Recognised Courses

Chinese Languages and Cultures (CL) Major Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2026 onwards:

  • EL3201 Syntax
  • EL3205 Morphology
  • EL3208 Bilingualism
  • EL3209 Language, Culture, and Mind
  • EL3211 Language in Contact
  • EL3231 Phonetics
  • EL3251 Language, Society and Identity

Chinese Studies (Bilingual) (CH) Major Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2026 onwards:

  • All CL courses
  • All INT courses
  • All TRA courses
  • PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I
  • PH2302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions I
  • PH3301 Classical Chinese Philosophy II
  • PH3302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions 2
  • PH4205 Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy

Chinese Studies (Bilingual) (CH) Minor Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2026 onwards:

  • CL2291 Chinese Anthropolinguistics (taught in English)
  • GEC1008 Exploring Chinese Cinema: Shanghai‐Hong Kong‐Singapore
  • GESS1003 Everyday Life of Chinese Singaporeans: Past & Present (taught in English)
  • PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I
  • PH2302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions I
  • PH3301 Classical Chinese Philosophy II
  • PH3302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions 2
  • PH4205 Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy
  • SC3222 Social Transformations in Modern China

Chinese Studies (CH) Major Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2021 to 2025:

  • CL courses
  • PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I
  • PH2302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions I
  • PH3301 Classical Chinese Philosophy II
  • PH3302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions 2
  • PH4205 Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy

Chinese Studies (CH) Minor Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2021 to 2025:

  • CL2291 Chinese Anthropolinguistics (taught in English)
  • GEC1008 Exploring Chinese Cinema: Shanghai‐Hong Kong‐Singapore
  • GESS1003 Everyday Life of Chinese Singaporeans: Past & Present (taught in English)
  • PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I
  • PH2302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions I
  • PH3301 Classical Chinese Philosophy II
  • PH3302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions 2
  • PH4205 Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy
  • SC3222 Social Transformations in Modern China

Chinese Language (CL) Major Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2021 to 2025:

  • CH2121 History of Chinese Literature
  • CH2141 General History of China
  • CH3221 Selected Readings in Chinese Verse
  • EL3201 Syntax
  • EL3205 Morphology
  • EL3208 Bilingualism
  • EL3209 Language, Culture, and Mind
  • EL3211 Language in Contact
  • EL3231 Phonetics
  • EL3251 Language, Society and Identity

Chinese Language (CL) Minor Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2025 and earlier:

  • CH2121 History of Chinese Literature
  • CH2141 General History of China
  • CH3221 Selected Readings in Chinese Verse
  • GEH1023/GEC1008 Exploring Chinese Cinema: Shanghai‐Hong Kong‐Singapore

For Cohort 2020 and earlier:

  • TRA2101 Basic Translation
  • TRA3201 Advanced Translation
  • TRA3202 Mass Media Translation
  • TRA3203 Film and Television Subtitling Translation
  • TRA3204 Literary Translation
  • TRA3205 Computer-Assisted Translation Tools
  • TRA3206 Translation and Interpreting Theories
  • INT2101 Basic Interpreting

Minor in Translation (TRA) Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2026 onwards:

  • CH4281 Translation Studies
  • CL3550 Chinese Language Internship

For Cohort 2021 to 2025:

  • CH4281 Translation Studies
  • CL1101E Chinese Language: Its Past and Present
  • CL3550 Chinese Language Internship
  • GESS1003 Everyday Life of Chinese Singaporeans: Past & Present
  • GESS1027 La Kopi: Forging of the Chinese Singaporean Community
  • GEX1004 Bridging East and West: Exploring Chinese Communication
  • HSA1000 Asian Interconnections

For Cohort 2020 and earlier:

  • CL1101E Chinese Language: Its Past and Present
  • CL3550 Chinese Language Internship
  • CH4281 Translation Studies

Minor in Interpreting (INT) Recognised Courses

For Cohort 2026 onwards:

  • CH4281 Translation Studies
  • CL3550 Chinese Language Internship
  • TRA2111 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting
  • TRA3206 Translation and Interpreting Theories

For Cohort 2021 to 2025:

  • CH4281 Translation Studies (with effect from Sem 1, AY2025/2026)
  • CL1101E Chinese Language: Its Past and Present
  • CL3550 Chinese Language Internship (with effect from Sem 1, AY2025/2026)
  • GESS1003 Everyday Life of Chinese Singaporeans: Past & Present
  • GESS1027 La Kopi: Forging of the Chinese Singaporean Community
  • GEX1004 Bridging East and West: Exploring Chinese Communication
  • HSA1000 Asian Interconnections
  • TRA2111 Introduction to Translation and Interpreting (New core course, with effect from Sem 1, AY2025/2026)
  • TRA3206 Translation and Interpreting Theories

Minor in Chinese Media (CM) Recognised Courses

With effect from Semester 1, AY2025/26

Recognised Courses for Chinese History, Culture and Language

Department of Chinese Studies (courses taught in Chinese)

  • CH2121 or CL2120 History of Chinese Literature
  • CH2141 or CL2130 General History of China
  • CH2243 or CL2231 Chinese in Southeast Asia
  • CH2276 or CL2251 Understanding Chinese Media and Cultural Industries
  • CH3225 or CL3225 Keywords in S’pore and M’sian Chinese Literary Studies
  • CH3244 or CL3884 Topics On Contemporary China
  • CH3245 or CL3231 Overseas Chinese Society
  • CH3248 or CL3233 Contemporary China: 1949 to Present
  • CH3281 or CL3250 Topics in Chinese Media (submitted a course proposal to recode CH3281 to CL3250)
  • CL1101E Chinese Language: Past and Present or CL1101E Transformers: Decoding Language and Cultural Changes
  • CL3104 or CL3110 Reading/Writing Chinese

Recognised Courses for Social Sciences and Media Studies

Department of Communications and New Media

  • NM1101E Communications, New Media and Society
  • NM2220 Introduction to Media Writing
  • NM3205 Digital Media Cultures
  • NM3211 News Writing, Editing and Publishing
  • NM3230 Digital Storytelling

Department of Economics

  • EC2374 Economy of Modern China I
  • EC3373 ASEAN Economies

Department of Political Science

  • PS2245 - Southeast Asian Politics
  • PS2248 - Chinese Politics
  • PS2249/GEK2003/SSA2209 - Government and Politics of Singapore
  • PS2238 International Politics of Northeast Asia
  • PS2250 International Politics of Southeast Asia
  • PS3247 The Rise of China and International Order
  • PS3249/SSA3205 Singapore's Foreign Policy
  • PS2241/GEK2012 - Public Administration in Asia
  • PS2244/SSA2222 - Public Administration in Singapore

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

  • SC3212 Southeast Asia in a Globalizing World
  • SC3222 Social Transformation in Modern China
  • AN2203 Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
  • AN2204 Media Anthropology