<p>I hear this is a weeder course. This would be an elective for me. Is it better to wait for the summer to take it? And is Gerson to best prof to take?</p>
<p>Any introduction course at UM is a weeder course. I’m guessing your interested in economics or have a strong math background or something if you are taking it as an elective, so just take it. If your really struggling than just change your grading to pass fail, but why waste your summer and money taking an economics course you don’t need to take when you could be working more (or less).</p>
<p>Paula Malone is the best for professor to have for Econ 101. Econ 101 is probably considered a weeder course only during the fall since all the pre-business students need to take the course. Else, its not really intensive nor competitive.</p>
<p>So I just came out of fall Econ 101, and I can say one thing: It’s a weeder course. If you can avoid making careless mistakes, it’s really not too hard. The issue is that two questions can bring you down a full letter grade because of how tight the performance distribution was in our class. My tendency for math errors pretty much screwed me over.</p>