This course aims to provide students with a broad coverage and examples of social analytics techniques and trends underlying the current and future development. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Extract social media data via social APIs and custom scripts.
- Extract social networks from non-network data such as transactional/operation data as well as textual conversations.
- Computationally identify and quantify social influencers.
- Computationally extract and identify trending topics.
- Visualize social networks and text analysis results.
- Deploy custom scripts in Amazon Web Services.
Objectives:
- To understand the factors that lead to persistence of poverty and under- development in the empirical context of Asia.
- Learning how to examine the evidence on policy relevant interventions. This will involve looking at tables with statistical output. By the end of the course you should be more comfortable making inferences based on statistical output that is presented to you.
- To develop and sharpen your analytical and presentation skills by partic- ipating in class discussions.
- To acquire an appreciation of the issues involved in designing and evalu- ating developmental policies.
- To learn about a real social service agency (MINDS) and the challenges involved with impact evaluation when it comes to such agencies. The report you prepare as part of the project will have a real impact on their funding and operations.
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.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Apply technological skills to interdisciplinary problem-solving in smart city context with a focus on society in an interweaving way across social science and information systems. E.g., from framing a social problem to developing a solution addressing the needs of the citizen.
- Address an identified economic, policy or social aspect of a smart city problem by systematically identifying relevant stakeholders, think through their lenses and listening to their voices through text analysis.
- Design data collection tools using both survey and non-survey methods to listen to preferences of the people such as their needs and revealed preferences (through social media and surveys).
- Provide evidence-based reasoning to problem statements by applying analytics skills learnt from this course (e.g., text analytics, machine learning classification methods, process analytics) or pre-requisite courses (e.g., Analytics Foundation) to conceive solutions based on needs of people.
- Applying root cause analysis, six thinking hats methodology and Blue Ocean Strategy to solution generation.
- Consider the impact on public policies and social best practices in the context of the sponsor's problem and make recommendations made for the given city (e.g., Singapore).
- Manage a project involving real-world project stakeholders.
This course provides excellent holistic training for students who are interested in any career in law. Students who wish to take part in international moot court competitions will have to apply successfully for this module or seek special dispensation from the course convenor, while students who have taken this course may be eligible to do another competition a second time.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the science behind the power of story.
- Explain core storytelling concepts, principles and frameworks.
- Create engaging, influential and memorable stories (and characters) for various audiences and media.
- Leverage the power of AI to create novel and compelling stories.
- Apply their their storytelling knowledge and skills to real-world projects.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the key concepts and frameworks used in brand management decisions
- Understand the elements that comprise brand equity and how brand equity is built and managed
- Describe the key stages of the brand management process
- Apply the use of brand audits to evaluate brands
- Understand the behavioural dimensions of brand relationships with customers
- Analyze and evaluate brand strategies used in different contexts covering consumer, business-to-business, services and non-profit organizations.
- Understand the challenges and opportunities of extending the brand in international marketing environments
Leadership:
• Appreciate the value of experience and action-based learning that integrates understanding of major leadership paradigms and leadership theories from an inter-disciplinary perspective
• Engage analytical, problem-solving & reasoning skills to critically appraise various theories and perspectives of leadership
• Apply the various leadership traits and behavior as well as different leadership style such as charismatic & transformational leadership, principles of stewardship & servant leadership, collaborative, authentic leadership and other such recent leadership approaches in a VUCA world
• Appreciate being open-minded & sensitive to individual differences and embrace uncertainties
• Understand how leaders can set or influence the ethical tone by applying Kohlberg’s model of moral development
• Learn more about leadership through their group project work, class activities, readings, etc.
Teams and Groups:
• Understand major theories and perspectives of group dynamics and group leadership
• Learn more about teamwork processes through working on a real-life group project with an industry or community partner
• Throughout the group project students will learn to collaborate and employ innovative skills in using their
expertise, knowledge to contribute to the needs of the partnering industry or community based
organization
• Understand different methods of communication and appreciate how to effectively communicate and manage conflict, if any, and learn to overcome challenges within their respective group as well as with their respective external stakeholders
• Develop a detailed work schedule and strategies among teams, and understand how to form, lead and manage work teams
• Acquire some level of resilience through self-directed and group-directed learning that includes embracing uncertainties, overcoming challenges, etc.
Academic and Professional Capabilities:
• Understand and gain qualitative fieldwork skills such as how to conduct interviews and carry out a needs analysis or survey in an ethical manner
• Formalizing report writing with integrity and honesty
The overall objective of this module is to equip students with core knowledge of appreciating what it takes to plan, design, build and sustain (mega) cities that are innovative and sustainable and to know the challenges of successfully 'selling' new smart city concepts amidst increasing competition in this field.
By the end of this course, students will be able to appreciate the following 4 areas:
a. Taxonomy of Innovative & Sustainable Cities
- Describe the core characteristics of a Smart City and respective concepts
- Explain the unique characteristics of each component and how it adds value to innovative and sustainable (smart) cities
b. Design of Innovative & Sustainable Cities
- Understand the planning and design principles of Innovative & Sustainable Cities Explain the workings of each component of Innovative & Sustainable Cities
c. In-depth study of selected (Mega) Cities
- Be familiar with the challenges of selected mega cities around the globe and understand how the smart city concept can add value in terms of livability
d. Commercialisation of the Smart City Concept
- Appreciate the challenges in successfully commercializing smart city concepts and applications
- Know some of the key players in the Singapore context which are involved in this service sector and establish network contacts
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze the power and impact of global and local challenges related to the nexus of 'digital disruption, demographic change and age diversity' on business and society in general;
- Explain the importance of collaborative transformative leadership in developing and implementing practical solutions which address some of these complex issues head on in an integrated, interdisciplinary and novel manner;
- Appreciate what it takes in terms of design thinking, business model development and innovation strategies to propose practical solutions that create real value for relevant stakeholders of participating client organizations;
- Articulate how selected leadership concepts such as transformational, collaborative leadership approaches can propel innovative problem solutions;
- Reflect effectively about their own leadership outlook and the way forward in terms of good self-leadership on the basis of an enhanced self-awareness enabled through the deployment of a relevant assessment instrument (with a focus on personal leadership development through feedback and coaching) as well as the (playful and project-based) acquisition of 21th century skills such as collaborative intelligence through impactful and innovative SMU-X projects.
