I've always enjoyed Integrated Environmental Management aka EN4852 classes. Although i keep grumbling how hard the project is to correspond with people from Denmark about environmental problems and people ther dont reply, it gives a very new perspective of what my course is about (other than those dry and boring calculations about concrete design and hydraulic jumps).
The course gives us room to let us think about our current situations and allow us to give our point of view. For example, the recent haze situation, the problem was posted to us by one of the lecturers and asked us to give suggestions about what we can do about it. There is no right or wrong answers for this and classmates come out with many many different ideas about solving this problems. More of like a seminar/forum kind of thing. The lecturer will first tells us about some information about the topic of the week for 2 hours (which are sometimes very interesting), then the third will be a Q&A or a 'no holds barred' discussion where you can ask any question that comes to your mind and the lecturer will answer you.
Today and next Wednesday are our presentation on what we have done for our project. That is, Environmental Management of other countries and compare it with Singapore's style of management. The presentation went well for every group and the killer is always from our peers. Our coordinator encouraged us to ask questions which will be graded as a group. Now, having lessons with the seniors are fun, they are really smart and they really ask very good questions about the environmental management and can receive very group informations about environmental issues, economics that govern them and why is it so difficult to manage these Environmental problems. I am appreciating my course more now thanks to these people.
Next week will be my group presenting, hope i will have enough information to counter their 'siege'. Well everybody has put in a lot of effort in this project and i think we will be able to make it then. Looking forward to the presentation already. Hope to learn more from these seniors.
Exams are coming already, everybody brace up let's run to the finishing line of this semester. And do take care of yourselves and drink more water these days. The weather is very terrible, Raining one moment and sunny the other. Good Luck.