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Incoming freshmen are invited to apply to the UTRP from now to 6 June 2013. Click here for more information.

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University Town Residential Programme (UTRP)

The University Town Residential Programme (UTRP) is a multidisciplinary academic programme offered in the College of Alice & Peter Tan (formerly Angsana College) and Tembusu College. A distinctive five-module curriculum read over four semesters, UTRP comprises a Junior Seminar and two Senior Seminars, in addition to two Ideas and Exposition modules which seek to enhance students’ communication skills and prepare them for today’s workplace. Class sizes for these College modules are small, allowing for a rigorous, interactive and highly personalised academic experience. A host of informal learning activities, such as talks by distinguished visitors, as well as social and sporting activities, complements the formal curriculum.

Most undergraduates enrolled in the UTRP will be able to concurrently fulfil their University Level Requirements which are essential for graduation. Alternative arrangements may be made for students from ‘non-modular’ Faculties, such as Medicine, Law and Dentistry.  

“I would like the College to make a real and meaningful impact on the lives of our students as they prepare to enter the working world. For the College of Alice & Peter Tan, we’ve chosen the theme of active citizenship and community engagement, and this will be woven into the curriculum and other activities. Ultimately, the experience will be defined by the students, Fellows and everyone else who wants to contribute to the College community.”

A/Prof Adeline Seow
Master of College of Alice & Peter Tan

 

Ideas and Exposition modules
Junior Seminar
Senior Seminars

Ideas and Exposition modules
The UTRP includes two modules on Ideas and Exposition, which can be used to fulfil the Breadth requirement. Process oriented, content driven and rhetorically intensive, the Ideas and Exposition modules taught in seminars are uniquely designed to enable students to produce expository writing aimed at increasing general understanding of a given topic. It also seeks to help students to develop core strategies that underlie successful scholarly writing in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life sciences, physical sciences and mathematics.

 

Click here to find out more about the ‘Ideas and Exposition’ modules.

“I teach Models of Press Freedom (IEM1201B), an Ideas and Exposition module, in which my students investigate current debates about media-related freedoms. I marvel at how my students help one another to insert themselves into these debates. Even more amazing is how in one semester the students morph from individuals who receive and display knowledge from the module’s course readings to individuals who develop new and unique understandings of media-related freedoms that our readings only hint at and, in some cases, have yet to imagine.”

Mr Paul Nerney
Senior Lecturer 

 

Junior Seminar
The Junior Seminar, which can be used to fulfil the General Education requirement, allows undergraduates and Faculty to explore a scholarly topic of common interest in small group settings of no more than 15 students. This provides an excellent platform for students to discuss an intellectual topic in-depth and to present their ideas without the pressure of examinations. Through this process, students will sharpen their inquiry and critical reasoning skills.

 

Click here to find out more about the Junior Seminars offered by Tembusu College.
Click here to find out more about the Junior Seminars offered by the College of Alice & Peter Tan. 

 

Senior Seminars
Targeted at Year 2 undergraduates enrolled in UTRP, the two Senior Seminars serve as an educational reflection of NUS’ focus on Global-Asia issues. The Senior Seminar module that has a focus on Singapore can be taken as a Singapore Studies module; the other Senior Seminar can be used to fulfil the General Education requirement

Key features of these modules include the focus on a significant global issue that may be productively discussed from both Asian and Singapore perspectives; the emphasis in providing students with a pedagogically driven module that privileges the learning process as much as the product of teaching and learning; and the openness to multidisciplinary debates and input.

These modules are expected to be offered by experts from across the disciplines and possibly across geographical boundaries, each lending his/her professional expertise on a topical Global-Asia issue that exerts a vast impact on society.

 

Click here to find out more about the Senior Seminars offered by Tembusu College.
Click here to find out more about the Senior Seminars offered by the College of Alice & Peter Tan. 

Click here to find out more about UTRP’s application and selection process.