Principles

In the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, we subscribe to two important principles with regard to undergraduate education:

Depth and breadth
Good undergraduate education involves a balance of depth and breadth. By the end of a degree programme, graduates should know one area well: that is, be aware of its main ideas, of the possibilities and limitations of its methodology, and of its current questions and problems. The best graduates will also be able to devise problems and pose questions of their own in this area. Graduates should also have broad exposure to fields of knowledge beyond their specialisation.

Responsibility
As undergraduates are mature learners, they should be accorded the responsibility for determining much of their own programme of study: for instance, their area of specialisation, and the scope and nature of their study outside that area.

University Level Requirements

Students are required to read a number of General Education modules, Singapore Studies modules and Breadth modules.

Faculty Requirement

Faculty Exposure Requirements
Students need to read a minimum number of Faculty level-1000 exposure modules, with at least one level-1000 exposure module in each of the 3 divisions – Asian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences. Each student is allowed to read a maximum of 8 FASS level-1000 modules.

Unrestricted Elective Requirements
Students can read modules outside of their major for interest. Such modules may be from FASS and/or other faculties. These may be from one subject or in a range of different subjects, or in a minor.

Programme Requirement
Students may graduate with a B.A. degree in a single major, or a shared major that consists of any two subjects in the Faculty. Students may choose to continue their education with the honours programme, provided certain conditions are satisfied.

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