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.
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.
At the end of the course, students
- Will be able to explain what constitutes interdisciplinarity and what justifies interdisciplinary perspectives and methods
- Will have applied what they have learned to a real world problem
- Will be able to evaluate the benefits of interdisciplinary education and research and obstacles to be overcome in interdisciplinary pursuits
This course enables students to learn from and interact with the partners on real-world issues, problems, and policies related to the family and the society at large, especially for the case of Singapore. Starting with some economic theories, students will explore quickly other disciplines such as sociology, social work, psychology, law, and politics, and hence inter-disciplinary in nature. The topics to be covered are experiential and evolving, according to the current issues or challenges faced by the partners. In essence, students learn not just theories, but also have an opportunity to contribute to actual research and practices of the partners.
This course gives students an introduction from the basics to mid-level statistics and applications in running analyses through manual means plus Excel, with interpretation through practical cases and examples. By the end of this course, students will have mastered descriptive and summary statistics, probability axioms, discrete univariate probability distributions, continuous univariate distributions, regression, means, variance, covariance, sampling distributions, central limit theorems, point v. interval estimations, one-, two-, multiple-sample hypothesis tests; and
- know the principles and elements of basic statistics;
- summarise data sets into meaningful information;
- perform appropriate statistical procedures and write sound interpretations for use in practical decision-making
All School of Accountancy courses are designed to meet certain learning goals and objectives. Some learning goals are addressed at course level, some at program level. This course specifically contributes to the development of the following course level learning goals:
- Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate financial and other related information.
- Our students can analyze, synthesize and evaluate financial and other related information for decision making in a management context.
- Our students understand and can apply business concepts and principles.
- Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
- Our students understand the principles of leadership and team building in a business context.
- Our students can recognize and incorporate ethical and social responsibility considerations in decision making.
Students are expected to demonstrate the following technical abilities upon completion:
- Understand and able to choose among different incorporation options available to entrepreneurs, in particular the incentives, income tax and corporate tax implications in Singapore.
- Understand the general terms on financial statements without going through detail double entries and to apply them to real businesses.
- Compute simple ratios and make inferences based on reasonable examination of financial statements, which are critical for business and funding purposes.
- Understand and be able to manage critical factors which include short and long-term financialplanning, pricing of products, and managerial planning and control systems for small businesses as well as new start-ups.
- Understand the increasing relevance of recent trends, such as: sustainability accounting; and how it affects the bottom line for entrepreneurs.
- Appreciate the importance of having good business ethic.
In addition, learning outcomes should be beyond just technical proficiencies. In particular, this course seeks to develop certain skills and attributes.
- Analytical: Analytical skills will be developed through various problem solving and case analyses. The course will provide the tools for students to use and analyse accounting data, financial reports and information to make informed decisions.
- Communication: Students will be required to actively participate in the class discussions and through written report and discussion of the company analysis project.
- Team work: Team projects, discussions and presentations will be important elements of the course. All students will be required to work in teams. They are expected to work as partners and share the work load.
- Active learning: Students will be expected to venture beyond prescribed readings and text. The company analysis project will allow students to take an active role in their understanding of how the end products of an accounting system serve information need of users.
- Professional ethics: Ethical issues are discussed and cases will be reviewed. This introductory course provides the opportunity to emphasize the needs for the highest ethical behaviour for corporate executives and corporations.
Upon completion of the course, students will learn:
System development infrastructure
✓ Source code management with Git and GitHub
✓ Task Management with ClickUp
✓ Free document system, Confluence
Data crawling and extraction framework
✓ Extract information from web pages with Scrapy
Data storage system
✓ Choose the right storage architecture based on data characteristics
✓ Use data store and document store for various types of data
Massive data processing frameworks
✓ Install and deploy Hadoop and Spark
✓ Program big data processing logics with Hadoop and Spark
Data interface between modules
✓ Process JSon files
✓ Adopts GraphQL as the data interface
Other open source big data tools
✓ Visualise data results with D3.js
✓ Monitors online data with Prometheus
This course aims to help students:
- Understand the key theories and strategies in Monetary Policy and Financial Markets Management, especially from the Central Bank's point of view.
- Solve real-world problems to a project partner (related to Monetary Policy or Financial Markets) and learn how to work in a project group. • Gain insight into financial markets as well as the business environment and culture in Vietnam through mini cultural activities and Vietnam theme presentations.
- Develop potential networking, and other life skills through the study mission (if travel allowed) and by interacting with business leaders in Vietnam (through guest speaker sessions).
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Explain and examine the idea generation processes involved in new product development.
• Create and evaluate new ideas that tap into market opportunities.
• Create, analyse, and evaluate the financial potential and risk of their ideas.
• Develop a flair for effectively presenting their ideas.