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.

Professor Boswell is one of the most fair professors in the econ department. She gives you a list of the topics that will be covered on the exam unlike many others so you're not left guessing what to study. Her exams are tough but fair and projects make up 30% of your grade (everyone gets A's on them). She is very nice and willing to help students so definitely get to know her and attend her office hours!

This class wasn't too bad and overall Boswell is a good professor. She's realistic and easy to work with and they are willing to correct test questions If enough people get them wrong. However, she does move very fast, going over a ton of content very quickly. It's also very unclear what the most important material is. Your grade is made up of 2 midterms, 3 group assignments and 1 Final. Overall, I do think this class is manageable and possible to get an A (there may be a downcurve).

Boswell is a super fair and predictable prof. Class consists of two midterms (50%) with relatively high means (around 25/30) and a final (35%) that is slightly more difficult. Remainder is 3 simple group assignments worth 5% each. Class is only curved if scores deviate from historical levels. The only thing I used to study for this class are the lecture slides which she posts on canvas. Helps to attend class, but she records on zoom. I didn't attend a single discussion section, nor did I do any of the MindTap problems (waste of time imo). All you really need to do to excel in this class is 1) Reread every single slide covered before exams, and 2) TAKE HER PRACTICE TESTS. I cannot stress the second one enough, as they are the exams from previous quarters and the actual exam questions are EXTREMELY similar to these. Super easy class if you put the time to learn the concepts and take every single practice test.

Professor Boswell is great! I took her for both ECON 103 and 104 and found her to be a very fair professor. Her lecture slides and instruction are pretty straightforward. Grade breakdown: 30% projects (there are 3), 30% midterm (20 MCQ, 3 doubled sided cheat sheets), and 40% final (40 MCQ, 4 double sided cheat sheets). The assignments are all done in R, but you only need to know how to interpret R output during exams. I found the final to be difficult but reasonable and got a 70%. Overall, as long as you do well on the assignments and prepare good cheat sheets you’re good

Prof. Boswell was honestly awesome and definitely one of the better professors I've had at UCLA. She provides every test she's given as study material, along with explanations for right and wrong answers. She hosts multiple office hours per week, both online and in person as well, and lectures are recorded (no attendance required). The only homework are 3 assignments which are very manageable and which she will help with if you have questions at office hours. Cheat sheets are allowed for every test.
As far as doing well, I'd highly recommend taking the tests she provides as seriously as possible, a lot of those questions/concepts showed up on tests just with different wording. I'd suggest watching the lectures at least once, I feel like she explains the concepts better than the textbook.

Professor Boswell was medicore. Very dry lectures often fell behind in material and then tough really fast the following lecture to catch up which was not helpful. Her exams were hard it was helpful she emailed out past exams, but they were still hard despite the resources given to us. Homework is very lit just 3 group projects, nit very useful in studying for exams tho, just pretty just rely on past exams and lecture slides to study. Final was really hard, I was also suffering from severe salmonella from De Neve Dining so it may be a little easier otherwise, overall I didn't do that awful despite my situation, I just bombed the first midterm because I didn't really want to study after the fires. I don't like the fact that there isn't a better of two schemes even tho there is two midterm if that existed my grade would have been a lot higher, oh well that's one big warning do well on all the exams otherwise it will hurt you for the rest of the quarter.

If you took Boswell for 103 this class is defenitley a lot harder imo. As someone who got an A in 103, I died on the final. Theres 3 projects worth 10% each. Midterm is 30% and final is 40%. I'm not sure about my class, but I know the quarter before I took it there was a downcurve so watch out for that. You get cheat sheets for the midterm and final so make sure you put all the practice problems on there.