How difficult are economic classes at Brown?

Amadeuic
Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:23:09 +0000

I’m an Applied Math-Econ concentrator, and all I can tell you is that really depends.

I know a lot of people love Dror Brenner and say he’s an easy professor, but I really just don’t mesh whatsoever with his teaching style and I’ve found his classes perhaps more difficult than the average person would say it is.

Yasuhara is an incredibly difficult professor. Every alum I’ve talked to (all in investment banking fields) have asked if he’s still teaching and sighed when I said yes.

But there are a bunch of good classes out there. From what I can gather, I would say that Brown is a little weak, professor-wise, in more mathematically inclined economics classes, but excels in more qualitative ones.

Oh, and the curve is all over the place. Honestly Yasuhara wouldn’t be nearly as bad if a 90% wasn’t required for an A (his problem sets, due every class, are rather challenging).