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Reading Groups bring together students, faculty members, practitioners, and researchers from multi-disciplinary backgrounds to think together about topics specific to each reading Group’s theme. They aim to help students deepen their knowledge through in-class discussion, talks by invited speakers, and projects/interventions, guided by relevant readings from literature.
Reading Groups are not credit-bearing. Participation in a Reading Group will take approximately two to three hours per week during Semester. Senior CAPTains who have completed their UTCP can participate in a Reading Group to fulfill residency requirements if they are unable to take a College course.
Find out more about the Reading Groups this semester (AY2025/2026 Semester 2) below. Register your interest here.
Why is Mandarin an official language and Hokkien only a “dialect” in Singapore? How and why has the number of Indian languages available as Mother Tongue in schools expanded since independence? Why did the script of the Malay language switch from Jawi to Rumi? Why have other Southeast Asian countries chosen certain languages over others for official status? The group will discuss these questions and consider how language and education policies relate to concepts of identity, ethnicity and nation building.
Schedule
This group will meet on Tuesdays 6.30pm to 8.30pm at SR5.
The first session will be held in Week 3 (27 January 2026).
Contacts
Ms Wong Soon Fen (rc3wsf@nus.edu.sg)
Assoc Prof Bruce Lockhart (hisbl@nus.edu.sg)