HS 101 : Economics

Instructors

Prof. Saptarshi Ghosh, Prof. Haripriya Gundimeda

Motivation

This course is designed to give students a brief introduction to economics.

Prerequisites

None

Course Content and Structure

The content of the course is really good and the professor explains them in a very good manner. The course is divided into two parts, microeconomics and macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is mostly theory based whereas microeconomics is more logical.

Weightage

50% of microeconomics –
15% quiz
35% midsem

50% of macroeconomics –
10% quizzes (average of 2)
40% endsem

Feedback on lectures, tutorials and exams

Content of the lectures is very good and understanding the slides is easy as they are well made. Attending the lectures is advised as they are interesting and clear your concepts well.
Also the professors clear the doubts in the classroom from very basic concepts which helps you to understand a topic completely. The exams are not tough. Going through the past papers will help to get a rough idea about the questions. They try to test your understanding of concepts and how you apply them to real life problems.

Attendance

In the online semester, there was no restriction on attendance.

Difficulty level

3

Grading Stats

AA – 29, AB – 55, BB – 66, BC – 67, CC – 46, CD – 14, DD – 20, II – 13

References

Mankiw – Principles of Economics

We thank Suyash Kamalakar for this review.