The professor never responded to emails, not even to emails sent by TAs. Tests had multiple typos and questions often did not make sense, to the point where a question was removed from the second midterm. Tests also included concepts that were barely covered, while those that were stressed as being vital were left off entirely. The project, which was about the use of monetary policy during the 2008 financial crisis, had guidelines that changed frequently and were often not properly communicated to the entirety of the class. Lectures were somewhat helpful for absorbing the material but were often confusing and tests were largely based off of the textbook. By the end of the class, we had barely covered half of the material that the professor initially planned to teach.

Grades were made up of:
10% attendance of discussions
20% project
15% midterm #1
15% midterm #2
40% final exam

Although the professor is a nice person, I would not recommend taking a class with her, especially not an introductory course such as this one.

The professor made terribly framed questions in exams. The included diagrams in exams are inaccurate and unclear with occasional errors. The exams are barely related to her lectures, and the grading schemes are weird. Her lectures are illogical and not properly structured. Definitely DO NOT recommend taking her class.

This class inspired me to leave my first Bruinwalk review in order to warn all of you about the mess you are getting yourself into here. This should not be a difficult class. The information is not hard, and truthfully, there is not a lot to it. You go over maybe 5 total chapters in the entire course. Not bad right? WRONG. This class ended up giving me an exorbitant amount of stress because the professor does not know how to teach or write a test. You can understand all of the concepts, go to all the lectures, and still get Cs on the exams because they are designed so poorly.

- in her efforts to make our final challenging and stretch our thinking, prof simply made the questions convoluted and overly vague. oh, and don't forget that the majority of questions had typos which often made them difficult to even understand.
- even my TA who barely spoke english said that the graphs given on the tests were way too confusing and that all the TAs had to try and convince prof to make them more clear in future exams
- prof acts like an all knowing god even though she clearly has no idea what she's doing. every test felt like an experiment and we were the guinea pigs whose grades suffered the consequences.
- concepts that were repeatedly stressed as being INCREDIBLY important were not even on the test. instead, we were expected to have deep understandings of minor topics that were briefly glossed over during lecture and not even mentioned in the readings.
- there are basically no assignments in this class. sounds nice in theory, but in reality, there is hardly any way to prepare for the tests. the online textbook doesn't have relevant practice problems and the practice midterm/practice final given out right before the test looks nothing like the actual exam. you are going in blind whether you like it or not. instructions for the one essay we had seemed to change everyday to the point where even our TA admitted he didn't know what she was talking about in her emails about the assignment.

At the end of the day, this class will screw you over due to its extreme lack of organization and coherence. It's hard to prepare for and ace an exam which was written so poorly that your knowledge will barely help you. Prof seems like a nice person, but she seriously needs to get a proofreader and outside opinions about how to make a functioning test. Not everyone is cut out to be a teacher.

Let's start with I love learning economic concepts. I'm a first year student and this was my first college level economics course. I was super excited going into the course, but was very disappointed. The first thing that really disappointed me was the professor's unwillingness/inability to respond to emails. Nothing sent to her was ever responded to. In addition, the Professor was unwilling to wear a microphone, which wasn't a problem for me since I usually sat in the front row. However, the one time I sat in the second row, I could barely hear her. While she seemed to be a very kind person, she did not always understand the material that she was supposed to be teaching. Basic concepts such as how to calculate slope (change in Y over change in X) confused her. Furthermore, the class progressed at a much slower than usual pace. We barely went through half of the material on the original syllabus, causing much panic and worry from everyone in the class about whether or not we will be prepared for Econ 102. Moreover, she had prepared slides, but often had trouble with the computer in the room and ended up not using them a majority of the time. Although I did not go in to office hours to talk to her personally, I heard that she was very helpful on the one monetary policy assignment (worth 20% of the grade and graded primarily on grammar). Overall, the class was relatively slow paced, repetitive, and the concepts were pretty easy. However, be prepared that a majority of your learning is going to come from your TA (find the best one to make sure you really understand the concepts) since the professor tends to confuse topics and the textbook was pretty vague.