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 2 - AY2025/26
DR DYLAN BRADY
DR GRETCHEN COFFMAN
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2-5
Preclusion: GE1101E/GEK1001
Cross-listing: GE1101E/GEK1001
Description:
This course introduces contemporary issues shaping our world and the geographical perspectives needed to understand them.
Starting with ‘how geographers view the world’, the course 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 CARL GRUNDY-WARR
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2-5
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GEH1022/GEC1007
Description:
This is cross-Faculty course aimed at introducing Geopolitics to a broad range of students. The course is designed to be as engaging and interactive as possible: utilising various multi-media tools, including documentary clips, news media, filmic resources, popular journals and magazines. Not surprisingly, the course has a very lively section on Popular Geopolitics. In addition, we introduce students to the interactions of geopolitics and political space through detailed examination of different geopolitical eras and codes, specifically: Cold War Geopolitics and the Human Landscapes of Southeast Asia: and the so-called "Global War on Terror".
C.A.: 40%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR MUHAMMAD NAWAZ
DR MICHIEL VAN BREUGEL
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2-5
Prerequisite/Cross-listing: Nil
Preclusion: GE2018, GESS1002, GES1004
Description:
The course will focus on the functions of the biophysical environment of the city state of Singapore. The topics include geology, soils, river systems, water supply, natural reserves, green areas, land reclamation and coastal environments. The environmental problems that arise from the development of a large tropical city within a limited area, and the possible solutions for such problems will be examined.
The course does not require an extensive science or mathematics background.
C.A.: 60%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
ASSOC PROFESSOR GODFREY YEUNG
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-1-4-2
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusions: -
Description:
This introductory course on methods has two fundamental aims. In addition to highlight the ‘best practices’ in research, this course aims to equip students with a range of practical qualitative and quantitative research skills that will be ‘transferable’ to a variety of post-university situations.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: NA
DR YAN YINGWEI
DR BENNY CHIN
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-3-3
Preclusion(s)/Pre-requisites: Nil
Description:
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
ASSOC PROFESSOR KAMALINI RAMDAS
DR MENUSHA DE SILVA
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-4-3
Pre-requisite(s)/ Co-requisite(s)/ Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s):
Description:
Living Space introduces students to the idea that space is lived and experienced as part social and cultural life. Drawing from the arts, food, sports and film, and/or other related topics, the module delves into critical developments in social and cultural geography, providing students with the foundational knowledge and required grounding to read advanced courses in the sub-discipline. It introduces methodological approaches which include ‘ways of seeing’ and ‘landscape as text’. These are critical to understanding the human/culture and environment/space relationship.
C.A.: 60%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
DR GRETCHEN COFFMAN
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2-4-1
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): Nil
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course offers students an in-depth exploration of the practice of Ecological Restoration and the science of Restoration Ecology within the geographical context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030). Students will explore species distributions, landscape processes, and community-driven ecological restoration in tropical ecosystems of Southeast Asia. Students will engage with local communities, applying interdisciplinary perspectives to real-world ecological challenges, fostering empathy, contributing to community resilience and exploring conservation solutions. This international immersive two-week experience integrates fieldwork and problem-solving. It aims to deepen students' understanding of societal issues, encouraging reflection and action towards sustainable community resilience.
C.A.: 100%; Exam: 0%
DR SUDATTA RAY
DR NIDHI SHARMA
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0.5-0-2.5-0-5
Prerequisite: Priority for CHS students. This course is reserved for students from Year 2 onwards. Students are encouraged to have completed at least two of the Level-1000 CHS Common Curriculum courses, which may include: HSl1000, HSHl 000, CHS Data Literacy course, and CHS Digital Literacy course.
Cross-listing: Nil
Preclusion: GEH1034, NST2044
Description:
Carbon emissions from energy account for over two-thirds of all global emissions and offer an avenue for mitigating climate change via a transition to clean energy. Electrifying end-use section and shifting electricity production towards clean sources form the basis of the decarbonised energy transition.
Challenges associated with decarbonisation require an interdisciplinary approach that considers scientific and socio-environmental constraints and opportunities. This course will introduce students to the pillars, major challenges and benefits of transitioning to clean energy. Students will learn how the harnessing of clean energy technologies can be optimised to ensure rapid and fair transition to a low/zero-carbon future.
CA: 100%
ASSOC PROFESSOR MICHIEL VAN BRUEGEL
DR MENUSHA DE SILVA
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-3-0-4
Prerequisite: This course is reserved for students from Year 2 onwards.
Students are encouraged to have completed at least two of the Level-1000 CHS Common Curriculum courses, which may include: HSI1000, HSH1000, HSS1000, CHS Data Literacy course, and CHS Digital Literacy course.
Cross-listing: Nil
Preclusion: Nil
Description:
Within the context of environmental degradation and promoting sustainable lifestyles, this course will focus on four critical environmental issues: clean and adequate water for everyone; sustainable food production; healthy urban environments, and protecting endangered species. By synthesising perspectives from environmental sciences and social-cultural geography, students will learn to critically evaluate environmental initiatives and policies by comparing evidence-based arguments and opinion-based public discourses. The course will expose students to the challenges of reversing damage to ecosystems by highlighting the difficulties of reconciling conflicting views and confronting the ambiguities and complexities surrounding real-world initiatives and the uncertain outcomes generated through them.
CA: 100%
DR SHAUN TEO
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-3-4
Preclusion(s): Nil
Pre-requisite(s)/ Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course places urban planning in relation to wider social, political and economic trends as well as geographical contexts. Students will be challenged to 1) identify the complex influence of planning in shaping cities and everyday urban life; and 2) critically evaluate strategies and possibilities of planning for better urban futures. Examples are drawn mainly from rapidly changing regions in Asia, and include issues on urban redevelopment, housing, poverty, public space, resistance and state-society collaborations.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
DR LI HAO
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-4-2
Preclusion(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Pre-requisite(s): students must have taken GE2215
Description:
This course focuses on the applications of GIS and remote sensing in a geographical context. The emphasis is on the use of spatial data in business analysis, environmental planning, and resource and impact assessment. One section of the module covers topics on digital image processing with emphasis on the knowledge and understanding of techniques used in a planning context. The second section deals with spatial analysis and visualisation for geographical and business analysis (GE2215 is a prerequisite for this course).
C.A.: 100%
DR BENNY CHIN
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-4-2
Pre-requisite(s): GE2215
Preclusion (s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course examines the range of considerations necessary to develop a GIS database and perform spatial analysis. It is intended for geographers, planners, IT managers and computer scientists who have already acquired an introductory knowledge of the field. The module begins with an in-depth understanding of raster GIS analysis and its applications in physical or urban environment. It then provides formal understanding of the development of a GIS database.
Topics covered include representation and storage of spatial data, database design, and basic scripting language in ArcGIS. Students will obtain substantial hands-on GIS skills in support of geographic analyses.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
DR VANESSA BANTA
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-2-2-3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Preclusion (s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Description:
This course aims to provide Geography major students with the basic foundation skills, necessary knowledge, and recommended practices for the preparation of honours theses (HT).
These essential skills and knowledge include philosophies, theories, and key concepts in human and physical geographies, research ethics and field safety, proposal writing and literature review, and other crucial skills and techniquest that all Geography major students should possess.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: Nil
PROFESSOR ELAINE HO
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-2-5
Pre-requisite(s)/Preclusion(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2206
Description:
This course introduces students to contemporary debates in population from a geographical perspective, focusing on the ways that geography is implicated in the processes and meanings of life and death. Besides examining historical and contemporary population trends and demographic transitions, this course also investigates discourses and politics around topics such as fertility and women’s bodies, migration and transnational life, disease and health‐care, and ageing, death and dying. The course enables students to think critically about contemporary population problems and solutions and to understand how these influence policy formulation and everyday lives. This course is open to all students who are interested in population issues from a social science perspective.
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:
https://myportal.nus.edu.sg/studentportal/fas/ug/opportunities/urop.html
C.A.: 100%
ASSOC PROFESSOR WANG YI-CHEN
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0-1-5-2
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2227
Description:
This course covers the art, science, and ethics of mapmaking and map use. It aims to introduce students the design principles and techniques for creating maps with contemporary mapping tools. Topics covered include conceptualisation of geographic phenomena, projection and distortion, geospatial data manipulation and presentation, thematic map design, interactive geographic visualization, and emerging trends in cartography and geovisualisation. The course emphasises effective visual thinking and visual communication with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It is mounted for students with interests in GIS and map design as a medium for communication.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
PROFESSOR LU XI XI
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-2-4
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE2220
Description:
Earth’s geosphere – the ground beneath our feet – may seem constant and relatively unchanging, but nothing could be further from the truth. This course examines the main processes that combine to influence the development of Earth’s surface and the formation of and changes to landscapes. The origins and development of landforms, particularly in the humid tropics, is explored, as are the characteristics, functioning, dynamics and interactions within and between major associated ecosystems. Human- induced landform and ecosystem modifications are also considered. The knowledge obtained in this course is applicable to broader environmental management issues.
C.A.: 50%; Duration of examination: 2 hrs
PROFESSOR DARIUSZ WOJCIK
Units: 4
Workload: 2-1-0-4-3
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): Nil
Description:
The global financial system is a central component of the world economy, within which financial centres such as London, New York, Shanghai and Singapore act as key decision-making centres. Financial globalisation is, however, an extremely complex and controversial process, generating contradictory interpretations and policy proposals. This course introduces and develops a financial geography perspective, understood as the study of the spatiality of money and finance, and its implications for the economy, society, and nature. It introduces students to the vocabulary of finance, drawing on research relating to the global financial system, financial centres, financial globalisation, and their geographical footprint.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
DR SUDATTA RAY
Units: 4
Workload: 2-0-2-3-3
Pre-requisite(s)/Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): Nil
Description:
Geography increasingly relies on empirical data to understand social and environmental phenomena. This course will build a foundation for applied data analysis, emphasizing the fundamental data science tasks of wrangling, visualization, and analysis. Each of these tasks requires an understanding of quantitative approaches to generate and evaluate hypotheses. As such, the module will also cover essential concepts in statistics including expectation, hypothesis testing, and regression. By the end of the course , students will have a strong foundation to analyze multivariate data and communicate findings using open-source programming tools.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
DR MARIO SORIANO
GE4211
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4211HM
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards : Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE.
BES XDP students : Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: NA
GE4211HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-2-7.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4211
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. - 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.
Cohort 2020:
- 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: 0hrs
Description:
This course adopts a catchment-based approach to discussing fluvial and hydrological processes and their application to water management issues, with emphasis on Asia.
A detailed analysis of the changes that occur to these processes as a result of the degradation and urbanisation of catchments is a particular focus of the module, as is the use of Asian and local examples.
PROFESSOR TC CHANG
GE4218
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4218HM
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 students of both specialisations -
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
GE4218HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-4-5.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4218
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.
- BES students of 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. - 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 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE, with a minimum GPA of 3.20 or be on the Honours track.
- BES students of 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 modules. Do not need a minimum GPA of 3.20 before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
C.A.: 125%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
Descriptions:
Recent years have seen an emergence of ‘critical tourism studies’ focused on tourism’s role in alleviating local problems and addressing global inequalities between countries and communities. Part of this discourse has focused on Asian tourism development and how Asian scholars have interpreted what is critical to their part of the world and the needs of indigenous communities. This course explores how different forms of tourism development are realised in the particularities of Asian socio-cultural, economic, political and intellectual contexts. More specifically, it highlights the significance of Asian realities in defining the scopes and outcomes of tourism changes and knowledge production.
PROFESSOR DAVID TAYLOR
DR RACHEL OH
GE4220
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4220HM
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
GE4220HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-7-2.5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4220
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 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 physical 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.
DR NATHAN GREEN
GE4232
Units: 4
Workload: 0-0-0-2-3-5
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4232HM
Prerequisites:
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE or GL/GL-recognised non-language courses. Must read and passed GE1101E.
- BES XDP students:
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
GE4232HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-0-0-3.5-3-6
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Preclusion(s): GE4232
Prerequisites:
Cohort 2020 and before:
- Completed at least 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE or GL/GL-recognised non-language courses, 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: 0 hrs
Description:
This course explores the relationships between politics (broadly defined) and the environment at a global level.
Global political ecologies will examine environmental issues that have explicit global impact. It is also interested in issues that have comparatively less global impact but are nonetheless considered “global” because they are endemic in many places around the world.
Drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of political ecology and case studies around the world, this course will explore themes such as: environmental ideology and discourse; politics and livelihoods; energy and natural resource management; production and consumption of food, nature conservation and climate change.
ASSOC PROFESSOR FEDERICO CUGURULLO
DR XIE LINJUN
GE4233
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Preclusion(s): GE4233HM
Cross-listing(s): Nil
Pre-requisite(s):
Cohort 2021 onwards:
- Completed 80 Units, including 28 Units in GE.
- BES XDP students :
Completed 80 Units of NUS courses before they can read any level-4000 GE courses.
C.A.: 100%; Duration of examination: 0 hrs
GE4233HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-3-6.5
Preclusion(s): GE4233
Cross-listing(s): Nil
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.
- 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. - Global Studies :
Completed at least 80 Units, including 28 Units in GL/GL-recognised non-language courses, with a minimum CAP 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.
- 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: 0 hrs
Descriptions:
Through this course, students engage with key contemporary global/regional events, issues and changes through geographical lenses. The events, issues and changes selected for geographical analysis will vary each year so the course remains contemporary. Students will draw upon their accumulated geographical knowledge to research, analyse and interpret the selected events.
Working in self-defined sub-disciplinary groups (climate change geography, geomorphology, social, economic, political geography, etc) students will be assigned research and evaluation tasks to bring their particular critical perspective (connected with academic debates) to a selected event, for example, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti or food insecurities.
DR LI MENGZE
GE4237
Units: 4
Workload: 0-3-0-2-5
Preclusion(s): GE3246, GE4237HM
Cross-listing(s): Nil
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.
C.A.: 100% Exam: 0 hrs
GE4237HM
Units: 5
Workload: 0-3-0-2.5-7
Preclusion(s): GE3246, GE4237
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.
C.A.: 125% Exam: 0 hrs
Description:
Environmental pollution, the introduction of pollutants to the environment through human activity in amounts that can have adverse effects on biota, including humans, and ecosystem services, has in recent years become both more widespread and, in places, more acute. The fundamental principles of environmental pollution are used as a basis for an in-depth examination of the production and release of pollutants and their eventual pollution of the environment, and how pollution processes and effects have varied over time. Students will also consider how problems of environmental pollution can best be addressed - both in terms of their sources and their effects.
All Faculty
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
Units: 15
Workload: 0-0-0-37.5-0
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:
- 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
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 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
All Faculty
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