Teaching
Below you can find news on current courses and some more information on classes I teach.
Fall 2012 Intermediate Macro: Online course!!
- This is an undergraduate course on macroeconomics. Importantly, all requirements can be fulfilled online.
- Here is a preliminary syllabus.
- We will use Canvas for all communication, assignments, etc. You will have audio and video files to aid your studies. Have a look at the Economics Department's Youtube channel. Interaction with other students (and the instructor) will be fostered through, for example, online discussions. More information comes soon!
- Write me with any questions!
"Hybrid" online courses
The department is currently developing a number of online courses. Students value flexibility offered by an online class, but benefit from interaction with other students and instructors. Hybrid classes reinforce both of these: Students can fulfill all requirements online, thus work on "their own clock," but have to engage (through technology) with others, thus experience dynamic learning. Principally, a hybrid course offers (1) online modules where students interact with technology (i.e., online practice software), with each other via technology (in discussion fora, etc.); and with the instructor. Instructor interaction can be in real time (Wimba, skype, chat, teleconference) or not (discussion fora, again). I have previously taught and continue to work on International Economics (Econ 3500) as an online course, and am now (for Fall 2012) developing Intermediate Macroeconomics (Econ 4020).
What I teach
My teaching focus is on macroeconomics and international economics. I usually teach graduate Quantitative Methods (Econ 7002) in the Fall, and graduate Macro II Econ (7008) in the Spring semester, plus some combination of undergraduate courses. In 2009 and 2011, I taught simulation methods (using Mathematica) at a Structuralist Summer School at the University of Pavia in Pavia, Italy.
At the undergraduate level, I have taught Intermediate Macro (Econ 4020), Principles of Macroeconomics (Econ 2020) and International Economics (Econ 3500) at the University of Utah. In the past, I have taught intermediate macroeconomics, development economics for undergraduates, microeconomics for beginning graduate students, an introductory course with emphasis on the history of thought in economics, and a course on the developments and controversies of macroeconomics.
