Oh man. I had a capstone enviro science unit that gave us a major assignment with a ~600 word limit. That did not make it easier. But we were expected to get a lot done with those 600 words, it was a hard limit, and the professor was well known to be a hard marker.

But yeah, this is a joke. I would guess it's a first year unit that's easing the students into things and maybe was the first assignment for the unit? Not a bad thing, but also not challenging at all.