Instructor of Record
Fall 2025: Principles of Corporate Finance & Intermediate Microeconomics (Westmont College)
Fall 2024: Economics of Immigration (UC Merced)
Teaching Assistant (UC Merced)
Spring 2025: Statistical Inference
Spring 2024: Econometrics
Spring 2023: Econometrics
Fall 2022: Econometrics
Spring 2022: Econometrics
Fall 2021: Intermediate Microeconomics
Spring 2021: Intermediate Macroeconomics
Fall 2020: Introduction to Economics
Highlighted Student Comments
"Thank you, Raymond! Your explanations during discussions and office hours were very helpful and helped me understand the content a lot better." (Spring 2021)
“He did a fantastic job explaining and going into details about all the concepts we learned and lecture and even went out of his way to teach important concepts that may not have been necessary, but were crucial for deeper understanding and gaining knowledge and intuition for the course.” (Spring 2022)
“The understanding of the course was easy because of the TA, which allowed students to understand more depth specific questions or ideas that were covered during lecture.” (Spring 2022)
“Explained everything in detail. He would explain everything very simple which made it easy to understand.” (Spring 2023)
“The instructor actually cared about how much we understood the content. If we were stuck he would explain things until we got it.” (Spring 2024)
"I liked how available he was to answer questions about the homework or midterm prep work. He is very approachable." (Spring 2021)
"Always was willing to help and brought a positive mindset given how the overall class was doing with grades etc. He explained the assignments well and was great" (Fall 2021)
"Raymond was an amazing TA, he really helped explain course material that was unclear. He held review sessions before and exam and spent his time teaching and clearing up any confusions we had. He had a lot of patience and was very calm when most of us were stressed out because of the class." (Fall 2021)
"The best TA I had so far. Raymond was open to help if we needed help, and even offered office hours when he didn't need to on days that weren't required. Also, very helpful when he did do his official office hours." (Fall 2021)
"He also went above and beyond and held midterm/final review sessions, which I largely attribute to my success on those exams." (Spring 2022)
Student Comments about How Much I Love Econ (Fall 2024)
"I liked his passion for economics and how he made me feel somehow interested about economics, to the point that im considering economic as my minor."
"I liked that the instructor was very pasionate about his class. He was very passionate about Economics and shared his passion with our class."
"The enthusiasm of the instructor was infectious, you could tell he loved economics and loved to talk about it as well"