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Date NTU Division / School Programme Title Time Pg

PHASE 2 APPLICATIONS – Application Period: 2 January to 14 January 2019

28 Jan 2019 SOH School of Humanities

(A) SP0068 - Philosophy of AI 4.30pm – 7.30pm School Tour: 3.45pm – 4.30pm

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18 Mar 2019

SOH School of Humanities

(B) HH4023 - The United States and Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century

9.30am – 1.30pm School Tour: 1.30pm – 2.15pm

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(C) HG2093 - Toponymy and Toponomastics

10.30am – 1.30pm School Tour: 9.45am – 10.30am

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EEE School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Foundation of Data Science in Python 9.00am – 5.00pm 7

19 Mar 2019

FST Food Science & Technology Programme

The Evolution of Food Technology Innovations

9.00am – 12.00pm 8


(D) HH3040 – History of Chinese Medicine

10.30am – 1.30pm School Tour: 1.30pm – 2.15pm

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20 Mar 2019

MAE School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Introducing MAE (Choose 1) – (A) MAE Robotics Workshop or (B) MAE/UAV Workshop

9.00am – 12.00pm 10


(E) HL2028 – Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

2.30pm – 5.30pm School Tour: 5.30pm – 6.15pm

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(F) HL3034 – Irish Literature 2.30pm – 5.30pm School Tour: 5.30pm – 6.15pm

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21 Mar 2019


(G) HY4111 - Special Topics in Ethics 9.30am – 12.30pm School Tour: 12.30pm – 1.15pm

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(H) HG2097 - Etymology 11.30am – 2.30pm School Tour: 2.30pm – 3.15pm 14

26 Mar 2019 SOH School of Humanities

(J) HY1001 - Introduction to Philosophy 4.30pm – 6.00pm School Tour: 3.45pm – 4.30pm 15

27 Mar 2019 SOH School of Humanities

(K) HH3020 - Introduction to Korean History

3.30pm – 5.30pm School Tour: 5.30pm – 6.15pm

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PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS

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PROGRAMME CALENDAR

Cells shaded in yellow denote MOE School vacation dates

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28 JANUARY 2019 (MONDAY)

School of Humanities / SOH

PROGRAMME TITLE (A) SP0068 - Philosophy of AI

DESCRIPTION In this week's seminar (entitled 'Chess & Go'), students will be engaging with

the following questions:

1) Why is chess considered the drosophila of AI research?

2) How do we distinguish between rho, tau, and theta problems in AI research?

3) What are some strategies and algorithmic techniques that are relevant in the

design of chess-playing programs?

4) How do search trees work and why does the threat of combinatorial

explosion arise?

5) How might one distinguish between Type A and Type B strategies?

6) Might different design imperatives be required when we turn from a game of

chess to a game of Go?

7) What could we learn from Deep Blue and AlphaGo about the nature of

intelligence?

No prior knowledge of or experience in AI research, chess, or the philosophy of

AI is assumed.

ACTIVITY TYPE(S) School Tour

Lecture

CLASS SIZE 5 pax per seminar*

DURATION 45 mins for School Tour

3 hours for Lecture

TIME School Tour (optional) – 3.45pm to 4.30pm

Lecture – 4.30pm to 7.30pm

*Students will have the opportunity to participate in a university class comprised of undergraduates

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18 MARCH 2019 (MONDAY)


PROGRAMME TITLE (B) HH4023 - The United States and Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century

DESCRIPTION ASEAN and the Cold War

This course explores major events and developments in US involvement in

Southeast Asia since the beginning of the twentieth century.

This week's seminar examines the under-appreciated role of ASEAN (Association

of Southeast Asian Nations) in shaping the events of the Cold War in East and

Southeast Asia. Scholars have long acknowledged that ASEAN was a product of

the Cold War, and that it brought some regional solidarity for the

anticommunist states of the region. But beyond this admission, historians and

political scientists have mostly sidelined the ASEAN states, certain that the

drivers of Southeast Asian developments were the big powers (the US, the USSR,

China) and Vietnam. In this seminar, you will learn about the agency of the

ASEAN states, their influence upon the big powers, the course of the war in

Vietnam, and the impact of Malaysia's ZOPFAN (Zone of Peace, Freedom and

Neutrality) plan on Sino-US rapprochement in the early 1970s.

ACTIVITY TYPE(S) Lecture

School Tour


DURATION 4 hours for Lecture

45 mins for School Tour

TIME Lecture – 9.30am to 1.30pm

School Tour (optional) – 1.30pm to 2.15pm


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PROGRAMME TITLE (C) HG2093 - Toponymy and Toponomastics

DESCRIPTION Discovering Unwritten Stories: A General Introduction to Toponymy and Toponomastics

This class is aimed at providing the Students with a methodological discussion

on issues in Diachronic Toponymy in South-East Asia, with a specific focus on

Singapore Toponomastics, through a comparative approach analyzing Malaysian

and Indonesian Toponymy. In particular, in the first part of the class, the

origins of the names of the islands belonging to Singapore are reconstructed

according to Historical Toponomastics criteria. A comparison with the naming

processes of island names in Malaysian and Indonesian contexts is provided, with

a specific attention given to place names connected with local traditional stories

from the local intangible heritage. The second part of the class is focused on

some very significant toponyms of Singapore and on the study of their evolution

and/or change from the XIII century to our time. The possible origins and

developments of naming processes in Singapore Toponymy are analyzed taking

into account historical and political events and changes in society over time.


Lecture



3 hours for Lecture

TIME School Tour (optional) – 9.45am to 10.30am

Lecture – 10.30am to 1.30pm


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School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering / EEE

PROGRAMME TITLE Foundation of Data Science in Python

DESCRIPTION This workshop will introduce Data Science using Python and provide an overview of

how Engineering is converging with Machine Learning and Data Science.

Data Science has become increasingly more relevant to Electrical and Electronic

Engineers and can be applied to:

Internet of Things (Engineers to build systems/devices and software to connect

machines with customer experience – e.g. wearables that automatically sense

health-related data; real-time monitoring in emergency response situations)

Sensors (game controllers; Lidar – laser based method of detection and mapping

used in self-driving cars; smart grid sensors to detect faults and trigger alarms)

Communication Networks

Wireless Signal Processing

Manufacturing (to optimise productivity)

Fault Analysis in Electric Power System

Power Grid Optimisation

Smart Energy Systems

By the end of the workshop, you will:

Be familiar with the Python ecosystem for data science

Peek into the world of Engineering and how combining this with Data Science

and/or Machine Learning is the future

Learn how Python is used to analyse data in a systematic way

Explore the data with descriptive statistics and visualisation

Get hands-on experience on real world data science projects

Pre-requisites: O-Level Physics or H1 Physics is a must; Students must bring along a laptop

ACTIVITY TYPE(S) Workshop

CLASS SIZE 60 pax

DURATION 8 hours

TIME 9.00am – 5.00pm

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19 MARCH 2019 (TUESDAY)

Food Science & Technology Programme Office / FST

PROGRAMME TITLE The Evolution of Food Technology Innovations

DESCRIPTION Food security is a key national priority by many governments around the world.

Singapore’s vulnerability is compounded by our high dependency on imported

food and our limited land and sea space for food production. Technological

innovations, from modern farming technology to reducing food wastage through

novel processing technology, are needed for our current food industry so as to

ensure Singapore’s access to safe and nutritious food at affordable prices.

This workshop will cover aspects of food technology innovations and how these

are related to the overall food security landscape in Singapore. These may

include fermentation technology, biodegradable packaging materials, and green

processing technology. The future of food including alternative protein sources

and urban farming will also be discussed.

There will be various interesting hands-on experiments which will include the

nutritional analysis of food that we see in our daily life and the available

technology to prolong food storage.


CLASS SIZE 20 to 30 pax

DURATION 3 hours

TIME 9.00am – 12.00pm

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PROGRAMME TITLE (D) HH3040 – History of Chinese Medicine

DESCRIPTION Song Dynasty Medicine

Chinese medicine went through a radical change in the Song Dynasty.

Previously it had been taught in small master-disciple lineages or transmitted

within families. The Song Dynasty created a medical bureaucracy, changing

forever the shape of medicine. Rising from the class of lowly technicians akin

to butchers, doctors were now appointed officially by the state through

examination. Sweeping policies introduced new institutions like the Imperial

Pharmacy, and the suppression of shamans and spirit mediums. Daoists and

Buddhists had official roles in state medicine. We will see more clearly the

relationship between epidemics and state attention - and the surprising fact that

animals and animal medicine were at the heart of one of the largest changes in

the standardization of Chinese medical practice - the pre-prepared herbal recipe.

Students will prepare background reading before class, and in class we will read

translated essays of Xu Dachun and Zhu Danxi, some of the most famous

doctors in the history of Chinese herbal medicine.


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20 MARCH 2019 (WEDNESDAY)

School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering / MAE

PROGRAMME TITLE Introducing MAE - MAE Robotics Workshop or MAE UAV Workshop

DESCRIPTION Participants can choose ONE of the two listed workshops:

Programme (A)

1. Welcome & Presentation on the School of MAE (30 mins)

2. Tour of MAE Lab(s) (30 mins)

3. Hands-on Robotics Workshop at the Robotics Research Centre (2 hours)

Programme (B)

1. Welcome & Presentation on the School of MAE (30 mins)

2. Tour of MAE Lab(s) (30 mins)

3. Hands-on Glider / Rocketry Workshop (2 hours)


School Tour

CLASS SIZE 10 to 25 pax

DURATION 3 hours

TIME 9.00am – 12.00pm

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PROGRAMME TITLE (E) HL2028 – Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

DESCRIPTION America is a nation founded on two documents: the Declaration of Independence

and the Constitution. Over the course of the nineteenth century, people’s

interpretation of these two texts altered, as new understandings of what it

meant to be American emerged. After the Civil War, for instance, the

Constitution was redrafted to extend citizenship and voting rights to newly

emancipated black slaves. In this class, we examine how literature played an

active role in this process of redrafting and reinterpreting the meaning of

America.

On the 20th of March, we will be reading Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the

Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845). In this powerful

autobiography, Douglass tells how he escaped from the bonds of slavery to

become one of the world's leading campaigners against racial oppression and

injustice. We'll see that his narrative does not only present a compelling

argument for the abolition of slavery, but also for the full participation of

African Americans in the political and cultural life of the nation.


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TIME Lecture – 2.30pm to 5.30pm



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PROGRAMME TITLE (F) HL3034 – Irish Literature

DESCRIPTION In an attempt to grasp a sample of the enormous diversity of subject matter,

artistic distinction, and historical range, this course will offer detailed

explorations of Irish mythology, philosophy, literature, film and music.

Beginning with the idea that Irish artistic and intellectual endeavour is both

distinctively Irish and, simultaneously, unmistakeably European, we will

investigate a variety of questions related to this idea. For example, what does

one mean by distinctively Irish? Why has an island of circa 5-6 million people

produced, per capita, among the highest number of Nobel prizes in Literature,

and has made such an enormous contribution to Anglophone literature,

European philosophy since the 18th Century, and modern music, especially in

recent decades? What makes Ireland European, apart from the fact that

European Modernism looks extremely different without the contributions of Yeats,

Joyce, Beckett, George Moore, and Flann O’Brien? Such questions, and many

more will be considered in an attempt to locate a sense of the “Irish mind”, if

such a thing actually exists.


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21 MARCH 2019 (THURSDAY)


PROGRAMME TITLE (G) HY4111 - Special Topics in Ethics

DESCRIPTION In his lecture Existentialism and Humanism, the French philosopher John-Paul

Sartre (1905 – 1980) discussed a young man’s dilemma between caring for his

lonely mother and joining the French Resistance during the German occupation

of France in World War II. The young man could do one thing or the other,

but not both. What should he have done?

Imagine another case where you are on your way to meet a friend who you

promised to have lunch with, but before you reach the restaurant you come

across a stranger who has suffered a serious accident and needs immediate

help. You are the only one around in a position to help. You could either help

the stranger or meet your friend as promised, but not both. What should you

do?

Occasionally we face situations like the ones described above. In these

situations, we are subject to multiple moral duties which call for us to do

different things, but we cannot possibly fulfil all those duties. What should we

do when our moral duties conflict in this way? The British philosopher W.D.

Ross (1877 – 1971) presented a theory called moral pluralism to help us

decide which moral duties we should fulfil, when we can’t fulfil them all.


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21 MARCH 2019 (THURSDAY)


PROGRAMME TITLE (H) HG2097 - Etymology

DESCRIPTION What's in a Name? A General Introduction to Etymology

This class is aimed at providing the students with the principles of etymological

reconstruction from different linguistic contexts with an epistemological approach

derived from the comparative method. The class is focused on the reconstruction

of the roots and historical phonetics of words from linguistically unrelated

contexts (from Indo-European, Semitic, Austronesian, and Papuan languages),

with a specific focus on the hermeneutic possibility and/or hypothesis of

language contact in prehistoric times. The students are provided with examples

allowing them to consider the advantages and disadvantages of widespread

theories, like the Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm or the Convergence Theory. The

second part of the class is focused on Singlish and on some possible

etymological reconstructions based on 'source languages'. This part of the class

is interactive and experimental, asking the students to try to apply to Singlish

what they have just learned.


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PROGRAMME TITLE (J) HY1001 - Introduction to Philosophy

DESCRIPTION This class is an introduction to philosophy through the examination of

fundamental philosophical issues, such as knowledge and skepticism,

consciousness and the brain, our identity over time, and free will.

This week's seminar covers the debate over free will. What does it mean for a

person to act freely? Is it possible for free action to exist in a deterministic

world (i.e., a world in which previously existing causes determine everything

that happens)? Some philosophers argue that our world is deterministic and thus

that we have no free will, others that we have free will because our world is

not deterministic, and still others that free will and determinism are compatible.

We will also explore the relationship between free will and punishment: is free

will necessary for punishment to be justified?


Lecture



3 hours for Lecture

TIME School Tour (optional) – 3.45pm to 4.30pm

Lecture – 4.30pm to 6.00pm


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PROGRAMME TITLE (K) HH3020 - Introduction to Korean History

DESCRIPTION Park Chung Hee and the Rapid Industrialization of Korea

This course is an introduction to modern Korean History.

During this seminar the class will discuss the historical problems and

contradictions of “rapid industrialization” under President Park Chung Hee.

Seizing power through his military coup in 1961, he ruled the country under

his iron fist until his untimely assassination in 1979. For some, he was a model

politician, who modernized and industrialized the poverty-stricken country during

his eighteen-year tenure. For others, he was a ruthless dictator who suppressed

human rights under the slogan of anticommunism and national security. We will

examine the historical context of his controversial rule and the continuing

debates on the nature of the military regime and its impact on Korea.


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