On completion of this course, students should acquire the following global citizenship skills,
attributes and outcomes:
- Attitude: develop an attitude of discovery/innovation/creativity, through receptiveness of new ideas, and willingness to explore, experiment and learn from mistakes
- Attitude: develop strong sense of ethics and responsibility as well as increased capacity for teamwork, flexibility, cooperation and tolerance through exposure to different cultures and contexts
- Attitude: awareness of, and respect for, the social and cultural diversity in communities and ability to work collaboratively with people from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Attitude: obtain self-direction and organisational skills, with the ability to set goals and manage time and priorities
- Ability: develop strong critical analysis, reasoning and creative thinking skills, and the ability to prepare and present their ideas in both verbal and written mode at a competent level
- Accomplishments: ability to develop relevant solutions to real-life problems or new processes, and ability to function as ethical, imaginative and resourceful arts and cultural managers who will advance the arts and cultural ecosystem
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
Specifically, the course has aims to provide students with:
- Opportunities to work with community partners to understand the problems faced by vulnerable groups
- Apply their social science education to resolving a real-life problem
- Have an opportunity to make a positive impact in the context of Singapore
1. Understand social diversity in Singapore and Asia
2. Understand theories that explain diversity and diversity management
3. Identify dominant and normative discourses on diversity and diversity management
4. Analyse and evaluate the policies and programmes that seek to manage diversity
5. Devise evidence-based approaches in understanding and managing diversity
This course builds on SSOC 2227 and SSOC 2234, which introduce theoretical background underpinning sustainable development and science. In this course, you will learn how to apply these concepts to the real-world problem. At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify relevant theories and good practices in sustainable development with a focus on addressing the interplay between economic and environmental goals.
- Understand cultural principles and processes working in a cross-border (Indonesia vis-à-vis Singapore) setting.
- Gain experience and effective skill in developing and presenting proposals, including responding to the needs of the client organisation.
This course aims to enhance students’ understanding on how people can utilize their cultural knowledge to generate creative and innovative ideas, by means of integrating different perspectives, theories, strategies, and technologies
The primary focus of this course will be on urban cultural planning, with a focus on critically
interrogating the recent popularity of “creative placemaking.”
This focus will be contextualised within a wider exploration of the arts and its urban environment,
through an entanglement of actors. Key questions include:
- How have the arts and culture emerged as an urban planning and development target in cities across the globe?
- What are the shared global strategies and what is unique in the purposes, practices and outcomes of urban cultural planning in Singapore?
- What is the place of the arts in community based urban development today?
- What is the relationship - and disconnects - between cultural planning efforts and the on-the-ground life and needs of arts and cultural activities?
- How can artists, planners and community development practitioners employ the arts to promote positive and inclusive change while addressing the agency of those they address?
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
- An inter-disciplinary comprehension of the use of the arts for global urban competitiveness, such as biennales, cultural districts and blockbusters, and how they relate to different spaces and communities
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
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- Understand and articulate the complexities of social change initiatives.
- Exercise interdisciplinary thinking in examining and addressing social change issues.
- Evaluate social change messaging and campaigns.
- Apply research skills through study design, data collection, and data analysis.
- Understand the sociocultural nuances of working with Thais and Bangkokians.