What are some 400 level economic courses at UofC that is interesting and not too hard

[rgr]

thanks haha :D

[Ajay]

Very few 400 level Econ classes are easy.

There was one I took but I don't remember the number of it (ECON 483???). It was the history of economic thought. Wasn't very hard at all but it was pretty dry, actually VERY dry material.

[krazykhoja]

Econ 425 w Gaisford I found not to be too hard...it can be a little dry at times but he gives study guides for his midterm & final...if u study off those you should be fine

[RX_EVOLV]

took ECON 401 (Taxation) last year.. thought it was pretty easy as long as you study a little bit

ECON 475 seems to be really hard (see my other thread) and I dropped ECON 481 ( behavioral economic) 10 min into the first lecture ( literate just went on my laptop in class and dropped it)

[Skyline_Addict]

Econ 499 in this semester should be really easy. 425 with the chinese grad student teaching was super easy as well.

[Ajay]

Wouldn't say it was easy easy but the labor economics classes taught by Chris Bruce aren't too bad.

Econ 431 and 433. Require maybe a slightly above average amount of time to be prepared for his exams.

[HyperZell]

Taking ECON 421 right now...can't really be sure if it's easy or not, but I can be sure that there is at least one loudmouth that loves to play professor sitting in the back.

[krazykhoja]

lol RX I dropped 475 during the lecture as well...happy he finished early so I didnt have to sit through all of it

Taking 423 right now doesn't seem to bad..anybody taken it? I have Janko as a prof...

[Ajay]

I registered for 423 last winter semester. I dropped it before the add/drop deadline cause a different class opened up that I wanted to take.

Friend of mine stayed in that class. He said it was somewhat difficult. Something about having an exchange rate/money market diagram and a interest rate/output diagram being superimposed on each other had him all confused.

[Skyline_Addict]

I didn't find 481 hard, but it was definetely not easy. Definetely the more interesting 400 level Econ class I have taken as it requires alot of thinking outside the box. There is a term paper worth around 30% and assignments worth about the same. I think I really lucked out getting a B+ in that class as I didn't think I did well on the final exam or the term paper at all (I did pretty awful on the assignments). If you take it with Robert Oxoby, he is a really cool and charismatic guy.

[krazykhoja]

skyline what is Econ499? Are you in the class atm?