2026 Spring
RIT Economics
ECON 201.03 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person)
ECON 201.04 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person)
U of R Economics (Adjunct)
ECON 211.02 Money, Credit and Banking (In-Person)
2025 Fall
ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (In-Person) Evaluation (3.8/5.0) Student Review1 Student Review2
First time teaching the advancement of LLMs and the impact of AI on the U.S. economy along with techniques of using AI agents to study macroeconomics. Students showed a wide dispersion in their prompting skills (already) and that affected the acceptance of new materials and the teaching evaluation.
2025 Spring
RIT Economics
ECON 201.04 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person) Evaluation (4.11/5.0) Osher Student Review
ECON 201.05 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person) Evaluation (4.29/5.0)
RIT Saunders Business School, PhD Course in Finance (First Half)
ESCB 810.01 Financial Economics (In-Person) Student Review
U of R Economics (Adjunct)
ECON 211.02 Money, Credit and Banking (In-Person) Student Review
2024 Fall
ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (In-Person) Evaluation (4.27/5.0) Student Review
ECON 433 Financial Economics (In-Person) Evaluation (4.29/5.0) Student Review
2023 Fall
ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (In-Person) Syllabus Evaluation (4.69/5.0)
ECON 433 Financial Economics (In-Person) Syllabus Evaluation (4.07/5.0) Student Testimonial 1 Student Testimonial 2
2023 Spring
ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person) Syllabus 1 Syllabus 2
Evaluation 1 (4.18/5.0) Evaluation 2 (3.73/5.0)
These were exactly same courses, but there were more students who took it as mandatory in 201.02. Moreover, the class size was a bit larger (50 vs. 67 students).
2022 Fall
ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (In-Person) Syllabus Evaluation (4.69/5.0) Peer Review
ECON 433 Financial Economics (In-Person) Syllabus Evaluation (4.25/5.0)
2022 Spring
ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person, Mandatory Masking)
Evaluation 1(3.43/5.0) Evaluation 2 (3.08/5.0) Student Feedback Peer Review
Environment: In January and April, there were elevated risks in Covid-19. As a result, the attendance rate during the semester was relatively low.
2021 Fall
ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Online Sync) Syllabus Evaluation (4.39/5.0)
ECON 433 Financial Economics (Online Sync) Syllabus Evaluation (4.22/5.0)
2021 Spring
ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (Online Sync)
Evaluation 1 Evaluation 2 Evaluation 3 (3.62/5.0) Peer-Review
+ On Teaching Eval Bias against Asian Female Instructors, see Kreitzer, R.J., Sweet-Cushman, J., 2021, “Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform”. Journal of Academic Ethics, 1-12.
2020 Fall
ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Online Async) Syllabus Evaluation (4.67/5.0)
ECON 433 Financial Economics (Online, Mixed) Syllabus Evaluation (4.0/5.0)
2020 Spring
ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person to Online Sync) Syllabus Evaluation (3.57/5.0) - Last two exams were more challenging because they were open-book online exams.
ECON 431 Money, Credit, and Banking (In-Person to Online Sync) Syllabus Evaluation (4.67/5.0)
2019 Fall
ECON 201 Principles of Macroeconomics (In-Person) Syllabus Evaluation (4.12/5.0) Peer-Review
ECON 402 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (In-Person) Syllabus Evaluation (4.33/5.0)