GEQ1000 Asking Questions is a 4 MC general education module that every NUS student (except for medicine, law, dentistry) have to take. Basically, this module looks into 6 different faculties and we will study how these 6 faculties ask and answer questions. This module is compulsory satisfactory/unsatisfactory, meaning that we'll just get a pass or fail in our grade book and it won't affect my CAP. As a result, it wasn't a stressful module for me haha.
Assessment
14% Forum Posts
36% Class Participation (Yes, you heard me right)
36% Online Quizzes and Assignments
14% Final Reflection Paper
36% Class Participation (Yes, you heard me right)
36% Online Quizzes and Assignments
14% Final Reflection Paper
(^This will likely change for future semesters.)
Lecturer:
Various lecturers from the 6 different faculties
Various lecturers from the 6 different faculties
Tutor:
Dr Seah Kar Heng
Dr Seah Kar Heng
Textbooks/Readings
Lectures
Each faculty would have their own readings but it's not a lot. Ain't that bad to read them as they will help in answering the quiz questions.
Lectures are entirely online. They are supposed to be watched from Week 1 to Week 12 but everything was uploaded from the beginning (if I remember correctly). So, you can watch the videos from the beginning. The videos every week will take up about 1 hour+? I watch them at 1.5 speed and do write down notes here and there. This is because the online quizzes will ask stuff about what the lecturers talk about in the lectures. So, what do the lecturers talk about? hahaha. Very philosophical stuff actually, to be honest I don't really gain a lot after listening to all the lectures, the only thing I gain is some content that the particular faculty teaches. The 6 faculties are Philosophy, Science, Computing, Engineering, Economics and Design. Each faculty takes up 2 weeks of lecture videos.
For philosophy, science, computing, economics and design, there are online quizzes to be completed at the end of the 2 weeks. Each quiz contains 6 - 12 MCQ questions to complete. It's open book so you can just refer to your notes, web lectures, readings, google etc. The toughest one in my opinion is the philosophy one as all the options sound correct hahaha. But is okay if you don't do well for the philosophy quiz because you'll definitely do decently well for the rest of the quizzes.
For engineering and design, we have to complete an assignment. Engineering was more of like choosing which option is best for a certain situation so as to balance energy usage, cost and feasibility. Design is more of designing a wallet for your friend so that his/her needs are met. Pretty easy to complete in my opinion if u just set about 1-2 hours for each assignment.
As for computing segment, there's an additional component which is to make an origami and it needs to be submitted during the computing tutorial. The origami needs to have at least 20 folds. The purpose of folding an origami is for us to focus on the steps taken because they are similar to an algorithm in computing. For me, I folded a lotus flower and was pretty satisfied about it haha.
For philosophy, science, computing, economics and design, there are online quizzes to be completed at the end of the 2 weeks. Each quiz contains 6 - 12 MCQ questions to complete. It's open book so you can just refer to your notes, web lectures, readings, google etc. The toughest one in my opinion is the philosophy one as all the options sound correct hahaha. But is okay if you don't do well for the philosophy quiz because you'll definitely do decently well for the rest of the quizzes.
For engineering and design, we have to complete an assignment. Engineering was more of like choosing which option is best for a certain situation so as to balance energy usage, cost and feasibility. Design is more of designing a wallet for your friend so that his/her needs are met. Pretty easy to complete in my opinion if u just set about 1-2 hours for each assignment.
As for computing segment, there's an additional component which is to make an origami and it needs to be submitted during the computing tutorial. The origami needs to have at least 20 folds. The purpose of folding an origami is for us to focus on the steps taken because they are similar to an algorithm in computing. For me, I folded a lotus flower and was pretty satisfied about it haha.
Tutorial
Tutorials were once in 2 weeks, 5 in total. Each tutorial covered one faculty/topic, except for design. Design was a bring home tutorial, which is the wallet design thing explained above. My tutor is a very nice person from the engineering faculty. He broke us into groups of 5 - 6 and wanted us to have a leader in each group for every tutorial. So, the leader will help to speak for the group and get class participation marks. So, you don't have to worry if you aren't able to speak up during tutorial. 36% class participation is not scary for this module, just speak up when you're leading and you'll be fine. Of course, every tutor has his/her own style luh, so it may differ for you. My tutor would have his own presentation slides, telling us what activities to do during the tutorial itself. Overall, I look forward going for the tutorials for this module.
Final Reflection Paper
Final Reflection Paper
The final reflection paper is a scary 14%. But again, do. not. worry. Basically, the lecturers just wanna see what we've learnt at the end of the semester. So, they asked whether we'll prefer to learn the module as one main module or broken into different professions/faculties. So long as u state your stand and argue well, it shouldn't be a problem since it is only 600 words required.
Final Exam
No final exam for this module haha.
Expected Grade: CS
Final Grade: CS
Final Comments
This is a not very stressful module hahaha. Put in effort to do your quizzes, assignments and final reflection paper and this module shouldn't be a problem at all.
Stay tuned for more updates.
- Alan
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