Our English Language and Linguistics
programme offers an education in
linguistics, covering the study of language from structural, social and cognitive perspectives. Some courses focus on the unique properties of English, while others are interested in general patterns that shape each and every language.

Conserving her heritage language

Dr Nala Lee shares about her work in preserving the language of Baba Malay, how language relates to community and culture, and what the layperson can do to help preserve other heritage languages.

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Embrace Healthy Ageing

The research identifies the early signs of ageing and studies ways to reduce adverse health conditions stemming from ageing diseases.

Featuring Associate Professor Victor Yu, Faculty of Science and Professor Bao Zhiming, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, both from NUS’ College of Humanities and Sciences.

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The systematic study of human language from different perspectives: English Language and Linguistics gives students the opportunity to investigate linguistic phenomena in multicultural and international contexts.

The Department offers a wide array of modules for students to enhance their analytical skills: linguistic patterning, the contextual-based development of language in different cultures and institutions, and even how this field interacts with others such as semiotics, literature and popular culture. Our students are critical and creative thinkers who are able to express themselves in speech and writing with clarity, precision and elegance.

The study of English Literature is the study of life’s possibilities. Through the alluring, imaginative worlds of writers like Shakespeare, the Brontë sisters, Toni Morrison and J. M. Coetzee, learn to see the world with a broad, flexible, critical and creative mind.

We embrace the diversity of literature here at NUS. Our students have the opportunity to study the main periods of British and American literature as well as world literature such as South Asian and Southeast Asian literature. There is flexibility in adopting generic or topic approaches with subjects such as film, visual media, critical theory, gender and sexuality, and contemporary issues like literature and ecology. Students are trained to read literature using aesthetic, historical, political or theoretical approaches.

The study of theatre and performance will engage your creative and critical mind. At NUS Theatre and Performance 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.

Courses offered by the Department share a common commitment to understanding how theatre is made and the contexts in which it has significance for its communities. Students have the opportunity to study a wide range of cultures, histories, movements and ideas: everything from pre-modern Asian theatres to current cinematic and digital practices.

 

News

February 5, 2025

Recent linguistics alumnus receive LSA student abstract award

Recent alumnus Kunmei Han (PhD in linguistics 2024, now lecturer at Shenzhen University) won the second prize of the Student Abstract Award at the 2025 Annual …

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December 16, 2024

Exploring the Early Printing Press: EN5241 Students Take Rare Books Tour of the National Library of Singapore (NLS)

By Timothy Wan (Literature MA-by-research student) As research students in EN5241: Literature and New Worlds, 1590-1700, we studied British and Anglophone texts from the early modern …

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October 28, 2024

Moving beyond career success to serve with purpose, integrity and compassion

“As you step into the world, may you step out to lead with purpose, with integrity, with compassion, not just for your career but for the greater good.” This was the clarion call sounded by Ms Denise Phua, Member of Parliament for Jalan Besar GRC and Mayor for Central Singapore District, to a 100-strong audience at a recent talk where she shared insights on career transitions and effective leadership.