Year: 2013

Vacation Internship Opportunities at IDA

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Open to all FASS undergrads!

Do something constructive and gain work experience during your upcoming Dec-Jan and May-Aug vacation periods! Applications for INTERNSHIP opportunities at Infocomm Development Authority of S’pore (IDA) are now open! Apply as soon as possible to secure your internship early.

Check out the links for more information and how to apply:

1) Policy Planning Office Intern

2) Infocomm Policy Intern

3) Enterprise Infocomm (Cyber Security) Intern (3 months)

4) Enterprise Infocomm (Cyber Security) Intern (6 weeks)

5) Data Protection Policy Intern

6) Employee Communication Intern

7) Corporate Innovation Intern

Good luck!

Upcoming Event: MOE Recruitment Talk (30 Oct 2013)

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If you are keen on a future career in teaching, don’t miss MOE’s upcoming Recruitment Talk next month to find out your prospects as a teacher!

Details are as follows:

Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Time: 12 – 1pm
Venue: FASS Shaw Foundation Building, AS7 Seminar Room B

Registration is required to attend! To register, please visit: www.moe.gov.sg/universitytalk

WEF: Innovations crucial for world’s future

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Assoc Prof Ho Kong Chong, Vice Dean of Research, FASS, was part of the team from NUS who attended the  Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013. Otherwise known as the Summer Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the event held at Dalian, China from 11 to 13 September this year focused on “Meeting the Innovation Imperative”.  The NUS team was there to showcase their ideas on urban design innovations at the meeting’s IdeasLab. They presented new thinking on four aspects of making high-density cities liveable: enabling innovations that make cities do more with less and provide something for everyone; exploiting better community design for resource optimisation and recovery; using technology for enhancing urban preservation efforts; and creating space for civic dialogue to bridge cultural differences. IdeasLab is an open platform where leading thinkers from the world’s top academic institutions present their current thinking, and the audience and their colleagues interact on their ideas.

Click here to read the full article.

An insight to Popular Cultural Practices in Contemporary Asia

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Established in 2009, the Cultural Studies in Asia is the only such programme taught in English in Asia. Housed at the Department of Sociology, this programme provides teaching and research skills in the analysis of the flows and exchanges of popular cultural practices in contemporary Asia. Find out more about by clicking the image below. Alternatively, you may refer to the department website at www.fas.nus.edu.sg/soc

 

The Kent Ridge Common – CALL FOR WRITERS!

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The Kent Ridge Common (KRC) is an independent online newspaper staffed by NUS undergraduates and alumni. Over the three years since it was established, undergraduates have written on a plethora of topics ranging from arts & culture, literary/drama reviews, political, social and economic issues in Singapore today through over 800 news articles, commentaries and analysis.

KRC articles have been cited by The New York Times and Lianhe Zaobao. During the General Elections in 2011, monthly readership closed at a high of approximately half a million readers. This August, KRC has been mentioned in a The Straits Times report as preferring “views backed by strong evidence”. In its UpFront section, KRC has interviewed the likes of local novelist Catherine Lim, movie director Glen Goei, and MP Sylvia Lim.

The Kent Ridge Common is and will always be established upon the vibrancy, thoughts and viewpoints of NUS students. This is thus a call for interested writers who are looking to add some adventure to their time in NUS to join the publication as a writer.

For more information, please drop Tan Xiang Yeow an email at xiangyeow@kentridgecommon.com.

Commencement 2013 Celebrations

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This year, a good number of the departments in FASS, together with some of their alumni associations, organised events to celebrate their graduates’ commencement. Lunches, dinners, and even themed parties were held. Some of the highlights include: personalised congratulatory letters with calligraphy (Department of Chinese Studies), performances put up by the NUS Rondalla and the Chorda Trio (Department of Economics), instant photo booth with fanciful props (Department of Political Science), and students and staff coming with ‘mad hats’ of their own (Department of History). 

Click on the following links to read more about the individual events that were held, as shared by the respective departments!

   Chinese Studies      Communications & New Media      Economics       Geography

History      Japanese Studies      Philosophy     Political Science     Psychology

   Social Work       Sociology      South Asian Studies Programme    

 

We would also like to take this opportunity to wish all graduates the best in their future endeavours!

 

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