TRANSFORMATIVE
LEARNING
Immersion and short-term mobility programs
Our elective immersion and short-term mobility units place you in new
situations and environments that can be personally transformative. You’ll
enhance your cross-cultural awareness, build leadership skills and
generate community engagement experiences. These credit-bearing
units, which include domestic and international excursions, encourage
you to expand your horizons by immersing yourself in new cultures,
putting your academic and interpersonal skills to the test, and taking you
on study trips where you’ll learn to navigate unfamiliar places and
engage with locals at your destination.
We currently offer three units with an integrated study trip: Malaysian
Studies with study trips to destinations within Malaysia, Discovering the
Asia-Pacific Study Trips with destinations within the region, and Change
It: Leadership and Transformation in a Global Society with a study trip to
Prato in Italy. These three units will invite you to engage with a variety of
themes and topics such as the environment, human development,
everyday identities, democracy and social movements.
ALTERNATIVE
FILM
SCREENINGS
Nasi Bungkus Cinema is an alternative film screening program that
showcases the works of local independent filmmakers. Some of
Malaysia’s best up-and-coming directors as well as more established
filmmakers have had their films shown at these screenings. This is
an opportunity to watch challenging and critical films, and to meet
members of Malaysia’s independent filmmaking community.
Run as an extracurricular activity since 2009, these film screenings
not only complement the new major in Film, television and screen
studies, but also explore themes and storylines on gender,
multiculturalism, intergenerational conflicts, environment, urban and
rural life, among others, that are a part of the School’s other areas
of study.
UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2020
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