Dear Students
Welcome to the School of Social Sciences and to Singapore Management University
You find yourselves at the start of what looks now like a long journey. I can promise you, however, that time will pass quickly. The years ahead will be full of challenges, whether intellectual, organizational, and at times, emotional. Completing a university degree requires not only intelligence but also persistence, stamina, and a willingness to deal with setbacks. Yet this should also prove to be an exciting time of life, full of opportunities to learn new things, discover new passions or talents, and to make new friends, whether in the classroom or in the life of the campus more generally.
Our aim in the school is to facilitate your learning, your intellectual development and more generally your maturing as members of the community who will be assets to society and confident in your abilities and accomplishments.
We look forward to sharing the next four years with you but also hope that this is just the beginning of a lifelong connection.
Professor Chandran KUKATHAS
Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science and Dean
School of Social Sciences