The curriculum will be academically rigorous and will have applied significance as well as being intellectually daring and creative. Students will consider fundamental questions about business and entrepreneurship, culture, knowledge, society, the arts, the modern technological and multi-media world, and scientific and social-scientific systems, in small seminar groups designed to maximize interaction and meaningful engagement. The focus will be multi-cultural, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, and the pedagogy will encourage independent thought at all times.
Students will take 5 Core Courses. In addition, they will select 5 Elective Courses from the following categories. One course from each category may be chosen, with the 5th course selected from any category. Students from College of Business will take 8 courses in total, 4 Core Course and 4 Elective Courses (one from each category)
Categories
- Social Sciences
- Arts, Humanities and Culture
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Science and Engineering
Core Courses (5)
- Writing and Reasoning
- The Great Ideas
- Ethics
- Planet Earth
- Quantitative Reasoning
Elective Categories ~ Select 5 courses (One from each Category, with the 5th from any category)
Social Sciences
- Birth, Aging, Death: Population Studies
- Cities and Urbanism
- Global Media
- Classics of Social and Political Thought
- Global Economies
- Women and Society
Arts, Humanities and Culture
- Religions of the World
- Theories of Knowledge
- The Great Works (major works of Art, Literature, Philosophy, Political and Sociology, Economics, Business, Scientific writing, and will include works drawn from all cultures and regions)
- Symbolism in the Arts
- Art, Technology and the Image
Interdisciplinary Studies
- Water
- Medical Humanities
- Health Informatics
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Interactive Media
- Innovation, Enterprise and Leadership
Science and Engineering
- Astronomy
- Earth Science
- The Body: Health Science
- The History and Philosophy of Science
- Engineering: The Great Ideas
*The above list of courses will not be offered at all times. The programme office will draw from these courses, subject to availability of faculty/expertise at any given time, thus allowing some flexibility. They range of courses listed will also be attractive to prospective students.
*Students take some of their Electives during overseas exchange, but core courses will be taken at NTU.
