2.5 cu

The course will expose students to mangrove ecology and the impact of human activities on the mangrove ecosystem. Working with related community partners on community-based projects related to mangrove conservation, students will participate in and gain experience on conservation projects. They will be guided to reflect critically on the importance of mangrove conservation in Singapore and the region, and recognise the inherent challenges and emergent opportunities.

Students can fulfil the CE experiential graduation requirement upon satisfactory completion of this course.

5 cu

Through service-learning with community members and organisations who navigate competing resource demands in our highly dense urban city, students will gain insight from the lived experiences of people dedicated to community-based approaches to food security and sustainability.

Students can fulfil the CE experiential graduation requirement upon satisfactory completion of this course.

5 cu

Social marketing uses commercial marketing concepts and techniques to influence the behaviour of a specific target audience with the intent of achieving positive societal impact. The course incorporates a combination of in-class activities, discussions, and field observations, allowing students to learn how to apply appropriate social marketing concepts, tools and strategies to adequately address different social issues.

Offered by the Marketing programme in SUSS School of Business, MKT367 is packaged – in partnership with OSLCE – as a Community Engaged Course. Students can fulfil the CE experiential graduation requirement upon satisfactory completion of this course.

5 cu

The course provides an alternative approach to crime prevention, crime control and conflict resolution. It highlights the principles of restorative justice and its effectiveness in the management of offenders. By examining the practices of restorative justice globally, this course will provide options to manage crime or conflict by involving all affected stakeholders and community partners to come together and seek resolution to the harm caused by the perpetrator. Restorative justice provides an opportunity for the perpetrator to repair the harm done to the victim and strengthen relationships with the affected stakeholders. By providing an alternative model to conflict resolution, students will be able to consider the possibilities of adapting restorative justice, its principles and practices in working with offenders, partners and other stakeholders.

Offered by the Public Safety and Security programme at SUSS School of Humanities & Behavioural Sciences, PSS313 is packaged – in partnership with OSLCE – as a Community Engaged Course. Students can fulfil the CE experiential graduation requirement upon satisfactory completion of this course.

5 cu

This course examines autism, its early signs and primary symptoms within the spectrum of autism disorder. It highlights the challenges that ASD poses to both diagnosis, treatment, intervention and teaching. The provision of support and educational placement is examined in terms of the major approaches to supporting autism needs including the strategies that have been found to be effective in managing behaviours and imparting skills based on research on autism. Support for ASD is also examined within the framework of inclusion. In the course, students will have the opportunity to carry out an applied project to support the community and social service sector, in line with CE objectives.

Offered by the Minor in Special Education Programme at SUSS S R Nathan School of Human Development, SPE205 is packaged – in partnership with OSLCE - as a Community Engaged Course. Students can fulfil the CE experiential graduation requirement upon satisfactory completion of this course.

2.5 cu

Volunteers have played a significant role in building communities and remain a cornerstone in the work of the people sector and non-profit organisations. It is hence critical that organisations are able to effectively manage their volunteer resources, and to do so will require a robust volunteer management framework. This course is set up to provide the fundamentals of such a framework.

Students may then join the Volunteer Management Fellowship (VMF) programme, which requirements include completing OCE165. One other requirement is to complete a job placement in volunteer management, allowing you to concurrently fulfil the CE experiential graduation requirement under the Community Engaged Work pathway. Being a part of the VMF will allow you to explore volunteer management as a career.

2.5 cu

In this course, students will learn and apply community engagement skills to achieve positive community development outcomes and reflect on whether these outcomes lead to meaningful and sustainable community change. By designing and carrying out ground-up community projects, students will be facilitated to “learn by doing”. They would be introduced to the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approach - which presents a mindset and method for enabling sustainable community change – in addition to other tools to conceptualise, test and reflect on their ground-up projects.

OCE175 guides you with skills to design a ground-up project. Students can then move on to execute this ground-up project to fulfil CE under the Community Service-Learning pathway.