During this four-year degree programme, undergraduates will read both Art History and History, benefiting from the expertise and resources of the two disciplines from the School of Humanities (SoH).

The Art History curriculum allows students to explore the history of global creativity through the ages. Typically, the course of study includes painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, music, performance and time-based media. Importantly, it also engages with museum and gallery studies, arts and heritage policy, and digital engagement. In addition, there is an internship, a significant research opportunity in the Final Year Project, and the opportunity to study Art History overseas on exchange.

The History Programme seeks to train students to not only think critically but also to apply interdisciplinary methods to identify and address contemporary problems from historical perspectives. History graduates will master the secondary literature in their chosen areas of study, engage in independent research, exercise critical judgment about the texts that they encounter, and communicate their findings in a well-reasoned and scholarly manner.

The Double Major Programme is a four-year direct honours degree programme. Undergraduate students will read two majors chosen from among the disciplinary strengths of the four schools in the College, namely, the School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), the School of Humanities (SoH), the School of Social Sciences (SSS), and the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI).
 
Unlike the existing single discipline-based degrees, this degree will feature two distinct majors within an innovative new structure. As such this is a fully conceived double-disciplinary degree. 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.

Successful Polytechnic applicants will be exempted certain courses that will be confirmed before the start of their first semester.

To graduate, students must complete two (2) categories of requirement, totalling at least 138 Academic Units (AUs): 

	Major Requirements (AUs)			Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core (ICC) (AUs)			Broadening and Deepening Electives (BDE) (AUs)	Total AUs
	Core	Prescribed Electives	Final Year Project	Common Core	Professional Series	Care, Serve, Learn
Art History	12	30	8*	14	11	3	18	138
History	12	30

*Students who are eligible to do the FYP will be strongly encouraged to do an inter-major FYP.  Students whose GPAs fall in a certain range can choose whether or not to do the FYP. Students who do not do the FYP must clear 8 AUs of PEs (two 4000-level courses, one from each discipline) within the double major.

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core (ICC) Courses:

ICC Common Core	14 AUs
Career Design & Workplace Readiness in the V.U.C.A World	2
Ethics & Civics in a Multicultural World	2
Healthy Wellbeing	2
Inquiry and Communication in an Interdisciplinary World	2
Science & Technology for Humanity	3
Sustainability: Society, Economy & Environment	3
ICC Professional Series	11 AUs
Digital Proficiency	3
Internship	5
Profession Preparation	1
Professional Communication	2
Care, Serve, Learn	3 AUs

 

 

I. Art History Curriculum​

Core [12 AUs]
HR1001 Ways of Seeing: Exploring Visual Culture
HR1003 Introduction to Histories of Art I
HR1004 Introduction to the Histories of Art II
HR2001 Introduction to the Histories of Southeast Asian Art

Major Prescribed Electives [30 AUs]

Students must take ONE elective each from Categories A to D (4 Electives) and then are free to choose the remainder Electives from any category depending on areas they wish to specialise in.

Category A: Global Art Histories (Choose at least one elective)
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Category B: Contemporary Art & Theory (Choose at least one elective)
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Category C: Curating, Heritage & Museums (Choose at least one elective)
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Category D: Asian Art Histories (Choose at least one elective)
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II. History Curriculum​

Core [12 AUs]
HH1001 What is History?
HH1002 Asia-Pacific in Global History: Pre-1800 or HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800
HH2001 Singapore: The Making of a Cosmopolitan City-State
HH3001 Historiography: Theory and Methods 

Major Prescribed Electives [30 AUs]

(i)  Choose at least 2 courses at HH3XXX, and 3 courses at HH4XXX.

(ii) Choose at least one course from 3 of the 4 categories.

Applied History
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Global Asia
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Interdisciplinary History
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World History
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Graduates in this double major program will develop key transferable skills highly prized by employers which include research, analysis, excellent written and verbal communication in History and Art History. They can consider opportunities in the civil service, business management, public relations, journalism, publishing, translation, education, as well as theatre and the arts. Culturally aware they will be ideal for leadership roles in museums, galleries and arts organisations, (arts management, marketing, curatorship, programming, publishing exhibition management, collections administration, policy); government ministries (policy officers, corporate communications, diplomatic support, funding, event and project management – typically National Heritage Board or National Arts Council); publishing (writing, text and image editing, researching, copy writing), education and media  (journalists, writers, researchers, producers).