Module: Service-Learning in Action
This module engages and encourages students to be responsible for their own learning. It offers hands-on application that increases the relevance of academic knowledge and provides opportunities for deeper involvement in the community. Students are expected to use their acquired discipline skills and knowledge to contribute to community projects and reflect on their learning.
Project: Personal financial budgeting for migrant workers
Within three sessions, students tapped into personal financial budgeting knowledge, skills, and tools to work with migrant workers on how they could go about achieving their financial goals. This included mutual sharing of personal hopes and dreams, financial goal setting, tracking of expenditure using a mobile app, developing personal and family budgets, as well as identifying additional sources of income and savings on current expenditure.
Module: Service-Learning in Action
This module engages and encourages students to be responsible for their own learning. It offers hands-on application that increases the relevance of academic knowledge and provides opportunities for deeper involvement in the community. Students are expected to use their acquired discipline skills and knowledge to contribute to community projects and reflect on their learning.
Project: Organising events to promote community bonding
Students worked with HDB and the Federation of Merchants' Associations of 3 neighbourhoods (Tanjong Pagar, Yuhua and Hong Kah) to organise a community event in each, to promote community bonding. They developed each event's theme, programme and activities in consultation with the respective Merchants' Association, sourced for supplies and planned the logistics.
Module: Service-Learning in Action
This module engages and encourages students to be responsible for their own learning. It offers hands-on application that increases the relevance of academic knowledge and provides opportunities for deeper involvement in the community. Students are expected to use their acquired discipline skills and knowledge to contribute to community projects and reflect on their learning.
Project: Planning & executing a fundraising event
Students put their business skills into practice to plan and execute a fundraising event for REACH Youth Powerhouse. They applied knowledge from Year 1 modules (Accounting & Finance, Information Design in Business) and Year 2 modules (Principles of Marketing, Enterprise Creation & Development, and Services Operations Management). During the event, they also promoted the REACH flag day and helped to seek volunteers.
Module: Digital Marketing of Financial Services
This module provides an integrated approach to the marketing of financial services. It will enable students to gain an overview of financial services marketing and equips them with the knowledge and skills needed to market financial services. Marketing concepts and applications will be infused through interactive discussions, individual oral presentations and group projects.
Project: Surveying migrant workers on remittance needs
Students interacted with more than 50 migrant workers in Singapore to find out about their culture and the issues they face in Singapore. They completed about 180 surveys with the migrant workers to understand their remittance needs. The survey results were shared with partners, DBS Bank and Migrant Worker Centre, to provide inputs for designing more relevant remittance services for migrant workers.
Module: Service-Learning in Action
This module engages and encourages students to be responsible for their own learning. It offers hands-on application that increases the relevance of academic knowledge and provides opportunities for deeper involvement in the community. Students are expected to use their acquired discipline skills and knowledge to contribute to community projects and reflect on their learning.
Project: Business & marketing strategies for foreign domestic workers
Students worked with foreign domestic workers (FDW) to formulate business plans and marketing strategies. This required them to apply course materials from IBE, Entrepreneurship and Marketing in the context of the FDW.