If you want to boost your WAM dont bother take the subject

Murali is trash. Check USYD rants if you want more info

If Murali is in charge, stay away from it or you will regret it for the rest of your life and having a nightmare about it everyday or so. This course under his teaching is badly structured and always behind the teaching schedule. We only learned 2 weeks of content in 7 weeks and he is doing at bad job at explaining the little content that we have covered. Most of us are clueless and the lack of learning resources just makes it even harder to catch up. If you were doing honours, I would suggest you to do 2001 and score a HD if Murali is still in charge.

This subject under the previous lecturer Stephen was apparantly good. But under the new coordinator Murali, the subject is a shallow core of what it once was. We have covered only 1/3 of the content of the 2018 cohort by the midsemster exam, with the explanation being vague and rambling. The questions were barely answered by him except when close to the midsem, he constantly contradicted the prescribed textbook and scales the questions for quizes to an astromically insane diffculty level. Our tutor was honestly very good and try to accomodate, but collectivly we struggled to answer the tutorial and quiz questions that were set. To top it all off, the midsemster (that was conducted online) submitted the exam paper with the answers on it, leading towards the exam having to be modified MID WAY THROUGH. Unless the coordinator is different this time around, my advice is to do ECOS2001 and achieve a high mark than do this trainwreck of the subject.

This subject is very tough, BUT, you get all the resources you need to succeed. The lecturer, Stephen is really good and explains most things quite well. Tutors are also quite good. The solutions provided to the tutorial materials really help you understand a lot of the content. Initially a lot of people did not do quite well in the midsems, but if you persist and ask help when in doubt, it is possible to improve!!

This is an amazing subject and Stephen is one of the best lecturer I've ever had! Make good use of the lecture slides and you'll be alright ;)

Really enjoyed this subject

I enjoyed this subject very much. Stephen is an outstanding lecturer. He always knows what he's talking about, and actually makes the effort to teach (he adds interesting examples in lecture notes, explains mathematical formulas as well as each step of his working out, and takes the time to explain graphs and what they mean). There were a lot of interesting topics, such as consumer theory, choice under risk, choice over time and game theory. It was great that the first 6 weeks were closely related and used the same method of solving problems (using tangency conditions etc). My tutor was Henry, and he was one of the best I've ever had. He explains the content nicely, sometimes shows his own way of doing the questions, and taught me to see the problems intuitively, instead of memorising formulas. Lots of time given for exams, with past papers available. Solutions for tutorials were very clear. There is no steep learning curve from ECON1001, and we had an analytical approach towards the content, but it still makes sense. Stephen and Henry did an awesome job.