This class is ridiculous. A significant portion of your grade in the class is completely irrelevant to the lecture material and solely based on outside knowledge. If you are a hardworking, independent student who likes to study material and be evaluated solely on that material I would avoid this class. I don't think background knowledge on the United States and/or another country should weigh so heavily in your performance in a class.

Everything besides grading for this class is fine. If you care about your grade do NOT take this class. She gave us an 8/10 for assignments that were each worth 10% of your grade if you did a “good” job. However, someone who did a good job on these would lose points significantly. I quite literally would do way too much on these assignments, but still get an 8 no matter what. The test questions were also very subjective and had us do matching for extremely similar concepts.

This is one of my favorite classes at UCLA. I always like those professors who have a true passion for what they are teaching, and I think Professor Osei definitely loves what she teaches even in this pandemic period. The topic is development economics so we covered a lot of information about various countries around the world -- even the poorest countries in Africa. It is just so exciting to learn about theories of how to develop a country. Maybe not everyone gets the chance to change the fate of a country, but remember we all are part of some country or organization. The assignments are also meaningful -- you pick a country and research thoroughly about it and write case studies throughout the quarter. This makes me an "expert" at the country I selected lol. I would say the final is easy as long as you study at the same pace as Professor Osei wants you to. If you are considering taking econ upper div, choose Professor Osei and you would not regret it.

Really nice professor and good lecturer. For economics this is an easy class - would recommend.

I'm not sure how this class is outside of COVID-19 times, but in COVID times the grading scheme is 50%-Project 20%-Weekly Quizzes and 30%-Final. The project is very doable. You pick a country, and every two weeks you submit a 2-3 page paper relating the country to a topic that is relevant to what we're going over that week. The professor uploads the lectures to CCLE ahead of time, so you can watch them whenever. The professor is a great lecturer, and the material is pretty interesting! It definitely answers the question of "what prevents developing nations from becoming developed". The weekly quizzes are 8-10 questions and if you watch the lectures and take notes down, they are not bad. The final is similar in difficulty to the quizzes. If you're interested in that topic, or you want an econ elective that isn't super time consuming, take this course!

One of the few econ classes I actually liked in UCLA.
Olivia is super nice and approachable, and her class is relatively easy because she only covers a few chapters (Midterm: tiny bit of chapter 1&2, whole chapter 3, part of chapter 4) (Final: one page from chp.4, whole chapter 5&8). Compare to other econ classes that covers like 5 chapters in a test, this class is super chill.
The case study was not difficult, but don't start on it the last day since you need to gather a lot of sources.

The only thing I don't like about this class is how long you have to wait for the grades. Waited 3 weeks for the midterm grades to come out and 2 weeks for the final.