The professor is super sweet. Instead of zoom meetings, she uploaded pre-recorded lecture videos for us to watch and assigned quizzes every Friday, which were very fair if you paid attention to her videos. The final was EZ money. It consisted of around 40 multiple choice questions and she also let us use her lecture slides during the exam.

Please take this class with Olivia!! She is one of the most clear and engaging professors I've taken a class with. I took this class online for because of covid. She was the only professor of mine who pre recorded lectures, which I preferred because it make for more efficient listening. Her slides were extremely concise yet informative, and she was so clear in all of her explanations. This class is extremely structured and easy to follow along, and TAs are approachable and very understanding. As someone who is not interested in economics, this class was really engaging and taught me a lot about macroeconomics. I am so glad I took it!

[spring 2020 covid online quarter] Absolutely take this class for GE or diversity or whatever. I needed it as a lower div for my major. I believe it's a new class? And it's basically "intro to econ but we know you're not a stem/econ major."

There's one group paper that's pretty straightforward, and for the final she basically siced us--it was unbelievably easy (since I paid attention most answers are already obvious) and she told us in advance to download all the slides and every single answer would be in the slides--it was. idk if she's always gonna go this easy but I'm suspecting it was the circumstances of this quarter.

She started off with a very organized and prepared zoom session on day 1 to introduce everything, and then the rest of the class was recorded lectures. The lectures were easy to pay attention, very straightforward and simple, and there was a simple quiz each week to check in. Sometimes lectures would be posted late but makes sense professors have lives too and stuff happens. Overall she was very organized, communicated well, and adapted to the online format absolutely amazingly.

TA was Daniel, he was swell. ngl the class material was too easy so there wasn't much to go over in discussion he'd just review what was already in the lectures but he prepared and cared about us as students. Thanks man

Disclaimer: I took this class over Zoom during the pandemic, so the weight/difficulty of each component might differ if you take the class in-person.

I hated AP Econ in hs, so I was really on the fence about taking this class, but the fact that it takes care of two requirements (Diversity and Social Analysis) sealed the deal for me, and I'm actually really glad I took it. The material was actually really interesting and the prof seemed really chill.

Weekly quizzes were 45%, a group/individual project was 25%, and the final was 30%. The weekly quizzes were pretty straightforward and based solely on her lectures. You can do the project (10-pg paper) on your own or with a group; I'd recommend doing it with others but if that's not your jam it seems pretty doable for a single person, just don't put it off til the last minute. The final was 3 hours (within a 24-hr window) and open-note (again, might not be open-note for an in-person final), mc and short-answer, but honestly you don't even need notes if you payed attention to the lectures, and I finished with an hour to spare.

Lectures were powerpoints w voiceovers, and she uploaded the slides too. There were also required readings every week, but the final didn't have any questions on them, so do with that what you will.

TA Manu was super chill too, and he was always willing to answer any questions.

The class was honestly really straight-forward and actually quite interesting in terms of the material. Prof made what I felt were reasonable accommodations in regards to the pandemic. Wish I could've met her irl bc she seemed chill.