ECON 101 introduces microeconomic principles focusing on value, pricing, and income distribution across individuals, firms, and industries.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Reviewers describe weekly cycles of textbook reading, video lectures, participation activities, problem sets, and quizzes. Assessments include multiple midterms and a final exam, with some professors dropping one midterm or offering open-note exams.
Covers current developments across all fields of economics.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Elizabeth Kelly, Rasmus Lentz, Stella Chan: Workload and difficulty fluctuate significantly across teaching terms. Some students found homework extremely difficult with few examples, while others noted heavy mid-semester workloads or required pre-class reading responses.
Behavioral Economics examines departures from rational norms using psychological enrichments of the standard model.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course requires at least five hours weekly for dense reading, which students find difficult to keep up with. Homework is considered easy, but the final exam focuses heavily on definitions rather than calculations.