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.
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Venue: Multi-Purpose Hall
Discover how NUSC offers more than education from our student and staff team at our info-packed booths.
Venue: Multi-Purpose Hall
Explore our impactful and purpose-filled experiential learning through the lenses of our students with their project showcase.
Venue: Oculus & Multi-Purpose Hall
Enjoy guided tours through our College by our Student Ambassadors! Available every 15min from 10am to 5.30pm.
Venue: Multi-Purpose Hall
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.
What makes the NUS College education unlike any other? It’s what happens when we break open the classroom. Join our faculty and students as they reveal our robust interdisciplinary curriculum and transformative global pathways that makes NUSC unique to enrich your degree at NUS.
Conducted by Associate Professor Seah Kar Heng
This sample class explores climate change, especially global warming due to burning fossil fuels and how switching to renewable energy can help alleviate the situation. Students will then explore how Singapore can contribute to this lofty goal.
About Associate Professor Seah Kar Heng
Associate Professor Seah Kar Heng obtained his B.Sc. First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering in 1975 from the University of Southampton, U.K. on the Colombo Plan Scholarship as well as the President’s Scholarship. After completing his national service, he worked as a Mechanical Engineer in the Public Works Department. Subsequently, he obtained his M.Sc. And PhD. In Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and 1982 respectively, both from Queen’s University, Canada.
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 at NUS College. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Arizona and his BA/PhB in Philosophy from NUS-The Australian National University Joint Honours Degree Programme. He is also an alumnus of the NUS University Scholars Programme (USP), graduating in the Class of 2011.
Broaden your horizons and experiences around the world through NUS College’s signature Global Pathways programme! Learn first-hand how we curate these unique out-of-classroom global experiences to shape your worldview and cultural understanding and contribute meaningfully towards your learning journey and life of purpose
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.
What makes the NUS College education unlike any other? It’s what happens when we break open the classroom. Join our faculty and students as they reveal our robust interdisciplinary curriculum and transformative global pathways that makes NUSC unique to enrich your degree at NUS.
Conducted by Dr Bart Van Wassenhove
In this interactive sample class, we will discuss a famous thought experiment proposed by the philosopher Robert Nozick: would you enter a machine that provided you with a constant stream of pleasurable, interesting experiences, provided you could never leave? We will discuss your answers to this question and consider variations on Nozick’s thought experiment that may make you question your intuitions.
About Dr Bart Van Wassenhove
Conducted by Associate Professor Stuart Derbyshire
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About Associate Professor Stuart Derbyshire
Conducted by Dr John Woon Rhym
We’re going to dissect a scene from a film to examine how and why it is fictionalizing history. Afterwards, we’ll consider how this kind of rhetorical analysis of audiovisual narration might be applied to other media we consume in an era of digitally manipulated and AI-generated content.
About Dr John Woon Rhym
Discover learning and living with diverse, brilliant minds within our vibrant NUS College community where students inspire and stretch one another. We’ll show you how our tight-knit community fulfils your curiosities and passions, while building lifelong bonds and courage and conviction needed to step up and act for the world.
Conducted by Associate Professor Philips Johns
Cats and dogs are organisms that have been associated with humans for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years. People often call themselves cat-people or dog-people. But are cats and dogs really so different? And if so, why? Why do we think of cats as being mostly solitary animals, and why do we think of dogs being more social? Here we explore what makes cats cats, and what makes dogs dogs. We will examine their evolutionary history, their physical make-up, and their behaviours, to find the truth about cats and dogs.
About Associate Professor Philips Johns
Associate Professor Philip Johns’ research interests revolve around the evolution and genetics of social behaviours in insects and other animals. He studies the behaviour, evolution, genetics and genomics of a group of Southeast Asian insects, stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae), in both the field and laboratory. He has also studied the evolution of cooperation and eusociality in termites. Along the way he has studied everything from courtship and mating behaviour of mantises, to aggression and territoriality in spiders, to courtship in scorpions, to the songs of some very noisy crickets. He and his students study the social behaviours of an urban carnivore in Singapore, smooth-coated otters. He is especially interested in employing community science to conduct animal behaviour studies.
Conducted by Dr Norman Vasu
About Dr Norman Vasu
Dr Norman Vasu is the director of the Global Pathways Programme and Pillar Head of the Global Experience course at NUSC.
He is the author of Diasporas in Multiculturalism: Managing Difference (2004); co-author of Singapore Chronicles: Multiracialism (2018); editor of Social Resilience in Singapore: Reflections from the London Bombings (2007); and co-editor of Nations, National Narratives, and Communities in the Asia Pacific (2013), Immigration in Singapore (2014), and DRUMS Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation, and Smears (2019).
He is a Fulbright Fellow, Arizona State University (2012); Senior Research Fellow, Takshashila Institution, India (2017), and Research Fellow, Daniel K Inouye Asian-Pacific Center for Security Studies (2018).
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 Christine Abigail Lee Tan
About Dr Christine Abigail Lee Tan
Dr Christine Abigail Lee Tan is a Filipino-born philosopher whose main areas of expertise are Chinese and Comparative Philosophy in general, and Neo-Daoist philosophy in particular. Before joining Yale-NUS College, she did her PhD at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where she wrote her dissertation titled ‘Freedom as Self-realisation: Zide in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’. Before that, she did her MA and BA at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, where her areas of focus were psychoanalysis and post-structuralist philosophy.
