Frequently Asked Questions

You will be required to take the following combination of Core & Major Prescribed Electives, ICC Core (7 modules) and Foundational Core modules, and Broadening & Deepening Electives:

You will be required to take seven core ICC courses in the first 2 years of your undergraduate education at NTU.

The seven core ICC courses are divided into two large categories.

1. Four modules cover Key Transferable Skills and
2. 3 modules explore the Global Challenges that the world today is faced with.

Together, these seven core ICC courses add to a total of 17 AUs.

1. Ensure that all NTU graduates are exposed to a holistic education that is grounded in future-ready skills; 
2. Equip NTU graduates with the skills to acquire new knowledge and adapt to several career changes over their lifetime; and
3. Prepare NTU graduates for lifelong learning and global citizenship. 

1. Achieving uniformity of excellence in all activities;
2. Growing NTU's national, regional and global impact; and
3. Deepening disciplinary strengths while nurturing greater interdisciplinary collaborations that span the entire spectrum of our core activities.

1. Possess interdisciplinary knowledge and skills; and
2. Have the ability to make connections and adapt to an unpredictable and fast-changing world marked by evolving technologies, volatility and uncertainty. 

1. Interdisciplinary - the curriculum brings together ideas and perspectives from different disciplines to allow students to understand issues from various viewpoints – this gives the NTU graduate an edge in the workforce as you will be able to combine skills and knowledge to create value in a quickly evolving landscape.
2. Collaborative - the ICC courses allow you to learn to discuss and work on problems, projects and assignments in multidisciplinary teams – this is a vital skill given that the problems you will face in the workforce will be inter-related and cannot be tackled by single-domain expertise.
3. Core - the ICC courses have been designed to align to the 3Cs expected of all NTU graduates: Character; Competence; and Cognitive Agility.

Interdisciplinary learning allows you to be more adaptable in the workplace as you would be able to leverage on your knowledge to switch and think critically across different subject areas / disciplines. This ability helps you remain competitive in a VUCA world where employers increasingly value people with application-oriented knowledge who are able to view tasks and challenges in multiple dimensions to solve increasingly complex problems. 

1. Develop a more comprehensive understanding of complex situations from different perspectives;
2. Make intellectual connections across disciplines more quickly and easily;
3. Apply and connect ideas from different fields to find creative solutions to the world’s increasingly more complex problems;
4. Be effective in communicating and working with people from diverse backgrounds; and
5. Be equipped for professions and careers that are constantly evolving.

You may swap indexes on your own with a peer from the same College enrolled into the same ICC course during the course registration (CR) and Add-Drop period.  During the CR period, the swapping of ICC indexes has to be done during your scheduled CR timing. However, the peer that you wish to swap with does not have to share the same CR timing as you.   

Each tutorial group comprises a mix of students from each of the Colleges as well as LKCMed and NIE. Vacancies are allocated accordingly by College.

Two possible reasons for why you may have not been successful in swapping into a tutorial group of your choice:

1. The vacancies in the index allocated to your College for that particular tutorial group is already full. The vacancies that you are seeing in the class are likely in an index allocated to a different College; and
2. You may be trying to swap into an index that has not been allocated to your College. 

Students enrolled into CC0002 and CC0006 will see a 6:30pm to 9:20pm lecture slot reserved on their timetable for both week 12 and week 13. This slot is for the end-of-semester quiz which is a compulsory in-person quiz. The actual quiz will be conducted on week 12. You will be required to attend the quiz in-person on week 12 unless you have a valid reason for being absent.  

The quiz dates are as follows:

The multiple lecture venues refer to all the LTs which have been booked for the quiz. 

The respective Course Coordinators will provide further details on the quiz timing as well as the allocated venue once the semester starts. 

You will be required to take the in-person quiz on week 12. However, should you have a valid reason (e.g., approved short leave, MC or hospitalisation leave) to miss the quiz on week 12, a make-up quiz will be held on week 13. Ensure that you submit documentary proof to your school to apply for and obtain approval for leave of absence to cover your absence. No further make-up quizzes will be conducted should you miss the make-up on week 13. Any absence from the make-up quiz must also be covered by a valid approved LOA.  

Students enrolled into CC0005 will see a late night (from 11:00pm to 11:20pm) lecture slot on their timetable.

You may ignore this lecture slot - you only need attend the CC0005 tutorial slot that appears on your timetable.

The lecture slot is a placeholder slot to allow for students enrolled into CC0005 to flow into the correct lecture sites on NTULearn. The CC0005 Course Coordinator will clarify once the semester starts. 

Write to your specific class instructor or the Course Coordinator of the course in question.

The list of Course Coordinators for AY2023 S1: 

Direct general ICC course-related questions to ICC Office at [email protected],

Questions related to course registration as well as year of study you should take your ICC course in should be directed to your School. 

All ICC courses are 100% CA. Class participation is one of the CA components. Being absent from class will affect your class participation scores.  

Email ICC Office at [email protected].

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