Economics causes peoples’ eyes to glaze over.
My first economics course in college, nearly 50 years ago, was excellent. The professor was an outstanding lecturer and made the material in the textbook (which he also wrote) come to life. It was one of the few college courses that benefited me throughout my business career and life.
Here’s how you fix it. 1.) Treat students like adults. Don’t say a damn word about attendance. Don’t take attendance. Students are paying customers and if they don’t want to use what they pay for, well then, tough excrement. 2.) If any student cannot maintain a B average in mathematics, up to and including trigonometry/pre-calculus, then they have zero business being in college; regardless of major. 3.) See #1. 4.) See #1.
Rigor in education has been replaced with mollycoddling. You can blame teachers, who in turn can blame their university professors who indoctrinated instead of taught anything of substance.
Boo hoo! I had that in home school at the primary level. In fact I was only 12 when handed an old volume of Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. That was my Econ 101.
Davidson is a beautiful campus in a great college town, and a short hop to Charlotte. This should be one of the most desired colleges to go to. Turn it into a Hillsdale curriculum and you’d have the perfect package.
hell, they’d be better off taking Home-Ec...
Maybe the professor should dress like a drag queen and “wokenize” the syllabus.
Econ 101 ought to be known as Freedom 101 snd everyone ought to be required to pass it.