Yale-NUS College brings together a diverse group of students, staff, and faculty to form a community in which living and learning are intertwined, and habits of creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking are actively encouraged. Our innovative curriculum integrates knowledge from across the disciplines and around the world.
Associate Professor Nur Amali Ibrahim
HEAD OF STUDIES (ANTHROPOLOGY)
I tell students that reading is not an individual activity done in silence, but is instead a collective, noisy enterprise. By dissecting texts together in small class sizes, we help one another attain a better understanding of ideas and arguments.
Education for a lifetime of inquiry
At Yale-NUS, our liberal arts and sciences curriculum puts interdisciplinary thinking, intellectual inquiry, and problem-solving skills at the forefront of our educational mission. Learn more about our academic and residential experience.
Curriculum
The Common Curriculum is a cornerstone of the Yale-NUS experience. Students explore a wide range of subjects that take them outside of their intellectual comfort zone and develop interdisciplinary perspectives.
Literature and Humanities 1 and 2
YEAR 1 COURSE
Students explore works across time and space to learn how humans represented and shaped their worlds. We aim to cultivat
Philosophy and Political Thought 1 and 2
YEAR 1 COURSE
Students encounter transformative examples of philosophy and political thought that address enduring questions about the nature of reality and knowledge: ideas of the self, consciousness, divinity, happiness, ethics, and the character of law.
Comparative Social Inquiry
YEAR 1 COURSE
Students interrogate the social forces that determine how human beings live. As inherently social beings who interact through networks, we are the product and shapers of norms and institutions.
Quantitative Reasoning
YEAR 1 COURSE
By introducing topics on algorithmic thinking and statistical inference, this course trains students to become critical and informed readers of quantitative data.
Scientific Inquiry 1 and 2
YEAR 1 COURSE
Science is often thought of as a collection of “facts” about our world. These two courses examine how scientists arrive at our understanding of the world. They ask, “What do we know?” and “How do we know it?”
Modern Social Thought
YEAR 2 COURSE
Students encounter foundational figures of modern social thought and explore the ways in which their writings have been taken up in contemporary social analysis and political practice in different parts of the world.
Historical Immersion
YEAR 3 OR YEAR 4 COURSE
Historical Immersion courses focus on a particular historical moment, event, or individual, to enable students to explore a unique historical moment in greater depth.
Week Seven: Learning Across Boundaries
YEAR 1 COURSE
Learning Across Boundaries (LAB) is one of the College’s flagship experiential learning offerings, which takes students, faculty and staff out of the traditional classroom setting.
We offer a diverse variety of academic programmes for students to explore during their time at Yale-NUS. At the end of their second year, each student at Yale-NUS College selects a major and has the option of choosing a minor as well.
Anthropology
MAJOR | MINOR
Investigate human cultural variation and immerse yourself in complex, important issues such as religion, gender, technology, public health, and migration.
Arts and Humanities
MAJOR | MINOR
Study art in human life and the core elements of human expression from historical, critical, comparative, and practice-based perspectives.
Economics
MAJOR | MINOR
Learn how scarce resources are allocated and value determined, and how this impacts societies, markets, firms, and institutions.
Environmental Studies
MAJOR | MINOR
Draw upon the natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences to learn about and critically engage with the environmental challenges to human and planetary well-being.
Global Affairs
MAJOR | MINOR
Understand the underlying causes and consequences of transnational socio-economic, political and developmental challenges, and explore solutions to global issues.
History
MAJOR | MINOR
Explore the complex relationship between our understanding of the past and our experience of the present.
Life Sciences
MAJOR | MINOR
Ask questions and seek answers about how life works across all scales, starting with the molecular and expanding to study entire ecosystems.
Literature
MAJOR | MINOR
Refine your capacity to interpret human experiences represented in the written word by exploring Anglophone literature, Chinese languages, ancient Greek, and Latin.
Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Sciences (MCS)
MAJOR | MINOR
Develop skills in statistical data analysis and mathematical problem-solving, in the communication of complicated information, and computer programming.
Philosophy
MAJOR | MINOR
Investigate the nature of the good life and of reality, knowledge, truth, and beauty. Learn how to lead rewarding and productive lives informed by philosophical reflection.
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)
MAJOR
Develop an integrated understanding of the world through knowledge and skills that investigate links among economic, political, philosophical, and ethical phenomena.
Physical Sciences
MAJOR | MINOR
Explore some of the fundamental processes in matter, energy, space, and time. Gain the ability to understand physical concepts and solve real-world scientific problems.
Psychology
MAJOR | MINOR
Investigate why we are influenced by others, why we become the persons that we are, and how our brains work.
Urban Studies
MAJOR | MINOR
Learn about urban development and city life from multiple disciplinary perspectives: historical, political, economic, sociological, architectural, and geographical.
Chinese Studies
INDEPENDENT MINOR
Gain in-depth understanding of China, both as a historical tradition and as a modern nation with a wide-ranging sphere of influence.
Global Antiquity
INDEPENDENT MINOR
Study ancient societies, the development of ‘Classical’ traditions, and their continuing cultural significance in South Asia, ancient China, the Mediterranean, and the Near East.
Innovation and Design
INDEPENDENT MINOR
Learn and apply the principles of design thinking and engineering to solve a practical problem.
Double Degree Programme in Law and Liberal Arts
A five-year honours programme offered jointly by Yale-NUS College and Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS Law), for those seeking both a broad liberal arts education and professional training in the law. Students graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) degree and a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) degree.
Languages at Yale-NUS College
Students at Yale-NUS College have the option of studying a wide variety of languages on our campus, in partnership with our parent institutions (Yale University and the National University of Singapore) or during their summer or semester study abroad programmes. The languages we offer range from Spanish to Sign Language.
Graduate Studies and Programmes
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Public Policy (with NUS)
Concurrent Degree with Lee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyFor students who want a broad liberal arts and sciences education followed by continued training in the field of public policy.
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Computing (with NUS)
Concurrent Degree with NUS School of ComputingFor students who want to tackle significant problems in computing in a complex global context.
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Public Health (with Yale)
Concurrent Degree with Yale School of Public HealthFor students who want a broad liberal arts and sciences education and a career in the field of public health.
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Management (with Yale)
Silver Scholars Programme with Yale School of ManagementFor students who want to rapidly realise their career goals by directly entering the Yale MBA programme after their undergraduate studies.
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Environment (with Yale)
Special Programme with Yale School of the EnvironmentFor students who want to pursue careers in an environmental field through graduate training in environmental science, management, and policy.
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Medicine (with Duke-NUS)
Yale-NUS & Duke-NUS Liberal Arts and Medicine PathwayFor students who are planning to pursue a career in medicine and appreciate the interconnectedness of the sciences, social sciences and humanities in medical practice.
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