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31 Aug 2013 Sec 2 Briefing: Ms Liew Pei Li liewpl@hci.edu.sg

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What is Happening?

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Humanities as a Prism

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Hwa Chong HP Beyond HCI Outside the Classroom In the Classroom

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#1: In the Classroom

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HP Curriculum Geography History Literature In-depth Humanities Research of Your Choice Critical Faculties & Comm (Oral & Written) Hone Leadership Skills

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HRPCSC HPIH

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#2: Outside the Classroom

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Humanities Research Paper O HRP is a COMPULSORY component of the Humanities Programme. O Comprises a 6,000-word research paper with an oral defence. O HRP is a pre-requisite for application to College HP

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Humanities Research Papers Economic Nationalism through the Lens of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (History) A Study on the Conservation of Chinatown and the Appropriateness of Its Name after Conservation (Geog) The Family Business: Romanticisation of the American Mafia in Film (Lit)

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Humanities & Social Sciences Research Programme O Collaboration with MOE Gifted Education Branch O Mentored by Professors from:

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Special Programme Sessions Multi-Modal Analysis (*NEW) - Film critique Seminar Series - Humanities-related

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Learning Journeys Local and Overseas - Humanities Research Symposium for Youth (Brisbane / Hong Kong / Singapore) - Interdisciplinary Studies - Shakespeare in the Park

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Leadership Opportunities Abound Model United Nations (MUN) - Global issues & action - Netherlands, Harvard, Beijing Humanities in Focus (HiF) - Sec 2 Participants - History, Geography & Literature

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#3: Beyond HCI

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Produced Half of Hwa Chongs 54 Presidents Scholars

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One of the Worlds Leading Oxford & Cambridge Entry Centres Outside the UK

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True Renaissance Man: Yuen Pak Man The Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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Dean FASS NUS Oxford, Geog (PhD) MD, Global Wealth Management @DBS/ Oxford PPE Dept Secretary, MOH LSE -Econs Chief Motivating Officer/ Cambridge Law CEO, National Philanthropy Centre Harvard MPA ST Chief Editor Oxford PPE Nurturing Leaders for the Nation Director Security & Intelligence Oxford PPE Harvard MPA MoS MCI & MOE Cambridge - SPS

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Nurturing Leaders for the Nation

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The task of thinking is to live with doubt in the service of understanding, rather than living with certainty in the preservation of ignorance. Caspar Melville