This one-week study trip partnering with Chu Kochen Honors College (CKC), Zhejiang University is an experiential programme to promote student leadership. The trip will broadly cover the basic concepts of future leadership and topics in computer sciences, life sciences, medicine, innovation and strategic management, sociology and environmental arts. Students will be exposed to and learn from leading professors in their areas of expertise. Classroom sessions will be conducted in seminar style with strong emphasis on peer discussion following short lectures. Students need to complete assignments and a final group project at the end of the trip. USP students who go on this trip will also participate in a one-week study trip in Singapore and to host students of CKC from 21 to 26 July 2019. 

USP students will be travelling to Chiang Mai province in Thailand to examine environmental and resources issues due to an increasing population, expanded industry and intensified agriculture. This study trip will allow students to address and aim in contributing to the technological, socioeconomic and political innovations that are emerging. USP faculty members and students will be working with the Departments of Chemistry, Biology, the Environmental Science Research Center, and the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) at Chiang Mai University.