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Andrew Sweeting
ECON461 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/17/2024 |
He’s just a really dry lecturer and can’t really explain most concepts that clearly. The class content would be interesting, in theory, but he makes it really dry. The good news is that the exams are pretty reasonable and not hard to do well on. The class starts out math heavy and then becomes more focused on qualitative analysis, so there’s stuff for everyone depending on your strengths. Problem sets are time consuming, but not too difficult. Prof Sweeting is a nice guy and won't make things more difficult than they need to be. Everything you see on an exam is something like you've seen in class (no curveballs). So he's good in that way -- he's just not a very engaging lecturer/explainer of concepts. |
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Andrew Sweeting
ECON460 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/17/2021 |
Dr. Sweeting is extremely knowledgeable about the entire field of Industrial Organization since it is his research area. This class was a great opportunity to actually learn from an established IO researcher and it was well worth it for me. This class is technical compared to other undergraduate ECON classes so if you are not comfortable interpreting math and models it will be difficult. However, if you do have a strong math/technical background I would highly suggest this course. The course covers many different IO models and Dr. Sweeting does a great job at providing intuition behind the models during the lectures and you usually work through solving the models in the problem set yourself. The content was engaging and definitely influenced how I think about markets and modern companies. |
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Andrew Sweeting
ECON460 Anonymous 11/17/2021 |
This guys way too smart to be teaching an undergrad course and his grading system is wack. Everyone in the class right now has a failing grade and there’s no TA to get help from for the absurdly hard problem sets |
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Andrew Sweeting
ECON460 Anonymous 11/03/2021 |
Genuinely do not take this class. The average grade in this class is currently an F. Everyone is miserable. Don't take it. |