Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences


Departments & Centers

The Faculty is organised into three divisions – Asian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences – under which 15 departments and programmes are grouped. It is also home to the Office of Programmes which offers four multidisciplinary programmes and five minor Programmes of study, and the Centre for Language Studies which teaches 12 different languages.

Division

Department/Programme

Subjects Offered

Asian Studies

  • Chinese Language
  • Chinese Studies
  • Japanese Studies
  • Malay Studies
  • Southeast Asian Studies
  • South Asian Studies

Humanities

  • English Language
  • English Literature
  • Theatre Studies
  • History
  • Philosophy

Social Sciences

  • Communications and New Media
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
  • Sociology

 

Office of Programmes

Multidisciplinary Programmes Offered

Minors Offered

  • Minor in China Studies
  • Minor in Cultural Studies
  • Minor in European Studies
  • Minor in Gender Studies
  • Minor in Religious Studies
  • Minor in Science, Technology and Society (STS)

 


Centres

 

Centre for Language
Studies

Languages Offered

  • Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese