In collaboration with an industry partner, this course seeks to
(a) provide an understanding of the theoretical and empirical work on studies of older adults and relevant areas (e.g., global ageing phenomenon, major theories of aging, ageism, retirement, concept of social connectedness, active and successful aging, social policies, economics of ageing, ethical issues in ageing) conducted to date by scholars in gerontology;
(b) address issues (e.g., interdisciplinary collaboration to address societal impact of an aging population) at the individual, organizational and national level that might enhance or hamper social connectedness.
(c) engage SMU students in collaborative project proposals to solve client-centered problems related to designing community space to help older adults stay socially connected and enjoy a meaningful and enriching life.
Students who complete this course should acquire the following course-specific skills:
- A critical understanding of the development of cultural planning approaches globally, with the ability to highlight central assumptions, global trends and practices, and local peculiarities.
- A sound grasp of the major scholarly approaches to, and debates on, urban cultural planning and urban cultural economies, and the ability to contextualise them in relation to specific instances and case studies.
- A critical ability to question the role of the arts in urban regeneration and revitalisation, and the consequences and repercussions.
This course contributes to the development of the following learning goals:
- Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate financial and other related information.
- Our students can analyze, synthesize and evaluate financial and other related information for decision making in a management context.
- Our students understand and can apply concepts relating to business processes, audit and assurance.
- Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
- Our students understand the principles of leadership and team building in a business context.
- Our students understand and can apply the ethical principles relevant to accounting professionals.
Students are expected to demonstrate the following technical accounting competencies upon successful completion of this course:
1. Identify the relevant flows of transactions (processes) and the relevant IT environments.
2. Understanding IT Environment, IT controls and testing the IT controls.
3. Testing General IT Controls ("GITC") and testing approach of such controls.
4. Understanding concept of segregation of duties and functioning of interfaces between application systems.
5. Documentation of reports and process/procedure on handling exceptions.
6. Technology Regulations and its assessment procedures.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify customer and beneficiary needs through prototyping
- Develop mock prototypes of their products or services
- Understand who are "lead users" or "early-evangelist" consumers
- Develop networking strategy to reach "lead users" or "early-evangelist" consumers
- Develop simultaneous trials to get feedback from "lead users" or "early-evangelist" consumers
- Understand the drivers of roles and incentives for a new business team
- Know when to pivot a new business idea
- Understand how to outline a business and revenue model for an early stage idea
- Present their market-validated new business idea to investors and industry experts
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, 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.
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.
- Apply their their storytelling knowledge and skills to real-world projects.
