This class is pretty standard for an Econ 2 class. I would recommend taking it with Boswell because she really cares about student learning. She is very receptive to emails and will teach you a bunch of information in a pretty clear manner. I didn't attend lecture for the last half of the class and ended up with an A by just studying on my own, but if you go ahead and go to lectures this class will be a breeze.

The class breakdown is three group assignments which are worth a total 15% of your grade. You are in a group with three other members which makes the three question assignments go much quicker. There are two midterms which count for 25% of your grade each. They are 30 questions and you are allowed a cheat sheet back and front. My advice is to handwrite each cheat sheet verbatim from the slides and you will do perfectly fine. The final is worth 35% of your grade and is 60 questions. I would recommend doing the same strategy as the midterms. She will also give you points back for ambiguous questions which is awesome.

Overall I would recommend Boswell for Econ 2!

Boswell is one of the best professors I've had at UCLA. She truly cares about her students and is very helpful, clear, and understanding. There are 3 projects worth 15% each, 20% midterm, and 35% final. She provides all past midterms and finals since 2021 for studying and allows 3 pages front and back for a cheat sheet for the midterm and 4 for the final. The coding projects aren't very time consuming compared to other teachers and they are helpful for understanding the questions on the exams. Only need to know R for the projects. I recommend taking notes by either copying and pasting the slides beforehand and adding notes during the lecture or downloading the slides and writing notes on them. She records her lectures and does them on zoom so I would type the notes beforehand and listen to her explanations / read the transcript and add those separately to grasp the information more rather than taking notes at the same time she's lecturing (because she can go pretty fast). Definitely take this class with Boswell if you can!!! Also don't need the textbook.

Class is pretty tough if you're not good with stats, but workload was very light.

Amazing professor—if you’re taking Econ 104, take it with her. Despite doing horribly on tests (my average was 50% due to a difficult time), I managed to end the class with a C+ thanks to the projects. I strongly recommend her.

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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.

This will be my first time rating a professor on Bruinwalk because Professor Boswell is definitely one of the professors in the Economics department I was compelled to leave a review on.

One of the things I really liked about this class is how intuitive she gives concepts in econometrics. Often times, econometrics does not make sense because professors tend to skip previous foundational concepts you need to understand it. In every slide, she tries her best to recall ECON 41 and ECON 103/103L concepts that students may have forgotten to make us understand the underlying process of the "why" on the concept she's describing. Why is this important? Well, this makes the exams much easier because even if you forgot something on your cheat sheet, when you can recall the underlying concept she described, you will most likely answer it correctly.

ECON 104 is a difficult course; but, it is not impossible if you take it with Professor Boswell. She makes herself available through office hours and by the end of each lecture, so take advantage of it. In terms of exams, there are ample concepts and definitions. However, most of them are application-based. To succeed, make sure to include all the hypothesis on your cheat sheet as she wants you to master the interpretation more than the underlying code because the code, tbh, is simple.

TLDR: Take ECON 104 with Professor Boswell, you will not regret it.

If you didn't do well in 103, you still can do well in this class with Boswell. very understanding and empathetic as long as you put in the effort. attendance dropped severely after the first few weeks and she notices this so if you want to do well, show up to class
the discussion hw each week weren't rly helpful imo but it's good to review and understand the concepts behind them
HEAVY ON HYPOTHESIS TESTING AND ITS INTERPRETATION!!!

I came in having taken AP Macro in high school, so I knew all of the content before the first midterm, so I stopped going to class after Week 2. However, Prof. Boswell's lecture slides were enough to understand the course content, so I had no issue with studying. Tests were generally fair, and she chose not to curve the class down, which was great. Overall decent class, even though I went all of seven times.

This class is very doable and would recommend to anyone. Boswell is a good prof, but there's nothing that is stand out amazing about her, she is just very fair. 25% midterm1, 25% midterm2, 35% final and 15% assignments and 2% extra credit on your final exam if you fill out course eval. The assignments are done in groups and there's only 3 for the whole quarter (5%) each and are all graded on accuracy. They're not that bad but there can be a few questions that really get you.

Midterms and final are all multiple choice. 30 questions for the midterms and 60 questions for final. Let me just say that there's SO MUCH CHEATING on those damn midterms. Both midterms were held in person and there was still so much cheating. Let me preface this by saying this class was 440 people so we took it in Moore 100 and everyone sat next to each other (some profs make you sit every other seat but we would not fit if we did that). There were 3 different versions of both midterms but all the versions had the same questions, just different order so the entire midterm everyone is just looking over at everyone's paper to check answers. It's also scantron and you don't need to show work to get credit so that why people are able to pull this off. It was sooooooo frustrating because everyone was worried for the down curve, but she didn't end up down curving but only because of the TA strike. There were so many people who would walk out of the midterm saying they couldn't focus because their friends were just looking at their paper the whole time.

With all of that being said, the midterms and final are very fair. She bases all the problems from mindtap and she posts 3 practice tests for each midterm and final. The average for the midterm is decent, I think mid 80's for both. The final was pretty easy but I just didn't prepare enough. Overall pretty fair and doable class

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.