Quiescent Reviews

  UTW1001O The Urban and the Wild: Reading Urban Progress in Southeast Asia Ecocritically. Taken during AY21/22 Semester 2 - Fully online module - First time this module is being run Deliverables - Reflective Summary (15%): Assignment 1 - 8-minute Oral Pitch (25%): Assignment 2 - Research Paper (40%): Assignment 3 - Peer Review (10%) - Class Participation (10%) Actual grade: A There are 3 major assignments that are all individual. Unlike some UTW modules, there are no interview or survey portions. For the reflective summary, you are given a short article to read and you must write your review on it. As it is academic writing, your essay should be objective and the focus is to keep it easy to read. Do not be overly artistic with cliques or idioms. For the oral pitch, you will propose a topic of your own interest to do ecocritical analysis on it for your research paper. Like all other UTW modules, this module is very time-consuming especially after recess week since it requires you t...

Taken during AY21/22 Semester 2. Online Lectures. Physical Tutorials. There are many problems with the module and it gets worse over time as the module progresses. A module with a seemingly good learning outcome, but wrong implementation which strays from the learning outcome. This module probably relates to Civil Engineering as many of them in the teaching team have a background in Civil Engineering. However, the contents cover more of ideation, policies and a superficial view of systems thinking. Lectures are guest speakers from important govt organisations in charge of developing the city. For example, URA. HDB. PUB, LTA and so on… The speakers are generally elders who took charge in key projects in Singapore. Perhaps it is useful if you are not from Singapore and do not know the history of Singapore’s development from third world to first. For the rest of us, it is your typical “grandfather story” lecture. There is little structure to lectures as it is meant for the speaker to shar...