13 February 2021
Freshmen joining the Nanyang Technological University in the new academic year in August will take up a new common curriculum.
The core curriculum, which emphasises interdisciplinary skills, comprises seven modules covering topics such as digital literacy, communication and inquiry, ethics and global challenges. These modules, which they will take across their first two years, makes up about a fifth of the overall academic workload.
NTU will also widen its interdisciplinary offerings, with a new undergraduate major in economics and data science from August, and higher degree programmes in areas like neuroscience.