ECON3104: International Macroeconomics

10% - 4 sets of tutorial problems, 2 of which randomly chosen to be marked. Not as bad as macro 2, where 25% of your grades came from this structure, and the tutorial problems were genuinely fun to complete.

20% - Midterm (sorry, in-session quiz). Really rough grade distribution for this one, 20% of students failed, and another 40% got between 50 and 64. Very telling of the difficulty in the first half of the course. Just grind out your textbook questions and you'll be set for this though.

10% - Oral Presentation. A really interesting 3-minute presentation where we had to link economic growth to currency pegs.

10% - Essay. A short 1,000-word essay where we had to analyse the impact of a (very theoretical) global pandemic on Australia's account balances.

50% - Final Exam. 35 multiple-choice, 5 written/long response. Same as the midterm, just grind out the textbook questions and you'll be set. Focused on the second half of the course.

ECON2102

I never really felt like I was a better mathematician after taking any of my mathematics courses, just better at doing a new calculation/proof. This made me feel like I was a better economist at the end of it. You gain a much greater appreciation for all the ways that international economies interact, how domestic issues affect foreign countries, and so much more. Really interested in doing my econ honours in this area now. If you've got any interest in macro and are competent in algebra, take this course (no calculus involved at all).

2 x 1.5 hour lecture per week. 1 x 1.5 hour tutorial per week.

4/5 at the start, 1.5/5 at the end. Another front-heavy econ course, but this time it came from the difficulty of having 4 or 5 topics that seemed completely distinct from one another. By the end, you'll learn the mechanisms by which they all interact and it'll all slot into place.

Yes.

Stanley Cho, 4.5/5. Sometimes he went a bit too fast through topics, but attending lectures live made it possible to just ask him to slow down and go over things again. 100% go to his lectures/watch them live.

Full slides given out.

5/5.

2021/T1

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