NUS launches two new colleges to deliver flexible, interdisciplinary education more accessibly, and at greater scale
新加坡国立大学宣布成立两所新学院，以更方便、更大规模地提供灵活的跨学科教育。
The University Scholars Programme and Yale-NUS College will combine to form a new college, bringing together their best and strongest elements tobroaden access to inter disciplinary liberal arts education through multiple path ways and specializations
大学学者计划和耶鲁-新加坡国立大学学院将结合起来组成一个新的学院，将其最好和最强的元素结合起来，通过多种途径和专业扩大跨学科文科教育的机会。
The new College of Design and Engineering will offer a new model of inter disciplinary education that leverages the synergy between the two converging fields
新的设计与工程学院将提供一种新的跨学科教育模式，利用两个融合领域之间的协同作用。
The National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced the establishment of two new interdisciplinary colleges: the University Scholars Programme (USP) and the Yale-NUS College (Yale-NUS) will be combined into a single new college, and the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Design and Environment will merge to form the College of Design andEngineering.
新加坡国立大学今天宣布成立两个新的跨学科学院：大学学者项目和耶鲁-新加坡国立大学学院将合并为一个新学院，工程学院和设计与环境学院将合并为设计与工程学院。
The formation of these two colleges is the latest move in NUS’ efforts to transform the educational experience at Singapore’s flagship university, based on four key pillars – common curriculum,greater flexibility, an interdisciplinary approach and life long learning.
这两所学院的成立是新加坡国立大学在改革新加坡旗舰大学教育经验方面的最新举措，其基础是四个关键支柱，共同课程、更大的灵活性、跨学科方法和终身学习。
NUS President Professor Tan Eng Chye said,“A world-class university education must evolve quickly to prepare students for a world marked by ever greater volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Graduates need to be highly curious problem-chasers and innovative problem solvers, flexible and adept at connecting the dots across diverse disciplines to succeed in a future of rapid change and unpredictability. The establishment of these two new colleges is part of our road map of educational innovations and curricular reforms to keep up with the needs and challenges of the global economy.”
新加坡国立大学校长陈永栽教授说：“世界一流的大学教育必须迅速发展，为学生准备好迎接一个以更加动荡、不确定、复杂和模糊为特征的世界。毕业生需要成为高度好奇的问题探索者和创新的问题解决者，灵活并善于将不同学科的联系起来，以便在快速变化和不可预测的未来取得成功。这两个新学院的建立是我们教育创新和课程改革路线图的一部分，以跟上全球经济的需求和挑战。”
Since 2018, NUS has been introducing educational innovations progressively with the aim of exposing students to the interface and interplay of different disciplines across Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
自2018年以来，新加坡国立大学一直在逐步引入教育创新，旨在让学生接触到人文、社会科学以及科学、技术、工程和数学等不同学科和之间的相互作用。
A defining characteristic of the new NUS education framework is enhancing the capability of graduates to be life long learners and setting them on the path to be deeply passionate, curious and innovative in solving world problems. The framework emphasizes a commoncurriculum to provide a rigorous, broad-based intellectual foundation that expands the learning capacities of our graduates. Flexible pathways to deepen expertise in a chosen major, or learn multiple competencies through doublemajors, majors, and minors in other disciplines, allow students to adapt their learning pathway through the University. Inter disciplinary approaches inteaching and learning enhance complex problem-solving, which is reinforced by experiential learning.
新加坡国立大学新教育框架的一个决定性特征是提高毕业生成为终身学习者的能力，并使他们在解决世界问题的过程中具有深厚的激情、好奇心和创新精神。该框架强调共同的课程，以提供严格的、基础广泛的知识基础，扩大我们毕业生的学习能力。通过灵活的途径深化所选专业的专业知识，或通过其他学科的双专业、专业和辅修专业学习多种能力，使学生能够通过大学调整他们的学习途径。跨学科的教学方法加强了复杂问题的解决，并通过体验式学习得到了加强。
A major development reflecting this new education framework is the College of Humanities and Sciences, an enhance dunder graduate experience launched in December 2020. Through this College,students of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science can now access over 700 double major pairings, 1,700 major-minor pairings and more than 100,000 major with double minor combinations across the University, and have greater flexibility to pursue intellectual breadth and depth across disciplines.
反映这一新教育框架的一个重要发展是人文与科学学院，这是一个在2020年12月推出的增强型本科生体验。通过这个学院，艺术与社会科学学院和科学学院的学生现在可以在全校范围内获得700多个双专业配对、1700个专业与辅修专业配对以及10万多个专业与双辅修专业的组合，并在追求跨学科的知识广度和深度方面拥有更大的灵活性。
With strong public interest and excitement in interdisciplinary education as seen in growing applications to the new lyestablished College of Humanities and Sciences as well as positive reception to the new common curriculum and flexible interdisciplinary learning for students in Engineering as well as Design and Environment, NUS has decided to further expand the scale of interdisciplinary learning by launching the two newcolleges.
随着公众对跨学科教育的强烈兴趣和兴奋，从新成立的人文与科学学院越来越多的申请中可以看出，以及对新的共同课程和工程以及设计与环境专业学生灵活的跨学科学习的积极反应，新加坡国立大学决定通过推出这两个新学院来进一步扩大跨学科学习的规模。
New College
新学院
Bringing together the best features and extensive experience of USP and Yale-NUS, the New College seeks to continuetheir legacy of world class interdisciplinary liberal arts education. The College will be in a new position of strength and identity to offer broader andmore specialized offerings through a deeper integration with NUS. It will address the evolving needs and challenges of the modern world by reigning interdisciplinary education in a bigger and bolder way through an innovative new common curriculum designed to enhance and complement learning, rigorous intellectual engagement and vibrant residential living.
新学院汇集了南太平洋大学和耶鲁-新加坡国立大学学院的最佳特色和广泛经验，力求延续其世界级跨学科文科教育的传统。学院将处于一个新的优势和身份地位，通过与新加坡国立大学的深度融合，提供更广泛和更专业的课程。它将应对现代世界不断变化的需求和挑战，通过创新的共同课程，以更大更大胆的方式重新想象跨学科教育，旨在加强和补充学习，严格的智力参与和充满活力的居住生活。
Building on the success of the Yale-NUSpartnership which began in 2011, and the USP which admitted its first intake in2001, the New College will be open to all students applying for admission to undergraduate degree programs at NUS. The New College will welcome its firstintake of up to 500 students in Academic Year 2022/23. Allowing students the flexibility to build their own learning portfolio and achieve their desired breadth and depth across diverse fields, the New College will offer greater access to multiple pathways and combinations in areas of specializations.Students will experience the model of immersive and interdisciplinary learning characterized by flexible curriculum, residential living and small group teaching. Graduating students will earn degrees conferred by their respective home school or faculty.
在2011年开始的耶鲁-新加坡国立大学合作伙伴关系的成功基础上，大学学者项目在2001年接收了第一批新生，新学院将向所有申请新加坡国立大学本科学位课程的学生开放。新学院将在2022/23学年招收第一批学生，人数多达500人。新学院允许学生灵活地建立自己的学习组合，并在不同的领域实现他们所期望的广度和深度，新学院将提供更多的途径和专业领域的组合。学生将体验到以灵活的课程、住宿生活和小组教学为特点的沉浸式和跨学科学习模式。毕业的学生将获得由他们各自的母校或院系授予的学位。
Students of the New College willread a new common curriculum adapted from the best of both the USP and Yale-NUS foundations, enhanced with new STEM elements. The distinctive Yale-NUS commoncurriculum – covering literature and history, modern social thought,philosophy, quantitative reasoning and scientific inquiry – has been aninspiration for expanding interdisciplinary education and designing a common curriculum across NUS. The USP curriculum has similarly enabled generations ofstudents to make strong connections across disciplines, starting with foundational skills and progressing to a deep dive into big questions andissues in the humanities, social sciences, science and technology to stimulate intellectual discourse.
新学院的学生将阅读新的共同课程，该课程改编自南大和耶鲁-新加坡国立大学的优秀基础，并加入了新的STEM元素。耶鲁-新加坡国立大学独特的共同课程——涵盖文学和历史、现代社会思想、哲学、定量推理和科学探索——一直是扩大跨学科教育和设计整个新加坡国立大学共同课程的灵感来源。南大的课程同样使几代学生能够在各学科之间建立起强有力的联系，从基础技能开始，逐步深入到人文、社会科学、科学和技术领域的重大问题和议题，以激发智力讨论。
Keeping the important feature of the USP where students are able to access the full range of majors, second majors,minors and specializations offered across NUS, and attain their desired disciplinary depth, the students of New College will enjoy the same unparalleled flexibility to acquire new competencies beyond their home schoolor faculty.
保持USP的重要特点，即学生能够获得整个新加坡国立大学提供的全部专业、第二专业、副专业和专业，并达到他们想要的学科深度，新学院的学生将享有同样的无与伦比的灵活性，以获得超越其母校或学院的新能力。
Yale-NUS students who matriculated in Academic Year 2021/22 and who form the graduating Class of 2025, will be thefinal cohort of students in Yale-NUS. All current Yale-NUS students including the final cohort will continue to enjoy the full Yale-NUS experience and earnthe same Yale-NUS degree conferred by NUS as their predecessors. Yale-NUS will remain open and continue running its academic, co-curricular and research programs until the end of Academic Year 2024/25. Students currently enrolled inthe USP will transit into the New College from Academic Year 2022/23.
在2021/22学年入学并组成2025届毕业班的雅礼协会学生，将是耶鲁-新加坡国立大学的最后一批学生。包括最后一批学生在内的所有耶鲁-新加坡国立大学学生将继续享受耶鲁-新加坡国立大学的全部经历，并与他们的前辈一样获得由新加坡国立大学授予的耶鲁-新加坡国立大学学位。耶鲁-新加坡国立大学将继续开放，并继续运行其学术、联合课程和研究项目，直至2024/25学年结束。目前在南大就读的学生将从2022/23学年起转入新学院。
A New College Planning Committee,chaired by NUS Senior Deputy President and Provost Professor Ho Teck Hua and comprising leaders from USP and Yale-NUS, Yale, as well as NUS, will continue the development of the plan for the New College, and how it will combine the best of USP and Yale-NUS. The planning committee will focus on key areas suchas the new common curriculum for the New College, staff matters,transition plans, admissions as well as residential and student life. Facultyfrom Yale-NUS and USP will be represented on the subcommittee for the common curriculum. This planning committee will also seek ideas and feedback fromstudents, staff, faculty and alumni of both Yale-NUS and USP about the formation of the New College. More updates will be provided in the first quarter of 2022.
新学院规划委员会由新加坡国立大学高级副校长兼教务长何德华教授担任主席，成员包括来自南太平洋大学和耶鲁-新加坡国立大学、耶鲁大学以及新加坡国立大学的领导，将继续制定新学院的计划，以及如何将南太平洋大学和耶鲁-新加坡国立大学的优势结合起来。规划委员会将重点关注关键领域，如新学院的新共同课程、员工事务、过渡计划、招生以及住宿和学生生活。耶鲁-新加坡国立大学和南太平洋大学的教师将参加共同课程小组委员会。这个规划委员会还将向耶鲁-新加坡国立大学和南太平洋大学的学生、员工、教职员工和校友征求关于新学院组建的意见和反馈。更多最新信息将在2022年第一季度提供。
Yale President Professor Peter Salovey said, “Yale takes great pride in the accomplishments of Yale-NUS College — apioneering partnership between two leading universities to create a presidentially based liberal arts college… I want to offer my best wishes for the new collegeand express our gratitude for the generous support of the Government of Singapore in making it possible for us to partner in the creation of a model of liberal arts education that is regarded as one of the most innovative in the world — one whose DNA will live on, we trust, in new and exciting ways.”
耶鲁大学校长彼得-萨洛维教授说：“耶鲁大学对耶鲁-新加坡国立大学的成就感到非常自豪——这是两所领先大学之间的先锋合作，创建了一所以居住为基础的文理学院。我想对新学院表示最良好的祝愿，并感谢新加坡政府的慷慨支持，使我们能够合作创建一个被认为是世界上最创新的文理教育模式——我们相信，这个模式的DNA将以全新和令人兴奋的方式继续存在。”
“The evolution of USP and Yale-NUS into the New College will offer students the opportunity to benefit froman immersive, interdisciplinary liberal arts education that brings together thebest features of both institutions and very importantly expands access tomultiple pathways, disciplines and specialization sacross the NUS ecosystem. We’re delighted that Yale will continue to play an advisory role in the New College as a pioneering member of itsinternational advisory panel. Yale has been a visionary partner in Yale-NUS College. We look forward to continuing our friendship, and exploring bilateral opportunities in research and education,” said NUS President Professor Tan EngChye.
新加坡国立大学校长陈永栽教授说：“南太平洋大学和耶鲁-新加坡国立大学演变成新学院，将为学生提供机会，使他们受益于沉浸式、跨学科的文科教育，汇集了两所学校的最佳特点，而且非常重要的是扩大了在整个新加坡国立大学生态系统中获得多种途径、学科和专业的途径。我们很高兴耶鲁大学将作为国际顾问团的先锋成员继续在新学院中发挥顾问作用。耶鲁大学一直是耶鲁-新加坡国立大学的一个富有远见的合作伙伴。我们期待着继续我们的友谊，并探索研究和教育方面的双边机会。”
College of Design and Engineering
设计与工程学院
Starting from August 2021, the new cohort of students enrolled in the NUS Faculty of Engineering and NUS School of Designand Environment can seamlessly take courses from both schools to develop competencies across different fields. This cohort of about 1,800 students will start their NUS education by taking a common curriculum, and will also enjoy greater choice, breadth and flexibility in charting their learning journeys.
从2021年8月开始，在新加坡国立大学工程学院和新加坡国立大学设计与环境学院就读的新一批学生可以无缝地学习两所学校的课程，以培养不同领域的能力。这批约1800名学生将通过学习共同的课程开始他们的新加坡国立大学教育，并将在规划他们的学习旅程时享有更大的选择权、广泛性和灵活性。
To further harmonize and integrate the University’s teaching and research capabilities in engineering and design, NUSwill be setting up a new College of Design and Engineering (CDE). The CDE was conceptualizedbya task force chaired by NUS Senior Deputy President and Provost Professor HoTeck Hua, and comprising six industry leaders, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dean of the School of Design and Environment, as well as eight academics from the two schools.
为了进一步协调和整合大学在工程和设计方面的教学和研究能力，新加坡国立大学将成立一个新的设计与工程学院（CDE）。CDE的概念是由新加坡国立大学高级副校长兼教务长何德华教授主持的一个特别小组提出的，该小组成员包括六位行业领袖、工程学院院长、设计与环境学院院长以及来自这两个学院的八位学者。
The CDE – a fusion of the Faculty of Engineering and School of Design and Environment – is a future-focused,interdisciplinary learning and research institution designed to advance the applications and professions of Engineering, Architecture and Design. CDE will be home to the 11 departments in the two existing schools.
CDE融合了工程学院和设计与环境学院——是一个以未来为重点的跨学科学习和研究机构，旨在推进工程、建筑和设计的应用和专业。CDE将是现有两个学院的11个系的所在地。
Prof Ho said, “In the converging fields of engineering and design, professionals must be able to problem-find, ideate,build and realize their ideas into solutions that are practical, functional and appealing. This requires thinking and behaviour that reflect adaptability,empathy, creativity, and resourcefulness.”
何教授说：“在工程和设计的融合领域，专业人员必须能够发现问题、构思、构建并实现他们的想法，使之成为实用、实用和有吸引力的解决方案。这就要求思维和行为体现出适应性、同情心、创造性和机智性。”
He added, “At NUS, we see a great opportunity to bring together two world-class NUS schools – the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Design and Environment – to pioneer a uniquemodel of interdisciplinary undergraduate education that takes advantage of the natural synergies between these fields.”
他补充说：“在新加坡国立大学，我们看到了一个巨大的机会，将新加坡国立大学的两个世界级学院——工程学院和设计与环境学院——结合起来，开创一个独特的跨学科本科教育模式，利用这些领域之间的自然协同作用。”
Professor Aaron Thean, current Dean of NUS Faculty of Engineering, has been appointed the Dean-Designate of CDE. He willlead the merger of the two schools to form the new College, which is expected to be officially launched in November 2021. Students who are currently enrolledin the two schools will seamlessly transit into the new College with effectfrom 1 January 2022.
新加坡国立大学工程学院现任院长Aaron Thean教授已被任命为CDE的候任院长。他将领导两个学院的合并工作，以成立新的学院，预计将在2021年11月正式启动。目前在这两所学校就读的学生将从2022年1月1日起顺利转入新学院。
Prof Aaron Thean said, “This is a very exciting development and we are encouraged by the positive response from students, employers and professional institutions following the introduction of the forward-looking common curriculum. At CDE, students will have the flexibility to build their own programme based on how broad, deep or integratedthey want their education to be. This addresses the increasingly diverse designand engineering professions in Singapore. They will also gain a broad intellectual foundation for life long learning and development. Our goal is to nurture a new generation of professional engineers, technologists, architects,designers and built-environment specialists who will have deep domain knowledge, enhanced by a multi-disciplinary background. We hope our students will be well prepared to draw from and collaborate with wide areas of expertise, to solve complex problems.”
Aaron Thean教授说：“这是一个非常令人振奋的发展，我们对学生、雇主和专业机构在引入前瞻性的共同课程后的积极反应感到鼓舞。在CDE，学生将可以根据他们希望自己的教育有多广泛、多深入或多综合，灵活地建立自己的课程。这解决了新加坡日益多样化的设计和工程专业的问题。他们还将获得一个广泛的知识基础，以实现终身学习和发展。我们的目标是培养新一代的专业工程师、技术专家、建筑师、设计师和建筑环境专家，他们将拥有深厚的领域知识，并通过多学科的背景得到加强。我们希望我们的学生能够做好充分准备，从广泛的专业领域中汲取营养并与之合作，以解决复杂的问题。”