Hello everyone: Thank you for your feedback on the Unit of Study Survey (USS) for MECO6919. While it was another challenging semester, despite numerous reminders the response rate of 57% was not great, having only marginally increased form previous years and is consequently not as representative as one could wish. I will reflect on the ratings you gave, and the comments you made, but realise that to make improvements in the unit that refelcts everyone's position typically needs a higher response rate. The unit was overall again quite well evaluated. However, there were a few things that I will try to improve following from your comments: 1) Some comments expressed a desire that they would like to see more lecturing and explaining by the instructor instead of our discussion (especially due to uneven student participation). I had mentioned in ther first week that there are pre-recorded lectures for each meeting and we typically provide summaries at the start of each meeting. In addition, many others actually prefer this format. In short, while the core idea of this course is discussing issues and not delivering information again, we will continue to attempt to increase the synoptic lecture component during our course meetings to better summarise the key points of each topic. As always, it remains hard to please everyone. 2) Having said that, given the increase of numbers and diversity of students in this course with a growing number less inclined to share their thoughts, we will again reflect on how the discussion format can be made even more inclusive. But bar forcing someone to speak (and in doing so porbbaly embaraasing them), it is up to each postgraduate student to decide on their willingness to share and we cannot force this. 3) There was an isolated concern about offering this in a classroom format. In fact, this course has for the past two years been offered multi-modal. There are online-only seminars and there are face-to-face seminars in an Intensive format. It probably comes down to reading the course offerings more accurately. Aside from that, I was satisfied that the unit was overall well received and found your endorsement, In fact, a majority of you (over 85%) were overall satisfied with the quality of the course and found it intellectually rewarding, incl. many being quite positive about how we resolved this in the online environment. Given that only a touch more than half responded, if you would like to give us any further feedback about the unit, we'll be happy to reflect on those as well. Please send an email to olaf.werder@sydney.edu.au.