Recognised Courses

Chinese Studies (CH) Major Recognised Courses

For All Cohorts:

  • CL2101 The Chinese Script: History and Issues
  • CL2104/CL3104 Reading/Writing Chinese
  • PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I
  • PH2302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions I
  • PH3301 Classical Chinese Philosophy II
  • PH3302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions 2

For Cohort 2021 Onwards

  • PH4205 (4 Units) Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 (4 Units) Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 (4 Units) Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy

For Cohort 2016 to 2020

  • PH4205 (5 Units) or PH4205HM (5 Units) Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 (5 Units) or PH311HM (5 Units) Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 (5 Units) or PH4312HM (5 Units) Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy

Chinese Studies (CH) Minor Recognised Courses

For All Cohorts:

  • CL2291 Chinese Anthropolinguistics (taught in English)
  • GEH1004 Chinese Heritage: History and Literature
  • GEH1023/GEC1008 Exploring Chinese Cinema: Shanghai‐Hong Kong‐Singapore
  • GESS1003/GES1005 Everyday Life of Chinese Singaporeans: Past & Present (taught in English)
  • SC3222 Social Transformations in Modern China
  • PH2301 Classical Chinese Philosophy I
  • PH2302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions I
  • PH3301 Classical Chinese Philosophy II
  • PH3302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions 2

For Cohort 2021 Onwards

  • PH4205 (4 Units) Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 (4 Units) Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 (4 Units) Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy

For Cohort 2016 to 2020

  • PH4205 (5 Units) or PH4205HM (5 Units) Topics in East Asian Philosophy
  • PH4311 (5 Units) or PH311HM (5 Units) Classical Chinese Through Philosophical Texts
  • PH4312 (5 Units) or PH4312HM (5 Units) Contemporary Readings in East Asian Philosophy

Chinese Language (CL) Major Recognised Courses

For All Cohorts:

  • CH2121 History of Chinese Literature
  • CH2141 General History of China
  • CH3221 Selected Readings in Chinese Verse

For Cohort 2017 onwards:

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

For Cohort 2020 and Before:

  • 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

Chinese Language (CL) Minor Recognised Courses

For All Cohorts:

  • 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 Before:

  • 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 Chinese Translation (TRA) Recognised Courses

For All Cohorts :

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

Minor in Interpreting (INT) Recognised Courses

For All Cohorts:

  • CL1101E Chinese Language: Its Past and Present
  • CL3550 Chinese Language Internship
  • TRA3206 Translation and Interpreting Theories
  • CH4281 Translation Studies

Minor in Chinese Media Recognised Courses

Changes would take effective from Sem 1, AY2025/26.

Recognised Courses for Chinese History, Culture and Language

Department of Chinese Studies (courses taught in Chinese)

1) CH2121 History of Chinese Literature
2) CH2141 General History of China
3) CH2243 Chinese in Southeast Asia
4) CH2276 Understanding Chinese Media and Cultural Industries
5) CH3225 Keywords in S’pore and M’sian Chinese Literary Studies
6) CH3244 Topics On Contemporary China
7) CH3245 Overseas Chinese Society
8) CH3248 Contemporary China: 1949 to Present
9) CH3281 Topics in Chinese Media (submitted as a new course proposal. Any suffixed version of CH3281 can be used to fulfil this category of the M
10) CL1101E Chinese Language: Past and Present
11) CL3104 Reading/Writing Chinese

Recognised Courses for Social Sciences and Media Studies

Department of Communications and New Media

1) NM1101E Communications, New Media and Society
2) NM2220 Introduction to Media Writing
3) NM3205 Digital Media Cultures
4) NM3211 News Writing, Editing and Publishing
5) NM3230 Digital Storytelling

Department of Economics
1) EC2374 Economy of Modern China I
2) EC3373 ASEAN Economies

Department of Political Science
1) PS2245 - Southeast Asian Politics
2) PS2248 - Chinese Politics
3) PS2249/GEK2003/SSA2209 - Government and Politics of Singapore
4) PS2238 International Politics of Northeast Asia
5) PS2250 International Politics of Southeast Asia
6) PS3247 The Rise of China and International Order
7) PS3249/SSA3205 Singapore's Foreign Policy
8) PS2241/GEK2012 - Public Administration in Asia
9) PS2244/SSA2222 - Public Administration in Singapore

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1) SC3212 Southeast Asia in a Globalizing World
2) SC3222 Social Transformation in Modern China
3) AN2203 Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
4) AN2204 Media and Culture