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.

The class was online with multiple choice, open book/note midterms and final so it was an easy class, however the professor was a bad lecturer and I feel like I didn't learn much at all in this class. Her lectures were all over the place, and sometimes she would repeat herself, or forget what she was talking about, or contradict herself in the next sentence. When watching the lecture recordings, I would often play it back multiple times since it was just super confusing to understand her overall point.

Easy A, but you barely learn anything and her lectures are boring, bad, and frustrating.

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.