Single-Honours Degree in BSocSci (Hons) (CNM) and BBA Programme

Programme Structure / Cohort 2021

##: NUS will adopt three new academic terminologies from 1 August 2023 - “Module” will be renamed “Course”, “Modular Credit (MC)” will be renamed “Unit”, and “Cumulative Average Point (CAP)” will be renamed “Grade Point Average (GPA)”. The definition of a Module/Course and MC/Unit will remain the same, and there will be no change to the computation of the CAP/GPA.

Degree Requirements MCs Requirement
(A) General Education and CHS Common Core Requirements 48 MCs
(Refer to Table A) 48 MCs
(B) BBA Programme Requirements 54 MCs
Core Modules (Refer to Table B) 46 MCs
(excluding ES2002)
Specialisation modules ^ 8 MCs
(+ 12 MCs Common Modules: Min. 4 MCs from Biz, Min. 4 MCs from CNM)
(C ) CNM Requirements 48 MCs
Essential Modules
(Refer to Table C) 		16 MCs
Honours Thesis + 8 MCs
Elective Major Modules
(See Note 5)		 24 MCs
(+12 MCs Common Modules: Min. 4MCs from Biz, Min. 4 MCs from CNM)
(D) Common Module  16 MCs
ES2002 Business Communication for Leaders (BBA) or FAS1101 Writing Academically
(see Notes 2 and 3) 		4 MCs
Selected BIZ and NM Modules from Table D. 12 MCs
(Min. 4 MCs from BIZ; Min. 4 MCs from CNM)
(E) Unrestricted Elective Requirements --
TOTAL (minimum) 166 MCs
Curriculum and MCs may change without prior notice.

^ It is not compulsory for DDP students to do a specialisation for the BBA degree, but they are still required to complete 20 MCs of electives based on the above arrangement. Students who wish to specialise in a business area may have to read extra modules to meet the respective specialisation requirements. Business (home faculty) students who withdraw from the DDP and return to the BBA/BBA(H) single degree programme are still required to specialise.

+ As the Honours thesis is optional, students may replace it with NM level-4000 modules that will count towards their CNM Honours requirements only.

Other Graduation Requirements

BIZ preparatory modules (zero-MC)

  1. Academic orientation modules (online)*:
    1. BPM1701 Calculus & Statistics
    2. BPM1702 Microsoft Excel Skills for Business
  2. Intensive 1st-year primer module*:
    1. BPM1705 Understanding How Business Works
  3. Career Preparation Modules:
    1. Career Creation Starter Modules:
      1. STR1000 Career Creation Starter Workshops **
      2. STR2000 Career Creation Starter Clinics **
    2. Global Immersion and Study

* These must be completed in the first semester. Late-entry DDP students must complete these in the first available semester of commencing DDP.

** There is no partial waiver or new substitutions. In addition, students are not required to read CFG1002 (see Note 7).

Cohort 2021 onwards CAP tag Degree requirement
Common Curriculum 48 MCs
(1)HSA1000 Asian Studies Integrated Module CA Fulfils GE Cultures and Connections Pillar and CHS Integrated module
(2) HSH1000 Humanities Integrated Module CA Fulfils GE Critique and Expression Pillar and CHS Integrated module
(3) HSS1000 Social Sciences Integrated Module CA Fulfils GE Singapore Studies Pillar and CHS Integrated module
(4) Data Literacy (refer to prescribed list) CA Fulfils GE Data Literacy Pillar and CHS common core
(5) Digital Literacy (refer to prescribed list) CA Fulfils GE Digital Literacy Pillar and CHS common core
(6) Communities and Engagement (refer to prescribed list) CA Fulfils GE Communities and Engagement Pillar and CHS common core

Notes:

The modules from (1)-(6) above are prescribed. Therefore, please ensure that you refer to the approved prescribed modules.

For example, if you read GESS1234, it is not a prescribed module on the list. You would still need to read HSS1000. HSS1000 will concurrently fulfil the CHS core and Singapore Studies pillar requirements. Hence, GESS1234 will be an excess module not counted towards your DDP requirement but the grade will still be factored into your CAP.

Consequently, if you complete HSS1000, and you decide to withdraw from this DDP and pursue only a single degree in BBA , it will still be counted towards satisfying your GSS pillar requirement.

(7) Writing ^ CA Writing module ES2002 or FAS1101
(8) Artificial Intelligence C2* CHS Common core
(9) DTK1234 Design Thinking C2* CHS Common core
(10) Scientific Inquiry I C2* CHS Integrated module
(11) Scientific Inquiry II C2* CHS Integrated module
(12) Interdisciplinary Module I C2* CHS Interdisciplinary Module
(13) Interdisciplinary Module II C2* CHS Interdisciplinary Module

Note:

Similarly, please check the prescribed modules for (8)-(13).

^ - the MC of this writing module is accounted for at Table D

* - Tagged as C2 for Biz Home Faculty students

Notes

  1. For students who are admitted at the point of admission, you will be expected to start reading modules to satisfy the CHS core requirements from your first year of study, please note that a number of CHS common core modules (marked by #) will be pre-allocated to you. We target to first pre-allocate to you (if CHS is your 2nd home Faculty), the modules that are concurrently recognised towards the general education pillars, to reduce the number of excess modules, should you decide to exit from this DDP. As a guide, you may refer to the pre-allocation sequence for CHS students in the single degree programmes.

    In addition, we wish to alert you, and also potential mid-stream DDP applicants, that there is a list of prescribed modules for the various categories of CHS common modules. Hence, you have to follow the list posted at https://chs.nus.edu.sg/programmes/#prog-overview carefully. Please refer to the above example on GESS1234 and HSS1000 about satisfying the GSS pillar requirement.
  2. Students in the USP, UTCP or RVRC will read the respective college programmes’ modules and count them towards part of the CHS common core requirements as laid out in Table E.
  3. C1 means the credits and grades that will be factored towards your first degree, C2 means towards your second degree and CA means for both degrees. In this illustration, Biz is deemed to be your first Faculty.
ACC1701 Accounting for Decision Makers 4 MCs
BSP1702 Legal Environment of Business 4 MCs
BSP1703 Managerial Economics 4 MCs
BSP2701 Global Economy 2 MCs
BSP3701 Strategic Management 4 MCs
DAO1704 Decision Analytics using Spreadsheets 4 MCs
DAO2702 Programming for Business Analytics 4 MCs
DAO2703 Operations and Technology Management 4 MCs
ES2002 Business Communication for Leaders (BBA) (common module, refer to Table D) 4 MCs
FIN2704 Finance 4 MCs
MKT1705 Principles of Marketing 4 MCs
MNO1706 Organizational Behaviour 4 MCs
MNO2705 Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty 4 MCs
Module Code Module Title
NM1101E or NM1101X Communications, New Media and Society
NM2101 Theories of Communications and New Media
NM2103 Quantitative Research Methods
NM2104 Qualitative Communication Research Methods
ES2002 Business Communication for Leaders (BBA) or FAS1101 Writing Academically (FASS)
(See Notes 3 and 4) 		4MCs
Business Modules CNM Modules

Operations & Supply Chain Management
DOS3701 Supply Chain Management
DOS3703 Service Operations Management
DOS3711 Strategic Information Systems
DOS3713 Project Management

Business Analytics
DBA4811 Analytical Tools for Consulting

Leadership & Human Capital Management
MNO3702 Negotiation and Conflict Management

Marketing
MKT3701 Marketing Management
MKT3702 Consumer Behaviour
MKT3711 Services Marketing
MKT3721 Global Marketing
MKT3716 Customer Relationship Management
MKT3718 Advertising & Promotion Management

Innovation & Entreprenuership
BSN3701 Technological Innovation

NM2201 Intercultural Communication (recognised as MNO3761% Topics in Leadership & Human Capital Management)

NM2203 Social Media in Communication Management

NM2209 Social Psychology of New Media

NM2219 Principles of Communication Management

NM2220 Introduction to Media Writing

NM2222 Ethics in Communication and New Media

NM3215 Advertising Strategies NM3217 Principles of Communication Design

NM3219 Writing for Communication Management

NM3224 Culture Industries (recognised as MNO3761% Topics in Leadership & Human Capital Management)

NM3232 Strategic Communication

NM4204 Ethics in Emergent Technologies

NM4206 Media Regulation and Governance (recognised as MKT3761% Topics in Marketing)

NM4208 Strategic Communication Design

NM4213 Digital Economies

NM4223 New Media and Organisations

NM4228 Crisis Communication

NM4881A Topics in Media Studies: Social Media

NM4883G Financial Communication
Requirements Cohort 2021 onwards CAP tag (for Biz Home Fac) USP UTCP RVRC
Common Curriculum
Core
(1) Communities and Engagement CA USP2201 or UHB2213 or UCV2209 Junior Seminar RVN
(2) Data Literacy CA NA – read from CHS prescribed list NA – read from CHS prescribed list NA – read from CHS prescribed list
(3) Digital Literacy CA NA – read from CHS prescribed list NA – read from CHS prescribed list NA – read from CHS prescribed list
(4) Writing CA UWC2101% Ideas and Exposition I - UTW RVX
(5) Artificial Intelligence C2 Deus Ex Machina: Generative AI and Society NA – read from CHS prescribed list NA – read from CHS prescribed list
(6) DTK1234 Design Thinking C2 NA – read from CHS prescribed list NA – read from CHS prescribed list NA – read from CHS prescribed list
Integrated modules
(7) HSA1000 Asian Studies Integrated Module CA UHB, USE and UCV NA – read HSA1000 NA – read HSA1000
(8) HSH1000 Humanities Integrated Module CA ULT, UAR, UPI and UHB NA – read HSH1000 NA – read HSH1000
(9) HSS1000 Social Sciences Integrated Module CA USP’s pre-approved Singapore Studies module NA – read HSS1000 NA – read HSS1000
(10) Scientific Inquiry I C2 UQR, UPC, UBM, UIT, ULS and UNL NA – read Scientific Inquiry I NA – read Scientific Inquiry I
(11) Scientific Inquiry II C2 UQR, UPC, UBM, UIT, ULS and UNL NA – read Scientific Inquiry II NA – read Scientific Inquiry II
Interdisciplinary module
(12) Interdisciplinary Module I C2 USS2105 Senior Seminar (UTC) RVSS
(13) Interdisciplinary Module II C2 USR4002A Senior Seminar (UTS) RVC

Note:

The CHS common modules listed above are prescribed. If there is no mapping approved with the modules offered by USP/UTCP/RVRC, you must read the modules under the CHS-approved prescribed modules. As a guide, prior approval has to be sought for variations, if any.

For direct-admits to the DDP,  if you read GEA1999, it is not a prescribed module on the list. You would still need to read GEA1000 or other modules on the CHS prescribed list. GEA1000 will concurrently fulfil the CHS core and the Data Literacy pillar requirements. Hence, GEA1999 will be an excess module not counted towards your DDP requirements but the grade will still be factored into your CAP.

Notes

  1. Mid-stream DDP applicants, please take note that that there is a list of prescribed modules for the various categories of CHS common modules. Hence, you have to follow the list posted at CHS Programme Overview carefully. FASS will provide academic counselling to affected students. As a guide, prior approval has to be sought for variations, if any.
  2. USP/UTCP students are not required to read FAS1101. Students who exit from USP / UTCP without having read UWC2101, UTW1001 or UTW2001 would need to read FAS1101.
  3. Students who have read UWC2101 or ES1601 do not need to read ES2002. UWC2101 or ES1601 will be classified as a common module in lieu of ES2002.
  4. The module code and title will depend on the DDP student's home faculty:
    1. XFA4412 Integrated Honours Thesis, if home faculty is FASS
    2. XFB4001 Integrated Honours Thesis, if home faculty is BIZ
  5. Detailed requirements to CNM Major Requirement:
    • A minimum of 48MCs with:
      • 16MCs of compulsory NM modules (at Table C)
      • minimum 20MCs of NM4000 modules
      • remaining 12MCs must be modules read at NM3000
      • a maximum of 2 level-5000 NM modules (subject to department's approval)
      • a maximum of 12 MCs of recognised modules (optional)
  6. For other general information, please refer to the Double Degree Programme Framework & Guidelines in the Registrar's Office website.