Semester: AY18/19 Sem I
Professor(s): Tan Lai Yong and Ms Angie Tan
Workload: Light to Manageable
Overall: I really enjoyed this course so much. Dr Tan and Angie are all so nice and approachable. The class is also seminar-based and mostly taken by Y2 CAPTains. A big plus is that you would usually know a few people in class, so discussions are more fun and chill. In fact, I even made some new CAPT friends during the mod. This mod generally has manageable amount of readings but there’s one book review assignment where you have to read most/all of a book. The other readings are more chill. Though you would have to watch a movie on your own and also attend a few fieldtrips that can take up a whole evening. I really enjoyed all the field trips! I remember one that brought up on an Public Drinking walk from Clarke Quay to Chinatown to learn about alcohol-related behaviours and the social conditions surrounding it. Another fieldtrip involved us doing an inequality walk through different areas in Singapore. We were grouped into groups and did reflections along the way. This is also a great opportunity to make friends with other CAPTains! For this course, we also has sessions where we interacted with students from Crest Secondary School. We brought them around NUS campus, went to on a fieldtrip to Pulau Ubin with them and also had a VIA session with them at a Senior Activity Centre. Classroom sessions are also quite interesting as it involves role playing, debates, guest lectures and even a playback theatre workshop. Overall, I think this course was very different from any other courses I ever took and was really something I enjoyed a lot.
Assignments: There are 3 assignments in this course, making up 75% of the grade. The first is a book review done on a book I chose form a prescribed list. I choose the Bamboo stalk by Saud Alsanousi. It was a novel and hence not something crazy difficult to read. The 2nd assignment was another reflection piece requiring us to relate our experience with the students from Crest Secondary to an assigned book. It was not particularly difficult either but the problem with reflections does lie in the fact that it is not easy to know what Dr Tana Dr Angie are looking out for to give high grades. The last assignment required us to watch a movie, 12 angry men, and relate it to an assigned reading. It was much different from the other reflections.
Exams: There was a final exam for this course although it took place in Week 12/13 before the normal finals period started. It was a digital exam with questions relating to the various readings and discussions we had over the semester and some scenario-based questions that required us to use what we had picked up during the theatre workshop. Not really a conventional exam but then again, I’m not sure how community leadership is supposed to be tested.
Professor(s): Dr Tan and Angie are really nice people! Dr Tan is quirky but that’s Dr Tan haha. Angie is super nice and approachable! So really it’s just really nice taking this module under them :”) Classroom atmosphere is friendly all around!
Tutorials: All seminar classes.
Recommend? YES! Please take it if you ever have the chance to. People say it is a B+ mod but really, if you stay in a place like CAPT, you should take full advantages of what the college can offer even if you “risk” getting a B+. The learning value and uniqueness of the mod is so worth the B+ or whatever grade you get. On another note, Dr Tan and Angie do in a way reward effort by allowing students do some optional extra credit assessments to try and boost their grades. So yes, take comm lead!!!
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