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.

Very solid class. Lectures are recorded which is really nice, and they are very clear and easy to understand. 15% of your grade is group assignments that everyone gets 100% on. The rest are midterms and finals (25% each midterm, 35% final) which are difficult but totally manageable. She allows cheat sheets for the tests and she lets you make them huge so the tests are basically open note. Make sure you make good cheat sheets. Also use the MindTap section reviews/quizzes before each test - they really help and she takes questions from MindTap so its a great way to prepare. Class is not a lot of work at all - just study for a day or two before the tests and you're totally fine. Def recommend.

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

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

Boswell has great slides, and if you use her resources you can succeed. The class is graded on a curve, but she might not apply it if the distribution of grades in the class is close enough to the normal distribution. My only complaint is that she would occasionally go on tangents on topics not relevant to the coursework during lectures. However, she posts her slides promptly before or right after each lecture, streams lectures on Zoom, and posts recordings of lectures to watch asynchronously. She posts optional practice sets for each week. There are 2 midterms and a cumulative final exam. There are also 3 assignments that you do in groups, and you can either form your own group or work in the one she randomly assigns you. From what I remember, section attendance was optional. Overall solid class.

professor boswell was just ok. she wasn't outstanding when it came to lecturing but i got by. i feel like she used an excessive amount of curveballs in her exams but i always averaged a B. the assignments were pretty easy, which was nice to have as a cushion compared to econ 1. she allows a printer paper sized doubled sided cheat sheet for each midterm and 3 (this quarter) for our final which was very generous. overall, she's an average lecturer

Don't get me wrong, I liked this class and Boswell's lectures and the material were super interesting, but she curves downward like crazy. I've never had a professor curve down before and it was so unexpected because she does it at the end of the class when there's nothing you can do about it. I got a B in the class and she curved it down an entire letter grade down to a C which is crazy, especially when most people in the class are trying to reach the gpa requirement for biz Econ. Be prepared to get at least an A on all the exams and homework if you want a somewhat good grade.

I do not have anything bad to say about Professor Boswell. The class was fine and was pretty manageable you just really need to study hard to do well on the finals. The thing that was very disappointing is that she downcurved the class. I never understood why professors do this, but I would have gotten an A- if she hadn't have downcurved,

Overall I would definitely recommend Boswell for anyone taking Econ 2, though as others have said the downcurve is noticeable, especially at the lower grades. So while you do have to beat the curve, Boswell actually gives you all the resources you need to succeed in the class.

Grades Weights :
15% for 3 Assignments : Definitely double check your work, but overall pretty average difficulty and workload, can be done in a few hours for each
25% Midterm 1 and 25% Midterm 2 : These two are open notes
35% Final Exam : Not open notes, but you can bring a 1 sheet cheat sheet

Pros :
- Uses same textbook required for Econ 1 (Ohanian), meaning you save money and get the MindTap version as well for Econ 2.
- Mindtap (and it's practice problem and non-required homework) is extremely helpful in learning the content. You do all the sections and the practice problems, you'll be well-prepared for the exams like literally this is the absolute best way to do well in this class.
- Practice Exams, especially the Final exam are accurately reflective of the difficulty and type of questions asked in the actual exams. Doing well on these means you'll do well on the actual one, but don't slack off because of it.
- Straightforward class, there's nothing particularly out of place and the exams are reflective of the content learned, and Boswell will go as far as mention exactly which chapter, and if not the whole chapter, which sections are going to be on the exam.
- Class is zoomed and recorded, which is always helpful

Cons :
- The further into the class we got, the more confusing the lectures got not in a sense that it was some really hard stuff but rather that it was taught less methodically and more of the flow kind of thing, but mindtap will be helpful to reinforce those topics
- Downcurve
- The assignment can get a pretty confusing at times

Essentially, Boswell, is a good professor that gives all the resources you need to succeed, exams are fair and reflect what was taught, and as long as you put time into Mindtap and actually learning as you do it, you've set yourself up really well.