JC Humanities Prgram - RI, HCI or ACSI ?

[jtoh]

Laissezfaire, is the ACSI humanities program part of their IB programme?

[WeiHan]

Regarding the above arguments about whether certain topics in humanities have right/wrong answers, maybe you would like to consider why has slavery become totally unacceptable while not too long ago, there are arguments for it. Cross racial marriage? In my opinion, all arguments can be traced back to the more basic fundamental principle that you based on. We can then debate on the relative merit of each fundamental principles based on empirical evidences. I tend to think there are right/wrong answers.

[laissezfaire]

jtoh:

Laissezfaire, is the ACSI humanities program part of their IB programme?

Jtoh, yes it is. The HP class essentially is a HL English class but they have their own texts, and do not do the same texts as HL classes. This is so to justify funding as well as the scholarships blah blah...

They sit for the same HL paper at the IB exam, but they use their own texts to answer the questions. These texts are selections from the IB prescribed text lists anyway, they are not a random selection.

[jtoh]

Thanks laissezfaire.

[laissezfaire]

jtoh:

Thanks laissezfaire.

No problem, Jtoh.

I should add that the competency of the teaching of the various component Humanities subjects varies in this particular programme at ACS I.

The History department varies from competent to having some really good teachers. You could say Economics also ranges from average to above average, but no real outstanding types.

English on the other hand, is notoriously the nastiest and most incompetent department in the whole school, especially at the IB level. Hwa Chong and RIJC have better teachers here overall by far, although many of them have been there for too long and are too comfortable.

[KS Reloaded]

Thank you all!


This is really a good reading thread for me, as I myself did not pass thro the A-level route. I attended the poly instead.

[hoskins8h]

The Humanites Programme under its original name of PROMSHO is probably the boost that helped HCJC overtake NJC in the 80s.

Turned quite a few science students into humanities students.

[verykiasu2010]

hoskins8h:

The Humanites Programme under its original name of PROMSHO is probably the boost that helped HCJC overtake NJC in the 80s.

Turned quite a few science students into humanities students.

and even the NJC students doing the humanities prog had to change school to go across the drain

[concerned mom]

Hi my son is currently in the Sec 3 humanities SP. Can anyone share more about the options from Sec 4 to JC - so if can’t make to humanities prog in JC , one goes to Arts? What sort of grades? Does participation in initiatives like THIMUN help?

[kylene]

Hi,

Can anyone share the difference in humanities program for RI and HCI. During my time, HCI has a much stronger humanities program . Wondering if anything has changed now . Thanks