This course aims to provide a general understanding of the society we live in and the engineers’ roles and responsibilities towards society’s well-being. The course is part of broadening education objective in the engineering curriculum. The course covers a wide range of topics including history, political, social and economic development, foreign policy and defence of Singapore and the issues confronting it, the history of engineering, engineering ethics and practices, international politics and globalization and contributions by engineers towards society. The students will have a holistic understanding of Singapore’s past and present situation and on the impact of industry to the society.
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As long as you have decent teammates this mod is manageable as it has 3 presentations. Try to be as creative as possible with the presentations cuz profs love something out of the ordinary.
The MCQ quiz is really easy (can start preparing one night before)July 4, 2024 -
The presentations were fun, and give good practice for your work later on (I guess).
Content heavy and requires memorization. Would recommend watching the lectures in a lecture theatre with friends.
August 7, 2022 -
This mod is content heavy and is similar to o levels social studies. All of the lectures are recorded and there are no live lectures…
July 19, 2021 -
Took this module while it was still in person exam and even though it was just read and vomit kind of exam, the content was really alot and it involves a lot of memory work to say the least, not for the faint hearted.
May 30, 2021 -
my batch was lucky as the format was changed to presentation and mcq quiz. quiz was conducted online so everyone just cheat and ctrl f.
May 28, 2021 -
took this in 20/21 sem 2. Lectures were pre recorded with tutorials for graded group presentations. Contents were more boring version of social studies with emphasis on rote memorisation of facts. Presentation is slightly better but you need good teammates. tbh idk why they are keeping it in the new syllabus.
May 27, 2021 -
Took this mod is 2020/21 Sem 2, when the assessment structure was revamped to 70% Presentation + 30% Online MCQ (cheating saga this Sem lol).
Content 95% not useful except for that ~5% on WHSA (currently using in workplace). Would describe this mod as “Engineering Social Studies”, where you learn all the contents just to puke them out for a test/exam. Quality of tutors would depend on your luck, but in general, most are pretty average (dare I say below average) while a handful (4-5?) are decent.May 27, 2021 -
Probably the most controversial mod in engineering school. Every engineering student has to go through this and all know how shit this mod is. The mod is very content heavy while being completely useless and the quality of the profs are not helping at all.
I think now the mod no longer has any finals due to covid but during my time in 2019, there were finals with many essay questions so you really have to cram all the bs into your brain.May 26, 2021 -
Took this mod during COVID so things were a little different — exam was cancelled so our grade was 100% based on our presentation, which depends so much on the tutor you get. It feels like social studies in primary/secondary school. The presentations weren’t related to the content tested in the exam.
May 25, 2021 -
mod is to sharpen presentation skills and see how much you can memorize or how many friends u can gather to cheat for the test. sadly i don’t have friends
May 25, 2021
