Spring 2027

Professional Communication of Applied Economic Analysis

Professional communication for applied economics, covering writing for technical and non-technical audiences, including research findings, memos, and reports.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Silke Schmidt

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.68 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.64 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and use elements of reader-friendly writing strategies

  • Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences

  • Summarize different types of econometric analyses and explain the intuition behind them to non-economists

  • Situate analysis results into a larger context and reflect on their implications

  • Differentiate between some of the ethical and non-ethical uses of generative AI tools as writing/editing assistants in a professional setting

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A A E 636

AAE 721 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.68 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.64 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SILKE SCHMIDT is recorded teaching in Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
SEM 001Online (some classroom)0 / 250
SEM 002Classroom Instruction0 / 250

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.68 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.64 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Technical and non-technical writing, including memos, executive summaries, and analysis reports
  • Communicating econometric analysis results and intuition

Skills

  • Reader-friendly writing strategies and ethical use of generative AI tools
  • Summarizing econometric analyses for non-economists

Grades

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AAE 721 · Spring 2027

Professional Communication of Applied Economic Analysis

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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