Professor Boswell is a godsend and made this class so incredibly painless. There are professors that care about their craft, that care about their students’ wellbeing, and that care about their students’ learning, and then there are professors who care about all three. Professor Boswell is the latter. This class has virtually no homework or busywork—everything seems intentional and purposeful in furthering our understanding of the subject and success in the class. She is concise and clear in lectures, using an abundance of real-world examples and ties in current events to every lecture to keep the subject matter relevant and show us why each concept is important. Outside of her lectures though, Cengage is a godsend for extra practice problems, and similar problems from the cengage practice sets are often on the midterms. Professor Boswell is intelligent, adept, and funny while still being firm, fair, and accommodating where need be. If you dislike this class for any reason, it’s going to be because really how interesting can macroeconomics be, but I promise you it won’t be because of Boswell <3.

This class is a great introduction to macroeconomic concepts and their real-world applications. Boswell does a phenomenal job of walking students through each concept in intricate detail – if you simply pay attention to the lectures, you will fully understand the concepts. The class is organized as follows:

- 2 midterms (30 questions MC, 1 page double-sided cheat sheet allowed)

- 1 final (60 questions MC, 3 pages double-sided cheat sheet allowed)

- Group assignment (everybody aces these; they are easy)

During my quarter, she dropped the lowest midterm grade as well. Not sure if she'll do this again since it was because our testing room had issues for the first midterm. People also talk about the down curve for this class -- thankfully, our class was not downcurved at all, but there was also no up curve. You will most likely have to get A's on the exams in order to get an A- or above. In order to do well in the class you should:

- Make an excellent cheat sheet. Study and understand every concept you put on it because you will have to apply these concepts.

- Do practice midterms/finals over and over until you can get A's consistently on them. She provides these before each midterm/final.

- Do MindTap practice problems. I started doing this after the first midterm and my scores improved.

- Again, go to/watch every lecture.

Overall, the class was one of my favorites at UCLA. Concepts are also useful for interviewing for finance/econ internships and just interesting to know in general.

Practice tests and project material (summary/spreadsheet of all the codes for Econ 103 and 104; super helpful for 104!) are available, $30 for full package (negotiable - I'm flexible and nice dw). Email me at *************.

Boswell is pretty nice and extends project due dates if most of the class needs extra time for the group projects. Make sure for your groups, you choose responsible group partners and that you study well for the midterm. the midterm itself wasn't super difficult, but in my opinion, the environment was poorly planned out. She also records and livestreams lectures.

Amazing professor—if you’re taking Econ 104, take it with her. Despite doing horribly on tests (my average was 50% due to a difficult time), I managed to end the class with a C+ thanks to the projects. I strongly recommend her.

My review of other professors: https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/1gmshzu/review_of_econ_professors_as_a_transfer_student/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I took this class Spring quarter of my freshman year, and honestly, it was not too bad. Professor Boswell is a great lecturer and very straightforward about class material and what will be on the exam. She gave a lot of materials to help you practice and study for exams on your own, which were very helpful regarding what was going to be on both the midterm and final. I will say I would do a lot of practice problems and self-teaching outside of class when I was confused about topics because the TA sessions did not help at all. She does not give a lot of work but when she does the assignments are usually group projects which are never too difficult. It is super important to do well on the exams because that has the most weight for ending grades. As one who is on the Economics pathway, I did not mind this class and thought the Professor was good.

Boswell's lectures became ramble like at times, but the midterms and finals were very reasonable, and ample study resources were provided. If you go to office hours, she is very helpful, and is very interesting to talk to about stuff outside of the curriculum. No one really went to office hours outside of the week before the midterms, so Boswell was a good professor to be able to spend time with.

This will be my first time rating a professor on Bruinwalk because Professor Boswell is definitely one of the professors in the Economics department I was compelled to leave a review on.

One of the things I really liked about this class is how intuitive she gives concepts in econometrics. Often times, econometrics does not make sense because professors tend to skip previous foundational concepts you need to understand it. In every slide, she tries her best to recall ECON 41 and ECON 103/103L concepts that students may have forgotten to make us understand the underlying process of the "why" on the concept she's describing. Why is this important? Well, this makes the exams much easier because even if you forgot something on your cheat sheet, when you can recall the underlying concept she described, you will most likely answer it correctly.

ECON 104 is a difficult course; but, it is not impossible if you take it with Professor Boswell. She makes herself available through office hours and by the end of each lecture, so take advantage of it. In terms of exams, there are ample concepts and definitions. However, most of them are application-based. To succeed, make sure to include all the hypothesis on your cheat sheet as she wants you to master the interpretation more than the underlying code because the code, tbh, is simple.

TLDR: Take ECON 104 with Professor Boswell, you will not regret it.

If you didn't do well in 103, you still can do well in this class with Boswell. very understanding and empathetic as long as you put in the effort. attendance dropped severely after the first few weeks and she notices this so if you want to do well, show up to class
the discussion hw each week weren't rly helpful imo but it's good to review and understand the concepts behind them
HEAVY ON HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND ITS INTERPRETATION!!!

I came in having taken AP Macro in high school, so I knew all of the content before the first midterm, so I stopped going to class after Week 2. However, Prof. Boswell's lecture slides were enough to understand the course content, so I had no issue with studying. Tests were generally fair, and she chose not to curve the class down, which was great. Overall decent class, even though I went all of seven times.

This class is very doable and would recommend to anyone. Boswell is a good prof, but there's nothing that is stand out amazing about her, she is just very fair. 25% midterm1, 25% midterm2, 35% final and 15% assignments and 2% extra credit on your final exam if you fill out course eval. The assignments are done in groups and there's only 3 for the whole quarter (5%) each and are all graded on accuracy. They're not that bad but there can be a few questions that really get you.

Midterms and final are all multiple choice. 30 questions for the midterms and 60 questions for final. Let me just say that there's SO MUCH CHEATING on those damn midterms. Both midterms were held in person and there was still so much cheating. Let me preface this by saying this class was 440 people so we took it in Moore 100 and everyone sat next to each other (some profs make you sit every other seat but we would not fit if we did that). There were 3 different versions of both midterms but all the versions had the same questions, just different order so the entire midterm everyone is just looking over at everyone's paper to check answers. It's also scantron and you don't need to show work to get credit so that why people are able to pull this off. It was sooooooo frustrating because everyone was worried for the down curve, but she didn't end up down curving but only because of the TA strike. There were so many people who would walk out of the midterm saying they couldn't focus because their friends were just looking at their paper the whole time.

With all of that being said, the midterms and final are very fair. She bases all the problems from mindtap and she posts 3 practice tests for each midterm and final. The average for the midterm is decent, I think mid 80's for both. The final was pretty easy but I just didn't prepare enough. Overall pretty fair and doable class