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.

i highly recommend taking 103 with professor boswell! she's a very straightforward and entertaining lecturer and provides a strong foundation for the 103 and 104 series. the grading scheme is 30% assignments, 30% midterm, and 40% final. she is extremely generous with cheatsheets (3 doubled sided sheets)!!!! i found the midterm to be very fair and pretty similar to the most recent exams. i thought the final was extremely difficult (was honestly hoping for a 50%) and got an 82% so it was pretty chill. assignments consist of both math problems from the textbook and a little R, and you can either do it in a group or on your own. overall, i'm super glad that i'll be taking 103 and 104 with boswell!

Boswell is a great professor and provides plenty of resources for student success. The way I studied for this class was by doing her weekly ungraded practice problems, as well as my TA’s weekly discussion section problems. Then, about 2-3 days before the midterm, I would do all of Boswell’s practice midterms and time myself to ensure I could complete them within the 1 hour and 15 minute time window. I used this same approach to study for the final. Also, for each lecture, I would watch the recordings instead of attending them live, and I would probably spend an average of 2.5 hours on each lecture, taking in-depth notes. If you follow this weekly routine, it may only require 8-10 hours of dedication per week, and you’ll be able to retain the lecture material very well. I also never read the textbook, I only relied on her lectures.

Professor Boswell was amazing, she really will give you all the tools necessary to succeed in her class. Econ 2 overall personally felt easier to me than Econ 1, she does a great job in explaining topics thoroughly and provides SEVERAL previous midterms and finals so that you can study for your current exams in her class. She is relatively generous in her grading and curving, if 3% of the class brings it to her attention that a question on an exam was misleading, unfair, etc, she changes and adjusts the points for the whole class. Lectures are in person but also streamed through ZOOM to accommodate students who are sick that day or can't make it to class. Discussion is not mandatory but VERY helpful. Assignments can be done in groups or independently and are not time-consuming at all. I would recommend you take her, she was really helpful and an overall great professor.

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 class is pretty standard for an Econ 2 class. I would recommend taking it with Boswell because she really cares about student learning. She is very receptive to emails and will teach you a bunch of information in a pretty clear manner. I didn't attend lecture for the last half of the class and ended up with an A by just studying on my own, but if you go ahead and go to lectures this class will be a breeze.

The class breakdown is three group assignments which are worth a total 15% of your grade. You are in a group with three other members which makes the three question assignments go much quicker. There are two midterms which count for 25% of your grade each. They are 30 questions and you are allowed a cheat sheet back and front. My advice is to handwrite each cheat sheet verbatim from the slides and you will do perfectly fine. The final is worth 35% of your grade and is 60 questions. I would recommend doing the same strategy as the midterms. She will also give you points back for ambiguous questions which is awesome.

Overall I would recommend Boswell for Econ 2!

Boswell is one of the best professors I've had at UCLA. She truly cares about her students and is very helpful, clear, and understanding. There are 3 projects worth 15% each, 20% midterm, and 35% final. She provides all past midterms and finals since 2021 for studying and allows 3 pages front and back for a cheat sheet for the midterm and 4 for the final. The coding projects aren't very time consuming compared to other teachers and they are helpful for understanding the questions on the exams. Only need to know R for the projects. I recommend taking notes by either copying and pasting the slides beforehand and adding notes during the lecture or downloading the slides and writing notes on them. She records her lectures and does them on zoom so I would type the notes beforehand and listen to her explanations / read the transcript and add those separately to grasp the information more rather than taking notes at the same time she's lecturing (because she can go pretty fast). Definitely take this class with Boswell if you can!!! Also don't need the textbook.

Class is pretty tough if you're not good with stats, but workload was very light.