Singapore

This module is concerned with the changing roles of cities in an age of globalization. The first part examines cities as part of urban networks at the national, regional and international levels, and focuses on the implications arising from the rise of mega-cities and global cities. The second half of the module investigates the challenges facing cities on the ground, including issues of the revitalization and re-imaging of city cores, changing retail landscapes, and the impact of urbanization on nature. The module is targeted at students with an interest in urban issues.

The objective of this module is to introduce techniques for electronic game design and programming. This module covers a range of important topics including 3D maths, game physics, game AI, sound, as well as user interface for computer games. Furthermore, it will give an overview of computer game design, publishing, and marketing to the students. Through laboratory projects, the students will have hands-on programming experience with popular game engines and will develop basic games using those engine.

This module explores some introductory issues relevant to play and game design. Students learn how to develop games using feedback from players and gain an understanding of the basic elements of gameplay: balancing game mechanics, creating tension between risk and reward, and encouraging replayability and curiosity. The module includes theories of play as well as an introduction to innnovative directions in game research, and games as art and entertainment. It also examines the history of gameplay and challenges students to question basic assumptions regarding what makes a good game.

Bollywood Cinema is recognised as the most vibrant form of cultural media in India, one whose influence now extends to many parts of the world. By studying the content and meaning of selected Bollywood films, this module will introduce students to key social, economic, political and cultural issues in India, and explore important concepts in the humanities and social sciences such as nationalism, gender and sexuality, diaspora and globalisation.

Students will be provided with the necessary skills to analyse important social and political developments in India and its diaspora through the study of the historical growth and development of Bollywood Cinema, and the content and meaning of carefully selected films.

The course will facilitate the development of a nuanced understanding of how Bollywood cinema is shaped by the wider social environment, and the effect that these films have on audiences.

Through interpreting Bollywood films, students will gain a general introductory understanding of Indian culture and society, and of key contemporary social scientific concepts.

This module focuses on the intersection between development and environment in Southeast Asia. Utilising a range of conceptual lenses from sustainable development to political ecology, the lectures and readings will interrogate the varied environmental impacts and ramifications of development of the region. The module will pay particular attention to the ways in which environmental change affects ordinary people and everyday lives, taking a case study approach. Case studies will include issues such as upland living and forest peoples, trans-boundary environmental issues, and the role and place of Buddhism as an eco-centric religion. The module with encourage a critical view of the trade-offs between economic growth (development) and environmental protection.

This module aims to give students good grounding in Singaporean literature via texts written in a variety of mediums. It will explore the styles and concerns in the works of several key poets, fiction writers, and dramatists across Singapore’s cultural history. Students will be challenged to consider how these writers affect their understanding of Singaporean society and the role of Singaporean literature.

The module offers an introduction to the study of literature in an age where the increasing importance of film, television, and the internet has led to far-reaching changes in humanities disciplines and a broadening of the field of literary studies. Students will study critical texts in literary and media theory, which will give them the means to develop informed and critical readings in literature, media, and culture. The module in this way also provides an introduction to contemporary critical theory. Each week, students will study chapters introducing them to a given critical discourse (e.g., Psychoanalysis) and its application.

This course introduces the fundamentals of supply chain concepts. It covers issues and basic techniques of distribution strategies, transportation logistics, and supply chain network optimization models. Students are equipped with fundamental concepts and quantitative tools that are essential to solving logistic and supply chain problems.

The module aims to introduce students to different medical conditions, which demands the rehabilitation engineer's attention. Conditions include neuromuscular disorders, congenital orthopaedic disorders, traumatic injuries, amputation, osteopathy and anthropathy. The students will learn engineering approaches to managing these conditions. Applying methods and materials to design and manufacture devices suited to individuals, in order to achieve functional recovery. The subject focuses on the latest technologies that have impacted the field of rehabilitation.

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 delivery systems and healing applications.