“By going into the field, they will learn about how these solutions can be applied and what other kinds of indigenous and local solutions may already be in place,” said Associate Professor Kamalini Ramdas, Deputy Head of the NUS Department of Geography.
Graduates can pursue careers in conservation, biodiversity management, environmental consulting, geospatial analytics and environmental policy.
From individual courses to structured minor
The new Minor in Criminal Justice applies a similarly interdisciplinary approach to understanding crime and the justice system.
Drawing on perspectives from sociology, psychology, law, geography and the sciences, students examine issues from cybercrime and online fraud to the causes of offending, victimisation, punishment and rehabilitation.
“The idea for the Minor grew out of our experience in Love that Kills, where we saw how different disciplines could come together to illuminate a complex social problem. We wanted to extend this approach to the wider study of crime and criminal justice,” explained Assoc Prof Narayanan Ganapathy from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Minor’s academic convenor.
Love That Kills: A Criminal Justice Perspective, a CHS interdisciplinary course on gender-based violence, is now one of the Minor’s core courses, alongside Sociology of Deviance, which examines the social and structural roots of criminal behaviour.
The new Minor also enables students to use GIS and spatial analysis to study how environments influence crime patterns, with experiential learning opportunities such as visits to halfway houses that connect sociological theories with practical insights on offender rehabilitation and reintegration.
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Source: news.nus.edu.sg
