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.

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.

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.

This class was okay, the professor is nice and funny, but the midterms and finals were pretty difficult. The midterm ended up being curved by a couple questions which helped but the final tanked my grade... I had an A prior to the final then ended with a B+. She also did most lectures online which was nice in the moment but when it came to the final I probably would've learned better in person.

Professor Boswell was amazing, she really will give you all the tools necessary to succeed in her class. Econ 2 overall personally felt easier to me than Econ 1, she does a great job in explaining topics thoroughly and provides SEVERAL previous midterms and finals so that you can study for your current exams in her class. She is relatively generous in her grading and curving, if 3% of the class brings it to her attention that a question on an exam was misleading, unfair, etc, she changes and adjusts the points for the whole class. Lectures are in person but also streamed through ZOOM to accommodate students who are sick that day or can't make it to class. Discussion is not mandatory but VERY helpful. Assignments can be done in groups or independently and are not time-consuming at all. I would recommend you take her, she was really helpful and an overall great professor.

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!

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.

Boswell's lectures became ramble like at times, but the midterms and finals were very reasonable, and ample study resources were provided. If you go to office hours, she is very helpful, and is very interesting to talk to about stuff outside of the curriculum. No one really went to office hours outside of the week before the midterms, so Boswell was a good professor to be able to spend time with.