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I noticed got someone talking about USP. Ok! USP guide for people who dunno anything about it (Since I'm in USP
 )USP = University Scholars Programme What it's about: A special programme where the focus is on academic enquiry. Always referred to as NUS' Premier undergraduate programme by the uni  You'll do modules that are different from other students and will have different graduation requirements. In your degree, you'll end up with "Bachelor of Etcetera (University Scholars Programme)" which, nowadays, adds a bit more weight to your degree due to the high publicity and hardselling done by NUS. You'll be in two faculties at once. So if you're in Engin, you'll be in Engin fac as well as USP fac. You'll have access to a very wide range of global activities. USP encourages all scholars (that's the term for USP students, go figure) to take part in their global programmes, and actively supports student initiated projects especially those overseas. So for example, if someone decides to organize a community service trip to Africa, USP will give you their full support and help you get it started. Or, if you decide that you want to start a forum on development, USP will help you too. In addition, if you want to go overseas for internships, USP will help you as well. In fact, they encourage ppl to seek out overseas internships as it's part of the vision for producing global leaders. USP has a special exchange programme with University of Oregon's Clark Honours College so there will be spots reserved for scholars each sem. |
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As of 2005, the course structure of the USP has changed and is still changing. They are changing the curriculum quite drastically.
Old requirements: 8 first tier modules 4 advanced modules - at least 1 Independant Study Module included New requirements: 8 first tier modules 3 tracks for advanced curriculum: 1) Bi-cultural immersion 2) NUS Overseas College 3) Multidisciplinary Seminar cum research module First tier modules Every USP student has to complete 8 first tier modules, including 1 writing module and 1 Singapore Studies module. Science/Engin/Computing students have to fulfill 4 modules from the Arts basket and 3 from the Science basket, while Arts/BizAd students take 4 from Science and 3 from Arts. SDE students (Archi, Industrial design, etc) can choose whether they want to follow the Science requirements or the Arts requirements. The writing module counts as an Arts module. Advanced Curriculum The Advanced Curriculum has 3 tracks. 1) Bi-cultural immersion If you go for this, you will spend 1 year immersed in a foreign country, studying their culture, interacting with the local students. YOU WILL STUDY IN THEIR LANGUAGE. At the end of your 1 year study, you are encouraged to source out an internship in that country as well. You will graduate with a minor in that country studies. E.g. if Japan --> Japanese Studies Currently, this programme only sends students to Peking University for bi-cultural immersion, but word has it that USP is seeking to sign agreements with Japan, the USA and India. In the future, the possibilities will be widened. 2) NUS Overseas colleges http://www.overseas.nus.edu.sg/noc/ Info is found here. Basically, it's exactly the same as normal NOC. You go overseas to the US or China and be an intern in a start-up company. You will be paid as you will be working fulltime. You study part-time and graduate with a minor in Technopreneurship. Both option 1) and 2) require you to graduate at least 1 semester later than everyone else. Thus you will extend your study length. 3) Multidisciplinary seminars Less info is available on this. Scholars would take part in a seminar over the course of one sem with scholars from other fields. The seminars would involve the different disciplines and address a theme, for example the concept of "Time". After that, each scholar will be grouped into a team consisting of people from different majors and are to construct a research project involving ALL of the disciplines present in the seminar and in the group. Personally, this is really difficult. Multi-disciplinary things really stretch your brain.[/u] |
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Application starts after the release of the A Level exam results, around March.
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/about...ply/index.html Basically, you need to write an essay along with it and go for an interview if you are shortlisted. Faculties that can apply are: Arts and Social Sciences Engineering School of Computing Business Administration School of Design and Environment Science Schools excluded: Medicine Dentistry Law Music Special case: Economics and Law double degree programme |
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