Pre-allocation of CHS Common Curriculum Courses (Cohort 2021 Onwards)

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    CHS Common Curriculum

    The CHS Common Curriculum is a graduation requirement for all CHS students. It consists of Common Core Courses, Integrated Courses and Interdisciplinary Courses, as seen below.

    Students are strongly encouraged to complete the Common Core and Integrated Courses by the end of their fourth semester.

    For more information on the courses that students can read to clear each requirement, please click here.

    Common Core

    1. Writing (FAS1101)
    2. Data Literacy (GEA1000)
    3. Digital Literacy (GEI1001)
    4. Design Thinking (DTK1234)
    5. Artificial Intelligence
    6. Communities and Engagement

    Integrated Courses

    1. Integrated Asian Studies (HSA1000)
    2. Integrated Social Sciences (HSS1000)
    3. Integrated Humanities (HSH1000)
    4. Scientific Inquiry I (HSI1000)
    5. Scientific Inquiry II

    Interdisciplinary Courses

    1. Course Choice I
    2. Course Choice II

    *CHS students will be required to choose from a basket of interdisciplinary courses to read in their third year.

    Overview of Pre-Allocated Courses

    Please note the following:

    1. Courses can be pre-allocated in any of the semesters marked with ‘X’.
    2. For the Integrated courses (i.e. HSA1000, HSH1000, HSI1000, HSS1000), students will be pre-allocated with any 2 out of the 4 courses per semester.
    3. For DTK1234 and GEA1000, either 1 of the courses will be pre-allocated per semester.
    4. PPE-XDP students are exempted from HSH1000 and HSS1000.
    5. PPE-XDP freshmen will be pre-allocated with any one of the gateway courses in the first semester: GEX1015 (Philosophy), PS1101E (Political Science), or EC1101E (Economics).
    6. FASS Students who have declared a second major or minor in Statistics (ST) or Data Science and Analytics (DSA) before the stipulated deadline for each academic year will not be pre-allocated GEA1000, since the ST and DSA gateway courses fulfill the Data Literacy pillar.
    7. Please refer to the FAQs regarding the pre-allocation of gateway courses
        Semester  
    Fulfils Requirements Course 1 2 3 4 Remarks
    Primary Major Gateway Course X Students will be pre-allocated with the gateway course of their declared first major.
    Data Literacy GEA1000 Quantitative Reasoning X X Fulfils GE Data Literacy Pillar.
    Design Thinking DTK1234 Design Thinking X X
    Writing FAS1101 Writing Academically: Arts and Social Sciences X X Students who are required to read ES1000 Foundation Academic English and/or ES1103 English for Academic Purposes must pass those courses before they will be pre-allocated FAS1101.
    Digital Literacy GEI1001 Computational Reasoning X* X* Fulfils GE Digital Literacy Pillar.

    *Students from Cohort 2022 onwards will register for the Digital Literacy course on their own.
    Integrated Asian
    Studies    		 HSA1000 Asian Interconnections X X Fulfils GE Cultures and Connections Pillar.
    Integrated Humanities HSH1000 The Human Condition X X Fulfils GE Critique and Expression Pillar.
    Integrated Social Sciences HSS1000 Understanding Social Complexity X X Fulfils GE Singapore Studies Pillar.
    Scientific Inquiry I HSI1000 How Science Works, Why Science Works X X

    Pre-allocation Guidelines by Cohort

    Please refer to the guidelines for your own cohort only. The cohort year refers to the year that you matriculated.

    For e.g., if you had matriculated in AY2021/2022, you will belong to Cohort 2021.

    CHS Common Curriculum Courses for DDP Students

    Please refer to the the CHS Double Degree Programme page for more details on application and DDP graduation requirements.

    CHS Common Curriculum Courses for NUS College (NUSC) Students

    NUSC is the Honours College of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore’s first Honours College.  

    FASS undergraduates who are concurrently enrolled in NUSC join peers from other degree-bearing faculties to live and learn in a close-knit community. 

    They will need to fulfil the NUSC course requirements, some of which will take the place of the common curriculum courses in FASS. They will take a significant portion of their common curriculum and general education courses in NUSC instead of FASS. A peer mentor from NUSC will get in touch with incoming first-years after they have completed their onboarding and housing registration requirements. More information can be found here.

    The four-year NUSC curriculum is designed with a special emphasis on global orientation, critical thinking and impact-creation to prepare students for the future. Students engage deeply in interdisciplinary topics in small class sizes of 20 to 25 students. NUSC students also learn outside the classroom in the mandatory global pathways and impact experience programmes as well as the two-year residential programme. 

    Find out more about what NUSC has to offer and how to apply here.

     

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