Description

To achieve the project objectives, the teaching and learning methodology for the Freshman Seminar is specially designed to include inspirational lectures, mini group project, online assignments, practitioners’/ alumni’s seminars, site visits and tutorials. A blended approach involving a combination of face-to-face teaching and an online companion site (i.e., Learn@PolyU & Assignment Tool) will be employed to support the teaching and learning delivery for facilitating easy access to teaching and learning materials and teacher-student and student-student interactions in class and out of class.

The knowledge gained from the inspirational lectures, tutorials, and online activities in the early stage of the curriculum constitute a part of the foundation for students in developing their creative thinking, problem solving, global outlook and entrepreneurship abilities in the discipline. Practitioners’/ alumni’ seminars and site visit(s) are purposefully arranged to introduce students how the knowledge are applied in practice, the gap between theory and practice in the construction industry and the aforementioned abilities this Freshman Seminar aims to emphasize.

Lastly, it is noteworthy to mention that the key feature of the teaching and learning methodology is experiential in nature and through the mini project group work, students are expected to base on what they learn through inspirational lectures and tutorials, practitioners’/ alumni’s seminars, site visit(s), etc to come up with solutions/ ideas that demonstrate their creative thinking, problem solving, global outlook and entrepreneurship abilities for addressing “Better Living” and “Sustainability” issues in the Construction and Environment context.