General Education: Level 1 - Foundational Courses

Engineering Historical Memory is both an experimental methodology and an ongoing research project for the organization of historical information in the digital age.

In traditional classes, students learn by receiving ideas and information from instructors and texts, or they discuss such materials in seminars. “Reacting to the Past” courses employ a different pedagogy. Students learn by taking on roles, informed by classic texts, in elaborate games set in the past; they learn skills—speaking, writing, critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, and teamwork—in order to prevail in difficult and complicated situations.

This Singapore Historical GIS Website is based on the “A Historical Geographical Information System for Singapore” project and aims to position Singapore as a major player in the Digital Humanities by building a comprehensive historical GIS in the field of Singapore Studies.

By developing a digital solution, it will better situates early Chinese drug knowledge within the multiple contexts, times and places in which drugs took on new meanings and interpretations. It will expand the study of Chinese drug lore into what has normally been considered “religious” literature, and perform a variety of analyses on digital transcriptions of early materia medica.

Literary magazine examining various themes using primary historical source materials.

Provides open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of world income and wealth distribution. Interactive maps allow for visualized comparisons between countries and regions.

The mission of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is to engage individuals and organizations in making choices that ​respect and care for others.

Senior Citizen Home Safety Association (‘SCHSA’) was founded in 1996 as a non-profit charitable organisation with a self-financing model. Today it is one of the most established social enterprises in Hong Kong. SCHSA provides Care-on-Call Service, the most comprehensive 24/7 support service in the territory consisting of emergency aid, integrated care, around-the-clock vigilance service, health management, active ageing services and day-to-day living assistance. Our mission is to enable all service users in their senior years to age in place with a quality life by leveraging technology and innovation to provide people-centric services.

An insightful example of the visualization of social science data in the form of interactive map to present the problems.

It takes just one-tenth of a second for our brains to begin to recognize emotions conveyed by vocalizations. It doesn't matter whether the non-verbal sounds are growls of anger, the laughter of happiness or cries of sadness. More importantly, the researchers have also discovered that we pay more attention when an emotion (such as happiness, sadness or anger) is expressed through vocalizations than we do when the same emotion is expressed in speech.

Links to Quantitative Reasoning Resources from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa