Module Review for AY1718 SEM 1

NUS Module Review for AY1718 SEM 1!

Here are the modules I took this semester:

LSM2212 Human Anatomy

LSM2233 Cell Biology

LSM2191 Laboratory Techniques for Life Science 

PR2202 Perfumes and Cosmetics

GET1031 Computational Thinking

GER1000 Asking Questions

Yes, I overloaded this semester 😞

LSM2212 Human Anatomy

One 2-hour lecture weekly

One 2-hour Practical/Museum session weekly

No webcast 

40% CA MCQ + Essay

60% Finals MCQ 

Best thing about this mod: Really interesting! 

Worst thing about this mod: Loads of content to memorize

I enjoy this module although the amount of content to study for is crazy. The Profs took away the webcast which really sucks because the content they are teaching is foreign (esp with some medical/anatomical terms that you probably never heard before) and you can't review it if you missed some part. 

Museum/Lab sessions are interesting and fun because you get to see cadavers (actually pretty scary for me), organs, histology slides and stuff. && you get to learn interesting things going on in your body! But to take this mod, prepare to memorize everything. 

CA & Finals was manageable. Finals quite tricky though

Grade: A- (Surprisingly)

Recommended!!  

LSM2233 Cell Biology

Two 2-hour lecture weekly

Webcasted

64% CAs - 8 IVLE quizzes, Video + Poster Assignment, In-class discussion, CAs

36% Finals SAQ (Open-book)

Best thing about this mod: Useful skills taught, Application-based module = no need memorize anything (THANK GOD)

Worst thing about this mod: ALOT of assignment!!! Very time-consuming module. 

This module is quite useful for LS major but there's ALOT of assignment! I am not kidding!! For such module with so many assignments, you would think there will be no finals... The content is taught by two lecturers, Prof Thilo and Prof YFM. (Diff lecturers for sem1/2 i think)

Thilo lectures are interesting but hard to follow because he teach quite fast! Lucky there's webcast. In the beginning I would say it's a bit hard to catch up so you might have to go home and review the webcast to understand what's going on.
The in-class discussion was easier for Thilo part - you just have to form groups of 2/3 and discuss on a given topic in glass via a platform.

For YFM part, her lectures are more well-organized and structured. Thus easier to follow than Thilo's. However, her assignments are content heavy, especially for the in class discussion where we have to read a research paper and make comments (>8 comments i think, cant rmb coz it was so long ago!) via an online platform as well.

Finals was quite manageable. Application questions so yay! no memorization needed.

Grade: A-
Recommend if you want to learn more techniques-related stuff + how to interpret results. 

LSM2191 Laboratory Techniques for Life Science 

Preallocated

One 2-hour lecture weekly

One 6-hour lab weekly

Webcasted

25% CA MCQ (x2)

25% Lab Report (x2)

Best thing about this mod: Learn lab skills

Worst thing about this mod: The structure of this module.

Okay honestly, it has been so long so I kinda forget what I had gone through for this module.
Lab sessions were okay, quite boring and time consuming. You can form your own groups of 4, make sure you can work with them! Lab report were individual and marked by your TAs. My TA was not very knowledgeable and very blur ):

Grade: B+ (Honestly I think is because of my TA!)

PR2202 Perfumes and Cosmetics

Two 2-hour lecture weekly

Webcasted

40% CAs - Group project, CA1, Assignment 

60% Finals MCQ + SAQ 

Best thing about this mod: Quite interesting

Worst thing about this mod: Loads of content to memorize + not sure what they are focusing on/gonna test

Interesting module to take as a UE. Can form your own groups for project. I was quite lucky to be in a group where one of the members know how to use photoshop hahaha. The project was to come up with your own shampoo and target consumers as well as the ingredients to be used etc. I love one of the lecturers, she always bring so many perfumes sample to class! It's really a lot! She will display in front of the LT and you can just go down and spray @ yourself/smell it.

Grade: B+
Recommended!

GET1031 Computational Thinking

One 2-hour tutorial bi-weekly

Online Lectures 

100% CAs - weekly online quizzes, group project, final reflection paper, individual assignments 

Best thing about this mod: Some topic are quite interesting. 

Worst thing about this mod: I really really dislike this module.

OK I rmb that I really really hate this module!! I think i just don't have the CS brain/thinking so this mod was quite tough for me. Project groups is random and allocated. My group mates were ... not very cooperative and one of them just didn't do anything for the project at all. There were actually no peer review but i think a lot of students complained that someone in their group never contribute so end up the profs circulate an email with a survey form to ask us to rate our peers hahaha. && I feel quite sad bcos i think someone rate me down ): when actually I contribute fairly also okay! Just that not good at this mod what, what can I do. Zzzzz.

The profs are very very last minute kind too.

Grade: B/B- (SU-ed)

GER1000 Asking Questions

Preallocated. CS/CU

One 2-hour tutorial bi-weekly

Online Lectures 

100% CAs - assignments, MCQ, forum post 

Best thing about this mod: Get to experience how other major/module are like 

Worst thing about this mod: None (quite an okay mod)

This mod lets you experience a pillar of every course (something like that). Like some philosophy stuff, physics, design etc. Quite interesting/light content. My tutor was a korean girl, she's very nice and pretty! Hehe.

Okay that's it, ciao.