Lessons:
Weekly lectures
Assessment:
Polling 5%
Graded MCQs 75%
Case studies (Peer-to-peer marking) 20%
Description:
A MOOC online module which gives you the basics of Forensics Science, including blood, fingerprinting, firearms, and a variety of real-life case study.
The lectures can be watched at your own pace. However, you have to take part in a polling at the start of the week. The polling is similar to tutorial participation marks, you just have to poll and you will get your marks regardless of whether you gave the right or wrong answer. The poll is just to get an insight of what people understand about the topic before listening to the lecture.
You have to complete 3 sets of MCQs, each 25%. There are a total of 3 tries given for each MCQs, so it is very likely to get full marks for all of them. Each set of MCQs cover the topics in the previous weeks, for example, MCQ Set A cover content from Lecture 1 to 3, Set B covers Lecture 4 and 5, etc.
For the case studies, you will be given background of the case and a series of illustrated diagrams of the scene. You will have to apply the knowledge from the lectures to answer the questions. The case studies will be peer-marked anonymously by a few other students, and you will have to mark case studies of other students. Rubrics will be given. The important part of case study is to answer logically, with thorough explanation and substantiation.
Do note that this module is NOT equivalent to CM8002 Forensic Science. This is a 2AU module, and you can choose to take it as UE or GERPE (STS). If you decided to take it as GERPE, you will have to complete CM8022 Applications of Forensics Science, which is 1AU, in order to fulfil the 3AU requirement for GERPE (STS). I did not take CM8022 so I am not sure about its content, but I do know that it is a 3-hr weekly lecture in-class, so you have to take it during subsequent semester. However, if you decided to clear it as UE, completing CM8022 is optional, but remember that CM8012 is just 2AU, so you may have to take a 4AU module to balance out, or overload your UE credits.
Another note to remember is that you MUST sign up for signature track if you want to credit transfer. More instructions will be given on how to sign up for signature track.
Took this Mod in Ay18/19.
ReplyDelete2 AU Pass/Fail.
Super low commitment. Spent less than 2hours on this mod and pass.
Only assessment is peer grading by other course students. 5 students will evaluate your response to 2 case study. You can either copy your friends answers or write logical reasoning ( play detective ).
They are lots of LAMS and online videos but I didnt watch a single one.
I failed my first assessment due to evil students out there that rated my answer 0 marks. So I advice put some effort in typing lengthy logical reasoning.