It's weird how fast time goes during your exchange, even though you kind of knew it will happen. I basically have 2,5 weeks left in Singapore… We had our last lectures on the 15th, so now it's time to do a bit sightseeing in SG. The best thing is to take courses with in class exams or quizzes so that you could start traveling straight away in mid november. Unfortunately I have still two exams coming up, Management and Organization and Asian Business Environments (2nd and 4th of Dec).
As I earlier wrote about the courses ( I study in the business school) it's time to reflect upon them a bit as all deadlines are met. I enrolled to 4 courses in NUS, due to the difficulty of getting desired courses. First, as you arrive here - I am quite sure you don't have all the courses you need or want - you'll need to go threw add/drop period, where you can bid for courses. If you still don't get the courses you want, the last step is to fight with the NUS Staff (ok fighting is a bit of a exaggeration, the staff was extremely helpful and easy to communicate with!). One just has to politely ask them if you could get the course and hope for the best.
The course I got that way was Service Operations Management. I think the most fun part of the course has been the group project, in which we were to choose a singaporean company and analyze their service operations. My group chose 360 Cable-ski park. We interviewed the manager and so on… As the company is about wake boarding, i don't know how much more fun a Uni project can go.. :D Also the professor was hilarious! As the lectures were mandatory, he provided good entertainment value (of course in addition to the educational aspect! ;) ). The course ended with a quiz last week, so I recommend it in terms of quality AND traveling!
Family Business was my favorite course by far. We had to in class exams, basically cases of family businesses. Readings were cases, which we discussed in class (a lot of discussion!). No textbooks. We had several guest lecturers, who are running family businesses in Singapore, which was very much to my liking. In addition we had a group project, where we looked into an asian family business. Of this course, I am totally over with too.
Management and Organization on the other hand still haunts, as my exam is in december. The tutorials of the course were every second week, consisting mostly case analyzation (we were to prepare them beforehand). Asian Business Environments also had weekly tutorials, but the material prepared were articles (ranging from 40 to 60 pages each, yap…). In every course, we had a group project, and in M&O we were to analyze some company from a certain perspective - we had ethics. In Asian Business Environments, on the other hand, the group project was analyzation of a given case. The tutorials of ABE are quite intense, and you'll want to prepare for them, as you can be asked to provide an answer about what some author thinks based on an article.
Funny that school started the 2nd of August with orientation and registration and it's already been over three months since that.
And oh,
NUS ranked top Uni of Asia in the QS World University Rankings ;)
Yes, courses for both undergrad and grad -students! Courses are in english, surprise surprise, and if you study in biz school, you can take courses from the faculty freely.
Next up a bit of Hong Kong and Macau ;)
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