Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours) in Public Policy and Global Affairs

To obtain Honours (Highest Distinction & Distinction), students must complete their graduation projects.

The Graduation Project (8AUs) is undertaken during a student’s final year or when the student has fulfilled the below requirements. All GP Projects are to be conducted individually, and, typically over two consecutive semesters in NTU. There is only one intake in August each year.

1) Students with CGPA of 3.90 and above must complete the GP.

2) Those with CGPA between 3.75 and 3.89 may opt-in to do the GP. This is subject to the approval by the Program.
 
3) Students with CGPA below 3.75 will not be allowed to conduct the GP. 

4) Students who do not do the GP are to take two 4000-level courses to fulfill the 8 AUs requirement. 

GP Research Areas:

• Comparative Public Administration
• Comparative Public Policy
• Comparative Politics in Asia
• Global Governance and Regulation
• Globalization and East Asian Politics
• Government, Nonprofits and Society
• International Security
• Migration and Asylum Policy
• Normative theories of International Relations
• Performance Measurement in Public Sector
• Policy Analysis and Evaluation
• Political Communication
• Political Theory
• Politics and Government in Southeast Asia
• Politics in Singapore
• Public Administration in Southeast Asia
• Public Administration in Singapore
• Public Budgeting and Finance
• Public Policy Making in Singapore
• Science, Technology and Public Policy
• Singapore's Foreign Policy
• South-South relations
  

Commencement: (All Applications are now to be submitted online. A link will be sent to students in due course)

• GP Guidelines for students (updated Aug 2023)
• GP Assessment Rubrics​
  
• GP Proposal Form
• GP Ethics Approval Form (updated Sep 2021)

Submission to Programme: 

• Assignment Declaration Form
• Title Page​​​​

1. Students are allowed to take not more than 2 courses from the common pool of Major-PEs courses as substitute of their own Major-PEs.
2. ​​A waiver of the pre-requisites will be granted to students who wish to register any of these 18 modules. They will be advised that they need to put in more effort when attempting higher level courses in the list with pre-requisite.

PPGA students can match 1000/2000/3000-level IPE to our 2000/3000-level Major-PEs requirement.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE USE OF CALCULATORS IN EXAMINATIONS:

All calculators that are to be brought into the examination halls must be registered by the School.

School of Social Sciences students are required to get their calculators registered at the SSS Undergraduate Office at any time during the following hours:

Time : 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (Mondays to Friday, excluding public holiday)
Venue : SSS-01-02 (SSS Undergraduate Office counter)

However, if you have already registered your calculator previously and the seal is not broken, you do not have to register it again.

Re-registering of Calculator is required only if you are using a new calculator or the seal on your current calculator has broken.

Please remember that all calculators that are brought into the exam halls are to have the School's seal on it.

Please read carefully the Rules of Governing the Use of Calculators at Examinations.

Graphic calculators are allowed for use in the new GCE 'A' Level Curriculum from 2006. For consistency, the University will allow the use of graphic calculators with effect from S1 AY 2006-07 examinations.

Students are responsible for clearing any information and/or programs stored in the graphic calculators before the examination.