I really enjoyed this unit up until the exam. I would have prefered face to face lectures, it does seem a bit slack that they have you simply rewatching past lectures. Attending the tutorials is an absolute must and the problems require a fair amount of time and practice to become proficient. It would be a hard unit to go alone so it would be best to pair up with someone from the beginning to nut out problems together. The exam was killer, almost nothing in the lectures prepares you for the complexity you will face in the exam. After doing the problem sets and weekly quizzes I had a grade of 98% then went into the exam and encountered a component that was given a total of about two minutes attention in the lectures but made up about 30% of the exam. I’ve never been so frustrated, I literally felt sick leaving that exam, I felt like I totally bombed. I only just managed to scrape in a D.

This unit is so lacking in teaching. Sam has put in the least amount of work possible. Only teaches you the very basics and apart from weekly tests that are worth almost nothing, the assessments are more complicated than anything you will be shown, around 20% of questions are deliberately different from anything in the book or lectures so as to “spread the grade curve”. Even if you do all the examples in the textbook, they are nowhere as hard as the exam. I found the unit so interesting but, Sam just doesn’t teach you what you need to know. Do not take if you care about your GPA.

Best unit ever. The exam was definitely the most challenging, but in the end was HDable.

This unit cost me my graduation, Thanks for the misleading email Sam, real class act. If you received the email telling you that this was an "easy" unit with MCQ finals, you're in for a rude awakening.Unit is "easy" and the coordinator keeps to his words of keeping assessments as MCQs, some with 10 options that is. Think algebra except now, you have linguistic involved. If you're thinking this is gonna be something like MKTG1204, walk away right now and pick another broadening.