If you're looking for an easy mark and don't care about course content or learning anything substantial, this is the course for you. The course coordinator has not changed the content in what seems like years. The weekly assigned readings were "whatever part of the textbook you think is relevant to the week's topic" Assessments are arranged to require as little effort from him as possible. Student presentations are given in tutorials throughout the year so no teaching has to be done during them. Lectures are a meandering, rambling, unstructured trips down memory lane. What actual content is taught throughout the lecture could be taught in 15 minutes, instead of two hours. Most of it is not enlightening at all (what do I gain from learning about which level of government is responsible for housing?). I know very little more about China now than I did at the beginning of the year. If you want to learn about modern China, you'd be much better off finding a book online. The only upside being that the assessments and marking were laughably easy. One assessment was 15 true/false questions worth 15% of the overall mark.

A very interesting subject, the lecturer includes his own personal insights about life under Mao onwards that haven't been covered by academic research yet. Going into the unit with 0 knowledge of the subject, I've managed to gain a decent introductionary understanding.