Highlights
![Featured Freshmore research Felix Teos Analysing Poverty in Singapore](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/HASS-Story-Singapore.jpg)
Featured Freshmore research: Felix Teo’s Analysing Poverty in Singapore
Our HASS Freshmore core course, ‘02.003 Social Science: Understanding Behaviour, Culture and Society’, begins with the foundational debates of political economy. We read selections from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, including his famous discussion of the origin of the division of labour and its role in promoting national wealth.
![Featured Freshmore research Felix Teos Analysing Poverty in Singapore](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/HASS-Story-Singapore.jpg)
![HASS announces co-winners for 2022 Digital Humanities Award](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/shadowlightbox.jpg)
HASS announces co-winners for 2022 Digital Humanities Award
The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) cluster at SUTD is pleased to announce the 2022 co-winners of the Digital Humanities Award.
![HASS announces co-winners for 2022 Digital Humanities Award](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/shadowlightbox.jpg)
![Students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul receive excellent review for their online repository project on the Japanese Army Occupation during World War II](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/W0BRaV.png)
Students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul receive excellent review for their online repository project on the Japanese Army Occupation during World War II
As their final project for the course 02.126 Southeast Asia under Japan: Motives, Memoirs, and Media, students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul designed a voluminous online repository for primary and secondary sources related to studying the occupation of Southeast Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
![Students Han Xing Yi and Velusamy Sathia Kumar Ragul receive excellent review for their online repository project on the Japanese Army Occupation during World War II](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/W0BRaV.png)
![Student Huang Qiuhongs article on Endau Settlement published in Emory Journal of Asian Studies](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/xqiuhong-v2-1024x577.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.b8cNITjhBe.webp)
Student Huang Qiuhong’s article on Endau Settlement published in Emory Journal of Asian Studies
We interviewed student Huang Qiuhong who published her article “The Japanese Occupation of Singapore: Examining the Success of the Endau Settlement” in the Emory Journal of Asian Studies.
![Student Huang Qiuhongs article on Endau Settlement published in Emory Journal of Asian Studies](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/xqiuhong-v2-1024x577.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.b8cNITjhBe.webp)
![ISTD Senior Caleb Lees Short Film The Broken Circuit is an Official Selection for the Essex DocFest](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/xessex.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.rKiVSWADOi.jpeg)
ISTD Senior Caleb Lee’s Short Film “The Broken Circuit” is an Official Selection for the Essex DocFest
Graduating ISTD Senior Caleb Lee has been receiving some recognition for his short film, “The Broken Circuit”, a moving, personal account of how he experienced the ‘circuit breaker’ – Singapore’s nationwide lockdown of two months to contain the spread of Covid-19.
![ISTD Senior Caleb Lees Short Film The Broken Circuit is an Official Selection for the Essex DocFest](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/xessex.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.rKiVSWADOi.jpeg)
![HASS students paper accepted for presentation at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology SCAP 2020 postponed to 2021](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/Where-to-Go-This-Summer-Break.png)
HASS’ students’ paper accepted for presentation at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP) 2020 (postponed to 2021)
Four SUTD students who took Associate Professor Yow Wei Quin’s course 02.218 Introduction to Psychology in 2019 submitted a research paper to the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP) in 2020 (postponed to 2021 due to covid-19). Their paper has been accepted for presentation!
![HASS students paper accepted for presentation at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology SCAP 2020 postponed to 2021](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/Where-to-Go-This-Summer-Break.png)
![Congratulations to our Pioneer Class of MUSPP Graduates](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/HASS-pioneer-MUSPP-graduates.jpg)
Congratulations to our Pioneer Class of MUSPP Graduates
On 14 September 2019, we officially graduated our first batch of Master’s in Urban Science, Planning and Policy graduates.
![Congratulations to our Pioneer Class of MUSPP Graduates](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/HASS-pioneer-MUSPP-graduates.jpg)
![HASS PhD Student Suhailas Journey in SUTD](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/image-7.jpg)
HASS PhD Student Suhaila’s Journey in SUTD
HASS interviewed PhD student Suhaila (Class of 2018) on her SUTD journey thus far. Read on to find out more about the recent conferences that she has attended as well as her hopes and plans in assuming the Academic Director position in the Graduate Student Association Executive Committee of 2019/2020.
![HASS PhD Student Suhailas Journey in SUTD](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/image-7.jpg)
![Film Production Boot Camp Showcase](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/still-1.jpg)
Film Production Boot Camp Showcase
Students have completed the first half of HASS 02.201 Film II – Production Studies.
![Film Production Boot Camp Showcase](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/still-1.jpg)
![Hacking a Solution to Fake News](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/image-3-3.jpg)
Hacking a Solution to Fake News!
Fake news may be a growing scourge but a team of SUTD students is raring to stamp it out!
![Hacking a Solution to Fake News](https://www.sutd.edu.sg/hass/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/01/image-3-3.jpg)