Come discover what learning can be and where it can take you at NUS College. Where we break open the classroom for our students to offer them more than an education, through our interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential global programmes and vibrant student residency with a diverse community. Join our Open House to learn more!
Embark on a candid exploration of the NUSC experience! Join our panel as students and faculty share insights, challenges and triumphs, offering a real-world glimpse into the diverse tapestry of university life.
Venue: Yale-NUS College Hall (Performance Hall) Hall Foyer
Discover how NUSC offers more than education from our student and staff team at our info-packed booths.
Venue: Yale-NUS College Hall (Performance Hall) Hall Foyer
Explore our impactful and purpose-filled experiential learning through the lenses of our students with their project showcase.
Venue: Yale-NUS Oculus (NUS College)
Enjoy guided tours through our College by our Student Ambassadors! Available every 15min from 10am to 5.30pm.
Venue: Yale-NUS College Hall (Performance Hall) Foyer
Wonder how to get started or how’s life at NUSC? Have a chat with our Student Ambassadors at our Open House booths.
Venue: Stephen Riady Centre Atrium
Find out how NUSC Impact Experience projects by our faculty and students benefit individuals and communities.
Conducted by Dr Roweena Yip
How do crises and catastrophes change us and our societies? How do art and popular culture reflect and respond to trauma caused by wars, the climate crisis, major economic recessions and global pandemics? And what can we learn about fragility, resilience and collective memory? This class uncovers how tragedy serves as a conceptual lens for examining identity and socio-political issues, and how we can bear witness to trauma. Through critically analysing artistic representations of tragedy in Nakazawa Keiji’s graphic novel “I Saw It,” a survivor account of the Hiroshima bombing, students will develop an understanding of how societies define and are defined by tragedy.
About Dr Roweena Yip
Dr Roweena Yip is a Lecturer in Humanities, teaching Global Narratives and Tragedy, Culture, and Society, at NUS College. Supported by an NUS Research Scholarship, she received her PhD in Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore, which is being adapted into a forthcoming monograph titled “Towards Intercultural Feminism: Gender in Asian Shakespeare.” Her research focuses on the performativity of gender in stagings of Shakespeare’s plays by Asian theatre practitioners, particularly the ways in which gender is a central modality through which these practitioners engage in intercultural negotiations with Shakespeare and his legacy. She is interested in theatre and performance studies, the politics of adaptation across media and trauma theory.
Conducted by Dr Hannah Smith-Drelich
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are,” wrote Brillat-Savarin in 1825. Food is important to us – a backbone of identity, an indicator of taste, both a biological necessity and, at times, the ultimate luxury. This course explores the linkage between food and identity by reading food memoirs and practising our own writing about food. Food has never been a simple pleasure and food writing, while enjoyable, can be provocative. We will consider the difference between self and other, foreign and familiar, and learn to tell our own stories about food and identity.
About Dr Hannah Smith-Drelich
Dr Hannah Smith-Drelich is a Lecturer in Humanities at NUSC, teaching on the Global Narratives team. She received her PhD from Stanford University and an MA in Food Studies from NYU. Her research examines themes of appetite, hunger and disgust in the literature of early modern England.
Studying abroad, either through our flagship experiential learning programmes, student exchange programmes, double degree programmes or even work-study opportunities, is required of all students in NUS College. Come find out more!
Conducted by Dr Edmund Low
Data permeates every aspect of the 21st century living. But to mine insights from this precious resource requires skillsets to work with data, using quantitative tools. This sample class offers a look at what might comprise a modern-day analytical toolkit, which allows us to make sense of the world around us.
About Dr Edmund Low
Dr Edmund Low is a Senior Lecturer at NUS College. He received his PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University. His research interests lie in the use of computational modelling and data-driven tools, applying them to solve problems in public health, water resource management and air quality in buildings. He has taught courses on environmental engineering, data science, and health and safety.
Conducted by Dr Chan Kiat Hwa
Climate change is driven by, in no small part, the excessive emission of carbon dioxide due to fossil fuels. Nuclear energy is a source of large amount of energy, but its acceptance is often tempered by the hazardous nature of nuclear waste. This is an issue that affects not only the present but far into the future too, making nuclear waste storage a paramount issue to contend with.
About Dr Chan Kiat Hwa
Dr Chan Kiat Hwa is a Senior Lecturer at NUS College and an experimental chemist who earned his PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University working on the siderophore of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. His current research interests include the organometallic chemistry of rhenium and osmium carbonyl complexes, as well as the physical chemistry of peptide hydrogels. He is also interested in exploring socially accessible ways to mitigate the impact of plastics on our environment.
Conducted by Associate Professor Lo Mun Hou
What is nostalgia? To what discipline does the study of nostalgia “belong”? And is nostalgia supposedly more “appropriate” when felt by certain people (namely, older folks) and felt about certain objects (again, things that are “truly” old)? But if so, then what do we make of reports about young people being nostalgic or, furthermore, being nostalgic about things like Nokia cell phones? Might these forms of nostalgia – which we can consider “untimely” in multiple ways – tell us something not just about nostalgia, but also about the nature of time and history today?
About Associate Professor Lo Mun Hou
Associate Professor Lo Mun Hou teaches at NUS College. He mostly offers thinking with writing courses, as well as classes in literary and cultural studies, on topics such as the history of close reading, theories of gender and sexuality, and nostalgia and Singapore art.
Conducted by Bart Van Wassenhove
In this class, we will learn about the technique of close reading and try it out together by analysing Cavafy’s poem, ‘The Afternoon Sun’. We will explore how details like word choice, imagery and line breaks work together to create meaning and emotional depth.
About Dr Bart Van Wassenhove
Dr Bart Van Wassenhove is a Senior Lecturer in NUS College where he teaches introductory humanities courses as well as interdisciplinary electives. He specialises in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy.
Conducted by Dr Francesca Spagnuolo
Geometry isn’t just a subject confined to textbooks: it’s the language of space, shapes and forms, and it has been central to both the sciences and arts for centuries. Once one of the Seven Liberal Arts in the classical education system, geometry laid the foundation for many intellectual advancements.
But what if you’re more drawn to art than equations? You might be surprised to discover how deeply interconnected mathematics and creativity really are.
In this course, we’ll explore the pivotal role of geometry in shaping the artistic revolution of the Italian Renaissance. You’ll delve into the development of perspective, the technique that transformed painting, architecture and sculpture. Through comparative studies of essential texts like Euclid’s “Elements”, Leon Battista Alberti’s “On Painting” and Giorgio Vasari’s “Live of the artists”, we’ll trace the fascinating evolution of geometric principles and their influence on Renaissance art – and how, in turn, the artistic innovations of the period contributed to the development of non-Euclidean geometries in the following centuries.
About Dr Francesca Spagnuolo
Dr Francesca Spagnuolo is a Senior Lecturer, teaching Reasoning with Data at NUS College.
Conducted by Dr Maximilian Tegtmeyer
In this class, we will (1) practise identifying and extracting an argument from a primary source, namely from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and (2) begin to examine a perennial philosophical question, namely: What is the human good?
We will do both these things by closely examining Aristotle’s so-called ‘Function Argument’. Specifically, we will read the text with the aim of identifying and extracting its argument regarding the human good.
About Dr Maximilian Tegtmeyer
Dr Maximilian Tegtmeyer is part of NUS College’s teaching team for the Thinking with Writing course. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh, his MPhilStud in Philosophy from King’s College London, and his BA in Philosophy, Political Science and Economics from Heidelberg University. Max’s research aims to revive insights regarding the significance of self-consciousness from Early Modern and Classical German Philosophy for contemporary thinking in the philosophy of mind and epistemology. He has wide interests in the history of philosophy, ranging from Ancient Greek Philosophy to 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy.
Conducted by Dr Loo Yoke Leng
Is Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a movie or reality? In this sample class, we will explore the science of invisibility through the concepts of ray tracing and understanding of how we see things around us. Within the topic on invisibility cloak, we will also discuss the impact on society should such invention come true.
About Dr Loo Yoke Leng
Dr Loo Yoke Leng is a Lecturer, teaching Reasoning with Data, Science and Society at NUS College. She obtained her PhD in Physics from the National University of Singapore. Her research interest is in Metamaterials and Metadevices.
Conducted by Dr Joel Chow
What is love? Most of us have some idea about what we think love is, but it also seems that our conceptions of love differ significantly. In this sample class, we examine our ideas about love through a philosophical and biological lens. We then close with a seemingly absurd question: can you love a chatbot?
About Dr Joel Chow
Dr Joel Chow is a Senior Lecturer, teaching Making Connections, at NUS College.
