Beyond the Classroom
NTU-USP encourages scholars to participate in a wide array of overseas experiential programmes, projects and events. This include programmes that will enhance scholars' overall academic exposure, discover and discuss various world issues. Activities beyond the classroom allow scholars to better themselves on a more global and uniquely different level.
The Travel Overseas Programme for Scholars (TOPS) is a credit-bearing core module (SP0007: Fieldwork and Documentation: Topics in Sustainability) for first year NTU-USP scholars to investigate multi-disciplinary issues in a foreign country/region.
TOPS allows first-year NTU-USP scholars to investigate multi-disciplinary issues in another country and prepares students for various aspects of managing and conducting fieldwork, including visual documentation and storytelling.
It features a week-long trip to another country to fully utilise skills that have been taught in the classroom, allowing scholars a chance to understand how those skills can be used practically and at the same time giving them exposure to another environment for a more holistic world view.
NTU-USP scholars have the opportunity to spend a semester studying abroad where students will have the chance to experience academic and cultural life in a vibrant global setting.
Beside Study Abroad that is unique to NTU-USP, students can also opt for global programmes offered by the Office of Global Education and Mobility (OGEM). OGEM provides students with comprehensive global education opportunities with top-notch universities. Students can select from over 350 partner universities of NTU.
The OGEM within the Student Academic Services Department is guided by a clear mission to advance student knowledge and learning through global experience. In line with NTU-USP mission to develop proactive global citizenship, OGEM offers broad-based and multi-disciplinary curriculum, which will fit our students. NTU-USP scholars also enjoy priority placement when applying for these programmes.
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The elective courses with travel component create an opportunity for NTU-USP to be on an overseas research-based field trip that allow students to apply relevant and critical theory through a wide variety of real-world representations, while employing these observations in designing a modern aggregator of knowledge to enhance research and education.