Very content heavy. Compulsory lecture attendance. Quite tricky, though I enjoyed how the questions in final exam were very much contextualised to the trade war and political climate at that time.
Boring subject. Copies from the textbook. Content heavy where lecture goes through the basics "what is unemployment" but tutorial questions are hard. Lecturers didn't bother putting together proper tutorial questions and took them straight from the textbook (i.e. Chp8 Q1). No effort teaching = no students willing to actively participate. They try to combat low attendance with compulsory lecture attendance rather than improving teaching quality.
Proof that teaching quality matters cos Stella absolutely makes this course easy to study which in term made me appreciate the core macroeconomic concepts from all different angles. Additionally a potential WAM booster, provided you caught up on lectures, tutes and work on every past paper you can find. This is coming from someone who almost failed 1st year macroeconomics btw.
You get taught so much useless content. Not to hard though.
Was taught by Christopher Gibbs and I mostly liked the way he taught and managed the unit. During lectures, he would show relevant examples (outside of his slides) that built upon the content being taught but most lectures couldn't cover the week's slides on time and tended to spill over to the next week's. Content was manageable but got a bit dense near the end. One thing I wished they did was to follow the standard tutorial structure - 4 tutorials were dedicated to discussing the problem set assignments instead of the week's content. I think a video and discussion thread would have been enough.