AY2025/26 Term 2

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe basic societal concepts and frameworks on sustainability and be able to guide a corporate's sustainability-based product and/or service design with these frameworks.
• Conduct a strategic and/or market assessment for a specific product, including the manner of orientation (towards sustainability) of selected consumer markets (including overseas ones). This may include conducting qualitative and secondary research on potential customers.
• Identify and solve a problem of how corporations can become more sustainable by innovating to meet consumer needs. Specifically, design a value proposition via design thinking for a selected customer segment, including the devising of a strategy to improve the product's acceptance by the firm's potential customers and its broader market.

By the end of this course, students will learn to:

• Assess the current state of the business related to:
  • Engage, sell and serve the company’s target audience.
  • The company’s digital readiness
  • The business problem and/or opportunities from the current business environment, including uncovering new and untapped markets by developing digital business assessment tools
• Find out how digital transformation has or will impact the related industry and business
• Uncover insights on the company’s current and new customers
• Analyze and identify the right digital business transformation strategies that the company can adopt to compete and win over time
• Gain regional business experience, cross cultural understanding, networking and communication skills

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Assess a business problem and/or opportunity from the current business environment, including new and untapped markets
• Design interdisciplinary solutions to address the business challenge or future opportunities by considering strategy, marketing, operations, organization, finance, and communication
• Reason critically through the solution process with appropriate modes of analysis
• Describe the solution's implementation plans and processes with regard to the firm's existing strategy, market, and organization
• Apply a variety of approaches to engage with busy business executives to obtain guidance and information, as well as, secure their buy-in to your ideas

In this course, the class will work together with our community partners on a range of projects including:

1. Development of community-supported agriculture (CSA) projects.
2. Cultural rejuvenation and public-service provision in ageing communities.
3. Development of sustainable tourism projects, including wellbeing-oriented activities.
4. Integration of new urban migrants in the rural community.

This course aims to help students:

• Justify and elucidate the core concepts behind establishing an inclusive green economy in contrast to conventional business practices.
• Recognize the essential conditions for transitioning national economies to greener models and outline the primary opportunities and challenges in crucial sectors.
• Elaborate on the significance, value, and structure of Green Economy indicator frameworks and their correlation with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Additionally, analyze the process of prioritizing and selecting indicators and their integration into a national Green Economy monitoring framework.
• Justify the need for greater utilization of green fiscal policy and outline the various fiscal instruments that can be used to promote positive economic, social, and environmental outcomes. Emphasize the main opportunities and challenges in the energy, transport, and waste management sectors.
• Comprehend the potential impact and fundamental principles of sustainable finance, and underscore the relevance of sustainability considerations for key actors in the financial system. Describe different sustainable finance products, such as bonds and loans, that could offer the necessary capital to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Comprehend the evolution of legal and governance frameworks supporting the trade and green economy interface. Identify perceived challenges and potential opportunities related to trade in the transition to a green economy and highlight sectoral case studies of green trade in action.

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 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

LO1.1: Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate financial and other related information.
LO1.2: Our students can analyze, synthesize and evaluate financial and other related information for decision making in a management context.

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

1. Define, collect, organize, and visualize data.
2. Understand basic probability concepts (such as joint probability, marginal probability, and conditional probability).
3. Understand various probability distributions (including discrete and continuous distributions).
4.Construct and interpret point and interval estimates.
5.Conduct one-sample and two-sample hypothesis tests.
6.Conduct simple linear regression analysis.