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 basically entirely stopped going to this class by week 3. Reading the textbook or looking through lecture slides, or both if you're locked in or something, is all you really need to do. That making the most of all the former tests she posts. Basically what I did was read textbook and then do practice problems and that was more than enough to comfortably get an A in the class. Going might be helpful I would imagine it is but honestly if its still in Dodd hall it was hot asf in there so I stopped going, and its too far to make it worthwhile. Class is also livestreamed if you want to do that. She goes too quick in lecture and rambles/meanders, too much for you to take good coherent notes which is another reason I just decided to only use the textbook.

She is very very helpful though. You can ask her anything in her office hours in person or through zoom and she is great. She also has a great policy where you can basically contest anything on the tests that you get wrong, and she is pretty open to hearing arguments. So you can potentially raise your grade substantially if you have a legitimate gripe with something you got wrong.

Overall a pretty manageable class that wasn't really all that hard. Very good and helpful professor. Assignments were a pain but just gotta grind them out. Get a good group of your friends.

This class is broken up into 2 midterms, 1 final and 3 projects. so getting a good grade is very possible. I will say the professor moves at insane pace and it's almost impossible to write everything she is saying even on a computer. everything is recorded so that does help. Her slides are super helpful and she gives previous midterms and finals to prepare for the current midterm and final so that alone should make you even more confident and comfortable to take the class. Anyways she is really funny and a good professor and attendance is optional so W.

Professor Boswell is incredibly supportive and understanding of her students. Her lectures are always engaging, well-structured, and easy to follow. She’s also very organized and often goes out of her way to accommodate students and make their lives easier.

I previously took ECON 103 with Professor Boswell and really enjoyed it, so I enrolled in ECON 104 with her as well. Compared to ECON 103, ECON 104 is more conceptual and less math-focused, which made it more challenging for me personally. The group projects were also more time-consuming and complex than those in ECON 103.

While I didn’t enjoy the course content as much due to its conceptual nature, I still believe Professor Boswell is an excellent instructor and a fair grader. I highly recommend her as a professor or a mentor, just be aware that the course material itself may not be as engaging or fun.

Boswell is great at explaining the concepts; however, the course itself is poorly organized by the economics department. The material jumps around from correcting regression model assumption violations to QDV models, then to time series models, and back again to finishing the corrections for the regression assumptions. It also briefly touches on machine learning and panel data toward the end. While each of these topics is interesting on its own, trying to cover them all in just 10 weeks results in only a very basic understanding of the material. In contrast, Econ 103 was a much better learning experience, as it focused solely on least squares regression, covering both the derivation and the intuition behind it, along with practical applications. I would have preferred if this course had focused solely on completing the regression assumption corrections and gone more in-depth on time series and QDV models. Due to how crammed the course was, it didn’t provide enough depth to confidently apply any of the concepts. That said, Boswell remains an excellent instructor and continues to be my preferred choice for any economics course.

I enjoyed this class a lot since Boswell kept it very organized and straightforward. She listed past papers and all other resources/guides you needed to succeed in the class. I also found the readings very helpful if you needed clarification on confusing concepts. What helped me most were her practice exams and copying and pasting her slide information onto the cheat she let us have. Make sure to fill up both midterm cheat sheets with as much information since you can reuse them for the final exam. I didn't think discussions were necessary since I clarified any confusing concepts through the readings.

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).