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 course preclusions provided in the detailed write-up for each course.
Courses offered:
Semester 1 - AY2025/26
PROFESSOR TC CHANG
DR GRETCHEN COFFMAN
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2-0-5
Preclusion: GEK1001
Cross-listing:
Description:
In this course, we will explore contemporary socio-economic and environmental issues and processes shaping our world, and the geographical perspectives needed to better understand them. Our primary goal is to develop students with strong ‘geographical imaginations’ better able to understand our human and physical environments and all their complexities in a holistic way.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
PROFESSOR TC CHANG
DR LI HAO
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2-5
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion: GET1001
Description:
In general, this course is aimed at getting student to critically engage with the ‘work’ or ‘power’ of maps in shaping the historical emergence of the modern world and in its ongoing transformation. To do this we will combine diverse modes of learning, covering issues of knowledge and content (the history of cartography), practical skills of map making/reading, and critical skills of evaluating and interpreting maps. We will stimulate a critical awareness of mapping as an evolving technology that has far-reaching social and political considerations.
C.A.: 50%; Duration of examination: 50%
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
ASSOC PROF WOON CHIH YUAN
DR TAN WENN ER
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-4-3
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusions: GE2202 and GE2222
Description:
This compulsory course provides an introduction to political and economic geography, and serves as a gateway to more specialised level 3000 and 4000 modules in these fields. It advances two key arguments, namely that politics and the economy are (1) tightly intertwined and (2) innately geographical phenomenon. It explores how politics, the economy and the environment are constituted through different sets of actors and their interrelationships. It mobilises core geographical concepts, notably place, space, scale and territory, along with notions of power and resistance, to offer a distinctive perspective on processes of uneven development in the contemporary world.
C.A.: 50%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
ASSOC PROFESSOR MAX LUPASCU
DR REMI LUO
Units: 4
Workload: 2-2-0-2-4
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusions: GE2225
Description:
This course is an introduction to Earth Systems Science, providing students with an understanding of the key interactions between the different spheres of planet Earth: the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and the anthroposphere. In particular, students will develop an understanding of the holistic view and thinking about interconnections and interrelationships in the earth’s systems and sub-systems. This course will highlight key concepts shaping Earth Systems Science, such as sustainability, planetary boundaries and safe operating spaces.
C.A.: 70%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR YAN YINGWEI
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-3-3
Preclusion(s)/Pre-requisites: Nil
This course 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 course is designed as learning through practicing, so practical laboratory excises utilising GIS software such as ArcGIS will be major classroom activities. This course 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
DR MUHAMMAD NAWAZ
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 module 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 module 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.: 60%; Exam duration: 2 hrs
ASSOC PROFESSOR PETRA TSCHAKERT
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.: 70%; 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 DYLAN BRADY
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-4-3
Pre-requisite(s)/Preclusion (s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course examines the tenets of transport geography with a contemporary view in mind. Not only is it interested in the subdiscipline's tradition of describing and explaining the Earth's transport systems, it also seeks to advance understandings of how transport systems are changing. The module will examine key land, sea and air transport technologies, consider their spatial characteristics, and interrogate emerging trends that could impact the future geographies of transport. It is concerned with practical questions of transport organisation and design, as well as socially pertinent challenges like inequity and sustainability. Case studies will be drawn from Singapore and beyond.
C.A.: 70%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
ASSOC PROFESSOR GODFREY YEUNG
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-4-3
Pre-requisite(s)/Preclusion(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course offers a work and labour-based perspective on the contemporary global economy, which is still predominantly studied from the viewpoint of firms and states in the social sciences. It profiles the vast range of work types and conditions that constitute the economy, and their wider societal implications. Moreover, it develops an explicitly geographical perspective, using the lenses of place, space and scale to reveal the inherent spatialities of worlds of work.
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 ZHOU WEN
Units: 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.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
PROFESSOR MATTHIAS ROTH
DR LI MENGZE
Units: 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 course provides an introduction to both weather and climate. Processes underlying the behaviour of the atmospheric environment from local to global scales are discussed. The module 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
Units: 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 course 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
Units: 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 course 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 SHAUN TEO
GE4204
Units: 4
Workload: 0-0-0-0-3-7
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4204HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, or 28 Units in SN or 28 Units in GL/GL-recognised non-language courses. Must have read and passed GE1101E
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
GE4204HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-0-0-0-3-9.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4204
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2019 and before:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE or 28 Units in SN, 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 course, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
Cohort 2020 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, or 28 Units in SN, 28 Units of GL/GL-recognised non-language courses, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
Descriptions:
This course focuses on the geographical politics of urban knowledge production and how they impact our understandings of contemporary urbanisation. It starts by outlining the dominant theoretical trends of urbanisation that are largely inspired by the experiences of Euro-American cities. It then introduces some ways of making sense of different aspects of contemporary urbanisation when adopting theoretical starting points from outside "the global North". Students will be challenged to re-learn what they know about cities and develop alternative knowledges about contemporary urbanisation.
DR MENUSHA DE SILVA
GE4213
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4213HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, or 28 MCs in SN.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: NA
GE4213HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-3-6.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4213
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2019 and before:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, or 28 Units in SN 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, or 28 MCs in SN with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: NA
Description:
This course facilitates a theoretical and methodological engagement with ‘the cultural’ in Geography and related fields of study.
Cultural Analysis examines: theoretical developments in geographical studies of culture, particularly interrelations with domains that have conventionally been considered extra-cultural (such as ‘the economic’ and ‘the political’); and methodological techniques and approaches for studying reconceptualised notions of culture (in particular, ‘cultural politics’ and ‘cultural economy’).
The module will appeal to advanced students in Geography and related disciplines interested in interrelationships between culture and space.
DR TANG HAO
GE4214
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.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0hrs
GE4214HM
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.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: 0hrs
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.
DR CARL GRUNDY-WARR
DR CARLY NICHOLS
GE4221
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
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
GE4221HM
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.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: Nil
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.
ASSOC PROFESSOR MICHIEL VAN BRUEGEL
GE4224
Units: 4
Workload: 0-0-0-2-3-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4224HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE.
- BES XDP students from both specialisations:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
GE4224HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-0-1-5.5-6
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4224
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.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: NA
Description:
This course explores the subfield of biogeography, dedicated to understanding and addressing the profound impacts of human activities on global diversity. Integrating principles from ecology, geography and conservation science, students will explore species' and ecosystems' spatial distribution, abundance and conservation status in Southeast Asia. Emphasis is placed on identifying biodiversity hotspots, assessing threats and devising conservation strategies. Students will explore risks of extinction due to habitat destruction, climate change and invasive species. Through hands-on experiences, including fieldtrips, expert guest lectures and group conservation projects, students will acquire practical skills and apply theoretical insights to tackle pressing ecological challenges.
DR ALLEN XIAO
GE4225
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.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
GE4225HM
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.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: Nil
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.
ASSOC PROFESSOR LIN WEIQIANG
GE4226
Units: 4
Workload: 0-0-0-2-3-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4226HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards: Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
GE4226HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-0-0-4-3-5.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4226
Pre-requisite(s):
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 modules, 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.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: Nil
Description:
This course offers students theoretical and applied understandings of mobilities as sites of social life. Drawing from the ‘new’ mobilities paradigm, this course demonstrates how movement is an activity replete with meaning, purpose and politics. To exemplify this point, this course takes transport and communications as a lens of analysis, and interrogates different manifestations of mobilities across historical and contemporary contexts. Three aspects will be emphasized: the socialities and experiences of transport spaces; the infrastructures of circulation; and the digitalization of modern-urban life. The course aims to help students appreciate what is at stake when people and things move.
ASSOC PROFESSOR KAMALINI RAMDAS
GE4228
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4228HM, GE3206
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.
- GE3206
C.A.: 70%; Duration of examination: 2hrs
GE4228HM:
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-4.5-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4228, GE3206
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.
- GE3206
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.
- GE3206
C.A.: 95%; Exam: 30% ; 2hrs
Total: 125%
Description:
This course explores the co-constitutive relationship between gender and the city. Drawing from theoretical arguments made by geographers on feminist interventions into the urban, the module provides a gendered re-orientation of critical issues for the city such as transport, housing, uneven development, regeneration and social exclusion.
Students will draw from their understanding of key spatial concepts covered in GE3206 Gender, Space and Place to further develop their understanding of the socio-spatial dialectic and the politics that underpin the social (re)production of built environments and their impact on gendered representations and (re)distribution in cities.
PROFESSOR JAMES D SIDAWAY
GE4238
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-3-4
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4238HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE Must have read and passed GE1101E.
C.A.: 60% Exam: 40%
GE4238HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-4.5-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4238
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.
C.A.: 85% Exam: 40%
Total: 125%
Description:
This course will examine the transformation of the modern Middle East. The focus will be on the evolution of the state systemin the region, political geographies and their relationship to nations, empire, war and peace. A key analytical lens will be urban geographies. Although not a primary focus, the course will also consider the resource geographies of the region and their intersection with social, urban, economic and political geographies. The course also affords an opportunity to review the status of and approaches to area studies, the complexities of defining macro-regions, and the evolving relationship between geography and area studies.
All Faculty members
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.
The Honours Thesis may be on either:
- an aspect of the geography of Singapore or Malaysia; or
- any other approved geography topic.
Honours students in Geography are required to prepare an Honours thesis of 8,000 - 10,000 words. The thesis should feature original research based on primary and secondary sources.
The subject for the thesis is to be chosen in consultation with the faculty of the Department.
More information can be found in the Honours Programme page.
All Faculty members
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.
Description:
The Honours Thesis may be on either:
- an aspect of the geography of Singapore or Malaysia; or
- any other approved geography topic.
Honours students in Geography are required to prepare an Honours thesis of 10,000 to 12,000 words. The thesis should feature original research based on primary and secondary sources.
The subject for the thesis is to be chosen in consultation with the faculty of the Department.
More information can be found in the Honours Programme page.
All Faculty members
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.
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 module. 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
All Faculty members
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 module. 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