New Horizons in Education

Abstract

This is a personal account of how the authors use active learning strategies to help business undergraduates overcome their fear of law and stimulate their interest in the subject. The authors observed that Accountancy and business undergraduates at the Nanyang Technological University’s Nanyang Business School (“NBS”) often find law a complicated and difficult subject to understand. This is not surprising since most NBS students enter the university after completing their General Certificate of Education (“GCE”) ‘A’ Level courses where law does not form part of the curriculum. To compound the problem, most fresh undergrads do not possess the higher order learning skills necessary for the study of law. Most of them are more familiar with traditional study methods which emphasise memorising and rote learning. The authors would like to share their experience on how they were able to succeed in helping the students study law through the use of active learning strategies.

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