Calling all FASS Freshmen! FASS Forward to the Exams: Exam Tips & Strategies

FASS Forward to the Exams

Specially designed for students in their first year, FASS Forward to the Exams: Exam Tips & Strategies is a two-hour session where your lecturers and seniors will share some insight on how to deal with your first exams at FASS.

If you would like to learn how you can write a good exam essay, remember difficult concepts and better tackle exam questions, this session is just for you! Together with top-performing senior students, our very own FASS lecturers from Geography, Psychology, History and Economics will be there to share their personal experiences!

Registration period open from 17 – 24 October 2014. Limited places available!

Please register here.

Most seniors optimistic about their future: Survey (Home, Page B6)

The Straits Times

Thursday, 16 October 2014

This was a report on a recent survey of more than 2,000 Singapore residents aged between 50 and 74 by Dr Mathew Mathews, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies at NUS, and Associate Professor Paulin Straughan, Deputy Head of the Department of Sociology at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The survey, which was commissioned by the Council for Third Age, found that eight in 10 were confident that their needs would be taken care of as they grew older. However, the survey also found that only four in 10 agreed that in general most elder Singaporeans have little to worry about.

Click here to read full article.

Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards (FTEA)

We are very pleased to extend our warmest congratulations to the following lecturers on their achievements in teaching.  42 FASS lecturers have been awarded the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2014 for their work in 2013/14.  Of these lecturers, 15 have also been nominated for the Annual Teaching Excellence Award and one for the Outstanding Educator Award.  We will know the outcome of these nominations in due course (early 2015).

Name

Department/Programme

MS SASIWIMOL KLAYKLUENG

Centre for Language Studies

A/P CHIN KWEE NYET

Centre for Language Studies

MRS RUNGNAPA KITIARSA

Centre for Language Studies

MR YUZURU HAMASAKI

Centre for Language Studies

DR HO CHEE LICK

Chinese Studies

A/P LEE CHEUK YIN

Chinese Studies

DR ICCHA BASNYAT

Communications and New Media

A/P LEE SEOW TING

Communications and New Media

DR ZHANG YANG

Economics

DR AAMIR RAFIQUE HASHMI

Economics

A/P CHIA NGEE CHOON

Economics

DR ANG WAN LING SUSAN

English Language and Literature

DR GILBERT YEOH

English Language and Literature

PROF ROBBIE GOH BOON HUA

English Language and Literature

DR ANNE M. THELL

English Language and Literature

DR GRAHAM WOLFE

English Language and Literature

A/P MICHELLE LAZAR

English Language and Literature

DR TANIA ROY

English Language and Literature

DR YOSUKE SATO

English Language and Literature

DR DANIEL FRIESS

Geography

DR HARVEY NEO

Geography

DR WOON CHIH YUAN

Geography

PROF BRIAN FARRELL

History

A/P MAURIZIO PELEGGI

History

DR JOHN P. DIMOIA

History

DR DONNA BRUNERO

History

DR JACK FAIREY

History

A/P TIMOTHY P. BARNARD

History

DR CHRIS MCMORRAN

Japanese Studies

A/P NOOR AISHA ABDUL RAHMAN

Malay Studies

MR CHIN CHUAN FEI

Philosophy

DR TERENCE LEE CHEK LIANG

Political Science

DR RYAN HONG

Psychology

DR CHA YEOW SIAH

Psychology

DR JIA LILE

Psychology

A/P TREVOR PENNEY

Psychology

A/P ESTHER GOH CHOR LENG

Social Work

DR PEACE WONG YUH JU

Social Work

DR FENG QIUSHI

Sociology

A/P JOONMO SON

Sociology

A/P IRVING JOHNSON

Southeast Asian Studies

DR JULIUS BAUTISTA

Southeast Asian Studies

Faculty Research Awards (FRA)

We are also pleased to extend our warmest congratulations to the following faculty members on winning the FRAs for this year.

 Award for Excellent Researcher (AER)

Name

Department/Programme

A/P DAVIN CHOR

Economics

 

Award for Promising Researcher (APR)

Name

Department/Programme

DR JESSICA PAN

Economics

DR DAN FRIESS

Geography

DR WOON CHIH YUAN

Geography

Congratulations to all our winners for their excellent work, and best wishes to all faculty members as we head into the final weeks of Semester One!.

 

 

People’s Association Community Leadership Programme.

 

 

 

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“Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.”
Henry Mintzberg

 People’s Association – National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Community Leadership Programme

 

Taking the learning experience out of the classroom, the PA-NUS FASS Community Leadership Programme is a leadership development programme with a unique emphasis on the community.

Through this programme, participants will get to:

  • Attend a series of community leadership workshops & dialogue sessions
  • Learn from community leaders as part of mentorship
  • Lead local community – centric initiatives.

To sign up for the programme, please complete the application form and email it to Ms Jennifer Goh (Jennifer_Goh@pa.gov.sg) by Friday, 24 October 2014.

 

Indonesian, Thai militaries take different tack

Thursday, 9 October 2014

The Straits Times

In today’s edition of The Straits Times, there was an article contribution by Assistant Professor Terence Lee from the Department of Political Science at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Asst Prof Lee examined the political role of the military in Indonesia and Thailand and noted that the support of the armed forces for political reform has important bearing for the prospects for democratisation. He highlighted that for states with legacies of militaries playing a central role in politics, democratisation requires the developing of strong and legitimate institutions to separate the political elite from the armed forces, and more importantly, for these institutions to exercise oversight over the military.

Click here to read the full article.

Expanding access to elite education

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

The Straits Times

In today’s edition of The Straits Times, there was an article contribution by Assistant Professor Nina Guyon from the Department of Economics at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, on the tracking of students by ability into different streams at some stage of their education, in which she discussed whether expanding access to elite education dilutes its quality.

The article is part of a monthly series “Ask: NUS Economists” by the NUS Department of Economics. Each month, a panel will address a topical issue.

First non-Chinese Head for NUS Chinese Studies: Department to expand research on local culture

Monday, 6 October 2014

Lianhe Zaobao

This was an interview with Professor Kenneth Dean, who will take over as Head of the Department of Chinese Studies at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from January 2015. Prof Dean will be the first non-Chinese to hold this position. He noted that the Department’s strength lies in its excellent academic tradition and coverage on a wide range of research areas and hopes to build on this strength to further boost research in more large-scale studies on Chinese religions and culture in Singapore and Southeast Asia.