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\n\t\n\tThe Department offers an interesting range of General Education and CHS Interdisciplinary courses.<\/p>\n
Gilbert YEOH<\/p>\n
Can movies engage with serious concerns? Through the close study of films by great directors, this course explores how film as an artistic medium can be used to engage with significant socio-cultural and existential concerns. Students will be taught how to analyze film as an artistic medium and, further, how film directors use the aesthetic elements of film to engage with important subjects. Through films by directors like Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Wong Kar-Wai and Zhang Yimou, students get a chance to reflect on issues like the human condition, the family, the urban condition, love and society, and the nation.<\/p>\nPreclusion for GEC1017: GEH1053 Miguel ESCOBAR<\/p>\n Digital technologies expand the frontiers of the humanities through interactive publishing, machine-driven analysis, media-rich platforms, online archives and crowd-sourced databases. This course invites students from across the university to consider these new approaches through a problem-based approach. In each session, the students will learn to use and critically evaluate digital approaches. Reflecting the multiple perspectives within the digital humanities, teaching combines seminar discussions with computational thinking projects that require the students to pose humanities questions in terms of data.<\/p>\nPreclusion for GEI1002: GET1030 Celine THIO, Peggy FERROA & Jeffrey TAN<\/p>\n This course introduces students to how theatre can be an effective tool to engage communities. Leveraging on theatre’s inherent collaborative, experiential and embodied propensities, the course aims to raise student awareness of the sensitivities, responsibilities & creativity of Theatre in community engagement. Students will be tasked to envision and pitch theatre-centred community engagement projects.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGEN2004 Green Communities in Action: Climate, Species, Crisis<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Gayatri PILLAI<\/p>\n Arguably, the most pressing contemporary issue that affects all humanity is the global environmental crisis. This course aims to engage with Green Communities in Singapore in order to synthesise their common aim to fight the negative effects of climate crisis. It will examine cultural, political and literary narratives, and draw on field studies to provide both knowledge-based and experiential insight into various green projects. This course exposes students from across disciplines to salient directions in the environmental humanities and to observe praxis methodologies in action. It approaches the climate crisis primarily from the angle of ecocritical textual analysis.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGEX1031 (GET1044) Hollywood Cinema: Constructing the Realistic <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Edna LIM<\/p>\n Hollywood cinema is arguably the most popular and dominant cinema in the world but it is also a group style that represents a particular mode of expression and approach to the cinematic medium. This course explores the ways that Hollywood has used film form to create a naturalised style and viewing experience. We will study its conventions as well as the variations and deviations that push the envelope or constitute alternative constructions of the realistic. This course is 100% CA and some of the films studied may have mature content.<\/p>\nPreclusion for GEX1031: GET1044 Miguel ESCOBAR<\/p>\n Digital technologies expand the frontiers of the humanities through interactive publishing, machine-driven analysis, media-rich platforms, online archives and crowd-sourced databases. This course invites students from across the university to consider these new approaches through a problem-based approach. In each session, the students will learn to use and critically evaluate digital approaches. Reflecting the multiple perspectives within the digital humanities, teaching combines seminar discussions with computational thinking projects that require the students to pose humanities questions in terms of data.<\/p>\nPreclusion for GEI1002: GET1030 Celine THIO, Peggy FERROA & Jeffrey TAN<\/p>\n This course introduces students to how theatre can be an effective tool to engage communities. Leveraging on theatre’s inherent collaborative, experiential and embodied propensities, the course aims to raise student awareness of the sensitivities, responsibilities & creativity of Theatre in community engagement. Students will be tasked to envision and pitch theatre-centred community engagement projects.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGEN2004 Green Communities in Action: Climate, Species, Crisis <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Gayatri PILLAI<\/p>\n Arguably, the most pressing contemporary issue that affects all humanity is the global environmental crisis. This course aims to engage with Green Communities in Singapore in order to synthesise their common aim to fight the negative effects of climate crisis. It will examine cultural, political and literary narratives, and draw on field studies to provide both knowledge-based and experiential insight into various green projects. This course exposes students from across disciplines to salient directions in the environmental humanities and to observe praxis methodologies in action. It approaches the climate crisis primarily from the angle of ecocritical textual analysis.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tGESS1021 (GES1029) Singapore Film: Performance of Identity<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Edna LIM<\/p>\n This course explores the ways in which Singapore films constitute a national cinema. It explores a series of Singapore films from the golden age to the revival and key topics such as space, language, and history. Through a group creative project, students are challenged to make their own Singapore film or curate an online Singapore film festival that involves the practical application of critical ideas and enables students to participate in the ways that a national cinema performs and functions.<\/p>\nPreclusion for GESS1021: GES1029 Jennifer ESTES & Celine THIO<\/p>\n How can we learn about people’s experiences, ethically represent their lives, and communicate their stories to an audience? What is the affective power of live performance? How can these performances inform the public’s understanding of pressing social issues? This course explores these questions by integrating approaches from anthropology and theatre studies. You will apply the ideas you learn into practice by collaborating in groups to create a performance piece based on your original research. In the process, you will hone your ability to employ qualitative research methods, craft compelling narratives, and communicate complex ideas.<\/p>\n Advisory pre-requisites:<\/p>\n Nick HUANG & Vic GOPAL<\/p>\n Language is one of the basic defining characteristics of what is it to be human, although recent advances seem to have helped computers master at least some aspects of human language. But how does human language work, and do machines handle it the same way as humans do? This course is an overview, for non-specialists, of rule-based and statistical approaches that have proven to be very effective at modeling various aspects of human language, used whether by humans or by computers. The course will also provide students with a greater appreciation of the strengths and limitations of these two approaches.<\/p>\n Advisory pre-requisites:<\/p>\n Susan ANG & Adrian LEE<\/p>\n What is colour? Is this a question for science or a question for the arts? Our species has known colour throughout its evolutionary history. It influences how we interact with the world and gives insights into the very nature of the universe. We communicate in and with colour. In this course, we will ask questions about light and vision, pigments and dyes, the psychological and emotional effects of colour, and about its impact on social and cultural identity. These questions will find answers in science and the arts, but will only find proper meaning when these answers blend.<\/p>\n Advisory pre-requisites:<\/p>\n General Education & CHS Interdisciplinary courses The Department offers an interesting range of General Education and CHS Interdisciplinary courses. Semester 1 – General Education Courses GEC1017 (GEH1053) Film Art and Human Concerns Collapse Gilbert YEOH Can movies engage with serious concerns? Through the close study of films by great directors, this course explores how film as an artistic medium can be used to engage with significant socio-cultural and existential concerns. Students will be taught how to analyze film as an artistic medium and, further, how film directors use the aesthetic elements of film to engage with important subjects. Through films by directors like Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Wong Kar-Wai and Zhang Yimou, students get a chance to reflect on issues like the human condition, the family, the urban condition, love and society, and the nation. Preclusion for GEC1017: GEH1053 Preclusion for GEH1053: GEC1017 GEI1002 (GET1030) Computers and the Humanities Expand Miguel ESCOBAR Digital technologies expand the frontiers of the humanities through interactive publishing, machine-driven analysis, media-rich platforms, online archives and crowd-sourced databases. This course invites students from across the university to consider these new approaches through a problem-based approach. 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