New course series for students to learn through serving the community

From next year, NTU Singapore undergraduates can carry out meaningful community service and earn academic credits through the Care, Serve, Learn, a new series of courses in the University’s mandatory Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core curriculum.

Along the way, students will deepen social awareness and build essential skills such as active listening, advocacy, and project management – skills that will equip and inspire in them a lifelong commitment to serve the community in the private, public, or non-profit sectors.

This series of courses brings together the diverse community engagement efforts that NTU’s undergraduates have been part of over the years, and weaves them into a structured curriculum with clear learning outcomes.

For instance, medical student Chua Tze Hean has been taking lonely elderly out for a good meal, curbing social isolation, through his initiative A Good Meal. Bioengineering student Deandra Limandibhrata and her peers from the NTU Welfare Services Club have taken deaf and hearing-impaired youth to activities like bouldering.

These students are living proof that in caring for others, they have gained more than they give.