ECON 3330

Professor Coppock is incredibly competent and familiar with the material. He's very good at communicating content, and his lectures are very engaging 90-95% of the time. If you do the readings and take good notes on them, it's not hard to excel in this class. This content made me wonder if I ought to pursue a PhD in economics, because it's so interesting to me.

I took this class because it was highly recommended on here. I did find this class to be very interesting and Coppock is a pretty good lecturer and actively makes the class engaging. His grading is pretty harsh though. There is not much room for redemption if you do bad on his first exam (which I also found to be the case in macro). I feel like the amount of effort I put into the class wasn't reflected in my final grade. Coppock does warn you in the first class that most of us won't get an A. I see that now. I somehow got an A in ECON 3010 but not in this class. Overall, if you care about your GPA, don't take this class unless you are ready to put effort in from the start. Otherwise, the material was interesting and I learned a lot. #tCFfall2021

Your grade might not represent what you learned in the course. Although I feel like this was the most enriching economics course I've taken at UVA, where I actually wanted to go to class, I wouldn't say my grade reflects that (which I am perfectly okay with but I know of a lot of people who wouldn't want that). Take this class if you can, it definitely re-sparked my passion for economics that intermediate micro and econometrics took away and I'm quite grateful for that.