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 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 will be trained in the tools and techniques of fieldwork, participatory research, and qualitative data analysis. Our approach will be an iterative one in which we will regularly refine our codes and analytical themes based on the emergent patterns in the field notes. We will use a software platform (www.dedoose.com) that will enable us to approach the analytical challenge together as a team. The tasks of analysing field notes and then coding them in preparation for writing analytic memos will take up the major portion of our in-class time. This research training will be excellent preparation for anyone taking on an independent study or thesis which involves primary research. Participants in the task force will be required to undertake regular visits to for interviews and field visits around Singapore. However, research methodologies will have to be adapted to suit the circumstances of the pandemic, and this may include an online qualitative research process.
Ultimately, this course aims to provide students with the ability and self-confidence to evaluate cultural policy in varying contexts, and to analyse and critique new policy initiatives for the arts and cultural industries as they arise.
By the end of this course, students will be able to understand how urban sustainability requires linkages and networks across different disciplines, and that industries and their decision making play a significant role in maintaining urban sustainability both locally and in a larger regional context. Students will also understand how applications of technology and society require not just scientific and social scientific considerations, but also ethical reflections that are strongly relevant towards sustainability.
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Express thoughts and ideas on diversity coherently and respectfully
• Evaluate theories that seek to explain equity and diversity
• Identify rhetoric, as well as dominant and normative discourses on diversity issues
• Analyse and evaluate the policies that relate to the managing of differences
• Understand the sociocultural nuances of diversity management in Japan
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.
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 will be trained in the tools and techniques of fieldwork, participatory research, and qualitative data analysis. Our approach will be an iterative one in which we will regularly refine our codes and analytical themes based on the emergent patterns in the field notes. We will use a software platform (www.dedoose.com) that will enable us to approach the analytical challenge together as a team. The tasks of analysing field notes and then coding them in preparation for writing analytic memos will take up the major portion of our in-class time. This research training will be excellent preparation for anyone taking on an independent study or thesis which involves primary research. Participants in the task force will be required to undertake regular visits to for interviews and field visits around Singapore. However, research methodologies will have to be adapted to suit the circumstances of the pandemic, and this may include an online qualitative research process.
Students will be trained in the tools and techniques of fieldwork, participatory research, and qualitative data analysis. Our approach will be an iterative one in which we will regularly refine our codes and analytical themes based on the emergent patterns in the field notes. We will use a software platform (www.dedoose.com) that will enable us to approach the analytical challenge together as a team. The tasks of analysing field notes and then coding them in preparation for writing analytic memos will take up the major portion of our in-class time. This research training will be excellent preparation for anyone taking on an independent study or thesis which involves primary research. Participants in the task force will be required to undertake regular visits to for interviews and field visits around Singapore. However, research methodologies will have to be adapted to suit the circumstances of the pandemic, and this may include an online qualitative research process.