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.

This class is easy for people who have prior knowledge of economics. Professor Boswell is a really patient and generous professor, she pays attention to students' needs and is willing to do whatever she can to make the students' lives easier. However, the course is designed to have only the top 30% of the class get an A and 35% of people would get a B, the rest are either C+ or lower. The grade boundary changes each year. There are three group assignments for the class and are graded on accuracy, so make sure you find a reliable group to work with. One double-sided cheat sheet is allowed on midterms (there are two midterms), and 3 double-sided cheat sheets are allowed on the final. The professor gave us extra credit for completing the course evaluation as well so this year's average was higher than the previous. The key to success in this class is to do the discussion practices and the MindTap problems, like every single one of them, and you need to understand the concept behind them in order to score well on the exam. The MindTap is around $70, but I know people who still succeed without the MindTap by simply reading the whole textbook and doing the textbook practices.

I really liked the TA. The professor is extremely accommodating. I feel like that last 2 weeks of material was not covered as extensively as it should have been. Before the last two weeks, material was covered pretty well and it got confusing.

This class requires thorough understanding of concepts to easily grasp the main ideas being taught, focus and check past papers to succeed.

The class is easy if you stay focused and are on top of your assignments, go through past tests for midterms and finals.

This class was extremely well-taught, with strong slides and plenty of practice exams, homeworks, and resources to prepare for exams. The final grade was comprised of 30% midterm, 40% final, and 30% group projects. If you do all the practice weekly questions and make a good cheat sheet, you'll be fine. Taking Boswell again for 104!

Professor Boswell is a good professor for this class. Her lectures are recorded and everything she covers in the lecture are on the tests. Personally, her class was not super fun or super interesting, but I think that is just the nature of the class, not the professor. If this is your only option for Econ 1, I would recommend taking it with Boswell. She is very fair and super helpful, always willing to teach you a concept you aren't completely sure about. Her class is structured with 3 group assignments (which are super easy), 2 midterms, and 1 cumulative final. Her tests sometimes have tricky questions that make you think (not as straightforward) but if you study, there is no reason you shouldn't get an A in the class. Overall, I would recommend taking Econ 1 with Boswell as you don't really need to read the textbook and the class is pretty easy with a light workload.

Good teacher but lectures get very boring. The exams can be hard but overall Professor Boswell is willing to help.