Curriculum Structure
To graduate, students must complete 2 categories of requirements, totalling 126 AUs. The 2 categories are as follows:
A. Major Requirements (69 AUs)
B. General Education Requirements (GER) (57 AUs)
| A. Major Requirements |
B. General Education Requirement (GER) |
Total (AUs) |
| Core |
Prescribed
Electives |
FYP or Two
HH4000
level courses |
Core |
Prescribed
Electives
(PEs) |
Unrestricted
Electives
(UEs) |
|
| 15 |
46 |
8 |
12 |
15 |
30 |
126 |
5
Courses |
14
Courses
|
|
8
Courses
|
5
Courses |
|
|
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 (8AUs)
(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. Each course (unless otherwise stated) is equivalent to 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) Choose at least 1 course from each of the following 3 categories.
Global Asia
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)
- HH2016 History of Animals (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)
- HH3002 Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern East Asia (3 AUs)
- HH3004 Comparative Business History (3 AUs)
- HH3010 Biotechnology and Society (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)
- 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)
- HH4019 Special Topics in History and Philosophy of Science (4 AUs)
- HH4020 Science, Technology, and Science Fiction (4 AUs)
- HH4021 Public & Applied History (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)
- HH4091 Special Topics in History - Interdisciplinary History (4 AUs)
- HI3001 1984: Past, Present, Prophecy (3 AUs)
World History
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. General Education Requirement (GER) (57 AUs)
| GER-Core |
|
12 |
| GER-PE |
Science, Technology and Society (STS) |
3 |
| Business and Management (BM) |
3 |
| Liberal Arts (LA) |
3 |
| GER-PE in Any Category (STS, BM or LA) |
3 |
| GER-PE in Any Category (STS, BM or LA) |
3 |
GER-UE
|
30 |
| Total AU |
57 |
The General Education Requirements (GER) courses consists of 3 components:
B2. GER-Prescribed Electives (15 AUs)
B3. GER-Unrestricted Electives (30 AUs)
B1a. 2 courses from GER-Core Communication Skills (2 AUs each):
- HW0105 Academic Communication in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (to be read in year 1, semester 1)
- HW0205 Academic Communication in the Humanities (to be read in year 1, semester 2)
B1b. 2 courses from GER-Core Career-related (1 AU each):
- ML0001 Absolute Basics for Career (online course to be read in year 2)
- ML0002 Career Power Up (online course to be read in year 3)
B1c. 1 course from GER-Core Singapore Studies* (to be read in year 2) (3 AUs each):
- HA0201 Government and Politics of Singapore
- HC0201 Chinese Literature in Singapore
- HE0201 The Singapore Economy
- HG0201 Singapore's Languages
- HH0201 Singapore and the Modern World (not for History major students)
- HL0201 Images of Singapore: Literature, Film and Culture
- HP0201 Employment Relations for Work and Careers in Singapore
- HS0201 Understanding Singapore Society
*The list of Singapore Studies courses offered for each semester may change from time-to-time.
B1d. Fulfil the following GER-Core Other online courses in sequence and in every semester 2 (1 AU each):
- GC0001 Environmental Sustainability (to be read in year 1, semester 2)
- HY0001 Ethics & Moral Reasoning (to be read in year 2, semester 2)
- ET0001 Enterprise & Innovation (to be read in year 3, semester 2)
B2. 5 courses from a list of GER–Prescribed Electives in the following categories with at least 1 course from each category (15 AUs total):
- Business and Management (BM)
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
- Liberal Arts (LA)
B3. Courses categorised under GER-Unrestricted Electives that are offered by any School (30 AUs total).