Graduate Programmes
International graduate students from non-English medium universities who take the Diagnostic English Test (DET) will, if not exempted from the programme, be channelled to the relevant level of the Graduate English Course, depending on their results. They must pass that level before being allowed to move on to the next. However, some faculties have special requirements about which modules should be taken and the order in which their students should take the modules.
The intermediate level module, ES5001B, Speaking & Listening, is open to any international graduate student from a non-English medium university registered at NUS, regardless of whether they have to take the DET or not. However, students who are required to take the DET must do so before they can take ES5001B in case their DET result requires them to take ES5000 first, as this is a pre-requisite for ES5001B.
GEC modules aim to develop international graduate students’ English writing and speaking skills in order to maximise their communicative competence within the academic and professional fields. To this end ES5000 (Basic English) enhances students’ basic academic language competence in writing, while ES5001A (Intermediate English) builds on this competence and prepares students for specific writing tasks at the graduate level, such as writing data commentaries and reports. ES5001B complements these modules by developing the students’ listening and oral communication skills. Finally, ES5002 assists research students in writing their Ph.D. theses.
