<p>Which one?
Microeconomics with Schuler
or
Macroeconomics with either Wissink or Kyle</p>
<p>i took micro with abowd and it was ridiculously easy. i'd recommend it as a cushion class</p>
<p>econ with kyle is supposed to be a good class</p>
<p>i DONT recommend econ with abowd (even though he isnt teaching this semester)...his lectures were a waste of time and the excel problem sets sucked a$$...i guess his tests were doable, but waaay too much work for a 3 credit class</p>
<p>haha whatttt the problem sets are so easy to get at least a 95 on and they are worth 25 percent of the grade. as for the tests, if you do all the practice problems on the website i guarantee you'll get at least a 90.</p>
<p>I placed out of intro econs, but I think micro is easier, personally</p>
<p>just don't take micro with burkhauser if you can help it.</p>
<p>I took both, Burkhauser and McClelland. I found the subject material of micro much easier, as it's much more akin to applying fairly simple concepts. Macro is more jumbled (or more politely, nuanced) and empirical, just trickier overall. That said, I ended up getting a higher grade in macro than in micro. I hardly studied for the micro final, and I don't think it really hurt, because it's a matter of being able to apply concepts. </p>
<p>For McClelland's class, there is only a midterm and a final, and problem sets that you can, ahem, get help on. Lectures suck, but I missed 'em and still did well.</p>
<p>I took a 500 level grad econ course with Schuler last semester, and I found it easier than the econ 101 course I took here years ago. Schuler is a fun kooky old dude who always interrupts lecture to tell stories about some weird pizza place or department store he used to go to as a kid. He likes to teach his material with an eye on real world examples. The homeworks were sporadic and the homeworks as well as the tests were very open ended. If your the type who needs every bit of a question spelled out for you, you may find his questions hard. But they are great in that as long as you spell out your assumptions he doesn't care. For example, if he gives you a rate of inflation but doesn't explicitly say if a figure is nominal or real, you can just say hey **** it, I'm going to assume it's real and ignore the inflation calculation. Oh, and his exams for my class at least were open book.</p>