Faculty led seminar focusing on graduate student research in various fields of specialization within Economics. Students will typically produce a research draft each quarter. Second year students will be required to produce a formal written proposal for a research paper, which will be evaluated and enforced within the working group structure. Proposal must clearly articulate a research question of interest and the methodological approach. Written proposals must receive a passing grade (B or above) no later than the end of winter quarter of the second year.
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UnitsPass no pass
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeGraduate students only
Level LimitLetters and science
CollegeClass is super useful in that it forces you to learn R. However, lectures are extremely lackluster, the TurnItIn Autograder is horrible, and there is too much writing for a coding class. Workload is annoying but managable. Youtube + AI will be your best friends in this class. Wish the written assignments were due every-other week.
Lectures weren't helpful, basically online class. Hard in the sense that it's time consuming (think 5-10 hours per week, 10+ for final), but it was a guaranteed A if you put in effort. I did learn a lot of R (although self-taught) and it was fun at times. However, beware- not a lot of resources, TAs only available online on Nectir infrequently
Lots of coding and write-ups for homework, but they are all doable if you put in the effort. The only warning I'll give is that the final project is NOT a one-day assignment, expect at least a week to finish that. Both Prof Startz and the TAs care about students and give support. overall great class
Self-taught the coding part, definitely can be hard but there is the nectir class group chat where you can basically get the answers. Write-ups the TAs are kinda harsh but I averaged 90-100/100 every time. Only reason I got a B+ instead of an A was because I thought I could do final in like a day, like other assignments. Was not the case