Visiting Professor’s ‘Anti-Muslim’ Op-ed Draws Concern From Students
Visiting Professor Shaul Mishal’s 2018 Haaretz Op-ed drew concerns from students over its similarities to white nationalist talking points. Alysha reports.
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Tag: Academics
A Liberal Education Should Interrogate Wealth and Power, Not Just Serve Them
story | Jim Sleeper, Guest Writer photo | StockSnap.io Long before Yale trustees ever thought of co-founding a liberal arts college with NUS, some of them had been coming to Singapore for years as investors, not educators. As a world-capitalist entrepot that’s a tightly run and relatively safe port in the storms of global […]
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The Promise of Academic Freedom at Yale-NUS
Where is the boundary drawn between academic freedom and freedom of expression? Daryl writes on the subject.
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Writers’ Centre Review
Recently, there has been much confusion surrounding the future of the Writers’ Centre. Alysha and Ambika report on the changes.
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Yale-NUS Concurrent Degree Programme with NUS School of Computing
story | Dion Ho, Contributing Reporter photo | Dion Ho, Contributing Reporter Yale-NUS College plans to introduce its fourth concurrent degree programme next year, this time with the NUS School of Computing (SoC). The newest programme will be added alongside the present concurrent degree programmes with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the […]
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You Cannot Do It (All)
story | Cheryl Cosslett and Simonas Bartulis, Guest Contributors illustration | Justin Ong, Editor-in-Chief For the biggest, most competitive and prestigious debating tournament in Asia in early October, two of four Yale-NUS teams did not show up. It was not a problem of finances, lack of preparation, or emergency. Rather, the teams consisting of […]
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The Development of Smart Technology in Yale-NUS
Story Dion Ho, Contributing Reporter Photo Jiang Haolie , Contributing Photographer Two exciting technological changes will be coming to Yale-NUS. Firstly, in November this year, Yale-NUS College will sign a collaborative agreement with Surbana Jurong for use of our campus as a technological testbed. Secondly, the Infrastructure, Safety & Security Office (“Infra”) will conduct a […]
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A Plea from a Non-ES Graduating Senior…
story | Rachel Ong, Guest Contributor photo | Dave Chappell What do you think is the greatest challenge confronting humans today? Do you feel our liberal arts education and the Common Curriculum in Yale-NUS have prepared us to tackle global issues of our age? What have we taken away from the Common Curriculum? And what […]
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School Suspends Online Shift for Ancient Greek Following Complaints
story | Jasmine Gan, Contributing Reporter photo | Odelia Teo Yale-NUS College has suspended plans to move Ancient Greek language modules from face-to-face to online instruction, following student and faculty dissatisfaction. Students penned an open letter to Yale-NUS College administration to petition against moving Ancient Greek language modules from face-to-face instruction to online instruction. The […]
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Global Antiquity and Chinese Studies Approved as Yale-NUS’s First Interdisciplinary Minors
story | Justin Ong, Managing Editor photo | Penguin Classics Starting in August, Yale-NUS College students can better indulge their interests in the old world. Global Antiquity was approved alongside Chinese Studies by the Curriculum committee on Feb. 27, where they will be the College’s first two interdisciplinary Minors. Courses under existing majors such as Literature, […]
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42% of Yale-NUS Upperclass Students Declare Minors
story | David Chappell, Editor-in-Chief photo | David Chappell Nearly half of the senior and juniors have declared minors, a breakdown of minor declarations has revealed. Of those declared, Arts and Humanities and Global Affairs (GA) proved the most popular. The breakdown, obtained by The Octant, revealed that approximately 42% (87 students) of the class […]
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MCS Replaces PPE as most Popular Major for Class of 2019
story | David Chappell, Editor-in-Chief photo | Yale-NUS College Admissions & Financial Aid and David Chappell The number of Yale-NUS College students declaring as science majors has increased, according to a breakdown of major declarations obtained by The Octant. Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Sciences (MCS) replaced Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) as the most subscribed […]
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Major Decisions
story | Neo Huiyuan, Arts Editor and Pham Le Vi, News Editor photo | Rachel Juay “I’ve just declared my major,” Svetlana Kekutiia ’19 announced to me as she entered the suite. It would be nothing unusual—the Class of 2019 has been declaring their major this past week—except that it was Monday, March 20, and […]
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The Common Curriculum Needs to Stay
story | Yip Jia Qi, Opinion Editor photo | Rachel Juay I came to Yale-NUS College for the Common Curriculum, not despite it. The Common Curriculum is content curation, and given the vast body of information we have at our fingertips, content curation is everything. The Common Curriculum is a tour of almost every area […]
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Common Curriculum Needs to Go
story | Terence Anthony Wang, Arts Editor photo | Rachel Juay As with most grand ideas, Yale-NUS College’s Common Curriculum started out with a noble cause. It aspired to “draw on the strength of the liberal arts tradition while addressing the needs of the current century”, providing a “range of skills and modes of inquiry”. […]
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The Elective Bazaar
story | Aditya Karkera, Opinion Editor photo | Xuerui Yang Yale-NUS College is currently engaged in its first exercise of the elective selection process as a full house, and as everyone—from a Class of 2020 that wishes ungraded semesters were longer, to a Class of 2017 that wishes undergraduate educations were longer—picks from a growing […]
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PPE Certificate Reflects Major Problems
story | Elaine Li, News Editor photo | Rachel Juay In response to issues with resource pooling and student concerns, a suggestion has been raised to replace the Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) major with a certificate. “One suggestion is that PPE might become a sort of certificate on top of your major,” said John […]
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Critical Readings: How I learned to stop worrying and love the book
Story | Justin Ong, Managing Editor Photo | Serena Quay Sometime in week five it occurred to me that I was in trouble. I was not enjoying what I read. Readings came and went like poorly-timed stage directions, and I went through the motions as instructed. How did it come to this? Being stuck at […]
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