ECC2800: Prosperity, poverty and sustainability in a globalised world

15% online discussion log - a forum where youre put into a group with other people and you just summarise an article each and give questions to your group members for them to answer each week. overall, if your group sucks, just carry yourself and do the article summaries yourself. basically, just talk to yourself most of the time and they'll see it. easy 15% if you can put the effort in
10% argument task - basically a skeleton essay of your essay
25% essay task - you get to pick between 3 different essay topics on a fcfs basis so make sure you get in quick because the easiest ones will get picked first and you'll screw yourself talking about complex malthus problems otherwise. this is also peer reviewed which might be bad or good depending on your peers.
50% exam - mcq

Overall, this is a fun engaging unit. i made good friends in the workshops so it was worth for me to come. make sure you study everything in the lectures no matter how tiny or how quick he goes through it because it'll come bite you if you don't. i think what i didnt study was about taxing pollutants and the tariffs that came with it or something, not sure. but we only spent like 30 minutes of 1 lecture on it and i dindt understand and it wasnt on the practice quizzes so i assumed it wasnt going to be on the exam, but it was, oops! simon basically lit my passion for developmental economics and id like to be doing something around that area in the near future. this is a good unit to do before ecc2010 or maybe even during because the concepts are somewhat similar

simon angus - very passionate lecturer, enjoyed him and babied my learning which is always nice

no

4 out of 5

Yes, with screen capture

no

1x 2 hr lectorial - its a workshop and a lecture combined. you can go if you want, or not but the activities they do in the workshop i dont think are as quite as compulsory to participate in to achieve a high mark

sem 1 2019

D only because i bombed the exam lmao (i.e. didnt study one topic because thought it was minor but there was like 10 questions on it, big L to me)