Though I did pretty well for this module, I still wouldn't recommend anyone to take this module because it's a lot of memorising. Spent a lot of time on this module when I could have spent it on my core modules. Basically, if you still want to take this module, readings are at least 30-40 pages a week. One chapter to read and try to remember each week. And I would say reading once is not enough. For the entire semester, I think I read each chapter at least twice or trice. Don't think you can remember much if you just read it once.
And for the exams, the CA was 100 MCQs, and the CA was quite easy for a life science student like me because they tested quite a lot on biological psychology and I already knew about the autonomic and parasympathetic nervous system and the various hormones and neurotransmitters. Those parts were actually quite boring. Saw many year ones taking this module, probably because their level 1 modules were not that heavy. Hmm and I don't think lectures are necessary because they don't cover everything in that 2 hours and you are expected to know everything that are in the chapters anyway, not just stuff mentioned in the lectures. But! I think the lectures (some lecturers only) served to reinforce some concepts so I guess I didn't waste my time in going for them. Final exam was 100 MCQs and 5 essay questions. The MCQs in the final exams were more difficult compared to the CA. But no negative marking so I just guessed those I was unsure of. And essay questions are more concept based so be sure to know the theories and stuff.
Content wise, 5 aspects of psychology was covered, Biological, Social, Developmental, Abnormal and something else I can't remember. I basically only found abnormal psychology interesting. Oh and I felt that the tutorials were quite a waste of time because it is not graded at all and nothing much is covered as well. And you need to complete 6 hours of research participation, which for me was 12 psychology experiments. Again a waste of time but since I had no other module to take, I can't complain much.
Grade components: 50% final exam, 20% CA and 30% term paper. I didn't score well for the term paper which had quite a high percentage. Think I got a B which was below average. So in my opinion it didn't really matter though I was indeed quite worried that I wouldn't be able to pass it. So my advice is if you are interested in psychology, just buy the textbook and read. You will be much happier, really.
FST2201: Human nutrition
I strongly recommend this module because it was quite slack! Haha! Okay but be prepared to pay and throw all your points into this because the vacancies are very little and many people especially life sciences people will bid for it since well, food science is kind of related to life sciences. So I paid about 1700+ points for this. And indeed, it was quite worth it for the points I paid.
Content: There is only 13 sets of lecture notes and 2 lectures a week. And basically human nutrition is quite common sense, like what my friend says. She only brought her common sense into the exam. Okay I kid, you still need to read the lecture notes. But the lecture notes are very easy to understand so yes I'm really glad I took this module despite the clash in lab. Meaning that I had to miss the lecture when I have lab sessions for another module. But nothing much to be lost because I think the lecturer tests mostly what he prints in the notes and not what he says. The lecturer (Prof David Glen) was really nice because we couldn't make it for the CA (when it was during the lecture slot) but he allowed us to take it earlier. Which other lecturer will allow this! Okay I haven't met any other lecturer so I wouldn't know. But one thing to note is that the CA and final exam questions (all MCQs) were kind of weird, as in the questions were not really from the lecture notes but common sense or outside of the notes. For example, which cell cannot be regenerated when damaged. And the options were 'Brain, muscle, skin and something else'. This clearly was not taught and how is this related to nutrition??
Grade components: 60% final exam, 20% CA, 2 assignments which are 10% each. The assignments were easy like diet analysis and making of a poster.Sounds so secondary school like Home economics but quite time consuming as well.
So in conclusion, I recommend this module if you have points to spare(:
GEK2503: Remote sensing for Earth observation
I took this module really not knowing what it was going to be about at all until I attended the first lecture. It's was quite an interesting module, though I don't really advise anyone to take this. Basically it's about looking at satellite images and knowing what is going on in those photos/images. Different satellites give different colours like true colour, false colour. It's not really all about looking at green and blue or browns because there're a lot of other colours like red. Quite a lot of content was covered. It got a little boring after the first few weeks. The only thing I remember from this module are the names of the satellites like geoeye and quickbird. There were many others but I forgot them all.
Lecturers: There were 2 lecturers, one main lecturer and a guest lecturer.
SSA2204: Nation Building in Singapore
Lab sessions: It's just computer labs and we need to do lab reports. Can bring home to do and discuss with friends. Yes the satellite images are very pretty, but I didn't know what they were at all and there's a project as well which is a report. Pair work so at least you don't need to do it alone.
It's a physics module so there're some equations to know. But the exam is open book and we could bring a cd with all the notes inside into the exam. I didn't really make use of the cd though. Just brought the notes I printed. But obviously because the exam is open book, the questions were so difficult. Really don't advise anyone to take this. Omg. It was one of the worst modules I took. Can't remember much about it also since I took this in year one. The only good thing about this module was that the final exam had very little weightage which was less stressful. Don't know about now but hope this helps people who are deciding on modules to take now(:
This is probably one of the more interesting ss modules, judging from its popularity. And it was quite interesting as well. As the title suggests, it's a module about building a nation, which is almost similar to social studies in secondary school, with a lot more detail. I enjoyed the lectures though it became a little boring sometimes. I enjoyed reading some of the readings as well. Some of them offered quite a fresh insight and perspective about the process of nation building itself. But might I warn you first. There is really a lot of readings to read, which I think many didn't finish reading. I did read everything but I don't think it was very useful since the exam format is essays and you only show that you read the readings when you can quote the evidence from the readings and write them in, which sadly I didn't. I read so many but couldn't remember most of them. So I'd say just remember the significant ones and think of how you can structure them in your essays.
Assessment was 2 CAs, 10% each, 20% went to class participation and 60% for the final exam. The CAs didn't really matter because it's just 10% each. It would be better to participate during the tutorials to get that 20%. My tutor made us do a debate, so I think everyone got at least a little bit of marks. Final exam was 2 essays, one from each lecturer. During the exam, just write non-stop because there are a lot of arts students taking it as well and I'd think they are better at writing compared to me, a science student so I just gave many points and evidence. The essay writing format is really like O levels history. So it wasn't that hard. But I'd say I got lucky because the questions were quite straight forward in the sem I took it in.
So yep, I'd recommend this module to anyone who needs to fulfill the requirement. I learnt quite a bit from the readings and the lectures and not just the same old things. But the readings can pile up to quite a thick stack if you don't read them diligently every week. But if you dislike social studies or writing essays(like me), maybe you can look for other modules(:
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