NUS ULR/FR/UE
Disclaimer: All of the reviews below are my personal opinions and hence do not represent the opinions of others nor reflect the actual difficulty of the modules. Difficulty and grading criteria also vary from semester to semester.
In NUS, all students will have a common set of requirements, the University Level Requirement (ULR) and differing set of faculty requirements (FR) to fulfill before graduation. Also, any additional modules taken on top of ULR, FR, major and minor requirements will be classified as Unrestricted Electives (UEs). Update: This curriculum structure no longer applies to undergraduates admitted from AY2015/2016 onwards. Nevertheless, the modules will fulfill the new requirements.
ULR consist of 2 General Elective Modules (GEMs), of which at least one must be of a contrasting subject group of the faculty, just like how most JC requires students to take a contrasting subject for GCE-A Levels. FASS and BIZ are classified under the humanities group whereas FOS, SOC and FOE are classified under science and technology group. SDE, however, is a special case and SDE students have to take exactly one from each General Elective groups. The second set of requirement within ULR is Singapore Studies Modules (SSMs) which primarily deals with socioeconomic and natural environment of Singapore. It's the advanced version of Social Studies in secondary schools. The final set of requirement is 2 Breadth Modules, which can be any modules that are not offered by the student's home faculty. As you can see, this is very in line with MOE's macro-structure for Singapore's education and I won't be surprised if it's all part of the deal. NUS calls this the T-shaped curriculum where all students have to read broadly on top of the depth their major offers.
FR differs from faculty to faculty. For FASS, we are required to take 4 introductory modules. The first is from your major, which is automatically satisfied if you want to graduate at all. One module from each of the three baskets: Asian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences to fulfill the remaining 3 modules. Note that the introductory module for major satisfy 2 different requirements, but do not contribute double credits to your graduation requirements.
Lastly, all modules which do not satisfy any specific requirements will fall into the UE category.
Below, I'll do a rather detail content description for each module below, I won't comment much about teaching methods because I have missed too many lectures, so I will focus more on content as well as my personal opinion on the modules. If you wish to also read my biased and opinionated semester reviews, click here. Any modules with inactivated links means that there are part of the plan but still unread.
In NUS, all students will have a common set of requirements, the University Level Requirement (ULR) and differing set of faculty requirements (FR) to fulfill before graduation. Also, any additional modules taken on top of ULR, FR, major and minor requirements will be classified as Unrestricted Electives (UEs). Update: This curriculum structure no longer applies to undergraduates admitted from AY2015/2016 onwards. Nevertheless, the modules will fulfill the new requirements.
ULR consist of 2 General Elective Modules (GEMs), of which at least one must be of a contrasting subject group of the faculty, just like how most JC requires students to take a contrasting subject for GCE-A Levels. FASS and BIZ are classified under the humanities group whereas FOS, SOC and FOE are classified under science and technology group. SDE, however, is a special case and SDE students have to take exactly one from each General Elective groups. The second set of requirement within ULR is Singapore Studies Modules (SSMs) which primarily deals with socioeconomic and natural environment of Singapore. It's the advanced version of Social Studies in secondary schools. The final set of requirement is 2 Breadth Modules, which can be any modules that are not offered by the student's home faculty. As you can see, this is very in line with MOE's macro-structure for Singapore's education and I won't be surprised if it's all part of the deal. NUS calls this the T-shaped curriculum where all students have to read broadly on top of the depth their major offers.
FR differs from faculty to faculty. For FASS, we are required to take 4 introductory modules. The first is from your major, which is automatically satisfied if you want to graduate at all. One module from each of the three baskets: Asian Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences to fulfill the remaining 3 modules. Note that the introductory module for major satisfy 2 different requirements, but do not contribute double credits to your graduation requirements.
Lastly, all modules which do not satisfy any specific requirements will fall into the UE category.
Below, I'll do a rather detail content description for each module below, I won't comment much about teaching methods because I have missed too many lectures, so I will focus more on content as well as my personal opinion on the modules. If you wish to also read my biased and opinionated semester reviews, click here. Any modules with inactivated links means that there are part of the plan but still unread.
ULR
UE
- GEM 1: GEK1510/PC1323: Great Ideas in Contemporary Physics (Recoded as GEK1510/GEH1029)
- GEM 2: GEM2006/PH2110: Logic (Recoded as GEM2006/GET1028)
- SSM: GEK2001/SSA2202: Changing Landscapes of Singapore (Recoded as GEK2001/GES1003)
- Breadth 1: MA3110: Mathematical Analysis II
- Breadth 2: MA3209: Mathematical Analysis III
- Major: EC1101E: Introduction to Economics
- Asian Studies: CL1101E: Introduction to Chinese Language
- Humanities: EL1101E: The Nature of Language
- Social Science: PL1101E: Introduction to Psychology
UE
- MA1100: Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics
- DSC3215: Stochastic Models in Management
- MA4266: Topology