By the end of this course, students will be able to:
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of firms’ competitive advantage
• Apply analytical techniques for diagnosing strategy formulation, including industry structure, resources, and
business/corporate strategies
• Apply analytical techniques for diagnosing strategy implementation, including corporate governance,
structure, and strategic leadership
• Identify strategic issues and design appropriate courses of action
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By the end of this course, students should:
- Have a sound understanding of the manner in which a country’s social, economic, political and cultural context affect the daily operation of the constitution;
- Have developed a critical awareness of contemporary challenges faced by constitutions;
- Be able to identify possible responses that State organs, agencies and others may take in ensuring the effective protection of constitutional rules and rights;
- Be comfortable in tackling the previous objectives from a comparative perspective.
This SMU-XO course offers an international experiential learning opportunity that allows students to translate classroom knowledge and theory into practical solutions for various institutions. In addition to visiting law firms, government agencies and international organizations, student will also participate in a consultancy project. Through the project, students will learn how to solve business and political problems with guidance from the faculty and project mentors. The project will focus on evaluating legal problems in different areas of law and recommending/applying solutions to these problems.
This course aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Understand EU-ASEAN law and relations
- Solve real-world legal issues through a student consultancy project
- Incorporate active mentoring by faculty and project sponsors
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the complex social and environmental issues brought about by mass tourism and over-development
- Gain first-hand experience of Balinese culture, history, and society (within the context of the modern Indonesian nation-state)
- Develop ethnographic research skills by collecting, reading and analysing data
- Solve the real-life issue of raising awareness towards sustainable tourism for social change
- Apply the knowledge and experience gained in the course to developing socially responsible and environmentally conscious business models for social enterprises
Since globalization and innovation are two key forces that shape individual and business success in the 21st century, 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. In this multicultural environment, people must collaborate effectively across cultural borders, broadly defined, to solve pressing problems and develop new products and solutions that will appeal to the global market. Cultural and creative industries are one of such sector that emphasizes culture as the foundation for developing and supporting industries through creativity (e.g., cultural tourism, community cultural development, performing art, product design). Via collaborating with the students and faculty members in the Institute of Creative Industries Design at the National Cheng Kung University, SMU students will have hands-on cross-cultural collaboration experiences with their Taiwanese counterparts. Through participating in class discussions and learning different case studies of Taiwan’s cultural and creative industries during the field trip, students will receive ample opportunities to sharpen their cultural knowledge and skills and to apply these new insights to benefit creative productions in the real world. Students will also gain cultural immersive experiences through conducting in-depth analysis of the business client in their SMU-NCKU work team. At the end of the course, students will be able to integrate theories of culture, psychology, and design thinking to broaden their knowledge about the development and sustainability of cultural and creative industries. They might also identify from the insights gained from the Taiwan cases to benefit the cultural and creative industries in Singapore.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding and perspective on the XR landscape (past, present, and future)
- Demonstrate insights into key application areas for XR
- Demonstrate understanding of fundamental programming and human-computer interaction techniques related to VR
- Demonstrate the ability to design, develop, and integrate VR experiences in the business context
- Demonstrate the ability to work with Unity, C#, XR libraries, and Meta Quest 2
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Upon completion of the course, student will be able to:
- Showcase expertise in executing a project using knowledge acquired from the courses taken from the IS curriculum
- Experience developing of some technology deliverable for an IT system or proof of concept
- Experience working in a team environment with a sponsored project (internal, external or self-proposed) using project management skills experience throughout the courses taken in IS
- Learn about an industry or technology that is related to his selected track not otherwise available in the course curriculum.
- Work on complex and real project used by the project sponsor
