Total Defence Project Against Threat to Community
A-
AY23/24 S2
This course is a big waste of time. I'd say the biggest learning takeaway from this course is the persistent emphasis on resilience. Resilience is not about prevention of a certain threat. Instead, resilience talks more about how we can recover from a threat, and how we can adapt to the new normal. This is a very important concept, as it is very hard to prevent all threats from happening. Instead, we should focus on how we can recover from them, and how we can adapt to the new normal. Types of resilience would include social resilience, economic resilience and most importantly, psychological resilience.
Types of threats would include a lot of cyber threats, regional political instability, pandemics, climate change, and lots and lots of fake news. These types of threats are discussed time and time again in each tutorial and lecture, recontextualising them based around a kind of resilience.
That's pretty much all we learned in the course.
Workload is quite low. For the first sem, it was mostly the tutorials you had to worry about, since there is tutorial participation points. As usual for a GEM mod, everyone is mostly quiet except for the few loud and opinionated individuals. There is a reflection you need to do, but most of your time will be spent on the project, where you have to do a mid-term presentation and proposal. Be careful who you get as the audience. There was an individual who speaks with a major lisp, and no one could understand a single word he said. Yet, he was the one asking Q&A questions, which makes the whole thing so frustrating.
The second sem is much more lax, as there is only one presentation you have to do in person. The rest of the sem is just free. But the problem is that, the presentation slot is 4 hours, and it takes up an awful spot in your timetable. So even though it was only one day, good luck trying to plan your schedule around that one day.
Thankfully, I got an A-, though I pretty much deserved much lower at a B or B+. Yay I didn't need to SU.