Curriculum 

Curriculum Requirements for Second Major in Chinese

Students will be required to complete and pass at least 13 subjects.
6 Core Subjects
  • HC101 Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture
  • HC102 Introduction to Chinese Language
  • HC202 Critical Reading and Writing
  • HC205 General History of China
  • HC301 Modern Chinese Literature
  • HC302 History of Chinese Thought
7 Prescribed Electives Choose any 7 from the following list and the subjects listed in categories A-E.
  • HC201 Literature of Pre-Qin, Han, Wei and Jin
  • HC203 Literature of Tang and Song
  • HC204 Literature of Yuan, Ming and Qing
  • HC303 Southeast Asian Chinese

A. Chinese Literature and Culture
  • HC110 Literature in Taiwan and Hong Kong
  • HC210 Classical Chinese Fiction
  • HC211 Tang Poetry
  • HC212 Chinese Folk Literature
  • HC213 Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature and Culture
  • HC214 Chinese Theatre and Performance
  • HC310 Classical Chinese Drama
  • HC311 Studies of Selected Poets
  • HC312 Creative Writing Workshop
  • HC313 Modern Poetry, Modernism and Modernity
  • HC314 Cultural Study of Chinese Cinemas
  • HC410 Classical Chinese Literary Theory
  • HC411 Love and Desire in Late Ming Culture
  • HC412 Fictional Narratives in Chinese Fiction
  • HC413 Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature
  • HC414 Special Topics in Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies

B. Chinese History and Thought
  • HC230 Pre-Qin Thought
  • HC231 Confucian Thought
  • HC232 Division and Integration: From the Spring-Autumn/Warring States to Sui, Tang and the Five Dynasties
  • HC330 Buddhism and Xuan Xue in China
  • HC331 Conquering and Conquered Dynasties: From Song to Qing
  • HC332 War and Memory in Modern China
  • HC430 Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Political Movements
  • HC431 Interculturalism in Chinese History

C. Modern Chinese Society, Politics and Economy
  • HC240 Understanding China
  • HC241 Contemporary Chinese Politics and Society
  • HC340 China's Reform and Economic Development
  • HC341 City and Culture in Modern China
  • HC342 China in Asia
  • HC440 Cross-Taiwan Straits Relations
  • HC441 China and ASEAN
  • HC442 China and Globalisation

D. Linguistics and Chinese Linguistics
  • HC150 The Science of Chinese Characters
  • HC250 Chinese Lexicology
  • HC251 Chinese Language and Grammatical Theories
  • HC350 Sound and Prosody in Chinese
  • HC351 Language, Culture and Society
  • HC450 Chinese Semantics
  • HC451 Text, Rhetoric and Style
  • HC452 Corpus and Computational Linguistics and the Chinese Language

E. Studies of Ethnic-Chinese
  • HC160 History of Singapore and Malaysian Chinese
  • HC260 Chinese Education in Southeast Asia
  • HC261 Chinese Literature in Singapore and Malaysia
  • HC360 World Chinese Literature
  • HC361 Transcultural Singapore Theatre
  • HC362 Chinese Overseas and China
  • HC363 Critical Study of Singapore Society and Culture
  • HC460 Globalisation and Chinese Overseas
  • HC461 Chinese Migration

HC499 Graduation Project (optional)

Students have the option to take a Graduation Project in the second Major, in lieu of one subject (4 AUs), provided the Project is undertaken as an interdisciplinary project in conjunction with that required in the student's first Major .

 

 

Curriculum Requirements for Second Major in Economics

 

Students will be required to complete and pass at least 13 subjects.
7 Core Subjects
  • HE191 Principles of Economics
  • HE103 Basic Mathematics for Economists
  • HE104A Introduction to Statistical Theory & Methods
  • HE201 Intermediate Microeconomics
  • HE202 Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • HE204A Introductory Econometrics
  • HE312 Political Economy of East Asia or HE410 Singapore Economy in a Globalized World (previously known as Seminar on the Singapore Economy)1

1 HE410 is a core course for students on second major in Economics from AY2009 and thereafter.

6 Prescribed Electives Choose up to 5 from:
  • HE205 International Trade
  • HE206 International Monetary Economics
  • HE207 Money and Banking
  • HE208 Public Finance
  • HE209 Industrial Organisation
  • HE210 Development Economics
  • HE211 Labour Economics and Labour Relations
  • HE212 Economic Thought
  • HE220 Survey Methods & Sampling Techniques
And at least 1 level-300 or -400 subject from:
  • HE301 Mathematical Economics
  • HE302 Game Theory & Applications to Social Sciences
  • HE303 The Chinese Economy
  • HE304 Health Economics
  • HE305 Environmental Economics
  • HE306 Urban & Transport Economics
  • HE307 Financial Economics
  • HE310 Energy Economics
  • HE311 Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • HE320 Applied Econometrics
  • HE321 Intermediate Econometrics
  • HE322 Econometric Modeling & Forecasting
  • HE401 Advanced Microeconomics
  • HE402 Advanced Macroeconomics
  • HE403 Advanced International Finance
  • HE404 Behavioural Economics
  • HE405 Growth Theory and Empirics
  • HE410 Singapore Economy in a Globalized World
  • HE411 Current Topics in Economics
  • HE420 Econometric Time Series Analysis
  • HE421 Advanced Econometrics
HE499 Graduation Project (optional)
Students have the option to take a Graduation Project in the second Major, in lieu of one subject (4 AUs), provided the Project is undertaken as an interdisciplinary project in conjunction with that required in the student's first Major .

Curriculum Requirements for Second Major in English Literature

Students will be required to complete and pass at least 13 subjects.
1 Core Subject
  • HL 101 Introduction to the Study of Literature
12 Prescribed Electives Choose any 2 from the following level 100 subjects and at least one each from Category A-F. The remaining 4 can be selected from any of the prescribed electives.
  • HL102 Survey of English Literature I
  • HL103 Survey of English Literature II
  • HL104 Ways of Reading: Texts and Contexts
  • HL105 Singapore Literature and Culture I

Category A: Period Studies
  • HL 201 Medieval Literature
  • HL 202 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
  • HL 203 Renaissance to Restoration
  • HL 204 Sensibility and Romanticism
  • HL 205 Victorian Literature & Culture
  • HL 206 Modernism
  • HL 207 Contemporary Literature and Culture

Category B: Asian Literature and Culture
  • HL 208 Singapore Literature & Culture II
  • HL 209 Southeast Asian Literature
  • HL 210 East Asian Literatures in Translation
  • HL 211 Representations of Asia: Film & Fiction
  • HL 212 Asian-American Literature
  • HL 213 British-Asian Literature
  • HL 214 Urban Culture Asia

Category C: Film & Theatre
  • HL 301 Reading Films: Film Theory
  • HL 302 The Politics of Film: Race, Gender, Class
  • HL 303 Film & Literature
  • HL 304 Film in Asia
  • HL 305 Approaches to Drama
  • HL 306 Modern Drama

Category D: World Literature
  • HL 307 The New Literatures in English
  • HL 308 Women and the New Literatures
  • HL 309 Comparative Literature
  • HL 310 European Literature
  • HL 401 South Asian Literature in English
  • HL 402 African Literature in English
  • HL 403 Australasian Literature
  • HL 404 Irish Literature in English

Category E: Literary and Cultural Theory
  • HL 405 Literary Criticism: A History
  • HL 406 Reading Texts: Advanced Critical Theory
  • HL 407 From Cultural Theory to New Historicism
  • HL 408 Postcolonial Studies
  • HL 409 Popular Literature and Culture
  • HL 410 Gender Studies

Category F: Special Interest Subjects
  • HL 215 War in Literature & Film
  • HL 216 Literature and Madness
  • HL 217 Directed Study in Literature
  • HL 218 Fantasy Fictions
  • HL 219 Children's Literature
  • HL 311 Literature, Technology, and Science
  • HL 312 Texts and the City
  • HL 313 Postmodernism
  • HL 314 American Literature
  • HL 315 Cybertexts, Cyberspace & Cybermedia
  • HL 411 Modern Poetry
  • HL 412 Magic Realism
  • HL413 Advanced Study in Literature & Culture

HL499 Academic Essay (optional)


Students have the option to write an Academic Essay in the second Major, in lieu of one subject (4 AUs), provided the Essay is undertaken as an interdisciplinary project in conjunction with that required in the student's first Major .

Curriculum for Second Major in Psychology

Students who choose psychology as their second Major are required to complete 9 core subjects and at least 4 prescribed electives.
9 Core Subjects
  • HP101 Introduction to Psychology
  • HP102 Fundamentals of Social Science Research
  • HP200 Research Design and Data Analysis in Psychology
  • HP201 Biological Psychology
  • HP202 Developmental Psychology
  • HP203 Social Psychology
  • HP204 Personality and Individual Differences
  • HP206 Cognitive Psychology
  • HP207 Abnormal Psychology
4 Prescribed Electives Choose any 4 or more subjects from the following list. At least 3 subjects must be from the level 300 subjects. At least 1 subject must be from the level 400 subjects.
 
Level 300 (choose at least 3)
  • HP 301 Psychology in the Asian Context
  • HP 302 Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and Psychology
  • HP 303 Quantitative Psychology
  • HP 304 Learning and Behavioural Analysis (previously HP 205)
  • HP 305 Psychology and Health
  • HP 306 Psychology in the Workplace
  • HP 307 Psychological Adjustment and Mental Health
  • HP 308 Psychology and Language
  • HP 309 Cultural Psychology
  • HP 310 Positive Psychology
  • HP 311 Community Psychology

  • HP 312X Selected topics in Basic Psychological Sciences
  • HP 313X Selected topics in Social and Personality Psychology
  • HP 314X Selected topics in Applied Psychological Sciences
    The suffix X means that students can take the subject more than once, provided that the suffix for the same subject code is different (denoted A, B, C… for different content)
Level 400 (choose at least 1)
Psychological Laboratories
  • HP 401 Laboratory in Biological Psychology
  • HP 402 Laboratory in Developmental Psychology
  • HP 403 Laboratory in Social Psychology
  • HP 404 Laboratory in Personality and Individual Differences
  • HP 405 Laboratory in Cultural Psychology
  • HP 406 Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology
  • HP 407 Laboratory in Abnormal Psychology
  • HP 408 Laboratory in Psychology and Language
  • HP 409 Laboratory in Selected Topic
Modules on Professional Psychology
  • HP 410 Counselling and Guidance Psychology
  • HP 411 Clinical Psychology
  • HP 412 Psychological Assessment
  • HP 413 Applied Quantitative Methods
  • HP 414 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Seminar

Students please note that HP 415X is a graduate-level subject that is cross-listed with a different subject code.

  • HP 415X Seminar in Selected Topics
    Undergraduates in their fourth year are encouraged to take a seminar course. Seminar in Selected Topics is also offered at the graduate level. Thus students at the undergraduate level need to seek approval from the instructor to read the subject. It is coded with different suffix to reflect the different special topics offered by faculty members. Students may take more than one HP415X per semester.
 
HP499 Graduation Project (optional)

Students have the option to take a Graduation Project in the second Major, in lieu of one prescribed elective subject (4 AUs), provided the Project is undertaken as an interdisciplinary project in conjunction with that required in the student's first Major. 

Curriculum for Second Major in Sociology

Students are required to complete at least 13 subjects.
5 Core Subjects
  • HS101 Person and Society
  • HS201 Classical Social Theory
  • HS202 Doing Social Research
  • HS301 Contemporary Social Theory
  • HS302 Understanding Social Statistics
8 Prescribed Electives Choose at least 2 from:
  • HS203 Economy, Technology and Society
  • HS204 Culture, Self and Identity
  • HS205 Organisations and Organisational Change

And the remaining from any of the following:
(A) Economy, Technology and Social Change
  • HS206 Economic Sociology
  • HS207 Globalisation and Social Change
  • HS208 Social Class and Inequality
  • HS209 Sociology of the Life Course
  • HS303 Population and the Environment
  • HS304 Cities and Urban Life
  • HS305 Sociology of Migration
  • HS306 Sociology of Risk and Crisis

(B) Culture, Identity and Social Relations
  • HS210 Popular Culture
  • HS211 Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations
  • HS212 Sociology of Language
  • HS213 Youth in Contemporary Society
  • HS307 Religion and Society
  • HS308 Sociology of Emotions
  • HS309 Sociology of Food
  • HS310 The Body and Society

(C) Politics, Social Institutions and Collective Behaviour
  • HS214 The Changing Family
  • HS215 Education and Society
  • HS216 Deviance, Crime and Law
  • HS311 Power, Politics and the State
  • HS312 Gender and Sexuality
  • HS313 Social Movements

(D) Contemporary Social Transformations
  • HS102 Singapore Society in Transition
  • HS103 Social Problems in a Global Context
  • HS350 Social Change in Southeast Asia
  • HS351 Understanding Contemporary Chinese Societies
  • HS352 Comparative Asian Societies

(E) Selected Topics in Sociology
  • HS390 Special Topics in Current Sociology
  • HS391 Selected Topics in Applied Sociology

HS499 Graduation Project (optional)


Students have the option to take a Graduation Project in the second Major, in lieu of one subject (4 AUs), provided the Project is undertaken as an interdisciplinary project in conjunction with that required in the student's first Major .

Curriculum of Double Major with Communication Studies