CNA featured SMU in a segment on how universities are redesigning course offerings. Inspired by last year's SMU Arts Festival, SMU is piloting a dance choreography course to explore Singapore’s culture and identity while building empathy and creativity, skills that cannot be replicated by AI, yet. Commenting on the dance choreography course, SMU Dean of Students and Professor of Communication Management (Practice) Mark Chong, said that by marrying the course with intellectual rigour, it is used as a platform to examine some of the cultural forces that shaped the emergence of a Singaporean identity. He added that the course is not simply to learn dance techniques, but to ask larger questions about what multiculturalism and national identity mean.
