GENC3004 Personal Finance (UNSW Sydney): rated 3.1/5 overall, difficulty 3.3/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 0.5/5 across 34 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
GENC3004 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the UNSW Business School in School of Banking and Finance. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 个人理财
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Banking and Finance
Faculty: UNSW Business School
Level: Undergraduate Level 3
Handbook year: 2026
This course offers you the essential financial toolkit to manage, grow, and secure your personal finances with confidence as you navigate life’s financial milestones. Perfectly suited for students ready to build a strong financial foundation, this course explores key topics such as evaluating your current financial position, setting impactful long-term goals, and developing a strategic plan to achieve financial independence.
GENC3004 has 34 scored reviews: overall 3.1/5 · usefulness 2.5 · difficulty 3.3 · would-recommend 0.5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 2 reviews by UNSW students on UNSW Wall (1.3/5 overall); 2 StudentVIP reviews (average 3.5 stars); 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.1/5).
Student review (2026-09-05, translated): This course consists of ten online quizzes and three essays (1,000, 2,000, and 3,000–9,000 words). No attendance required, no final exam, and only one lecture per week—whether you show up is totally up to you. If you’re willing to put in the effort and write the essays properly, you can easily score **70+ per essay** (I’m not even a finance student, so imagine how much higher finance majors could score).
On Reddit: "Took personal finance (GENC3004) last year and really enjoyed it. Lecture videos were Bite-Sized and well formatted so you could learn at your own pace and it was easy to digest. The content is quite useful (taxes, investing, insurance etc) and is definitely a good introduction …"
On Reddit: "doing personal finance as a first year rn, it's a great course by a great guy and it's not much of a workload but you get to take away huge life values from it and there's advice on savings and investing so its worth a go. loving the course, weekly quizzes, somewhat fun mid-term…"
The course panel on UNSW Wall shows every review and discussion in full.
Q: Is GENC3004 hard?
A: Students rate GENC3004's difficulty 3.3/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it moderately difficult.
Q: Is GENC3004 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 34 reviews: would-recommend 0.5/5, usefulness 2.5/5, overall 3.1/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches GENC3004, and when is it offered?
A: GENC3004 is taught by the UNSW Business School. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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