Double Major at CoHASS

The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences offers a four-year direct honours degree programme. Undergraduates will read two majors chosen from among the disciplinary strengths of the College's four schools, namely, School of Art, Design and Media, School of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI).

This exclusive Double Major Degree offers students the opportunity to tap on the strengths of each academic discipline, while developing an intellectual flexibility and diversity that will offer students a broader range of analytical skills.

Students will be admitted into this Double Major degree programme at the point of entry to NTU, and declare their two majors at this point. In keeping with the prevailing practice with the current single degree programmes, students may apply for a transfer of major after the first year if they wish.

All 16 academic combinations offer exciting multidisciplinary approaches and bring different disciplines into conversation with each other. Many of these disciplines already exist as single major degrees in NTU’s progressive College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, while several new emphases are being introduced. For example, our programme was the first to offer Art History as a major in a Singapore university and will make a valuable contribution to Singapore’s exciting Arts and Culture environment, while Media Analytics, a cutting-edge new major, offered by Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, will enable students to understand, and engage with, the shifting social media landscape, big data, and digital media, and it will develop students who have high-level competency in evaluating organisational opportunities and risks.

All of these combinations will focus on developing genuine academic depth in two disciplines and will encourage students to develop a truly multidisciplinary outlook and a set of widely usable skills after graduation.