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PROGRAMME 6.15pm Welcome & Briefing by Associate Chair ( Academic) Introduction to NTU Libraries Resources and Access by 6.35pm Mr Law Loo Shien (CMIL) Proceed to Programme Briefing (venues): 6.50pm Mass Comm – Executive Seminar Room (Level 2) Info Systems – LT (remain where you are) Info Studies – MMC Room (Level 2) Knowledge Management – Seminar Room 2 (Level 2) Photo-taking session 7.30pm to 8.00pm Dinner and interaction with faculty and alumni 8.00pm to 9.00pm Collection of Matriculation Cards at Level 2, study benches near lift lobby (IS, Info Systems, MMC) Matric Cards for KM Programme will be distributed during programme briefing 1

Graduate Coursework Programmes Orientation - August 2015 Speaker: Dr Mark Cenite Associate Chair (Academic) Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information 2

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Overall Graduate Coursework AY ’15-’16 No. of Students Full time 122 (49.6%) 124 (50.4% ) Part time Total no. of students: 246

Overall Graduate Coursework AY ’15-’16 Nationality Filipino: 5 (2%) Others: 14 (6%) Singaporean Sri Lankan: 7 (3%) Chinese Myanmar: 15 (6%) Indian Singaporean: 96 (39% ) Myanmar Indian: 29 (12%) Sri Lankan Filipino Chinese: 80 (33%) Others: Ind' sian, M'sian, Thai, Kazakh, Guinea- Bissau, Viet Total no. of students: 246

Master of Mass Communication Nationality Indian: 2 (3%) Others: 4 (7%) Singaporean Myanmar: 2 (3%) Chinese Myanmar Chinese 13 (22%) Indian Others (Thai, Indonesia, Filipino, Vietnamese) Singaporean: 39 (65% ) Total no. of students: 60

Msc of Knowledge Management Nationality Vietnamese: 1 (2%) Indian: 3 (6%) Singaporean : 6 Singaporean Thai: 1 (2%) (12% ) Chinese Thai Indian Chinese: 40 (78%) Vietnamese Total no. of students: 51

Msc in Information Studies Nationality Malaysian: 1 (2%) Filipino: 2 (4%) Indonesian: 1 (2%) Singaporean Myanmar: 3 (7%) Chinese Sri Lankan Indian: 4 (9%) Indian Singaporean: 22 (49% ) Myanmar Sri Lankan: 4 (9%) Filipino Indonesian Malaysian Chinese: 8 (18%) Total no. of students: 45

Msc in Information Systems Nationality Others: 7 (8%) Filipino: 2 (4%) Singaporean Indian Sri Lankan: 3 (3%) Chinese Myanmar: Singaporean: 10 (11%) Myanmar 29 (32% ) Sri Lankan Chinese: 19 (21%) Filipino Indian: 20 (22%) Others: Ind' sian, M'sian, Thai, Kazakh, Guinea- Bissau, Viet Total no. of students: 90

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Key dates Semester 1 (AY2015-16) schedule • – Teaching: 11 August 2015 to 13 November 2015 – Recess: 28 September 2015 to 2 October 2015 – Exams: 16 November 2015 to 4 December 2015 • Course registration – From 12 August 2015 (1100hrs) to 20 August 2015 (2359hrs) – Via Course Registration System in GSLink 11

Academic integrity • Work produced entirely yours • Cite all references to others’ works • Cannot submit the same work to different courses • Penalty: failing grade, disciplinary action 12

Research integrity • Epigeum Research Integrity Module for NTU Policy on Research Integrity and the Responsible Conduct of Research – Completion of the module is a prerequisite for the IRB approval Contact person: Dr. Benedict P. Agulto (WKWSCI Research Manager) bagulto@ntu.edu.sg 13

Research integrity • School’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) protects human research participants • Ethics review conducted by either the School or NTU-IRB – http://researchportal • No data collection should be done before an IRB endorsement letter is released Contact person: Dr Benedict Agulto 14

Student Wellbeing Center • Professional Counselors and support staff • Provides counseling in a private and confidential setting at no charge • Provides self-help resources (resource racks and online) #02-01, University Health S ervice Telephone: 6790 4462 studentwellbeing@ ntu.edu.sg http:/ / www.ntu.edu.sg/ studentw ellbeing 15

Policies and Procedures Conversion of status (full-time/part-time) • – One time conversion only • Candidature period – Extension of candidature unlikely Withdrawal from programme • – By 20 August 2015 – Finance starts billing in week 3 • Leave of absence (LOA) – Apply online and reasons must be provided (LOA is not allowed in the first semester) 16