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Yale-NUS College, a new liberal arts college in Singapore, was established in 2012 as a collaboration between Yale University and the National University of Singapore. Its innovative curriculum, integrated residential life, and professional experiences represent an integral part of the education at Yale-NUS College. Its vision as a liberal arts college “In Asia, For the World” is an outcome of its distinctive curriculum, which covers Asia and the rest of the world in the arts, social sciences, and sciences.
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The inquiry cycle approach builds on the work of Kolb and his colleagues that suggests experiential learning occurs in a recursive cycle of experiencing, reflecting, thinking, and acting. Students are guided to reflect on the things they are experiencing in the field and then to use their interpretations to act. See Kolb and Kolb (2005) and Kolb (2015).
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Khoo, H.E., Craig, T. (2019). Implementing “Week 7” at Yale-NUS College, Singapore: A Pedagogical Experiment Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries. In: Nishimura, M., Sasao, T. (eds) Doing Liberal Arts Education. Education Innovation Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2877-0_3
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