Public Policy Task Force (PPTF) is a core part of PPPM program. PPTF emphasize the development of problem-solving and analytical skills that constitutes a strong comparative advantage for PPPM students. Students are required to sign up for a specific public policy topic that is suggested by a faculty, discuss, and deliberate core theoretical issues for a few weeks, and then conduct actual field works for solving policy problems. At the end of semester, students are required to come up with a specific policy recommendations and reports. The topics include: subjective well-being, environmental pollution, climate change, international conflicts, immigration policy, urban transportation, poverty, etc.
1. Gain hands-on experience with real-world problem-solving
2. Work in teams to collect and analyze data on public issues
3. Synthesize and present findings on a question of public importance
This course is designed to explore knowledge in various disciplines.
The goals for this class are threefold:
1.Absorb knowledge from social issues presented by invited speakers
2. Foster confidence in disseminating information and interacting with speakers during the knowledge communication process
3. Use the knowledge you acquire in this class to identify critical societal issues and offer solutions from a perspective of choice architecture
In this course, the class will work together with our community partners on a range of projects including:
- Development of community-supported agriculture (CSA) projects.
- Cultural rejuvenation and public-service provision in ageing communities.
- Development of sustainable tourism projects, including wellbeing-oriented activities.
- Integration of new urban migrants in the rural community.
By the end of this course, student will be able to:
1. Develop practical skills in AI to design and prototype sustainable solutions
2. Understand the potential of digital technologies to tackle both the environmental and anthropogenic aspects of sustainability
3. Apply ethical and responsible innovation in the adoption of digital technologies for sustainability
Students who complete this course should acquire the following course-specific skills:
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the nature, conditions and traditions of local theatre in Singapore.
- Gain a strong understanding of the expansive history of local theatre, particularly the function of key industry bodies, decision makers and institutions within the local theatre art world.
- Develop keener insights into the technical and production principles and processes in local theatre.
- Ability to discuss current financial planning issues and strategies as they relate to the management of local performing arts organisations.
- Obtain foundational knowledge of the various forms and functions of theatricality, textuality and performativity, particularly in a local context acquire knowledge of a range of elements, tools, subjects, processes, stagecraft, techniques and styles associated with local theatre.
- Be equipped with a set of critical vocabularies to confidently analyse, discuss and debate the inherently diverse features and qualities of texts produced by our local theatre art world.
- Obtain practical knowledge of different documentation styles, and their practical implications including framing ideas, narrative techniques, and issues of fairness and objectivity.
Students developed a proposal for a theatre production that is adapted from an older local theatre production, within a set budget.
Students who complete this course should acquire the following course-specific skills:
- A critical understanding of the development of cultural planning approaches globally, with the ability to highlight central assumptions, global trends and practices, and local peculiarities.
- A sound grasp of the major scholarly approaches to, and debates on, urban cultural planning and urban cultural economies, and the ability to contextualise them in relation to specific instances and case studies.
- A critical ability to question the role of the arts in urban regeneration and revitalisation, and the consequences and repercussions.
To enliven the vibrancy of the Bras Basah Bugis precinct, students proposed several placemaking ideas and initiatives that will be able to attract the various target audiences.
Students who complete this course should acquire the following course-specific skills:
- A critical understanding of the development of cultural planning approaches globally, with the ability to highlight central assumptions, global trends and practices, and local peculiarities.
- A sound grasp of the major scholarly approaches to, and debates on, urban cultural planning and urban cultural economies, and the ability to contextualise them in relation to specific instances and case studies.
- A critical ability to question the role of the arts in urban regeneration and revitalisation, and the consequences and repercussions.
Through the online lectures, interview clips and face-to-face discussions, this course invites students to:
1. Critically reflect on Singapore's post-independence history, and its impact on Singapore's future development trajectories;
2. Contemplate the kind of Singapore they envision for the future.
3. Understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that can help or hinder Singapore achieving their vision(s) for the country.
4. Deliberate upon the range and nature of strategies and policies that will enable Singapore to achieve their vision(s) for the country.
Students suggested various outreach strategies to effectively reach out to youths of different ages and social economical status to counter radicalisation.
Students developed and implemented an action plan to encourage other youths to take interest in various Singapore's challenges.
Upon completing this course, students should possess the strategic foresight and reflexivity to identify and respond to potential barriers, opportunities and signals of change for arts and culture, as well as develop the competencies required to be astute arts and cultural managers.
Students explored the past, present and future roles of arts management in a chosen art world in Singapore, which range from visual art galleries to art photography and theatre intermediary spaces, and presented their findings to unearth fresh and evidence-based perspectives on the needs, gaps, challenges and opportunities facing arts managers in Singapore.
Students explored main challenges local emerging artists faced, and recommended what potential roles arts managers can do to mitigate such challenges, in hope to provide a more nurturing visual arts ecosystem where local commercial contemporary art galleries can be a 'home' for local emerging artists.
This course aims to equip students with the necessary skills to become effective and empathetic managers of people in dynamic multicultural environments. In the course, students will learn analytical frameworks that will enable them to gain deeper understanding of existing problems to do with inequality and diversity in contemporary Asian societies. The course will also help students to identify their personal cultural intelligence based on self-reflective assessment tools.
Students explored the various youth segments to identify various aspects of life that COVID-19 has brought a disruption to (such as economic survival, mental health, travel, connectivity, family dynamics, personal relationships etc), and recommended on how the organisation can organise programmes for youths to plan ahead and hedge against some of the potentially negative effects that may emerge downstream.
Students provided recommendations on programmes and ideas on how to better engage employees with diversity and inclusion topics within the company.
Students evaluated the gender and inter-generational diversity of the company, and recommended ideas on how they can better engage and promote their employees with such issues.