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Our Most Popular Taster Courses
These are some of the most well received, and sought after taster courses at TaCo. Your institution may consider picking from some of these taster courses for your students.
- Computer Science
- Business Analytics
- Dentistry
- Medicine
- Psychology
- Economics
- Law
- Business
- Marketing
- Brief Introduction of the 4Ps: Price, Promotion, Product, Place
- Factors that influence consumer behavior
- Understanding Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning
- Case study
- Managerial Economics
- Game Theory (Static)
- Dominant Strategy Equilibrium
- Iterated Dominant Equilibrium
- Nash Equilibrium
- Network Effect
- Economics and its fundamental principles (Micro)
- 5 core principles of Economics
- Specialization and Exchange
- Consumer Theory (Micro)
- Understanding key questions in Consumer Theory
- Utility Function
- Indifference curves
- Marginal rate of substitution
- Keynesian Economic model and Government intervention (Macro)
- Business cycle fluctuations
- Keynesian Classical Model
- Government intervention
- Money and Banking (Macro)
- Understanding money
- Singapore’s monetary policy
- Tools for Data analytics
- Introduction to R
- Hands-on-session using Google Colab
- Descriptive Analytics
- Data Exploration Process
- Statistical Measures
- Data Visualization (Hands-on)
- Predictive Analytics
- Simple Linear Regression: OLs Method, Single IV
- Interpretation of Regression Output
- Brief explanation on Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Hands-on Demo
- Prescriptive Analytics
- Potential applications of prescriptive analytics
- Applying prescriptive analytics to machine learning
- Linear optimisation: Graphical Method (Hands-on)
- Introduction to Programming
- Algorithm and code
- Variables
- Control structures
- Data structures
- Case study: Shortest path problem
- Case study: Dijkstra’s algorithm
- Introduction to R programming language
- Basic commands in R
- Basis statistics with R
- Data manipulation in R
- Data visualization in R
- Logical vector in R
- Classification Methods K-nearest neighbor
- Examples
- Case Study: Images & Keywords
- Components of what makes a computer work
- Transistors
- The inverter
- Logic functions- The ‘0’ and ‘1’s
- Arithmetic units
- Memory- How do computer’s remember
- Putting everything together
- Case study: Analysis of a robot car
- Computer aided design of the car
- Stress analysis on base plates
- Understanding material selection of base plates
- Comparing factors in selecting the materials
- Material selection and manufacturing process of the car hood
- Extrusion vs Rolling
- Thermodynamic analysis of the battery
- Mechanics of an additional robotic arm
- Introduction of mass and energy balance
- Introduction of accumulation equation
- Worked Example 1: Mass Balance in steady state operation
- Mass Balance
- Mole fractions
- Steady state
- Separation processes
- Solving simultaneous equations
- Worked Example 2: Energy Balance in steady state
- Energy balance
- Heat and mass transfer
- Reaction kinetics
- Continuous processes
- Dimensionally consistent units
- Worked Example 3: Mass Balance in unsteady state operation
- Mass balance
- Unsteady state operation
- Hagen-Poiseuille Equation
- Differential Equation
- Is the climate changing?
- Evidence and counter-evidence
- Anthropogenic Impacts
- Land
- Air
- Water
- Group discussion
- Ecosystems and Ecosystem services
- What is an ecosystem
- Understanding biodiversity
- How ecosystems have an impact on human wellbeing
- Environmental mindsets: Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism
- Group discussion
- Climate change and plasticity
- Effects of climate change
- How climate change affects organisms
- How organisms respond to climate change
- Phenotypic plasticity
- Microbiology
- Skin microbiology
- Soil microbiology
- Anatomy
- Thoracic Cage
- Mediastinum
- Heart
- Physiology
- Blood Flow
- Clinical Examinations
- Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Communicating with patients
- MIRS framework introduction and explanation
- Case study 1 (Interactive)
- Case study 2 (Interactive)
- Case study 3 (Interactive)
- Case study 4 (Interactive)
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Understanding diabetes mellitus
- Types of Diabetes
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnosis
- Signs and symptoms
- Insulin
- Complications
- Disease management
- Understanding Hypertension
- Diagnosing high blood pressure
- Blood pressure meters
- International guidelines regarding hypertension
- Treatment of Hypertension
- Non-Pharmacological treatment
- Pharmacological treatment
- Introduction to Dental Morphology
- Oral biology
- Removable prosthodontics
- Activity: Denture design
- Learning and Behavior
- Operant Conditioning
- Case study: Skinner Box
- Observational learning
- Case study: Bobo doll
- Social influence
- Conformity (Informational and Normative)
- Case study: Line judgment study
- Obedience
- Case study: Milgram experiment
- Why study social influence
- An introduction to Communications and New Media
- Keys to persuasion
- Copywriting, News values and Methods of persuasion
- Echo Chambers
- Spirals of Silence
- Public relations for business and industry
- Understanding how to create a public relations campaign
- How should we approach Law
- The case of the cave explorers
- How does law work in Singapore
- Common Law system
- Two sources of law
- Case judgements
- Case Study: Carousell Chauffeur
- Criminal law
- Contract law
- Tort law
- Overview of Chemistry at NUS
- Introduction to Thermodynamics
- Matter
- Identify phases of matter & the physical properties
- Identify thermodynamics & Equilibrium State, Intense & Extensive Variables
- Identify the independence of Thermodynamics Variables
- Account for the natural fact
- Energy and its Transfer
- Define Internal Energy
- Identify the contributions of Kinetic & Potential Energy to a system
- Identify By Electronic Energy of Particles in a system
- Define and apply the Equipartition Theorem
- Define Heat and Work, and the Conservation of Energy
- Understand the First Law of Thermodynamics
- Atomic Structure
- Wave Theory of Light
- Particle Nature of Light
- Bohr’s Theory of the Hydrogen Atom
- De Broglie’s Waves & Standing Waves
- Schrodinger’s Equation
- Wave functions and Orbitals
- Nodes, Probability Distribution and Radial Distribution
- Functions (RDF)
- Lewis Structures and VSEPR Theory
- Valence Bond Theory
- Molecular Orbital Theory for Homonuclear Diatomic molecules
Disclaimer:
Materials used in all of our TaCo SG events are crafted completely by the undergraduate students themselves and are not wholesale materials used by Universities. TaCo SG does not represent, and is not endorsed by any of the Universities. The Universities indicated are merely the institutions the instructors are from and do not purport to represent the University.
The TaCo Curriculum is purely for reference purposes and the description of each taster course is not representative of the duration of the taster course. Each of our taster courses is expected to last 1.5-2h, including a Q&A session.
The views and opinions expressed during the taster course are solely those of the subjective experiences of the taster course teachers and do not reflect the official policy or position of any institution. They are also not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, class, individual or organization. The information presented during the taster courses are intended to provide general guidance only. The advice should not be relied upon as professional advice, and should not be held against the speakers or their affiliated organizations.