This course creates guided opportunities for final year NUSC students to critically reflect, in rigorous, evidence-based ways, on the experiences they've had during their time in NUSC and at NUS.

This course prepares students for intellectual life beyond the university by modelling and asking students to engage in responsible reading, thinking, teaching, writing, and dialogue. Students will be challenged to critically read and productively respond to assumptions, evidence, and methods from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This module builds upon and expands NUSC's goal of developing socially engaged thinkers, readers, and writers with the skills necessary to understand and intervene in debates concentrated in but relevant beyond specific disciplines and academia.

This course gives the 3rd year and fourth-year students at the NUS College guided opportunities to think and write critically and reflexively about their areas of disciplinary expertise, thus equipping students with the tools for critical disciplinary literacy. At the intermediate levels, students develop understanding of the language, methodologies, and approaches to truth claims in their own disciplines, while situating these against the same in other fields of study. Crucially, the course emphasizes the analysis of disciplinary discourse – how knowledge is produced, how disciplinary histories are narrated, and how methodologies and research topics are rationalized in their fields of study. The course also facilitates acquisition of critical reflection skills by allowing students to situate their own disciplines in the broader context of society and a multidisciplinary university environment, while examining personal experiences and values that emerge in these academic pursuits.