1.Given the content, structure, assessment tasks and activities encountered in this module, students can expect to emerge from this module as better observers, readers, listeners, questioners, writers and speakers, all of which contribute to becoming better thinking (human) beings.Students should leave the module with a survey-level grasp of the history of human activities since the 14th century in the space currently dubbed The Republic of Singapore and learn to use this new-found historical knowledge to engage public histories of the same in the museums, galleries and heritage centres visited in the course of the module. More widely, the encounter and engagement of human narratives across time and space is also aimed at making students more cognizant of their subjectivities and those of the historical actors and contemporary interlocutors (academic and beyond). It is hope that such awareness will prod deeper and more meaningful human conversations about the evolving human condition, an abiding aim of humanities.