Final-Year Project
Final-Year Project (FYP) provides you with the opportunity to showcase the abilities and talents you have acquired during your time at WKWSCI. Since its inception, one of the goals of the Wee Kim Wee Final-Year Project is for students to complete a project that reaches a wider audience than the school. Wee Kim Wee students do campaigns for clients that reach broad audiences. They produce videos that are shown at international festivals and win international competitions. They produce impactful journalism that is published in mainstream media. Our students have a remarkable record of completing research projects that are presented at international conferences and published in international, peer-reviewed academic journals.
From AY2021/2022 onwards, there will be some changes made to how FYP is being held.
Format of FYP
FYP remains as a year-long project where students continue to creatively drive their projects with guidance from their project supervisor. FYP will be held in a supervision model, where there will no longer be any weekly seminar sessions. Instead, groups are strongly encouraged to set routine consultations on their project development. This arrangement empowers students to take on more initiative and allows flexibility in their timetable planning.
Matching of supervisors with project groups
Each faculty member will be supervising 1-3 project groups, and the arrangement will be finalised in July/August. Further instructions on this will be disseminated after the online session. In the meantime, students may refer to the list of faculty member and their project interest area here for reference.
Refer to the following for more information:
- Each student must complete at least 91AUs
- Additional pre-requisites vary by project type
- The requirement for pre-requisites will be strictly enforced
Students who have not taken all pre-requisites for their project type when the project begins will need to inform the WKWSCI Undergraduate Office of their plans to take the pre-requisites as co-requisites in Year 4 Semester 1 except some courses that must be completed before start of the Year 4 Semester 1. Each request will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Campaigns FYP includes Applied Research Communication Projects. The group size is four students. All students must take one relevant course from each group:
Course Title | ||
Writing | CS2101 | Public Relations Writing |
CS4029 | Advertising Creativity & Copywriting | |
Campaign | CS4032 | Communication Campaigns (Pre-requisite: CS2058 Integrated Marketing Communication) |
CS4131 | Risk Communication | |
CS4150 | Health Communication (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) | |
CS4311 | Promoting Sustainability | |
Research Methods | CS2405 | Data Mining (Pre-requisite: CS2400 Foundations of Information Analytics) |
CS4037 | Audience Research Methods (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) | |
CS4042 | Advanced Research Methods (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) | |
CS4075 | Selected Topics in PR: Evaluating and Producing Campaign Results (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) | |
CS4264 | Introduction to Network Analysis (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) |
The group size is up to four students for Feature Writing and Illustrated Features, and not more than two students for Photojournalism projects. All students must complete the following courses before the start of Y4S1:
Course Title | ||
Compulsory Courses | CS2021 | News Reporting and Writing (Pre-requisite: CS0204 Basic Media Writing) |
CS2044 | Photojournalism (Pre-requisite: CS2021 News Reporting and Writing) | |
At least one of the following courses | CS2022 | Multimedia Writing in Chinese |
CS2023 | Print and Digital Publication (Pre-requisite: CS0204 Basic Media Writing) | |
CS2029 | Broadcast Journalism: Concepts & Applications (Pre-requisite: CS2025 Image & Sound Production) | |
CS2045 | Online Journalism (Pre-requisite: CS0204 Basic Media Writing) | |
CS4011 | News Copy Editing (Pre-requisite: CS2021 News Reporting and Writing) | |
CS4018 | Specialised Journalism: Business and Economics (Pre-requisite: CS2021 News Reporting and Writing) | |
CS4020 | Feature Writing (Pre-requisite: CS0204 Basic Media Writing) | |
CS4043 | Specialised Journalism: Science & Health (Pre-requisite: CS2021 News Reporting and Writing) | |
CS4540 | Tech & Startup Reporting Lab (Pre-requisite: CS2021 News Reporting and Writing) | |
CS4023 | Advanced Photojournalism (Pre-requisite: CS2044 Photojournalism) |
The group size is up to four students. All students are to complete the following courses:
Course Title | ||
Compulsory Course | CS2008 | Fundamentals of Research |
At least one of the following courses | CS2405 | Data Mining (Pre-requisite: CS2400 Foundations of Information Analytics) |
CS4037 | Audience Research Methods (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) | |
CS4042 | Advanced Research Methods (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) | |
CS4264 | Introduction to Network Analysis (Pre-requisite: CS2008 Fundamentals of Research) |
The group size is up to four students. All students are to complete at least two of the following courses:
Course Title | ||
At least two of the following courses | CS2025 | Image & Sound Production |
CS2027 | Genre and Narrative Strategies | |
CS2029 | Broadcast Journalism: Concepts and Applications (Pre-requisite: CS2025 Image & Sound Production) | |
CS2030 | Audio in Media | |
CS4024 | Writing for cinema and TV | |
CS4026 | Documentary Production: Concepts and Applications* (Pre-requisite: CS2025 Image & Sound Production) | |
CS4027 | Narrative Film and TV: Concepts and Applications** (Pre-requisite: CS2025 Image & Sound Production) |
*For documentary projects
**For drama projects