Nanyang Technological University

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This course will introduce you to the statistical foundations of data science and information analytics for handling of massive databases. The course covers the statistical concepts required for big data analytics, and introduces you to statistical tests and statistical modeling. Content Importance of Statistics; Descriptive Statistics; Probability; Counting Techniques; Discrete Probability Distributions; Normal Distribution; Confidence Intervals; Hypotheses Testing for one Population; Hypotheses Testing for two Populations; Correlation and Linear Regression; Non-linear Regression; Application of Statistics to Data Analytics
Our planet is undergoing radical environmental and social changes. Environmental sustainability has now been put into question by, for example, our consumption patterns, loss of biodiversity, depletion of resources, and imbalanced power relations. With apparent ecological and social limits to globalization and development, the current levels of consumption are unsustainable, inequitable, and inaccessible to the majority of humans. Understanding the environmental sustainability is a crucial matter at a time when our planet is in peril – both environmentally and socially. This course will show possible pathways for a sustainable earth.
Beginning with a broad perspective on the historical formation of Singapore, from its premodern roots, through its evolution as a colonial society, and then its fast-paced development as a modern nation-state in Southeast Asia, this subject develops a holistic analysis of fundamental features of Singapore as a ‘society’. The course examines the making of ‘Singaporeans’ and ‘Singapore culture’. The patterns of social order and dynamics of social change are understood by focusing on the relationships between political rule, economic structure, and cultural life
This compulsory PPGA course will provide you with the core concepts and issues of international relations. It examines international history, causes of war and peace, international political economy, international rules and norms, and foreign policy making. In addition, the course will inform you of contemporary and future problems in the international system, including territorial disputes, the trading system, development and human security. The course aims to develop your knowledge and ability to evaluate contemporary international issues, which is critically important for future PPGA (including political science/international relations) courses.
This course aims to provide you with a fundamental understanding of entrepreneurship, encompassing the entrepreneurial process from both a process perspective and a method perspective, entrepreneurial mindset, business model, cultural intelligence, and effective communication in the entrepreneurial setting. You are expected to not only acquire the important knowledge, but also develop essential competencies that are most relevant and applicable for problem solving in the real-life entrepreneurial environment. Such skills include business model design, entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation, business feasibility analysis, entrepreneurial resource management, team building, customer development, and competitive strategy formulation. The acquisition of these skills is highly motivated and driven by an entrepreneurial mindset. You will learn what the entrepreneurial mindset is and how to develop such a mindset and the related attitudes. Meanwhile, through this course you will learn cultural intelligence and understand why it is highly relevant to entrepreneurship. For example, cultural intelligence enhances an entrepreneur’s ability to understand, adapt to, and effectively navigate cultural diversity. It facilitates a global market understanding, relationship building, adaptation to local contexts, management of diverse teams, and the stimulation of innovation and creativity. You will learn how to leverage cultural intelligence to capitalise on entrepreneurial opportunities presented by the interconnected and multicultural world. In this course, you will work in a team to investigate classic entrepreneurial cases and real-life entrepreneurial opportunities and challenges, conduct feasibility analysis, and present your team?s findings in the class as well as in a written report. By immersing in activities relevant to entrepreneurship and value creation in this course, you will be highly motivated to learn the entrepreneurship knowledge, discover your entrepreneurial passion, develop an entrepreneurial mindset, and build related competencies.
 
This course provides non-business and non-accounting students with an overview of the basic theories and practice of Business Finance/Financial Management. Whatever the size of the company and its industry, or the role of the job, understanding of corporate finance is crucial to the success of the individual and the financial viability of the corporation. This is a basic course in finance with emphasis on the major financial decisions made by companies and the valuation of investments made by them. Topics include fundamental concepts of risk and return, time value of money, interest rates, bond and stock valuation, corporate financing choices including techniques for investment analysis (capital budgeting), financing policy (capital structure), and dividend policy.
We live in a global world, where a premium is placed on the ability to navigate and adapt to differences. Cultural intelligence, CQ is the capability to function effectively across national, ethnic and organizational cultures (Ang & Van Dyne). IQ and EQ are no longer enough, CQ is becoming a critical predictor for success in the borderless world of the 21st century. The good news is that CQ can be developed and learnt by almost anyone. This course will focus on providing you with a conceptual framework for CQ, as well as a set of tools to navigate and explore the world.
The international dimension has become a common feature of business and trade. We have all heard phrases such as `globalization,’ `multinational corporation,’ and `cross-border transactions,’ and this course will discuss these ideas in some detail. Yet, despite the appeal of international business, many companies find that the process is not at all easy. Whether in a broad sense, or in terms of the specific functions and activities of a firm, international business involves interaction between multiple players, in a dynamic and interconnected environment. This elective course aims to provide you with a clear basis of the multi-level structure of the international business environment, as an interactive nexus of domestic and global contexts, shaped by institutions, businesses, and stakeholders. The course will address the various dimensions that shape the international business environment, as well as those factors that impact businesses themselves. You will be able to identify and understand issues that affect globalization and the international business environment. You should also be able to apply this understanding to design optimal responses to an international business environment created and impacted by these factors. The course will develop your ability to analyse the countries you would like to do business in. It will help you to analyse and understand the macro and industry environment, develop an entry strategy, as well as an appropriate business model and business plan. Students interested in the international business environment will find this course useful.
This module aims to provide you with the essential knowledge on social media marketing, especially for start-ups. For this purpose, various social media tools that start-ups may explore will be introduced. The concept of social commerce will be covered. You will learn how to carry out strategic planning with social media. Topics such as social media metrics and social models and monetization will be covered to give a holistic understanding of social media marketing For full timetable, refer to NTC website.
This course is designed to offer an interdisciplinary perspective on various problems in groups and organizations in order to help students gain practical knowledge and skills that are needed to effectively interact, communicate, and collaborate with others in order to complete tasks and achieve shared goals not just in professional contexts but also in everyday social life. Following the learning-by-doing principle, you will be situated in diverse real-world group problems and asked to search for solutions for those problems either on your own or by working with others through a series of online interactive class activities. By trying to solve collective problems yourself, you will be able to understand the nature of the given problems and acquire skill sets necessary for solving the problems. The lectures and class discussion that follow will help understand theoretical concepts and issues as well as implications of collective problem solving. This course will be particularly useful for those who seek to develop teamwork skills.
Computational thinking (CT) is the process of analysing a problem then designing and expressing its solution in such a way that a computer can effectively carry it out. It includes a number of characteristics, such as breaking a problem into small and repetitive ordered steps, logically ordering and analyzing data and creating solutions that can be effectively implemented as programs running on computer. The aim of this course is hence to take students with no prior experience of thinking in a computational manner to a point where you can derive simple algorithms and code the programs to solve some basic problems in your domain of studies. Student will also learn about basic program construct and simple data structures. In addition, the course will include topics to appreciate the internal operations of a processor.
This course aims at introducing you to the fundamental theory and concepts of Artificial intelligence (AI) and Data Mining methods, in particular state space representation and search strategies, association rule mining, supervised learning, classifiers, neural networks, unsupervised learning, clustering analysis, and their applications in the area of AI and Data Mining. This can be summarized as: (a) To understand the concepts of knowledge representation for state space search, strategies for the search. (b) To understand the basics of a data mining paradigm known as Association Rule Mining and its application to knowledge discovery problems. (c) To understand the fundamental theory and concepts of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, neural networks, several learning paradigms and its applications. Contents: Structures and Strategies for State Space Representation & Search. Heuristic Search. Data Mining Concepts and Algorithms. Classification and Prediction methods. Unsupervised Learning and Clustering Analysis.
This course aims to develop the use of a scientific approach using mathematical methods and computer software to make managerial decisions. Future managers, business owners, or professionals from various disciplines who have to work along with businesses would employ methods and tools from this course to formulate their business descriptions into mathematical models to facilitate solution finding.
We negotiate extensively in our personal and professional lives, sometimes without being aware of it. You will negotiate to ensure that the M&A deal meets your key organisational interests. You will negotiate to get a good deal from a vendor for an outsourced service. You may have to negotiate with a photographer over the copyright for your wedding photographs. When there is a leak in your bathroom ceiling, you may have to negotiate with your neighbour who believes that they are not responsible for the cost of repair. You will need to negotiate every time you are not able to achieve what you want on your own. Wherever they occur, negotiations are governed by similar principles. On this course, you will learn these principles. You will develop your negotiation skills in a series of simulations that address bargaining situations in both deal making and conflict resolution. You will develop an understanding of the strategies, and tactics of effective negotiation, conflict and relationship management, and enhance your ability to assess the variables in negotiations and to negotiate effectively. You will get the opportunity to evaluate your effectiveness through feedback from your peers, group debriefs and through a critical reflection of your experiences Very often, students prioritize analytical and technical skills and knowledge ‘to do the job’, to devise solutions for the task at hand. We sometimes forget that we also need the skills to persuade others and sell our ideas. This course is designed to foster learning through doing; you will explore your own approaches, skills, development areas and strengths as a negotiator. Take this opportunity to learn about yourself and how you respond in specific negotiation situations. This course provides a safe and low-risk environment to learn and practise negotiating.
As the world becomes more and more complex, technical skills alone are insufficient for the needs of many jobs. To become an accomplished professional in today’s workforce, you will need to understand how people behave at work, work well with others, and be able to manage people regardless of whether your job title has the word ‘manager’ in it! BU8601 is an introductory course for non-business undergraduates to help you understand, think and act like managers. Knowledge and skills gained from this course will help you in any situation where you need to manage yourself and other people. This includes other university courses, final year projects, internship experiences, and eventually your careers.
New media technologies are changing every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. This course aims to help students develop insights into how new media affects news, politics, economy, education and culture. After taking this course, you will be familiar with how new media technologies shape the way we work, study, make friends, create knowledge and ultimately, live. You will explore the development and use of new information and communication technologies and critically examine their social and cultural impact.
In this introductory level course, you will be introduced to the overall concept of design and its role in creating communications, objects, interactions, services and environments. You will be introduced the creative process of design and the various methods and tools that enable design solutions. You will gain insights into creating design solutions for people, context, behaviour, technology and business. This course will prepare you for future studies in fields related to design and design thinking.
As we witness the trend in merging of fields of expertise and medias, design thinking has become a common denominator, driver, translator, and connector of different disciplines. This course encourages a mix of unusual types of collaborations among disciplines. You will get a taste of the design thinking process comprising of: empathy, definition of problem, ideation, prototyping and testing. Lectures will introduce you to the key phases of design thinking. 1. Empathy: understand the user needs through empathy employing different methods of observation, engagement and immersion 2. Definition of problem: capture and analyze the findings of observation in order to create a point of view 3. Ideation: generation of unusual, radical responses to address points of view 4. Prototyping: physical exploration through construction of objects, role play, story boarding to investigate how ideas develop and take place in the physical space 5. Testing: generate feedback from users, incorporate feedback into prototype, continue to learn about the user?s needs.
This course aims to provide a firm understanding of marketing and is designed for students who have chosen to specialise in disciplines other than business. As you may already know, a working knowledge of marketing is beneficial wherever your career takes you. We will discuss basic principles of marketing. However, the focus is on its application and how this understanding could potentially enhance your future performance in your chosen field. A hands-on approach is expected and activities have been incorporated to encourage observation and enhance analytical ability. The course will require you to analyse businesses, evaluate alternatives, collaborate with team members, lead discussions, present your analysis and propose recommendations on selected organisations. The course will begin by discussing sustainable marketing in the global context. We continue with marketing strategy and customer value. This requires an understanding of the business environment and buyer behaviour. We then focus on the 4 P?s, namely product, price, place and promotion.
This is an introductory course designed for business or accountancy undergraduate students who have no programming background and are interested to learn how to manage data and conduct business analytics programmatically. It is oriented to enhance their technical skillset. The aim of this course is to provide a broad understanding on how to manage data, the process of preparing data for analysis, basics of analytics, and the means to communicate analytics outcome. This course will equip students with the ability to write customized solutions to inform business decision, integrate statistical libraries for data analysis, and construct visuals or reports for business understanding. This module will provide students with individual hands-on practices to hone their coding skills and opportunities to develop coding solutions in a team. We utilize Python language as the medium of learning because it is one of the most in-demand coding language and its user-friendly syntax is well suited for the beginner level. Students will utilise modern development tools to turn information into insights.