TS1101E
Lecturer: Robin Loon
Tutor: Edward Choy (Lab), Edson Ng (Tutorial)
Assessment
Theory (50%)
- Attendance: 5%
- Performance Critique: 10% [LIFT (Love Is Flower The)
- Tutorial Participation: 10%
- Written Exam: 25%
Practical (50%)
- Attendance: 5%
- Participation: 20%
- Practical Exam: 25%
Every week there was 1 hr Lecture, 1 hr Tutorial, 2 Hr Laboratory. During the lecture, Dr Loon will go through all the theory stuffs about the basic theatre. For tutorial, we will need to read a theatre book according to what is required to do the worksheet and answer a few questions, usually based on the topic went though during lecture. The first few lessons of lab did not required us to prepare anything, just went in and participate. But as we learnt more about theatre, we read plays and we were required to act some parts of the play out during the lab. There were 2 small parts for 2 plays and 1 less than 3 min read out presentation to be prepared for lab and they are graded. There are no mid terms, only need to watch 1 performance (LIFT) and do the performance critique. For final practical exam, we performed 20 min play (there were 3 plays for our group of 7 people to choose from). Final exam is to do 2 questions with a few parts in essays form.
The tutorials were rather easy to prepare. Not much reading from the book. The only tough thing is to prepare for practical exam, as we needed quite a lot of time to meet up and practice and to brainstorm ideas etc and the practical exam was during reading week.
I did very badly for my performance critique but I felt that my group did very well for our final practical performance. Our examiner was impressed :)
SSA1201
Lecturer: Noorman Abdullah
Co-Lecturer: Rose Liang
Tutor: Noorman Abdullah
Assessment
20min group presentation: 15%
Mid-term assessment: 15%
Tutorial-participation: 10%
Closed-book final examination: 60%
There is 1 lecture every week and 1 tutorial biweekly. There were readings every week. The readings
were not a lot and they are manageable. Apparently, the readings were much
lesser than those in sociology lectures. The topics were all about Singapore, e.g. the state, the system etc. The lectures were alternate between the two lecturers. Dr Noorman was really good and clear. His lectures were very interesting. But the other lecturer is rather boring. The topics for presentations were the topics covered in the lectures. The presentations will be during tutorials. There were 2 essays during finals. I am not good with essays and I didn’t like sociology. I don’t think I quite understand and prepared well for exams, hence I also expected myself to not do well.
I did not know that there were different departments that provide SS modules. (blur freshman) This module is under sociology. I truly regretted taking this module since I really dislike sociology.
Grade: C
PL1101E
Lecturer: John Elliott
Assessment
Term essay assignment: 30%
Midterm MCQ Test: 30%
Closed-book finals examination: 40%
1 lectures every week and 1 tutorial biweekly. I felt that everything that went through in the lectures
were all from the textbook and the lecturer mostly read from the slides and I
thought it was boring. I did not go for most of the lectures and also did not
watch the webcast (there were webcast). What was shocking was to know that
there were negative marking of 0.33 before the midterms. Furthermore, some of
the questions tested were just little details that many might not take note of.
Therefore, if you are those who only remember the main idea, you will be hurt
in that exam. The tutorials were not really related to psychology. There were 80MCQs for midterms and 100MCQs and 5 short essay
questions for finals.
Grade: B
PL2131
Lecturer: Mike
Chueng
Assessment
2 homework assignments: 20%
Closed-book MCQ Midterm test: 30%
Open-book final examination: 50%
1 lecture every week and 1 tutorial biweekly. Although some of the reviews about this module stated that
one of the difficulties of this module is the Hong Kong accent of the lecturer.
For me, it was only the first 2/3 lectures that were a little difficult but as
you get used to it, it got better. I felt that the lecturer is very clear in
his lectures and it is easy to understand. There were not a lot of
calculations, unlike mathematics. It is more of understanding of the formulas
and just apply them. The lab sessions were about the topics covered in lectures and how to use them on SPSS.
Grade: B+
LAK1201
Lecturer: Cho Jin Hee
Assessment
Performance Participation: 10%
Skit: 15%
Test Mini test: 10%
Quiz and Final: 35%
Oral test: 15%
Assignment Assignment and homework: 15%
2 lectures and 1 tutorial every week. The lecturer was very clear and the lessons were engaging and interesting. Every lectures, there will be some time allocated for us to practice speaking what was taught with the person beside us. It requires time and effort to learn language and it is not really that easy. There were many vocabs, so have to revise regularly. The midterms and finals paper are like our language paper, there will be writing and some mcqs. There was also listening for finals. For the assignment, we have to write a paragraph of story. There were a total of 3 lessons each week, hence our timetable will be more pack than those who did not take language modules. It is the interest and passion in learning Hangul that kept me going.
Grade: A-
OMG.. finally done with this module review. I took so long to type this and it is tedious! :/ Hopefully it helps! :)
