Lessons:
3-hr lecture per week
Assessment:
Discussion Forum - 10%
Mid-terms - 30%
Finals - 60%
Exam Format:
Mid-terms - MCQs, fill-in-the-blanks and short essays
Finals - MCQs, fill-in-the-blanks, T/F qns, essays
Description:
This is a GER Core for HSS students, and the content covered includes environmental principles, and various aspects of how psychology affects how we treat the environment, e.g. motivation, personality and social factors
There is only one lecture per week, no recorded lecture. The notes are almost useless so you will definitely need the textbook, and the readings will come from there. Lectures will cover content in the textbook, but the lecturer will summarise what is in the textbook. It's up to you to decide how useful the lecture is. As for readings, you just need to read the textbook..
For the mid-terms, the MCQs and essays are pretty straightforward, some are also quite intuitive given the nature of the module. Reading the textbook and understanding it will be enough. The textbook might be a bit lengthy with alot of examples so it will be helpful to write the main points on your own and read from there.
For the finals, the format and question styles are very similar to mid-terms, just that there is the addition of T/F questions. The essays is 2 questions with many parts, ranging from 3 marks to 8 marks. More emphasis will be placed on the later half of the course which was not covered in the mid-terms.
The discussion forum will be easy to score. Guiding questions will be given, and you just have to post/comment twice on each of the 5 forums.
In conclusion, I find this module quite manageable and straightforward. Memory work is needed but not that tedious. Examples given in the textbook will help in reinforcing the theories and you can try to relate it to your daily experiences. It's probably one of the better Environmental mods to take.
