For most of the competitions, teams will be expected to produce at least one substantial memorial, produced progressively over a minimum of 3 coach-vetted drafts; in some competitions, there are national/regional qualification rounds for the oral rounds. After the memorials have been submitted, teams will undergo 20-50 practice rounds.
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 companies, student will also participate in a consultancy project. Through the project, students will learn how to solve business problems with guidance from the faculty and project sponsor 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:
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Understand Taiwan and civil law jurisdictions
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Solve real-world legal issues through a student consultancy project
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Incorporate active mentoring by faculty and project sponsors
Imagine the following scenario: A Singaporean mediator is asked to mediate a professional negligence dispute. The plaintiff is based in Indonesia, the defendant accounting firm is in the Netherlands, and the defendant's insurer has its headquarters in the United States. All agree to attend mediation in Singapore. The preliminary discussions and meetings, however, take place via email and video-conference with all parties in their home countries. The mediation occurs and the parties reach a settlement, which the parties' legal representatives draft into contractual form.
The course will allow students to develop skills to present and analyze topical issues, prepare reports with their research findings and exercise creativity in generating useful recommendations (in the form of law, policy and/or technology solutions) to deal with real problems.
Depending on the type of application chosen for the project work, students will learn one or more of the following areas:
- Document assembly and expert systems;
- Chatbots;
- Machine learning and natural language processing;
- Data analysis and visualisation;
- Cloud computing services;
- Search and information retrieval.
Upon finishing the course, a student will be able to:
- Familiarize students with software design and systems thinking skills and instil an appreciation for the value of software architecture.
- Design the architecture for an end-to-end IT Solution.
- Understand and implement architectural styles and design patterns for software systems.
- Use standard practices in documenting system architectures using views and perspectives.
- Impact analysis to understand the implications of design choices.
Objectives:
- Understand concepts related to Cyber-Physical Systems and their essential elements
- Appreciate the unique challenges and complexities faced in computing for the natural world
- Apply the necessary skills to design and develop a Cyber-Physical System
- Create a Cyber-Physical Systems prototype to conquer a real-world societal challenge
- Think deeply and broadly about the various ways in which Cyber-Physical Systems can make immense impact in society, especially to those in need
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.
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.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Practice problem solving skills.
- Read UML sequence and class diagrams.
- Apply basic concepts of Object Orientation to a given scenario/context.
- Apply good programming practices and design concepts to develop software.
- Appreciate the role of algorithms and in problem solving.
