The study of theatre and performance will engage your creative and critical mind. At NUS Theatre Studies, we believe that the study of theatre: its practices, its operations and its impact on society can equip you with transferrable critical thinking, resource organisation and public call-and-response skills.
The study of English Literature is a study of life. Through the alluring imaginative worlds of profound writers such as Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison and J. M. Coetzee, learn to see the world with a broad, flexible, critical and creative mind-set.
The systematic study of human language from different perspectives: As a student of the English Language, you will acquire valuable intellectual skills, such as analytical reasoning, critical thinking, argumentation, and clarity of expression. These will allow you to be critical and creative in thinking, evaluate and manage complex information, construct and deconstruct arguments, and express yourself in speech and writing with clarity, precision and elegance.
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FASS Alumna Georgette Tan Receives Lifetime Accolade at SABRE Awards
On 24 September 2020, Georgette Tan (Arts and Social Sciences, ’82), was conferred a lifetime accolade at the virtual Asia-Pacific Superior Achievement in Branding, Reputation & Engagement (SABRE) Awards. Tan was previously Senior Vice President of Communications at Mastercard, where she managed external and internal communications across the Asia Pacific for over 18 years. She …
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Road to Gautam’s PhD Journey
Meet Gautam, an awardee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Dean’s PhD Fellowship. The FASS Dean PhD fellowship is one of the highest honors awarded to the top few incoming PhD FASS Students, with a cap of maximum three recipients annually. Recipients of the FASS Dean’s PhD Fellowship will attain an extra …
Poetry Shortlist | Singapore Literature Prize 2020
We are pleased to announce that Professor Edwin Thumboo’s poetry collection, A Gathering of Themes (Ethos Books, 2019), has been shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2020! Professor Thumboo is one of Singapore’s foremost pioneer poets. After more than a decade since his last anthology, Still Travelling (Ethos Books, 2008), he brings to us a new …
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Eminent NUS historian Professor Wang Gungwu receives prestigious Tang Prize
The 2020 Tang Prize in Sinology has been awarded to Professor Wang Gungwu, University Professor at NUS Arts and Social Sciences and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Chinese diaspora. Announced on 20 June 2020 by the Tang Prize Foundation, this prestigious award was conferred on Prof Wang in recognition of his trailblazing …
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NUS awards Edwin Thumboo Prize 2020 to four Pre-University Students for Outstanding Literary Work
The Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will be awarding the Edwin Thumboo Prize 2020 to four pre-university students for their outstanding literary work. Named after one of Singapore’s most prominent poets and scholars, the Edwin Thumboo Prize, aims to promote excellence …
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Conference 2019 Undergraduate Research Event
A mid-term overseas excursion involving almost sixty hours of travel can be no mere flight of fancy. From 17 to 19 October 2019, I was very privileged to be at the North American Victorian Studies Association’s (NAVSA) annual conference in Columbus, Ohio. I was there with the support of the English Language and Literature …