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A great choice if you’re genuinely interested in economics and want to build a strong foundation in economic thinking. Professor Elzinga is passionate and very experienced. He's taught ECON 201 for decades. The material itself isn’t overly difficult, but the exams draw on everything from both the textbook and lectures and are intentionally challenging. If earning an A is your main goal, you may want to reconsider.
Would not recommend this class if you want to learn from Elzinga/McKay. They don't answer questions in class and hold office hours but discourage attendance at them if you have a question related to course material which seems kinda absurd. I learned everything in my discussion and from the colander. They make new tests every year but for the final I took a ton of practice exams from various TA sections and no joke saw some of the EXACT same questions on the final exam so there's that. If you can, take this class in the Spring with Doyle. Smaller lecture section and I've heard much better things about his class. I would highly emphasize attending discussion, asking questions and going to TA office hours because thats the only way you will effectively learn in that class. Elzinga really only talks about examples and indefinite concepts in lecture so that was not helpful for preparing for exams. They're both very cool and nice professors but if you are not a good exam taker, this class is not for you as majority of our grade came from exams. Dutch knockout was an option which was nice but the midterms genuinely felt like war.
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