17 September 2018
The Singapore Management University is reducing the number of core modules required for its undergraduates.
The university is also revising its core curriculum, which will be effective next year.
Under the new policy, students will have to take 12 core modules, which include community service and an internship, down from the current 16 core modules.
SMU will also be introducing a work-study option where students can take up a six-month internship during a school semester.
All this is part of an effort by SMU to get students to move away from just focusing on academic results.
Under the new Exploratory Course scheme, students can try out different courses without affecting their grades. A current law undergraduate could, for example, do a foreign language or pick up a psychology elective, and declare up to two of his passed grades for non-compulsory modules to be excluded from his cumulative grade point average (GPA) computation.