Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Specify software requirements.
- Practice agile design and development methodologies.
- Apply best practices in Java web app development and deployment.
- Apply unit testing and code refactoring.
- Practice secure and defensive programming.
- Appreciate the importance of collaboration in software development.
The learning objectives are as follows:
- 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 participating in class discussions and group debates.
- To acquire an appreciation of the issues involved in designing and evaluating developmental policies.
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. 6) Deploy custom scripts in Amazon Web Services.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Gain a better understanding of IT management principles and best practices, which include IT Strategy that deliver business value, IT Governance, IT enabled Innovations, IT Capability management. etc.
- Apply the knowledge gained to propose an IT Strategy that enables organizations to better exploit relevant new technologies and Information management to deliver business value.
- Understand the challenges relating to leading Change in a business setting and how to be an effective business change agent.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: Understand the basic concepts and theories of GIScience and geospatial analytics, Create and manage spatially-enabled real world data, Use appropriate geovisualisation and mapping techniques to analyse and visualise geographical data, Understand the basic concepts and methods of geocomputation and geospatial analytics, Use appropriate geospatial analysis methods in detecting, analysing and modelling geospatial patterns and relationships, and Design and implement spatially enabled geospatial analytics applications.
Upon completion of the course, students will:
- Showcase expertise in executing a project.
- Experience developing some technology deliverables.
- Experience working in a team environment with a sponsored project.
- Learn about an industry or technology not otherwise covered in the curriculum.
- Work on a complex and real project and deliver a solution that will be used by the sponsor.
- Document findings in a report to demonstrate value to 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.
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.
Students who complete this course should acquire the following course-specific skills:
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the nature, conditions and traditions of local theatre in Singapore.
- Gain a strong understanding of the expansive history of local theatre, particularly the function of key industry bodies, decision makers and institutions within the local theatre art world.
- Develop keener insights into the technical and production principles and processes in local theatre.
- Ability to discuss current financial planning issues and strategies as they relate to the management of local performing arts organisations.
- Obtain foundational knowledge of the various forms and functions of theatricality, textuality and performativity, particularly in a local context acquire knowledge of a range of elements, tools, subjects, processes, stagecraft, techniques and styles associated with local theatre.
- Be equipped with a set of critical vocabularies to confidently analyse, discuss and debate the inherently diverse features and qualities of texts produced by our local theatre art world.
- Obtain practical knowledge of different documentation styles, and their practical implications including framing ideas, narrative techniques, and issues of fairness and objectivity.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Apply design methodologies to the challenges of legal processes and services.
- Develop a wider appreciation of the legal industry and innovation today.
- Develop an appreciation of how to be a human-centric participant in the legal industry and deliver value for its users.
