Yale-NUS releases curriculum report

By Aleksandra Gjorgievska. In a 90-page report released Thursday, the Yale-NUS Curriculum Committee unveiled the specific details of the Singaporean college’s curriculum and outlined the process of creating a liberal arts education from scratch.
Committee members said the report, which Yale-NUS faculty have been working on since December 2012 and which is the first comprehensive review of the college’s curriculum, aims to address the challenges that faculty have faced while drafting the curriculum’s current version, such as offering a core curriculum as well as individual majors and balancing general and specialized education. Committee Chair Bryan Garsten and committee member Charles Bailyn, who is also the Yale-NUS dean of faculty, said they hope the report will serve as a point of reference to others looking to experiment with the liberal arts in Asia and also spark conversations about curricular innovation in the United States and elsewhere. Read more...