Chinese
Graduate programme applications in the Chinese programme can pursue research in Chinese literature, language, history, Overseas Chinese and their languages, culture and history, and Singaporean-Malaysian Literature and Cultural Studies. Learn more here
English
The English graduate
programme welcomes applications to pursue research in any area or period of
literary study, especially those which speak to its strengths in Contemporary
Literature, Modern Literature, Southeast Asian Literature, Literature &
Medicine, Early-Modern Literature, and Irish Studies. Creative Writing projects
in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, and screenwriting are also welcome. Learn more here
History
The graduate programme
in History welcomes applications for MA and PhD degrees specializing in all
regions and time periods. The programme has particular strengths in the
histories of medicine, science and technology, as well as the histories of
ancient, modern, and contemporary South and Southeast Asia. We also encourage
projects that address any aspect of colonialism and decolonisation, religion,
gender and sexuality, and environmental, heritage and applied history. Learn more here
Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
The graduate programme in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies is dedicated to producing postgraduates in linguistics who will be able to demonstrate expertise in one or more areas within the field. Candidates for the LMS programme can pursue research in the any of the key research areas: Language and Cognition, Documenting Endangered Languages and Culture, Investigating Conversational Interaction, Shifting Identities in Local and Global Interaction, and Computational Linguistics. Learn more here
Philosophy
The graduate programme
in Philosophy invites applicants from a wide range of approaches and traditions
in philosophy. The programme has particular strengths in Chinese Philosophy,
Philosophy of Science, and Ethics and Political Philosophy. Research may be
pursued within a particular tradition such as Chinese Philosophy or Anglo-American
Philosophy, or from a comparative or interdisciplinary perspective. Learn more here
SoH promotes new interdisciplinary research and have five strategic interdisciplinary research clusters. This is a new, exciting area in the study of Humanities. The interdisciplinary clusters involve collaborations with other schools within NTU, researchers and practitioners in Singapore as well as internationally.