Again, another semester is coming to an end, so is EG1471. In other words, it's time to make a conclusion for this a-lot-of-work-but-no-MC module! Any future students can try to make this as an advice, but no responsibility will be taken (by me) for any consequences. LOL. As for Sensei, maybe you can consider this as part of my course evaluation.
So...
What are the pros?
You get the chance to start to learn writing all over again. It is something like the case when your physics lecturer asks you to forget about all the classical physics, so you can learn modern physics. Somehow it works, and it is quite efficient. To digress a little bit, this is the point where I doubt more whether the English classes back in Malaysia really works, no offense against the teachers. The education system in Malaysia ... too political oriented I guess. I can talk more about that in pages, but that is not the point here.
Back to the pros. This course is mainly focused on rebuilding and fortifying the foundation of students who are not so good in writing. Of course, this requires a lot of hard work, but no pain, no gain, right? Everyone should be glad that the efforts paid off, instead of being turned into dust. To add on, it is quite hard to find courses like this, which comes together with the 'professionalized' tutor(s) you cannot easily get one personally, outside the school, not to mention the cost if you are joining one outside. In some sense, these reason has made me feel lucky to fail my QET last year.
What are the cons?
To be exact, this course is quite fine tuned to suit the exact purpose of the course. There is not much to talk about the cons of this course. Yeah, not much.
The followings are not really related to the course academically. Later on I found out those are not really the 'cons' of the module, but rather some minor technical problems. First, pushing another 4hours/week (but 0MC/hour) into your timetable is not an easy job, especially when you have another 5 more modules to consider while planning for your almost-full timetable. The timing almost drove me mad when all the modules that I wanted clashed with the timing of this module. To make the problem worse, the one and only briefing lecture occupied the time in my CORS timetable, and made me unable to bid for certain module (I think the coordinator has changed the lecture period to Sunday right, Sensei?)
Well... another issue is about the MC (again). Seriously no one can help much about it. To be fair with the school, I tried to think about this. There are really serious consequences if the school allows MC allocation for EG1471. First, students will purposely fail their QET just to get into this course and get some easy points for their CAPS. Second, students might just take this as some kinda FREE English improvement class since the school is not going to put the fees in the bill. These actually vary with individuals, but I believe that there are people thinking about these out there isn't it?
What topic to recommend for the next term?
'2008 Beijing Olympic Games'
Please do feel hatred/grateful to me IF this really turns out to be the topic :p . There are really a lot of issues we can talk about this. The preparations (stadiums, airport, environmental regulations etc.), cultural and economic impact, so on so forth. This is a worldwide event so I think the geography should not be the limiting factor for this topic from being used.
Any last words?
Hope the things I have talk about really helps, either as an evaluation or providing a rough idea as a student.
So...
What are the pros?
You get the chance to start to learn writing all over again. It is something like the case when your physics lecturer asks you to forget about all the classical physics, so you can learn modern physics. Somehow it works, and it is quite efficient. To digress a little bit, this is the point where I doubt more whether the English classes back in Malaysia really works, no offense against the teachers. The education system in Malaysia ... too political oriented I guess. I can talk more about that in pages, but that is not the point here.
Back to the pros. This course is mainly focused on rebuilding and fortifying the foundation of students who are not so good in writing. Of course, this requires a lot of hard work, but no pain, no gain, right? Everyone should be glad that the efforts paid off, instead of being turned into dust. To add on, it is quite hard to find courses like this, which comes together with the 'professionalized' tutor(s) you cannot easily get one personally, outside the school, not to mention the cost if you are joining one outside. In some sense, these reason has made me feel lucky to fail my QET last year.
What are the cons?
To be exact, this course is quite fine tuned to suit the exact purpose of the course. There is not much to talk about the cons of this course. Yeah, not much.
The followings are not really related to the course academically. Later on I found out those are not really the 'cons' of the module, but rather some minor technical problems. First, pushing another 4hours/week (but 0MC/hour) into your timetable is not an easy job, especially when you have another 5 more modules to consider while planning for your almost-full timetable. The timing almost drove me mad when all the modules that I wanted clashed with the timing of this module. To make the problem worse, the one and only briefing lecture occupied the time in my CORS timetable, and made me unable to bid for certain module (I think the coordinator has changed the lecture period to Sunday right, Sensei?)
Well... another issue is about the MC (again). Seriously no one can help much about it. To be fair with the school, I tried to think about this. There are really serious consequences if the school allows MC allocation for EG1471. First, students will purposely fail their QET just to get into this course and get some easy points for their CAPS. Second, students might just take this as some kinda FREE English improvement class since the school is not going to put the fees in the bill. These actually vary with individuals, but I believe that there are people thinking about these out there isn't it?
What topic to recommend for the next term?
'2008 Beijing Olympic Games'
Please do feel hatred/grateful to me IF this really turns out to be the topic :p . There are really a lot of issues we can talk about this. The preparations (stadiums, airport, environmental regulations etc.), cultural and economic impact, so on so forth. This is a worldwide event so I think the geography should not be the limiting factor for this topic from being used.
Any last words?
Hope the things I have talk about really helps, either as an evaluation or providing a rough idea as a student.
(... and a devilish grin to all the future students)
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(this emoticon looks just too friendly, can't make it more devilish, so imagine it yourself)
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(this emoticon looks just too friendly, can't make it more devilish, so imagine it yourself)
3 comments:
I think assign a symbolic 1 or 2 mc to this course is reasonable for the effort we paid for this course.
Thank you, Guo Qi, for your hard work and commitment to learning and your good cheer throughout the term. I really appreciate that!
As always, this is an insightful post, with lots of good information, opinions and advice.
I wish you the best of luck in your studies!
I think the work load is fine. I think the essay editing(error checking in a whole essay)is quite difficult.
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