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.
Principles of Macroeconomics covers macroeconomic measurement, aggregate demand and supply models, and fiscal and monetary policy impacts on unemployment, inflation, and growth.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course features tough exams and extensive material. Johnson covers more content than others, while Chan provides manageable weekly quizzes and homework, though her tests require significant studying.
Accelerated principles of economics covering integrated macro and microeconomics.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course requires significant effort, including weekly quizzes, biweekly problem sets, and extensive daily reading. Students must be prepared for a heavy workload and self-teaching to succeed in the difficult material.
ECON 205 teaches quantitative tools, including algebra, financial mathematics, and calculus, applied to economic models and optimization problems.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course begins with algebra and calculus, becoming progressively harder as economic concepts are integrated, requiring serious effort to succeed on exams.
Covers contemporary theory of consumption, production, pricing, and resource allocation.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Problem sets are time-consuming and difficult, often requiring office hours. Exams are heavy, with tests challenging and requiring significant study time beyond lectures.
Intermediate macroeconomic theory covering national income determination and analysis of economic aggregates.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Eudey’s homework is manageable and exams are similar to practice materials, though one student found exams harder. Alder’s homework and exams are described as super hard and chain-linked, requiring significant self-teaching from the textbook as lectures do not prepare students for the tests.
ECON 310 introduces the analysis of economic data using descriptive statistics and statistical inference techniques like hypothesis testing and estimation.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course is described as hard, with difficult midterms and finals. Workload includes weekly homework via MindTap or Aplia, which some find time-consuming. One review notes that exams can be harder than practice problems.
An advanced treatment of intermediate microeconomic theory using mathematical methods to analyze consumption, production, pricing, and resource allocation.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Exams are described as wacky, non-standard, and significantly harder than homework, with little practice material provided to gauge preparation.
ECON 330 Money and Banking covers monetary economics, the role of money in determining output, prices, and interest rates, commercial and central banking, monetary policy, and the international monetary system.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Reviews indicate a moderate difficulty level, with no specific complaints about excessive workload or preparation requirements mentioned in the available feedback.
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.
ECON 400 introduces applied econometrics, teaching statistical methods to evaluate empirical relationships and test economic theory using real-world data.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course features reasonable problem sets and challenging exams. While tests are considered tricky or hard, reviewers find them fair and note that they are curved.
Examines banking, credit markets, financial institutions, and monetary and debt management policies within the international system.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course is difficult, with homework that is essential for exam success. Workload varies, with some noting minimal homework but a demanding 10-page term paper.
Analytical Public Finance analyzes domestic public sector issues like education, welfare, and the environment using economic analysis tools.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Jesse Gregory, Rebecca Glawtschew: Workload varies by instructor; Jesse Gregory assigned six homeworks, two midterms, and a final, while Rebecca Glawtschew assigns weekly problem sets and chapter-specific practice problems to prepare for tests.
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.
ECON 458 analyzes firm competition and industrial structure using theoretical models and case studies.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Students report significant weekly reading and writing requirements, including four-page case analyses and a major final paper. Some reviewers characterize the workload as heavy and the final project as the most challenging aspect of the course.
ECON 460 introduces econometric time series analysis, forecasting methods, and forecast evaluation with hands-on data analysis.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Bruce Hansen: A reviewer reports that Professor Hansen grades leniently and gives easy exams, while another notes applied work with time-series data.
Overview of industrial organization theory covering oligopoly, monopolistic competition, product differentiation, and dynamic competitive behavior under uncertainty.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Jean-Francois Houde, Rasmus Lentz: Reviewers report that homework is impossible with no guiding examples, and exams or problem sets are incredibly difficult. Preparation requires navigating messy board notes and a lack of practice problems that relate to assessments.
ECON 475 provides a theoretical analysis of economic growth and development, modeling factors like saving, investment, institutions, and trade.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course involves significant mathematical content, including differential equations. Homework assignments are time-intensive, requiring 6 to 10 hours per assignment, and exams are described as hard.
ECON 521 teaches game theory and economic analysis, focusing on multi-agent decision problems involving coordination, cooperation, and conflict.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
The course features difficult homework and confusing problem sets that are harder than the exams. Lectures are fast and complex, requiring significant effort to grasp the material.
ECON 522 applies economic analysis to legal rules and institutions, focusing on how law influences individual incentives across property, contracts, torts, procedure, and criminal law.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
Historical reviews of Daniel Quint, Fran Flanagan: Homework is typically easy and straightforward, but midterms can be challenging. Exams are generally fair, though some students find assignments tricky.
ECON 570 introduces the data underlying quantitative economic analysis, teaching students to formulate research questions, access data sources, conduct analysis, and report findings professionally.
Offering recorded · Fall 2026
John Brauer's course involves significant Python coding for econometrics, which reviewers find difficult without prior CS or econometrics background, though one Data Science student found it easy.
ECON 623 examines the economic determinants of population change and demographic behavior, including household formation, marriage, childbearing, mortality, and human capital investments.