{"id":2259,"date":"2022-04-05T06:37:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:59:29","slug":"residential-college-rc-programmes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/undergraduate-courses\/residential-college-rc-programmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Residential College (RC) Programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

\n\t\t\tResidential College (RC) Programmes\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Ideas and Exposition (UTW) Courses<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n
Prerequisite(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

I&E I Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students must have passed\/been exempted from the\u00a0NUS Qualifying English Test (QET)<\/a>\u00a0or have passed CELC English for\u00a0Academic Purposes courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Preclusion(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

I&E I Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n

IEM1201%, UTW1001% or ES1501%.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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NUS has launched an innovative model of learning and teaching for the University Town’s residential colleges. Part of this initiative is the five-course University Town curriculum that includes the Ideas and Exposition Courses. The courses are designed and constructed by staff members from the Centre for English Language Communication (CELC).<\/p>\n

For the U-Town curriculum, CELC contributes the Ideas and Exposition I (I&E I) for college residents. They are:<\/p>\n

Content Specific<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each I&E course focuses on a particular topic, with readings selected to be accessible to undergraduates. Although each topic reflects the concerns of a particular discipline, all courses introduce students to principles and strategies that will help them write throughout their academic careers.<\/p>\n

Rhetorically intensive<\/strong><\/p>\n

Argumentation is the heart of academic expository writing; therefore each I&E course focuses on how to best construct evidence-based arguments that show readers why it is reasonable to problematize a previous analysis and resolve the problem in a particular way.<\/p>\n

The I&E I courses help students to produce expository writing that readers will recognize as increasing their understanding of a given topic.<\/p>\n

I&E I classes are capped at 15 students each. Within this small group environment, students collaboratively negotiate alternative responses to problems they raise.<\/p>\n

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Critique and Expression (RVX) Courses<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Assessment<\/strong><\/td>\nRVX courses are 100% Continuous Assessment courses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Units<\/strong><\/td>\nFour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Workload<\/strong><\/td>\n0-4-0-0-0-6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prerequisite(s)<\/strong><\/td>\nES1000 and\/or ES1103 (if required)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Preclusion(s)<\/strong><\/td>\nStudents who have read I&E2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Each course is designed to foster critical thinking and expression skills needed by students to be able to function effectively (i.e., competently, reflectively, and creatively) in the university and the wider contexts.<\/p>\n

It is content-specific and rhetorically intensive and adopts the integrated critical thinking approach to writing and communication instruction (Hatcher 2010). It is also inter- and multi-disciplinary in terms of content and its pedagogy is informed by theories on rhetoric and composition, critical thinking, and argumentation. These features of the course guarantee that by the end of the semester, students will have been better prepared to intelligently and effectively engage their readers and audiences not just in the university, but also in professional and social contexts. They ensure that students will be able to develop “sensitivities and dispositions of character that allow [them] to think clearly and express themselves cogently with an end to increased socio-adaptability, and personal reflection and development” (NUS GE Committee, 2020).<\/p>\n

Specifically, the content focus of the course enables students to contextualize their writing while at the same time allowing them to broaden their intellectual and cultural horizons. This content focus introduces the students to new “conceptual and socio-cultural vistas” that they can mobilize or interrogate in their own writing.<\/p>\n

By integrating writing and communication instruction with a content focus, students necessarily engage in cognitive processes of critical thinking and expression. The core strategies expressed in the learning objectives of the course are manifestations of these cognitive processes: students will interrogate<\/strong>\u00a0sources of information and opinion in terms of relevance and reliability;\u00a0critically examine<\/strong> and evaluate<\/strong> how ideas in the core readings can be applied to a case, artefact or phenomenon; engage<\/strong>\u00a0with various methods to understand multimodal cases, phenomenon or artefacts;\u00a0express and organize\u00a0<\/strong>ideas to present a line of argument in a way that is\u00a0sensitive to the audience and the context<\/strong>; document and\u00a0synthesize<\/strong>\u00a0sources to establish a critical claim or proposition; and\u00a0reconsider<\/strong>\u00a0their ideas and their writing based on feedback.<\/p>\n

The course ultimately builds up the capacity of students to write and communicate in a disciplined and context-sensitive manner-informed but judicious, assertive but responsible, critical but capable of cooperative thinking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hatcher, D. L. (2010). Stand-alone versus integrated critical thinking courses.\u00a0The Journal of<\/em>
General Education, 55<\/em>\u00a0(3\/4)<\/em>, 247-72.<\/p>\nNUS General Education Committee. (2020, November 30).\u00a0GE reform-the NUS core curriculum<\/em>.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for RC Programmes<\/h5>\n\t\t\t

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for RC Programmes<\/a><\/p>\n

TIMETABLE FOR RC COURSES OFFERED BY CELC<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Residential College (RC) Programmes Ideas and Exposition (UTW) Courses Prerequisite(s) I&E I Courses Students must have passed\/been exempted from the\u00a0NUS Qualifying English Test (QET)\u00a0or have passed CELC English for\u00a0Academic Purposes courses. Preclusion(s) I&E I Courses IEM1201%, UTW1001% or ES1501%. NUS has launched an innovative model of learning and teaching for the University Town’s residential colleges. …<\/p>\n

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