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Transition from Home to College: Opportunities and Challenges in a Year One Residential College

Abstract:

Intellectual and character development of undergraduate students can be significantly enhanced by sustained personal contact between students and teachers, as evidenced by several research studies. The residential college system offers students carefully structured opportunities to develop their emotional intelligence – through a familiar and comfortable living environment, personal interaction with faculty members and a well-balanced academic and co-academic curriculum.

In this talk, I will share about our experiences at Ridge View Residential College (RVRC) on how visible learning outcomes such as the development of intellectual inquiry, inner resiliency, social, personal and interpersonal competency can be developed and measured through a structured living-learning programme.

Established in 2014, RVRC located at the National University of Singapore offers a unique living-learning model to Year One students from the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Science, School of Computing, and School of Design and Environment. Students read three core modules that are seamlessly integrated to provide interconnectivity and relevance between knowledge and application.

The RVRC programme is unique in its inter-disciplinary integrated approach to curriculum that is anchored on the theme of sustainability, our close engagement with industry through mentorship of student’s team projects, and focus on developing a value-centric community via experiential learning.

In addition to sharing in greater detail about how the three modules offered at the college are integrated, I will also share lessons learnt including opportunities and challenges in designing an integrated curriculum for a residential college setting.

About the Speaker:

Prof Adekunle Adeyeye

Adekunle Adeyeye is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the fundamental understanding and exploration of magnetic nanostructures in applications such as ultra-high density storage, magnetic random access memory and magnetic logic devices. More recently in 2014, he was appointed the founding College Master of Ridge View Residential College (RVRC) at NUS. A soccer enthusiast, he lives in RVRC with his wife, Folake and their three children and hopes to share and instill the same spirit of dedication and tenacity to the students that he reaches out to.