<p>I liked macroeconomics but I felt like I didn't learn the practicalities of the concepts. I still find it difficult to interpret articles I read on the WSJ and figure out what's going on a macro level. </p>
<p>What are some good econ. electives that make reading finance/economic articles easy to understand?</p>
<p>Two must-take classes:</p>
<p>Econ 134 - Macroeconomic policy from the great depression to the great recession. Taught by David & Christina Romer</p>
<p>Econ 115 - World Economy in the 20th Century. Taught by Barry Eichengreen.</p>
<p>I didn’t feel like a legitimate Econ major until I took both of these. All these professors are famous economists, you’ll see them cited everywhere. Amazing people as well.</p>
<p>Oh, nice. Seems that both courses are taught during the spring. I guess I’ll take them both during the spring. How’s the workload? I’m trying to take a lot of economic electives so I can raise my major GPA. </p>
<p>Do you know any other economics courses that you would recommend? Urban economics sounds really interesting. How is that? And what about international economics? And are there any interesting graduate courses that we can perhaps take?</p>
<p>I took 134 and 115 together. They complement each other pretty well, lot of similar topics discussed but 134 focuses on the US while 115 is world. For 134 you have to do the readings but they’re mostly pretty interesting and there are problem sets. For 115, I just studied off of the lectures.</p>
<p>I didn’t take urban or international economics but I have looked them up and they do seem interesting. Just choose based off of professors and not 8am I guess lol.</p>
<p>Alright thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Urban (155) is pretty interesting (IMO), the lecturer is quite good and he claims to grade quite generously (~45% A’s I think).</p>
<p>By International do you mean 181 or 182? I’ve never taken 182 but I heard that Gourinchas is very good but grades tough, and I really disliked the way Kamala taught 181 (I know some people disagree but her teaching style just never worked for me).</p>
<p>Econ C171 deals with macro within development economics. Very enjoyable class.</p>