I took this class because it satisfied a GE requirement and I was interested in economics. The previous batch of reviews portrayed this class as an easy GE with good content, my experience was far from this picture.

Pros:
- The lectures were interesting and insightful. Professor knows the content well, however, the pace of the lectures is too fast for students with no economics background. We jumped into supply-demand diagrams with tariffs and whatnot without much context or explanation.
- Some topics such as climate change, inequality and immigration helped gauge an understanding of how economics is intertwined with so many global issues

Cons:
- Professor was not very clear or helpful in her email responses whenever I had doubts about the quiz or a project.
- Quizzes were HARD. Watching all the lectures, attending discussions, and reading slides were still not enough to answer some curveball questions on the quizzes.
- The group project spec had very little detail. We were left to interpret the prompt and the guiding questions on our own.

If you have taken economic courses, this could be a relatively easy class for you and a bit interesting at the same time. However, if you have no background in economics and are looking for an easy GE, this class will not be the best experience for you.

Really nice professor and good lecturer. For economics this is an easy class - would recommend.

Easiest class I've taken at UCLA. Pretty interesting too.

Overall pretty good professor. She is really engaging and gives great presentations which is good because the homework for this class is an excel spreadsheet thing that has very little to do with overall class material. The assignment is not very useful in studying for the final. I only did better than the class average thanks to me saving my AP Micro/Macro Barron Exam Prep book otherwise I would have legit gotten a C, because the final was hard with lots of twists and turns. She did let you bring in 5 cheat sheets which was extremely helpful on exam day. She is nice and very approachable during office hours tho, highly recommend this goat.

Professor Olivia is very kind but is not clear. She is the professor who does not like practice problems or tests, and says "you either know or it don't" Which comes to be true but can be intimidating if you are nervous or just want to test how much you actually know. She will not curve or round grades, so the avg of her courses tends to be a B. Exams do not have many questions so beware bc you will miss 3 and be at a C. (lot of check all that apply making it difficult). Got screwed out of an A- bc she didn't round an 89.6 after acing the final as well. She is fun to speak with but once again, grading of projects is graded by TAs, so do not believe her if she says you did well. Also grading is based on the class, so if there is 1 group who writes 20+ pages, when the limit is 8, they will get A+ and everyone else will be held to that standard and end up with Bs on projects that are meant to boost ur grade.

This class was super full and just getting a seat was often an issue. People from all grades and no group projects also made it really hard to try and find study groups of any kind. Overall slides were pretty clear and were posted, so easy to go over. Wish I went to more student hours—I went before the final and they were super helpful so definitely recommend. Rough grading only because there are like literally 4 things in the gradebook so if you don't do well on the midterm and final you are screwed. Got an 80 on the midterm which made me have to get a super high final score to get an A so just keep that in mind.

Prof Twumasi was all over the place with the lectures. Often sped through the slides and would end class 30 minutes early without explaining much of the content on the slides. That being said, content and tests were very straightforward, just not a lot of good instruction in the lectures. Overall easy class.

I was a little nervous about this class since I’d never taken an economics course before, but Professor Osei made everything so clear and easy to understand. Some topics are more complex than others, so I definitely recommend staying on top of the readings and lecture notes. After midterms, the class picked up when we started learning about the graphs and how everything works together. That part was a little tricky for me since I’ve never been great with graphs, but it’s manageable with some extra practice.

The final was worth 50% of our grade, which really scared me, but it ended up being fine—though some of the questions were worded a bit poorly. There’s also an Excel project worth 20%, which takes some time, especially if you’ve never used Excel before. I hadn’t, but a few YouTube tutorials got me through it! The online midterm and discussion are worth 15% of your grade.

One great thing is she offered 1% extra credit, which bumped me from an A- to an A. I didn’t do my best on the final (88%), so it brought my grade down from a 98 to a 93, but an A is totally achievable. I highly recommend this class, especially if you can take it with Professor Osei.

It was supposed to be an easy class for me, considering that I am pretty good at economics and completed the equivalent course in the high school. BUT the class was hard to follow, and tests were unfair. Do not take this professor, if you have an opportunity to.

Boring lectures. NO practice exams :( you just have to know the material. Not recorded lectures. Group project is very important, instructions r not super clear so just do a bunch of extra work and make yours look the best. Open note final. 1% ec for course eval. easy B, hard A.