a continuation of the study commenced in `Approaches to the Study of South Asia?. It will familiarise students with major issues in the interpretation of South Asia within the three areas of historical and political studies, cultural and religious studies and social and economic studies. It will raise major issues that have a bearing on the ways in which developments in South Asia are currently studied and understood. Some issues will relate to major trends in re-interpretation of South Asia, others will be new approaches to key problems or controversial theories in disputed areas."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4102HM", "title": "Critical Debates in South Asian Studies", "description": "The course will be an interdisciplinary seminar which is intended as a continuation of the study commenced in `Approaches to the Study of South Asia?. It will familiarise students with major issues in the interpretation of South Asia within the three areas of historical and political studies, cultural and religious studies and social and economic studies. It will raise major issues that have a bearing on the ways in which developments in South Asia are currently studied and understood. Some issues will relate to major trends in re-interpretation of South Asia, others will be new approaches to key problems or controversial theories in disputed areas."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4221", "title": "Regional Conflict & Cooperation in Asia", "description": "The course will provide a comparative understanding of the problems and challenges that are faced in promoting regional cooperation and development in South and Southeast Asia. It will look at regional conflict and cooperation in a comparative perspective. It will examine issues in conflict in South Asia and the factors that have impeded regional cooperation. It will then contrast the dynamics of regionalism in Southeast Asia. It will also look at intra-regional and inter-regional ties that have been evolving between South and Southeast Asia in the context of multilateral trading arrangements."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4221HM", "title": "Regional Conflict & Cooperation in Asia", "description": "The course will provide a comparative understanding of the problems and challenges that are faced in promoting regional cooperation and development in South and Southeast Asia. It will look at regional conflict and cooperation in a comparative perspective. It will examine issues in conflict in South Asia and the factors that have impeded regional cooperation. It will then contrast the dynamics of regionalism in Southeast Asia. It will also look at intra-regional and inter-regional ties that have been evolving between South and Southeast Asia in the context of multilateral trading arrangements."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4231", "title": "Peasants and Capitalism in Asia", "description": "The aim is to provide a comparative perspective on capitalist development and socio-cultural change in peasant societies of South and Southeast Asia, as well as the underlying factors of change. Students are expected to appreciate the contrast between peasant and capitalist societies, and identify factors explaining the different experiences of these two regions of Asia. Major topics include the analytical and empirical features of the peasantry and capitalist development, and the range of factors explaining resilience and change."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4231HM", "title": "Peasants and Capitalism in Asia", "description": "The aim is to provide a comparative perspective on capitalist development and socio-cultural change in peasant societies of South and Southeast Asia, as well as the underlying factors of change. Students are expected to appreciate the contrast between peasant and capitalist societies, and identify factors explaining the different experiences of these two regions of Asia. Major topics include the analytical and empirical features of the peasantry and capitalist development, and the range of factors explaining resilience and change."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4232", "title": "South Asian Interregional Tourism", "description": "The course will discuss the emerging pattern of inter-regional tourism flows between South and Southeast Asia. One of the facets of increasing globalisation is the expansion of the tourism industry. For the South Asian region, in particular India, higher incomes and the emergence of an expanding middle class have created a new market for the outbound tourism industry. The trappings of the new middle class in India would include holidays abroad and Southeast Asian region has become more widely known in India. The long historical, religious and cultural linkages between South and Southeast Asia would add to the tourism flows between the two regions. Recent developments that will spur tourism included the Open Skies policy being negotiated between India and ASEAN plus the upgrading and modernisation of infrastructure in India."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4232HM", "title": "South Asian Interregional Tourism", "description": "The course will discuss the emerging pattern of inter-regional tourism flows between South and Southeast Asia. One of the facets of increasing globalisation is the expansion of the tourism industry. For the South Asian region, in particular India, higher incomes and the emergence of an expanding middle class have created a new market for the outbound tourism industry. The trappings of the new middle class in India would include holidays abroad and Southeast Asian region has become more widely known in India. The long historical, religious and cultural linkages between South and Southeast Asia would add to the tourism flows between the two regions. Recent developments that will spur tourism included the Open Skies policy being negotiated between India and ASEAN plus the upgrading and modernisation of infrastructure in India."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4233", "title": "Social, Political and Economic Change in India", "description": "India is in the throes of substantial social, political and economic change. This course deals with social structures such as caste and class; political developments such as the political empowerment of backward caste groups and the relationship between the state and society captured in phenomena such as social movements; and economic change such as the movement from state control to regulation, from autarky to globalization, and the rise of sub national federal economies at the state level."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4233HM", "title": "Social, Political and Economic Change in India", "description": "India is in the throes of substantial social, political and economic change. This course deals with social structures such as caste and class; political developments such as the political empowerment of backward caste groups and the relationship between the state and society captured in phenomena such as social movements; and economic change such as the movement from state control to regulation, from autarky to globalization, and the rise of sub national federal economies at the state level."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4234", "title": "Mapping Social Movements in India", "description": "The course will focus on contemporary social movements in India. They are deeply connected to its contested trajectories of development and democracy. Issues of displacement, environment, patriarchy, indignities and everyday tyranny are strongly connected to the contemporary social movements. By focusing on movements\u2019 ideology, social base, modes of mobilization, leadership and nature of engagement with the state and social power, the course will advance understanding of a significant reality in contemporary India."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4234HM", "title": "Mapping Social Movements in India", "description": "The course will focus on contemporary social movements in India. They are deeply connected to its contested trajectories of development and democracy. Issues of displacement, environment, patriarchy, indignities and everyday tyranny are strongly connected to the contemporary social movements. By focusing on movements\u2019 ideology, social base, modes of mobilization, leadership and nature of engagement with the state and social power, the course will advance understanding of a significant reality in contemporary India."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4261", "title": "South and Southeast Asia: Early Contacts", "description": "Cultural contacts between South Asia and Southeast Asia started around the 3rd c AD. Especially several South-Indian dynasties (as, e.g. the Pallavas and the Cholas), under which trade and the setting up of diplomatic ties flourished, were the main responsible forces for an early spread of Indian cultural and social concepts and values beyond South Asia \u2013 and especially to Southeast Asia. The course aims at looking at those early forms of contact between the two regions, and at providing an understanding of the concepts of \u201ckingship\u201d, society, religion and culture, that became shared as a consequence. We will explore how much about \u201ceveryday life\u201d in old times can be learned from inscriptions, and how temple-constructions and other pieces of Art can give insights into these concepts. We will also look into early trade-connections between South India and Southeast Asia (trading guilds) and into the impact of cultural influence \u2013 especially of the Chola dynasty \u2013 in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4261HM", "title": "South and Southeast Asia: Early Contacts", "description": "Cultural contacts between South Asia and Southeast Asia started around the 3rd c AD. Especially several South-Indian dynasties (as, e.g. the Pallavas and the Cholas), under which trade and the setting up of diplomatic ties flourished, were the main responsible forces for an early spread of Indian cultural and social concepts and values beyond South Asia \u2013 and especially to Southeast Asia. The course aims at looking at those early forms of contact between the two regions, and at providing an understanding of the concepts of \u201ckingship\u201d, society, religion and culture, that became shared as a consequence. We will explore how much about \u201ceveryday life\u201d in old times can be"}, {"moduleCode": "SN4262", "title": "Hindutva Nationalism", "description": "This course looks closely at Hindutva ideology, and considers the formation and development of Hindutva orientated political parties and organisations in India and also, where applicable, the diaspora. The course will consider the key challenges to the development of Hindutva nationalism and the threat that the growth of the movement poses to the position of religious minorities in the Indian context."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4262HM", "title": "Hindutva Nationalism", "description": "This course looks closely at Hindutva ideology, and considers the formation and development of Hindutva orientated political parties and organisations in India and also, where applicable, the diaspora. The course will consider the key challenges to the development of Hindutva nationalism and the threat that the growth of the movement poses to the position of religious minorities in the Indian context."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4263", "title": "Themes in Contemporary Indian History", "description": "This course will explore historical sources relating to Contemporary India and encourage students to examine archival evidence and develop critical narratives focused around key themes. The focus will be on India after 1947. Key themes will include: the Aftermath of Partition, National Integration; Leadership and Ideologies; Economic Development and Reconstruction; Political Parties and Organizations; Crises and Transitions; India\u2019s External Relations with its Neighbours. Students will work with on\u2010line archival sources now available due to declassification and digitisation, together with secondary materials."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4263HM", "title": "Themes in Contemporary Indian History", "description": "This course will explore historical sources relating to Contemporary India and encourage students to examine archival evidence and develop critical narratives focused around key themes. The focus will be on India after 1947. Key themes will include: the Aftermath of Partition, National Integration; Leadership and Ideologies; Economic Development and Reconstruction; Political Parties and Organizations; Crises and Transitions; India\u2019s External Relations with its Neighbours. Students will work with on\u2010line archival sources now available due to declassification and digitisation, together with secondary materials."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4275", "title": "South Asian Languages and Literatures", "description": "This course has four broad aims: 1) introducing linguistic theories of \u201cLanguage Families\u201d, 2) giving an overview of the Language Families found in South Asia, 3) briefly exposing regional conflicts that have their root in language-based formations of identities, and 4) giving a historical overview of the most important regional literatures in different South-Asian Languages."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4275HM", "title": "South Asian Languages and Literatures", "description": "This course has four broad aims: 1) introducing linguistic theories of \u201cLanguage Families\u201d, 2) giving an overview of the Language Families found in South Asia, 3) briefly exposing regional conflicts that have their root in language-based formations of identities, and 4) giving a historical overview of the most important regional literatures in different South-Asian Languages."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4276", "title": "Epic Traditions in South- and SE-Asia", "description": "The two Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, - are mainly known through their classical representatives in Sanskrit language. They also exist, however, in many regional vernacular forms, some being \u201cclassics\u201d in their own right (e.g. Kamban\u2019s Iramavataram in Tamil, 11th c; Tulsidas\u2019 Ramcaritmanas in Hindi, 16th c). Folkloristic renderings are available, too, besides Jain-, Buddhist-, and even Muslim-versions. The two texts have had a great impact on Southeast Asia, as is evident from literary traditions, performing arts and sculpture and painting. This course introduces the different epic traditions in India and looks into their spread to Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4276HM", "title": "Epic Traditions in South- and SE-Asia", "description": "The two Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, - are mainly known through their classical representatives in Sanskrit language. They also exist, however, in many regional vernacular forms, some being \u201cclassics\u201d in their own right (e.g. Kamban\u2019s Iramavataram in Tamil, 11th c; Tulsidas\u2019 Ramcaritmanas in Hindi, 16th c). Folkloristic renderings are available, too, besides Jain-, Buddhist-, and even Muslim-versions. The two texts have had a great impact on Southeast Asia, as is evident from literary traditions, performing arts and sculpture and painting. This course introduces the different epic traditions in India and looks into their spread to Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "The Honours Thesis will normally be done in the second semester of the student\u2019s final year. A qualified student intending to undertake the Honours Thesis will be expected to consult a prospective supervisor in the preceding semester for guidance on the selection of a topic and the preparation of a research proposal. The research proposal will be in an area of South Asian Studies in which the student has the necessary background and will be discussed with the supervisor. The supervisor will provide guidance to the student in conducting researching and writing the thesis of 10,000 to 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "The Honours Thesis will normally be done in the second semester of the student\u2019s final year. A qualified student intending to undertake the Honours Thesis will be expected to consult a prospective supervisor in the preceding semester for guidance on the selection of a topic and the preparation of a research proposal. The research proposal will be in an area of South Asian Studies in which the student has the necessary background and will be discussed with the supervisor. The supervisor will provide guidance to the student in conducting researching and writing the thesis of 10,000 to 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in-depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head\u2019s and/or Honours Coordinator\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in-depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head\u2019s and/or Honours Coordinator\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4880", "title": "Topics in South Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to allow faculty members or visiting staff to the South Asian Studies Programme to teach specific topics in their areas of interest and expertise."}, {"moduleCode": "SN4880HM", "title": "Topics in South Asian Studies", "description": "This course is designed to allow faculty members or visiting staff to the South Asian Studies Programme to teach specific topics in their areas of interest and expertise."}, {"moduleCode": "SN5102", "title": "South Asian Research Methodologies I", "description": "This course aims to present an overview of the most important research methodologies applied in the multidisciplinary field of South Asian Studies (covering, e.g. historical, economic, geographical, sociological, anthropological, or philological approaches). The material will be presented mainly in the form of case-studies which are to be interpreted. Students are expected to develop a knowledge of different possible disciplinary approaches, but they will make an in-depth study of those methodologies which are most relevant to their own field of research."}, {"moduleCode": "SN5103", "title": "Contemporary India: Contexts & Narratives", "description": "This course aims to introduce graduate students to the historical context of contemporary India after 1947 in terms of key milestone and conjunctures. Using a range of sources available digitally such as newspapers, private papers, oral history and visual material, students will have the opportunity to explore in depth specific episodes, individuals and themes. The course will engage with problems of evidence in terms of objectivity and bias, the challenges involved in framing historical narratives about the recent past and the ways in which these could be subjected to critical interpretation."}, {"moduleCode": "SN5103R", "title": "Contemporary India: Contexts & Narratives", "description": "This course aims to introduce graduate students to the historical context of contemporary India after 1947 in terms of key milestone and conjunctures. Using a range of sources available digitally such as newspapers, private papers, oral history and visual material, students will have the opportunity to explore in depth specific episodes, individuals and themes. The course will engage with problems of evidence in terms of objectivity and bias, the challenges involved in framing historical narratives about the recent past and the ways in which these could be subjected to critical interpretation."}, {"moduleCode": "SN5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in South Asian Studies in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SN5880", "title": "Topics in South Asian Studies I", "description": "This course will take up subjects currently being researched or developed in the multidisciplinary field of South Asian Studies by faculty in the Programme and/or by visiting scholars. The course will be in the form of an on-going seminar covering a range of critical readings in different disciplines of the field. Students will select a particular topic which is appropriate and relevant to their own research interests and complete an extended essay on that topic."}, {"moduleCode": "SN6003", "title": "South Asian Studies: Selected Topics I", "description": "This course will take up subjects currently being researched or developed in the multidisciplinary field of South Asian Studies by faculty in the Programme and/or by visiting scholars. The course will be in the form of an on-going seminar covering a range of critical readings in different disciplines of the field. Students will select a particular topic which is appropriate and relevant to their own research interests and complete an extended essay on that topic."}, {"moduleCode": "SN6004", "title": "South Asian Studies : Selected Topics Ii", "description": "This course will take up subjects currently being researched or developed in the multidisciplinary field of South Asian Studies by faculty in the Programme and/or by visiting scholars. The course will be in the form of an on-going seminar covering a range of critical readings in different disciplines of the field. Students will select a particular topic which is appropriate and relevant to their own research interests and complete an extended essay on that topic."}, {"moduleCode": "SN6102", "title": "South Asian Research Methodologies Ii", "description": "This course aims at further enhancing the understanding of the most important research methodologies available in the multidisciplinary field of South Asian Studies. The material on different disciplinary methods (covering, e.g. historical, economic, geographical, sociological, anthropological, or philological approaches) will be presented in the form of theoretical descriptions and relevant case-studies. Student will be expected to develop a knowledge of different approaches, and they will make an in-depth study of the methodologies most relevant to their own field of research."}, {"moduleCode": "SN6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in South Asian Studies in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SN6770", "title": "South Asia Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "SN6880", "title": "Topics in South Asian Studies Ii", "description": "This course will take up subjects currently being researched or developed in the multidisciplinary field of South Asian Studies by faculty in the Programme and/or by visiting scholars. The course will be in the form of an on-going seminar covering a range of critical readings in different disciplines of the field. Students will select a particular topic which is appropriate and relevant to their own research interests and complete an extended essay on that topic."}, {"moduleCode": "SP1230", "title": "NUS H3 Science Research Programme", "description": "The SRP is a talent development programme. It is meant for very capable students who aspire to a higher level of challenge than that offered through the mere application of scientific and mathematical concepts in the classroom. Highly motivated students are involved in concentrated research and are mentored by practising mathematicians, scientists, medical researchers and engineers from the Faculties of Science, Medicine and Engineering of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and participating Research Centres/Institutes such as the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Tropical Marine Science Institute, the Defence Science & Technology Agency, and the Singapore Botanic Gardens."}, {"moduleCode": "SP1541", "title": "Exploring Science Communication through Popular Science", "description": "The SP1541 course aims to equip students with critical thinking, reading, and writing skills that underlie effective communication of complex scientific content for a non-specialist audience. The course focuses on critical analysis and evaluation of science communication strategies to develop and consolidate students\u2019 understanding of the differences between scientific academic texts such as research reports and popular science texts such as science news articles. Students will be exposed to popular science texts in various scientific disciplines, which will serve as the basis for group discussions, individual presentations, and the writing of science news articles targeted at an educated non-specialist audience."}, {"moduleCode": "SP1630", "title": "Science Research Programme Advanced Placement", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SP2201", "title": "Agri-Science in Japan and Singapore", "description": "This is a four-week joint summer program offered by NUS and Hokkaido University (HU) of Japan. The course introduces comparative study of crops production in natural and controlled environment going from farmland to farm factories. Selected areas in the use of agri-science, agri-technology and agronomy in improving field crop selection and production, and soil improvement and management will be discussed,including case studies of marketing systems for agricultural products,introduction to agricultural farming,business going from upstream to downstream processing to post-harvest progress. Learning is complemented with student-centric case-study projects on assessment of agri-science technology and/or products in the market."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2251", "title": "Science at the Nanoscale", "description": "Many topics debated in nanoscience are frontier and futuristic, although some have immediate technological applications. The fundamental scientific principles of all nanotechnology applications, however, are grounded in basic sciences. This course thus aims to discuss the physics and chemistry that are operative at the nanoscale. Students will be introduced to some fundamentals of physics and chemistry important to the nanoscale and learn to appreciate what the world is like when things are shrunk to nanoscale. Through this course, students will learn to appreciate the linkages between the fundamental sciences and practical applications in nanotechnology."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2271", "title": "Introduction to the Scientific Literature", "description": "This course is designed to build essential skills for effective scientific reading and writing. The goal of the course is to empower students to (1) acquire science information strategically; (2) assess this information critically, (3) summarise scientific findings comprehensively and (4) sharing the information appropriately, coherently, accurately and responsibly. Students will critically read scientific publications, discuss scientific concepts, and report findings through coherent writing. Working in teams guided by mentors/TAs, students collaboratively develop and enhance skills of scientific information literacy, writing, and communication."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2273", "title": "Working on Interdisciplinary Science, Pythonically", "description": "Computing plays a crucial role in how science understands our world. It is often considered the 'third pillar' of science, alongside theory and experiments. This course will allow you to experience how computers can be used to solve fun and interesting problems (e.g. climate models, real-time measurements), in interdisciplinary science. You will also learn how to approach tackling complex problems by breaking them into smaller ones, noting similarities, identifying what data is essential and devising steps that will lead to a solution. We will then learn to use the Python programming language to implement some of these solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2274", "title": "Engineering a Life-like Cell", "description": "This course introduces students to the possibility of constructing the smallest unit of life, the cell. Using the central question, what are the minimum components and processes required to build an artificial living cell from scratch, students will explore how the fundamental chemical and physical principles underlying several biological processes which cells can integrate and function as an autonomous machine to self-replicate, self-assembly, self-repair and reprogram can respond to changes in the environment."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2400", "title": "Science & Technology Global Industry Insights", "description": "This course is conducted over intensive study week(s) in an emerging market economy. Through company visits, seminars, networking sessions and various assessments, students will learn what emerging market economies are, the importance of an overseas internship experience, and foreign workplace knowledge and skills. They will appreciate the interconnectivity between the industry landscape of Singapore and that of an emerging market economy. They will also acquire first-hand experience of learning about the unique characteristics of different types of firms, and the latest trends in the industries that are complementary to the various undergraduate majors in the Faculty of Science."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2400IN", "title": "Science & Technology Global Industry Insights", "description": "This course is conducted over intensive study week(s) in an emerging market economy (India). Through company visits, seminars, networking sessions and various assessments, students will learn what emerging market economies are, the importance of an overseas internship experience, and foreign workplace knowledge and skills. They will appreciate the interconnectivity between the industry landscape of Singapore and that of India. They will also acquire first-hand experience of learning about the unique characteristics of different types of firms, and the latest trends in the industries that are complementary to the various undergraduate majors in the Faculty of Science."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2400VN", "title": "Science & Technology Global Industry Insights", "description": "This course is conducted over intensive study week(s) in an emerging market economy (Vietnam). Through company visits, seminars, networking sessions and various assessments, students will learn what emerging market economies are, the importance of an overseas internship experience, and foreign workplace knowledge and skills. They will appreciate the interconnectivity between the industry landscape of Singapore and that of Vietnam. They will also acquire first-hand experience of learning about the unique characteristics of different types of firms, and the latest trends in the industries that are complementary to the various undergraduate majors in the Faculty of Science."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2401", "title": "Science & Technology Industry Insights I", "description": "This course introduces the latest innovations, developments and career pathways in a range of industries that will interest students in the life and physical sciences. Leading industry experts will share their insights and advise students on the knowledge, skills and attributes needed to enter and succeed in their fields. Complementary field trips will allow students to appreciate how theory is applied in the industrial context. A workshop and networking session will provide the opportunity for students to develop and apply industry-valued transferrable skills, such as the ability to network and plan for their careers, culminating in an actionable career plan."}, {"moduleCode": "SP2402", "title": "Science & Technology Industry Insights II", "description": "This course introduces the latest innovations, developments and career pathways in a range of industries that will interest students in the mathematical sciences. Leading industry experts will share their insights and advise students on the knowledge, skills and attributes needed to enter and succeed in their fields. Complementary field trips will allow students to appreciate how theory is applied in the industrial context. A workshop and networking session will provide the opportunity for students to develop and apply industry-valued transferrable skills, such as the ability to network and plan for their careers, culminating in an actionable career plan."}, {"moduleCode": "SP3172", "title": "Integrated Science Project", "description": "This course serves to initiate students into the arena of scientific investigation using project based learning. The students get to design and to conduct laboratory experiments for their project under the supervision of mentors and PI. Here, students are strongly encouraged to undertake projects that integrates different discipline of science together. With the inter-disciplinary flavour, this course provides an avenue for students from several disciplines to work together and it also lays the foundation for further work in experimental science."}, {"moduleCode": "SP3176", "title": "The Universe", "description": "This is the fourth course of an interdisciplinary program covering nature at different scales from \u2018Atoms to Molecules, \u2018The Cells\u2019, \u2018The Earth\u2019 and \u2018The Universe\u2019. This course traces the developments in theoretical and observational cosmology, starting from Newtonian cosmology, Hubble\u2019s observations, the Big Bang, formation of stars and black holes to recent ideas in the origin and fate of the Universe."}, {"moduleCode": "SP3203", "title": "Aquatic Ecology Research", "description": "The aim of the course is to provide students with hands-on research experience in aquatic ecology; the design, execution and analysis of surveys and experiments. Emphasis is placed on how quantitative scientific methods are applied to study aquatic ecosystems incorporating both theory and practice. The theory is primarily in the form of ecological survey planning and aquatic experimental design. The practical component provides the skills necessary to conduct real aquatic ecology research and present findings. The course covers hypothesis formulation, analytical methods and procedures specific to aquatic systems, as well as the use of statistical information for making ecological inferences."}, {"moduleCode": "SP3275", "title": "Science for a Sustainable Earth", "description": "In this course, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) framework, students will develop critical and inventive thinking, communication, collaboration, and information skills. A system thinking approach will be used to analyse and understand the complex interconnections between the planet and life. Topics will cover climate, environment, oceans, biodiversity, energy, and social challenges. Projects and activities will include computational modelling, the measurements and analysis of scientific data, and the communication and discussion of global problems. Fieldwork projects will focus on gathering scientific data in local settings and collaborations with local and international organizations."}, {"moduleCode": "SP3277", "title": "Nano: from Research Bench to Industrial Applications", "description": "This course exposes senior students to nanoscience research and nanotechnology-based industry. This is done through a series of weekly seminars by principal investigators and industrial experts in the field, laboratory and industrial visits, and by completion of nanosynthesis/nanocharacterization-related mini projects. The course culminates in an intensive one-week study tour to Japan, organised in collaboration with La Trobe University and Tokyo University"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1871", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1872", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1873", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1874", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1875", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1876", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1877", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1878", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1879", "title": "SEP exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1901", "title": "Social and Behavioural Determinants of Health", "description": "When we think about the things that impact health and illness we often think about health care professionals, treatments, hospitals and other aspects related to clinical care. However, health is fundamentally impacted by many factors and things that are situated outside of health care settings. In this course, we will explore social and ecological determinants of health, health behaviours, and examine health and social care systems in Singapore. This course aims to equip students with a holistic overview of the myriad factors that shape individual\u2019s health and illness, enabling them to take a person-centred approach."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1901C", "title": "Social and Behavioural Determinants of Health", "description": "When we think about the things that impact health and illness we often think about health care professionals, treatments, hospitals and other aspects related to clinical care. However, health is fundamentally impacted by many factors and things that are situated outside of health care settings. In this course, we will explore social and ecological determinants of health, health behaviours, and examine health and social care systems in Singapore. This course aims to equip students with a holistic overview of the myriad factors that shape individual\u2019s health and illness, enabling them to take a person-centred approach."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1904", "title": "Data Literacy for Healthcare", "description": "Society at large, and healthcare in particular, are increasingly evidence-based and data-driven. To understand and use scientific evidence for evidence-based practice, a clear understanding of the underlying epidemiological and biostatistical concepts is necessary to evaluate underlying clinical evidence critically. This course will introduce principles to appraise healthcare data and literature critically, review sources of bias in common study designs, and teach students to apply these concepts when providing evidence-based recommendations to their patients. It will also draw parallels in using these skills in non-healthcare settings to demonstrate the transferability of skills."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH1904C", "title": "Data Literacy for Healthcare", "description": "Society at large, and healthcare in particular, are increasingly evidence-based and data-driven. To understand and use scientific evidence for evidence-based practice, a clear understanding of the underlying epidemiological and biostatistical concepts is necessary to evaluate underlying clinical evidence critically. This course will introduce principles to appraise healthcare data and literature critically, review sources of bias in common study designs, and teach students to apply these concepts when providing evidence-based recommendations to their patients. It will also draw parallels in using these skills in non-healthcare settings to demonstrate the transferability of skills."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2001", "title": "Fundamental Public Health Methods", "description": "This course provides students with an overview of research methods, quantitative and qualitative approaches, commonly used in Public Health research and practice. Students will be equipped with the basic knowledge and practical skills to understand the breath of public health research methods. The course aims to train students in the fundamentals in communication of public health information in both oral and written forms."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2002", "title": "Public Health and Epidemiology", "description": "Epidemiology is the study of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined human populations. It is the cornerstone of public health, and provides evidence that impact on both personal decisions about our lives and public policy for preventing and controlling diseases in the population. In this course, we will cover key concepts in epidemiology, including how we measure disease burden, how we study risk factors for disease, how we evaluate interventions like new vaccines and therapies, and how to critically appraise research evidence to inform public health policy."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2003", "title": "Systems and Policies to improve Health", "description": "In terms of health systems, Singapore consistently tops rankings for its efficiency and efficacy. What exactly is a health system? Why is it important that we know how health systems operate? This course aims to provide students with an introductory overview of health systems and policies, that have the ability to shape an individual's and the population's wellbeing. Singapore's healthcare system is used as case study to explain the organization of health systems and the policy responses to public health challenges that arise within the context of these systems."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2004", "title": "Lifestyle, Behaviour and Public Health", "description": "Lifestyle factors have a dramatic impact on health of individuals and health of populations. This course will provide an overview of important behavioural lifestyle factors (i.e. Smoking, Diet, Physical Activity, Alcohol, and Sexual Behaviour) and their impact on individual and population health. It introduces principles of behavioural change and health promotion and how they apply to behavioural lifestyle factors and disease prevention. Examples of past and present public health approaches to target these lifestyle factors will be discussed. Students participating in this course will develop a theoretical understanding of health behaviour and its application to behaviour change approaches."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2005", "title": "Health, Society and the Social Determinants", "description": "What are the social and economic determinants of health? How do meanings of \u2018health\u2019 differ across populations and communities? This course adopts a multi-disciplinary approach in examining the different understandings of \u2018health\u2019 in society, via thinking critically about real-world health issues and their management. Drawing from disciplines such as medical anthropology, urban sociology and human geography, students will investigate how \u2018health\u2019 implicates \u2013 and is implicated by \u2013 the lives of individuals and societies. This course explores contemporary technological, ethical, political and cultural debates in health, healing and well-being."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2105A", "title": "Introduction to Global Health", "description": "Over the past decade global health has evolved from buzzword to discipline, attracting interest from governments, academic institutions and funding organizations. But, what is \u201cglobal health\u201d?\n\nAlthough we have made enormous progress in improving health status over the past 50 years, the progress has been uneven. Why?\n\nBy examining major global health challenges, programs and policies, students will analyze current and emerging global health priorities, including communicable and noncommunicable diseases, health inequity, health systems, and major global initiatives for disease prevention."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2202", "title": "Public Health Nutrition", "description": "Public Health Nutrition lies at the intersection of public health and nutritional sciences and is concerned with the \u201cpromotion and maintenance of nutrition-related health and wellbeing of populations through the organized efforts and informed choices of society\u201d. Such approaches are required to solve many of the complex nutritional challenges, such as obesity, type-2 diabetes, micronutrient deficiencies, and hunger, which we face today. In this class we will study fundamental concepts related to nutrition, understand frameworks used to examine public health issues, and examine key historical and current public health nutrition challenges and policies."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2203", "title": "Food Environments and Health", "description": "Transforming our food systems is a vital challenge of our times. Poor diets are one of the leading causes of loss of health. Epidemics of diseases related to dietary excesses are increasing and 30% of foods produced is wasted. At the same time over 800 million people have insufficient food. While food choice is often conceived as a personal decision, these are made in the context of environments. In this course, we will examine the key actors, processes and drivers of modern food environments. We will also examine potential solutions to address the systemic drivers of poor food environments."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2301", "title": "Health of the Working Population", "description": "Work is often seen as the means to create wealth but there is more to that. More than two thirds of Singapore\u2019s population are in formal employment, excluding one million foreign workers in Singapore. However, work can have both positive and negative impacts on our physical and mental health, impacting the economy, health system and the fabric of society. We will explore the positive and negative impacts of work at the personal and population level. The student will develop a broad knowledge and understanding of the theories, principles, and concepts relevant to work and health of the working population."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2401", "title": "Introduction to Global Health", "description": "Over the past decade global health has evolved from buzzword to discipline, attracting interest from governments, academic institutions and funding organizations. But, what is \u201cglobal health\u201d? Although we have made enormous progress in improving health status over the past 50 years, the progress has been uneven. Why? By examining major global health challenges, programs and policies, students will analyze current and emerging global health priorities, including communicable and noncommunicable diseases, health inequity, health systems, and major global initiatives for disease prevention."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2402", "title": "Public Health and Innovations for Ageing Populations", "description": "This course focuses on innovative approaches to public health and ageing, examining the demography of ageing, common ageing-related diseases, and policies related to care for older individuals, both locally and globally. Students will gain valuable insights into this rapidly evolving field, exploring cutting-edge innovations in health and social services. The course provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities associated with ageing populations and is likely to be of interest to students pursuing careers in healthcare, social services, policy, and related fields."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH2801", "title": "Health of the Poor in Asia", "description": "This course will provide students with an introduction to health among the poor, from a public health standpoint. It takes a global perspective, with special emphasis on Asia. Some of the key areas covered include: What is the health of the poor like? What are the reasons for this? What are the potential interventions and challenges to improving the health of the poor?"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3001", "title": "Public Health Practice", "description": "This course introduces students to the public health infrastructure and functions in Singapore, as well as provide hands-on exposure to work by way of attachments at selected public health agencies. It allows students to explore career opportunities in public health, develop related essential skills, specifically soft skills such as management of resources, time, money and human, interpersonal relationships, communication and advocacy and provides practical exposure to selected public health careers."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3101", "title": "Biostatistics for Public Health", "description": "This course will introduce the entire biostatistical data analysis workflow in public health, from data management to data analysis and the interpretation of results, translating data into reliable and consumable information for knowledge discovery in public health. Particular emphasis on the application of regression models in public health without the mathematical details and the proficiency in using statistical software to perform data analysis, integrating biostatistics, computer applications and public health for improving the health of mankind."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3106", "title": "Data Analysis for Pathogen Genomics", "description": "Advances in genomics particularly from high-throughput molecular technologies, coupled with novel efficient management and processing of big data are transforming public health practice. This includes the use of human genomics in the prevention and treatment of disease, as well as the use of pathogen genomics for outbreak monitoring and surveillance. This course will introduce the use of genetics and genomics in public health practice, illustrate commonly used data analysis tools and workflows in pathogen genomics, providing concepts and practical skills in the analysis and interpretation of results."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3107", "title": "Infectious Disease Modelling for Public Health", "description": "Mathematical modelling is increasingly being used to support public health decision-making in the control of infectious diseases. This course will cover mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and how these models are used for understanding disease transmission and intervention effectiveness."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3202", "title": "Infectious disease epidemiology and public health", "description": "This course gives an overview of the epidemiology of infectious diseases and its relevance to public health. It outlines fundamental concepts governing the interaction between microbes and host populations, and how such interactions affect the distribution of disease and the options for surveillance, prevention and control. Epidemiology and principles of prevention and control for several types of infectious diseases will be described, and applied to key diseases of global and local importance including vaccine preventable diseases, food-borne diseases, zoonotic and environment-related infectious diseases, vector-borne diseases, healthcare associated infections and drug resistant organisms, tuberculosis, and HIV and other sexually transmitted infections."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3203", "title": "Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases", "description": "This course gives an overview of the public health approach to non-communicable diseases across the continuum of identification of risk factors, surveillance and implementation of measures to prevent and manage disease to reduce mortality and improve quality of life. Epidemiology and principles of prevention and control for non-communicable diseases will be described, and applied to key diseases of global and local importance."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3204", "title": "One Health: People, Animals and the Environment", "description": "The concept of \"One Health\" recognises the health of people is intertwined with the health of animals and their shared environment. Understanding this concept allows the designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes. Students will learn to apply this approach to address public health issues with a focus on infectious diseases. Current major public health concerns will be examined and One Health interventions contrasted to a traditional approach for students to better appreciate the differences."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3401", "title": "Designing Public Health Programmes", "description": "This skill-based course introduces students to the planning and designing of health interventions and public health programmes. It provides the theoretical constructs that underpin the development of public health programmes, as well as provides students the opportunity to design a real programme for a specific identified health issue for implementation by a local organisation. The theoretical knowledge and practical skills developed in this course include being able to analyse any given health situation or problem, perform a baseline (via real field exercise), identify and prioritise possible interventions, and develop plans for implementation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3402", "title": "Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach", "description": "What is \u2018mental health\u2019 and how can we improve it on a population scale? What is a mental health \u2018disorder\u2019 and how are common mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression and substance abuse, prevented and treated? How is mental health intertwined with other public health issues such as pandemics, chronic diseases, and disease screening and treatment? What are the roles of individuals, communities, societies, and governments in improving mental health? In this course, we approach these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating evidence from various fields to build a holistic picture of mental health as a public health issue."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3403", "title": "Public Health Economics", "description": "This course will discuss key concepts that economists use to analyze the production and consumption of health and health care and apply these concepts to selected issues in health policy. We will first cover the microeconomic fundamentals that drive patient choices, provider and behavior, health insurance and medical innovation. The second part of the semester will shift to a macroeconomic perspective on systems and policy, and the third will conclude with a discussion the economic evaluation of health technologies and public health interventions."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3404", "title": "Physical Activity For Better Population Health", "description": "Being active and less sedentary are cornerstones of health promotion as these behaviours are strongly linked to health. Unfortunately, physical inactivity and too much sitting are the norm in our modern world. In this course we will examine the relationship between physical activity/sedentary behaviour and health, look into various approaches to measuring physical activity/sedentary behaviour and highlight multiple ways to change these behaviours. This will include looking at various levels of influence. Students will also be exposed to technology-driven approaches in various domains of physical activity/sedentary behaviour research and practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH3501", "title": "Introduction to Public Health Communication", "description": "This course equips students with the principles and skills to design health communication messages and activities/projects e.g. talks, skills development, telehealth in a variety of settings such as the school, workplace, internet and the community. It emphasizes the critical analysis and application of health communication theory and social marketing principles in the design of messages and communication projects to promote health in the community."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5001", "title": "Foundations of Public Health", "description": "This course motivates and introduces topics, issues and approaches that will be further developed in the MPH programme. It will focus on the origins, history and present state of public health in Singapore and globally and its underpinning ideals. Public health ethics, social-ecological determinants of health, and numeracy skills to make sense of risk and assess disease burden will be covered. Public health evidence-based and systems approach to solving complex public health problems with appropriate research methods will also be introduced."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5002", "title": "Public Health Research Methods", "description": "This course provides students with the foundational knowledge of epidemiology and biostatistics, and introduces students to the key principles of qualitative research methods. Students will learn how to quantify the burden of disease in populations, identify potential risk factors, develop and test hypotheses. Key considerations for the design of observational, interventional, and screening studies, and basic skills related to the analyses and interpretation of data from such studies will be emphasised. Students will gain an appreciation of the complementary nature of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in answering public health questions."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5003", "title": "Health Behaviour and Communication", "description": "This course applies concepts and methods in social and behavioural sciences to evaluate and inform development of health promotion policies, programmes and services. It provides students with the principles and skills to address the social, psychological and environmental factors influencing behaviour and behaviour change. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to apply commonly used behavioural theories and models to change and evaluate behaviour at the individual, group and community level for the development of effective public health promotion interventions."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5005", "title": "Practicum", "description": "This course is both a practice as well as a seminar course. Course requirements are fulfilled by planning and conducting a project in cooperation with an advisor over the course of 6 - 12 months. The project should involve collection of primary data, or an in-depth analysis of secondary data, and should be in the student\u2019s selected focus area, if they\u2019ve chosen one."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5006", "title": "STATA Primer for Public Health", "description": "The purpose of this course is to equip students with an analytical tool for analysing data using STATA statistical software. The course is designed for students with basic knowledge of statistics who would like to acquire skills for analysing and interpreting data using STATA."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5007", "title": "Implementing Public Health Programmes and Policies", "description": "This course will enable you to develop the skills required to investigate, analyse and influence the policy-making processes that shape the health of the population. Implementation strategies are meant to improve the health of population through the adoption and integration of evidence-based health interventions into routine policies and practices within specific settings. Multiple strategies are used to ensure and improve the effective implementation of these programmes and policies. The relationship between programmes, policies and the wider policy environment will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5008", "title": "Ethics in Public Health Practice", "description": "This course introduces students to ethical principles relevant to policies, systems and interventions intended to protect and promote the health of populations. Students will become familiar with ethical theories and frameworks used in public health, and will consider the role of culture, values and context in applying these in practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5101", "title": "Advanced Quantitative Methods I", "description": "In this course, the principles of statistical modelling will be introduced, and statistical models such as multiple linear regression, logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards model will be applied to a variety of practical medical problems. Methods for analysing repeated measures data, assessment of model fit, statistical handling of confounding and statistical evaluation of effect modification will also be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5102", "title": "Design, Conduct and Analysis of Clinical Trials", "description": "In this course, issues in clinical trials, including blinding randomisation, sample size, power, ethical, regulatory, and quality-of-life issues will be addressed. Interim and sequential analyses, analysis of multiple treatments and endpoints, stratification and subgroup analyses, as well as meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials will also be discussed. Although particular emphasis is given to the evaluation of treatment in Phase III clinical trials, early phase trials will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5103", "title": "Collection, Management & Analysis of Quantitative Data", "description": "This course is an introduction to collection, management and data analysis of quantitative surveys in public health research, with strong emphasis on acquiring hands-on experience for handling public health data. It will cover essential concepts, such as, sampling and design of questionnaires; as well as practical components, such as, data management, statistical analysis of questionnaire data, and research involvement and engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5104", "title": "Analytics for Better Health", "description": "This course will cover major topics in healthcare analytics, including clinical related analytics (e.g., diseases, medication, laboratory test, etc.) and healthcare operations related analytics (e.g., resource planning, care process analytics and improvement, etc.). Students will learn about the different healthcare analytics areas, and select and apply the appropriate analytical techniques to address healthcare related questions."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5201", "title": "Control of Communicable Diseases", "description": "This course focuses on infectious diseases of public health concern in Singapore and internationally. The course will cover concepts in the prevention, surveillance and control of infectious diseases, including vector-borne diseases, foodborne diseases, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, acute respiratory illnesses, and nosocomial infections. In addition, students will be exposed to concepts in the evaluation of vaccines and vaccination programmes, and will obtain hands-on experience in outbreak investigation through a simulated outbreak exercise. Students will learn to critically appraise and discuss the application of current control strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5202", "title": "Control of Non-Communicable Diseases", "description": "This course showcases the application of epidemiology to the study of non-communicable diseases. We will cover how epidemiological principles and methods inform our understanding of the burden and determinants of some major non-communicable diseases as well as the choice of the most appropriate strategies at each level of prevention, with an emphasis on primary prevention."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5203", "title": "Advanced Epidemiology I", "description": "This course covers advanced methods for the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic studies. The main focus is on analytical studies that aim to identify risk factors for diseases particularly case-control and cohort studies. Topics include causal inference, study design, methods of handling confounding and identifying effect modification, measurement error and information bias, selection bias, lifestyle and molecular epidemiology, and meta-analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5204", "title": "Nutrition and Health - Fundamentals and Applications", "description": "This course introduces the concepts and principles underlying nutrition in relation to health and diseases, so as to better understand and address population nutrition challenges. Content areas include an overview of nutrition as a major determinant of health and disease; methods to assess nutritional status; maternal and child health through the lens of a life course perspective; nutrition during ageing and evaluation of effective nutritional interventions. This class will include discussion of nutrition policies and strategies, multi-sectoral approaches and the importance of public- partnerships aimed at preventing chronic diseases. There will be a strong emphasis on gaining practical skills in dietary assessments, critical appraisal of scientific literature and media articles relating to diet and nutrition and communication of nutritional science to the public. The teaching approach involves class interaction and provides opportunities for self-reflection."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5205", "title": "Urban Outbreak Management", "description": "An effective outbreak management system is core to safeguarding public health and reducing morbidity and mortality. Outbreak investigation, when properly managed, fosters cooperation between stakeholders in rapid mobilization, community engagement, communications, and business continuity. By introducing a combination of hard and soft skills, as well as knowledge and tools related to field epidemiology, environmental health, microbiology, communication and social sciences, it is designed for application of knowledge and skills to manage, foresee and solve outbreak problems efficiently and effectively."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5206", "title": "Urban Field Epidemiology", "description": "We live in a densely populated modern city state that earns its living as an international trade and travel hub. Students will learn about constraints and vulnerabilities in our physico-social ecology, and how to balance the natural tropical biosphere and man-made technosphere in the face of climate, economic and lifestyle changes. Risk assessment and management form the basis for health protection, safeguarding against emergent threats, and skills-building in risk communications promotes right attitudes and behaviours for community wellbeing. This course provides a combination of hard and soft science approaches that will guide field epidemiologists in urban health security."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5311", "title": "Workplace Safety and Health", "description": "Workplace health is an intergral part of Public Health. This course provides an overview on Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) and focus on principles of risk control and the prevention of work-related diseases and accidents at the workplace. Students are expected to evaluate and critique approaches/ programmes to promoting workplace safety and health within relevant legislation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5312", "title": "Assessment and Control of Occupational Hazards", "description": "Occupational hazards are the principal threats to workers\u2019 health at the workplace. This course presents the important chemical, biological, safety, physical, ergonomic and psychosocial occupational hazards at the workplace. It focuses on exposure routes, toxicological mechanisms, the health impact on the worker, and critically, to allow the practitioner to design and implement effective programmes to mitigate or prevent the adverse effects of these hazards to workers at the workplace."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5313", "title": "Principles of Occupational Medicine", "description": "This course allows students to apply the principles of prevention of occupational diseases in real-world settings. Students will learn the approach to preventing and managing both occupational diseases and other health conditions or injuries in the workplace setting, as well as the elements of an occupational disease prevention programme."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5314", "title": "Enterprise Occupational Health Practice", "description": "This course examines the enterprise considerations of occupational health. It includes key topics such as Occupational Health and Safety management systems, workplace health promotion, error prevention, safety culture and incident investigation. It integrates the various concepts and frameworks and contextualises it with industry practices, guidelines and legislation as practically applicable to an ongoing commercial enterprise."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5315", "title": "Public Health at the Workplace", "description": "In the last hundred years, the role of the workplace in public health has evolved to encompass the continuum of health of the individual worker and to support greater public health efforts (such as pandemic and chronic disease control). This course allows students to apply public health strategies and considerations to manage health issues and related challenges in the workplace setting. Students will learn about the issues that influence both the health of the worker and the worker\u2019s ability to work in different settings, and the approaches to addressing these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5401", "title": "Health Economics and Financing", "description": "This course addresses the economic and financing aspects of the production, distribution, and organisation of health care services and delivery. This includes the structure of health care delivery and insurance markets, demand for and supply of health services, pricing of services, cost of care, financing mechanisms, and their impact on the relevant markets. A special emphasis will be given to market failures and the role of government in the market for health services. Through textbook readings and discussions of seminal articles and more recent empirical applications in health economics, students will learn the economic way of thinking. They will be given the opportunity to showcase these skills through a series of research papers written throughout the semester that will culminate with a final manuscript that provides an in-depth analysis of a critical health issue."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5402", "title": "Management of Healthcare Organisations", "description": "This practitioner-led course is targeted at participants with a basic background in management (either through academic study or practice) and equips participants to work with and manage care delivery services. Teaching will be through interactive lectures, group activities and panel discussions. Participants will be expected to actively share their experiences and learn collectively."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5403", "title": "Medical & Humanitarian Emergencies", "description": "This course provides a practical introduction to disaster preparedness and management, from a public health perspective. Participants will gain core knowledge and skills to understand how disasters are conceptualized; how disaster risk is managed; and how disaster response is planned and executed. Key topics include understanding disaster terminology, risk, and types; the international humanitarian system; assessment to identify assistance and resources required; specific sectors in the disaster context such as environmental health, food, nutrition, and health action; relevant ethical and legal frameworks such as International Human Rights Law (IHRL); and practical considerations on safety and security, and operations in disasters."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5404", "title": "Measuring and Managing Quality of Care", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the concepts and techniques used to measure and improve the quality of healthcare. It will address current concerns with patient safety and medical errors, and explore systemic approaches to harm reduction. Participants will understand the methodologies and instruments for the measurement of quality in healthcare, including clinical outcome indicators, healthcare professionals\u2019 performance measurement and patient satisfaction surveys. Strategies for managing quality, including the tools for continuous quality improvement in healthcare organisations, will be presented."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5405", "title": "Introduction to Health Services Research", "description": "This course is an introduction to the various domains of and methods for health services research. It is designed to provide students with a panorama of health services research and its applications and the information for further learning. The course integrates elements of statistics, psychometrics, health economics, and incorporates a diverse range of subjects including patient-reported outcomes, decision analytic modelling, and cost-effectiveness analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5406", "title": "Contemporary Global Health Issues", "description": "This course offers students a panoramic overview of the evolving global health landscape in today\u2019s globalised society which is characterised by unprecedented interconnectedness. Public health problems and consequences are now easily trans-national, if not global. We will focus on key cross-cutting thematic areas linking Health with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5407", "title": "Programme Evaluation", "description": "This course will equip the students in skills to conduct different forms of programme evaluations (formative/summative, process/outcome/impact, cost effectiveness analysis etc) in different contexts (as an internal or external evaluator of a programme). The students will acquire practical skills on how to prepare for an evaluation, conduct an evaluation and appropriately disseminate the evaluation results to the relevant stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5408", "title": "Public Health and Ageing", "description": "In this course, an overview of the ageing population and its increasing relevance for public health planning and policy, both in Singapore and internationally. Major topics include demography of ageing, normal (physiological and biological) and abnormal (physical and mental) ageing, prevention of ageing-related diseases and compression of morbidity, health and social services and policies for older persons, and medico-legal and ethical issues of care for the older persons. Students will learn how to apply their knowledge to critically appraise health and social programmes and policies for older persons and apply medico-legal and ethical principles in the care for older persons."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5409", "title": "Qualitative Methods in Public Health", "description": "This course will familiarize students with various data collection and analytic methods in qualitative research, allowing them to apply appropriate methods with relevant ethical considerations. Students will be guided through each step of the qualitative research process starting with the underlying principles of qualitative approaches and moving on to study design, sampling, data collection and analysis. Students will have hands-on practical experience applying the various data collection methods; as well as learning practical techniques on how to conduct and write the analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5410", "title": "Developing health proposals using DIME skills & tools", "description": "Two of the most important skills that public health practitioners need to develop are programme design and proposal writing. These two skills are inseparably linked. A good programme design in a good proposal can lead to better implementation and management, and sets the stage for good monitoring and evaluation. In turn, a project executed well has better chances for re-funding and expansion by donors. This skills-building design, implementation monitoring and evaluation (DIME) course is designed to introduce students to the working environment that one will confront repeatedly."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5411", "title": "Information Technology in Healthcare", "description": "Students will learn about use of Information Technology in Singapore healthcare. They will gain knowledge and skills on managing IT projects in their workplace, learn about key considerations for IT project success, and be able to conduct a basic evaluation of healthcare IT products."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5412", "title": "Economic Methods in Health Technology Assessment", "description": "This course aims to provide an applied introduction to Health Technology Assessment (HTA) research in order to enable students to begin conducting their own research and/or to understand research conducted by others. Basic principles of conducting HTA and modelling techniques will be covered. Examples of economic analyses that have been used in all stages of HTA research, starting with conceptualizing HTA studies, to cost-effectiveness of particular health technologies, to budget impact will be included. Students will also gain the expertise to critically evaluate economic evaluations, and use the evaluation results to inform decision-making in healthcare policy and resource allocation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5413", "title": "Women\u2019s, Children\u2019s and Adolescents\u2019 Health", "description": "Investing in the health of women, children and adolescents is critical for every nation\u2019s development. The course applies a life-course perspective to critically explore the issues affecting the health of mothers, young children and adolescents. We will examine the socioeconomic, behavioural and political determinants of maternal, child and adolescent health, as well as policies, programs and services to reach them. The challenges, strategies and potential innovations to more effectively improve their health and wellbeing will be a major focus. These will be linked to global efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to health and well-being, education, gender equity, and poverty reduction."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5414", "title": "Informatics for Health", "description": "Health informatics transforms health care by analyzing, designing, implementing, and evaluating information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes, improve care, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5415", "title": "Healthcare Operations & Performance", "description": "This course focuses on the functional operations and performance of organisations engaged in the delivery of clinical care to patients and their caregivers. Participants will examine the models, structures, departments, personnel and processes in healthcare delivery networks and quality improvements efforts therein. The components and essentials of the planning, organisation, leading and control of such facilities and their operations will be discussed, that participants can better design, operationalise, monitor, analyse, evaluate and optimise healthcare delivery in their organisations for better patient and societal outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5416", "title": "Introduction to Integrated Care", "description": "To meet the challenge of an ageing population, increasing chronic diseases and escalating healthcare costs, there is an opportunity for healthcare delivery to be better integrated. However, integrated care is a complex knowledge domain, with macro, meso and micro levels of theory and practice. This course provides students with the theoretical foundation and methodological enablers of integrated care. It introduces students to systematic methods to evaluate integrated care services, systems, pilots and interventions, including methods to enable large scale integration of care. Students will be able to apply learning to strengthen their own integrated care practice or research."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5417", "title": "Fundamentals of Population Health", "description": "Population Health is a distinguishing domain within the field of public health, which focuses on the greater social determinants and drivers of health. In understanding Population Health, one takes a systems-approach in examining the socioeconomic factors and the physical environment that influence the health and wellness for the whole of population, going beyond individualised medical healthcare for the sick. Population Health takes a broader societal view and more of a multi-disciplinary approach than the other public health domains. This course will build up the fundamental theoretical concepts and knowledge base for how to improve the health of the population."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5418", "title": "Public Health Policy: A Systems Approach", "description": "This course delves into the intricacies of health systems and policies, equipping learners to critically analyse, leverage evidence, and formulate innovative and sustainable approaches to health challenges. Emphasis is placed on sound design principles for effective application, meticulous oversight, and robust evaluation. Enriched with discussion on real-world case studies, learners not only understand the theoretical nuances but also gain insights into policy dynamics, preparing them to influence and shape the evolving landscape of public health."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5420", "title": "Evidence Synthesis for HTA", "description": "Research growth and the related exponential rate of accumulation of publications have escalated the need for effective and efficient methods to synthesize the evidence base for evaluating health technologies. This course is designed to provide students with the skills to generate good quality evidence for conducting health technology assessments (HTA) that meet the needs of decision makers."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5421", "title": "Modelling Techniques in HTA", "description": "This course provides students with the skills and knowledge to design mathematical and simulation models of disease employed in health technology assessment (HTA). It will include techniques such as dynamic transmission modelling and simulation. As the field is constantly evolving, new modelling techniques may be introduced over time."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5422", "title": "Applied Health Econometrics for HTA", "description": "Health technology assessment (HTA) is a key healthcare decision making tool in informing allocation of scarce healthcare resources. HTA uses data from randomized controlled trials, observational studies and retrospective data sets to generate estimates of the cost and effectiveness of a new technology relative to the current standard of care. This course is designed to equip students with critical econometric and statistical analysis skills to generate reliable effectiveness and cost estimates for HTA."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5423", "title": "Simulation for Health Technology Assessment", "description": "This course is designed to equip students with the conceptual understanding and technical skills to design and construct simulations relevant to health technology assessment (HTA). After reviewing the fundamentals of modelling for HTA, the implementation of stochastic simulation models will be addressed, including the specification and use of distributions, the structuring of these models using the DICE methodology, and the approach to analyses, interpretation and presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5501", "title": "Public Health Communication", "description": "This course focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of communication programmes designed to change or reinforce health behaviour. Emphasis will be on the step-by-step process of (1) formative research and analysis (including use of conceptual frameworks, audience research, and assessment of the media, policy and service environment), (2) theory-based and evidence-based strategic design, (3) message development, pretesting, and materials production, (4) implementation and monitoring, and (5) theory-based evaluation and dissemination of findings. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to develop a work plan for a health communication project."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5801", "title": "Field Practice", "description": "This course allows student to apply theories and concepts taught in various courses to a project within a public health organisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5880A", "title": "Special Topics in Epidemiology and Disease Control", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn about current and emerging topics in one of seven key areas in public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Quantitative Methods, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts. Courses on topics within the relevant specialisations may be considered as fulfilment of requirements for that specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5880B", "title": "Special Topics in Quantitative Methods", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn about current and emerging topics in one of seven key areas in public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Quantitative Methods, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts. Courses on topics within the relevant specialisations may be considered as fulfilment of requirements for that specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5880C", "title": "Special Topics in Environmental/Occupational Health", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn about current and emerging topics in one of seven key areas in public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Quantitative Methods, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts. Courses on topics within the relevant specialisations may be considered as fulfilment of requirements for that specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5880D", "title": "Special Topics in Health Policy and Systems", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn about current and emerging topics in one of seven key areas in public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Quantitative Methods, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts. Courses on topics within the relevant specialisations may be considered as fulfilment of requirements for that specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5880E", "title": "Special Topics in Health Services Research", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn about current and emerging topics in one of seven key areas in public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Quantitative Methods, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts. Courses on topics within the relevant specialisations may be considered as fulfilment of requirements for that specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5880F", "title": "Special Topics in Health Promotion", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn about current and emerging topics in one of seven key areas in public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Quantitative Methods, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts. Courses on topics within the relevant specialisations may be considered as fulfilment of requirements for that specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5880G", "title": "Special Topics in Global Health", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for students to learn about current and emerging topics in one of seven key areas in public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Quantitative Methods, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts. Courses on topics within the relevant specialisations may be considered as fulfilment of requirements for that specialisation."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5890A", "title": "Independent Study in Epidemiology and Disease Control", "description": "The student, in consultation with the lecturer, will work out a programme of study which will include topics, readings, fieldwork if relevant, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the learning objectives and programme of study and other pertinent details. Head of Department, Program Director\u2019s and Academic Advisor\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation criteria may comprise both continuous and/or and final assessment, the % distribution of which will be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5890B", "title": "Independent Study in Quantitative Methods", "description": "The student, in consultation with the lecturer, will work out a programme of study which will include topics, readings, fieldwork if relevant, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the learning objectives and programme of study and other pertinent details. Head of Department, Program Director\u2019s and Academic Advisor\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation criteria may comprise both continuous and/or and final assessment, the % distribution of which will be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5890C", "title": "Independent Study in Environmental / Occupational Health", "description": "The student, in consultation with the lecturer, will work out a programme of study which will include topics, readings, fieldwork if relevant, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the learning objectives and programme of study and other pertinent details. Head of Department, Program Director\u2019s and Academic Advisor\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation criteria may comprise both continuous and/or and final assessment, the % distribution of which will be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5890D", "title": "Independent Study in Health Policy and Systems", "description": "The student, in consultation with the lecturer, will work out a programme of study which will include topics, readings, fieldwork if relevant, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the learning objectives and programme of study and other pertinent details. Head of Department, Program Director\u2019s and Academic Advisor\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation criteria may comprise both continuous and/or and final assessment, the % distribution of which will be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5890E", "title": "Independent Study in Health Services Research", "description": "The student, in consultation with the lecturer, will work out a programme of study which will include topics, readings, fieldwork if relevant, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the learning objectives and programme of study and other pertinent details. Head of Department, Program Director\u2019s and Academic Advisor\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation criteria may comprise both continuous and/or and final assessment, the % distribution of which will be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5890F", "title": "Independent Study in Health Promotion", "description": "The student, in consultation with the lecturer, will work out a programme of study which will include topics, readings, fieldwork if relevant, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the learning objectives and programme of study and other pertinent details. Head of Department, Program Director\u2019s and Academic Advisor\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation criteria may comprise both continuous and/or and final assessment, the % distribution of which will be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH5890G", "title": "Independent Study in Global Health Programs: Planning and Evaluation", "description": "The student, in consultation with the lecturer, will work out a programme of study which will include topics, readings, fieldwork if relevant, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the learning objectives and programme of study and other pertinent details. Head of Department, Program Director\u2019s and Academic Advisor\u2019s approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation criteria may comprise both continuous and/or and final assessment, the % distribution of which will be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6001", "title": "Advanced Epidemiology II", "description": "This course covers advanced methods for the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic studies. Students will apply these methods to the interpretation of published research and the design of a new research project. The main focus is on analytical studies that aim to identify risk factors for diseases particularly case-control and cohort studies. Topics include causal inference, study design, methods of handling confounding and identifying effect modification, measurement error and information bias, selection bias, lifestyle and molecular epidemiology, and meta-analysis. Students will be expected to critique research articles and participate in facilitated group discussions."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6002", "title": "Advanced Quantitative Methods II", "description": "In this course, the principles of advanced statistical modelling will be introduced, and statistical models such as multiple linear regression, logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards model will be applied to a variety of practical medical or public health problems. For time-to-event data analysis involving the Cox proportional hazards model, the proportional hazards assumption will be discussed, and strategies for handling non-proportional hazards, such as via stratification or modelling using time-dependent covariates will be introduced. We also consider the situation where several competing event types define the event of interest in a time-to-event study. Methods for analysing repeated measures data, assessment of model fit, statistical handling of confounding and statistical evaluation of effect modification will also be discussed. The statistical models introduced will be applied to real life clinical or public health data."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6003", "title": "Nutritional Epidemiology", "description": "Dietary exposures have an important impact on health, but are highly complex and difficult to assess. This course covers methods for the assessment of diet and nutritional status including specific topical areas such as the use of dietary patterns, and application of nutritional epidemiology in birth-cohort studies. It also covers the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiological studies on diet and health. Students will be trained in the interpretation of published studies, the design of studies, and the analysis of data on diet and health. The emphasis of this course will be on the application of methods to provide skills that can be applied by students to their own research projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6004", "title": "Advanced Statistical Learning", "description": "This course will introduce advanced topics for analyzing large or complex datasets, with a particular emphasis on various biomedical data. We will cover fundamental techniques in machine learning with emphasis on both computing and data analysis. The topics will include regression and classification, resampling-based techniques to evaluate performance, variable selection, tree-based methods for regression and classification, support vector machines, unsupervised data clustering methods and factor analysis, neural networks, neural network-based deep learnings, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6005", "title": "Applied Health Economics", "description": "This course will focus on the understanding, familiarization and development of skills related to the use of common software (STATA and TreeAge) and data used in the international health microeconomics literature. Students are required to work on household survey data and decision modelling projects. Student participation will emphasize both research findings as well as ongoing reflections on experiences and lessons for future research practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6006", "title": "Advanced Health Behaviour and Communication", "description": "This course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the principles and skills to address the social, psychological and environmental factors influencing behaviour and behavioural change. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to interpret published research on behavioural interventions and apply commonly used behavioural theories and models to change and evaluate behaviour at the individual, group and community level for the development of effective public health promotion interventions and policies."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6007", "title": "Health Systems and Policy Analysis", "description": "The aim of this course is to provide students with an in-depth examination of health systems and policies as well as an understanding of health systems reforms around the world. Various frameworks and tools will be introduced to critique and evaluate health systems and policies. Students will also be required to formulate a health policy and craft a policy paper."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6008", "title": "Applying Social Theory in Public Health Research", "description": "This course offers students an in-depth introduction to social theory and opportunities to practice its potential application in public health. The course will introduce key ontological and epistemological concepts, related theoretical perspectives, and useful social science methodologies which students will learn to recognise and use in public health research and practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "This Independent Study Course (ISC) is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in one of the following areas of public health: a) Epidemiology and Disease Control b) Biostatistics c) Environmental and Occupational Health, d) Health Policy and Systems e) Health Services Research f) Health Promotion and g) Global Health. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings and assignments for the course. Students who are interested in the ISC must submit a proposal, giving a clear account of the topic, number of contact hours, assignments, mode of assessment, and other pertinent details. The proposal must be reviewed and approved by the School before the student is allowed to undertake the ISC."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201A", "title": "Independent Study (Epidemiology and Disease Control)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201B", "title": "Independent Study (Biostatistics)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201C", "title": "Independent Study (Environmental / Occupational Health)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201D", "title": "Independent Study (Health Policy and Systems)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201E", "title": "Independent Study (Health Services Research)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201F", "title": "Independent Study (Health Promotion)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6201G", "title": "Independent Study (Global Health)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6401", "title": "Advanced approaches in physical activity research", "description": "Being active and less sedentary are cornerstones of population health. In this course we will examine fundamental concepts of physical activity and sedentary behaviour, their relationship with health and highlight multiple ways to change these behaviours. Students will gain advanced knowledge and skills in measuring physical activity and sedentary behaviour, determining contextual factors influencing these behaviours, and in the design of behavioural interventions. Concepts related to scale-up will also be discussed. The course has an emphasis on modern digital technologies, including wearables and smartphones. We will explore ways to utilize these technologies in the context of the stated objectives."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar in Public Health", "description": "This course aims to equip public health research students with practical research skills, expose them to the breadth of public health research topics and provide students with opportunities to develop their presentation and communication skills."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880", "title": "Special Topics in Public Health", "description": "This course will provide an opportunity for PhD students to learn about current and emerging topics and the latest research trends in one of following areas of public health: (a) Epidemiology and Disease Control, (b) Biostatistics, (c) Environmental / Occupational Health, (d) Health Policy and Systems, (e) Health Services Research, (f) Health Promotion and (g) Global Health. Specific topics will be selected and offered according to learning needs and relevance, and will be taught by faculty members or visiting experts."}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880A", "title": "Special Topics in Epidemiology and Disease Control", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880B", "title": "Special Topics in Biostatistics", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880C", "title": "Special Topics in Environmental / Occupational Health", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880D", "title": "Special Topics in Health Policy and Systems", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880E", "title": "Special Topics in Health Services Research", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880F", "title": "Special Topics in Health Promotion", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SPH6880G", "title": "Special Topics in Global Health", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SSA1201", "title": "Singapore Society", "description": "In this course, we seek to reflect on some taken-for-granted understandings of \u201cSingapore society\u201d and to dialogue with the readings, lectures and tutorial materials. We hope you will be able to appreciate the diverse social, political, historical processes and legacies, problems and contradictions that have constructed Singapore society. Ultimately, we aim to equip you with varied viewpoints that will enable you to think critically about Singapore society, its past, its present and its future."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2202", "title": "Changing Landscapes of Singapore", "description": "This course attempts to understand the rationale of changes in Singapore's urban landscape. It places these changes within a framework that considers Singapore's efforts to globalise and examines how policies are formulated with the idea of sustaining an economy that has integral links sub-regionally with Southeast Asia while developing new spatial linkages that will strengthen its position in the global network. Emphasis is also given to recent discussions about how diversity and difference in the perception and use of space pose a challenge to the utilitarian and functional definition adopted by the state."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2203", "title": "Singapore\u2019s Business History", "description": "This module traces the business history of Singapore from its origins as an East India Company outpost, as an entrepot for regional and international trade routes to its current status as a global city and center for international finance and business. This module offers an introduction to business history and explores different case studies in the local context. These care studies range from 'rags to riches' stories of early migrant communities, popular local brands, and present day entrepreneurs. Major topics include: trading communities, commodities, networks and migration, entrepreneurship, business culture, heritage, globalization, state, politics and business."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2204", "title": "Nation-Building in Singapore", "description": "This module is about Singapore's emergence from British colonial rule and merger with Malaysia to independence and nation-building. It covers political events, the economy, education, national service, ethnic relations, and culture and national identity. Students are encouraged to think through issues central to these topics. The module is tailored for students in all Faculties at all levels."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2209", "title": "Government and Politics of Singapore", "description": "This course examines a number of areas in Singapore's domestic politics with the following objectives identify the key determinants of Singapore's politics; understand the key structural-functional aspects of Singapore's domestic politics; examine the extent to which nation building has taken place in Singapore; and analyse the key challenges facing Singapore and its future as far as domestic politics is concerned. The course examines both the structural-functional aspects of domestic politics as well as issues related to nation building, state-society relations and the likely nature of future developments and challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2211", "title": "The Evolution of a Global City-State", "description": "Histories of Singapore have conventionally been narrated along internal lines, framed by administrative, political and national trajectories. Yet, the evolution of Singapore, from regional emporium to imperial port and strategic naval base, has all along been defined by much larger regional and transoceanic forces. Even after political independence in 1965, Singapore continues to project itself as a 'global city-state'. This module seeks to examine the historical evolution of Singapore against the contexts of global changes and developments from the 14th to the 21st century. This module is open to all students interested in Singapore studies."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2214", "title": "Singapore and India: Emerging Relations", "description": "The module aims to examine the evolving economic linkages between Singapore and India in a post-Cold War setting and attempts to explain the factors that have led to their enhanced economic collaboration based on areas of complementarity. The module will use concepts like economic regionalism, Singapore's regionalization policy and India's \"Look East\" policies to explain the confluence of national interests that has enhanced bilateral economic ties between both countries. The target audiences are students from various Faculties who would like to have a better understanding of Singapore's evolving foreign policy in South Asia and the socio-cultural impact of the same."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2215", "title": "The Biophysical Environment of Singapore", "description": "The course will focus on the functions of the biophysical environment of the city state of Singapore. The topics include geology, soils, river systems, water supply, natural reserves, green areas, land reclamation and coastal environments. The environmental problems that arise from the development of a large tropical city within a limited area, and the possible solutions for such problems will be examined. The course does not require an extensive science or mathematics background."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2219", "title": "South Asia in Singapore", "description": "The South Asian presence in Singapore is an important part of Singapore's multicultural society in terms of the 'Indian' community and its economic and commercial influence; its religious and artistic impact; and its role in the everyday life of the nation (eg. cuisine, sport and entertainment). Students will be provided the opportunity to understand the nature of South Asian migration to Singapore, the significance of the South Asian community and its contributions to Singapore's development. Students will be provided with the necessary framework to study and analyse the historical and socio-economic development of the community and South Asian identity and concerns. The module will develop critical and analytical skills guiding students in the process of social scientific enquiry. The target students are undergraduates from all Faculties."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2220", "title": "Global Economic Dimensions of Singapore", "description": "This course will introduce students to the dynamics of the world economy and the impact on Singapore in the last two centuries. It will demonstrate how Singapore grew through continual dependence on the rest of the world in different ways by focusing on major labour, capital and technological factors, in which threats are also seen as\nopportunities."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2221", "title": "Popular Culture in Singapore", "description": "Popular Culture in Singapore is designed for both History and non-History students to look at the development of popular culture in Singapore from the colonial period to the present day. By learning about street theatre, local films, and theme parks among others, students will explore thematic issues like diasporic, immigrant and cosmopolitan communities; colonial impact; stratification of society by class, race and religion; surveillance; gender and the body; family and social spaces (theme parks, social clubs, sports fields). Students are expected to gain a sensitivity to historical contexts, and to better understand Singapores rich cultural heritage what has been lost, what has been recovered, the politics of heritage as well as the political, social and economic realities in Singapores historical trajectory."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA2222", "title": "Public Administration in Singapore", "description": "This course deals with major themed and issues in public administration with specific reference to Singapore. It covers relevant domains of the city-state government and explores issues such as the relationship between politics and administration, meritocracy and performance, combating corruption, grassroots administration, and e-governance. It also discusses administrative trends and challenges in contemporary Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "SSA3205", "title": "Singapore's Foreign Policy", "description": "This course analyses Singapore's outlook towards the world with particular reference to countries in the West and Asia. It examines the following key issues affecting Singapore's foreign policy: problems of a small state, factors influencing the worldview, the key foreign policy principles and precepts, the operationalisation of relations towards different countries; and the key differences in outlook towards the world in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. The course is mounted for students throughout NUS with interest in Singapore and particularly its foreign policy."}, {"moduleCode": "SSB1204", "title": "Singapore Employment Law", "description": "The course introduces students to the development of industrial relations and labour laws in Singapore. Students can thus understand why labour relations are the way they are in Singapore. In addition, the course is not purely historical. A substantial part of the course is also aimed at looking at the current legal problems faced by employees and employers in Singapore. This course will be of general relevance to all as students are in all likelihood going to be employees or employers some day."}, {"moduleCode": "SSD2210", "title": "Managing Singapore's Built Environment", "description": "This module introduces students to the rationale for, and process of, the emergence and growth of Singapore?s built environment from a third world country to a world class city. It enables students to have an understanding and appreciation of the economic and social aspects and implications of how properties and infrastructure are developed and managed, given the constraints that Singapore faces. It also encourages them to develop alternative views on how the built environment can help Singapore continue to prosper and remain relevant in the region. This module is open to all undergraduates who are interested in Singapore's physical development."}, {"moduleCode": "SSD2213", "title": "Singapore Urban History & Architecture", "description": "This module introduces the urban history and architecture of Singapore from an inter-disciplinary perspective. It will cover the period from the ancient market and settlement of Tanma-hsi or Singapura, to the formation and development of a colonial town, and to the recent post-independence period, until the contemporary debates in Architecture and Urbanism in Singapore. The module, which is targeted at general audiences of undergraduate students, aims to stimulate intellectual discourse and critical thinking by using inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the city and architecture."}, {"moduleCode": "ST1131", "title": "Introduction to Statistics and Statistical Computing", "description": "This course introduces students to basic concepts and methods of statistics that will enable them to perform appropriate data analyses to uncover meaningful insights. The statistical software R is taught alongside the material to introduce statistical computing. Students will learn to load raw data, make numerical and graphical summaries of data, and conduct various estimation and testing procedures. Topics include programming in R, descriptive statistics, concepts of probability, random variables and probability distributions, sampling distribution, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression, and applications to real-world problems."}, {"moduleCode": "ST1232", "title": "Statistics for Life Sciences", "description": "This course introduces life science students to the basic principles and methods of biostatistics, and their applications and interpretation. A computer package is used to enhance learning and to enable students to analyze real life data sets. Topics include probability, probability distributions, sampling distributions, statistical inference for one and two sample problems, nonparametric tests, categorical data analysis, correlation and regression analysis, multi-sample inference. This course is essential to students of the Life Sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2131", "title": "Probability", "description": "This course gives an elementary introduction to probability theory for students with knowledge of elementary calculus. It will cover not only the mathematics of probability theory but will work through diverse examples to illustrate the wide scope of applicability of probability, such as in engineering and computing, social and management sciences. Topics covered are: counting methods, sample space and events, axioms of probability, conditional probability, independence, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions, joint and marginal distributions, conditional distribution, independence of random variables, expectation, conditional expectation, moment generating function, central limit theorem, and weak law of large numbers."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2132", "title": "Mathematical Statistics", "description": "This course introduces students to the theoretical underpinnings of statistical methodology and concentrates on inferential procedures within the framework of parametric models. Topic include: random sample and statistics, method of moments, maximum likelihood estimate, Fisher information, sufficiency and completeness, consistency and unbiasedness, sampling distributions, x2-, t- and Fdistributions, confidence intervals, exact and asymptotic pivotal method, concepts of hypothesis testing, likelihood ratio test, Neyman-Pearson lemma. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistic and are able to meet the prerequisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2137", "title": "Statistical Computing and Programming", "description": "This course introduces students to the statistical computing and programming, with the main focus on R, Python, and SAS. Students will learn basic computing and programming concepts including scripting, variables, expressions, assignments, control structures, and data structures. On the statistical side, they will learn to load raw data, make numerical and graphical summaries of data, and conduct various estimation and testing procedures. Topics include descriptive statistics, statistical estimation, robust estimation, categorical data analysis, testing hypotheses, ANOVA, regression analysis, performing resampling methods and simulations. Some basic knowledge of R is assumed."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2288", "title": "Basic UROPS in Statistics and Applied Probability I", "description": "ST2288 is part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science (UROPS). The aim of the course to provide opportunities for students to apply their learned theoretical knowledge and skills in statistics to scientific and applied research topics. In this course, each student will independently work on a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. If needed, students taking ST2288 can subsequently take ST2289 such that they can work on a two-semester long project under the supervision of the same faculty member."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2288R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Statistics and Applied Probability I (REx)", "description": "This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2289", "title": "Basic UROPS in Statistics and Applied Probability II", "description": "ST2289 is a subsequent course of ST2288; it is part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science (UROPS). Students taking ST2288 can choose to take this course to extend their project period from one semester to two semesters under the supervision of the same faculty member. The aim of these courses are to provide opportunities for students to apply their learned theoretical knowledge and skills in statistics to scientific and applied research topics. In these courses, each student will independently work on a research project under the supervision of a faculty member."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2289R", "title": "Basic UROPS in Statistics and Applied Probability II (REx)", "description": "This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 1ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2334", "title": "Probability and Statistics", "description": "This course introduces students to basic probability theory and statistical inference. Topics include basic concepts of probability, conditional probability, independence, random variables, joint and marginal distributions, mean and variance, some common probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing based on a normal population."}, {"moduleCode": "ST2335", "title": "Statistical Methods", "description": "Descriptive statistics, conditional expectation, correlation coefficient, bivariate normal distribution, simple linear regression, analysis of variance, nonparametric methods. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3131", "title": "Regression Analysis", "description": "This course focuses on data analysis using multiple regression models. Topics include simple linear regression, multiple regression, model building and regression diagnostics. One and two factor analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, linear model as special case of generalized linear model. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3232", "title": "Design & Analysis of Experiments", "description": "This course covers common designs of experiments and their analysis. Topics include basic experimental designs, analysis of one-way and two way layout data, multiple comparisons, factorial designs, 2k-factorial designs, blocking and confounding, fractional factorial design and nested designs. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3234", "title": "Actuarial Statistics", "description": "This course focuses on life contingencies and theory of risk. Topics include survival models and life tables, life annuities, assurances and premiums, reserves, joint life and last survivor statuses, multiple decrement tables, expenses, individual and collective risk theory. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3235", "title": "Statistical Quality Control", "description": "This course focuses on the use of modern statistical methods for quality control and improvement. The objective is to give students a sound understanding of the principles and the basis for applying them in a variety of situations. Topics include: properties, designs and application of control charts, Shewhart charts, straight moving average chart, cumulative sum chart, exponentially weighted moving average chart, basic concepts of acceptance sampling, single, multiple and sequential sampling by attributes, variable sampling. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the prerequisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3236", "title": "Stochastic Processes I", "description": "This course introduces the concept of modelling dependence and focuses on discrete-time Markov chains. Topics include discrete-time Markov chains, examples of discrete-time Markov chains, classification of states, irreducibility, periodicity, first passage times, recurrence and transience, convergence theorems and stationary distributions. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3239", "title": "Survey Methodology", "description": "This course gives an introduction to the design of sample surveys and estimation procedures, with emphasis on practical applications in survey sampling. Topics include planning of surveys, questionnaire construction, methods of data collection, fieldwork procedures, sources of errors, basic ideas of sampling, simple random sampling, stratified, systematic, replicated, cluster and quota sampling, sample size determination and cost. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3243", "title": "Statistical Methods in Epidemiology", "description": "This course will provide an introduction to the key concepts and principles of epidemiology. It emphasizes a quantitative approach to clinical and public health problems through the statistical analysis of epidemiologic data. The students will be equipped with the skills needed to understand critically the epidemiologic literature. Principles and methods are illustrated with examples. Topics include incidence prevalence and risk, mortality and morbidity rates, types of study designs: prospective, retrospective and cross-sectional study, association and causation, confounding and standardization, precision and validity of epidemiologic studies, matching, screening, contingency tables, stratified analysis, logistic regression."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3244", "title": "Demographic Methods", "description": "This course will provide an introduction to the fundamental principles and methods of demography. The role of demographic data in describing the health status of a population, spotting trend and making projection will be highlighted. Topics include sources and interpretation of demographic data, rates, proportions and ratios, standardization, complete and abridged life tables, estimation and projection of fertility, mortality and migration, Interrelations among demographic variables, population dynamics, demographic models. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3245", "title": "Statistics in Molecular Biology", "description": "The course focuses on how statistics has been used successfully in solving important problems in molecular biology. Major topics covered are: Genetics, basic molecular biology, discrete probability, stochastic processes, design of experiments, parameter estimation, the bootstrap, testing hypotheses, Markov Chain Monte Carlo. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3246", "title": "Statistical Models for Actuarial Science", "description": "The course aims to introduce students how statistical methods are used to construct actuarial loss models in order to manage the financial risks in this uncertain world. Major topics includes a model-based approach to Actuarial Science, loss distributions, frequency distributions, aggregate loss models, parametric models, effects of policy modifications, statistical inference for loss models, credibility theory."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3247", "title": "Simulation", "description": "The advent of fast and inexpensive computational power has facilitated the description of real phenomenon using realistic stochastic models which can be analysed using simulation studies. This course teaches students how to analyse a model by use of a simulation study and the topics include: pseudorandom number generation, generating discrete and continuous random variables, simulating discrete events, statistical analysis of simulated data, variance reduction, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. It also covers topics in stochastic optimisation such as simulated annealing. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the prerequisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3248", "title": "Statistical Learning I", "description": "Statistical learning is a large collection of computer-based modelling and prediction tools with applications in diverse fields including business, medicine, astrophysics, and public policy. 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, regularisation and model selection, principal components and clustering methods."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3288", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Statistics & Applied Probability I", "description": "ST3288 is part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science (UROPS); Statistics students may use this course to fulfill their graduation requirement. The aim of the course to provide opportunities for students to apply their learned theoretical knowledge and skills in statistics to scientific and applied research topics. In this course, each student will independently work on a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. If needed, students taking ST3288 can subsequently take ST3289 such that they can work on a two-semester long project under the supervision of the same faculty member."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3288R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Statistics & Applied Probability I (REx)", "description": "Please see section 4.4.3. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3289", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Statistics & Applied Probability II", "description": "ST3289 is a subsequent course of ST3288; it is part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science (UROPS). Students taking ST3288 can choose to take this course to extend their project period from one semester to two semesters under the supervision of the same faculty member. The aim of these courses are to provide opportunities for students to apply their learned theoretical knowledge and skills in statistics to scientific and applied research topics. In these courses, each student will independently work on a research project under the supervision of a faculty member."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3289R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Statistics & Applied Probability II (REx)", "description": "This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 2ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3311", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students from Cohorts AY2020/2021 and before, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3312", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S1", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ST3313", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3S2", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4199", "title": "Honours Project in Statistics", "description": "The objectives of the course are to develop the basic skills for independent scientific research, and to promote an appreciation of the application of problem solving strategies in science. On completion of the course, students will be able to demonstrate an appreciation of the current state of knowledge in a particular field of research, to master of the basic techniques required for the study of a research question, and to communicate scientific information clearly and concisely in written and spoken English."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4231", "title": "Computer Intensive Statistical Methods", "description": "The availability of high-speed computation has led to the development of \u201cmodern\u201d statistical methods which are implemented in the form of well-understood computer algorithms. This course introduces students to several computer intensive statistical methods and the topics include: empirical distribution and plug-in principle, general algorithm of bootstrap method, bootstrap estimates of standard deviation and bias, jack-knife method, bootstrap confidence intervals, the empirical likelihood for the mean and parameters defined by simple estimating function, Wilks theorem, and EL confidence intervals, missing data, EM algorithm, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the prerequisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4232", "title": "Nonparametric Statistics", "description": "This course focuses on the theory and methods of making statistical inference based on nonparametric techniques. Students will see the analyses of real data from various areas of applications. Topics include properties of order statistics, statistics based on ranks, distribution-free statistics, inference concerning location and scale parameters for one and two samples, Hajek's projection. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4233", "title": "Linear Models", "description": "Linear statistical models are used to study the way a response variable depends on an unknown, linear combination of explanatory and/or classification variables. This course focuses on the theory of linear models and the topics include: linear regression model, general linear model, prediction problems, sensitivity analysis, analysis of incomplete data, robust regression, multiple comparisons, introduction to generalised linear models. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the prerequisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4234", "title": "Bayesian Statistics", "description": "Bayesian principles: Bayes' theorem, estimation, hypothesis testing, prior distributions, likelihood, predictive distributions. Bayesian computation: numerical approximation, posterior simulation and integration, Markov chain simulation, models and applications: hierarchical linear models, generalized linear models, multivariate models, mixture models, models for missing data, case studies. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4237", "title": "Probability Theory I", "description": "Probability space, weak and strong laws of large numbers, convergence of random series, zero-one laws, weak convergence of probability measures, characteristic function, central limit theorem. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4238", "title": "Stochastic Processes II", "description": "This course builds on ST3236 and introduces an array of stochastic models with biomedical and other real world applications. Topics include Poisson process, compound Poisson process, marked Poisson process, point process, epidemic models, continuous time Markov chain, birth and death processes, martingale. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4240", "title": "Data Mining", "description": "The course covers statistical techniques and tools such as kernel methods for estimating the density and regression functions, machine learning, hidden Markov Chain, EM algorithm, classification, cluster analysis and support vector machines for analyzing large data sets and for searching for unexpected relationships in the data. It also covers model selection for searching through a large collection of potential local models that describe some aspect of the data in an easily understandable way. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4241", "title": "Design & Analysis of Clinical Trials", "description": "This course will provide an introduction to the design and analysis of clinical trials. Emphasis is on the statistical aspects. Topics include introduction to clinical trials, phases of clinical trials, objectives and endpoints, the study cohort, controls, randomization and blinding, sample size determination, treatment allocation, monitoring trial progress: compliance, dropouts and interim analyses, monitoring for evidence of adverse or beneficial treatment effects, ethical issues, quality of life assessment, data analysis involving multiple treatment groups and endpoints, stratification and subgroup analysis, intent to treat analysis, analysis of compliance data, surrogate endpoints, multi-centre trials and good practice versus misconduct. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4242", "title": "Analysis of Longitudinal Data", "description": "This course covers modern methods for the analysis of repeated measures, clustered data, correlated outcomes and longitudinal data, with a strong emphasis on applications in the biological and health sciences. Both continuous and discrete response variables will be considered. The use of generalized estimating equations (GEE) will be emphasized. Topics include introduction to longitudinal studies, exploring longitudinal data, analysis of variance for repeated measures, general linear models for longitudinal data, growth curves, models for covariance structure, estimation of individual trajectories, generalized linear models for longitudinal discrete data, marginal models, generalized estimating equations, random effects models and transition models. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4243", "title": "Statistical Methods for DNA Microarray Analysis", "description": "This is a level 4000 advance course on the statistical design and analysis of genetic experiments with concentration in DNA microarray experiments. The course covers a variety of statistical methods including basic array designs, statistical models and hypothesis testing, cluster analysis and other multivariate analysis methods that play a role in the analysis of DNA microarray experiments. The students will be required to have the knowledge of statistics and of statistical genetics that is provided by the Pre-requisite(s) or equivalent. The students will have access to real data from microarray experiments and will practice with specialized software. Since this is a new expanding area and the experiments are constantly evolving, emphasis will be palced on gaining the basic knowledge abd software expertise for designing new experiments and analyzing the results. The students will gain the knowledge and the practice to be able to analyze data from genetic experiments involving DNA microarrays and similar experiments. Topics inlcude introduction to experimental genetics and DNA microarray techniques, basic design of experiments for microarrays, statistical models, modelling and testing for gene upregulation, principal components analysis and cluster analysis and gene clustering. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4245", "title": "Statistical Methods for Finance", "description": "The course aims to equip students with a repertoire of statistical analysis and modelling methods that are commonly used in the finance industry. Major topics include statistical properties of returns, regression analysis with applications to single and multi-factor pricing models, multivariate analysis with applications in Markowitz's portfolio management, modelling and estimation of volatilities, calculation of value-at-risk, nonparametric methods with applications to option pricing and interest rate markets. Students are assumed to have had no background in finance or economics and will be acquainted with the foundations of finance such as portfolio optimizing and the Capital Asset Pricing Model. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4248", "title": "Statistical Learning II", "description": "Statistical Learning is a large collection of computer-based modelling and prediction tools with applications in diverse fields including business, medicine, astrophysics, and public policy. These two courses cover many popular approaches to a variety of statistical problems. There is heavy emphasis on the implementation of these methods on real-world datasets in the popular statistical software package R. Part II builds on the knowledge in Part I, introducing more tools as well as generalising and extending some tools covered in Part I using entirely different approaches. Topics include non-parametric smoothing methods, tree-based methods, support vector machines, neural networks and ensemble learning."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4250", "title": "Multivariate Statistical Analysis", "description": "This course focuses on the classical theory and methods of multivariate statistical analysis. Topics include distribution theory: multivariate normal distribution, Hotelling's T2 and Wishart distributions, inference on the mean and covariance, principal components and canonical correlation, factor analysis, discrimination and classification. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics, are able to meet the pre-requisites and are matriculated in or after 2002."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4251", "title": "Categorical Data Analysis I", "description": "This course introduces methods for analysing response data that are categorical, rather than continuous. Topics include: categorical response data and contingency tables, loglinear and logit models, Poisson regression, framework of generalised linear models, model diagnostics, ordinal data. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the prerequisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4252", "title": "Applied Survival Analysis", "description": "This course focuses on the analysis of survival data or \u201cfailure times\u201d, which measure the length of time until the occurrence of an event, with the objective of modelling the underlying distribution of the failure time variable and to assess the dependence of the failure time variable on the independent variables. Topics include: examples of survival data, concepts and techniques used in the analysis of time to event data, including censoring, hazard rates, estimation of survival curves, parametric and nonparametric models, regression techniques, regression diagnostics. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the prerequisite."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4253", "title": "Applied Time Series Analysis", "description": "This course introduces the modelling and analysis of time series data. A computer package will be used to analyse real data sets. Topics include stationary time series, ARIMA models, estimation and forecasting with ARIMA models This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4261", "title": "Special Topics", "description": "This course consists of selected topics, which may vary from year to year depending on the interests and availability of staff."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4262", "title": "Special Topics II", "description": "This course consists of selected topics, which may vary from year to year depending on the interests and availability of staff."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4288", "title": "Honours Project in Statistics", "description": "This course allows students to develop skills for independent research in statistics, probability and related fields, and the application of novel data-driven strategies for solving scientific and business problems. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate an appreciation of the current state of knowledge in a particular field of research, master the techniques required for the study of a research question, and communicate research findings clearly and concisely in written and spoken English."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4299", "title": "Applied Project in Statistics", "description": "Students must be reading the Bachelor of Science degree. Student must have met Honours eligibility requirements for specific major and passed SP1001 Career Planning & Preparation or NCC1001 Headstart Course (A Career Development Programme) or NCC1000 Stepup Course (A Career Development Programme) or CFG1001 Headstart Course or CFG1000 StepUp Course."}, {"moduleCode": "ST4310", "title": "FOS Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme 3ST", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduate students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 10 weeks period, during Special Term within their student candidature"}, {"moduleCode": "ST5188", "title": "Statistical Research Project", "description": "Students embark on applied research projects that emphasize practical applications and real-world solutions. Topics originate from faculty recommendations, challenges presented by industry and research entities, or student self-proposals. Throughout this course, students will work in teams and navigate all aspects of a data science project, from proposal formulation to delivery. This comprehensive approach enhances competencies in literature review, critical assessment of research papers, project proposal formulation, project planning, collaboration and teamwork, adept problem-solving, comprehensive report creation, and articulate presentations. As a core component of the MSc (Statistics) program, this course is typically chosen during the final semester."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5198", "title": "Graduate Seminar Course", "description": "This course is a compulsory course for research students matriculated from August 04 onwards. The objectives are to encourage research students to participate in seminars and help to improve their presentation skills. It is made up of 2 components, seminar attendance and presentation"}, {"moduleCode": "ST5199", "title": "Coursework Track Ii Project", "description": "The objectives of the course are to develop the basic skills for independent scientific research, and to promote an appreciation of the application of problem solving strategies in science. On completion of the course, students will be able to demonstrate an appreciation of the current state of knowledge in a particular field of research, to master of the basic techniques required for the study of a research question, and to communicate scientific information clearly and concisely in written and spoken English."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5201", "title": "Statistical Foundations of Data Science", "description": "The course introduces basic theories and methods in Statistics that are relevant for understanding data science. Exploratory data analysis including heat map and concentration map. Random variables. Joint distributions. Expected values. Limit theorems. Estimation of parameters including maximum likelihood estimation, Bayesian approach to parameter estimation. Testing hypotheses and confidence intervals, bootstrap method of finding confidence interval, generalized likelihood ratio statistics. Summarizing data: measures of location and dispersion, estimating variability using Bootstrap method, empirical cumulative distribution function, survival function, kernel probability density estimate. Basic ideas of predictive analytics using multiple linear and logistic regressions."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5201X", "title": "Statistical Foundations of Data Science", "description": "The course introduces theories and methods in Statistics that are relevant for understanding data science. Estimation of parameters including maximum likelihood estimation, Bayesian approach, bootstrap and delta method. Sufficient statistics, minimal sufficient statistics, ancillary statistics. Testing hypotheses and confidence intervals, bootstrap method of finding confidence interval. Summarizing data using empirical cumulative distribution function, survival function, kernel probability density estimate. Predictive analytics using multiple linear and logistic regressions. Markov chain Monte Carlo methods."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5202", "title": "Applied Regression Analysis", "description": "Multiple regression, model diagnostics, remedial measures, variable selection techniques, non-leastsquares estimation, nonlinear models, one and two factor analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, linear model as special case of generalized linear model. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5202X", "title": "Applied Regression Analysis", "description": "Multiple regression, asymptotic theory, robust variance estimation, ridge regression, generalized linear regression model, maximum least squares estimate, numeric algorithms, mixed-effect models, nonlinear regression, experimental designs for regression. This course targets students who have taken introductory linear regression in their undergraduate studies."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5203", "title": "Design of Experiments for Product Design and Process Improvements", "description": "The course introduces designed experiment as a tool for process improvements and designing products that are robust to environmental variability. Inferences about the effect of factors on a product or process can be drawn using designed experiment. Topics include analysis of variance of fixed-effect models, randomized block design, factorial designs, fractional factorial designs, blocking and confounding, response surface methodology, random effects models, nested and split-plot designs. Predictive analytics using designed experiments. This course is targeted at students who are interested in designing robust products and process improvements, and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5206", "title": "Generalized Linear Models", "description": "Model fitting and selection, models for continuous and discrete data, models for polytomous data, log-linear models, conditional and quasi-likelihoods, diagnostics. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5207", "title": "Nonparametric Regression", "description": "Modular Credits: Various smoothing methods, including kernel, spline, nearest neighbour, orthogonal series and penalized likelihood. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5208", "title": "Analytics for Quality Control and Productivity Improvements", "description": "This course covers modern procedures for quality monitoring and productivity improvements. Quality control charting procedures: Shewhart, cumulative sum, straight moving average and exponentially weighted moving average charts. Run length distributions. Optimal charting procedures. Risk-adjusted charting procedures. Multivariate charting procedures. Process capability analysis. Design of experiments and process optimization. Predictive analytics of processes. Acceptance sampling procedures. This course is targeted at students who are interested in quality control and productivity improvements, and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5209", "title": "Analysis of Time Series Data", "description": "Stationary processes, ARIMA processes, forecasting, parameter estimation, spectral analysis, non-stationary and seasonal models. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5209X", "title": "Analysis Of Time Series Data", "description": "Stationary processes, ARIMA processes, forecasting, parameter estimation, spectral analysis, non-stationary and seasonal models. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5210", "title": "Multivariate Data Analysis", "description": "This course covers most of the important topics for multivariate data analysis and their extension to high dimensional data. These include multivariate data and its graphical display; measures of central tendency, covariance matrix; multivariate normal distribution; mean vector and correlation; Hotelling's T-square in various multivariate settings; principal component analysis; factor analysis; canonical correlation analysis; cluster analysis; discriminant analysis and MANOVA. This course is targeted at students who are interested in the applications of multivariate data analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5211", "title": "Sampling from Finite Populations", "description": "Survey data, basic sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, double sampling, systematic sampling, non-response and missing values, multiple imputations, bootstrap of sampling error. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5211X", "title": "Sampling from Finite Populations", "description": "Survey data, basic sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, double sampling, systematic sampling, nonresponse and missing values, multiple imputations, bootstrap of sampling error. This course is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5212", "title": "Survival Analysis", "description": "Survival analysis uses time-to-event data to make inferences about survival, default and attrition. It can be used to evaluate the survival time of patients who have undergone treatment, the default risk of individuals or firms and the likelihood of failure in engineering systems or of employee turnover. This approach is also referred to as reliability theory in engineering and duration analysis in economics. Students will learn key concepts such as censoring and hazard, probability models for discrete and continuous survival times, and inferential procedures including parametric and semiparametric models. Further topics include competing risks, current status, and the frailty model."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5213", "title": "Advanced Categorical Data Analysis", "description": "Analysis of categorical response data such as binary, binomial, multinomial and ordinal responses, and counts in contingency tables. Build logit, loglinear, multinomial logit and proportional odds models for fitting categorical response data and perform model comparison using likelihood-ratio tests. Analyze contingency tables using loglinear models and represent the conditional independence relationship using association graphs. This course is targeted at students who are interested in statistics and data science and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5214", "title": "Advanced Probability Theory", "description": "Probability measures and their distribution functions. Random variable properties of mathematical expectation, independence, conditional probability and expectation. Convergence concepts various modes of convergence of sequence of random variables; almost sure convergence, Borel-Cantelli Lemma, uniform integrability, convergence of moments. Weak and strong law of large numbers. Convergence in distribution, characteristic function general properties, convolution, uniqueness and inversion, Lindeberg conditions and central limit theorem. This module is targeted at students who are interested in Statistics and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5215", "title": "Advanced Statistical Theory", "description": "This course is targeted at PhD students who are interested in statistical theory and are able to meet the pre-requisites. Topics include: 1. Introduction to measure-theoretic probability: Review of basic probability theory and measure theory; Convergence modes and their relations, Borel-Cantelli lemmas, Slutsky\u2019s theorem, continuous mapping theorem, delta method, the law of large numbers, central limit theorem 2. Elements of statistics: data, model, parameter, statistic, exponential families and their properties; Data reduction: sufficiency, minimal sufficiency, completeness, ancillary statistic; Factorization theorem, theorems for proving minimal sufficiency, Basu's theorem 3. Evaluation: Decision theory (action, rule, loss, risk), optimality, admissibility, minimaxity, Bayes rule; Bias, variance, mean squared error of estimators, Rao-Blackwell theorem 4. Estimators: Method of moments, maximum likelihood, unbiased estimators, uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimators (UMVUE), Lehmann-Scheff'e theorem, Cramer-Rao lower bound, Fisher information, invariant estimators 5. Asymptotics: 4 types of consistency, asymptotic bias, asymptotic variance, asymptotic mean squared error, asymptotic relative efficiency, asymptotic properties of method-of-moments estimators, asymptotic distribution of sample quantiles, consistency and asymptotics efficiency of MLEs and RLEs"}, {"moduleCode": "ST5218", "title": "Advanced Statistical Methods in Finance", "description": "The objective of the course is to familiarize the students with selected advanced methods in quantitative finance. The major topics to be covered are: - Realized volatility and high frequency data - Risk management under heavy-tailed distributional assumptions - Independent component analysis and its applications - Local parametric estimation of violatility"}, {"moduleCode": "ST5221", "title": "Probability and Stochastic Processes", "description": "A stochastic process is a family of random variables indexed by time or space, and it describes the dependence between random events using probabilistic laws. Stochastic processes find diverse applications in areas such as data science, machine learning, physical sciences, engineering, finance and economics, medicine and psychology. The aim of this course is to provide students with an introduction to the theory and to impart probabilistic intuition and insight to tackle problems with intrinsic randomness. The students will learn about discrete time Markov chains and the fundamental limit theorems, continuous time Markov chains, Brownian motion, and renewal processes."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5222", "title": "Advanced Topics in Applied Statistics", "description": "Topics requiring a high level of statistical computing and some optimization can be covered here, for example, discriminant analysis, machine learning, highdimensionality and false discovery rates, stochastic search, MCMC, Monte Carlo integration, kernel smoothing and EM optimization methods."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5223", "title": "Statistical Models:Theory/Applications", "description": "Univariate and multivariate regression, graphical displays, normal equations, Gramm-Schmidt orthogonalization and singular value decomposition, model selection and prediction, collinearity and variable selection, diagnostics: residuals, influence, symptoms and remedies, ANOVA, fixed and random effects, nonlinear models including logistic regression, loglinear models and generalized linear\nmodels, computations with datasets using statistical computer package."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5224", "title": "Advanced Statistical Theory II", "description": "Confidence intervals, P-values, classical (Neyman- Pearson) tests, UMP tests, Likelihood ratio test, Power, Wald\u2019s test, Rao\u2019s Score test, Application of likelihood ratio tests to regression. Additional topics that can be covered in this module includes resampling methods, Bayes procedures, robustness, times series, empirical and point processes, optimal experimental design, parametric, semiparametric and non-parametric modelling, survival analysis and sequential analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5225", "title": "Statistical Analysis of Networks", "description": "Network data has become increasingly important in both academia and industry. Many interesting questions can be understood and analysed through networks. Applications are found in areas such as sociology (Facebook and Twitter networks), computer science (World Wide Web), and biology (gene and protein interaction networks). With the availability of large network data sets, be it in corporate, governmental or scientific contexts, comes the necessity to work with such data in an appropriate manner. This course gives a practical introduction to the theory of network analysis; topics include statistical network models, descriptive and inferential network analysis, network visualisation."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5226", "title": "Spatial Statistics", "description": "At present, almost all data that is collected is stamped with a location. This spatial information can help us in our understanding of the patterns in the data. The course is designed to introduce students to methods for handling and analysing such data. Topics covered include basic concepts of spatial data, prediction (kriging) for stationary data, and modeling the three main types of spatial data \u2013 geostatisical, areal and point pattern. R will be extensively used to demonstrate and implement the techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5227", "title": "Applied Statistical Learning", "description": "Statistical Learning aims to discover useful structure and extract information from large and complicated data sets, and to make predictions. This course will focus on the most recent but well accepted methods, especially those in investigating big and complicated data, including Lasso regression, nonparametric smoothing, neural networks, machine learning, decision trees, and random forests. This course is targeted at students who are interested in statistics and data science and are able to meet the prerequisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5228", "title": "Functional Data Analysis", "description": "Functional data analysis refers to a set of statistical machine learning methods that extract useful information and structure from curves, surfaces or quantities varying over a continuum. This course will focus on statistical and computational fundamentals of functional data analysis, including mean and covariance estimation, functional principal component analysis, regression and classification models for functions, hypothesis testing for functional data. This course is targeted at students who are interested in handling functional data and are able to meet the pre-requisites."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5229", "title": "Deep Learning in Data Analytics", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive understanding of cutting-edge deep learning models and the core statistical concepts behind their successful applications to a wide range of machine learning problems. Models such as multilayer perceptrons, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks will be introduced and illustrated with applications to computer vision, natural language processing and text generation. Regularization and optimization techniques such as dropout, backpropagation, stochastic gradient descent and automatic differentiation will also be discussed, and students will learn to build and train deep learning models efficiently in Python for a variety of tasks."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5241", "title": "Topics I", "description": "This course consists of selected topics which may vary from year to year depending on the interests and availability of staff."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5241A", "title": "Topics IA", "description": "For the NUS Bulletin This course consists of selected topics which may vary from year to year depending on the interests and availability of staff. For Sem 2 16/17 The course is titled \u201cData-driven Decision Science I\u201d and is based on topics from a book with the same title, and subtitle \u201cwith Financial, Healthcare, IT and Other Applications,\u201d currently being written by Anna L Choi (Harvard and NUS), Alex S Deng (Microsoft), TL Lai (Stanford and NUS) and KW Tsang (Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen). The topics chosen will cover both methodology and applications, with healthcare being the focus of applications."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5241B", "title": "Topics 1B", "description": "This is an advanced statistics course. Possible topics include data analytics, time-series, empirical processes and functional data analysis. The exact topic to be covered will depend on the expertise of the lecturer."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5242", "title": "Topics II", "description": "This course consists of selected topics which may vary from year to year depending on the interests and availability of staff."}, {"moduleCode": "ST5243", "title": "Topics III", "description": "This course consists of selected topics which may vary from year to year depending on the interests and availability of staff."}, {"moduleCode": "STR1000", "title": "Career Creation Starter Workshops", "description": "The Starter Workshops are part of the Career Creation suite of training programmes designed to impart year 1 undergraduates with the core skills needed to prepare for their careers. The workshops take students through early and in-depth career planning and train them in the concrete skills necessary for their eventual internship and job search.\n\nThe Starter Workshops comprise of the following:\n1. Career Planning \u2013 How to Create Your Future\n2. Personal Branding \u2013 How the World Knows You\n3. Networking \u2013 How to Build Your Tribe\n4. Resume Crafting \u2013 How to Impress on Paper\n5. Interviewing \u2013 How to Showcase Yourself"}, {"moduleCode": "STR2000", "title": "Career Creation Starter Clinics", "description": "The Starter Clinics are part of the Career Creation suite of training programmes designed to impart year 2 undergraduates in NUS Business School with the core skills needed to plan and prepare for their careers. The workshops will take students through early and in-depth career planning and train them in the concrete skills necessary for their eventual internship and job search. The Starter Clinics are conducted in year 2 and serve as practicums for their learning from year 1. The clinics are 1. Group Resume Critique 2. Group Mock Interview"}, {"moduleCode": "SW1101E", "title": "Social Work: A Heart-Head-Hand Connection", "description": "This course introduces students to the enriching experience of being in social work education. Learning includes both cognitive and experiential knowledge on the needs of individuals, families and society, and the social work response in meeting these needs. Included are the mission, values and principles of the social work profession and its roles and functions in contributing to human well-being. As an integral and compulsory part of this course, students will visit social service organization. The course is open to all NUS students"}, {"moduleCode": "SW1744", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SW1841", "title": "Department Exchange Module", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SW2101", "title": "Working with Individuals and Families", "description": "This course presents the generalist model of social work intervention with individuals, families, groups and communities. Basic knowledge and skills of the problem-solving process, including engagement, assessment, formulation of objectives, intervention, evaluation of outcome, and termination are examined. Using an ecological-systems perspective, the course will emphasize the integration of social science knowledge and social work practice theory in facilitating the bio-psychosocial development of people. The course is for students who major in Social Work."}, {"moduleCode": "SW2104", "title": "Human Development over the Lifespan", "description": "This course provides an introduction to human development from a lifespan perspective. Major developmental theories and contributions to the field from cross-disciplinary perspectives will be discussed. More specifically, students will look at physical, cognitive, social, psycho-emotional and moral development and gain some understanding of how each developmental domain may be shaped by the forces of nature or nurture. Tutorial assignments provide students with the opportunity to integrate classroom learning with practical concerns."}, {"moduleCode": "SW2105", "title": "Values & Skills for Helping Relationships", "description": "This course concentrates on developing foundational skills for professional helping relationships in direct social work practice. It focuses on values and skills for interpersonal communication, relationship building, problem solving and intervention at the various stages of the helping relationship. Experiential learning involving role playing, case studies and the development of self-awareness are employed."}, {"moduleCode": "SW2106", "title": "Social Group Work Practice", "description": "The course will focus on the generalist and specialized methods of group intervention within the context of specific populations and settings. The phases of group work development, group processes, therapeutic factors and role of the leader in facilitating these will be critically examined. Contemporary group work approaches in organisational, residential and community settings are compared and contrasted. Assessment methods of social group work practice are included."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3101", "title": "Social Work Research Methods", "description": "This course focuses on quantitative research methodology in the context of Social Work and it aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and first-hand experience in conducting a basic social work research. Students will be exposed to the different stages of a research process."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3103A", "title": "Social Work Field Practice (I)", "description": "SW3103A is applicable to Cohort 2019 and before. It consists of 400 hours of field practice in an organisation where students work under the professional supervision of field educators. Students are taught knowledge/skills in direct and/or indirect social work practice, depending on the placement context. They also attend compulsory fieldwork seminars to link classroom theory to professional practice and to discuss social work methods and professional development. Students are assessed on their field performance, seminar participation and presentation and a written assignment that relates theory to practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3103B", "title": "Social Work Field Practice (I)", "description": "SW3103B is applicable to cohort 2020. It consists of 400 hours of field practice in an organisation where students work under the professional supervision of field educators. Students are taught knowledge/skills in direct and/or indirect social work practice, depending on the placement context. They also attend compulsory fieldwork seminars to link classroom theory to professional practice and to discuss social work methods and professional development. Students are assessed on their field performance, seminar participation and presentation and a written assignment that relates theory to practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3103C", "title": "Social Work Field Practice (I)", "description": "SW3103C is applicable to cohort 2021 onwards. Students have to complete 340 hours placement in an organisation where they are supervised by qualified field educators. Field placement offers the opportunity for students to appreciate professional values and ethics, as well as apply knowledge/skills in a direct/ indirect social work practice context. In addition, students will extend their understanding of professional roles and sense of professional identity through discussion with field educators and seminar tutors during placement. Students are required to attend pre-placement Integrative Lab and Fieldwork Seminars so as to link classroom theory and to professional practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3104", "title": "Social Work Field Practice (II)", "description": "SW3104 is applicable to Cohort 2019 and before. Students will be expected to gain knowledge and develop professional skills for specific contexts, such as palliative care, community work and policy/research work. It consists of 400 hours of field practice where students work under the professional supervision of field educators. They also attend compulsory fieldwork seminars to link classroom theory to professional practice and to discuss social work methods and professional development. Students are assessed on their field performance, seminar participation and presentation and a written assignment that relates theory to practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3104A", "title": "Social Work Field Practice (II)", "description": "SW3104A is applicable to Cohort 2020. Students will be expected to gain knowledge and develop professional skills for specific contexts, such as palliative care, community work and policy/research work. It consists of 400 hours of field practice where students work under the professional supervision of field educators. They also attend compulsory fieldwork seminars to link classroom theory to professional practice and to discuss social work methods and professional development. Students are assessed on their field performance, seminar participation and presentation and a written assignment that relates theory to practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3104B", "title": "Social Work Field Practice (II)", "description": "SW3104B is applicable to cohort 2021 onwards. Students have to complete 340 hours placement in an organisation where they are supervised by qualified field educators. Field placement offers the opportunity for students to appreciate professional values and ethics, as well as apply knowledge/skills in a direct/ indirect social work practice context. In addition, students would extend their understanding of professional roles and sense of professional identity through discussion with field educators and seminar tutors during placement. Students are required to attend Reflective Lab and Fieldwork Seminars so as to the link classroom theory to professional practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3105", "title": "Community Work Practice", "description": "This course will provide students with an understanding of the theories and practice of community work as a method of social work. Strategies, techniques and skills in community work practice will be examined. The dynamics and challenges of community work in urban societies, particularly in the Singapore context, will be explored."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3202", "title": "Practicing Theories in Social Work", "description": "This course explores social and psychological thoughts and theories relevant to social work practice. Major concepts, principles, ideas and research are discussed utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3205", "title": "Interpersonal Conflict Resolution", "description": "This course examines interpersonal conflict from a transactional perspective. Theories of conflict, conflict styles, and methods of conflict resolution, within a specific cultural context, are explored. Both general and specific intervention models and methods of conflict resolution between people, in groups, and in families, e.g., marital and other interpersonal situations, are examined. Specific skills for intervention are taught and practiced in seminar groups."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3206", "title": "Gender Issues in Social Work Practice", "description": "This course uses a life course approach to studying gender issues and their implications for social work practice. Three broad phases of the life course are examined: childhood and adolescence, mid-life, and old age. For each phase, the major issues affecting women that have implications for micro-level and macro-level social work practice will be examined. As there are some issues (e.g. role stereotypes) that recur over different phases of life, they will be examined over the life course."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3208", "title": "Negotiation & Conflict Resolution", "description": "This course introduces students to the theory and practice of conflict management and negotiation. It emphasises experiential learning and personal negotiation and conflict resolution skills. Through a series of case studies, simulations and role plays, students will discover and explore issues in negotiation and conflict management. Students will also be able to develop their interpersonal skills in relationship building and resolving disputes through an active exchange of views."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3209", "title": "Counselling Theories & Practice", "description": "This course presents the basic assumptions, strategies, and techniques of selected counselling approaches. Students are trained in counseling methods used by psychosocial, cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, and problem and solution-focussed approaches to the treatment of problems in living. In addition, discussion on the application of counseling in specialized areas such as educational and vocational counseling, rehabilitation counselling, pre-marital and marital counselling, and counselling of specific groups will be included."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3211", "title": "Community-Based Family Services", "description": "This module will use an ecological approach to introduce the principles of community-based social work practice, focusing specifically on the family. Within the framework of family needs at different stages, the module will examine variations in intervention methods and strategies implemented at different levels. The levels will include individual, family, group, programme, organization, and policy. A comparative approach of the different models of family services will also be adopted. The module will cover the principles and processes of networking, needs assessment, programme planning and development, utilising volunteers, and management of resources. An additional purpose of the course is to prepare social work students in community-based social services such as family service centres."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3212", "title": "Occupational Social Work", "description": "This course presents the generalist approach to social work practice in the workplace. It explores the role of social work in attending to both the social welfare needs of the workforce, and the organizational goals of employers. Models of intervention, including Employee Assistance Programmes, training and education, consultation, research, assistance to unions, and corporate social responsibility are examined."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3214", "title": "Counselling Process & Skills", "description": "This course presents the fundamental helping skills that are generic to current methods of personal counselling. The skills of attending, listening, and influencing are explored in the context of helping people to solve their problems. Important ethical and legal issues pertinent to counselling are examined as are issues concerning spirituality and cultural beliefs in a multi-ethnic context. A number of theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy are introduced with a view to helping students develop an inclusive framework in their early exploration into counselling."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3215", "title": "Socio-Cultural Theories in Social Work", "description": "This course covers the purpose, values and contexts of social work practice. The development of the professional self will also be included. In addition, the course will review the characteristics of potential client populations and the socio-cultural contexts for intervention. General social science themes will be discussed. The nature of local social work practice and professional issues relevant to Singapore will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3217", "title": "Mental Health and Illness", "description": "This course explores the nature of mental health and human dysfunction throughout the lifespan. Within an ecological-systems framework, a model of stress-coping-adaptation to modern living is examined. Theories of etiology and treatment of common human disorders in children and adults are also examined."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3219", "title": "Child-centric Social Work", "description": "The course enables students to acquire the knowledge base and intervention skills to work with children and their parents. They will understand the factors that lead to childhood vulnerability, neglect and abuse in the family and community contexts. They will learn about the history of child welfare and rights, and the social intervention approaches to protect and promote childrens well-being. They will also review the role of the state and relevant parties in this regard. The course will include experiential learning in using individual and group work skills in helping children, as well as counselling skills in working with parents."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3220", "title": "Introduction to Social Policy", "description": "This course introduces the various policies social workers should be familiar with in order to work with different population groups, particularly those who are vulnerable. By understanding how and why particular policies develop, students learn to analyze policy and think critically about the use of policy for intervention in the social work profession. Students intending to move on to the Honours year are strongly encouraged to take this course, as it will be helpful for SW4102 Advanced Social Policy and Planning."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3221", "title": "Protection of Vulnerable Clients", "description": "This course will cover legislation, policy, practice and research matters relating to protection of vulnerable clients in Singapore. Students will acquire knowledge on both theories and skills required for the field of child and adult protection. Concepts of prevention, safety, preservation, reunification, risk management will be discussed. Students will learn about the complexities of protection work, evidence-informed approaches to guide their clinical work with families and emerging issues in protection work. The course will conclude with a focus on the critical role and the resilience of social workers working in protection settings."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3222", "title": "Healthcare Issues And Policies", "description": "This course is designed for students who have keen interests in healthcare issues and how policies are shaped to address them in Singapore. This course will prepare and equip students to understand the current healthcare trends and the various factors that affects it. The course strives to provide the breadth and depth, heighten the student's awareness on the macro issues that impact health. Topics include disease management, social determinants of health, ethical and legal issues and macro-level policies will be taught in class."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3223", "title": "Social Gerontology", "description": "This course will focus on the unique social aspects of old age and aging, and on the social policies and programs, which most directly affect older persons and their families. This course is designed to particularly integrate conceptual and empirical knowledge in the areas of demography, epidemiology, human development, sociology of the family, age stratification, social service provision, and social policy."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3224", "title": "Social Work & Technology Of The Future", "description": "This course examines the use of technology and digitisation in social work practice and administration. Students will examine the extent and impact of technology and digitalisation on social services in the areas of i) Social and client development, ii) Social service administration, iii) Social work practice methods. Ethics involved in the use of technology in each area will be examined. In addition, students will respond to a gap or need in the social services and consider how that need may be met through technology. Teaching methods for this course include a combination of classroom activities, fieldwork, individual and group projects."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3225", "title": "Agency Planning and Development", "description": "This course introduces students to the basics of strategic planning for human service agencies and to the specifics of developing programmes. It considers the development of agency mission and goals, how programmes fit into those goals, how these goals and programmes interact with the environment of the agency and how planners work towards their initial acceptance by stakeholders and significant parts of that environment. Included is an analysis of how planners subsequently evaluate and present their outcomes. Bidding for grants and the presentation of information required to gain the support of funding bodies is an essential focus of the course. Processes within the agency to ensure the success of programmes are considered. Local agency examples are used to illustrate the ideas presented."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3226", "title": "Social Work Practice in the Field of Disability", "description": "This course aims to provide a disability specific knowledge for students to support and facilitate participation for people living with disabilities and their caregivers. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical understanding of the needs of people living with disabilities; and consider innovative strategies that will enable them to live with dignity and independence."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3550", "title": "Social Work Internship", "description": "Internships vary in length but all take place within organisations or companies, are vetted and approved by the Department of Social Work, have relevance to the major in Social Work, involve the application of subject knowledge and theory in reflection upon the work, and are assessed. Available credited internships will be advertised at the beginning of each semester. Internships proposed by students will require the approval of the department."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3551R", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "This is a UROP course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "SW3880", "title": "Special Topics in Social Work", "description": "Special topics current in social work practice and research such as sexual violence, infertility, substance abuse , problem gambling, cyber gaming addiction, and trauma may be offered in this course"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4102", "title": "Social Policy and Planning", "description": "This course covers general theories and issues of social policy, planning and implementation relevant to social work. It examines the roles and processes in public policy and the translation of policy to social service delivery in bringing about social welfare. It analyzes the socio-political contexts and implications of policy development at national and agency levels. Students are expected to carry out small-scale planning or analysis exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4102HM", "title": "Social Policy and Planning", "description": "This course covers general theories and issues of social policy, planning and implementation relevant to social work. It examines the roles and processes in public policy and the translation of policy to social service delivery in bringing about social welfare. It analyzes the socio-political contexts and implications of policy development at national and agency levels. Students are expected to carry out small-scale planning or analysis exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4103", "title": "Advanced Research and Evaluation", "description": "This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to perform research and evaluation in human services. The emphasis is on the learning of practical skills in conducting research in social work settings. These skills are in: Scientific reasoning - the logic of ideas; research designs - the structuring of research activities; statistical techniques - quantitative approaches to data; data processing - utilisation of computer technology. Where appropriate, learning is through group or individual projects. This course also deals with advanced techniques of programme evaluation. Various research designs are reviewed, and their relative merits discussed. The use of evaluative techniques in interpersonal practice and professional intervention are also included."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4103HM", "title": "Advanced Research and Evaluation", "description": "This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to perform research and evaluation in human services. The emphasis is on the learning of practical skills in conducting research in social work settings. These skills are in: Scientific reasoning - the logic of ideas; research designs - the structuring of research activities; statistical techniques - quantitative approaches to data; data processing - utilisation of computer technology. Where appropriate, learning is through group or individual projects. This course also deals with advanced techniques of programme evaluation. Various research designs are reviewed, and their relative merits discussed. The use of evaluative techniques in interpersonal practice and professional intervention are also included."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4201", "title": "Theory Building in Social Work Practice", "description": "This course involves the analysis of direct and indirect professional practice in Singapore and includes the study of cross-cultural variations and applications of social work theory. An examination of the process of theory building and the study of different theoretical models for indigenous practice will be made. Students are required to identify and develop a specific knowledge base for local social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4201HM", "title": "Theory Building in Social Work Practice", "description": "This course involves the analysis of direct and indirect professional practice in Singapore and includes the study of cross-cultural variations and applications of social work theory. An examination of the process of theory building and the study of different theoretical models for indigenous practice will be made. Students are required to identify and develop a specific knowledge base for local social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4202", "title": "Special Areas of Social Work Practice", "description": "This course provides for the advanced study of the conceptual bases for social work contribution and the application of skills in special areas of social work practice. In any given semester, a selected area of emphasis will be studied such as public education, domestic violence, rehabilitation of offenders, occupational social work, working with AIDS patients, human sexuality, social aspects of public housing, special education, pastoral care, social gerontology, community participation and organisation. Where appropriate, emphasis is given to policy factors influencing the provision of services and the implications of these for individuals, families and the community."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4202HM", "title": "Special Areas of Social Work Practice", "description": "This course provides for the advanced study of the conceptual bases for social work contribution and the application of skills in special areas of social work practice. In any given semester, a selected area of emphasis will be studied such as public education, domestic violence, rehabilitation of offenders, occupational social work, working with AIDS patients, human sexuality, social aspects of public housing, special education, pastoral care, social gerontology, community participation and organisation. Where appropriate, emphasis is given to policy factors influencing the provision of services and the implications of these for individuals, families and the community."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4203", "title": "Integrative Seminar for Profn'l Devpt", "description": "This course examines the self in professional development and integrates cognition, affect and skills for different levels of social work intervention. It seeks to enable students to understand the influence of social structures on individual events and to develop an integrated framework for social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4203HM", "title": "Integrative Seminar for Profn'l Devpt", "description": "This course examines the self in professional development and integrates cognition, affect and skills for different levels of social work intervention. It seeks to enable students to understand the influence of social structures on individual events and to develop an integrated framework for social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4209", "title": "Law & Social Work Practice", "description": "This course provides students with an understanding of the relevance of law and its application in social work practice in Singapore\u2019s context. Coverage includes family social work such as marriage, divorce, child custody, family violence, child protection, youth justice and protection of vulnerable adults. Principles of law, professional accountability and competencies, issues of ethical practices and dilemmas in social work practice will be examined. Students will exercise critical thinking and analysis through integrating theoretical perspectives and the law in social work case intervention and advocacy."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4209HM", "title": "Law & Social Work Practice", "description": "This course provides students with an understanding of the relevance of law and its application in social work practice in Singapore\u2019s context. Coverage includes family social work such as marriage, divorce, child custody, family violence, child protection, youth justice and protection of vulnerable adults. Principles of law, professional accountability and competencies, issues of ethical practices and dilemmas in social work practice will be examined. Students will exercise critical thinking and analysis through integrating theoretical perspectives and the law in social work case intervention and advocacy."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4211", "title": "Welfare Economics", "description": "The course takes as a given fact that resources are scarce and subject to competing demands. As such, social workers must or should know the relationship between economics and social welfare, and how social services operate in an economic context. The course will deal with the background, principles, methods and techniques for the rational and efficient allocation of limited resources among competing social programmes and services."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4211HM", "title": "Welfare Economics", "description": "The course takes as a given fact that resources are scarce and subject to competing demands. As such, social workers must or should know the relationship between economics and social welfare, and how social services operate in an economic context. The course will deal with the background, principles, methods and techniques for the rational and efficient allocation of limited resources among competing social programmes and services."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4213", "title": "Social Networks & Social Support", "description": "There is increasing interest in social networks and social support among human service professionals and lay people for intervention purposes. The course covers the various meanings, structures, and processes of these two terms. It will analyse the different aspects of network analysis and their relevance to social work practice. The scope and limits of social support will also be examined. In addition, the course includes a review of how social support is used in selected settings."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4213HM", "title": "Social Networks & Social Support", "description": "There is increasing interest in social networks and social support among human service professionals and lay people for intervention purposes. The course covers the various meanings, structures, and processes of these two terms. It will analyse the different aspects of network analysis and their relevance to social work practice. The scope and limits of social support will also be examined. In addition, the course includes a review of how social support is used in selected settings."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4214", "title": "Comparative Social Service Systems in SEA", "description": "This course discusses how social issues are defined, social policies formulated, and value choices and theoretical models of society are adopted that govern the use of one set of policies over another. The course also examines the nexus between social policies and social services from a cross-national perspective with particular reference to selected countries in Southeast Asia. Students will be helped to analyse the challenges and constraints of a given system in the light of the socio-political and economic circumstances of specific countries. Analysis of selected social policy issues of contemporary interest to industrial and industrialising societies of Southeast Asia will be integral to the course"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4214HM", "title": "Comparative Social Service Systems in SEA", "description": "This course discusses how social issues are defined, social policies formulated, and value choices and theoretical models of society are adopted that govern the use of one set of policies over another. The course also examines the nexus between social policies and social services from a cross-national perspective with particular reference to selected countries in Southeast Asia. Students will be helped to analyse the challenges and constraints of a given system in the light of the socio-political and economic circumstances of specific countries. Analysis of selected social policy issues of contemporary interest to industrial and industrialising societies of Southeast Asia"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4219", "title": "Crisis and Disaster Recovery Management", "description": "Social workers have a role in responding to crisis situations, emergencies and natural disasters, both nationally and within the region. This course covers the theoretical and skills base to intervene effectively at the individual, family, group and community level, as well as the principles of international recovery management. The values and principles of recovery management are effectively that of community development principles and examples of specific projects will also be explored. The course also addresses issues of project management, evaluation, staff supervision and debriefing, and emergency funds management."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4219HM", "title": "Crisis and Disaster Recovery Management", "description": "Social workers have a role in responding to crisis situations, emergencies and natural disasters, both nationally and within the region. This course covers the theoretical and skills base to intervene effectively at the individual, family, group and community level, as well as the principles of international recovery management. The values and principles of recovery management are effectively that of community development principles and examples of specific projects will also be explored. The course also addresses issues of project management, evaluation, staff supervision and debriefing, and emergency funds management."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4221", "title": "Social Work and Rehabilitation of Offenders", "description": "This course (a) provides the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings to understand issues about crime and juvenile delinquency in the local context, and (b) examines social intervention choices in various correctional and rehabilitation settings. Students will learn about, and critique, existing approaches in working with offenders, as well as examine alternative social work perspectives in their care and rehabilitation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4221HM", "title": "Social Work and Rehabilitation of Offenders", "description": "This course (a) provides the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings to understand issues about crime and juvenile delinquency in the local context, and (b) examines social intervention choices in various correctional and rehabilitation settings. Students will learn about, and critique, existing approaches in working with offenders, as well as examine alternative social work perspectives in their care and rehabilitation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4223", "title": "Child-Centric Social Work", "description": "The course enables the students to acquire the knowledge base and basic intervention skills to work with children and their families. The students will understand the factors that lead to childhood vulnerabilities \u2013 personal, familial and the social environment. The students will learn about the ecological developmental framework for helping children, the process of helping, different intervention methods of helping and working with children in different circumstances."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4223HM", "title": "Child-Centric Social Work", "description": "The course enables the students to acquire the knowledge base and basic intervention skills to work with children and their families. The students will understand the factors that lead to childhood vulnerabilities \u2013 personal, familial and the social environment. The students will learn about the ecological developmental framework for helping children, the process of helping, different intervention methods of helping and working with children in different circumstances."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4224", "title": "Financial Capability and Asset Building", "description": "Helping financially vulnerable individuals and families break out of the cycle of disadvantage can be challenging. It requires social workers to be competent in supporting these families to improve their financial capability and build assets to achieve better life outcomes. Financial stability and security are essential for all individuals and families, even the most vulnerable. Thus, this course integrates the knowledge and skills covered in the Singapore Financial Capability and Asset Building (FCAB) Curriculum with case management, with the aim to support financially vulnerable individuals and families achieve sustainable life outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4224HM", "title": "Financial Capability and Asset Building", "description": "Helping financially vulnerable individuals and families break out of the cycle of disadvantage can be challenging. It requires social workers to be competent in supporting these families to improve their financial capability and build assets to achieve better life outcomes. Financial stability and security are essential for all individuals and families, even the most vulnerable. Thus, this course integrates the knowledge and skills covered in the Singapore Financial Capability and Asset Building (FCAB) Curriculum with case management, with the aim to support financially vulnerable individuals and families achieve sustainable life outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4225", "title": "Ethics in Social Work Practice", "description": "Ethical challenges and conflicts are characteristic of social work practice and demands ethics competency of the practitioner. This course aims to prepare students for ethically-guided social work practice, with an emphasis on knowledge of ethical principles and reasoning to guide case management and ethical decision-making. Students will learn to determine any presence of ethical problem and the ethical principles involved. The course introduces key ethical theories and frameworks for decision making. Students will develop awareness of their personal values influencing their practice and ethical decision-making. The course also refers to the profession\u2019s Code of Ethics to clarify professional behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4225HM", "title": "Ethics in Social Work Practice", "description": "Ethical challenges and conflicts are characteristic of social work practice and demands ethics competency of the practitioner. This course aims to prepare students for ethically-guided social work practice, with an emphasis on knowledge of ethical principles and reasoning to guide case management and ethical decision-making. Students will learn to determine any presence of ethical problem and the ethical principles involved. The course introduces key ethical theories and frameworks for decision making. Students will develop awareness of their personal values influencing their practice and ethical decision-making. The course also refers to the profession\u2019s Code of Ethics to clarify professional behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4226", "title": "Social Enterprises and Social Innovations", "description": "In this course, students will learn about creating and implementing effective, scalable and sustainable solutions which address social needs and issues through social entrepreneurship. The focus will be on social enterprises in Singapore and South East Asia. Different models, examples, and ways of thinking about social entrepreneurship will be covered in an experiential learning format."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4226HM", "title": "Social Enterprises and Social Innovations", "description": "In this course, students will learn about creating and implementing effective, scalable and sustainable solutions which address social needs and issues through social entrepreneurship. The focus will be on social enterprises in Singapore and South East Asia. Different models, examples, and ways of thinking about social entrepreneurship will be covered in an experiential learning format."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4227", "title": "Advanced Family-Centred Social Work Practice", "description": "Course follows up from the introduction to family-centred direct social work practice for individuals and families. Students are to examine various social work practice theories in depth and are expected to develop skills in appropriate interventions such as casework, problem solving, family group work, children and youth work, inter-organisational networking and preventive interventions in various settings. Experiential learning and projects are used to develop competence, critical thinking and integration of classroom learning to real life situations. Students are taught to establish ways of engaging in continuous self-learning, self-care and skills development in their professional career as a social worker."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4227HM", "title": "Advanced Family-Centred Social Work Practice", "description": "Course follows up from the introduction to family-centred direct social work practice for individuals and families. Students are to examine various social work practice theories in depth and are expected to develop skills in appropriate interventions such as casework, problem solving, family group work, children and youth work, inter-organisational networking and preventive interventions in various settings. Experiential learning and projects are used to develop competence, critical thinking and integration of classroom learning to real life situations. Students are taught to establish ways of engaging in continuous self-learning, self-care and skills development in their professional career as a social worker."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4228", "title": "Social Work In Medical Setting", "description": "The course provides some insights and understanding of the impact of illness on individuals and their families. This will be examined from three broad domains: (1) macro perspectives, (2) conceptual underpinnings and theoretical orientations to social work practice, and (3) selected areas of medical social work interventions, which focus on skills and intervention. Topics will include policies, legislations, practice in different healthcare settings, social-health care integration, specialised/ advanced theories, specific and prevalent health issues."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4228HM", "title": "Social Work In Medical Setting", "description": "The course provides some insights and understanding of the impact of illness on individuals and their families. This will be examined from three broad domains: (1) macro perspectives, (2) conceptual underpinnings and theoretical orientations to social work practice, and (3) selected areas of medical social work interventions, which focus on skills and intervention. Topics will include policies, legislations, practice in different healthcare settings, social-health care integration, specialised/ advanced theories, specific and prevalent health issues."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4229", "title": "Working With Older Adults", "description": "The course prepares students to understand and work with middle-aged and older people through a combined lifespan developmental approach and ecological perspective. The focus is on the intergenerational issues. Emphasis is also placed on theoretical frameworks related to the ageing process and specific ageing issues such as dementia, and widowhood. Students will be given opportunities to improve their communication and relationship skills through role play in discussion groups and a case study which they conduct as part of their written term assignment."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4229HM", "title": "Working With Older Adults", "description": "The course prepares students to understand and work with middle-aged and older people through a combined lifespan developmental approach and ecological perspective. The focus is on the intergenerational issues. Emphasis is also placed on theoretical frameworks related to the ageing process and specific ageing issues such as dementia, and widowhood. Students will be given opportunities to improve their communication and relationship skills through role play in discussion groups and a case study which they conduct as part of their written term assignment."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4230", "title": "Urban Youth Work", "description": "This course focuses on the major challenges and issues confronting today's youths and allows one to better appreciate youths and their culture. It further examines individual, familial, and societal factors that impact adolescent development. Intervention models and techniques that target current youth issues will be examined. In addition, youth work in different settings with its unique challenges and approaches will be discussed. (62 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4230HM", "title": "Urban Youth Work", "description": "This course focuses on the major challenges and issues confronting today's youths and allows one to better appreciate youths and their culture. It further examines individual, familial, and societal factors that impact adolescent development. Intervention models and techniques that target current youth issues will be examined. In addition, youth work in different settings with its unique challenges and approaches will be discussed"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4231", "title": "Risk Assessment and Protection of Vulnerable Clients", "description": "The course covers the contemporary framework used in understanding mental health concerns and policies and its application in the local context. It emphasizes key theoretical concepts and systemic principles used in the assessment and management of risk. It focuses on an ethical, effective systemic approach to risk management and quality assurance, covering common concerns such as medico\u2010legal liability, defensible decision making, documentation and information sharing. Three main concerns covered are: the risk of suicide, the risk of aggression, the risk of client disengagement from services in mental health settings. Topics include a broad overview of DSM IV in child and adult psychopathology; forensic behavioral science, clinical treatment of the psychiatric patient in abusive family systems, mental health rehabilitation, disaster management, and the efficacy of various group strategies mental health settings. A case study approach will be used to illustrate social work assessment and intervention."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4231HM", "title": "Risk Assessment and Protection of Vulnerable Clients", "description": "The course covers the contemporary framework used in understanding mental health concerns and policies and its application in the local context. It emphasizes key theoretical concepts and systemic principles used in the assessment and management of risk. It focuses on an ethical, effective systemic approach to risk management and quality assurance, covering common concerns such as medico\u2010legal liability, defensible decision making, documentation and information sharing. Three main concerns covered are: the risk of suicide, the risk of aggression, the risk of client disengagement from services in mental health settings. Topics include a broad overview of DSM IV in child and"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4232", "title": "Working with Loss and Grief", "description": "This course aims to provide insights and understanding on loss and grief faced by individuals, families and groups from developmental, socio-cultural perspectives, and skills to support them in grief recovery. This will be examined in the context of non-death losses (e,g, divorce, family violence, health) and death, relationships between loss and grief, and grief reactions. Bereavement care and support may come in for loss in death. Students are encouraged to be open-minded and be reflective in examining their values, assumptions and perceived notions on family, kinships, and parent-child relationship etc."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4232HM", "title": "Working with Loss and Grief", "description": "This course aims to provide insights and understanding on loss and grief faced by individuals, families and groups from developmental, socio-cultural perspectives, and skills to support them in grief recovery. This will be examined in the context of non-death losses (e,g, divorce, family violence, health) and death, relationships between loss and grief, and grief reactions. Bereavement care and support may come in for loss in death. Students are encouraged to be open-minded and be reflective in examining their values, assumptions and perceived notions on family, kinships, and parent-child relationship etc."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "The student is required to undertake research, which should have an evaluative and/or policy component and which may require direct social work intervention. The Honours Thesis, which should be of about 12,000 words, is the equivalent of three courses. The student, in consultation with staff of the department, will choose the research topic."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "The student is required to undertake research, which should have an evaluative and/or policy component and which may require direct social work intervention. The Honours Thesis, which should be of about 12,000 words, is the equivalent of three courses. The student, in consultation with staff of the department, will choose the research topic."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4741", "title": "Department exchange course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4880", "title": "Special Topics in Social Work", "description": "Intermediate level special topics current in social work practice and research such as disaster management, problem gambling, cyber gaming addiction, and trauma may be offered in this course"}, {"moduleCode": "SW4880A", "title": "Social Work and Infectious Diseases", "description": "This course provides insight into infectious diseases and those who are impacted by them. There will be a focus on vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by the various infectious diseases. In addition to more acute infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), this course will also cover chronic infectious diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Pulmonary Tuberculosis. This course will integrate concepts and theories from social work and public health to provide the tools and frameworks to understand infectious diseases within the context of social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4880AHM", "title": "Social Work and Infectious Diseases", "description": "This course provides insight into infectious diseases and those who are impacted by them. There will be a focus on vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by the various infectious diseases. In addition to more acute infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), this course will also cover chronic infectious diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Pulmonary Tuberculosis. This course will integrate concepts and theories from social work and public health to provide the tools and frameworks to understand infectious diseases within the context of social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW4880HM", "title": "Special Topics in Social Work", "description": "Intermediate level special topics current in social work practice and research such as disaster management, problem gambling, cyber gaming addiction, and trauma may be offered in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5103", "title": "Family Systems Theory and Intervention", "description": "This course focuses on the ecological systems approach to family therapy. An in\u2010depth understanding of the rationale for family therapy, theory, family assessment, intervention, and research in family therapy will be discussed. Theory and practice will be critically reviewed from an international perspective taking into consideration differences in the socio\u2010political and cultural contexts in which family therapy is practiced. Skills and techniques for work with families will be emphasised. Supervised projects, case studies, role play, videos, coaching and live supervision may be used along with lectures in the seminar styled sessions. Integration of family therapy with other therapeutic interventions and in various social work settings such as schools, hospitals and community agencies will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5103R", "title": "Family Therapy", "description": "This course focuses on the ecological systems approach to family therapy. An in\u2010depth understanding of the rationale for family therapy, theory, family assessment, intervention, and research in family therapy will be discussed. Theory and practice will be critically reviewed from an international perspective taking into consideration differences in the socio\u2010political and cultural contexts in which family therapy is practiced. Skills and techniques for work with families will be emphasised. Supervised projects, case studies, role play, videos, coaching and live supervision may be used along with lectures in the seminar styled sessions. Integration of family therapy with other therapeutic interventions and in various social work settings such as schools, hospitals and community agencies will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5104", "title": "Management of Human Service Organizations", "description": "The aim of this course is for students to develop knowledge, values and skills that contribute to the management of a social service agency in Singapore. Students will learn to apply organizational theories and theories of management to human service organizations with specific reference to strategic planning, organisational structure and processes, staff management, managing interaction with the environment, management of information and communication, and resource and financial management. Cross country comparisons and discussions will enable critical thinking about human service organizations in the local context."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5104R", "title": "Management of Human Service Organizations", "description": "The aim of this course is for students to develop knowledge, values and skills that contribute to the management of a state or a voluntary welfare organization in Singapore. Students will learn to apply organizational theories and theories of management to human service organizations with specific reference to strategic planning, organisational structure and processes, staff management, managing interaction with the environment, management of information and communication, and resource and financial management. Cross country comparisons will enable critical thinking about human service organizations in the local context."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5106", "title": "Social Policy and Welfare Services", "description": "The aim of this course is for students to understand and assess the social policies in Singapore, especially those concerning welfare services for vulnerable groups. They will learn to do so in the international historical and theoretical context of the welfare state and welfare pluralism, and contemporary international discourses on social well-being and human development. Review of social policy and welfare services in Singapore will focus upon the Singapore\u2019s unique approaches to policy formulation, implementation and monitoring. Welfare services for the vulnerable groups will be assessed within the larger context of social well-being and development."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5106R", "title": "Social Welfare Policy and Services", "description": "The aim of this course is for students to understand and review the social welfare policies and services for vulnerable group in Singapore. They will learn to do so in the international historical and theoretical context of the welfare state and welfare pluralism, and contemporary international discourses on social and human development. Review of social welfare policy and services in Singapore will focus upon the welfare pluralism policy approach with reference to family and community\u2010based services for the vulnerable groups such as low income families, children, youth, older persons, persons with disability, addictive behaviours, women, prisoners\u2019 family and ex\u2010prisoners."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5107", "title": "Program Development and Evaluation", "description": "This course deals with the overall process of social service program planning and evaluation. Its emphasis is not only on the conceptual understanding of research methodological issues underlying different program evaluation designs, but also on the application of various data collection methods and data analysis skills required for program evaluation. Seeking to promote both evidence\u2010based practice and practice\u2010based research in the field, this course also examines how social workers can utilize and incorporate research methods and skills into their helping process to generate practice\u2010informed data for the stage of program evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5107R", "title": "Program Development and Evaluation", "description": "This course deals with the overall process of social service program planning and evaluation. Its emphasis is not only on the conceptual understanding of research methodological issues underlying different program evaluation designs, but also on the application of various data collection methods and data analysis skills required for program evaluation. Seeking to promote both evidence\u2010based practice and practice\u2010based research in the field, this course also examines how social workers can utilize and incorporate research methods and skills into their helping process to generate practice\u2010informed data for the stage of program evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5111", "title": "Advanced Practicum", "description": "Candidates of MSW who have a Bachelor in Social Work degree are allowed to enrol for \u2018SW5111 \u2013 Advanced Practicum\u2019. Two specialization tracks are offered: clinical and supervision track and programme development track. The learning goal is to enhance social work practitioners\u2019 competence and capabilities in the chosen track."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5111A", "title": "Practicum", "description": "Practicum is a compulsory course for candidates who do not have a Bachelor\u2019s degree in social work or equivalent. This course is designed to ensure practice competence by providing 800 hour first hand, systematic and supervised practice experiences in the actual field together with seminars for integration of social work theories with practice. The stipulated hours should be completed prior to graduation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5111B", "title": "Practicum", "description": "Practicum is a compulsory course for candidates with a Graduate Diploma in Social Work. This course is designed to ensure practice competence by providing 400 hour first-hand, systematic and supervised practice experiences in the actual field. The stipulated hours should be completed prior to graduation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5112", "title": "Supervised Project", "description": "Candidates are required to complete a Supervised Project, which will be an independent and original piece of work, which involves innovative and original initiatives such as developing a new social service program/policy or conducting an original piece of field research. Exemption of Supervised Project may only be given to non-social work graduates or other candidates on a case-by-case basis and, in such a case, Supervised Project is replaced by a Practicum."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5112R", "title": "Supervised Project", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SW5113", "title": "Social Work With Groups and Community", "description": "This course covers the methods and skills of group work and community work. Social work theories related to work with social and community groups in a multicultural context will be critically examined. This course will also include topics such as assessment, understanding of group dynamics, the various stages of group work, intervention skills and roles of the social worker in group and community settings."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5114", "title": "Contemporary Social Work Practice", "description": "This course covers the development of human services as a response to needs and the sociocultural contexts. An analysis of traditional and current patterns including social institutions and structures of social service delivery is made. Social Work practice at various levels such as individual, group, organisation and community are dealt with in this course. The integration of concepts, knowledge base and theory for social work practice will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5115", "title": "Human Development in Context", "description": "The course will examine human development from a life span perspective with emphasis on some pertinent demands in different contexts. Ecological, cognitive developmental, psychosocial and Freudian theories and perspectives among others will be examined for their relevance in explaining developmental outcomes and trajectories as well as for their implications for social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5116", "title": "Skills in Advanced Social Work Practice", "description": "This is essentially a practice-based approach to social work assessment and intervention. Advanced techniques and skills in dealing with specific individuals, families and groups are incorporated. The course also emphasises the key social work practice models and the application of concepts and framework of the models within the social-political and cultural contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5117A", "title": "Practice Research Capstone Seminar I", "description": "Practice research promotes integration of practice and research in social work. It plays a key role in developing, improving and evaluating clinical practice skills, intervention models and social service provision. This capstone seminar aims to enable students to produce a practice research proposal and prepare for executing a practice research project based on the proposal in the subsequent semester. Learning activities in this course include a series of seminars, fieldwork, individual consultations, and student presentations for developing a practice research proposal to address practice research agenda in the field of one\u2019s interest."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5117B", "title": "Practice Research Capstone Seminar II", "description": "Building on the practice research proposal developed in SW5117A, this capstone seminar aims to facilitate students\u2019 execution of an actual practice research project and dissemination of practice research findings. Along with peer feedback sessions in class and individual consultations, learning activities in this course include practice data collection and analysis in the field, practice research report writing, and presentation/dissemination of the practice research findings."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5205", "title": "Working with Trauma - Infancy through Adolescence", "description": "Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse and violence but from incidents such as divorce, medical procedures that generate effects that are often minimized. This course aims to provide students with a framework for understanding trauma, the reactions of traumatized children and youth, and the effects of events such as natural disasters, accidents, violence, invasive medical procedures, abrupt separation on the child\u2019s physiological, psychological and emotional well being. In addition, the students will be introduced to evidenced based interventions models for working with traumatized children and youth."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5205R", "title": "Working with Trauma - Infancy through Adolescence", "description": "Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse and violence but from incidents such as divorce, medical procedures that generate effects that are often minimized. This course aims to provide students with a framework for understanding trauma, the reactions of traumatized children and youth, and the effects of events such as natural disasters, accidents, violence, invasive medical procedures, abrupt separation on the child\u2019s physiological, psychological and emotional well being. In addition, the students will be introduced to evidenced based interventions models for working with traumatized children and youth."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5206", "title": "Mastering Leadership", "description": "Leadership is an important determinant of organizational success. The aim of this course is for students to learn the principles for leadership that will enhance organizational performance. Leadership today is more than acquiring skills and knowledge, the course will place emphasis on the leader as a person. Students will learn the different theories of leadership and assess critical factors in developing leadership. Topics include Influence and Connection of the leader, the dark side of leadership, leadership and organization culture, building trust to get results, coaching to drive effective leadership and leading and managing change in organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5206R", "title": "Mastering Leadership", "description": "Leadership is an important determinant of organizational success. The aim of this course is for students to learn the principles for leadership that will enhance organizational performance. Leadership today is more than acquiring skills and knowledge, the course will place emphasis on the leader as a person. Students will learn the different theories of leadership and assess critical factors in developing leadership. Topics include Influence and Connection of the leader, the dark side of leadership, leadership and organization culture, building trust to get results, coaching to drive effective leadership and leading and managing change in organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5207", "title": "Working with Multi-Stressed Families", "description": "Multi\u2010stressed families often termed resistant, dysfunctional and hard to work with have been the main focus of social work practice. This course offers a multilevel intervention approach in working with these families. Using a systemic assessment of multigenerational influences, the course will explore the meanings and impact of these events for the family. The various therapeutic modalities, skills and interventions (including family assessment tools) will also be discussed, with a primary focus on strengths and resilience. The need for community networking, collaboration and case management will also be emphasised. Students will also be familiarised with the various polices and resources available to help such families in the community. Comparisons with models of practice from other countries will help to develop critical thinking about how such families are being helped in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5207R", "title": "Working with Multi-Stressed Families", "description": "Multi\u2010stressed families often termed resistant, dysfunctional and hard to work with have been the main focus of social work practice. This course offers a multilevel intervention approach in working with these families. Using a systemic assessment of multigenerational influences, the course will explore the meanings and impact of these events for the family. The various therapeutic modalities, skills and interventions (including family assessment tools) will also be discussed, with a primary focus on strengths and resilience. The need for community networking, collaboration and case management will also be emphasised. Students will also be familiarised with the various polices and resources available to help such families in the community. Comparisons with models of practice from other countries will help to develop critical thinking about how such families are being helped in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5208", "title": "Using Play Therapy with Children and Families", "description": "This course enhances the student\u2019s understanding of the systemic/ relational use of play therapy with children and their family systems. A particular emphasis of the course will be understanding play therapy from historical, clinical, spiritual, systemic / relational and theoretical perspectives; the integration of family therapy and play therapy; and the clinical use of different types of play therapy modalities with diverse family constellations."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5208R", "title": "Using Play Therapy with Children and Families", "description": "This course enhances the student\u2019s understanding of the systemic/ relational use of play therapy with children and their family systems. A particular emphasis of the course will be understanding play therapy from historical, clinical, spiritual, systemic / relational and theoretical perspectives; the integration of family therapy and play therapy; and the clinical use of different types of play therapy modalities with diverse family constellations."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5209", "title": "Theory and Practice of Social Work Supervision", "description": "Social work supervision is an important practice area that\nserves to enhance the competencies of social workers\nand ensure good clients\u2019 outcomes. In ensuring good\nsupervisory practice, the dynamics of personal, relational,\norganizational, socio-economical and cultural factors have\nto be considered. In this course, students will examine the\nknowledge and skills that social work supervisors need to\naddress the challenges that may arise in the supervisory\npractice. A range of topics with broad themes based on\nthe conceptualization of supervision and critical issues in\nsupervision that are impacted by the organizational,\nsocio-political contexts will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5209R", "title": "Theory and Practice of Social Work Supervision", "description": "Social work supervision is an important practice area that\nserves to enhance the competencies of social workers\nand ensure good clients\u2019 outcomes. In ensuring good\nsupervisory practice, the dynamics of personal, relational,\norganizational, socio-economical and cultural factors have\nto be considered. In this course, students will examine the\nknowledge and skills that social work supervisors need to\naddress the challenges that may arise in the supervisory\npractice. A range of topics with broad themes based on\nthe conceptualization of supervision and critical issues in\nsupervision that are impacted by the organizational,\nsocio-political contexts will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5210", "title": "Trauma and Mental Health", "description": "This course will cover the various types of trauma, assessment tools; treatment modalities and planning; casework and counseling modalities as well as interagency collaboration and case management. Trauma arising from childhood sexual abuse and family violence, disease outbreaks and issues arising from national and global disasters."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5210R", "title": "Trauma and Mental Health", "description": "This course will cover the various types of trauma, assessment tools; treatment modalities and planning; casework and counseling modalities as well as interagency collaboration and case management. Trauma arising from childhood sexual abuse and family violence, disease outbreaks and issues arising from national and global disasters."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5211R", "title": "Risk Assessment & Management: Mental Health", "description": "The course covers the contemporary framework used in understanding mental health concerns and policies and its application in the local context. It emphasizes key theoretical concepts and systemic principles used in the assessment and management of risk. It focuses on an ethical, effective systemic approach to risk management and quality assurance, covering common concerns such as medico\u2010legal liability, defensible decision making, documentation and information sharing. Three main concerns covered are: the risk of suicide, the risk of aggression, the risk of client disengagement from services in mental health settings. Topics include a broad overview of DSM IV in child and adult psychopathology; forensic behavioral science, clinical treatment of the psychiatric patient in abusive family systems, mental health rehabilitation, disaster management, and the efficacy of various group strategies mental health settings. A case study approach will be used to illustrate social work assessment and intervention."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5213", "title": "Practice with Persons with Disability", "description": "It is estimated that in any given society 3 \u2010 10% of the population has some form of disability. This increases to 15% when the definition of disability includes people who are limited in activity due to chronic conditions. In Singapore a conservative estimate of persons with some form of disability may be anywhere from 120,000 to 400,000 individuals. This would include both a medical perspective as well as a socio\u2010functional perspective which emphasizes the need to address economic, environmental and cultural barriers. This course will use a life span perspective to discuss the impact of disability on the individual and the family. It will also use a systemic, ecological perspective to discuss the management, intervention and delivery of social services to people with disabilities."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5213R", "title": "Practice with Persons with Disability", "description": "It is estimated that in any given society 3 \u2010 10% of the population has some form of disability. This increases to 15% when the definition of disability includes people who are limited in activity due to chronic conditions. In Singapore a conservative estimate of persons with some form of disability may be anywhere from 120,000 to 400,000 individuals. This would include both a medical perspective as well as a socio\u2010functional perspective which emphasizes the need to address economic, environmental and cultural barriers. This course will use a life span perspective to discuss the impact of disability on the individual and the family. It will also use a systemic, ecological perspective to discuss the management, intervention and delivery of social services to people with disabilities."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5215", "title": "Poverty and Asset-Building Policy", "description": "This course examines the meanings of assets, assets poverty, and inclusive asset\u2010building policy for the vulnerable population. It begins with re\u2010examination of\npoverty and existing anti\u2010poverty policy. Then, this course discusses meanings of assets and mounting evidence of short\u2010 and long\u2010term positive effects of holding assets. This course examines theories of saving and asset accumulation, in particular, institutional saving theory for inclusive asset\u2010building policy in Singapore and\nother parts of the world. To increase understanding of asset\u2010building strategies, this course provides a range of asset\u2010building policy and programs throughout the world. Students are also expected to develop new asset\u2010building\nprograms for the vulnerable groups in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5215R", "title": "Poverty and Asset-Building Policy", "description": "This course examines the meanings of assets, assets poverty, and inclusive asset\u2010building policy for the vulnerable population. It begins with re\u2010examination of\npoverty and existing anti\u2010poverty policy. Then, this course discusses meanings of assets and mounting evidence of short\u2010 and long\u2010term positive effects of holding assets. This course examines theories of saving and asset accumulation, in particular, institutional saving theory for inclusive asset\u2010building policy in Singapore and\nother parts of the world. To increase understanding of asset\u2010building strategies, this course provides a range of asset\u2010building policy and programs throughout the world. Students are also expected to develop new asset\u2010building\nprograms for the vulnerable groups in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5216", "title": "Family and Interpersonal Violence", "description": "Family and Interpersonal violence has been given prominence in the last decade. Social workers are increasingly identified as key providers of social-emotional services to this target group. This module will cover knowledge and skills pertaining to interpersonal violence. Topics include conceptual understanding of family violence and its dynamics, the legal provisions; casework and treatment group modalities in engaging survivors, men who abuse, child witnesses; ethical issues; networking and collaboration with key players such as Family Court, Police, MSF, hospitals and other social services; case management services. In addition, the module will examine the international experience of using different models of working in family and interpersonal violence."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5216R", "title": "Family and Interpersonal Violence", "description": "Family and Interpersonal violence has been given prominence in the last decade. Social workers are increasingly identified as key providers of social-emotional services to this target group. This module will cover knowledge and skills pertaining to interpersonal violence. Topics include conceptual understanding of family violence and its dynamics, the legal provisions; casework and treatment group modalities in engaging survivors, men who abuse, child witnesses; ethical issues; networking and collaboration with key players such as Family Court, Police, MSF, hospitals and other social services; case management services. In addition, the module will examine the international experience of using different models of working in family and interpersonal violence."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5217", "title": "Continuum of Care and Healthy Ageing", "description": "The module provides advanced knowledge and skills of gerontological social work in institutionalized and community\u2010 based health care. It further encourages students to develop preventive strategies to promote healthy ageing through their meticulous evaluation of specialized ageing programs and services which have been implemented. Students work on the applied learning project that is an integral part of this course. Supervised projects would be complementary for the student\u2019s practical learning process. In light of multidisciplinary team approach and synthesized theorybased applications, this module intensively increases students\u2019 practical capacity through collaborations within and across multidisciplinary service networks for older adults."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5217R", "title": "Continuum of Care and Healthy Ageing", "description": "The module provides advanced knowledge and skills of gerontological social work in institutionalized and community\u2010 based health care. It further encourages students to develop preventive strategies to promote healthy ageing through their meticulous evaluation of specialized ageing programs and services which have been implemented. Students work on the applied learning project that is an integral part of this course. Supervised projects would be complementary for the student\u2019s practical learning process. In light of multidisciplinary team approach and synthesized theorybased applications, this module intensively increases students\u2019 practical capacity through collaborations within and across multidisciplinary service networks for older adults."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5218", "title": "Practice with Persons with Addiction", "description": "This module aims to equip students with recent theories on addiction leading to an in\u2010depth understanding of addictive behaviours, and the application for social work practice. Topics include models of addiction, etiology and recovery, assessment and treatment modalities, crisis intervention and relapse prevention. This module also focuses on alcoholism and problem gambling, as there is a wide scope for social work intervention in these problem areas. Social drinking and recreational gambling are prevalent in our society. When alcohol and gambling issues become problematic, individuals and families can\nexperience several psychosocial problems, such as family violence, financial hardship, strained relationships, family displacement, and legal and criminal infraction."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5218R", "title": "Practice with Persons with Addiction", "description": "This module aims to equip students with recent theories on addiction leading to an in\u2010depth understanding of addictive behaviours, and the application for social work practice. Topics include models of addiction, etiology and recovery, assessment and treatment modalities, crisis intervention and relapse prevention. This module also focuses on alcoholism and problem gambling, as there is a wide scope for social work intervention in these problem areas. Social drinking and recreational gambling are prevalent in our society. When alcohol and gambling issues become problematic, individuals and families can\nexperience several psychosocial problems, such as family violence, financial hardship, strained relationships, family displacement, and legal and criminal infraction."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5219", "title": "Palliative and End-Of-Life Care", "description": "This course covers important issues encountered by social workers involved in palliative and end\u2010of\u2010life care. Key topics include 1) assessment and intervention strategies based on the bio\u2010psychosocial\u2010spiritual perspective, 2) potential ethical dilemmas encountered in end\u2010of\u2010life care, 3) impact of personal values and biases on quality of care, 4) grief and bereavement and 5)\nend\u2010of\u2010life care for special populations. At the end of the course, students will be able to a) explain influence of personal values and biases on end\u2010of\u2010life (EOL) care, b) implement assessment and intervention strategies for\nend\u2010of\u2010life care and c) describe key aspects of the dying process, grief and bereavement."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5219R", "title": "Palliative and End-Of-Life Care", "description": "This course covers important issues encountered by social workers involved in palliative and end\u2010of\u2010life care. Key topics include 1) assessment and intervention strategies based on the bio\u2010psychosocial\u2010spiritual perspective, 2) potential ethical dilemmas encountered in end\u2010of\u2010life care, 3) impact of personal values and biases on quality of care, 4) grief and bereavement and 5)\nend\u2010of\u2010life care for special populations. At the end of the course, students will be able to a) explain influence of personal values and biases on end\u2010of\u2010life (EOL) care, b) implement assessment and intervention strategies for\nend\u2010of\u2010life care and c) describe key aspects of the dying process, grief and bereavement."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5220", "title": "Statistics for Social Workers", "description": "This module introduces statistics to social work students, specifically on their use in making informed decisions about social work interventions. The purpose is to facilitate students to use quantitative data in the effective development, delivery, and evaluation of social work services. Through SPSS, a user-friendly software, students will learn how to set up and analyze data. Topics covered in this course are descriptive and inferential statistics within the context of social work practice. This course goes beyond mere calculations and emphasizes on the criteria for and interpretability of statistical tests as well their applications in real world."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5220R", "title": "Statistics for Social Workers", "description": "This module introduces statistics to social work students, specifically on their use in making informed decisions about social work interventions. The purpose is to facilitate students to use quantitative data in the effective development, delivery, and evaluation of social work services. Through SPSS, a user-friendly software, students will learn how to set up and analyze data. Topics covered in this course are descriptive and inferential statistics within the context of social work practice. This course goes beyond mere calculations and emphasizes on the criteria for and interpretability of statistical tests as well their applications in real world."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5222", "title": "Personnel Practice & Management", "description": "The module emphasises practical approaches to personnel administration and human resource management. Human motivation and the development of human potential and leadership are also discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5245", "title": "Current Group Approaches in Social Work", "description": "This module outlines the current theories and principles of group social work. The focus will be on the principles and skills of group assessment and intervention in a clinical setting. This is an experiential course where students will focus on designing and conducting a group work program for a special population. Skills in selecting an appropriate theoretical framework, planning session contents and activities, conducting and evaluating the sessions will be emphasized in the CA where students are expected to conduct group sessions (30%) and write a report on outcome and learning experiences (30%)."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5245R", "title": "Current Group Approaches in Social Work", "description": "This module outlines the current theories and principles of group social work. The focus will be on the principles and skills of group assessment and intervention in a clinical setting. This is an experiential course where students will focus on designing and conducting a group work program for a special population. Skills in selecting an appropriate theoretical framework, planning session contents and activities, conducting and evaluating the sessions will be emphasized in the CA where students are expected to conduct group sessions (30%) and write a report on outcome and learning experiences (30%)."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5247", "title": "Social Prevention and Public Education", "description": "The importance of social prevention is emphasised in this module. Public education and communication will also be included."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5252", "title": "Community Organisation and Development", "description": "This module covers the theory and practice of community development. In particular, it will address the role of community development in building social capital and community bonding. Models of community development will be critically reviewed and analyzed in the context of Singapore. Strategies and techniques used in Singapore vis-\u00e0-vis other communities and issues in ommunity participation and intervention will be explored. This module will also discuss some of the challenges of working in a community development setting."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5252R", "title": "Community Organisation and Development", "description": "This module covers the theory and practice of community development. In particular, it will address the role of community development in building social capital and community bonding. Models of community development will be critically reviewed and analyzed in the context of Singapore. Strategies and techniques used in Singapore vis-\u00e0-vis other communities and issues in ommunity participation and intervention will be explored. This module will also discuss some of the challenges of working in a community development setting."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5253", "title": "Volunteer Management", "description": "The values and principles for volunteer management are outlined in this module. Volunteer training and development including\ndelegation, supervision, recognition, etc are included."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5253R", "title": "Volunteer Management", "description": "The values and principles for volunteer management are outlined in this module. Volunteer training and development including\ndelegation, supervision, recognition, etc are included."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Module is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Social Work in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the module. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5880", "title": "Special Topics in Social Work", "description": "Special topics in social work such as sexual abuse, family violence, substance abuse, traumatic disorders, etc will be dealt with in this course. The module will highlight a contemporary issue of social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5880R", "title": "Special Topics in Social Work", "description": "Special topics in social work such as sexual abuse, family violence, substance abuse, traumatic disorders, etc will be dealt with in this course. The module will highlight a contemporary issue of social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5881", "title": "Topics in Social Work \u2013 Direct Practice", "description": "One special topic in direct social work practice will be dealt with in this course. Students in this course will critically understand and analyze the contemporary issues arising from direct practice under the special topic, learn about relevant assessment and intervention models, and acquire clinical skills which aim to address the issues for clients at different systemic levels (e.g., individuals, families, and groups) across various practice settings (e.g., community, and health care) and/or different stages of life span."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5881A", "title": "Evidence Based Behavioural Strategies for Social Work Practice", "description": "The subject aims to provide social workers with evidence-based behavioural strategies that are adapted for brief psychological interventions in the health and mental health care setting. The two central components of the subject are; 1) the context and theory around focused strategies and health and mental health social work practice and 2) behavioural strategies for brief psychological interventions with people experiencing high prevalence disorders such as depression and anxiety. A key aspect of the subject is the practical step-by-step worksheets that social workers can use with clients and which focus on the acquisition of skills for evidence based practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5881AR", "title": "Evidence Based Behavioural Strategies for Social Work Practice", "description": "The subject aims to provide social workers with evidence-based behavioural strategies that are adapted for brief psychological interventions in the health and mental health care setting. The two central components of the subject are; 1) the context and theory around focused strategies and health and mental health social work practice and 2) behavioural strategies for brief psychological interventions with people experiencing high prevalence disorders such as depression and anxiety. A key aspect of the subject is the practical step-by-step worksheets that social workers can use with clients and which focus on the acquisition of skills for evidence based practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5881R", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Direct Practice", "description": "One special topic in direct social work practice will be dealt with in this course. Students in this course will critically understand and analyze the contemporary issues arising from direct practice under the special topic, learn about relevant assessment and intervention models, and acquire clinical skills which aim to address the issues for clients at different systemic levels (e.g., individuals, families, and groups) across various practice settings (e.g., community, and health care) and/or different stages of life span."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5882", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Social Policy", "description": "One special topic/area in social policy & legislation will be dealt with in this course. Students in this coursewill examine emergent and critical issues in social policies and legislations in Singapore as well as in the global context. Students will learn about theoretical frameworks for the formation of social policy and legislation and analytic tools for planning, monitoring and evaluation of social policy and legislation and its implementation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5882R", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Social Policy", "description": "One special topic/area in social policy & legislation will be dealt with in this course. Students in this course will examine emergent and critical issues in social policies and legislations in Singapore as well as in the global context. Students will learn about theoretical frameworks for the formation of social policy and legislation and analytic tools for planning, monitoring and evaluation of social policy and legislation and its implementation."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5883", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Social Work Leadership", "description": "One special topic/area in human service organization management and leadership in social work/social services will be dealt with in this module. The selected topical area will be one among various topics in indirect social work practice or social administration, such as strategic management and leadership of NGO, social finance, negotiation and conflict management, volunteering and philanthropy, marketing social programs and promoting community relations, and etc. Students in this module will learn about theoretical underpinnings, organizational structures and strategies, personnel management, public relations, and social work leadership development in the area of the special topic chosen."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5883R", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Social Work Leadership", "description": "One special topic/area in human service organization management and leadership in social work/social services will be dealt with in this module. The selected topical area will be one among various topics in indirect social work practice or social administration, such as strategic management and leadership of NGO, social finance, negotiation and conflict management, volunteering and philanthropy, marketing social programs and promoting community relations, and etc. Students in this module will learn about theoretical underpinnings, organizational structures and strategies, personnel management, public relations, and social work leadership development in the area of the special topic chosen."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5884", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Research", "description": "One special topic/area in social work research & evaluation will be dealt with in this module. Students will be introduced one or more advanced social work research/evaluation methods, such as qualitative social work research, statistics for social workers, mixed methods in social work research, intervention research, etc. in this module."}, {"moduleCode": "SW5884R", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Research", "description": "One special topic/area in social work research & evaluation will be dealt with in this module. Students will be introduced one or more advanced social work research/evaluation methods, such as qualitative social work research, statistics for social workers, mixed methods in social work research, intervention research, etc. in this module."}, {"moduleCode": "SW6101", "title": "Social Theory in Social Work Practice", "description": "This course is conducted as a graduate seminar and examines important contributions to social work theory from classical as well as modernist perspectives with a view to encouraging deeper reflection about the critical interface between theory and practice. Students are challenged to examine social work practice issues alongside the discourse on social structure and human agency and are expected to make presentations to demonstrate a heightened awareness of modern ideological currents that shape social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SW6102", "title": "Policy & Research in Social Welfare", "description": "This course provides a framework for analysis of public policy in particular social policy. The use of social indicators, trend analysis and policy evaluation tools for specific fields of social welfare will be discussed. The use of applied research evaluation including techniques of social surveys, focus groups and the systematic analysis of data will also be covered in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SW6231", "title": "Human Service Research & Evaluation", "description": "Specialised study of one or key specific policy option(s), its value base, legal and financial structures, social and political implications are covered in this course. Policy alternatives are also critically examined."}, {"moduleCode": "SW6241", "title": "Theory & Practice in Psychotherapy", "description": "This course provides an in-depth examination of selected theories in counselling and psychotherapy such as Rogerian Psychotherapy, Behaviour Therapy, Reality Therapy and others. The application of the therapeutic techniques and skills to various settings will be emphasised."}, {"moduleCode": "SW6249", "title": "Specialised Policy Studies", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SW6257", "title": "Research Design & Quantitative Methods", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "SW6259", "title": "Specialised Fields of Practice", "description": "This course offers training in specific fields of social work practice such as health, mental health, gerontology, children, youth, disability, criminal justice and rehabilitation, industrial social work, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "SW6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Social Work in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SW6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from AY2004/2005. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5102", "title": "Social Work With Groups and Community", "description": "This course covers the methods and skills of group work and community work. Social work theories related to work with social and community groups in a multicultural context will be critically examined. This course will also include topics such as assessment, understanding of group dynamics, the various stages of group work, intervention skills and roles of the social worker in group and community settings."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5103", "title": "Contemporary Social Work Practice", "description": "This course covers the development of human services as a response to needs and the sociocultural contexts. An analysis of traditional and current patterns including social institutions and structures of social service delivery is made. Social Work practice at various levels such as individual, group, organisation and community are dealt with in this course. The integration of concepts, knowledge base and theory for social work practice will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5104", "title": "Human Development in Context", "description": "The course will examine human development from a life span perspective with emphasis on some pertinent demands in different contexts. Ecological, cognitive developmental, psychosocial and Freudian theories and perspectives among others will be examined for their relevance in explaining developmental outcomes and trajectories as well as for their implications for social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5105", "title": "Skills in Advanced Social Work Practice", "description": "This is essentially a practice-based approach to social work assessment and intervention. Advanced techniques and skills in dealing with specific individuals, families and groups are incorporated. The course also emphasises the key social work practice models and the application of concepts and framework of the models within the social-political and cultural contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5120", "title": "Social Work Practicum", "description": "Candidates are required to fulfil practicum requirements of 400 fieldwork hours under an approved supervisor and it is equivalent to one course . The candidate is only allowed to take the Social Work Practicum if he/she had already taken or is concurrently taking one of the essential courses specified by the Department of Social Work and Psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5261", "title": "Gerontological Counselling", "description": "This course aims to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills in counselling older adults. Besides the various theories on ageing relevant to older people, the course will cover the counselling approaches suitable for application in Singapore's context. The emphasis will be on developing a repertoire of skills and knowledge essential for effective assessment and intervention. Students will be guided on evaluation tools and the process of termination."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5263", "title": "Family Centred Practice", "description": "This course utilises the family and systems theory for assessment and intervention with social problems. The focus of this course is on the relationship and systemic approaches to social intervention."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5269", "title": "Working With Children and Youth", "description": "This course outlines the framework for practice with children and youth. Both local and international models for intervention will be discussed. Current state of practice is reviewed along with an analysis of the theoretical basis as well as an evaluation of pragmatic outcome of these practices will be conducted."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5270", "title": "Child Welfare Policy and Practice", "description": "This course provides a historical as well as present analysis of social intervention in the area of child welfare. It examines child welfare policies including government and community expenditures, programmes and services."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5272", "title": "Multidiscipinary Perspectives On Ageing", "description": "This course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on ageing, including the biological, psychological and social theories and issues that affect older people and their families. Current international as well as national policies and legislation are examined and evaluated. The seminar style of teaching is meant to involve students in using their critical skills to identify gaps in services and suggest recommendations."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5273", "title": "Intervention With the Terminally Iii", "description": "This course is on working with clients on issues of loss and grief and terminal illnesses. Attention is also given to ethical and philosophical issues arising from working with the dying."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5274", "title": "Family Systems and Intervention", "description": "This course involves the theory and practice of social work with families. A comprehensive discussion of family development and families in transition along with a systemic approach to intervention is given. Family therapy and other intervention strategies are also discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5275", "title": "Human Sexuality and Marital Therapy", "description": "This course explores the theories of human sexuality, aetiology of sexual dysfunction and marital therapy. Marriage, sexual lifestyles and treatment of sexual and marital problems such as HIV-AIDS, extra-marital relationship, etc. are also discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5276", "title": "Family Stress and Coping", "description": "The principles and techniques in helping families cope with stress in everyday life as well as specific stressors such as death, illness, unemployment, incarceration, etc. is the focus of this course. Theory of stress and development of personal and community resources is discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5277", "title": "Planned Social Change", "description": "The focus of this course is on planned change at the group and community levels. The dynamics and politics of social change including the use of group processes and power bases are included. Topics such as setting agendas, rules of order, information and publicity strategies are discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5279", "title": "Comparative Group Modalities", "description": "This course outlines the major theories and principles of social work with groups. Current modalities in group assessment and intervention are emphasised. Issues on leadership and power, conflict management and mediation are also dealt with."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5280", "title": "Nature of Drugs & Alcohol Abuse", "description": "The nature of drug and alcohol abuse with its physical, social and psychological impact on individuals and families will be discussed in this course. The focus is on assessment of drug and alcohol problem for effective intervention."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5281", "title": "Individuals, Families & Substance Abuse", "description": "This course focuses on assessment and intervention with clients with a history of drug and alcohol abuse. Principles and techniques of individual and family therapy using a systemic perspective will be the main content."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5282", "title": "Drugs & Alcohol Abuse Treatment", "description": "This course is a survey of various treatment programmes for the rehabilitation of drug and alcohol abusers. Current trends and highlights of major treatment philosophies will be discussed. A critical analysis of alternative models of treatment will be included."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5283", "title": "Disability and Rehabilitative Work", "description": "The scope of disabilities and rehabilitation is defined in this course. Intervention theory and techniques in working with physical and mental disabilities as well as rehabilitation in areas of crime and delinquency are discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5284", "title": "Health & Mental Health Service Systems", "description": "The current mental health and health care networks are examined in the light of providing more effective services. Alternative models of service delivery and co-ordination in the system will be proposed."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5285", "title": "Rehabilitation Programme Issues", "description": "The issues and philosophies of various rehabilitation and treatment programmes in criminal and juvenile justice and other rehabilitative contexts will be examined in this course. Application of techniques and concepts for the local context will be emphasised."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5286", "title": "Common Psychiatric Disorders in Adults", "description": "This course aims to equip students with knowledge necessary for working alongside adults with mental health needs. The course will expose students to various psychiatric disorders, with emphasis on those that commonly occur in adults. For each disorder, students will learn about its clinical features, course and prognosis, and treatments. Students will also learn about social, psychological, and biological factors that contribute to the development of the disorder and those that impact on its outcome. Lastly, students will be introduced to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder for an understanding of the diagnosis of mental disorders."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5292", "title": "Topical Studies in Social Work Methods", "description": "This course offers in-depth study in a specific method of social work including therapeutic models, preventive intervention, mediation and conflict management."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5293", "title": "Topical Studies in Social Work Issues", "description": "This course examines in-depth study in a specific social work issue such as professionalisation, gender, discrimination, justice and ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5297", "title": "Human Service Organisations & Management", "description": "This course covers the theories and principles of human service management. Topics on consultation and training, organisational development and growth are also dealt with."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5298", "title": "Approaches in Community Work", "description": "This course covers the theory and practice of community assessment and intervention. The study of community psychology and analysis of power bases in different societies is included. Understanding the local resource network needs assessment and programme development is part of this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5300", "title": "Ethical Principles and Competency in Social Work", "description": "Ethical issues and ethical conflicts are characteristic of social work practice and practitioners must have ethics competency. This course offers preparatory knowledge on clinical ethics, including key ethical concepts, ethical theories, ethical principles and ethical reasoning. It challenges students to shift from social work ethics models to engagement in ethical reasoning. This course will help students appreciate how personal values can falsely present a situation as ethically problematic and influence ethical decision-making."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5880", "title": "Topics in Social Work", "description": "Current topics and challenges in social work practice including preventive and developmental approaches to social intervention are given emphasis in this specialised course."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5880A", "title": "Service User Involvement", "description": "The involvement of service users in social work is challenging. This course will study service user involvement from service user, theoretical and practical perspectives and hence, identify barriers, possibilities and challenges in participatory processes. Special importance will be placed on power relations and power theories. To develop service user involvement social workers need tools and knowledge. A central part of this is establishing connections between social work practice and research. Hence, the course will also focus on the possibilities of using practice research \u2013 a research approach aiming at developing practice through collaborative processes involving social workers, service users and researchers."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5880B", "title": "Social Work and Infectious Diseases", "description": "This course provides insight into infectious diseases and those who are impacted by them. There will be a focus on vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by the various infectious diseases. In addition to more acute infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), this course will also cover chronic infectious diseases such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Pulmonary Tuberculosis. This course will integrate concepts and theories from social work and public health to provide the tools and frameworks to understand infectious diseases within the context of social work practice."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5880C", "title": "Grief and Bereavement Counselling", "description": "Loss, grief and bereavement cuts across all sectors of social work practice. The focus of this course is on seriously-ill patients facing death and dying issues. The social worker is often impacted by grief and bereavement issues and many are ill-equipped to assist the griever in an appropriate manner to enhance individual and familial grief recovery. \n\nThis course encompasses understanding the state of grief, the relationship between grief and loss, anticipatory grief and death anxiety, and how individuals react to grief."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5880D", "title": "Social Work in Healthcare Settings", "description": "This course aims to provide a broad understanding of Singapore\u2019s unique healthcare landscape, evolution, financing, goal toward social health integration and burden of disease. The students will learn theories of health behavior, models and framework for practice in health social work. Social work in healthcare will be examined in the continuum of primary, acute and intermediate and long-term care (ILTC). The students will gain insights into the impact of illness on individuals and their families. It aims to cover specialized topics such as chronic illnesses, acute and trauma, mental health, family violence, medical ethics, palliative and end of life care."}, {"moduleCode": "SWD5880E", "title": "Social Work Practice in Mental Health", "description": "This course is designed for students who are training to enter the social work profession to support clients with mental health concerns. The course will cover foundational knowledge in common mental health issues and provide students with the understanding towards basic mental state examination and case formulation using the Integrated Illness Causation Model. The course will also provide perspectives into mental health diagnosis and classification, legislations governing the care and treatment of persons, and related ethical issues in social work practice"}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5001", "title": "Architecting Scalable Systems", "description": "This course teaches how to architect scalable, robust and reliable ubiquitous systems. Students will learn how to architect the back-end support for systems such as Netflix, Dropbox and the Singapore\u2019s Lamp Post IoT project."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5001G", "title": "Architecting Scalable Systems", "description": "This course teaches how to architect scalable, robust and reliable ubiquitous systems. Students will learn how to architect the back-end support for systems such as Netflix, Dropbox and the Singapore\u2019s Lamp Post IoT project."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5002", "title": "Designing and Managing Products and Platforms", "description": "This course teaches how to design and manage products and platforms. Examples are AliPay and Grab application platform."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5002G", "title": "Designing and Managing Products and Platforms", "description": "This course teaches how to design and manage products and platforms. Examples are AliPay and Grab application platform."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5003", "title": "Engineering Big Data", "description": "This course teaches the skills required to engineer and architect scalable data sources for powering data-driven digital platforms and data-intensive streaming systems. Examples are systems such as Netflix, Nest, Sensetime."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5003G", "title": "Engineering Big Data", "description": "This course teaches the skills required to engineer and architect scalable data sources for powering data-driven digital platforms and data-intensive streaming systems. Examples are systems such as Netflix, Nest, Sensetime."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5004", "title": "Architecting Smart Systems", "description": "This course teaches the skills and techniques required to engineer Intelligent Smart Systems. Example systems include Alexa, Nest, Amazon Go."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5004G", "title": "Architecting Smart Systems", "description": "This course teaches the skills and techniques required to engineer Intelligent Smart Systems. Example systems include Alexa, Nest, Amazon Go."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5005", "title": "Securing Ubiquitous Systems", "description": "This course will teach how to design and manage cyber security for ubiquitous systems that needs to be highly secure including cashless systems. Example systems include PayLah, Telegram, SSO/2FA, LifeSmart."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5005G", "title": "Securing Ubiquitous Systems", "description": "This course will teach how to design and manage cyber security for ubiquitous systems that needs to be highly secure including cashless systems. Example systems include PayLah, Telegram, SSO/2FA, LifeSmart."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5006", "title": "Designing Modern Software Systems", "description": "In this graduate certificate, members of agile teams will learn how to apply essential agile practices, software design skills and DevSecOps practices to analyse, design and implement nontrivial software systems that are robust, reusable, maintainable and extensible with the relevant project artifacts."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5006G", "title": "Designing Modern Software Systems", "description": "In this graduate certificate, members of agile teams will learn how to apply essential agile practices, software design skills and DevSecOps practices to analyse, design and implement nontrivial software systems that are robust, reusable, maintainable and extensible with the relevant project artifacts."}, {"moduleCode": "SWE5007", "title": "Capstone Project in Software Engineering", "description": "The Capstone project for the Master of Technology in Software Engineering is designed to allow students to experience engineering smart, secure and scalable\nsoftware systems, platforms and products.\n\nThe project allows students to apply their knowledge in a real world context, demonstrating their mastery of a range of software skills, such as in project management, requirements analysis, architecture and design, software construction, verification and validation. It also allows students to apply techniques and skills learnt to build smart systems and platforms that are capable of handling and making use of AI techniques, Internet of Things and Big Data.\n\nThe capstone project will be conducted typically in teams of 3-5 students. However in special cases, students maybe allowed do individual projects.\n\nStudents are expected to spend at least 40 man-days of effort each."}, {"moduleCode": "SWK5070", "title": "Crime and Criminality: A Multidisciplinary Perspective", "description": "Is crime a \u201cnatural\u201d, biological, psychological, sociological and legal phenomenon, or a combination of all? How do contemporary societies in general, and the criminal justice system in particular, deal with the problem of crime and disorder? This course aims to answer these questions and more about our understanding on how criminals and crimes are being viewed in our society. The students will be acquainted with the criminal justice policy perspectives on crime and punishment and how best to respond to and reduce the problem of crime in contemporary societies."}, {"moduleCode": "SWK5071", "title": "Criminal Justice in Context: A Critical Introduction", "description": "The course will introduce students to the sociological and psychological issues relating to incarceration and their impact on the processes of prisonization, prisoner identity construction and management, and subsequent reintegration into society. These issues will be examined against the backdrop of the philosophy and principles of punishment as well as the prison system."}, {"moduleCode": "SWK5074", "title": "Pathways to Desistance - Offender Rehabilitation Theories", "description": "In-prison programming, counselling and casework services are an integral part of offender rehabilitation and re-entry into the community. There is relatively a lacuna in the scholarship to offer a theoretical understanding to design programmes, counselling and casework services that are appropriate for offender rehabilitation. Modern approaches include RiskNeed-Responsivity (RNR) principles and to a great extent, Good Lives Model (GLM). However, in recent years, there is a burgeoning desistance research to advocate for a more holistic method to support the offenders in their reintegration."}, {"moduleCode": "SWK5075", "title": "Engaging Family Systems in Rehabilitation", "description": "Families play a crucial role in the rehabilitation of the exoffender. Some are involved in the transgenerational transmission of pathology, whilst others have rigid structure and patterns that present challenges to the ex-offender\u2019s rehabilitation."}, {"moduleCode": "SWK5076", "title": "Helping Clients Manage Their Difficult Emotions", "description": "Understanding Anger and Aggression in Reintegration Work - Anger is an emotion that many offenders have difficulty with. They experience it strongly, some all too frequently, express it in ways that are destructive and ultimately damaged by it as well. This two-day course will inform participants on how this emotion is experienced in the body and mind. It will identify the many ways to help clients better regulate this emotion."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5104", "title": "Management of Human Service Organizations", "description": "The aim of this course is for students to develop knowledge, values and skills that contribute to the management of a social service agency in Singapore. Students will learn to apply organizational theories and theories of management to human service organizations with specific reference to strategic planning, organisational structure and processes, staff management, managing interaction with the environment, management of information and communication, and resource and financial management. Cross country comparisons and discussions will enable critical thinking about human service organizations in the local context."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5106", "title": "Social Policy and Welfare Services", "description": "The aim of this course is for students to understand and assess the social policies in Singapore, especially those concerning welfare services for vulnerable groups. They will learn to do so in the international historical and theoretical context of the welfare state and welfare pluralism, and contemporary international discourses on social well-being and human development. Review of social policy and welfare services in Singapore will focus upon the Singapore\u2019s unique approaches to policy formulation, implementation and monitoring. Welfare services for the vulnerable groups will be assessed within the larger context of social well-being and development."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5107", "title": "Program Development and Evaluation", "description": "This course deals with the overall process of social service program planning and evaluation. Its emphasis is not only on the conceptual understanding of research methodological issues underlying different program evaluation designs, but also on the application of various data collection methods and data analysis skills required for program evaluation. Seeking to promote both evidence\u2010based practice and practice\u2010based research in the field, this course also examines how social workers can utilize and incorporate research methods and skills into their helping process to generate practice\u2010informed data for the stage of program evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5111", "title": "Advanced Practicum", "description": "Candidates of MSW who have a Bachelor in Social Work degree are allowed to enrol for \u2018SW5111 \u2013 Advanced Practicum\u2019. Two specialization tracks are offered: clinical and supervision track and programme development track. The learning goal is to enhance social work practitioners\u2019 competence and capabilities in the chosen track."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5111A", "title": "Practicum", "description": "Practicum is a compulsory module for candidates who do not have a Bachelor\u2019s degree in social work or equivalent. This module is designed to ensure practice competence by providing 800 hour first hand, systematic and supervised practice experiences in the actual field together with seminars for integration of social work theories with practice. The stipulated hours should be completed prior to graduation."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5111B", "title": "Practicum", "description": "Practicum is a compulsory course for candidates with a Graduate Diploma in Social Work. This course is designed to ensure practice competence by providing 400 hour first-hand, systematic and supervised practice experiences in the actual field. The stipulated hours should be completed prior to graduation."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5112", "title": "Supervised Project", "description": "Candidates are required to complete a Supervised Project, which will be an independent and original piece of work, which involves innovative and original initiatives such as developing a new social service program/policy or conducting an original piece of field research. Exemption of Supervised Project may only be given to non-social work graduates or other candidates on a case-by-case basis and, in such a case, Supervised Project is replaced by a Practicum."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5117A", "title": "Practice Research Capstone Seminar I", "description": "Practice research promotes integration of practice and research in social work. It plays a key role in developing, improving and evaluating clinical practice skills, intervention models and social service provision. This capstone seminar aims to enable students to produce a practice research proposal and prepare for executing a practice research project based on the proposal in the subsequent semester. Learning activities in this course include a series of seminars, fieldwork, individual consultations, and student presentations for developing a practice research proposal to address practice research agenda in the field of one\u2019s interest."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5117B", "title": "Practice Research Capstone Seminar II", "description": "Building on the practice research proposal developed in SW5117A, this capstone seminar aims to facilitate students\u2019 execution of an actual practice research project and dissemination of practice research findings. Along with peer feedback sessions in class and individual consultations, learning activities in this course include practice data collection and analysis in the field, practice research report writing, and presentation/dissemination of the practice research findings."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5205", "title": "Working with Trauma - Infancy through Adolescence", "description": "Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse and violence but from incidents such as divorce, medical procedures that generate effects that are often minimized. This course aims to provide students with a framework for understanding trauma, the reactions of traumatized children and youth, and the effects of events such as natural disasters, accidents, violence, invasive medical procedures, abrupt separation on the child\u2019s physiological, psychological and emotional well being. In addition, the students will be introduced to evidenced based interventions models for working with traumatized children and youth."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5206", "title": "Mastering Leadership", "description": "Leadership is an important determinant of organizational success. The aim of this course is for students to learn the principles for leadership that will enhance organizational performance. Leadership today is more than acquiring skills and knowledge, the course will place emphasis on the leader as a person. Students will learn the different theories of leadership and assess critical factors in developing leadership. Topics include Influence and Connection of the leader, the dark side of leadership, leadership and organization culture, building trust to get results, coaching to drive effective leadership and leading and managing change in organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5207", "title": "Working with Multi-Stressed Families", "description": "Multi\u2010stressed families often termed resistant, dysfunctional and hard to work with have been the main focus of social work practice. This course offers a multilevel intervention approach in working with these families. Using a systemic assessment of multigenerational influences, the course will explore the meanings and impact of these events for the family. The various therapeutic modalities, skills and interventions (including family assessment tools) will also be discussed, with a primary focus on strengths and resilience. The need for community networking, collaboration and case management will also be emphasised."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5208", "title": "Using Play Therapy with Children and Families", "description": "This course enhances the student\u2019s understanding of the systemic/ relational use of play therapy with children and their family systems. A particular emphasis of the course will be understanding play therapy from historical, clinical, spiritual, systemic / relational and theoretical perspectives; the integration of family therapy and play therapy; and the clinical use of different types of play therapy modalities with diverse family constellations."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5209", "title": "Theory and Practice of Social Work Supervision", "description": "Social work supervision is an important practice area that\nserves to enhance the competencies of social workers\nand ensure good clients\u2019 outcomes. In ensuring good\nsupervisory practice, the dynamics of personal, relational,\norganizational, socio-economical and cultural factors have\nto be considered. In this course, students will examine the\nknowledge and skills that social work supervisors need to\naddress the challenges that may arise in the supervisory\npractice. A range of topics with broad themes based on\nthe conceptualization of supervision and critical issues in\nsupervision that are impacted by the organizational,\nsocio-political contexts will be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5213", "title": "Practice with Persons with Disability", "description": "It is estimated that in any given society 3\u201010% of the population has some form of disability. This increases to 15% when the definition of disability includes people who are limited in activity due to chronic conditions. In Singapore a conservative estimate of persons with some form of disability may be anywhere from 120,000 to 400,000 individuals. This would include both a medical perspective as well as a socio\u2010functional perspective which emphasizes the need to address economic, environmental and cultural barriers. This course will use a life span perspective to discuss the impact of disability on the individual."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5215", "title": "Poverty and Asset-Building Policy", "description": "This course examines the meanings of assets, assets poverty, and inclusive asset\u2010building policy for the vulnerable population. It begins with re\u2010examination of poverty and existing anti\u2010poverty policy. Then, this course discusses meanings of assets and mounting evidence of short\u2010 and long\u2010term positive effects of holding assets. This course examines theories of saving and asset accumulation, in particular, institutional saving theory for inclusive asset\u2010building policy in Singapore and other parts of the world. To increase understanding of asset\u2010building strategies, this course provides a range of asset\u2010building policy and programs throughout the world."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5215R", "title": "Poverty and Asset-Building Policy", "description": "This course examines the meanings of assets, assets poverty, and inclusive asset\u2010building policy for the vulnerable population. It begins with re\u2010examination of poverty and existing anti\u2010poverty policy. Then, this course discusses meanings of assets and mounting evidence of short\u2010 and long\u2010term positive effects of holding assets. This course examines theories of saving and asset accumulation, in particular, institutional saving theory for inclusive asset\u2010building policy in Singapore and other parts of the world. To increase understanding of asset\u2010building strategies, this course provides a range of asset\u2010building policy and programs throughout the world."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5216", "title": "Family and Interpersonal Violence", "description": "Family and Interpersonal violence has been given prominence in the last decade. Social workers are increasingly identified as key providers of social-emotional services to this target group. This course will cover knowledge and skills pertaining to interpersonal violence. Topics include conceptual understanding of family violence and its dynamics, the legal provisions; casework and treatment group modalities in engaging survivors, men who abuse, child witnesses; ethical issues; networking and collaboration with key players such as Family Court, Police, MSF, hospitals and other social services; case management services."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5217", "title": "Continuum of Care and Healthy Ageing", "description": "The course provides advanced knowledge and skills of gerontological social work in institutionalized and community\u2010 based health care. It further encourages students to develop preventive strategies to promote healthy ageing through their meticulous evaluation of specialized ageing programs and services which have been implemented. Students work on the applied learning project that is an integral part of this course. Supervised projects would be complementary for the student\u2019s practical learning process. In light of multidisciplinary team approach and synthesized theory based applications, this course intensively increases students\u2019 practical capacity through collaborations within and across multidisciplinary service networks for older adults."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5218", "title": "Practice with Persons with Addiction", "description": "This course aims to equip students with recent theories on addiction leading to an in\u2010depth understanding of addictive behaviours, and the application for social work practice. Topics include models of addiction, etiology and recovery, assessment and treatment modalities, crisis intervention and relapse prevention. This course also focuses on alcoholism and problem gambling, as there is a wide scope for social work intervention in these problem areas. Social drinking and recreational gambling are prevalent in our society. When alcohol and gambling issues become problematic, individuals and families can experience several psychosocial problems."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5219", "title": "Palliative and End-Of-Life Care", "description": "This course covers important issues encountered by social workers involved in palliative and end\u2010of\u2010life care. Key topics include 1) assessment and intervention strategies based on the bio\u2010psychosocial\u2010spiritual perspective, 2) potential ethical dilemmas encountered in end\u2010of\u2010life care, 3) impact of personal values and biases on quality of care, 4) grief and bereavement and 5) end\u2010of\u2010life care for special populations. At the end of the course, students will be able to a) explain influence of personal values and biases on end\u2010of\u2010life (EOL) care, b) implement assessment and intervention strategies for end\u2010of\u2010life care and c) describe key aspects of the dying process."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5220", "title": "Statistics for Social Workers", "description": "This course introduces statistics to social work students, specifically on their use in making informed decisions about social work interventions. The purpose is to facilitate students to use quantitative data in the effective development, delivery, and evaluation of social work services. Through SPSS, a user-friendly software, students will learn how to set up and analyze data. Topics covered in this course are descriptive and inferential statistics within the context of social work practice. This course goes beyond mere calculations and emphasizes on the criteria for and interpretability of statistical tests as well their applications in real world."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5245", "title": "Current Group Approaches in Social Work", "description": "This course outlines the current theories and principles of group social work. The focus will be on the principles and skills of group assessment and intervention in a clinical setting. This is an experiential course where students will focus on designing and conducting a group work program for a special population. Skills in selecting an appropriate theoretical framework, planning session contents and activities, conducting and evaluating the sessions will be emphasized in the CA where students are expected to conduct group sessions and write a report on outcome and learning experiences. The students will examine group work competencies and supervision of group work."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5252", "title": "Community Organisation and Development", "description": "This course covers the theory and practice of community development. In particular, it will address the role of community development in building social capital and community bonding. Models of community development will be critically reviewed and analyzed in the context of Singapore. Strategies and techniques used in Singapore vis-\u00e0-vis other communities and issues in community participation and intervention will be explored. This course will also discuss some of the challenges of working in a community development setting."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5253", "title": "Volunteer Management", "description": "The values and principles for volunteer management are outlined in this course. Volunteer training and development including delegation, supervision, recognition, etc are included."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Independent research plays an important role in graduate education. The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic in Social Work in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Graduate Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5881", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Direct Practice", "description": "One special topic in direct social work practice will be dealt with in this course . Students in this course will critically understand and analyze the contemporary issues arising from direct practice under the special topic, learn about relevant assessment and intervention models, and acquire clinical skills which aim to address the issues for clients at different systemic levels (e.g., individuals, families, and groups) across various practice settings (e.g., community, and health care) and/or different stages of life span."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5883", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Social Work Leadership", "description": "One special topic/area in human service organization management and leadership in social work/social services will be dealt with in this course. The selected topical area will be one among various topics in indirect social work practice or social administration, such as strategic management and leadership of NGO, social finance, negotiation and conflict management, volunteering and philanthropy, marketing social programs and promoting community relations, and etc. Students in this course will learn about theoretical underpinnings, organizational structures and strategies, personnel management, public relations, and social work leadership development in the area of the special topic chosen."}, {"moduleCode": "SWM5884", "title": "Topics in Social Work - Research", "description": "One special topic/area in social work research & evaluation will be dealt with in this course. Students will be introduced one or more advanced social work research/evaluation methods, such as qualitative social work research, statistics for social workers, mixed methods in social work research, intervention research, etc. in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5001", "title": "Systems Engineering and Architecture", "description": "Systems have many interacting components \u2013 hardware, software and people with complex and often conflicting requirements to be met. Systems engineering combines technical, interpersonal and managerial knowledge and skills to build systems. This course provides students with the language, knowledge, and concepts of systems and systems engineering and an introduction to various types of architecture to manage complex systems. Students will explore the processes of design, development, implementation and management of multi-functional team-based projects. It will also provide the student with the ability to carry out and manage a system engineering project. Case studies will provide the students with a practical context."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5002", "title": "Large Scale Systems Project Management", "description": "This course presents ideas of systems analysis and project management in a manner which demonstrates their essential unity. It uses the systems development cycle as framework to discuss management of engineering and business projects from conception to termination. The course is divided into three interrelated parts: systems analysis and project management, project selection and organization behaviour, and systems and procedures in project planning and control."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5003", "title": "Engineering Finance", "description": "All complex engineering and management investment decisions have economic consequences, such as profitability and risk. This course is aimed at providing the necessary background knowledge and techniques for economic evaluation of capital investments. Topics such as time value of money, economic evaluation of alternatives, accounting concepts, depreciation and taxation, replacement analysis, risk and uncertainty, capital financing & budgeting, real options analysis are included. Case studies and software applications will be used in all topics."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5004", "title": "Large Scale Systems Engineering", "description": "This course deals mainly with the complex decision-making process in the planning, design, operation and maintenance of large scale systems. It examines the goals of a system, its stakeholders, and its boundaries (political, social, environmental etc) and limitations including the complexities involved to understand the issues in planning, design and management of such large scale systems. In addition, the possible effects and unintended consequences are also considered. To do this, it draws upon some of the best practices from engineering, businesses management and political and social sciences. Case studies of systems that have been implemented in Singapore or being planned are used to illustrate the practical aspects of systems engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5005", "title": "Management Science in Systems Engineering", "description": "Model-based analytical techniques have been used effectively to understand processes, constraints, relationships and issues in complex management and system engineering problems. An organization can exploit these techniques to\nmake better decisions under uncertainties, derive cost-savings in operations, design better products and create new services. Participants in the course will learn to identify opportunities for improvement within their organizations, develop\nskills in using and managing model-based analysis effectively, and become more\ndisciplined thinkers in systems engineering and management issues. Examples and case studies will be drawn from a variety of practical scenarios such as network design, engineering design optimization, logistics and supply chains, and\noperations management."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5201", "title": "Integrated Logistics Support", "description": "Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) is essential to the design and life cycle support of systems. It includes influencing the design to improve supportability, maintenance planning, provisioning, development of manuals and training, and logistic support over the system full life cycle. Topics covered include the concept of\nILS in the design and maintenance of systems, operational requirements, system maintenance concept, functional analysis, life-cycle costs, logistics support analysis, systems design, test and evaluation, production, spare / repair parts \nmanagement are discussed. Case studies will be used."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5202", "title": "Lean Six Sigma", "description": "This course covers the basic principles of the subjects Six Sigma and Lean as well as associated tools such as 5S and value stream analysis. Essential techniques related to setting up project charter, management and execution of Six Sigma projects are covered. Case studies will be used."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5203", "title": "Decision Analysis & Risk Management", "description": "This course teaches the necessary practical skills and analytical knowledge for complex decision making and risk management in engineering and business environments. This is achieved by providing a paradigm based on normative decision theory and a set of prescriptive tools and computational techniques using state-of-the art software with which a stake holder can systematically analyze a complex and uncertain decision situation leading to clarity of action. Students will be better positioned to carry out and communicate decision and risk analyses on their own as well as evaluate work undertaken by specialists, analysts and consultants. Case studies and real-life examples will be used to illustrate the various techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5204", "title": "Learning from Data and Knowledge Discovery", "description": "This course deals with collecting and drawing inferences from data from operational processes to allow the decision maker to characterize, improve and design such processes. Statistical methods for supervised and unsupervised learning will be covered in this course. Topics include descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, regression analysis, multivariate analysis, nonparametric methods, associate rules, and cluster analysis. The subject is application oriented and examples drawn from service processes rather than mathematical development will be used wherever possible to introduce a topic."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5301", "title": "Humans and Systems Engineering", "description": "This course will focus on the interaction dynamics between the human operator and the machine/system in a human-machine system. We shall begin by defining the areas of concern in human factors engineering (e.g., the humanmachine interface, the displays to be perceived, and the controls to be actuated). We shall discuss also the tools and methodologies used by a human factors engineer. The latter portion of the subject will discuss issues of capabilities and limitations of the human operator."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5302", "title": "Leadership in Engineering", "description": "This course will examine leadership in relation to technology and the engineering profession. Topics will include: leadership theories, historic and current leaders, ethical leadership, teaming and networking, thinking frameworks, business and engineering leadership, and communicating and influencing people. Through this course students will explore their own leadership abilities and develop or strengthen their competencies in areas such as personal mastery, team dynamics, running effective meetings, developing and coaching others, and creation of vision and mission statements."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5403", "title": "Systems Engineering Project and Case Studies", "description": "This course provides an opportunity for students to do an independent study of how a complex system is designed, commissioned and managed. The course will provide the students with both practical and practical experience working with senior systems engineering manager on a real-world project, and to provide opportunity for the student to reflect on the process they followed, the nature of the problem solved. Projects will be chosen from various domains such as health care, logistics, energy & environment, socio-technological systems, etc. Students will present their findings in a seminar and submit a written report."}, {"moduleCode": "SYE5409", "title": "Special Topics in Systems Engineering & Management", "description": "This is an advanced course in Systems Engineering. Specific topics are selected on the basis of current teaching and research needs. Lectures and case studies will be given by both department staff, senior practitioners and visiting specialists."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA2101", "title": "Building an Analytics Organisation", "description": "This course aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of how to develop an organisation for analytics. The course starts by describing how an organisation can transform itself to become an analytics organisation. It will then move on to the methods and techniques for applied analytics, managing and governing data for analytics, reporting of data for key performance indicators, and optimisation and testing with applied analytics. Solutions to address organisational silos are also discussed. Examples will be drawn from various industry domains and organisations."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA2102", "title": "Introduction to Business Analytics", "description": "This course provides students with an introduction to the fundamental concepts and tools needed to understand the emerging role of business analytics in business and nonprofit organisations. The course aims to demonstrate to students how to apply basic applied analytics tools using MS Excel and R, and how to communicate with analytics professionals to effectively use and interpret analytic models and results for making better and more well-informed business decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA2103", "title": "Data Visualisation", "description": "This course aims to provide students with practical knowledge and understanding of basic issues and techniques in data visualisation principles, techniques and tools. The course covers data visualisation and dashboard design concepts, visual perception and design principles, visualisation techniques and tools for temporal and spatial data, proportions and relationships, multivariate and complex data, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA2104", "title": "Predictive Analytics", "description": "Predictive analytics uses an assortment of statistical techniques to predict future events or behaviors based on collected data. For example, businesses could use predictive analytics to answer questions about consumer behavior and market movements and to anticipate future events, forecast plausible outcomes, and make informed decisions that enable organisations to gain and sustain competitive advantages. Data can be combined and analysed to make predictions with a certain degree of reliability. Students will learn predictive analytics by using Excel or R to construct statistical models like regression, time-series forecasting, weighted moving averages among others."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA2105", "title": "Web Mining", "description": "Web mining aims to find useful information from the web about the market trends and competitor movements. This course covers the fundamental concepts of web mining and web search techniques and equip with skills and capacity to analyse, design and develop web search and web mining applications."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA3102", "title": "Text Analytics", "description": "This course discusses the basic concepts and methods of text analytics including capturing, representing, and interpreting unstructured or loosely structured textual information. Such textual information includes newswire stories, blogs, and forum discussions among others. This course also serves as the foundation for analysing textbased information (e.g., sentiment analysis) on the social media platforms."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA3103", "title": "Application Systems Development for Business Analytics", "description": "This course aims to train students to be conversant in the technologies, approaches, principles and issues in designing IT applications systems for applied analytics. Major topics include: rapid web frameworks, scripting languages, web and mobile interfaces, tracking and analysis of customers, payment services / verification, implementing security, designing and deploying web and mobile services, and operational considerations and technical tradeoffs."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA3150", "title": "Mobile Application and Game Analytics", "description": "In this course, students will develop an appreciation of analytics in mobile application and game, as well as its importance on the application and game design. The interest on mobile application and game analytics has emerged in recent years as one of the essential resources for understanding user behavior and enhancing their usage experience. Students will learn the key concepts to mobile application and game design and analytics to meet constantly changing user needs."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA3204", "title": "Web Analytics", "description": "Web analytics is the practice of collecting website traffic data to understand visitor activity and interactions. The insights gained through web analytics allow website developers to make informed decisions about how to improve site efficacy (e.g., landing page optimisation) and user experience (flow). Tools such as Google! Analytics could be used for exercises."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA3222", "title": "Marketing Analytics", "description": "In today\u2019s environment, marketing analysts require tools and techniques to both quantify the strategic value of marketing initiatives, and to maximise marketing campaign performance. This course aims to teach students concepts, methods and tools to demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) of marketing activities and to leverage on marketing analytic techniques to make better and more informed marketing decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA3241", "title": "Social Media Analytics", "description": "This course is a follow-up from TAA3102 (Text Analytics) that looks at how organisations can expand their social networks and strengthen their relationships with connected individuals and online communities to create value from social media."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA4204", "title": "Financial Analytics", "description": "This course seeks to educate the students on how and to what extent can analytics can be applied in the financial service sector, in order for a student to seek a career in this industry sector. It is designed to provide the students with a broad overview and thematic case studies of how each major business segment of the financial services industry employs IT and analytics to maintain a competitive edge, and to comply with laws and regulations."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA4212", "title": "Search Engine Optimisation and Analytics", "description": "This course teaches the concepts, techniques and methods to analyse and improve the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the \u201cnatural\u201d or unpaid (\u201corganic\u201d or \u201calgorithmic\u201d) search results. The course will emphasise the relationship of search engine optimisation to digital marketing in terms of building high quality web pages to engage and persuade, setting up analytics programs to enable sites to measure results, and improving a site\u2019s conversion rate."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA4215", "title": "Workforce Analytics", "description": "Increasingly, human resource department is relying on metrics and analytics to formulate effective and sustainable strategies. This course introduces the key operations of human resource management and relates them to workforce analytics. Students will understand how workforce analytics functions, e.g., analyse historical manpower data to predict future manpower requirements. The benefits could include improved human resource functions, higher recruitment success rates, improved management of employee performance and derived actionable workforce analytics reporting."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA4220", "title": "Geospatial Analytics", "description": "This course offers in-depth coverage of geospatial analysis, starting with the transferring of knowledge in the gathering, visualization, and manipulation of spatial data. The key areas in geospatial analytics, including point pattern analysis, spatial autocorrelation, and spatial interpolation will be covered in detail using a variety of case studies. The course provides hands-on skills to use a Geographic Information System (GIS) to learn and apply different spatial operations."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA4230", "title": "Audit Analytics", "description": "This course provides you with the foundational application of analytics in the internal and external auditing process. Students will have an opportunity to gain technological and managerial overview of analytical techniques in the auditing domain, link audit analytics to an organisation\u2019s continuous monitoring, business process support, and audit analytics reporting."}, {"moduleCode": "TBA4250", "title": "Healthcare Analytics", "description": "To a healthcare enterprise, leveraging on healthcare data is strategic for business intelligence, streamlining workflow operations and providing quality customer service and patient care. Lectures and tutorials will cover foundations and best practices to achieve effective and meaningful analytics. The course is useful for students with the view to an IT career related to information management in healthcare."}, {"moduleCode": "TC1005", "title": "MATLAB Programming for Chemical Engineers", "description": "With the widespread use of computers and computational tools in industrial practice and research, it is important for students in the chemical engineering programme to gain a firm understanding and appreciation of the fundamentals of programming, algorithmic problem solving, coding and debugging. The final goal is to be able to apply these skills to solving realistic chemical engineering problems. MATLAB, a high-level computing language will be employed due to its capability to solve domain-specific computing problems more conveniently than with traditional programming languages. MATLAB also provides the platform to span a wide variety of application areas."}, {"moduleCode": "TC1411", "title": "Mathematics for Chemical Engineers 1", "description": "This module provides a basic foundation in calculus and its related subjects required by Chemical Engineering students. The objective is to equip students with various calculus techniques for their Chemical Engineering modules in later semesters. The module emphasizes problem solving and mathematical methods in single-variable and multivariate calculus, vector algebra and matrix algebra as well as their applications in Chemical Engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "TC1422", "title": "Materials for Chemical Engineers", "description": "This module starts with an introduction to the fundamental principles of materials science, which include basic structural chemistry and crystal structures. After that, the second part of this module covers typical properties of materials, which include structure imperfection and diffusion, mechanical properties, thermal behavior, electrochemical corrosions, and phase diagrams of metals. The third part describes structural characteristics of materials including ceramic, metallic, polymeric and composite materials. The last part gives a general introduction to more physically related properties, namely electrical and optical properties as well as the environmental aspects of structural materials selection."}, {"moduleCode": "TC2411", "title": "Mathematics for Chemical Engineers 2", "description": "This module introduces basic concepts of developing mathematical models for Chemical Engineering systems and trains students on techniques for solving the resulting differential equations. The objective is to provide mathematical foundations for solution of complex Chemical Engineering problems. This module is to be driven from Chemical Engineering systems perspective and expose students to methodology to identify appropriate simplifications in system modeling that lead to simplified mathematical description from a more comprehensive one. The module develops methods for solving first and second order differential equations, partial differential equations, and then applies them to Chemical Engineering systems."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE1109", "title": "Statics And Mechanics of Materials", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of statics and mechanics of materials and their applications to engineering problems. The topics introduce the fundamentals of structural mechanics, material behaviour and failure models to appreciate the use of materials. Both Mechanics of rigid body and deformable body are covered."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE2112", "title": "Soil Mechanics", "description": "This is an introductory course in soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering. The course teaches students the fundamental engineering geological knowledge and basic soil mechanics, and their impact on geotechnical and foundation engineering design and construction. Students will learn to understand the basic characteristics of soils, fundamental effective stress principle, and mechanical behaviour of soil including the strength, compressibility and consolidation properties of soil through lectures, tutorial discussions, and case studies, the course covers the basic soil properties, soil testing, shear strength parameters in drained and undrained conditions, compressibility of granular soil, and the consolidation characteristic of cohesive soils. The course also enables students to acquire the knowledge and practical skills of functioning as an engineer and consultants through the laboratory soil tests and submission of a consultant report arising from the analysis of a given mini-project, conducting appropriate soil tests and the engineering evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE2134", "title": "Hydraulics", "description": "This course introduces the student to basic concepts of fluid mechanics and hydraulics. Starting with fluid properties and fluid statics, the student would understand how these concepts are used for the calculation of hydrostatic forces and the stability of floating bodies. The student is introduced to the concepts of fluid flow, ideal and real fluids and their limitations, laminar and turbulent flows, the concept of the boundary layer and flow resistance, the concept of flow separation and the wake, frictional and form drag and lift on immersed bodies. Dimensional analysis and the concept of similitude will help reinforce the fundamental considerations essential for experiments with fluid phenomena. By the end of the course, the student should understand the concepts of conservation of mass, momentum and energy and how these can be applied to flow measuring devices, to the estimation of frictional losses for flows in pipelines, to pumping systems and other engineering applications."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE2155", "title": "Structural Mechanics and Materials", "description": "This course equips students with knowledge and skills in structural mechanics, and concrete and steel as structural materials. The topics introduce the fundamentals of material constitutive behaviours and failure models to appreciate the use of materials in structural design. The topics also cover the applications of concrete and steel as structural materials including its properties, design and quality control in practice. The course is compulsory for civil engineering undergraduate students without which he will not be qualified to practise as a professional civil engineer."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE2183", "title": "Construction Project Management", "description": "A project has to be managed effectively so that it\ncan be delivered on time, within budget, safely and\nmeeting quality specifications. This course is a first\ncourse on project management. It introduces the\nstudent to construction planning, contract\nadministration and managing the site. Through a\nproject and employing a project planning software\ncommonly used in the industry, the students will\nalso learn how to plan and schedule a project for\nconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE2184", "title": "Infrastructure & the Environment", "description": "Civil infrastructure has significant impact on the natural, social, economic and human environments. Engineers have a significant role to play in proposing and realising technical solutions that are economically feasible and environmentally sustainable. Sustainable infrastructure development must consider all significant project impacts in a holistic way through a methodical impact assessment process. This course introduces the concepts to conceptualize and evaluate proposals for infrastructure development in a holistic and sustainable way."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE2407", "title": "Engineering & Uncertainty Analyses", "description": "This course is designed to equip undergraduate civil engineering students with mathematical and statistical tools for fast and efficient solutions of various practical engineering problems in their further education and in their professional life. A bridge is built from mathematics and statistics to engineering applications based on a reasonable depth in fundamental knowledge. The focus is on numerical solution methods for linear algebraic problems and differential equations as well as on probability theory and statistics. The subjects are discussed and demonstrated in the context of practical civil engineering problems. This allows students to solve problems in many fields and disciplines. Application areas include but are not limited to stability problems, dynamics/vibrations, linear and nonlinear structural analysis, reliability and risk analysis, structural and system analysis under uncertainty, and design of processes and structures under uncertainty."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3001", "title": "Water Quality Engineering", "description": "Topics covered in this course include water and wastewater sources, characteristics of water and wastewater (physical, chemical, and biological parameters), principles of physical, chemical, and biological processes for water and wastewater treatment, and water reclamation. Applications of fundamental principles for process analysis and design will be discussed with a focus on commonalities in applications across industry. Laboratory experiments relevant to water quality assessment and engineering are also included in the course."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3100", "title": "Independent Study in Civil Engineering Infrastructure", "description": "This course involves supervised self study over one semester on a topic approved by the Department. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey, design feasibility study, industry case study, or critical analysis and evaluation related to smart cities, urban infrastructure and planning, construction, civil, or environmental engineering study, or a combination of these. The study area is to be finalised, after consultation with the supervisor. The student has to find a suitable supervisor. The student must acquire, interpret, evaluate relevant information in the area of study, and formulate practical solutions. Approval will be granted by the programme director."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3115", "title": "Geotechnical Engineering", "description": "This is an introductory course in slope stability and earth retaining structures. The topics covered include slopes and embankments, earth pressure and retaining structures, and basic deep excavations. Students will learn how to check ultimate limit states using limit equilibrium methods and appreciate that such checks are necessary but not sufficient (serviceability to be discussed in advanced courses). The goal is to teach an assessment of force and/or moment equilibrium for slopes, calculation of active and passive earth pressures, and appreciation of various important design considerations pertaining to earth retaining structures and basic deep excavations."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3116", "title": "Foundation Engineering", "description": "This is an introductory course in foundation engineering. The topics covered include site investigation and interpretation of soil reports, shallow foundations and deep foundations. Students will learn how to use simple foundations to distribute vertical loads from the superstructure to the underlying soil formation without overstressing the soil (more complex loading modes to be discussed in advanced courses). Students are taught the interpretation of site investigation report, derivation of relevant design soil properties, selection of sensible foundation type, and verification of capacity and settlement requirements."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3121", "title": "Transportation Engineering", "description": "This course introduces basic principles and tools to design, plan, evaluate, analyze, manage and control transportation systems. The aim is to enable students to identify, formulate, examine, and solve transportation engineering problems. The major topics include transportation system, planning and management, geometric design of roads and intersections, structural design of pavement, pavement materials, traffic flow and analysis, and traffic management and control."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3132", "title": "Water Resources Engineering", "description": "This course introduces the basic principles of hydrology and water resources, including flow through pressurised pipe systems and free surface flow. In particular the course covers fundamental concepts of hydrological cycle, such as: response of catchment system, river network and reservoir to rainfall; frequency analysis of rainfall or flood, design of ponds, reservoirs, river flow and catchment management, are covered as well. Other topics include flow routing such as kinematic wave, diffusive wave and dynamic wave. Water Resources portion of the course covers pressurised pipe flow calculation principles, hydraulic design of pipelines, use of pumps and turbines, urban hydraulics and water distribution systems. In addition to this, free surface open channel flows are covered. In particular topics of uniform flow, critical depth, gradually varied flow, calculation of surface profiles."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3155", "title": "Structural Analysis", "description": "This course covers the fundamentals of structural analysis. Students will learn idealization of structural components, materials, loads and supports, concepts of statical redundancy, determinacy and stability, energy theorems, analysis of trusses, beams and frames. The second part of the course will teach students the methods and principles of advanced structural analysis, with emphasis on matrix methods of linear structural analysis, influence line analysis and approximate lateral load analysis. Students will also familiarize themselves with software for stress and deformation analysis of typical civil engineering structures. The course is compulsory for civil engineering undergraduate students without which he will not be qualified to perform his task as respectable civil engineer."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3165", "title": "Structural Concrete Design", "description": "This course equips students with knowledge and skills in the design of structural concrete members and systems. The topics cover basic design for action effects as well as the serviceability and ultimate limit state design of real-life structures. The course is compulsory for civil engineering undergraduate students without which he will not be qualified to practice as a professional civil engineer."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE3166", "title": "Structural Steel Design and System", "description": "This course aims to equip undergraduate civil engineering students with sufficient design knowledge and skills on steel structures both for their further education and engineering career. This course provides students with fundamental approaches (based on Eurocode 3) in designing structural steel components and steel buildings. The scope of this course aligns with the fundamental requirement outlined by the Board of Singapore Professional Engineers on the design of steel structures. The students will acquire fundamental knowledge and approaches to perform structural design for steel beams, axially loaded members, connections, portal/industrial buildings, multi-storey frames, and plated structures. This enables the students to"}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4103", "title": "Design Project", "description": "The students are assigned an integrated design project involving various disciplines of civil engineering. The course provides the opportunity for students to work as a team on a civil engineering project integrating the knowledge they have gained from courses they have taken in earlier years. The course will also enhance their interpersonal, communication and leadership skills through group projects, report writing and a few oral presentations"}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4104", "title": "BTech Dissertation", "description": "The B. Tech. Dissertation is carried out by\nindividual students and offers the opportunity for\nthe student to develop research capabilities. It\nactively promotes creative thinking and allows\nindependent work on a prescribed research project.\nLevel 4 students undertake the project over two\nsemesters. Each student is expected to spend not\nless than 9 hours per week on the project chosen\nfrom a wide range, covering various civil\nengineering disciplines. Topics include elements of\ndesign and construction, and research and\ndevelopment. Assessment is based on the student\u2019s\nworking attitude, project execution and\nachievement, an interim report and presentation,\ndissertation and final oral presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4221", "title": "Design of Land Transport Infrastructures", "description": "This course equips students with the knowledge in the design of land transport infrastructures in the context of the multimodal nature of modern transportation systems. With a focus on the movement of people and vehicles, the planning and management of land transport infrastructural capacities and operations as well as the design of terminal and link facilities shall be examined. Topics covered include: design of highway infrastructures, bus transit and urban street infrastructural design; design of rail transit infrastructures; and stops, stations and terminal design."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4247", "title": "Treatment Plant Hydraulics", "description": "This course introduces the student to the application of the basic concepts in pipe and open channel flows that were covered earlier to the design of the pumping system and associated facilities in a water or sewage treatment plant. Topics covered include selection of pumps for optimal efficiency, hydraulic design of the pump sump and the sewage/treated water delivery system and surge mitigation. Students will be involved in a project on the design of such a system."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4257", "title": "Linear Finite Element Analysis", "description": "This course equips students with the fundamentals of finite element principles to enable them to understand the behaviour of various finite elements and to be able to select appropriate elements to solve physical and engineering problems with emphasis on structural and geotechnical engineering applications. It covers weak formulation, element shape function, isoparametric concepts, 1-D, 2-D, 3-D and axisymmetric elements, field problems, modelling and practical considerations, and special topics. The course is targeted at undergraduate and graduate students involved in research or application of the finite element method in civil engineering problems"}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4258", "title": "Structural Stability & Dynamics", "description": "The course introduces the basic principles and concepts of\nstructural stability and dynamics. Students will learn to\nunderstand the stability and dynamic characteristics of\nstructures and how they respond to quasi-static and time\nvarying loads. They will learn to apply the concept to civil\nengineering structures through projects. The course covers\nthe behaviour of structures such as frames, beams and\ntrusses modelled as discrete and continuous system\nsubjected to quasi-static and dynamic loads. The course is\ntargeted to 4th year undergraduate students."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4282", "title": "Building Information Modeling for Project Management", "description": "Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a revolutionary technology and process that provides an integrated digital database and a variety of modelling tools to remarkably change the way buildings and infrastructure facilities are designed, analyzed, constructed, and managed. BIM is rapidly becoming the industry standard and best practice. This course provides a comprehensive coverage with essential details in several key aspects of project development, such as design, building performance, sustainability, engineering, construction, project delivery, and facilities management. It helps the students start their first integrated BIM project through the hands-on of a project assignment employing industry leading BIM software."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4401", "title": "Water & Wastewater Engineering 2", "description": "This course provides the information regarding application of advanced unit operations and processes for enhancing the quality of treated effluent and rendering the product water suitable for reuse applications. The course will enable students to understand the fundamental principles of advanced wastewater treatment. Students are taught to identify and design the appropriate advanced treatment system to enhance the quality of the treated effluent and exploit the option of reuse application."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE4408", "title": "Environmental Impact Assessment", "description": "Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the process of identifying, predicting, evaluating and mitigating the biophysical, social, and other relevant effects of development proposals prior to major decisions being taken and commitments made. The objective of EIA is to ensure that decision-makers consider environmental impacts before deciding whether to proceed with new projects. Participants are introduced to the concept of EIA, its historical evolution and the terminologies that are used worldwide. Lectures will cover the organizational aspects of EIA, the EIA framework and the procedural methods to conduct an EIA, with special emphasis on water and water related issues. Participants will carry out a mini EIA study using the various approaches covered in the course."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5025", "title": "Intelligent Transportation Systems", "description": "A broad range of diverse technologies, including information processing, computing, communications, control and electronics can be applied to our transportation and systems. The combination of these technologies, known commonly as intelligent transportation systems (ITS), enables engineers to effectively manage transportation problems at the system level. The topics covered in this course include state-of-the-practice and state-of-the-art systems and technologies in rapidly progressing ITS research and development. This course enables the student opportunity acquiring the knowledge and practical skills through the lectures, field investigations, and course projects."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5026", "title": "Transportation Management & Policy", "description": "This course is designed to provide senior level undergraduate and graduate students an overall view of the transportation systems, means of managing and influencing the systems to achieve planning, design, and operation goals. The topics covered include the characteristics of transportation systems; roles and structure of government agencies in transportation management; environmental and social impact of transportation systems, travel demand management; public transport management; models of assessing transportation services; regulation and deregulation of transportation services; roles of transportation systems with the agenda of global warming and energy conservation; case studies of transportation policies in several countries."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5106", "title": "Ground Improvement", "description": "This is an advanced course on ground improvement techniques as well as its design, construction and monitoring in geotechnical engineering. Topics covered include ground improvement principles and design considerations, techniques of improving granular soils, techniques of improving cohesive soils and peaty soils, field controls and monitoring, field evaluation \u2013 specification, performance evaluation and acceptance criteria, and case study. Student are taught the basic principles of various ground improvement techniques, and how to select the most appropriate ground improvement techniques to be used in specific circumstances. Specific learning objectives include understanding the principles and design of vibroflotation method, dynamic compaction, dynamic replacement with mixing, vertical drains with preloading, chemical stabilization and grouting, etc. Field construction control and instrumentation as well as monitoring techniques will be discussed"}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5107", "title": "Pile Foundations", "description": "The course introduces students to the advanced principles and concepts on the analysis and design of pile foundations. Students will also learn how to appreciate and appraise complex pile foundation problems under various loading and boundary conditions. The course enables students to acquire the knowledge and practical skills through the course project assignments and case studies in the practice of advanced pile design."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5108", "title": "Earth Retaining Structures", "description": "This is an advanced course in earth-retaining structures and deep excavations. Topics include earth pressure theories, rigid retaining structures, flexible retaining structures, cellular cofferdams, retaining walls for deep excavations, support systems for deep excavations, and field monitoring. Students are taught to deal with design and construction issues pertaining to a spectrum of earthretaining systems from low rigid retaining walls to flexible support systems for deep excavations. Students will also learn to apply the methods of limit state, such as BS8002 and Eurocode7, to the design of rigid and flexible retaining walls. Applications of commercial geotechnical FEM softwares are taught to aid in design of deep excavations to limit ground deformations and satisfy SLS requirements. At the end of the course, students are taught the application of advanced earth pressure theories, selection of appropriate retaining structures, and verification of capacity and movement requirements, using limit equilibrium and FEM analysis tools."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5113", "title": "Geotechnical Investigation & Monitoring", "description": "This course teaches students the essential concepts and methodology for the planning, design and implementation of site investigation and ground instrumentation programmes. The course will be broadly divided into two parts. The first part covers various aspects of site investigation such as the planning, design, density of bore holes, sampling technology and disturbance, in-situ and laboratory testing and geophysical methods. The second part covers various aspects of ground instrumentation such as monitoring of ground movement, drawdown, excess pore pressures, strut forces, wall deflection and observational methods. This course enables students to acquire the knowledge and practical skills through the lectures, case studies and projects."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5202", "title": "Analysis & Design of Offshore Structures", "description": "This course provides students with design knowledge on steel offshore structures. The major topics covered include planning considerations; design criteria and procedures; methods for determining loads; structural analysis methods; member and joint designs; material selection and welding requirements; and design for fabrication, transportation and installation phases. The course will be valuable to students interested in offshore engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5206", "title": "Offshore Foundations", "description": "This course is concerned with the analysis and design of foundations for offshore structures. Students will learn the principles, concepts, analysis methodology and design considerations that are applied to the offshore environment. The major topics covered include: offshore design considerations; offshore site investigation; foundations for jack-up rigs and offshore gravity platforms; anchor foundations; suction caissons; and offshore pile foundations installation, analysis and design. Students gain an understanding of the design methodology for offshore foundations for fixed and floating structures."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5509", "title": "Advanced Structural Steel Design", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to equip civil engineering students with sufficient design knowledge and skills on steel-concrete composite structures both for their further education and for their future engineering career. This course provides students with fundamental approaches in designing structural steel-concrete components and buildings. The students will acquire fundamental knowledge and skills to perform structural design for composite beams, slabs, columns, joints, multistorey buildings. This enables the students to conceive a safe and economical structural system. The course is targeted at MSC civil engineering students and those with a keen interest on structural design."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5510", "title": "Advanced Structural Concrete Design", "description": "The objective of this course is to further equip civil engineering students with design knowledge and skills in reinforced and prestressed concrete. The course provides students with fundamental approaches in designing structural concrete components and systems. The students will learn refined methods in the design for action effects and for deflection and crack control, and in the structural design of flat slab systems, slender columns, concrete bridges, concrete water tanks, design and detailing of connections. The course is targeted at MSc civil engineering students and those with a keen interest on advanced structural concrete design."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5604", "title": "Advanced Concrete Technology", "description": "This course provides students with in-depth knowledge on the role of constituent materials of concrete such as cements, mineral admixtures, and chemical admixtures and their interactions that affect properties of fresh and hardened concrete. It also provides students with in-depth knowledge on concrete response to stresses, timedependent deformations, and durability of concrete exposed to severe environments. The course discusses the basic considerations and design philosophy for performance-based design of concrete mixtures and production of concrete. It also discusses the progress in concrete technology and the latest development on highstrength, high-performance, lightweight, and self compacting concrete. Sustainable development in construction industry and use of recycled aggregates and other recycled materials will be discussed as well. The course is targeted at post-graduate and final year undergraduate students who will gain knowledge from the course to complement their skill in structural design and to prepare them for their career as professional engineers."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5611", "title": "Precast Concrete Technology", "description": "The primary objective of this course is to equip civil engineering students with sufficient design knowledge and skills on precast structural concrete both for their further education and for their future engineering career. This course provides students with fundamental approaches in designing precast concrete components and structures. The students will acquire fundamental knowledge and approaches to section analysis and design, design of connections, floor diaphragm action, precast frame structures and precasat components. The course is targeted at MSc civil engineering students and those with a keen interest on precast concrete technology."}, {"moduleCode": "TCE5805", "title": "Construction Equipment and Methods", "description": "In a project, the selection of construction method and\nequipment are important considerations that can affect\nproject execution and even the bottom line profits. This\ncourse gives an overview of the construction methods\navailable in civil engineering, industrial, offshore and\nbuilding type projects, and the considerations in equipment\nselection and fleet size determination. It also introduces the\nstudent to concepts of constructability, simulation and\noptimization methods related to allocation of scarce\nresources. Specific topics include constructability concepts\nand implementation, planning, methods, information\ntechnology applications, systems analysis and optimization,\nconstruction economics."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN1005", "title": "MATLAB Programming for Chemical Engineers", "description": "With the widespread use of computers and computational tools in industrial practice and research, it is important for students in the chemical engineering programme to gain a firm understanding and appreciation of the fundamentals of programming, algorithmic problem solving, coding and debugging. The final goal is to be able to apply these skills to solving realistic chemical engineering problems. MATLAB, a high-level computing language will be employed due to its capability to solve domain-specific computing problems more conveniently than with traditional programming languages. MATLAB also provides the platform to span a wide variety of application areas."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN1111", "title": "Chemical Engineering Principles", "description": "Students will be introduced to an overview of the chemical process industry and a discussion of several significant examples. The core of the course covers the details of steady state material and energy balance, including recycle, purge, phase change and chemical reaction. The concepts are extended to simultaneous mass and energy balances and unsteady state balances. The course is targeted at first-year part-time chemical engineering students with some working knowledge in the chemical industries."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN1411", "title": "Mathematics for Chemical Engineers 1", "description": "This course provides a basic foundation in calculus and its related subjects required by Chemical Engineering students. The objective is to equip students with various calculus techniques for their Chemical Engineering courses in later semesters. The course emphasizes problem solving and mathematical methods in single-variable and multivariate calculus, vector algebra and matrix algebra as well as their applications in Chemical Engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN1422", "title": "Materials for Chemical Engineers", "description": "This course starts with an introduction to the fundamental principles of materials science, which include basic structural chemistry and crystal structures. After that, the second part of this course covers typical properties of materials, which include structure imperfection and diffusion, mechanical properties, thermal behavior, electrochemical corrosions, and phase diagrams of metals. The third part describes structural characteristics of materials including ceramic, metallic, polymeric and composite materials. The last part gives a general introduction to more physically related properties, namely electrical and optical properties as well as the environmental aspects of structural materials selection."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN2116", "title": "Chemical Kinetics And Reactor Design", "description": "The course covers the basic principles of chemical kinetics of both homogeneous (single phase) and heterogeneous (multi-phases) reaction systems and reactor design. Course contents include classification of chemical reactions, stoichiometry, chemical kinetics and reaction mechanism of both homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions, simple and multiple reactions, selectivity, yield and product distribution, definition and derivation of performance equations of ideal reactors (ideal batch, plug and constant stirred tank reactors), rate data collection and treatment, recycle and multiple reactors, temperature effects, heterogeneous reaction systems (fluid-fluid, fluid solid and catalytic reactions), identification and analysis of rate processes, concentration profile and overall rate equation, pore diffusion in porous catalysts, deactivation, reactor configuration and design, Basic introduction to non-ideal flow and residence time distribution analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN2121", "title": "Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide students with the rudimentary understanding of the basic laws and other concepts of thermodynamics and apply them to analyses chemical engineering problems. The course starts with basic definition, applications and limitations of chemical engineering thermodynamics, followed by a review of basic laws, properties and concepts of thermodynamics. The development and discussion of thermodynamic property relations for systems of constant and variable compositions are covered in detail. The developed property relationships together with the basic laws are then applied to the analysis of the various equilibrium problems in chemical engineering such as vapour -liquid, vapour-liquid-liquid, liquidliquid, solid-liquid and chemical reaction equilibria."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN2122", "title": "Fluid Mechanics", "description": "This course introduces to students the classification of fluids and their properties, followed by the analysis of static fluid. The integral and differential forms of the fundamental equations \u2013 Continuity, Momentum and Energy equations are then studied. The concept of momentum transfer by the shear stress is introduced in this course. Dimensional analysis and model theory are studied. The concept about boundary layer theory, flow with pressure gradient, viscous flow and turbulence are also described. Practical aspect involves the consideration of flows in closed conduits. At the end of the course, basic concepts regarding fluid machinery is also covered."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN2125", "title": "Heat And Mass Transfer", "description": "Students will learn the fundamental principles of heat and mass transfer relevant to the chemical engineering discipline. This course considers three modes of heat transfer, namely, conduction, convection, and radiation. For heat conduction, both steady and unsteady states are examined. These are followed by an analysis for convective heat transfer and heat transfer with phase change and subsequently radiation heat transfer. Steady and unsteadystate molecular diffusion is studied, while convective mass transfer is analyzed using exact and approximate integral analysis. Finally, analogies between mass, heat and momentum transfer is discussed to integrate the concept of transport phenomena."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN2411", "title": "Mathematics for Chemical Engineers 2", "description": "This course introduces basic concepts of developing mathematical models for Chemical Engineering systems and trains students on techniques for solving the resulting differential equations and applying vector algebra and calculus. The objective is to provide mathematical foundations for solution of complex Chemical Engineering problems. This course is to be driven from Chemical Engineering systems perspective and expose students to methodology to identify appropriate simplifications in system modeling that lead to simplified mathematical description from a more comprehensive one. The course develops methods for solving order differential equations, partial differential equations as well as handling vector operations in Chemical Engineering systems."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN3121", "title": "Process Dynamics & Control", "description": "This course incorporates introductory concepts, dynamic modeling, transfer function modules, system identification, control hardware, feedback control and course-based design methods. SIMULINK will be introduced and used to stimulate and examine the effectiveness of various control strategies. This course also incorporates a detailed case study that prepares the students to design control systems for a realistic sized plant. This course is targeted at chemical engineering students who already have a basic knowledge of chemical engineering processes."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN3124", "title": "Particle Technology", "description": "This course provides students with the basic concepts for physical processes such as filtration, sedimentation, centrifugation, fluidization, gas cleaning and other topics on flow and dynamics of particulate systems. Particulate solids are characterized in terms of size, size distribution, measurement and analysis and processing such as comminution and mixing. The concept of fluid flow and particle settling are used for design and operation of some important fluid-particle separation methods. The principle of fluidization and its applications as pneumatic transport of solids are also included. This is a core course targeted at the students with background in fluid mechanics in BTech Chemical Engineering program."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN3132", "title": "Separation Processes", "description": "In this course, equilibrium stage and rate-based design concepts in separation processes are introduced. Starting from simple stage, binary separation, the theoretical treatment is extended to multi-component, multi-stage processes. After brief introduction to inter-phase mass transfer, basic concepts in rate-based design for the more important separation processes such as absorption and distillation are illustrated. The rate-based design concept is then extended to operations involving simultaneous heat and mass transfer such as in cooling tower and dryer. The process design principles are illustrated with distillation, absorption, extraction, adsorption, cooling tower and drying processes."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN3135", "title": "Process Safety, Health and Environment", "description": "This course aims to provide fundamental concepts and methods for the design and operation of safe plants. The students will gain a thorough understanding of chemical process hazards, their identification, their potential effects on safety, health, and the environment, and methods of assessment and control. Emphasis is placed on the integrated management of safety, health, and environmental sustainability."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN3421", "title": "Process Modeling & Numerical Simulation", "description": "This course provides students with a working knowledge of numerical methods and their applications to problems in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and reaction engineering. The topics covered are linear and nonlinear equations, interpolation, ordinary and partial differential equations. Each topic starts with an introduction of its applications in chemical engineering followed by principle, development and relative merits of selected methods. Use of suitable software for numerical methods is demonstrated. Students complete 1-2 group projects involving chemical engineering problems and its numerical solution using software, which instills independent learning. The course is targeted at the second year part-time chemical engineering students with some experience in the industry."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4119", "title": "B.Tech. Dissertation", "description": "This course aims to provide students with training for scientific/technical research. It involves an assignment of a research project and safety education. Equipment training will be provided, if required. Students need to spend at least ten hours per week on the project under the guidance of a project supervisor and/or co-supervisor. A thesis is required at the end of the project; it will include literature survey, materials and methods, results and discussion, conclusions and suggestions for further study. An oral presentation is also required."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4122", "title": "Process Synthesis and Simulation", "description": "This course aims to provide fundamentals and methods of of process synthesis and simulation, which are required for design of chemical processes/plants. Students learn a heuristic method for process development, simulation strategies, main steps in process design and rigorous process simulation using a commercial simulator through both lectures and many hands-on exercises. They will also learn detailed mechanical design of process equipment, cost estimation and profitability analysis of chemical processes."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4124", "title": "Final Year Design Project", "description": "In this capstone design project, students execute a group project to design a chemical production facility. They solve a practical design problem in the same way as might be expected in an industrial situation. Students develop and evaluate process flowsheet alternatives via rigorous simulation, perform preliminary sizing, analyze safety and hazards, and estimate costs and profitability. Further, they learn how to solve open-ended problems by making critical design decisions with sound scientific justification and giving due consideration to cost and safety. Project coordinators act as facilitators, and students work almost independently on the project and exercise their creativity"}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4203", "title": "Polymer Engineering", "description": "The course introduces students to the principles of producing a polymer product starting from polymer synthesis to the final engineering design and production. It starts with an introduction to polymer chemistry of various synthesis methods and strategies. This is followed by the analysis and characterization of polymers using the physics of polymers. Finally, techniques for producing or synthesizing polymers will be learnt. The various processing methods such as extrusion, njection modelling, blow molding and film blowing for polymers so produced are discussed. Detailed mathematical analyses of some process operations based on momentum, heat and mass transfer approaches are carried out."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4205", "title": "Pinch Analysis and Process Integration", "description": "This course provides students with a working knowledge of selected techniques and software in pinch analysis and process integration as well as their application to chemical processes. The first part of the course covers pinch analysis for heat integration, including data extraction and energy targeting, heat exchanger network design, integration of utilities, heat and power systems, and distillation columns. Application of pinch analysis to maximization of water re-use is also discussed. Another topic is data reconciliation and gross error detection, and their applications. This course is targeted at senior chemical engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4208", "title": "Biochemical Engineering", "description": "This course familiarizes students with the upstream section of a biologics manufacturing plant. It starts with the drug discovery process and natural products research. The rudimentaries of cells, building blocks of proteins, carbohydrates and nucleic acids, as well as fundamental enzyme kinetics are next introduced. Before going into the heart of the course, which is the design of a fermenter, growth and product kinetics are introduced, followed by the concepts of recombinant DNA technology and hybridoma technology for the production of biopharmaceuticals. Detailed treatment of the design of the fermenter, including the operating strategies and transport phenomena with respect to agitation and aeration, follows. Finally a discussion of media sterilization and process monitoring of a bioprocess completes the course."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4210", "title": "Membrane Science And Engineering", "description": "This course introduces to students with various membrane sciences, technologies, and applications such as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF), nanofiltration (NF), reverse osmosis (RO) for water reuses and desalination, material design and gas separation for energy development, and membrane formation for asymmetric flat and hollow fiber membranes. Introduction of various membrane separation mechanisms will be given."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4211", "title": "Petrochemicals & Processing Technology", "description": "The course provides an overview of the petrochemical industry, with a focus on the Singapore industry. The following processes are discussed in the first part: Refining, Steam Reforming, Steam Cracking, Ammonia and Methanol production. To provide an in-dept understanding, fundamental aspects of the processes, i.e. catalysis, kinetics, thermodynamics and reactor design will be highlighted. The second part of this course starts with an introduction to the fundamental organic reaction types and the structural characteristics of the compounds involved. It is then followed by an introduction to homogeneous catalysis using organometallic compounds as catalysts. The third topic of this part covers a series of derivatives from ethylene, propene, butenes, BTX (bezene-toluene-xylenes), focusing on functional group conversion ad applications of target compounds. The forth topic covers the main fine chemicals, such as surfactants, special monomers, adhesives and intermediates for personal care and pharmaceutics. The final topic introduces the basic concept of green chemical process, focusing on development of chemicals that are more environmental friendly."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4215", "title": "Food Technology and Engineering", "description": "This course combines food science and engineering operations as an integrated food-engineering course. It starts with the food science topics such as, food chemistry, microbiology and nutrition. Then it focuses on the applications of various chemical engineering operations (refrigeration, freezing, evaporation, drying, and thermal processing) to food processing. The course also covers other relevant topics such as, food rheology and packaging of food products."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4216", "title": "Electronic Materials Science", "description": "This course provides students with a fundamental knowledge of electronic materials produced or processed in various industries. It imparts a basic understanding in electrical, electro-optic and magnetic properties of electronic materials in relation to their importance in microelectronic/ optoelectronic/semiconductor industry and their technological applications such as wafer devices, solid-state fuel cells, lithium batteries, light-emitting diodes and solid-state lasers. In particular, semi-conductors, electronic ceramics, conducting polymers, optical and magnetic materials, and nanostructured materials will be introduced. This course is targeted at senior engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4217", "title": "Processing of Microelectronic Materials", "description": "This course provides students with an overview of semiconductor processing with an emphasis on the role of chemical engineering principles. An overall view of manufacturing in the semi-conductor industry and the role of chemical engineers are given. The physics and materials aspects of solid-state devices are introduced with a view towards understanding their functions. The next part takes the students through the various processing events, starting with silicon wafer manufacture and continuing with diffusion, CVD, photolithography, etching and metallization. Chemical engineering principles are highlighted in each section. The course concludes with a description of process integration for device manufacture and a brief discussion about electronic packaging. This course is targeted at level 4 chemical engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4227", "title": "Advanced Process Control", "description": "The course provides a structured introduction to advanced process control concepts with emphasis on methods and techniques that are relevant for industrial practice. Advanced control strategies including feedforward control, ratio control, cascade control, inferential control, decentralized control systems and model predictive control techniques, as well as the representation of process in discrete-time control system and design of controllers, which will be covered. The learning experience of the students will be enhanced through projects that will require them to design advanced controllers for process systems."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4229", "title": "Computer Aided Chemical Engineering", "description": "This course provides an introduction to advanced computational methods and their application to problems commonly arising in chemical engineering. Tools and techniques from the areas of optimization, neural networks and artificial intelligence would be covered in the course. Practical aspects of recognizing problems in process operation and design that can be solved using these techniques, formulating the problem and solving them would be covered using commonly available software."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4231", "title": "Downstream Processing of Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Products", "description": "This course familiarizes students with the downstream section of a biologics manufacturing plant. The course first discusses drug requirements for different applications, and an overview of the downstream processes involved in obtaining an acceptable product quality. The general characteristics and fundamental principles of unit operations encountered in each of the major section of a downstream train are then discussed in detail: removal of insolubles, product isolation, high resolution techniques and product polishing. The current state of the research in some unit operations is also highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4233", "title": "Good Manufacturing Practices in Pharmaceutical Industry", "description": "The course covers topics pertaining to regulatory and quality issues associated with pharmaceutical production. The two main components of the course are: regulatory aspects of pharmaceutical manufacture and analytical techniques for quality control. The concept of GMP and its components including standard operating procedures, documentation, validation, organization and personnel, premises, equipment, production and quality control are covered in the first half of the course. The second part of the course introduces the students to the various analytical techniques employed in pharmaceutical industry to assess the quality of protein-based biologics."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4238", "title": "Chemical & Biochemical Process Modeling", "description": "In this course, the students will consolidate their accumulated knowledge of fundamental modeling principles and analytical/numerical solution techniques by applying them to a wide variety of large-scale, steady as well as dynamic, chemical, physicochemical, and biochemical systems of industrial importance. The course will emphasize the full range of modeling and simulation techniques including first-principle model development, model analysis and validation, and model prediction and applications. The students will demonstrate their acquired skills by solving one or more sufficiently complex problems of their own choice in a term project to gain hands-on experience"}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4240", "title": "Unit Operations and Processes for Effluent Treatment", "description": "This course provides students with a working knowledge of unit operations and processes for the control of industrial effluent from the chemical process industries. The course begins with an overview of the characteristics of effluent from the chemical plant operations and its impact on the environment. Concepts on environmental sustainability and green processing particularly pertinent to the chemical industry will be covered, including techniques for waste minimization and pollution prevention. Finally, applications of process (physical, chemical and biological) for the treatment of effluent from plant facilities will be presented. Case studies from various industries will also be presented. This course is targeted at level 4 chemical engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4242", "title": "Optimization of Chemical Processes", "description": "Students will learn the basic theories, methods and software for formulating and solving optimization problems relevant to chemical processes. They will study various methods of linear, nonlinear and mixed-integer linear programming, which would enable them to select and use appropriate algorithm and/or software for solving a given problem. They will also execute the various steps in optimization by solving selected practical problems via various case studies as well as a term project. This is for undergraduate students who wish to learn optimization methodology to solve real-life problems in research and chemical industry."}, {"moduleCode": "TCN4246", "title": "Chemical And Bio-Catalysis", "description": "The first part of the course focuses on steps involved in catalytic reactions, such as adsorption, desorption and reaction kinetic models, chemical catalysis, biocatalysis, inter-particulate and intraparticulate transport processes involving Thiele modulus and effectiveness factor. The factors and reaction sequences causing the deactivation of solid catalysts will be covered. The second part of the course focuses on the various methods of preparation, characterization and testing of industrial solid catalysts. The course ends with some case studies on how to select and design catalysts for industrially important processes."}, {"moduleCode": "TDEE2004", "title": "Electronic Devices and Materials", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "TE2002", "title": "Engineering Mathematics II", "description": "This is a follow up module for TE2102. The topics include the following: Vector algebra. Vector function. Directional derivatives. Divergence and curl of vector fields. Line, surface and volume integrals. Jacobian. Gauss' and Stokes' Theorem. Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Partial Differentiation. Partial differential equations. Curve Fitting."}, {"moduleCode": "TE2003", "title": "Advanced Mathematics for Engineers", "description": "This is a follow up module for TE2002. The topics include the following: complex functions, complex differentiation, Cauchy-Riemann equations, singularities and zeros, contour integration, conformal mapping; probability, random variables, probability density function, distributions, applied statistics, random process, responses of linear systems to random inputs."}, {"moduleCode": "TE2101", "title": "Programming Methodology", "description": "This module aims to introduce students to the discipline of computing and the problem solving process. It stresses on good programme design and programming styles, and structured programme development using a higher-level programming language. The topics covered in this module are: Algorithm design process, Programme development/coding/debugging. Programming concepts in a high-level language including programme structure, simple data types and structured types and various control structures (sequencing, loops, conditionals, etc.). Linear data structures such as arrays and linked-lists. The utility of recursion using a variety of sorting algorithms."}, {"moduleCode": "TE3201", "title": "Software Engineering", "description": "Software project planning, requirements analysis, data flow methods. Software development, object-oriented design, portability and re-use. Software quality assurance, testing strategies and techniques. Case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "TE3801", "title": "Robust Design Of Electronic Circuits", "description": "This purpose of this module is to learn the effects of, and ways of mitigating, random manufacturing variations and failure of components and systems. This module is targetted at students wishing to pursue careers in electronic manufacturing industries. Topics covered: Review of probability and statistics. Concepts of tolerance analysis and design. Methods of tolerance design including the Monte-Carlo method. Tolerance sensitivity and its applications. Reliability concepts. Device reliability. System reliability. Modelling and monitoring reliability. Burn-in and accelerated wear."}, {"moduleCode": "TE4001", "title": "BTech Dissertation", "description": "In this module, students will do a research project over two semesters on a topic of current interest in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Students learn how to apply skills acquired in the classroom and also think of innovative ways of solving problems. Apart from intrinsic rewards such as the pleasure of problem solving, students are able to acquire skills for independent and lifelong learning. The objective of this module is to teach skills, such as questioning, forming hypotheses and gathering evidence. Students learn to work in a research environment."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2002", "title": "Engineering Mathematics II", "description": "This is a follow up module for TE2102. The topics include the following: Vector algebra. Vector function. Directional derivatives. Divergence and curl of vector fields. Line, surface and volume integrals. Jacobian. Gauss' and Stokes' Theorem. Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Partial Differentiation. Partial differential equations. Curve Fitting."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2003", "title": "Advanced Mathematics for Engineers", "description": "This is a follow up course for TTG2401. The topics include the following: complex functions, complex differentiation, Cauchy-Riemann equations, singularities and zeros, contour integration, conformal mapping; probability, random variables, probability density function, distributions, applied statistics, random process, responses of linear systems to random inputs."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2011", "title": "Engineering Electromagnetics", "description": "Electromagnetic (EM) and transmission line theory is essential in all disciplines of electrical and computer engineering. EM theory is the fundamental basis for understanding transmission lines and electrical energy transmission. To understand and solve EM and transmission line problems encountered in electrical and computer engineering, rigorous analytical methods are required. At the end of this course, in addition to being able to solve EM and transmission line problems, the student will be able to design transmission line circuits, design electrical elements with lumped behaviour, and mitigate EM interference. To enhance understanding, case studies and computer visualisation tools will be used. Topics covered: Static electric and magnetic fields. Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic waves: plane-wave propagation, behaviour at interface between media, shielding, electromagnetic compatability. Transmission lines. Impedance matching. Radiation. Case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2023", "title": "Signals and Systems", "description": "This is a fundamental course in signals and systems. Signals in electrical engineering play an important role in carrying information. Signals going through a system is an inevitable process. It allows engineers to understand the system. Thus in this course the relationship between signals and systems will be taught. The concepts which are important include 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."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2026", "title": "Digital Design", "description": "This is a first course that introduces fundamental digital logic, digital circuits, and programmable devices. This course provides students with an understanding of the building blocks of modern digital systems and methods of designing, simulating and realizing such systems. The emphasis of this course is on understanding the fundamentals of digital design across different levels of abstraction using hardware description languages, and developing a solid design perspective towards complex digital systems."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2027", "title": "Electronic Circuits", "description": "Building on the basic circuit concepts, this course introduces the operating principles of transistors and how they are used in amplifier circuits. It discusses the foundational concepts of transistor amplifiers and analyses their performance. It also introduces operational amplifiers as a circuit component and describes how functional analog circuits, which can be applied to solving complex engineering problems, can be designed and analysed using operational amplifiers. LTSpice will be introduced as a circuit analysis tool. To augment learning, two laboratory sessions will be included focusing on the topics of single transistor amplifiers and Op-Amp circuits, respectively."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2028", "title": "Microcontroller Programming and Interfacing", "description": "This course teaches students how to program microcontrollers and achieve computer interfacing using C programming and industry standard protocols. The course extends the C programming students have learnt earlier, covers microprocessor instruction sets and how to program microcontrollers to interface with other devices in order to build an embedded system. The course culminates in an assignment in which students design and build an embedded system that meets requirements and specifications."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2033", "title": "Integrated System Lab", "description": "This course serves as the hands-on counterpart for TEE2027 and TEE2023. Students will practise and strengthen the knowledge learnt in electromagnetics, devices and circuits, and signals and systems through a series of experiments with the aim of integrating these knowledge to build an integrated digital communication system. The experiment will touch on important concepts, such as opamp characterization, circuit design specifications and component choice, frequency domain signal analysis, OOK modulation, frequency spectrum, and wireless communication system. Towards the end, the students will form an integrated view on these topics through a mini-project that encompass all these fields."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE2101", "title": "Programming Methodology", "description": "This course aims to introduce students to the discipline of computing and the problem solving process. It stresses on good programme design and programming styles, and structured programme development using a higher-level programming language. The topics covered in this course are: Algorithm design process, Programme development/coding/debugging. Programming concepts in a high-level language including programme structure, simple data types and structured types and various control structures (sequencing, loops, conditionals, etc.). Linear data structures such as arrays and linked-lists. The utility of recursion using a variety of sorting algorithms."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3013", "title": "Labview for Electrical Engineers", "description": "This course will give students some general computing as well as more specific software skills for solving engineering problems. LabVIEW is widely adopted software in the industry for data acquisition and instrument control. The teaching of LabVIEW will be based on engineering fundamentals that students have learnt in the first two years. This will also help them to consolidate concepts that have been learnt in the various technical courses. Through a series of integrated mini projects carried out in the lab, students will be guided in their exploration of engineering principles and problem solving using the tools available in LabVIEW."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3031", "title": "Innovation & Enterprise I", "description": "This is an engineering course that focuses on the conceptualization, design and development of technology oriented new products. It integrates innovation, product planning, marketing, design and manufacturing functions of a company. This course gives students an opportunity to conceptualize and design a product which they will eventually be able to prototype. Thus it is designed for electronics engineering students to experience an integrated learning of innovation and enterprise pertaining to new product development where technology plays a central role. The major topics include innovation, opportunity management, identification of customers\u2019 needs, product specification, design, planning, testing, manufacturing, and commercialization. Intellectual property and its relationship with all facets of new technology product design are also covered. Guest speakers from relevant industries will be invited to present practical aspects of innovation and new product development."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3104", "title": "Intro to RF and Microwave Sys & Circuits", "description": "Wireless communication and sensing systems play an ever increasing role in society. This course introduces the RF and microwave hardware systems and circuits. The applications include: GSM/CDMA, RFID, UWB, WLAN, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Radar and remote sensing"}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3131", "title": "Communication Systems", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of analog and digital communications. It starts with an overview of modern communication systems based on analog and digital techniques and an elaboration on the advantages of digital over analog systems. Then, the basic analog communication techniques are introduced, including amplitude/frequency modulation and demodulation. This is followed by an introduction of analog-to-digital conversion techniques, including signal sampling and quantization theory. Finally, it introduces the three main building blocks of digital communication systems, including source coding, channel coding, and digital modulation/demodulation."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3201", "title": "Software Engineering", "description": "Software project planning, requirements analysis, data flow methods. Software development, object-oriented design, portability and re-use. Software quality assurance, testing strategies and techniques. Case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3207", "title": "Computer Architecture", "description": "This course teaches students the basics in the design of the various classes of microprocessors. Contents include design of simple micro-controllers, high performance CPU design using parallel techniques, memory organization and parallel processing systems. Topics also include the development of support tools to enable efficient usage of the developed microprocessor. The course emphasizes practical design and students are expected to be able to synthesize microprocessors at the gate level at the end of this course."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3208", "title": "Embedded Computer Systems Design", "description": "This course introduces students to the design of embedded systems covering four key areas, namely, specifications and requirement determination, architectural design, software development and hardware development. The unified system design approach emphasizes hardware software co-design in the final synthesis of the application. Students will be brought through a design cycle in a realistic project. Topics covered include: System specification and requirement analysis; Object relationship and system structure; Quantifying behaviour; Targeting architecture: hardware/software partitioning; Resource estimation; Programmable platforms; Developing application software and targeting RTOS; Hardware design and implementation; System integration and debugging techniques; Design to meet regulatory standards."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3331", "title": "Feedback Control Systems", "description": "Feedback systems are ubiquitous in both the natural and engineered world. They are essential for maintaining our environment, enabling our transportation and communications systems; and are critical elements in our aerospace and industrial systems. For the most part, feedback control systems function accurately and reliably in the background. This course aims at introducing the magic of feedback, and tools for analysing and designing control systems. The fundamental knowledge of feedback and the related area of control systems are useful to students with diverse interests. Topics covered include feedback principles, time and frequency analysis of control systems, and simple controller design."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3408", "title": "Integrated Analog Design", "description": "This course focuses on integration of analog circuits on silicon using CMOS technology. The topics covered include processing and modeling background, basic circuits, reference circuit design, single stage amplifiers, operational amplifiers, noise issues and advanced design methods."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3431", "title": "Microelectronics Materials and Devices", "description": "Electronic devices are the basic building blocks of all electronic gadgets used in our daily life. A solid understanding of the fundamental device concepts is essential for the electrical engineer to keep up with the fast evolution of new device technology. This course emphasizes on the properties of electronic materials and the operation principles of key electronic devices including p-n diode, bipolar junction transistor (BJT), MOS capacitor and (MOSCAP). Additional issues related to dielectric materials and non- semiconductor materials will be introduced. Contacts between metal and semiconductor will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3501", "title": "Power Electronics", "description": "Power electronics forms an integral part of all electronics equipment from household appliances through information technology to transportation systems. This course develops the working knowledge, the foundation theory for generic power electronic circuits and the principles of their design. At the end of this course, the student should be able to analyze and evaluate and carry out basic design of power electronics system for a large spectrum of applications. The topics covered are: Power semiconductor switches and characteristics. AC-to-DC converters and their performance. DC-to-DC converters: analysis and performance. DC-to-AC converters; analysis and performance. Switching circuits design and protection."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3506", "title": "Electrical Energy Systems", "description": "This course covers the fundamental principles of modern electrical energy systems including three-phase analysis. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyse, model, and predict the performance of energy systems and devices like generators, transformers, transmission lines and various types of loads and power electronic converters. The course is designed specifically to help students develop a broad systems perspective and an understanding of the principal elements of electrical energy systems. Furthermore, lecture materials are relevant to PE exams. Students will be prepared to work effectively with electrical engineers on the joint solution of complex problems."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3731", "title": "Signal Processing Methods", "description": "This course provides an introduction to signal processing methods. It aimed at preparing students for high-level technical electives and graduate courses in signal processing and new media. The topics covered include: digital filtering, multirate digital signal processing, introduction to wavelet transform, probability and random signals, Wiener filter, AMAR model, linear prediction, singular value decomposition, principle component analysis and multimedia applications."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE3801", "title": "Robust Design Of Electronic Circuits", "description": "This purpose of this course is to learn the effects of, and ways of mitigating, random manufacturing variations and failure of components and systems. This course is targeted at students wishing to pursue careers in electronic manufacturing industries. Topics covered: Review of probability and statistics. Concepts of tolerance analysis and design. Methods of tolerance design including the Monte-Carlo method. Tolerance sensitivity and its applications. Reliability concepts. Device reliability. System reliability. Modelling and monitoring reliability. Burn-in and accelerated wear."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4001", "title": "BTech Dissertation", "description": "In this course, students will do a research project over two semesters on a topic of current interest in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Students learn how to apply skills acquired in the classroom and also think of innovative ways of solving problems. Apart from intrinsic rewards such as the pleasure of problem solving, students are able to acquire skills for independent and lifelong learning. The objective of this course is to teach skills, such as questioning, forming hypotheses and gathering evidence. Students learn to work in a research environment."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4101", "title": "Radio-Frequency (RF) Communications", "description": "Radio and microwave systems are used for information transmission. The course introduces students to range of knowledge and skills employed by RF and microwave engineers to specify, analyse and design radio and microwave transmission systems. Topics: Time-varying EM fields: guided waves, evanescent modes, plane-wave propagation. Radiation: radiation mechanism, magnetic vector potential, current distribution on thin wire, Hertzian dipole, Half-wave dipole, monopole. RF Antennas: parameters, aperture antennas and arrays. RF Amplification: stability, gain, small-signal narrowband design. RF Generation: conditions for oscillation, oscillator design, dielectric resonators. RF Receivers: receiver and mixer parameters. RF Systems: system gain, noise figure, satellite and terrestrial systems."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4112", "title": "Radio Frequency Design and Systems", "description": "Radio and microwave systems rely on efficient transmission and distribution of electromagnetic (EM) energy. Radio and microwave systems need to be immune from external EM interference and need to ensure that they do not cause interference of their own. To achieve these requirements, this course will equip and foster the students with balanced and particularly more hands-on oriented contents on radio frequency (RF) designs and practical systems, through live experiments, software learning, and real-life RF examples. Topics covered: transmission systems, resonator cavity, impedance matching network, electromagnetic interference (EMI) and shielding, multi-port scattering and corresponding measurement methods, radiation, and antenna characterizations."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4113", "title": "Digital Communications & Coding", "description": "This course begins with a review of mathematical preliminaries such as random processes and signal space concepts. It covers the design of modulation and demodulation schemes for digital communications over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. Emphasis will be placed on error rate performance for various digital signaling techniques and on error control coding techniques for reliable communications. Topics include the optimal receiver principle, modulation/demodulation techniques, signaling over band limited channels and important channel codes such as Reed-Solomon codes, turbo codes and LDPC codes."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4204", "title": "Computer Networks", "description": "This course provides an in-depth treatment of fundamental topics of network design based on the Internet protocol stack model. It is aimed at making students understand 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 will gain expertise in analyzing and designing networking protocols through mini-projects."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4210", "title": "Network Protocols and Applications", "description": "The course will enable students to know the basics and theories of Internet-related tenchologies which offer the background knowledge & skills required for computer or network engineers. Contents covered include Internet Architecture & client/server applications, Client & Server Computing, Internetworking concepts & Architectural Model, Transport protocols: UDP/TCP, TCP/IP socket programming, Routing protocols, Domain Name System, Mobile IP, and Next Generation IP."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4211", "title": "Data Science for the Internet of Things", "description": "This course covers data analytics for the Internet of Things. It starts with an introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT) systems, including the enabling technologies, IoT network architectures and protocols. IoT systems have applications such as semiconductor manufacturing, smart power grids, and healthcare. The course then covers data science fundamentals such as Bayesian statistics, classification, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and deep learning. The course also covers basic machine learning algorithms such as decision trees, logistic regression, support vector machines, and neural networks. Students will visualize and analyze real-world data sets via practical IoT case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4214", "title": "Real-Time Embedded Systems", "description": "The objectives of this course are to present the theoretical foundations of real-time systems and to discuss the practical aspects of their implementation. It describes the characteristics of a real-time computing system and students are taught how to design a real-time embedded system using structured data flow methodology. Concepts of time-critical I/O and real-time deadlines are emphasized, as are the important aspects of real-time operating systems, scheduling and the practical implementation of embedded systems and firmware. Other topics covered include deadlock management and process communications. Various case studies on industrial real-time systems will be exhibited to give students a real-world feel for such systems. Students will undertake a mini project involving a real-time embedded system. Topics covered: Introduction to real-time and embedded systems; Time critical I/O handling; Real-time embedded software design; Concurrent programming; Real-time operating systems; Scheduling and time-critical processing; Deadlock management; Process communications; Case studies of real-time embedded systems."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4303", "title": "Industrial Control Systems", "description": "This course will cover sensors, instrumentation and control systems commonly used in the industry. The sensor and instrumentation part includes topics such as signal processing and conversion, transducers and actuators, instrumentation amplifiers, non-linear amplifiers, issues pertaining to grounds, shields and power supplies. The control portion covers the evolution and types of control systems, centralized control, direct digital control (DDC), distributed control systems (DCS), fieldbuses, PID control: tuning methods and refinements, auto-tuning principles and implementation, available industrial PID controllers and their operation. It will include other common control systems such as feed-forward, cascade, ratio, selective, split range, time-delay compensation, sequence control and PLC."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4305", "title": "Introduction To Fuzzy/Neural Systems", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamental knowledge, theories and applications of fuzzy logic and neural networks. It examines the principles of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, which leads to fuzzy inference and control. It also gives students an understanding of the structures and learning process of a neural network. Topics covered include: fuzzy set theory, fuzzy systems and control, basic concepts of neural networks, single-layer and multilayer perceptrons, self-organizing maps and neural network training."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4407", "title": "Analog Electronics", "description": "This course provides students with essential concepts in electronics to enable them to understand and design complex electronics circuits and systems for processing analog signals. Topics covered: Techniques for implementing specific amplifier frequency response involving poles and time constants; Negative feedback amplifiers; Oscillators: RC, LC and crystal-controlled oscillators; Power amplifiers: Output stage, efficiency and distortion; DC power supply design: Linear and switching regulators, current limiting; Mixer, modulators and demodulators for communication systems; Active filters; Instrumentation amplifiers, CMRR; Applications of current mirror circuits."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4415", "title": "Integrated Digital Design", "description": "This course introduces the students to the design of integrated circuits. It covers basic concepts including integrated circuits fabrication technology, CMOS and nMOS design, inverter design, aspect ratios of pull-up and pull-down transistors, switching characteristics of CMOS and nMOS inverters, latch-up, stick diagram, design rules, mask layout, sub-systems design, ASIC challenges and issues, ASIC design flow, Verilog hardware design language basics, and logic synthesis. Each student will do a design exercise using the EDA tools."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4435", "title": "Modern Transistors and Memory Devices", "description": "This module is designed to equip students with the physical foundation of metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) device physics and the theoretical background for understanding end applications in modern transistors and memory devices (e.g., Flash, phase change random access memory, etc.). Upon the successful completion of this module, the student is expected to gain an understanding on the principles of operation and physics of modern MOS transistors and memory devices. Such knowledge is useful for careers in the wafer fabrication plants, foundries, design houses and the microelectronics industry."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4436", "title": "Fabrication Process Technology", "description": "In the new information age, fabrication process technology continues to be employed in the manufacturing of ultra-high density integrated circuits such as microprocessor devices in computers. This course focuses on the major process technologies and basic building blocks used in the fabrication of integrated circuits and other microelectronic devices (e.g., solar cells). Understanding of fabrication processes is essential for undergraduate students who wish to develop their professional career in the microelectronics industry such as in wafer fabrication plants, foundries and design houses."}, {"moduleCode": "TEE4704", "title": "Introduction to Computer Vision and Image Processing", "description": "This course covers the basic concepts and techniques in computer vision and digital image processing. The following topics are taught: elements of a vision system, image acquisition, 2-D discrete Fourier transform, image enhancement techniques, error-free and lossy compression, segmentation methods, and representation and description methods."}, {"moduleCode": "TG1401", "title": "Engineering Mathematics I", "description": "This module builds and exposes students to the mathematical foundational concepts that are necessary in a variety of engineering disciplines. The topics include the following: Ordinary differential equations. Laplace transform. Matrix algebra. Vector Space. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. Determinants and Inverses. Solution of linear equations. Diagonalisation. Functions of Matrices. Matrix exponential. Matrix differential equations."}, {"moduleCode": "TG2415", "title": "Ethics In Engineering", "description": "This module highlights to students the ethical issues they will face working as an engineering professional. The issues covered range from the rationale for an engineering code of practice, risk and safety issues, conflict of interest, ethical issues in research. This module will be offered to second or higher year engineering students as they need their engineering background to better understand the issues involved. Case studies will be presented to cover real life issues."}, {"moduleCode": "TG3001", "title": "Industrial Practice", "description": "This module is designed for BTech Engineering students. It leverages on the student\u2019s work experience and focuses the student\u2019s mind on exploring and reflecting on how the concepts and theories gained in the classroom can be translated into industrial practice to enhance his/her work performance. The student is required to complete 3 written reports, 2 oral presentations, and 6 Skills courses. This module is normally taken over two consecutive regular semesters, and is an Unrestricted Elective Module."}, {"moduleCode": "TG3002", "title": "Industrial Practice", "description": "This module is designed for BTech Engineering students. It leverages on the student\u2019s work experience and focuses the student\u2019s mind on exploring and reflecting on how the concepts and theories gained in the classroom can be translated into industrial practice to enhance his/her work performance. The student is required to complete 3 written reports and 2 oral presentations. This module is normally taken over two consecutive regular semesters, and is an Unrestricted Elective Module."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC1001", "title": "Introduction to Computing and Programming I", "description": "This course aims to (i) expose students to computing principles (including abstraction and composition), (ii) provide a broad introduction to key computing concepts (including computer organisation, operating systems, data management, distributed applications), and (iii) introduce students to basic programming methodologies and problem solving techniques through a simple structured programming language."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC1002", "title": "Introduction to Computing and Programming II", "description": "This course builds on basic knowledge from TIC1001. Students will learn how to model a problem and how to design and implement solutions to computational problems. TIC1002 also introduces the methodologies and good practices of programming: testing, debugging, assertion, documentation, and tools such as linter, and debugger. Students will be exposed to more complex problems and learn to abstract out the complexities and to compose programmes from smaller, reusable components. Finally, students will be introduced to object-oriented programming paradigm as a powerful way of composing reusable components to form larger, more complex, programmes."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC1101", "title": "Professional, Ethical, and Social Issues in Computing", "description": "This course introduces students to the interactions and impacts of computing on society, particularly on how the society has been transformed by computing (and vice versa), how policies and social norms have been developed due to computing, and emerging issues related to regulation of computing in society. Students will gain an understanding of the professional and ethical responsibilities of computing professionals, and an ability to analyse the impact of computing on society on a local and global scale."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC1201", "title": "Discrete Structures", "description": "This course introduces mathematical tools required in the study of computer science. Topics include: (i) Logic and proof techniques; (ii) Relations and functions; (iii) Mathematical formulation of data models (linear model, trees and graphs), and (iv) Counting and combinatorics."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2001", "title": "Data Structures and Algorithms", "description": "This course introduces students to fundamental data structures, their implementation strategies, their algorithm design, and their applications. Data structures covered include linked lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, heap, trees, and graphs. This course also introduces the concepts of running time analysis and Big-O notation to quantify the performance of different implementation strategies and algorithms."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2002", "title": "Introduction to Software Engineering", "description": "This course introduces the necessary conceptual and analytical tools for systematic and rigorous development of software systems. It covers four main areas of software development, namely object-oriented system analysis, object-oriented system modelling and design, implementation, and testing, with emphasis on system modelling and design and implementation of software modules that work cooperatively to fulfil the requirements of the system. Tools and techniques for software development, such as Universal Modelling Language (UML), programme specification, and testing methods, will be taught. Major software engineering issues such as modularisation criteria, programme correctness, and software quality will also be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2003", "title": "Software Development Project", "description": "This course provides a platform for students to gain hands-on experience developing a medium-scale software applications, integrating what they have learned in the classroom in the first two years of the BTech computing programmes."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2101", "title": "Information Systems and Organisations", "description": "This course explores the strategic role of information systems in an organisation and how information systems can lead to organisational improvements in operations, planning, and decision making. Students will learn to identifying strategic opportunities for information systems deployment in an organisation, and be exposed to issues related to managing IT resources and evaluating IT investments."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2301", "title": "Introduction to Information Security", "description": "This course serves as an introductory course on information security. It illustrates the fundamentals of how systems fail due to malicious activities and how they can be protected. The course also places emphasis on the practices of secure programming and implementation. Topics covered include classical/historical ciphers, introduction to modern ciphers and cryptosystems, ethical, legal and organisational aspects, classic examples of direct attacks on computer systems such as input validation vulnerability, examples of other forms of attack such as social engineering/phishing attacks, and the practice of secure programming."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2401", "title": "Introduction to Computer Systems", "description": "This course introduces computer systems to students from the perspective of a programmer. Students learn about the computer systems, focusing on the hardware and operating systems, and how they impact the design, implementation, and performance of a programme. Topics covered include data representations, machine-level representations of C programmes, processor architecture, memory hierarchy, programme optimisation, linking, interrupts and signals, memory management, system-level I/O, and concurrency."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2501", "title": "Computer Networks and Applications", "description": "This course provides a broad introduction to computer networks and networked applications as well as network application programming. It covers a range of topics including basic computer network concepts, protocols, network computing concepts and principles, networked applications development and network security."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2601", "title": "Database and Web Applications", "description": "This course consists of two parts. The first introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques necessary for the understanding and practice of design and implementation of database applications and of the management of data with relational database management systems. The course covers entity-relationship model, functional dependencies, normalisation, and programming with SQL. The second part builds on top of the first and introduces students to contemporary techniques in building simple CRUD-based Web applications with a database backend and a JavaScript-based frontend."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2701", "title": "Principles of Programming Languages", "description": "This course introduces the concepts that serve as a basis for hundreds of programming languages. It aims to provide the students with a basic understanding and appreciation of the various essential programming-languages constructs, programming paradigms, evaluation criteria and language implementation issues. The course covers concepts from imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, constraints, and concurrent programming. These concepts are illustrated by examples from varieties of modern object-oriented, functional, and logic programming languages. The course also introduces various implementation issues, such as pseudo-code interpretation, static and dynamic semantics, abstract machine, type inferencing, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC2901", "title": "Communications for Computing Professionals", "description": "This course aims to equip students with critical communication skills for computing professionals. Students will learn interpersonal and intercultural communication skills as well as oral and written communication skills. In particular, students learn to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audience in a succinct, effective, convincing, and understandable way. By the end of the course, students will be able to write effective proposals/reports that contain significant components on IT and/or data analytics (for business analytics major), email messages, software guides, and speak/present confidently in meetings/negotiations, conduct software demonstrations and pitch IT ideas/proposals to management and users."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC3001", "title": "Software Requirements Analysis and Design", "description": "This course is a continuation of TIC2001 and explores in greater depth the practices of software requirements analysis and software design. The first part of this course focuses on how to capture, document, and validate the needs of the stake holders as software requirements. The second part focuses on the issues, techniques, strategies, representations, and patterns used to determine how to implement a software. Topics covered include design principles, architectural design, HCI design, and design patterns."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC3002", "title": "User Interface Design and Implementation", "description": "This course focuses on human-computer interaction and covers the common principles, design guidelines, prototyping techniques, evaluation techniques, as well as implementation of modern computer user interfaces."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC3301", "title": "Information Security Management", "description": "The course focuses on the managerial aspects of information security and prepares students for their future roles as information security managers or information security professionals. Through this course, students will appreciate the challenges of managing information security in the modern organisation. Topics include risk management, security policies and programmes, managing the security function, and planning for continuity."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC3302", "title": "Computer Systems Security", "description": "This course aims to provide some in-depth discussions on selected topics in system and network security. This course covers the following topics: intrusion detection, DNS security, electronic mail security, authentication, access control, buffer overflow, memory and stack protection, selected topics in application security, for instance, web security, and well-known attacks."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC3901", "title": "Industrial Practice", "description": "This is an essential course designed for BTech Computing students. Leveraging the the students' work experience, students in this course will reflect upon how the knowledge gained in the BTech programme can be translated to their workplace, so that they can perform better in their jobs."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4001", "title": "Software Engineering Practicum I", "description": "This course is one of the two courses where students get to practice software engineering concepts learnt in a team environment to produce a well-designed, well-tested, large-scaled software system. This course focuses on software engineering practice of a greenfield project, where students will elicit the requirements, design the software architecture and interfaces, and implement the software from scratch."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4002", "title": "Software Engineering Practicum II", "description": "This course is one of the two courses where students get to practice software engineering concepts learnt in a team environment to produce a well-designed, well-tested, large-scaled software system. This course focuses on software engineering practice of a brownfield project, where students will have to understand an existing piece of software before developing additional components or modify existing components to meet a set of new requirements."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4003", "title": "Software Project Management", "description": "Software project management is the discipline of defining and achieving project goals while optimizing resource constraints during a project lifecycle. It is about planning, scheduling, resource allocation, execution, tracking, and delivering software development projects within variables such as time, scope, cost and quality. Software in project management has a unique product life cycle process that requires multiple rounds of testing, updating, and customer feedback. This course will look at two approaches to software development which are the traditional or waterfall method (linear predictive approach) and the now popular approach, Agile methodology (iterative adaptive approach). Today most IT-projects are managed in the Agile style (Scrum and Kanban) to keep up with the increasing pace of business and iterate based on customer and stakeholder feedback. Course will cover knowledge areas of project management such as feasibility study, quality, risk, cost, budgeting, change control, estimation, communication, time, scope, procurement, configuration and human resource management."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4004", "title": "Software Quality Control", "description": "This course covers the concepts and practice of software quality control to ensure that a software that has been developed meets the stated requirements, through reviews and testing. This course first introduces students to various software review process, followed by testing methodologies used in the industry to ensure that the functional and non-functional requirements are met."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4005", "title": "Parallel and Distributed Software Engineering", "description": "This course provides a broad introduction to software engineering approaches specific to building a parallel/distributed software system. Such systems are challenging since they are concurrent, prone to components failure, and non-deterministic. This course begins by introducing students to the basics of concurrent and parallel programming, as well as common middleware and tools for building distributed systems. It then covers how behaviours and challenges specific to distributed and parallel software can be considered as part of the software engineering processes (including requirements, design, and testing)."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4301", "title": "Information Security Practicum I", "description": "This course is one of the two courses where students get to practice information security concepts learned in the classroom and gain hands on experience. Students work in a team environment on an information security-related projects. Project activities can include analysing the security requirements, designing and implementing security systems, attacking and defending a system, developing and deploying an information security policy, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4302", "title": "Information Security Practicum II", "description": "This course is to get students to apply information security concepts in the software development process. Students are expected to discuss and analyze a given application along with the security concepts related to the development and deployment of that application in the IT infrastructure. Then, students are to work in a group to analyze and fix the security issues/threats/vulnerabilities of that application. Project activities include understanding an application and proposing a security solution for it by developing/testing basic applications and analyzing/fixing the security vulnerability of the application using world-wide used open-source tools."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4303", "title": "Software Security", "description": "Software engineering processes need to include security considerations in the modern world. This course familiarizes students to security issues in different stages of the software life-cycle. After completing this course , the students are expected to understand secure programming practices, be able to analyse and check for impact of malicious inputs in programmes, and employ specific testing techniques which can help detect software vulnerabilities."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4304", "title": "Web Security", "description": "This course aims to prepare students for understanding the security of the latest web platform and its interplay with operating systems and the cloud infrastructure. The topics covered include the design of web browsers and web applications, vulnerabilities in web applications and web browsers, design of web scanners, authentication in webbased platforms, security policies and enforcement mechanisms. This course also covers security topics on the interface between the web platform and the backend systems, such as the underlying database systems and cloud infrastructure."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4305", "title": "Network Security", "description": "A number of most damaging attacks on computer systems involve the exploitation of network infrastructure. This course provides an in-depth study of network attack techniques and methods to defend against them. Topics include basic concepts in network security; firewalls and virtual private networks; network intrusion detection; denial of service (DoS); traffic analysis; secure routing protocols; protocol scrubbing; and advanced topics such as wireless network security."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4306", "title": "Information Security Governance and Audit", "description": "This course is a follow-up from TIC3301 and covers the governance and audit of information security processes within an organisation. Students will learn about various information security assurance frameworks, both international and local, and techniques and procedures to review the effectiveness of information security implementation in the organisation, as well as methods for developing and implementing security strategies using these frameworks."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4901", "title": "Independent Project", "description": "The objective of this project course enables students to undertake a substantial computing-related project work over a period of one year. Students work on self-proposed projects or projects proposed by staff. They will have good opportunity to apply what they have learnt on practical computing problems. Students should periodically submit a report make a presentation to the respective supervisors."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4902B", "title": "Business Analytics Capstone Project", "description": "This course provides BTech (Business Analytics) students an active learning opportunity to work independently in a group or individually on practical, large-scale, computing projects related to their respective degree programme. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and understanding a real-world problem to be solved, analyzing the requirements, designing and implementing a solution, and evaluate the solution. Students get to apply what they learn in the classroom and gain hands-on experience on solving real-world problems, and develop a thorough understanding of issues involved."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4902C", "title": "Cybersecurity Capstone Project", "description": "This course provides BTech (Cybersecurity) students an active learning opportunity to work independently in a group or individually on practical, large-scale, computing projects related to their respective degree programme. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and understanding a real-world problem to be solved, analyzing the requirements, designing and implementing a solution, and evaluate the solution. Students get to apply what they learn in the classroom and gain hands-on experience on solving real-world problems, and develop a thorough understanding of issues involved."}, {"moduleCode": "TIC4902S", "title": "Software Engineering Capstone", "description": "This course provides BTech (Software Engineering) students an active learning opportunity to work independently in a group or individually on practical, large-scale, computing projects related to their respective degree programme. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and understanding a real-world problem to be solved, analyzing the requirements, designing and implementing a solution, and evaluate the solution. Students get to apply what they learn in the classroom and gain hands-on experience on solving real-world problems, and develop a thorough understanding of issues involved."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2010", "title": "Introduction to Industrial System", "description": "This course introduces the analytical methods used to support the operations of industrial systems that produce goods and services. It equips the students with the understanding of the fundamental processes necessary for this production and the tools and techniques commonly deployed to create effective and efficient systems. The topics covered include strategic purpose of an economic entity, forecasting of demand, planning for output levels, production control systems, scheduling, facilities layout, and quality assurance."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2020", "title": "Probability and Statistics", "description": "This course introduces students to the basic concepts and the methods of probability and statistics. Topics include the basic concepts of probability, conditional probability, independence, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions, joint and marginal distributions, mean and variance, some common probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2030", "title": "Programming Methodology with Python", "description": "This course introduces fundamental programming methodologies for solving real-life complex problem using Python with emphasis in industrial operations and supply chains management oriented applications. Topics include problem solving by computing, writing pseudo-codes, problem formulation and problem solving, program development, coding, testing and debugging, fundamental programming constructs (variables, types, expressions, assignments, functions, control structures, etc.), fundamental data structures: arrays, strings and structures, data processing using large scale data sets from files, visualization, facilitating a design towards solving complex problems. course will expose both Python and one or more of its variants used for scientific computations such as SciPy and NumPy."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2100", "title": "Probability Models with Applications", "description": "The course builds upon the foundation in ST2131/TS2120/IE2120E/TIE2120/TIE2020 and stresses on applications of stochastic modeling. Topics include: Review of exponential distribution; Conditional probability and conditional expectation; Discrete time Markov chains; Poisson process; Basic queuing models and continuous time Markov chains and Renewal theory. The emphasis of this course will be on model formulation and probabilistic analysis. Students will eventually be conversant with the properties of these models and appreciate their roles in engineering applications."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2110", "title": "Operations Research I", "description": "This foundation course introduces students to some of the basic concepts of operations research. Topics include linear programming, network flow models, and nonlinear programming. Besides the basic concepts, students will also learn about the applications of these topics to complex engineering and management problems."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2130", "title": "Quality Engineering I", "description": "This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of quality and basic techniques in quality engineering. The topics covered are measures and interpretation of variation, control charts, process capability analysis, and acceptance sampling. The course will also deal with some related issues such as, measurement systems analysis, PDCA, TQM, and industrial case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2140", "title": "Engineering Economy", "description": "This course introduces the concept of \"the time-value of money\" and the effect that it has on economic decisions in engineering and business. It equips the students with a conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating economic alternatives represented as a set of cash flows over time. Topics covered include cash flow analysis, choice among economic alternatives, effects of depreciation and taxation, replacement analysis, and dealing with risk and uncertainty."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE2150", "title": "Human Factors Engineering", "description": "This course introduces the basic concepts of human factors engineering and ergonomics. The topics covered include: Human Factors in Systems (Human Error), Implications of Human Functions in performance (Work Physiology), Workstation Design (Guidelines and Norms), Environmental Stressors and Ergonomics Fieldwork (Translation and Application)."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE3010", "title": "Systems Thinking and Design", "description": "This foundation course aims to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and underlying principles of systems thinking, as well as modeling methods and tools that are applicable to the design of industrial systems. The topics in this course include introductory systems concepts, mental models and causal loop diagrams, while the modeling methods and tools to be covered include that of operations research and data analysis. The application of these topics to simple systems design problems will be illustrated through laboratory sessions. Real-world case studies will be presented to show how these concepts have been applied in industrial contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE3100", "title": "Systems Design Project", "description": "The objective of the course is to give students the opportunity to apply concepts learnt to solving real world problems. In this course, each student is assigned to work on a company-sponsored problem that requires application of industrial and systems engineering concepts. The course provides the opportunity for students to identify key problems and craft an objective, scope and deliverable for a piece of work, collect and analyze the relevant data, and apply the appropriate tool to solve the problem. It also enables students to improve their communication skills through report writing and presentation to the various stakeholders."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE3101", "title": "Statistics for Engineering Applications", "description": "This course goes beyond the foundation and deals mainly with the applications of statistics in the engineering context. Topics include: Review of statistical decision making and hypothesis testing, ANOVA with homogeneity of variance tests, concepts of blocking, RCBD, fixed and random effects models with multiple comparison procedures, factorial experiments, nonparametric methods, an introduction to bootstrapping with IE-based case studies. Students will also appreciate the importance of good planning and be able to conduct and evaluate simple experiments."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE3110", "title": "Simulation", "description": "This course introduces students to the basic concepts of discrete-event simulation systems and application to problems that have no closed-form solutions. The course will cover modelling techniques, random number generators, discrete event simulation approaches, simulated data analysis, simulation variance reduction techniques and state-of-the-art simulation software. At the end of this course, students will be able to analyse and develop simulation models of given problems."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4101", "title": "B.Tech. Dissertation", "description": "The objective of the course is to give students exposure to research. In this course, each student is assigned to a research project that requires application of industrial and systems engineering concepts. The course provides the opportunity for students to conduct self study by reviewing literature, defining a problem, analyzing the problem critically, conducting design of experiments, and recommending solutions. It also enables students to improve their communication skills through technical report writing and oral presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4203", "title": "Decision Analysis in Industrial & Operations Management", "description": "This course introduces the fundamental principles and practices for decision modelling and risk analysis in industrial engineering and operations management. It presents a set of analytical methods and tools with which stakeholders can deal with complex and uncertain decision situations leading to clear and defensible actions."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4212", "title": "Advanced Modeling in Operations Management", "description": "This course introduces students to advanced modeling concepts and methods in industrial and operations management. With systems becoming more complex, this course will impart students with the skills to conduct appropriate optimization modeling of the problems encountered in these systems. Students will learn how to solve these models computationally using exact and heuristic methods to make optimal or near-optimal decisions for these systems. Selected problems in logistics systems will be used to illustrate the real-world modeling applications."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4213", "title": "Data Analytics for Operations Management", "description": "This course teaches students a range of modern statistical and machine learning tools for solving data intensive problems in industrial & management engineering and supply chain management. Popular algorithms in statistical and machine learning currently used in the industry will be covered. These include but are not limited to linear regression, support vector machine, artificial neutral network, decision tree, principal component analysis, boosting, clustering, etc. Practical case studies will be used and software such as Python or R will be utilized."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4220", "title": "Supply Chain Modelling", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals of supply chain concepts. It covers issues and basic techniques of distribution strategies, transportation logistics and supply chain network optimisation models. Students are equipped with fundamental concepts and quantitative tools that are essential to solving logistics and supply chain problems."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4229", "title": "Selected Topics in Logistics", "description": "This module introduces students to either emerging topics in logistics or specialised topics. Students will learn and understand evolving concepts in logistics and supply chain. This module will enable students to keep abreast with current developments in the\nlogistics field and broaden their exposure to various specialised topics."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4230", "title": "Quality Engineering II", "description": "Design-in quality versus process control. Quality function deployment. Failure mode and effects analysis. Fractional factorial designs. Confounding. Robust design. Reliability analysis and testing."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4239", "title": "Selected Topics in Quality Engineering", "description": "This module introduces students to either emerging topics in quality engineering or specialised topics. Students will learn and understand concepts in quality management and quality technology. This module will enable them to keep abreast with current developments in quality engineering and broaden their exposure to various specialised topics."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4240", "title": "Project Management", "description": "This course introduces students to the basic concepts in project management. The process encompasses project planning, project scheduling, cost estimating and budgeting, resource allocation, monitoring and control, and risk assessment and management. The principles behind the process and the approaches to their execution will be covered. This course will enable students to define and plan a project within the constraints of the environment. The plan will serve as a blueprint for the implementation and control of a project."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4242", "title": "Cost Analysis And Management", "description": "This course introduces students to the basics of cost management. Concepts relating component items and process steps to value-added functions are introduced as a precursor to the analysis of system cost over the entire life cycle of products and services. It also deals with tools and approaches to select equipment, materials for cost-effective operations. This course enables students to cost out a system and recommend approaches to develop strategies for increasing the cost effectiveness of the system."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4246", "title": "New Product Management and Innovation", "description": "This course introduces students to established and emerging concepts in new product development and technological innovation. The entire new product development process, from opportunity identification to product launch, will be discussed in the course. Materials will be drawn from real-life practices and research findings."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4249", "title": "Selected Topics in Engineering Management", "description": "This module introduces students to either emerging topics in engineering management or specialised topics. Students will learn and understand evolving concepts affecting the management of engineering activities.This module will enable them to keep abreast with current developments in the engineering management field and broaden their exposure to various specialised topics."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4252", "title": "Introduction to Systems Engineering", "description": "This course is an introductory course on systems engineering. It explains systems, systems engineering, system development lifecycles and processes, applications and methods to integrate systems and mitigate risks. In particular, system development will be learned in details through a project."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4259", "title": "Selected Topics in Systems Engineering", "description": "This module introduces students to either emerging topics in systems engineering or specialised topics. Students will learn and understand evolving concepts affecting the engineering large-scale or complex systems. This module will enable them to keep abreast with current developments in the systems engineering field and broaden their exposure to various specialised topics."}, {"moduleCode": "TIE4299", "title": "Selected Topics in Industrial Engineering", "description": "This module introduces students to either emerging topics in industrial engineering or specialized topics by visiting staff. The students are given the opportunity to learn from visiting staff and also to understand evolving concepts in operations research\nand industrial engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "TM3101", "title": "Mechanical Systems Design", "description": "This is a group-based project that focuses on the design of a complete mechanical design product, emphasizing the design process, analysis and drawings. The major project may be preceded by smaller projects to instill familiarity and experience. Elements of commercialization (e.g. market survey) and form-giving (aesthetics) may be incorporated. Students are required to submit a report, drawings, do a presentation, and take oral examinations. Effective group dynamics and experience of the process and problems involved in translating paper design to prototype are the key objectives of this module."}, {"moduleCode": "TM4101", "title": "B.Tech. Dissertation", "description": "This module consists mainly of a research-based project carried out under the supervision of one or more faculty members. It introduces students to the basic methodology of research in the context of a problem of current research interest. The module is normally taken over two consecutive semesters, and is a core requirement of the B.Tech. programme."}, {"moduleCode": "TM4102", "title": "B.Tech. Dissertation", "description": "This module consists mainly of a research-based project carried out under the supervision of one or more faculty members. It introduces students to the basic methodology of research in the context of a problem of current research\ninterest. The module is normally taken over two consecutive semesters, and is a core requirement of the B.Tech. programme."}, {"moduleCode": "TM4263", "title": "Manufact'G Simulat'N & Data Communicat'N", "description": "This module provides the fundamental concepts related to the simulation of manufacturing systems. How the data between the manufacturing systems are transferred, their standard protocols are also covered. In addition the following topics are covered: Concepts of discrete-event modelling and simulation, definitions, types, essential elements in modelling, design and implementation of manufacturing simulation models, petri-nets, model verification and validation, input information collection and analysis, interpretation of outputs, use of random inputs and variance reduction techniques, protocol standards, communication topology, MAP/TOP."}, {"moduleCode": "TM4264", "title": "Fundamentals of Automotive Engineering", "description": "This module covers the basic principles in various areas of the automobile. These include various types of petrol engines, diesel engines, rotary engines, electric engines and hybrid engines, and their related issues, various types of transmission systems (manual and automatic), chassis design and their development, and vehicle dynamics (including suspension, steering, brakes), car body design and manufacture, and safety issues. Also covered are fuel, combustion, and emissions, plus examples from the automotive industry and current industrial practices."}, {"moduleCode": "TMA1001", "title": "Introductory Mathematics", "description": "This course aims to equip students without 'A'-level mathematics with appropriate mathematical knowledge and skill, to prepare them for further study of mathematics related disciplines. Major topics: Sets, functions and graphs, polynomials and rational functions, inequalities in one variable, logarithmic and exponential functions, trigonometric functions, sequences and series, techniques of differentiation, applications of differentiation, maxima and minima, increasing and decreasing functions, curve sketching, techniques of integration, applications of integration, areas, volumes of solids of revolution, solution of first order ordinary differential equations by separation of variables and by integrating factor, complex numbers, vectors."}, {"moduleCode": "TMA2101", "title": "Calculus for Computing", "description": "This course provides a basic foundation for calculus and its related subjects required by computing students. The objective is to train the students to be able to handle calculus techniques arising in their courses of specialisation. In addition to the standard calculus material, the course also covers simple mathematical modelling techniques and numerical methods in connection with ordinary differential equations. Major topics: Preliminaries on sets and number systems. Calculus of functions of one variable and applications. Sequences, series and power series. Functions of several variables. Extrema. First and second order differential equations. Basic numerical methods."}, {"moduleCode": "TMA2102", "title": "Linear Algebra", "description": "This course introduces basic concepts in linear algebra that are routinely applied in fields like science, engineering, statistics, economics and operations research. The vector spaces within which the general ideas are developed are all real vector spaces (actually Rn). The objective of the course is to inculcate a facility in both the algebraic and geometric viewpoints of linear algebra. The course will develop basic skills in computing with vectors and matrices (with or without any mathematical software). It will also highlight examples of the more important applications of linear algebra in other fields."}, {"moduleCode": "TMA2103", "title": "Probability and Statistics", "description": "This course serves as an introduction to probability and statistical techniques to students. Topics covered include the basic concepts of probability, conditional probability, independence, random variables, joint and marginal distributions, mean and variance, some common probability distributions, sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing based on a normal population."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2101", "title": "Fundamentals of Mechanical Design", "description": "This course provides the student with the fundamental knowledge to do calculations on design components like bolts, fasteners, joints, welds, springs, gears, brakes, clutches. Other areas covered will include material selection, fatigue, bearings, shafts, as well as design mechanisms like linkages and cams. This is a compulsory course with no final exam. Assessment will be based purely on continuous assessment."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2114", "title": "Mechanics of Materials II", "description": "This course provides for a further understanding of concepts and principles of solid mechanics and its applications to engineering problems. The topics covered are: Two-dimensional systems; Combined stresses; Energy methods; Columns; Experimental stress analysis; Inelastic behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2115", "title": "Mechanics of Machines", "description": "This course covers the fundamental engineering principles on kinematics and kinetics. The topics of rigid body dynamics and vibration will be covered, including the theoretical development and practical application to mechanisms and machinery. The salient features of dynamics to be applied for each instance will be clearly explained and the interpretation of the results obtained will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2121", "title": "Engineering Thermodynamics", "description": "This course develops a good understanding of the basic concepts and application of thermodynamics required for the analysis, modeling and design of thermal-fluid systems in engineering practice. Major topics include: Review of First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and their applications; Reversible and Irreversible processes; Entropy; Non-flow and flow processes; Cycles involving entropy changes; Power/refrigeration and air cycles; Ideal gas mixtures; Psychrometry and applications; Fuels; Combustion and First Law applied to combustion."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2134", "title": "Fluid Mechanics I", "description": "This is an introductory course to fluid mechanics for mechanical engineering students. After introducing the basic terminology and a classification of fluid flows, students are taught fluid statics, which covers hydrostatic forces on submerged bodies and buoyancy. In the section on fluid dynamics, basic principles of fluid motion are introduced. This covers the continuity equation, Bernoulli and energy equations. The momentum equation and its engineering application using the control volume approach are included. Dimensional analysis and similitude are taught with engineering examples. This course also includes laminar and turbulent pipe flows, Hagen-Poiseuille law, friction factor, and losses in pipe fittings."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2135", "title": "Fluid Mechanics II", "description": "This course introduces the students to the operating principles of hydraulic pumps and turbines, their applications and methods of selecting pumps to match system requirements and how to avoid cavitation damage. We also focus on the mathematical theory of potential (non-viscous) fluid flow as well as the structure of basic vortices. This is followed by treatment of the fundamentals of viscous fluid flow and boundary layers. The major topics covered therein are the Navier-Stokes equations and some of their exact solutions, boundary layer flow theory, estimation of drag force on a flat plate, boundary layer separation and control, equations of motion for turbulent flow and turbulent boundary layers, turbulent models and velocity profiles in turbulent boundary layers. Boundary layer with transition. Flow around bluff and streamlined bodies: their flow patterns, drag and lift."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2142", "title": "Feedback Control Systems", "description": "This is a compulsory course and it introduces students to various fundamental concepts in control system analysis and design. Topics include mathematical modeling of dynamical systems, time responses of first and second-order systems, steady-state error analysis, frequency response analysis of systems and design methodologies based on both time and frequency domains. This course also introduces computer simulation as a means of system evaluation."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2143", "title": "Sensors and Actuators", "description": "Primarily a core subject for mechanical engineering students, this course introduces the basic principles and characteristics of various sensors for the measurement of mechanical quantities such as position, velocity, acceleration, force, and temperature. Topics that are also introduced are actuators for achieving motion, primarily various types of electric motors. This course also covers the generalised measurement and instrumentation system, the associated electronics, drivers and power supplies for the processing of the signals from the sensors and transducers and for driving the various actuators. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge required for the application of these sensors and actuators rather than on their design."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2151", "title": "Principles of Mechanical Engineering Materials", "description": "This course provides the foundation for understanding the structure-property-processing relationship in materials common in mechanical engineering. Topics explore the mechanical properties of metals and their alloys, the means of modifying such properties, as well as the failure and environmental degradation of materials. Practical applications are demonstrated through laboratory experiments to illustrate the concepts taught during lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2162", "title": "Manufacturing Processes", "description": "This course covers the principles of computer-aided tools: CAD and CAM, which are widely used in modern design and manufacturing industry. By introducing the mathematical background and fundamental part programming of CAD/CAM, this course provides the basics for students to understand the techniques and their industrial applications. The topics are: CAD: geometric modelling methods for curves, surfaces, and solids; CAM: part fabrication by CNC machining based on given geometric model; Basics of CNC machining; Tool path generation in CAD/CAM (Option to introduce a CAM software to generate a CNC program for the machining of a part); Verification of fabricated part by CNC measurement based on given geometric model. The course is targeted at students specializing in manufacturing engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "TME2401", "title": "Engineering Mathematics II", "description": "The following topics will be covered in detail: Vector algebra, vector functions; Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical coordinates; Curves, tangents and lengths; Gradient, directional derivatives; Divergence and curl vector fields; Line, surface and volume integrals, Jacobian.; Green\u2019s theorem, Gauss\u2019 and Stokes\u2019 theorems."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3101", "title": "Mechanical Systems Design", "description": "This is a group-based project that focuses on the design of a complete mechanical design product, emphasizing the design process, analysis and drawings. The major project may be preceded by smaller projects to instill familiarity and experience. Elements of commercialization (e.g. market survey) and form-giving (aesthetics) may be incorporated. Students are required to submit a report, drawings, do a presentation, and take oral examinations. Effective group dynamics and experience of the process and problems involved in translating paper design to prototype are the key objectives of this course."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3112", "title": "Mechanics of Machines", "description": "This course covers the fundamental engineering principles on kinematics and kinetics. The topics of rigid body dynamics and vibration will be covered, including the theoretical development and practical application to mechanisms and machinery. The salient features of dynamics to be applied for each instance will be clearly explained and the interpretation of the results obtained will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3122", "title": "Heat Transfer", "description": "This course covers the key concepts related to the different modes of heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation) and principles of heat exchangers. It develops the students\u2019 proficiency in applying these heat transfer concepts and principles, to analyse and solve practical engineering problems involving heat transfer processes. Topics include introduction to heat transfer; steady state heat conduction; transient heat conduction; lumped capacitance; introduction to convective heat transfer; external forced convection; internal forced convection; natural/free convection; blackbody radiation and radiative properties; radiative exchange between surfaces; introduction to heat exchangers and basic calculation of overall heat transfer coefficient."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3211", "title": "Mechanics of Solids", "description": "The course covers topics on: Linear elasticity in which the general equations of equilibrium and compatibility are derived and its applications are illustrated for complex problems; Unsymmetrical bending of beams; Stresses in pressurized thick-walled cylinders in elastic and elasto-plastic regions; Stresses in rotating members; Introduction to mechanics of composite materials; and Experimental stress analysis with particular emphasis on optical methods. This is an elective course and is intended for students in Stage 3 and 4 who have an interest in the stress analysis of isotropic and composite materials. The materials in this course are applicable to chemical, civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3233", "title": "Unsteady Flow in Fluid Systems", "description": "systems typically encountered in Mechanical Engineering applications. Unsteady flow fluid theories, real-life unsteady flow problems and practical design solutions will be described, explained and analysed in this course. These include Analysis and Designs of Water pumping stations and their distribution systems, petroleum products (i.e. crude oil and natural gas) transportation pipelines systems, Oil and Gas flow systems, Thermal Power Stations flow systems etc"}, {"moduleCode": "TME3241", "title": "Microprocessor Applications", "description": "In this course, students are taught how the microprocessor/microcomputer is applied as the brain in an intelligent mechatronic system. Major topics include: Basic operations of the microprocessor; Introductory assembly language programming; High-level language programming; Basic interfacing with external devices and working with real-time devices. Upon successful completion, students will be able to have the confidence to design and implement smart products and systems, including intelligent robotic devices and machines, and intelligent measurement systems. This is a technical elective with the main target audience being mechanical engineering students in their third year of study. Examples of application, tailored specifically for mechanical engineers, are used to illustrate the principles."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3242", "title": "Automation", "description": "Students will learn the approaches used in the design of sequencing circuits applied to machine-level industrial automation. Special emphasis is given to electromechanical and pneumatic systems. After a quick review of input sensing, pneumatic actuators, basic switching logic and elements, the design of sequential control systems using electromechanical ladder diagrams, purely pneumatic circuits and programmable logic controllers are introduced. Upon successful completion, students should be able to read and understand pneumatic circuits and electromechanical ladder diagrams and be able to quickly design and implement such circuits for any sequencing problem. This is a technical elective course targeted at third year mechanical engineering students."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3251", "title": "Materials For Engineers", "description": "This course equips students with basic knowledge in materials selection for mechanical design. The major topics are: Classification of engineering materials; Materials properties in design using case studies; Ferrous alloys (carbon and low-alloy steels, tool steels, stainless steels, cast irons); Non-ferrous alloys (Cu-, Al-, Mg-, Ti-, Zn-, Ni-alloys, etc.); Engineering plastics and composites; Engineering ceramics; Surface engineering and coating techniques; Joining processes; Material selection in design; Product costing and case studies. The course is aimed at students who want to specialise in mechanical product design."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3261", "title": "Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing", "description": "This course covers the principles of computer-aided tools: CAD and CAM, which are widely used in modern design and manufacturing industry. By introducing the mathematical background and fundamental part programming of CAD/CAM, this course provides the basics for students to understand the techniques and their industrial applications. The topics are: CAD: geometric modelling methods for curves, surfaces, and solids; CAM: part fabrication by CNC machining based on given geometric model; Basics of CNC machining; Tool path generation in CAD/CAM (Option to introduce a CAM software to generate a CNC program for the machining of a part); Verification of fabricated part by CNC measurement based on given geometric model. The course is targeted at students specializing in manufacturing engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3263", "title": "Design for Manufacturing and Assembly", "description": "This course teaches product design for manufacture and assembly. It covers the details of design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) methods for practicing engineers and also allows for learning of concurrent or simultaneous engineering. The topics covered: Introduction, Selection of materials and processes; Product design for manual assembly; Design for automatic assembly and robotic assembly; Design for machining; Design for rapid prototyping and tooling (rapid mould making); Design for injection moulding. The course is targeted at students majoring in manufacturing."}, {"moduleCode": "TME3273", "title": "Understanding Experimental Data", "description": "Fundamental concepts of statistics and the analysis of experimental data for engineers. Topics include hypothesis testing, linear/curvilinear/multiple regression, correlation, testing of fitted lines/curves, comparing different batches of experimental data, analysis of variance (ANOVA)."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4102", "title": "B.Tech. Dissertation", "description": "This course consists mainly of a research-based project carried out under the supervision of one or more faculty members. It introduces students to the basic methodology of research in the context of a problem of current research interest. The course is normally taken over two consecutive semesters, and is a core requirement of the B.Tech. programme."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4209", "title": "The Management Of New Prod. Development", "description": "Traditional Firms are challenged by innovative entrepreneurial firms almost everywhere. Ever shrinking product life cycle, fast product introductions from several quarters, easy availability of funding from Venture Capitalists, ease of access to manufacturing via sub contracting, emergence of cheap mass production work house in China and other countries to name few, are putting severe pressure on the traditional firms. Style and design, killers of early days, are no longer offer sustainability. It is no longer possible to undergo New Product Development in conventional sense and reap the benefit afterwards for a longer period of time. The rules of the game have changed under the new knowledge based economy. New strategies are being developed consistently by the leading firms such as Apple, Google and Amazon, to name a few. This course covers New Product Development process in its entirety with the emphasis on relevant traditional as well as emerging radical approaches. The emphasis is placed on how to succeed in business place by utilising the resources of others as well as your own \u2013 a typical scenario of knowledge based economy."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4213", "title": "Vibration Theory & Applications", "description": "This course develops students\u2019 understanding of various methods used to determine the shock and vibration characteristics of mechanical systems and instills an appreciation of the importance of these characteristics in the design of systems and their applications in vibration isolation, transmission, and absorption problems; Natural frequencies and normal modes; Dynamic response and stability. Single and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems will be treated using continuous and discrete system concepts, including Lagrange\u2019s equations. Approximation methods for solution as well as instrumentation for vibration measurement will be discussed. Examples will be drawn mainly from mechanical disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4223", "title": "Thermal Environmental Engineering", "description": "This course aims to integrate knowledge in thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics to design and simulate air-conditioning systems, as well as to estimate and analyse the energy performance of buildings. Major topics include: Applications and basics; Psychrometrics; Comfort and health; Heat gains through building envelopes; Cooling load calculations; Air conditioning design calculations; Air conditioning systems; Air conditioning plants and equipment., Energy estimation and energy performance analysis. The course is designed for third and final-year students who are interested in the Cooling and Energy Efficiency of Buildings."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4225", "title": "Applied Heat Transfer", "description": "This elective course extends the basic heat transfer principles covered in earlier courses to engineering applications. Although some important new physical processes are introduced, the main emphasis is on the use of these to the design-analysis of industrial systems. The use of empirical data for situations where detailed analysis is difficult will be demonstrated through the solution of design examples. The main topics include: Heat exchangers with phase change; Boiling; Condensation; Combined heat and mass transfer; Heat transfer enhancement; Cooling of electronic equipment; and Design examples."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4245", "title": "Robot Mechanics and Control", "description": "The course facilitates the learning of the fundamentals of robotic manipulators for students to appreciate and understand their design and applications. Successful completion allows student to formulate the kinematics and dynamics of robotic manipulators consisting of a serial chain of rigid bodies and implement control algorithms with sensory feedback. The course is targeted at upper level undergraduates who have completed fundamental mathematics, mechanics, and control courses. Students will also gain a basic appreciation of the complexity in the control architecture and manipulator structure typical to new-generation robots."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4251", "title": "Thermal Engineering Of Materials", "description": "This elective course in materials science examines the importance of temperature and its effects on the structure and properties of materials common in mechanical engineering. Besides the thermodynamic principles of phase equilibria and the kinetics of phase transformations, students will be introduced to standard industrial practices, as well as the latest techniques in non-conventional processing of materials. Topics include thermodynamics and kinetics in metallic alloy systems, thermal modification processes, surface modification processes and rapid thermal processing."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4254", "title": "Materials in Engineering Design", "description": "This course highlights various engineering properties of the materials that are of paramount importance to a design engineer along with various design philosophies that are commonly practised. It develops the analytical ability of students in choosing the most appropriate material from a design engineer\u2019s perspective. The topics are covered: Introduction of eng-ineering materials; Materials selection for weight-critical applications; Materials for stiffness based designs; Materials for strength-based designs; Materials for damage tolerant designs; Materials and fatigue-based designs; Materials and design against corrosion; Materials for wear critical applications; Materials for biomedical applications; and Materials Selection for special applications."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4256", "title": "Functional Materials and Devices", "description": "Functional materials belong to a special category that is different from traditional structural materials. This category of materials provides special functionalities and is able to convert energy from one from to another. They can be found naturally and can also be engineered based on different requirements. This course covers principles of functional materials in inorganic and organic materials, and metals. The course will also provide applications of some functional materials in devices."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4261", "title": "Tool Engineering", "description": "All mechanical engineering students need the basic knowledge of metal machining and tool design for mass production and the design of cutting tools. This course provides the fundamental understanding of metal machining and tool design."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4262", "title": "Automation in Manufacturing", "description": "This course provides a comprehensive introduction to automation technologies applied in discrete part manufacturing. It also introduces essential principles and provides analytical tools for manufacturing control. Major topics covered include: Economic justification of automated systems; Fixed and transfer automation; Automated material handling and automated storage/retrieval systems, Flexible manufacturing systems, Internet-enabled manufacturing, Group technology, Process planning, Automated assembly and automated operation planning for layered manufacturing processes."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4263", "title": "Manufact'G Simulat'N & Data Communicat'N", "description": "This course provides the fundamental concepts related to the simulation of manufacturing systems. How the data between the manufacturing systems are transferred, their standard protocols are also covered. In addition the following topics are covered: Concepts of discrete-event modelling and simulation, definitions, types, essential elements in modelling, design and implementation of manufacturing simulation models, petri-nets, model verification and validation, input information collection and analysis, interpretation of outputs, use of random inputs and variance reduction techniques, protocol standards, communication topology, MAP/TOP."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4264", "title": "Fundamentals of Automotive Engineering", "description": "This course covers the basic principles in various areas of the automobile. These include various types of petrol engines, diesel engines, rotary engines, electric engines and hybrid engines, and their related issues, various types of transmission systems (manual and automatic), chassis design and their development, and vehicle dynamics (including suspension, steering, brakes), car body design and manufacture, and safety issues. Also covered are fuel, combustion, and emissions, plus examples from the automotive industry and current industrial practices."}, {"moduleCode": "TME4283", "title": "Micro-Fabrication Processes", "description": "This course enables students to learn the micromachining of both Silicon and non-Silicon materials. The major topics include the basic micro-fabrication as well as the micro-machining processes for microsystems. Some of the processes to be covered: Bulk Processes; Surface Processes; Sacrificial Processes and Bonding Processes; Micro-machining based on conventional machining processes; Micro-machining based on non-conventional machining processes; Special machining; The course is targeted at students seeking to specialise in the Microsystems Technology."}, {"moduleCode": "TP5001", "title": "Research Project", "description": "This course involves independent project work over two semesters, on a topic in Transportation Systems & Management approved by the Programme Management Committee. The work may relate to a comprehensive literature survey, and critical evaluation and analysis, design feasibility study, case study, minor research project or a combination."}, {"moduleCode": "TP5025", "title": "Intelligent Transportation Systems and Simulation", "description": "Intelligent transportation systems and its simulation are crucial for efficient and effective management of urban transportation and mobility in modern cities. A broad range of diverse technologies, including information processing, computing, communications, control and electronics can be applied to our transportation systems and many simulation methods are adopted by transport agencies. The topics covered in this course include state-of-the-practice and state-of-the-art ITS technologies and simulation methods. This course enables the student opportunity acquiring the knowledge and practical skills through the lectures, field investigations, and course projects."}, {"moduleCode": "TP5026", "title": "Transportation Management & Policy", "description": "This course is designed to provide senior level undergraduate and graduate students with an overall view of the transportation systems, means of managing and influencing the systems to achieve certain goals. The topics covered include the characteristics of land, sea and air transportation systems; roles and structure of government agencies in transportation management; environmental and social impact of transportation systems, travel demand management; public transport management; models of financing transportation services; regulation and deregulation of transportation services; roles of intelligent transportation systems in system management and policy implementation; case studies of transportation policies in several countries"}, {"moduleCode": "TP5028", "title": "Intermodal Transportation Operations", "description": "The course will critically examine the dimensions of an integrated inter-modal transport system in relation to the changing logistics and supply chain practices of procurement, production and distribution. Themes and issues studied include the analysis of inter-modal choices using the total cost concepts in distribution, the international-domestic interface, advanced technologies in inter-modalism, the role of government in inter-modal integration. The course will also introduce simulation analysis for multi-modal operations, including building, calibration and validating models, output analysis and application programming interface."}, {"moduleCode": "TR2201", "title": "Entrepreneurial Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to the core concepts of marketing, with a special emphasis on the marketing of new, innovative products and services where no market previously existed or where the underlying product concepts may be unfamiliar to existing customers. The pedagogical approach emphasises those market research methods, marketing strategies, pricing analysis and promotional techniques that are particularly useful for entrepreneurial settings. Particular attention is paid to the innovative use of internet as well as non-conventional techniques such as 'guerilla' marketing. The usefulness of these analytical tools is illustrated through concrete case studies of successful entrepreneurial marketing."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3000", "title": "Independent Study Course in Entrepreneurship", "description": "This course provides the opportunity for students to pursue an in-depth study of an entrepreneurship topic/issue under the close supervision and guidance of an instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3001", "title": "New Product Development", "description": "This course focuses on the integration of the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of a company to create products that meet market demand. Topics covered in the course include development processes and organisations, product planning, identifying customer needs, product specifications, concept development, product architecture, industrial design, design for manufacturing, prototyping, product development economics, and managing projects. The students are required to complete a group product development project. The course is targeted at undergraduate students in the Technopreneurship Minor Program."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3002", "title": "New Venture Creation", "description": "Creating a new business is a challenging and complex task. The road to entrepreneurial success is long, winding and strewn with pitfalls, obstacles and blind turns. The risks of starting a new business are high, as illustrated by the high failure rates for new ventures. However, as is always the case, the rewards are commensurate with the risk: in addition to the psychic rewards of starting a business, witness the dominance of entrepreneurs in the Forbes 400 list."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3002I", "title": "New Venture Creation", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the knowledge and tools required to start their own successful scalable business. Students learn through developing a business idea and business plan and presenting it to a panel of judges at the end of the course. Major topics covered include: idea generation and evaluation, value proposition, market analysis, sustainable competitive advantage, marketing strategy, creative problem-solving, innovation, teams, legal issues, financing, valuation and forecasting, managing growth, going global, negotiation and presentation. The course is targeted at all students who are interested in learning how to start a scalable business."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3002N", "title": "New Venture Creation", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the knowledge and tools required to start their own successful scalable business. Students learn through developing a business idea and business plan and presenting it to a panel of judges at the end of the course. Major topics covered include: idea generation and evaluation, value proposition, market analysis, sustainable competitive advantage, marketing strategy, creative problem-solving, innovation, teams, legal issues, financing, valuation and forecasting, managing growth, going global, negotiation and presentation. The course is targeted at all students who are interested in learning how to start a scalable business."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3003", "title": "Global Entrepreneurial Marketing", "description": "This course is designed to equip an engineer with the marketing skills needed to launch and lead a high-growth, high-tech venture. Covers marketing challenges facing entrepreneurs who expand internationally early in the life of the company. Combines learning by the case method, working in teams, and a field based entrepreneurial project. Bases 50% of grade on team performance, to cultivate entrepreneurial leadership and teamwork skills."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3007", "title": "Entrepreneurial Finance", "description": "This course aims to discuss the structure, environment and risk management of entrepreneurial investments in business start-ups. There will be a comprehensive introduction of entrepreneurial investments, from combined investment options to focused investments, and other different processes based on real-life and theoretical basis. This course focuses on both the theoretical and practical aspects of entrepreneurship investment. Case study analysis and comparison of local and international environment of venture capital investment would be the primary focus. This eventually leads up to a discussion of the construction of an entrepreneurship investment system which is appropriate and relevant to a particular country."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3008", "title": "Technological Innovation", "description": "This course aims to equip students with strong conceptual foundation for understanding the dynamic process of technological innovation. Students will be introduced to the importance of technological innovation as a driver for value creation and economic growth. The dynamics of technological change will be analyzed through the concepts such as technology life-cycles, dominant design, network externalities, and first-mover advantage. Key technology commercialization processes through which an innovative idea is transformed into a successful product or service in the marketplace will be studied, and the key organizational/management factors and socio-economic/competitive environmental factors that influence the effectiveness of these processes will be highlighted."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3014", "title": "Globalization of New Ventures", "description": "The course proposes to bring students at NUS in Singapore and multiple NOC locations overseas to work as a global project team to help leaders of a new venture make decision related to global expansion. With the evolution of Internet, many high-tech startups expand sales and distribution internationally soon after founding. They enter target markets around the world before they are imitated by \u201ccopycat\u201d entrepreneurs in other countries. Many new ventures outsource business functions like manufacturing, engineering, customer support, and R&D to other countries to reduce labor costs or get access to scarce talent. This course uses field work to prepare students to help new ventures go global."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3049", "title": "Topics in Entrepreneurship", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity for indepth study in the area of entrepreneurship, and for studying specialized topics and new developments in the area. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and may include entrepreneurial finance, technology and intellectual property management, electronic business management, product design and management, digital marketing."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3049A", "title": "Topics in Entrepreneurship", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity for indepth study in the area of entrepreneurship, and for studying specialized topics and new developments in the area. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and may include entrepreneurial finance, technology and intellectual property management, electronic business management, product design and management, digital marketing."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3049B", "title": "Topics in Entrepreneurship", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity for indepth study in the area of entrepreneurship, and for studying specialized topics and new developments in the area. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and may include entrepreneurial finance, technology and intellectual property management, electronic business management, product design and management, digital marketing."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3201", "title": "Entrepreneurship Practicum", "description": "This course measures the student\u2019s effort in pursuing his/her entrepreneurial aspirations and in further developing his/her potential beyond their internship given the NOC opportunity.Taken together with TR3202 / ETP3201 Start-up Internship Programme, the student will be assessed on his/her internship by regular reviews and presentations to companies and consulting professor. He/she will also need to prepare a business pitch at the end of the internship."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3201N", "title": "Entrepreneurship Practicum", "description": "This course measures the student\u2019s effort in pursuing his/her entrepreneurial aspirations and in further developing his/her potential beyond their internship given the NOC opportunity. Taken together with TR3202 / ETP3201 Start-up Internship Programme, the student will be assessed on his/her internship by regular reviews and presentations to companies and consulting professor. He/she will also need to prepare a business pitch at the end of the internship."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3202", "title": "Start-up Internship Programme", "description": "This course documents the learning experience from the internship in writing. Taken together with TR3201 / ETP3203 Entrepreneurship Practicum, the student will prepare a weekly logbook as well as internship reports which will be used as part of the evaluation of their internship experience."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3202I", "title": "Start-up Internship Programme", "description": "This course documents the learning experience from the internship in writing. Taken together with TR3201 / ETP3203 Entrepreneurship Practicum, the student will prepare a weekly logbook as well as internship reports which will be used as part of the evaluation of their internship experience."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3202N", "title": "Start-up Internship Programme", "description": "This course documents the learning experience from the internship in writing. Taken together with TR3201 / ETP3203 Entrepreneurship Practicum, the student will prepare a weekly logbook as well as internship reports which will be used as part of the evaluation of their internship experience."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3202S", "title": "Start-up Internship Programme", "description": "This course documents the learning experience from the internship in writing. Taken together with TR3201/ ETP3203 Entrepreneurship Practicum, the student will prepare a weekly logbook as well as internship reports which will be used as part of the evaluation of their internship experience."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3202T", "title": "Start-up Internship Programme", "description": "This course documents the learning experience from the internship in writing. Taken together with TR3201 /ETP3203 Entrepreneurship Practicum, the student will prepare a weekly logbook as well as internship reports which will be used as part of the evaluation of their internship experience."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3203", "title": "Start-up Case Study & Analysis", "description": "This course involves the writing of a case study on the start-up process and challenges faced by the internship host companies of the students at the overseas college. Students will apply the concepts and frameworks learned in entrepreneurship courses to document the key processes of companies in the real world."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3203E", "title": "Start-up Case Study & Analysis", "description": "This course involves the writing of a case study on the start-up process and challenges faced by the internship host companies of the students at the overseas college. Students will apply the concepts and frameworks learned in entrepreneurship courses to document the key processes of companies in the real world."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3203I", "title": "Start-up Case Study & Analysis", "description": "This course involves the writing of a case study on the start-up process and challenges faced by the internship host companies of the students at the overseas college. Students will apply the concepts and frameworks learned in entrepreneurship courses to document the key processes of companies in the real world."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3203N", "title": "Start-up Case Study & Analysis", "description": "This course involves the writing of a case study on the start-up process and challenges faced by the internship host companies of the students at the overseas college. Students will apply the concepts and frameworks learned in entrepreneurship courses to document the key processes of companies in the real world."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3203P", "title": "Start-up Case Study & Analysis", "description": "This course involves the writing of a case study on the start-up process and challenges faced by the internship host companies of the students at the overseas college. Students will apply the concepts and frameworks learned in entrepreneurship courses to document the key processes of companies in the real world."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3203T", "title": "Start-up Case Study & Analysis", "description": "This course involves the writing of a case study on the start-up process and challenges faced by the internship host companies of the students at the overseas college. Students will apply the concepts and frameworks learned in entrepreneurship courses to document the key processes of companies in the real world."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3204", "title": "Entrepreneurship Practicum (Short)", "description": "This course aims to evaluate students\u2019 co-curricular learning while on the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme through a business pitch, participating in entrepreneurship related activities and a business idea log."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3204S", "title": "Entrepreneurship Practicum (Short)", "description": "This course aims to evaluate students\u2019 co-curricular learning while on the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme through a business pitch, participating in entrepreneurship related activities and a business idea log."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3204T", "title": "Entrepreneurship Practicum (Short)", "description": "This course aims to evaluate students\u2019 co-curricular learning while on the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme through a business pitch, participating in entrepreneurship related activities and a business idea log."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3301", "title": "Summer Programme in Entrepreneurship", "description": "A two week long immersion course that introduces students to the core concepts of entrepreneurship. Through action learning, cross-cultural team learning and hackathon pitching, this course aims to inculcate an entrepreneurial mindset and provide the foundational understanding of the entrepreneurial start-up process contextualized in the startup ecosystems of Singapore and Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "TR3301A", "title": "Summer Programme in Entrepreneurship", "description": "A two week long immersion course that introduces students to the core concepts of entrepreneurship. Through action learning, cross-cultural team learning and hackathon pitching, this course aims to inculcate an entrepreneurial mindset and provide the foundational understanding of the entrepreneurial start-up process contextualized in the startup ecosystems of Singapore and Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "TR4001", "title": "Global Entrepreneurial Leadership", "description": "Participants will be exposed to best-of-class lessons from entrepreneurs and thought leaders in Sweden, Singapore, and Silicon Valley. Students from NUS, KTH, and Silicon Valley will compare and contrast the lessons of entrepreneurial leaders in all three regions. Participants will develop a personal philosophy and code of conduct for themselves as the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. They will develop their skills as global entrepreneurs, preparing them to more effectively collaborate with entrepreneurs and members of the Circles of Influence in other high tech regions around the world. Members of all three learning groups will develop their professional global networks."}, {"moduleCode": "TR4049", "title": "Seminars in Entrepreneurship", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge in the broader range of topics of entrepreneurship. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and may include innovation, negotiation, social entrepreneurship, law, operations, leadership, strategy, technology."}, {"moduleCode": "TR4049N", "title": "Seminars in Entrepreneurship - Lean Startup: Market Validation", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge in the broader range of topics of entrepreneurship. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and may include innovation, negotiation, social entrepreneurship, law, operations, leadership, strategy, technology."}, {"moduleCode": "TR4049S", "title": "Seminars in Entrepreneurship - Lean Startup: Market Validation", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge in the broader range of topics of entrepreneurship. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and may include innovation, negotiation, social entrepreneurship, law, operations, leadership, strategy, technology."}, {"moduleCode": "TR4049T", "title": "Seminars in Entrepreneurship - Lean Startup: Market Validation", "description": "This course provides students with an opportunity to gain knowledge in the broader range of topics of entrepreneurship. Topics covered will vary from semester to semester and may include innovation, negotiation, social entrepreneurship, law, operations, leadership, strategy, technology."}, {"moduleCode": "TR5049", "title": "Lean Startup Practicum", "description": "The course provides a hands-on practical introduction to the Lean StartUp methodology. Students will learn and apply the lean launch methodology for customer discovery/market validation to empirically test and validate their business idea."}, {"moduleCode": "TR5101", "title": "New Venture Finance", "description": "This course aims to introduce the world of early-stage investments and venture capital to the participants. It will also allow participants to develop a better understanding of the fund-raising process for a startup and appreciate an entrepreneur\u2019s challenges from an early-stage financing point-of-view. Participants will learn the basic venture-funding skillset from experienced operators and investors. They will also learn about what early stage investors and venture capitalists look out for during the fundraising process, as well as gaining insights about the world of innovation. This course is designed for aspirational entrepreneurs and working professionals seeking to chase their entrepreneurial dreams."}, {"moduleCode": "TR5102", "title": "Intellectual Property Basics for Entrepreneurs", "description": "The objective of the course is teach technology entrepreneurs on how to utilize intellectual property (IP) assets and integrate these into their businesses. Topics covered: i) different IP types (patents/copyright/trademark/knowhow) and how each type can protect a core business ii) best practices for developing/licensing/enforcing IP rights iii) discussion of how venture capitalists view IP ii) basics of patentability in different technology segments iii) technology landscape iv) avoid infringement of already-granted competing patents. This course will leverage on case studies, assignments, group discussions and presentations by industry experts in various technology segments (medical /sustainability /energy /materials /AI /food tech)."}, {"moduleCode": "TR5301", "title": "Summer Programme in Entrepreneurship", "description": "A two week long immersion course that introduces students to the core concepts of entrepreneurship. Through action learning, cross-cultural team learning and hackathon pitching, this course aims to inculcate an entrepreneurial mindset and provide the foundational understanding of the entrepreneurial start-up process contextualized in the startup ecosystems of Singapore and Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "TR5302", "title": "Experiential Entrepreneurship Internship", "description": "Semester long internship in a Singapore based startup.The student will prepare a weekly logbook as well as internship reports which will be used a part of the evaluation of their internship experience. Removal of overseas study mission from curriculum."}, {"moduleCode": "TRA2101", "title": "Basic Translation", "description": "This course introduces students to the basic issues of written translation and acquaints them with the fundamentals of intercultural communication. The practice-oriented course is conducted in an interactive manner. Through in-class discussion, hands-on exercises and scenario-based translation activities, students are expected to acquire a wide range of translation strategies and apply them to various English-Chinese communicative settings. A variety of genres and fields will be introduced, including literature, politics, economics, science, and technology."}, {"moduleCode": "TRA3201", "title": "Advanced Translation", "description": "This course, designed for Level 2nd-4th year students, deals with some problems not specified for attention under the basic translation course, requiring students to translate some literary works into Chinese and English respectively. Topics will include the relationship between contemporary translation theory and practice, the use of more specific semantic and cultural understanding of the text, as well as more complex formation of textual structures in the process of translation. Special attention will be paid to online resources for translators."}, {"moduleCode": "TRA3202", "title": "Mass Media Translation", "description": "The course is structured on an intensive basis with seminars, group projects/presentations and individual assignments. The course is essentially practical which aims to train students to become professional media translators by reinforcing the skills and techniques required of their translations of different media text\u2010types into Chinese\u2010English and vice versa. Students will learn from regular exercises in translating a wide variety of print and electronic media texts and representative material selected from international news syndicates, regional newspaper, televisions, advertisements and websites."}, {"moduleCode": "TRA3203", "title": "Film and Television Subtitling Translation", "description": "This course allows students to learn the rules of Chinese and English subtitling and the way to operate subtitling software like Aegisub and VisualSubSync. Audiovisual materials like documentaries, TV programs and movies, will be translated with or without scripts. Through practices, students are expected to familiarise themselves with subtitling and the above\u2010mentioned software. Students will be exposed to different genres of film and television programmes, as well as the varieties of English and Chinese used in the field."}, {"moduleCode": "TRA3204", "title": "Literary Translation", "description": "This course aims to introduce knowledge in translation strategies and literary translation. Students will have the opportunity to translate texts (both Chinese to English and English to Chinese) from fiction, drama and poetry. Being different from translation for technology and business, the concept of beauty, poetics and equivalence will be discussed in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "TRA3205", "title": "Computer-Assisted Translation Tools", "description": "This course aims to introduce knowledge in the relationship between technology and the translation industry. Within the curriculum, students will learn a variety of computer\u2010assisted translation tools and software that is useful for translation, including SDL Trados, SDL Multiterm, memoQ, Wordfast, D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu, Adobe Fireworks (only for functions that are applicable to translation practice) and Aegisub."}, {"moduleCode": "TRA3206", "title": "Translation and Interpreting Theories", "description": "This course presents a comprehensive overview of the major theoretical paradigms (e.g., equivalence, Skopos theory, descriptive translation studies, effort models for interpreting) in translation and interpreting studies (TIS). In the analysis of landmark examples of empirical research on translation and interpreting, we illustrate how theories are integrated into translation and interpreting practices. Through lectures, class discussions and readings, students will gain insight into the central conceptual and empirical issues in the TIS field."}, {"moduleCode": "TS1101E", "title": "Introduction to Theatre and Performance", "description": "This course will provide students with foundational knowledge of the different aspects of, approaches and discursive contexts relating to the study and praxis of theatre and performance. The course will also introduce students to the various forms of classical and contemporary performance practices and their attendant modes of analyses: combining play analysis, theatre history & theory. Using complementary content\u2010centred lectures and practice laboratory, the course creates an environment where students simultaneously engage with course content while investigating its relations to the creation of theatre and performance."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2217", "title": "Introduction to Performance Studies", "description": "From religious rituals to personal identity, propaganda to public protests, media spectacles to interactive artworks, performance is a prevalent feature of contemporary societies. Performance Studies draws on anthropology, cultural studies and art theory to explore how these and related phenomena work, what effects they have, and how they relate to each other. This introductory course provides an overview of the key concepts behind a fast\u2010developing discipline, and uses them to interpret a range of social practices and performance events that can be found in Singapore and other highly globalized societies. The course combines fieldwork, critical thinking, and performance analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2221", "title": "Global Theatres", "description": "This course introduces theatrical histories and theories across a variety of global traditions. As a broad overview, this course juxtaposes significant traditions to think through how theatre is related to its historical context, how theory has arisen from or shaped practice, and how history itself is constructed by historians. Students will investigate a variety of forms including those transmitted through oral, embodied, and text-based methods."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2232", "title": "Staging Asian Theatres", "description": "This course introduces traditional Asian drama and staging\u2014the combination of dance, music, masks, acting codes\u2014and ways in which they inform contemporary creative practices. Students will compare traditional forms across geographies, analyse scripts, and create short, devised performances during practical sessions. This course provides the vocabularies to understand South and East Asian theatres as they evolve. Students will learn how Asian traditions have a place in contemporary life. Students interested in Asian studies, Chinese studies, Japanese studies, and keen to apply concepts from Asian performance forms to a spectrum of creative and professional work will benefit from this course."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2233", "title": "Making Contemporary Performance", "description": "This course focuses on key figures and aspects of contemporary performance as a means of learning about innovative approaches to theatre practice. Taking the works of a significant dramatist, director, theorist or theatre/performance genre as their starting point, students will investigate the resulting aesthetic and conceptual innovations, and explore their implications for current approaches to performance making more generally. As such, the course combines creative and critical practice, and features a variety of reflective, analytical and practical assessment tasks, including a group performance project."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2234", "title": "Cultural Policy, the Arts and Society", "description": "This course will explore the aesthetic or instrumentalist role of the arts in society and assess its implications on cultural policy, before evaluating different models of state subvention in the arts, from the arm's length approach to the interventionist, incentive and laissez-faire models. In the process, key contemporary policy issues, relating to the civilizing mission of the arts, the notion of identity in a postmodern intercultural situation, the twin demands of nationalism and internationalism, and the questions of corporate sponsorship versus the welfare state will be addressed, with particular emphasis on the Singaporean context."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2235", "title": "Marketing the Arts and Leisure Services", "description": "This practical introduction to the comprehensive range of concepts, principles and practices in marketing focuses on arts and culture-related products, services and industries. Besides drawing attention to vital distinctions in the marketing of for-profit versus not-for-profit organisations, the latter of which characterizes the majority of arts agencies in Singapore, the political, sociological and economic factors which influence those working in the arts will also be examined. This course is targeted at students interested in arts administration or Theatre students wishing to hone their skills in the managerial aspects of the arts."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2236", "title": "Crossing Boundaries in Performance", "description": "Intended for students majoring in Theatre Studies, this course aims to explore how the boundaries of social and cultural identities are constructed and crossed in performance. By looking at various forms of performance texts, it will examine a) racial and gender identities represented in the body and language, b) patterns of image-making and c) the performative dynamics of the encounter between different identities. Throughout the course, students will be guided to address the questions of how the differences across the borderlines are represented and challenged and, also, whether these boundaries are ultimately directed towards specific cultural ends."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2237", "title": "As If: Actors and Acting", "description": "Actors and their craft stand at the centre of many theatrical traditions. Yet what is acting is, and who actors are, remain subjects of intense fascination, which continue to be explored in live performance, as well as through writings by practitioners, scholars and critics. This course combines practical workshops and critical reading to explore diverse approaches to acting and to investigate the role and status of the actor within the art form of theatre, and in society at large. Focusing on actor development and the process of acting, assessment tasks highlight the importance of participation, reflection and presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2239", "title": "Major Playwrights of the 20th Century", "description": "This course focuses on the close reading of dramatic texts in order to study the dynamic relationship between text & performance. Through the examination of 4 major modern playwrights working in different historical, geographical and cultural contexts, this course will explore the development of modern drama in the 20th century, the significance of text as the basis of theatrical realization, the variety of staging possibilities engendered by the dramaturgy of the play-text, and the synergistic partnership of word and action in creating the huge variety of text-based theatre in the 20th century."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2240", "title": "Voice Studies and Production", "description": "This course looks at how one's voice is made and how one can modulate it. Students will get an understanding of the physiological processes that produce voice and the relationship between mind and body in vocal communication. Hence this is also a very practical workshop using techniques developed by actors and singers that will improve the resonance and musicality of the speaking voice and also vocal strength and endurance. Using verse, prose and dramatic text, students will work on vocal characteristics - pitch, intonation patterns, pace and pausing, placement - and so improve their oral delivery."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2241", "title": "Writing the Short Film", "description": "This course focuses on screenwriting in short fiction films. It cultivates a critical and practical understanding of the short film form and the process of crafting a narrative, particularly the centrality of characterisation, structure and thematic development. Through practice, analysis and self-reflection, students learn to conceptualise, develop and interrogate their own written short cinematic script."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2242", "title": "Intercultural Performance Practice", "description": "Students from NUS and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) will work together on a collaborative intercultural theatre project and use this experience to think through the implications of devising intercultural performances in Southeast Asia. In this special term course, all students will spend 2.5 weeks in Indonesia and 2.5 weeks in Singapore. The sessions will combine theory seminars, practical workshops and rehearsals."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2243", "title": "Film Genres: Stars and Styles", "description": "This course focuses on the conventions of a variety of film genres and styles, ranging from Hollywood and Chinese cinemas to Bollywood and animation. It traces the development of each genre, examining its defining characteristics, the role and influence of the star system and individual stars such as actors and directors, and its relations to other film styles and industries. Through a group creative project, students will make a film that involves the practical application of critical ideas."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2244", "title": "Theatre, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence", "description": "This non-technical course uses theatre to explore two sides of Artificial Intelligence. First, we consider how theatre makers are using the creative potential of AI in their work (for example, by using robots, computational choreographic scores and immersive environments generated by deep learning). Second, we review theatre performances aimed at critiquing the ethical, societal and epistemological challenges brought forth by AI (for example, the racial biases in face recognition and the ecological costs of the servers required for deep learning)."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2722", "title": "Department Exchange Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "TS2880", "title": "Topics in Theatre", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in Theatre and Performance Studies. The topic to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff members in the department."}, {"moduleCode": "TS2880A", "title": "Modern Theatre in Asia", "description": "Modern theatre in Asia in the twentieth century played a key role in working out what it meant to be modern. Integrating international influences, its makers created new forms and identities for the stage and for society. This course identifies and analyses these and other features of modern theatre in Asia by studying a range of play scripts, digitalized performances, and critical essays. There will also be an opportunity to engage in a creative project. This course will be suitable for students interested in the history, culture, and the performing arts of Modern Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3103", "title": "Theatre Lab", "description": "The final practical project in the Theatre Studies curriculum provides students with a structured and guided opportunity to research, develop and produce an original performance piece. Working in a group under the supervision of a guest director, students conduct independent contextual research and contribute creatively to the collaborative process. The performance will be shown to a public audience, and each student will offer a research presentation analysing the process, choices and outcomes of individual work in the context of the group project. This is an essential course for Theatre Studies major students, taken in Year 3 of a student\u2019s enrolment."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3222", "title": "Applied Theatre", "description": "This course develops students' theoretical and practical perspectives of Applied Theatre, a term that embraces different strands of socially engaged theatre, and focuses on the 'usefulness' of theatre in various educational and community contexts. Through exploring a range of practical approaches deployed by some key practitioners in the field, students are guided to think critically about how the social efficacy of theatre can be promoted and debated. Leading approaches are re-examined in light of context\u2010 and culture\u2010specific situations, and students' practical experience form a basis to engage with theoretical questions and issues of creating participatory theatre in non\u2010conventional settings."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3231", "title": "History and Theory of Western Theatre 2", "description": "This course interrelates Western history and theatre practice from approximately 1800 to the present, and constitutes a continuation of the theoretical, literary, technological, and historical roots of Western theatre begun in TS2231; it serves as an overview primarily for Theatre Studies majors but is accessible to others interested. The approach for the course draws from multiple disciplines and perspectives. It stresses the relationship of historical forces, ideological movements, and theatre practice in Europe and the Americas. Seminal play texts are discussed in detail, and, as appropriate, in a background of interdisciplinary material, including intercultural, filmic and cybernetic perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3232", "title": "Performance & Social Space", "description": "This course recognises performance as a major component of our everyday lives: how we observe, enact and embody the myriad performances in our environments, both `mediated\u2019 and `live\u2019. Through discussions, presentations and workshops, this course explores notions of authenticity and transformation through performances in social and public spaces. Various theoretical models will be considered, including those that relate to the avant-garde and the experimental. A final project will be developed over several weeks, where the students work in groups to create a short video that integrates these approaches with their ideas about performance."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3233", "title": "Southeast Asian Performance", "description": "This course explores the rich spectrum of performance practices in Southeast Asia, such as ritual theatre, dance drama, storytelling, and puppetry. The performative heritage of performance traditions and religious theatres in the region will be examined and compared with contemporary iterations. Through key theoretical approaches, students will learn to understand each practice in its changing socio-cultural contexts, and its aesthetics. They will trace the genealogy of Southeast Asian performance practices in relation to their historical entanglements with Asian traditions and Western forms. Students interested in theatre, religious studies, sociology and history may find this course useful."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3234", "title": "Performance and Popular Culture", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the basic tenets of performance studies (i.e. performance and performativity) and applies them to a study of popular culture in a global arena. Through a variety of texts including films, video games, public speeches, and social media posts, the course teaches how the production and circulation of popular forms can be read as performance: how they are produced or packaged for consumption, how the consumer relates to them and how their success or failure is measured. It will show the pervasiveness and relevance of performativity in everyday physical and online interactions."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3235", "title": "Singapore English-Language Theatre", "description": "This course provides a grand overview of Singapore English Language Theatre as well as an in-depth analysis of its canonical texts. It traces the development of Singapore's cultural identity through her theatre's shifting strategies of representation. Apart from contextualizing the key texts within an awareness of Singapore cultural policy and social rubric, this course also focuses on an understanding of theoretical paradigms from postcolonialism, feminism, interculturalism and postmodernism."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3236", "title": "Theatre Ecologies", "description": "What can theatre and performance do in the face of climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss? This course explores how a range of playwrights, theatre-makers, and performance artists have responded to this question. Drawing on a wealth of recent eco-conscious scholarship within theatre and performance studies, we consider topics such as eco-theatre, theatre and the anthropocene, theatre and the posthuman, theatre and animals, immersive and site-responsive performance, and ecoscenography. The course also considers how the application of environmental and eco-critical paradigms to theatre may enable a deeper understanding of what theatre is."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3237", "title": "Acting and Directing in Asian Theatre", "description": "Asian performance has had a huge impact on the 20th century world theatre. Prominent figures, such as Stanislavski, Artaud, Brecht, Brook, Grotowski, Suzuki and Schechner, were influenced by Asian acting. This course teaches the Asian performance traditions of the golden age: the Sanskrit theatre of India, zaju opera of China, and kabuki of Japan. The principles and philosophies of these traditions are compared as an organic whole that differs significantly from Western traditions. Students are guided to explore masterpieces in a Renaissance manner, imitating and reviving both their style and spirit. The course also serves as a reference for intercultural performances."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3238", "title": "Acting for the Screen", "description": "The course shifts the study of acting practices from theatre makers to teachers and theorists of acting who have worked with performers primarily known for their work on screen. These may include the likes of: Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, Maria Ouspenskaya, and Michael Chekhov, all of whom were closely associated with Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre. This course will also study screen performers who exemplify certain epochs and/or styles of screen acting. Students are expected to analyse these performances, and in turn produce screen recordings demonstrating and developing what they have learned from these performers and their trainings."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3239", "title": "Reading Asian Drama", "description": "This course investigates a wide range of classical Asian dramatic texts, including masterpieces from Indian Sanskrit theatre, Chinese opera, and Japanese Noh and Kabuki. The social milieus in which the drama evolved are examined, and the illusionary world which ancient theatergoers imagined are reconstructed. The course treats dramatic literature as a vital component of living theatre, not as reading material, and thus complements TS3237, which teaches the staging practices of Asian theatre. Towards the end of the semester, Western canonical dramaturgy serves as a comparative reference to Asian materials, which enhances intercultural study or practice in other courses."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3240", "title": "Theatre Criticism", "description": "This course will cover the writing and the critical aspect of theatre criticism \u2010 the art of writing theatre reviews. The role of the theatre critic will be examined in conjunction with the stylistic and formal contents of theatre criticism. The course will explore the uses and elements of theatre criticism with a heavy emphasis on the practical applications of the techniques and skills of writing play analysis in communicating the theatrical experience to the reader. This course will also explore the different modes of publishing in old and new media and examine how they affect reviewer-reader communication."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3241", "title": "Modern Drama", "description": "This course, intended for advanced undergraduate students, is meant to provide a survey introduction to Modern European drama from the late 19th C. to the present. The plays chosen reflect dramaturgical and theatrical reflections on the modern, on class and gender relations (and breakdowns) and form part of a tradition of innovation in which later drama is formed, partially at least, in response to earlier."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3242", "title": "Performing Interculturalism Onstage", "description": "Interaction between cultures is an indispensable part of our everyday life. Its dynamics become especially visible on the stage. In this course we will study \u2018intercultural theatre\u2019\u2013a way to create theatre that combines different theatrical forms and cultures. Students will watch recordings of intercultural theatre, read critical essays, and engage in a creative project to gain a vocabulary in describing how these dynamics may operate in our lives. Some ideas that we will discuss include adaptation, cultural ownership, and \u2018borrowing\u2019. This course will particularly benefit students interested in cultural exchange, Asian performances, and social aspects of performances."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3243", "title": "Stage and Screen", "description": "This course explores the many ways in which theatre and film are distinct but closely inter-related mediums. The bulk of the course focuses on close analysis of texts that have been adapted from the stage to the screen, examining performativity within those texts and how the essential properties that define the stage and the screen contribute to and facilitate particular ways for performing such texts. Notions of theatricality and the cinema will be interrogated, especially in relation to how cinema can be \u2018theatrical\u2019 and the theatre \u2018cinematic\u2019. Teaching and assessment modes include lectures, seminars, workshops and guided practical coursework."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3244", "title": "Voice and Text", "description": "Building on skills learnt in TS1101E, this course aims to deepen the understanding of different theatrical styles and how such understanding can be applied to make effective performance choices with special emphasis on the performer\u2019s vocal expressiveness. Students explore texts selected from a range of periods and genres through exercises, scene study, and rehearsal."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3245", "title": "Professional Theatre Internship", "description": "This course provides year 3 students majoring in Theatre Studies with the opportunity of an internship project in theatre organizations. It matches individual students' interests and skills with internship roles in stagecraft, stage production, event planning, theatre in education, research and administration offered by theatre companies. Through research papers, regular reports, and a final presentation, students are trained to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical application, develop skills in teamwork and problem-solving, and form research parameters and gather data to address issues in theatre practice from a critical perspective. Students are selected competitively on the basis of interviews and portfolios."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3246", "title": "Shakespeare and Asian Performances", "description": "Shakespeare\u2019s plays have been known in many parts of Asia for about 100 years, and contemporary Asian theatre practice shows at once a great diversity of approaches to them, and patterns of common interest in production and reception. This course takes recent productions from different theatre cultures to compare how Shakespeare\u2019s texts are engaged through non\u2010realist aesthetic principles, and how self-reflexive treatments of naturalism, as well as new scripts based on his plays, interact with the cultural values represented by Shakespeare in the East and Southeast Asian region. Assessment includes the option of a creative project."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3247", "title": "Digital Archiving and Performance", "description": "The informal archiving of events through recording technology and social media is now an everyday activity, such that the event and its record are increasingly intertwined. This course provides a hands\u2010on introduction to the considerations and processes in the digital archiving of theatre performances. Issues in the selection of materials, their ownership and presentation will be explored through the interests of different parties: the archivists, the institution housing the archive, the copyright holders and the archive\u2019s users. Students will be guided in group projects to archive a set of performance materials for different kinds of archives in the digital humanities."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3248", "title": "Theatre and Orientalism", "description": "The oriental \u2013 as figure, setting, story and / or acting style \u2013 has played varied roles in theatre histories. This course investigates archival materials, modes of transmission and Avant-Garde theatres, to study key aesthetics and ideas through which imaginings of the oriental were secreted in and by English and European theatrical performances from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The workings of orientalism will provide a vantage point from Asia for reviewing constructions of theatre history, and analysing historical issues in performance."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3551", "title": "FASS Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student's Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project. UROPs usually take place within FASS, ARI, and partners within NUS, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed. UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department."}, {"moduleCode": "TS3880", "title": "Topics in Group Practice Research", "description": "Practice research aims to discover new things about theatre by doing it, rather than watching it. This course offers a group project in Theatre and Performance practice research designed and directed by the lecturer. Students are guided in the theoretical parameters and issues, project methodology, and development of the practical work. Through an individual role, each student considers how their practical experience and knowledge in local contexts interact with theory and methodology. The course extends over both semesters of one academic year to facilitate the longer-term growth of practice research outcomes. Admission is by portfolio submission and interviews / auditions."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4212", "title": "Playwriting: Practice and Production", "description": "This course aims to train students in the art and practice of play-writing while simultaneously offering them the opportunity to role-play the professional responsibilities and disciplines of a playwright. Topics to be covered include dramatic structure, dramatic action, the relationship between dialogue and action, characterisation, setting, the use of physical objects to create meaning, and different treatments of time on stage. Students will be assigned research and writing exercises throughout the course culminating in a full-length play. Students will also be expected to act in and direct other students scenes and plays as part of the continuous re-drafting and critique process."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4212HM", "title": "Playwriting: Practice and Production", "description": "This course aims to train students in the art and practice of play-writing while simultaneously offering them the opportunity to role-play the professional responsibilities and disciplines of a playwright. Topics to be covered include dramatic structure, dramatic action, the relationship between dialogue and action, characterisation, setting, the use of physical objects to create meaning, and different treatments of time on stage. Students will be assigned research and writing exercises throughout the course culminating in a full-length play. Students will also be expected to act in and direct other students scenes and plays as part of the continuous re-drafting and critique process."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4214", "title": "Arts and the Law", "description": "This course focuses on the theatre practitioner's work within the legal context - the rights and liabilities of the theatre artist in relation to their work and its public performance. The course will highlight specific legal principles and aims to equip students with a practical working knowledge of the law, with particular focus on the theatrical arena."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4214HM", "title": "Arts and the Law", "description": "This course focuses on the theatre practitioner's work within the legal context - the rights and liabilities of the theatre artist in relation to their work and its public performance. The course will highlight specific legal principles and aims to equip students with a practical working knowledge of the law, with particular focus on the theatrical arena."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4216", "title": "Theatre and Gender", "description": "This course offers students a way to approach theatre and performance through the matrix of gender. Students will be exposed to selected discourses on feminism, masculinity, transgenderism. This course will focus on the issues of language, body, theatricality and performativity and explore how the gender discourses can inform the students\u2019 engagement with these issues, particularly in relation to aesthetics and embodiment. Incorporating a critical, examination of selected play-texts, this course will lead students to develop a project where they can either construct a creative response to a play or a devised reflection on their process of researching gender in theatre."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4216HM", "title": "Theatre and Gender", "description": "This course offers students a way to approach theatre and performance through the matrix of gender. Students will be exposed to selected discourses on feminism, masculinity, transgenderism. This course will focus on the issues of language, body, theatricality and performativity and explore how the gender discourses can inform the students\u2019 engagement with these issues, particularly in relation to aesthetics and embodiment. Incorporating a critical, examination of selected play-texts, this course will lead students to develop a project where they can either construct a creative response to a play or a devised reflection on their process of researching gender in theatre."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4217", "title": "Cultural Performance in Asia", "description": "What is the form and function of theatricality in contemporary Asian society? This course seeks to answer this question by investigating a range of collective practices of symbolic action and meaning\u2010making that have become known as \"cultural performance\". The methodological perspectives of Performance Studies will be deployed to contextualise cultural performances that contribute so arrestingly to social reality in East and Southeast Asia. Students will participate in a field trip and learn a variety of research techniques such as practice\u2010based inquiry, interviews, performance analysis, historical analysis and visual ethnography to develop individual research projects throughout the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4217HM", "title": "Cultural Performance in Asia", "description": "What is the form and function of theatricality in contemporary Asian society? This course seeks to answer this question by investigating a range of collective practices of symbolic action and meaning\u2010making that have become known as \"cultural performance\". The methodological perspectives of Performance Studies will be deployed to contextualise cultural performances that contribute so arrestingly to social reality in East and Southeast Asia. Students will participate in a field trip and learn a variety of research techniques such as practice\u2010based inquiry, interviews, performance analysis, historical analysis and visual ethnography to develop individual research projects throughout the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4218", "title": "Theatre and Postmodernism", "description": "This is not a course about Postmodernism. This is a course examining the relationship between Postmodernism and Theatre, their tensions and complements. The course will examine notions of theatricality and performativity that have come to characterise Postmodernism. Related ideas of simulacra and rehearsal, occularism and spectatorship, self-consciousness and self-reflexivity will be debated and discussed. Postmodernism as style, attitude and as mode will be pitched against performance aesthetics and theatre techniques to further explore the relationship between the two. The course will also locate Singapore theatre practices in the context of a global postmodernity."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4218HM", "title": "Theatre and Postmodernism", "description": "This is not a course about Postmodernism. This is a course examining the relationship between Postmodernism and Theatre, their tensions and complements. The course will examine notions of theatricality and performativity that have come to characterise Postmodernism. Related ideas of simulacra and rehearsal, occularism and spectatorship, self-consciousness and self-reflexivity will be debated and discussed. Postmodernism as style, attitude and as mode will be pitched against performance aesthetics and theatre techniques to further explore the relationship between the two. The course will also locate Singapore theatre practices in the context of a global postmodernity."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4219", "title": "Media and Popular Performance", "description": "This course examines popular media-mediated events \"as\" performance. The course will investigate the way in which 'mediatised'(i.e. media-mediated) and popular events \"perform\" and shape the audience's perception of reality. Conversely, the course will also examine how media-mediated performance is influenced by audience interests and perceptions. The focus will be on popular media-mediated events like sports, reality TV, the internet to illustrate how they constitute different modes of performances while sharing similar performativities. The course will also focus on cross-genre, inter-disciplinary performances while also examining notions of the spectacular and spectacle in contemporary visual culture."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4219HM", "title": "Media and Popular Performance", "description": "This course examines popular media-mediated events \"as\" performance. The course will investigate the way in which 'mediatised'(i.e. media-mediated) and popular events \"perform\" and shape the audience's perception of reality. Conversely, the course will also examine how media-mediated performance is influenced by audience interests and perceptions. The focus will be on popular media-mediated events like sports, reality TV, the internet to illustrate how they constitute different modes of performances while sharing similar performativities. The course will also focus on cross-genre, inter-disciplinary performances while also examining notions of the spectacular and spectacle in contemporary visual culture."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4220", "title": "Shakespeare and Film", "description": "This course provides a study of how the literary and performance traditions associated with Shakespeare's work are mobilized and transformed by the visual cultures of contemporary cinema. Through the intersections between the mediums of the dramatic text, theatre and film, the course examines central issues that shape Shakespeare's currency and circulation in the cinema: the values attached to authenticity and performance traditions, the Shakespearean actor, the appropriation and parody of the \"universality\" of Shakespeare, and the transformation of the meaningfulness of his plays through visuality and spectacle."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4220HM", "title": "Shakespeare and Film", "description": "This course provides a study of how the literary and performance traditions associated with Shakespeare's work are mobilized and transformed by the visual cultures of contemporary cinema. Through the intersections between the mediums of the dramatic text, theatre and film, the course examines central issues that shape Shakespeare's currency and circulation in the cinema: the values attached to authenticity and performance traditions, the Shakespearean actor, the appropriation and parody of the \"universality\" of Shakespeare, and the transformation of the meaningfulness of his plays through visuality and spectacle."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4221", "title": "Performance Research", "description": "Doing performance can teach us things that watching it cannot. This course uses performance practice as a research methodology to investigate otherwise inaccessible questions of creativity, embodiment, and performance processes. The three main components of the course include: defining a research question, designing and conducting experiments/observations, presenting the outcomes. Students will conceptualize and execute their own research project, in a relationship of collaborative research with artists. The nature of the project determines the resulting presentation: multi-media talk, lecture-demonstration, or short performance or workshop. The course will also focus on case studies from a range of cultural and stylistic sources."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4221HM", "title": "Performance Research", "description": "Doing performance can teach us things that watching it cannot. This course uses performance practice as a research methodology to investigate otherwise inaccessible questions of creativity, embodiment, and performance processes. The three main components of the course include: defining a research question, designing and conducting experiments/observations, presenting the outcomes. Students will conceptualize and execute their own research project, in a relationship of collaborative research with artists. The nature of the project determines the resulting presentation: multi-media talk, lecture-demonstration, or short performance or workshop. The course will also focus on case studies from a range of cultural and stylistic sources."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4222", "title": "Practice as Research in Applied Theatre", "description": "This course trains students to become independent performance-based researchers in applied theatre. Students will develop their creative and critical skills in designing, facilitating applied theatre workshops, and in using applied theatre as a research methodology. To consolidate students\u2019 skills in integrating practice with theory, students will undertake Practice as Research projects of considerable scope with the social and cultural complexity of specific communities and contexts in mind. Applied theatre as a form of social intervention, problem solving, community engagement, and knowledge production will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4222A", "title": "Practice as Research in Applied Theatre", "description": "This course trains students to become independent performance-based researchers in applied theatre. Students will develop their creative and critical skills in designing, facilitating applied theatre workshops, and in using applied theatre as a research methodology. To consolidate students\u2019 skills in integrating practice with theory, students will undertake Practice as Research projects of considerable scope with the social and cultural complexity of specific communities and contexts in mind. Applied theatre as a form of social intervention, problem solving, community engagement, and knowledge production will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4222AHM", "title": "Practice as Research in Applied Theatre", "description": "This course trains students to become independent performance-based researchers in applied theatre. Students will develop their creative and critical skills in designing, facilitating applied theatre workshops, and in using applied theatre as a research methodology. To consolidate students\u2019 skills in integrating practice with theory, students will undertake Practice as Research projects of considerable scope with the social and cultural complexity of specific communities and contexts in mind. Applied theatre as a form of social intervention, problem solving, community engagement, and knowledge production will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4222HM", "title": "Practice as Research in Applied Theatre", "description": "This course trains students to become independent performance-based researchers in applied theatre. Students will develop their creative and critical skills in designing, facilitating applied theatre workshops, and in using applied theatre as a research methodology. To consolidate students\u2019 skills in integrating practice with theory, students will undertake Practice as Research projects of considerable scope with the social and cultural complexity of specific communities and contexts in mind. Applied theatre as a form of social intervention, problem solving, community engagement, and knowledge production will be examined."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4401", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "The Honours Thesis is usually done in the second semester of a student's registration in the Honours Degree Programme."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4401HM", "title": "Honours Thesis", "description": "The Honours Thesis is usually done in the second semester of a student's registration in the Honours Degree Programme."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4660HM", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth. The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details. Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected. Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4880", "title": "Topics in Theatre", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in Theatre and Performance Studies. The topic to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff member in the department."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4880C", "title": "Contemporary Performance Practices", "description": "Live performance is a vibrant and dynamic art form, and innovations in aesthetics and technique mean that it is constantly changing. In this course, students will conduct a critical assessment of recent developments in performance practice, and of their implications for performance theory and analysis. Recent trends in performance and scholarship will be surveyed, informed by a combination of publications, electronic resources, and theatre\u2010going. Students will be assessed on their capacity to develop informed responses to the work, to conduct and present independent research into current trends, and to reflect critically on the concept of the \u2018contemporary\u2019."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4880CHM", "title": "Contemporary Performance Practices", "description": "Live performance is a vibrant and dynamic art form, and innovations in aesthetics and technique mean that it is constantly changing. In this course, students will conduct a critical assessment of recent developments in performance practice, and of their implications for performance theory and analysis. Recent trends in performance and scholarship will be surveyed, informed by a combination of publications, electronic resources, and theatre\u2010going. Students will be assessed on their capacity to develop informed responses to the work, to conduct and present independent research into current trends, and to reflect critically on the concept of the \u2018contemporary\u2019."}, {"moduleCode": "TS4880HM", "title": "Topics in Theatre", "description": "This course is designed to cover selected topics in Theatre and Performance Studies. The topic to be covered will depend on the interest and expertise of regular or visiting staff member in the department."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5101", "title": "Text and Performance", "description": "This course provides a broad-based critical and methodological foundation for advanced research in theatre and performance. Taking one example from each of three aspects of performance a script, a live performance, and a media/cultural performance the course trains students to examine and compare the critical positions and questions posed by a range of theoretical texts with different approaches, priorities and methodologies. Core topics are the mutually transformational modalities of textuality and performativity, live and mediated performance, and non-traditional critical and performance practices. Students are guided in formulating a research proposal and project, which forms the main coursework component."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5101R", "title": "Text and Performance", "description": "This course provides a broad-based critical and methodological foundation for advanced research in theatre and performance. Taking one example from each of three aspects of performance a script, a live performance, and a media/cultural performance the course trains students to examine and compare the critical positions and questions posed by a range of theoretical texts with different approaches, priorities and methodologies. Core topics are the mutually transformational modalities of textuality and performativity, live and mediated performance, and non-traditional critical and performance practices. Students are guided in formulating a research proposal and project, which forms the main coursework component."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5212", "title": "Asian International Cinema", "description": "In recent years, the vitality and currency of Asian cinema has resulted in texts that can no longer be viewed as merely artifacts of a particular culture or nation. This course looks at how film industries in Asia have engaged with global cinema through various forms of negotiations that assert, compromise or consume national, cultural or conventional distinctions. We assess the implications of a conglomerate Asian cinema by examining the current trend of transnational Asian films, the translatability of conventions and adaptability of ideas within Asia itself as well as between Asia and dominant cinemas like Hollywood."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5212R", "title": "Asian International Cinema", "description": "In recent years, the vitality and currency of Asian cinema has resulted in texts that can no longer be viewed as merely artifacts of a particular culture or nation. This course looks at how film industries in Asia have engaged with global cinema through various forms of negotiations that assert, compromise or consume national, cultural or conventional distinctions. We assess the implications of a conglomerate Asian cinema by examining the current trend of transnational Asian films, the translatability of conventions and adaptability of ideas within Asia itself as well as between Asia and dominant cinemas like Hollywood."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5213", "title": "Performing Shakespeare in Asia", "description": "Shakespeare is by far the most produced and adapted western playwright in East Asian theatre cultures. Approaches to translating, performing and re\u2010writing his plays have changed over time, and are now at their most diverse and experimental. Correlatively, connections and relationships between Asian and Anglophone performance histories have also matured. Using translated and annotated archival recordings, this course examines the historical contexts and theatrical concerns of East Asian Shakespeare performances, relating them comparatively to Anglophone and European textual and performance histories. It is jointly taught by NUS and The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham as a distance learning course."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5213R", "title": "Performing Shakespeare in Asia", "description": "Shakespeare is by far the most produced and adapted western playwright in East Asian theatre cultures. Approaches to translating, performing and re\u2010writing his plays have changed over time, and are now at their most diverse and experimental. Correlatively, connections and relationships between Asian and Anglophone performance histories have also matured. Using translated and annotated archival recordings, this course examines the historical contexts and theatrical concerns of East Asian Shakespeare performances, relating them comparatively to Anglophone and European textual and performance histories. It is jointly taught by NUS and The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham as a distance learning course."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5232", "title": "Performance, History and Cultural Memory", "description": "How do societies use performance to mediate between the past and the present? This course addresses the question by considering the place of performance in the forging of history, the use of performance analysis as a means of gaining insights into historical events, and the function of performance as a process of remembering. Combining historical case studies and contemporary performances from local, regional and international contexts from colonial encounters and memorial rituals to trauma plays historiography is studied alongside the ways in which theatrical and other performances play a role in both reinforcing and challenging prevailing cultural memories."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5232R", "title": "Performance, History and Cultural Memory", "description": "How do societies use performance to mediate between the past and the present? This course addresses the question by considering the place of performance in the forging of history, the use of performance analysis as a means of gaining insights into historical events, and the function of performance as a process of remembering. Combining historical case studies and contemporary performances from local, regional and international contexts from colonial encounters and memorial rituals to trauma plays historiography is studied alongside the ways in which theatrical and other performances play a role in both reinforcing and challenging prevailing cultural memories."}, {"moduleCode": "TS5660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "TS6660", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "TS6770", "title": "Graduate Research Seminar", "description": "This is a required course for all research Masters and PhD students admitted from Sem 1 of AY2009/2010. The course provides a forum for students and faculty to share their research and to engage one another critically in discussion of their current research projects. The course will include presentations by faculty on research ethics and dissertation writing. Each student is required to present a formal research paper. Active participation in all research presentations is expected. The course may be spread over two semesters and will be graded \"Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory\" on the basis of student presentation and participation."}, {"moduleCode": "TS6880", "title": "Advanced Topics in Theatre", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "TSC3100", "title": "Supply Chain Design", "description": "This is a design project which requires students to form a group, to study, formulate and analyze an actual industrial logistics or supply chain problem with the goal of recommending a design solution that is practical. It also enables students to practice and improve the skills of technical report writing and oral presentation. The objective of the design project is to provide an opportunity for students to gain practical experience on an actual industry problem. It also gives the students a broader scope of applying supply chain management and engineering concepts rather than concentrating on one particular subject area. testing"}, {"moduleCode": "TSC3222", "title": "Global Sourcing & Supply Management", "description": "Understanding procurement, global sourcing and supply management are vital for supply chain management. The course aims to impart the necessary knowledge related to contemporary global sourcing and supply management strategies to students. Topics such as purchasing and strategic sourcing; global sourcing strategies; strategic sourcing process etc. will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "TSC3223", "title": "Supply Chain Financial Analysis and Management", "description": "Globalization has destroyed traditional national boundaries such that single transactions cross various countries, each with its own financial regime. Competition is no longer between companies but between these multinational supply chains. This course aims to impart the necessary knowledge to understand the financial supply chain embedded within these supply chain to be able to manage them effectively. The students will be brought through a macro view of supply chain across companies within industry before focusing on financial implications of supply chain related decisions in the organization."}, {"moduleCode": "TSC3224", "title": "Distribution & Warehousing", "description": "This course introduces the concepts of distribution and warehousing. Distribution and warehouse management are important components of logistics and supply chain management systems. \n\nThe topics cover include network distribution design, network location and warehousing systems such as material handling systems, storage systems and order picking systems. Case discussions will be an integral part of the lecture."}, {"moduleCode": "TSC3226", "title": "Transportation Management", "description": "Transportation is important concept in the study of logistics and supply chain management systems. Costs associated to transportation, distribution can form a large part of the overall business cost.\n\nTopics on the importance of transportation, different modes of transportation, transportation planning and risk management will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "TSC4101", "title": "B. Tech Dissertation", "description": "This is a two semester research course for 4th/ final year undergraduate students in engineering. In this course, each student is assigned to a research project that requires application of supply chain management and engineering concepts. The course provides the opportunity for students to conduct self study by reviewing literature, define a problem, analyze the problem critically, conduct design of experiments, and recommend solutions. It also enables students to improve their communication skills through technical report writing and oral presentation. The objective of the course is to give students exposure to research."}, {"moduleCode": "TSC4225", "title": "Port Logistics", "description": "Sea Transport being the cheapest mode of transportation is the main driver for global supply chain. Container terminal is an important node in the supply chain network for maritime logistics. It can serve as a gateway to the hinterland and transhipment hub for the movement of goods.\n\nTopics on the importance of containerization, the key processes in port operation, the types of equipment used in port, operation strategies and new port design concepts, port competition and port connectivity will be covered."}, {"moduleCode": "TTG1401", "title": "Engineering Mathematics I", "description": "This course builds and exposes students to the mathematical foundational concepts that are necessary in a variety of engineering disciplines. The topics include the following: Ordinary differential equations. Laplace transform. Matrix algebra. Vector Space. Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. Determinants and Inverses. Solution of linear equations. Diagonalisation. Functions of Matrices. Matrix exponential. Matrix differential equations."}, {"moduleCode": "TTG2401", "title": "Engineering Mathematics II", "description": "This course introduces to 2nd year students fundamental concepts of vector analysis, partial differential equations, curve fitting and Fourier series with emphasis on their engineering applications. Major topics covered include: vector calculus, directional derivatives, gradient, divergence and curl of vector fields, line, surface and volume integrals, Gauss and Stokes theorems, partial differential equations, curve fitting and Fourier series."}, {"moduleCode": "TTG2415", "title": "Ethics In Engineering", "description": "This course highlights to students the ethical issues they will face working as an engineering professional. The issues covered range from the rationale for an engineering code of practice, risk and safety issues, conflict of interest, ethical issues in research. This course will be offered to second or higher year engineering students as they need their engineering background to better understand the issues involved. Case studies will be presented to cover real life issues."}, {"moduleCode": "TTG2901", "title": "Communications for Engineering Professionals", "description": "This course aims to help students communicate competently and ethically in the engineering practice. It aims to develop students to be 'able communicators' with a holistic and humane view of engineering. Students are expected to work towards becoming critical decision makers, creative problem solvers, effective communicators, and responsible professionals. The course will focus on developing audience-centred oral communication skills, and students will be given opportunities to critically analyze communicative texts and events, and perform effective and ethical communication practices in various situations. The course also helps develop students' ability to effectively communicate engineering practices to both technical and non-technical audience."}, {"moduleCode": "TTG3001", "title": "Industrial Practice", "description": "This module is designed for BTech Engineering students. It leverages on the student\u2019s work experience and focuses the student\u2019s mind on exploring and reflecting on how the concepts and theories gained in the classroom can be translated into industrial practice to enhance his/her work performance. The student is required to complete 3 written reports, 2 oral presentations, and 6 Skills courses. This module is normally taken over two consecutive regular semesters, and is an Unrestricted Elective Module."}, {"moduleCode": "TTG3002", "title": "Industrial Practice", "description": "This module is designed for BTech Engineering students. It leverages on the student\u2019s work experience and focuses the student\u2019s mind on exploring and reflecting on how the concepts and theories gained in the classroom can be translated into industrial practice to enhance his/her work performance. The student is required to complete 3 written reports and 2 oral presentations. This module is normally taken over two consecutive regular semesters, and is an Unrestricted Elective Module."}, {"moduleCode": "TX1901T", "title": "Essential 1 for BTech Students", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "TX1902T", "title": "Essential 2 for BTech Students", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "TX1903T", "title": "Essential 3 for BTech Students", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "TX1904T", "title": "Essential 4 for BTech Students", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "TX1905T", "title": "Essential 5 for BTech Students", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UAI3100E", "title": "Overseas ISM (ST)", "description": "USP ISM (ST) Overseas Exchange Module"}, {"moduleCode": "UAI4000E", "title": "Overseas Exchange Module", "description": "USP Overseas Exchange Module substitution code"}, {"moduleCode": "UAR2201", "title": "Cyberart", "description": "The aim of the module is to expose students not only to arts with digital media, but also let them develop their own art works. Students practise the analysis and interpretation of arts and become familiar with the major shifts of the arts in the 20th century and the basics of postmodern aesthetics. During the production of creative works, the focus lies on the training of conceptual skills. Similarities between artistic and strategic creativity are investigated. The connection between art and leadership, the tradition of the avant-garde and a discussion about favourable conditions for innovation in a society serve to round up the module."}, {"moduleCode": "UAR2206", "title": "Creating 'Reality'", "description": "Framed around the production of non-fiction short films, Creating \u201cReality\u201d explores the visual representation of factual material. The intellectual core of the module focuses on the complexities of visual approaches to data collection and narrative, especially when observing and depicting real life practices, stories, and behaviours. In the module, non-fiction film is used as tool to explore critical\nissues of the nature of reality, subjectivity/objectivity, selection bias, and the manipulation of data \u2013 which are broad based concerns in all academic disciplines.\n\nThe module draws upon literature from a wide range of disciplines from visual anthropology and new media, to film studies to contextualize the diversity of theoretical and practical approaches involved in creating non-fiction film. The module utilizes practical learning exercises, including the group production of a short documentary film about some aspect of current events, or everyday life in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "UAR2207", "title": "Reinventing Intercultural Exchanges", "description": "Intercultural understanding is crucial for solving global problems but face-to-face exchanges are not always possible due to emerging crises, political barriers and income inequality. This module invites students to imagine new modes of intercultural exchange. In the first half of the semester, we will borrow tools and concepts from a variety of disciplines (cultural anthropology, intercultural theatre, interaction design, and translation theory) to devise different \u201cinteraction playbooks\u201d. In the second half of the semester we will test these by working with students in partner universities around the world, through digital platforms and, when feasible, face-to-face interactions."}, {"moduleCode": "UAR2208", "title": "From Lab to Stage: Writing the Science Play", "description": "How do we turn science into art? This creative writing module examines how theatre explores issues of science - - the personal, institutional and social dimensions of scientific inquiry \u2013 as students create new original dramatic works. Students read and analyse science plays from a playwright\u2019s perspective, and apply the techniques learned to their own short weekly creative writing exercises based on scientific developments. These will be critiqued by their peers, and will culminate in the research and writing of their own one-act plays."}, {"moduleCode": "UBM2201", "title": "Hormesis and Life", "description": "\u201cWhat doesn\u2019t kill you makes you stronger\u201d is a common\nsaying that implies a positive response to external stress.\nYet, beyond the rhetorics, this notion is grounded in\nscientific principles. The goal of this module is to first\ndiscuss the theoretical basis behind this effect, and then to\nexplore the reach of this phenomenon across different\ndisciplines. These include addressing the risk-benefits of\nmedications and health supplements, the effects of\nexercise on the physical body, concept of immunity and\nothers. Beyond that, we hope to generate a platform for a\ndeep dialogue on the potential analogies of the concept in\nfar-reaching domains such as sociology, psychology and\neven economics (antifragility). Through this, we hope to\nadvocate the theories and practice of taking \u201ccalculated\nrisk\u201d in life situations."}, {"moduleCode": "UBM2202", "title": "Creating Wolverine in Real Life", "description": "This module serves as an introductory module for students\ninterested in regenerative medicine entrepreneurship and its\nassociated intricacies, including ethical issues and\nsocioeconomic impact. This module will broadly cover the\nfundamental concepts in regenerative medicine such as stem\ncell biology and tissue engineering. With this knowledge,\nexamples of regenerative medicine technologies will be used\nas anchors for discussion throughout the course to enable\nstudents to truly appreciate the complexities involved in\nbringing these typically controversial technologies from bench\nto commercialization."}, {"moduleCode": "UCQ3101E", "title": "History & culture basket (level 3000) 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UCQ3201E", "title": "Society & Economy basket (level 3000) 1", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UCV2207", "title": "Politics of Heritage : Singapore and the Region", "description": "The module focuses on the relationship between cultural heritage and contemporary political and social situations. It is designed to provide students with opportunities to explore a range of theoretical and intellectual issues from the fields of anthropology, geography and archaeology on cultural heritage and the roles that place and material culture play within the enactment of social practices. It draws upon historical and contemporary case studies provide real world problems for engaging with the theoretical components of the module. There is an emphasis upon debate, discussion, and problem oriented individual and group projects. Several day trips around Singapore, as well as an extended field trip to Cambodia are offered as part of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "UCV2209", "title": "The Heterogeneous Indians of Contemporary Singapore", "description": "Straddling the fields of faith, civilisations and culture,\nmigration, diaspora, political economy, foreign policy and\ninternational politics, this module, being multidisciplinary in\ncomplexion, provides for a multifaceted understanding of\nIndia-Singapore relations in the contemporary world."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5221", "title": "Urban Design Theory and Discourse", "description": "This course introduces different theoretical approaches to urban design and the relevant discourses. With a greater understanding of the various theories and discourses, this course will serve as a base from which students can develop their own convictions and approaches to urban design. It also examines the fundamentals of urban design and the factors in the related fields of urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture that influence the creation of urban spaces. The course aims to lead students to critically examine and investigate the many ways through which the city is imagined, developed, formed and occupied."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5521", "title": "Planning Process: Quantitative & Policy Dimensions", "description": "This course aims to equip participants with a good knowledge of the urban planning process, particularly the quantitative, research, and policy considerations. It examines the relationship between urban planning and urban design from the practitioner's perspective. Extensive reference with case studies will be made to the Singapore planning process at the various levels. It also helps participants to develop a sound understanding of the integrated nature of urban planning and the urban design processes and how this can be reinforced to achieve a more efficient and attractive urban environment."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5601", "title": "Urban Design Studio 1", "description": "The urban design studio is where the synthesis of theoretical and practical aspects of urban analysis and design takes place. Using urban design projects of different scales that deal with programming, planning and design, the studio encourages the integration of political, social, economic, environmental, and physical concerns in the design of urban spaces. The studio will also analyse successful urban design projects in the form of case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5602", "title": "Urban Studio Design 2", "description": "The urban design studio is where the synthesis of theoretical and practical aspects of urban analysis and design takes place. Using urban design projects of different scales that deal with programming, planning and design, the studio encourages the integration of political, social, economic, environmental, and physical concerns in the design of urban spaces. The studio will also analyse successful urban design projects in the form of case studies. Urban Design Studio 2 will include a compulsory international workshop in the form of a field trip to a regional city to work with the relevant local planning/design authority and academic institution (cost of fieldtrip borne by student)."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5624", "title": "Special Topics In Urban Design", "description": "The course is to provide students the in-depth understanding of urban form analysis, urban form making and development processes over extended spatial and temporal environment through various urban design cases and theories. As one of the essential courses of urban design, the lecture/seminar is going to introduce not only the historical legacy but also those cutting-edge thinking for the future. The discussion will cover many discourses related to how cities and urban spaces could be analyzed, designed, managed, evaluated, represented and changed. The original thought of city form and design from Kevin Lynch is regarded as the starting point for the whole course. The following sessions will cover those new trends and issues in different specific urban design topics, such as downtown urban design, urban regeneration, Asian urbanism and large-scale project development, waterfront redevelopment, transit village, sustainable city, landscape ecological design, information city, the emerging technologies for urban simulation and finally the making of urban design plan."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5625", "title": "Methods and Tools for Urban Design", "description": "This module introduces methods and techniques supporting urban planning and design. Topics cover three major methodology clusters \u2013 spatial analytics based on geographic information science (GIS), qualitative research methods and participative design techniques. The spatial analytic part contains fundamental skills including thematic mapping, vector analysis tools, spatial analysis and network analysis. Qualitative part covers overview, survey and interview, but mainly focuses on field study. Participation content reviews the basic knowledge of community involvement. The subject is delivered through lectures, lab tutorials and projects. Hands-on lab tutorials and assignments provide students with experiences on selected key methods using real datasets; and exposure in local data environment and contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5626", "title": "Urban Economics", "description": "This course presents an economic perspective to issues arising from urban and regional development. It explains economic principles relevant to land market and urban policy analysis. Topics to be discussed include the rise and decline of city economies, the demand and supply for spaces in cities, the spatial structure of cities and its effect on the urban economy, the role of the market and the government in resource allocation in cities. Students are expected to apply the economic thinking to addressing contemporary urban challenges, such as climate mitigation, housing affordability, and job growth."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5628", "title": "Critique of Contemporary Urban Design", "description": "This course aims to guide students through a critical assessment of contemporary urban design. In the face of accelerating technological advancement, exacerbating environmental degradation, and in particular unexpected threats such as the Covid-19 pandemic, our cities are confronted with many emerging issues. This raises great challenges that requires us to re-think and re-conceptualise urban design practices at present and in the future. Based on examination of the latest debates and discussions on the emerging issues of contemporary cities, and conversation with experts from practices, government agencies, academia, etc., this course will provide students with a multi-perspective platform for them to develop their own critical views and convictions of the design and building of future cities."}, {"moduleCode": "UD5641", "title": "Dissertation", "description": "The dissertation, limited to 10,000 words, offers the opportunity of candidates to conduct independent research and to demonstrate analytical and critical abilities by investigating a topic of interest and of relevance to their course of study."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2204", "title": "Virtue And Leadership", "description": "This module will examine the Biblical, Confucian, Socratic, and Modern or Machiavellian conceptions of the virtuous leader. The module is aimed at exposing students to the most representative texts of each tradition in order to gain depth of understanding of the competing conceptions of leadership, and their underlying assumptions about the nature of human beings. Students will also be expected to interrogate each tradition with a view to discovering its relevance to contemporary life."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2206", "title": "Leadership in a Complex World", "description": "This course adopts an eclectic, multi-disciplinary approach towards leadership. \n\nThrough a section on Core Ideas and Great Texts, it highlights the key tensions and complexities involved in leaders\u2019 decision-making, exemplified in seminal thinkers\u2019 work on how to determine the \u201cright\u201d and / or \u201cgood\u201d; and explores how these tensions/complexities play out in a selection of Great Texts, both literary and philosophical. \n\nA section on Contemporary Issues applies the ideas of leadership tension/complexity to current leadership challenges. A student-selected USPitch Project provides a first-hand practical experience of the issues explored in earlier sections."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2207", "title": "Language, Cognition, and Culture", "description": "This module explores the deep interconnections between language, cognition and culture. It begins with a consideration of the \u2018discursive mind\u2019 - that is, the particularly human way of knowing that uses language as its primary tool and medium. Realizing how much of human cognition is language-dependant,\nwe then explore the relations between language, cognition and culture by looking at such everyday linguistic phenomena as code-switching, metaphor and gesture. Augmenting the reading of sociolinguistic and cognitive science texts in this module, students will also learn how to collect and to analyze empirical\nevidence of language phenomena in order to more critically assess the claims of such texts."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2208", "title": "Immigration and the City", "description": "In this course we will investigate and analyse key conceptual and theoretical ways of examining the relationships between immigration and the city through readings on migration processes and theories, the conceptualization of places such as immigrant enclaves, immigrant identity, immigrant entrepreneurship, the \ngendered nature of some immigrant flows and the mutual influence of immigrants and urban landscapes and cultures. Readings in this seminar will draw from research by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists and economists. We will learn how geographers conduct research and also conduct research on immigration and its effects in Singapore, using data available from archival \nsources, the Singapore government and information gathered by students."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2209", "title": "Polycentric Governance: Possibilities and Pitfalls", "description": "This module takes an inter-disciplinary look at the multifarious concept of \u201cgovernance\u201d - how resources, issues and groups are organised and managed by a range of actors from the public, private and people sectors. Through a combination of academic work and case studies, the module explores\n(i)\tunder what circumstances, and how, governance in the modern world needs to be more \u201cpolycentric\u201d \u2013 taking place at multiple interlocking levels, including the global, national and local; \n(ii)\tkey determinants of success or failure in different instances of polycentricity; \n(iii)\tboth the benefits and limitations inherent in polycentric governance arrangements, as well as the challenges and obstacles to achieving greater polycentricity."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2210", "title": "Emotion in Daily Life", "description": "The ability to experience emotions has numerous consequences, both desirable and undesirable, as emotions can colour our perception, drive or deter our daily\npursuits, and, in the long run, shape whether we feel satisfied or disgruntled with life. This module focuses on the roles that emotions play in various areas of life, such as arts, religion, and material consumption. There will be multi-disciplinary, reflective discussions, grounded on updated and rigorous psychological research so as to enhance appreciation of abstract theories and to motivate effective application of these theories in real life."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2211", "title": "Welcome to the Anthropocene: Agency in the Era of Climate Change", "description": "The Anthropocene is the proposed term meant to\ndesignate a new epoch in Earth\u2019s geological history in\nwhich we, the anthropos, have become a geological force.\nFrom rising sea levels, spiking temperature, to mass\nextinctions, humanity has not simply changed the\nbiogeochemical profile of the Earth but done so to the point\nof threatening its very survival. In its altered state, the\nEarth appears increasingly unable to sustain the\nagricultural, energy, and capital networks that humanity\nhas built to drive itself. The Anthropocene, in other words,\nfigures man as a primary agent of a grand planetary drama\nat the same time it stymies his ability to act. This module\nexamines the notion of agency in the conditions of the\nAnthropocene. It asks what a warming, liquefying, dying\nworld might reveal about the realities and limits of our\nagency?"}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2212", "title": "Singaporean Nostalgia", "description": "\u201cOur generation,\u201d Singaporean playwright Joel Tan remarks, \u201cis sick with nostalgia.\u201d From the popularity of retro and vintage styles to the proliferation of artwork\n(some state-sanctioned, some not) that lovingly look to and at our past, Singapore seems to be in the firm grip of nostalgia. Are these indeed manifestations of nostalgia? Is any interest in the past nostalgic, or does nostalgia consists of a style or a way of regarding the past? More importantly, how should we understand these nostalgic tendencies? In what senses is nostalgia a \u201csickness,\u201d and can Singaporean practices of nostalgia help us rethink this characterization? (100 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2213", "title": "Engaging and Building Communities", "description": "This module introduces students to the theory and practice of community development (i.e., engagement of communities so that they become empowered agents of social change). The community development models and frameworks that would be discussed in the module include asset-based community development; community capitals framework; networking approach to community development; community empowerment models; sustainable livelihoods models; and radical community development.\n\nStudents would develop competencies in applying qualitative research techniques that can be used to map communities. Additionally, students would be exposed to community participation, consensus building and design thinking techniques that can be adopted to generate solutions to community issues."}, {"moduleCode": "UHB2214", "title": "Effective Decision Making", "description": "Research has established that we often fall prey to cognitive biases unknowingly, leading to us making suboptimum decisions. This module seeks to examine some of these biases and how they affect our decision making as we re-look at decision making theories. In this module, we seek answers to the question of, \u201cWhat constitutes a good decision and what makes for a good decision maker?\u201d\nWe will also discuss the implications of these biases from the social welfare perspective and explores how we can overcome these biases."}, {"moduleCode": "UIS2921R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS2922R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS2923R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS2924R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS2951R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS2952R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3901", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3901S", "title": "Independent Study Module (ST)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3902", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3902S", "title": "Independent Study Module (ST)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3903", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3903S", "title": "Independent Study Module (ST)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3921", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3921R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3922", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3922R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3923", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3923R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3924", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3924R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3929R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3931", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3932", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3933", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3934", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3951CS", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": "Ride-on for CS3216 taken by USP students."}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3951R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": "The course (together with CS3209) is part of the UROP (Computing) project. The objective of this course and the UROP (Computing) project in general, is to provide an opportunity for talented students to undertake a substantial research project under the supervision of faculty members of the School of Computing. Through this research collaboration, the student will get to experience at first hand the challenges and exhilaration of research, discovery and invention. This course should be followed by CS3209 to complete the UROP (Computing) project."}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3952CS", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": "Ride-on for CS3217 taken by USP students"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3952R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": "The course follows CS3208 and completes the requirements of the UROP (Computing) project. Please see CS3208 for description."}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3953R", "title": "Independent Project", "description": "The objective of this project course enables students to undertake a substantial project work over a period of six months. Students may work individually or in groups on projects proposed by staff. They will have good opportunity to apply what they have learnt on practical problems, be it research-oriented or software-development. At the end of the project, the students must submit a report to their respective supervisors describing in details of what they have accomplished."}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3954R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3955R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3956R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-on)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3958R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS3971R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-on)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4921", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4921R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4922", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4922R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4923", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4923R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4924", "title": "Independent Study Course", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4924R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4931", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4932", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4933", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4934", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4935R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-on)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4951R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-on)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4952R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS4953R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-on)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5921R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5922R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5923R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5924R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5941", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": "Independent Study Module"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5941R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5942", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": "Independent Study Module"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5942R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5943", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": "Independent Study Module"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5943R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5944", "title": "Independent Study Module", "description": "Independent Study Module"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5944R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIS5951R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-on)", "description": "The primary role of the formal specification is to provide a precise and unambiguous description of a computer system. A formal specification allows the system designer to verify important properties and detect design error before system development begins. The objective of this course is to study various formal specification and design techniques for modelling (1) object-oriented systems, (2) real-time distributed systems, and (3) concurrent reactive systems. The course will focus on the state-based notations Z/Object-Z, event-based notation CSP/Timed-CSP. Graphical modelling notations, such as StateChart and UML (Unified Modelling Language) will also be addressed."}, {"moduleCode": "UIS6922R", "title": "Independent Study Course (Ride-On)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "UIS6951R", "title": "Independent Study Module (Ride-On)", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "UIT2201", "title": "Computer Science & The I.T. Revolution", "description": "We live in a world where technological advances and technology related decisions constantly impact society in many different ways. Being able to critically assess technological claims helps one make better judgments that could significantly affect our world. This module looks at central ideas and major technological advances in the field of computer science, and how these developments have shaped modern society through the IT revolution. Although the specific subject matter deals with computer science and information technology, the module objectives are more general in nature. We aim to develop in students, a balanced perspective of science, technology and their impact on modern society."}, {"moduleCode": "UIT2205", "title": "Quantum computation", "description": "One of the most recent advances in the area of computer science and information theory is the emergence of a new notion, the concept of quantum information. The module aims to provide an introduction to the field of quantum computing. While very much a technology of the future, the module will examine some of the possibilities that the quantum world offers in advancing the capabilities of computers and how our notion of information has evolved. Essentially the module showcases, two major paradigm shifts; one from classical physics to quantum physics and the other from the standard Turing principle in computer science to its modern quantum counterpart."}, {"moduleCode": "UIT2206", "title": "The Importance of Being Formal", "description": "Formal methods of reasoning have been studied in all major civilizations, but the appearance of automatic computing devices in the 20th century has led to an explosion of interest in and applications of formal logic. Today, the advantages of formal reasoning are recognized and utilized far beyond computer science. Students of this module will discover the power as well as the limitations of formal methods for philosophy and mathematics, and learn to apply them in diverse areas such as political speeches and arguments, analysis of detective novels and the scheduling of sports tournaments."}, {"moduleCode": "UIT2207", "title": "Computational Thinking and Modelling", "description": "Computational thinking is a way of understanding the world and solving problems. We will explore a wide range of programming languages, systems, and activities designed to help children and the general public acquire\ncomputational thinking skills. Students will build and explore computer models of complex systems in the life and social sciences in order to acquire a deeper understanding of the underlying phenomena. No programming experience required. \n\nThis module is also about the pedagogical theories that underlie attempts to create environments designed to support learners in becoming creative problem solvers and capable of doing scientific research via computer simulations."}, {"moduleCode": "UIT2208", "title": "Thinking 4.0", "description": "The 4th industrial revolution, combining notions from fields such as cybernetics, the maker world and artificial intelligence, is rapidly starting to take shape. The key\nunderlying human thought process is often represented by the term \u2018computational thinking\u2019 but this thought process is much more than thinking like a programmer or computer-like. It is a broadly interdisciplinary process\nencompassing both the arts and the sciences, and essential for succeeding in an interconnected and data driven world. Indeed, thinking computationally is often\nmore like art than like math. This module, explores the thought processes behind computational thinking and considers applications in finance."}, {"moduleCode": "UIT2209", "title": "AI Projects and Case Studies", "description": "Learn about AI and machine learning from hands-on project work, case studies of how AI is impacting nearly every field of study, and explorations of its societal, ethical, and philosophical impacts. No prerequisite programming experience or advanced mathematics required. This module is an opportunity to do an AI project of your choice in your field of study (including physical, life, and social science, business, art, language, and humanities)."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2201", "title": "The Biomolecular Revolution", "description": "This module aims to give an overview of a living cell, genetic basis of diseases, biological molecules and their applications in undertaking clinical challenges. In brief, the student will learn the basic concepts of molecular biology, genetics, genetic engineering and biotechnology relevant to the biomolecular revolution. New frontiers of the revolution will be discussed with the emphasis of their\nimpacts on the individual and society. Through contemporary readings, students will be provoked to think of issues arising from the biomolecular revolution."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2202", "title": "Evolution", "description": "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of Evolution This bold statement by the Russian population geneticist T. Dobzhansky emphasizes the importance of evolution as the only unifying concept in biology. Yet, the theory of evolution is more controversial and opposed by more forces in society than any other theory in science. The module will revisit many of these objections and reveal that they are based on reasoning that is incompatible with the principles of science. We will investigate, why it is \"Neo-Darwinism\" and not \"Intelligent Design\" that is currently the best supported paradigm for explaining \"adaptation.\" We will then challenge the power of the neo-Darwinian paradigm by asking how seemingly incompatible phenomena like altruism and excessive male ornamentation can possibly be explained by natural selection. We will also study several key events in evolution such as the origin of sex and its numerous consequences and the origin of the human species. We will conclude with discussing the importance of the theory of evolution for understanding cultural evolution (\"memes\") and human health and senescence (\"Darwinian medicine\")."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2204", "title": "Biodiversity And Conservation Biology", "description": "Biodiversity conservation became one of the important environmental themes of global concern after UN Conference on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The realisation that human development has to complement and not to compete with biological conservation ultimately developed into the famous Agenda 21. This protocol bound all the nations into accepting various responsibilities towards conservation of nature and natural resources. This module is aimed at imparting knowledge to students to help them understand and appreciate various concepts and issues concerning biodiversity and conservation at local, regional and global levels."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2205", "title": "Biosemiotics: Signs In Nature", "description": "Sign processes permeate the lives of all creatures in the natural world. Sign use makes possible not only such higher-order human abilities as spoken language and written texts, but also underlies such communicative animal behaviour as the calls and songs of birds and cetaceans; the pheromone trails of insect colony organisation and interaction; the mating, territorial, and hierarchical display behaviour in mammals; as well as the deceptive scents, textures, movements and coloration of a wide variety of symbiotically interacting insects, animals and plants. This course will introduce you to the recently developed field of biosemiotics the interdisciplinary study of sign processes as they occur variously across the biological spectrum. Looking at the close relation between living systems and their sign systems (hence the term: bio-semiotics), this still-emerging discipline seeks to traces the evolutionary development of sign-mediated ways of being in the world from its beginnings in the transmission of information across single cells to its most complicated realisation in the abstract forms of human thought."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2206", "title": "The Doors of Perception: Biology, Technology & Culture", "description": "When we open our eyes, we feel that we are seeing the world as it is in front of us. But scientific studies reveal that we are seeing only a tiny fraction of that world, and that what we do see (and hear, and smell, and touch) is not the world \u201cas it is\u201d \u2013 but as it is represented to us through the \nfilters of our biology, or technology, and our culture. This module will examine the ways in which these three important forces enable, limit and shape the ways that we perceive \u201cthe world in front of us\u201d."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2207", "title": "The Biology and Phenomenology of Pain", "description": "When asked, \u201cwhat is pain?\u201d many respond: \u201cthe response to something painful.\u201d That answer is tautological. To escape tautology, we need to understand pain independent of any stimulus; we need to understand pain subjectively. A subjective focus, however, causes \nproblems. The need for subjectivity might deny pain to the unborn and to animals, and seemingly leads to the conclusion that we can \u201cthink\u201d ourselves into, and out of, pain. Consequently, many argue that pain should be understood objectively as the expression of biological changes (hormonal increases, brain activity) that are mobilised to defend the organism from injury."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2208", "title": "Biodiversity and Natural History in Singapore", "description": "Situated within a megadiverse biodiversity-hotspot, Singapore has drastically-reduced natural areas yet remains surprisingly species-rich. Combined with her colonial legacy, infrastructural capabilities and cultural biases, Singapore offers a unique situation for studying biodiversity. In this module, we study how Singapore\u2019s biodiversity landscape as well as the motivations and methods for studying biodiversity have evolved across Singapore\u2019s history. Retracing how prominent naturalists explored Singapore\u2019s biodiversity in the past, we imagine how they would do it today using current techniques. This module has a strong fieldwork component, imbuing students with naturalist sensibilities which heightens their awareness of Singapore\u2019s diverse but oft-neglected natural heritage."}, {"moduleCode": "ULS2210", "title": "Invertebrate Innovations", "description": "Invertebrates are the animals lacking backbones that comprise >90% of the animal kingdom. Despite this, they remain superficially known to most people. This module gives much-needed attention to this megadiverse group, focusing on the varied biological innovations in aspects of their anatomy, physiology, and behaviour, which enable them to survive in particular habitats. We examine how such innovations in invertebrates have inspired man-made designs, materials and technologies across disciplines, which lead to human innovations that benefit society; and how the study of invertebrates more broadly contributes understanding of the natural world that also indirectly benefits society."}, {"moduleCode": "ULT2298D", "title": "Representing War", "description": "War is the greatest common, man-made trauma that human beings undergo. We imagine war before, during and after we fight it. We imagine it socially, as tribes or nations, generating a common understanding through books, movies, songs and other representations. Those shared visions of war enable us to fight it and confront its trauma.\n\nThis module examines the changing imagination of war across history. Focusing mainly on English-speaking cultures, it examines poems, books, films, songs, plays, news reports, letters, speeches and tv programmes. It asks how they represent war, and how representations change over time and under pressure from technology, events and political thought."}, {"moduleCode": "ULT2299A", "title": "Understanding Irony", "description": "This course aims to provide students with an introduction to irony, a central term in literary and cultural studies. Irony presupposes disjunctions \u2013 between what is said and what is meant, what is perceived and what is real. It thus involves a critical attitude in exploiting and/or perceiving disjunctions. It is often directed with negative effect towards figures and structures of authority, and is sometimes an integral part of a world-view. Students will engage closely with a variety of texts of\ndifferent types, including poems, tracts, short stories, speeches, plays, sketches, songs and pictures. In doing so, they will reach a better understanding of the roles irony can play not only in literature, but also in society more generally. Since the texts are drawn from different historical times, media and geographical locations, students will get a sense of the widespread use of irony in culture and society."}, {"moduleCode": "ULT2299C", "title": "Topics in Lit. 2: The Subject of Reading", "description": "Where does meaning come from? Some people think that it resides in the text; some suggest that it originates from the author; others argue that meaning is created by the reader. This module examines the possibilities and problems of the last answer. To what extent does the reader of a text determine its meaning? Is there a universal, objective reader, or are readers historically specific, biased and always \"subjects\"? If a reader constructs the text, can the text in turn construct the reader? We will think about these questions by operating on several levels: (1) by discussing literature and films that thematise reading; (2) by assessing how thinkers have debated the reader's role; and (3) by examining our own processes of reading."}, {"moduleCode": "ULT2299D", "title": "The Politics of Language and Literacy in Singapore", "description": "Whereas the goal of many literacy studies is to determine who is literate or what counts as literacy, the goal of this module is to examine the political, economic, and social assumptions, factors, and effects of the distinction\nbetween literacy and illiteracy. Although such a study could take place within any national context, this module will focus on Singapore as a location for taking up this issue. Organized around the literacy narratives and histories of \nUSP students older generations of Singaporeans, and people from other cultures and nations, this module explores the impact of the distinction between those who are literate and those who are not on Singaporean identity,\nhistory, politics, and ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "ULT2299E", "title": "Appealing Arguments: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos", "description": "A standard way of thinking about arguments privileges reasoning over other modes of persuasion. In other words, good arguments persuade by only relying on logic. They avoid an overreliance on excessive emotional language or on a speaker\u2019s expertise. This module challenges these understandings of argumentation and demonstrates that logic must be considered in its relation with emotions and \nethics for arguments to be persuasive. Students will begin with the Aristotelian tradition and read contemporary treatments of the issues. Further, students will put rhetorical theory into practice by constructing logical, affective, and ethical arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "ULT2299F", "title": "Close Reading and Its Vicissitudes", "description": "What are the possibilities and problems of \u201cclose reading\u201d? Close reading has long been a foundational tool in, and beyond, literary studies. By looking at its formalist manifestations and political uses, this module first explores what close reading is. We then discuss recent critiques, which has led to alternatives such as: distant reading; reparative reading; surface reading; thin description; just reading; and too-close reading. In so doing, the module raises bigger questions about the \u201cproper function\u201d of analysis. Should it expose and uncover, or \u201cmerely\u201d describe? To make small claims (about a literary work), or large ones (e.g., about society)?"}, {"moduleCode": "ULT2299G", "title": "The Modern History of Southeast Asia through Fiction", "description": "This module examines the modern history of Southeast Asia through the reading of novels and short stories set or composed in the region. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, with students exploring particular historical periods and topics such as race and ethnicity, gender, conflict, and work and labour. To do so, they will be introduced to different approaches in literary theory, such as New Historicism and Postcolonialism, in order to understand and interpret the historical context in which fiction is written. Ultimately, students will evaluate the advantages and difficulties of using fiction as a means to understand the past."}, {"moduleCode": "UNL2201", "title": "Space, Time & Matter: The Shape and Size of the Cosmos", "description": "As an inquiry-tier module, students will be brought through a general framework for thinking about these issues lensed from philosophy mathematics and physics. Specifically,\n- The philosophical strand will expose students to some of the early conceptions of space, time and matter. Principally ideas of Descartes and Leibniz with emphasis on Kant\u2019s concept of space and time. The mathematization of science in the 17th Century - from Descartes use of coordinate geometry to Galileo\u2019s Principle of Inertia and the mathematics of motion will serve to showcase how the early concepts took shape.\n- The mathematical strand will serve to showcase how Euclid\u2019s axiomatic approach to geometry formed the basis of subsequent generalizations that led to the characterization of space and time. Here students will be introduced to structures such as topological spaces, manifolds and Riemannian spaces that form the basis of the space-time fabric.\n- The physical strand will touch on the notion of physical symmetries and its relation to geometry. In particular, Galilean and Special relativity will serve to elucidate how the motion of particles in the space-time fabric reveals its geometrical structure. This will culminate in Einstein\u2019s Equivalence Principle and its implications leading up to the General theory of Relativity.\n\nThe aim here is to provide a coherent exposition of how the three disciplines come together in providing insights into the nature of space, time and matter. The questions raised will force students to examine and reflect on the extent to which our commonsensical views of the physical space accurately describes the way nature really is; and to what degree this view is tenable on the basis of detailed quantitative reasons and empirical evidence. Hopefully, through this analysis, students will appreciate the subtle interplay between the realm of ideas and mental constructs and that of experiments and scientific facts."}, {"moduleCode": "UNL2205", "title": "Waves in Nature", "description": "Although diverse in scale and nature, the dynamics of tsunamis, the formation and breaking of chemical bonds, the development of stripes on a zebra, the transmission of nerve impulses, and the precession of binary pulsars are natural phenomena that can be described and understood in terms of waves. We will discuss the nature of waves by starting with the idea that a wave is simply a disturbance that propagates in a medium via the interaction of its parts. Using the above and other phenomena, we examine what we can learn about matter from the various kinds of waves. We will also trace the important steps in scientific thinking that has taken the idea of a wave from a mere description of empirical observations to the abstract but powerfully predictive concept of a quantum wave."}, {"moduleCode": "UNL2206", "title": "Nature's Threads", "description": "This module seeks to explore the importance of various key ideas in the history of physics by considering a selection of examples each semester as a means of examining the whys and hows of certain scientific revolutions. The theme underlying the choice of topics to be covered will be to explore the evolutionary aspect of scientific understanding which finds inter-connections (often, only much later, sometimes even centuries later) between seemingly unrelated ideas. The student should take away from this module a sense of the revolutionary nature and scientific importance of the ideas explored that semester, as well as the deep inter-connections which science establishes - 'Nature's Threads' as it were."}, {"moduleCode": "UNL2207", "title": "The Nature of Natural Law", "description": "This module examines the evolution of our present theoretical understanding of some basic aspects of the physical world around us. It explores the role of certain\nprimitive concepts of science and how these key ideas have been used to construct a coherent \u2018mental\u2019 picture of the physical world. The particular focus this semester will be on a wellestablished and \u2018deterministic\u2019 law of nature: the Law of Universal Gravity and how this led to Newton\u2019s prediction of the motion of the planets.\nThe module will also question, on a higher level, the nature of \u2018scientific explanations\u2019: how these are extended over time and inevitably get modified by having to take into account new \u2018facts\u2019 provided by observation and experiment."}, {"moduleCode": "UNL2208", "title": "Complexity and Recursion", "description": "How is it possible that only a small number of genes can code for the shape of a tree? Or more generally, where does the complex behaviour so common in the natural world come from? Indeed, how is it conceivable that trillions of neurons create intelligent behaviour? A key to answer these questions lies in interaction and recursion. In this module, the world of complex systems and their fundamental mechanisms are explored through lectures, seminars and hands-on programming. It will be shown how in many cases complex systems can be modelled with recursive processes leading to emergent phenomena that defy an atomic explanation."}, {"moduleCode": "UNL2209", "title": "Quantum Reality and Appearance", "description": "Can physics allow us to know the reality of nature or does it merely tell us how nature appears? Or for that matter, what are the limits of knowledge in physics, constrained as it is to giving responsible proof for the claims it makes?\nThis module explores some of the developments of quantum physics and how they bear on the philosophical notions of reality and appearances. The enquiry here will consist of an in-depth examination of the theoretical and experimental observations that claim to elucidate the notion of realism. Students will be taken through a journey that showcases the developments that have shaped our\ncurrent views on the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "UNL2210", "title": "Mathematics and Reality", "description": "What is the nature of Reality and how can we be sure about what we know? Do mathematical constructs such as symmetry groups and infinity point beyond themselves to a higher reality? How do we account for the fact that mathematics is so effective in describing nature? Is it mere language or is it the reality itself? This module explores the intimate link between reality and mathematics and how the latter has been unreasonably effective in providing a description of nature. Students will be taken through a journey that showcases the developments that have shaped our current views on the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2201", "title": "Chemicals And Us", "description": "The main goal of course is to describe chemical technology as one of foundations of our global economy. In this course a variety of chemical technologies (i.e., products, processes and reactors) will be presented. The trans-disciplinary aspects of chemical technology will be stressed, especially since chemical technology is based on fundamental laws and approaches taken from math and physical sciences. The responsibility of the chemical engineer for the global and regional environment will be explained."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2206", "title": "Nanoscale Science And Technology", "description": "Nanotechnology is a relatively new field, and there is still controversy over its future potential. This module aims to acquaint students with the current topics in nanoscience, while engaging them in a dialogue on future possibilities, as well as the social and environmental implications of nanotechnology. Students will first be introduced to fundamentals of the nanoscale and learn to appreciate what the world is like when things are shrunk to this scale. They will then explore the special tools and fabrication methods required and have some hands-on experience with nano-instrumentation in a group project."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2207", "title": "The Technology of Life - Machines That Go Squish", "description": "Can we learn how man-made technologies work by taking a deeper, more quantitative look at how living organisms function? The nature of physical law imposes unique\nconstraints on the evolution and functioning of living organisms \u2013 the same constraints (and opportunities) we encounter when inventing technologies. This module will investigate how living organisms of all shapes and sizes have evolved creative solutions around natural constraints, and indeed turned these into opportunities for amazing feats of \u2018natural\u2019 engineering. To do this, students will learn important engineering fundamentals such as fluid mechanics and chemical and heat transport. The overall goals are to assemble a conceptual toolkit to analyse physical and chemical technologies, and to also highlight how nature can inspire new man-made technologies."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2208", "title": "Molecular Courtship", "description": "How does an understanding of molecular interactions help us to make sense of everyday chemical phenomena to important chemical technologies? For example why are plastics non-biodegradable? Why and how an LED lights up or gets quenched, or one drug molecule works while another results in side effects? These are important outcomes resulting directly or indirectly from initial intermolecular forces. Environmental issues such as differentiation between\nbiodegradable and \u201cunfriendly\u201d materials can also be discussed. Stereochemical or 3D-controlled intermolecular forces allow an understanding of many chemical processes in biological systems."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2209", "title": "Pollution Control Engineering in Singapore", "description": "Clean air and water are crucial for public health and to ensure a safe supply of drinking water. Pollution to our air and water can pose health risks and increase treatment costs. This module explores topics related to environmental pollution that threatens clean air and water. What are the main air and water pollutants? From what sources do they come? How do these contaminants get transported? How do we monitor and keep tabs on the quality of the environment? Relevant examples from Singapore and other countries will be used to demonstrate concepts taught in class."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2210", "title": "Energy in Singapore: Is Technology the Answer?", "description": "Energy permeates all aspects of our everyday lives, yet the goal of ensuring secure, affordable, and sustainable energy for all remains a major global challenge. Significant technological progress has been made towards achieving this goal. However, implemementation of new technology can prove difficult for various reasons such as lack of suitable sites and strong public opposition. In this module, we shall explore key energy technology, and discuss the challenges facing their widespread adoption. We will also talk about the energy situation in Singapore, and highlight the challenges and opportunities in the local context."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2211", "title": "Re-examining the Deterministic World of Matter", "description": "People was once benefited from the method of science and the idea of determinism to gain knowledge about our material world. However, it is still debatable whether or not science and determinism were sufficient to understand the whole material world. Through reviewing our understanding of the origins of the Universe, Earth, Life, Mankind and Civilisation, the module helps us to reflect our understanding of the material world along the historical timeline and we would analyse the role of determinism in our perception of the material world."}, {"moduleCode": "UPC2212", "title": "Solving Energy and Environmental Problems", "description": "This module explores and scrutinizes the current energy and environmental problems the world is facing, by critically evaluating the main causes and finding ways to alleviate and solve them. Key topics include energy conservation, alternative or renewable energy, climate change, carbon footprint, decarbonization, pollution, forestation/reforestation and science-based policy making. Students will be poised to make a difference not just through their awareness but by translating their knowledge into concrete action."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2205", "title": "Ethics And The Environment", "description": "The environmental crisis, manifested in air and water pollution, environmental degradation, the rate of extinction of animal and plant species, and the depletion of natural resources, has many different aspects, the most important being, arguably, the philosophical aspect. In this module, students will be introduced to the philosophical debate about environmental issues. The objective is to equip students with concepts and theories that will help them think about the environment at the fundamental level. Major topics include anthropocentrism and non-anthropocentrism, bio-centred ethics, deep ecology, eco-feminism and environmental virtues."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2206", "title": "Creative Thinking", "description": "Creativity seems to be an overused and vague buzzword, though only few would deny its fundamental role in an economic system which relies on innovations as a driving force. So what actually is creative thinking, can we foster it or is it just a matter of inspiration? We will analyze different forms of creativity with examples from history, research, technology and the arts. Then we will practice creative thinking and explore strategies how to manage innovative teams. To show that creative strategic thinking plays a role in various domains of society we turn towards negotiation and deal-making.We conclude with ideas how to communicate new ideas best and a discussion on creative leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2207", "title": "Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Value of Representational Art", "description": "This module examines the intersections between ethics (the study of what is right and wrong) and aesthetics (the study of beauty and taste) in light of two questions: (1) whether the appreciation of artworks makes us morally better persons, and (2) whether a moral defect make an artwork less beautiful. Students will study both historical and contemporary philosophical debates on these two issues, and make use of examples of representational art \u2013 i.e., artworks which depict an object, event or mental state \u2013 to explore their own positions. Examples of representational art examined include: novels, paintings, films, photographs, and museum exhibits."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2208", "title": "Imagining Animals", "description": "How have artists, philosophers, and writers of fiction imagined the relation between humans and animals? Have they imagined humans as a species of animal, or as belonging to a realm of being that exceeds the lives of animals? What, if anything,\ndistinguishes us from animals: language, clothing, reason, or something else? In this course we will examine some of the ways these questions have been explored in art, advertising, philosophy, and literature. Students will consider how we look at\nanimals, read the views of influential philosophers, and immerse themselves in literary texts that imagine animals. The course will conclude with an examination of a provocative text by the novelist J. M. Coetzee, who stages a confrontation between philosophy and literature on the question of imagining animals."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2209", "title": "Creation of Value", "description": "Making money is a widely accepted goal for many in various societies. This module focuses on what does it actually mean to make money, what are values in general and how can individuals, such as entrepreneurs create them in particular. Studying the close intertwinedness of economic and cultural values will lead, perhaps surprisingly, to philosophical reflections upon the meaning of life and what could constitute \u201chappiness\u201d. While acquiring some practical business skills students, draw the connection between what has been called rhetorics in the humanities and marketing, sales and negotiation in business studies. A discussion on the potential of \u201ctransformative entrepreneurship\u201d for societies will round up the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2210", "title": "Arts of Memory: Public Recollection & Memory Training", "description": "Before technology created augmented reality, the ancient practice of \u201cmemory palaces\u201d combined mental visualization with material environments. Over 2,000 years, this practice split along different paths: (1) an analytical tool and (2) a technique for memorizing large chunks of information.\n\nThe memory palace is method people used for memorizing, organizing, and recalling large amounts of information before there were computers. In this course, students will learn and draw from rhetorical theories of memory to analyse communication. Simultaneously, they will use the memory palace to train for a mini-memory championship, held in the last two weeks of the module."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2211", "title": "Utopia: Ideal Places from Plato to the Smart City", "description": "From the ancient world to the present day, philosophers, novelists, and social thinkers have attempted to envision ideal states. Utopian texts often present us with provocative thought experiments, addressing fundamental questions about justice, leadership, and human flourishing. In this module, we will critically examine representations of ideal states ranging from Plato's Republic to contemporary visions about smart cities. We will focus in particular on the roles of governance, labor, and technology in the construction of utopian projects and discuss whether the utopian imagination is still relevant in the present day."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2212", "title": "Technologies of the Self: from Socrates to Self-Help", "description": "In this module, we will study technologies of the self, practices that individuals adopt in order to transform themselves in light of their ideals. We will look at the origins of this concept in the study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and discuss texts drawn from Western and Eastern traditions that recommend particular practices of self-transformation. Throughout the module, we will also consider whether ancient technologies of the self are still relevant today and to what extent contemporary selfimprovement approaches and forms of digital selffashioning are modern examples of technologies of the self or a qualitatively different phenomenon."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2213", "title": "Making Sense of Colonial Ideology and Its Legacies", "description": "The rule of Britain, France and the Netherlands in the 18th-20th centuries have left behind a conflicting legacy in different parts of Asia. On the one hand, they destroyed\u2014even if only partially\u2014the cultural traditions as well as socio-economic infrastructure of their colonies. On the other, they established political, economic, social and cultural institutions that colonialized subjects have to different degrees benefitted from till this day. This module will examine how this conflicting legacy came about, so that students will be more analytically equipped in making sense of it."}, {"moduleCode": "UPI2214", "title": "Multidisciplinary Inquiries Into the Mystery of \u201cMinds\u201d", "description": "What is \u201cthe mind\u201d and where does it fit in the interdependent histories of nature and culture on our planet? Does \u201cmind\u201d reduce to brain activity \u2013 or is it more than just the electro-chemical exchange between neurons? As minded creatures with brains ourselves, the ways in which we delimit the mind/brain relation has enormous consequences for the ongoing construction of our legal, social, medical and ethical lives. In this module, we will study some of the major approaches to this issue, and attempt to discover what it is that we are really talking about when we are talking about \u201cmind.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101A", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Epidemics", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and indeed moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. While the most important element of the class will be a hands-on quantitative exploration of the problem in question, students will conclude by considering the limits of quantitative analysis in the chosen case."}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101E", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Quantifying Our Eco-Footprint", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of one important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach.\n\nIn this particular iteration of the module, we will learn to make appropriate measurements to quantify the ecofootprint arising out of our current personal lifestyle\nchoices, conduct systematic thought/real experiments to explore improvement opportunities, and propose a modelbased sustainable alternative for ourselves, our families or communities such as the USP Residential College."}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101F", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Calculating Risks", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of one important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can\nprovide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach.\n\nIn this module, we will learn quantitative tools to understand and to quantify risks encountered in daily life; to compare and to weigh the consequences of these risks\nfor a more insightful decision-making. We will examine the underlying limitations of these tools."}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101G", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Quantifying Nuclear Risks", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can \nprovide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. \n\nThis module focuses on quantifying aspects of nuclear risks. Students will pose a question related to nuclear risks (e.g. What is the lowest dose of radiation that can lead to cancer?), propose a method to measure the relevant variables, collect the necessary data, and make scientifically justifiable inferences from it. Students will thus perform all aspects of a genuine scientific study, from problem formulation to decision making and final reporting."}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101H", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: War and Democracy", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can \nprovide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. \n\nThis module focuses on interstate war, and how its likelihood is affected by countries\u2019 regime types. Does democracy cause peace between states? Known as the \u201cdemocratic peace theory,\u201d this hypothesis will be investigated by students using quantitative analyses. They will survey extant research and build empirical models to test the proposition."}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101I", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Quantifying Environmental Quality", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach.\n\nThis module looks at environmental quality and human health. Students will learn how environmental quality is measured, air and water quality parameters, and health effects of pollution. They will apply quantitative analyses in understanding our environment and its link to our wellbeing."}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101J", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: Pursuit of Happiness", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. What factors contribute to positive life outcomes? Is successful living predicated simply by demographics or do social attitudes lead to a happy life? Are these two factors linked? We explore 40 years of data to answer questions surrounding the relationship between demographics, attitude, and the quality of life of individuals."}, {"moduleCode": "UQF2101K", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning Foundation: In Search of Soulmate", "description": "This topic-based module develops quantitative reasoning skills through a structured analysis of an important but accessible problem, imparting to students the appreciation that, for many questions/issues, a quantitative analysis can provide the insight and clarity that complements and moves beyond what might be gained through a qualitative approach. \n \nThis module uses the searching of romantic relationship as an example to demonstrate the usefulness of quantitative reasoning. Students will learn to use survey and data analysis to validate some claims about dating, and to investigate dating strategies from mathematical modelling. The cross-discipline potential of quantitative methods will be reviewed."}, {"moduleCode": "UQR2207", "title": "Decision Analytics", "description": "This module aims to sharpen students\u2019 analytical minds, and to develop skills for decision making such as might be useful in management consulting. Students will appreciate the general decision framework and be familiar with some decision models in this quick and challenging course.\n \nThe focus will be on data-analytic and microeconomic approaches to decision making, with as little use of formulas as practicable. Rather, grasping of broad concepts, extension of intuition and, where appropriate, use of information technology to arrive at decisions, will be emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "UQR2211", "title": "Passing Time: Processes, Temporality, and Econometrics", "description": "This module discusses on the implications of \u201ctime\u201d for quantitative analyses. What is \u201ctime\u201d? How is it important for understanding certain phenomena? How might its passage, in and of itself, be of interest? What econometric models are appropriate for quantitatively testing timerelated hypotheses? \n\nStudents will explore these questions using political science as a thematic topic. They will first read substantive material, regarding the importance of time for understanding the processes that produce politics-related phenomena. Students will then learn more advanced quantitative modelling strategies that can accommodate the implications of \u201ctime,\u201d allowing students to correctly test time-related hypotheses (e.g., survival analysis)."}, {"moduleCode": "UQR2212", "title": "How Linguists Work", "description": "Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguists study the range of possible human languages, how languages differ, and what they have in common, and formulate explicit and consistent theories of linguistic structures and relations. The data of linguistics are all around us, on every written page and in every conversational interaction. How do linguists who are interested in the grammar of languages collect and analyse linguistic data, and how do linguists use these data to build theories of human language? This module focuses on the theory of grammar, and examines the broader goals of linguistics and the methodology of grammatical theory by means of hands-on exploration of these processes."}, {"moduleCode": "UQR2214", "title": "Generative Syntax", "description": "This course focuses on matters that are truly linguistic. After separating linguistic problems from ones that should be studied in other fields, the course introduces students to genuinely scientific study of human language. More specifically, by (critically) reading Radford 2009, the course provides a concise and clear introduction to current work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of\nChomsky\u2019s Minimalist Program. By looking at data mainly from English, it will also introduce students to quite a few linguistic mysteries."}, {"moduleCode": "UQR2215", "title": "Developing Meaningful Indicators", "description": "Indicators are measured concepts that monitor development and track progress. Indicator reports are an indispensable element in the information system of a democratic society, providing government, researchers, business and the public with data driven evidence to inform policy, research and debate. Developing innovative indicators to monitor the progress of difficult to measure concepts (i.e. sustainability, cultural wellbeing, community cohesion), using novel techniques of data collection and analysis (experience sampling, social media, IoT monitoring), are necessities for a society to thrive in an increasingly complex world."}, {"moduleCode": "UQR2216", "title": "Thoughtful Learning with Machines", "description": "A tools-and-soft-skills module introducing Python machine learning, with hands-on modelling via pre-programmed templates. Students will be gently ushered into the artificial intelligence landscape, so that they might henceforth\u2014as an insider\u2014keep abreast with the ecosystem\u2019s constant reshaping.\n\nBroad appreciation of introduced models from a decision-maker\u2019s perspective will be emphasized, without deep dive into program coding. Students will learn to communicate responsively and congenially with senior management and technical colleagues alike.\n\nWe will equip students to thoughtfully follow the accelerating analytics transformations within modern organizations. Students may then deservedly take a seat with enlightened movers and shakers digitizing future workplaces."}, {"moduleCode": "URM3301", "title": "USP Undergraduate Research Opportunity", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project.\nUROPs may be with USP faculty, joint appointees, or other NUS faculty and, exceptionally, with other USP partners. All are vetted and approved by the USP, and are assessed. UROPs are proposed by a supervisor, and require the\napproval of the USP."}, {"moduleCode": "URM3302", "title": "USP Undergraduate Research Opportunity (S&T-based UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project, and involves the application of subject knowledge,\nmethodology and theory in reflection upon the research project.\n\nUROPs may be with USP faculty, joint appointees, or other NUS faculty and, exceptionally, with other USP partners. All are vetted and approved by the USP, and are assessed.\n\nUROPs are proposed by a supervisor, and require the approval of the USP."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2209", "title": "Globalizing Asian-Pacific Identities", "description": "Growing up with social media, cinema, the Internet, and more, you have had the globe at your fingertips. But have you probed effects of this accessibility on your ability to act as an independent, adaptable thinker and doer? Have visualist media encouraged you to act as a spectator, only, rather than as a curious (maybe courageous) world citizen when you study abroad, travel, consider foreign-labor or migrancy issues, or seek employment? This module explores integrity, openness and expressivity through one strand of identity, Asian-Pacificness."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2304", "title": "Singapore: The Making Of A Nation", "description": "The course serves as an introduction to history in general and the history of modern Singapore in particular. It adopts a wide-angled approach to an understanding of national heritage, history and identity, with due attention to both international and internal developments which have together shaped present-day Singapore. These developments include the formation of a colonial plural society under British rule, the impact of the Japanese Occupation, the rise of nationalism and political contestation, statehood, merger with and separation from Malaysia, the politics and economics of survival, and the governance of an independent city-state."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2305", "title": "Southeast Asia: The Making Of A Region", "description": "In the aftermath of colonialism, a host of decolonizing experiences produced different successor regimes - from democratic to semi-authoritarian to communist. This module focuses on the geographical basis, historical background, and contemporary birthing of regionalism, amidst such diversity. It aims to introduce students to the political, strategic and economic aspects of regional cooperation, particularly through ASEAN. It also encourages them to consider the cumulative impact of such cooperation on the formation of a Southeast Asian regional identity, and the prospect of an indigenous collective political imagination bridging the diverse communities."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2306", "title": "Disasters and Responses", "description": "Focusing upon disasters and responses, this module interrogates the core issues underlying humanitarian interventions and development programs. This\nincludes consideration of environmental and social vulnerabilities, resilience, local capacities, the roles of beneficiaries, governments and NGOs, aid governance, and accountability.\n\nThe module draws upon literature from a wide range of disciplines to contextualize the diversity of theoretical and practical approaches involved in complex humanitarian emergencies. The module utilizes extensive problem-based learning in which students engage with real world scenarios. The module is aimed for students interested in the inner workings of government, NGO and beneficiary interaction in humanitarian and development situations."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2308", "title": "New Media and Politics", "description": "This module explores and examines the dynamics between politics and new media in various realms. Earlier scholarship focused on politicians, parties and their electorate. However, with the increasing ubiquity of Internet technologies and user-generated content, political actors soon took on myriad dimensions and forms.\n\nStudents will acquire knowledge of foundational communication and political participation theories, as well as critically examine the relationship between media and political processes. The module also inculcates insights and knowledge on how media and politics play out in various arenas, such as political parties and campaigning, civil society organizations and grassroots movements."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2309", "title": "Ordinary Politics", "description": "This course will explore the ways in which seemingly nonpolitical everyday practices bear, or can come to have, ethical and political significance. We will look at philosophers and political theorists concerned with the ordinary activities of Speaking, Eating, Thinking and Walking, and how such activities reveal or inform, among other things, our concepts of responsibility, the human and the animal, the moral and political necessity of selfreflection, and the interactions between the individual and the natural and built environment. Thinkers to be read include Arendt, Austin, Benjamin, Cavell, Diamond, Singer, Thoreau, Rousseau and others."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2310", "title": "Questioning Sustainable Development", "description": "This module examines the tension between \u2018need\u2019 to \u2018develop\u2019 and imperatives of conserving natural resources in the backdrop of enormous socio-economic and environmental challenges we face today. Sustainable development (SD) emerged as a response to confront these challenges; whether it has served its purpose or not\nremains debatable. Different scientific, technological, economic and political instruments encompassing sustainable development (SD) will be critically evaluated.\nThe criticality of natural resources and their consumption patterns will be presented to the students. The need to engage local communities in new ways in social\nconstruction of SD would be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2311", "title": "Archives, Biography, Memory in Singapore", "description": "This module examines the intersections between archival materials, historical memory, and the writing of biography. It takes as a subject an archive in Singapore which has not been extensively used. Students will not only do practical work in terms of archival cataloguing and notation, but they will also study theoretical work on archives and biography, and critically examine biographical work in different media, before producing biographical work of their own. This module fulfils the Singapore Studies requirement."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2312", "title": "Nationalism and the Arts", "description": "What makes diverse people a nation? Though no single answer covers all nations or nationalisms, analysts agree that modern nations are less a natural formation than a construction in need of constant upkeep. Art can and does play a role here. This module introduces several theories of nationalism and of art on the understanding that these discourses do not mesh easily. This module fosters probing interdisciplinary comprehension of potential intersections between nation-building and paintings, music, photography, poems and a great deal more."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2313", "title": "Understanding Law and Social Change", "description": "How does law affect people and society? How do people and society influence law? Can law bring about social change? In what ways? This course approaches the study\nof law as a social institution, and examines law, legal actors, and legal institutions from various perspectives such as sociology, psychology, political science, and legal\nscholarship. We will discuss theoretical perspectives on the relationship between law and society, the relationship between law and social behaviour, law in action in various social contexts, the role of law in social change, and the roles of lawyers, judges, and juries."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2314", "title": "Politics and Emotion", "description": "Emotions, it is often said, has no place in politics. Where the former is thought to be primal and unruly, the latter is regarded as the realm of reason, of pragmatic and thoughtful deliberations. But how accurate is such a view?\nDon\u2019t emotions typically accompany our political judgments and actions? Might they perhaps condition such responses, priming them and orienting us towards certain political attitudes and dispositions? Organized around five\nemotions\u2014fear, disgust, grief, compassion, and hope\u2014 this module explores how emotions circulate within political life, how they emerge and are deployed for the mobilization of identities, sovereign legitimacy, ethical responsibility, and resistance."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2315", "title": "Participatory Social Development in Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asia is widely regarded as a model for economic development due to its advances in alleviating poverty, improving infrastructure, and fostering education \nand healthcare. But economic success often overshadows critical social problems that arise in tandem with such rapid development. This module, offered only in special summer sessions, takes a hands-on approach to examining critical issues in social development, in particular those revolving around local empowerment, democratization, and sustainability. Working within a framework of participatory action research, and collaborating with peers at another ASEAN university, this rigorous course includes substantial fieldwork conducted among development projects outside \nof Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2316", "title": "Satires and (Un)Serious Histories", "description": "This module examines social and political satire across a broad range of historical eras and cultural settings. Our approach is historical and ethnographic, and rests on the idea that there exist various traditions of satire, each deeply embedded in social and political contexts. Rather than treating satire as mere commentary upon culture and politics, we examine it as a particular form of social practice that can shape politics and culture. We explore throughout the question of whether satires can in fact be viewed as unique historical and cultural documents that reveal certain dynamics and truths that more \u201cserious\u201d documentation cannot."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2317", "title": "Multiculturalism in Singapore and Its Contested Meanings", "description": "Multiculturalism is a foundational pillar and defining feature in Singapore\u2019s history and society. At once celebrated and contested, Singapore\u2019s multiculturalism is imbued with various themes and meanings, and poses many important issues and challenges central to personal, group and national cultural identities as well as to political, economic and social life. How did it come to be a core principle in nation-building? What are state imperatives and social processes and state imperatives in its historical making and constant remaking? Why are race, language and religion its core constitutive elements and how have their saliency evolved over time? What are its main controversial features and areas of tensions, and how do these affect identities, social relations between individuals, groups and communities, and impact social cohesion, citizenship and belonging? How is it further impacted by massive immigration? Is its present official form still valid in light of immigration, changing demographics and competing claims of rights and responsibilities? What does multiculturalism mean in citizens\u2019 memories of the past, experiences in their present everyday lives, and imaginings of the future? This module explores and discusses these central questions and significant dimensions, issues and problems in Singapore\u2019s contested multiculturalism through a combination of lectures, seminars, on-site learning, research projects, class presentations and personal reflections. It also has a strong research component in which students discover and understand multiculturalism through research on selected topics using a variety of research methods, and relate their research and other observations to readings drawn from various disciplines of anthropology, sociology, history, economics, geography, heritage studies and memory studies."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2318", "title": "Managing Cultural Difference:Theorizing the S\u2019pore Model", "description": "The question of managing ethnocultural diversity\u2014i.e. of how to reconcile particular ethnic and cultural claims with the broader demands of national cohesion and citizenship\u2014is a challenging and pressing issue faced by all multiethnic states and met with a variety of responses that draw from different intellectual traditions. For Singapore, this question has been a key feature of its nation-building process since 1965 and its response has been the cultivation of an ostensibly \u2018Asian\u2019 multiculturalism styled in contradistinction to \u2018Western\u2019 liberal models. \n\nThis module examines and evaluates the conceptual framework of the Singaporean model of multiculturalism. It does so by positioning it in relation to other existing theories of ethnocultural identity and rights. In so doing, it asks: \n1. What are the theoretical and normative underpinnings of the Singaporean model? \n2. How does it stand up against the liberal-democratic model? \n3. What might be its differences between both the \u2018Western\u2019 communitarian and \u2018Confucian\u2019 communitarian models of multiculturalism? \n4. Does it adequately account for the complexities of identity? \n5. Can, given a changing ethnic and cultural demography, the Singaporean model survive?"}, {"moduleCode": "USE2319", "title": "Social Movements, Law, and Society", "description": "This course provides theoretical understanding and empirical knowledge about social movements and their relationship with law and society. How does collective mobilization emerge? We begin with this question and then\nturn to the different approaches of analyzing social movements. We will also consider how states and other movement opponents suppress and control social movements, and how movements respond to repression, and deploy, even spread, their ideas, strategies, and tactics within and across movements, as well as across national borders. In examining these issues, we will use\ncase studies, and discuss the role of law, including how it matters to the social control of social movements, movement strategies, tactics, and decision-making, and movement effects."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2320", "title": "Transitional Justice and War Crimes Trials: Case Studies from Singapore and Asia", "description": "War crimes trials are commonly used to address mass violence and facilitate political transition. This course examines the potential and limits of war crimes trials as transitional mechanisms, comparing them with non-legal complements and alternatives. What transitional objectives do these trials seek to achieve and how do these trials contribute to a society\u2019s political transition? Given the many pressing and conflicting needs of post-war societies or societies in transition, should the organisation of such trials be prioritised? What are possible alternative transitional measures? What role should the law play, if at all? Using Singapore\u2019s Second World War experience as a central case study, this module will explore the challenges faced by societies undergoing political transition and the different legal and non-legal measures adopted."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2321", "title": "Examining Local Lives", "description": "Everyone hears advice that the unexamined life is not worth living. Yet how often do we examine lives across print, visuals, sound, and more? How often, moreover, do we consider lives that are not human? Students in this integrative module explore lives human and non-human, including their own, marshalling varied media and analytical modes.\nThe first lives that we examine are in the form of science writing about non-human lives. Next, we move to human lives, real and imagined. This module puts local (and \u2018glocal\u2019) spin on expressive and critical narration to strengthen critical and communication skills."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2322", "title": "Situating Singapore in the Wider World", "description": "This module charts the roles of Lee Kuan Yew, S Rajaratnam and Goh Keng Swee in shaping the foreign policy of Singapore from 1965. Key Singapore policymakers and diplomats such as Tommy Koh, Kishore Mahbubani & Bilahari Kausikan acknowledge that in particular the longevity of Lee\u2019s tenure and his strategic philosophy structures Singapore\u2019s actions internationally. This module examines the impact of the leadership\u2019s ideological assumptions on how Singapore navigates its relations with 3 major areas, ASEAN, the US and the regional powers, China and India and adapts to the current inflection point in the international diplomacy of Indo-Pacific region."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2323", "title": "Culture and Technology", "description": "It is commonly known that technology and culture are intricately interconnected to each other, existing in a relationship that is mutually constitutive. Technology\nproduces culture as much as the other way around. But such a relationship is complex and controversial. Both technology and cultural producers are not often selfreflexive about how the relationship impacts on their work, and unaware of the resulting ethical dilemmas and politics. This module introduces students to critical concepts in culture and technology studies focusing on social and political change, transformations in the way we think about civilization, and the formation of identity."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2324", "title": "Gender and Ecology in Asia", "description": "Women around the world struggle with the various fallouts from climate crisis. This vulnerable demographic struggles to combat both real and ideological conditions connecting women and Nature. Cognizing this, the field of Ecological feminism [Ecofeminism] has grown rapidly in the past few decades.\n\nThis introductory module to ecofeminism will combine literary analysis, environmental humanities and feminism. It will extend students\u2019 knowledge of feminism and environmental issues relating to women. Fundamental to the study will be the literary analysis of texts taught in a scaffolded way. The module will examine literary texts by Asian women across South, East and Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "USE2325", "title": "Democracy and Inequality", "description": "Does social inequality matter? This module aims to examine different theories of the link between social equality and democracy, and related concerns pertaining to the value of social equality and the significance of equality of opportunity in a democratic society. These discussions will form the theoretical background for this module.\n\nIn the second half of the module, students will apply this theoretical framework to contemporary issues related to democracy, in the global and Singaporean context, as well as evaluate policy proposals aimed at mitigating social inequality, specifically Universal Basic Income."}, {"moduleCode": "USP2201", "title": "Food Production and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "Nothing features more prominently among fundamental human activities than the production of food. In this module, we examine various modes of primary food production and the array of socioeconomic issues each entails, including subsistence agriculture, lowland rice farming, industrial food production, and emergent forms of organic produce by small- and medium-sized enterprises. Topics focus on how social dimensions of food production intersect with other areas of inquiry, including environmental sustainability and degradation, social mobility and marginalization, food security, public health, and globalization. This module includes an intensive fieldwork component in which students experience first hand different modes of food production."}, {"moduleCode": "USP2202", "title": "Power, Identity, and Citizenship in Democratic Athens", "description": "In this module, students will examine how the people of democratic Athens expressed their power, identity, and civic values through literature, visual art, and public architecture. In class, we will discuss both primary texts and secondary literature that shed light on how 5th and 4th century BCE Athenians represented themselves and their society. In Athens, we will visit key sites closely associated with democracy, study works of arts and monuments that reflect or contest its civic ideology, and meet with students at the University of Athens to discuss the contemporary legacy of ancient Athenian democracy."}, {"moduleCode": "USP2203", "title": "Medium and Meaning in Cinema", "description": "Motion pictures of all types\u2014including cinema, television, advertising--pervade our everyday lives, shaping how we construe meaning and experience, yet we tend to know very little about how that meaning is constructed. The medium of motion pictures relies on a limited and identifiable set of concrete technologies-- lighting, angle, aspect ratio, sound, editing, mise en sce\u0300ne, etc.--that serve to manipulate temporality and spatiality and to thereby create meaning. This module leads students to examine the affordances and constraints of the medium of film for the making of meaning in motion pictures, with a focus on cinema."}, {"moduleCode": "USP3501", "title": "The Problematic Concept Of 'Gender'", "description": "What is \"gender\"? What kinds of definitions have been advanced or implied for this perplexing word? How have thinkers - in fields as diverse as anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, science studies, and sociology - helped to define and even invent this category that we call \"gender\"? How have these definitions changed the way we think? What kinds of problems have these definitions created? In this module, we will analyse various moments in intellectual history when there has been a struggle over the meaning of \"gender\" (and seemingly related terms like \"sex\" and \"sexuality\") in order to understand the term's function as a category of analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "USP3505", "title": "Asianism and Singapore", "description": "It is becoming increasingly popular in Singapore to identify oneself as Asian, to consume products and services that appear Asian in origin, and perhaps even to think of the future of the global economy and culture to be centred in this part of the world. However, considering the fact that such an intense fascination with Asianism is of a more recent origin a number of important questions are raised. How has the state attempted to convey Asia as a natural and unproblematic an entity? How is knowledge about it influenced and conditioned by changing social, political, and economic forces? Why did Singapore at its earliest historical phase seek to dissociate itself with the region, only to openly embrace it a few decades later? This module, therefore, introduces students to critical ways of challenging and contesting what is understood by the term Asia. Is it a geographical region, a political and cultural construction, or transnationalized space? In particular it provides students the theoretical tools needed to grapple with these questions, introduces cultural texts that could be used in assessing the way Asia is represented, and gives students opportunities for fieldwork and other out of classroom activities."}, {"moduleCode": "USP3506", "title": "Religious Issues in the Contemporary World", "description": "This module develops a nuanced understanding of multifaceted expressions of religiosity in the contemporary global context, appropriately grounded in a historical perspective. It explores various socio-cultural, political, economic and technological forces and processes that impact the manifold expressions and manifestations of religion in different societies, and vice-versa. Beginning with problematizing the category \u201creligion\u201d and tracing its emergence historically and contextually as an analytical domain, the material is organized to introduce the multiple, complex and sometimes opposing strands and arguments in many social science studies of religion. This multidisciplinary module emphasises both the empirical and the theoretical."}, {"moduleCode": "USP3508", "title": "The Politics of the Body", "description": "From the \u2018Clean Hands\u201d campaign to the heightened use of biometrics, the body has become a crucial site for political action, decision, and judgment. As a result,\ncorporeal registers\u2014 facial expressions, phenotype, movement, affective expressions, etc.\u2014are now vital markers of difference, determining the degree to which one is recognized as \u2018friend\u2019 or \u2018enemy\u2019, \u2018suspect\u2019 or \u2018innocent\u2019, \u2018citizen\u2019 or \u2018foreigner\u2019. Organized around three prominently figured bodies\u2014the tortured body, the racialized body, and the veiled body\u2014in the post-9/11 global landscape and its current \u201cWar on Terror\u201d, this module examines the ways in which the body is situated and implicated in relations of power, sovereignty, identity, and violence."}, {"moduleCode": "USP3509", "title": "Law and Violence", "description": "The concept and practices of law are inseparable from the concepts and practices of force and/or violence. In this module we will investigate three questions. First, is there a difference between legitimate and illegitimate violence, and so, what is the difference and how is it explained? Secondly, what is the, and why is there an, internal relationship between law and violence? Finally, why do we punish? We will read texts from various thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Bentham, Robert Cover, Derrida, Foucault, Kant, Locke, Nietzsche, Rousseau, A. John Simmons, Robert Paul Wolff and others."}, {"moduleCode": "USP3510", "title": "Reason, Secularization & Multiculturalism", "description": "This module investigates three inter-connected questions: Can science prove that religion is irrational? When reason becomes so powerful that it dominates nature, what ethical problems will arise? Is reason or religious faith more suitable in providing a foundation for multiculturalism? These three questions, which are still much debated today, actually arose in the Age of Enlightenment, an 18th century\nintellectual movement so important that it shaped the modern West, and even, arguably, the East. We will examine representative Enlightenment treatises on these questions, and reflect on how beliefs and principles involved are still operative in our age."}, {"moduleCode": "USR4002A", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. The module will be taught by a multidisciplinary faculty of four and will examine a theme from several disciplinary perspectives. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "USR4002B", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. The module will be taught by a multidisciplinary faculty of four and will examine a theme from several disciplinary perspectives. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "USR4002C", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. The module will be taught by a multidisciplinary faculty of four and will examine a theme from several disciplinary perspectives. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "USR4002D", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. The module will be taught by a multidisciplinary faculty of four and will examine a theme from several disciplinary perspectives. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "USR4002E", "title": "Critical Reflection", "description": "This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. The module will be taught by a multidisciplinary faculty of four and will examine a theme from several disciplinary perspectives. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands USP\u2019s goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia."}, {"moduleCode": "USS2105", "title": "University Scholars Seminar", "description": "The module serves the larger goals of the USP academic journey by treating students to a four-fold stroll through big ideas on human inquiry and the nature of the world, where four different instructors with different intellectual backgrounds will introduce you to, and help you reflect upon different modes of inquiry that constitute the modern knowledge enterprise. By introducing you to these ideas, we seek to leverage upon your existing curiosity in subjects that go beyond your specializations, and also to encourage you to seek out new things to learn, and to reflect upon what you learn."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102", "title": "Junior Seminar", "description": "The Junior Seminar is a requirement for all first year students resident in the College. It also helps fulfil the General Education requirement. The seminar allows students to work closely with a Fellow, and in classes of no more than 15. It is organized around weekly discussions, outside research, writing essays, and making presentations. Besides being exposed to a particular cross\u2010disciplinary issue, students will be invited to exercise their curiosity, think critically, and develop their written and oral communications skills. Topics will vary with the instructor."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102B", "title": "Junior Seminar: The Darwinian Revolution", "description": "The scientific developments of the 19th century from geology to palaeontology, culminating in the theory of evolution by natural selection are arguably the greatest transformations in our understanding of the natural world in human history. Much of the science of the following century has been further refinements and elaborations of these earlier foundations. Yet most of these developments remain totally unknown or misunderstood by most people. Surely, therefore, an understanding of these issues is essential knowledge for any educated person today."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102C", "title": "Junior Seminar: Fakes", "description": "In this junior seminar, students will examine the significance of various kinds of false appearances such as counterfeits, forgeries, hoaxes, and liars, together with attempts to expose them \u2013 sometimes with the help of sophisticated technologies. By critically examining what it means to designate an object, practice or person as \u2018fake\u2019, and how different kinds of fakes are judged as more or less problematic, students will develop the capacity to think critically and relationally about deep-seated human desires for \u2018truth\u2019 and \u2018value\u2019."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102D", "title": "Junior Seminar: Images", "description": "In this junior seminar, students will explore the role of images in several key contexts, including painting, photography, science, mathematics, television, cinema and the internet. Students will develop habits of critical response by studying texts from philosophy, psychology, semiotics, and literature that deal directly with images and theories of the image. Students will learn to distinguish between kinds of image.and develop an understanding of the history of images, their influence on our lives and our interaction with them. Some attention will be given to special topics, such as the invention of the camera and the establishment of 19th century science."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102E", "title": "Junior Seminar: Social Innovation", "description": "This freshman seminar will engage students in critical dialogue on the topic of social innovation. Drawing upon examples of innovation across various disciplines, students will examine sources of and processes that drive innovation, and reflect upon the organization and governance of innovation. Building on this knowledge, students will be challenged to think about how new technology, strategies, concepts, and ideas can be harnessed to solve social problems Substantial time will be devoted to understanding and debating issues pertaining to social innovation."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102F", "title": "Junior Seminar: Leadership: Technology, Configuration, Work", "description": "This course centres on three questions: What is leadership? How is leadership work configured? How do we know \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 leadership when we experience it? The course will approach these questions through the lens of technology, configurations and \u2018different kinds of work\u2019, and through focusing on studies of leaders and leadership. Throughout, the course will consider leadership in the context of technology and science in Asia/Singapore. External speakers from related industries will provide perspectives on leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102G", "title": "Junior Seminar: Proof: What\u2019s Truth got to do with it?", "description": "An essential part of an educated person is an independent desire to know the truth. In seeking the truth, one must often judge a proffered proof. This seminar will discuss the relationship between Truth and Proof in biology, ecology, history, justice, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, religion, statistics, etc. This helps the student see both the hard, objective formulation of the two concepts in the sciences, as well as their soft, subjective abstraction in the humanities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102H", "title": "Junior Seminar: C.S.I. 101: Truth from evidence", "description": "Made popular by TV dramas such as Law and Order and C.S.I., forensics uses science to aid in law enforcement and crime solving. In this interdisciplinary course, students will be engaged in understanding and discussing the value of various analyses conducted to deduce truth from evidence. Online activities will be paired with active discussions on the history, use and value of forensic analysis. Finally, the credibility of forensic evidence will be discussed, and societal expectations regarding the \u201cglamorous and exciting\u201d job of the forensic criminologist in CSI compared with the \u201cmessy and morbid\u201d nature of forensics in real life."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102N", "title": "Junior Seminar: The Bio\u2010tech Future: Sci\u2010Fi Film and Society", "description": "From the earliest films in the late 19th century to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters, science and technology have long played a role in how the future has\nbeen envisioned. In this seminar students will study a range of popular science fiction films and examine how the futures portrayed in these films are a creative, ociocultural\nresponse to the techno\u2010scientific milieu of their production. Students will consider how film challenges us to re\u2010examine concepts of scientific progress and technological advancement by asking questions such as: what is monstrous about sci\u2010fi monsters, and what is biology in the age of the machine?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102P", "title": "Junior Seminar: Murals: Expressions from/on the Walls", "description": "This course introduces students to mural painting historically, theoretically and technically. Students will learn of murals from different cultures and periods to facilitate critical discussions on the roles of art, artists and aesthetics vis\u2010\u00e0\u2010vis notions of everyday life, public space and community. They will cultivate a strong sense of observation and curiosity about their surroundings, reporting on murals from antiquity, and of Singapore or their home countries. They will also acquire skills in the technical aspects of mural painting, from conceptualising designs to painting a mural. Finally, this course provides students an unusual opportunity for building collaborative and community spirit as they paint their chosen mural together."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102R", "title": "Junior Seminar: Green Capitalism: A Critical Engagement", "description": "How do we know how green companies are? How do managers know? This course is about information and knowledge as social phenomena. Nature does not tell us how green companies are; the information that shows us \u2018green capitalism\u2019 as a solution and a reality is constructed by humans. This course is about how environmental managers know and do 'greening', and about the problems of such knowing and doing. The focus is not on engaging in green capitalism, but on engaging with it, critically. More broadly, you will pick up skills for dealing with uncertainty, uncommon ground and contradictions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102S", "title": "Living and Dying in the Internet Age", "description": "Now, more than ever, we live, die and live on through Internet technologies such as Web sites, social networking platforms and gaming environments. But how does this \u2018living, dying and living on\u2019 through the Internet relate to our \u2018bodily living, dying and living on\u2019? Using different disciplinary perspectives, this course will dwell on two questions: (1) How do we make sense of life, death and after-death in the Internet era? (2) How can we respond, through new ways of thinking, practices, policy or design, to the new challenges and questions associated with life, death and after-death today?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102U", "title": "Junior Seminar: Disasters", "description": "Disasters are catastrophic breakdowns in the relations between nature, technology, and society. They reveal aspects of these relations not normally visible. In this Junior Seminar, we explore questions such as: what are disasters, what causes them, and how do we know when they begin or end? What kinds of knowledge count when communities prepare for disasters or make recovery plans? By examining the historical, environmental, and cultural contexts of specific catastrophes and their aftermaths, such as Fukushima or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, we ponder what disasters can teach us about how to (re\u2010)construct more just, resilient and sustainable societies."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1102V", "title": "Junior Seminar: Ways of Knowing: Poetry and Science", "description": "This junior seminar explores the relationship between poetry and science spanning the Romantic to the late Modern periods, approximately the late eighteenth through the mid twentieth century. Students will investigate the history of science and poetry as mutually supportive. Emphasis will placed on the distinct ways poetic and scientific minds imagine, experience, and develop knowledge about the natural world and the human who inhabits it."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1112A", "title": "Jr Sem Special Topics: Humanising Technology", "description": "The late Steve Jobs, former CEO of the Apple company, has been credited with \u2018humanising technology\u2019: recognising that technology design needs to be sensitive to human characteristics. In this Junior Seminar, students will be exploring various ways of thinking about the relationship between the \u2018technical\u2019 and the \u2018human\u2019. What can these tell us about the organization of social life, and how (if at all) do they contribute to the design of \u2018better\u2019 technologies? A central role will be reserved for ethnographic studies of technology\u2010in\u2010use \u2013 an\nacademic approach that has gained traction with industry over the past decades. Students will also acquire hands\u2010on experience of this approach by\nstudying technology\u2010in\u2010use among friends, in the home, in the College/University, or workplace."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1112B", "title": "Jr Sem Special Topics: Quality Journalism and Critical Reading", "description": "News reports that purport to have marshalled facts and opinion on current issues are often taken at face value: they are consumed without question. How can we discern quality journalism from the less worthy instances of the craft? This seminar, led by an experienced journalist, is organised around the critical exploration of key aspects of journalistic writing: the questions behind the story, the use of numbers and the organisation of the message or argument. By dissecting media coverage of current issues, students will bolster their skills as critical readers and communicators."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1112D", "title": "Leadership, Creativity and Innovation", "description": "Why are some scientists and engineers better leaders than others? What is the ideal environment to encourage creative minds and innovations? We will together search answers for these interesting questions by examining some famous cases in science, engineering, medicine and industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The interaction between the broader historical, cultural and social background and the science, engineering and industry community will be emphasized."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1112F", "title": "Special Topics Junior Seminar: Science Fiction Movies in the East and West", "description": "What is a science fiction (SF) movie? How did SF movies and developments in science and technology influence each other during the twentieth century?\nWhat is the use of SF movies for societies? And why are SF movies much more popular in some countries than in others? By watching and analysing classic and contemporary SF movies from the US, the Soviet Union, Japan, China, and other countries, we will search for answers to these questions. Special emphasis will be given to analysing how historical, political, and cultural environments in different countries have influenced the production and acceptance of SF movies."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1112G", "title": "Special Topics: Sustainability", "description": "Lifeforms on Earth interact with each other and their surroundings to form an inter-dependent, self-regulating complex system that perpetuates the conditions for the survival of all living things. Anthropogenic perturbations, however, may risk an irreversible upset to the balance of this system. Preventing this will thus require humanity to operate sustainably, within the limits of the natural world. For this course, we shall explore the extent of human impacts and their implications for the continuation of life on Earth. Thereafter, we shall consider potential solutions that support development that promotes the well-being of present and future generations."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1113", "title": "Ignorance and Knowing", "description": "\u201cI don\u2019t know jujutsu.\u201d \u201cI know how you feel.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know what I know.\u201d \u201cAnselm said, I believe so I may know.\u201d Ignorance and knowing come in many forms, co-existing in dynamic interplay, and compartmentalized within our lives. This course draws on models of memory, consciousness, and intentionality in psychology and philosophy \u2014 exploring how inconsistently we value knowledge in our risk-taking, hopes, and pleasures; how ignorance as a method disrupts familiar algorithms and our personal biases; whether ignorance absolves us from the law, public, and underprivileged; and how embraced uncertainties help us navigate spiritual experiences and cultures of skepticism."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1114", "title": "Junior Seminar From the Fire to the Frying Pan: Cooking and Eating in Human Culture(s)", "description": "Cooking has evolved in unexpected ways throughout human history and has always been one of the most important markers of human culture(s). By engaging scholarship from various disciplines (but particularly anthropology), this course explores major themes that inform the way humans prepare food across different cultures and time periods. We will particularly concentrate on the prominent example of fish. Fieldtrips will be made to one of Singapore\u2019s fishing ports and fish farms, and students will learn to apply ethnographic methods to the Singapore context. Students will also get to cook fish based on specific themes. Vegetarians and vegans are welcome."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1115", "title": "Junior Seminar Engineering Marvels", "description": "From the pyramids to the Three Gorges Dam, from nano drug-delivery systems to autonomous robots, the world contains many engineering feats that make you wonder \u201cHow did they do that?\u201d. This course helps students develop basic insights into the workings of selected engineering applications. Coupled to this is an investigation of the engineering marvel \u2018in context\u2019. What problems or issues does it address? What are its costs and consequences \u2013 both intended and unintended? What are the ethical and political dimensions of this? Each run of the course will have a specific thematic focus, such as big structures, biotechnologies, or robotics."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1118", "title": "Junior Seminar: The Social Lives of Drugs", "description": "This junior seminar explores the relationship between drugs and culture. Drugs are powerful because of their material and symbolic value, their power to alter bodies and minds, and their ability to both harm and heal. By examining the social lives of drugs, from production to consumption, students will build the skills to critically ask how drugs affect lives across different societies. Besides the question how a plant, food, or substance becomes constituted as a drug in the first place, topics to be explored include the use of human subjects in clinical drug trials, the \u2018pharmaceuticalization\u2019 of health, and licit/illicit drugs."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1119", "title": "Junior Seminar: Crime and Punishment", "description": "Understanding crime is important for those who, through the machinery of the state, would seek to impose punishment upon the criminal. This course gives students the opportunity to consider the nature of crime and punishment from a number of perspectives in philosophy, criminology and fiction. They will examine the justifications for deeming behaviour criminal, the causes of this behaviour, as well as the divergent legal responses to it across time and cultures and with changes in technology. Through the use of case studies, students will test their intuitions about when the imposition of punishment is morally acceptable."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1120", "title": "Junior Seminar: Emotions and Society", "description": "Everybody feels. Our feelings drive us to do and are indicators of the state of our minds. In this course, we take a broad look at human emotions across cultures. We ask: what functions do emotions serve? Do gender differences exist? Are emotions and rationality at odds? How do society and technology affect how we feel, our perception of what we ought to feel, and what feelings we are willing to express? What is the relationship between the feeling mind and the body? What is the role of emotion in artificial intelligence?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1121", "title": "Technology, Horror, and the Unknown", "description": "Things that go bump in the night can cause a fright. But the genre of horror also reveals our prevailing anxieties, fears, and hopes about technology. From medical laboratories and electrical devices to televisions and social media, horror has been obsessed the uncertain potential of new technologies. We look at how technology is portrayed in fiction and what this tells us about society\u2019s attitudes towards technology. Through Asian and Western horror film and pop culture, and combining insights from film studies, philosophy, and science and technology studies, this course will uncover our attempts to grapple with technology and the unknown."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1123", "title": "The Nuclear Imagination", "description": "The public\u2019s perception of nuclear power sharply deteriorated because of the 2011 Fukushima reactor core meltdown and several other prior accidents. However, given the urgent need to fight climate change and the current global energy crisis caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the case for nuclear power is becoming ever stronger. Considering the associated risks, what role should radiation play in society? In this course, we will adopt an interdisciplinary approach to examine the history of nuclear radiation, appreciate the science and technology behind nuclear power, and consider the ethical and social implications of a nuclear future."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1400", "title": "Debating Singapore's Social and Economic History", "description": "This course challenges today\u2019s generation of students to reexamine and debate some of the foundational myths and assumptions about Singapore\u2019s pioneer past. The timespan covers Singapore\u2019s founding as a colonial economic \u201cplace\u201d in 1819, the events leading to postcolonial independence in 1959\u20131965, and the formation of communities into a \u201cnation\u201d. We will focus on the interplay of global economic factors with internal social factors, and challenge students to ask how the engagement of communities and community leaders impacts economic development."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1402", "title": "Jr Sem: Pathways to Adulthood", "description": "This course explores the changes in the life transition from adolescence to adulthood in today\u2019s developed world. We will look at some of the popular understandings of emerging adulthood by studying an age group of people called \u201cadultolescents\u201d, \u201ctwixters\u201d, or \u201ckippers\u201d. We will also critically analyse aspects of emerging adulthood with regards to education, job opportunities, love and marriage, as well as parenting. Finally, we reflect on the kind of citizens these emerging adults are becoming, how they can engage in the community, and what the future holds for them."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1403", "title": "Jr Sem: Hidden Communities", "description": "There are various \u2018hidden communities\u2019 in Singapore that do not gain much public attention but whose members require special consideration from society. People with disabilities, children with learning difficulties, the elderly or migrant workers are among them. They face distinct challenges to live independent and productive lives. This course exposes students to a few identified groups of hidden communities and examines their challenges, and best practices in Singaporean and international contexts. Engaging with hidden communities in Singapore is one of the key features of understanding global issues in a local context, so-called \u2018Glocalisation\u2019 (globalisation + localisation) to form active citizenship in a healthy society."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1404", "title": "Jr Sem: Power and Ideas", "description": "According to cultural theorists Marx, Hall, Foucault and Gramsci, the structures that support dominant ideas in society could be political, economic, religious or cultural. This course examines \u2013 through interactive discussions and fieldtrips - the power structures behind the dominant ideas of our time, asking why these structures have an interest in promoting or discrediting ideas about what is \u2018good\u2019 for our community and mankind. These ideas include race, gender, LGBT, democracy, meritocracy, and age of majority. We examine how these ideas intersect, complement or contradict each other; and learn how to unpack these ideas and make our own positions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1408", "title": "Jr Sem: Technology and Human Progress", "description": "Technology is the creation and use of tools, techniques and processes to solve a problem or perform a specific function. In this junior seminar, students will explore and understand emergent technologies (informational, biomedical, assistive, instructional etc) and will seek to understand technologies from multidisciplinary perspectives. Students will pursue a specific area of interest (eg a specific new technology, and related ethical or legal issues) in-depth, and consider the potential implications of the widespread use of these technologies, both in advancing human progress; and the social, ethical and legal dilemmas they may pose to society."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1409", "title": "Jr Sem: The Pursuit of Happiness", "description": "This course introduced a comprehensive perspective on \u2018happiness\u2019 and related social constructs such as satisfaction and quality of life. Drawing from multidisciplinary research in Singapore and around the world, the following issues are discussed in detail: Does rising GDP lead to more happiness? Who are the people who are happy? Can money buy happiness? What really makes people happy? Can the government manufacture happiness for its citizens?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1410", "title": "Jr Sem: Special Topics", "description": "The \u2018Special Topics\u2019 junior seminar (JS) at Angsana College is taught by Visiting Fellows who are part of the College for only one or two semesters, and/or by Fellows with cognate interests. The JS focuses on topics closely related to the Fellows\u2019 research or personal interests, and that are not found in any regular departmental curriculum at NUS."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1411", "title": "Jnr Sem: Systems Systems Everywhere", "description": "This course introduces and examines the idea of a \u201csystem\u201d. It explores systems theory as a way of thinking about the goals, boundaries, complexities, stakeholders, and relationships between parts of a larger network (social, economic, knowledge-based etc). Topics include characteristics of a system, inter-relationships between different parts of a system, the effects of a system on its stakeholders and vice versa, and the limits and challenges of systems theory. Different national and community systems will be introduced. Students will also have the opportunity to investigate a system of their choice."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1413", "title": "Jr Sem: A Brief History of Inequality", "description": "Should we believe claims that \u2018country X has high inequality\u2019 or that \u2018inequality is increasing\u2019? How does inequality today compare with inequality in past societies? Where does our modern concern about inequality come from \u2013 why did past societies accept inequality as a given? This course investigates the causes of inequality in different societies, from the Ancient world to modern Singapore. It also traces the development of the concept itself, using modern tools and frameworks from a range of disciplines to analyse the social, political and economic inequalities present in the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1414", "title": "Jr Sem: Discovering Singapore\u2019s Natural History and Heritage", "description": "This multidisciplinary course traces the natural history of Singapore and the region via the Spice Trade, European colonialism and independence. The founding of the Botanic Gardens and LKCNHM are set in this historical context. This course explores the value of science and biodiversity research in the region. Students will apply and share this knowledge with the wider community by conceptualising an educational tour of LKCNHM, and help inspire a new found commitment to the natural world amongst urban Singaporeans."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1415", "title": "Jr Sem: Family in a Changing Singapore", "description": "Family is often considered the foundation of society. Families affect the way we live, play, and work, shaping our values and how we relate to others. In this course, students will investigate and engage with issues that surround and define what it means to be a Singaporean family in the 21st century. They will look at issues such as broken and singleparent families, foster care, family leisure, family businesses etc - through economic, social, and psychological perspectives. The course emphasises experiential learning and application of readings outside the classroom through field trips, guest speakers and discussions/interviews with families and communities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1416", "title": "Jr Sem: Games, Game Communities and Society", "description": "The global games industry has overtaken film and music in annual revenue. Its reach has also extended beyond children and teens to working adults, including women. This course evaluates board and digital games and their influence on culture and communities. How do games impact our health, relationships, businesses, and behaviour? Can they change the ways we learn, interact, and understand the world? What makes games engaging or even potentially addictive? We engage communities such as professional gamers and their audiences, game designers, entrepreneurs, and women in gaming, and explore the impact of emerging technologies such as Augmented and Virtual Reality."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1417", "title": "Jr Sem: Bioethics in the 21st Century", "description": "Bio-medicine and biotechnology are rapidly progressing technologies in the 21st century. Who carries the responsibility for debating the ethical use of these innovations \u2013 national committees, or everyday citizens? Debating bioethics requires some knowledge of three areas: bio-medicine and biotechnology, theories of ethics, and methods of logical reasoning with regard to the ethical applications of the technologies to people at different stages of life. We will explore issues from the beginning of human life (such as cloning), throughout life (such as biological enhancements) and at life\u2019s end (such as the ethics of assisted death)."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1418", "title": "Jr Sem: Chances in Life", "description": "Chance is ubiquitous in our daily life. A train may get delayed, the favourite soccer team may lose, a stock may dip suddenly. Less likely, but still possible: a common medical procedure may go wrong, or a routine journey may encounter an accident. This course looks at reasoning tools which help make sense of probability, risk and uncertainty in every day situations, such as the numerous quantitative stories carried by the mass media. Students will be guided to think and respond critically to these stories. Probability theory will be introduced in a friendly, welcoming way to students from all backgrounds."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1419", "title": "Jr Sem: Inside the Museum: Collections and the Public", "description": "This course looks at museums as spaces for organising, classifying, and exhibiting objects, from natural history to art. What is a museum\u2019s relation to the public, and its functions in society? Against this backdrop, an interdisciplinary approach is applied to learn how and why museums came to be, their role through the ages, and how to meaningfully appreciate/critique an exhibit. The ethics and politics of decolonising museums and repatriation will be discussed. The course will include at least one trip to local museums, and a group project where they apply aspects of their knowledge to create a public exhibition."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1420", "title": "Jr Sem: Beyond Borders: Migrant Community & Resilience", "description": "This interdisciplinary course introduces new understandings of migrant communities by drawing on approaches from systems thinking to sociology. While migrants are often seen merely as workers, migrant categories vary, as do the reasons for moving. Along the way, migrants form communities that reconstitute societies into robust and diverse countries. Given global-local dynamics of migration, this interdisciplinary course uses Asia to examine the types of migrants (from workers to climate refugees) as well as the causes and consequences of migration shaping the economy, security, identity, health and the environment. The class also explores how migrants communities cultivate resilience to various challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1700", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Ecosystems and Natural Resources", "description": "This course will serve to prepare systems citizens with thinking and quantitative skills that thought leaders across the world consider critical for functioning in the 21st century. Comprising qualitative and quantitative elements, this course will hone students\u2019 ability to engage in Systems Thinking: understanding parts of a system, seeing interconnections, asking \u2018what-if\u2019 questions, quantifying the effects of specific interventions and using such understanding to propose operational/structural policies courageously and creatively. Interactive discussions and hands-on computer modelling using examples from several ecological and natural resource systems will serve as the primary learning mechanisms."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1701", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Diseases and Healthcare", "description": "Does a virus attack any individual? Or, does an individual create conditions for infection? How should hospitals plan treatment strategies and patient-staff movements during an outbreak? Should government allocate more resources to prevent onset of chronic diseases rather than managing the complications arising out of chronic diseases? Students will approach such questions from a systems perspective, which involves: understanding behaviours of subsytems and stakeholders such as disease/ infection, patients, providers, payers and society. They will also learn how the interdependencies and interactions between the different actors of the system can be integrated into a holistic system that enables better understanding."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702", "title": "Thinking in Systems", "description": "This will serve as an umbrella course for all Junior Seminars in Residential College 4. Each course under this umbrella will focus on a specific socially relevant theme to cultivate a \u201cbig picture\u201d thinking in students and help them to visualize how interconnections and interdependencies between various actors of a system result in interesting and complex behaviors. Students will develop qualitative and quantitative diagrammatic models using computational tools to analyze the theme of interest from multiple perspectives (social, economical, political etc.) and will use them to gain better understanding of issues and capacity for broader and deeper conversations."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702A", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Ecosystems and Natural Resources", "description": "This course will serve to prepare systems citizens with thinking and quantitative skills that thought leaders across the world consider critical for functioning in the 21st century. Comprising qualitative and quantitative elements, this course will hone students\u2019 ability to engage in Systems Thinking: understanding parts of a system, seeing interconnections, asking \u2018what-if\u2019 questions, quantifying the effects of specific interventions and using such understanding to propose operational/structural policies courageously and creatively. Interactive discussions and hands-on computer modelling using examples from several ecological and natural resource systems will serve as the primary learning mechanisms."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702B", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Diseases and Healthcare", "description": "Does a virus attack any individual? Or, does an individual create conditions for infection? How should hospitals plan treatment strategies and patient-staff movements during an outbreak? Should government allocate more resources to prevent onset of chronic diseases rather than managing the complications arising out of chronic diseases? Students will approach such questions from a systems perspective, which involves: understanding behaviours of subsytems and stakeholders such as disease/ infection, patients, providers, payers and society. They will also learn how the interdependencies and interactions between the different actors of the system can be integrated into a holistic system that enables better understanding."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702C", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Sustainability and Us", "description": "How does our day-to-day actions and living habits affect our environment? How effectively can we engage the public, government and other stakeholders to shape a sustainable environment for humanity? Students will analyze these questions from a systems perspective by developing qualitative and quantitative models that can map the interconnections and interdependencies between stakeholders involved in current sustainability challenges facing humanity (examples: energy consumption, zero waste and recycling). In this course, students will not only develop a good understanding on sustainability challenges, but also on how actions of individuals can add up to cause such challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702D", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Population Dynamics", "description": "Many of the world\u2019s problems are linked to population changes: rapidly aging population, immigration woes, and the threat of environmental degradation to human existence. In this course, students will be introduced to population trends and be equipped to better understand fertility, mortality and migration and how they cause changes in population size, composition and distribution. It incorporates basic concepts, data sources and tools used in demography into a systems approach to modelling population dynamics. Students will build models of increasing complexity, covering a variety of generic structures and classic system dynamics modelling scenarios."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702E", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Energy Systems", "description": "Are energy sources infinite? Do energy policies lead to a sustainable energy development? Would renewables solve our future energy needs, mitigate emissions and protect our environment? Students deal with such energy challenges by learning to understand \u2018energy systems\u2019 as a \u2018complex whole\u2019. This course provides a platform for students to understand the complex behavior arising from interdependent interactions of different actors of energy systems with other economic, political, social, technological and environmental factors. To achieve this, it engages students to learn and apply systems thinking tools to such aforementioned challenges through relevant models, case studies and real-world energy policy/problem scenarios."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702F", "title": "Thinking in Systems: Disaster Resilience", "description": "Disasters like floods, storms, new disease outbreaks are increasing in the world. Climate change adds new hazards and uncertainties to existing risks. But are disasters a result of increasing hazards or are we becoming more vulnerable to them? Will they remain as hazards if we plan for resilience? Is resilience built or managed? Students will critically analyse these questions through a systems approach developing qualitative and quantitative models to understand relations between hazards, vulnerability, policy interventions and development practices. The course will encourage students to analyse case studies and grasp the dynamic complexity between risks, social vulnerability and resilience."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC1702G", "title": "Thinking in systems: Markets and Inequality", "description": "How does a market system work? What role do markets play in underpinning the global phenomenon of rising social and economic inequality in the past decades? What are the consequences of inequality? What can be done to curb inequality in a market society? Students will approach such questions from a holistic perspective, emphasizing the interconnections and interdependencies between consumers and firms, workers and employers, investors and policy-makers. The systems thinking tools will enable the students to anticipate the effects of different social interventions to focus limited resources for maximum, lasting, system-wide social changes."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2100", "title": "Humans, Animals and Ecosystems: The One Health Paradigm", "description": "One Health (OH) is a novel approach in health policy that perceives human health, non-human animal health, and environmental health as deeply interdependent. It strives to benefit humans, animals and ecosystems by promoting collaboration across disciplines and nations. This course examines scientific, social and philosophical aspects of OH. Featuring fieldtrips to relevant sites such as zoos and laboratories, the course takes Singapore, where governmental agencies are working closely with academic institutions to promote the OH concept, as a case study. At the same time the scope of the various topics is broadened by exposing students to regional and international comparisons."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2101", "title": "Time and Life", "description": "There are few things that impact our lives as much as our sense of time. Singapore is a \u2018fast-paced\u2019 city where deadlines, time-saving apps and fertility clocks shape people\u2019s actions and experiences, and where many feel \u2018time poor\u2019, even if they are cash rich. In this course, we examine the ways in which we take time for granted through analysing the ways in which our lives are temporally grounded. We do so particularly through tracing connections between individual experience, social life and technologies such as clocks and watches, electric lighting and the internet. Is time-stress inevitable in this day and age? What does it mean to use one\u2019s time well?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2102", "title": "Climate Change in the Community", "description": "This \u2018Senior Seminar\u2019 is required of students in their second year of residence in Tembusu College. The course will consider one of the most pressing problems of our time from multiple viewpoints. Merging insights from the sciences and humanities, students will be introduced to problems, conflicts, and debates over the causes of, and solutions to, the phenomenon of global warming and its implications for humanity. The seminar will meet weekly in small groups of 15\u201020, with periodic full\u2010class meetings to hear guest speakers."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2103", "title": "Biomedicine and Singapore Society", "description": "This course introduces students to health as a complex social scientific phenomenon beyond biology. It explores the meaning of health in scientific, social and institutional contexts in the Singapore context, as well as the latest biotechnologies of diagnosis and treatment. It also develops a critical awareness technology in healthcare through the perspectives of ethics and equity and discusses the role of health literacy. It draws on a complex understanding of health, through working with a healthcare community partner in Singapore to identify current social and public health issues in the Singapore community, proposing possible responses to these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2104", "title": "Intelligence and Singapore Society", "description": "This course invites students to probe the concept of \u2018intelligence\u2019 in relation to Singapore\u2019s ongoing development as a nation. The idea that smart minds are essential for survival has shaped domestic policies and international positioning strategies. We ask: in what ways has human intelligence been defined, measured and harnessed? What counts as intelligence, and what does not? Beyond notions of intelligence centred on the human individual, we will also consider forms of collective and artificial intelligence, mediated by science and technology. What kinds of intelligence are needed for the future and how can Singapore develop them?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2105", "title": "Singapore as \u2018Model\u2019 City?", "description": "This course facilitates critical and multi-disciplinary engagement with the imagination and organisation of Singapore as city-state. Working with a community partner representing the state perspective and local stakeholders, students will carry out intervention projects to enliven public space. They will be guided on the theory and methodology of urban intervention, urban planning, and the historical, cultural, socio-political considerations of their intervention site. Through seminars, field trips, site survey and interactions with government agencies such as URA and local stakeholders, students will design, execute, document and reflect on their interventions to capture community voices and make us see the city in new ways."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2107", "title": "Senior Seminar: Negotiating in a Complex World", "description": "We live in a world where complex negotiations take place daily. Navigating these complex negotiations requires one to be conscious of the psychological, historical, sociological, economical, and other contextual factors that shape each unique encounter. The rapid advancement in science and technology adds to the challenge of interpreting highly technical, domain\u2010specific information, which is critical in rationalizing decisions and persuading counterparts. In this course, we adopt a case study approach to dissecting complex negotiations. Students will learn to adopt both a macro and micro perspective in analysing such negotiations."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2108", "title": "Knowledge and Expertise", "description": "In this seminar, students examine some of the beliefs humans have held about knowledge throughout history, with a particular focus on technological change and the idea of expertise. Through a socio-historical treatment of figures associated with knowledge, students will discuss how experts are created, challenged, and replaced. This course will enable students to critically appreciate various forms of knowledge, analyse and respond to current issues related to expertise, understand the context in which our methods and processes for acquiring knowledge are situated, and assess how they shape individual and collective lives and experiences."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2109", "title": "Asia Now! The Archaeology of the Future City", "description": "This course concentrates on the Asian built environment \u2013 architecture, urban planning and sustainable development. The theme of the archaeology of the future considers the many layers of the city, from examining its past to identifying its already emerging possible urban futures. Discussions and readings that provide in-depth, analytical, and critical perspectives on urbanisation and urbanism in Asia will be supplemented with a field trip to URA\u2019s City Gallery and workshops on Futures Thinking. In particular, students will be taught the Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) methodology to help them think critically and deeply about present trends and the multiplicity of future scenarios. Through Singapore as a case study, students will gain a deeper understanding of challenges facing a rapidly-urbanising Asia, cultivate intellectual tools to evaluate these challenges and embody solutions through a hands-on creative project."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2110", "title": "Happiness By Design", "description": "This course partners with a social enterprise such as in Singapore, to contribute social research for developing \u2018well-being skills\u2019 in community programs. Students conduct literature reviews, design surveys, and analyze variables shaping the experience of well-being by local stakeholders \u2014 communities or workplaces in Singapore identified by the partner. To stimulate creative ideas for improving research design, students critically appraise modern and historical literature on ideal societies and human flourishing, and learn to apply theory to encourage positive behaviors through designed interventions. Through collecting feedback and responses, students test the effectiveness of their proposed design and translate their findings into policy recommendations. Happiness Initiative"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2111", "title": "Picturing and Seeing Development", "description": "This course considers how development is pictured, visualised and textualised through a focus on rural communities overseas for eg. in Cambodia in aspects such as education, economy, public health, and the environment. The course explores the intersection and interplay between organisations, bureaucracies and communities. Development is 'seen' through the perspectives of performance, experience, equality, and practice via first-hand engagement. Primary research on sustainable development enhances students developing a critical perspective on how development is imagined, performed and carried out in village communities in conjunction with partner NGOs that run participatory development projects. Visual engagement facilitates sharing these findings with the community through film."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2112", "title": "Animals and the City", "description": "With a focus on Asia, this course draws on a diverse range of literatures to provide a broad context for understanding the dynamics between humans and animals. Southeast Asia is one of last regions in the world with extensive rain forest habitat for wild animals, but these creatures are threatened by burgeoning urbanization and agriculture. The course will go beyond a focus on wildlife, however, to consider our relationship with \u2018urban animals\u2019 of many types. Through seminar-style classes and fieldtrips conducted around Singapore, the course will test new perspectives from international and regional studies of human-animal interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2113", "title": "Gaming Life", "description": "Games permeate disparate fields of knowledge and involve cultural practices that are part of everyday life. This course invites students to think creatively and expansively about what it means to \u201cplay a game\u201d beyond the usual connotations of the activity. It explores games in theoretical and practical ways to develop questions interrelating politics, technologies, knowledge, and power. Further explorations find domains in life that open themselves up to the idea of \u201cplay,\u201d including political and social games. Seminarians will be equipped with theoretical and philosophical vocabulary with which they will engage in the construction, critique, and playing of games. They will think through questions like: What can constitute a game? What does it mean to win, lose, or cheat in a game? What are the stakes involved in thinking of life as a game? Relatedly, what does it mean to consider gaming systems that govern life?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2114", "title": "Technologies and Ageing in Singapore", "description": "Our life expectancies have increased dramatically over the last hundred years due to improved and advanced technology. With a rapid growth in ageing population, there is an increasing need to improve the health and social needs of elderly in Singapore. Through collaborating with local community partners focused on elder well-being this course will consider how students can help elders achieve a sense of worth, confidence and productivity. Specifically, how do technologies empower and disempower the elderly to have a stronger connection to their community and improved social life? What are the opportunities and threats of technological advancements in addressing the needs of Singapore's growing ageing population?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2116", "title": "The University Today", "description": "What are universities for? A university education was traditionally exclusive to the elites but is increasingly seen as crucial to professionalization and social mobility; democratic citizenship; fostering debate and the pursuit of scientific knowledge. This course examines recent debates chronicling how growing trends of neoliberalism have led to changes in how universities and higher education are viewed. We also examine the confluence of historical, political and social factors that shaped the establishment and development of universities in postcolonial society like Singapore. Students will investigate how universities in Singapore relate with their overseas counterparts and with global trends in higher education."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2117", "title": "Skin", "description": "Working from the position that skin belongs as much to the person as to the society in which they live, this seminar reflects on how much our identity and our sense of self is produced by the interaction between biological, cultural, political, and economic, forces that play out through and on the skin. Thus, skin is a playground \u2014 at the very same time that it is a battle field \u2014 where identity is constantly reshaped through interaction of words, categories, values, body techniques and emotions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2118", "title": "The Anatomy of Crime", "description": "Made popular by TV dramas such as C.S.I., forensic sciences have gained much attention in criminal investigation. However, fictional dramas spread many misconceptions about the real world of the forensic science. This course explores the use of scientific methods, specifically in forensic sciences, of collecting, experimenting and analysing the evidence of crime scene, to be used in the court of law in solving crime. Finally, it encourages students to critically examine the use and value of forensic sciences in the legal system and how it contributes to addressing crime in society."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2400", "title": "Community Leadership", "description": "This interdisciplinary course introduces and examines the idea of \u2018community leadership\u2019. It focuses on how ordinary individuals identify social needs in the local community and endeavour to improve the lives of vulnerable groups by organising grassroots solutions. Students are required to investigate the emergence of pioneering community leaders combining the socio-historical contexts, personal psychology, networking and socialisation processes and social entrepreneurship. The teaching methodology incorporates lectures, seminar discussions, and experiential learning activities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2402", "title": "Environment and Civil Society in Singapore", "description": "This course explores the rise of the conservation ethic in Singapore. It traces the scientific, social and economic conditions that gave rise to the global environmental movement, and to its various expressions in Singapore. Students will engage with stakeholders (scientists, officials, civil society) to understand the conflicts and collaborations between advocates of development and conservation. They will initiate their own conversations and give feedback. The class will critically evaluate state-civil society partnerships, learn about the history between environmental CSOs and the Government, and debate choices and dilemmas for the future."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2403", "title": "Citizenship in a Changing World", "description": "Originally a concept which bound individual members to a defined nation via relations of rights and responsibilities, \u201ccitizenship\u201d in the 21st century is coming under unprecedented pressure from technological change and globalization. This course will trace the development of the concept, the values and social assumptions which underpin citizenship, and the interactions between liberal, communitarian and civic narratives of citizenship from ancient Greece to contemporary Singapore. Three key relationships are considered: the rights and duties of citizens in relation to government, to other citizens, and to non-citizens in and beyond the polity."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2404", "title": "(Re)Building Communities: Insights from India", "description": "This course explores the concepts, practices and issues related to community development and culture. It focuses on the building and/or rebuilding of marginalised communities (e.g. women, migrant workers, artisans) in developing Asia, particularly within the context of India. It offers students an interactive learning opportunity that combines theory, classroom discussions in Singapore, and field visits in India. Students will critically examine debates about the nature of community development and culture as well as ethical, social and economic challenges of different models. Part 1: Understanding community development, culture and India Part 2: Field visits (India) Part 3: Reflection and sharing of insights gained"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2405", "title": "Emerging Asia: Successes and Challenges", "description": "Why do certain societies succeed, while others fail? While some countries in East Asia such as Singapore and South Korea have achieved economic success, others in the Middle East (or \u2018West Asia\u2019) have undergone a trend of de-development, evident in the post-\u2018Arab Spring\u2019social unrest . This course explores the contrasting social and economic development models of Asia\u2019s regions. We will explore how states are formed, different economic strategies countries have pursued, weigh the impact of culture, and examine social deprivation and autocratic leadership. We uncover the deep-rooted social and economic reasons behind successful or failed development in different Asian countries."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2406", "title": "Cities and nature", "description": "Must urbanisation come at the expense of the environment? Using insights from urban planning, ecology, engineering, sociology and public policy, this course focuses on how cities can integrate with nature to create sustainable communities which minimise humans\u2019 ecological footprint. Students will explore the innovations utilised by different cities around the world. Using Singapore as a case study, students will be able to apply the concepts outlined in the Singapore Green Plan into their communities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2407", "title": "Work and Inequality", "description": "This course introduces students to the concept of \u201cinvisible work\u201d \u2013 tasks that are an integral part of everyday life, yet remain unrecognized and undervalued by employers, governments, consumers and even workers themselves. Students will learn about different conceptualizations of paid and unpaid work, gendered and racialized labor, and challenges posed by a global market that increasingly relies on flexible, short-term contracts. Drawing from sociology, geography, and business, we will examine various manifestations of inequality in arenas such as domestic and professional care work, the emotional labor of service work, and the \u201chidden\u201d work of information technology industries and business process outsourcing."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2408", "title": "Beyond Seeing: Looking at Art", "description": "Are you curious about the visual arts and their role in society? This senior seminar explores visual perception and the social dimensions of art, examining history, cultural values, symbolic meaning, and how these influence ways of seeing in Singapore and beyond. Through interactive activities, guest speakers from the arts world and museum visits, we will find out how some art works changed the world or are highly valued, and why others have gone unnoticed or discarded. Students will explore the socio-economic contexts that create cultural and counter-cultural movements, as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the art world."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2409", "title": "Understanding Communities: Theory & Practice", "description": "This course helps students to critically understand the unmet needs and issues of marginalised communities (e.g., people with disabilities, the elderly, migrant workers, etc) through community-based learning and research. It does this by providing students with opportunities to actively engage with a selected community, and systematically study its challenges in-depth. Students will be equipped with the basic concepts and skills of research and evaluation to study community\u2019s issues in their programmes and policies. They will apply the knowledge they acquire in the classroom to real-world situations through group projects and collaborations with community partners."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2410", "title": "Building Communities: Exploring Global Connections", "description": "This course explores the concepts, practices and issues related to rebuilding communities in countries marked by factors such as past conflict, inequality or rapid development. It focuses on the building and/or rebuilding of marginalised communities (e.g. women, the poor, ethnic minorities) in such countries. It offers students an interactive learning opportunity that combines development theories, classroom discussions in Singapore, and a study trip abroad. Students will critically examine debates about rebuilding communities, as well as the ethical, social, economic and environmental challenges of ground-up community development."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2410A", "title": "Reconstructing Communities: Insights from the Balkans", "description": "This course explores the concepts and practices of post-conflict community reconstruction in the successor states of ex-Yugoslavia. It focuses on the rebuilding of trust and cooperation between Serbs, Croats and Bosnias/Muslims in several new nation-states after the wars and genocides of the 1990s. It offers students an interactive learning opportunity that combines development and conflict/peace theories, classroom discussions in Singapore, and a study trip. Students will critically examine debates about rebuilding communities, as well as the ethical, social, and economic challenges of community development and reconstruction."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2410B", "title": "Community, Culture, Conservation: Insights from Nepal", "description": "This course explores the concepts, practices and issues in community development in relation to culture and conservation of natural resources and heritage. It focuses on the interplay of tradition and innovation in the holistic development of a society, particularly within the context of Nepal. It offers students an interactive learning opportunity that combines theory, classroom-based seminars and field visits. Students will critically examine discourses on the dilemmas and designs of community development as well as ethical, social and economic challenges of different models."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2411", "title": "Unequal Parenthoods in Asia", "description": "Does parenting come naturally? Are there significant cultural differences in parenting practices, between Singapore, Asia more broadly, and the West? Do women parent differently from men? In this course, students will see that parenting may be universal but also a diverse experience. Drawing on case studies from Singapore, and other Asian societies, we examine how parenting roles and styles and perceptions of parenting are differentially produced across time, place and context. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students will learn how broader systems of inequality through institutions, policies, experts, technology and material resources perpetuate socially stratified and fragmented experiences of parenting."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2412", "title": "Mental wellness: Local and global approaches", "description": "What is mental wellness? How do we define \u2018(ab)normal\u2019? How do communities across different countries and cultures perceive and promote mental health and resilience? How do the government, society and environment contribute to mental wellness? This course explores the key concepts and approaches to mental wellness across disciplines, ideologies and cultures as well as strategies for personal mental resilience. We will examine different perspectives in Singapore and beyond to appreciate the mental health landscape at the global, local and individual levels."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2413", "title": "Communicating with Communities in the 21st century", "description": "Communication is one of the key 21st century competencies. In this course, students will draw on communication models to evaluate the effectiveness and appropriateness of verbal and nonverbal communication in face-to-face interactions and on social media platforms. Students will also learn effective/appropriate strategies to communicate as a team member and a leader in educational/organisational contexts, and explore how people should effectively/appropriately communicate information to the public and collaborate with people in the service oriented communities such as NGOs/VWOs. Additionally, students will also gain insights into the uses and impacts that social media have on individuals and society."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2414", "title": "Stakeholders: Community Engagement as a Sum of Diverse Parts", "description": "We often discuss the \u2018What\u2019 and \u2018Why\u2019 of Community Engagement. However, we seldom explore the \u2018Who\u2019. This course explores the dynamic relationship between Community Engagement and its stakeholders. We will look at definitions of stakeholders and how they impact the efficacy, direction, processes, and perceptions of Community Engagement in Singapore. Through an interdisciplinary collaborative lens, we will focus on the government, social service agencies, donors, businesses, volunteers, community members and university students such as yourself. Our journey will include field trips, guest speakers, and the opportunity to enact stakeholder mediation sessions. Finally, we will explore how technology facilitates Community Engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2415", "title": "The Effective Non-profit", "description": "In this course, we will examine some organisational processes and behaviors in the context of non-profit organisations (NPOs). Through readings, case studies, guest speakers, and field trips, we will explore the interdisciplinary aspects of organisational behavior from the individual, team, organisational and societal levels of analysis. We will discuss topics such as\u2014 What motivates employees and volunteers? How can NPOs drive a positive organisational culture? What are some \u201csuccess indicators\u201d in a NPO? How can we create an inclusive community in the workplace for persons with disabilities? How do NPOs evolve to \u201ckeep up with the times\u201d?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2416", "title": "Positive Youth Development in Singapore", "description": "In this course, we will take on an interdisciplinary lens in understanding the needs, strengths and challenges of youths and youths-at-risk in Singapore, as well as the ecosystems they are embedded in. Specifically, using the positive youth development approach, we will discuss how environmental and intrapersonal strengths can improve positive outcomes for these youths. We will also explore topics such as youth culture, youth mental health, risk and resilience in youth, youth voice and activism, among others. Importantly, we will examine how our deepened understanding of youths can inform our meaningful engagement with them."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2417", "title": "Identities in Asia", "description": "The concept of identity is highly contentious, addressing our fundamental sense of belonging, imagining, and definitions of ourselves and others. This course explores how both for individuals, and for members of various social groups, identities are formed and also change over time. Using both top-down and bottom-up approaches, we critically examine how individuals, communities and authorities have impacted the construction of personal and collective identities in Asia. Using theory, empirical studies, and real-world examples, we question assumptions about self and group identities, recognising how these are shaped by institutions, such as families, schools, state agencies, businesses and even social media networks."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2418", "title": "Crime, Society and Inequality (CSI): Singapore Edition", "description": "What defines \u2018crime\u2019? How does the likelihood of who commits crime and who is identified as \u2018criminal\u2019 differ across social contexts? This course approaches the relationship between crime and society through conceptual categories of class, gender, race, age, and geography drawing on local and global contexts of crime and justice. Students will use inter-disciplinary approaches to learn how institutions, policies, experts and mainstream society shape the landscape of crime, victimisation and justice. Furthermore, they will critically examine whether various formal and informal mechanisms of crime control adequately restore social order or conversely increase recidivism, exacerbate vulnerability and engender inequality."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2419", "title": "Think Global, Act Local: Understanding Global Singapore", "description": "While globalisation has generally improved local communities in Singapore and elsewhere, how and why has it also led to greater challenges and even crises, many of which harm communities and undermine globalisation itself? By taking a people-centered analysis, this seminar critically examines how global issues \u2013 ranging from pandemics to migration to social media \u2013 impact local communities. Rather than treating communities as passive, this interdisciplinary course draws on studies from systems approaches to sociology to demonstrate how communities exercise power in responding to globalisation. Using Singapore as a reference point, the seminar explores debates on globalisation and how to strengthen local communities in a global era."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2420", "title": "Sustainability in Southeast Asia: A Study Trip", "description": "This course focuses on select countries in Southeast Asia and is credit-bearing. It consists of two components: a) In-class seminars and local field trips; and b) Overseas study trip. The course seeks to understand community and development issues in relation to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Singapore\u2019s bilateral relationships with the relevant country or countries in the region."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2420A", "title": "Sustainability in SE Asia: Study Trip to Indochina", "description": "This course focuses on two countries in Southeast Asia and is credit-bearing. It consists of two components: a) In-class seminars and local field trips; and b) Overseas study trip. The course seeks to understand community and development issues in relation to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Singapore\u2019s bilateral relationships with Laos and Vietnam."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2420B", "title": "Sustainability in Southeast Asia: Study Trip to Thailand", "description": "This course focuses on select countries in Thailand and is credit-bearing. It consists of two components: a) In-class seminars and local field trips; and b) Overseas study trip. The course seeks to understand community and development issues in relation to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Singapore\u2019s bilateral relationships with Thailand."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2501", "title": "Community Internship", "description": "Community organisations are social levellers that form support networks for the marginalised and advocate for issues that build social resilience. But how well do we understand the inner workings of community organisations and the unique challenges they face? By working in a partner organisation, this community internship provides an interdisciplinary learning platform to help students connect academic knowledge to \u2018real world\u2019 scenarios. Students will be supervised by an academic fellow and an internship supervisor over 8 weeks (~30 hours per week) to facilitate deeper engagement and learning with the community partner."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2700", "title": "An Undefeated Mind: An Experiential Inner Reengineering Approach", "description": "This course adopts an experiential learning approach to shape students\u2019 psychological well-being and mental resilience through mind-body practices. Students will cultivate four skills/capacities for well-being namely: Faculty of Attention, Art of Listening, Emotional Balance and Self-Awareness. Students will translate their practices and personal experiences into reflective texts as well as system diagrams. They will then engage in fieldwork at elderly care organizations in Singapore where they will dialogue with caregivers to understand their emotions and experiences. This will provide them an opportunity to personally experience and share the benefits of awareness of their mental processes while engaging in delicate conversations."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2701", "title": "Business Systems: Dynamics and Policy Making", "description": "Many of us recognize that the world we live in is growing in dynamic complexity. Accelerating economic, technological, social, and environmental change requires managers and policy makers to: (i) expand the boundaries of their mental models, and (ii) develop and work with tools to understand how the structure of complex systems influences their behaviour. This course intends to equip students with the ability to model a wide range of business systems, understand the structure-behaviour links and use such understanding to analyse policy and strategy. System Dynamics modelling will be employed as the vehicle to build these desired skills and abilities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2702", "title": "Foundations in System Dynamics Thinking and Modelling", "description": "This course provides an opportunity to learn about system dynamics, consisting of systems thinking, modelling, and analysis. Since its inception in the 1960s, system dynamics has been used to analyse and solve problems in development (economic, political, social, sustainable, and urban), management (business, environmental, health care, and project), and public policy. The role of systems thinking and system dynamics modelling in shaping issues of sustainable development, local, national and global, has been transformative."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2703", "title": "Infectious Diseases: Dynamics, Strategies and Policies", "description": "Waves of infectious diseases like Ebola, SARS, and avian flu have shaken countries in recent years. The complex unpredictable nature of infectious diseases has also been a source of fear and threat to humans and other life forms for several centuries. The origin, spread, prevention and control of infectious diseases involve actors including animals, birds, insects, humans, environment, society and economics. This course will explore the interconnections and interdependencies between these actors as models that involve a \u201csystem of systems\u201d. Besides helping to relate model structure to dynamic behaviour, the models will be used to design optimal vaccination and control policies."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2704", "title": "Projects in Systems", "description": "This course will foster deeper anchoring in Residential College 4's (RC4's) theme of systems through independent work in diverse areas such as energy, environment, health, society, and business. It builds upon the skill sets that RC4 students acquired in junior seminar and senior seminar 1. Students will do projects supervised by RC4 fellows; some of them may involve external collaborations and field work. Intellectual exchanges with supervisors, collaborators, practitioners, and peers will provide a unique experience to students."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2705", "title": "Housing, Healthcare and Harmony in Singapore: A Critical Perspective", "description": "Singapore, in the last 50 years, has evolved from a colonial port to a global city-state. Overcoming unanticipated, unprecedented, multifaceted challenges and severe resource constraints, it has emerged as a successful model-city through flexible and pragmatic policies arguably guided by systems thinking or the \u201cwhole-of-nation\u201d approach. This course will use numbers and simple systems models to understand the dynamics of Singapore with special attention on the evolving demographics, housing, healthcare and social harmony aspects. Students will also examine the impact of policy changes, generate scenarios and use them to make policy recommendations and projections for the near future. Students will employ qualitative and quantitative modelling tools learnt from a RC4 JS in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2706", "title": "Committed to Changing Our World: The Systems Pioneers", "description": "The 21st Century world is one where the potential for an individual\u2019s actions to elicit solutions is questionable. Critical problems such as an environment threatened by climate change, social inequality, food and water security issues and poverty seem overwhelming. This course uses the concepts and archetypes of Systems Thinking to understand the dynamics of individual presence and action in addressing such global issues. Students will be empowered to become proficient, disciplined, humane systems citizens, capable of envisioning and traversing life paths that make a difference."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2707", "title": "Understanding Health and Social Care in Singapore", "description": "The rapid growth of the elderly population in Singapore is a source of concern due to the health implications of aging. While people are increasingly avoiding fatal events, they are often not avoiding the physiological changes associated with aging and the accumulation of chronic conditions and functional disability. Keeping pace with rising healthcare demand poses a key challenge for policymakers. This course explores the complex relationships between health and social care in the context of an aging society, with Singapore as a case. Students will be introduced to concepts and tools for health system-wide analysis of health and social care policies and strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2708", "title": "Singapore - A Smart Nation in Context : IoT & Big Data", "description": "Singapore as a Smart Nation - where citizens enjoy a high quality of life, seamlessly enabled by technology and providing new opportunities for innovation and creativity. 'Internet of Things' (IoT) and 'Big Data' are essential ingredients to such a \"smart nation\". With the plethora and ubiquity of connected devices (50 Billion by 2020) and the clarion call to understand 'Big Data - The New Oil' (5 Exabytes every few days ) this course will provide insights into what these terms mean, their importance, challenges, and drivers. The course will have a blend of Lectures, Experiential Learning, Case Studies and some External Subject Matter Experts."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2709", "title": "Questioning Common Sense", "description": "What have been your most significant learning experiences? When have you realised you needed to question your own assumptions, that what had\nappeared like common-sense truths no longer seemed so certain? How has learning changed the way you view issues? Focusing on questions such as\nthese, in this course we will study the transformative potential of learning. We will focus not only on formal education at secondary and tertiary levels, but also consider informal learning experiences so as to investigate how ideas \u2013 whether in the classroom, through reading or travel, or in conversations with others \u2013 have changed us."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2710", "title": "Energy and Environment: Singapore and ASEAN Perspectives", "description": "Energy, environment, sustainability and climate change are multi-disciplinary and inter-related elements.With the increase in green consciousness and possible media hype, the quest for single-point, easy, solutions arise. This course takes a systems-thinking perspective to discover the complex technological interactions behind the political/socio-economic policies in energy/environment in Singapore and the ASEAN region. Explosive economic development regionally, where investment in infrastructure provides rapid \u201cReturns on Investment\u2019, means that there is greater competition for patient or impact capital for longerterm sustainable projects. Hence, this course shows that while technology is a necessary condition for economic development, it remains an insufficient condition."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2711", "title": "Heavenly Mathematics and Cultural Astronomy", "description": "Students will study astronomy in a cultural context and look at questions like: How is the date of Chinese New Year determined? Why do the Muslim and Chinese months start on different days? Why was the date of Deepavali moved some years ago? Will the Moon ever look like it does on the Singapore flag? This course will help students appreciate mankind\u2019s effort to understand the mathematics of heavens and how the sky modulates culture."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2712", "title": "Hard to secure easy to waste - Singapore\u2019s food story", "description": "A growing population, changing dietary habits and climate change are contributing to the challenge of securing food for Singapore. Singapore imports over 90% of its food supply and uses under 1% of its land area for agriculture. In 2015, Singapore was ranked the second most food secure country in the world. On the other hand, Singapore\u2019s food wastage has increased by 50% since 2005 and 1 in 10 people in Singapore is food insecure. This course takes a systems thinking and systems dynamics perspective to analyse and understand this apparent paradox between food security and food waste in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2713", "title": "Modelling Singlehood, Marriage & Fertility in Singapore", "description": "Singapore has a shrinking and ageing citizen population, owing to its declining fertility rates and longer lifespans, rising singlehood and divorce rates, delay in marriages and family formation. Policies designed to lift its fertility rates have had little success. This course will use system dynamics modelling to gain insights into the dynamics and outcomes of population transitions in Singapore and countries facing similar or contrasting demographic challenges. It will also explore changing attitudes and expectations associated with singlehood, marriage and childbearing in Singapore and the region, and seek to understand the interplay of factors creating policy resistance in the city-state."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2714", "title": "A social critique of markets in Singapore", "description": "This course is a social critique of markets and market behaviour in Singapore. Markets are often explained with methodological individualism as opposed to broader social systems that underscore behavioural and motivational determinants. This course presents an inter-disciplinary reading of selected economic concepts and critiques them from a social and holistic angle. It is principally a sociohistorical reading of how markets perform. In its application side, the course will reinterpret the success of Singapore using conceptual tools such as objective value theory, social productivity, the leisure class, and the historically determined social wage."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2715", "title": "Decoding Complexity", "description": "The world today is not only more interconnected and richer in content than ever before, but also more sensitive to disruption. Just as the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings can cause a tornado, can a small disturbance in a distant connection result in destruction elsewhere? This course focuses on such phenomena that seem to pervade a wide variety of complex issues in sociology, economics, finance, epidemics, terrorism, and science to name a few. Students will be able to debate through complex issues that Singapore and the world faces, model them, and in the process find handles to manage such complexities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2716", "title": "Networks: Complexity and Order", "description": "A complex system entails a network of interconnections among its constituents. Take the network of friendships in a society. \u201cSix degrees of separation\u201d posits that any two persons in the world are connected through five or fewer other persons in this network. This amazing \u201csmall world\u201d notion prompted scientists to study the organisational structure of networks. Indeed, many networks \u2013 however massive and complex \u2013 follow an order based on simple principles. In a minimally technical manner, this course follows this exciting development, which impacts our understanding of a plethora of phenomena from the spread of diseases to the propagation of opinions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2717", "title": "Water Governance in Asia From a Systems Worldview", "description": "Many Asian nations or cities within them face the challenges of 'too much-too little-too dirty' water. In this aspect, Singapore\u2019s impressive progress stands out. Is there scope for the transferability of policy lessons from here to other Asian contexts? What kind of opportunities and challenges exists for such transferability? The course will build on prior knowledge of Systems philosophy and skills of model-based experimentations and provide students opportunities to explore the important questions on water policy through out-of-class activities in Indonesia and Singapore and classroom-based simulation techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2718", "title": "Energy and Singapore: Dynamics, Dilemmas and Decisions", "description": "Energy in Singapore depends mainly on imported fossil fuels/petroleum/natural gas. In the quest for alternatives, future energy demand and mix, some challenges/dilemmas arise naturally in Singapore\u2019s context: Will nuclear energy deployment be feasible? Will a switch to solar, biofuels, and waste-to-energy technologies be promising? Through systems and system dynamics approach to deal with such issues and the corresponding dynamics, dilemmas and decisions that arise while addressing them, students gain insights into the political, socio-economic and environmental aspects of these challenges through relevant case studies/models. Students will also be actively involved in field work/project-based learning in the context of community engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2719", "title": "Society and Economy in Singapore: A Systems View", "description": "This course provides a systems reading of social and economic thought with emphasis on the experience of Singapore. This course will outline the major contributions and weaknesses of received theory and critique them from an interdisciplinary or systems angle. It will contrast the methodological differences between the price-led systems and demand-led systems. Lastly, it will draw on the historical experience of Singapore to illustrate the differences between the behavioural-deductive and systems-inductive approaches to studying social and economic performance."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2720", "title": "Income Inequality: A Teleological Perspective", "description": "Many feel that the current level of income inequality is unfair and that capitalism is not functioning well for a vast majority of the population in several countries. Yet, some amount of inequality is inevitable as different people make different contributions in society. This begs the question: what is a fair level of inequality? This course synthesizes concepts from economics, political philosophy, game theory, information theory, systems engineering and statistical mechanics to provide a mathematical framework to analyse the income inequality problem and suggests options for tax policy, social programs and executive compensation."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2721", "title": "Model and Systems Thinking for Complex Social Issues", "description": "This course explores a 21st century world characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) by utilizing a synergy of model thinking and systems thinking. Why is segregation pervasive in society? Why are social riots sudden and abrupt? Why is environmental destruction irrational yet rational? From the catastrophes of nuclear meltdowns to financial crises, what role does risk and uncertainty play in our world? Students will approach such questions and evaluate complex social problems in the 21st century with models and systems concepts. Ultimately, this course seeks to expand the cognitive perception and enhance the systems thinking of its learners."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2722", "title": "Sleep Health: A Holistic Approach to Well-being", "description": "This course aims to impart essential knowledge of sleep science - nature, function, biopsychosocial factors and complex phenomena associated with sleep/wake cycles, common sleep disorders, sleep health etc. For this, it adopts a practical and learner-centric approach in combination with certain mindfulness-based interventions specific to overcoming sleep disturbances. It also enables students to learn interdisciplinary aspects of sleep-body-mind-well-being nexus holistically through systems approach to recognize the impact of sleep on overall well-being. Students will also evaluate their sleep problems, make informed decisions to self-regulate/adjust habits to maintain overall well-being. Furthermore, students will also be actively involved in community engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2723", "title": "How would YOU lead?", "description": "This Senior Seminar is a dialogue about leaders and leadership in the future workplace. It takes students\u2019 lived experience and encounters with leaders as starting points; and considers what the literature, experts, and leaders from different domains may have said/demonstrated about leadership. The stories and examples of leadership are drawn from multiple domains (e.g. politics, education, social enterprise, business). A key course goal is to integrate varied instances of leadership and contexts, that will help everyone arrive at their own response to the questions, \u201chow would YOU lead? What kind of leader will you be, how, and why?\u201d (98 words)"}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2724", "title": "Religion, Governance and Policymaking in Singapore", "description": "This course takes a social systems approach underpinned by interdisciplinarity to survey the connections and linkages of policymaking and governance vis-\u00e0-vis religious actors in Singapore. Balancing between theory and application, and between historical narrative and focus on the contemporary, this course interrogates a wide and complex array of religious-related factors which may influence the government in its policymaking process and the implementation of public policy, secularism in Singapore notwithstanding. This course also investigates how the myriad of religious factors can effect social change and determine the direction of the policies of the government vis-\u00e0-vis politico-economic and socio-cultural issues in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2725", "title": "Leadership At the Fringe", "description": "We often experience leadership as someone leading from the top or as someone giving directions. In this course, we will learn about the leadership built upon active listening, good observation and meaningful participation - in particular with the less visible or marginalized communities in Singapore. Other than seminars and field trips in Singapore, we will have a 10-12 day studying trip \u2013 interacting with leaders, communities and change makers in an ASEAN country. Learning about leadership in Singapore and relating this to another community in ASEAN will enrich our experience and horizons in appreciating diversity and helps us in decision making across a broader spectrum. This is an inter-disciplinary experiential learning course where community engagement is a strong focus. Readings are designed to give us the framework for meaningful interaction when meeting niche experts and practitioners in class and on field trips, motivating deep reflection and an authentic understanding of leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2726", "title": "Societal Collapse & Resilience", "description": "No society, no matter how economically, culturally and technologically advanced, is immune to collapse. What led to the collapse of past and present-day societies, and what can we learn from them? Did these societies foresee the impending calamities threatening their existence? If not, why not? If yes, why did they not act in time? How is Singapore vulnerable to threats plaguing the world today and how do we strengthen our resilience? In this course, students will explore these questions through community engagement and the lens of existing theories, illuminated through the use of causal-loop diagramming and insights gained through computer simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2727", "title": "Mind, Ego and Happiness", "description": "In an increasingly complex and disruptive 21st century society, the enhancement of psychological resilience is significantly crucial and beneficial. With theoretical and empirical studies of the psychology of happiness, science of Mindfulness, other developmental psychological theories and models, as well as case studies of the incidence of mental health issues in Singapore, this course seeks to enhance its learners with a psychological \u2018inner programming\u2019 toolkit to be resilient so as to navigate the challenges of a volatile, uncertain, and complex world, as well as to develop cognisance and sensitivity to the Singapore mental health context."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2728", "title": "More than art imitates life: Women and Men in Film", "description": "Oscar Wilde wrote: \u201clife imitates art far more than art imitates life.\u201d The ability of film, as an artform, to influence the popular consciousness is in some contexts seen as indisputable (e.g. censorship); however, at other times, its impact on the viewer is perceived as tenuous. How true is Wilde\u2019s concept of the relationship between between art and life? This course invites you to apply Systems Thinking, key ideas in gender theory and film studies to films and their audiences as you investigate the connections between art and life."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2729", "title": "Causality and Natural Experiments", "description": "Causal questions ranging from \u201cdoes vitamin C cure colds\u201d to \u201cdoes immigration hurt local low-wage workers\u201d are crucial to everyday decision-making and societal challenges. Causal inferences are drawn from randomized experiments, where researchers allocate individuals to treatment groups by a random draw. In social and human systems, natural experiments \u2013 situations arising in real life that resemble randomised experiments \u2013 offer a powerful way to study causal links. With a focus on intuition and practical understanding, this course discusses the motivation, identification, and interpretation of natural experiments, which are fruits of system-wide knowledge and interdisciplinary endeavors."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2730", "title": "Alien Invasions in Singapore", "description": "This course imparts recently gained knowledge of various concepts and issues concerning biological invasions and their adverse impacts on native biodiversity, human health and conservation efforts. Charting the history of biological invasions, the major topics covered include Darwin\u2019s ideas on dynamics of global flora and fauna and the evolutionary-ecological mechanisms of biological invasions. Singapore and Southeast Asia will be studied as hot spots of biological invasion with negative ecological, economic and social consequences that undermine ecological sustainability. The international protocols (Agenda 21) and national responses will illustrate current measures to manage these invasions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2731", "title": "Systems Thinking for Wicked Problems", "description": "The world today is challenged by multiple \"wicked problems\" (Rittel and Weber, 1973): climate change, inequality, war, hunger, and more. This course introduces these challenges in two ways. The first is by understanding the nature of these challenges through the lens of complex adaptive systems. This includes applications such as causal loops, complex networks, and multi-agent systems The second is by exploring how such systems may be navigated, in Singapore and elsewhere. This will invoke i) using multiple disciplines in context; ii) ill-defined problem spaces; iii) power dynamics and those who experience the imbalance thereof (such as vulnerable/low-income communities)."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2732", "title": "Rethinking Ageing: Potential for Integration", "description": "The Health District @ Queenstown (HD@Q), led by NUS, HDB and NUHS, seeks to transform Queenstown into a senior-friendly environment with community programmes that integrate older adults into society. This course partners with key organizations of the HD@Q for student to engage in socially valuable action as they address the critical issue of an ageing Singapore population and the potential for integration. Students will encounter key concepts in service learning and intergenerational bonding to critically reflect on their action and broaden their interpersonal capacities. Through a service learning project, students will identify community needs via the approach of Systems Thinking."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2733", "title": "Rethinking Age: Potential for Connection", "description": "The Health District @ Queenstown (HD@Q), led by NUS, HDB and NUHS, seeks to transform Queenstown into a senior-friendly environment with community programmes that encourage social connection and intergenerational bonding. This course will partner with key organizations of the HD@Q as well as a school in Queenstown for students to engage in socially valuable action in a service learning project where they address the potential for and challenges to connection between youths and older adults. This is highly relevant to Singapore\u2019s ageing population. Systems Thinking will be used as an approach to diagnose existing gaps and derive solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC2734", "title": "Ideas to Pitches: Tech, Innovation & Entrepreneurship", "description": "Students will embark on a dynamic journey through frontiers of tech-enabled product startups or social ventures \u2013 starting from ideation, needs identification, conceptualization, design, to the art of crafting compelling business pitches. Embracing a \u201cSystems Design\u201d philosophy, this course integrates Design Thinking and Systems Thinking principles to enable innovations with entrepreneurial skills, while holistically analysing their multifaceted impacts on environment, society, and governance. Combining 5 weeks of seminars with 8 weeks of mentored group project, this course develops the entrepreneurial abilities of students, and empowers them to create viable solutions for human needs and for thriving in the world of innovation."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC3101", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course provides an opportunity for students who are staying at Tembusu College for a third year to do some independent critical reading or research work. Unlike a UROP, where the student contributes to an existing research project, an ISM is an individual study programme conceptualized by the student. ISMs undertaken at Tembusu College must be interdisciplinary, multi\u2010disciplinary, or trans\u2010disciplinary in topic and/or approach. Student and supervisor need to submit for approval an ISM contract that gives a clear account of the topic, programme of study, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISM is a graded course."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC3102", "title": "Tembusu Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and sometimes in a team, on an existing research project. A Tembusu UROP may focus on research related to a particular aspect of life, education or organization at Tembusu College. Alternatively, students may participate in research led by a College Fellow or other academic, as long as the project gives the student exposure to forms of expertise and/or interests that go beyond any particular discipline. The aim of the UROP is to help support a student\u2019s academic and professional development through a meaningful research apprenticeship. The UROP is a graded course."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC3103", "title": "The Tembusu Senior Learning Experience Project", "description": "The Tembusu Senior Learning Experience Project is a project-based course that supports students developing knowledge and skills in an area related to areas of research in which the college has strengths and expertise. It supports students developing skills relevant for the workplace: teamwork, independent inquiry, problem-solving, interdisciplinary dialogues, critical reflection and clear expression in speech and words. Students will use the techniques of inquiry and communication that they developed in prior Tembusu seminars in an interdisciplinary context. They will present the results of their project to their peers and juniors for the benefit of the learning community."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC3400", "title": "Independent Study", "description": "The Independent Study Course (ISC) provides an opportunity for senior undergraduates who are staying at the College of Alice & Peter Tan (CAPT) to do independent critical reading or research work. Unlike a UROP, where the student contributes to an existing research project, an ISC is an individual study programme conceptualized by the student. ISCs undertaken at CAPT must be inter-disciplinary, multidisciplinary, or trans-disciplinary in topic and/or approach. Student and supervisor need to submit for approval an ISC contract that gives a clear account of the topic, programme of study, evaluation, and other pertinent details. The ISC is a graded course."}, {"moduleCode": "UTC3401", "title": "CAPT Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP)", "description": "A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and sometimes in a team, on an existing research project. A CAPT UROP may focus on research related to a particular aspect of life, education or organization at the College. Alternatively, students may participate in research led by a College Fellow or other academic, as long as the project gives the student exposure to forms of expertise and/or interests that go beyond any particular discipline. The aim of the UROP is to help support a student\u2019s academic and professional development through a meaningful research apprenticeship. The UROP is a graded course."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001EL", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001HY", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001JS", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001NM", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001PH", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001PL", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2001SW", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2002EL", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2002HY", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2002NM", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2002PH", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2002PL", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2002SW", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201EL", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201HY", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201JS", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201NM", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201PH", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201PL", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOA2201SW", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOB2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOB2001AIS", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOB2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOB2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOC2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOC2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOC2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOD2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOD2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOD2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOE2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOE2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOE2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOM2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOM2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOM2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTON2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTON2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTON2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop\ntheir teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOR2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOR2001B", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOR2001C", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001B", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001C", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001F", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001M", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001P", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001R", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2001S", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002B", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002C", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002F", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002M", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002P", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002R", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2002S", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201B", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201C", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201F", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201M", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201P", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201R", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTOS2201S", "title": "Undergraduate Teaching Opportunities Programme (UTOP)", "description": "UTOP aims to train undergraduates to acquire and promulgate \u201cteaching\u201d skills. When pursuing such traineeship in teaching under UTOP, students can develop their teaching skills in a more systematic manner, and become better equipped when reaching out to those who need their help and guidance. The objective is to ensure these UTOP trainees do their good deeds (e.g., giving free tuition) in an effective manner, and more importantly, with good aptitude and confidence."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2100", "title": "Intelligence and Singapore Society", "description": "This course invites students to probe the concept of \u2018intelligence\u2019 in relation to Singapore\u2019s ongoing development as a nation. The idea that smart minds are essential for survival has shaped domestic policies and international positioning strategies. We ask: in what ways has human intelligence been defined, measured and harnessed? What counts as intelligence, and what does not? Beyond notions of intelligence centred on the human individual, we will also consider forms of collective and artificial intelligence, mediated by science and technology. What kinds of intelligence are needed for the future and how can Singapore develop them?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2101", "title": "Biomedicine and Singapore Society", "description": "This \u2018Senior Seminar\u2019 is required of students in their second year of residence in Tembusu College. The course will consider social and public health issues raised by modern advances in biomedicine, particularly as they affect Singapore and the surrounding region. Merging insights from medicine, social sciences, and the humanities, students will be introduced to problems, conflicts, and debates, and asked to form their own reasoned opinions. The seminar will meet weekly in small groups of 15\u201020, with periodic full\u2010class meetings to hear guest speakers."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2103", "title": "Biomedicine and Singapore Society", "description": "This course introduces students to health as a complex social scientific phenomenon beyond biology. It explores the meaning of health in scientific, social and institutional contexts in the Singapore context, as well as the latest biotechnologies of diagnosis and treatment. It also develops a critical awareness technology in healthcare through the perspectives of ethics and equity and discusses the role of health literacy. It draws on a complex understanding of health, through working with a healthcare community partner in Singapore to identify current social and public health issues in the Singapore community, proposing possible responses to these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2104", "title": "Intelligence and Singapore Society", "description": "This course invites students to probe the concept of \u2018intelligence\u2019 in relation to Singapore\u2019s ongoing development as a nation. The idea that smart minds are essential for survival has shaped domestic policies and international positioning strategies. We ask: in what ways has human intelligence been defined, measured and harnessed? What counts as intelligence, and what does not? Beyond notions of intelligence centred on the human individual, we will also consider forms of collective and artificial intelligence, mediated by science and technology. What kinds of intelligence are needed for the future and how can Singapore develop them?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2105", "title": "Singapore as \u2018Model\u2019 City?", "description": "This course facilitates critical and multi-disciplinary engagement with the imagination and organisation of Singapore as city-state. Working with a community partner representing the state perspective and local stakeholders, students will carry out intervention projects to enliven public space. They will be guided on the theory and methodology of urban intervention, urban planning, and the historical, cultural, socio-political considerations of their intervention site. Through seminars, field trips, site survey and interactions with government agencies such as URA and local stakeholders, students will design, execute, document and reflect on their interventions to capture community voices and make us see the city in new ways."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2109", "title": "Asia Now! The Archaeology of the Future City", "description": "This course concentrates on the Asian built environment \u2013 architecture, urban planning and sustainable development. The theme of the archaeology of the future considers the many layers of the city, from examining its past to identifying its already emerging possible urban futures. Discussions and readings that provide in-depth, analytical, and critical perspectives on urbanisation and urbanism in Asia will be supplemented with a field trip to URA\u2019s City Gallery and workshops on Futures Thinking. In particular, students will be taught the Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) methodology to help them think critically and deeply about present trends and the multiplicity of future scenarios. Through Singapore as a case study, students will gain a deeper understanding of challenges facing a rapidly-urbanising Asia, cultivate intellectual tools to evaluate these challenges and embody solutions through a hands-on creative project."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2110", "title": "Happiness By Design", "description": "This course partners with a social enterprise such as in Singapore, to contribute social research for developing \u2018well-being skills\u2019 in community programs. Students conduct literature reviews, design surveys, and analyze variables shaping the experience of well-being by local stakeholders \u2014 communities or workplaces in Singapore identified by the partner. To stimulate creative ideas for improving research design, students critically appraise modern and historical literature on ideal societies and human flourishing, and learn to apply theory to encourage positive behaviors through designed interventions. Through collecting feedback and responses, students test the effectiveness of their proposed design and translate their findings into policy recommendations. Happiness Initiative"}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2112", "title": "Animals and the City", "description": "With a focus on Asia, this course draws on a diverse range of literatures to provide a broad context for understanding the dynamics between humans and animals. Southeast Asia is one of last regions in the world with extensive rain forest habitat for wild animals, but these creatures are threatened by burgeoning urbanization and agriculture. The course will go beyond a focus on wildlife, however, to consider our relationship with \u2018urban animals\u2019 of many types. Through seminar-style classes and fieldtrips conducted around Singapore, the course will test new perspectives from international and regional studies of human-animal interaction."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2114", "title": "Technologies and Ageing in Singapore", "description": "Our life expectancies have increased dramatically over the last hundred years due to improved and advanced technology. With a rapid growth in ageing population, there is an increasing need to improve the health and social needs of elderly in Singapore. Through collaborating with local community partners focused on elder well-being this course will consider how students can help elders achieve a sense of worth, confidence and productivity. Specifically, how do technologies empower and disempower the elderly to have a stronger connection to their community and improved social life? What are the opportunities and threats of technological advancements in addressing the needs of Singapore's growing ageing population?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2116", "title": "The University Today", "description": "What are universities for? A university education was traditionally exclusive to the elites but is increasingly seen as crucial to professionalization and social mobility; democratic citizenship; fostering debate and the pursuit of scientific knowledge. This course examines recent debates chronicling how growing trends of neoliberalism have led to changes in how universities and higher education are viewed. We also examine the confluence of historical, political and social factors that shaped the establishment and development of universities in postcolonial society like Singapore. Students will investigate how universities in Singapore relate with their overseas counterparts and with global trends in higher education."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2400", "title": "Identities in Asia", "description": "The concept of identity is highly contentious, addressing our fundamental sense of belonging, imagining, and definitions of ourselves and others. This course explores how both for individuals, and for members of various social groups, identities are formed and also change over time. Using both top-down and bottom-up approaches, we critically examine how individuals, communities and authorities have impacted the construction of personal and collective identities in Asia. Using theory, empirical studies, and real-world examples, we question assumptions about self and group identities, recognising how these are shaped by institutions, such as families, schools, state agencies, businesses and even social media networks."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2402", "title": "Environment and Civil Society in Singapore", "description": "This course explores the rise of the conservation ethic in Singapore. It traces the scientific, social and economic conditions that gave rise to the global environmental movement, and to its various expressions in Singapore. Students will engage with stakeholders (scientists, officials, civil society) to understand the conflicts and collaborations between advocates of development and conservation. They will initiate their own conversations and give feedback. The class will critically evaluate state-civil society partnerships, learn about the history between environmental CSOs and the Government, and debate choices and dilemmas for the future."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2403", "title": "Citizenship in a Changing World", "description": "Originally a concept which bound individual members to a defined nation via relations of rights and responsibilities, \u201ccitizenship\u201d in the 21st century is coming under unprecedented pressure from technological change and globalization. This course will trace the development of the concept, the values and social assumptions which underpin citizenship, and the interactions between liberal, communitarian and civic narratives of citizenship from ancient Greece to contemporary Singapore. Three key relationships are considered: the rights and duties of citizens in relation to government, to other citizens, and to non-citizens in and beyond the polity."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2404", "title": "Cities and nature", "description": "Must urbanisation come at the expense of the environment? Using insights from urban planning, ecology, engineering, sociology and public policy, this course focuses on how cities can integrate with nature to create sustainable communities which minimise humans\u2019 ecological footprint. Students will explore the innovations utilised by different cities around the world. Using Singapore as a case study, students will be able to apply the concepts outlined in the Singapore Green Plan into their communities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2405", "title": "Work and Inequality", "description": "This course introduces students to the concept of \u201cinvisible work\u201d \u2013 tasks that are an integral part of everyday life, yet remain unrecognized and undervalued by employers, governments, consumers and even workers themselves. Students will learn about different conceptualizations of paid and unpaid work, gendered and racialized labor, and challenges posed by a global market that increasingly relies on flexible, short-term contracts. Drawing from sociology, geography, and business, we will examine various manifestations of inequality in arenas such as domestic and professional care work, the emotional labor of service work, and the \u201chidden\u201d work of information technology industries and business process outsourcing."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2406", "title": "Beyond Seeing: Looking at Art", "description": "Are you curious about the visual arts and their role in society? This senior seminar explores visual perception and the social dimensions of art, examining history, cultural values, symbolic meaning, and how these influence ways of seeing in Singapore and beyond. Through interactive activities, guest speakers from the arts world and museum visits, we will find out how some art works changed the world or are highly valued, and why others have gone unnoticed or discarded. Students will explore the socio-economic contexts that create cultural and counter-cultural movements, as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the art world."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2407", "title": "Understanding Communities: Theory & Practice", "description": "This course helps students to critically understand the unmet needs and issues of marginalised communities (e.g., people with disabilities, the elderly, migrant workers, etc) through community-based learning and research. It does this by providing students with opportunities to actively engage with a selected community, and systematically study its challenges in-depth. Students will be equipped with the basic concepts and skills of research and evaluation to study community\u2019s issues in their programmes and policies. They will apply the knowledge they acquire in the classroom to real-world situations through group projects and collaborations with community partners."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2408", "title": "Unequal Parenthoods in Asia", "description": "Does parenting come naturally? Are there significant cultural differences in parenting practices, between Singapore, Asia more broadly, and the West? Do women parent differently from men? In this course, students will see that parenting may be universal but also a diverse experience. Drawing on case studies from Singapore, and other Asian societies, we examine how parenting roles and styles and perceptions of parenting are differentially produced across time, place and context. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students will learn how broader systems of inequality through institutions, policies, experts, technology and material resources perpetuate socially stratified and fragmented experiences of parenting."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2409", "title": "Mental wellness: Local and global approaches", "description": "What is mental wellness? How do we define \u2018(ab)normal\u2019? How do communities across different countries and cultures perceive and promote mental health and resilience? How do the government, society and environment contribute to mental wellness? This course explores the key concepts and approaches to mental wellness across disciplines, ideologies and cultures as well as strategies for personal mental resilience. We will examine different perspectives in Singapore and beyond to appreciate the mental health landscape at the global, local and individual levels."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2410", "title": "Stakeholders: Community Engagement as a Sum of Diverse Parts", "description": "We often discuss the \u2018What\u2019 and \u2018Why\u2019 of Community Engagement. However, we seldom explore the \u2018Who\u2019. This course explores the dynamic relationship between Community Engagement and its stakeholders. We will look at definitions of stakeholders and how they impact the efficacy, direction, processes, and perceptions of Community Engagement in Singapore. Through an interdisciplinary collaborative lens, we will focus on the government, social service agencies, donors, businesses, volunteers, community members and university students such as yourself. Our journey will include field trips, guest speakers, and the opportunity to enact stakeholder mediation sessions. Finally, we will explore how technology facilitates Community Engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2411", "title": "Positive Youth Development in Singapore", "description": "In this course, we will take on an interdisciplinary lens in understanding the needs, strengths and challenges of youths and youths-at-risk in Singapore, as well as the ecosystems they are embedded in. Specifically, using the positive youth development approach, we will discuss how environmental and intrapersonal strengths can improve positive outcomes for these youths. We will also explore topics such as youth culture, youth mental health, risk and resilience in youth, youth voice and activism, among others. Importantly, we will examine how our deepened understanding of youths can inform our meaningful engagement with them."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2412", "title": "Crime, Society and Inequality (CSI): Singapore Edition", "description": "What defines \u2018crime\u2019? How does the likelihood of who commits crime and who is identified as \u2018criminal\u2019 differ across social contexts? This course approaches the relationship between crime and society through conceptual categories of class, gender, race, age, and geography drawing on local and global contexts of crime and justice. Students will use inter-disciplinary approaches to learn how institutions, policies, experts and mainstream society shape the landscape of crime, victimisation and justice. Furthermore, they will critically examine whether various formal and informal mechanisms of crime control adequately restore social order or conversely increase recidivism, exacerbate vulnerability and engender inequality."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2413", "title": "Think Global, Act Local: Understanding Global Singapore", "description": "While globalisation has generally improved local communities in Singapore and elsewhere, how and why has it also led to greater challenges and even crises, many of which harm communities and undermine globalisation itself? By taking a people-centered analysis, this seminar critically examines how global issues \u2013 ranging from pandemics to migration to social media \u2013 impact local communities. Rather than treating communities as passive, this interdisciplinary course draws on studies from systems approaches to sociology to demonstrate how communities exercise power in responding to globalisation. Using Singapore as a reference point, the seminar explores debates on globalisation and how to strengthen local communities in a global era."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2500", "title": "Capstone Experience", "description": "The Capstone Experience is open to undergraduate members of the College of Alice & Peter Tan (Year 2 and above) and will build on the first- and second-year courses of the University Town College Program (UTCP). Students will work in a multi-disciplinary group consisting of three to five students. Together with an external partner, and under the guidance of an advisor, they apply disciplinary knowledge and skills to address an issue or question which is authentic and of practical relevance to the community. In the process, students engage communities and organizations either locally or abroad in planning, implementing and communicating their ideas and concepts, develop collaborative and leadership skills, cultural competency and an awareness of civic values. The learning experience is reflected in well-researched and thoughtful situational analyses, reflective journals, and final reports or presentations. Capstone experiences will be supervised by College faculty with expertise in the chosen area, with the participation of a qualified preceptor from the external partner."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2700", "title": "Housing, Healthcare and Harmony in Singapore: A Critical Perspective", "description": "Singapore, in the last 50 years, has evolved from a colonial port to a global city-state. Overcoming unanticipated, unprecedented, multifaceted challenges and severe resource constraints, it has emerged as a successful model-city through flexible and pragmatic policies arguably guided by systems thinking or the \u201cwhole-of-nation\u201d approach. This course will use numbers and simple systems models to understand the dynamics of Singapore with special attention on the evolving demographics, housing, healthcare and social harmony aspects. Students will also examine the impact of policy changes, generate scenarios and use them to make policy recommendations and projections for the near future. Students will employ qualitative and quantitative modelling tools learnt from a RC4 JS in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2701", "title": "Understanding Health and Social Care in Singapore", "description": "The rapid growth of the elderly population in Singapore is a source of concern due to the health implications of aging. While people are increasingly avoiding fatal events, they are often not avoiding the physiological changes associated with aging and the accumulation of chronic conditions and functional disability. Keeping pace with rising healthcare demand poses a key challenge for policymakers. This course explores the complex relationships between health and social care in the context of an aging society, with Singapore as a case. Students will be introduced to concepts and tools for health system-wide analysis of health and social care policies and strategies."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2702", "title": "Singapore - A Smart Nation in Context : IoT & Big Data", "description": "Singapore as a Smart Nation - where citizens enjoy a high quality of life, seamlessly enabled by technology and providing new opportunities for innovation and creativity. 'Internet of Things' (IoT) and 'Big Data' are essential ingredients to such a \"smart nation\". With the plethora and ubiquity of connected devices (50 Billion by 2020) and the clarion call to understand 'Big Data - The New Oil' (5 Exabytes every few days ) this course will provide insights into what these terms mean, their importance, challenges, and drivers. The course will have a blend of Lectures, Experiential Learning, Case Studies and some External Subject Matter Experts."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2703", "title": "Energy and Environment: Singapore and ASEAN Perspectives", "description": "Energy, environment, sustainability and climate change are multi-disciplinary and inter-related elements.With the increase in green consciousness and possible media hype, the quest for single-point, easy, solutions arise. This course takes a systems-thinking perspective to discover the complex technological interactions behind the political/socio-economic policies in energy/environment in Singapore and the ASEAN region. Explosive economic development regionally, where investment in infrastructure provides rapid \u201cReturns on Investment\u2019, means that there is greater competition for patient or impact capital for longerterm sustainable projects. Hence, this course shows that while technology is a necessary condition for economic development, it remains an insufficient condition."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2704", "title": "Hard to secure easy to waste - Singapore\u2019s food story", "description": "A growing population, changing dietary habits and climate change are contributing to the challenge of securing food for Singapore. Singapore imports over 90% of its food supply and uses under 1% of its land area for agriculture. In 2015, Singapore was ranked the second most food secure country in the world. On the other hand, Singapore\u2019s food wastage has increased by 50% since 2005 and 1 in 10 people in Singapore is food insecure. This course takes a systems thinking and systems dynamics perspective to analyse and understand this apparent paradox between food security and food waste in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2705", "title": "Modelling Singlehood, Marriage & Fertility in Singapore", "description": "Singapore has a shrinking and ageing citizen population, owing to its declining fertility rates and longer lifespans, rising singlehood and divorce rates, delay in marriages and family formation. Policies designed to lift its fertility rates have had little success. This course will use system dynamics modelling to gain insights into the dynamics and outcomes of population transitions in Singapore and countries facing similar or contrasting demographic challenges. It will also explore changing attitudes and expectations associated with singlehood, marriage and childbearing in Singapore and the region, and seek to understand the interplay of factors creating policy resistance in the city-state."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2706", "title": "A social critique of markets in Singapore", "description": "This course is a social critique of markets and market behaviour in Singapore. Markets are often explained with methodological individualism as opposed to broader social systems that underscore behavioural and motivational determinants. This course presents an inter-disciplinary reading of selected economic concepts and critiques them from a social and holistic angle. It is principally a sociohistorical reading of how markets perform. In its application side, the course will reinterpret the success of Singapore using conceptual tools such as objective value theory, social productivity, the leisure class, and the historically determined social wage."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2707", "title": "Decoding Complexity", "description": "The world today is not only more interconnected and richer in content than ever before, but also more sensitive to disruption. Just as the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings can cause a tornado, can a small disturbance in a distant connection result in destruction elsewhere? This course focuses on such phenomena that seem to pervade a wide variety of complex issues in sociology, economics, finance, epidemics, terrorism, and science to name a few. Students will be able to debate through complex issues that Singapore and the world faces, model them, and in the process find handles to manage such complexities."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2708", "title": "Water Governance in Asia From a Systems Worldview", "description": "Many Asian nations or cities within them face the challenges of 'too much-too little-too dirty' water. In this aspect, Singapore\u2019s impressive progress stands out. Is there scope for the transferability of policy lessons from here to other Asian contexts? What kind of opportunities and challenges exists for such transferability? The course will build on prior knowledge of Systems philosophy and skills of model-based experimentations and provide students opportunities to explore the important questions on water policy through out-of-class activities in Indonesia and Singapore and classroom-based simulation techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2709", "title": "Energy and Singapore: Dynamics, Dilemmas and Decisions", "description": "Energy in Singapore depends mainly on imported fossil fuels/petroleum/natural gas. In the quest for alternatives, future energy demand and mix, some challenges/dilemmas arise naturally in Singapore\u2019s context: Will nuclear energy deployment be feasible? Will a switch to solar, biofuels, and waste-to-energy technologies be promising? Through systems and system dynamics approach to deal with such issues and the corresponding dynamics, dilemmas and decisions that arise while addressing them, students gain insights into the political, socio-economic and environmental aspects of these challenges through relevant case studies/models. Students will also be actively involved in field work/project-based learning in the context of community engagement."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2710", "title": "Society and Economy in Singapore: A Systems View", "description": "This course provides a systems reading of social and economic thought with emphasis on the experience of Singapore. This course will outline the major contributions and weaknesses of received theory and critique them from an interdisciplinary or systems angle. It will contrast the methodological differences between the price-led systems and demand-led systems. Lastly, it will draw on the historical experience of Singapore to illustrate the differences between the behavioural-deductive and systems-inductive approaches to studying social and economic performance."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2711", "title": "Religion, Governance and Policymaking in Singapore", "description": "This course takes a social systems approach underpinned by interdisciplinarity to survey the connections and linkages of policymaking and governance vis-\u00e0-vis religious actors in Singapore. Balancing between theory and application, and between historical narrative and focus on the contemporary, this course interrogates a wide and complex array of religious-related factors which may influence the government in its policymaking process and the implementation of public policy, secularism in Singapore notwithstanding. This course also investigates how the myriad of religious factors can effect social change and determine the direction of the policies of the government vis-\u00e0-vis politico-economic and socio-cultural issues in Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2712", "title": "Leadership At the Fringe", "description": "We often experience leadership as someone leading from the top or as someone giving directions. In this course, we will learn about the leadership built upon active listening, good observation and meaningful participation - in particular with the less visible or marginalized communities in Singapore. Other than seminars and field trips in Singapore, we will have a 10-12 day studying trip \u2013 interacting with leaders, communities and change makers in an ASEAN country. Learning about leadership in Singapore and relating this to another community in ASEAN will enrich our experience and horizons in appreciating diversity and helps us in decision making across a broader spectrum. This is an inter-disciplinary experiential learning course where community engagement is a strong focus. Readings are designed to give us the framework for meaningful interaction when meeting niche experts and practitioners in class and on field trips, motivating deep reflection and an authentic understanding of leadership."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2713", "title": "Societal Collapse & Resilience", "description": "No society, no matter how economically, culturally and technologically advanced, is immune to collapse. What led to the collapse of past and present-day societies, and what can we learn from them? Did these societies foresee the impending calamities threatening their existence? If not, why not? If yes, why did they not act in time? How is Singapore vulnerable to threats plaguing the world today and how do we strengthen our resilience? In this course, students will explore these questions through community engagement and the lens of existing theories, illuminated through the use of causal-loop diagramming and insights gained through computer simulation."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2714", "title": "Mind, Ego and Happiness", "description": "In an increasingly complex and disruptive 21st century society, the enhancement of psychological resilience is significantly crucial and beneficial. With theoretical and empirical studies of the psychology of happiness, science of Mindfulness, other developmental psychological theories and models, as well as case studies of the incidence of mental health issues in Singapore, this course seeks to enhance its learners with a psychological \u2018inner programming\u2019 toolkit to be resilient so as to navigate the challenges of a volatile, uncertain, and complex world, as well as to develop cognisance and sensitivity to the Singapore mental health context."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2715", "title": "Alien Invasions in Singapore", "description": "This course imparts recently gained knowledge of various concepts and issues concerning biological invasions and their adverse impacts on native biodiversity, human health and conservation efforts. Charting the history of biological invasions, the major topics covered include Darwin\u2019s ideas on dynamics of global flora and fauna and the evolutionary-ecological mechanisms of biological invasions. Singapore and Southeast Asia will be studied as hot spots of biological invasion with negative ecological, economic and social consequences that undermine ecological sustainability. The international protocols (Agenda 21) and national responses will illustrate current measures to manage these invasions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2716", "title": "Systems Thinking for Wicked Problems", "description": "The world today is challenged by multiple \"wicked problems\" (Rittel and Weber, 1973): climate change, inequality, war, hunger, and more. This course introduces these challenges in two ways. The first is by understanding the nature of these challenges through the lens of complex adaptive systems. This includes applications such as causal loops, complex networks, and multi-agent systems The second is by exploring how such systems may be navigated, in Singapore and elsewhere. This will invoke i) using multiple disciplines in context; ii) ill-defined problem spaces; iii) power dynamics and those who experience the imbalance thereof (such as vulnerable/low-income communities)."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2717", "title": "Rethinking Ageing: Potential for Integration", "description": "The Health District @ Queenstown (HD@Q), led by NUS, HDB and NUHS, seeks to transform Queenstown into a senior-friendly environment with community programmes that integrate older adults into society. This course partners with key organizations of the HD@Q for student to engage in socially valuable action as they address the critical issue of an ageing Singapore population and the potential for integration. Students will encounter key concepts in service learning and intergenerational bonding to critically reflect on their action and broaden their interpersonal capacities. Through a service learning project, students will identify community needs via the approach of Systems Thinking."}, {"moduleCode": "UTS2718", "title": "Rethinking Age: Potential for Connection", "description": "The Health District @ Queenstown (HD@Q), led by NUS, HDB and NUHS, seeks to transform Queenstown into a senior-friendly environment with community programmes that encourage social connection and intergenerational bonding. This course will partner with key organizations of the HD@Q as well as a school in Queenstown for students to engage in socially valuable action in a service learning project where they address the potential for and challenges to connection between youths and older adults. This is highly relevant to Singapore\u2019s ageing population. Systems Thinking will be used as an approach to diagnose existing gaps and derive solutions."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001A", "title": "Identities and Ideas in Modern Market-Driven Societies", "description": "\u2018Innovation,\u2019 \u2018growth\u2019 and \u2018development\u2019 are some buzzwords shaping our understanding of social realities. What do they reveal about the values upheld in modern consumer societies? In this course, we examine how themes like competition, self-responsibilization, self-accountability, rational profit-and-loss thinking and the constant impetus towards self-improvement operate as predominant frames in the conduct our daily lives. We explore how the identities and ideas of living in modern market-driven societies are constructed in relation to consumer lifestyles, sport, life-long learning and public housing. Students will develop writing skills enunciating varied points of view and arguments associated with the topics discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001B", "title": "What is a nation? Texts, images and national identity", "description": "National identity is an integral part of who we are. Yet, it remains a highly disputed concept. This course will problematize key theoretical debates by exploring Singapore\u2019s national identity and examining how Singapore and regional countries have been shaped by interaction with colonialism and beyond. Drawing on a Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA), which allows us to analyse image and text interactions, we explore how national icons are created in public media and ask the question of how national identity still remains a powerful and emotional entity that rallies or divides people of different ethnicities, religious, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001C", "title": "At the Edges of the Law: Ethics, Morality and Society", "description": "What should be the reach of the arms of the law? Most find it unproblematic if a state punishes distributors of child pornography; but what if the punitive muscle of the state is also used to enforce public morality? Can the law intrude on the private lives of citizens? Should euthanasia be legal? In this course we shall be putting these and other pressing issues that are at the centre of political debate to critical enquiry. This course will appeal to students interested in the study of applied ethics, the criminal law, public policy and socio-political theory."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001D", "title": "Self, Society, and the Digital Tsunami era", "description": "Cyberbullying, cyber-racism, online falsehoods. These are some of the phenomena that can be observed online. In an era of overwhelmingly diverse viewpoints within social media platforms, how has digital communication shaped and changed the way we communicate and respond to each other as human beings? Have we compromised more than we have gained? Drawing upon perspectives from various disciplines, this course helps students explore how opinions and ideas are formed, debated and transmitted in an age where human interaction is constantly mediated by technology."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001E", "title": "From Human to 'Posthuman'", "description": "This writing course considers the eternal question of what it is to be human in relation to the possibilities of transforming ourselves through genetic, neuro-cognitive or cybernetic technologies. How significantly would individuals, populations or the entire species have to be changed to warrant use of the term \u201cposthuman\u201d in describing them? How desirable would it be to transcend certain of our current limitations or to acquire wholly new capabilities? In small interactive classes, students will explore these questions through critical examination of viewpoints expressed in both scholarly literature and imaginative media, ultimately developing their own positions in written arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001F", "title": "The Internationalisation of Higher Education: Impact and Challenges", "description": "The internationalisation of higher education (IHE) is evident all around us: international students, faculty, researchers; twinning, exchange, offshore programmes; and the list goes on.But amidst the ever-changing landscape, benefits and challenges of IHE (Knight, 2013), how has internationalisation impacted higher education? How have, say, academic mobility and cross-border alliances influenced students, institutions, countries and the world? What are its implications for cultural and academic values? In this course, we will examine the contexts of IHE, compare different case studies in various settings and analyse the controversies of marketisation, language/cultural attrition, global citizenship, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001G", "title": "Human Behaviours: How do 'I' fit in this Social World?", "description": "Human behaviours are complex. Individuals\u2019 intrapersonal and interpersonal social skills could affect how well they function in a society. This course will allow students to examine psychosocial and sociocognitive theories that explain intrapersonal and interpersonal social skills which are defined as 21st-century competencies. Students will evaluate the appropriateness/effectiveness of intrapersonal skills such as the self-concept/image, self-regulated learning and maintaining intellectual openness, and interpersonal skills such as team cooperation/collaboration, conflict management, and leadership in educational, political and business settings. By the end of course, students should be able to critically analyse and develop awareness of essential social behaviours and skills."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001H", "title": "Eating Right(s): The Politics of Food", "description": "Do you know where your last meal came from? Have you ever wondered how your dietary choices affect communities, species and landscapes worldwide? This interdisciplinary writing course examines some human and ecological impacts of contemporary food-related practices and interactions. Readings from different perspectives focus critical attention on industrial agriculture, factory farming, packaging/distribution networks and international trade agreements in relation to issues of hunger, obesity, food security and environmental sustainability. In small collaborative classes, you will examine the strategies used by individual authors to construct persuasive arguments and learn to incorporate these rhetorical skills into your own writing about food."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001I", "title": "Science and popular narratives", "description": "In an era of instant digital mass communication, the scientific and technological ideas disseminated via mainstream news, entertainment, social media and other online platforms may result in the sharing of contagious narratives which are not necessarily consistent with the underlying science. Such narratives can affect public attitudes and behaviour, often with far-reaching social and economic consequences. This course aims to evaluate some of these narratives to enable students to determine the degree to which they represent scientific 'truth'. By the end of the course, students should be in a better position to engage with media representations of science in general."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001J", "title": "How do we frame the Climate Crisis?", "description": "How do we raise questions about our collective responsibility as a species towards our planet? How do we deliberate about uncertainty regarding climate change\u2019s effects? In this course, we discuss issues ranging from Siberian fires to climate refugees to investigate how some perspectives of the climate crisis become salient and prominent while others are silenced in dynamic socio-political environments. By analysing the discourse of an article and examining its presentation, we understand the \u2018spin\u2019 on a particular perspective. We then investigate what makes some of these perspectives popular ways of understanding the climate crisis, while others are absent."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001K", "title": "Meaning of Home and Identity in the Diaspora", "description": "The term, Diaspora, originally referred to the forced dispersal of Jews from Israel, and connoted loss of homeland. Now, it is applied to people who have moved away from homeland and live elsewhere. Studies have shown that such movements have displaced people and led to a loss of identity for them. By engaging with issues of diasporic movements, the students will learn to view global identities in insightful ways and be enabled to empathetically evaluate identity formations. Using the framework of hybridity, the course explores diasporic displacement from an interdisciplinary perspective to understand complex meanings of home, belonging and identity."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001L", "title": "Intimate Others: Animals, Animality and Representation", "description": "Our identities and socio-cultural relations are shaped through real and imagined interactions with animals. We regard animals as pets, pests, predators, sources of food, clothing, labour and entertainment; sometimes embodied and sentient like us, but less worthy of ethical consideration. Increasingly, our perspectives are shaped by media images of animals, animality and human-animal relationships. Are \u201chuman\u201d and \u201canimal\u201d fixed categories? How are they defined? What are the implications of maintaining or unsettling their boundaries? How does popular media represent these ideas and influence public opinion? We will critically engage with these questions by drawing on scholarship from different disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001M", "title": "Sport and competition", "description": "In professional, competitive sport, there appear to be fundamentally distinct ideas concerning human endeavour and the nature of competition that are worthy of critical examination. Is winning everything? Should participation or self-defining achievement be more valued? Is sport becoming too elitist? Does the obsession to win create the need for performance-enhancing drugs? Should we legalize doping or tighten control measures? Should we change the nature of professional competitive sport? Students will explore these questions through close analysis of viewpoints expressed in both scholarly literature and popular media, ultimately developing their own positions in written arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001N", "title": "Public Persona and Self-presentations", "description": "Public persona is a fundamental yet unarticulated aspect of persuasion in spoken discourse. In this course, students will explore and examine speakers\u2019 public persona with a focus on interactional and social roles in performed presentations before a public audience. What does it mean to perform a public persona? How is public persona shaped, strengthened, or attenuated? Is there such a thing as an \"authentic\" public persona? In seminar-type classes and, subsequently, in writing assignments, students will analyse verbal and nonverbal performance of a speaker or speakers in mediated and/or non-mediated contexts, and develop informed views of their public persona."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001O", "title": "The Urban and the Wild: Reading Urban Progress in Southeast Asia Ecocritically.", "description": "This course aims to develop the ecocritical* awareness essential for understanding and navigating cities in an age of climate crisis. Students of this course will focus on reading, thinking and writing ecocritically about urban development in Singapore and other cities in Southeast Asia where urban development has displaced nature and wildlife. This will involve employing close-reading strategies traditionally employed in literary analysis to read stories, poetry, movies, paintings and photographs alongside historical, geographical, and psychological accounts that examine urbanisation and its effects on the human and nonhuman inhabitants of cities. *Ecocriticism, which is committed to examining the relationship between humans and nonhumans, has its roots in literary studies. As a discipline, ecocriticism has expanded beyond Literature and includes a range of diverse disciplines including the environmental science, history, geography, sociology, psychology and politics."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001P", "title": "Heroes", "description": "This course will explore the development and transformation of heroic figures across time and cultures, how people have reacted to these figures, and how these figures have been adapted. Students will engage with multiple versions of the \u201chero,\u201d both male and female, from a variety of media (literature, film, television, graphic novel) and scholarly literature on the subject as a means to develop critical writing skills. Some questions we will ask include: What defines a heroic character? What do a society\u2019s heroes reflect about its own values? What are the dangers of uncritical acceptance of heroes?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001Q", "title": "English, Singlish and intercultural communication", "description": "Students will explore how a language is shaped by the culture in which it is used and how it in turn shapes its users\u2019 views of other cultures. They will investigate the culture-specific aspects of language, how they colour speakers\u2019 worldviews, and how differences in worldviews may lead to intercultural misunderstanding. Students will develop reasoned positions on particular issues in intercultural communication and formulate arguments to defend their points of view. The focus will be on English and Singlish but other varieties of English and other languages will be used for comparison."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001R", "title": "Oratory and the Public Mind", "description": "This course discusses the nature of oratory and how it potentially influences the public mind, that is, how the public perceives, understands, and acts upon social and political realities. Students will be introduced to ways of critically analyzing speeches as they interrogate the power and limitations of oratory in influencing the public mind. Students will consider the following questions What elements in the speeches enable speakers to \u2018adjust ideas to people and people to ideas\u2019? How do speeches shape and get shaped by their contexts? How are ideas expressed in the speeches transformed to create impact on the public mind?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001S", "title": "Women in Film", "description": "This course explores the representation of women in film as a site of ideological struggle. Students will investigate the multi-facetted images of women that appear in selected films and engage in critical debates about the messages that these images convey, as well as the extent to which they are influenced by history and culture. With an understanding of film analysis and the concept of ideology, students will examine how diverse viewpoints are expressed in key scholarly readings and contemporary articles, and develop writing skills that enunciate their own position within the debates."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001T", "title": "How Rich Should Anyone Be?", "description": "Is it wrong for eight men to have as much wealth as 3.6 billion people? If so, what should we do about it? This course offers a deep dive into the nature and ethics of wealth inequality. It has two parts. We first address a theoretical question: When, if ever, is inequality morally wrong? This lays the foundation for the second part, where we examine the causes and consequences of wealth inequality, along with possible responses. The aim is to critically examine our attitudes and policies as we strive for a just and practical distribution of wealth."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001U", "title": "The Detective", "description": "The detective genre is well positioned to foreground the rhetorical situation in its concern with the generation of meaning. In this course, students are invited to identify with the detective who offers a metaphor for the process of reading carefully for information, distinguishing between valid and inadequate evidence, and constructing a credible argument built on knowledge gleaned from careful observations. Students will engage in debates around what constitutes \u201cknowledge\u201d, how (and whether) \u201ctruth\u201d can be arrived at, and how the detective genre can illustrate these debates through an understanding of epistemology, i.e. the theory of knowledge."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001W", "title": "The Online Politician: The Use of Social Media in Political Communication", "description": "Using social media as a political battleground during the 2011 General Election changed Singapore\u2019s political landscape indelibly. It exemplified an emerging trend: the increasing use of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat by politicians to gain greater political support and popularity. In fact, using social media for political communication has gone viral in Singapore, Asia-Pacific and beyond. This course explores the dynamics of social media in political communication, with a focus on Singapore, as well as the United States as case studies. Students will analyse the impact of conventional means of political communication as opposed to those using social media."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001Y", "title": "Algorithmic Culture and its Discontents", "description": "We live in the age of Big Data, but where is our relationship with technology leading us? In this writing course, we interrogate the entity that we call the algorithm through the lens of the cultural meanings ascribed to it. We ask how those meanings shape our material reality. Various phenomena will be critically discussed, such as the lure of Netflix, the ubiquity of fitness trackers, and the use of smart technology by states to govern. Ultimately, through deep reading and analytical writing, we will engage with the question of what it means to be human in a technological society."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW1001Z", "title": "Colour: Theory, meaning and practice", "description": "Colour has fascinated humans for millennia, yet it is poorly understood. What is the symbolic meaning of colours across cultures? How do colours impact our psychological well-being and our consumer choices? From the earth pigments of the prehistoric painters, to the synthetic colours of the Impressionists, colour technology has developed to meet new communication and expression needs and in doing so, a whole repertoire of meanings has evolved. In this course, students will explore scholarly and popular texts from a range of disciplines including visual arts, fashion, psychology, marketing and anthropology to investigate the theory, meaning and practices of colour."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001E", "title": "Ethics in Outer Space", "description": "Venturing into space, the most hostile of extreme environments, poses a host of complex and unusual challenges to human well-being. Through examination of the physiological, psychological and social factors that astronauts must contend with, students will engage with the ethical questions that confront governmental and private agencies when sending men and women into space. Before selecting specific ethical questions to explore in their research papers, students will also examine the motivations (scientific, commercial, political) behind different kinds of space mission and consider the moral obligations humankind may be under with regard to the exploration and potential exploitation of extraterrestrial environments."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001H", "title": "RISK and Popular Culture", "description": "We live in a time characterized by an intensified awareness of risk. Our perception of risk, whether related to new technology or social activity, is greatly influenced by how mass media represents it. Taking prominent social theories of risk as its critical frame of reference, this course will explore the role of news, television shows, popular fiction and films in shaping public opinion on, and responses to, potential and presumed threats. These range from environmental pollution, pathogens and medical procedures to terrorism, cybercrime, immigration/immigrants and un(der)employment. Case studies may include Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Y2K phenomenon."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001J", "title": "Blood, Death and Desire, Interpreting the Vampire", "description": "Vampire literature has undergone a twenty-first Century resuscitation, evident in novels such as Twilight and television series including The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. But how similar are these vampires to the traditional vampire in Western and other cultures? In this course you will explore different explanations for the role/function of the Vampire and have the opportunity to research manifestations of the Vampire across cultures, genres and historical periods. You will review different research methodologies, and compile a list of terms and ideas that enable you to participate in the conversation to understand the ongoing fascination with the Vampire."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001K", "title": "Public Memory, Identity and Rhetoric", "description": "This research-based writing course examines the intersections of public memory, identity, and rhetoric in contemporary Singapore. In the course, students will consider theories and methodologies drawn from the interdisciplinary field of memory studies and practice applying them in a variety of Singaporean contexts\u2014considering, for example, the Singapore Memory Project, local museums, plays, political speeches, the preservation and transformation of memorial spaces or historical sites such as Bukit Brown cemetery, and more. Students will use their new knowledge of the rhetorical power of memory to embark on their own research project examining course themes."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001L", "title": "Visualizing Southeast Asian Cities", "description": "In this research-based course, we will explore how urban spaces across Southeast Asia have been imagined through visual forms like cinema, painting, advertising, and digital media. Using historical, theoretical, and anthropological texts as models, we will inquire into the process by which images negotiate and redefine the contours and notions of the geographies they are made to replace. How do movies transform disregarded cityscapes into protagonists? How are photographs and postcards of abandoned or demolished structures incorporated into historical memory? How do territorial, tourist, and transit maps shape aspirations of citizens and migrants? Students can pursue one of several trajectories."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001M", "title": "Sport and Socialization", "description": "Involvement in professional and amateur sports through competition, ludic activity or spectatorship is a social experience and thus connected to larger social and cultural formations. Students will engage with sociological research and develop their own critical positions grounded within functionalist, interactionist or critical theory frameworks in one of three areas: (1) Socialization into sport; what factors may influence initiation and continuation? (2) Socialization out of sport; in particular what are the causes and effects of burnout or retirement in competitive sport? (3) Socialization through sport; how are dimensions of identity (embodiment, gender, race, social class) developed?"}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001P", "title": "Science Fiction and Empire", "description": "Science fiction is less about the future than it is about the present. Many science fiction narratives critique contemporary social issues, particularly imperialism and colonialism. This course will introduce students to the theories of colonialism and their importance in a modern context. Armed with this knowledge, students will engage with classic and contemporary science fiction texts in order to understand, as well as question, how such narratives describe and proscribe ways of ordering the world. In developing their original research projects, students will explore how this intersection between popular narrative and ideology influences many of the ways we think about culture today."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001Q", "title": "'What's in a word?' Meaning across cultures", "description": "It is often assumed that there is a common understanding of what specific words mean. However, can one assume a common understanding across cultures of words describing colour, such as 'red' or 'maroon,' or emotion, such as 'happiness,' 'pleasure,' or 'disgust'? Are forms of address, such as nicknames, or interjections, such as 'damn' or the 'F' word, used in similar ways across cultures? Are there differences between the ways that speakers of different varieties of English understand the meanings of such words? This course explores how meaning is culture-bound, and helps students understand cultural differences in the choice and use of words."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001R", "title": "Discourse, Citizenship, and Society", "description": "Citizens participate in society through discourse -- talk and texts. How citizens speak and write about social issues in face-to-face and online platforms therefore warrant careful reflection. This course aims to enable students to examine how individuals enact their citizenship through language and other symbols. Students will investigate how citizens mobilize language, voice, body and other resources to deal with issues pertaining to social differences, processes of exclusion, and participation in local, regional and global contexts, among others. By the end of the course, the students should be able to develop critical awareness of how civic discourse shapes public issues."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001S", "title": "Masculinities on Film", "description": "The traditional notion of masculinity as homogenous has given way in recent decades to a proliferation of multiple masculinities that questions the relationship between gender and power. This socio-cultural phenomenon is manifested on film. Masculinity can be seen as a contested space where different masculinities fight for dominance, and older forms of masculinity are displaced by new ones. This course invites you to consider social, cultural and historical influences on constructions of masculinity on film, as well as textual contexts such as genre, as you critically reflect on the diversity of masculinities that are represented."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001T", "title": "Nobodiness: The Self as Story", "description": "The sense of having a self pervades everyday experience as well as the stories we encounter in fiction, film, television, and video games. On the other hand, the self has been called into question from various scientific, religious, and philosophical perspectives. This course examines the concept of selfhood, considering the possibility that it may be a fabrication, and examines the positive and negative aspects of positing the existence of selfhood. The course culminates in student research projects that apply critiques of the self from cognitive psychology, Eastern religion, and/or continental and analytic philosophy to a text of their choosing."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001W", "title": "Alter ego / authentic self? Online political identities", "description": "This course explores how online interactions foster collective identities premised on real/imagined social, economic and political injustice. The 20th century generated identity politics, with its focus on a shared loss of dignities resulting from prolonged colonial or imperial oppression. Evolving political and social settings gradually led to movements centred around distinct group identities (feminist movements, civil rights movements etc.). Advancements in digital communication in the new millennium have led to new variants of online collective identities. This course will examine how virtual identity politics is impacting offline politics, and demanding changes to socio-economic and political landscapes both locally and globally."}, {"moduleCode": "UTW2001Z", "title": "The Semiotics of Colour", "description": "Colour is key in visual communication. In this course, students will engage with the topic from a social semiotics and multimodal perspective to explore how colour meanings, for example ideational, interpersonal and textual, are created and interpreted. Students will develop a research paper around an artefact of their choice from fields such as marketing, design, visual and performing arts or their discipline, to examine how colour conveys meanings and/or how these colour meanings are perceived in the community. Through their project, students may explore a range of social issues related to, for example, gender and race."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101A", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking: Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism", "description": "This module teaches writing and critical thinking through a critical exploration of the notion of cosmopolitanism and its relation to colonialism. Topics discussed include the origin of cosmopolitanism, the relevance of cosmopolitanism as a moral ideal in the age of globalization, and the formation of cultural identity among diasporic Asians. The module thus provides the chance for students to reflect on the notion of global citizenship in the contemporary world, as well as their responsibilities as cosmopolitan citizens."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101AA", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Religion in Public Life", "description": "Religion in Public Life concerns the intersection of religion and society and the role of religion in the officially secular state of Singapore. Students will study how religion is discussed in both academic and popular literatures and examine how religious organizations present themselves in order to participate in discussions of social, political or economic importance. The module will include a fieldwork\ncomponent that will provide students with the data needed to write meaningful research papers based on real sites in Singapore. As a WCT Course, this module will give students the skills to produce rhetorically effective academic writing."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101AB", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking: What is Wisdom?", "description": "The University Scholars Program aims to be a \u201ccommunity of people who are curious, critical, courageous, and engaged\u201d. Although we rarely think of it in this way, an older tradition would call such qualities aspects of wisdom. In this module, we will study the concept of wisdom from different disciplinary angles, ranging from philosophy to neurobiology and cultural studies. We will discuss key aspects of wisdom such as judgment and self-transcendence, study how wisdom can be developed, and consider how it might be relevant in professional life or even help to solve world problems."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101AC", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: The Social Life of Science", "description": "This module explores how science, as a fundamentally human endeavor, is shaped by the social contexts in which it is practiced. Students will study the social production, circulation, and uptake of scientific knowledge through a series of case studies drawn from the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies.\nStudents will gain an appreciation of the social processes scientists rely upon to arrive at truths and how scientific ideas and techniques transform once publically circulated. The module will culminate in individual research projects analysing the social contours and consequences of current scientific debates."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101B", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking: Civic Discourse in a Fractious World", "description": "This module teaches writing and critical thinking through a\ncritical exploration of theories of civic and public discourse\nas they were configured by the ancient Greeks. Topics\ndiscussed include the political, ethical, and emotional uses\nand impacts of civic discourse. The module thus provides\nthe chance for students to gain a critical awareness of the\nnatures of their own engagement with public discourses, to\ncontextualise these discourses both locally and\ninternationally, and to explore the possible futures of\ncommunities of which they are a part."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101C", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking Module: Monuments, Memorials, and Commemoration", "description": "This module explores how monuments, memorials and other forms of public commemoration represent the past and influence culture and politics in the present. It takes a comparative approach, using case studies from different societies. The module highlights the complexity and contested nature of commemoration and memorialization. Although monuments and memorials may be intended to\ntell the \u201ctrue\u201d version of historical events, the end result often hides controversies that may have been part of the process of designing these structures. Similarly, the\nmeanings attached to monuments and memorials can change dramatically over time, as societies change and these structures are reinterpreted."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101D", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking: Narrative in Everyday Life", "description": "Everyday narratives are those informal stories we tell each other about ourselves and our quotidian experiences. In this module, such narratives will be analyzed in terms of identity politics, how they instantiate social power, and how they frame epistemological knowledge, such as scientific discourse, not normally associated with narrative as a mode of representation. Students will generate a corpus of genuine sociolinguistic narrative data and analyze it in an interdisciplinary framework."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101E", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Literature and Ethics", "description": "This module investigates the relations between literature and the realm of the ethical. As the module does not take the categories of 'literature' and 'ethics' for granted, it challenges students to do more than simply read literary texts for ethical content. Exploring the relationship between literature's representation of ethical concerns and the demands that a work of literature makes upon the reader's moral judgement, students can articulate their own understanding of the values, choices, and responsibilities involved in writing and reading."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101F", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking: Human Trafficking and Labour Migration", "description": "This module teaches writing and critical thinking through forms of human trafficking in the contemporary world. Topics discussed include sex workers, migrant labour, abolitionist and human rights approaches to human trafficking, as well as media representations. The module thus provides the opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of problem in the contemporary world, as well as \ntheir responsibilities as global citizens."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101G", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Apocalyptic Cultures", "description": "This module primarily introduces fundamental skills of writing that are appropriate to the interdisciplinary context of the USP. It does so by advancing various topical questions surrounding our fascination with and anxieties about the portentous and cataclysmic events leading to the end of world. Are these concerns new or culturally specific? Are these apocalyptic visions obsessed with finality or are they genuinely more interested in new beginnings? In exploring these topics, students develop skills necessary in reading primary and secondary texts, to ask focused questions and explain why they matter, and ultimately to respond with well-formed arguments."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101H", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Power, Space and Pleasure", "description": "This module examines the ways power, space, and pleasure are interconnected. The module is divided into three units. First, we will look at how space is related to questions of power, focusing in particular on surveillance. Then, in the second unit, we will consider more closely the relation between space, power and pleasure as exemplified in voyeurism and surveillance : here we will be watching people watching other people. Finally, we'll consider the relations between space, power and pleasure in Singapore, in particular as this applies to the tensions between traditional practices and urban planning in city spaces here."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101I", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Interpreting Consumerism", "description": "This module will develop students' critical reading and writing abilities through an active, seminar-style engagement with a variety of materials related to the nature and impact of modern consumer culture. We will begin by examining a number of key theoretical positions concerning the relationship between human nature and the need or desire for material things. Once we have interrogated some of these arguments, we will examine the phenomenon of modern advertising and consider the extent to which individual ads shape our buying habits and even our values. The module concludes by investigating the relationship between today's corporations and youth culture."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101J", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Sites of Tourism", "description": "This module like others in the Writing and Critical Thinking area helps students become better writers of argumentative essays. To do this, we will specifically examine the modern phenomenon that is tourism, asking questions such as: What is a tourist? Why do we become tourists? Why do we send postcards, take photographs, or collect souvenirs? Do tourists find ourselves when we go abroad? Do we lose ourselves? How are cultures packaged for tourists, and is this packaging always reductive? Such questions will help us to understand the assumptions behind tourism, and to explore issues of modernity, nationality, self and other, identity and culture."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101K", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Questioning Evolution and Progress", "description": "A multidisciplinary module that examines crises and debates generated by different concepts of evolution and progress in areas of: natural science and technology; sociology and theology, history and politics, economics and literature. Evolution is examined from Darwin's Origin of Species to the present day. We address such issues as: telling the difference between \"true\" science and pseudo-science; use and interpretation of \"scientific\" evidence; social Darwinism; the ethics and principles of \"survival of the fittest\" and eugenics. Lastly, the concept of progress is examined in the context of debates about Singaporean history and identity."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101L", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking: Conditions of Happiness", "description": "In this course, we will investigate a fundamental human question: what is happiness, and what do we need to attain it? Is happiness in our own control or does it depend on external circumstances, such as wealth or freedom? Are pleasure or virtue necessary or even sufficient conditions of happiness? What constitutes a meaningful life, and how is meaning related to happiness? To reflect on such questions, we will investigate the arguments of philosophers, psychologists, economists, and other thinkers over the course of three thematic units."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101M", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Scholarly Pursuits", "description": "Scholarly Pursuits examines colonialism as an ethnic experience that shaped schooling into an institution designed to socialize people living in colonial societies into accepting identities like \"the coloniser\" and \"the colonised\". It also examines contradictions within these identities as polarising the colonised and colonisers into becoming challengers or defenders of the moral and social legitimacy of colonialism. Students will write papers that contribute to constructing a theoretical framework that explains how colonialism shapes the policies and practices of schooling, interpret their impact on students and teachers, examine paradoxes, contradictions, mysteries to modify or create new interpretations for understanding colonial schooling."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101N", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Clothing Identities", "description": "The subject students will think, read, and write about in this module is clothing and identities. Do clothes make the man or woman? Most people accept that the clothes we wear say something about us? Particularly about our race, gender, class, and power status. But what do they say, exactly? How do they say this? Why have we learned to see clothes as speaking thus? Furthermore, if clothes say certain accepted things, what happens when people dress in inappropriate ways?"}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101P", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking:News and the Public", "description": "Students will examine three aspects of the role of journalism in an ongoing debate over whether citizens have the capacity to understand and make decisions about public issues in democratic communities: (1) A news audience's role in establishing \"journalistic truth\", (2) Ideological assumptions driving social commentators to different positions in this debate, and (3) News as propaganda. Through a series of smaller sequenced assignments leading up to three larger essays, students will read, respond, and question ideas generated by published writers as well as their classmates."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101Q", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Civility in the World City", "description": "A topic of profound interest to philosophers, social scientists and moralists, civility sets the conditions in which differences of opinion are admitted and aired. All too often, civility is taken for granted : just good manners. But actually, civility is one of the most intricate social frameworks, perhaps especially in a world city such as Singapore. This course surveys recent ruminations about civility in personal, professional and civic life to foster discussion of real-world interactions."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101R", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on 'Mind'", "description": "What is \"the mind\" and where does it fit in the interdependent histories of nature and culture on our planet? Does \"mind\" reduce to brain activity? Or is it more than just the electro-chemical exchange between neurons? As minded creatures with brains ourselves, the ways in which we delimit the mind/brain relation has enormous consequences for the ongoing construction of our legal, social, medical and ethical lives. In this module, we will study some of the major approaches to this issue, and attempt to discover what it is that we are really talking about when we are talking about \"mind.\""}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101S", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Danger and National Security", "description": "This module introduces students to skills necessary for writing an academic essay. It does so by facilitating students' ability to think critically about the relationship between the concepts of \"danger\" and \"national security\". In particular, it asks if the process by which danger is identified by national communities are unquestionable and self-evident, or if they are historically contigent and mutable. In this regard, is \"danger\" constructed to foster national solidarity and identity? This module examines different cultural and political texts attesting to the changing nature of the national security community, and uses them as the basis of teaching the elements of essay writing."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101T", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: The Politics and Rhetoric of Green", "description": "Increasingly, discussion regarding the debate over the \u201cglobal war on global warming\u201d presents us with a number of unsettled questions regarding the interplay of science, politics, and personal morality. This module focuses closely on the contemporary debates regarding \u201cgreen\u201d policy and lifestyle as a way of examining the broader phenomenon of public advocacy and resistance discourse per se \u2013 i.e., on disputants\u2019 various ways of speaking about, and attempting to get others to think about, issues of mutual importance. In so doing, students will learn the skills of analytical argument and expository writing necessary for their own successful participation in such debates."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101U", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Technologies of Home", "description": "Domestic life is routinely held up for admiration as pure or natural. But how many of us experience family time/space in that way? Challenging the truism that domesticity offers a refuge from the modern world, this module recognises that technology makes it possible for modern people to be, and feel, at home. Some relevant technologies involve engines or electronics. But others organise ideas about gender, room, place and belonging. By enhancing awareness of domesticity\u2019s \u201cconstructed nature,\u201d this module deepens understanding of home sweet home."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101V", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Language, Culture and 'Natives' People", "description": "Depictions of \u2018natives\u2019, \u2018primitives\u2019 and \u2018savages\u2019 abound in the popular cultures of developed countries worldwide. In this module we will examine common stereotypes of native people and primitive cultures to uncover the underlying ideologies driving them, and analyze what cultural purpose such stereotypes serve in modern day life. We will seek to discern what palpable differences exist between primitive and modern people, and to confront the cultural and ethical conundrums entailed by those differences. Finally, we will explore how primitive people view modern society, and assess what the future may hold for native cultures in our fast globalizing world."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101W", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Genocide and Memory", "description": "The various twentieth-century genocides raise profound questions for individuals and societies. Why did they happen? How could they happen? Who did the killing and what motivated them? How should we remember? What do the events mean today? \n\nThe last two questions are particularly pertinent to us. The history and memory of genocide are seldom simple. People select which details to include and exclude in order to fashion narratives and interpretations. Often those interpretations have implications not only about the topic itself, the genocide, but about the people who are remembering, and their relations to the past and to other groups. This leads to the second question. Many have suggested that genocide, as we understand it, is a relatively recent phenomenon, and indeed, belongs to modernity. It is important to consider whether and in what ways this might be true."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101X", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking Module: The Idea of the University", "description": "This module teaches writing and critical thinking through a critical exploration of the nature of the university as an institution. Topics discussed include the many social roles of the university, the history of the university as a contested space in Singapore, and the effects of globalization and transnational education markets on contemporary tertiary education. The module thus provides the chance for students to gain a critical awareness of the nature their own educational experiences, to contextualise them both locally and internationally, and to explore the possible futures of learning communities of which they are a part."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101Y", "title": "Writing and Critical Thinking: Issues in and Around Justice", "description": "This module teaches writing and critical thinking by introducing students to the assumptions that inform, and the arguments for, different concepts and practices of justice. Students will engage topics such as human rights, the place and limits of legal institutions, justifications for civil disobedience, and whether violence is justified in the pursuit of justice. This module enables students to think critically about theories of justice and how these theories shape the pursuit of justice in political life."}, {"moduleCode": "UWC2101Z", "title": "Writing & Critical Thinking: Vice, the State & Society", "description": "This module examines how social attitudes and government policies towards vices such as alcohol use, gambling, and prostitution have evolved in Singapore from the colonial period to the present day. Students will develop their critical thinking and writing skills through analyzing a range of historical primary sources, including newspaper opinion pieces and government reports, and studying relevant case studies from other countries and theoretical works. The main assessment component is an individual research project on issues related to the control of a selected vice in Singapore, utilizing archival sources."}, {"moduleCode": "VM5101", "title": "Introduction of Palliative Care", "description": "This module is designed to introduce participants to the scope and principles of palliative care, and the general principles in the management of advanced cancers and the advanced non-cancer diseases."}, {"moduleCode": "VM5102", "title": "Symptom Management in Palliative Care I", "description": "This module covers principles of management of common symptoms encountered in palliative care, namely pain, cachexia, fatigue, gastrointestinal and respiratory symptoms. It also covers issues of hydration and nutrition\nin palliative care."}, {"moduleCode": "VM5103", "title": "Symptom Management in Palliative Care II", "description": "This module covers management of common emergencies in palliative medicine. These include metabolic (eg: hypercalcaemia), neurological (e.g.: cord compression, delirium and brain metastasis) and other conditions like\nbleeding and fractures. Management of common infections and nursing issues (wound and tubes management) will also be included in this module."}, {"moduleCode": "VM5104", "title": "Psychiatry, Psychosocial Care & Spiritual Issues in Palliative Care", "description": "This module covers common psychosocial and spiritual issues in palliative care. Assessment and management of Anxiety and Depression as well as managing patients asking for hastened death will be included. There will be a section on grief and bereavement and caring for caregivers, including healthcare workers. Sexuality and body image and its impact on patients\u2019 psychosocial wellbeing will be covered in the module."}, {"moduleCode": "VM5105", "title": "Communication and Ethical Issues", "description": "This module covers communication skills in breaking bad news, managing collusion, conducting a family conference and advance care planning. It also covers major ethical dilemmas encountered in palliative care such as withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment. Learning will be achieved through use of role plays and case discussions in this module."}, {"moduleCode": "VM5106", "title": "Practices of Palliative Medicine", "description": "This last module is designed to consolidate the teachings in the last 5 modules into practice, and to see how palliative medicine is practised into various settings in the community and in special groups of patients."}, {"moduleCode": "WR1401", "title": "Workplace Readiness", "description": "This course aims to enhance students\u2019 workplace readiness, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, inner resilience, as well as leadership qualities. Attributes associated with team spirit and personal effectiveness are developed through camps, sustained sports activities, and career readiness workshops and seminars. Unlike the interdisciplinary and writing and communication course which are credit-bearing courses, this course is not credit bearing. It is however compulsory for all students to read. The course challenges students to venture and explore beyond their comfort zone and places them in situations/contexts where their endurance and resilience are put to test."}, {"moduleCode": "XD2102", "title": "Health and Social Sciences", "description": "The main objective of this course is to develop the knowledge acquired in XD1101 by students taking the Health and Social Sciences Minor with a systematic introduction to social sciences\u2019 research and findings on health phenomena. Students will be introduced to social sciences research on health and how research is accomplished, through the discussion of (a) major research trends and (b) most significant findings on health phenomena in economics, psychology, sociology and social work."}, {"moduleCode": "XD3103", "title": "Planet Earth", "description": "The course provides an overview of geology \u2013 the science of the earth. An understanding of geology is important to many disciplines, providing information about the physical and chemical processes that determine the distribution of resources, location of hazards, operation of surface processes and the interaction between engineering structures and earth surface materials. The four components of the course begin with consideration of the earth\u2019s structure and the role of plate tectonics, before considering the nature of earth surface materials and the functioning of earth surface systems."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4401", "title": "Integrated Honours Project", "description": "For this course which is applicable to the double honours degree programmes, students are required to write a scholarly report of not more than 40 typed pages (including bibliography and appendices) on a rigorous multi-disciplinary research on current issues, or on theory or methodology."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4402", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "For this course which is applicable to the double honours degree programmes, students are required to write a scholarly report of not more than 40 typed pages (including bibliography and appendices) on a rigorous multi\u2010disciplinary research on current issues, or on theory or methodology."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4403", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This course allows CNM/Business double degree students to write an honours thesis that integrates their two areas of study\u2014Communications and New Media and Business. Students taking this course must conduct an independent research project on an approved topic under the supervision of two faculty members (one from CNM and one from the School of Business). The maximum length of the thesis is 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4404", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "DDP students may complete the Integrated Honours Thesis (IHT), a single thesis which will count towards the requirements and GPA computation of both degrees. It aims to provide students with the opportunity of exploring the meeting points of their two disciplines. It will be jointly supervised by faculty members from both faculties. Students intending to read this course are expected to consult prospective supervisors the semester before they read this course and provide a research proposal. A wide range of topics is acceptable provided it highlights a language issue."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4404HM", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "DDP students may complete the Integrated Honours Thesis (IHT), a single thesis which will count towards the requirements and GPA computation of both degrees. It aims to provide students with the opportunity of exploring the meeting points of their two disciplines. It will be jointly supervised by faculty members from both faculties. Students intending to read this course are expected to consult prospective supervisors the semester before they read this course and provide a research proposal. A wide range of topics is acceptable provided it highlights a language issue."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4405", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "Double Degree Programme (DDP) students may complete the Integrated Honours Thesis (IHT), a single thesis which will count towards the requirements and CAP computation of both degrees. The IHT aims to provide students with the opportunity of exploring the confluence of their two disciplines. It will be jointly supervised by faculty members from both faculties. Students intending to read this course are expected to consult prospective supervisors the semester before they embark on the IHT and provide a research proposal. Students are open to conduct research on a wide range of topics as long as it is related to psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4405HM", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "Double Degree Programme (DDP) students may complete the Integrated Honours Thesis (IHT), a single thesis which will count towards the requirements and GPA computation of both degrees. The IHT aims to provide students with the opportunity of exploring the confluence of their two disciplines. It will be jointly supervised by faculty members from both faculties. Students intending to read this course are expected to consult prospective supervisors the semester before they embark on the IHT and provide a research proposal. Students are open to conduct research on a wide range of topics as long as it is related to psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4406", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This module allows Economics/Computing double degree students to write an honours thesis that integrates their two areas of study\u2014Economics and Business Analytics/Information Systems. Students taking this module must conduct an\nindependent research project on an approved topic under the supervision of two faculty members (one from Economics and one from the School of Computing)."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4408", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This course allows Economics/Mathematics or Applied Mathematics double degree students to write an honours thesis that integrates their two areas of study \u2014 Economics and Mathematics/Applied Mathematics. Students taking this course must conduct an independent research project and write a scholarly report of not more than 40 typed pages (including bibliography and appendices) on a rigorous multi\u2010disciplinary research on an approved topic under the supervision of two faculty members (one from Economics and one from the Department of Mathematics)."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4411", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "For this course which is applicable to the double honours degree programmes, students are required to write a scholarly report on a rigorous multi\u2010disciplinary research on current issues, or on theory or methodology."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4412", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This course allows CNM/Business double degree students to write an honours thesis that integrates their two areas of study\u2014Communications and New Media and Business. Students taking this course must conduct an independent research project on an approved topic under the supervision of two faculty members (one from CNM and one from the School of Business). The maximum length of the thesis is 12,000 words."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4413", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "For this course which is applicable to the double honours degree programmes, students are required to write a scholarly report of not more than 40 typed pages (including bibliography and appendices) on a rigorous multi\u2010disciplinary research on current issues, or on theory or methodology."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4414", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This course allows Economics/Computing double degree students to write an honours thesis that integrates their two areas of study\u2014Economics and Business Analytics. Students taking this course must conduct an independent research project on an approved topic under the supervision of two faculty members (one from Economics and one from the School of Computing)."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4415", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This course allows Economics/Computing double degree students to write an honours thesis that integrates their two areas of study\u2014Economics and Information Systems. Students taking this course must conduct an independent research project on an approved topic under the supervision of two faculty members (one from Economics and one from the School of Computing)."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4416", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "For this course which is applicable to the double honours degree programmes, students are required to write a scholarly report on a rigorous multi\u2010disciplinary research on current issues, or on theory or methodology."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4417", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This course allows FASS students in a double degree programme, pursuing two contrasting subject majors offered under the College of Humanities and Sciences, to write an integrated honours thesis (iHT) in their two areas of study. Students taking this course must conduct an independent research project on an approved topic under the joint-supervision of two faculty members."}, {"moduleCode": "XFA4417EC", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "This course allows students in a double degree programme with the Faculty of Science to write an honours thesis that integrates their two areas of study. Students taking this course must conduct an independent research project and write a scholarly report of not more than 40 typed pages (including bibliography and appendices) on a rigorous multi\u2010disciplinary research on an approved topic under the supervision of two faculty members (one from Economics and one from a department in the Faculty of Science."}, {"moduleCode": "XFB4001", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": ""}, {"moduleCode": "XFB4002", "title": "Integrated Honours Dissertation", "description": "The purpose of the Integrated Honours Dissertation is to provide DDP students with an opportunity to select and synthesise research topics from two distinct bodies of knowledge, and to present their findings logically and systematically in a clear and concise prose. Students are expected to demonstrate (i) a good understanding of relevant methodology and literature; (ii) the significance and relevance of the problem; (iii) logical and sound analysis; (iv) clear and effective presentation; and (v) achieve a balance between the learning objectives of both the Business course and the second course of study."}, {"moduleCode": "XFC4101", "title": "Integrated Honours Thesis", "description": "The objective of this course is to enable students to work on an individual integrated research project spanning over two semesters, with approximately 400 hours of workload. Students learn how to apply skills acquired in the classroom and also think of innovative ways of solving problems, and learn to work in a research environment. The project demonstrates a student\u2019s work ethic, initiative, determination, and ability to think independently. On completion of the project, the student has to submit a dissertation describing the project work, and give an oral presentation before a panel of examiners."}, {"moduleCode": "XFC4102", "title": "Integrated Honours Dissertation", "description": "The objective of this course is to enable students to work on an individual integrated research project spanning over two semesters, with approximately 500 hours of workload. Students learn how to apply skills acquired in the classroom and also think of innovative ways of solving problems, and learn to work in a research environment. The project demonstrates a student\u2019s work ethic, initiative, determination and ability to think independently. On completion of the project, the student has to submit a dissertation describing the project work, and give an oral presentation before a panel of examiners."}, {"moduleCode": "XFE4401", "title": "Integrated Honours Project", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "XFS4199C", "title": "Integrated Honours Project", "description": "This course is created for Bachelor of Science (Honours) Chemistry students in the student-designed double degree programme who wish to do an integrated honours project between his/her Chemistry major and a non-science discipline."}, {"moduleCode": "XFS4199M", "title": "Integrated Honours Project", "description": "This course is created for Bachelor of Science (Honours) students in the student-designed double degree programme who wish to do an integrated honours project between his/her major and a non-science discipline, where the non-Science discipline offers an Honours project of 15 Units, which is of higher Units than that offered by his/her major."}, {"moduleCode": "XFS4199S", "title": "Integrated Honours Project", "description": "This course is created for Bachelor of Science (Honours) students in the student-designed double degree programme who wish to do an integrated honours project between his/her major and a non-science discipline, where the non-Science discipline offers an Honours project of 15 Units, which is of higher Units than that offered by his/her major."}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1111", "title": "Literature and Humanities 1", "description": "In Literature and Humanities 1, we engage masterpieces from the beginnings of myth-making to the early modern period, in three sets of related works: the epic adventures of Rama and Odysseus narrated in Valmiki\u2019s Ramayana and Homer\u2019s Odyssey; the historical writings of Herodotus and Sima Qian; and the creative recycling of traditional tales in 1001 Nights and Boccaccio\u2019s Decameron."}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1112", "title": "Literature and Humanities 2", "description": "Literature and Humanities 2 engages creative works of art and literature in a world that is becoming increasingly complex and hard to grasp because of rapid and constant change. The works respond to the changing relationship between the secular and the sacred; the experience of cross-cultural encounters; the formation of national identities; the challenges of modern urban life; the creation of new social movements; and the realities and fantasies of colonialism, post-colonialism and globalisation. \n\nWorks read might include:\n\u2022\tShakespeare\u2019s The Tempest\n\u2022\tHonor\u00e9 de Balzac\u2019s P\u00e8re Goriot\n\u2022\tLu Xun\u2019s Diary of a Madman and Other Stories\n\u2022\tVirginia Woolf\u2019s Dalloway\n\u2022\tEileen Chang\u2019s Love in a Fallen City\n\u2022\tTayeb Salih\u2019s Season of Migration to the North\n\u2022\tSonny Liew\u2019s The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye"}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1113", "title": "Philosophy and Political Thought 1", "description": "Philosophy and Political Thought 1 starts with writings by thinkers in ancient China and India and the ancient Mediterranean world whose search for knowledge proceeds through dialogues with different interlocutors. In seminars, students debate questions such as \u201cHow should we live, individually and together?\u201d, \u201cWhat is the nature of knowledge?\u201d, \u201cWhat is the nature of reality?\u201d and \u201cWhat is the nature of the self?\u201d\n\n\u2022\tSelected works by Mozi, Mengzi, Xunzi and Zhuangzi\n\u2022\tPlato\u2019s Five Dialogues\n\u2022\tAristotle\u2019s Nichomachean Ethics and Politics\n\u2022\tPythagorean women philosophers\n\u2022\tThe Bhagavad Gita\n\u2022\tMarcus Aurelius\u2019s Meditations"}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1114", "title": "Philosophy and Political Thought 2", "description": "Philosophy and Political Thought 2 brings students into closer contact with Buddhist and Islamic ideas and with the intellectual makers of the modern world \u2013 the early proponents of modern science and technology, free trade and economic growth, and the modern state \u2013 and their critics. We consider how different conceptions of modernity and enlightenment shed light on one another and puzzle over the relationship between thinking and doing.\n\n\u2022\tSantideva\u2019s Bodhicaryavatara\n\u2022\tIbn Tufayl\u2019s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan\n\u2022\tRen\u00e9 Descartes\u2019s Meditations on First Philosophy\n\u2022\tThomas Hobbes\u2019s Leviathan\n\u2022\tGandhi\u2019s Hind Swaraj\n\u2022\tHannah Arendt\u2019s \u2018Thinking and Moral Considerations\u2019"}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1121", "title": "Comparative Social Inquiry", "description": "Comparative Social Inquiry begins by asking the question \u201cHow did you get into Yale-NUS?\u201d as a way of inviting students to consider the role of social forces in shaping life outcomes. From there, we proceed to explore a series of topics that together provide a picture of how societies are organized \u2013 and why. These include power, markets, family, social class, race, gender, religion and the state."}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1122", "title": "Quantitative Reasoning", "description": "Quantitative Reasoning is concerned to strengthen what might be called numeracy or quantitative literacy by exploring some basic topics related to algorithmic thinking and statistical inference. Among the topics considered are formal logic, probability, surveys and sampling, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, and prospect theory."}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1131", "title": "Scientific Inquiry 1", "description": "Scientific Inquiry 1 considers how scientists think by looking into a well-established topic: evolution. Students explore the evidence for biological evolution from fossils to the recent revolution in genetics. The idea of evolution and the related idea of natural selection highlight fundamental differences between science and other ways of knowing. Although evolution is well-supported scientifically, it is still doubted by a large fraction of humanity. In this course, we approach the topic as a scientist would, identifying and interpreting the relevant evidence through a scientific lens."}, {"moduleCode": "YCC1133", "title": "Week 7: Experiential Learning Field Trip", "description": "Learning Across Boundaries (LAB) take students, faculty, and staff out of the traditional classroom setting. The Week 7 LAB has become one of the College\u2019s flagship offerings, highlighting aspects of Yale-NUS\u2019 distinctive education such as interdisciplinarity, innovative pedagogy, experience-based learning, and unparalleled access to professors that complement the rigorous classroom learning of the curriculum. The week will culminate in a symposium, where students and faculty share the insights and knowledge they have gleaned during the week with members of the Yale-NUS community."}, {"moduleCode": "YCC2121", "title": "Modern Social Thought", "description": "Modern Social Thought engages foundational figures of modern social thought, exploring how their writings have been taken up in political practice in different parts of the world. Starting with Ibn Khaldun\u2019s pre-modern analysis of society we proceed to the ideas of major thinkers such as Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Michel Foucault, all of whom acknowledged the explanatory power of modern social theory. The course will also grapple with several other characteristically modern developments including feminism and postcolonial thought in Simone de Beauvoir\u2019s The Second Sex and Michel Foucault\u2019s History of Sexuality, and other works."}, {"moduleCode": "YCC2137", "title": "Scientific Inquiry 2", "description": "Scientific Inquiry 2 aims to develop a deeper appreciation of scientific thinking by tackling a question that is still under debate. This year, as last, the focus is on climate change and, specifically, how we know that the global climate is changing. We study this question not only because it is vitally important for humanity, but also because to answer it scientists must draw on evidence from many different fields. The topic also provides a clear example of how science can inform social practices and government policies."}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1910K", "title": "Exchange Course -YAN (1 unit)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1912B", "title": "Exchange Course -YAN (5 units)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1912C", "title": "Exchange Course - YAN (5 units)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1912D", "title": "Exchange Course - YAN (3 units)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1912E", "title": "Exchange Course - YAN (3 units)", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1920A", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (5 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1925F", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (4 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1926A", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (5 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1927A", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (4 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1928A", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (5 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1928B", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (5 units)", "description": "Not available."}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1929E", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (5 units)", "description": "Not available."}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1929F", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (3 units)", "description": "Not available."}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1929G", "title": "Exchange Course - YAS (2 units)", "description": "Not available."}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1933M", "title": "Exchange Course - YEC (1 unit)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1933N", "title": "Exchange Course - YEC (2 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1933O", "title": "Exchange Course - YEC (3 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1946C", "title": "Exchange Course - YES (3 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1946D", "title": "Exchange Course - YES (1 unit)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCI1953Q", "title": "Exchange Course - 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YMC (4 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YCT1201", "title": "Transitions - Understanding College and College Life", "description": "Transitions is a six-week optional elective course that supports all Yale-NUS first year students in their transition to college. Topics covered include goal setting, time management, maintaining wellness, understanding learning styles, study tips and effective note-taking, formal and informal communication, and understanding academic regulations. Students are expected to further their learning by meeting up with their Deans Fellows outside of class time."}, {"moduleCode": "YCT1202", "title": "Dialogue: Social Issues in Intergroup Relations", "description": "In a culturally and socially diverse society, discussion about issues of difference, conflict and community are needed to facilitate understanding between social/cultural groups. In this intergroup dialogue, students will actively participate in semi-structured, face-to-face meetings with students from other social identity groups. Students will learn from each other\u2019s' perspectives, read and discuss relevant reading material, and explore their own and other groups\u2019 experiences in various social and institutional contexts. Students will also explore ways of taking action to create change and bridge differences at the interpersonal and social/community levels."}, {"moduleCode": "YCT3201", "title": "Resilience and Success In College", "description": "Resilience and Success in College is a six-week elective course for students that teaches basic concepts of positive psychology and engages students in self-reflection and discussions to better manage stress and overcome adversity. Discover what it means to find purpose in your work, how to use strengths to your advantage, and the importance of fostering positive interpersonal relationships to improve mental, emotional, and physical well-being."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2202", "title": "Introduction to Creative Nonfiction", "description": "This course will introduce students to the practice of creative nonfiction writing. It will explore the genre's manifold forms, including memoir, personal essay, literary journalism, lyric essay, and op-eds. Each week, students will read classic and contemporary examples of creative nonfiction and practise the craft themselves through guided writing exercises. The reading list will include many diaspora, emigrant, and third-culture writers alongside progenitors of the genre, such as Michel de Montaigne and Li Shang-Yin. Students will craft two main essays over the course of the semester, as well as a variety of shorter original pieces."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2203", "title": "Masterpieces of Western Art: Renaissance to the Present", "description": "This course will examine a number of artistic masterpieces from the Western tradition, ranging from medieval Byzantine icons to contemporary installation art. We will delve deeply into each of the selected artworks, simultaneously examining their extraordinary uniqueness and their capacity to represent an entire cultural epoch, both aesthetically and conceptually. Along the way we \nwill ask what makes these works \u201cmasterpieces\u201d and debate how and why they came to form the Western artistic \u201ccanon.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2205", "title": "Integrative Music Theory 1", "description": "Integrative Music Theory I is a comprehensive introduction to music understanding and musicianship. Students will gain command of music rudiments (notation, clefs, intervals, triads, meter, rhythm), as well as augment and refine their everyday activities as music performers and listeners, by developing aural skills in recognising chords and sight-singing. The course will source musical examples from diverse genres and geographies, and will cover both Western art music and jazz/pop approaches to harmony. In Semester 2, Integrative Music Theory II will further hone and build on the skills and concepts examined in Integrative Music Theory I."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2206", "title": "Introduction to Mathematical Logic", "description": "This is a first course in formal logic. Formal logic has had a tremendous success and influence since it was developed in its present form. It is the inspiration for many artificial languages, including programming languages, and it has been successfully used in mathematics. Formal logic is also very important in the study of natural languages and in the analysis of valid or invalid forms of argument and reasoning. We will cover a fairly substantial introduction to these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2209", "title": "Death and the Meaning of Life", "description": "In this course, we will examine the central philosophical issues surrounding life and death, including the questions of what death is, whether it is to be feared, whether immortality is possible or desirable, and whether life is meaningful."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2211", "title": "Roman Literary Cultures", "description": "When and how did Roman authors develop the literary culture that became as dominant as their imperial power? How did Romans distinguish their own literary production from the Greek models that influenced them so greatly? This survey of Roman literary culture from the earliest inscriptional evidence through subversive erotic poetry and martial epic examines the growth and afterlife of one of the world\u2019s most influential literary traditions. We will explore the changing political and cultural contexts of exemplary works from Rome\u2019s long history, and these works\u2019 impact on subsequent art and literature."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2212", "title": "Classical Chinese", "description": "This course will introduce students to the basic particles and grammatical structure of the classical Chinese language (a.k.a. literary Chinese). Through the close reading of texts from the pre- and early-imperial periods, students will also learn such skills as recognizing syntactic parallelism, the art of reading in context, and understanding rhetorical structures."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2213", "title": "Philosophy of Law", "description": "An examination of some key themes and issues in the philosophy of law, including the nature of law; rule of/by law; the functions and reach of law; the enforcement of morality; punishment; justice; and (the universality of) rights. Readings are taken from classical and contemporary sources in philosophy and legal theory, and from multiple intellectual traditions. As a philosophy course, it is intended to cultivate skills in two areas (a) philosophical problem-solving and (b) application."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2215", "title": "Drawing Methods", "description": "This course introduces students to the skills and techniques, concepts and practices involved in Contemporary Drawing and exhibition making. Classes will use a range of drawing materials, and include notebook research, fieldtrips, talks and critical presentations. Students will develop a portfolio of drawings through class exercises and with tutorial advice, these will be developed in personal directions and focused themes for a final exhibition."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2218", "title": "Chinese Migrations to Southeast Asia", "description": "The Chinese occupy an interesting position in Southeast Asian history. While their economic contributions are acknowledged, their place in the political and social development of the region is often considered tangential. In this course, we will focus on four themes concerning Chinese migrations: systemic precursors to external migration; the variegated nature of migration; new identities in new lands; and the overseas Chinese connection to China. Through an examination of historical and theoretical works, we seek a deeper\nunderstanding of migrations and diaspora formation as we chart out the history of Chinese migrations to Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2222", "title": "Digital Narratives", "description": "This course explores narrative and interactivity in digital media through the\ncreation of audio and moving image works. Students will read, experience,\nanalyze and create digital narrative works including text, film, soundscape,\nand interactive visual art. Working with instances of dynamic storytelling in\nrelationship to memory, personal narrative, and social critique, students will\nexplore the all\u2010encompassing realm of narrative, learn about digital media theory, and gain media production skills. The class will introduce students to\ncameras and audio recorders as well as audio and film editing software."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2223", "title": "Documentary Photography", "description": "The visual arts have long engaged with social issues and made use of methodologies from the social sciences. As the boundaries between disciplines become ever more porous, this course will look at how documentary and visual journalism exists as an art form, and how artists have made use of the language and the techniques of documentary in their work. Alongside the traditional documentary tools of photography & film we will explore site specific installation, performance, digital presentations and the principles of interactive documentary. Theory work will include explorations into documentary as a socially conscious art form, representing, reflecting and commenting on society and our place in the world. Learning from the work of artists of singular importance at the intersection of art and documentary, students will work towards creating a body of work rich in narrative, emotion, style and substance."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2224", "title": "Forms of Poetry", "description": "\u201cForm,\u201d a wonderfully broad and slippery term, is often used to describe the way a poem deploys its line, rhythm, sound, and how it\u2019s arranged on the page. But form might also describe an ideological project, an organizing idea, what reoccurs and what is conspicuously absent. Students will explore the fundamentals of poetic form, but also interrogate form as a shape of feeling, a rendering of experience in verse, a kind of witnessing of the self and the world. Attention will be paid to contemporary forms of poetry which engage with the visual world through text and image."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2225", "title": "Love and Friendship", "description": "A philosophical examination of some key questions concerning love and friendship. Readings will include classical and contemporary sources, and works from multiple intellectual traditions."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2228", "title": "The Atlantic World", "description": "This 2000-level course is a broad survey which explores the seismic demographic, economic, cultural and social changes that occurred in the Atlantic basin. Between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries the forced and voluntary movement of peoples from Africa and Europe to the Americas occurred on an unprecedented scale. The circulation of commodities and the commodification of human beings spawned a global marketplace, while the circulation of cultural practices and ideas led to the formation of new societies throughout the Atlantic world. All of these changes profoundly reshaped the lives of indigenous Americans, Europeans, and Africans."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2232", "title": "Global Science Fiction: Their Worlds, Ourselves", "description": "The aim of the course is to cultivate historical, global and comparative\nperspectives on the cultural diversity of science fiction using critical terms of\nliterary analysis. It explores the expansive genre of science fiction, its relation\nto literary utopia, speculative fiction, and fantasy. By beginning with less wellknown\nIndigenous American, Latin American, Russian, Sinophone, and\nSoutheast Asian literary texts and films, before examining more established\nworks by Euro\u2010American authors, this course emphasizes the global reach\nand significance of science fiction."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2233", "title": "World Literature and its Discontents", "description": "Responding to the growing international circulation of literature in the early\ndecades of the nineteenth century, Goethe declared, \u201cThe epoch of world\nliterature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach.\u201d The\nterm \u201cworld literature,\u201d however, remains elusive and critics continue to\ngrapple with David Damrosch\u2019s question of, \u201cwhich literature, whose world?\u201d\nThis course will address the Arabic/Islamic tradition and some of the difficult\nquestions it poses to global literary studies, challenges that are both unique\nin their particularities and exemplary of the tensions characteristic of\nincorporating \u2018minor literatures\u2019 into broader comparative paradigms of\ninquiry."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2236", "title": "Travel Writing", "description": "This course will take students to one or two regional travel destinations,\nwhich will require day\u2010trips on the weekends. Students will be on the go,\nreporter\u2019s notebook in hand. Close observation and focus will be key. Class\ntime will be engaged with discussion of model texts of travel writing, and\ncritiques of students\u2019 writings."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2241", "title": "Why be moral?", "description": "It is often thought that we ought to be just, kind, generous and more; in short, that we ought to be moral. But why be moral rather than simply heeding our unjust, callous, and selfish urges? In this course, we examine this question systematically, both from the perspective of philosophers who attempt to answer it (like Plato, Immanuel Kant, and David Hume) and from the perspective of philosophers who deny that it has any satisfactory answer (like John Mackie)."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2243", "title": "Shakespeare & the Shape of Life: Intro to the Plays", "description": "In the famous speech, \u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage,\u201d a character in As You Like It says there are seven ages of man infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, justice, Pantalone [earning money], and old age. This course is an introduction to the major periods and genres of Shakespearean drama we will trace the arc of Shakespeare\u2019s career and reveal what he has to tell about the course of one\u2019s life journey. We will study Midsummer Nights Dream (childhood), As You Like It, (lover), Henry IV, Part 1 (soldier), Measure for Measure (justice), King Lear (old age), Winter\u2019s Tale (forgiveness), Hamlet (everything)."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2244", "title": "History and Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution", "description": "This seminar deals with a pivotal period in the history of science: the scientific revolution (ca. 1500\u20101700). This era witnessed the development of sciences such as astronomy, mechanics and anatomy into something recognizably modern, and the institutionalization of science in forms that are still existent. During this time scientific thought and activity moved from a culturally marginal to a central position. In addition to examining the historical and philosophical significance of these changes, we will devote some time to the pseudo\u2010sciences, and consider their relationship to the orthodox sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2247", "title": "Dystopian Fiction", "description": "This course will address the issue of why dystopian writing exercises a fascination for the modern imagination. We will trace the broad genealogy of utopian thought through the ages; then examine how that has got inverted in the last two centuries. Issues addressed will include the relation of fiction to modernity, the impact of technological change and social transformations on life\u2010systems, and how these are rendered in dystopian fiction. Reading for this course will entail close attention to the nature of speculative writing as both diagnostic and prophylactic in relation to the societies in which they are written."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2248", "title": "Visual Storytelling", "description": "This course will introduce students to three types of visual storytelling: comics, storyboarding for film and animation, and mechanics of movement in 2D animation as part of the arts and humanities major Practice category. Students will work with the methods, materials and techniques in storytelling through visual sequences. Through studio sessions, workshops and talks they will be introduced to the key aspects of 2D Animation, paper cut animation, storyboarding, and comics and become familiar with the techniques and themes involved in creating movement, and apply them to personal projects developed over the course of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2249", "title": "Poetry, Painting and Photography", "description": "This course approaches the relation between the visual and the verbal arts as a set of creative interactions which involve the use of different media for the purposes of representation and self-expression. Within this general perspective the course provides an opportunity to study how poetry reacts to the visual arts, specifically painting and photography, and how the visual arts react to poetry. This course can fulfil the Theory and Cultural Criticism requirement from the Literature Major, and the Visual Arts/Art History pathway from the Arts and Humanities Major."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2252", "title": "Ancient Greek Philosophy", "description": "An overview of how philosophy\u2014as both a mode of inquiry and a way of life\u2014developed in Western antiquity. We will begin with the pre-Socratics, focus on Plato and Aristotle, and conclude with a brief look at later schools (such as the Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics). Topics include the nature of being, knowledge, the soul, virtue and happiness, and the city."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2256", "title": "Literary Genres: Ancient Epic and Gangster Film", "description": "This course explores the limits of epic in different historical contexts and media Classical epic poetry (Greek and Roman) and gangster film traditions from the US, Europe, and Asia. How do these works define or align themselves with epic as a genre? What are their characteristics, and how do audiences participate in creating them? Primary material will include classical epics (the Iliad, Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses), drama and literary criticism (Sophocles, Aristotle), and contemporary film and television, with critical and theoretical bibliography."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2260", "title": "Late 20th Century French Philosophy", "description": "This course introduces students to the work of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. It will involve close and systematic readings of a selection of their main texts, which are widely regarded as some of the most influential works to emerge from France. It will also seek to locate the distinctive approach of both Derrida and Deleuze respectively with respect to the way that their work has been taken up and used more broadly, and to address disputes about the meaning and adequacy of their views."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2267", "title": "Modern Art in East Asia", "description": "This course will examine the drastic transformation and development in Modern East Asia during the late 18th to early 20th centuries. Through close studies of visual culture and art production from Japan, China, and Korea, it covers broader themes of modernity, transitions from a pre-modern to modern society, the construction of a national identity vis-a-vis the Western world, and the establishment of official art schools and exhibition practice. With the broader social context of Westernization and modernization, we will examine the many artistic movements and subjects of visual representation that flourished during these tumultuous times. This course fulfills the Art History track in the Arts & Humanities major."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2268", "title": "Money", "description": "If you have money, you probably think about it a fair bit. And if you don\u2019t have money, you might think about it even more. In this course, we will think about money a lot. In particular, we will examine some central philosophical issues surrounding money and its place in a well-lived life, including its relation to happiness, freedom, and virtue."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2269", "title": "Ethics and Politics of Sex", "description": "In this course we consider the moral and political dimensions of sex understood as individual and social practice. Are sexual preferences, fantasies, behaviors, and traditions morally criticisable, and if so, how? What about sexual industries and institutions? In what ways do our sexual practices impede or advance present-day struggles for social equality?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2272", "title": "Writing Love: The Love Letter in Literature", "description": "This course covers the theory and practice of romantic correspondence through a study of patterns of expressing and enframing desire in the love letter form within literary works. It surveys novels, short stories, and a selection of essays from the 1800 to the present, marking the shifts in epistolary formulas and communicative means in an exploration of the role of socio-cultural grammar and narrative conventions in shaping the discourse of love. This course combines critical reading and creative writing, giving students the opportunity to practise techniques of romance writing and receive constructive feedback for their work."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2277", "title": "Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction", "description": "This course provides an introduction, at 2000 level, to the basic contexts, methods, and preoccupations of postcolonial literatures (in English and in translations into English). Its aim is (a) to provide a foundation of ideas, concepts, and reading methods which can provide the basis for wider reading in postcolonial cultures, and (b) to study authors and texts drawn from a wide range of colonial and postcolonial societies."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2278", "title": "Music Performance Elective: Introduction to Voice", "description": "This is a practical course focusing on vocal literature from its various styles and traditions. Students will work one-on-one with the lecturer, honing in on solo, chamber and choir repertoires. Lectures will consider the historical and social aspects that define the nature of their songs and also focus on the various languages and language syntax of their chosen songs."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2279", "title": "Philosophy as a Way of Life", "description": "In the contemporary world, philosophy is one academic discipline among many. But throughout its history, philosophy has also been conceived as a way of life. This course will explore this alternative conception of philosophy by exploring pre-modern Greco-Roman and Chinese models, and contemporary reflections on the philosophical life. Topics include the relation between theoretical discourse and one\u2019s lived life; philosophy and living well;philosophy as a way of life and \u201creligion\u201d; protreptic arguments for pursuing philosophy; therapeutic arguments; spiritual exercises; and the extent to which this conception of philosophy remains viable today."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2280", "title": "Oppression and Injustice", "description": "How should we recognize, understand, and overcome injustice in the world? Philosophers and activists across many times and places have contemplated and confronted this question with respect to such issues as slavery, colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism, and economic exploitation. This course focuses on Black feminist thought and Latin American philosophy produced by and in solidarity with oppressed groups, that is, on philosophy born of struggle and aimed at emancipation."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2282", "title": "Consciousness", "description": "To have a conscious experience is to enjoy a technicolor, surround-sound blast that seems to resist full scientific explanation. In this course we consider whether it is possible to explain consciousness at all, and if so, how."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2286", "title": "Daily Themes", "description": "This is course is a writing-intensive course where students are expected to write 300-word essays every weekday for 13 weeks. The course introduces students to the fundamentals of creative/expository writing by focusing on different craft elements such as character development, setting, imagery, surprise, and closure among others. It encourages an expansive repertoire of themes and concerns throughout the semester while building upon the rigor of daily writing practices."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2287", "title": "Neo-Confucianism and Chinese Buddhism", "description": "This course is an introduction to Neo-Confucianism, one of the most influential intellectual movements in East Asia. Neo-Confucianism combines a profound metaphysics with a subtle theory of ethical cultivation. There is also discussion of Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, whose views of the self and ethics are the primary targets of the Neo-Confucian critique."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2288", "title": "Queer Fictions", "description": "This course focuses on twentieth-century narratives that explore sexuality and gender issues in their socio-historical contexts. It examines adolescent attachments, sororal and brotherly love, friendship, etc., and how these relations tip over to homosociality and eroticism. As an introductory course, it familiarises students with debates on sexual identities and politics through analyses of fictional works from the US, UK, and Asia, offering a vocabulary for queer experience and perspectives that illuminate queer interiority and same-sex relations. Overall, the course reflects on and challenges fictions and critical approaches that are essentially \"queer.\""}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2291", "title": "Introduction to Arts", "description": "This course is intended as an introduction to various forms and modes of artistic practice, history, and theory. Each iteration will focus on a different theme that will inform the various lectures, seminars, studio exercises, and assignments over the semester. The course allows students to experience the practices and traditions of the arts covered by the three tracks of the major. Students will learn how to apply this knowledge to forms of their choosing in a final portfolio that demonstrates their capabilities in at least one theoretical mode and two practical modes and will include reflection/self-assessment of their processes."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2292", "title": "Introduction to Writing Poetry", "description": "As its title implies, this course will introduce students to the art of writing poetry. There will be readings assigned, but this will mainly be a writing course, with weekly writing assignments and peer critiques."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2293", "title": "Introduction to Fiction Writing", "description": "This course will introduce students to the practice of writing fiction, primarily the short story. Students will learn about character development, scene, setting, dialogue and other important elements. Weekly exercises and readings will form a foundation from which students can build their understanding of the craft of fiction."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2294", "title": "Mean Streets: The Detective and the City", "description": "Using short stories, novellas, TV shows and films, this class\nexamines the art of detective writing and traces the narrative\ncomplicity of the detective and urban space. The detective moves\nbetween different social spaces within the city, with access to both\npenthouses and crack dens, and the city itself becomes a character\nin these tales \u2013 alternatively helpful, seductive, sullen, and\ndangerous. Part of the syllabus will be dedicated to texts originating\nin the Global South, asking how the genre of detective fiction\nchanges when it encounters the postcolonial city."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2295", "title": "The Global Short Story", "description": "This course considers the short story as a highly mobile modern\ngenre, circulated globally through magazine and newspaper\npublication and translation. Concentrating on the work of several\nimportant writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, we will explore the\nformal and contextual elements of stories from a variety of\ngeographical locations (Africa, North America, South America,\nAsia, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe). We will also consider\nthe manner in which these stories engage with the political,\nideological, technological, and social transformations that constitute\nglobal modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2296", "title": "Ancient Epics", "description": "This course conducts a deep reading of four major world epics of antiquity Homer\u2019s Iliad and Odyssey; Valmiki\u2019s Ramayana, and Vergil\u2019s Aeneid. How is epic constructed, and what makes this poetic form an effective medium to explore questions of mortality and human existence? What do these four epics have in common as literature, and how do they interact transculturally? We will explore the epics as aesthetic and cultural artifacts within their own historical contexts, and consider how they transcend their own chronological periods."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2297", "title": "Classical Chinese Philosophy", "description": "This course is an introduction to ancient Chinese philosophy. Some figures briefly discussed in the Common Curriculum course Philosophy and Political Thought 1 (including Mozi, Mengzi, Zhuangzi, and Xunzi) will be covered in greater depth, and some other seminal figures from the same period will be introduced (including Confucius and Laozi). Themes discussed include the extent and nature of our obligations to others, methods of personal cultivation, human nature, and virtue."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2300", "title": "Exhibitions and the Sites of Display", "description": "This course will introduce students to the many sites and ways in which artworks and objects have been exhibited within different historical and cultural contexts. Starting with the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities and concluding with the establishment of the present-day global museum, we will consider how curatorial practices and audience reception (and agency) have changed from the early modern to the postmodern and familiarise ourselves with some of the debates surrounding the establishment of secular sites of art display, including the role of the exhibition as a nation-building enterprise. Museum visits will be scheduled during the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2302", "title": "Realism and Naturalism", "description": "Realist and naturalist literature came to dominate the nineteenth century and was linked to developments in philosophy, historiography, and various scientific fields, including economics, evolution, and ethnography. This course reads key realist and naturalist works alongside brief contextual selections in order to understand the origins, problems, and continuing importance of a literary mode that purported to deliver reality to its readers. Readings might include Balzac, Bront\u00eb, Gaskell, Flaubert, Eliot, Freytag, Zola, Ibsen, Fontane, Gald\u00f3s, Rizal, Strindberg, Jewett, Dreiser, and Wharton, as well as brief theoretical pieces by Barthes, Watt, Armstrong, and Levine."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2303", "title": "The Aesthetics of Fear: Horror & the Philosophy of Art", "description": "A philosophical examination of the horror genre. How can audiences be scared of monsters they know to be fictional? How can we take positive pleasure in emotions like dread, fear, and disgust, which we usually avoid in ordinary life? Is horror an immoral genre that cultivates vices in its audiences? Or can horror fictions be ethically salutary and provide a space for philosophical clarification? We will read and analyze classical and contemporary works in philosophy and film theory. We will also explore and discuss classic and contemporary horror films, short stories, and novels from around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2304", "title": "Global Histories of Slavery", "description": "It has been estimated that 12 million African slaves were shipped to the Americas between 16th and the 19th centuries. Few people are aware, however, that half a million African slaves were also transported to various locations in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea during the same period. This course explores the trafficking in and employment of slaves in a comparative and global context from ancient Rome until today. We will examine the role slavery (in its various forms) has played in the development of empires spanning the Atlantic and Indian Oceans over many centuries."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2305", "title": "Bad Love in 20C Literature", "description": "This course focuses on twentieth-century narratives from America, Asia, and Europe that explore the \"badness\" of loveincluding scandalous behaviour, subversive fantasies, shifting identities, moral and social transgressions. Texts are technicians of desire (its mechanics, frustration, and exploits), wherein sex and love are \"textualised\" that they may escape repression and the difficulties of fulfillment. From Lawrence's sexual realism to Berger's cinematic m\u00e9lange, this course examines how the extent of \"badness\" is a reflection as well as strategy for expressing concerns and crises around modern life in the fin-de-si\u00e8cle."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2307", "title": "History of Crises: Europe's 20th Century", "description": "History of Crises is an introduction to Europe\u2019s 20th century, including the histories of the First and Second World Wars and communism that still shape contemporary world politics. The theme that runs through this survey course of that of crisis: we will look at five crisis moments, including the crisis of the First and Second World Wars and 1989. We will analyse primary sources, pamphlets, novels, and secondary literature to provide a transnational understanding of the main social, economic, and political processes that shaped Europe\u2019s 20th century."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2308", "title": "Introduction to Vocal Technique and Performance", "description": "This is a practical course focusing on healthy voice production in all its various styles and traditions. Students perform in front of each other bi-weekly and are critiqued by the lecturer and their peers as they work to develop solo and duet repertoires. Weekly seminars consider the historical and social aspects that define the character of the songs selected for study and practice. Emphasis is placed on healthy voice production and the meaning of the words in the various languages of the chosen songs."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2309", "title": "Medieval Romance: Magic and the Supernatural", "description": "This course will explore the rich world of medieval romance through the strange and often beguiling encounters with the supernatural that pervade these texts. Considering shape-shifters, marvellous objects, and experiences of the miraculous or uncanny, we will investigate how romances fashion exotic, escapist worlds that at the same time reflect contemporary values and anxieties. We will ponder what magic reveals about human motivations, especially in situations of moral ambiguity. We will pay special attention to the historical and intellectual contexts in which medieval magic was understood, and to its intersections with other spheres of knowledge such as science and theology."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2310", "title": "A Reporters Toolbox: The Practice of Daily Journalism", "description": "This course covers the fundamentals of daily journalism, including news analysis, story ideation, source establishment, interviewing subjects, ethical decision making, and writing with clarity, accuracy, and creativity on a deadline. Students will examine news and writing in leading international dailies, study the decisions that editors and reporters make, and produce journalistic work of their own. The course will include instruction on the legal and ethical issues concerning interviewing subjects."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2311", "title": "Girlfriends: Narratives of Friendship", "description": "Moving away from the model of friendship established in the writings of Aristotle, Montaigne to Bacon, whereby only men are considered capable of true friendship, Morrison\u2019s question\u2014\u201cWhat is friendship between women when unmediated by men?\u201d\u2014motivates a study on women\u2019s bonds to women, including affiliations that are chosen and beyond choice, competitive and cordial, sisterly and extra-familial. Rather than a course on homo-erotics, this is a study on the ethics of care and relationality. Friendship is studied as a critical conception for women\u2019s emancipation, an ontological foundation on which connections are (re-)built, and a mode of relational self-definition."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2312", "title": "Literatures of the Islamic World", "description": "What does it mean to speak about literature of the Islamic world? Can the Islamic be a salient category for the literary? With these broad questions in mind, this class will introduce students to the diverse literary traditions of the Islamic world, from the premodern period beginning with the rise of Islam (670) to the modern period (1850-current day). Considering works from a diverse group of literary traditions such as Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Malay, and the Francophone literature of Islamic West Africa next to Arabic, we will consider the transformative role Arabic-Islamic literary culture has played in regions where Islam is the dominant religion."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2313", "title": "Introduction to the Philosophy of Art", "description": "How might one go about answering the question \u2018What is Art?\u2019? Should we look at the style of the work, the intention of the artist, the zietgeist, or millieu? Or should we simply identify as a work of Art any and every thing that anyone has called Art in the relevant period? This course introduces students to the history of the philosophy of art, and gives them an overview of the key questions and theories, raised by philosophers, poets, painters and writers of literature, that have shaped the field and that direct both our experience and our understanding of Art."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2314", "title": "Rome from City State to Empire", "description": "Rome transformed from a city state into a cosmopolitan empire of citizens. Its impact on Western history is unparalleled. It generated Western law and the idea of legitimate rule and spread Classical thought and Christianity across Western Eurasia. Rome also transformed the economic geography and ecology of its empire. This course will focus on political and cultural history, but also pay attention to social, economic, and ecological issues. It will move chronologically and thematically, and explores issue such as Roman constitutionalism, the construction of empire as a Restored Republic, the dynamics of Romanization and Multiculturalism, and the Rise of Christianity."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2315", "title": "Classical Indian Philosophy", "description": "A cheerful jaunt through one-thousand years of Indian philosophy (200 C.E. \u2013 1300 C.E), taking in framing concepts and central debates along the way. What is reality, and how do we fit into it? Is the world we experience an illusion? Are there other minds, and can I know them? Can I even know my own mind? Is there a divine being or beings? How can we know the answer to these questions? And above all: How should our answers to these questions guide our lives?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2316", "title": "Narrative Ethics: Stories and Self-Improvement", "description": "Narration \u2013 from life and fiction, of ourselves and others \u2013 pervades our lives. Drawing on the vast story tradition of Indian Buddhism, this course asks how the stories we tell construct an ethos and create individual moral characters. Are the stories I tell of my life part of creating my moral identity and the intelligibility of the world around me or are they just a nervous tick some people have, or even something we would be better without? How do different styles of narration construct different moral worlds and possibilities? Can engaging with literary narratives make us better people?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2317", "title": "Sculpting Movement: Artist in Residence (AIR) Special Project", "description": "This course introduces the creative sculpture techniques of the Fine Arts discipline. Through exploration of conventional and non-conventional materials, this course will expose you to the complex nature of contemporary art and new ways of developing ideas, concepts and practices. With a series of hands-on studio exercises including rotary, oscillation and gear making, you will develop skills of sculpture making with an emphasis on the element of movement. This course concludes with a final project that engages the viewers as interactive participants."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2318", "title": "State and Society in the Ancient Near East", "description": "The civilisational blue-prints of the Ancient Near East are to be found all around us, such as the hallmarks of urban life, the alphabet, and the sexagesimal system for measuring time. This course provides a general introduction to the ancient Near East (c. 3000 \u2013 330 BCE) including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, the Levant and Iran. We will survey quotidian life in the ancient Near East with an appreciation of diachronic and regional differences. Textual, archaeological and art historical materials will be employed to discern the worlds of the great and small alike: rulers, warriors, farmers, pastoralists, merchants, scribes etc."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2319", "title": "Acting I", "description": "This practice-based course provides an introduction to modern acting. It is suitable for those with or without previous performance experience. The course is highly collaborative and cultivates a supportive ensemble. Students take healthy emotional risks that foster personal growth. The work is grounded by basic Stanislavski scene work, augmented by an introduction to Viewpoints. Students perform two modern scenes, an audition monologue, and original short pieces. Rehearsal is required outside studio time. While the course is based in realistic acting, the tools introduced are applicable to many different kinds of performance and beyond theatre."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2320", "title": "Foundations of Environmental Humanities", "description": "This course is a survey of the contribution of humanities disciplines\u2014history, philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, literature, film, and art\u2014to understanding and responding to the socio-environmental challenges of the 21st century. Students will be introduced to interdisciplinary debates on subjects such as climate change, technonature, waste, time, happiness, and the Anthropocene, with a focus on art and literature from Southeast Asia, East Asia, and South Asia. Students will research and write original environmental humanities essays on some elements of life and culture in Singapore, with the goal of using that to clarify post-graduation goals for sustainability careers."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2321", "title": "Virtue, Reason and Nature", "description": "In the wake of the second World War, Oxford philosophers Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot recognized the imperative for a new mode of moral philosophy, at once ambitious and fully natural. They initiated what became the reclamation of the resources of the Greek tradition, primarily Aristotle, in Anglophone moral thought.\nThis course explores the naturalised rationalism and moral psychology of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics: What is a virtue? What are the virtues, and why? How can moral thought respect both our rationality and our animality, both our common humanity and our diversity? And might there be something still better then virtue?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2322", "title": "Comics and Graphic Novels", "description": "This course serves as an introduction to the literary art of comics and graphic novels. We will develop an appreciation of how this artform employs a unique visual grammar to create miniature imaginary worlds on paper that allow us to reimagine the world around us. We will study how this grammar developed historically and how it differs across cultures. Topics addressed include: 1) the development of the newspaper comic strip in the pre-war US; 2) the post-war global rise to popularity of action-adventure comics, particularly in Europe, the US, and Japan; and 3) the independent graphic novel movement of today."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2323", "title": "Decolonizing Color", "description": "This course explores color through creative perspectives that decolonize systems of knowledge. Topics to be explored include natural and artificial pigments, indigenous cultural knowledge and land-based artistic pedagogies. Students will create artworks with material-based approaches as well as new methods of thinking with systems of color. Critical engagement will be made with oral histories of color, the voice of soil and alternative philosophies to inform artistic research in practice. Final art projects will work with diverse sources of knowledge selected by students from the topics of the course to form creative responses of their own."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2324", "title": "Global Justice and Bioethics", "description": "This course invites students to think more deeply about the nature of health, disease, and medicine and to connect these with issues of global justice. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with the current debates about the just distribution of health and healthcare resources and the ways in which culture, politics, and economics shape the global public health landscape. Students will explore issues related to personal responsibility, public health and social justice and should be able to apply these concepts meaningfully in their own lives at the end of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2325", "title": "Introduction to African Lit: Sub-Saharan Journeys", "description": "The journey is an ancient and vibrant motif in literature: journeys can introduce you to the strange and new, take you home, convey you to the recesses of your own mind, end serendipitously or in calamity. Based on the motif of the journey, this course highlights a few of the many extraordinary texts in the sub-Saharan African literary tradition, from the 14th to the 20th centuries. By focusing on primary texts (epics, plays, poetry, biographies, novels and short stories), we will get a sense of the breadth and variety of themes, ideas, encounters, and travels featured in African literary itineraries."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2326", "title": "Introduction to Classical Arabic Philosophy", "description": "An introduction to the study of classical Islamic and Jewish philosophy from the 9th-12th centuries CE. Topics include the influence of Greek philosophy; the defense of philosophy, philosophy\u2019s potential compatibility or conflict with revelation; the soul and intellect; the nature of happiness; good and defective political systems; the existence of God and what can be said of the divine; knowledge, causation, and the possibility of miracles; and nature of the universe. Authors include Al-Kindi, Al-Razi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd (Averroes), and Maimonides."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2327", "title": "Conceptions of Freedom in Classical Chinese Philosophy", "description": "This course will provide a survey of the different conceptions of freedom in Classical Chinese Philosophy. It examines different classical philosophers in China through the notion of freedom, and also, reflects on common cultural tropes about Chinese intellectual history. We will think through the nature of the individual self, the existence of human will, and the relation of that self to society via varying Chinese intellectual traditions, from Confucianism and Daoism to Legalism among others. By the course\u2019s end, students are expected to have acquired a critical awareness of the diverse perspectives of Chinese philosophers on metaphysical and political freedom."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2328", "title": "History of the British Empire to 1850", "description": "This course introduces students to the history of the British empire through focused studies of a variety of imperial lives. We will explore the British empire through the eyes and experiences of some people you\u2019ve heard of before and some people you haven\u2019t including: Weetamoo, Elizabeth Marsh, Robert Clive, Ouladah Equiano, Houqua, and Stamford Raffles. How did empire change their lives, and how, in turn, did they help to create or contest the empire? We will also examine key scholarly debates about the British empire and situate the lives of individuals and families within a larger imperial context."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2329", "title": "Bodies, Genders and Sexualities in History", "description": "This course offers a first introduction to the history of the body, gender, and sexuality since the Middle Ages. It explores how these things we may think of as universal constants change over time, and how they are tied to wider cultural, political, and societal change. Today, sex and gender are often at the heart of how people and cultures define themselves as different from others. We will examine why this is the case."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2330", "title": "Real and Imagined Animals in Medieval Literature", "description": "Animals, both real and imaginary, are ubiquitous in the art, literature, and material culture of medieval Europe, where they emerge as frequent objects of reflection on the nature of language, the ethics of violence, the organization of society, and the limits of what constitutes the human. This course will explore the medieval fascination with animals and the philosophical questions they raise. Drawing on the \u201canimal turn\u201d in contemporary cultural studies, we will investigate the complex and often ambiguous ways in which animals are represented in a range of genres, including bestiaries, fables, romance, and lyric."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2331", "title": "Introduction to Logic: A Multi-Cultural Perspective", "description": "This course investigates classical approaches to human reason through the formal discipline of Aristotelian or Term Logic, as well as non-Western frameworks of reasoning in Chinese and Indian thought. It deals with fundamental concepts in Term Logic such as: terms as meaningful signs of language, propositions as true or false assertions, and syllogisms as deductive and inductive mediate inferences. Nonetheless it also explores frameworks of Chinese Logic in the School of Names as well as in Daoist and Buddhist Paradoxical reasoning, as well as of Indian Logic, mainly in Nyaya."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2332", "title": "Perspectives on Gender in Chinese Philosophy", "description": "This course will examine the different conceptions of gender and women in the history of Chinese Philosophy. It also reflects on its significance in Chinese philosophy in general. As such, we will think through the natures of gender and sexuality via varying Chinese intellectual traditions, from Confucianism and Daoism to Buddhism among others. By the course\u2019s end, students are expected to have acquired a critical awareness of the diversity and links between perspectives of Chinese thinkers on gender and women."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2333", "title": "Shortcuts: The Aesthetics of Brevity", "description": "This course examines concision as a formal element of literature and other art forms, as well as a window into human psychology. From Bash\u014d to the Ramones, artists have prized concision, variously associating it with clarity, ambiguity, memorability, epiphany, and enlightenment. Yet short works suffer from bad PR, often overshadowed by more verbose genres. We will pay homage to unloved genres by analyzing (and sometimes producing) flash fiction, short films, TikTok videos, one-act plays, vignettes, parables, fables, jokes, haiku, ghazals, slogans, koans, obituaries and epitaphs, radically reductive translations, pop songs, minimalist art and music, and more."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2334", "title": "Language and Meaning", "description": "In this course, we investigate what language is, what it does, and how. Reference: What distinguishes the names \u201cSanta Claus\u201d and \u201cTaylor Swift?\u201d Meaning: Is it in our heads, in the world, somewhere between? Speech acts: we assert \u201cSanta Claus is not real,\u201d but we can also hint, joke, insult, imply, command, etc. How can we do this, and how are these activities related to reference and meaning? Our focus will primarily be the analytic tradition of philosophy, with attention also to Indian and feminist philosophies."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2335", "title": "Central Themes in Philosophy of Science", "description": "This is an introductory course on contemporary philosophy of science. It will cover three central topics within philosophy of science: 1) the demarcation problem, 2) scientific inference and explanation, 3) scientific realism. The last few classes of the course are more inter(sub)disciplinary in nature. They are dedicated to topics on the relationship between science and other aspects of human life, such as public knowledge, feminism, and religious belief."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2336", "title": "Learning by (un)doing - Artistic Practice in Grim Times", "description": "Course explores the meaning of contemporary artistic practices with a focus on conceptual methodologies. How can we process the challenges of our political period of uncertainties - climate change, demographic shifts, international conflicts etc. - with artistic means of expression? What tools and esthetics need to be studied, developed, invented today? Each week will demonstrate a different approach either by using a creative medium, analytic method and/or examples from contemporary art history. Students will familiarize themselves with manifold forms of artistic practice and research methods across different media and disciplines to develop workplans for their varied projects and research."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2337", "title": "The Materiality of Photographs: Craft and Perception", "description": "In this course, students will learn the importance of the photograph\u2019s materiality for its perception and reception. They will learn present-day digital processes of photography, and the lineage of historical modes of photography which digital imaging is a part of. From studying the photogravure, to the visual and tactile nuances of film, to hands-on digital imaging including photography, editing and printing, students will work towards a final digital photography project at semester\u2019s end. In this way, they will gain a working knowledge of how form and craft inform the understanding and experience of photography."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2338", "title": "Social Norms: A Philosophical Introduction", "description": "It is an empirical fact that we routinely comply with a variety of social norms, follow many social conventions and obey a multitude of laws. But, what are social norms? How are they distinct from other constraints on individual or group behaviour? What explains norm compliance? How do norms emerge? Why do norms persist over time? Why does normative fracture happen? This course attempts to answer these questions by bringing together insights, about the structure, functions and evolution of social norms, from different disciplines in the social sciences in a philosophically \u2013 minded survey."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2339", "title": "Empiricism", "description": "What is empiricism and what sets it apart from other philosophical traditions? This course provides a historical overview of empiricism. The primary focus of the course is the British empiricists from the 17th and 18th century. However, the course will also cover 20th century versions of empiricism to see how the tradition has evolved in contemporary philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2340", "title": "Metaphilosophy and the Politics of Knowing", "description": "This course is a postcolonial approach into the question of what it means to do philosophy. We will think through questions such as what is the nature of philosophy? What are its aims, limitations, and methods? Is the philosophical discipline truly inclusive and global? If not, are there ways in which it can be more inclusive and intercultural? We will discuss Plato, Kant, all the way through Spivak, as well as explore non-mainstream philosophy. By the end of the course, students are expected to have gained a critical awareness of the nature of philosophy, as well as its future direction."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU2341", "title": "Philosophy of Games", "description": "Games interest philosophers, educators, and theatre practitioners alike. Plato writes that all education should be organised as play. Nguyen argues that games are the artistic medium of agential fluidity. Boal\u2019s devises methods of theatrical play for the purpose of liberation. We will discuss the ontology and value of games and examine the ethics of play: what ethical demands surround play, and what must be done to uphold them? Through roleplaying games like , we will learn how narrative play, character immersion, and game mechanics create a play-structure for examining our identities, values, and choices. Theatre of the Oppressed Dungeons and Dragons"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3201", "title": "Drawing Process", "description": "This course develops students\u2019 understanding of image-making, through the process of researching artists\u2019 oeuvres. By closely studying the body of works of selected artists, students will analyse the changes and shifts in their art-making, and the developments in their visual works. Students will learn to mimic, to draw inspiration, and to challenge their own preconceptions of artists, art works and art movements. Student will develop and evolve their own works/themes/ideas inspired by artists discussed and develop an idea and a process into making their own work. The course fulfils the requirement within the structure of the Arts & Humanities. practice"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3205", "title": "Ming Imperial Voyages", "description": "From 1405 to 1433, the Ming admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho) led seven extravagant expeditions to kingdoms in Southeast Asia and around the Indian Ocean world, going as far as the African continent. In this Historical Immersion course, we will examine the life of this eunuch\u2010admiral and explore the nature of his voyages. We will also study the policies and ambitions of Zheng He\u2019s patron, the Emperor Yongle, and consider his lasting legacy today."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3210", "title": "Proseminar in Literary Studies", "description": "The proseminar in literary studies introduces students to the comparative study of literary form. Students will be introduces to a range of theoretical and literary critical approaches from around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3210A", "title": "Proseminar in Literary Studies", "description": "The proseminar in literary studies introduces students to the comparative study of literary form. Students will be introduced to a range of theoretical and literary critical approaches from around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3210B", "title": "Proseminar in Literary Studies", "description": "The proseminar in literary studies introduces students to the comparative study of literary form. Students will be introduced to a range of theoretical and literary critical approaches from around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3210C", "title": "Proseminar in Literary Studies", "description": "The proseminar in literary studies introduces students to the comparative study of literary form. This year, we will focus on Shakespeare\u2019s plays and poetry as a springboard to explore the theoretical and literary critical approaches from around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3210D", "title": "Proseminar Lit Studies: How to Do Things with Literature", "description": "The proseminar in literary studies introduces students to the comparative study of literary form. Students will engage with a range of theoretical and literary critical approaches, beginning with Plato and Aristotle and ending with contemporary Post-Colonial theory and new paradigms of World Literature. The course\u2019s goal is largely methodological, offering students a critical toolbox to help frame their interpretations of literary texts."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3210E", "title": "Proseminar in Literary Studies", "description": "What does it mean, and what does it look like, to \u201cstudy literature\u201d? How might one go about it, in theory, and how are others in the field of literary studies actually going about it now? What is the use of such work, and what can it teach us about the texts we read, the things we assume about them, and the relationship these texts might have with us and with the world? As a pro-seminar, this class will be an introduction to a field of study and an opportunity to begin placing ourselves in that field as participants."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3210F", "title": "Proseminar in Literary Studies", "description": "What is literary studies, how did it come about as a field of study, and how can individuals like you and me engage with it, today? This pro-seminar introduces literature majors to key works of literary and critical theory, and their historical contexts. In order to recuse \u201ctheory\u201d from its overwrought, misunderstood opposition to something perceived as more pristine and dynamic like literature \u201citself,\u201d we will focus on thinkers concerned with the social acts of reading and writing, and a broader variety of what are considered as \u201ctexts.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3211", "title": "Chinese Tales of the Strange", "description": "This course will examine the Chinese literary genre of \u201cTales of the Strange,\u201d from its earliest beginnings all the way to its later instantiations in lateimperial times. All the primary readings will be in the original classical Chinese, and these will be supplemented by secondary readings in both English and Chinese."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3212", "title": "Kant", "description": "An introduction to Immanuel Kant\u2019s critical philosophy, focussing on the\nCritique of Pure Reason."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3214", "title": "Indian Buddhist Philosophy", "description": "This course investigates central debates in ethics, epistemology and metaphysics within Indian Buddhist thought. It seeks to familiarize students in detail with a single, sophisticated body of thought as that developed over 1,000 years, including debates arising both among Buddhists and between Buddhists and their non\u2010Buddhist critics; to give students conceptual tools and vocabulary for participating in the classical Indian philosophical project; to give students the ability to move between the main areas within philosophy systematically and recognizing the connections between them."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3216", "title": "Photojournalism", "description": "This seminar style course will cover the practice and theory of working as a visual journalist in today\u2019s world. The evolving media landscape demands an awareness of the uses and meanings of images and a high degree of visual & media literacy. Besides giving students the opportunity to learn the technical aspects of camera operation, post production and digital delivery, the curriculum will provide ample opportunity for critique and debate both of student\u2019s work and current & past practitioners in the field. A semester long individual portfolio project, real world assignments, discussions on photography, media, ethics and business practices, exploration of the potential of new media and engagement with the professional photography community through off campus visits and guest speakers will all form part of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3217", "title": "Forms of Nonfiction: Literary Journalism from Print to Sound", "description": "Creative Nonfiction encompasses several artistic and exploratory practices. Students learn how to create nonfiction in authentic, innovative, and unexpected ways. With readings, discussions, and in-class exercises, students practice shaping their ideas into inventive projects. In this iteration of the course, students become familiar with diverse approaches to nonfiction, with special attention to literary journalism, personal narratives, and the audio essay\u2014an emerging form that uses sound as argument. Students practice being critical readers, generate their own ideas, and use literary texts to comment on contemporary issues. This course welcomes newcomers as well as those with a background in the genre."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3221", "title": "Nietzsche: An Untimely Thinker and His Times", "description": "In the 1880s, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God and called for a new life\u2010affirming philosophy to combat the rise of nihilism. Nietzsche, one of the most provocative thinkers of the nineteenth century, lived in an age of cultural tumult and intellectual transformation. This course provides a window into this period through a close engagement with Nietzsche\u2019s writings, including his philosophical works, his personal correspondence, and his autobiography. Attention will also be paid to his friendship and subsequent disillusionment with the composer Richard Wagner."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3222", "title": "Ovid the Innovator", "description": "The course invites close critical appreciation of four works from the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC \u2013 AD 17) which are innovative in terms of their genre and thematic remit: Heroides (\u2018letters\u2019 from mythical heroines to their absent lovers); Ars Amatoria (a didactic poem on how to find a lover in Rome, different books addressed to men and women); Tristia (epistles from the poet in exile on the Black Sea); Fasti (a poetic treatise on the Roman calendar, covering festivals, myth and issues of antiquarian interest)."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3224", "title": "Warring States China Intellectual and Political History", "description": "Known as the time of the \u201chundred schools of thought,\u201d the Warring States (Zhanguo) period was the formative period of Chinese philosophy and undoubtedly the era of greatest intellectual diversity in all of China\u2019s history. However, the intellectual developments of this period were inseparable from major social, political, economic, and technological changes that the Chinese world was undergoing at the time. This course will examine the political and social changes of the Warring States and preceding Springs and Autumns (Chunqiu) period and explore how all these various historical forces may have shaped the ideologies and debates of the era."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3225", "title": "Pompeii: Art, Urban Life & Culture in the Roman Empire", "description": "Pompeii provides us with a vivid glimpse into the economic, political, and cultural life of an ancient Mediterranean city and into that of the Roman Empire at large. The long history of Pompeii closely maps onto the evolution of Rome from an Italian city-state into a cosmopolitan world-empire. In this course, we will discuss the use - and misuse - of literary, documentary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence in the practice of pre-modern history. We will cover the high and the low, from taverns, brothels and workshops to the business of wealthy merchants, local politicians and members of the imperial family."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3230", "title": "The First Opium War, 1839\u201042", "description": "This course immerses students in the social, political, economic and cultural context of the First Opium War between Britain and China from 1839 to 1842. This war, fought over the opium trade, is seen as a major turning point in world history. The course will take a long view of the war and explore the long- and short-term causes as well as the immediate and long-term consequences of the war."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3234", "title": "Metaphysics of Human Nature", "description": "Metaphysics concerns what things there are, what they are like, and how they are related. In this course, we will investigate such questions with respect to a special class of objects: us. In particular, we will consider question of what we are. This course will focus exclusively on recent philosophical research within the \u2018analytic\u2019 tradition."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3238", "title": "Empire, Slavery and the Making of the Americas", "description": "Starting with the Spanish invasion of Aztec Mexico and ending with the Haitian Revolution in 1791, this course explores a transformative period in history. The accidental discovery of America initiated several centuries of intensive economic, military and religious activities throughout the Atlantic world. These transformations had catastrophic consequences for indigenous peoples and relied upon the labour of twelve million enslaved Africans. This course compares English, Spanish, Dutch, and French practices of colonialism and traces the development of racialized categories of difference while also considering how indigenous people, enslaved Africans, and \u201crogue\u201d colonists resisted slavery, servitude, and imperial authority."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3239", "title": "Kazimir Malevich and the Black Square", "description": "This course will examine the creation, exhibition and enduring legacy of one of the world\u2019s most famous masterpieces of modern art: Kazimir Malevich\u2019s . We will examine primary materials in the form of Malevich\u2019s memoirs, correspondence and critical writings, as well as contemporary art criticism and period publications that address crucial questions on the subject of aesthetics, culture and politics. More specifically, we will analyse the broader historical conditions that shaped both the artist\u2019s inception and the public reception of the in order to better understand how and why this work became the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture. A major component of the course will include a consideration of the immediate causes and effects of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Black Square Black Square"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3240", "title": "The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5", "description": "This course offers an in-depth study of a significant global event of the C20th \u2013 the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, primarily from the perspective of Japanese society at war. As the first modern war of the C20th, it acts moreover as a pre-figuring moment to World War I, where social and cultural norms of a modern society at war were shaped and negotiated. We examine a variety of translated source materials, ranging from official documents, personal letters and diaries, cultural materials (novels, Japanese prints, paintings, photographs, films), media sources (newspapers, magazines, newsreels, photographs, exhibitions), and material culture (buildings, monuments, objects)."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3243", "title": "Woolf, Historiography, and the Scene of the Modern", "description": "Woolf lived in an era of tremendous historical-mindedness in which artists, writers, and historians were deeply engaged with how the past should be represented. Students will explore Woolf\u2019s engagement in this debate through close analysis of her diaries, drafts, and published works as well as primary source materials (museum artifacts and contemporary newspapers) that help place her engagement in the social, cultural, and political issues of the early twentieth century. Was this engagement with the past at odds with a liberal belief in progress, or was the past, for Woolf, a causal entity to be interpreted for its historical difference?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3244", "title": "Writing Pedagogy and Practice", "description": "In this course students will study and practice a range of writing genres including the personal essay, the academic essay, and the nuances of writing in their chosen disciplines. Students will read short essays, engage with current writing theory, and can expect to practice regular writing exercises. Students will also receive practical training in one-on-one peer tutoring and leading larger group workshops. By the end of the course, students will have a sound understanding of the dialects of writing and if they receive an A, become qualified to become peer tutors."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3245", "title": "Aristotle", "description": "This course will survey key topics in the thought of Aristotle (384-322 BCE), one of the major figures in the Western philosophical tradition. Main themes will include Aristotle logic and theory of knowledge; Aristotle\u2019s philosophy of nature (including his physics, cosmology, and biology); Aristotle\u2019s psychology, metaphysics, and theology; and Aristotle\u2019s practical philosophy\u2014including his ethics, politics, and literary theory."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3247", "title": "The Afropolitans: Contemporary African Lit. & Film", "description": "Examining works of fiction, criticism, art, and film, this course unpacks the controversial term \u201cAfropolitan\u201d (African Cosmopolitan), troubling certain stereotypes about Africa by studying African cities as global metropoles and African creators as international innovators. First used in 2005, the term \u201cAfropolitan\u201d has attracted criticism as being applicable only to a certain social class: the wealthy global elite. We will begin by looking at writing both critical and laudatory of this term, and continue on to study key creative works in depth. No previous knowledge of African literature or arts is assumed, and students have the option of completing a creative final assignment."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3248", "title": "Food and Ethics in Roman Literature and Culture", "description": "This course explores how Romans conceptualized food in different textual contexts with attention to historical and material evidence. What do we know about food as sustenance and as a critical topic in the Roman world? The course will center on food as a literary theme from comedy to satire and epigram in the imperial period, with attention to the ethical and philosophical preoccupations of poets and philosophers such as Horace and Seneca."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3252", "title": "The Roman Emperor Nero: Sex, Stage and Scandal", "description": "The Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54-68) is a fascinating individual but one who is a challenge to reconstruct, tainted as he is by negative posthumous assessments (from cruel Emperor to the anti-Christ himself). Approached via a range of literary and material evidence \u2013 particularly the evidence from Nero\u2019s reign itself \u2013 students will gain an insight into the political, social and cultural life of Neronian Rome, as well as the personality and ideologies of the Emperor himself. Whether you judge him to be an artist, a visionary, a tyrant, or a madman, is up to you \u2026"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3254", "title": "From Edo to Modern City: Tokyo", "description": "This course provides an in-depth examination of the city of Tokyo and the historical phase in which it transitioned from a pre-modern city called Edo, to the modern city of Tokyo that we know today. It will involve close readings and analysis of visual materials (\u201cfloating world pictures\u201d ()), historical artefacts, literature and film from the later Edo period (1800s) to the modern era to provide an understanding of Japanese culture and history that has conditioned its transformation into one of the major global cities in Asia today. ukiyo-e"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3259", "title": "World Religious Poetry", "description": "This course examines poetic tradition in three major religions of the world: Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity. Why does the divine voice express so often itself through poetry? Why is poetry the privileged vehicle in which communications between the divine and the human occur? Cross-cultural problems we will study: the body and soul, devotion, mysticism, the lyric voice, revealed scripture and tradition, theological disputes, the gaze, desire, gender, eros, allegory."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3260", "title": "Heretics and Deviants: Writing, Rebellion, and Islam", "description": "Why are some forms of cultural expression considered highly subversive in the Islamic world today? Why are some literary works viewed as so incendiary that the authorities imagine that they must not only be banned, but that their authors must be punished for their transgression as well? This course will move between modern literary works from the Arab and broader Islamic world and the textual foundations of the Islamic tradition with the goal of understanding why some books are read as dangerously inflammatory in the modern period when their content often would have been far less controversial centuries earlier."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3261", "title": "Analogical Reasoning and Metaphor", "description": "Einstein imagines a beam of light as a train which he rides. Mengzi thinks of human virtues as growing sprouts. Why is this kind of reasoning so pervasive, and what does it mean to think with metaphor and analogy? Three philosophical traditions will inform our exploration of these questions: Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, and contemporary Anglophone analytic philosophy. We will consider what metaphor and analogy are, the implications for understanding their role in our thought, their relationship to culture and language and their importance in philosophical topics such as ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3263", "title": "The Bandung Conference of 1955", "description": "Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Bandung Conference of 1955 stands as a symbolic event in the history of decolonisation of Asia and Africa. We examine \u2018Bandung\u2019 as a nodal point from which a variety of postwar narratives emerged, including freedom and independence, non-alignment, Third World internationalism, connecting even the US civil rights movement with Bandung. A diverse range of materials will be explored, including popular writing, film, photographs, newsreels, newspapers, journals, official documents, as well as a field trip to the conference museum in Bandung to consider the role of public history."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3265", "title": "Philosophy of Religion", "description": "In this course, we will examine some central philosophical issues concerning religious belief and practice. Topics may include the problem of evil, petitionary prayer, and religious experience; readings will be contemporary but not exclusively Anglophone."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3267", "title": "Classical Indian Philosophy of Language", "description": "Classical Indian Philosophy introduces students to major topics in linguistic analysis within the traditions of India. This course focuses on two questions: What is linguistic meaning? How do we understand what is meant? As the former question is embedded within the latter for Indian thinkers, the first third of the course will be spent on epistemology of testimony in Ny\u0101ya and M\u012bm\u0101\u1e43s\u0101. The middle third of the course takes up the question of what meaning(s) are primary, both in terms of words and sentences. In the final third, we address meanings beyond primary: metaphor, bitextuality (punning), and suggested meaning."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3268", "title": "The Japanese Empire in Global History", "description": "This course focuses on the history of the Japanese empire from 1868 to 1945. Whilst consolidating the knowledge of the Japanese empire, this course aims to develop critical thinking on existing historiography, by thinking about limitations of traditional historiography, whilst exploring new approaches emerging in the field. Why do debates on empire sit uncomfortably with the literature on nationalism? What are imperial and trans-imperial agents and practices? We examine themes such as migration, citizenship, religion, development, settler communities, trade, experts, and outlaws. What was the role of \u2018culture\u2019 as a constructed ideology to connect diverse local contexts?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3270", "title": "English Women Novelists: Austen and her Predecessors", "description": "From 1775 to 1815, the number of novels written by women rose rapidly, even as women were increasingly confined to the domestic sphere. Agreeing with more conservative writers that the patriarchal family was England\u2019s most important institution, radical and progressive women novelists argued that relations between men and women should be reformed, because domestic conduct could have serious political implications. In this course, we will read a variety of novels against this historical backdrop, considering the fictional strategies that women employed to tell (and sell!) stories that were often at odds with the dominant values of their culture."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3271", "title": "Love in Antiquity: Eros in Translation", "description": "This course examines how Roman poets adapted and developed Greek erotic poetry. How did love elegy become the dominant new genre in the Roman literary scene of the first century BCE? How did Roman poets transform Greek models such as Sappho? What does love elegy tell us about sexual identities in Rome? Students will read Greek and Roman love elegy in translation with scholarship to understand the generic conventions and innovations of the Roman elegists. Students will also work with the texts in Latin and examine the translation tradition in English and theoretical discourses surrounding translation. 2 Unit language supplement available."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3272", "title": "Literary Activism: Texts, Aesthetics, & Politics", "description": "What is the relationship, in modern literature, between literary texts and politics? Can literature transform the world? Or is it just a distraction from engagement? Can it do anything to influence the political landscape? If so, how might it accomplish or document change, and how might different types of literature be suited to activist, reformist, or revolutionary purposes? Through readings from fiction, drama, poetry, history, and literary theory, and from writers that might include Zola, Stowe, Morrison, Thomas Mann, Coetzee, Beauvoir, Sartre, Adorno, Brecht, Allende, Alan Moore, Christa Wolf, and others, this course attempts to address these questions."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3274", "title": "Painting the Orient", "description": "This historical immersion course examines the beginnings and subsequent proliferation of Orientalist painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. Taking Edward Said\u2019s seminal definition of Orientalism as a point of departure, students will investigate the historical processes by which Europeans conceptualized and represented the \u201cOrient\u201d both at the moment of initial colonial encounter and during subsequent imperial expansion. Students will analyze a number of masterpieces of Orientalist painting alongside key literature. Students will engage with different theoretical positions and methodologies, exploring how the legacy of Orientalism continues to influence our perceptions of the East/West binary to this day."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3275", "title": "Descartes and the Perfection of Human Knowledge", "description": "This seminar will survey the Cartesian system\u2014showing how issues such as the reformation, religious climate, social issues (such as the earliest standardization of a curriculum by the Jesuits) and revolutionary developments in science and mathematics informed Descartes\u2019 methodology, philosophy and publication strategy. Starting with his conception of human reason and methodology, we will consider the influences that shaped the construction of the Cartesian system from metaphysics and epistemology, mathematics and physics, to medicine and morals. The course will also examine the historical context of Descartes' thinking, in particular his intellectual inheritance from scholasticism and the broader contemporary reception of his work."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3276", "title": "The Historian\u2019s Craft", "description": "This is a hands-on course in which students will be introduced to the practices involved in historical research, writing, and presentation. Students will be exposed to a variety of models created by professional historians and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each. Direct engagement with primary sources will be a principal area of focus in this course."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3277", "title": "Objects of Desire: Consumers, Colonialism, and Global Trade", "description": "How has our desire for consumable goods and objects, from sugar and spice to textiles and furniture, shaped world history? In this course, we will explore how the European quest for foreign items, exotic tastes, and intoxicating substances drove exploration, trade, and colonialism during the early modern era. This insatiable pursuit led to the discovery of the Americas, the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and the development of a globalized marketplace that connected the \u201cEast\u201d with the \u201cWest.\u201d In this course, we will study key historical transformations that created the world we live in today: the \u201cmarketplace revolution,\u201d the \u201cbirth\u201d of consumer culture and the middle class, the origins of capitalism, and the emergence of modernity itself. We will do so through the prism of the consumable goods and material artefacts that drove these changes. We will explore how these substances were produced, trafficked, consumed, politicised, and aestheticized in the context of broader social processes."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3281", "title": "English Women Novelists: the Bront\u00ebs to George Eliot", "description": "During the nineteenth century, England produced many important women novelists. Perhaps for the first time in history, women achieved parity with men in their contributions to a significant literary genre. In this coursee, we will consider the galling restrictions on form and content with which female novelists had to contend and how they dealt with those restrictions. We will examine what women novelists had to say about gender, including the contemporary ideologies of \u201cseparate spheres\u201d and \u201cthe angel in the house\u201d; about colonialism and industrialization; about social class; about sexuality; and about religious faith and religious doubt."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3282", "title": "Equiano's Slave Narrative: Texts & Contexts", "description": "This course uses The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, first published in 1789, to investigate both the invention of a new genre\u2014the Atlantic slave narrative\u2014and the historical context that shaped Equiano\u2019s life. Written by a former slave and key antislavery activist, this multi-layered text personalizes major historical events, including the slave trade in West Africa, the transportation of 12 million Africans to America, and the anti-slavery movement. Combining aspects of the captivity narrative, travel writing, and spiritual autobiography, The Interesting Narrative will be treated as both a historical source and a literary work."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3283", "title": "Reality", "description": "This course begins with the following question: What exists, fundamentally speaking? We will consider how to frame the question, how to answer it, and how to appreciate its significance, using formal methods as appropriate."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3284", "title": "Postcolonial Literatures Today", "description": "This course provides opportunity for engaging with postcoloniality as a cultural and literary phenomenon with a complex historical legacy and a contemporary relevance that links otherwise diverse contemporary societies and literary traditions. Through a close engagement with documents of cultural history as well as representative texts in all the literary genres, selected from across the former colonies of Europe (and including reference to the US administration of the Philippines during the first half of the 20thc century), this course will give students the opportunity to engage with the issue of what it means, and why it matters, in the words of Ngugi was Thiong\u2019o, to \u201cdecolonise the mind.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3285", "title": "Rebellion and Revolution in Vietnamese History", "description": "Rebellions and revolutions offer us moments through which to examine both disruptions and continuities in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Vietnamese history. This course studies Vietnam\u2019s past though its own cultural production of knowledge, and it investigates Vietnam\u2019s ethnic minority revolts, anti-colonial rebellions, and the literary revolution of the 1920s and 1930s. The major historical periods covered in this class are territorial expansion, colonization, independence, and war. We will read the political and literary works that emerged during these periods, which include poems, short stories, novels, manifestos, and films. Note the works will be studied in translation."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3286", "title": "Living & Dying as Japanese in WWII Anime and Drama", "description": "In this course, we will study Japan\u2019s national mobilisation for the war, and the daily life experience of those mobilised, by examining a wide range of primary (e.g. oral history, propaganda films, military songs, imperial rescripts) and secondary sources. We will also analyse and discuss portrayals of war-time experience in contemporary anime, films, and drama. At the end of this course, students will undertake a creative project to respond to the materials studied."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3288", "title": "Installation Art", "description": "The course will give students the opportunity to engage with space and place from a creative perspective. Approaches including site-specific, environmental art, ephemeral media, and other alternative methods will be explored. While making art ecological and social issues will be investigated while investigating alternative methods of exhibition. Students will gain familiarity with multiple uses of space in the practice of installation art. Students will draw upon basic visual media while learning to utilize new media, natural materials, sculpture, video and other media. The aim of this course is to develop one\u2019s own language for expression that is sensitive to space."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3289", "title": "Beyond China: Sinophone Literature, Film, and Culture", "description": "\u201cChina\u201d and \u201cChinese\u201d are no longer adequate terms for the study of Sinitic-language communities and cultures that evince politically tenuous and linguistically polyphonic relations with the People\u2019s Republic of China. This course interrogates Sinophone Studies as a critical, interdisciplinary alternative to previous constructions of Chinese literature and culture tied to the nation-state and progressive narratives of modernity. Students will study fiction and films from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, the United States, and the PRC, along with critical works explaining the ways that diaspora, colonialism, comparative empires, and ethnic or minority studies have informed the rise of Sinophone Studies.\n\nAll Chinese-language materials will be read in English translation."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3290", "title": "Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy", "description": "This course is a slow and philological reading Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy, an undisputed masterwork of world literature. \nAs the Italian poet narrates his vision of the world beyond, we will journey with him through Hell to Purgatory and ascend to Paradise and finally return to earth. We will pay special attention to the historical, intellectual and social world of the European Middle Ages and the fraught legacy of the classical tradition. We will experience the sublime and terrifying grandeur of his cosmic vision, discuss theology and revelation, the state of souls in the afterlife, the primacy of poetry as an intellectual and spiritual activity, the nature of art and beauty, the relationship between pagan myths and Christian mysteries, and the medieval encyclopaedia of classical learning and religious doctrine. \nBased on student interest, we might work on volume 2 of the Dante Journal of Singapore, highlighting the original research of the seminar participants."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3291", "title": "Sacrifice, Sex, and Power in Medieval Kashmir", "description": "Kashmir became an important centre of philosophy, religion and literature in the early medieval period (850-1050), with Buddhism and different kinds of Hinduism vying with each other for royal patronage. Orthodox Brahmins performed sacrifice and practiced ritual purity, Buddhism cultivated inner purity of the mind that leads to salvation (nirv\u0101\u1e47a), while new forms of Hinduism called Tantra rejected ritual purity in the belief that impurity \u2013 such as ritual sex outside caste \u2013 leads to power and success. This course will examine these concerns by focusing on a play, Much Ado About Religion, and a philosophical text, The Essence of Supreme Truth."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3292", "title": "Life Drawing", "description": "The course fulfils the intermediate practice requirement (Art Practice track) within the structure of the Arts & Humanities.\n\nStudents will work with nude models, study human anatomy, and learn to depict the figure in various mediums. Students will draw, paint, sculpt, and challenge the limits of figurative representation. The course will consider body politics through art making, and explore relationships between artist-artwork-viewer. The class will look at gesture drawing, animation, classical painting, contemporary and conceptual works. Students will develop a portfolio of figurative drawings in various media, and develop a selection for a public exhibition at the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3293", "title": "Japanese Woodblock Prints", "description": "This course will thoroughly examine Japan\u2019s most celebrated artistic medium from the mid-17th century to the modern era. Along with close studies of technological developments, major genres, and master printmakers, the course will explore complex issues of urban culture, print capitalism, censorship, representation of war and national identity, gender roles, and portrayals of modernization."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3294", "title": "Socrates on Trial", "description": "In 399 B.C.E., an Athenian jury tried and condemned the philosopher Socrates. Why? This course offers an historically immersive examination of this pivotal event, with a focus on its philosophical, political, religious, and legal dimensions."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3295", "title": "Nasty Women: Gender, Sexuality & Race in Early America", "description": "This course studies women, gender, and sexuality in early America. From 1500 to 1820, European colonialism and the growth of chattel slavery disrupted customary Native American, European, and African gender roles. Major social, cultural, and economic changes turned America into a space characterized by religious, ethnic, and racial diversity. As active participants or unwilling captives, women from a variety of backgrounds helped to forge these new societies. They disguised themselves as sailors and soldiers, resisted enslavement, and fostered new spiritual movements. Some transgressed customary gender roles and challenged sexual norms, while others benefited from emerging systems of inequality."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3296", "title": "Fiction and the Supernatural", "description": "This course investigates the relationship between literature (but especially fiction from the late 1700s onward) and various ideas of the supernatural or unreal. Readings explore foundational theories of the supernatural in fiction, revealing how literature uses the supernatural in a variety of ways: for the readerly pleasures of terror and suspense; as allegories of personal or political or social trauma; as problematic symbols of feared otherness (calculated in terms of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, etc); and as a site in which othered or oppressed peoples can respond and resist."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3297", "title": "Debate and Reasoning in Indian Philosophy", "description": "What does good reasoning look like? What does it aim for? How should\nwe argue with our opponents? Ny\u0101ya, a tradition within Brahminical\nIndian philosophy presented and defended sophisticated methods of\nreasoning and norms for debate that are still being studied today. In this\ncourse, we focus on sections of the Ny\u0101ya-s\u016btra in translation and its\nearly commentaries, along with some Buddhist and M\u012bm\u0101\u1e43s\u0101 texts. Not\nonly will we consider methods and norms, but we will look at how\nIndian thinkers put them into practice in arguments on topics such as\nthe existence of God."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3299", "title": "Sex, Decadence and Decay: Weimar Berlin (1918-33)", "description": "Exploring a transformative period in European history, this course will immerse students in the vicissitudes of the turbulent Weimar Republic (1918-1933) through the lens of Berlin\u2019s roaring twenties and with particular reference to the life and work of Magnus Hirschfeld, a Jewish physician who was the face of scientifically enlightened sexual reformism, who travelled the globe as the \u2018Einstein of Sex\u2019 and who became a prime target of Nazi oppression as the Weimar Republic collapsed in the early 1930s. Weimar Berlin offers an illuminating window onto Europe\u2019s ambivalences regarding democracy, liberalism, modernity, social and sexual change in the 20th century."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3300", "title": "1917: War and Revolution", "description": "This course examines the impact of 1917 on European and global history. We will examine the nature and experience of \u201ctotal war,\u201d the life of women and children on the \u201chome front,\u201d and the diplomacy and economics behind the bloodshed of the First World War that marked the end of European hegemony in world politics. The course also examines the Russian Revolution and the Bolsheviks, with a lasting impact on 20th century history. Finally, the course uses the recent anniversary of 1917 to compare and contrast forms of collective memory and memorialization of war and revolution in Europe and beyond."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3302", "title": "Latin American Realities", "description": "This course examines how Latin American writers, from the colonial\nperiod to today, have engaged indigenous identities and epistemologies\nin their work. Anchored by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega\u2019s Royal\ncommentaries of the Incas (1609), which in part seeks to reconcile the\nauthor\u2019s dual identity as both Inca and Spanish, we will follow\nsubsequent literary movements\u2014Romanticism, indigenismo,\nantropofagia, and magical realism\u2014as they endeavour to represent in\nform and content the hybrid quality of Latin American reality. All texts\nwill be read in translation, although students with Spanish and/or\nPortuguese proficiency are encouraged to read texts in their original\nlanguages."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3306", "title": "Philippine Literature: American Period", "description": "Imitation and Innovation in a time of Occupation. Between 1900 and 1946, under the occupation of the United States of America, the Philippines developed a body of literature that was subsequently called Philippine Literature in English. This course examines the pivotal historical conditions that allowed the formation and development of the first Filipino writers in English. Using the texts from this period as case studies, the course then investigates the role of imitation and innovation in artistic practices under colonial conditions and using these guiding principles lead the students to the creation and development of a manuscript of creative writing. This course fulfills the Creative Writing track in the Arts & Humanities major."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3310", "title": "Global Modernisms", "description": "Modernism, originally a European movement that spanned the period between World Wars I and II, has since defied temporal and geographical boundaries and become a transnational movement that reaches into the 21st century. This course invites students to join current debates about what makes a text or work of art, \u201cmodernist\u201d? What is the relationship between imperialism and modernism? How did art and literature from Africa and Asia contribute to early modernism, and what are global forms of modernism today? Authors may include: Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Anand, Conrad, Brodie, Rhys, Ondaatje, and Soyinka."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3311", "title": "Ancient Tragedy: Gender, Politics, and Poetry", "description": "Why does tragedy exist as a dramatic form and what does it say about gender and mortality? How did audiences and authors participate in this form of performance in ancient Athens? How did philosophers and literary theorists understand the genre in antiquity, and what theoretical approaches are relevant today? What was the social and political context of tragedy, and how did the plays comment on contemporary and transcendent concerns? Students will read tragedies and para-tragic works such as comedy from 5th C Athens, as well as Roman tragedies and contemporary literature that responds to the Greek tradition."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3312", "title": "Hollywood in the 1930s", "description": "In the early 1930s, Hollywood films were still struggling to use sound. By 1939, movie studios were churning out masterpieces like Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. The intervening decade was perhaps the most transformative in the history of the cinematic medium. We will study the major events that form the backdrop for groundbreaking innovations in American filmmaking, including the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, Prohibition, and the rise of Fascism and Nazism in the lead-up to World War II, as well as watching movies from the era and doing original archival research."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3313", "title": "The Amarna Letters: Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age", "description": "This course focuses on a corpus of 349 diplomatic letters written in cuneiform script on clay tablets which was unearthed in 1887 at Amarna, the short-lived capital of Egypt in the mid-14th century BCE. The letters addressed to the pharaoh Akhenaten by peers and vassals alike are written in Akkadian, a Mesopotamian language which served as the diplomatic lingua franca of the Late Bronze Age Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. We will examine, with the aid of the Amarna corpus, the Late Bronze Age \u201cinternational\u201d system with especial attention on laws, diplomatic regimes, intelligence activities and conflict resolution."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3314", "title": "1989: The End of the Cold War", "description": "This course on the global history of 1989 provides an in-depth understanding of rapid historical change. Within a matter of few months, the Soviet empire collapsed, seemingly out of the blue, precipitating changes in America, Eastern Europe, China, and beyond. Why do empires crumble and how do ordinary people react? What caused this momentous historical change: savvy diplomats, philosophers, shortage of natural resources, or movements of civil society? We will study transcripts of Soviet party leadership meetings, trials of communist dictators, and secondary literature with a global reach to make sense of the end of the Cold War."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3315", "title": "Gospels as Literature", "description": "The Gospels have shaped not only Christianity and Western culture but also world history itself. This is not a course on apologetics, we will rather apply the tools of literary criticism to the stories about the life, death, and resurrection of a man named Jesus who became Christ. We will examine the formation of the New Testament as canon, its relationship to the Hebrew bible, Canaanite literature, Hellenistic and Roman writing, the genres of the parable, aphorisms, and sermons. We will also read texts that were deemed heretical, such as the Gospels of Thomas, Truth, Mary and Judas."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3316", "title": "Singapore under Japanese Occupation", "description": "The histories of Singapore and the Japanese Empire collided in 1942, when a Japanese army captured the city and renamed it Syonan, the \u201cLight of the South.\u201d For three-and-a-half years, Syonan served as the \u201cnerve centre\u201d of Japanese-controlled Southeast Asia, and the occupation experience transformed the lives of local residents. The historical record of the occupation is incomplete, however, and to understand it historians must use all the methodological tools at their disposal. This course provides an in-depth study of war and occupation in Singapore, as well as an introduction to the complex task of understanding the recent past."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3317", "title": "The Words and World of Lu Xun", "description": "The early twentieth century bore witness to important moments of transition in China. This course examines the world in which Lu Xun, one of the most important figures for Asian modernity, came to write his influential essays and short stories. We begin with an investigation into the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the rise of the New Culture movement, and we seek to understand Lu Xun\u2019s literary works as products of and contributions to the thinking of the times. We conclude the course with an examination of competing ideas of modernity in China."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3319", "title": "Disability and the Arts", "description": "The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to disability studies via the arts. To that end, we will focus on works by disabled artists, particularly representations of illness and disability in life writing, sign language poetry, visual art, music and drama. These artists will include Georgina Kleege, Jorge Luis Borges, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Lucy Grealy, William Styron, Frida Kahlo, Gerardo Nigenda, Peter Cook, and Christophe Pillault, among others. We will supplement this material by reading theoretical texts emerging from disability, cultural and literary studies, as well as narrative medicine and expressive therapy."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3320", "title": "Vasubandhu", "description": "A sustained examination of a pivotal figure in the development of Indian Buddhist thought. Vasubandhu offers our best consolidation of classic Abhidharma minimalist metaphysics and epistemology, developed over the previous millennium of Buddhist thought. He offers on top of that trenchant critique and refinement of views on space, time, agency, cause, reality, knowledge, and the person, articulating the best Buddhist minimalist position possible. But this position, too, is critiqued and refined by Vasubandhu himself into the distinctive Buddhist idealist position known as Yog\u0101c\u0101ra."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3321", "title": "British Comic Fiction: The 20th Century", "description": "This course focuses on the tradition of comic fiction in Britain during the twentieth century. In terms of the study of literary technique, it provides opportunity for analyzing the modes of irony, satire, parody and their interactions with dialogue-writing, narrative plotting and the fictional representation of consciousness and character. Since comedy is closely related to social contexts, from the point of cultural history, the course focuses on the central role played by comic fiction in the representation and critique of cultural identities in Britain during the last century, through its dual role as an agent of conservation and subversion."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3322", "title": "Crazy Rich Europeans: Wealth & Power in Modern History", "description": "Why do some families get rich while others get impoverished? Is enrichment purely the result of actions by manager geniuses like Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs? Crazy Rich Europeans explores the emergence of global capitalism and the business dynasties it produced. We will examine how commodities such as cotton, chocolate, and gold underpinned the rise of the global \u201ctop one percent.\u201d This course examines the history of business life in light of modern European and global history: the role of colonialism and \u201cwar capitalism\u201d emerge as key themes."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3323", "title": "Model Operas and the Chinese Cultural Revolution", "description": "Model opera is a prominent cultural component of China\u2019s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. The eight model operas were believed to embody Mao's dictum that art should serve politics. This course studies these model operas in their historical context whilst examining them as modes of cultural production which stand at the intersection of history, artistry and aesthetics. Amongst other things, it examines political messages and their realisation in rigorously formulated artistic choices. Primary materials will include scripts and historical video recordings of model opera performances, propaganda materials and political documents."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3324", "title": "Advanced Latin: Catullus", "description": "This course is designed to give students a familiarity with a fuller range of the more complex grammatical constructions in Latin, and to give them an opportunity to read in a more focused manner specific examples of unadapted ancient Latin texts in the original. The focus of study will be key texts from the late Republican era (c. 70-30 BC): selected portions of a prose speech of the orator and politician Cicero, and select poems of Catullus. As well as gaining a deeper understanding of the syntax and grammar of Latin \u2013\nand a greater awareness that language is resistant to static \u2018rules\u2019 \u2013 students\nwill develop an increased cultural knowledge in Roman late Republican\nsociety and literary production."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3325", "title": "Advanced Latin: Catiline in the Roman Elite Imagination", "description": "This course offers an opportunity to explore the mercurial figure of Catiline, the Roman aristocrat infamously implicated into conspiracies to overthrow the Republic between 65-63BC. This exploration is conducted via detailed analysis of a series of literary texts in the original Latin across a 40-year period, with particular attention paid to Cicero\u2019s first speech against Catiline (In Catilinam 1), Sallust\u2019s historiographical narrative in the Bellum Catilinae, and the image of Catiline on Aeneas\u2019 shield in Virgil\u2019s epic Aeneid. Students will be exposed to different literary genres that allow them to chart the development of \u2018Catiline\u2019 in the Roman elite imagination."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3327", "title": "Social Practice Art", "description": "The course will give students the opportunity to engage with society from a creative perspective. Art will be investigated alongside societal issues through sustained forms engagement. Alternative methods of presenting art works will be executed from a practice-based perspective. Students will also consider the ethics of participation in art projects. Social relations will be examined through personal, historical and cultural lenses. Active engagement will be explored through media appropriate to the nature of social engagement. The aim for this course is for each student to become familiar with diverse methods for meaningfully engaging with contemporary society through art."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3328", "title": "Contemporary Korean Cinema and the Colonial Past", "description": "Through viewing, studying, analysing, and discussing a curated selection of Korean films set in Korea during the period of Japanese rule, students will travel across time and space to study and examine the social, political, and cultural conditions in Korea from 1910 to 1945. Through a close study of the narratives, visual images, and life experiences represented in the films, this course will discuss the question: how does contemporary cinema deal with history?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3329", "title": "Advanced Latin: Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses", "description": "This course offers an opportunity to explore, in the original Latin, Ovid\u2019s grand, innovative and posthumously influential contribution to the epic genre, Metamorphoses. \n \nThrough close reading of a selection of episodes, taken from Books 1-4 and 8, students will not only assess Ovid\u2019s skill as dramatic and witty storyteller within individual stories; they will also explore wider issues pertaining to the epic as a whole, such as the poet\u2019s creative use of earlier literature, the role of the gods, and the ways in which mythical characters and scenarios can be deployed to reflect the poet\u2019s own status as exile."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3330", "title": "Hinduism, Nationalism, and the Bhagavad Gita in the 20th Century", "description": "What we call \u201cHinduism\u201d is a modern, originally Western, concept that aggregates a multiplicity of traditions as a single religious tradition. However, many Indians took on this identity and shaped it as their own, and as they did, the Bhagavad-G\u012bt\u0101 played an important religious and political role in this emerging self-conception\u2014as it still does today. This course examines the way in which the G\u012bt\u0101 is implicated in the history of Hinduism as a religion, through a range of texts (letters, comics, treatises, translations) focusing on the early 20th century."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3331", "title": "Refining Vocal Technique and Performance", "description": "Refining Vocal Technique and Performance (RVTP) is designed to show students how to use their voices in performance, while also giving score to students applying the skills developed in the class to music-making outside the classroom as a long-term skill and performative asset. RVTP helps the student explore the history and politics around the chosen pieces and looks at the harmonic structures that are the subtext of the pieces."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3332", "title": "Poetry in/and/of the World", "description": "An introduction to the poetry in/ and / of the world. How is poetry imbedded in, antagonistic to, commune with, reflect, create and transcend the world? What is \u201cpoetry\u201d? what is the \u201cworld\u201d? \n\nReadings will include Sappho, Pindar, Horace, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Rilke, Wallace Stevens, M. NourbeSe Philip, Ocean Vuong. Theoretical works will include Plato, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, Vico."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3333", "title": "The Arab Defeat of 1967 and its Aesthetic Afterlives", "description": "Between the 5th and 10th of June 1967 Israel fought the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The Israeli\u2019s swift victory not only gained them territory but shocked a transnational Arab population whose leaders had announced their military success even as their forces were decimated. \u201cThe setback,\u201d as it was called, was \u201ca total defeat of regimes, institutions, structures, ideas, and leaders\u201d that upended Arabic intellectual and cultural production. This course begins with the war but then focuses on its aesthetic afterlives to ask: how does one create art in the face of total defeat?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3334", "title": "Mexican Revolutionary Aesthetics", "description": "The Mexican Revolution, which concluded the decades-long dictatorship of Porfirio D\u00edaz, represents the inaugural event of modern Mexico. Not only a political, but an artistic revolution, it witnesses a proliferation of new artistic movements and practices, encompassing fiction, drama, poetry, popular song, painting, photography and early film. This course focuses on the tumultuous years of the revolutionary process itself\u2014roughly 1910 to 1920\u2014as well as the subsequent two decades, when artists began to memorialize and interrogate the recent past in divergent ways. Themes include: committed literature, utopianism and disillusionment, the new national identity, multiculturalism, social justice, and memorialization."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3335", "title": "Phenomenology and Existentialism", "description": "This course provides an overview of the main thinkers and ideas of the phenomenological and existentialists movements. It examines the establishment of Husserl\u2019s phenomenology as a new philosophical method and studies the systems of his most influential heirs, their critical reception of him and their own development of phenomenology: Heidegger\u2019s fundamental ontology, Sartre\u2019s existentialist turn, and Merleau-Ponty\u2019s return to the primary experience of the body."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3336", "title": "Goodbye Mao: China's Post Socialist Transformations", "description": "It has been widely acknowledged that the People\u2019s Republic of China is no longer a communist state. At the same time, scholars have criticized popular images of the PRC as a failed socialist state and the authoritarian, anti-liberal (somehow therefore anti-Western) \u2018other.\u2019 This cultural history course examines China\u2019s political, economic, and intellectual transformations of the 1980s and 1990s to challenge the notion of China as a monolithic entity. We interrogate the promises and perils of \u201cpostsocialism\u201d as an adequate concept to address the emergent forms of labor, gender, and artistic exploitation in China."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3337", "title": "Money and the Rise of the State", "description": "In Western and Southern Eurasia, the rise of the state is linked to the development of money and credit. In the ancient Near East, all-purpose money facilitated economic growth, efficient taxation, and engendered the development of civil law.\nThe invention of coinage and currencies in the Greek World accelerated this process, and laid the foundations of a financial system that spanned Europe, Western Asia, and India, and which survived in the Islamic World.\nThe course is intended to show students that economic features typically associated with modernity have deep roots in antiquity, and continue to shape the world today."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3338", "title": "Confronting the Holocaust in Text, Film and Music", "description": "How does one represent a historical event that has been held by some to be unrepresentable? This course investigates various approaches to confronting the Holocaust in fictional, historical, poetic, autobiographical, and dramatic texts; documentary and narrative film; and popular and classical music. Course materials will include works by and/or about victims, survivors, perpetrators, and historians of the Holocaust, in an attempt to understand the challenges of representation posed by the Holocaust and by other historical tragedies so large in scope."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3339", "title": "Rome in Antiquity", "description": "When Rome grew into a world empire, the city of Rome transformed into the caput mundi, the capital world. It was the first \u2013 and until London in 1811 \u2013 the only Western city to reach a population of a million. Rome reflected the grandeur and diversity of its empire. It was a cosmopolitan, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic mega-city, which show-cased Roman might, organizational efficiency, and wealth through public works, monumental architecture, and a consumer culture that large swaths of the population could indulge in. The course will deal with the management of a pre-industrial metropolis and its political, cultural, social and economic life."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3340", "title": "The Bacchae of Euripides", "description": "An investigation into one of the greatest and most mysterious Ancient Greek tragedies: Euripides\u2019 The Bacchae (405 BCE). We will examine multiple understandings of the play and its legacy. Additional topics will be the cult of Dionysus, Ancient Greek Theatre practices, Aristotelian dramaturgy, Euripides\u2019 Iphigenia in Aulis, Aristophanes\u2019 The Frogs, as well as the Apollonian and Dionysian. The historical focus is 407-404 BCE, including Euripides\u2019 death, his posthumous victory at the City Dionysia festival, and Athens\u2019 defeat in the Peloponnesian War. Course assignments include a paper, creative project, and presentation."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3341", "title": "Postcolonial Art", "description": "This course will introduce students to the work of modern and contemporary artists whose work has been shaped by, or produced in, response to the aftermath of colonialism. Focusing specifically on art production in South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the West Indies and Caribbean, Australia, and the work of diaspora artists, the readings will also address the limited scope of the art historical canon, the prevalence of Eurocentrism, and the challenges of presenting the art world as global. The course will also include the discussion and application of postcolonial literary theory, namely the work of Homi K. Bhabha, to deepen our understanding and aid in our interpretation of postcolonial artworks (painting, sculpture, film, photography, video art and installations) produced from the 1950s to the present."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3342", "title": "Integrative Music Theory 2", "description": "This course furnishes students who are already familiar with music fundamentals with the opportunity to learn to develop intermediate knowledge and skills, with a focus on practical transference into their lives as music performers and listeners. Notated and improvisational assignments will be given as exercises to further students\u2019 familiarity with musical concepts and materials. It is designed to continue on from Integrative Music Theory 1, but students who have not taken this course may still be allowed to enroll in Integrative Music Theory 2 with the instructor\u2019s permission, provided that they can demonstrate the necessary musical competency and knowledge. To cater to diverse student interests and backgrounds, application of theoretical concepts will be addressed as they occur in Western art music, experimental music, pop, jazz, and Carnatic music."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3343", "title": "Another World is Possible: Ecotopian Visions", "description": "In the era of climate change, many scholars contend that we must develop alternatives to neoliberal fossil-fueled capitalism. This course explores visions of ecotopian futures that might guide our imaginations, beliefs, and actions by examining the ways that various authors, artists, thinkers, and communities have depicted alternative \u2018green\u2019 worlds, challenging dominant ideas about human nature, gender, nonhuman nature, culture, society, politics, and the future. With a diverse range of texts, from Bj\u00f6rk and Hayao Miyazaki to Kim Stanley Robinson and Ursula K. Le Guin, we pair literature, film, music, art, and architecture with scholarship from environmental studies, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3344", "title": "Theatre-Making Laboratory", "description": "This is a practice-based course wherein students collaboratively develop and perform original short theatre works. A range of theatrical forms and creative processes are explored including plays, site-specific, devising, and ritual. The course also introduces several modern and classical understandings of theatre-making from international traditions. Developing and performing theatre hones universally applicable skills such as creative thinking, public speaking, and critical analysis. Students take healthy risks that foster artistic and personal growth. Rehearsal is required outside class time. No previous experience in theatre is required."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3345", "title": "Death, Mourning and Memory in Medieval Literature", "description": "This course explores encounters with and reflections on death in medieval literature, asking how we make sense of death and what role the dead play in shaping the social world of the living. How should we orient ourselves toward death, an event absolutely certain yet fundamentally unknowable? How might we bridge the gap between the dead and the living? We will examine such questions within the historical context of medieval Europe, considering shifting beliefs about death and afterlife; ancestors, revenants, cultural memory; the devastation of the Black Plague; and the particular possibilities literature offers in structuring our experience of death."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3346", "title": "Arts in Singapore: Skinning Nudities in the 1990s - 2010s", "description": "What does it mean to be nude, and to be nude in Singapore? In 1996-1997, an amendment to the Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act was passed, redefining boundaries of privacy, body, and nudity in Singapore. This course examines the living, legal and media conditions that led to the reframing of nudities, and the subsequent censorship guidelines governing the presentation and representation of nudity in the arts. The sources explore the linguistic, philosophical, artistic, and faith inheritances that constructed the term \u2018nudity\u2019, and consider the many fictions, as well as real-world consequences, these readings of nudities have to offer."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3347", "title": "Media Arts for Just Futures", "description": "In face of the cascading effects of climate change, this art practice course teaches students to use experimental media art to respond to the age of capitalism and extractivism. During the initial exploratory phase, group discussions and readings will be complemented by site-visits, archival/collections-based research, media archaeology exercises, and collaborative projects. Students will then enact theory in the studio by bringing drawing skills into 2D and 3D digital media platforms to hack dominant narratives. This will culminate in a body of creative work to be shared at the end of the semester in critique sessions."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3348", "title": "Troy Story: Snapshots of an Evolving Legend", "description": "This course will invite study of a range of texts and visual media centred on the Trojan War: from Homer\u2019s Iliad, through Roman responses, to recent cinematic reconstructions. \n\nThrough this selective focus, students will chart the development of a legend from the Iliad, which presents an elite male world steeped in religious obligation and social protocol, to versions that offer wider social and gendered perspectives on the Trojan War. More generally, students will come to appreciate the dynamics of legend, and the ways in which a story is adapted to suit localised social, aesthetic, and political agendas."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3349", "title": "The Language of Cinema", "description": "This course will introduce students to the theories and methods of cinematic language. We will examine how independent filmmakers and artists have influenced the visual culture of cinema and learn practical techniques of cinematography. Through critique, discussion and practical film-making assignments, students will work collaboratively and independently to develop an understanding of the language of cinema beyond the Hollywood blockbuster. Students will produce a portfolio project in the form of an experimental film, video art piece or narrative short, produced in the spirit of zero budget independent cinema and video art."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3350", "title": "Slurs, Insults & Hate Speech: Pragmatics of Pejoratives", "description": "Some words are insulting and considered unacceptable to utter, and others words are derogatory yet acceptable at least in some contexts. Some words even seem to be able to cause material harm to individuals or groups. How can we account for these phenomena and what should we, as language-users do about it? This course will focus on the pragmatics of pejoratives, the philosophical study of disparaging speech. We will focus especially on disparaging racial and gendered speech, known as \"slurs\" or, broadly \"hate speech.\""}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3351", "title": "Kong Zi: The Man, the Myth, the Legend", "description": "This Historical Immersion course examines the figure of Kong Zi (Confucius) as both an actual historical figure of his times and as a quasi-fictional character in whose name a body of literature arose in the three or four centuries after his lifetime. It includes an examination of the historical circumstances of the Chunqiu period in which he lived and the influence he had both directly on his times and upon philosophical debates yet to emerge. Primary sources will include both historiographical references and philosophical texts purported to record him in conversation with disciples, heads of states, and other figures."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3352", "title": "Karl Marx and the Age of Revolutions", "description": "Karl Marx (1818\u20131883) was born into a world in revolt. The American (1776) and French (1789) Revolutions expanded the horizons of political activity, while the Industrial Revolution was reshaping the economy and environment. Marx, a journalist, activist, and theorist, lived through, commented on, and even took part in some of the most important developments in modern global history. We will study the development of his thought against this background, and assess it in philosophical terms: is Marx\u2019s critique of capitalism a relic of its 19th century context? Or can it speak to our own rapidly transforming world?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3353", "title": "Art and Social Change in Postwar Japan", "description": "This seminar will examine contemporary art in Japan from Postwar to today with a focus on artist collectives, social engagement and cooperative practices. Readings and visual materials on contemporary art including Mono-ha, Fluxus, Setouchi, Mabuni Peace Project and other movements will inform discussions on the collective possibilities and impossibilities in art. We will apply gender analysis and transnational approaches, and we will decenter modernism while engaging with the work of artists, art historians, and cultural critics. Each student will complete a final research project in a creative or expository format on one artist collective for this course."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3354", "title": "The Birth of the Japanese Department Store", "description": "This course will examine the rise of the Japanese department store during Japan's transformation during the first decades of the 20th century (1910s-30s). The department store acted as a beacon for modernization for the urban Japanese and had facilitated the onset of consumer culture. We will also examine commercial art, such as posters and advertisements, to study how artists navigated visualising new conceptions of modern Japan, and how the concept of 'design' began to form. The course will involve close readings and analysis of visual materials, historical artefacts, literature and film from the early- to mid- twentieth centuries."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3355", "title": "Narai: Siam\u2019s Worldly King and the Revolution of 1688", "description": "Narai (r. 1656-1688) was a Buddhist king in a largely Buddhist kingdom. Yet, he was praised as open-minded: his chief advisors were Muslims and Christians, and he eagerly adopted European technologies and Islamicate dress. On his deathbed, however, he found himself besieged on all sides by foreign soldiers, ambitious officials, Catholic priests, and Buddhist mobs. Why was Narai so interested in foreigners? How did religion get tied up with politics? Can we distinguish a palace coup from a popular revolution? In this course, we consider the \u201cearly modern\u201d roots of enduring conflicts over religion, race, revolution, and empire in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3356", "title": "Early Modern Empiricism", "description": "This course focuses on the development of British Empiricism through the writings of John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume. Taking the empiricist elements in Locke\u2019s work as a point of departure, we explore how these elements are radically repurposed first by Berkeley and then by Hume to lay the foundations for what became known as early modern empiricism."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3357", "title": "Philosophy of Human Rights", "description": "This course invites students to think more deeply about the nature of human rights \u2013 beyond their use as international political agreements, and into their deeper conceptual roots. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with the current debates about the theoretical grounding and justification for human rights, which rights can be said to be human rights, and to think deeply about when and how human rights are invoked and what interventions they are used to justify. \n\nStudents will explore issues related to political philosophy, the theoretical underpinnings of international law and justice, with the goal of ultimately coming to appreciate meaningfully how these ideas shape their own lives."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3358", "title": "Crime and Punishment", "description": "One of the central functions of the state is to protect us from each other and mediate our disputes; likewise, one of the central tasks of moral philosophy is to prohibit wrongdoing and specify appropriate responses to harm. While there are enormous personal, social, and economic costs associated with crime, many approaches to dealing with crime are irrational, wasteful, and harmful to victims, society, and perpetrators alike. This course provides a culturally comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of foundational questions related to the questions of crime and punishment, moral responsibility and social justice. It also contains a mandatory service/experiential learning component."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3359", "title": "#MeToo: A Contemporary Feminist Movement", "description": "First coined by activist Tarana Burke in 2006 and later popularized by Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano in 2017, #MeToo was a social justice movement to publicize allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against women/womxn by powerful men. Extensive media coverage and viral social media posts brought our attention to this global feminist issue that highlighted the prevalence of sexual harassment in communities around the world. This course will examine the social, historical and political underpinnings of this movement and explore its implications in intersectional communities, as well as its continued impact today."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3360", "title": "Acting II", "description": "This practice-based acting course explores contemporary approaches to global classical theatre. The course is highly collaborative and cultivates a supportive ensemble collectively investigating some of the world\u2019s greatest dramas. Actors deepen their understanding of Stanislavski scene work as introduced in Acting I. This foundation is augmented with physical acting techniques including Psychological Gesture, Active Analysis, Indian classical movement, and Suzuki. Actors rehearse and perform scenes from Ancient Greece, India, and China. Rehearsal is required outside course meetings. Exercises and projects train the actor\u2019s instrument, expand one\u2019s understanding of theatre, and foster personal growth."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3361", "title": "Writing Hybrid", "description": "is an intermediate writing course that explores the tradition and practice of writing in between and across the genres. Building upon the skills from the introductory writing courses, it explores the ways in which hybrid texts expose the tensions and limits of conventional genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) and propose alternative forms of writing practices. It investigates, in particular, the ways hybrid writing (lyric essays, prose poems, text +image, etc) are able to embody postcolonial identities, queer/ minority / liminal subjectivities, which resist traditional forms and genres. Students will undergo seminars, writing workshops leading toward a final creative portfolio. Writing Hybrid"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3362", "title": "Ancient Greek Tragedy and Fifth-century Athens", "description": "This seminar investigates one of the world\u2019s greatest and most influential artistic achievements the tragic theatre of Ancient Athens (Fifth-century BCE). We will read plays, watch videos of international productions, and consider the Peloponnesian War\u2019s influence on Ancient Greek theatre. Scripts studied will include Aeschylus\u2019 Agamemnon, Sophocles\u2019 Oedipus the King and Antigone, and Euripides\u2019 Iphigenia at Aulis and Bacchae. We will also examine theories of classical tragedy, including those by Aristotle and Nietzsche. Course assignments include a presentation, midterm paper, leading a seminar discussion, and the choice between a paper or creative work as a final project."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3363", "title": "Global History of Capitalism", "description": "This course traces the birth of capitalism to the social thinkers who named, defined, and theorized about a particular set of economic relationships and behaviors that have defined the modern world. We also explore economic relationships and financial practices across the globe between 1000 and 1850, focusing on trade in drugs, slaves, and silver, as well as the development and practices of trading diasporas and corporations. The course concludes with the Great Divergence debate in economic history and asks what enabled Western Europe to achieve sustained economic growth between the 18th and 20th century while China and India lagged behind?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3364", "title": "World Drama", "description": "This seminar investigates a wide range of classical theatre from around the world. In so doing, it examines some of the greatest dramatic art ever created. We will read scripts, study performance practices, theatrical architecture, and historical civilizations. We will also screen videos to better understand these works in performance, both within their era and in contemporary practice. Topics covered include theories of drama, spectator experience, and the link between performance and culture. Course assignments include a presentation, leading a discussion, midterm paper, and the choice between a paper or creative work as a final project."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3365", "title": "Korean Popular Culture", "description": "This course is divided into four parts. Part I, Movies, covers South Korean cinema from its origins in the early twentieth century to present-day, internationally renowned directors like Bong Joon Ho. Part II, TV, examines the precursors to contemporary K-dramas and the reasons they now attract enormous global audiences. Part III, Music, situates K-pop within classical and alternative pop traditions. Finally, Part IV, North Korea, puts South Korean culture in dialogue with film, TV, and music produced on the far side of the 38th Parallel. The course uses a production-distribution-consumption framework to explain Korean popular culture\u2019s planetary dominance."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3367", "title": "Writing the Desert", "description": "The site of prophecy, wilderness in its purest form, a symbol of the sublime, the literary desert has often been imbued with a spiritual mythopoetic resonance beyond its geography\u2019s literal features. It has served as the spatial embodiment of twentieth century capitalism, privileged by poets for its ability to signify modernity\u2019s consequences. More recently, focus has shifted to the ecological devastation wrought by approaching it as a site of extraction. This course will consider the way the desert has been written across centuries and traditions, the changing ideologies of its metaphoric value, and the real space that exists behind it."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3368", "title": "Readings in Neo-Daoism", "description": "This course is an overview of Neo-Daoist philosophy (Xuanxue\u7384\u5b66), which marked a renewed interest in Daoism during Wei and Jin dynasties. It is dominantly a philosophical overview, but also touches on the religious aspects which cannot be removed from the character of the movement. It is an exploration of the new concepts articulated by these thinkers, but also of the emerging commentarial tradition, which was integral to the development of Chinese philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3369", "title": "Philosophy of Race", "description": "Race figures in virtually every aspect of our lives it conditions our interactions with one another; it determines the treatment we receive in education, the justice system, and the workplace; and it underwrites legal practice in medicine, employment, housing, and the administration of the state. This course digs into the social ontology of race Is it real? If so, what is it? If not, how does it impact our lives? We will pay special attention to the history of race Has it always been with us? How did it arise? And can we envision a future beyond it?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3370", "title": "The Great War and Modern Memory", "description": "This course aims to study the historiography of the First World War, which was once described as \u201cthe War to end all Wars,\u201d though what it did was to inaugurate an entirely new poetics of shock and trauma regarding the large-scale mechanization of violence. This course provides the opportunity to understand how images, sounds, videos, art, poetry and fictional prose as well as diaries, memoirs, and letters comprise a complex archive from which to build a composite sense of what that war meant to people then, and what it might mean to us now."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3371", "title": "Chinese Temples in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course examines the role of religion in the Chinese diaspora. We will explore the historical development of a complex transnational network of temples, associations and monasteries that played a central role in building trust within trading networks, providing sites for the creation of ritual communities, and offering services ranging from religious training to money lending to the maintenance of cemeteries."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3372", "title": "Global Philosophy of Metaphor", "description": "Metaphors are everywhere in plays and poetry. Romeo says that Juliet is the sun and K\u0101lid\u0101sa describes beautiful eyes as lotuses. But we can find metaphors in ordinary speech, too, when we say strictly false things like \u201cThe ATM ate my card.\u201d But what makes a linguistic utterance a metaphor? How do they work? Do they mean anything other than something literally false? What could such a meaning be? And if they don\u2019t communicate other meanings, what are they doing? This course considers theories of metaphor from within three major philosophical traditions India, China, and the broadly analytic tradition."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3373", "title": "New Queer Cinema: Women on Screen", "description": "This course examines representations of queer women in 21C film\u2014from the melodrama, to the romantic comedy, to the period film\u2014in the light of emergent theorisations of a global yet minor lesbian cinema, such as the New Queer Cinema and Queer New Wave. It engages with feminist and queer film theories to critically explore how gender and queer identities are depicted in Hollywood, independent, international, and experimental films. Anchored in an array of films that have proliferated in the last two decades, the course is a study of women\u2019s relationship to sexuality and femininity through the medium of film."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3374", "title": "Formal Logic", "description": "Logic is an important aspect of a student\u2019s philosophical training. The focus of this course is to provide students with enough familiarity with formal logical systems to prepare them for graduate courses in logic. This course covers two formal logical systems: propositional logic (PL) and first-order logic (FOL). Students will be trained in skills such as translating between English and PL/FOL, constructing and using truth tables, and constructing proofs."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3375", "title": "Thomas Aquinas on Evil", "description": "Gluttony, lust, wrath, sloth, greed, envy, and pride. Today, these are known as the seven deadly sins. But in the 13th century, they were known as the capital vices. This course explores the rich tradition of philosophical reflection on these vices through the works of Thomas Aquinas. In particular, this course will focus on Aquinas\u2019s De Malo, in which Aquinas synthesizes medieval Catholic asceticism and Aristotelian natural philosophy to provide an in-depth treatment on all things to do with evil. The questions addressed in this course includes: What makes each of these traits vicious? What sets them apart from other vices? How can we combat these vices in our lives?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3376", "title": "Situations (Contemporary Art in Today\u2019s Society)", "description": "It will give students the opportunity to engage creatively with society through the lens of contemporary art, with a focus on \u201cthe art world\u201d and international exhibition-making. How do artists deal with exhibiting in different contexts like galleries, artist-run spaces, museums, public space, and biennials? The aim is for students to become familiar with diverse methods of exhibiting, by studying shows like Documenta15 and the 59th Venice Biennial to analyze multi-facetted approaches to curatorial and artistic practice. We will discuss the conditions and opportunities of art in society, while working through our individual practices towards a collaborative exhibition project."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3377", "title": "The Document in Image-Making", "description": "Students will examine different facets of the visual document in art, journalism, and photography in\u202fthis seminar-style course. They will be equipped with skills to analyse aspects of truth and realism that straddle documentary image-making and society, each developing and completing a documentary project\u202fduring the course. There will be hands-on production, screenings, discussions and readings into the function and aesthetics of the documentary. Through these, students will learn a range of methodologies. In addition, the course will examine ways through which the documentary can inform, comment on and shape social and political concerns in everyday life."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3378", "title": "Contemporary Populism Logic, Method and Implications", "description": "Even for someone who is very socio-politically apathetic, populism, as a contemporary (political?, cultural? social?) phenomenon is hard to miss. But what exactly is populism? How is it similar (and, how is it different) in (across) the many different social contexts where it is expressed? This course attempts to further our understanding of populism by isolating its logic, its ontological, epistemic and ethical commitments. It also assesses whether a susceptibility to populist pressures inheres in us or is merely an idiosyncratic response to our epoch. Finally, it considers what populism implies for, inter alia, nationalism, liberalism and constitutional democracy."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3379", "title": "The Nature of Rationality", "description": "Is, as is popularly supposed, man a \u2018rational animal\u2019? Since the \u2018animality\u2019 of man is uncontroversial, this course investigates whether he is rational. Towards this end, we first consider what the proper domain of rationality is. Is rationality a property of the goals we have, or of the means we employ to achieve those goals? Or, is rationality best conceived as a property of our beliefs? In either case, we question what constitutes this property of rationality. We then discuss Bayesianism \u2013 the industry standard for rationality \u2013 before reviewing, in its light, the empirical evidence on the rationality of man."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3380", "title": "Justification", "description": "Justification is a central concept in epistemology. For over two thousand years, there has been a prevailing thought that justification, together with true belief, yields knowledge. This course focuses on various topics and debates on the nature of justification, such as foundationalism and non-foundationalism, internalism and externalism, pragmatic encroachment, the nature of evidence."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3381", "title": "Image and Interpretation in Southeast Asian Art History", "description": "Designed as an introduction to the arts of Southeast Asia, this course explores images (sculpted in stone, cast in bronze, printed on clay, or painted) from around the 5th to 15th century, when Hinduism and Buddhism first developed in the region. We examine the creation and use of these religious images in their original contexts, as well as their later histories. Throughout this course, students will engage with major theoretical debates in the art history of Southeast Asia, looking at the history of interpretation of ancient images, as well as their contemporary use by modern nation-states and later artists."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3382", "title": "Singapore Arts In and Through 1997", "description": "This course takes the influence of events that took place in 1997, such as the Asian Financial Crisis, and the Hong Kong Handover, and the socio-economic climate in Singapore, to examine the development of the Singapore art scene in that year. The class will look at artworks, new government art initiatives introduced, the inclusion of Singapore artists in a key international platform, and artistic activities in Singapore in this one year, and how practices of artists have been influenced till today. Besides readings and analyses of exhibitions and artworks, students will meet guest speakers who were part of these activities."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3383", "title": "Art and Climate: Artistic Practice in the Anthropocene", "description": "This course explores the meaning of artistic practices and conceptual methodologies in the face of the climate crisis. How can we process and discuss the challenges of the Anthropocene \u2013 global warming, catastrophic climate change, mass extinction, pollution, sea-level rise, demographic conflicts etc. with artistic means of expression? What esthetic tools need to be studied, developed, invented today? The course offers perspectives on varied approaches to developing artistic agency. It encourages students to use creative media, analytic methodologies, and collaborative structures to become active, while demonstrating manifold forms of practice- and research methods and reaching out to other disciplines, like environmental studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3384", "title": "The Renaissance Library", "description": "Is the library a laboratory of knowledge or its mausoleum? How is knowledge created and destroyed? How did people cope with information overload in the early modern period? This course is about the formation of the individual through the construction of the private study and the institution library. Our historical immersion is late-sixteenth century Europe, a pivotal period of enormous cultural, religious, and technological changes. We will examine literary masterworks\u2014Petrarch, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Cervantes, Marlowe, and explore visual arts of the Renaissance. We will consider other sites of knowledge such as the cabinet of curiosities, museums, anatomy galleries and gardens."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3385", "title": "Early Colonial Singapore: 1819-1867", "description": "This Historical Immersion course will explore life in early Singapore, from 1819-1867. In 1854 the complained that Singapore was a \"small island\" full of the \"very dregs of the population of south-eastern Asia\". This course will examine this complaint and look into the lives and works of British administrators and merchants and the community leaders of different ethnic groups. We will also look into the lives of laborers, opium addicts and sex workers. We will visit historical monuments, churches, temples and mosques built in this period. Singapore Free Press"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3386", "title": "Collaborative Practice and Artist Collectives", "description": "This unit will provide an opportunity to engage with society through the lens of contemporary art, with a focus on collaborative practice and methodologies of artist collectives. How do artists team up to produce work and how are they exhibiting in different contexts: galleries, artist-run spaces, museums, public space, biennials? The aim is to become familiar with manifold methods of artistic collaborations. By studying examples like Documenta15, we analyze multi-faceted approaches to collaborative curatorial and socially engaged practice. We will discuss the conditions and opportunities of art in society, while working through varied artistic practices towards a collaborative exhibition project."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3387", "title": "Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning", "description": "This course covers philosophical problems surrounding Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI and ML), both in their current forms and their possible future iterations. The course will be divided into three large themes. First, the nature of AI and ML: What is AI? How is an AI model different from a traditional scientific model? Second, the epistemological potentials and limitations of AI and ML: Are AI and ML model explainable? If not, can we trust them? Third, the ethical implications of AI and ML: What is responsible AI? No background in computer science is required for the course."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3388", "title": "Topics in Buddhist Philosophy", "description": "Buddhists claim that there is no self, that most or all the things we believe to be real are fleeting and illusory, and our attachment to them is the cause of our anxiety and suffering. They claim that practising no-self radically transforms the way we live and act within the world-we will no longer desire that which harms us, nor feel anger or suffering from being harmed. This course surveys and assesses how no-self arguments were employed by various Buddhist philosophers to draw conclusions about personal identity and agency, the nature of reality, desire and gender, anger and justice, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3389", "title": "The Philosophy and Economics of Bitcoin", "description": "Headlines about bitcoin focus on flashy topics like price, criminal use, and boiling oceans. But behind the hype lies a global monetary system used by millions. In this course, we\u2019ll apply economic and philosophical tools to introduce, situate, and evaluate it. Topics include bitcoin \u2013 the most important cryptocurrency \u2013 and its competitors. Key dimensions of evaluation will include monetary institutions, governance, financial inclusion, privacy, and censorship-resistance. We will not address bitcoin as a vehicle for speculation; our focus is instead on bitcoin itself and how to evaluate it as a new kind of money."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3390", "title": "Modernist America", "description": "While many important figures of \u201chigh modernism\u201d were Americans living abroad, this course examines artistic and literary developments within the United States itself. Following W. E. B. Du Bois\u2019s famous prediction that the problem of the 20th Century would be the \u201ccolor-line,\u201d our readings focus on race and racism, as well as other accounts of difference and belonging. Responding to artists such as Willa Cather, Min\u00e9 Okubo, and Ralph Ellison, this class examines how American modernist works break from their formal precedents to help revise the mythology of an American individual."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3391", "title": "Black Consciousness and the Struggle Against Apartheid", "description": "This Historical Immersion course considers the most important anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s, the Black Consciousness movement. This movement marked a transforming era in Black South African thought, during which thinkers, artists, students, theologians and others tried both to reignite domestic struggle against white supremacy, while also remaking what it meant to be Black in 20th century South Africa."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3392", "title": "Russian and Soviet Art 1757 - Present", "description": "Designed as an introduction to the visual culture of Russia, this course explores images from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, with specific focus on the intersections of aesthetics and politics and their ramifications today. Topics include: Russian empire and academic painting; the professionalization of art, serfdom, and intelligentsia; nineteenth-century critical realism and progressive politics; the impact of Slavic folk culture and Orthodox iconography on modernism; the avant-garde; art and ideology in Soviet society; socialist realism; sots-art, and late Soviet kitsch; capitalism and artistic practice in the age of Putin; protest art and art activism; representations of the Russo-Ukrainian war."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3393", "title": "History and Culture of Southeast Asia", "description": "Situated at one of the most important crossroads of the world, the cultures and civilizations of Southeast Asia have incorporated influences from India, China and Europe into traditions indigenous to the region. Because of its unique position, scholars of Southeast Asia have had to wrestle with issues surrounding interpretations of indigeneity, nationalism, ethnicity, religion, and culture. Through the course, students are expected to familiarize themselves with the scholarship and debates within the field and to demonstrate their understanding of important issues through class discussions (20%), an oral presentation (20%), a short essay (20%), and a final paper (40%)."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3394", "title": "Writing Speculative Fiction", "description": "This course serves as a seminar and writing workshop for students with an interest in non-realist modes of literature, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, slipstream and magical realism. Each week, students will read examples of speculative fiction from across the globe, but with a Southeast Asian focus, exploring the history and the craft of the genre. They will also submit their writing for workshopping, with half the class devoted to collective critique. By the semester\u2019s end, they should have completed a speculative literary project of 4,000 words or more."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3395", "title": "The Object of Modern Drama", "description": ". The theorist Alice Rayner suggests that one can determine the whole world of a play just by looking at its prop list. This course examines those object ensembles and the uncanny artistic lives of props in the context of Euro-American modern drama. The class stages larger critical questions about materiality and the work of art through that art form that relies most directly on the presence of real things and real bodies. Spanning 1850 to 1950, this course examines a transformational period in dramatic and theatre history. A revolver. A rubber hose. A telephone A broken mirror."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3396", "title": "The Witchcraft Trials of Colonial New England", "description": "In 1692, the notorious witchcraft trials took place in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem, however, did not arise out of the blue. This course uses the Salem witchcraft trials to explore the longer history of witchcraft belief, accusation, and prosecution in Europe and the Americas. During the semester, we will study the trials from multiple angles, considering how early modern beliefs about gender, sexuality, the body, religion, magic, and science incited fears about witchcraft. We will also learn about the varied methodological approaches used by historians to interpret the trials."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU3397", "title": "Knowledge", "description": "This course focuses on a series of interlinked questions. First, \u2013 for example, does it require certainty? Second, \u2013 for instance, can we know things by methods like perception and induction? Third, \u2013 what is its normative significance? what is knowledge how much knowledge do we have why does knowledge matter"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4101", "title": "History Capstone Project", "description": "The History Capstone Project is a year-long 5 Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the History major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4102", "title": "Literature Capstone Project", "description": "The Literature Capstone Project is a year-long 10-MC course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the Literature major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4103", "title": "Philosophy Capstone Project", "description": "The Philosophy Capstone Project is a year-long 10-MC module, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory module that students in the Philosophy major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4103A", "title": "Philosophy Capstone Seminar", "description": "The Philosophy Capstone Seminar is a semester-long, 5-Unit course, taken in Semester 1 of Year 4. It is designed exclusively for those students taking the capstone option which involves capstone seminar (this course) and a single 4K Philosophy course."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4104", "title": "Arts and Humanities Capstone Project", "description": "A capstone research project in this major can take different forms, depending on the student\u2019s area of focus. This course supports the implementation of the capstone project through the development of self-regulated research excellence. Arts and Humanities students will pursue their research, construct creative works, and consider methodological issues together to critique and improve each other's written work in a seminar setting. Over the 13 weeks, students will fine-tune research skills as well as oral and written communication skills collaboratively. Experts from The Writers\u2019 Centre, the Library, Arts Spaces and CIPE will also enhance the course."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4206", "title": "The History of History", "description": "Practitioners of every discipline benefit from having an understanding of their discipline\u2019s history. This is especially true for historians, whose work demands an acquaintance with the history of the writing practices and the modes of conceptualizing the past to which they are heirs. Through an engagement with foundational texts from the eighteenth century to the present, this course explores the emergence and development of modern historiography. Students will learn about the diverse ways in which the past has been represented, narrated, and interpreted; they will also examine how historians\u2019 interpretations of the past are themselves imbedded in specific historical contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4207", "title": "Critical Approaches to Art History", "description": "This course is designed as an introduction to the analysis of art as a historical and critical discipline. It is at once historiographical, methodological and theoretical and examines the different approaches that scholars and critics have adopted over the centuries to understand and interpret various artworks. Through a wide range of both classical and current texts, students will acquire the fundamental tools with which to approach the visual arts. The course is specifically aimed at students, who are planning to pursue an art historical topic as part of their senior capstone project in the Arts and Humanities Major."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4212", "title": "The Problem of Evil from the Enlightenment to Auschwitz", "description": "This course examines changing discourses on evil from the eighteenth century to the aftermath of World War II; it explores shifts and developments in literary portrayals of the devil, varieties of theodicy, theories about the nature of human destructiveness, criminality, and the psychology of perpetrators of evil. Through a close reading of major works in philosophy and literature, we will pay particular attention to how understandings of evil have changed over time in response to both large scale socio-cultural transformations and traumatic historical events, such as the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 and the Holocaust."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4214", "title": "Metafiction, Storytelling, and the Literature of Fact", "description": "Advanced Creative Nonfiction will delve into long readings and the creation of original true stories. Students will grapple with landmark books of creative nonfiction, write and revise their own long nonfiction pieces, and deepen their engagement with the different forms inside the genre."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4215", "title": "Advanced Fiction Writing", "description": "This course builds upon the processes and models learned in Introduction to Fiction. A further development and refinement of techniques previously learned will be the focus of this course. There will be readings assigned, but this will mainly be a writing course with weekly writing assignments and peer critiques."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4216", "title": "Advanced Poetry Writing", "description": "This course builds upon the processes and models learned in Introduction to Poetry. A further development and refinement of techniques previously learned will be the focus of this course. There will be readings assigned, but this will mainly be a writing course with weekly writing assignments and peer critiques."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4217", "title": "Novel Evidence:19th-Century British Fiction and the Law", "description": "This course examines the relationship between British fiction and ideas of evidence in the 19th century. Readings are drawn primarily from novels by Austen, Scott, Shelley, Collins, Trollope, Eliot, and Doyle; excerpted 18th- and 19th-century treatises on evidence law; philosophers of British empiricism like Locke and Hume; Victorian court reports; and theories of law and literature."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4218", "title": "Chinese Poetry", "description": "This class will examine the Chinese poetic shi tradition as it evolved from the odes of the Shi jing (Classic of Odes) through the genre\u2019s apogee in the late Tang and northern Song dynasties. All the primary readings will be in the original Classical Chinese, and these will be supplemented by secondary readings in both English and Chinese."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4219", "title": "Doing Things with Words", "description": "With a system of sounds and marks, we human beings are able to share knowledge, coordinate actions, prompt emotional responses, and make things like marriages and names come into existence. This course will consider what Sanskrit and Anglophone philosophers have to say about speech acts. We will start with M\u012bm\u0101\u1e43s\u0101, known as the \u201cscience of sentences\u201d, and think about how commands and exhortations work. We then turn to J.L. Austin\u2019s seminal How to Do Things with Words, which introduced speech act theory to Anglophone philosophy. The course will close with some contemporary attempts to integrate M\u012bm\u0101\u1e43s\u0101 and speech act theory."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4220", "title": "The Political Philosophy of Spinoza", "description": "There has been a recent surge of interest in the political philosophy of Benedict de Spinoza. He has been hailed variously as the originator of an enlightenment more radical than that of the philosophes or as a conservative thinker; as an early champion of liberalism, or as a proto-Marxist materialist; as an atheist hostile to religion or as a defender of religious forms; as an arch-rationalist, or a champion of the imagination. Our task will be to read the original texts on their own terms and navigate the contemporary debates over those texts' significance.\nSatisfies Philosophy major: Skills, Textual Analysis; Historical, Old; Traditions, Western."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4222", "title": "The Historiography of Sima Qian", "description": "As author of the Shiji, China\u2019s first dynastic history, Sima Qian counts as one of the world\u2019s most influential figures in the history of historiography. In this course, we will closely examine his Shiji as a seminal act of historiographical creation, as we study its precursors and innovations, its conventions and literary devices, and its expressed and unexpressed motivations and the way in which such impulses contributed to Sima Qian\u2019s acts of source selection and narrative construction and his critical evaluation of both his evidentiary sources and the historical figures themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4225", "title": "Empire\u2019s Outlaws: Piracy, Privateering, and Smuggling in the Age of Sail", "description": "This course studies figures who engaged in various forms of illicit oceanic commerce during the \u201cgolden age\u201d of sail. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the wealth and warfare triggered by the expansion of European empires generated lucrative opportunities. Operating in vast and largely unregulated oceanic economies, pirates, privateers, and smugglers skirted imperial laws and violated trade regulations. At times, they were punished as outlaws, only to be celebrated as national heroes on other occasions. During the semester, we will study the historical conditions that made illegal trade both attractive and accessible to a large number of people. We will also explore the enduring popularity of these figures in popular culture."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4227", "title": "Ancient Humour: Greece and Rome", "description": "What kinds of humour endure over time? This course examines the\ndifferent genres of humour in ancient literature and their\ncorresponding forms today: political satire in Attic comedy; sitcoms\nin Hellenistic comedy; farce in Roman comedy; \u201cstand up\u201d in first\nperson Roman satire. What does comedy tell us about the dynamics\nof power and gender in ancient cultures and today?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4228", "title": "Oceanic Frameworks: Shifting Currents in Lit. Studies", "description": "Examining regional and transnational oceanic frameworks, including\nMediterranean Studies, Transpacific Studies, Transatlantic Studies\n(including the Black Atlantic) and Indian Ocean Studies, this course asks\nwhat these transoceanic perspectives offer students of literature and the\narts. Oceanic frameworks allow for interdisciplinary work, and can be\ncombined with feminist, queer, eco-critical, digital humanities and\npostcolonial approaches. We will also be exploring the idea of hydropoetics,\nthe creative practice of writing about/on water, and thinking\nabout the ocean as an artistic, cultural and creative space. Incorporating\ntheoretical and fictional texts, this course offers students the opportunity\nto produce a creative final project."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4229", "title": "Plato on Knowing and Being Good", "description": "Knowing makes you a good person, and seeking to know is morally\nimproving. Plato apparently commits himself to these crazy claims.\nWe will investigate why. What is knowledge such that seeking it is\ngood for us? What effect does inquiry have on character? How\nmust we conceive of the good if knowing is not to be merely\ninstrumentally good? Does it matter, morally, which conception of\nknowledge we have? To address this latter question, we will\nconsider the much different epistemology of the Indian Buddhists, who also consider knowledge to be indispensible to the ultimate good."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4231", "title": "Ancient Economies of the Mediterranean and Western Asia", "description": "This 4000 level course introduces students to one of the most discussed fields of ancient history. New work on the ancient economy has called into question the communis opinio on the social structure of pre-modern societies, and is key to an emerging consensus on the very high degree of economic, social, and political complexity of the Ancient World. Using a vast range of diverse and fragmented sources, the course will further introduce students to all key epistemological issues of ancient history."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4233", "title": "Violence, Poetry and the Arts", "description": "This course aims to study creativity in all the circumstances where art and poetry confront violence as a fact of life, whether in the form of violence to oneself or others, or to the environment or to institutions and values. The course draws examples from the history of art and poetry to address a single question: what can art and poetry do about the utter negativity that is violence? The course will aim to study the nature of violence on the scale of the individual and the group, and as having implications for gender, race, sexuality, politics, ideology, and ethics."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4234", "title": "Trauma, Loss, Exile and the Literary Imagination", "description": "Since the colonial conquests of the 19th century that characterised the Arab world\u2019s modern encounter with Europe, the region has been marked by a collective sense of trauma and loss, something that has continued into the 21st century. This course will explore the effects multiple foreign occupations, post-independence authoritarian regimes, and forced displacements have wrought on the literary and cultural production of the Middle East and North Africa. Special attention will be paid to minority writing in the region through the work of Arab Jewish and Christian authors who have often found themselves at the center of extraordinary violence."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4236", "title": "\u201cNew\u201d Media: Inquiries into Literature & Technology", "description": "No more adding of \u201cnew media\u201d, media scholars have cried out over the recent years, to existing things when what we call \u201cold media\u201d was to quip a seminal phrasing, always already new. The same can be said for the communities and publics that media helped form. As \u2018new media\u2019 becomes increasingly ubiquitous in popular and scholarly discourse, we have lost sight of the term\u2019s older origin as the mediation between cultures, politics, identities, and ideologies. Through media theory, literary narratives, films, and artworks, students will learn the post-hermeneutic turn in the humanities, where the idea of \u201ctext\u201d is simply one of the dynamic effects of mediality."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4237", "title": "Chinese Prose", "description": "This class will examine the Chinese prose (sanwen) tradition as it evolved\nfrom early historiographical and philosophical works of the Eastern Zhou\nthrough the collections of literary masters from the Tang, Song, and later\nimperial China. All the primary readings will be in the original classical\nChinese, and these will be supplemented by secondary readings in both\nEnglish and Chinese."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4238", "title": "The Female Image in Japanese Art and Literature", "description": "This course will examine the production, reception and interpretation of female imagery and representations of gender roles for Japanese women through visual images and literary texts from the 11th to the 20th century, with an emphasis leaning towards the modern period. The female image occupies a crucial part in understanding key historical and cultural developments in Japan, such as the evolving influence of Westernization and modernity on Japanese society during the early decades of the 20th century. Students will analyse a wide range of materials ranging from the 11th century novel to literary pieces by renowned modern authors."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4240", "title": "American Modernist Poetry", "description": "This course provides an opportunity for a detailed study of the interface between American poetry of the first half of the 20th century and the concept of literary modernism. A close reading of selections from six major poets will address the following questions: How and why did the major poets of America dominate Western literary culture? What was the unique nature of their contribution to the many ideas and practices that go under the name of Modernism? What are the creative possibilities they explored, whose influence continues to dominate global writing in English in the 21st century?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4242", "title": "The History of the Book in East and Southeast Asia", "description": "This course is primarily concerned with the production, the distribution, and the consumption of texts in East and Southeast Asia. Beginning with the early modern publication of woodblock printed texts, this course explores the social and cultural worlds that developed around the collecting and reading of texts. It examines the transnational nature of the printing industry and the broader implications of changing reading practices."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4243", "title": "Art Studio Research, Experimentation and Critique", "description": "This coursefulfils the advance requirement of the Arts & Humanities major. It aims to bridge 3000 level art studio courses and the Arts Practice Capstone, and investigates topics and practices in the contemporary arts. Students will develop a deeper understanding of its changing contexts, and create a portfolio of in-depth research processes and methods related to their topics of interest during studio hours and weekly critiques. There will be readings on the philosophy and history of art and aesthetics, and artist studio visits. Students will have to plan, exhibit, present, and discuss their works. practice"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4244", "title": "Global Microhistory", "description": "This course introduces students to a new methodological approach to the writing of history that has become increasingly popular in the last ten years . Microhistories uses the lives of ordinary people who were caught up in extraordinary events to narrate broader histories. By focusing on individuals, the microhistory personalizes the past and makes it accessible for a larger audience beyond academia. In this course, we will explore the strengths of this new method and genre. We will compare the microhistory with the biography and historical fiction. We will consider what this mode of historical analysis can accomplish and discuss its limitations. At the end of the course, students will experiment with writing their own global microhistories."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4245", "title": "Perception", "description": "Perception is as important as it is puzzling: it is one of our most fundamental ways of knowing about the world, it is prior to thought in some important sense, it is a form of consciousness, and it is a basic source of knowledge. What is perception, and why does it behave in these ways? In this course, we will critically examine one detailed theory of perception, the dual awareness theory. We will also compare this theory to several leading contemporary theories of perception, including representationalism and naive realism."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4246", "title": "The Population Bomb: Biopolitics & Geopolitics", "description": "The individual and the social body are intimately connected through the faculty of reproduction. Sexual matters are therefore inevitably and intensely political. The growing administration \u2013 or biopolitics \u2013 of the gendered body, of the family as the primary unit of reproduction, and of entire populations and \u2018races\u2019 has been designated a defining threshold of \u2018modernity\u2019. This course will first trace the history of biopolitics and then explore how biopolitics and geopolitics have become steadily more entangled in the 20th and 21st centuries through issues as wide-ranging as ecology, sustainability, development, migration, post-colonialism, religion, governmentality and human rights."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4247", "title": "Museums and Libraries as Cultural Institutions", "description": "Why do we preserve and construct the past? And how do we do it? Museums and libraries are the institutional brains of culture\u2014they collect, store, and display the knowledge and artefacts of world\u2014the sum of the human intellect and imagination. We will examine the histories and sometimes destruction of these two cultural institutions. Our approach will be both historical and theoretical in considering constructions of the universal/global and local/particular, things and ideas, the continuous dialogue between past and present and future. Course includes fieldtrips to the National Library of Singapore and the National Gallery of Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4249", "title": "The Self and Society: The Novel of Development", "description": "Focusing on the so-called Bildungsroman, or novel of development, this course covers a form of novel that emerged in the late 18th century and documented the coming of age of its protagonist. As ideas of selfhood and of the individual\u2019s relationship with society evolved in the context of urbanization, industrialization, gender, and democratic revolution, these novels grappled with what it meant to find, or reject, one\u2019s place in society. Authors might include Goethe, Austen, Stendhal, Balzac, Bront\u00eb, Freytag, Fontane, and Schreiner, as well as 20th-century examplars like Joyce, Woolf, and Dangarembga, and key theorists of the genre."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4251", "title": "Experimental Animation and the Mechanics of Movement", "description": "This course fulfils the advance practice requirement of the Arts & Humanities major. \n\nStudents will be creating, planning, developing, animating, compositing, and rendering their own short film/animation/interactive projects over the semester. These projects integrate animation techniques with the use of industry level software, with emphasis on research and crafting stories into finished moving images, focusing on the history, practice, and experimentations in film and animation. Students will work with professional story tellers, animators, film-makers, media lawyers and producers to improve their techniques and learn about the media industry. This course is meant to develop students\u2019 artistic portfolios and will culminate in a screening at the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4253", "title": "The Global South Novel", "description": "The Global South, emerging from the Cold War era terminology of the \u201cThird World,\u201d is increasingly seen as an alternative to postcolonial or diaspora studies as a framework for studying supranational networks of exchange and co-operation. Combining readings in literary theory with an exhilarating romp through a number of contemporary novels, this course asks how the Global South is defined, what this framework offers students of literature, and what the Global South novel as a genre would look like. We investigate the hypothesis that the Global South novel is one that self-consciously works to imagine transnational subaltern connections or solidarity."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4254", "title": "The Global Renaissance", "description": "We will study the Global Renaissance. We will study the commerce and exchange of ideas, peoples, and goods around the world c. 1500-1700. We will take as a conceit a ship that circumnavigates the world from and to London in 1633. The Bonaventure makes stops Venice, Istanbul, the Caribbean, the Canary Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Philippines, Canton, Nagasaki, Singapore, Goa, Madagascar. At each landfall we will study the cultures and histories of those we come in contact with."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4255", "title": "Borges and Literary Theory", "description": "The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges has had an enormous influence on world literature and literary theory. This course will define Borges\u2019 conception of literature, as expressed in short stories, essays, and poetry, then employ it as a frame for understanding several major developments in literary theory and criticism since the mid-twentieth century. In turn, the course will chart Borges\u2019 diverse literary and philosophical influences. \nKey topics will include: authorship; subjectivity; mimesis; possible worlds; translation; postcolonial theory; modernism and postmodernism; literature and philosophy; literature and science."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4256", "title": "Solidarity and Social Change", "description": "This course undertakes an in-depth study of the concept, value, and practices of solidarity in connection with social change. What different things are meant by \u201csolidarity,\u201d and how do they motivate social change? Must solidarity be grounded in a shared social identity, e.g. race or gender? Do we have moral duties to stand in solidarity with others? What principles should govern solidary groups? Readings will include contemporary book-length treatments of these questions."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4257", "title": "Modernist Women\u2019s Writing: 1910-1939", "description": "This course examines modernist novels from the period 1910 to 1939 in the light of gender politics and sexual difference that formulate an aesthetic based on radicalised models of subjectivity and sexuality\u2014including the New Woman, the fl\u00e2neuse, and the lesbian. Gender manifests itself in a variety of experiments with writing and being in the world, from literary naturalism to highly complex modernist forms. To ground the textual manifestations of gender, every novel will be paired with texts drawn from philosophy, phenomenology, and cognitive studies, with focus on the representation of consciousness, affect and perception, and literary geography."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4258", "title": "TV Sitcom", "description": "This seminar focuses on the American television situation comedy, from its origins in the 1940s to the present. We read television history, visual media theory, and perform close analyses of individual episodes, paying particular attention to such themes as class, gender, family, fantasy, race, sexuality, and war. We consider how sitcoms blend political progressiveness with maintaining the status quo, as they attempt to balance courting hip audiences with ensuring wide viewership. We also note moments when episodes foreground their formal qualities, allowing us to better understand them as works of art."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4259", "title": "Historiography of the Zuo Zhuan", "description": "The Zuo zhuan \u5de6\u50b3 (Zuo commentary) has long been considered the most influential work of both historiography and narrative prose in the entire Chinese tradition. A major source and model for Sima Qian\u2019s Shi ji and the most anthologized work in such Qing-dynasty literary collections as Guwen guanzhi, it is also the single richest source for the study of pre-imperial Chinese history. This course will focus on a close reading of the work as an ideal case study for exploring the writing of history as a creative literary act and the fine boundary that pertains between history and fiction."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4260", "title": "The Annals of Lu Buwei, the First Book of Chinese Empire", "description": "This course, with readings in the original Chinese text, will focus on a close analysis of the Annals of L\u00fc Buwei (L\u00fcshi chunqiu \u5442\u6c0f\u6625\u79cb), within its historical, literary, and philosophical contexts. It will examine the subtle ways in which this major work of philosophical literature amalgamated, integrated, and reformulated an entire world of prior texts and traditions in order to craft an inclusive and comprehensive vision for the rulership of China\u2019s first empire\u2014and in the process forming perhaps the first multi-chapter \u201cbook\u201d in all of Chinese history."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4261", "title": "Theatre Directing", "description": "This practice-based course explores directing live performance. Emphasis is placed on theatre as a phenomenon of space and time, as well as working with actors. Directors stage several short works, then a scene and final project. This praxis is augmented by readings, journaling, and attending a professional production (tickets provided by the college). Early in the course, directors collaborate by performing in one another\u2019s works. For the final project, auditions are held and student actors cast. Final projects may be a scene or original short work. The course explores creativity, expands one\u2019s understanding of performance, and fosters personal growth."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4262", "title": "Buddhists and Brahmins: Kum\u0101rila Bha\u1e6d\u1e6da and Dign\u0101ga", "description": "The seventh century in India was a time of intense philosophical development. Buddhist philosophers and Vedic-affirming brahminical philosophers constructed sophisticated theories to account for our experience of the world, our communicative abilities, and our ability to know. Kum\u0101rila Bha\u1e6d\u1e6da was a powerful proponent of brahminical thought. This course will focus on his engagement with Buddhist thinkers, in particular Dign\u0101ga (rumor has it he studied in a monastary to learn how to defeat them!). We will focus on topics in epistemology and language as well as their implications for what kind of beings we are, and how we should live."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4263", "title": "Chinese Local Society: Religion and Lineage", "description": "This course provides a social history of China in the modern period, emphasizing the role of religious and local associations in the transformations of local society in the Ming and Qing periods. The course will explore the rise of the family-lineage form in China and in the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, while also looking at temples, regional associations, merchant and ritual specialist organizations, and sectarian religious movements."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4264", "title": "Daoism and Chinese Religion", "description": "This course examines the role of religious Daoism within Chinese popular religion over time and across China and into the Chinese diaspora. We will explore the historical development of the Daoist religion from the 2nd century CE onwards through a discussion of the main religious movements such as the Celestial Masters, the Supreme Clarity revelations (4th-5th century), the Precious Treasure revelations, scriptures and liturgies, the Tang synthesis, the Song Heart of Heaven and Divine Empyrean exorcistic movements, the Ming court and its support for Daoism on Wudangshan and throughout the princely households, the Qing regionalisation of Daoist ritual traditions, and the spread of Daoist ritual traditions to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4265", "title": "Extended Research Essay in Literature", "description": "This course is exclusively for those students taking the non-thesis capstone option; it forms the second component along with an additional 5MC Literature course. Students will write an independent extended research essay associated with a 4000-level literature elective. In consultation with a Faculty supervisor, a student will plan to expand an assigned essay into a larger research project that demonstrates similar analytic and formal qualities expected of the Literature capstone thesis, but in a more limited format, of between 5000-5500 words. Students will present on their extended research essay in an end-of-year research symposium."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4266", "title": "Plato on Love and Death", "description": "This course will examine Plato\u2019s interconnected views on epistemology, ethics, and psychology through close readings of two major dialogues, the and the , which focus on love and death. Themes include erotic desire and its relation to virtue and happiness; Forms; varieties of innate knowledge; personal identity; the soul/body relationship; immortality; philosophy as \u201cpractice of dying\u201d; and Plato\u2019s philosophical method(s). Along the way, the course will consider different views on the relation between Socrates and Plato, different approaches to the question of how to read a Platonic dialogue, and competing interpretations of Plato\u2019s views among commentators. Symposium Phaedo"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4267", "title": "The Site of Memory: Fact and Fiction in History Writing", "description": "Participants explore different approaches to writing about the past, including microhistory, historical fiction, and historiographic metafiction. The course material focuses on historical figures who have been traditionally marginalized, including enslaved people, women, and children, and explores the varied methods employed by novelists and historians to recover and narrate their lives. Chosen texts include microhistories, historical fiction novels, and theoretical readings about method and craft. Students conduct research and craft their own short fiction or microhistory, rendering an historical moment inspired by the course material from the perspective of a real but lesser-known figure from the past. Part 1: Part 2:"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4268", "title": "Portraiture", "description": "What is portraiture? This class will equip students with means to conceptualise and develop photographic portraits over the semester. Students will make portraits through exercises using lighting and visual tropes and methods in portraiture. There will also be readings, screenings and visual analyses to enable them to consider different genres of portraiture, and their relationship to society, identity, visual representation and the self. This course will develop students\u2019 artistic portfolios and will culminate in an exhibition at the end of the semester. Students are required to have working knowledge of camera handling."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4269", "title": "Taoist and Buddhist Apocalypses", "description": "This course examines the role of religious Daoism within Chinese popular religion over time and across China and into the Chinese diaspora. We will explore the historical development of the Daoist religion from the 2nd century CE onwards through a discussion of the main religious movements such as the Celestial Masters, the Supreme Clarity revelations (4th-5th century), the Precious Treasure revelations, the Song exorcistic movements, and the spread of Daoist ritual traditions to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. A major theme will be the pursuit of the Millennium in Buddhist and Taoist sources. Comparisons will be drawn with apocalyptic traditions in Euro-America."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4270", "title": "Creative Projects: Translating the Past", "description": "Participants explore different approaches to writing historical fiction and microhistories. The course material focuses on historical figures who have been traditionally marginalized and explores the varied methods employed by novelists and historians to recover and narrate their lives. Chosen texts include microhistories, historical fiction novels, and theoretical readings about method and craft. Part 1: Students conduct historical research and craft their own short fiction rendering an historical moment inspired by the course material from the perspective of a real but lesser-known figure from the past. Part 2:"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4271", "title": "Creative Projects: Life-writing, Environment, & Objects", "description": "Participants explore different approaches to lifewriting, focusing especially on the ways we can tell a life through the objects and places associated with it. We start by discussing how writers understand their subjects, and how they can borrow from different media and mediums in order to ask fundamental questions about the self. Part 1: Students complete a creative project in which they tell a specific life story through the lens of a carefully curated object or series of objects in the character\u2019s environment. Part 2:"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4272", "title": "Aristotle on Happiness: The Nicomachean Ethics", "description": "This course will examine Aristotle\u2019s views on the nature of happiness () and the happy life through a close reading of the bulk of the . Main topics include Aristotle\u2019s views on happiness as an ultimate end; the human function; ethical education; the ethical and intellectual virtues; ethical vices and ethically deficient states of character; practical and contemplative wisdom; the choiceworthiness of friends and other external goods; pleasure; and contemplation. Along the way, the course will consider competing interpretations of Aristotle\u2019s views among commentators, both ancient and modern, and the \u2019 reception among philosophers in other traditions. eudaimonia Nicomachean Ethics Nicomachean Ethics"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4273", "title": "Literature at Sea", "description": "The ocean accounts for most of the earth\u2019s surface, but literature has long been organized in terrestrial formations, read and taught along national or continental lines. This course takes a more fluid approach, inspired by the \u201cblue humanities.\u201d In response to rising seas and the climate crisis, this class turns to sea literature to help make sense of our precarious relationship to the water and to what the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman broadly calls our \u201cliquid modernity.\u201d Readings range from distant classical shipwrecks to contemporary responses to our nearer seas, such as those by Rachel Heng and Charles Lim Yi Yong."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4274", "title": "Documenting Singapore Drama", "description": "This course connects theater and documentary. It begins with a study of the kinds of performance that Carol Martin calls \u201cthe theatre of the real,\u201d that is, documentary, verbatim, or nonfiction plays that draw on the world in order to creatively respond to it. Adapting these plays\u2019 own documentary methods, we turn to the broader questions of how performance can be documented and how theater\u2019s past can be engaged. Relying on Singapore plays as our principal archive, we document our current artistic moment while collectively constructing new histories for Singapore drama."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4275", "title": "African History Through Fiction", "description": "This course considers African History from the late precolonial period (circa 1870s \u2013 1880s) to the present day. Rather than approach this through traditional historical sources alone, students\u2019 primary responsibility will be to read novels by African writers (with one exception) and to analyse the novels in light of contextual historical information given by the instructor in bi-weekly meetings, as well as primary and secondary readings."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4276", "title": "Explanation and Causation", "description": "Explanation and causation are among the most important topics in philosophy of science. Most of our discussions will be on what philosophers of science say about these things, but we will also have readings from metaphysicians and epistemologists. Questions that will be covered in the course include: What are explanations? What are causes? Must every fact have an explanation? Can there be an infinite chain of causes? What makes an explanation good or bad? What are the logical properties of causal statements?"}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4277", "title": "Material Knowledge and Photographic Experimentation", "description": "This class takes the evolution of photographic materiality as a basis for artistic experimentation. Light to print to digital circulation are a part of the evolution of photographic materiality and society\u2019s understanding of photography. In this class, students will study evolving photographic forms, from the photogravure, to the visual nuances of film, to digital imaging. They will continuously experiment to create works that consider what a photograph can be. In this way, they will gain a working and theoretical knowledge of the ways that form and craft inform the experience of photography. Basic knowledge of SLR camera handling and Photoshop required."}, {"moduleCode": "YHU4278", "title": "Daoist Philosophy", "description": "This is a course on the two primary texts of Daoist philosophy, as well as the primary editors and commentators of the texts. We will read both the and in-depth, as well as look at approaches to these texts in current scholarship. By the end of the course, students are expected to have gained knowledge of the primary issues and concepts in Daoist philosophy. Daodejing Zhuangzi"}, {"moduleCode": "YID1201", "title": "Introduction to Environmental Studies", "description": "This course introduces students to the field of environmental studies. We explore the core concerns of the field, its history, its primary methods of analysis, and a number of pressing environmental challenges to human well-being. We also examine how insights from the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences can be integrated to analyze environmental problems and generate responses to them."}, {"moduleCode": "YID2201", "title": "Theory and Practice of Environmental Policymaking", "description": "An introduction to the tools, methods, and theory of effective environmental policymaking at the local, national, regional, and global level, with primary\nfocus on governmental policies. Students will explore the interplay of politics and policy to develop an understanding of the drivers of successful environmental policymaking from a comparative perspective. This course is a prerequisite for subsequent environmental-studies policy and policymaking courses."}, {"moduleCode": "YID2207", "title": "Social Theory and the Environment", "description": "This foundational course in environmental studies introduces students to social theories applicable to socio-ecological problems. It equips students with the theoretical knowledge for social scientific analysis expected in upper-level environmental studies courses and the capstone project. As an interdisciplinary course, students will be introduced to concepts and theories in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, political ecology, and science and technology studies, among others."}, {"moduleCode": "YID2212", "title": "Data Science for the Environment", "description": "Data is the new oxygen. Understanding how to use and analyse it is the most critical skill of the 21st century. Particularly for the environment, which brings together a multitude of complex systems and phenomena, we need to be equipped to derive clear signals from oceans of noise and from vast amounts of data that are being generated on a daily basis to underpin sound policy choices and scientific inquiry. This course will introduce students to analyse quantitative environmental data using R and give an overview of foundational and cutting-edge data science techniques."}, {"moduleCode": "YID2213", "title": "Urban Agriculture", "description": "Urban agriculture is a burgeoning movement not just in the Euro-Americas, but also in much of the global South. This course explores the theories and practices of urban agriculture with attention to its social, cultural, political, and material dynamics. Students will not only learn concepts in sustainable food production and the developments and debates in the urban agriculture movement, but also gain skills and experience in growing their own food."}, {"moduleCode": "YID2214", "title": "Plants and People", "description": "Plants and people have interacted for thousands of years. Plants have served as sources of food, shelter, medicine, and fibre, while humans have changed the abundance, distribution, disturbance and genetic makeup of plants. We will draw upon both basic biology and applied historical, anthropological, and artistic perspectives to explore these relationships. The course will be a mix of lectures, discussions and local field trips."}, {"moduleCode": "YID2215", "title": "The Ecology of Food", "description": "Food and ecology are inextricably linked through the production of domesticated food through agriculture and livestock and in the harvesting of wild plants and animals. The production and consumption of food has downstream consequences through energy consumption, food waste, trophic interactions and transportation of food worldwide. These topics link to many of the fundamental concepts of ecology, including population biology, the niche, trophic interactions, nitrogen cycling and the effects on biodiversity. This course explores each of these topics intensely through lectures, guest lectures, readings and interactive field trips to local systems."}, {"moduleCode": "YID2216", "title": "Foundations of Environmental History", "description": "What does it mean to do environmental history in the age of climate change and biodiversity loss? What sources, methods, and approaches are available for students to make sense of the past not as a foreign country, but as an enduring resource for knowing the present and mapping the future? This course explores these timely questions through the growing field of environmental history, paying particular attention to how scholars study the arc of human-nature interactions in Singapore and Southeast Asia around three themes: land, water, and air."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3202", "title": "Special Topics in Environmental Studies", "description": "An exploration of an environmental topic or theme of relevance to upperlevel\nstudents in environmental studies. The topics covered within the course\nwill be detailed in the syllabus given to a student in advance of the course.\nThe faculty teaching the course will change and as such topics will change\naccording to their specialisms and interests. For Semester One in 2015/2016, Professor Wargo from the Environmental Science program at Yale College\nwill offer a specialized course on food issues."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3202B", "title": "Special Topics in Environmental Studies", "description": "An exploration of an environmental topic or theme of relevance to upperlevel students in environmental studies. The topics covered within the course will be detailed in the syllabus given to a student in advance of the course. The faculty teaching the course will change and as such topics will change according to their specialisms and interests."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3202F", "title": "Special Topic: Ocean and Society in Southeast Asia", "description": "While Asian waters are at the heart of our geopolitical world, from unending resource wars to widening biological hotspots, they have figured little more than linkages between lands in today\u2019s area studies and regional histories. This course aims to help students better understand not only the historical web of human-ocean interactions in Southeast Asia but also the challenges that confront today\u2019s regional society in the age of climate change. The hope of the course is for us to think through what it might mean and what it might look like to anchor what scholars have called the \u201cblue humanities\u201d in Southeast Asian waters."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3202H", "title": "Special Topics: Asia's Edible Ocean", "description": "An exploration of an environmental topic or theme of relevance to students with interests in environmental studies. The topics covered within the course will be detailed in the syllabus given to a student in advance of the course. The faculty teaching the course will change and as such topics will change according to their specialisms and interests. For Semester Two of AY 2019-20, Professor Medrano will offer a 3000level course on the production and consumption of Asia\u2019s marine food resources. Please see https://envs.yale-nus.edu.sg/programme/ay-20192020-envstudies-courses/ for more information and a sample syllabus."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3205", "title": "Global Environmental Governance", "description": "An analysis of several transnational environmental issues with special focus on how these issues have shaped, and are shaping, domestic and international political relations. Particular attention is devoted to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary efforts to forge enduring systems of global environmental governance. Special topics include the global climate regime, transnational biodiversity protocols, governance at various levels of scale, and analytic and activist challenges to mainstream strategies for establishing effective global environmental governance."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3206", "title": "Agrarian Change and Environmental Transformations", "description": "This seminar focuses on changes in agriculture and environment now underway in rural areas around the world. Students are introduced to work of scholars, practitioners and activists focusing on the deepening links among rural poverty, food insecurity, social injustice, environmental degradation, and climate change. Drawing on cases from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, we explore the social, political, economic, cultural and material processes that drive change in agrarian societies and environments. Topics include the\nGreen Revolution and its legacies, neoliberalization of agriculture, land grabbing in the 21st century, peasant movements and resistance, and the rise of \u201calternative\u201d agri-food systems."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3207", "title": "China\u2019s Energy and Environmental Sustainability", "description": "This course examines China\u2019s key energy and environmental challenges as they relate both within China and abroad. Using a flipped classroom model, this course will be jointly offered with the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3208", "title": "Environmental Movements: Past, Present and Future", "description": "This course covers the philosophy, goals, and strategy of environmental movements. Students explore case studies of a diverse array of environmental movements across time and place, such as recycling, conservationist, deep ecology, anti-nuclear, anti-consumerist, and corporate social responsibility campaigns. The final project asks students to analyse an ongoing movement in detail and recommend effective strategies for increasing global sustainability."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3209", "title": "Climate Science and Policy", "description": "Climate change -perhaps the defining issue of the 21st century- is a highly complex problem that requires interdisciplinary collaboration to develop policy responses. This course explores the science of climate change and uses theories from multiple disciplines, including law, political science, economics, and earth and atmospheric sciences to frame solutions to this global challenge. Through the application of quantitative tools (e.g. climate modelling, atmospheric and earth sciences) and qualitative tools (e.g. global environmental governance theory), students will establish an understanding of the causes and impacts of climate change, as well as the policy options and responses to address it."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3210", "title": "Energy Humanities: Culture, Energy, and the Environment", "description": "This course draws upon new research across the arts, humanities and social sciences to help students better understand the cultural and social dimensions of our currents patterns of energy use, their environmental impacts, and the possibility of new energy futures. More generally, the course introduces students to the field of environmental humanities, and models the contributions of the humanities to a deeper understanding of environmental issues."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3211", "title": "Ecological Economics", "description": "An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of ecological economics, which integrates ecological principles into traditional economic theory. We will examine the historical development of economics as a discipline, explore the differences between ecological and environmental economics, and investigate a set of cases using principles in ecological economics. This course will include concepts from other fields, especially physics, philosophy, ecology, and public policy."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3212", "title": "Risk and Geohazard", "description": "The world is a risky place. Every year, natural hazards affect millions of people, with increasingly expensive losses. This course explores risk associated with geophysical phenomena. Are there more hazardous events now than in the past? Are these events somehow more energetic? Or are increasing populations with increasingly disparate incomes being exposed to hazards? What physical, economic, political and social tools can be employed to reduce this risk? We draw on examples from recent disasters, both rapid onset (earthquakes, tsunamis, cyclones), and slow onset (climate change, famine) to examine complex and interlinked vulnerabilities in the coupled human-environment system."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3213", "title": "Environmental Conflict and Collaboration", "description": "This course provides environmental studies majors with the foundations to analyze and manage conflicts and disputes, as well as collaborative and deliberative endeavours associated with complex socio-ecological problems. It provides students with the theoretical knowledge and skills needed for the analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of conflict management systems and collaborative decision-making processes."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3214", "title": "Urban Ecological Systems", "description": "With an increasingly urbanised human population the interaction of nature with the built environment and its human inhabitants is emerging as one of the greatest sources of both opportunity and inertia to goals of sustainability. In this course you will consider the extent to which urbanisation has changed natural ecosystems and led to the rise of a new urban ecology, and consider how humans can value and manage this in a socio-ecological context. We will then address how the confluence of climate change, globalisation and urbanisation are fundamentally altering our living space and the implications for human health and wellness."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3216", "title": "Environment, Development and Mobilisation in Asia", "description": "Asia is known for its fast-paced economic growth and dramatic scenes of environmental devastation. This course explores societal perception, anxiety, and action in response to environmental change and economic development in the region. How do some communities resist environmentally controversial development projects, and why do others embrace these projects? How do non-governmental organisations bridge \u201cWestern\u201d ideas about environmental human rights with their own cultural traditions? And how have experts, artists, and businesses joined the action? We explore these questions through historical and contemporary case studies that illuminate the ongoing debate about economic development versus environmental sustainability in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3218", "title": "Singapore Biodiversity: Past, Present and Future", "description": "The study of biodiversity is inextricably related to the history of science and society. This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinarity of Singapore\u2019s natural world by connecting the stories of environmental history to the specializations of biodiversity research. It will expose students to the multiple aspects of Singapore\u2019s biodiversity, combining the rigor of scientific concepts and field methods with the wealth of historical perspectives and cultural analyses. While the course focuses on the past and present of Singapore\u2019s natural world, it also highlights the role of environmental history and biodiversity research in addressing future environmental challenges."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3219", "title": "Volcanos, Climate, and Society in the 19th Century", "description": "The course examines the scientific and historical evidence for climate change associated with a pair of 19th century volcanic eruptions in modern-day Indonesia. The most famous of these eruptions is that of Krakatoa in 1883, but Tambora\u2019s eruption in 1815 was substantially larger, as was its apparent effect on global climate. The course will examine differences in the state of the world in 1815 and 1883 that help explain Krakatoa\u2019s fame. We will also examine speculative claims about the social and historical impact of each eruption and its associated climate change."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3220", "title": "The Ethics and Politics of Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change", "description": "Increasingly, young people around the world are asking questions about the ethics and politics of having children in the age of climate change. This course will focus on relevant considerations to these questions, such as the sociology of reproduction; ethical considerations about what we owe future generations and what individuals owe their children; the carbon footprint of reproduction; concerns about \u201coverpopulation\u201d; the role of individual choices in responding to climate change; how these questions are different (and differently felt) for people based on factors, such as nationality and class; adoption; challenges to the heteronormative family structure; and visions of the future. We will analyse research from environmental studies, sociology, women\u2019s and gender studies, and philosophy, and also engage with relevant literature and film."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3221", "title": "Wildlife Forensics and the Shark Fin Trade", "description": "Sharks are keystone species, unfortunately global demand for shark products fuel a >US$1 billion industry that has caused dramatic declines in shark populations. A major obstacle preventing successful regulation of the shark fin trade and shark conservation is the mislabelling and/or misidentification of dried products or carcasses that have had fins removed. We will use DNA barcoding techniques to identify the sharks traded in Singapore. Previous molecular experience is not required. With the data generated we will produce a scientific paper for publication."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3222", "title": "Planetary Health", "description": "The health of humans is inextricably related to the health of the planet. Our natural environments are being degraded to the extent their ability to provide the vital services that humanity relies upon are becoming compromised. This course explores how the planet\u2019s physical, chemical and biological systems affect human health, and addresses solutions to reduce suffering. Learning will embrace diverse scientific and sociological concepts, and students will be expected to integrate concepts from different disciplines to address key issues. Specific topics will include emerging infectious diseases, air pollution, water scarcity and food production."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3223", "title": "Powering the Planet", "description": "An overview of contemporary energy issues covering economic, engineering, environmental, and policy implications of competing global energy trajectories. Patterns of energy demand and supply across Asia will receive particular attention."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3224", "title": "Empires and Environments", "description": "Colonialism and imperialism dramatically transformed societies and environments around the world, creating a legacy that continues to shape human and non-human relations. Environmental studies and the academic disciplines that enrich it emerged from this colonial project of exploitation and hegemony. In this course, students will interrogate the histories of environmental transformations during colonisation, and their cultural, political, economic, and material aftermaths. Students will also explore how the postcolonial world negotiates these colonial and imperial environmental legacies and consider the implications for the practice of \"environmental studies\" and efforts to decolonise environmental scholarship and practice."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3225", "title": "Forest Restoration", "description": "This course introduces students to the science and practice of forest landscape restoration (FLR). As a field of inquiry and a body of practice, FLR aims to enhance ecological functionality and human well-being across degraded or deforested forest landscapes. Through classroom inquiry, field investigation, and analysis of data from restoration projects, students in this course explore how the ecological restoration of forest and tree cover in tropical landscapes (urban and rural) can maintain, improve, or restore biodiversity and vital ecological functions. Students also investigate the role of scientific research for evaluating existing FLR strategies and developing new ones."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3226", "title": "Capitalist Nature: Tensions of a Commodified World", "description": "The course grapples with the socio-ecological tensions of the global spread of capitalist social relations since the nineteenth century, focusing on the post-World War II era of \u201cdevelopment\u201d as one involving both prospects and pitfalls for actors at various scales (e.g., individuals, nation-states, regions). A central focus is on the ambivalent ramifications of the global commodification of nature during this period. Topics include, among others, \u201cdevelopment\u201d under hyper-urbanisation, natural resource \u201cparadoxes,\u201d the global \u201cmeatification\u201d of diets, the state\u2019s unique \u201coptics\u201d vis-a-vis the socio-natural world, and tensions inherent to the modern health industry."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3227", "title": "Religion and the Environment", "description": "This class explores religious worldviews and how they are shaped by, and used by humans to shape, earthen ecosystems, past and present. The class adopts an interdisciplinary lens grounded in religion and nature theory to analyze how religious rituals, doctrines, material culture, concepts of the \u201csacred,\u201d and texts are constructed and performed by humans to make sense of the more-than-human world, while investigating how such religious production is informed and constrained by the environment. The course consists of case study analysis, ecological hermeneutics of sacred texts, and exploring leading theoretical approaches to the academic study of religion and the environment."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3228", "title": "Sustainability Law and Policy", "description": "Sustainability has been a growing buzzword in recent years. Notably, governments, organisations and individuals are acknowledging its importance and stepping up efforts towards sustainable development and transformation. Law and policy play a critical role in this major endeavour that humanity is collectively embarking on. Through this course, students explore a range of sustainability themes from the lens of law and policy and discover the role of law and policy vis-\u00e0-vis sustainability. They will also be exposed to real-world insights and challenges, with a focus on Singapore while comparatively studying selective models in other jurisdictions."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3229", "title": "Climate Hope and Resiliency", "description": "This course explores how communities and institutions are proactively responding to the climate crisis, and what types of tactics are being successful in creating climate resilient and regenerative businesses and communities. The course also interrogates and analyzes various motivations of climate activists, with a focus on those in Asia, including youth activists, seeking to understand their motivations and tactical choices; and will also engage with literature on climate social movements and activism, broadly. An analysis of various literary sources on climate emotions will contextualise their \u2013 and, indeed, our own \u2013 strategies for dealing with climate anxiety and grief and, equally, for nurturing climate hope."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3230", "title": "Asia, Development, and Environment", "description": "Since 1839, Pacific Asia has undergone a socio-ecological transformation whose turbulence and implications are world-historically unprecedented. Drawing on fields such as environmental sociology, political economy, and critical development studies, the course examines the region\u2019s violent insertion into the capitalist world-system in the wake of the Opium Wars and its subsequent unfolding under Japanese colonialism, US \u2018developmentalism\u2019, and Asian Stalinism. While the focus is on northeast Asian hegemonic dynamics, the course contextualises the ambivalence of the new qualitative trajectory in nature-society relations that was forged during this period, especially in \u201cnewly industrialised countries\u201d like Singapore and South Korea."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3231", "title": "Time, Space, Nature: Critical Geographies", "description": "The hegemonic rise of capitalist social relations over the past five centuries has yielded historically specific conceptions of seemingly ontological categories of the human condition: i.e., viewing time as , space as , and nature as , , and . Emphasising theory, history, and culture in equal measure, the course examines the origins and workings of these conceptions through the themes of uneven geographical development, nature-society relations, and the forms of consciousness unique to capitalism. Although interdisciplinary in character, the course highlights the explanatory power of the \u201chistorical-geographical materialist\u201d tradition within critical human geography. linear flat external limitless fungible"}, {"moduleCode": "YID3232", "title": "The Nature of the State", "description": "The course examines the modern state as an inherently environment-making entity within the rising nation-state system. Drawing on a variety of critical perspectives, it examines how the state is, in the words of James C. Scott, a \u201cvexed institution that is the ground of both our freedoms and our unfreedoms.\u201d The course explores these socio-ecological tensions through post-World War II case studies of authoritarian high modernist \u201cfailures,\u201d as well as the \u201csuccesses\u201d of Asia\u2019s so-called \u201cdevelopmental states.\u201d Finally, it reflects on the prospects and pitfalls of the state (system) in addressing mounting existential crises \u2013 namely, climate change."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3233", "title": "Ecovillages and Ecotopias", "description": "This course investigates both imagined and applied/material approaches and lifeways for generating resilient, climate just ways of living in the Anthropocene. It does so by learning about the historical development and biophysical/biosocial practice of creating ecovillages, part of the larger intentional community movement. Students will gain a theoretical understanding of ecovillages; critically examine the strengths and weaknesses of the ecovillage movement from various perspectives; and place the movement within the larger history of humans imagining utopic communities\u2014this time, ecotopic ones."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3234", "title": "Environmental Policy Analysis", "description": "Environmental Policy Analysis is a foundational course in policy analysis applied in the broad contexts of human-environment interactions. Students will be introduced to a suite of quantitative policy analytical tools and learn to apply them across environmental and resource management challenges to gain a deeper understanding of their respective strengths and weaknesses. This course will help students appreciate why similar challenges are addressed by different solutions across diverse country contexts, and why policies frequently do not achieve their objectives and instead result in negative unintended consequences."}, {"moduleCode": "YID3235", "title": "Time, Space, Nature: Critical Geographies", "description": "The hegemonic rise of capitalist social relations over the past five centuries has yielded historically specific conceptions of seemingly ontological categories of the human condition: i.e., viewing time as linear, space as flat, and nature as external, limitless, and fungible. Emphasising theory, history, and culture in equal measure, the course examines the origins and workings of these conceptions through the themes of uneven geographical development, nature-society relations, and the forms of consciousness unique to capitalism. Although interdisciplinary in character, the course highlights the explanatory power of the \u201chistorical-geographical materialist\u201d tradition within critical human geography."}, {"moduleCode": "YID4101", "title": "Environmental Studies Capstone Project", "description": "The is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic. Environmental Studies Capstone Project Environmental Studies"}, {"moduleCode": "YID4202", "title": "Environmental Research Paper", "description": "This seminar guides environmental studies students in conducting a short research project and writing an independent research paper on a topic related to their declared area of specialisation. The course is required for all students majoring in environmental studies who choose Option 2 of the capstone track and is open only to those students."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL1201B", "title": "Directed Language Study: Beginning Bangla 1", "description": "This course is designed for students who want an effective, comprehensive approach to learning Bangla (or Bengali) that will enable them to develop all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. At the completion of this course, students will be able to converse and interact in informal and formal situations, describe happenings and events, give and receive information; and read and write in Bangla with some confidence. Instruction will be delivered via teleconference from India."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL1201I", "title": "Directed Language Study: Beginning Italian 1", "description": "Beginning Italian 1 is designed to help students develop a basic ability to read, write, understand, and speak Italian as well as to expand their cultural competency. Since all linguistic skills cannot be fully developed in one semester alone, stress will be placed on the acquisition of basic structures, which will be developed and reinforced in subsequent courses. The course will be conducted in Italian via teleconference from Yale."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL1201R", "title": "Directed Language Study: Beginning Russian 1", "description": "Beginning Russian 1 is designed to help students develop a basic ability to read, write, understand, and speak Russian as well as to expand their cultural competency. Since all linguistic skills cannot be fully developed in one semester alone, stress will be placed on the acquisition of basic structures, which will be developed and reinforced in subsequent courses. The course will be conducted in Russian via teleconference from Yale."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL1201S", "title": "Directed Language Study: Beginning Sanskrit", "description": "This course offers four hours a week of language instruction in Sanskrit for beginners. Instruction will cover the writing systems, vocabulary, and syntax of classical Sanskrit texts. Students will achieve a basic reading level by the end of the semester. The course will be taught via teleconference."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL1202B", "title": "Directed Language Study: Beginning Bangla 2", "description": "This course is the continuation of Bangla 1 and is designed for students who want an effective, comprehensive approach to learning Bangla (or Bengali). At the completion of this course, students will be able to converse and interact in informal and formal situations, describe happenings and events, give and receive information; and read and write in Bangla with some confidence. Instruction will be delivered via teleconference from India."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL1202I", "title": "Directed Language Study: Beginning Italian 2", "description": "Beginning Italian 2 is a continuation of Beginning Italian 1 and builds upon what students learned in their first semester. It is designed to help students expand their basic ability to read, write, understand, and speak Italian as well as to deepen their cultural competency. Stress will be placed on the acquisition of basic structures, which will be developed and reinforced in subsequent modules. The course will be conducted in Italian via teleconference from Yale."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL1202R", "title": "Directed Language Study: Beginning Russian 2", "description": "Beginning Russian 2 is a continuation of Beginning Russian 1 and builds upon what students learned in their first semester. It is designed to help students expand their basic ability to read, write, understand, and speak Italian as well as to deepen their cultural competency. Stress will be placed on the acquisition of basic structures, which will be developed and reinforced in subsequent courses. The course will be conducted in Italian via teleconference from Yale."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL2201I", "title": "Directed Language Study: Intermediate Italian 1", "description": "Intermediate Italian 1 is designed to increase students\u2019 proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, and overall comprehension of the language. This course is aimed at students who have completed the beginning sequence or have had significant experience with the language. It offers a combination of listening and speaking practice with a review of key concepts of Italian grammar via targeted reading and writing activities. This couse continues to incorporate cultural elements through representative readings and films. The course will be conducted in Italian via teleconference from Yale."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL2201S", "title": "Directed Language Study: Intermediate Sanskrit", "description": "This course offers four hours a week of language instruction in Sanskrit for students who have completed Beginning Sanskrit or have a similar command of the language. Instruction will continue developing their knowledge of the writing systems, vocabulary, and syntax of classical Sanskrit texts. Students will strengthen their reading level by working with a variety of texts. The course will be taught via teleconference."}, {"moduleCode": "YIL3201S", "title": "Directed Language Study: Advanced Sanskrit", "description": "The goal of this course is to give students the ability to read literary texts in classical Sanskrit. To that end, this course will focus on selections from a variety of Sanskrit literary and philosophical texts (e.g., Somadeva tales, \u015aatakas of Bhart\u1e5bihari, the S\u0101n\u0307khyak\u0101rik\u0101 of \u012a\u015bvarakr\u0323s\u0323n\u0323a, and the K\u0101vyaprak\u0101\u015ba of Mammat\u0323a). This course will also discuss a number of advanced and rare grammatical forms in Sanskrit, as and when they come in the selected readings. Using skills developed in the basic and intermediate levels of the language, students will translate and discuss the relevant sections throughout the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3301", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3301G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3302", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3302G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3303", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3303G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3304", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3304G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3305", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3305G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3306", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3306G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3307", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3307G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3308", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3308G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3309", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3309G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3310", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3310G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3311", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3311G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the\nclose guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3312", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3312G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the\nclose guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3313", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the\nclose guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3313G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the\nclose guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3314", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3314G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3315", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3315G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3316", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3316G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3317", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3317G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3318", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3318G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3319", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3319G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3320", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3320G", "title": "Independent Reading and Research", "description": "Independent study in an area of special interest to the student(s), with the close guidance of a faculty member, leading to a final project/product."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3401", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3401G", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3402", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3402G", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3403", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3403G", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3404", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3404G", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3405", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR3405G", "title": "Independent Language Study and Research", "description": "This course is intended for an individual or small group of students \u2013 ordinarily 1-2 students\u2013 who would like to work with texts and other materials in a language other than English. Students should clearly articulate the goals of their project and what they aim to achieve by the end of the semester. ILSR projects should go beyond reading the assigned materials from another course in their original language."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4301", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4301G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4302", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4302G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4303", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4303G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4304", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4304G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4305", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4305G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4306", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4306G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4307", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4307G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4308", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4308G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4309", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4309G", "title": "Special Project in Science", "description": "This course provides academic credit of major research projects conducted by students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus requires unusually strong preparation in science. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Science Division before the course is selected."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4401", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4401G", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4402", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4402G", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4403", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4403G", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4404", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4404G", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4405", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4405G", "title": "Special Project in Humanities", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the Humanities. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Humanities Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4501", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4501G", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4502", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4502G", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4503", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4503G", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4504", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4504G", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4505", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YIR4505G", "title": "Special Project in Social Sciences", "description": "This course provides academic credits for major research projects conducted independently by individual students prior to the Capstone project. The scope and depth of the research should be at the level of a Capstone project, and thus require students to have prior research methods training in the social sciences. All projects must be approved by the Director of the Social Sciences Division."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC1201", "title": "Beginning Chinese 1", "description": "A Beginning Chinese course in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Modern Standard Chinese. The student will learn pinyin, basic grammar, and a limited set of characters to understand basic everyday conversations and elementary readings. The course is designed for the absolute beginners and intended primarily for non-heritage students with no previous exposure to Chinese."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC1202", "title": "Beginning Chinese 2", "description": "This course is designed for 1) students who already possess some proficiency in spoken Chinese but no formal education in Chinese; 2) students returning from summer study abroad programs; and 3) non-heritage students with prior coursework in Chinese who wish to further develop their reading and writing skills in Chinese. Students will take a placement test prior to the beginning of the course."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC2201", "title": "Intermediate Chinese 1", "description": "This course is designed for students who completed First year Chinese (two\nsemesters: YLC1201 & 1202) or have equivalent Chinese proficiency. It\nemphasizes on the ability to communicate and function accurately and\nappropriately in Modern Chinese. Students will take a placement test. The\ncourse aims to develop students by: (1) acquiring basic knowledge and\ncommunicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing Chinese; (2) gaining solid understanding of the cultural and social context of Chinese; (3)\ndeveloping research skill to understand Chinese texts and culture by using\nChinese input system and online dictionary, as well as useful online\nresources."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC2202", "title": "Intermediate Chinese 2", "description": "This course is designed for students who completed Intermediate Chinese 1 (YLC2201) or have equivalent Chinese proficiency. It emphasizes the ability to communicate and function accurately and appropriately in Modern Chinese. Students will take a placement test prior to the beginning of the course. The course aims for students to: (1) acquire basic knowledge and communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing Chinese; (2) gain solid understanding of the cultural and social context of Chinese; (3) develop research skill to understand Chinese texts and culture by using Chinese input system and online dictionary, as well as useful online resources."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC3203", "title": "Advanced Chinese 1", "description": "This course, together with Advanced Chinese 2, bridges the gap between our current offerings of intermediate and advanced-level Chinese, serving students who have completed YLC 2202 Intermediate Chinese 2 or equivalent. It continues to develop students\u2019 abilities in speaking, orally comprehending, reading, and writing modern Mandarin Chinese and, concomitantly, also serves to deepen students\u2019 understanding of the social and cultural issues facing China today. Students will be routinely drilled in reading and writing throughout the semester. Systematic discussion, debate, and presentation provide students with ample opportunities to practice and enhance their newly acquired linguistic skills and oral fluency."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC3204", "title": "Advanced Chinese 2", "description": "The course is the continuation of Advanced Chinese 1 and prepares students to take further courses in advanced-level Chinese. It is designed for students who have studied at least two-and-a-half years of Chinese at the college level to achieve greater proficiency in oral and written uses of modern Mandarin. The course further develop language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with particular emphasis on enhancing reading and writing abilities. It builds upon the foundations of Advanced Chinese 1 yet differs in giving the students increased exposure to authentic written (and audio-visual) materials not specifically designed for classroom learning."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC3205", "title": "Advanced Readings in Chinese: Cinematic and Literary Texts", "description": "This course is designed to help students develop critical reading and writing skills through the use of contemporary Chinese cinema and film-related literary works. Students will also have the opportunity to compare and contrast Chinese films with the literature from which they are adapted. These activities, which include speaking, listening, writing, and reading, will provide a rich experience that goes beyond traditional language learning. Class instruction and discussion, conducted only in Chinese, will challenge students to form their own opinions of characters and themes, with less of a focus on grammar."}, {"moduleCode": "YLC3206", "title": "Advanced Readings in Chinese: Modern Chinese Literature", "description": "This course is designed to promote the development of critical Chinese reading and writing skills. It aims to further improve the students\u2019 Mandarin Chinese skills in all aspects. Students will gain access to the essence of Chinese culture as well as the charm of the language itself through notable works of modern Chinese literature. They will be introduced to significant topics concerning Chinese culture and history written in different styles and genres. Most of the texts are original and unabridged written by well-known authors such as Yuan Qiongqiong from Taiwan; Xixi from Hong Kong and Mo Yan from mainland China."}, {"moduleCode": "YLE4801", "title": "Exchange Course - YLE (5 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YLE4802", "title": "Exchange Course - YLE (5 units)", "description": "Not available"}, {"moduleCode": "YLG1201", "title": "Beginning Ancient Greek", "description": "This is an introductory course of language instruction in ancient Attic Greek for beginners, designed to give students a decent reading level by the end of the semester. It offers four days a week instruction. As well as gaining an introductory familiarity with the syntax and vocabulary of ancient Greek texts, students will develop an associated cultural knowledge in ancient Greek society and literary/ dramatic production."}, {"moduleCode": "YLG2202", "title": "Intermediate Ancient Greek", "description": "This course is designed to give students a more solid reading level by the end\nof the semester. It offers four days a week instruction. As well as gaining a\nfamiliarity with additional vocabulary and the more complex constructions of\nancient Greek \u2013 especially those involving optative and subjunctive \u2013\nstudents will through their more extensive reading develop an increased\ncultural knowledge in ancient Greek society and literary/ dramatic production."}, {"moduleCode": "YLG3201", "title": "Advanced Ancient Greek Prose", "description": "This course is designed to give students a familiarity with a fuller range of the more complex grammar of ancient Greek, and to give them an opportunity to read in a more focused manner specific examples of non-adapted ancient Greek texts in the original. This course will focus on Greek prose; possible authors may include selections from Herodotus, Lysias, Thucydides, or Plato with appropriate commentaries and secondary literature. As well as gaining a deeper understanding of the syntax, grammar, and the different dialects of ancient Greek, students will develop an increased cultural knowledge in ancient Greek society and historical and philosophical concerns of the period."}, {"moduleCode": "YLG3202", "title": "Advanced Ancient Greek Poetry", "description": "The course is designed to give students a familiarity with a fuller range of the more complex grammar of ancient Greek, and to give them an opportunity to read in a more focused manner specific examples of non-adapted ancient Greek texts in the original. This course will focus on Greek poetry; possible authors may include selections from Homer, Greek Lyric, Greek drama, or Hellenistic poetry with appropriate commentaries and secondary literature. As well as gaining a deeper understanding of the syntax, grammar, and the different dialects of ancient Greek, students will develop an increased cultural knowledge in ancient Greek society and literary/ dramatic production."}, {"moduleCode": "YLL1201", "title": "Beginning Latin", "description": "This intensive course offers four days a week of language instruction in Attic Latin for beginners. Instruction will cover the writing systems, vocabulary, and syntax of ancient Roman texts. Students will develop linguistic and cultural knowledge in ancient Mediterranean antiquity, and achieve a basic reading level by the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "YLL2201", "title": "Intermediate Latin", "description": "This intensive course offers four days a week of language instruction and follows on from Beginning Latin. Students will continue developing linguistic and cultural knowledge in ancient Mediterranean antiquity, and achieve a relatively strong reading level by the end of the semester."}, {"moduleCode": "YLN1201", "title": "Beginning Singapore Sign Language", "description": "Level One aims to develop capabilities in non-verbal, visual-gestural communication as well as the study of gestures as a form of communication and visual language basics. Theme based and including activities in expressive and receptive skills, the course focuses on training learners in basic functions such as greetings and introductions. It also emphasises the systematic study of the SgSL vocabulary and structure."}, {"moduleCode": "YLN2201", "title": "Intermediate Singapore Sign Language", "description": "Level Two builds upon the non-verbal and visual-gestural communication strategies developed in Level 1. Students will work on developing and refining signing skills and sign communication. This course focuses on training learners in a variety of contexts such as family settings, leisure activities, and occupations. The course also emphasises the systematic study of the SgSL vocabulary and sentence structure."}, {"moduleCode": "YLS1201", "title": "Beginning Spanish 1", "description": "Beginning Spanish 1 is the introductory course to the language and culture of the Hispanic world. This course is designed to help you develop a basic ability to read, write, understand, and speak Spanish as well as to expand students' cultural competency. Since all linguistic skills cannot be fully developed in Beginning Spanish 1 alone, stress will be placed on the acquisition of basic structures, which will be developed and reinforced in subsequent courses."}, {"moduleCode": "YLS1202", "title": "Beginning Spanish 2", "description": "This course is a continuation of Beginning Spanish 1. Beginning Spanish 2 pays close attention to aural/oral practice while strengthening basic grammar skills, writing, and reading comprehension. The course covers the second half of the eBook used in Beginning Spanish 1 and prepares students for Study Abroad opportunities via CIPE in their second summer at Yale-NUS or beyond."}, {"moduleCode": "YLS2201", "title": "Intermediate Spanish 1", "description": "This course targets students who have completed the Beginning Spanish sequence or have had significant experience with the language (e.g., Study Abroad during their first summer at Yale-NUS or studied Spanish in high school). It offers a combination of listening and speaking practice with a review of key concepts of Spanish grammar via targeted reading and writing activities. This course continues to incorporate Hispanic cultural elements through representative texts and audiovisual materials from the Spanish-speaking world."}, {"moduleCode": "YLS2202", "title": "Intermediate Spanish 2", "description": "This course is a continuation of Intermediate Spanish 1. Students taking this course will build upon what was covered in the first half and continue to expand their command of written and spoken Spanish. Intermediate Spanish 2 pays close attention to aural/oral practice while strengthening more complex grammar skills (e.g., the subjunctive, passive voice), writing, and reading comprehension. The course covers the second half of the eBook used in Intermediate Spanish 1 (Mas) and prepares students for Study Abroad opportunities via CIPE at Yale-NUS and NUS."}, {"moduleCode": "YLS3201", "title": "Advanced Spanish: Spain, a Mosaic of Cultures", "description": "Students taking this course will build upon the material and topics covered in the introductory and intermediate sequences to expand their command of written and spoken Spanish while honing their literary analysis skills. The course will focus on a representative selection of texts (e.g., short stories, novellas) and films from various regions of the Iberian Peninsula. Students will analyze and contextualize these works via in-class discussions and presentations on the history, traditions, and ideas embedded within them. This course will emphasize students\u2019 engagement with the ideas in the texts paying attention to stylistics, genre, and voice in their work."}, {"moduleCode": "YLS3202", "title": "Advanced Spanish: Latin America, Borders and Identities", "description": "Students taking this course will build upon the material and topics covered in the beginning and intermediate sequences to expand their command of written and spoken Spanish while honing their literary analysis skills. The course will focus on a representative selection of texts (e.g., short stories, novellas, films) from several Latin American countries. This course will address questions such as: What is the Spanish legacy in Latin America? What issues have these countries dealt with over their recent history? How are these issues portrayed in their literature and films? What are the differences and commonalities across countries? Students will analyze and contextualize these works via in-class discussions and presentations on the history, traditions, and ideas embedded within them. This course will emphasize students' engagement with the ideas in the texts paying attention to stylistics, genre, and voice in their work."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1207", "title": "General Chemistry", "description": "An introduction to chemistry emphasizing a microscopic, physical approach. A focus on atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding and reactivity, and physical properties of molecules. Includes laboratory exercises. For students with an interest in the physical sciences, the life sciences, and environmental studies. The material is discussed at an introductory level, and is focused on developing understanding and ability to apply molecular concepts in further study of\nthe sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1208", "title": "Model Organisms", "description": "For more than a century, scientists have used model organisms to address questions in biology. Model organisms typically mean small laboratory animals, such as laboratory mice, , or . However, other organisms can serve as model organisms as well. An explosion of recent research has given us the tools to use dogs and other canids, for example, as model organisms. In this course we study the genetics and genomics, evolution, ecology, and behaviour of model organisms, and use model organisms as a \u201cstepping-off\u201d point to examine other topics in the Life Sciences. As a class we will formulate and address hypotheses using a variety of laboratory and field techniques. Drosophila C. elegans"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1212", "title": "Introduction to Computer Science", "description": "Computer science has improved human life dramatically in the last 50 years. This course explains how computational tasks are solved and computers are programmed. You will learn how to be a more careful and methodical thinker. Moreover, millions of people around the world enjoy programming and you can too!"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1213", "title": "General Physics", "description": "This course covers the basics of calculus-based college-level physics, including conservation of energy and momentum, kinematics and Newton\u2019s laws, and the basics of electric and magnetic fields. As a comprehensive introductory course, this is a gateway course for the Physical Sciences major that is also suitable for non-majors wishing to build physical intuition or enter medical programs. Several labs will connect theory to the physics that describes reality"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1214", "title": "Networks", "description": "The main aim of the course is to introduce you to network thinking.\nHow you could understand complex systems in the view of NETWORKS.\nIn this course, we will:\n\u2022 explore the universe of technological, social, informational and\nbiological networks around us\n\u2022 learn the basic concepts and tools for understanding the properties\nof networks\n\u2022 apply network science to gain insights in complex systems"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1215", "title": "Genetic Engineering for All: An iGEM team for Yale-NUS?", "description": "Genetic engineering is the ability to manipulate DNA sequences to alter the characteristics of an organism. iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) is an annual contest for students to use a toolkit of genetic elements, or additional elements of their own design, to create novel and useful biological systems. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of gene regulation and to the principles of genetic engineering. The kinds of things done by student groups in iGEM will be explored, and the possibility of a Yale-NUS iGEM team discussed. No prior knowledge or expertise is assumed."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1216", "title": "Calculus", "description": "Calculus unites the study of instantaneous rates of change, area and optimisation, via the mathematical concepts of limit and infinity. This course provides a conceptual framework for Calculus. We eschew full mathematical rigour, but emphasise real world phenomena more than the rote formal calculations that make up a typical high school Calculus class. This course is suitable not only for those who have never learned Calculus before, but also for those who have completed a high school Calculus course. Students completing the course will be prepared for discipline-specific classes in the Sciences and Social Sciences which make use of Calculus."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1217", "title": "Creativity, Imagination and Theoretical Physics", "description": "A good scientific theory is like a symbolic tale, an allegory of reality. Science is teeming with beautiful concepts, and the task of imagining them demands profound creativity, just as creative as the work of poets or magical realist novelists. This course explores in a manner accessible to non-scientists an unorthodox account of fundamental theoretical concepts such as Newtonian mechanics, superconductivity, and Einstein's theory of relativity, illuminating their profound implications."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1218", "title": "Molecular Perspectives", "description": "This course will incorporate a story-telling approach, accessible to non-science majors, to illustrate the evolution of fundamental ideas about atoms and molecules. The impact of chemistry on history and our modern day lives will be discussed in term of key discoveries and the scientists who made them. Topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics, stereochemistry, organic synthesis, spectroscopy, and molecular modelling will be covered in a palatable manner using examples drawn from medicine, polymers, natural products, etc."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1219", "title": "Introduction to Black Holes", "description": "An introduction to the theoretical and empirical study of black holes in the universe."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1220", "title": "More is Different: Emergence in Physical Systems", "description": "There is a strong belief in physics that the most important laws of nature are the ones governing at the smallest length scales-- the laws of anything larger are merely their corollaries. This course explores how \u2018emergence\u2019 challenges this worldview. Emergence is the thesis that laws governing macroscopic objects are often so different and unpredictable based on the underlying microscopic ones that the two sets of laws are in fact equally fundamental and conceptually distinct. Macroscopic higher level laws are then said to \u2018emerge\u2019 from the microscopic lower level ones. We will examine concrete examples from thermodynamics, mechanics and optics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1221", "title": "Physics of the Electric Guitar", "description": "The electric guitar is an instrument that combines the classical techniques of generations of instrument makers with modern technologies such as integrated circuits and transistors. This course aims to introduce students to fundamental concepts in physics by understanding how an electric guitar works from how the strings are plucked through to the generation of sound effects. Students will learn elements of classical mechanics, electromagnetism and electronics by studying string vibrations, guitar pickups and amplification. These concepts will be demonstrated through introductory seminars and hands on experimentation with electric guitars."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1222", "title": "Rainbows and Music: The Physics of Light and Sound", "description": "How does a rainbow form? Why is the sky blue? What makes a pleasing chord? How do musical instruments make different sounds? In this course, we will explore the phenomena of light, sound, and other waves to understand the world around us and how we experience it. Conceptual and intuitive understanding of physical phenomena will enrich your sensory life."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1223", "title": "Science of Everyday Cooking", "description": "This broad survey course explores the basic principles in physics and chemistry that underlie everyday cooking techniques. The course introduces food molecules, chemical reactions, and physical processes that determine the food texture and flavour. In the hands-on sessions, students explore and analyse the effects of cooking procedures and techniques, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. This is a course that teaches how to think like a scientist and a chef simultaneously!"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC1224", "title": "Introduction to Astronomy", "description": "This broad introductory survey will span the Universe, covering everything from nearby rocky asteroids and planets orbiting other stars, to the formation of galaxies and the Universe itself. The module will include a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches to understanding humanity\u2019s place in the cosmos, including a final project where students address an astronomical topic from the perspective of their discipline of choice. Along the way, students will develop analytic skills to become critical consumers of astronomical claims made in media and popular culture."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2202", "title": "Biology Laboratory", "description": "This course introduces students to the basic techniques used in life science research. Students will pursue a semester-long project examining how genetic and molecular changes affect interactions between proteins. This course will recreate a research lab setting introducing standard molecular techniques and prepare students for independent work in research labs."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2203", "title": "Classical Mechanics", "description": "The course discusses the principles of classical mechanics within a rigorous mathematical framework. Topics may include kinematics, conservative forces, central-force motion, small oscillations, rigid bodies, variational problems, the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, non-inertial frames, and special relativity. This course is a prerequisite for most of the Major courses in Physics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2205", "title": "Mathematical Methods in Physical Sciences", "description": "This course introduces important mathematical methods that are essential for treating a variety of problems in the physical sciences. Topics could include vector calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, complex analysis, integral transforms, curvilinear coordinates, and calculus of variations. The course will focus on aspects of each topic pertinent to the physical sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2209", "title": "Proof", "description": "Mathematicians and computer scientists write proofs: convincing arguments, combining clear and concise language, computations and symbolic manipulation, illustrations and tables. By reading, writing, and revising proofs, students will be prepared for modern topics in analysis, algebra, geometry, and theoretical computer science. Students will write proofs that utilize direct deduction and proof by contradiction, complicated logical structures with cases, and mathematical induction. Students will acquire a thorough knowledge of na\u00efve set theory, including sets and functions, equivalence relations and classes, cardinal and ordinal arithmetic. Topics in discrete mathematics will include the combinatorics of finite structures such as graphs and trees."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2210", "title": "Data Analysis and Visualization (DAVis) with R", "description": "This course teaches how to use the programming language R for analyzing and presenting statistical data. Starting from the fundamentals of R (data types, flow control), students learn how to write their own R scripts and functions. They learn how to extract data from web sites and bring the input into a shape (e.g. using regular expressions) that is suitable for further analysis. Much of the course will focus on R\u2019s graphics features, including network representations and geographic maps. The objective is to present data in ways that are informative, elegant and fun (e.g. as short animated video clips)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2213", "title": "Discrete Mathematics", "description": "Discrete mathematics is the art of combining and arranging sets that are naturally composed of individual pieces, such as the integers, one\u2019s network of friends, or the internet. This course develops basic techniques for manipulating discrete sets through a host of concrete examples and applications. Key topics include permutations, partitions, recurrences, generating functions, networks, graph algorithms, and rigorous explorations of the Fibonacci and Catalan numbers, the Principle of Inclusion/Exclusion, the Pigeonhole Principle, and Pascal\u2019s Triangle."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2214", "title": "Introduction to Optics and Imaging", "description": "This course combines theoretical concepts with experimentation and computational analysis to give a solid introduction to the field of optics and imaging. A fundamental understanding of the nature of light, and how it interacts with physical systems is important for many higher level courses. In this course students will learn geometrical optics, wave optics, polarization, interference, diffraction and how these concepts relate to imaging. Students will also be introduced to modern applications of optics that have had a significant impact on our lives such as lasers and optical communication."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2216", "title": "Evolutionary Biology", "description": "This course aims to explore the study of biological evolution from a scientific standpoint. It covers topics such as population genetics, quantitative genetics and genomics, analysis of adaptation within and among species, phylogenetic analysis, and macroevolutionary patterns. Some major questions we will address include: Have organisms evolved for \u201cthe good of the species\u201d? Why do some animals cooperate, and why do we see some patterns in the behaviours of the sexes? We\u2019ll examine these topics in lecture, readings of both primary and review literature, discussion, and laboratory exercises which focus on the basics of analytical techniques used in evolutionary studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2221", "title": "Introduction to Python", "description": "This course introduces Python, a widely used high-level programming language. Its popularity is comparable to Java or C/C++. This means Python is practically useful and convenient to program and learn, since there are many resources/communities on the internet and many supporting libraries. Python was designed to be easy to learn, though many serious applications have been built based on it."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2222", "title": "Organic Chemistry Laboratory", "description": "The structure, properties, and reactivity of carbon-based molecules will be directly observed and inferred in this laboratory-based course, which supplements YSC2224 Accelerated Organic Chemistry. Students will put their newly acquired theoretical knowledge in practice and thus gain a much deeper understanding of the material. Topics include reaction set-up and purification, IR, NMR, GC-MS and LC-MS analysis, as well as an advanced synthesis project."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2224", "title": "Accelerated Organic Chemistry", "description": "The structure, properties, and reactivity of carbon-based molecules will be studied in depth, offering the foundation for understanding not only pharmaceuticals, dyes, polymers and other petrochemicals, but also the biochemical processes that constitute life. Topics will include covalent and ionic bonding, aromaticity and stereochemistry, addition and substitution reactions, carbonyl chemistry, molecular orbital theory, as well as Infrared and NMR spectroscopy. Taking YSC2222 Organic Chemistry Laboratory concurrently with YSC2224 is strongly recommended, so that students can put their newly acquired theoretical knowledge in practice and thus gain a much deeper understanding of the material."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2227", "title": "C: A Language for Science and Engineering", "description": "C is one of the most commonly used programming languages, especially in science, engineering and electronics. Many operating systems and microcontrollers are at least partly coded in C. C is lightweight, fast and offers a complex memory management system. This apparent simplicity does not mean that it is simple to learn and master though, as it requires deep understanding of how memory works and how data is represented. In this course, we will cover the C language along with memory management and segmentation. C can be useful for Capstones in applied mathematics and natural sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2229", "title": "Introductory Data Structures and Algorithms", "description": "We cover basic data structures and algorithms with an emphasis on implementation, although theory (asymptotic analysis, including amortization) is also covered. Topics include lists, queues, stacks, union-find, binary heaps, red-black trees, hashtables, tries, binary search, efficient quicksort, graph representations, depth-first and breadth-first search, topological sort, Dijkstra\u2019s, Prim\u2019s and Kruskal\u2019s, Huffman coding, and Knuth-Morris-Pratt. Additional topics may include: \u00b7 Randomization (e.g. Bloom filters, Miller-Rabin, Rabin-Karp) \u00b7 Time-space tradeoffs (e.g. range queries) \u00b7 Parallel considerations (e.g. Map/Reduce, prefix-sum, quicksort) \u00b7 Purely functional data structures (e.g. of red-black trees) \u00b7 Approximation algorithms (e.g. vertex covering) \u00b7 More sophisticated data structures and algorithms (e.g. leftist heaps, binomial heaps, splay trees)"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2231", "title": "Foundations of Neuroscience", "description": "This course provides an introduction to neurobiology and equips students with the background necessary to understand key concepts and fundamental questions in studies of the nervous system and cognition. Students will learn about cellular and molecular neurobiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuroethology. This course should be of interest to students contemplating further studies in neuroscience, psychology, neuropharmacology, and behavioural ecology, or students considering careers in medical, veterinary, and behavioural sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2232", "title": "Linear Algebra", "description": "A first course in linear algebra of finite-dimensional real and complex vector spaces, balancing theoretical and computational material. The course covers vectors and linear transformations, building geometric intuition, algebraic aptitude, and computational proficiency. Topics include spaces and subspaces, linear maps, linear independence and spanning, basis, and representations by coordinates and matrices. The theory of linear operators is developed, including eigenvalues and eigenvectors, self-adjoint operators, the spectral theorem, and the singular value decomposition. Some topics from numerical linear algebra, especially implementation of algorithms and assessment of their efficiency are included. Applications to statistics, economics, engineering and science are presented."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2233", "title": "Genetics", "description": "This course illustrates basic principles of genetics using examples from prokaryote and eukaryote organisms. It emphasizes classical genetic techniques and how genetics is used to gain understanding of whole organisms. The gene, its context and the genome are the primary concepts covered. The focus will be on Drosophila developmental genetics, yeast cell biology and human disease."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2234", "title": "Human Biology", "description": "This course examines selected aspects of human anatomy and physiology from an evolutionary framework. The course begins with a birds-eye view of organ systems and their integration, organized around a limited number of simplifying themes. Deeper explorations will be made into a small number of human adaptations, exploring selection, maladaptation to modern living, and human variation. The course is intended to be accessible to students for whom this is their first college-level science course and to be of value to anyone interested in human biology, regardless of major."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2235", "title": "Field Research", "description": "To enable students to develop and perform field-based research in biology. Students will develop original research ideas and be introduced to field research approaches - methods and techniques, sampling design, data analysis and interpretation - which they will then pursue for the rest of the semester. The group-based research projects will culminate in research reports modelled on scientific publications."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2236", "title": "Microbiomes", "description": "In this course we will examine how communities of microorganisms (microbiomes) are critical to the healthy function of the Earth system at various scales. The critical role of environmental microbiomes in biogeochemical transformations that underpin biosphere function will be considered, along with the consequences of disturbance due to climate change and pollution. The application of microbiomes to solving environmental problems will be discussed with reference to waste treatment and carbon capture. We will also interrogate the role of microbiomes in the health of animal and plant populations, their interactions with the environment, and the significance to adaptation and evolution. Finally, we will examine the human microbiome and how it is impacted by environmental exposures, and the consequences for our health and behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2239", "title": "Introduction to Data Science", "description": "Data science has revolutionised modern life and technology using a broad spectrum of methods from Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Intrinsically, mathematical and statistical techniques are married to modern computing power to provide accurate and complex tools to capture real life phenomena. In this course we develop an introduction to methods used in data science, at a level requiring basic mathematics and statistics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2240", "title": "Research Tutorial in Animal Behaviour", "description": "This stand-alone tutorial will train students to conduct animal behaviour research. Students will coordinate with the instructor about the specific topic and may study natural or captive animal populations. Students will use sampling techniques and analyses specific to animal behaviour and will carry out a complete study on animal behaviour. Portions of this course may take place in Singapore parks or at the Singapore Zoo. Students should come away from this tutorial being able to design, carry out, and analyse data, for scholarly studies on animal behaviour, cognition, or evolution. This tutorial can transition into a YNC summer research internship."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2241", "title": "Plant Biology", "description": "This course focuses on foundational knowledge of plant sciences from genetics to metabolism to physiology to evolution. It is an exploration of the many diverse aspects of plant biology. The course will cover topics including growth and development, reproduction, genetics and genomics, evolution and diversity, physiology, responses to pathogens and environmental stimuli, and applications of plant genetic modification."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2243", "title": "Probability", "description": "This is an introductory course in probability theory, which is essential for many MCS courses, as well as in other scientific disciplines such as biology and economics. The course covers the basic principles of the theory of probability and its applications."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2244", "title": "Programming for Data Science", "description": "With the growing influence of Data Science, the Statistics and Mathematics domains now require specific skills in programming, using domain-specific systems and libraries. This course introduces common tools for Data Science programming. This includes a high-level language (i.e. Python), several Statistics/AI libraries (i.e. numpy, sklearn), and database systems (i.e. SQL). In addition we will create awareness of best practices in programming such as control versioning, testing, and continuous integration."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2246", "title": "Experimental Methods in Physical Sciences", "description": "Learn the fundamental tools and techniques used for experimental research in physical sciences. By harnessing interactions between light and matter, we can probe the laws of nature and build the foundations for modern technology. You will learn how to enter the lab with a question or idea and leave with beautiful, analysed data. This course will prepare you to join an active research group carrying out cutting-edge experimental research and will culminate in a final project."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2247", "title": "Ecology and Ecosystems", "description": "Ecology investigates the complex interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms. This course asks how life-history strategies, environmental conditions, and local biotic interactions (e.g. competition, trophic interactions) shape the structure and dynamics of natural communities (e.g. functional composition, diversity, productivity, stability, and food webs). It also explores how natural communities form metacommunities over larger spatial scales and across ecosystems boundaries. Students draw on selected case studies to examine (1) links between biodiversity and ecosystem productivity, stability, and resilience; and (2) management options for biodiversity and ecosystem services in human-dominated landscapes."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2248", "title": "Analytical Chemistry with Laboratory", "description": "Analytical chemistry addresses interesting and practical questions in the wider world, such as dinosaur body temperature in prehistoric eras and trace substances at modern crime scenes. In this course, we will explore the principles and techniques of chemical measurements, the complex chemical equilibria that are associated with most measurements, and the statistical tools for analyzing and improving measurement data. The laboratory component comprises a variety of instrumental techniques as well as the quantitative analysis of measurement data."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2250", "title": "Urban Wildlife Studies", "description": "The aim of this course is to conduct non-invasive research on the urban wildlife in Singapore. Students may pursue a number of topics, including: behavioural repertoires, distribution and occupancy, and genetic or genomic issues, of the wildlife in Singapore. Students will gain practical knowledge of how to collect and interpret different kinds of data specific to particular projects. In different iterations, students may participate in research on otters, hornbills, lizards, insects, or other local organisms. This course exists under the Research Tutorial banner, and students are encouraged to continue these studies in Summer Research Projects."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2251", "title": "Science Skills Workshop", "description": "Gain familiarity with basic tools and methods for scientific research to help guide you towards specialization in your major. Learn a menu of laboratory and computational skills that can help you get up and running on research projects, and will prepare you for more advanced methods courses."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2252", "title": "Multivariable Calculus", "description": "Calculus is the study of rates of changes and provides a framework for modelling systems and to find the effect of changing conditions of the systems being investigated. However, some of the most interesting systems cannot be modelled using just one variable. The aim of this course is to extend the knowledge of Calculus (YSC1216) to more complex systems, studying the rate of change, volumes and optimization for functions in more than one variable. This course gives the needed tools to apply knowledge of advanced calculus in Physical Sciences, Life Science, Economics and Statistics"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2253", "title": "Principles of Environmental Science", "description": "This course explores how the Earth functions as a complex and inter-connected system throughout the lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere (air). We will consider the interaction of physical, chemical and biological processes and highlight the ways in which human activity impacts the resilience of Earth systems. Classroom learning will be supplemented with field excursions to understand first-hand how environments are structured and their response to human disturbance."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2254", "title": "Modelling and Optimization", "description": "This course introduces the fundamental methods of discrete and continuous optimization and their applications to a broad range of problems in economics, physics, signal processing and data science. Specific topics include linear, integer, and non-linear programming, transportation and network modelling, constrained optimization, decision making under uncertainty and probabilistic modelling. Emphasis will be placed on practical methods for solving optimization problems using standard computational tools and packages."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2255", "title": "Statistics for Life Sciences", "description": "This course provides students with a conceptual and practical understanding of the application of statistical methods to the Life Sciences. The topics covered include probability, common probability distributions used in modelling biological data, experimental design, linear models and hypothesis testing. This course will involve programming in R and the analysis of data."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2256", "title": "Science of Life", "description": "This course introduces the fundamentals necessary to develop an understanding for a broad range of topics that encompass life sciences in the 21st century. It also introduces the manner in which life scientists frame questions, design experiments, and communicate their findings. Specific topics include molecular and cellular biology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and application of statistical and quantitative analysis to study biological questions. Emphasis will be placed on preparation needed to take the next tier of courses in the Major, learning basic laboratory skills, and gaining a beginning competency in parsing primary literature."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2257", "title": "AI Projects and Case Studies", "description": "Learn about AI and machine learning from hands-on project work, case studies of how AI is impacting nearly every field of study, high-level descriptions of machine learning, and explorations of AI\u2019s societal, ethical, and philosophical impacts. No prerequisite programming experience or advanced mathematics required. This course is an opportunity to do an AI project of your choice in your field of study (including physical, life, and social science, business, art, language, and humanities)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2258", "title": "Fungi and Society", "description": "Fungi are ubiquitous in the environment and play vital roles in the biosphere. They are important to human life on many levels. This course introduces students to the fascinating world of the interactions between fungi and human society. The course discusses the influences of fungi on the natural and agricultural ecosystems, the positive and negative impacts on human health, and the enormous economy brought by the biomedical and other industrial uses of fungi. Students will critically examine some global and social issues such as the use of psychedelic mushrooms, emerging pathogens associated with climate change and solutions to sustainable development."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2259", "title": "Social Insect Societies", "description": "Social insects such as ants or bees are among the most numerous and widespread animal groups on Earth. What makes them so successful? And can we learn from them about our own societies? This course explores the ecology and evolution of social insects around the globe. We will learn about the origins of sociality, communication, cooperation, task allocation, and collective decision making. We will also explore the impact that social insects have on their environment, from pollination services to ant agriculture and ecosystem engineering."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC2260", "title": "Health and Disease", "description": "What does it mean to be healthy/normal? How does disease impact us and society? We will follow the life of a human from health and normalcy, to abnormality and different stages of pathogenesis, which we have defined as prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Finally, we will discuss end of life care and decisions. All these are discussed in terms of individuals, society (community or governments) and the newest scientific breakthroughs, ultimately to reflect on the pertinent question of this seminar - on health, disease and the human condition."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3203", "title": "Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures", "description": "We study the design and rigorous analysis of algorithms and data structures.\nTopics may include dynamic programming, Fibonacci heaps, graph\nalgorithms, string algorithms, parallel algorithms, and concurrent data\nstructures."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3206", "title": "Introduction to Real Analysis", "description": "This course embarks on a deep study of the real numbers and functions of a single real variable. Fundamental properties of real numbers \u2013 arithmetic, distance, limit, convergence, order \u2013 are developed from scratch. From there, the course delves into the inner workings of calculus, the general notions of continuity, differentiability, measure, and integration, for functions of one real variable."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3209", "title": "Quantum Chemistry", "description": "This is a first course in the quantum mechanics of atoms and molecules, their chemical bonds and their interaction with radiation. It will cover the basic elements and techniques in quantum mechanics, the electronic structure of atoms and molecules and chemical bonds, spectroscopy and quantum transitions in atoms and molecules. Within the Physical Sciences major, it will count toward pathways in chemistry, materials science, nanoscience, chemical physics, or related fields."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3210", "title": "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics", "description": "This first course on quantum mechanics introduces students to the postulates of quantum theory and then applies it to discuss problems like two level systems, quantum harmonic oscillators, the variational principle and the WKB approximation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3211", "title": "Introduction to Electrodynamics", "description": "This course introduces the basic concepts of electrodynamics, taught with the full mathematical and physical rigor necessary for subsequent courses on the subject. Topics typically include electrostatics and magnetostatics, both in free space and in media, dynamics as described by Maxwell\u2019s equations, electromagnetic waves, optics, and simple relativistic phenomena. Introduction to electrodynamics is a core course for the Physics pathway within the Physical Science major."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3213", "title": "Experimental Physics Laboratory", "description": "Experimental physics will provide students with hands\u2010on practical experience using techniques to investigate scientific problems that draw on concepts from different branches of physics (e.g. quantum, statistical, thermal, solid state and optical). It aims to enhance their understanding and apply scientific knowledge learnt in class. Emphasis will also be placed on the development of analytical skills in measurement and analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3214", "title": "Biochemistry", "description": "This course will provide a broad foundation to Biochemistry, the study of the\nchemistry of life. Students will learn about the chemical and molecular\ncomposition of a cell, the structures, functions and transformations of\nbiomolecules and the flows of energy and information in biological systems\nat the biochemical level. This course will be particularly important for\nstudents intending to pursue further studies and/or future careers in medicine, veterinary, biomedical, pharmaceutical or forensic sciences and\nbiotechnology."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3215", "title": "Research Seminar", "description": "This course (a requirement for Life Science majors) is meant to prepare students for their capstone projects, in some cases quite specifically through targeted readings and group presentations of relevant scientific literature, but more generally through practice in close and critical assessment of scientific papers, the generation of new research ideas based on those papers, and the honing of presentation skills."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3217", "title": "Programming Operating Systems, Interfaces & eXtras", "description": "While YSC3207 focused on programming in different languages and tools to help software development, students at this point do not really understand how an Operating System works. Operating Systems are also actually programs and as such, follow the same rules and logic on a lower level. Computer Scientists should have enough knowledge to understand these low level mechanisms in order to be able to develop on any given platform."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3224", "title": "Statistical Thermodynamics", "description": "This is a first course in equilibrium statistical thermodynamics. It begins with examining the concepts of probability, microstates and macrostates in understanding thermal phenomena, linking these to entropy, the Boltzmann factor, ensembles, and the partition function.\u00a0\u00a0We apply these concepts to elementary physical and chemical models such as classical and quantum gases, solids, phase transitions, chemical reactions, solute\u2010solvent interactions, polymer structure. Within the Physical Sciences major, it will count toward pathways in biophysics, chemistry, chemical physics, materials science, nanoscience, physics, or related fields."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3228", "title": "Inorganic Chemistry with Laboratory", "description": "The course aims to introduce the students to the principles of structure and reactivity of: 1) main group (including noble gases), 2) transition metal, and 3) rare earth metal compounds. The reactivity patterns of select classes of inorganic compounds and their relevance in the natural world (e.g. biological systems, atmosphere) will also be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3232", "title": "Software Engineering", "description": "This course will teach principles of software engineering and object oriented programming as well as UI and Android. In this course, students will first learn about the Java language and the object paradigm (field encapsulation, object, polymorphism), as well as useful tools for software development (e.g. version control, debugging). The next part of the course will focus on how to write code properly and work on larger scale projects using MVC framework. Finally, the last part of the course will cover User Interfaces in Java, Threads, synchronization and Android Programming."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3233", "title": "Cell Biology", "description": "This course fulfils one of the upper division requirements for the Life Science Major. It is considered one of the \u201cFoundations of Advanced Biology\u201d options, of which majors must take four. This course examines the central dogma of biology and how gene products are applied to basic intracellular mechanisms. The focus will be on protein targeting to organelles, membrane and vesicle trafficking, cell-cell communication, the cytoskeleton, adhesion, and the cell cycle. The course will outline how recombinant DNA techniques have been used to dissect cellular processes and will draw on basic experimental results to describe experimental design and its limitations."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3234", "title": "Principles of Biophysics", "description": "This biophysics course will emphasize problem-solving skills (including computational) and laboratory techniques, focusing on applications of abstract concepts like statistical thermodynamics to biophysical phenomena, and the physics of soft condensed matter to \u201csquishy\u201d bio-molecules. Topics considered include protein folding, binding equilibria, self-assembly of biomolecules, membrane energetics. Some questions addressed are: why are lipids essential to life, what drives ions across membranes, how do proteins bind to receptors, how can physics of biopolymers (DNA, proteins) explain their function, how can we explain spontaneous order formation in biology? discussion seminar-style"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3235", "title": "Animal Behaviour", "description": "The aim of this course is to examine animal behavior from a biological, and especially an evolutionary, point of view. We will explore the causes and consequences of animal behaviors, including topics such as: optimality and foraging; predation and risk; territoriality and aggression; mating competition; parent-offspring and sibling conflict; personality and behavioural syndromes; living in groups; altruism, mutualism, and eusociality. We will also address some questions of the evolution of cognition in animals. Students will discuss the primary literature, write and evaluate individual review papers, and take an occasional exam."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3236", "title": "Functional Programming and Proving", "description": "Using the Coq Proof Assistant, we propose an integrated account of specifications, unit tests, implementations, and properties of functional programs, through a variety of examples."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3237", "title": "Introduction to Modern Algebra", "description": "Algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Throughout the history of mathematics, algebraic methods have been developed to solve equations using simple, but important, properties of numbers that make meaningful calculations possible. Those properties arise in a variety of other settings, however, allowing us to make algebraic arguments in a significantly broader context. This course introduces modern algebra \u2014 specifically the mathematical objects called groups and rings \u2014 through a rigorous exploration of familiar notions, including permutations, symmetries, polynomials, and matrices, resulting in a cohesive, unifying theory with far-reaching applications throughout the natural sciences."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3238", "title": "Developmental Biology", "description": "This course fulfils one of the upper division requirements for the Life\nScience Major.\nThis course examines how cells and genes collaborate to establish\nmulticellular organisms. The course will focus on vertebrate and\ninvertebrate embryology emphasizing cellular, molecular, and genetic mechanisms. Topics include descriptive embryology, developmental\ncontrol of gene expression, mechanisms of differentiation and\nmorphogenesis, stem cells, and developmental genetics. The course will use modern molecular techniques and basic experimental results to describe how\nexperiments address developmental questions."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3239", "title": "Geometry and the Emergence of Perspective", "description": "This course explores the role of geometry in the emergence of perspective drawing during the Italian Renaissance. Through in-depth comparisons of seminal treatises such as Euclid\u2019s and Leon Battista Alberti\u2019s , students will rediscover the crucial ideas that motivated the development of (non-Euclidean) projective geometry in seventeenth century Europe. No prior knowledge of geometry or familiarity with advanced mathematics is required. Elements On Painting"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3240", "title": "Foundations of Applied Mathematics", "description": "introduces important mathematical methods that are essential for treating a variety of problems in applied mathematics, which are useful in physics, chemistry, and economics. Topics include vector calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, complex analysis, Fourier series, and calculus of variations. The course will focus on aspects of each topic pertinent to the applied fields mentioned above. Foundations of Applied Mathematics"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3241", "title": "Computational and Systems Biology", "description": "This course aims to complement the theoretical and experimental knowledge gained through course work and laboratory experience by introducing students to computational methods in molecular biology. The focus will be on applying modern bioinformatics and modelling methods to large datasets encouraging a hands on approach to big data processing."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3242", "title": "Agent-Based Modelling", "description": "Agent-based modelling (ABM) simulates the behaviour of interacting individuals. At Oxford, the lecturer has taught it to students in biology, business, archaeology, economics, anthropology, etc. He has used ABM to collaborate with research projects that range from modelling religions, cancer cells, the Spanish Flu, the French Burka ban, fishing, farming, immigration, and medieval populations. The goal of this course is to introduce the students to ABM and to lead them into a term project that applies ABM to a concrete domain."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3243", "title": "Bayesian Statistics", "description": "The aim of this course is to give an overview of Bayesian parametric modelling. Students will learn how to specify a Bayesian parametric model and compute posterior distributions. They will be able to perform inference (point and interval estimation and test) in a Bayesian framework. By the end of the course students will be able to solve simple data analysis problems in a Bayesian framework, employing, for example, regression and model choice techniques. They will also be able to implement these models using statistical software (R and OpenBugs), and write reports for their analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3246", "title": "Modern Astrophysics", "description": "This course will provide a thorough understanding of the fundamentals required to understand modern astrophysical research. Topics covered will include stellar structure and evolution, the interstellar medium, radiative processes, galactic structure and dynamics, and cosmology. These topics will be introduced in the context of their use for some of the most active fields of astronomy research. This course will also include several observational labs where students will learn to analyse astronomical data across the electromagnetic spectrum."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3247", "title": "The Genomics of Human History", "description": "This course explores the role of genomes in inferring human history and prehistory. Through secondary texts and primary literature, we will study what is known about human origins in Africa, East Asia, Europe, India, New World, and Oceania as inferred from contemporary and ancient genomes. We will learn how to analyse genomic data; make phylogenetic inferences of historical patterns; and how to apply phylogenetic methods to cultural traits, such as inferring language trees from shared lexical cognates. Finally, we will explore how genomics impacts issues of health, sex, inequality, and identity."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3249", "title": "Statistical Inference", "description": "This course in statistical inference, which is essential for many Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Sciences (MCS) courses, as well as in other scientific disciplines, such as Physics and Economics. The course covers the basic principles of frequentist and likelihood-based inference."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3250", "title": "Immunology", "description": "This course will offer a broad survey of immunology by examining the central mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions. The focus will be on acquired immunity in higher vertebrates, but will cover innate immunity and ancient immune systems looking at the cellular and molecular basis of immunity. There will be examples from human biology in health and disease. This course fulfils one of the upper division requirements for the Life Sciences Major."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3251", "title": "Conservation Ecology", "description": "An introduction to the principles of conservation ecology, including population, community, ecosystem-level, and genetic approaches. Students will learn the theoretical underpinnings of ecology and studies of small populations, as they pertain to conservation biology. Students will address classic case studies in the discipline as well as explore relevant examples from Singapore and around Southeast Asia. An emphasis of the course is conservation in an increasingly urban world."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3252", "title": "Statistical Computing", "description": "Data Science techniques are ubiquitous in modern mathematical applications. The course will cover topics related to this ever-emerging field, in particular: Simulation, Monte-Carlo methods, Optimisation. Students will learn how to program these methods themselves. Emphasis will be given on practical applications, e.g. in Finance, Biostatistics, Engineering, Industry. At the same time the course will discuss the theoretical foundations of the methods."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3253", "title": "Coral Reef Ecology and Environmental Change", "description": "Known as the \u2018rainforests of the sea\u2019 coral reefs occupy <0.1% of the world\u2019s oceans yet they contain 25% of all the planet\u2019s marine species. Unfortunately, the very existence of coral reefs is threatened by climate change. In this course students will gain an appreciation for coral reefs, their ecology, the evolutionary process responsible for creating this incredible biodiversity, and the threats that climate change and humans pose to these fragile ecosystems. Additionally, we will examine sustainable practices and lifestyle choices that can help reduce human impact on these essential marine habitats."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3255", "title": "The Biology of Ageing", "description": "This course will be a deep-dive into the topic of ageing. As the course is designed as a science course within the life-science major, the predominant perspective will be biological and biomedical. We will cover biological ageing and its medical consequences, mechanisms of ageing, including current and past theories on molecular causes of ageing, evolutionary theories of ageing and recent therapeutic developments. However, we will also explore historic perspectives, e.g. how current attitudes and strategies are related to the history of medicine. Finally, we will consider social, socio-economic and public health questions related to populating ageing."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3257", "title": "Molecular Biology", "description": "Molecular Biology is the study of the mechanisms by which genetic information is replicated, recombined, repaired, transcribed, and translated, and the various ways in which the expression of that information is regulated. Commonalities among bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes highlight the unifying principles of life, while the difference between and within the groups attest to the roles of contingency and selection in the evolution of regulatory mechanisms. In addition to classical, mechanistic molecular biology, we will see how genomic analysis adds to our understanding by revealing the results of evolutionary drift and selection, subject to those mechanisms."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3258", "title": "Arthropods and the Anthropocene", "description": "Arthropods are the most abundant animals on Earth. Their diversity ranges from the tiniest ants to giant stick insects and includes species that are adapted to flying, swimming and crawling in every environment imaginable. They sometimes have a bad reputation as \u201ccreepy crawlies\u201d but arthropods are in fact absolutely essential for healthy ecosystems and our food security as well as impacting human health. In this course you will learn about the amazing diversity of arthropods, how they impact our lives in managed and natural environments, and their potential to save our future."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3259", "title": "Environmental Chemistry: How The Science Informs Our Policies", "description": "Environmental chemistry aims to introduce integrated chemistry concepts and illustrates how these principles relate to some of the public policies adopted at large. It aims to provide students from wide range of backgrounds to appreciate the chemistry of our natural world from an integrated perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3260", "title": "Plant-Microbe Interactions", "description": "Plants and microbes interact with each other on different levels and in various ways. Plant-microbe interactions have played a vital role in shaping the ecosystems since the emergence of plants on the planet. This course will cover different types of plant-microbe interactions at general and detailed levels. The students will learn about the microbial infection mechanisms, establishment of symbiotic relationships, and how plant immunity system responses to different microbes. There will be discussions on the broad impact of plant-microbe interactions from evolutionary, ecological and economic perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3261", "title": "Cancer Biology", "description": "The name \u201cCancer\u201d is adapted from the Greek word \u201cor crab, due to the invading nature of cancer, as described by Hippocrates. Cancer is a multi-horned demon in the biosphere of disease and its complexity is immense and worth understanding. This course will provide historical and current understanding of the biological basis of cancer, determinants of the disease, and ways to prevent or reduce the risk of developing cancer, as well as conventional and new treatments to eradicate cancer. This course fulfils one of the upper division requirements for the Life Sciences Major. Carcinos\u201d,"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3262", "title": "Physical Chemistry", "description": "The course aims to introduce the students to the physical chemistry concepts that are essential in understanding and investigating the molecular and macroscopic world. Students will also learn how quantum and computational chemistry can be applied in the prediction of molecular properties and its relevance to spectroscopy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3263", "title": "Database Management Systems", "description": "The course introduces the principles of relational database management systems. In particular, the Entity-Relationship approach to data modelling, the relational model of database management systems (DBMS) and the use of structured query languages (SQL) will be covered. The course also covers relational algebra and the use of SQL in a programming environment."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3264", "title": "Computational Methods in Physical Sciences", "description": "This course introduces students to computational thinking as applied to problems in physical science. A selection of real-world problems will be chosen to illustrate problem formulation, solution development and interpretation as well as analysis of the solutions and data visualization. The selection of problems will tackle different types of approaches typically used in scientific computational thinking including probabilistic methods, deterministic methods, machine learning, and approximation methods. Emphasis will be given to analysing the accuracy and convergence of the computational technique, and also to the interpretation of numerical results and their limitation by understanding the level of approximation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3265", "title": "Human Physiology", "description": "This course builds an intellectual scaffolding for understanding human anatomy and physiology. Students considering medical or veterinary fields will find this valuable for future knowledge-building. We approach the subject with an evolutionary and comparative lens so that proximate \"how\" questions are understood in concert with ultimate \"why\" questions. Major themes include homeostasis among physiological systems; homology among structures and processes; seeing suboptimal or pathological adaptive solutions as the product of phylogenetic constraints or physiological trade-offs; and human adaptive plasticity in diverse environments. We pay particular attention to chronic and metabolic pathologies in contemporary urban societies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3266", "title": "Computing and Data Analysis for Biologists using R", "description": "Computational analysis is now an integral part of nearly every Life Science research project, and this holds particularly true for the high throughput -omics datasets. This course will explore how to model the data to gain biologically relevant insights using R for questions ranging from \u2018is there a significant difference between two conditions\u2019, to \u2018what are the key regulatory genes affecting the system\u2019. The course will include linear models, introduction to high dimensional omics datasets, sequence alignment, genomic data analysis, differential expression analysis, basic machine learning algorithms like clustering and networks and enrichment analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC3360", "title": "Plant-Microbe Interactions", "description": "Plants and microbes interact with each other on different levels and in various ways. Plant-microbe interactions have played a vital role in shaping the ecosystems since the emergence of plants on the planet. This module will cover different types of plant-microbe interactions at general and detailed levels. The students will learn about the microbial infection mechanisms, establishment of symbiotic relationships, and how plant immunity system responses to different microbes. There will be discussions on the broad impact of plant-microbe interactions from evolutionary, ecological and economic perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4101", "title": "Physical Sciences Capstone Project", "description": "The is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic. Physical Sciences Capstone Project Physical Sciences"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4102", "title": "Life Sciences Capstone Project", "description": "The is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic. Life Sciences Capstone Project Life Sciences"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4103", "title": "Maths, Computational & Statistical Sci Capstone Project", "description": "The Maths, Computational & Statistical Science (MCS) Capstone Project is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling two semesters that students in the MCS major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, under the guidance of a faculty supervisor. The Capstone is intended to \u2022 give students the opportunity to work independently; \u2022 encourage students to develop and exhibit aspects of their ability that may not be revealed by course work or a written examination; \u2022 foster skills and attributes that will be of continuing usefulness in their later career, such as (i) determination of relevant sources; (ii) computational or statistical applications; (iii) critical analysis of source material; (iv) organization of relevant material; (v) presentation in written and spoken form; (vi) enthusiasm for research; (vii) appreciation of how the corpus of academic knowledge in the discipline has arisen; (viii) a sense of academic self-confidence and achievement; and (ix) development of project management skills."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4205", "title": "Organometallic Chemistry", "description": "Principles of structure and reactivity of transition metal containing organometallic compounds. Homogeneous catalytic chemistry, synthesis of organometallic compounds, mechanisms of organometallic reaction chemistry."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4206", "title": "Mathematical Signal Processing", "description": "This applied mathematics course introduces mathematical tools related to harmonic analysis and sparse approximation that form the basis of many classical and modern data science and signal processing methods, e.g. in imaging, audio signal processing or spectroscopy. Specific topics include data transformations in finite and infinite dimensional vector spaces (e.g., bases of eigenvectors, Fourier series, Fourier transform, frames, and wavelets) that reduce complexity and reveal structural properties, as well as optimization methods to utilize those properties to solve a variety of data science tasks. The development of the mathematical theory is combined with practical applications using Python or R."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4207", "title": "Solid State Physics", "description": "This advanced undergraduate course introduces students to some of the foundational concepts in condensed matter physics including the idea of crystals; two-dimensional lattices; space group symmetries; Electronic structure; Bloch\u2019s theorem, Density of States, and simple models of the effects of interactions and disorder in realistic systems."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4208", "title": "Monte Carlo Simulations in Science and Statistics", "description": "Monte Carlo simulations are computer experiments that solve numerical problems by using random number generators. At first glance, it may seem bizarre to use a computer, arguably the most accurate and deterministic of all human inventions, to perform random experiments. However, Monte Carlo simulations are nowadays an essential component in many quantitative studies. They are used in the natural sciences, industrial engineering, finance and statistics. This course teaches how to write elegant and efficient Monte Carlo simulations for concrete real-world examples. You will also learn the theoretical foundations of pseudorandom number generators, Markov chain Monte Carlo and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4209", "title": "Physical Sciences Research Seminar", "description": "This course (that counts towards the Physical Science major) is meant to expose students to current research areas in physical science and can be used to prepare for capstone projects though targeted readings and group presentations in specific areas of physical science. Critical assessment of scientific papers could lead to the generation of new research directions based on those papers. This will be a year-long 5 Unit course (i.e. 2.5 Unit each semester)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4210", "title": "Complex Analysis", "description": "This course deals with the theory of functions of a complex variable. The topics to be covered are the Cauchy-Riemann equations and power series, the properties of analytic and entire functions, such as the maximum-modulus principle and the open mapping theorem, line and contour integrals, the residue theorem, and conformal mappings. If time permits, the analytic continuation as well as the gamma and zeta functions will be also treated."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4211D", "title": "Adv Topics in Ecology & Evolution: Behavioural Ecology", "description": "This course aims to be an advanced research seminar which will allow students to engage with the latest research in the overlapping and interacting fields of Ecology and Evolution, with a focus on Behavioural Ecology. By understanding how evolutionary principles interact with ecological conditions, we are able to elucidate the mechanisms that shape natural systems. The focus of the course will be on analysis of current primary literature in Behavioural Ecology. Students will work on critical analysis of scientific research articles, scientific writing and presentation. This course fulfils one of the upper division requirements for the Life Science Major."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4211E", "title": "Advanced Topics in Molecular Biology", "description": "This is an advanced seminar focussing on the critical reading and discussion of scientific papers in molecular biology, defined here as the study of the mechanisms by which genetic information is replicated, repaired, transcribed, and translated, the ways in which the expression of that information is regulated, and the evolutionary origins of these molecular strategies. The papers to be discussed will highlight key current problems in molecular biology as well as important experimental and conceptual approaches. The emphasis, though, is in developing skills in reading the primary literature, and in presenting and discussing scientific information effectively."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4211F", "title": "Adv Topics: Human Population Genomics", "description": "This course explores how human population history can be inferred through analysis of modern and ancient genomes. Students will learn to use a suite of computational tools through hands-on analysis of a dataset of c. 15,000 human genomes sourced from about 400 ethnicities, as well as c. 2,000 ancient genomes. Using papers from the primary literature and secondary texts, students will develop an overview of Neolithic human origins in Africa, East Asia, Europe, India, New World, and Oceania. Students will also explore how genomics can inform about issues of health, sex, inequality, and identity."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4212", "title": "Statistical Case Studies (with R)", "description": "This course involves statistical and computational analyses of a variety of problems using real data. It emphasizes methods of choosing and acquiring data, assessing data quality, and considers statistical and computational issues posed by extremely large data sets (Big Data). The course requires initiative and independent work both individually and in small groups, and includes extensive computations using R. Pre-requisite: YSC2230 (Probability and Statistics) OR YSC2210 Data Analysis and Visualization (DAVis) with R, or their equivalents. This course will count as an advanced course for the MCS major."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4214", "title": "Theory of Quantum Information and Computation", "description": "The course introduces the basic ideas of quantum information and computation (QIC), i.e., to use quantum mechanical systems to perform information-processing tasks. QIC is a multi-disciplinary field, grounded in physics, but with many connections to mathematics and computer science. The course will focus on theoretical concepts and developments, and will provide the foundations for more advanced and/or topical quantum information courses. Knowledge of basic linear algebra will be assumed. Prior exposure to quantum mechanics is preferred but not required."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4216", "title": "Machine Learning", "description": "Machine learning is a collection of techniques where computers can learn from data without being explicitly programmed. For instance, when we train a program using human-face image data, it should be able to locate faces in an image; yet, if we train the same program using flower data, it should be able to locate flowers in an image, without explicitly changing the program itself. This course particularly will focus on statistical machine learning, which relies heavily on probabilistic and statistical analysis. . Programming skill in python is compulsory"}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4217", "title": "Mechanised Reasoning", "description": "Mechanised Reasoning studies how mathematical logic is used to reason about, and in, computational systems, including potential applications to areas such as computer reliability and security. Possible topics include type systems, verification, formally certified software development, model checking, machine-checked proof, and semantic models."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4218", "title": "Polymer Chemistry", "description": "From synthetic to natural macromolecules, we encounter polymers everywhere and everyday. This course explores the multitude of synthetic techniques available and discusses how structure defines function. Topics include condensation and chain (anionic, cationic, radical) polymerizations, dendrimers, controlling molecular weight, ring opening, and biopolymer syntheses. Fundamentals of composition and physical properties of polymers, and methods of characterization are also covered."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4219", "title": "Advanced Organic Chemistry", "description": "The focus of this course is organic chemistry as practiced nowadays with all its complexity and beauty revealed through primary literature. Building on the foundations of YSC2224 Organic Chemistry with Laboratory, we shall look closely at reaction mechanisms and catalysts, learn about important but short-lived chemical species, and practise the art of designing synthetic strategies to build difficult molecules in efficient or creative ways."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4220", "title": "Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations", "description": "Much of modern science and mathematics is expressed in the language of differential equations. Population models in ecology, financial growth, heat conduction, and water waves are a few examples. In this course, you will solve the classical linear ordinary and partial differential equations.\n\nStudents will assemble a toolbox of mathematical techniques to solve initial and boundary value problems, including integrating factors, separation of variables, and Fourier series."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4221", "title": "Advanced Quantum Mechanics", "description": "This advanced course on quantum mechanics follows YSC3210 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and looks at the application of quantum mechanics to time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, scattering theory including scattering matrices, partial wave analysis, Born approximation, the adiabatic theorem and Berry phase and Berry curvature."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4222", "title": "Chaos Theory", "description": "This advanced undergraduate course will introduce students to the occurrence of chaos in physical systems. Topics to be covered include typical chaotic models such as the kicked rotator, Poincare surface of section, Action-angle variables, Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Torii, Lyapunov exponents, fractal dimensions, and quantum chaos."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4223", "title": "Physics in Curved Spacetime", "description": "The course introduces the basic ideas of relativity, with an emphasis on physical phenomena in curved spacetime. Special relativity will be reviewed, and the basic concepts and mathematics of general relativity introduced. We will then turn to physics in flat or curved spacetime. Physical phenomena covered may vary from year to year, but can include a selection from mechanics, electrodynamics, kinetic theory, quantum mechanics, gravitational lensing, black holes, gravitational waves, etc. The course teaches the physical relevance of the theory of relativity, and prepares the student for an advanced course in general relativity. Prior exposure to special relativity is assumed."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4224", "title": "Applied Data Science", "description": "Data science has revolutionized modern life and technology using a broad spectrum of methods from Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. Intrinsically, mathematical and statistical techniques are married to modern computing power to provide accurate and complex tools to capture real life phenomena. In this course, we build on YSC2239 Introduction to Data Science to develop a deeper understanding of Data Science methods, learn more advanced tools, and apply them in more challenging contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4225", "title": "Stochastic Processes and Models (SPaM)", "description": "What do (1) stock markets, (2) the weather, (3) genetic mutations and (4) the movements of a drunkard have in common? All four phenomena are subject to a certain degree of randomness. Such \u201cstochastic processes\u201d are a vibrant area of interdisciplinary research, ranging from mathematical finance over biology to predicting waiting times in supermarket queues. In this course, you will learn the mathematics behind the most common models of stochastic processes: Markov chains, Poisson and renewal processes, and queuing theory. We will prove the most important mathematical results and apply them to realistic problems."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4226", "title": "Advanced Methods in Cell Biology", "description": "This course aims to complement the theoretical knowledge gained in advanced molecular and cell biology courses by applying modern methods to study cells alone or in multicellular context. The focus will be on applying microscopy tools to study basic cellular behaviours in vivo, learning advanced optical methods and optimising analysis and interpretation of large imaging data sets."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4227", "title": "Computer Vision and Deep Learning", "description": "Computer vision is Artificial Intelligence (AI) that focuses on images and video as the input. Images and videos are everywhere and contain rich visual information. However, how can we extract that information? The goal of computer vision is to do this task. In other words, it attempts to make computers work like human eyes: to understand and recognize the world through images or videos. Human visual perception, after millions of years of evolution, is extremely good in understanding and recognizing objects or scenes. To have similar abilities, algorithms based on various cues and techniques (including machine learning) have been developed, and this course is about some of those algorithms.\n\nComputer vision is the most important application of deep learning. Compared to other types of data, images and video are more complex in terms of extracting the underlying information. Recently, it has been shown that deep learning is effective in addressing the problem. Thus, in this course, we will also learn deep learning, particularly in the context of solving computer vision problems."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4228", "title": "Data Science in Quantitative Finance", "description": "Data science has revolutionized most aspects of our lives. This is not different in the world of Finance, where machine learning algorithms are being used more and more by banks, asset management firms, hedge funds, etc. However, the way in which Data Science is used in Finance is oftentimes different than the way it is used in other fields. In this course, we will explore ways in which Data Science is applied in Quantitative Finance. We will explore it from both, theoretical and practical points of view, playing with real financial data and building python models."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4229", "title": "Molecular Neuroscience - Genes, Brains, and Behaviour", "description": "This advanced course in neuroscience offers students an opportunity to explore the current state of knowledge in selected topics in neuroscience. To develop a deeper understanding of the nervous system and cognition at a molecular level, the methodology used, and the disorders of the brain, students will read primary literature, present journal articles to peers, and participate in group discussion with specialist practicing neuroscientist guest lectures."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4230", "title": "Programming Language Design and Implementation", "description": "We study the theory of programming languages and their implementation. Topics may include automata, semantics, verification, interpreters, compilers, and runtime systems. This course includes a substantial project."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4231", "title": "Parallel, Concurrent and Distributed Programming", "description": "This course will cover main concepts and programming paradigms for developing parallel concurrent and distributed systems, which is vital for implementing high-performance applications in areas such as machine learning, cloud computing, and databases --- areas with an extremely high demand for well-trained software engineers. The course contents will include both practical (about 70%) as well as a theoretical component, giving the students the basis to design concurrent algorithms, and reason about their correctness, as well as to be able to design experiments for estimating the performance of the designed algorithms."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4232", "title": "Theory of Computation", "description": "Computing is now an integral part of life and business. A college student should therefore graduate with some understanding of what is not computable, and the complexity of what is computable. The student will learn from this course: (a) some standard models of computation, so as to gain an understanding of what can or cannot be computed by various computing devices. (b) some reasoning techniques commonly used in computer science, including nondeterminism, diagonalization, simulation, and reduction. (c) some mathematical formulation of objects in computer science, so as to study their properties."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4233", "title": "Software Verification and Validation", "description": "The course focuses on software verification and validation throughout the software life cycle, including reviews, inspections, walkthroughs, testing techniques (functional and structural), levels of testing (unit, integration, system, and acceptance), and testing tools (static and dynamic)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4234", "title": "Hardware Design and Micro-Architectures", "description": "The Hardware Design and Micro-Architecture course covers the concepts and methodologies required to build digital circuits. This is an advanced course that builds upon knowledge and experiences with compilers, operating systems and computer organisation. Through the design of a fully functional microprocessor, students will learn combinational and sequential logic, Hardware Description Language, and advanced micro-architecture principles."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4235", "title": "Graph Theory", "description": "This course will introduce the important concepts and results in graph theory. The related algorithms will be also covered. Graph Theory has many applications in other areas of mathematics, data science, and computer science. This course has been deliberately designed with minimal prerequisites in order to allow interested students from data science and computer science backgrounds to enrol."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4236", "title": "Optimization for Large Scale Machine Learning", "description": "The course covers several current and advanced topics in optimisation, with an emphasis on efficient algorithms for solving large scale Machine Learning problems. Topics include first and second order methods, stochastic gradient type approaches and duality principles. Many relevant examples in statistical learning and machine learning will be covered in detail. The algorithms will be implemented using the Python programming language and a significant portion of the lectures will be devoted to practical implementations of the discussed methods."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4237", "title": "Biological Rhythms of Life", "description": "An \u223c24 hr biological time keeping system called the circadian clock regulates many physiological activities including the sleep-wake, feed-fast cycle and metabolism. But, in our 24/7 modern society, we either skip or postpone sleep to have extended work or fun time and its consequences range from feeling sleepy in classroom to deadly accidents. The main objective of this course is to educate students about the importance and molecular details of the circadian clock network and consequences of its disruption. This would help them to become better leaders and decision makers to build an environmentally friendly and a sustainable society."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4238", "title": "Generalized Linear Models", "description": "Linear regression is a common tool to explore a relationship between several continuous variables. How can it be extended to relate two categorical responses, or a qualitative response with a quantitative predictor? This course delves into generalized linear models (GLMs), a unifying framework for the analysis of relationships between several explanatory variables and a single response, which could be binary, multinomial, counts, or quantitative. Topics include the exponential family of distributions, model selection, estimation and inference, analysis of deviance, link functions, linear models, logistic regression, Poisson regression. The course covers the statistical theory of GLMs, and its applications to practical problems."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4239", "title": "Advanced Partial Differential Equations", "description": "Advanced topics in partial differential equations, We study spectral (Fourier transform) methods and their modern generalisations, informed by the tools of complex analysis."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4240", "title": "Urban Wildlife", "description": "The aim of this course is twofold: to become familiar with the current primary literature outlining major themes and questions in urban wildlife studies; and to conduct non-invasive research on wildlife in Singapore. Students may pursue topics such as: behavioural repertoires, distribution and occupancy, and genetics or genomics, of wildlife in Singapore, depending on their interests. Students will gain practical knowledge in collecting and interpreting data. Students may participate in research on otters, hornbills or other avifauna, lizards (including monitor lizards or Sumatran flying dragons), mudskippers, insects, or other local wildlife. This course falls under the Research Tutorial banner."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4241", "title": "Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics", "description": "Although most problems in university science classes are chosen to be (mostly) solvable, there are many real-world cases where obtaining the analytic solution is almost impossible. A major reason for this is the nonlinearity of the system. Typically, we have to use numerical methods to get the result. However, it is possible to employ analytical tools to extract information about the system\u2019s behavior without obtaining a complete solution. In this course, we will learn some techniques that can be used to analyze such problems and gain insight into the system\u2019s dynamics even when the analytic solution is hard to get."}, {"moduleCode": "YSC4242", "title": "Finite Geometry", "description": "This course introduces students to various concepts and theories in finite geometry. In this course, students will learn interesting geometrical viewpoints of combinatorics through applications to areas such as graph theory, coding theory and cryptography. The course requires general proof techniques and robust understanding of linear algebra. Knowledge of group theory will be a plus. Students who are interested in mathematics or computer science are welcome"}, {"moduleCode": "YSP1201", "title": "Global Strategy and Leadership", "description": "The Yale-NUS Summer Institute in Leadership and Global Strategy has been designed to offer Yale-NUS students the chance to consider pressing global issues and to offer a way of thinking or framework to address them. Adapted from Yale\u2019s iconic Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, the structure of this summer seminar will introduce students to the theory and practice of grand strategy from different analytic perspectives. With a focus on the environment, public health and the global movement of peoples, we will consider how to frame priorities to address these issues."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS1203", "title": "Principles of Economics", "description": "Economists are mainly concerned with the study of choice: choices made by consumers (buy the latest gizmo or save the money?), firms (how much to produce and what price to charge?) and policy-makers (bailout the banks or reduce income tax rates?) are all within the purview of economic analysis. This course serves as an introduction to economics and the basic mathematical tools for economic analysis. It covers topics in microeconomics, macroeconomics, univariate calculus, and systems of equations."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS1205", "title": "Introduction to Game Theory", "description": "Game theory studies strategic situations where the involved parties impact each other\u2019s welfare through their individual decisions. In such situations, it becomes necessary to think about how others will act while trying to further one\u2019s own goals. Game theory has wide ranging applications and is used to model strategic interactions in both human and biological worlds. This course introduces students to concepts in game theory and their applications."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS1206", "title": "Introduction to Comparative Politics", "description": "This course is an introduction to the study of political institutions, processes, structures, policies, and outcomes, both within and across countries. Students will learn how to understand and evaluate the similarities and differences between political systems, as well as the intricacies of specific case studies. The course will introduce students to some of the key themes, methods, and questions used in comparing polities across time and space."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS1208", "title": "Deviance and Conformity: An Introduction to Sociology", "description": "Why are some behaviors, differences, and people considered deviant or stigmatized while others are not? This introductory sociology course examines several theories of social deviance that offer different answers to this question. We will focus on the creation of deviant categories and persons as interactive processes involving how behaviors are labeled as deviant, how people enter deviant roles, how others respond to deviance, and how those labeled as deviant cope with these responses."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2201", "title": "Introduction to Psychology", "description": "This course will introduce students to themselves and others as viewed through the lens of psychology. We will present and explore the scientific study of human (and animal) behaviour, seeking to understand why we think, feel, and act as we do. The goal is to build a firm foundation for those wishing to major in psychology while simultaneously providing an interesting and revealing elective to those visiting psychology on their way to other disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2202", "title": "International Relations", "description": "This course introduces students to concepts, theories, and cases associated with the study of international politics. We will study contemporary scholarly texts and examine empirical evidence relating to key historical experiences such as the Cold War, which inform contemporary international relations theories."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2203", "title": "Intermediate Microeconomics", "description": "Microeconomics analyses individual decision making and its implications for economic outcomes. Here the term \u201cindividual\u201d is used broadly to include individuals, households and firms. We deconstruct the demand-supply model by analyzing consumers' choices as outcomes of rational preference maximization and producers' decisions as results of profit maximization in various market structures. We study how equilibrium of demand and supply in competitive markets generates efficient outcomes. We then analyze a variety of instances when markets fail to be efficient. This course will place special emphasis upon mathematical foundations of theoretical models. In particular, we will study and apply techniques in multivariate calculus, and unconstrained and constrained optimization."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2208", "title": "Ancient Greek Political Philosophy", "description": "This course offers students an introduction to the central themes and debates in Ancient Greek Political Philosophy through a careful reading of Plato\u2019s Republic and Aristotle\u2019s Politics. Questions and themes include: How should I/we live? What is justice, freedom, and equality? What are the virtues of citizens and rulers? What is the relationship between the individual and the state? How should we envision the relationship between morality and politics? While understanding the works of Plato and Aristotle within their historical context, we will also be interested in understanding how they can help us to think about politics in contemporary societies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2210", "title": "Contemporary Social Theory", "description": "This course provides a general introduction to the main currents in social theory from World War II up to the present day. It covers key works from across the social sciences by seminal thinkers such Edward Said, Albert Hirschman, Martha Nussbaum and Pierre Bourdieu. The course is in three parts. Part I asks \u201cwhat is the social\u201d and \u201cwhat can we know about it?\u201d Part II examines competing conceptualizations of society in terms of markets, culture, institutions, social fields and actor networks. Part III looks at rival theorizations of public life, human freedom, ethnicity and modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2211", "title": "Econometrics", "description": "Does going to college increase your earnings? Does height have an effect your wage? Do episodes like the haze 2013 in Singapore have a major impact to the economy? This course introduces students to the statistical methods that economists use to answer this and similar questions. More generally, this is an introduction to the methods used to test economic models and examine empirical relationships, primarily regression analysis. Although much of the course will focus on the mathematical development of the methodology, emphasis is placed on learning by studying and replicating specific case studies that address current economic questions."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2212", "title": "Firms' Strategies and Market Competition", "description": "In this course, we will study various strategies that firms deploy when facing market competition and the impact of such strategic behaviour on market outcomes like prices, efficiency, market structure, innovation etc. Examples of firms\u2019 strategies include price discrimination, product differentiation, advertising, collusion, mergers and entry deterrence. We will analyse theoretical models of imperfectly competitive markets to gain insights into firms\u2019 behaviour and functioning of real-world markets."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2214", "title": "Intermediate Macroeconomics", "description": "Economics is concerned with the study of how individuals make decisions and how these decisions affect, and in turn are affected by, the distribution of limited resources in society. This course introduces students to the formal analysis of the economy as a whole. The goal is to understand how decisions by the firms, consumers and institutions affect the markets, and the welfare implications of such choices for society. Special attention is placed on the effect of government and monetary policies on the economy. Emphasis is placed upon the mathematical foundations of theoretical models."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2215", "title": "Sociology of Religion", "description": "The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad-based introduction to the sociological study of religion. Students will become acquainted with the dominant theoretical perspectives in the field (constructivist, Durkheimian, and Weberian) as well as with the various methods sociologists employ (ethnographic, statistical, and comparative). Course readings will focus on various themes (e.g., secularization, gender, and nationalism) and on many regions of the world (e.g., the America, Asia and Europe)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2216", "title": "Statistics and Research Methods for Psychology", "description": "This course is concerned with research methods and the use of statistics in psychology. As such this is a skills oriented course aimed at preparing students for taking the required laboratory course in psychology as well as doing their senior capstone project. We will be covering research methods and statistics simultaneously since they are closely intertwined."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2217", "title": "Political Concepts", "description": "Ideas fuel politics and politics structures the world of ideas. To engage\neffectively in these worlds requires a grasp of the political concepts that\nengender consensus and conflict. This course uses history of ideas, legal\ndocuments, and contemporary philosophy to introduce students to core\nconcepts that scaffold institutions and practices (e.g., democracy,\nauthoritarianism, republicanism, socialism) as well as concepts which shape and are shaped by those institutions and practices (e.g., power, empire,\norder, liberty, equality, right). Using a case\u2010based approach in class, we\nexplore how political conflict and action grow from contestations over the\nmeanings and consequences of these concepts."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2218", "title": "International Political Economy", "description": "This class introduces students to the study of international political economy. Students will examine the structure of the global political economy, the drivers and implications of globalization, and the role of international economic institutions in driving political and economic outcomes. Among others, this class will cover topics such as international financial institutions, trade, financial crises, foreign aid, economic development, energy politics, and illicit trade."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2220", "title": "Adelaide to Zhuhai: Cities in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Students taking this course acquire foundational concepts in Urban Studies, including: centrality (cities as economic and demographic concentrations and extensions); relationality (cities in global and regional networks); positionality (cities as pluralistic units of experience and meaning); sustainability (cities as sites of human-environment interface); and collectivity (cities as sites of collaborative problem solving and collective action). It is a required course in Urban Studies, preparing students for Urban Theory as well as other urban thematic courses. It should be the first course students intending to major or minor in Urban Studies take, and must be completed prior to the Senior Year."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2221", "title": "International Security", "description": "This course offers students an in\u2010depth learning experience in the field of\nSecurity Studies. The topics on offer will vary from year to year, but will\npertain to specific questions, debates, and literatures in the field of\ninternational security.\n\nThe topics covered within the course will be detailed in the syllabus given to a student in advance of the course. The faculty teaching the course will\nchange and as such topics will change according to their specializations and\ninterests."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2223", "title": "Religion, Ritual and Magic", "description": "This course is an introductory survey of the comparative study of religion and religious thought. We will explore how we categorize and think about religion, compare and contrast religious systems from around the world, and examine how religion and ritual are shaped by and shape our thought and our society."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2226", "title": "Language, Culture, Power", "description": "This course will offer an introduction to linguistics and the anthropological study of language. The first half of the course will deal with the basics of the formal study of language in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The second half of the course will consider linguistic and wider communicative practice within its social, cultural, and historical contexts. Participants will pay special attention to the relationship between language and power, both in terms of social structure and within the development of the larger political worlds in which we live. This course assumes no pre- or corequisite and serves as a survey course for the anthropology major."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2227", "title": "Introduction to Anthropology", "description": "Offers students an introduction to the disciplinary concerns, practices, theories, and methods common to Cultural Anthropology\u2014an academic discipline that takes as its subject the study of human cultures and cultural difference. Topics concerning anthropological subfields such as kinship and family, politics, economy and exchange, gender and sexuality, medicine and health, food & food security, religion, education, media, and more, will be addressed. Required of all majors (starting with the Class of 2019)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2228", "title": "Modern Southeast Asia", "description": "Introduction to the peoples and cultures of Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the challenges of modernization, development, and globalization. Southeast Asian history, literature, arts, belief systems, agriculture, industrialization and urbanization, politics, ecological challenges, and economic change."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2229", "title": "Are you what you eat? Anthropology of Food and Eating", "description": "Whether as a pleasurable pastime, a medium of self-expression, a target of activism, or a topic of academic inquiry, food seems to be on everyone\u2019s mind these days. A topic long ignored in formal academic research, the recent revitalization of food studies has sparked new critical dialogues within and among disciplines. This course offers an overview of key perspectives on the study of food, including food culture, food security, and food politics/policy, drawing from anthropology and closely related disciplines. It is designed for anthropology majors, and is of relevance to students of other majors with an interest in food systems."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2230", "title": "Ethnic Diversity in Japan", "description": "This course challenges the widespread myth of Japan as a \u201chomogeneous\u201d society by exploring the conception and practice of diversity in Japan. We will closely examine how social difference and marginality have been produced and experienced over time, looking at the ethnic and minority status of the aboriginal Ainu, Okinawans, resident Chinese and Korean communities, and Burakumin (descendants of historical outcastes), as well as other groups whose non-normative practices or identities mark them as minority groups, including victims of nuclear radiation, LGBTQ populations, the disabled and mentally ill, migrant and irregular workers, and the homeless."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2231", "title": "The Anthropology of Politics and Law: An Introduction", "description": "An introduction to the comparative study of politics and law in different cultures across the world, past and present, focusing on the basic concepts necessary to analyse these, among them, the state, sovereignty, civil society, power, justice, rights. Based on examples drawn from Africa and Asia, and the Americas, the course will examine critically many of the taken for granted terms of public discourse, among them, democracy, and explore the historically changing relationship between government, politics, and judicial processes."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2232", "title": "Medicine, Culture and Modernity", "description": "This class examines the changing place of medicine in the long history of modernity. Focusing on key moments (the birth of the clinic, the colonial encounter, the consolidation of medicine as profession, the age of genomics and bio-capital, and the empire of global health) it explores the distinctive role of medical knowledge and practice in the making of modernist persons, identities, economies, and political vocabularies. Readings are drawn from anthropology and the wider social sciences, with cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The course is a mix of lecture and discussion."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2233", "title": "Investment Analysis and Economics", "description": "The course is meant for students who wish to familiarize themselves with the principles of investment analysis, and to understand how economic concepts feed into investment processes. It provides students with a foundational understanding of the structure of global public markets (equities, bonds and currencies), key investment theories and tools for analysing assets. In particular, it familiarizes students with concepts from macro-, micro- and behavioural economics that are relevant for making investment decisions. The course is designed from the perspective of an investment professional and draws on real-world examples and applications."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2234", "title": "The Good Company", "description": "What is the purpose of a company? Is it only to make money? The Good Company will investigate the changing nature of the modern corporation and its impact on society, both good and bad. We will also develop an understanding of ethical investments and the role such firms play in impacting the behaviour of modern corporations. Shortcomings in the current ethical investment framework will be covered, with a new paradigm (The Good Company Index) analysed as an alternative."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2236", "title": "Southwest Asia and North Africa: Societies and Politics", "description": "The course provides a comprehensive examination of societies and politics in Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). It focuses on the construction and the dynamics of the state system, major ideologies, geopolitics and socio-political trends. The course follows current developments in the region with relation to regional, national, ethnic and communal dispute."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2237", "title": "Nuclear Politics", "description": "This course is an introduction to the history of nuclear crises and nuclear proliferation. Why were nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What is the effect of nuclear weapons on interstate crises? Why do states acquire nuclear weapons? Students will gain a better understanding of the role of nuclear weapons in international relations, the history of the Cold War, and new challenges in nuclear politics. Some of the references use game theory or statistics, but no prior knowledge of such methodologies is required."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2238", "title": "Game Theory and International Relations", "description": "This course is an introduction to game theory and its applications to international relations. Game theory is a set of mathematical tools used to understand strategic interactions, where one person's best course of action depends on the behavior of others. Students will become familiar with the \u201cscience\u201d and the \u201cart\u201d of game theory, discussing how to solve games and how to create them to represent strategic situations and shed new light on political events. Applications are taken from international relations, with a review of the First World War, the Second World War, and the Nuclear Age."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2239", "title": "The Political Thought of the Enlightenment", "description": "Liberty, equality, fraternity \u2013 many of our political ideas today have hazy roots in the Enlightenment. This course will examine some of the key texts, concepts and debates of the period, with particular emphasis on Britain and the French Enlightenment. We will also draw on these texts to think about political concepts and debates in our time."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2240", "title": "Women and Work around the World", "description": "This introductory course will study the global gender gap in the arena of work in both rich and poor countries. It will introduce students to the dynamic relationship between gender and work across time and space, investigating why only certain types of work are considered \u201creal work\u201d in certain parts of the world, women\u2019s growing entry into the formal sector, the feminization of certain types of labour, the stigmatized nature of domestic work, women\u2019s labour movements, and the role played by women\u2019s work in international development. Readings will be drawn from sociology, anthropology, labour studies, geography, and economics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2243", "title": "Democracy and Truth", "description": "This course will explore the tense relation between democracy and truth, from the trial and death of Socrates in Classical Athens to discussions on the role of Facebook. Divided into three sections, the seminar will familiarize students with: 1) the history of democratic thought and its critics (ancient, modern, and contemporary), 2) state-of-the-art democratic theory (aggregative and deliberative models of democracy, public reason, the epistemic turn), and 3) current debates on the challenges posed by social and technological transformations (post-truth, the role of social media, free-speech legislation)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2244", "title": "Markets, Morality and Politics", "description": "This course studies the morality and politics of market-based distribution. It does so in three parts. First, it studies the historical justifications for and criticisms of markets. Second, it examines contemporary debates about the necessity and limits of markets. Finally, it applies the discussions from the first two parts to market distribution of specific goods.\n\nImportantly, our primary concern throughout this course will be normative: to understand the justifications for today\u2019s political economic world."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2245", "title": "Marriage and Kinship", "description": "This course introduces the anthropology of marriage and kinship, asking questions like: How does the creation of kin through marriage vary cross-culturally? How and why do states exercise control over marriage? Why are people marrying later and having fewer babies, and how will this development shape societies in the twenty-first century? Who has access to marriage, who does not, and why? Is marriage a tool of patriarchal domination? Or can it become a site for culturally and historically specific forms of agency? Students will conduct original research and read ethnographies of places around the world with a focus on Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2246", "title": "Gender and Politics", "description": "Representation is a hallmark of democratic systems, yet certain groups, like women, are systematically underrepresented in politics. This class examines the variation of women\u2019s representation in legislatures around the world, the theories to explain it and ask whether and how it matters for politics and policy outcomes. We explore the ways that notions of gender shape policy choices and are embedded in institutions and practices. Finally, we will look beyond established political processes to consider broader phenomena such as the role of women in social movements or gender inequality in development and globalisation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2247", "title": "Socialism: Real and Imagined", "description": "The course has three parts. The first is an examination of political theory, surveying various strands of socialist thought, as well as utopian socialist fiction. The second part examines a handful of concrete socialist experiments that are relevant to the contemporary period to investigate what worked, what did not, and why. The third part of the course imagines what a viable and democratic socialism would look like today. It samples a significant body of literature that has emerged in the last three decades which investigates how we might construct a feasible socialism that is relevant to the contemporary period."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2248", "title": "Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Nietzsche", "description": "An introductory survey of Modern Political Philosophy, from Machiavelli to Nietzsche. We will discuss central topics and themes in the Western tradition, such as Sovereignty, Freedom, Equality, and Justice, as well as their influence, both beyond the West and beyond their time."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2250", "title": "Diplomacy and Statecraft", "description": "What do we know about the history, theory and practice of international diplomacy? What effect did diplomat-statesmen have on the development of diplomacy in the twentieth century? The course answers these questions along with facilitating a critical response to the debates within International Relations that focus on diplomacy. The course will also engage students in theoretical debates concerning the use of power through diplomatic channels. The course will provide students with a global history of diplomacy, unpacking how different historical contexts have influenced the development of diplomacy in different national and institutional settings."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2251", "title": "Race, Space, Power: Mapping the Global Colour Line", "description": "This seminar is an interdisciplinary, comparative exploration of how race makes space and how space makes race in US and global contexts. We will explore these relationships through historical and contemporary case studies, with attention to how geographies of white supremacy and settler/colonial power seek to erase or subsume the spatial practices of certain groups of people. Because we take a comparative approach, the cases selected are sited in various locations in Africa, the Americas, and Europe."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2252", "title": "What is the Global South: Africa in the World", "description": "What is \u2018Africa\u2019 and who is African? Is the African continent a unified space or an ideological project? This seminar introduces students to key debates and intellectual trajectories within African Studies that contributed to the \u201cinvention\u201d of Africa. We will look at how knowledge production on Africa shaped categories of gender, race, ethnicity, and religion, and how these categories were central to the colonial project. We will also trace \u201ccolonial afterlives\u201d that persist through development projects, humanitarian discourses, and the circulation of global capital."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2253", "title": "Divided Cities", "description": "This course investigates the social divisions of cities. The course is suitable for students interested in urban studies, regardless of discipline. The topics covered in the course include: The ghetto; Race and segregation; Immigration and the city; Class, poverty, and gentrification; Gender divisions; Cultural quarters and commoditized difference. The course introduces students to different modes of analysis and methods relevant to understanding social and economic division. Divided Cities can be taken as a stand-alone elective or as part of an Urban Studies or Anthropology Major or Minor, or any other Minor or Major as agreed by the Head of Study."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS2254", "title": "Statistics for Psychology using SPSS", "description": "The course introduces the main descriptive and inferential statistics used in psychological research. At the end of this course, students should be able to select and run the appropriate statistical procedure for their research question using SPSS."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3201", "title": "International Migration", "description": "An introduction to foundational theories that explain why people migrate and their post-migration experiences. The first half of the course focuses on factors that influence the decision to leave one's home country and migrate elsewhere. The second half of the course focuses on the impact of migration on the migrants themselves, the countries they move to, and the countries they leave behind. Over the course of the semester, students will also research specific migration streams to Singapore of their choosing in a structured manner."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3202", "title": "Ethnography", "description": "In this course, students will understand what constitutes ethnographic field\nmethods, what makes ethnographic writing different from other kinds of\nnonfiction writing, and the ethical and theoretical considerations within\nethnographic research. Over the semester, students will conduct their own,\nsmall\u2010scale ethnographic fieldwork, interviews and participant observation\nbased in Singapore.\nThis course is required in the Anthropology Major.\nThis course satisfies requirements in the Global Affairs Major.\nThis course satisfies requirements in the Urban Studies Major."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3203", "title": "Behavioral Economics", "description": "The field of behavioral economics draws on insights from other disciplines, especially psychology, to enrich our understanding of economic behaviour and decision making generally. Individuals frequently make decisions that systematically depart from the predictions of standard economic models. In this course we will attempt to understand these departures by integrating the psychology of human behavior into economic analysis. This course analyzes all types of decisions made by agents on a daily basis (from which breakfast to have to where to send the kids for education, etc.). Special focus will be put on decision making in a context of bounded rationality."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3204", "title": "Development Economics", "description": "This course focuses on the understanding of the process of economic\ndevelopment. The course will be structured around the four main questions:\n(1) Why are some countries much poorer than others? (2) What are the main\nbarriers to the process of economic development? (3) What are the main\nbarriers that prevent the poor to escape from poverty?, and (4) Why do\nthese barriers exist and persist?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3205", "title": "International Trade", "description": "In this course, we will study the theoretical and empirical foundations and\npolicies of international trade at a fairly abstract and rigorous level. The\ncourse materials and lectures will employ mathematics. The issues that will\nbe addressed include the causes of international trade, the gains from trade,\nthe role of international capital movements, the effects of trade and\ninvestment barriers, etc. We will also read about real\u2010world areas of trade, such as trade institutions, the interactions between trade and development\nissues, etc. We will study models in trade and apply them to questions of\ninterest in the real world."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3206", "title": "Law and Economics", "description": "This 2.5 MC course is an introduction to the relationship between law and economics, including the practical application of microeconomics to several common legal issues: property, torts and crime."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3207", "title": "Advanced Econometrics", "description": "This course broadly covers advanced topics in econometrics. The focus is on time series econometrics and financial econometrics. However, panel data and asymptotic theory are also tackled in this course \u2010in more depth than in \u2018Econometrics\u2019. This course mixes theory and applied work: theoretical foundations are covered, and the applications of the theory in real life are analysed."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3208", "title": "Advanced Microeconomics", "description": "This broadly covers the same range of topics as \u2018Intermediate Economics\u2019.\nHowever it has a more intensive treatment of consumer and producer\ntheory, and covers additional topics like choice under uncertainty, game\ntheory, contracting under hidden actions or hidden information, externalities\nand public goods, asset pricing, auctions, and general equilibrium theory."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3211", "title": "Human Rights", "description": "Human rights play a central role in global and domestic politics and are\nintimately connected with the politics of conflict and security. This casebased\ncourse situates rights in historical, legal, normative, and political\ncontexts, providing students with a critical perspective on contemporary\nrights discourses as well as a practical introduction to legal rights frameworks\nand their applications."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3212", "title": "Chinese Politics", "description": "China\u2019s rise is arguably one of the most important features of the 21st Century. Its growth-driven model of single-party rule challenges democratic ideals nurtured since WWII and its growing international economic and political clout promises to transform the existing regional and international orders. How did China get to this point? Where is it going? This class explores China\u2019s political and economic development beginning from the early Republican era, charts the Chinese Revolution, then turns to the Maoist and Reform eras in which it explores China\u2019s transition from a closed and impoverished agriculture society to regional and world power."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3213", "title": "Culture and Violence", "description": "Many forms of inter-personal violence such as honor killings, dowry deaths, witch-hunts, female infanticide, are attributed to differences in culture (norms, beliefs, values, social capital, and identities). Competing explanations link these forms of violence to economic and political causes such as property rights, repression by political elites, and political competition between religious groups. We will study the micro foundations of culture, and critically examine the relationship between culture and inter-personal violence using some theoretical and mostly empirical literature. We will examine the efficacy of interventions such as legislative change, economic incentives, and civic engagement to alleviate these forms of violence."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3214", "title": "Abnormal Psychology", "description": "This course introduces students to the field of abnormal psychology and the treatment of psychological disorders."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3215", "title": "Cognitive Psychology", "description": "This course introduces students to the study of how the mind works, seeking\nto understand how sensory information is transformed, stored, retrieved, or\nused. Although primarily focused on psychological approaches to\nunderstanding cognition (as mental information processing), it will also\nconnect to relevant approaches within neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy,\nand computer science. Topics and processes to be explored include attention, language, learning, memory, perception, reasoning, emotion, and\naction."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3217", "title": "Urbanization in China", "description": "This course investigates the dramatic urban transformation that has taken place in mainland China over the last four decades. The scale of this transformation means that it has far-reaching consequences for Asia and the world, influencing everything from climate change to the price of bread. The path of Chinese urbanization even affects the likelihood of regional military conflict. Understanding how and why China has urbanized is therefore of critical importance. Over the semester, we will take an interdisciplinary approach to this investigation, using perspectives from history, geography, political science, anthropology, urban planning, and cultural studies, among other disciplines."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3218", "title": "Urban ASEAN: The Changing Southeast Asian City", "description": "This course offers a critical reading of the past, present, and future of urban transformation in Southeast Asia. The course will consider the specific features of urbanization in Southeast Asia and the ways these are linked to the restructuring of economic, political and social agendas. Students will also be exposed to the different professional fields which engage with matters related to urbanization in the region. Key questions addressed in the course include: How is economic transformation driving urban restructuring in Southeast Asia? What are the strategies adopted by local and regional government institutions, urban designers, NGOs, and other organizations and professionals to guide urban development in the region? And what might the future hold for urbanization in Southeast Asia?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3219", "title": "Developmental Psychology", "description": "This course introduces students to the field of developmental psychology which addresses the ways in which humans develop psychologically and physically. Students will examine the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development of children, while gaining insights into the factors that shape their growth. Through a combination of theoretical frameworks, empirical research, and case studies, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of the milestones, challenges, and critical transitions that occur during childhood. This course equips students with a solid foundation to analyse and apply developmental theories and research in real-world contexts, fostering a deeper appreciation for the complexities of childhood development."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3220", "title": "Political Economy", "description": "Political economy explains political and economic behavior by characterizing the incentives of actors and the context in which these actors make decisions and influence outcomes. This course will introduce students to a broad class of potential interactions between actors in economically developed countries and consolidated democracies and also in autocratic regimes, failed states, and emerging economies. The course will examine important empirical regularities to identify key questions, guide model-building efforts, evaluate the usefulness of the economic models, and provide insights into major politico-economic developments."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3222", "title": "Urban Theory", "description": "This course introduces students to key theoretical approaches in urban studies. Throughout the semester, we will read selections from essential texts in the field, examining both their methodological techniques and theoretical contributions to understanding cities and urbanization. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach and is divided into three or four thematic units, which in previous iterations have covered topics such as modernity, justice, economy, spatiality, and infrastructure."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3223", "title": "Asian Medicine, the Body and Globalization", "description": "In highly problematic ways Asian Medical Systems are colonial, Orientalist\nconstructs that have been heavily influenced by nationalism and the\nmodernity of religion. It is common to speak of Ayurveda (\u201cIndian\u201d\nmedicine), Unani (Greek/Arabic/\u201dIslamic\u201d medicine), Traditional Chinese\nMedicine and Tibetan Buddhist Medicine as though these are timeless, authentic, self\u2010contained traditions. Drawing on a range of contemporary\ntheoretical insights in anthropology and history this course examines the way\nin which forms of \u201cmedical\u201d knowledge and embodied practice in Asia are\nshaped by the cultural dynamics of pre\u2010colonial, colonial and post\u2010colonial\nglobalization."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3224", "title": "International Finance", "description": "This course is an overview of international macroeconomic theory and policy. It presents economic theories to foster understanding of international financial markets and the interrelationships of economic aggregates such as GDP, exchange rates, trade balances, etc. Models will be applied to understand the effects and implications of macroeconomic policies in the international arena. The course will also look at relevant current issues: the global financial crisis, international coordination in macroeconomic policy, the economics of the Euro, etc. Students should have a working knowledge of algebra, graphical techniques and the basics of micro\u2010 and macroeconomics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3225", "title": "Global Governance", "description": "This course will enable students to understand the role of international law, regimes, institutions, and non\u2010governmental organizations in international politics. The first section of the course is dedicated to theoretical, institutional and legal issues of global governance. The second section explores how the global governance and international law structure has evolved over time and how it technically functions today. The third section will explore the operations of specific actors in global governance including the United Nations, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, APEC and ASEAN. The final section will explore the \u2018threats without borders\u2019 and challenges to global governance."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3226", "title": "Conflict and Cooperation in East Asia", "description": "This course applies IR theories to examine major security and economic\nissues in East Asia.\n\nThis course promotes students\u2019 ability to critically apply major international\nrelations theories to East Asia. The course also encourages students to\nexplore the possibilities of refining existing theories and developing new\nalternatives.\n\nOn successful completion of the course a student should be able to: Identify\nthe actors, forces, and logics driving major international security and\neconomic issues in East Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3227", "title": "The Economy\u2010Security Nexus", "description": "This course offers an introduction to the scholarly literature on the\nintersection of international security and international economy. It examines\nhow economic interdependence affects military disputes (and vice versa),\neconomic underpinnings of national security and international order, and the\ncoexistence of military competition and economic cooperation in major\nregions of the world."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3228", "title": "Health Psychology", "description": "This course examines the psychological and social factors related to physical\nhealth.\nThis course provides students with an introduction to the field of health\npsychology which is a growing subarea of psychology. Health psychology is\nconcerned with the relationship between psychological and social factors\nand physical health. At the end of this course students will be familiar with the relationship of psychological and social factors in physical health and will\nbe able to intelligently discuss the relationship of mind and body from a\nscientific point of view."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3229", "title": "Urbanization and the Environment", "description": "This course offers students an understanding of the complex relationship\nbetween urbanization and the environment. The course covers a range of\ntopics relevant to thinking about the role of nature in the city, the reliance of\nurbanization on nature, and the environmental benefits and ills of\nurbanization. Students will understand the environmental pressures posed\nby urbanization, as well as the ways in which certain environmental goals (green spaces, clean air) are a key part of urban planning and policy\nformation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3231", "title": "Methods in the Social Sciences", "description": "An introduction to various research methods in the social sciences, including survey methodology, quantitative data analysis, participant observation, and in\u2010depth interviewing. This course can count as a course in the major for students in Urban Studies, Global Affairs, PPE, and Anthropology. It may fulfil the course requirements for students in Environmental Studies as well on a case\u2010by\u2010case basis after consultation with the Head of Studies of that major. The course also fulfils the methods requirement in Urban Studies and Global Affairs. Students in all of these majors should ideally take this course before they commence their capstone project."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3235", "title": "Urban Spatial Representation", "description": "This course offers an introduction to spatial visualization tools for the analysis and representation of city forms, infrastructures and social phenomena. Students will learn about the history of urban representational concepts (projection, abstraction, plan, perspective), and a number of current tools (digital model-building and plan/map representation and participatory methods). They will acquire, interrogate and manipulate digital data relevant for urban spatial analysis, and learn how to visualise data such that it effectively communicates three-dimensional urban spatial conditions. The course also introduces students to key software packages used in urban planning and design (AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, and Sketchup/Rhinoceros 3d modelling packages)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3236", "title": "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy: Issues and Practice", "description": "This course introduces students to foreign policy, which is the approach states adopt in their international relationships, and to diplomacy, one of the key tools for implementing foreign policy. It provides an Asia\u2010centred perspective on foreign policy and diplomacy, and provides insight into the realities of practitioners in the field. It will cover concepts in foreign policy analysis and strategies as well as laws and practices of diplomatic relations. It will explore the unique experiences of Singapore\u2019s foreign policy. Bilateral and multilateral diplomacy will be discussed in the Singaporean context and students may be exposed to practitioners in the classroom."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3237", "title": "Gender Perspectives in Anthropology", "description": "This course introduces students to anthropological contributions to gender\nand sexuality in cross cultural perspective. The course focuses on the\nhistorical development of the field. We will explore various theoretical\napproaches including Margaret Mead\u2019s early work on cultural diversity;\n1970s & 1980s feminist studies of gender universals and the subordination of\nwomen; 1990s interpretive approaches to gender constructions; more recent feminist and non\u2010feminist studies of sexuality, the body, masculinity and\nqueer theory."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3238", "title": "US Foreign Policy", "description": "This course examines the evolution of US foreign policy since 1900. The focus will be on assessing how US leaders have thought over time about interests, ideals, and strategies in the international realm. The course will also explore current challenges confronting the US in the world.\nOn successful completion of the course a student should be able to: (1) demonstrate the evolution of US foreign policy agenda and strategy over the past century; (2) classify underlying rationale of important US foreign policy\ndecisions; and (3) critically question the implications of US foreign policy on\noverall international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3241", "title": "Chinese Political Philosophy: Confucianism & its Rivals", "description": "This is an advanced course for students who have an interest in political philosophy. It aims to introduce the Chinese traditional political thoughts that date back to the period before Qin Dynasty, i.e. up to 221 B.C. In particular, it aims to demonstrate what and how the major ancient Chinese political thinkers understand and discuss the important philosophical questions in the field of politics that are (more than often) still relevant nowadays. To this end, this course takes a thematic rather than a chronological approach."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3242", "title": "Religion and Politics in South Asia", "description": "Religion plays a fundamental role in political outcomes. It influences voting, violence, public goods provision as well as broader processes in state formation such as democratization and capitalism. We will study a proportion of the theoretical and empirical literature that examines how religion influences political actors, institutions and outcomes and how political processes influence religious behaviour. The empirical literature will be primarily drawn from South Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3243", "title": "Public Economics", "description": "This course provides an in-depth analysis of the latest development in public sector economics. It equips students with analytical and empirical tools to critically engage and contribute to the debate on government interventions in the economy and how it affects equality and economic efficiency. The topic covers government social protection programs, public goods provision, environmental protection, healthcare policies, and taxation system. We revisit influential academic works and discuss the latest empirical evidence on how individual behaviour responds to government policies and the implications of these responses to the effectiveness of the policies themselves."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3244", "title": "Labour Economics: Work, Human Capital, and Income Inequality", "description": "This course aims to equip students with the analytical and empirical tools to understand (i) the economics of employment relationships, (ii) how public policy influence work and human capital, and (iii) the various social forces that shapes income inequality in the last century. In particular, the course provides a framework to evaluate key policy issues, such as the minimum wage, discrimination, the gender and racial wage gap, immigration, educational policies, and how globalization, computerization, and the rise of robots affect the income distribution in both developing and developed economies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3245", "title": "Key Debates in Urban Planning and Policy", "description": "This course explores key debates in contemporary urban planning and policy, including questions of agglomeration, property rights, rationality, democracy, diversity, and justice. While these questions are crucial for successfully intervening in contemporary urban transformation, they are not new. Rather, they are part of ongoing debates that stretch back to the origins of urban planning and policy. In order to understand the issues facing contemporary urban planning, it is therefore necessary to excavate their historical development. Through this excavation, we will develop informed positions on contemporary practice in urban planning and policy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3246", "title": "Cities of the Global South", "description": "This course offers students an in-depth inquiry into the characteristics of urban organization and development in cities of the Global South, where there are high rates of urbanization. Students will examine a range of topics: migration and urbanization, formal and informal governance, housing and infrastructure, food security and environment. Students will also learn about the competing theoretical constructs used to explain such urbanization. Case studies will be drawn from a range of geographical locations."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3248", "title": "Advanced Macroeconomics", "description": "This course serves as an advanced introduction to modern macroeconomic\nanalysis to understand the causes and consequences of macroeconomic\nfluctuations. We will explore at a deeper level some of the topics covered in\nIntermediate Macroeconomics, as well as some other research topics. Topics\ncovered may include economic growth, business cycles, financial markets,\nmonetary and fiscal policy etc."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3249", "title": "Human Neuroscience", "description": "The course provides an introduction to the nervous system, with a particular emphasis on the structure and function of the human brain. Topics include the anatomy and function of nerve cells, sensory systems, and the brain as a whole, as well as exploration of the neural basis of learning, memory, perception, reward, emotion, social thinking, and the control of movement. Diseases of the nervous system and neuropharmacology will also be discussed."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3250", "title": "Cityscapes and Urban Form", "description": "This course teaches students how to analyse and visualise the urban built environment. Students learn about different city morphologies and the cultural, political and economic reasons they formed. Students will learn about how to discern, describe and depict elements in the urban built environment and do so at a range of scales - block, street, neighbourhood, city. They will also explore the ways in urban design engages with and seeks to re-shape cityscapes. This course includes practical training in manual and digital visualisations. It meets the requirements of either a topical or methods (spatial reasoning) course in Urban Studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3251", "title": "Urban Political Ecology", "description": "Contemporary cities face pressing environmental and infrastructural challenges that unevenly shape the nature of urban space and everyday life. This course introduces students to urban political ecology (UPE) as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry for examining critical socio-ecological processes and problems in cities. Through UPE case studies on water, waste, pollution, green spaces, environmental (in)justices, and smart/sustainable cities, we consider interwoven social, political and ecological processes that produce differing urban environments for city-dwellers. This course provides a critical toolkit for grasping and analyzing the complex human-environment networks that constitute our cities, while considering possibilities for greater social and environmental justice."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3252", "title": "Lab in Applying Psychology to Public Policy", "description": "In this course, students will explore how psychology can be applied to public policy. As a lab course, students will conduct their own randomised controlled trials requiring them to examine whether psychological concepts (particularly those from decision science and social psychology) can optimise the outcomes of \u201creal-life\u201d projects within the community. Projects will be conducted with government, not-for-profit, and town council agencies within Singapore."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3253", "title": "Anthropology of Development", "description": "This course examines anthropological approaches to global development.\nStudents will gain exposure to major transformations in development\nparadigms and become familiar with various theories and processes for\nredressing social and economic inequality. Through ethnographic case\nstudies of specific methodological strategies for intervention, students will\nbe able to critically analyse diverse development discourses and practices\nand evaluate their social consequences, both planned and unintended.\nStudents will also explore the numerous roles anthropologists have played\nin shaping key debates within development and the discipline\u2019s\ncontributions to understanding the lived experiences of those involved in and effected by development practices."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3254", "title": "Globalization on the Ground", "description": "This course takes an ethnographic approach to the study of globalization, focusing on the impact it has on the daily lives of individuals, families, and communities around the world, and how they have responded in turn. Introducing students to how interpretative social science disciplines have approached the study of globalization, students will be assigned readings on different manifestations of globalization, including but not limited to the McDonaldization of society, the materials that enable globalization to take place, the international labor migration industry, the structure and composition of global cities, global crime, and the rise of anti-globalization social movements."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3255", "title": "International Development", "description": "This course examines the determinants and mechanisms through which poor countries develop. While this course focuses primarily on the development of political structures that enhance human development, it also gives significant attention to social and economic change associated with modernization. This course is essentially an exploration of the political economy of development in the developing world. Among others, the questions we explore in this class include: Why are some countries poor, repressive, and violent? Why have some developed economically, achieved stability, and protected human rights, while others stagnate and/or decline? What determines state capacity, good governance, and development?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3256", "title": "Youth Urbanism: Global Trends, Local Perspectives", "description": "This course explores the relationship between youths and their urban environments from a global perspective. More than half of the world\u2019s young people live in cities today, where they contribute to urban life from everyday use of street space to participation in politics and transnational mobility. Yet, structures of inequality continue to frame their lives. Through the lens of youth urbanism, students examine theories, debates, and policy concerns across social inequalities, education/employment, migration, citizenship, and politics - themes relevant to the fields of Urban Studies and Global Affairs. Critical evaluation, writing, and project-work skills will also be developed through assignments."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3257", "title": "Seminar on Corporate Finance", "description": "This seminar will cover the principles by which firms are run to maintain their financial wellbeing. Depending on the nature of the investment opportunity (risk, maturity and expected return), the firm will consider different avenues of raising capital. The course will cover the economics of lending, swaps and derivatives, recapitalizations, equity securities, initial public offerings and early stage investing, principles of valuations, investment analysis, basic accounting and financial modelling.\n\nCase studies will be used to investigate the agency problem within the firm, between managers, shareholders and other stakeholders in shaping the capital structure and investment decisions."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3258", "title": "Early Stage Private Equity Investing", "description": "This course will cover how returns from private equity investment are achieved through operational improvements and financial restructuring of growth and new venture companies. This is an introduction to the evaluation, structuring, stewardship, and realization of early stage private equity investments. We study cases of increasingly complex topics concerning cash flow, investment assessment, value assessment and creation, legal constraints, leadership, business development and economics and, ultimately, returns on investment."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3259", "title": "The Human Condition: Psychology & Health in Literature", "description": "This course explores the human condition through the lens of literature. We will use novels, essays, plays, poems and visual media to consider characteristics and life events that make us uniquely human from birth through death: identity, human development, love and desire, coping with mental/physical illness, war, poverty, morality and resilience. We will read texts that are notable for their excellence (prize-winning) as well as diversity across time (classics to contemporary) and culture (e.g., authors from Asia, US, Europe). Critical reading, writing and discourse will be cornerstones of this course."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3260", "title": "Community Health Assessment and Improvement", "description": "Moving beyond a focus on the individual, this course provides an overview of research methods and applications to assess and improve health of communities. Emphasis will be on practical skills building related to identifying community health problems and articulating evidence-based responses to promote resilience."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3262", "title": "Global Cities", "description": "This course offers students an understanding of global cities. The course looks at key thinkers to have described and theorized global cities. We look at a number of global cities up close, including New York, Singapore and London."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3263", "title": "Emotions and Politics", "description": "This course examines the role of emotions in liberal democratic practices and institutions and in contemporary democratic theory. The course will examine three different theoretical frameworks that have recently been used to understand the place of emotions in politics: 1) neuroscientific; 2) neo-Aristotelian; and 3) Freudian/psychoanalytic. It will focus on the different conceptions put forth by each of these frameworks and the different constellations of emotions that are analysed and/or advocated by these theories. Questions to be addressed include: Are there \u201cnegative\u201d emotions? What criteria do we use to decide whether an emotion ought to be excluded from democratic practices?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3264", "title": "Bubbles, Crashes, Panics and Crises", "description": "Financial markets are subject to periodic bouts of \u201cirrational exuberance\u201d that lead to bubbles in asset prices, frequently followed by a crash. These afflict particularly stock and foreign exchange markets and the banking industry. Despite repeated attempts to regulate finance, crises recur with remarkable frequency and regularity. In \u201cThis Time is Different\u201d, Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart document eight centuries of financial folly. These crises have profound effects on the real economy, leaving a legacy of unemployment and slow growth. We use economic analysis to study several financial, foreign exchange, and banking crises in their historical and social contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3265", "title": "Urban Economics", "description": "This class studies the economics of cities and urban problems by understanding the effects of geographic location on the decisions of individuals and firms. Traditional microeconomic models are typically spaceless, yet location and distance plays an increasingly important part in modern economics. We will study questions such as Why do cities exist? How do firms decide where to locate? Why do people live in cities? We will analyze the economic problems that arise as people and firms cluster in cities. We will also discuss specific urban economic problems such as firm location, crime, transportation, housing, education, and local government economics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3266", "title": "Social and Behavioural Foundations of Health", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the psychological, social and behavioural factors that influence patterns of health and health care delivery across the lifespan. We take a transdisciplinary perspective, considering the role of \u201cmicro\u201d and \u201cmacro\u201d factors that influence the health of individuals and the public (e.g., from genes to the environment). We will explore determinants and consequences as well as identify effective interventions to prevent disease and promote health. This course emphasizes the use of empirical evidence from the psychological, social, behavioural and biomedical sciences as the basis of public health practice and policy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3267", "title": "Lab in Cognitive Psychology", "description": "This lab course explores how experiments are designed, conducted, analysed, and interpreted in the realm of cognitive psychology. Questions involving perception, reasoning, attention, and language will be addressed through a hands-on approach involving lab-based and online experimentation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3268", "title": "Anthropology of China", "description": "The rise of China is creating unprecedented global challenges and opportunities. This course helps students achieve a nuanced cultural understanding of this potential superpower by critically examining the concepts of \u201cChina\u201d and \u201cChineseness\u201d from an anthropological perspective. Topics include ethnic relations, imperialism, and the civilized-barbarian distinction; gender, patriarchy, and the family; popular religion, popular culture, and rebellion; bureaucracy, corruption, and social connections (guanxi); and overseas Chinese and the Chinese diasporas. In addition to reading classic and contemporary works of China anthropology, students will watch some highly selected films and documentaries on China. No knowledge of the Chinese language is required."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3269", "title": "Water and Waste in Urban Environments", "description": "This course will focus on water and sanitation (W&S) services in cities across the world, especially in developing countries. The seminar will develop critical thinking skills on the following issues: health and non-health impacts of W&S improvements; components of infrastructure, and institutional arrangements for the provision of W&S in developed and developing countries cities; supply versus demand oriented planning of W&S services; political, environmental, institutional, economic and financial challenges of improving W&S services in cities; strategies to target the poor and underserved; privatization; behavioural change theory; handwashing; and water scarcity. Examples will be used from cities around the world."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3270", "title": "Ethics and Global Affairs", "description": "This course explores the ethical dimension of global affairs. It takes as its point of departure the conviction that global affairs, like all realms of human conduct, is intelligible in questions of obligation, right, good, and so forth. The course interrogates prominent ethical languages that pertain to sovereignty, war, international law, human rights, and moral scepticism. It then considers how these languages arise and conflict in a range of contemporary global issues. Particular emphasis is placed on excavating the ground on which ethic choices are made, defended, and judged."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3271", "title": "Contemporary Political Comedy", "description": "This course examines the place of performed political comedy (daily shows and stand up, for the most part) in contemporary politics. It is interested in the content of comedy and its effects. We shall read some theory and ask questions regarding the role of the comic and the role of humour in political discourse. We will focus on political comedy in English across countries including Singapore, India, United States, and UK (you are encouraged to examine other countries and other languages)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3273", "title": "Geospatial & Demographic Methods", "description": "This course is designed to give training in spatial and demographic methods relevant to urban and social studies with three major foci: (a) essential theories regarding spatial and demographic structures and dynamics of cities (e.g., models of urban form, central place theory, rank-size rule); (b) methods of spatial visualization and analysis of urban social phenomena using (GIS) software (e.g., map projections, coordinate systems, spatial data manipulation & visualization, and geodatabase management); (c) techniques to calculate, interpret, and present basic spatial and demographic changes in cities using STATA software (e.g., immigration and ethnic diversity, racial segregation, concentrated poverty, and residential sprawl)."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3274", "title": "Urban Singapore", "description": "The course aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of the development of Singapore as a city-state. It will examine (i) the various components of the master plan that integrates the island as one single planning unit which guides the total physical transformation of the island into the contemporary high-rise, high density city, (ii) the melding of the hegemonic one-party parliament and the civil service into an efficient and efficacious urban growth machine, (iii) the societal and cultural developments engendered by six decades of practically continuous national economic growth and (iv) the future of the city state."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3275", "title": "Social Life of Cities", "description": "This course offers a window into the complex arrangements of social life in cities. It explores the ways in which social structures and dynamics are folded into and through urban contexts, specifically by imagining the city from four planes of social life. We examine (i) \u2018cities of difference\u2019 (ii) \u2018cities of scales\u2019 (iii) \u2018cities of relations\u2019 (iv) \u2018cities of actions\u2019. At the end of the course, students will gain clearer recognition of the darker structures in urban life, the complicity of society and culture in stabilising them, but also a deeper appreciation for spaces of hope that allow for change."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3276", "title": "International Political Theory", "description": "This course considers questions of international politics historically and philosophically, based on reading classical and modern works. The topics discussed include sovereignty and intervention, the morality of war, the balance of power, imperialism and decolonization, and conceptions of international law and global order. Attention is given to non-European thinkers and to recent work on the intellectual history of international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3277", "title": "The Anthropological Imagination", "description": "The Anthropological Imagination offers an insights to the practice and creative power of anthropology. The aim of the course is to offer an introduction to how anthropologists, past and present, have viewed the world and approached the study of the human condition. The first half of the course examines foundational figures and moments in the history of the discipline. The second half of the course is geared toward an exploration of recent anthropological writings on topics such as power, representation, history, gender, the Anthropocene, and post-human anthropology."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3278", "title": "Social Psychology", "description": "Humans are known as social animals for a reason. There is no part of our lives that is not influenced in one way or another by others. In this course we will be exploring the ways in which we are influenced by our social environment, how we influence others, how we think about social situations, how we relate to other people, and the implications for understanding human behaviour."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3279", "title": "Social Psychology Lab", "description": "This is a skills-based course concerned with research methods in social psychology, a core area of psychology that investigates situational forces affecting human thoughts, feelings, and actions. As such, we will be discussing different types of research done in social psychology and students will be doing projects using those methods. The course will culminate in students doing research projects and writing up these projects as if for publication. The first portion of the course will be concerned with methods and study proposals, whereas the second portion will be devoted to data collection, analysis, and writing up results."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3280", "title": "Contemporary Political Theory", "description": "This course considers important debates in political theory today, focusing on ideas about justice. These include justice as fair distribution, cultural pluralism, democratic participation, justifiable coercion, and personal and communal independence. Topics discussed include the relationship between truth and opinion in political argument; political realism as a corrective to abstract theorizing; the republican tradition and the idea of freedom non-domination; and the emerging focus on global justice."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3282", "title": "Architecture and Society", "description": "This course offers students the opportunity to inquire into the relationship between architecture and society, with a focus on the late modern to contemporary era (nineteenth century to now). The course will look at the relationship between architecture and specific social institutions (the family, secular welfare, the nation, the state), as well as attending to the role of architecture in a range of social processes, including the exercise of power, identity formation, care, production and reproduction, and consumption. It will also address the emergence of a professionalised field of architecture and the establishment of building standards."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3283", "title": "Republican Political Theory", "description": "This is an advanced course for students who have an interest in political philosophy. It aims to introduce the republicanism as a tradition of political thoughts dated back to ancient Greek and Roman period. In particular, it aims to help students understand the origin and development of republicanism. It also aims to demonstrate how the major issues of politics are tackled by the republican theories and explore how these republican ideas are still relevant nowadays. To this end, this course takes a thematic rather than a chronological approach."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3284", "title": "Healthy and Resilient Cities", "description": "The concentrated population of city living has long posed a challenge to the human health. This problematic is the focus of this course. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the course examines the relationship between urbanization and public health, including understanding how cities might become healthier and more resilient. Students will be introduced to key analytical concepts and theories relevant to understanding urban public health generally, and in relation to urban environments, specifically. They will also be given an historical perspective on why urbanization and poor health are related."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3285", "title": "Organisational Psychology", "description": "Organisational Psychology is the study of human behaviour in the workplace, and all the factors that affect human behaviour. This course aims to provide a theoretical and practical overview of individual (e.g., emotions, decision-making), team (e.g., team dynamics, leadership), and organisational (e.g., organisational structure, culture) processes in the workplace and how these processes interact with one another in dynamic ways. We will grow our appreciation of how people behave, think about, influence, and interact with each other at work to effectuate outcomes such as employee motivation and job performance."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3286", "title": "The Guru in Hinduism", "description": "Gurus are important mediators of religion within Hindu and other traditions. They influence politics, economics and society. We will study how Gurus come to be. What do they do? What influence do they have? What is their world-view?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3287", "title": "Global Environmental Change: Anthropological Approaches", "description": "This course gives an overview of the anthropological study of processes of global environmental change (GEC). Topics include warming, drought, pollution, extreme weather, biodiversity loss, and climate-induced migration. The course asks: 1) What are current trends in GEC, and how do they differ from past patterns? 2) What do past ethnographic studies tell us about human societies\u2019 mechanisms for coping with previous, similar events? 3) What does contemporary ethnographic research demonstrate about humans\u2019 experience of and responses to GEC patterns at the local level? And 4) What do anthropological perspectives demonstrate about responses to GEC that might otherwise be obscured?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3288", "title": "Empire, Country, Corporation: The Struggle for Control", "description": "For the past two centuries, the world has been organized around nation-states. Defined by language, culture, history, government, military power, and clear boundaries, a nation organizes how citizens run their lives and their businesses. More recently, the dominance of nations has been challenged \u2013 sometimes subtly, sometimes aggressively \u2013 by multinational companies, which can seem to exist above governments\u2019 sway. The world of today \u2013 and of tomorrow \u2013 is caught in the intersection of these two forces. This course will look at this conflict from a variety of perspectives, utilizing insights from history, business, and other disciplines to explore phenomena and case studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3289", "title": "International Organisations in World Politics", "description": "International relations scholars have traditionally studied the interactions between sovereign states interacting within an anarchic international system. In the post-World War II era, interstate relationships have become less ad-hoc, and considerably more institutionalized, with a large number of international organizations\u2014such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the IMF, and the World Bank\u2014emerging to oversee these institutionalized patterns of cooperation. This course will consider why IOs have grown in importance and how they work. It will also consider their relationships with state and non-governmental actors, and their impact on political and policy outcomes."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3290", "title": "Culture and Reproductive Science and Technology", "description": "This course examines diverse ways that societies around the globe view and manage human reproduction and implications this has for healthcare and medicine. Topics examined include medicalization of birth; population and birth control; abortion; assisted fertility technologies; prenatal diagnostic technologies; HIV/AIDS and reproduction; and reproductive cancers. The course explores reproductive healthcare in the context of globalization and under different state regimes and considers how an understanding of the influence of culture and social relations on reproductive health is crucial for the development of global health policy. This course is valuable to students interested in anthropology, health/medicine/science/technology, and gender studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3291", "title": "Economics of Globalisation", "description": "This course studies the process of globalisation and its impact on various aspects of the global economy. The course has a particular focus on globalisation and economic development, but we will keep eyes on the other pressing issues on globalization and its recent reversal. The main questions to be addressed include (but are not limited to): (1) the nexus between trade and development; (2) globalisation and migration; (3) urbanization in an open economy; (4) identity politics and antiglobalisation movement."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3292", "title": "Palestinian Politics in Changing Middle East", "description": "The Seminar will focus on topics related to domestic and regional aspects of the Palestinian politics and to the negotiation process of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian aspects The course will examine key social and political issues in a context of fundamental changes in the external and internal Palestinian environment since the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948, the rise of the Palestinian Nationalism, the Islamic opposition and the Palestinian military struggle."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3293", "title": "Christianities in Cross-Cultural Perspective", "description": "What does it mean to be \u201cSaved\u201d in different social and cultural contexts? This Anthropology course examines Christianities in different world regions, and queries their distinctive theologies and social histories. How have different forms of Christianity been embraced, rejected, and/or \u201csyncretically\u201d incorporated into local structures of religious belief and practice? How have Christian ideas of salvation articulated or disarticulated with different liberation movements (e.g. abolitionist, anti-colonial, nationalist)? We will examine some antagonistic and also some accommodating ways that Christian denominations interface with non-Christian traditions. Note: the course approaches these questions from ethnographically-grounded, social scientific perspectives, rather than from faith-based ones."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3295", "title": "Comparative International Education", "description": "Around the world, education is one of the central institutions of society, developing the next generation of citizens. In which ways do countries converge on policies, or develop novel approaches to education? This course will examine 1) the colonial impact of education around the globe and the role of education in independence movements 2) the way in which education functions as a sorting mechanism 3) how schools function as central places to develop citizens 4) how countries work to improve their education systems, with Singapore as a case study of transformation 5) key policy debates in global education reform."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3296", "title": "International Trade, Resource Use and the Environment", "description": "This short course investigates the links between international trade, natural resource use and the environment. The lectures will address five key questions. One, to what extent are natural resources traded, and by whom? Two, what are the impacts of international trade on a country with weak or poor management of its natural resources? Three, is there evidence that international trade leads to severe overuse of natural resources? Four, is there evidence international trade is a common driver of resource overuse worldwide? Five, does access to international markets make governance of natural resource industries easier or harder for governments?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3297", "title": "\u201cGreen\u201d Cities and Urban Natures", "description": "This course investigates the hypothesis that urbanism does not necessarily mean ecological failure but can be understood as bringing the natural and the cultural into new relationships. The course will introduce students to the history of the \u201cgreen\u201d city as a concept, using case studies from Renaissance urban design to the \u201ceco-city\u201d of Masdar in Abu Dhabi. Using Singapore as a site for field study, students will explore how anthropogenic factors (species introduction, hardscapes, designed landscape, and waste) give rise to new ecological conditions. Urban issues such as biodiversity, Heat Island Effect, and ecosystem services will also be considered."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3299", "title": "Money and Banking", "description": "The monetary and banking system is integral to the smooth functioning of any modern economy. It is also undergoing rapid changes because of regulatory changes, competitive pressures, and technological advances. In this course, we consider both standard theories and extensions and modifications thereof in the light of changing circumstances. Topics covered include money demand and supply, the risk and term structure of interest rates, the roles of financial intermediaries, information asymmetries, information costs, and financial intermediaries, monetary policy in closed and open economies, financial crises and unconventional monetary policies, developments in fintech, and technological advances more generally."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3300", "title": "Research Tutorial: Lab in Developmental Psychology", "description": "This course is specially designed to provide students with an opportunity to gain hands-on research experience. Students will join a research team involved in an on-going longitudinal study on attachment and emotion regulation in early childhood. Through the course of the semester, students will learn the fundamentals of Attachment Theory and its role in Developmental and Clinical Psychology. They will be trained in the administration and coding of various attachment and language assessment measures that are commonly used in child development research. Students will also participate in fieldwork that involves interviewing and observing parents and their pre-school children."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3301", "title": "Alfred Russel Wallace and the Work of Natural History", "description": "This course examines the labor of natural history through the life of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). It focuses less on the evolutionary insights of Wallace and more on the historical and material conditions of his work. In this way, it investigates the nexus of science, empire, and infrastructure and how this nexus shaped the contours and collections of natural history work in Southeast Asia. The course seeks to answer: What is \u201cnatural\u201d about natural history? How does natural history work? And why is there a statue of Wallace in front of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3302", "title": "Colonialism and Decolonization", "description": "Colonialism has had far reaching social, political and economic effects. Since WWII, many colonies have gained independence. However, independence did not result in the post-colonial utopias that were envisioned in struggles for independence. Colonialism has persisted. New forms of imperialism have substituted for colonialism. Further, native elites have reproduced the colonial apparatus. What, then, does de-colonization mean in this post-colonial environment? We will study the comparative history of colonialism in its political, economic, and social dimensions and examine its diverse effects. We will examine decolonization as a historical episode and as a movement today."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3303", "title": "Cities and Economic Development", "description": "The previous century has been characterized as a period of tremendous economic growth and industrial transformation. This seminar examines how these changes intersect with urbanization, including the physical built environment and urban spatial practices. The course begins by considering the urban implications of industrialization and de-industrialization in a global context, then focuses on linkages between economic transformation and urbanization today. What is the role of cities in fostering innovation, and how are new technologies, such as digitization, artificial intelligence, and the \u201cinternet of things\u201d driving changes in urban design and governance?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3304", "title": "Port Cities: Logistics, Transnationality, Urbanization", "description": "Port cities across the world have long played a crucial role as nodes of exchange and interaction in ever more extensive networks of production, culture, and power. Conversely, global flows of capital, people, and knowledge have been increasingly preponderant in shaping processes of urbanization since the dawn of maritime trade. Based on a program of field visits to relevant sites across the city, this course takes Singapore as an example to consider patterns, functions, and images of port cities as well as the transnational currents that have given shape to urbanism past and present."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3306", "title": "Modern History of Economic Globalisation", "description": "What has been the course, causes, and consequences of economic globalisation? This course has as its focus the long-run evolution of the global economy, particularly events from 1800. This roughly 200 year period is instructive in that it witnesses the integration of the world\u2019s nations into the first truly global economy, its disintegration in the wake of WWI, the post-WWII reintegration of the global economy, and its potential reversal into the present day. The course will examine variation in institutions, policy, and technology to understand this evolution and its effects on development, inequality, and international relations."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3307", "title": "Environmental Economics", "description": "Modern society draws a significant amount of resources from and has an important impact on, the natural environment. Economics, combined with the relevant value judgments provides a powerful set of tools to understand this interaction and evaluate the policies governing it. This course provides an introduction into this important subject."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3308", "title": "Boulevards, Arcades and Sewers: Paris 1830-1870", "description": "The Paris of the mid-nineteenth century was a defining stage in the unfolding of modernity. The various improvement plans completed under the auspices of public works commissioner, Baron Haussmann, established a range of tools fundamental to the modernization of cities: infrastructures, knowledges, institutions. The transformations the city underwent had an enduring effect on the experience and habits of modern urban life. Focusing on the period from 1830 to 1870, this course considers both the preconditions and the effects of the rationalization of urban space that took place in Second Empire Paris. Immersing themselves in a range of evidentiary fields \u2013 from art, to literature, to photography and political discourse \u2013 students learn about the lineaments of urban modernity."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3309", "title": "Technology and Culture", "description": "Global warming. Automation. Biotechnology. Big data. Artificial intelligence. Everywhere we look, science and technology are creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities. At the same time, the creation of technology is something very old, perhaps even defining what it means to be human. In this course, students will engage in original anthropological fieldwork and collaborative writing to investigate burning questions at the juncture of culture and technology. Readings will draw from classic works by Marx, Freud, and Heidegger; feminist and postcolonial critique; and anthropological accounts of phenomena ranging from cutting-edge science to the search for extraterrestrial life."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3310", "title": "Populism", "description": "Populism challenges liberal democracy around the world, upsetting domestic and international political order. Yet, despite its ubiquity, populism is a slippery phenomenon and can be difficult to define. In this course, we will examine populism from the perspectives of philosophy, politics, and economics. Among other things, we will examine definitions of what populism is and its relationship to liberal democracy; we will examine the causes of populism, such as free trade and economic inequality; we will examine the goals of various populist movements from around the world; and we will debate the legitimacy of policy responses to populism."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3311", "title": "Sustainable Consumption", "description": "As both a cultural norm and a driver of economic prosperity, consumerism is thought to be incompatible with environmental sustainability. Drawing on a range of scholarly and activist work, this seminar explores the emergence and spread of consumerism, interrogates the various definitions and drivers of overconsumption, and considers the political and policy requirements of material sacrifice in service of environmental sustainability. The seminar features direct engagement with a number of scholars of sustainable consumption, and thus requires close reading of text, thoughtful and analytic writing, and engaged discussion. Special focus on emerging scholarship and policy initiatives in Asia, Europe and North America."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3312", "title": "Food and Sustainability", "description": "As societies struggle to cope with global climate change, depletion of natural resources, and loss of biodiversity, we face yet another momentous challenge in the next 50 years: finding ways to nourish our bodies with healthy, safe, and culturally appropriate foods. This course explores the critical discussions and debates on the sustainability of food systems and the merits of what is advocated nowadays as \u201csustainable food.\u201d The course draws primarily from the theoretical and methodological traditions of political economy/ecology and cultural politics in understanding the complex social and material dimensions of food in an increasingly unsustainable world."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3313", "title": "Environmental Impacts of China\u2019s Investments", "description": "China has invested in thousands of development projects that promise the host countries significant economic and geo-strategic advantages. Because of that, China has left a sizable ecological footprint across the developing world. This course explores the socio-environmental implications of China\u2019s economic presence abroad, including, but not limited to, the Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI). Has China\u2019s \u201cgoing out\u201d strategy ushered in less environmental destruction than environmental modernisation? Should it be perceived differently to other foreign investment strategies? We explore these questions and more through various country studies, contributing to the ongoing global debate about making China\u2019s investments more environmentally sustainable."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3314", "title": "Singapore Politics", "description": "Political insight often begins by looking critically at one\u2019s own political environment. This course examines Singapore politics institutionally and thematically, focusing on pressing issues facing the country today. It will explore Singapore\u2019s unique parliamentary system and its political aims and effects. Topics covered may include the politics of race and gender, issues of social class and inequality, efforts to balance civil rights and liberties with political expediency, and issues of meritocracy, party politics, and national identity. When feasible, this course will include experiential learning components such as guest speakers or visits to parliament."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3315", "title": "The Chinese Economy", "description": "What are the fundamental causes of modern economic development? This course anchors the answers to this question using the evolution of China\u2019s economic development as a case study. It surveys the major research topics in Chinese economy: state (political selection, corruption for example), firms (SOEs, trade) and households (fertility, inequality). The period covered extends from the imperial period to today (the pre-modern, communist, and reform periods). This course will familiarize students with issues related to the Chinese economy: its history, the success of its reforms and the reasons for this success, and challenges it is facing."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3316", "title": "Gender and International Development", "description": "This course introduces students to the gendered dimensions of international development. It examines challenges facing developing countries through the lens of gender, recognizing that the benefits of development may not be shared equally across genders. We read works by scholars representing different nationalities, ethnicities/races, and academic disciplines because this diversity is critical to understanding the economic, political, and cultural contexts around the world in which development policies are implemented. The topics covered include poverty, health, education, agriculture, environment, formal/informal work, migration, the NGO sector, political participation, and development policy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3317", "title": "Adolescent Development", "description": "This course offers a critical, interdisciplinary overview of the science of adolescence. It highlights contemporary theories of adolescence and domain-specific issues of adolescent development including brain and hormonal development, social development, education, and health outcomes. Across these topics, students will have an opportunity to (1) familiarize themselves with important empirical and theoretical literatures; (2) develop critical understandings of their practical and policy implications; and (3) explore effective psychological interventions to address developmental issues of adolescence."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3318", "title": "The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir", "description": "This course is primarily devoted to a close reading of Simone de Beauvoir\u2019s The Second Sex. It offers students the opportunity to engage in a rigorous reading of this text to understand her analysis of the Western philosophical and historical construction of \u201cWoman.\u201d This course will examine her understanding of how the Western patriarchy works via social norms and economic structures, but also via myths and stories about \u201cWoman.\u201d We will also explore her critical engagements with Marxism, Hegelianism, psychoanalysis, and Existentialism. We will then read her work, The Ethics of Ambiguity, to understand her unique contribution to ethical philosophy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3319", "title": "Aesthetics and Politics", "description": "This course will examine the relationship between political institutions and aesthetic practices in the works of Plato, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The central question of the course will be whether and how the arts play a role in moral and political education and/or corruption. We will focus on two key concepts in aesthetic theory, the concept of the beautiful and of mimesis. We will be attentive to the different ways in which Rousseau and Nietzsche respond to specific elements of Plato\u2019s aesthetic theories and how these differences relate to the very different forms of politics that they propose."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3320", "title": "Neoliberalism", "description": "This course examines the diverse histories and features of neoliberalism, which is a theory of the political economy that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced through the free market. We begin by learning about the historical conditions that led to the emergence of neoliberalism and the popularization of the ideology of the responsible, self-maximizing individual that lies at the heart of it. We will then examine the effects of neoliberal policies on various societies across the world. Finally, we will discuss whether the mounting public criticisms of neoliberalism will lead to its demise."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3321", "title": "Terrorism & Insurgencies in Contemporary World Politics", "description": "This course aims to strengthen the knowledge of students on one of the major issues in international affairs: why and how non-state organizations resort to violence in order to achieve political objectives? More specifically, it looks at two main forms of political violence, terrorism and insurgencies, and explore their historical manifestations. It covers fundamental questions such as how to define terrorism and insurgencies? How to characterize their ideologies, tactics? It also explores case studies from different regions to enable students to identify similarities and differences in the ways terrorist and insurgent organizations have grown."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3322", "title": "Corruption and Anti-corruption: Theories and Policies", "description": "This course tries to provide theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded understandings of issues related to corruption and anti-corruption. Students are expected to gain proficiency in analyzing problems of corruption using theoretical frameworks and analytical tools developed in political science, economics, and law. Students will also apply the learned skills and knowledge to the design and evaluation of anti-corruption policy in both domestic and transnational settings. This course attempts to broadens students\u2019 understandings of the relationships between institutions and development and between public and private actors."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3323", "title": "Statelessness: Law, History, Politics", "description": "Instances of statelessness and refugeedom dominate headlines today. But what does \u201cstatelessness\u201d mean? Rather than solely focusing on contemporary doctrinal interpretations of statelessness, this course emphasizes twentieth century global, regional, and national histories within which statelessness emerged as a political and legal category. We reflect on limits of refugee regimes in the historical context of South and Southeast Asia. Engaging judgments, treaties, oral history, videos, and images, we explore postwar displacement, decolonization, reconstruction and emerging Cold War tensions in these regions. Finally, we also discuss ethical and political issues at stake in writing about statelessness."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3324", "title": "Global Health Governance", "description": "This course examines various issues in global health to illuminate global governance concepts and theory. Questions explored include: What are the health threats and opportunities that arise with globalization? Who are the main actors and what are the major institutions influencing processes of global health governance? How do existing institutional arrangements function in responding to global health challenges, and what are the limitations? What new policies, practices, and approaches merit further attention? To engage comprehensive examination of these key issues, we will turn to global governance and IR concepts including power, authority, soft vs hard law, regime, and normative change."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3325", "title": "Technology and International Security", "description": "Technology is a central aspect of international security and can often decisively shape the balance of power between states as well as the outcomes of military conflicts. This course studies the emergence of technology as a function of politics, social institutions, and economics; the impact of technology on international security; and attempts to regulate technologies through international law and institutions. Starting with the railroad in the 19th century, the course will cover the emergence and impact of historical technologies such as the tank, the submarine, and nuclear weapons, and contemporary technologies such as drones, artificial intelligence, and cyberspace."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3326", "title": "Liberalism and Its Critics", "description": "The course will build upon the knowledge of early modern liberalism that students learn in PPT 2. We will begin with an examination of John Locke\u2019s classic work of liberalism, The Second Treatise of Government. We will then examine Jean-Jacques Rousseau\u2019s critique of liberal state of nature theories in his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. After that we turn to twentieth-century critiques of liberalism offered by Virginia Woolf, Malcolm X, and Michel Foucault. Here we will study how liberalism relies on masculine (Woolf), racist (Malcolm X) or disciplinary (Foucault) mechanisms and examine the political alternatives offered by these thinkers."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3327", "title": "Emotions, Feelings, Affects", "description": "This course explores how social relations feel and why. Approaching emotions as irreducibly social, it investigates where feelings come from, how they vary between social groups and across time, and the numerous ways in which they emerge from and shape social life. Exploring emotions through both theory and ethnography, the course describes how anthropologists understand emotions and the ways in which ethnography enables the diverse array of feelings to be studied empirically and cross-culturally."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3328", "title": "Gender in the City", "description": "This course is designed to introduce students to thinking about gender in relation to urban life. Through a consideration of a wide variety of cities from all over the world, we will examine how gender is inscribed in city landscapes, how it is lived and embodied in relation to race, class, and sexuality, and how it is (re)produced through violence, inequality, and resistance. Key topics we will address include: concepts of public/private spheres; politics of respectability; sexual violence and public spaces; pleasure and sex in the city; gender and transport; and feminist urban planning."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3329", "title": "Time Series Analysis", "description": "Studies theory and application of time series methods in econometrics, including autoregressive, moving average, and autoregressive-integrated-moving average models, estimation with stationary and non-stationary processes; vector autoregressions; unit roots; (generalized) autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity models; forecasting; and applications to macroeconomics and finance."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3330", "title": "Anthropology of Islam", "description": "Utilizing the critical lenses of anthropology and ethnography, this course examines how Islam influences culture and society in the contemporary world. We will study different social contexts, from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and the Western world, to investigate how ordinary Muslims grapple with their religious commitments and other demands of everyday life. We will analyze how the interplay between the religious and non-religious dimensions of Muslim life unfold in fields as diverse as art and aesthetic production, finance and banking, organ transplantation, law and politics, resource extraction and environmental protection, and expressions of gender and sexual identities."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3331", "title": "Empirical Qualitative Analysis in Global Affairs", "description": "This course provides practical and specialized skill sets for students interested in harnessing their empirical research with qualitative analysis in the study of international politics and global affairs. The course guides students through the understanding, design, and implementation of qualitative approaches that draw upon the traditions of case study methods, process tracing, elite interviews, congruence test, comparative and within-case analysis, among others. Students will apply key aspects of this course to build and test theories employed in Capstone projects in global affairs and identify how empirical qualitative methods complement other research methods."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3332", "title": "Continental Political Thought", "description": "This course analyses the works of some of the most significant 20th and 21st century political and legal thinkers of the \u201ccontinental\u201d tradition. It traces the dialogue that emerges among them, in the process demonstrating arguments and counterarguments for their different positions and why their ideas matter for constitutional democratic states today. In the process, this course also provides students with a glimpse into how great academic debates unfold in writing."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3333", "title": "Topics in Economic History", "description": "Do historical variables matter for modern-day development? This course addresses this question by surveying a broad set of important topics in global economic history. The time frame starts from the Neolithic Revolution to the 20th century, and the geographic coverage is globally wide. This course covers a number of important topics, including the long-run stagnation in the pre-modern world, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence, the persistent impact of slavery, etc. The course will use economic theory and methods to illustrate historical experience and to help students understand the historical determinants of the present day."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3334", "title": "Labour in Capitalist Societies", "description": "This is a course in the comparative political economy of labour. It explores the transformation of work, workers, and trade unions in capitalist societies over the past century, with particular emphasis upon the period since the 1980s. It examines these issues across a range of cases in North America, Western Europe and East Asia. Topics treated will include the labour process, collective action, globalization, liberalization, race, gender and sexuality at work, automation, the gig economy and worker co-operatives."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3335", "title": "Lab in Social and Educational Interventions", "description": "How can we leverage the power of social-psychological theories to address pressing problems in contemporary society? This lab course introduces the interdisciplinary science of psychological interventions and behavioural change, with a particular focus on addressing social and educational problems. The course will highlight foundational theories in intervention science and critically evaluate successful cases of theory-driven psychological interventions. Throughout the course, students will learn about the basic design principles and apply them to their lab projects that are aimed at developing a prototype of psychological intervention program that can effectively address a particular social or educational problem from a user-centered perspective."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3336", "title": "Quantitative Methods in Global Affairs", "description": "This course offers training in quantitative tools to conduct empirical research in Global Affairs. It builds upon the foundations of QR and the Methods in the Social Sciences. Topics include the challenges in causal inference, potential outcomes framework, regression analysis, matching analysis, experimental/quasi-experimental (RDD, Dif-in-Dif) methods, instrumental variable analsysis, and diagnostics and presentation of data. Students learn statistical and econometric theories and concepts, while gaining hands-on coding experiences using R-programming. The course provides quantitative skill sets applicable for GA Capstone projects, especially in international relations, international development, and transboundary phenomena such as globlalization, global health, and international migration."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3337", "title": "Smart Cities: History of Urban Data in Urban Planning", "description": "The desire to systemically control the city using information is as old as the history of urban planning. This seminar examines Smart Cities through a retrospection into the history and theory of urban data and computational models in urban planning. Learning from the technocratic planners (1910s-1920s), the cybernetic vision and urban renewal (1960s), the development of GIS (1960s), critical GIS (1990s), Big data and civic technologies (2010s), the course critically examines contemporary Smart Cities that include but are not limited to Masdar, Songdo, Sidewalk Lab Toronto, and Singapore\u2019s Smart Nation initiatives."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3338", "title": "Oil Cities: Past and Futures of Petro-Urbanism", "description": "This course provides an introduction to the study of oil and its effects on politics, culture and the environment. With an emphasis on issues of urbanization, we will delve into a variety of national contexts to explore different interpretations on those effects: from the \u201cparadox of plenty\u201d and the \u201cresource curse,\u201d to critical analyses of the \u201cmagical\u201d qualities of oil states, the \u201cmythmaking\u201d abilities of oil companies, and the \u201cenduring legacy\u201d of the oil industry. We will read studies ranging range across multiple scales, from examinations of \u201cspace, oil and capital\u201d to investigations of the \u201clifeworlds of oil and gas.\u201d"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3339", "title": "Theories of Freedom", "description": "The alternative title for the course is \u201cFreedoms and Unfreedoms\u201d. This course will look at some seminal conceptions of freedom in contemporary political theory, as well as feminist, socialist and other challenges to these (more or less liberal) conceptions. The goal is not to arrive at a definitive theory of freedom, if such a thing exists, but to examine our own ideas about what constitutes freedom or unfreedom, and to consider the applicability of these conceptions to political institutions and problems today."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3340", "title": "Democracy and Its Discontents (Athens to the Present)", "description": "This course will explore the tense history of an idea: the rule of the people. From the trial and death of Socrates, in Classical Athens, to QAnon, we will discuss the reasons why so many political thinkers have long been sceptical about democracy. We will also see how, despite its many challenges, democracy has been"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3341", "title": "Contemporary Left Politics and Movements", "description": "This course looks at political parties, movements and currents of activism in predominantly democratic capitalist countries which can be labeled in some sense Left-wing. The term \"Left\" does not lend itself to easy definition, and we will discuss its meaning throughout the course. The first part focuses upon types of Left that were dominant for most of the 20th century including Social Democracy, Communism, Socialism and the Third Way. The second part of the course looks at newer forms of Left, including new social movements (environmental and peace movements), contemporary anarchism, identity-based politics, and the emergence of radical anti-austerity parties."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3342", "title": "Nature and Environment in Japan", "description": "Known worldwide for its aesthetic appreciation of nature, Japan has long been represented as living in unique harmony with the natural world, even in the face of long histories of environmental extraction and degradation and a population today overwhelmingly living in concretized urban environments. This course builds on recent approaches in anthropology and the environmental humanities to explore how nature and the environment have been constructed, experienced, and controlled in Japan from the early modern period to the present. We will examine the dynamic negotiation between the physical and cultural worlds that have shaped the Japanese past and present."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3343", "title": "Plato\u2019s Political Thought", "description": "Plato\u2019s political thought has long been considered to be a direct response to the trial and death of Socrates, a revenge against democratic Athens. However, this is not obvious. This course will introduce students to a number of Platonic dialogues, like the , , and , among others, in which the development of Socrates as a thinker, as well as the ever-present tension between philosophy and politics, are explored. It will then question long-held views on the way we should approach the dialogues, particularly regarding their chronology, content, and intent. Apology Phaedo Republic Readings will include both primary and secondary sources."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3344", "title": "Empire, War, and World Order", "description": "How does empire affect our world? What are the relations between war and knowledge? What is the role of European history in providing us a framework with which we understand world order as it exists in contemporary times? What are the lineages of anticolonial thought and what are the trajectories of postcolonial critiques built on the histories of race, the other, the indigenous and the hybrid? This course takes up these questions while introducing students to ways in which they can think of empire and war as having produced the system of sovereign nation-states and the contemporary world order."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3345", "title": "Economic Forecasting", "description": "Forecasting is important to society as it allows us to give answers to various crucial questions. For example, what will the inflation rate be next year? What will happen to the SGD-USD exchange rate next month? In this class you will learn the methods that are used to answer these questions and their limitations. Topics covered include, forecasting models, judgmental forecasts, exponential smoothing and some advanced forecasting methods. For all the methods taught you will be able to implement in practice using R. The final part of the course involves a project where you put your knowledge into practice."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3346", "title": "Performance Psychology and Neuroscience", "description": "Human cognitive and motor performance fluctuates over time. What explains peak performance and how can it be sustained? The variation can be explained by neural mechanisms of attention and executive control, physiological factors such as sleep and exercise, and psychological factors like stress and positive thinking. This seminar will discuss primary research findings and review articles."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3347", "title": "The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change", "description": "The destructive effects of climate change are straining natural and human communities all over the world. Yet, as policymakers search for effective policy responses, they face a fundamental political problem: Every policy option lessens the costs of climate change for some while increasing the costs for others. As a result, addressing climate change provokes distributional conflicts between winners and losers, making it difficult to reach a consensus about how to adapt to the world\u2019s new reality. This course examines the political conditions under which governments worldwide overcome these problems and find ways to cope with the effects of climate change."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3348", "title": "Human Rights and Humanitarianism", "description": "This course draws on anthropological approaches to critically explore the meaning and use of human rights and humanitarianism from different perspectives. Since the aftermath of the Second World War, human rights discourses have spread around the world and been adopted by widely varying actors; similarly, a politics of care and compassion has become a prominent mode of contemporary governance. Through focusing on how human rights and humanitarianism are understood and engaged in local contexts, we will explore how anthropological perspectives can illuminate these transnational discourses and their practice."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3349", "title": "Empire, Nation, and Decolonization", "description": "What is an empire? What is a nation? How do these interact in moments of crisis like decolonization? This course will examine how spatial boundaries and social boundaries interact as empires expand, both over land and overseas, and as empires contract. Our central focus will be how the \u201cnation\u201d works as a contested notion, and a contested boundary, within the broader frame of empire. We will trace struggles over national identities as metropolitan cores and colonial peripheries have been produced in the Americas (including the Caribbean), Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3350", "title": "Social Movements in Muslim Majority Societies", "description": "This seminar introduces social movement theory as an analytical and methodological framework for analyzing the emergence and evolution of social movements and contentious politics across the Muslim world from the early 20th century to the present. After introducing theoretical approaches to the study of collective action, we will work through a range of case studies of different types of movements\u2014political and non-political, militant and non-militant, Islamist and \u201csecular,\u201d national and transnational\u2014from the birth of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the 1920s through present-day protests in Iran and elsewhere."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3351", "title": "Political Philosophy after World War II", "description": "This seminar will discuss some of the 20th Century\u2019s most prominent thinkers\u2019 interpretation of what political philosophy is, and what it should be. Readings by Karl Popper, Isaiah Berlin, Leo Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas. A common thread among the thinkers we will be covering is a disenchantment with the philosophic tradition and the \u201cisms\u201d -- from Liberalism to Marxism to Nihilism -- to which it led. In this seminar we will examine their assessment of humankind's political situation in the wake of the Second World War, as well as evaluate their proposed alternatives."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3352", "title": "Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Law", "description": "Innovation and entrepreneurship are key drivers to socio-economic growth and development. At the same time, legal factors and actors play an instrumental role in catalysing, influencing and regulating them. This course seeks to explore various interactions between innovation, entrepreneurship and law, and provide students with an exposure of real-world issues and challenges in these areas. While the course explores the legal environment and topics, it is open to students of all disciplines to broaden their perspectives in both business and law."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3353", "title": "Anarchy, Order and Control", "description": "This course explores anthropological theories of social order, cooperation, and authority and what accounts for them. Examining recent theories alongside the ethnographic archive, it considers what can be empirically demonstrated about the ordered ways in which humans live their lives together. What accounts for the broad regularities of social practice in human societies? What is the relation between the everyday order of social interactions and questions of coercion? Where does authority come from and how is it contested? And what can non-state societies teach us about order (or disorder) in modern states?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3354", "title": "Anthropology of Militarization", "description": "Every state has a military, and war and other forms of violent conflict are widespread. Yet curiously, anthropologists have frequently treated militarism and militarization as if they were universal cultures \u2013 as if militarization in any one place looks about the same as militarization anywhere else. By doing so, we have missed the ways that militaries and militarization are deeply cultural and diverse. This module will ask anthropological questions of its survey of social science literature on militaries and militarization in order to appreciate the variety of ways of \u201cdoing\u201d militaries and to identify militarism\u2019s shared, essential features."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3355", "title": "Contemporary Egalitarianism", "description": "Is it unjust for a society to be unequal? If equality is desirable, what kind of equality? Equality of opportunity? Or equal welfare? Or equal capabilities? Contemporary political philosophy offers rich materials to answer these questions; we will read authors such as Rawls, Nozick, Cohen, Sen, and Anderson. The course satisfies the following dimensions of the Philosophy major: Skills, problems; Historical, new."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3356", "title": "Democratic Theory", "description": "Why is democracy valuable? What does it even mean to call a political order a democracy? How can democracy represent a 'will of the people' if the people disagree with one other? Does democracy conflict other important values and goals? In this course we answer these questions by first establishing a conceptual framework from the history of political thought, and then plunging into contemporary democratic theory. We will use theory to analyse contemporary local and international examples, and be open to real examples posing challenges to theory."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3357", "title": "Tourism and Environment", "description": "The recent decades have seen a rise in concern over the ills of tourism and increasing pressure for tourists and the tourism industry to become accountable for its environmental impacts. Central to this is the idea that tourism should and can be environmentally-friendly, or at least, be environmentally-sensitive. This course provides students with the space to consider their own touristic endeavours against tourism industry shifts and norms. On a broader level, it posits important questions on what is leisure, recreation, and enjoyment in a time when increasing calls are made towards acknowledging implicit moralities in all aspects of life."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3358", "title": "Environmental Science Communication", "description": "What is the \u2018right\u2019 approach to communicating about science so that people \u2018get it\u2019? Why can\u2019t we find the silver bullet in science communications to consequently sort out associated problems? These are logical yet elusive questions that students, practitioners, scholars, and citizens have asked many times over the years. The reality is that these are vexing, complicated, and difficult challenges. Moreover, these issues are often high stakes, high profile, and highly politicized, involving science, policy, culture, psychology, environment, and society. This interdisciplinary course addresses key themes and topics in science communication, as we appraise and evaluate work in these areas."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3359", "title": "Climate Policy and Politics", "description": "The objective of this course is to explore, understand and analyse influences and trends in climate politics and science-policy. Structured in a seminar discussion format, class sessions work through the historically-sensitive and culturally-situated climate governance at multiple scales. Accessed primarily through peer-reviewed literature, sessions critically interrogate movements and dynamics in climate politics and science-policy decision-making. Students will consider assessments, critiques, and proposals to: improve governance architectures shaping climate decision-making (from the mild corrective to radical restructuring); equitably and justly reduce emissions while attending to climate adaptation, vulnerability and resilience; and decarbonize industry and society at multiple levels."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3360", "title": "Lab in Applied Cognitive Psychology", "description": "This lab course explores applications of human memory and cognitive processes in everyday life. We will examine implications of cognitive psychology research for informing real-world practice and policy. Students will ask research questions, design and conduct an empirical study, and write a research manuscript on topics related to applied cognitive psychology."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3361", "title": "Politics and Film", "description": "Films and documentaries inform our political beliefs. Understanding them and using them to develop messages has become an essential skill. This course is a step in that direction. We will examine politics through the medium of film. We will ask \u2013 How to read politics in a film? What debates does the film raise? How does the film relate to disciplinary wisdom? We will study one film and one text every week. As a final project, you will make a short film; we will begin working on it from the second week."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS3362", "title": "Lab in Adolescent Mental Health", "description": "This course focuses on adolescent mental health challenges and teaches a school field-based, mixed-methods design to better understand the surrounding ecological factors that contribute to resilience and mental wellbeing during adolescent transition. Students will learn and practice research methods and analytical skills to capture adolescents\u2019 lived experiences in and out of school and indicators of mental wellbeing. Such research methods, embedded in a school-based longitudinal field study allow for more precise assessments and effective preventive interventions for adolescent mental health issues. Throughout the course, students will assist with school-field research and related pilot tests in partnership with MOE secondary schools."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4101", "title": "Global Affairs Capstone Project", "description": "The Global Affairs Capstone Project is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the Global Affairs major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4102", "title": "Psychology Capstone Project", "description": "The Psychology Capstone Project is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the Psychology major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4103", "title": "Anthropology Capstone Project", "description": "The Anthropology Capstone Project is a year-long 10-MC course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the Anthropology major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4104", "title": "Economics Capstone Project", "description": "The Economics Capstone Project is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the Economics major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4105", "title": "Urban Studies Capstone Project", "description": "The Urban Studies Capstone Project is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the Urban Studies major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4106", "title": "Philosophy, Politics and Economics Capstone Project", "description": "The Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) Capstone Project is a year-long 10-Unit course, straddling over two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the PPE major must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing, while working closely with a faculty supervisor. Students will work on an advanced creative and/or research or experiential project that integrates skills from the Common Curriculum and learning in the major. The Capstone Project will culminate in a substantial piece of work that reflects a deep engagement with the topic."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4107", "title": "Capstone Project", "description": "The Law and Liberal Arts DDP Capstone Project is a year-long 10-Unit course straddling two semesters. It is a compulsory course that students in the DDP programme must complete in order to graduate. It allows students the opportunity to pursue, in depth, an advanced project of their own choosing while working closely with a supervisor. Students will work on an advanced research project that integrates both the Law and Liberal Arts components of the DDP programme."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4202", "title": "Goals and Motivation", "description": "This seminar will examine recent and influential work in personality and social psychology on motivational and self\u2010regulatory processes contributing to the pursuit of goals. On successful completion of the course a student should be able to: Convey a deep understanding of motivational processes involved in the pursuit of goals. Also to conduct an effective literature review, construct novel and important hypotheses, competently critique the extant literature, design experiments, and write an effective research proposal."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4205", "title": "Chinese Foreign Policy", "description": "Students will gain a deeper understanding of the major contours of the debate and discussion on China\u2019s contemporary international relations. The course examines the political, diplomatic, military, and economic challenges facing China under conditions of uncertainty in the regional and international system and the processes through which China responds to and manages these external challenges. The course will analyse how existing theories of international relations and foreign policy analysis apply to China to gain a deeper appreciation of the factors that undergird conflict and cooperation in Chinese foreign policy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4206A", "title": "Topics in Psychology: Moral Judgments", "description": "What is morality, where does it come from, and how does it work? Why are we so obsessed with what other people do, even when it does not affect us? Psychological research has focused on moral reasoning, but we will look at morality from many other angles and disciplines. This course will introduce you to the study of the origins, development, and cognitive processing of morality. The course will cover the history of moral psychology, and the shift from cognitive- developmentalist theories of reasoning-based morality to the current social intuitionist theory of intuition and emotion based morality."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4206B", "title": "Topics in Psychology: Love in An Age of Technology", "description": "In this course, we will review the current literature on relationship science and explore how psychological findings can inform dating apps. With an eye towards applications, this course will feature conversations with the local dating industry."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4206C", "title": "Topics in Psychology: The Pursuit of Happiness", "description": "In this course, we will explore scientifically-validated strategies to living a better life. We will review the current literature in positive psychology, and explore how psychological findings can teach us how to be happier, feel less stressed and to live a more fulfilling life."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4206D", "title": "Topics in Psychology: Thinking", "description": "A survey of psychological studies on thinking and reasoning, with discussion of ways to improve thinking skills. Topics include judgments and decision making, biases in thinking, counterfactual reasoning, causal inferences, problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4207", "title": "Creative Cities", "description": "This course examines the relationship between urbanization and the creative industries. Increasingly urban economic growth, built environment regeneration and community development operate in and through the logics of creativity, be they expressive spectacles, arts festivals, branding, or state-led/community-based arts initiatives. This course explores the link between the arts and urban development, examining it historically and in a range of contemporary contexts. Students will both analyze the causes of the rise of creative industries-led urbanization economically and socially, as well participate as urban creatives through various media."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4208", "title": "Adv Topic in Anthropology", "description": "The course will expose students to a field of inquiry within anthropology that is close to the heart of the professional work of their professor. It will fulfil one of the advanced seminar requirements within the anthropology major of which students are required to take two."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4208B", "title": "Adv Topic in Anthro: Reproductive Technologies", "description": "This course takes an in-depth look at how reproductive technologies are changing lives around the globe. Since the introduction of oral contraceptives in the early 1960s, the past 50 years have seen the rapid innovation and globalization of many other reproductive technologies, spanning the life course from birth to menopause. As reproductive technologies have evolved over time, so have the social, cultural, legal, religious, and ethical responses to them. This course offers exposure to the growing scholarship on the anthropology of reproduction, with special focus on ethnographies and documentaries devoted to reproductive technologies around the globe and especially in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4209", "title": "Signs and the State", "description": "Science and Technology Studies have led us to new questions about knowledge and power. This course reconsiders the history of semiotic technologies, from Sanskrit to iphones, with special attention to changing conditions of possibility for the state. Which semiotic technologies enable new kinds of state institutions (such as Weber\u2019s \u201clegal/rational order\u201d) and which can undermine state monopolies and hegemonies? Following Weber to study means and forces of coercion and of communication as well as means and forces of production, this course is intended to complement study of \u201clanguage ideology\u201d and to pose new questions about the politics of sign circulation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4210", "title": "Critical Global Public Health", "description": "Critical Global Public Health examines how various assemblages of global,\nnational, and subnational factors converge on a health issue, problem, or\noutcome in a particular local context."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4211", "title": "Global India", "description": "Students learn a political history of India over the last century, from the early 1900s to the present day. The course will facilitate a critical engagement with the fundamental themes of the Indian nation, moving onto the founding of the Indian state and culminating in contemporary politics. The first half of the course will focus on pre-1947 politics, Indian political thought and experience of British colonialism, decolonisation both political and intellectual. The second will focus on India\u2019s international relations, India\u2019s quest for power and prestige, through the themes that percolate through Indian politics \u2013 sovereignty, democracy, nationalism, and India\u2019s global ambitions."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4213", "title": "Community Development: In Search of the Kampung Spirit", "description": "This course explores contested strategies for advancing community development from around the world. These strategies respond to diverse social, cultural, and institutional contexts, revealing varied interpretations of what communities are and what resources and capacities are necessary for their development. We will use this investigation to inform a semester-long engagement with a community in Singapore to understand the challenges and opportunities that community members face. This engagement will be aimed at the collaborative formulation of proposals aimed at strengthening the community. The thematic focus of this engagement may change with instructors and or community needs."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4215", "title": "Sexual Economies", "description": "This course explores the role that sex plays in the exchanges and\ncirculations that make up human social life. Whether for procreation,\npleasure, social status, the solidification of kinship networks, religious\ndevotion, the marketing of reproductive tissue, or social reproduction\nitself, sex and sexual relations are far from being \u201cprivate\u201d acts of no\npolitical consequence. On the contrary, they are integral to larger practices\nand institutions. The course will introduce students to multidisciplinary\nperspectives on the intersections of sex with money, politics, social status,\nand access to resources."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4216", "title": "The Anthropology of Popular Culture", "description": "The study of popular culture in anthropology generally focuses on\nexpressive forms of collective meaning in local contexts. Expressive forms\nof collective meaning are aesthetic (expressive) representations of society\n& culture \u2018made by people themselves for themselves.\u2019"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4217", "title": "Production Networks in the Global Economy", "description": "This course is an Elective in Global Affairs that offers students an in-depth\nand advanced level exposure to the organization of production networks\n(aka commodity, value, supply chains) in the global economy. It will enable\nstudents to understand globalization from the ground up by giving them\nhistorical background on the increasing complexity and transnational\ncontent of global production, and analytic tools to understand why and\nhow firms and governments make choices that produce the production\nnetworks we see today. The course will also examine Singapore\u2019s role as a\ncentral node in Asian production networks. Specific details are in the\nsyllabus."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4219", "title": "Law, War, and Peace in the Middle East", "description": "This course offers students an overview of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and attempts to negotiate a meaningful resolution. The course considers the reasons for the failure of the peace process, from an international law perspective. It looks at the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, and the way the dispute has been shaped by outside actors and events. Beginning in the period of European colonialism, the course takes students through the Cold War and its aftermath to the Oslo years, the \u2018war on terror\u2019, and the unrest in the region after the uprisings in 2011."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4220", "title": "Housing and Social Inequality", "description": "Housing is an essential necessity for living. The housing unit is concurrently a consumption good and an investment good. As a commodity, the quality and quantity of housing distribution and consumption are unequal, reflecting intrinsic social and economic inequalities in the society. As the logic and practice of the housing market unavoidably fail in providing adequate housing for all, the state is left with the responsibility of providing for those that the market has marginalized. This course will examine the role of the market and the state in engendering and perpetuating social and economic inequalities through the housing provision."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4222", "title": "Contemporary European Politics", "description": "This course explores the structures of power within the European State since WWII. The course content will explore historical context, political integration of the European Union (EU), the domestic politics of specific European countries, as well as the effects of integration on the governance in member states, and specific elections and outcomes. Students will also analyze the position of EU in the international system. Contemporary issues of Brexit and the rise of populism in European democracies. Assessment will challenge students to create an in-depth policy memo which synthesizes the historical, political and practice of politics of Europe."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4223", "title": "Politics of Identity in Developing Countries", "description": "This course is an upper level seminar that engages students in the study of identity and politics within political science. Students will become acquainted with various theories and approaches to understanding the construction and mobilization of identities: national, ethnic, religious, gender and sexual orientation. Drawing on the empirical literature on the politics of identity in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, students will learn how identities have been constructed, and how they in turn influence outcomes such as violence, voting behaviour, governance, inequality, and inter-group trust and cooperation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4224", "title": "Political Order and One-Party Rule", "description": "The 20th and 21st centuries have seen an unprecedented global expansion in the number of one-party regimes. Despite not conforming to standard definitions of democracy, these regimes have proven more stable and developed faster than non-democracies with which they are often grouped. In this course, students will gain a deeper understanding of politics within such regimes from a comparative politics perspective. Topics covered include the conditions facilitating the establishment and spread of one-party regimes, how leaders manage threats originating from both inside and outside the regime, the role of elections, and the conditions in which transitions away from regimes occur."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4226", "title": "Migration Policy", "description": "This 4000-level advanced course will engage students to key areas of contemporary policy concern in the realm of international migration. Adopting a global perspective, it focuses on both the international and domestic policies that deal with migration issues and migrants. The course will be divided into three broad units, the first focusing on policies instituted by net sending countries, the second on net receiving countries, and the third focusing on global/multinational/bilateral initiatives to manage/control migration."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4227", "title": "Topics in Applied Econometrics", "description": "This course covers econometric techniques as applied in empirical work in economics, at a level that is accessible to advance undergraduates. The topics are divided into two categories: Market Valuations and Non-Market Valuations. We begin with demand and supply estimation and the computation of consumer and producer surpluses. We investigate the use of surplus measurements to evaluate the impact of policies and the introduction of new good. We then move towards estimating the \u2018demand side\u2019 of environmental economics. The focus will be on stated and revealed preferences techniques for estimating the non-market values associated with environmental and other public goods."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4228", "title": "The Anthropology of Dreams and Sleep", "description": "This course is a comparative examination of the different ways people\nsleep and understand dreams, and the social consequences of these\ndifferences across cultures. It explores how people sleep and experience\ndreams shapes the broader ways knowledge, social relations, and wellbeing\nare conceived and enacted in human societies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4229", "title": "The Anthropology of Human Rights", "description": "This course explores anthropological perspectives on how human rights discourses are produced and used in the world today. While the modern idea of human rights was only formalized in the aftermath of the Second World War, since that time, human rights discourses have spread around the world and been adopted transnationally by widely varying actors. Starting from the premise that the transnational discourse of rights must be understood in local contexts, we will explore the meaning and use of human rights from different perspectives."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4230", "title": "Psychology of Mindfulness", "description": "This course provides a theoretical and empirical overview to the emerging field of mindfulness. It introduces students to the scientific research and applications of mindfulness-related processes and interventions (e.g., mindfulness-based stress reduction, dialectical behavior therapy) across domains such as mental health, behavioral medicine, education, and cognitive neuroscience. The course also provides students with an opportunity to engage in formal and informal mindfulness practices. It is suitable for students interested in acquiring not only a critical, scholarly understanding of the topic, but also an experiential understanding of mindfulness practice and how it relates to various aspects of one\u2019s life."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4231", "title": "Parenting and Child Development", "description": "This course examines the various aspects of parental influence on\nchildren\u2019s development, with a focus on cultural differences in parenting\nstyles and practices. Topics to be covered include a critical evaluation of\nthe conceptual and functional differences of parenting practices across\ncultures, and how these may influence children\u2019s development in diverse\ncontexts. The notion of \u201cgood enough parenting\u201d and parenting as a bidirectional\nprocess will be analysed. The course concludes with a\ndiscussion of whether parents are the most important source of\ninfluence, considering the many other domains of influence in children\u2019s\nlives, such as peers."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4232", "title": "Advanced Topics in PPE: The Welfare State", "description": "This course will challenge advanced students to connect the three main threads of the PPE major: politics, philosophy, and economics. To do so, we will analyse the historical development and the legitimacy of the Welfare State, which rose to predominance in the twentieth century. To understand its future, we will examine the myriad of challenges facing it today, including economic crises and interstate organizations. We will also consider how questions arising from the Welfare State bear on other values, especially democracy and the rule of law."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4234", "title": "Urban Heritage: Place, Memory, Identity", "description": "The course offers an advanced-level, in-depth understanding urban heritage, both as it manifests in the built environment but also in intangible social and cultural phenomena. The course begins by defining what heritage is in urban contexts, and inquiring into the special pressures urbanisation places on \u201cinherited\u201d built forms and ways of life. The module will draw on historical developments in urban heritage politics and planning in both North America and Europe, but the key emphasis will be on in-depth understanding of the emergence of urban heritage landscapes in Asian cities."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4235", "title": "Religion and the Media Turn", "description": "How does media enable religious practitioners to experience the divine in the immediacy of the \u201chere and now\u201d? Prayer, liturgy, chanting, meditation, and acts of remembering to commune with higher powers, are acts that incorporate audio-visual technologies, t.v., radio, internet, religious texts, art, relics, icons, as well as so-called \u201cidols\u201d and \u201cfetishes.\u201d Focusing on the intersection of religion and media, students will analyze \u201csensational forms,\u201d and religious conceptions of how to properly represent the divine (\u201csemiotic theologies\u201d). By examining media use of several religious communities around the world, the course highlights critical aspects of religious practice and religious difference."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4236", "title": "Medical Anthropology", "description": "The field of medical anthropology boasts a rich theoretical and empirical tradition, in which award-winning ethnographies have been written on topics ranging from local biology to structural violence. Guided by the key text, Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures, this course will explore the canonical works of a number of leading medical anthropologists, including several whose research focuses on Asia (e.g., Das, Kleinman, Lock). Three key themes will be explored: 1) structural violence and social suffering; 2) technoscience and embodiment; and 3) medicine and humanitarianism."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4237", "title": "Conquest, Territorial Expansion and International Law", "description": "Some of the most important turning points in world history have resulted\nin, and from, territorial expansion and conquest of both inhabited and\nuninhabited frontiers. Many of the international laws we now take for\ngranted emerged as the result of highly contentious and uncertain\nincursions into previously un-regulated domains.\nIn this course, students will explore the root causes of state-led territorial\nexpansion and the ramifications of conquest and domination for\ninternational law. We will analyse theories of conquest and delve into\ncase studies of particular cases of expansion into inhabited territory (e.g.\nJapan\u2019s Co-Prosperity Sphere, United States\u2019 westward expansion across\nAmerica, German expansion in Western and Eastern Europe) and state\nexpansion into uninhabited frontiers (e.g. South China Sea disputes,\nairspace, outer space, Antarctica, the deep sea). Students will learn to analyse and critique competing arguments, synthesize explanatory\nlenses, and perform research into this arena of international politics and\nlaw."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4238", "title": "Micro-Finance and Sustainable Development in Asia", "description": "What means sustainable development and how can it be financed? We\ninvestigate the changing visions, approaches, and experiences of\ndevelopment in Asia. We focus on the political economy and the policies\nleading to growth and its inequality and wellbeing impacts. We analyze the\nrole of (international) state, business, and civil society actors.\nOne illustration of such ideational and financial influences will be microfinance.\nAwarded the Nobel Prize for its role in poverty alleviation and\nwomen\u00b4s empowerment, it increasingly made negative headlines. Does\nmicro-finance provide a feasible market-driven solution? How does\nglobalization and liberalization influence other new approaches to\nsustainable development?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4239", "title": "Adv Seminar in Urban Studies: Transnational Urbanism", "description": "This course examines the multiple ways in which cities are built by processes that cross national boundaries. From the earliest times of transnational mobility, processes of urbanization have been shaped by these movements and the flows of capital, people, and knowledge they give rise to. These transnational currents raise important questions for how we understand urban development. From the effects of colonial expansion on cities, through to the contemporary trend of itinerant urban expertise, the course will offer varied perspectives on the phenomenon of transnational urbanism. The seminar will draw on a range of theoretical approaches and range across political, economic, social and culture formations."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4240", "title": "Advanced Clinical Psychology", "description": "The goal of this course is to provide a critical and broad overview to the field of clinical psychology. Students will have an opportunity to read both historical (landmark) and contemporary literature related to major topics within clinical psychology, ranging from classification of psychological disorders, multicultural issues in clinical practice, to controversies surrounding empirically supported interventions. The course will have a specific focus on assessment and major intervention approaches, along with student-led presentations on the etiology and/or treatment of various psychological disorders. Readings consist of a combination of textbook sources, empirical research articles, and critical, narrative pieces on selected issues."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4241", "title": "Multispecies Ethnography", "description": "Although founded on ideals of humanism and human exceptionalism, anthropology provides a unique perspective on the nature of anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene. This course builds on key theoretical insights articulated by a range of post-humanist scholars in order to rethink the relationships between us as a species of cultured animal and a range of other species. In doing so, this course will trouble the distinction between ethnological methods, ethnographic representation, ethology, and biology to provide insight on how contemporary scholarship in the discipline provides new ways of understanding ecology, environmental activism, scientific research, medical technology and non-human animal rights."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4242", "title": "Urban Ethnography of Asia", "description": "An anthropological study of contemporary Asian cities. Focus on new ethnographies about cities in East, Southeast, and South Asia. Topics include rural-urban migration, redevelopment, evictions, social movements, land grabbing, master-planned developments, heritage preservation, utopian aspirations, social housing, slums and precariousness, and spatial cleansing."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4243", "title": "Study of Modern Wars", "description": "This seminar examines the phenomenon of war during the years between the emergence of the modern nation-state and the end of the Cold War. We survey the leading theories on the causes of war, their key concepts and causal variables, the causal paths leading to war or to peace, and the conditions under which various outcomes are most likely to occur. We also closely examine key historical works on major wars, and evaluate the degree of empirical support for various theories and hypotheses. The course will also explore sources of great power conflict in today\u2019s international politics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4244", "title": "African Atlantic Perspectives", "description": "This course provides an overview of the anthropology of the African diaspora, its connections to Africa, and the emergence of the modern world. It will examine the history and ethnography of the cultural formation of the African diaspora through the detailed examination of critical questions about diaspora, migration, race, cosmology, subjectivity, and identity formation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4245", "title": "Anthropology of Violence", "description": "The course will engage students in examination of the social problem of violent conflicts, primarily through ethnographic case studies. The course will take an anthropological approach to both extraordinary cases of political violence, as well as ordinary forms of violence in less publicized cases occurring in everyday life. Drawing on the discipline\u2019s unique methodologies and theoretical developments that rely on long-term field research, students will learn about the causes and conditions of violence, and also about how people live and cope with it. The ethnographic material under study will focus largely, but not exclusively, on cases of violence in Asia."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4246", "title": "Anthropology of Education", "description": "What is education and who is it for? What should education do, and how do we achieve this ideal? How does education relate to society as a whole? Do educational systems reproduce inequality? Is education a tool for social control? These are some of the questions that this course will address. Students will collaborate on original ethnographic research projects. Readings will span Marxian, feminist, and postcolonial critique; social history; and ethnographies of education in different parts of the world. Topics include the formation of classes, the discourse of diversity, the meaning of merit, and the marketization of higher ed."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4247", "title": "Global and Transnational Urbanism", "description": "This course examines the multiple ways in which cities are built across national boundaries. Processes of urbanization have been long shaped by global flows of capital, people, and knowledge. These transnational currents raise important questions for how we understand urban development, past and present. From the effects of colonial expansion on cities, through to the contemporary trend of itinerant urban expertise, This course advanced seminar will offer give students the chance to carefully review a range of varied perspectives on the phenomenon of global and transnational urbanismperspectives on the phenomenon of transnational urbanism. The seminar will draw on a broad array of theoretical approaches (e.g. postcolonial, neo-Marxian, developmental) and range across political, economic, social and cultural formations. Topics will range from the effects of maritime trade and colonial expansion on the production of space, the rise of global logistics, the emergence of the idea of \u201cworld cities,\u201d and recent trends in itinerant urban expertise."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4248", "title": "Conducting Qualitative Socio-Legal Research", "description": "This seminar is designed to guide students toward developing proposals focused on qualitative socio-legal research. Students will be introduced to socio-legal literature, the conduct of socio-legal inquiry, and a mix of relevant research methodologies. They will undertake substantial work outside of class, reading targeted literature, identifying research questions, organizing their research strategies and completing assignments that will lead to their research proposals. This course is suitable for \u2013 but not limited to \u2013 students in their penultimate year, who plan to undertake capstone projects related to law or interdisciplinary research that involves legal norms, rules, or rights and their relationship to social relations or change."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4249", "title": "The Economics of Inequality", "description": "Economic inequality is both increasing and more visible than in the recent past and is, for this reason, emerging as an important social concern. This course covers the basic facts of rising inequality and the models used to understand its causes and consequences."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4250", "title": "Gender and Sexuality in South Asia", "description": "This course examines how anthropologists address themes of gender and sexuality in South Asia through reading recent ethnographies. The course introduces students to varied ways that ideas about gender and sexuality, and social relations of gender are constructed, maintained, and challenged in South Asia. Issues to be explored include marriage, kinship and the body; religion and nationalism; masculinity studies; gender and violence; globalization and international gender development; globalization, education and work; sex work; queer activism and transgender identities. Emphasis is on India but other parts of the region are also considered (Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka). Films will supplement readings."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4252", "title": "Theory from the South: Critical Perspectives", "description": "This course offers a critical excursion into social theory from the perspective of the \u201cglobal south,\u201d broadly conceived; that is, theory which questions the orthodoxies arising from the modernist, EuroAmerican social sciences. It explores foundational concepts by estranging them: among others, personhood, liberalism and neoliberalism, democracy, modernity, the nation and its borders, civil society, sovereignty, history, crime and social order. Taking Africa as one of its exemplary contexts, it will explore and evaluate some of the critiques levelled by non-western scholars at \u201cclassical\u201d wisdom, its relationship to colonialism and empire, and the rise of industrial capitalism."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4253", "title": "Ethnography as Theory and Method: Classical and Contemporary Readings", "description": "Anthropologists have long argued against the radical separation of theory and method. Not only does ethnographic observation shape the knowledge it produces; anthropology\u2019s commitment to an intersubjective world determines the kind of embedded observation, \u201cthick description\u201d and \u201cgrounded theory\u201d that are its stock-in-trade. But what are ethnography and grounded theory in our late modern world, when many of the humanist assumptions on which anthropology was founded have come under critique - feminist, Marxist, queer, and postcolonial? Drawing on ethnographies past and present, this class will explore these questions through a close engagement with ethnographic texts, past and present."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4257", "title": "Topics in the Political Economy of Public Policy", "description": "Political science and the study of social choice, microeconomics and elementary game theory are combined in the search for a more comprehensive vision of the forces underlying the structure and evolution of public policy within and across countries. Topics covered include the economics of public goods and externalities, the free-rider problem and collective action, the operation of collective choice mechanisms such as pure majority rule, the relationship between the institutions of representative democracy and economic welfare, special interest politics, and the bureau. Some attention is paid to the historical evolution of ideas."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4258", "title": "Asset Pricing, Financial Markets & Behavioural Finance", "description": "This course provides an economic perspective on the working of financial markets and asset valuation methods. It covers three important asset classes: fixed income, stocks, and derivatives. The course also examines the extent to which financial markets are informationally efficient and its implications to asset management, market anomalies and investor behaviours."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4259", "title": "The Economics of Climate Change", "description": "Ranging from simple models which analyse the global free rider problem and international negotiations, to computational cost-benefit models and energy systems models, the economics of climate change is a growing and important field. In this half course we will learn about some of the most important examples."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4260", "title": "The Economics of Inequality", "description": "Economic inequality is both increasing and more visible than in the recent past and is, for this reason, emerging as an important social concern. This course covers the basic facts of rising inequality and the models used to understand its causes and consequences."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4261", "title": "Psychological Anthropology", "description": "This course introduces students to psychological anthropology. We probe the cultural assumptions underpinning theories of the mind and consider how anthropology contributes to scholarship on the psyche and its workings. We begin by examining the relationships between the psyche, the body, and power through engaging with conversations in cross-cultural psychology, psychoanalysis, black existentialism, and feminist and queer theory. Next, we ground our analysis in ethnographies by anthropologists who are also practicing psychiatrists, therapists, and social workers. Addressing such topics as madness, addiction, and possession, we examine the interrelationships between power, politics, and intimate experience."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4262", "title": "Interdisciplinary Legal Research Methods", "description": "This is a research- and writing-intensive course designed to guide students toward developing research proposals involving interdisciplinary legal research. It covers interdisciplinary approaches to legal research and research methodologies including qualitative, survey, and archive-based research. Students will work in a seminar-style environment and learn from one another through discussions inside and outside the classroom. This course is suitable for \u2013 but not limited to \u2013 students in their penultimate year who plan to undertake interdisciplinary research that involves legal norms, rules, or rights and their relationship to social relations or change."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4263", "title": "Psychological Therapies", "description": "The goal of this course is to introduce a broad overview to the main orientations of psychological therapies in clinical psychology. This includes psychodynamic psychotherapy, behavioural therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, contemporary cognitive behavioural therapies and systemic therapies. The course will focus on theoretical underpinnings, mechanisms of change and applications to psychological problems. Seminars will include didactic teaching, class discussions, experiential exercises, student-led presentations and videos."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4264", "title": "Psychology of Social Conformity", "description": "The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the theories, methods, and research in the field of social conformity. The course is grounded in empirical research articles and scholarship that illustrate the foundational principles of social conformity from developmental and social psychological perspectives. This course will also explore the application of social conformity as it pertains to socio-politics, health, business, and society."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4265", "title": "The Anthropology of Possible Worlds", "description": "This course focuses on ways of representing and residing in worlds which are different from (what is taken to be) the actual world in various respects. Such possible worlds include literary worlds (e.g., Narnia), psychological worlds (what someone wishes to be the case or believes to be the case), environmental worlds (possible environmental futures), virtual worlds (the World of Warcraft), physical worlds (portions of the putative multiverse in accordance with the laws of physics), and--most of all--ethnographic works in which the actual and possible worlds of others are represented."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4266", "title": "Law and Resistance", "description": "This advanced seminar examines the intersections between law and resistance. We explore how resistance is conceptualized; the many faces of power; the power of law in coercion and repression, and the responses to power, including but not limited to resistance; how resistance emerges; various types of resistance, including individual, collective, uncoordinated, coordinated, hidden, and open forms; the role of law in tactics of resistance; the role of lawyers; and the efficacy of law in achieving social change. We explore these issues by reading classic and recent works, as well as discussing case studies selected and presented by students."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4267", "title": "Religion-State Relations in Comparative Perspective", "description": "Religion remains a force in the contemporary world keeping its hold not only on the private lives of individuals, but also tenaciously maintaining its presence in national, transnational and global politics. Yet, a marked feature of modern states is secularism, the assertion of (varying degrees of) separation of law from religion. The result of this contradiction is that contestations over religion-state relations remains a protracted feature of our increasingly religiously and ideologically polarized world. With specific reference to the idea of secularism and the right to religious freedom, this class will explore debates over religion-state relations in comparative contexts."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4268", "title": "Non-State Actors in Global Affairs", "description": "This course explores the dynamic role of non-state actors and how they interact with more established major players in global affairs (states and intergovernmental organizations). It focuses on civil society organizations and the business sector as two major categories of non-state actors. Core questions include: When and how do non-state actors matter? What are the sources of their influence? What kind of strategies do they use to achieve their goals? What are normative implications of the growing influence of these new actors? And how should the study of IR respond to this relatively new phenomenon?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4269", "title": "Governing the Internet", "description": "This course investigates the emergence and current state of global internet governance. The globalization of the internet has fundamentally altered the world as we know it, from intimate facets of life like dating to sweeping changes in international security strategy. These developments reflect the distinctive evolution and contemporary forms of internet governance. The internet\u2019s global scale and integration are not inevitable. Through this course, we will explore different ways the internet might have developed, different governance and regulatory options, the power and political dynamics behind the internet\u2019s current form, and we will imagine different internet futures that may arise."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4270", "title": "Hormones and Behavior", "description": "This course provides an overview of contemporary research and theories in the field of human social neuroendocrinology\u2014a field that lies at the intersection of social psychology and behavioral endocrinology. Students will learn about the reciprocal relationship between hormones and social behavior: how hormones modulate human social behavior (e.g., aggression, prejudice, mating behaviors, decision-making), and the role of the social environment in altering hormone systems and hormone-behavior relationships. The course will also delve into methodological practices and considerations for designing social endocrine studies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4271", "title": "Confronting Social Injustice with Social Psychology", "description": "This course will cover experimental lab and field research from social psychology that address social injustice and related topics, such as achievement gaps, racism, sexism, ageism, health disparities, and deficits in equity, diversity, and inclusiveness. Students will read scientific articles, chapters, and scholarly reviews regarding this area of research and the seminar will largely revolve around discussions of those papers and their weekly written reactions. The course will culminate in a paper assignment that will require students to identify a pressing social injustice and to develop an implementable program to address it based on research we cover in the class."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4272", "title": "Politics of Southeast Asia", "description": "Southeast Asia\u2019s fascinating array of experiences and outcomes within and across countries provides an interesting opportunity for answering key questions in political science. We will examine issues related to the mobilization of communal ties, nation-building policies, political representation and governance, everyday interactions between citizens and between citizens and the state, and protests and violent mobilization. We will read classical and new works in social sciences, that offer insights into the variation we see in the region. This class builds on some of the concepts and topics already covered in International Relations, International Development, Methods in Social Sciences, and Comparative Politics."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4273", "title": "Ideology in India", "description": "Ideologies and ideas determine the discourse of political life in a country. India is a salad bowl of competing ideologies. Since the rise of a Hindu party in Indian politics, public discourse has expanded and homegrown ideas in their religious, economic, and political forms, have re-emerged. We will read some of these texts and understand the key ideological divides in the country. These ideologies have real effects. They influence the state\u2019s role in faith, the managing of diversity, the fixity of a constitution, and more. They are central to the country\u2019s economic, political and social direction. By the end of the course, we will understand how to study ideology, locate it in diverse forms, and develop skills towards interpretation."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4274", "title": "Small States in Peace and War", "description": "Is smaller better for peace and prosperity? This course explores the blessings and perils of state size across four themes: Development, Commerce, War and International Organizations. It grounds this exploration with insights on the political and economic consequences of size from ancient (Thucydides) and contemporary (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) thinkers, as well as work in economics, political science and history. The course\u2019s goals are two-fold: First, to expose students to prevailing and competing theories on how small (and big) states behave in domestic and international affairs. Second, to strengthen students\u2019 capacity to do and present research."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4275", "title": "Law, Governance and Development in Asia", "description": "Rapid social and economic change across Asia, sparked by development, has given rise to many issues in governance and law reform. In this course we look at these changes in comparative conspectus, with special reference to constitutional reforms, representative government, good governance, accountability, and the rule of law. How and on what principles are Asian states building their new legal orders? Is there such a thing as an \u2018Asian approach\u2019 to development? Can Asia sustain economic progress as well as satisfying demands for the control of corruption and abuse of powers, and the creation of new forms of accountability?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4276", "title": "The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt", "description": "This advanced seminar will survey Hannah Arendt\u2019s political thought, from Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) to the Life of the Mind (1978). Particular emphasis will be given to Arendt\u2019s 1) understanding of the Western tradition of political philosophy, since its origins in Plato, as a necessarily failed attempt to subordinate practice to theory, and thus politics to philosophy; 2) the highly original conceptions of politics and philosophy underlying her view; and 3) the promising and influential yet inconclusive theory of judgment to which it has led. Reading will include both primary and secondary sources."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4277", "title": "The Political Economy of Capitalism", "description": "This course examines the comparative political economy of capitalist societies, broadly defined as the relationship between the market and the state, and the ways in which the triangular relationship between the state, labor and business differs from one capitalist country to another. The focus will be upon the transformation in the political-economic landscape facing capitalist societies in the period since the end of the 1970s. The course will include a substantial research paper, including workshopping and presentation of the paper within the class."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4278", "title": "The Political Economy of Governance", "description": "Topics include the Study of Corruption, Special Interest Politics, and Political Control of the Bureaucracy. An in-depth overview of research on governance in political science and economics. The course explores themes such as: the control of politicians by citizens/voters and of bureaucrats by politicians; the abuse of office by elected officials and the capture of collective decisions; information asymmetries between governed and government as drivers of bad policy; how intrinsic motivation, competence, and monitoring affect the behavior of bureaucrats; and the targeting of public resources to keep citizens in a state of dependence vis-a-vis political power."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4279", "title": "Body and Society", "description": "The body is often taken for granted as a material substrate of cultural existence. This course places the human body at the forefront of investigation. Students will study the relationship among body, mind, and society. We begin by examining how conceptions of the body are linked to histories of domination and colonialism. We then move to study the lived body, paying attention to the culturally specific ways the body is produced and experienced and its relationship with practice, performance, affect, time, and space. The course closes with examining the commodification of the body and the emergence of new cyborg bodies."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4280", "title": "Markets and Institutions", "description": "Sometimes markets are tremendous engines of economic growth, and sometimes they are not. This course invokes political institutions to explain variation in the performance of economic markets. All markets are characterized by various types of failures, including problems associated with common pool resources, credible commitments, collective action, externalities, and intertemporal choices, among others. However, some societies overcome market failures by means of effective institutions, while others do not. Combining readings in political science, historical institutionalism, and the New Institutional Economics, this course illuminates market failures, institutional solutions, and the political origins of institutions."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4281", "title": "Gendered Migration and Carework", "description": "This course covers a range of phenomena within global gendered migrations and carework including types of gendered (im)migration and carework (un/skilled); circular and stepwise migration; peidu Mamas; astronaut, parachute, and kirogi families; care drains; nurse migration; care robots; and distress migration. Via case studies, intersections of how gendered migration regimes impact individual and collective migration and carework experiences will be explored. Sensitized to nested concepts in global affairs, social sciences and migration studies, students will learn to discern around migration infrastructures which care and which do not \u2013 seeking solutions to migrant care dilemmas and reconceiving what this means for all."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4282", "title": "Borders and Boundaries", "description": "Borders appear to be proliferating in today\u2019s globalized world, a supposedly \u201cborderless\u201d world where people, commodities, and finance travel with unprecedented speeds and intensity. There are many different types of borders, ranging from visa regimes to walls, fences, and routine checks of permits. This course asks What are borders? How do they operate? Why are borders hardening amid globalization? Taking a historical and anthropological approach to the study of borders, this course explores how the borders in today\u2019s world trace a genealogy to the modern colonial frontier, the formation of the nation-state, and the neoliberal transformations of labor and economy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4283", "title": "Southeast Asia Urban Planning and Design Workshop", "description": "This advanced course offers students an in-depth and interdisciplinary understanding of processes of urbanization in Southeast Asia. The course combines seminar discussion with workshops in which students learn how to analyse and develop their own urban planning and policy interventions that address key urban issues, ranging from community and economic development to climate resilience. Key questions include What are the emergent patterns of urban development in Southeast Asia? What strategies are adopted by local and regional government institutions, urban designers, and other organizations to guide urban development in the region? What might the future hold for urbanization in Southeast Asia?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4284", "title": "Smart Cities: History of Urban Data in Urban Planning", "description": "The desire to systemically control the city using information is as old as the history of urban planning. This seminar examines Smart Cities through a retrospection into the history and theory of urban data and computational models in urban planning. Learning from the technocratic planners (1910s-1920s), the cybernetic vision and urban renewal (1960s), the development of GIS (1960s), critical GIS (1990s), Big data and civic technologies (2010s), the course critically examines contemporary Smart Cities that include but are not limited to Masdar, Songdo, Sidewalk Lab Toronto, and Singapore\u2019s Smart Nation initiatives."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4285", "title": "Political Theologies in Asian Life-Worlds", "description": "This course explores conjunctures between religion and politics in Asia, through ethnographic, historical, and theoretical approaches. Building on classic and contemporary anthropological studies of social movements, sacred polities, divine kingship, geomantic design, and enchanted place-making, students will learn how religiously-inflected political ideals shape Asian life-worlds. In the Asian cosmopolis, how is the cosmos envisioned to be reflected in the earthly domain? What courtly rituals were used to consolidate righteous sovereign rule? How did social movements\u2014rebellions, and millenarian movements in late colonial Asia\u2014articulate with beliefs of the eschaton (end of days/ coming of a messiah) in Cold War interventions?"}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4286", "title": "Theorizing the State", "description": "What is \u201cthe state\u201d? Where did the state come from and why did it prevail over alternative models of public order? What makes the state different from a highway robber who demands our money at gunpoint? Why should the state have a right to command us through its positive laws? This course provides students with a critical framework for answering these questions. We begin by studying the modern history and sociology of state formation. Then, we dive deeply into a few classic works of normative state and constitutional theory."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4287", "title": "Psychology of Addictive Behaviour", "description": "This course introduces students to the different theoretical frameworks that explain addictive behaviours, as well as different treatment options and prevention models. It examines evidence-based biopsychosocial approaches, addressing neurobiological, behavioural, psychological, and social factors that influence addiction. The course will address questions like: What is addictive behaviour? How do people develop addictive behaviour? What are risk factors for addiction vulnerability? Do people with substance use disorders get better? Is addictive behaviour a choice? What kinds of treatments have been found to help? We will tackle these questions through classroom discussions/debates, lectures, movies, and writing assignments."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4288", "title": "History and Systems of Psychology", "description": "This course provides an overview of the history of psychology and its major systems. It discusses the roots of modern psychological thought, from its origins in philosophy and the natural sciences through the refinements of psychology in its current form. At the end of this course, students should be able to understand how the development of psychology as a science was affected by various factors such as other disciplines and sociocultural changes."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4289", "title": "Thinking Beyond the Plantation", "description": "This course addresses the resurgent scholarly interest in the plantation as a source of contemporary crises like climate change, mass extinction, and global inequality. Starting with Donna Haraway\u2019s term \u201cplantationocene\u201d describing the current epoch of world history, the course considers the global effects of plantation agriculture and how it continues to shape contemporary scholarship and politics. Moving from the medieval Mediterranean and early modern Caribbean to contemporary South and Southeast Asia, the course is both a survey of the history and anthropology of the plantation and a theoretical consideration of its utility for understanding the social problems of the present."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4290", "title": "Anthropology of Sovereignty and Freedom", "description": "What do humans find so alluring about sovereignty and freedom? One answer is that both refer to the promise of autonomy. Both describe self-actualization, with sovereignty working on the scale of a collective and freedom usually a trait claimed by individuals. Yet when we look at the workings of sovereignty and freedom in the world, we find that autonomy is won through relationships. This course explores the paradox that autonomy, in individual and collective forms, often comes from relationships. Cross-cultural study of sovereignty and freedom helps us ask better questions of others who see themselves as striving for self-actualization."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4291", "title": "Contemporary Educational Psychology", "description": "This course explores educational theories, research, and practice. We will examine applications of psychological science to learning processes and outcomes, and consider how contemporary educational practices and environments can be best designed to support learning. Students will develop and empirically test educational innovations, and translate research findings to formulate evidence-based recommendations for educational practice and policy."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4292", "title": "Ethics in Psychology: Research and Practice", "description": "This course introduces ethical decision-making in psychology research and practice. At the end of this course, students should be able to identify ethical dilemmas and suggest courses of action for addressing them."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4293", "title": "Psychology of Errors", "description": "This course examines the psychological science of errors. We will explore the nature, causes, and consequences of errors in learning and work. Delving into the scientific literature, we will analyse barriers to learning from failure, and evaluate how people and organisations can effectively learn from errors to thrive. Students will design and conduct research projects on the psychology of errors and connect empirical findings to broader implications for learning and life."}, {"moduleCode": "YSS4294", "title": "Political Theory & the British Empire in Southeast Asia", "description": "This course is structured around the question, what did the British empire bring to Singapore, and what did it leave? This is a question that can be answered in a myriad of ways, but this course will look to the political theory literature for inspiration. The readings will be drawn from the eighteenth and nineteenth-century debates on empire (with readings from Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, for example), the historical and contemporary literature on settler colonialism, the literature on racial capitalism, and more contemporary literature on imperialism and colonialism."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3288", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Computational Biology I", "description": "This course is intended for students to conduct mini-research projects that make use of computational methods and informatics tools to solve specific biological problems or develop bioinformatics databases and software. In principle, each project is to be supervised by an academic staff from any department in the Faculty of Science. Upon approval by the programme committee, a project can also be co-supervised by an academic staff at the School of Computing."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3288R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Computational Biology I (REx)", "description": "This course is intended for students to conduct mini-research projects that make use of computational methods and informatics tools to solve specific biological problems or develop bioinformatics databases and software. In principle, each project is to be supervised by an academic staff from any department in the Faculty of Science. Upon approval by the programme committee, a project can also be co-supervised by an academic staff at the School of Computing. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3289", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Computational Biology II", "description": "This course is intended for students to conduct mini-research projects as a continuation of their work completed in ZB3288. These projects make use of computational methods and informatics tools to solve specific biological problems or develop bioinformatics databases and software. In principle, each project is to be supervised by an academic staff from any department in the Faculty of Science. Upon approval by the programme committee, a project can also be co-supervised by an academic staff at the School of Computing."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3289R", "title": "Advanced UROPS in Computational Biology II (REx)", "description": "This course is intended for students to conduct mini-research projects as a continuation of their work completed in ZB3288. These projects make use of computational methods and informatics tools to solve specific biological problems or develop bioinformatics databases and software. In principle, each project is to be supervised by an academic staff from any department in the Faculty of Science. Upon approval by the programme committee, a project can also be co-supervised by an academic staff at the School of Computing. This is a UROPS course enhanced with the Research Experience Programme, where students attend seminars and workshops, access writing consultations, receive a grant to do independent research, and present their findings at a conference."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3310", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking for jobs. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study. The course requires students to compete for position and perform a structured internship in a company/institution for 10-12 weeks during Special Term. Through regular meetings with the Academic Advisor (AA) and internship Supervisor, students learn how knowledge acquired in the curriculum can be transferred to perform technical/practical assignments in an actual working environment."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3311", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking for jobs. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study. The course requires students to compete for position and perform a structured internship in a company/institution for 10-12 weeks during Special Term. Through regular meetings with the Academic Advisor (AA) and internship Supervisor, students learn how knowledge acquired in the curriculum can be transferred to perform technical/practical assignments in an actual working environment."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3312", "title": "Enhanced Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking for jobs. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study. The course requires students to compete for position and perform a structured internship in a company/institution for 16-20 weeks during regular semester. Through regular meetings with the Academic Advisor (AA) and internship Supervisor, students learn how knowledge acquired in the curriculum can be transferred to perform technical/practical assignments in an actual working environment."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB3313", "title": "Undergraduate Professional Internship Programme Extended", "description": "In addition to having an academic science foundation, students with good soft skills and some industrial attachment or internship experiences often stand a better chance when seeking employment. This course gives Science students the opportunity to acquire work experience via internships during their undergraduate study, and learn how academic knowledge can be transferred to perform technical or practical assignments in an actual working environment. This course is open to FoS undergraduates students, requiring them to perform a structured internship in a company/institution for a minimum 18 weeks period, during a regular semester within their student candidature."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB4171", "title": "Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics", "description": "This is a seminar-style course based on the literature with practical and project-based work that exposes students to open issues and scientific research in contemporary bioinformatics and computational biology. The exact topics covered are chosen each year on the basis of recent developments in the field of bioinformatics, as well as a survey of students regarding their own research projects."}, {"moduleCode": "ZB4199", "title": "Honours Project in Computational Biology", "description": "Not Available"}, {"moduleCode": "ZB4299", "title": "Applied Project in Computational Biology", "description": "For Bachelor of Science (Honours) students to participate full-time in a six-month-long project in an applied context that culminates in a project presentation and report."}]
diff --git a/src/main/resources/view/DarkTheme.css b/src/main/resources/view/DarkTheme.css
index 36e6b001cd..c9cbcd248c 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/view/DarkTheme.css
+++ b/src/main/resources/view/DarkTheme.css
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
-fx-text-fill: white;
}
-#filterField, #personListPanel, #personWebpage {
+#filterField, #studentListPanel, #studentWebpage {
-fx-effect: innershadow(gaussian, black, 10, 0, 0, 0);
}
@@ -337,12 +337,12 @@
-fx-background-radius: 0;
}
-#tags {
+#modules {
-fx-hgap: 7;
-fx-vgap: 3;
}
-#tags .label {
+#modules .label {
-fx-text-fill: white;
-fx-background-color: #3e7b91;
-fx-padding: 1 3 1 3;
diff --git a/src/main/resources/view/MainWindow.fxml b/src/main/resources/view/MainWindow.fxml
index 7778f666a0..043e6dab42 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/view/MainWindow.fxml
+++ b/src/main/resources/view/MainWindow.fxml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
* - a {@code CommandException} is thrown
* - the CommandException message matches {@code expectedMessage}
- * - the address book, filtered person list and selected person in {@code actualModel} remain unchanged
+ * - the address book, filtered student list and selected student in {@code actualModel} remain unchanged
*/
public static void assertCommandFailure(Command command, Model actualModel, String expectedMessage) {
// we are unable to defensively copy the model for comparison later, so we can
// only do so by copying its components.
AddressBook expectedAddressBook = new AddressBook(actualModel.getAddressBook());
- List
- * {@code AddressBook ab = new AddressBookBuilder().withPerson("John", "Doe").build();}
+ * {@code AddressBook ab = new AddressBookBuilder().withStudent("John", "Doe").build();}
*/
public class AddressBookBuilder {
@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ public AddressBookBuilder(AddressBook addressBook) {
}
/**
- * Adds a new {@code Person} to the {@code AddressBook} that we are building.
+ * Adds a new {@code Student} to the {@code AddressBook} that we are building.
*/
- public AddressBookBuilder withPerson(Person person) {
- addressBook.addPerson(person);
+ public AddressBookBuilder withStudent(Student student) {
+ addressBook.addStudent(student);
return this;
}
diff --git a/src/test/java/seedu/address/testutil/EditPersonDescriptorBuilder.java b/src/test/java/seedu/address/testutil/EditPersonDescriptorBuilder.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 4584bd5044..0000000000
--- a/src/test/java/seedu/address/testutil/EditPersonDescriptorBuilder.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-package seedu.address.testutil;
-
-import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.stream.Collectors;
-import java.util.stream.Stream;
-
-import seedu.address.logic.commands.EditCommand.EditPersonDescriptor;
-import seedu.address.model.person.Address;
-import seedu.address.model.person.Email;
-import seedu.address.model.person.Name;
-import seedu.address.model.person.Person;
-import seedu.address.model.person.Phone;
-import seedu.address.model.tag.Tag;
-
-/**
- * A utility class to help with building EditPersonDescriptor objects.
- */
-public class EditPersonDescriptorBuilder {
-
- private EditPersonDescriptor descriptor;
-
- public EditPersonDescriptorBuilder() {
- descriptor = new EditPersonDescriptor();
- }
-
- public EditPersonDescriptorBuilder(EditPersonDescriptor descriptor) {
- this.descriptor = new EditPersonDescriptor(descriptor);
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns an {@code EditPersonDescriptor} with fields containing {@code person}'s details
- */
- public EditPersonDescriptorBuilder(Person person) {
- descriptor = new EditPersonDescriptor();
- descriptor.setName(person.getName());
- descriptor.setPhone(person.getPhone());
- descriptor.setEmail(person.getEmail());
- descriptor.setAddress(person.getAddress());
- descriptor.setTags(person.getTags());
- }
-
- /**
- * Sets the {@code Name} of the {@code EditPersonDescriptor} that we are building.
- */
- public EditPersonDescriptorBuilder withName(String name) {
- descriptor.setName(new Name(name));
- return this;
- }
-
- /**
- * Sets the {@code Phone} of the {@code EditPersonDescriptor} that we are building.
- */
- public EditPersonDescriptorBuilder withPhone(String phone) {
- descriptor.setPhone(new Phone(phone));
- return this;
- }
-
- /**
- * Sets the {@code Email} of the {@code EditPersonDescriptor} that we are building.
- */
- public EditPersonDescriptorBuilder withEmail(String email) {
- descriptor.setEmail(new Email(email));
- return this;
- }
-
- /**
- * Sets the {@code Address} of the {@code EditPersonDescriptor} that we are building.
- */
- public EditPersonDescriptorBuilder withAddress(String address) {
- descriptor.setAddress(new Address(address));
- return this;
- }
-
- /**
- * Parses the {@code tags} into a {@code Set