This was the first time I learned any economics and I thought the subject was interesting. The economics analysis essays took me a lot of time and frustrated me. I went line by line translating my news article's information to microeconomics analysis (course content). I went to office hours, and consulted OWRC tutors. Both essays took me a while. However, I felt I not only learned a lot, but also helped myself retain information through the process of writing the essays. I maybe could have used a better method of writing them though. (I mention the essays because Professor Jacobs assigns these for both ECON 200 and ECON 201.) Workload wise, I am not sure about the actual workload because I have some time management troubles. I turned in multiple late assignments for the other classes I...read more

Usefulness: I understand why this is taught because it helps you to understand the theory of how businesses, markets, and economies (more later on in macroeconomics) work.

I would recommend to read before the lecture. I only once went to the lecture without reading the textbook and found it hard to understand.

Overall it's an ok class to take. The material is not boring and an A is doable provided you put in the effort. The midterms can be a bit difficult since it’s so dense in so little time but somewhat doable. There’s a lot of readings too but that goes for most classes at UW tbh.