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Data Literacy

Courses	SPECIAL NOTES [THESE COURSES COULD FULFIL THE GE PILLAR IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMME/MAJOR/MINOR/SPECIALISATION REQUIREMENTS.]
GEA-CODED COURSES • GEA1000/GEA1000N Quantitative Reasoning with Data	• Bachelor of Engineering students (except Industrial & Systems Engineering) must read GEA1000. • NUSC students must read GEA1000N except those in specific majors who must read BT1101/DSA1101/DSE1101/IE1111R/ST1131.
NON-GEA-CODED COURSES • BT1101 Introduction to Business Analytics • DSA1101 Introduction to Data Science • DSE1101 Introductory Data Science for Economics • IE1111R Industrial and Systems Engineering Principles and Practice I • SPH1904 Data Literacy for Healthcare • ST1131 Introduction to Statistics and Statistical Computing • TCX2002 Introduction to Business Analytics	• Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems), Bachelor of Computing (Business Artificial Intelligence Systems) & Bachelor of Science (Business Analytics) students must read BT1101. • Bachelor of Science (Data Science & Analytics) students must read DSA1101. • Bachelor of Science (Data Science & Economics) students must read DSE1101. • Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial & Systems Engineering) students must read IE1111R. • Bachelor of Science (Statistics) students must read ST1131. • Bachelor of Information Technology students must read TCX2002.

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Digital Literacy

Courses	SPECIAL NOTES [THESE COURSES COULD FULFIL THE GE PILLAR IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMME/MAJOR/MINOR/SPECIALISATION REQUIREMENTS.]
GEI-CODED COURSES • GEI1000 Computational Thinking • GEI1001 Computational Reasoning • GEI1002 Computers and the Humanities
NON-GEI-CODED COURSES • AR2524 Spatial Computational Thinking • BMI1101% Digital Literacy for Healthcare (only offered to students in the healthcare disciplines) • CM3267 Computational Thinking and Programming in Chemistry • COS1000 Computational Thinking for Scientists • CS1010%/CS1010E/CS1010S Programming Methodology • CS1101S Programming Methodology • CS2030/CS2030S Programming Methodology II • CS2113/CS2113T Software Engineering & Object-Oriented Programming • ID2116 Computing for Design • LSM2302/ZB2201 Computational Thinking for Life Sciences • NM2207 Computational Media Literacy • SP2273 Working on Interdisciplinary Science, Pythonically • TCN1005 MATLAB Programming for Chemical Engineers • TCX2001 Data Structures and Algorithms • TEE2101 Programming Methodology • TIC2001 Data Structures and Algorithms • TIE2030 Programming Methodology with Python • NPS2001% Computational Problem Solving	• Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture students must read AR2524 or ID2116. • CHS students: FASS majors, PPE XDP and BES XDP students must read a course from List A or B. FoS majors and DSE XDP students can only read a course in List B. Special Programme in Science (SPS) students must read SP2273. BPharm students from cohorts AY2021/22 and AY2022/23 can only read a course in List B or the DYOC EdX MOOC “CS50’s Introduction to Computer Science. Please note the GEI pillar is not applicable to BPharm students from cohort AY2023/24 onwards who will read a separate set of Common Curriculum for the professional healthcare cluster. List A - GEI1001 - GEI1002 - NM2207 List B - CM3267 - COS1000 - CS1010S (or its variants) - LSM2302/ZB2201 - SP2273 • Bachelor of Science (Project & Facilities Management) students must read one of these courses if they are admitted before AY22-23: COS1000, CS1010E/CS1010S. For students admitted in AY22-23 and AY23-24, they must read COS1000, CS1010E/CS1010S or GEI1001. • Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science), Bachelor of Computing (Artificial Intelligence), Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems), Bachelor of Computing (Business Artificial Intelligence Systems) & Bachelor of Science (Business Analytics) students must read one of these courses: CS1010%, CS1101S, CS2030/CS2030S. • Bachelor of Computing (Information Security) students must read one of these courses if they are admitted from AY22-23 and before: CS1010%, CS1101S, CS2113/CS2113T. For students admitted from AY23-24 onwards, they must read one of these courses: CS1010%, CS1101S, CS2030/CS2030S. • Bachelor of Engineering students must read CS1010%. • Bachelor of Technology (Chemical Engineering) students must read TCN1005. • Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering) and Bachelor of Technology (Civil Engineering) students must read one of these courses: TCN1005, TEE2101 or TIE2030. • Bachelor of Information Technology students must read TCX2001. • Bachelor of Technology (Electronics Engineering) students must read TEE2101. • Bachelor of Technology (Business Analytics), Bachelor of Technology (Cybersecurity) & Bachelor of Technology (Software Engineering) students must read TIC2001. • Bachelor of Technology (Industrial & Management Engineering) & Bachelor of Technology (Supply Chain Management) students must read TIE2030. • NUSC students must read NPS2001% except those in specific majors who must read CS1010%/CS2030/CS2030S/CS1101S.

Critique and Expression

Courses	SPECIAL NOTES [THESE COURSES COULD FULFIL THE GE PILLAR IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMME/MAJOR/MINOR/SPECIALISATION REQUIREMENTS.]
GEX-CODED COURSES • GEX1000 Framing Bollywood: Unpacking the Magic • GEX1001 Representation and Media • GEX1002 Life, Disrupted: The Sharing Revolution • GEX1003 Seeing the World Through Maps • GEX1004 Bridging East and West: Exploring Chinese Communication • GEX1005/GEX1005T Public Speaking and Critical Reasoning • GEX1006 The Art of Science, The Science of Art • GEX1007 Darwin And Evolution • GEX1009 Understanding Your Brain • GEX1010 Thinking Like An Economist • GEX1011 Science Fiction and Philosophy • GEX1012 Effective Reasoning • GEX1013 Reason and Persuasion • GEX1014 Logic • GEX1015 Life, The Universe, And Everything • GEX1016 Building Relationship : Theories and Practice • GEX1017 Communication and Critical Thinking for Community Leadership • GEX1018 Critical Perspectives in Advertising • GEX1019 The Logic of Language • GEX1020 Communication in Small Groups • GEX1021 What, When and Where Is Art? • GEX1022 Communicating About the Arts • GEX1023 Disney And the Theme Park World • GEX1024 Universe, Big Bang, And Unsolved Mysteries • GEX1025 Structures of Conversation • GEX1026 I Do Not Think Therefore I Am • GEX1027 Art and Identity • GEX1028 Science: From Thinking to Narratives • GEX1029 Narrative • GEX1030 Standard English Across Cultures • GEX1031 Hollywood Cinema: Constructing the Realistic • GEX1032 “Fake News” In the Public Sphere	• Bachelor of Technology students must read GEX1005T.
NON-GEX-CODED COURSES • ES2631 Critique and Communication of Thinking and Design • ES2660 Communicating in the Information Age • HSH1000 The Human Condition • MUH1101 Critical Approaches to Musical Discovery • NGN2001% Global Narratives • RVX1000 Citizen Speak: Persuasion and Polarization in Society • RVX1001 Science Fiction and Society • RVX1002 What Do You Mean? Meaning and Communication in Intercultural Contexts • RVX1003 Print to Screen: Analysing Film Adaptation • RVX1004 Cultural Expressions of Science, Technology and Warfare • RVX1005 Intersectionality, Identity and Inequality in Asia • UWC2101A/NTW2001 Cosmopolitanism and Global Citizenship • UWC2101B/NTW2002 Civic Discourse in a Fractious World • UWC2101C/NTW2003 Monuments, Memorials, and Commemoration • UWC2101D/NTW2004 Narrative in Everyday Life • UWC2101E/NTW2005 Literature and Ethics • UWC2101F/NTW2006 Human Trafficking and Labour Migration • UWC2101G/NTW2007 Apocalyptic Cultures • UWC2101H/NTW2008 Power, Space and Pleasure • UWC2101I/NTW2009 Interpreting Consumerism • UWC2101J/NTW2010 Sites of Tourism • UWC2101K/NTW2011 Questioning Evolution And Progress • UWC2101L/NTW2012 Conditions of Happiness • UWC2101M/NTW2013 Scholarly Pursuits • UWC2101N/NTW2014 Clothing Identities • UWC2101P/NTW2015 News and the Public • UWC2101Q/NTW2016 Civility in the World City • UWC2101R/NTW2017 Multidisciplinary Perspectives on “Mind” • UWC2101S/NTW2018 Danger and National Security • UWC2101T/NTW2019 The Politics And Rhetoric Of Green • UWC2101U/NTW2020 Technologies of Home • UWC2101V/NTW2021 Language, Culture and ‘Native’ Peoples • UWC2101W/NTW2022 Genocide and Memory • UWC2101X/NTW2023 The Idea of the University • UWC2101Y/NTW2024 Issues in and Around Justice • UWC2101Z/NTW2025 Vice, the State & Society • UWC2101AA/NTW2026 Religion in Public Life • UWC2101AB/NTW2027 What is Wisdom? • UWC2101AC/NTW2028 The Social Life of Science • NTW2029 Evolutionary Psychology and Art • NTW2030 Art as Action: Caring about the Climate Crisis in SEA • NTW2031 Equity and Education • NTW2032 The Self in Health and Longevity • NTW2033 Conceptions of Human Nature • NTW2034 Wild and Simple: Living and Thinking Sustainably • NTW2035 Art and the Attention Economy • NTW2036 Space, Place and the Human Experience • NTW2037 Absences: Beyond the Edges of the Material World • NTW2038 Screening Historical Trauma • NTW2039 Videogame Theory and Analysis • UAR2206/NHS2008 Creating 'Reality' • UAR2207/NHS2009 Intercultural Exchanges Through Theatre • UAR2208/NHS2010 From Lab to Stage: Writing the Science Play • ULT2298D/NHS2001 Representing War • ULT2299A/NHS2002 Understanding Irony • ULT2299C/NHS2003 The Subject of Reading • ULT2299D/NHS2004 The Politics of Language and Literacy in Singapore • ULT2299E/NHS2005 Appealing Arguments: Logos, Pathos, and Ethos • ULT2299F/NHS2006 Close Reading and Its Vicissitudes • ULT2299G/NHS2007 The Modern History of Southeast Asia through Fiction • UPI2205/NHS2011 Ethics and the Environment • UPI2207/NHS2012 Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Value of Representational Art • UPI2208/NHS2013 Imagining Animals • UPI2210/NHS2014 Arts of Memory: Public Recollection & Memory Training • UPI2211/NHS2015 Utopia: Ideal Places from Plato’s to the Smart City • UPI2212/NHS2016 Technologies of the Self: from Socrates to Self-Help • UPI2213/NHS2017 Making Sense of Colonial Ideology and Its Legacies • UPI2214/NHS2018 Multidisciplinary Inquiries Into the Mystery Of "Minds"	• Bachelor of Engineering students & Bachelor of Science (Project & Facilities Management) students must read ES2631. • Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science) & Bachelor of Computing (Artificial Intelligence) students must read ES2660. • CHS students must read HSH1000. • Bachelor of Music students from cohort AY2023-24 must read MUH1101. • NUSC students must read NGN2001%. • RVRC students must read one of these courses: RVX1000, RVX1001, RVX1002, RVX1003, RVX1004 or RVX1005. • USP students may read listed UWC/NTW, UAR/NHS, ULT/NHS or UPI/NHS courses. BEng + USP students must read UWC or NTW courses.

Cultures and Connections

Courses	SPECIAL NOTES [THESE COURSES COULD FULFIL THE GE PILLAR IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMME/MAJOR/MINOR/SPECIALISATION REQUIREMENTS.]
GEC-CODED COURSES • GEC1000 Globalisation and New Media • GEC1001 Chinese Music, Language and Literature (In English) • GEC1002 Nations & Nationalism in South Asia • GEC1003 Pirates, Oceans and The Maritime World • GEC1004 Samurai, Geisha, Yakuza as Self or Other • GEC1005 Cultural Borrowing: Japan And China • GEC1006 Understanding Consumption • GEC1007 Geopolitics: Geographies of War & Peace • GEC1008 Exploring Chinese Cinema: Shanghai-Hong Kong-Singapore • GEC1009 Drugs and Society • GEC1010 Clean Energy and Storage • GEC1011 Microbes Which Changed Human History • GEC1012 Understanding Globalisation • GEC1013 World Religions • GEC1014 Social and Cultural Studies Through Music • GEC1015 Public Health in Action • GEC1016 Plants and Society • GEC1017 Film Art and Human Concerns • GEC1018 Names as Markers of Socio-Cultural Identity • GEC1019 Religion and Film • GEC1020 Cultural Diversity in The Contemporary World • GEC1021 The Theatre Experience • GEC1022 Living in The Nuclear World • GEC1023 Social History of The Piano • GEC1024 Ghosts and Spirits in Society and Culture • GEC1025 The Life Aquatic: Machines and The Making of The Ocean • GEC1026 Art in Asia: Through Media, Style, Space and Time • GEC1027 Culture in Action • GEC1028 Luck • GEC1029 Worlds of Football • GEC1030 Metropolis: The City in World History • GEC1031 Whatever It Takes? Making War on Civilians • GEC1032 Home • GEC1033 Maverick or Mahatma? Gandhi's Life & Legacy • GEC1034/GEC1034T Understanding the Changing Global Economic Landscape • GEC1035 Patrons of The Arts • GEC1036 Radiation-Scientific Understanding and Public Perception • GEC1037 Big Picture History • GEC1038 Asian Cinema: The Silent Era • GEC1039 International Relations of Asia • GEC1040/GEC1040T A Culture of Sustainability • GEC1041 Crime Fiction and Film across Space & Time • GEC1042 Fashion: East and West • GEC1043 Feasting and Fasting: Global Histories of Food • GEC1044 Chinese Medicine: Theory and Practice • GEC1045 Forbidden Romance in Modern Times: East and West • GEC1046 Magic, Myths and Society in Southeast Asia • GEC1048 Death and Dying in the Human Experience • GEC1049 Powerful Court Women from Qing China and Other Cultures • GEC1050 Skyscapes: Cultural Interpretations of the Sky • GEC1051 Merchants, Guns and Money: The Economics of War • GEC1052 From Traveller to Tourist • GEC1053 Rome and the Genealogy of Urban Life	• Bachelor of Pharmacy students from cohorts AY2020-21 and AY2021-22 are advised to read GEC1015. • Bachelor of Technology students must read GEC1034T or GEC1040T.
NON-GEC-CODED COURSES • HSA1000 Asian Interconnections • NGT2001% Global Social Thought • NHS2098 Regeneration: Paradigm & Practice for Planetary Health • RVC1000 How in The World Do We Get Along? • RVC1001 The Rocky Road to SDGs • RVC2000 Culture and Sustainability in Southeast Asia • UHB2204/NHS2019 Virtue and Leadership • UHB2206/NHS2020 Leadership in a Complex World • UHB2207/NHS2021 Language, Cognition, and Culture • UHB2208/NHS2022 Immigration and the City • UHB2209/NHS2023 Polycentric Governance: Possibilities and Pitfalls • UHB2210/NHS2024 Emotion in Daily Life • UHB2211/NHS2025 Welcome to the Anthropocene: Agency in the era of climate change • UHB2214/NHS2028 Effective Decision Making • USE2209/NHS2029 Globalizing Asian-Pacific Identities • USE2305/NHS2031 Southeast Asia: The Making of a Region • USE2306/NHS2032 Disasters and Responses • USE2307/NHS2033 HIV/AIDS: From Microbes to Nations • USE2308/NHS2034 New Media and Politics • USE2309/NHS2035 Ordinary Politics • USE2310/NHS2036 Questioning Sustainable Development • USE2313/NHS2039 Understanding Law and Social Change • USE2314/NHS2040 Politics and Emotion • USE2315/NHS2041 Participatory Social Development in Southeast Asia • USE2316/NHS2042 Satires and (Un)Serious Histories • USE2319/NHS2045 Social Movements, Law, and Society • USE2322/NHS2048 Situating Singapore in the Wider World • USE2323/NHS2049 Culture and Technology • USE2324/NHS2050 Gender and Ecology in Asia • USE2325/NHS2051 Democracy and Inequality • USP3501/NHS3001 The Problematic Concept of "Gender"	• CHS students must read HSA1000. • NUSC students must read NGT2001%. • RVRC students must read RVC1000, RVC1001 or RVC2000. • USP students may read listed UHB/NHS, USE/NHS or USP/NHS courses.

Singapore Studies

Courses	SPECIAL NOTES [THESE COURSES COULD FULFIL THE GE PILLAR IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMME/MAJOR/MINOR/SPECIALISATION REQUIREMENTS.]
GESS-CODED COURSES • GESS1000/GESS1000T Global EC Dimensions of Singapore • GESS1001 Changing Landscapes of Singapore • GESS1002 The Biophysical Env of S'pore • GESS1003 Everyday Life of Chinese Singaporeans: Past & Present (Taught in English) • GESS1004 Singapore And India: Emerging Relations • GESS1005 South Asia In Singapore • GESS1006 Ethnicity and Nation-Building: Singapore And Malaysia • GESS1007 Singapore's Business History • GESS1008 Nation-Building in Singapore • GESS1009 The Evolution of a Global City-State • GESS1010 Popular Culture in Singapore • GESS1011 Singapore Urban History & Architecture • GESS1012 Islam And Contemporary Malay Society • GESS1013 Singapore And Japan: Historical and Contemporary Relationships • GESS1014 Managing Singapore's Built Environment • GESS1015 Western Music Within a Singaporean Context • GESS1016 Natural Heritage of Singapore • GESS1017 Representing Singapore • GESS1018 Real Estate Development & Investment Law • GESS1019 Urban Planning in Singapore • GESS1020 Singapore Society • GESS1021 Singapore Film: Performance of Identity • GESS1022 Culture and Communication in Singapore • GESS1023 Who Moved My OB Markers? • GESS1024 We the Citizens - Understanding Singapore's Politics • GESS1025 Singapore: Imagining the Next 50 Years • GESS1026 A History of Singapore In Ten Objects • GESS1027 La Kopi: Forging of The Chinese Singaporean Community • GESS1028 Cultural Performance and Practices in Singapore • GESS1029 Everyday Ethics in Singapore • GESS1030 Public Health in Singapore: Challenges and Changes • GESS1031 State of The Art: A Current View of Music in Singapore • GESS1032 Prominent Chinese in Colonial Singapore • GESS1033 The Singlish Controversy • GESS1034 Singapore Literature in English: Selected Texts • GESS1035 Singapore and the Sea • GESS1036/GESS1036T Singapore Employment Law and Policies • GESS1037 Gender and Sexuality: A Singaporean History • GESS1038 The Arts in Singapore Today	• Bachelor of Technology students must read GESS1000T or GESS1036T.
NON-GESS-CODED COURSES • CDE2501 Liveable Cities • HSS1000 Understanding Social Complexity • LC1025 Singapore Law in Context • SPH1901 Social and Behavioural Determinants of Health (only for BPharm students in AY2022/23 cohort) • NSW2001% Understanding the Social World: Singapore & Beyond • RVSS1000 Exploring Sense of Place • RVSS1001 Imagining Wakanda: Cities for Work, Life, And Play • RVSS1002 Feeding the Belly of a Nation • RVSS1003 Communicating the Value of Singapore’s Natural Heritage • RVSS1004 Uniquely Singapore: Regardless of Race • UCV2207/NHS2052 The Politics of Heritage: Singapore and the Region* • UHB2212/NHS2026 Singaporean Nostalgia* • ULT2299D/NHS2004 The Politics of Language and Literacy in Singapore* • UPC2209/NST2026 Pollution Control Engineering in Singapore* • USE2304/NHS2030 Singapore Studies: Singapore: The Making of a Nation* • USE2311/NHS2037 Singapore Studies: Archives, Biography, Memory* • USE2312/NHS2038 Nationalism and the Arts* • USE2317/NHS2043 Multiculturalism in Singapore and Its Contested Meanings* • USE2318/NHS2044 Managing Cultural Difference: Theorizing the Spore Model* • USE2320/NHS2046 Transitional Justice and War Crime Trials: Case Studies from Singapore and Asia* • USE2321/NHS2047 Examining Local Lives* • USP3505/NHS3002 Asianism and Singapore* (*) denote Singapore Studies courses that are recognised under the Cultures & Connections pillar	• CHS students must read HSS1000. • Bachelor of Business Administration & Bachelor of Laws DDP students from cohort AY2022/23 must read LC1025. For students admitted in AY2021/22, they will have to read another GESS course. • Bachelor of Pharmacy students admitted in AY2022/23 must read SPH1901. • NUSC students must read NSW2001%. • RVRC students must read one of these courses: RVSS1000, RVSS1001, RVSS1002, RVSS1003 or RVSS1004. • USP students may read listed UHB/NHS, UCV/NHS, ULT/NHS, UPC/NST, USP/NHS, or USE/NHS courses.

Communities and Engagement

Courses	SPECIAL NOTES [THESE COURSES COULD FULFIL THE GE PILLAR IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMME/MAJOR/MINOR/SPECIALISATION REQUIREMENTS.]
GEN-CODED COURSES • GEN2000 Living Culture: Engaging Indian Communities in Singapore • GEN2001 Theatre and Community Engagement • GEN2002X/GEN2002Y Total Defence Project Against Threat to the Community • GEN2003 Inclusivity and Equality: Domestic Worker Community • GEN2004 Green Communities in Action: Climate, Species, Crisis • GEN2005 “Chineseness“: Engaging Singapore Chinese Communities • GEN2006 Communications for Inter-generational Engagement • GEN2007 Resilience in Restoration • GEN2008 Purposeful and Productive Ageing in the Community • GEN2050X/GEN2050Y Teach SG • GEN2060X/GEN2060Y Reconnect SeniorsSG • GEN2061X/GEN2061Y Support Healthy AgeingSG • GEN2062X/GEN2062Y Community Activities for Seniors with SG Cares • GEN2070X/GEN2070Y Community Link (ComLink) Befrienders
NON-GEN-CODED COURSES • BN4102 Gerontechnology in Ageing • BN4103 Assistive Technology for Persons with Disability • CLC1101 Engaging and Building Communities • CLC2204 Community Development with Youth • CLC3303 Community Leadership • CLC3304A City, Culture and Community • CLC3307 Learning for Social Change • CP3107 Computing for Voluntary Welfare Organisations (only offered to SoC students) • CP3110 Computing for Voluntary Welfare Organisations II (only offered to SoC students) • MUA2163 Leading and Guiding Through Music • NM4230 Communications for Social Change (only offered to CNM students) • SE3216 Migration, Diaspora and Refugees in Southeast Asia • SE3226 Hard at Work: The Changing Face of Labour in Southeast Asia • SW3105 Community Work Practice (from Semester 1, AY2025/26) • NEP3001% Impact Experience Project (only offered to NUSC students) • RVN2000 Engaging Communities in Sustainability (only offered to RVRC students) • RVN2001 The Great Extinction: Rewilding and Conservation (only offered to RVRC students) • RVN2002 Wild Asia: Conservation Matters (only offered to RVRC students) • RVN2003 Understanding Disability and Fostering Inclusivity (only offered to RVRC students) • UCV2209/NHS2053 The Heterogeneous Indians of Contemporary Singapore (only offered to NUSC students) • UHB2213/NHS2027 Engaging and Building Communities (only offered to NUSC students)	• Biomedical Engineering students may read BN4102 and BN4103. • Community Development & Leadership Minor students may read CLC1101, CLC2204, CLC3303, CLC3304A, or CLC3307. • Communications & New Media students may read NM4230. • School of Computing students may read CP3107 or CP3110. • Social Work students must read SW3105. • Southeast Asian Studies students may read SE3216 or SE3226. • Bachelor of Music students must read MUA2163. • NUSC students from cohort AY2022-23 must read NEP3001%. • RVRC students must read one of these courses if they are admitted from AY2022-23 onwards: RVN2000, RVN2001, RVN2002 or RVN2003. • USP students may read UCV2209/NHS2053, UHB2213/NHS2027, CLC1101 or NEP3001A.

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