Undergraduate Courses
For information on courses offered for the forthcoming semesters, as well as on instructor details, select the relevant semester option below. Please note the changes to some course codes, and pay attention to module preclusions provided in the detailed write-up for each course.
Courses listed are correct as of 19 April 2024.
Semester 1 - AY2024-25
DR GRETCHEN COFFMAN
ASSOC PROFESSOR T.C. CHANG
Modular credits: 4
Workload: 2-1-1-3-3
Preclusion: GE1101E/GEK1001
Cross-listing: GE1101E/GEK1001
This module introduces contemporary issues shaping our world and the geographical perspectives needed to understand them.
Starting with ‘how geographers view the world’, the module offers a lens to analyse issues like climate change, urban flooding, human-environment relations, challenges of migration, cultural diffusion, economic integration and so forth.
Each lecture will touch on contemporary scenarios and geographical analyses of issues. Students will also be exposed to field work techniques and strategies of project management in group discussions and project assignments.
The goal is to develop students with strong ‘geographical imaginations’ better able to understand the world and all its complexities.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
DR MENUSHA DE SILVA
Units: 4
Workload: 3-1-0-3-3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Preclusions: GEK2001, SSA2202, GESS1001
Cross-listings: GEK2001, SSA2202
Description:
This course attempts to understand the rationale of changes in Singapore’s urban landscape.
It places these changes within a framework that considers Singapore’s efforts to globalise and examines how policies are formulated with the idea of sustaining an economy that has integral links sub-regionally with Southeast Asia while developing new spatial linkages that will strengthen its position in the global network.
Emphasis is also given to recent discussions about how diversity and difference in the perception and use of space pose a challenge to the utilitarian and functional definition adopted by the state.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
DR MENUSHA DE SILVA
Units: 4
Workload: 3-1-0-3-3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Preclusions: GEK2001, SSA2202, GES1003
Cross-listings: GEK2001, SSA2202
Description:
This course attempts to understand the rationale of changes in Singapore’s urban landscape.
It places these changes within a framework that considers Singapore’s efforts to globalise and examines how policies are formulated with the idea of sustaining an economy that has integral links sub-regionally with Southeast Asia while developing new spatial linkages that will strengthen its position in the global network.
Emphasis is also given to recent discussions about how diversity and difference in the perception and use of space pose a challenge to the utilitarian and functional definition adopted by the state.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
DR YAN YINGWEI
Modular credits: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-3-3
Preclusion(s)/Pre-requisites: Nil
This module focuses on the important concepts and the practical use of Geographic Information System (GIS) in problem solving in both the social and physical sciences. Topics to be covered include vector and raster data formats and their analytical functions. This module is designed as learning through practicing, so practical laboratory excises utilising GIS software such as ArcGIS will be major classroom activities. This module is mounted for students throughout NUS with interests in GIS applications in sciences, social sciences, engineering and business analysis.
C.A.: 70%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
ASSOC PROFESSOR KAMALINI RAMDAS
Modular credits: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-4-3
Pre-requisite(s)/ Co-requisite(s)/ Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s):
This module will examine the fundamentals of Social and Cultural Geography. Designed as an introductory platform, its primary aim will be to provide students with the knowledge and skills to undertake more specialised modules in Social and Cultural Geography. The module will provide the historical, conceptual and methodological underpinnings that will enhance students’ understanding of the relationship between culture, space, place and society.
C.A.: 60%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR MUHAMMAD NAWAZ
DR ABEL YANG
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-4-3
Pre-requisite(s): Open to CHS and all other students (Priority for CHS students)
Preclusion(s): XD3103
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course introduces earth and planetary science in an integrated manner through the intersection of physical geography and astronomy, providing students with an understanding of Earth as a planet, alien worlds, universal processes and life beyond Earth. In particular, the students will develop an understanding of processes common to planets, with a view to understanding the potential future human exploration and colonization of the solar system. This course will also highlight the key concepts shaping planetary system science and how discoveries from different fields are changing the interdisciplinary knowledge relevant to the earth and planetary science.
C.A.: 100%; Exam: 0%
DR VANESSA BANTA
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-3-4
Preclusion(s)/Pre-requisite(s)/ Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course examines the impact of feminism on human geography, from the call to insert women into geographical analyses and take into account gender relations in rethinking dominant definitions of space, place, landscape and nature to more recent debates on diversity and difference. It also explores the politics and practice of doing feminist research in geography. Drawing on case studies in both developed and developing countries, the gendering of specific sites (ranging from the home to the nation) and processes (e.g. migration) is explicated in the module. The course is targeted at all students interested in gender issues.
C.A.: 60%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR CARL GRUNDY-WARR
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-3-4
Preclusion(s)/Pre-requisite(s)/ Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course examines important geographical, ecological and political concepts and approaches to natural resources management. In particular, we focus on ownership regimes, access, exploitation and conservation in different social, economic and cultural contexts. Detailed cases of fisheries, forestry, freshwater and agriculture conflicts and problems are discussed.
C.A.: 50%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR ALLEN XIAO
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-3-4
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2204
Description
This course is designed for students with an interest in urban geography and global studies. Applying urban theories to various case studies drawn from Asia and beyond, the module critically examines global urban systems and draws attention to the worlding dynamics of cities in transition from geographical perspectives. The first part of the course focuses on the theories and factors that contribute to changes of cities, including immigration, economic restructuring, geopolitics, and technologies. The second half of the course specifically examines the roles of states and their power relationships with citizens in the transitional processes.
C.A.: 70%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR NATHAN GREEN
Modular credits: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2.5-4.5
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2221
Description
This course introduces conceptual approaches for understanding the myriad relationships between human societies and their biophysical environments. It addresses three key questions. First, how are nature and society interconnected? Second, what theoretical and methodological approaches can be used to study nature-society relationships? Third, how can societal relationships with nature be improved in ways that are sustainable and just? These questions will be explored using different social theories, particularly from the interdisciplinary field of political ecology, which will be applied to contemporary environmental issues. Students will learn how to critically think, discuss, and write about complex nature-society interactions.
C.A.: 60%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
PROFESSOR MATTHIAS ROTH
Modular credits: 4
Workload: 2-0-1-2-5
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2228
Description
Weather has an immediate effect on all of us and climate is important in human affairs on a global level. This module provides an introduction to both weather and climate. Processes underlying the behaviour of the atmospheric environment from local to global scales are discussed. The course commences with a discussion of atmospheric concepts in a visual and practical manner. Understanding and application of basic meteorological principles will help to explain environmental phenomena such as clouds and precipitation, tropical storms and global climate change. This course is appropriate for students from all Faculties.
C.A.: 60%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR MUHAMMAD NAWAZ
Modular credits: 4
Workload: 2-2-0-2-4
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2230
Description
The extraction, production, distribution and use of energy sources have significant environmental, social, political, and economic impacts. These impacts are multi-scalar, ranging from global climate change to socio-cultural disruption at the local and national scale. This module exposes students to these impacts with detailed case studies. The course also gives students a comprehensive background on the development and use of promising future post-carbon alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, and biofuels. It also discusses how to build the architecture of a post-carbon economy.
C.A.: 70%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR GRETCHEN COFFMAN
Modular credits: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-2-4
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2229
Description
Water is present and moves through all parts of the Earth system; the freshwater component, amounting to about 1% of water on Earth, is fundamental to life. This module focuses on rivers, lakes, estuaries, wetlands and adjoining land (coastal and riparian zones). Taking a global perspective, with a focus on the tropics and Singapore, this course explores the reservoirs, pathways and functioning of the hydrologic cycle, and the interactions between water and land, both on and below Earth’s surface. Dynamic hydrological processes and their effects, aquatic ecosystems, human interactions and impacts and eco-hydrology are also covered.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
A UROP involves the student working with a supervisor, and usually in a team, on an existing research project. It has relevance to the student’s Major, and involves the application of subject knowledge, methodology and theory in reflection upon the research project.
UROPs usually take place within FASS or ARI, though a few involve international partners. All are vetted and approved by the Major department. All are assessed.
UROPs can be proposed by supervisor or student, and require the approval of the Major department.
The CA components in UROP is fixed and cannot be adjusted: Essay (50%), Journal (30%), Research Involvement (20%). For more details, please click here.
C.A.: 100%;
DR TANG HAO
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4214HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- To read and pass GE2215.
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE.
Cohort 2021 onwards: (BES XDP students)
- To read and pass GE2215.
- Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
The objectives of this course are to build upon the fundamentals taught in GE2215 and GE3216 through more in-depth study of remote sensing technology, error analysis, calibration, and image analysis. On the other hand, various applications of remote sensing to different subjects are covered in greater detail than in lower level courses, with the introduction of various kinds of remotely-sensed data.
This course is taught with lectures, laboratories/tutorials and final project. Students are required to initiate, present and submit the final project to complete the course requirement.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0hrs
DR TANG HAO
Units: 5
Workload: 0-2-3-3-4.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4214
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2020 and before:
- Read and passed GE2215.
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.50 or be on the Honours track.
- BES students from both specialisations:
To read and pass GE2215. Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need to complete 28 Units of GE courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need a minimum GPA of 3.20 before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
The objectives of this course are to build upon the fundamentals taught in GE2215 and GE3216 through more in-depth study of remote sensing technology, error analysis, calibration, and image analysis. On the other hand, various applications of remote sensing to different subjects are covered in greater detail than in lower level courses, with the introduction of various kinds of remotely-sensed data.
This course is taught with lectures, laboratories/tutorials and final project. Students are required to initiate, present and submit the final project to complete the course requirement.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: 0hrs
ASSOC PROFESSOR WOON CHIH YUAN
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4217HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE.
Description:
This course focuses on the relationship between space and power.
It investigates how political processes shape human geography, and conversely, how assumptions about geography underscore global politics. We will examine key themes, concepts, & theories that define the study of critical politics from a geographical perspective.
Students will gain a critical understanding of and appreciation for the historical and contemporary challenges of sovereignty, territoriality, governmentality, identity, citizenship, difference, violence, genocide, colonialism, and war.
The course culminates with the themes of resistance, emancipation, direct action, and anarchism, which will allow students to consider alternative configurations of space and power.
C.A.: 50%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
ASSOC PROFESSOR WOON CHIH YUAN
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-3-6.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4217
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2019 and before:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- Global Studies students -
Completed at least 80 Units, including 28 Units in GL/GL-recognised non-language courses, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Cohort 2020 :
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Description:
This course focuses on the relationship between space and power.
It investigates how political processes shape human geography, and conversely, how assumptions about geography underscore global politics. We will examine key themes, concepts, & theories that define the study of critical politics from a geographical perspective.
Students will gain a critical understanding of and appreciation for the historical and contemporary challenges of sovereignty, territoriality, governmentality, identity, citizenship, difference, violence, genocide, colonialism, and war.
The course culminates with the themes of resistance, emancipation, direct action, and anarchism, which will allow students to consider alternative configurations of space and power.
C.A.: 75%; Exam: 50% ; 2 hrs
Total: 125%
DR CARL GRUNDY-WARR
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4221HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- BES XDP students:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
The course provides an opportunity for students to gain hands-on skills and research design practice through residential fieldwork in human geography.
The field trip will be embedded within the regular semester and will be preceded by preparatory classes to provide concepts, theories and specific techniques relevant to the fieldwork location. It will be followed by a period of post fieldwork analysis and presentation of project outcomes.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
DR CARL GRUNDY-WARR
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-7-2.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4221
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2020 and before:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.50 or be on the Honours track.
- BES students from both specialisations:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need to complete 28 Units of GE courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need a minimum GPA of 3.20 before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
The course provides an opportunity for students to gain hands-on skills and research design practice through residential fieldwork in human geography.
The field trip will be embedded within the regular semester and will be preceded by preparatory classes to provide concepts, theories and specific techniques relevant to the fieldwork location. It will be followed by a period of post fieldwork analysis and presentation of project outcomes.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: Nil
DR ALLEN XIAO
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4225HM
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed at least 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE.
Description:
This course will examine the theories and concepts of childhood and youth-hood from critical geography and development studies perspectives. The course will particularly focus on approaches and material from the sub-discipline of children’s and young people’s geographies. It will explore material and representational geographies of children and young people from a global perspective. Different strands of examination may include key issues such as: children’s and young people’s social and spatial identities; the complexities of growing up global; young people and social and cultural development; mediated representations of younger people; youthful politics and activism; contexts of education, employment and aspirations.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
DR ALLEN XIAO
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-4.5-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4225
Cohort 2019 and before:
- Completed at least 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- Global Studies students:
Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE or 28 Units in GL/GL-recognised non-language courses, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Cohort 2020 :
- Completed at least 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Description:
This course will examine the theories and concepts of childhood and youth-hood from critical geography and development studies perspectives. The course will particularly focus on approaches and material from the sub-discipline of children’s and young people’s geographies. It will explore material and representational geographies of children and young people from a global perspective. Different strands of examination may include key issues such as: children’s and young people’s social and spatial identities; the complexities of growing up global; young people and social and cultural development; mediated representations of younger people; youthful politics and activism; contexts of education, employment and aspirations.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: Nil
DR REMI LUO
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4234HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in Major, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- BES XDP students:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
The tropics are presently the hotspots of global environmental changes. This course aims to examine the causes and consequences of key environmental changes in the tropics. Environmental change will be mainly looked at from two different perspectives:
1) climate change (including rising temperature, more variable precipitation and elevated CO2) and
2) anthropogenic change (including deforestation, agriculture and urbanization).
Particular focus will be given to recent literatures on climate change, tropical ecosystem dynamics and land use and land cover change. Current high rates of changes in these processes, and their nature, are placed within a contemporary context with a particular focus on Asia.
C.A.: 100%
DR REMI LUO
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-2.5-7
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4234
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2020 and before:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- BES students from both specialisations:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need to complete 28 Units of GE courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need a minimum GPA of 3.20 before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
The tropics are presently the hotspots of global environmental changes. This course aims to examine the causes and consequences of key environmental changes in the tropics. Environmental change will be mainly looked at from two different perspectives:
1) climate change (including rising temperature, more variable precipitation and elevated CO2) and
2) anthropogenic change (including deforestation, agriculture and urbanization).
Particular focus will be given to recent literatures on climate change, tropical ecosystem dynamics and land use and land cover change. Current high rates of changes in these processes, and their nature, are placed within a contemporary context with a particular focus on Asia.
C.A.: 125%
PROFESSOR BRENDA YEOH
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Preclusion(s): GE3237, GE4236HM
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE. Must have read and passed GE1101E.
- BES XDP students:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
This course explores conceptual and empirical approaches to the geographies of migration, investigating diverse spaces, processes and mobilities associated with being and becoming a migrant. Tracing migration stories through states of transition, we will explore the uncertain existence of the migrant across figures (such as the stranger, the student, the refugee) and spaces (such as the border, the city and the home). These ideas will be unfolded alongside contemporary examples of internal, transnational and international migration, and diverse topics such as regulatory regimes, gender, labour, diversity, citizenship, development and class.
C.A.: 100%
PROFESSOR BRENDA YEOH
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-2.5-7
Preclusion(s): GE3237, GE4236
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2020 and before:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in Major, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- BES students from both specialisations:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need to complete 28 Units of GE courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need a minimum GPA of 3.20 before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
This course explores conceptual and empirical approaches to the geographies of migration, investigating diverse spaces, processes and mobilities associated with being and becoming a migrant. Tracing migration stories through states of transition, we will explore the uncertain existence of the migrant across figures (such as the stranger, the student, the refugee) and spaces (such as the border, the city and the home). These ideas will be unfolded alongside contemporary examples of internal, transnational and international migration, and diverse topics such as regulatory regimes, gender, labour, diversity, citizenship, development and class.
C.A.: 125%
PROFESSOR PAUL KENCH
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-3-4
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4239HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE. Must have read and passed GE1101E.
- BES XDP students from both specialisations:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need to complete 28 Units of GE courses before they can read any level-4000 courses.
Description:
Located at the land-ocean interface, coastal landforms are among the most dynamic landscapes on earth and provide the substrate for 80% of the world’s population. This course examines the diversity and evolution of different coastal landforms, and the rates and magnitude of coastal change. Focusing on tropical coastal landforms, the course uses morphodynamics as an integrating framework to examine process drivers and morphological feedbacks that modulate coastal change across a range of temporal and spatial scales. Knowledge and skills gained in the course provide the science basis that contributes to management of the coast.
C.A.: 100% Exam: 0%
PROFESSOR PAUL KENCH
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-5.5-4
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4239
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2020 and before:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- BES students from both specialisations:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need to complete 28 Units of GE courses. Do not need a minimum GPA of 3.20 before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Description:
Located at the land-ocean interface, coastal landforms are among the most dynamic landscapes on earth and provide the substrate for 80% of the world’s population. This course examines the diversity and evolution of different coastal landforms, and the rates and magnitude of coastal change. Focusing on tropical coastal landforms, the course uses morphodynamics as an integrating framework to examine process drivers and morphological feedbacks that modulate coastal change across a range of temporal and spatial scales. Knowledge and skills gained in the course provide the science basis that contributes to management of the coast.
C.A.: 125% Exam: 0%
All Staff
Units: 8
Workload: 0-0-0-0-20
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4660, GE4660HM, GE4401HM
Pre-requisite(s): For GE majors/BES NVG students
Cohort 2021 onwards:
To read and pass GE3240. Completed 110 Units including 40 Units of GE major requirements and SJAP of 4.00 and a GPA of 3.50. Students may seek a waiver of the SJAP pre-requisite from the Department if they have a minimum GPA of 4.25 after completing 110 Units.
Cohort 2021: (BES XDP students).
To read and pass GE3240. Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
Units: 15
Workload: 0-0-0-0-37.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4401, GE4660, GE4660HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2012 and before:
To read and pass GE3240. Completed 110 Units including 60 Units of GE requirements and GPA of 3.50.
Cohort 2013-2015:
To read and pass GE3240. Completed 110 Units including 60 MCs of GE requirements with a minimum SJAP of 4.00 and GPA of 3.50. Students may seek a waiver of the SJAP pre-requisite from the department if they have a minimum GPA of 4.25 after completing 110 Units.
Cohort 2012 to 2020:
To read and pass GE3240. Completed 110 Units including 44 Units of GE requirements with a minimum SJAP of 4.00 and GPA of 3.50. Students may seek a waiver of the SJAP pre-requisite from the department if they have a minimum GPA of 4.25 after completing 110 Units.
Cohort 2012 to 2020 (BES NVG students):
To read and pass GE3240. Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses. Do not need to complete 28 Units of GE modules before they can read any level-4000 GE modules. Do not need a minimum GPA of 3.20 before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
The Honours Thesis may be on either:
(a) an aspect of the geography of Singapore or Malaysia; or
(b) any other approved geography topic.
The subject for the thesis is to be chosen in consultation with the staff of the Department.
More information can be found in the Honours Programme page.
All Teaching Staff
Units: 4
Workload: 0-0-0-0-10
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4660HM, GE4401, GE4401HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
To be offered subject to the agreement of the Supervisor and Department. Completed 100 Units, including 40 Units in GE with a minimum GPA of 3.20.
Units: 5
Workload: 0-0-0-0-12.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4660, GE4401, GE4401HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2012-2015:
Completed 100 Units, including 60 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20.
Cohort 2016 onwards:
Completed 100 Units, including 44 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20.
The Independent Study Course is designed to enable the student to explore an approved topic within the discipline in depth.
The student should approach a lecturer to work out an agreed topic, readings, and assignments for the course. A formal, written agreement is to be drawn up, giving a clear account of the topic, programme of study, assignments, evaluation, and other pertinent details.
Head's and/or Honours Coordinator's approval of the written agreement is required. Regular meetings and reports are expected.
Evaluation is based on 100% Continuous Assessment and must be worked out between the student and the lecturer prior to seeking departmental approval.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil