History

• Rethinking the multiple dimensions of Asian history in global context
• How science, technology and medicine have transformed human societies and global relations
• How the past affects the present
• The nature of the historical discipline itself

To graduate, students must complete 2 categories of requirements, totaling 125 AUs. The 2 categories are as follows:

A. Major Requirements (69 AUs) 
B. Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core (ICC)

• Common Core (17 AUs)
• Foundational Core (10 AUs)

C. Broadening & Deepening Electives (29 AUs)

Duration of study
The curriculum is designed as a four-year course. Well-prepared students can complete the degree in three and a half years.

A. MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (69 AUs)

The requirements for a History major consist of 3 components:

A1. History Core Courses (15 AUs)
A2. History Prescribed Electives (46 AUs)
A3. Graduation Project (FYP) or 2 HH4000 level courses (8 AUs)
     (The two HH4000 level courses are for those who are not eligible to do FYP.)

A1. History Core (Compulsory) Courses
The 5 core courses (15 AUs) are compulsory courses which students must complete.

• HH1001 What is History?  (3 AUs) 
• HH1002 Asia-Pacific in Global History: Pre-1800 (3 AUs) or 
  HH1003 Asia-Pacific in Global History: From 1800 (3 AUs)
• HH1004 Science and Technology in Historical Perspective (3 AUs)​
• HH2001 Singapore: The Making of a Cosmopolitan City-State (3 AUs)
• HH3001 Historiography: Theory and Methods (3 AUs)
  

A2. History Prescribed Electives Courses
Students must complete 14 prescribed electives:

(i)  At least 10 at HH1000, HH2000 and HH3000 levels and at least 4 at HH4000 level and;
(ii) Students will have to take at least one course from 3 of the 4 categories.

Applied History

• HH1025 World Archaeology (3 AUs)
• HH1125 History and Archaeology: An Introduction (3 AUs)
• HH2125 The World in 12 Objects (3 AUs)
• HH2126 Heroes and Heroines in Asia (3 AUs)
• HH3022 World War II and Southeast Asia (3 AUs)
• HH3031 The United States and the Modern Middle East (3 AUs)
• HH3043 China's Cultural Revolution as History and Memory (3 AUs)
• HH4015 Film: A Global History (4 AUs)
• HH4021 Public & Applied History (4 AUs)
• HH4027 Propaganda: History, theories and practices (4 AUs)
• HH4125 Colonial Archaeology of Southeast Asia (4 AUs)

Global Asia

• HH1008 The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia (3 AUs)
• HH2005 Foundations of East Asia (3 AUs)
• HH2009 China in Revolution and Reform (3 AUs)
• HH2011 Ancient and Medieval South Asia (3 AUs)
• HH2024 History of the Malay World: Present identities, Past histories (3 AUs)
• HH2025 The World of Southeast Asia to 1600 (3 AUs)
• HH2030 Ascetics and Aesthetics of Medieval Japan (3 AUs)
• HH2031 History of Food in China (3 AUs)
• HH3003 Migration and Diaspora: Chinese Experiences in Comparative  Perspective (3 AUs)
• HH3007 Southeast Asian-China Interactions (3 AUs)
• HH3008 Modern South Asia (3 AUs)
• HH3020 Introduction to Korean History (3 AUs)
• HH3023 Burma/Myanmar: A History (3 AUs)
• HH3027 A History of Modern Indonesia (3 AUs)
• HH3036 South Asia and the World (3 AUs)
• HH3044 Heritage Medicine in Singapore: Malay and Chinese Traditions (3 AUs)
• HH4003 The Silk Road: Old and New (4 AUs)
• HH4012 Intellectual History of Modern China (4 AUs)
• HH4013 The 'Big Man' and Political Legitimation in Southeast Asia (4 AUs)
• HH4017 Defining the Nation: India on the Eve of Independence (4 AUs)
• HH4023 The United States and Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century​ (4 AUs)
• HH4029 History of Modern China and Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1945-1977 (4 AUs)
• HH4031 History and Archaeology of Ancient China (4 AUs)
• HH4090 Special Topics in History – Global Asia (4 AUs)

 Interdisciplinary History

• HH2002 Gender in History (3 AUs)
• HH2007 Health and Illness in History (3 AUs)
• HH2008 Feasting and Fasting: Food and Drink in History (3 AUs)
• HH2015 Biopolitics and East Asian History (3 AUs)
• HH2017 History of Information Technology (3 AUs)
• HH2020 Science and War (3 AUs)
• HH2023 Reading in the History of Health and Medicine (3 AUs)
• HH2026 Health, Food, and Sports in Modern Korean History (3 AUs)
• HH2027 Blood, Germs, and Sick Bodies: Biomedicine in History (3 AUs)
• HH2032 Introduction to Cultural History (3 AUs)
• HH2046 Urban History (3 AUs)
• HH3002 Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern East Asia (3 AUs)
• HH3004 Comparative Business History (3 AUs)
  
• HH3013 Comparative History of Race Science (3 AUs)
• HH3016 History of Madness (3 AUs)
• HH3017 World Environmental History (3 AUs) 
• HH3018 The Environmental History of Oceans (3 AUs) 
• HH3019 History of the Body (3 AUs)
• HH3028 Global History of Capitalism (3 AUs)
• HH3030 The Apocalypse in Western History (3 AUs)
• HH3032 Science and Religion in History (3 AUs)
• HH3033 Buddhism: A Social and Intellectual History (3 AUs)
• HH3034 Ascetism: The Discipline of Desire (3 AUs)
• HH3040 History of Chinese Medicine (3 AUs)
• HH3041 History of Feminism (3 AUs)
• HH3042 Climate and Society in Historical Perspective (3 AUs)
• HH3044 Heritage Medicine in Singapore: Malay and Chinese Traditions (3 AUs)
• HH3046 Colonial Cities in Asia (3 AUs)
• HH3130 The History of Time (3 AUs)
• HH4005 Culture and Heritage: Perspectives from History (4 AUs)
• HH4006 The Green Earth: Issues in Environmental History (4 AUs)
• HH4020 Science, Technology, and Science Fiction​ (4 AUs)
• HH4022 Colonial combination of Western and folk-based medical practices in Singapore (4 AUs)
• HH4024 Lineage, Ritual, and the State in Asia (4 AUs)
• HH4025 History of Disease: Human Evolution, Disease and Health (4 AUs)
• HH4030 Prehistory and Archaeology in East and Southeast Asia (4 AUs)
• HH4028 Tantric South Asia: Politics, Aesthetics, Religion (4 AUs)
• HH4046 The Urban Coast (4 AUs)
• HH4091 Special Topics in History - Interdisciplinary History​ (4 AUs)
• HI3001 1984: Past, Present, Prophecy​ (3 AUs)
  

World History

• ​HH1006 The West in Global History (3 AUs)
• HH1010 US History to 1865 (3 AUs)
• HH1011 US History since 1865 (3 AUs)
• HH2004 The Islamicate World (3 AUs)
• HH2006 Modern European History (3 AUs)
• HH2021 Race, Gender, Class and Colonial Power (3 AUs)
• HH2090 Special Topics in History I (3 AUs)
• HH3006 US Foreign Relations History​ (3 AUs)
• HH3009 Comparative History of Global Migration (3 AUs)
• HH3012 The United States and the Vietnam Wars (3 AUs)
• HH3024 Decolonisation and Democracy: Britain since 1945 (3 AUs)
• HH3025 The Cultural, Social and Economic History of Football (3 AUs)
• HH3035 Empire and Decolonization (3 AUs)
• HH3037 Politics of Popular Culture (3 AUs)
• HH3039 Maritime Asia in the Longue Duree (3 AUs)
• HH3045 Cold War in Asia: Transnational and Micro Approaches (3 AUs)
• HH3090 Special Topics in History II (3 AUs)
• HH4007 An International History of the Cold War (4 AUs)
• HH4010 Anticolonial Resistance in the British Empire (4 AUs)
• HH4011 Slavery and Forced Labour in the Indian Ocean World (4 AUs)
• HH4014 A Global History of Death (4 AUs)
• HH4016 Topics in World History (4 AUs)
• HH4026 Decolonisation of the British Empire in Asia and Africa (4 AUs)
• HH4092 Special Topics in History – World History​ (4 AUs)

 A3. Graduation Project (FYP) or 2 HH4000 level courses (8 AUs)

The two HH4000 level courses are for those who are not eligible to do FYP.

B. OTHER REQUIREMENTS (56 AUs)

- ICC-Common Core (17 AUs) 

- ICC-Foundational Core (10 AUs)

- Broadening & Deepening Electives (29 AUs)

There are no restrictions on the selection of courses to make up broadening & deepening electives. Students can choose any of the following:

- Complete a 2nd Major.
- Complete a Minor in another discipline.
- Earn AUs under an International Exchange programme.
- Any course offered by any School as long as the pre-requisites are satisfied​.