Not your father's arts degree, says NUS faculty dean

Five 'industry tracks' among big shifts to make students more job-ready

National University of Singapore's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences dean, Professor Robbie Goh, chatting with two first-year students from his faculty, Mr Ashruff Muhammed Ibrahim, 22, who is keen on pursuing economics, and Ms Nelle Ng, 19, a poli
National University of Singapore's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences dean, Professor Robbie Goh, chatting with two first-year students from his faculty, Mr Ashruff Muhammed Ibrahim, 22, who is keen on pursuing economics, and Ms Nelle Ng, 19, a politics, philosophy and economics student ST PHOTO: KELLY HUI
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The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS) is going all out to make its students more job-ready and aware of what they can bring to future employers.

The faculty, one of the institution's largest which takes in around 1,600 undergraduates each year, introduced "industry tracks" this year, with the aim of helping students curate modules with job sectors in mind.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on December 09, 2019, with the headline Not your father's arts degree, says NUS faculty dean. Subscribe