[BC3033] Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

He is too good looking to be allowed to teach at a women's college. I spent half the class paying attention and half checking him out. That aside, he is a great, energetic, charismatic professor who gets students engaged in the subject matter and goes at a reasonable pace. It is a workload but it is tolerable. Only complaint was accessibility outside the classroom. He seems to just wanna teach the class and go home and not make his office hours too plentiful. But if you pay attention and take notes, you won't really need the office hours.

I really enjoyed this class. the prof is extremely nice! her office hrs are never crowded so go with questions because she goes over all of your issues without making you feel stupid! she teaches right out of the text book but i would recommend going to class because she explains everything very well. the ta sessions are also very helpful if the ta is good (thankfully the first one sucked but left so we got a much better one midway through the semester). the problem sets are hard but if you can do them and understand how to do them you will do fine on the test. the avg of the midterm was 70% and it was curved very generously. i would def recommend this course with prof colacelli because she is so nice and does not try present info we have no idea how to answer on the exams (the questions are challenging though). overall i have nothing to complain about!

He may be one of the NICEST people I have ever met. But, that does not change the fact that this class (and his individual lectures) is SO disorganized. We use a textbook, but he refutes it every chance he gets. There is a practice midterm which is pretty much identical to the actual midterm, but the wording is RIDICULOUS (so confusing), as is the subsequent curve (around 30-40 points for me). Plus, he goes off on tangents. As a result, we barely covered a small portion of the plan intended on the syllabus. I do not feel even remotely confident in my knowledge of economics, and I know that's a common sentiment in the class.

He is quite nice, though; I will give him that.

Although a very nice woman, Prof. Colacelli should not be teaching a 3000 level "core" economics class. This was her first semester teaching non-intro, and it showed. She literally lectures directly out of the text, never explains examples and is unable to answer questions on the problem sets. Your best bet is to become best friends with the TA and hope she curves tremendously. The material is not hard in lecture, and you will walk out thinking how easy macro is, and then will be lost within 10 minutes on the problem set. Overall, it is better to suffer through a harder class than to take this one and learn absolutely nothing.