Literature & Humanities I combined timeline.
Additional Resources
The links below do not indicate official endorsement by Yale-NUS College. The authors of the site simply included resources that previous students, who have gone through the Common Curriculum, found helpful. It is not at all comprehensive, and is only meant to get you started on your research!
Chinese Text Project and Z Dictionary
For Chinese texts and a dictionary with Classical Chinese options
Pleco
A dictionary phone app that lets you draw Chinese characters, breaks down their etymology, and gives Cantonese definitions for words that might have different meanings
Subject Guides at the Yale-NUS College Library
Librarians know where to find everything. Try the ones from NUS too!
e.g. War Memory in Singapore and Malaya, made by a Yale-NUS student
Perseus Digital Library and Loeb Classical Library
For help with Greco-Roman texts
Yale Digital Content and an art library guide from Carnegie Mellon University
For finding images
Oxford Reference
All the dictionaries and guides you’ll need and then some
— get access through the NUS library proxy
Encyclopedia Judaica Online, Index Islamicus, and Catholic Encyclopedia
For work on the Abrahamic religions
Purdue Online Writing Lab
For all your citation needs; usually crashes around US finals week
Zotero
For documenting all your sources — some students love it and
some would never use it, but no harm trying it for yourself
Internet Classics Archive
A list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and “reader’s choice” Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation