Overall reflection

At first, I am not sure what is about critical and creative thinking skills, I even wonder will this module be related to architecture? After this 7 weeks, I finally understand critical and creative thinking skills can be applied not only in architecture but in every career or even our daily life. I still can't believe that I had already finished this whole programme. Looking back at the first class of CCTS, I was still a lost girl, confused with the assignment didn't know what should I do. I can still feel the panic feeling I had back then, but now it is all over.

 

The 3 assignments definitely was not an easy assignment. It was complicated for me at the beginning, but things tend to get clearer after each assignment. I really wanted to thank both my lecturer and tutor, Mr. Akmal and Ms. Reene for guiding me through all the assignments. They kept on giving me advices for each task on where to improve so I can make some amendments to perfect it up. Ms. Reene always encourage us to send her our progress so she can give advices. I am grateful to have them, this module will be much harder for me without them. 

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I would also like to thank my groupmates Joey, Andrea, Zhiyi and Xin Rue for helping me out in the 2nd assignment. We wouldn't be able to finish off the assignment without any one of us. We have lots of fun during our conference call on Zoom. We laugh together while doing assignment and we even stayed up late together just to finish off the assignment. 

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Taylor's Graduate Capabilities (TGC) that I had acquired: 

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TGC 1: Discipline Specific Knowledge

In all 3 assignments, I had applied the 5 process empathy, define, ideation, prototype and present in it. I learnt to apply theories that I had studied in lectures into the assignment. With the 5 process, it was much easier to produce the final outcome as it acts as a guide to me. I am able to understand ethical issues in the context of the field of the study. 

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TGC 3: Thinking and Problem Solving Skills

I am required to think creatively and critically for all 3 assignments for this module. There is always a 'why?' or 'how?' behind every point that I had written. Hence, I had to solve all the why(s) and how(s) by giving explanation and reasoning. I had to define and analyse problems to arrive at effective solutions. 

 

TGC 4: Communication Skills

Along this assignment, I had improved my communication skills while communicating with both my lecturers and groupmates. I was called to show my work progress and to talk about the idea of it during tutorial class. I was very nervous at first as I don't speak fluent English. However I had learnt and improved my communication skills along the whole assignment and slowly pick up more confidence. For now,  presenting my work progress infront of the class is not as scary as it was compared to the first time.