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ECON 2020

Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics
Last taught: Spring 2026
4.5 Rating
3.1 Difficulty
3.12 GPA

Instructor
4.2
Enjoyability
4.6
Difficulty
3.1
Recommend
4.7

Reading
1.3
Writing
0.1
Group Work
0.2
Other
0.4

Total Hours / Week

Hours 2.0

Grade Distribution

A+: 287 (2.1%)A: 2186 (15.9%)A-: 3063 (22.3%)B+: 2237 (16.3%)B: 2136 (15.6%)B-: 1128 (8.2%)C+: 642 (4.7%)C: 973 (7.1%)C-: 309 (2.3%)DFW: 772 (5.6%)
Average GPA 3.12
Students Measured 13,734

549 Reviews

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Anonymous Summer 2011
4.33 Average

The material was pretty easy, but Coppock makes the exams way too difficult.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 5.0
Hours/Week 5.0
Anonymous Summer 2011
5.00 Average

if you want to ace the midterm and final, spend more time reading your notes (take good notes!!!), the exams are straight from the slides and lecture. although the slides are helpful when studying, make sure you write down the important things he says. the slides DO NOT cover everything, maybe like half. skim through the textbook if you need to. textbook is somewhat helpful in clarifying lecture but don't let it be the only thing you use to study. zhou zhang is hands down the best ta. she is sooo helpful and great at explaining, get her if you can. good luck :-)

Instructor 5.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
4.00 Average

good class, all should take

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
4.67 Average

Coppock is a great lecturer and made the material extremely interesting. The midterms, as well as the final, were very fair and easy to do well on. There is no need to ever read the textbook. If you understand your notes and can make inferences from them, you should have no problem acing this class.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 2.0
Hours/Week 1.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
4.33 Average

Coppock is a great teacher. The class is really interesting and the tests are not too bad. The final is definitely tricky though.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 6.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
4.67 Average

Coppock is the best professor ever!! so good at teaching ECON overall! he knows what hes doing!

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
4.33 Average

great class!

Instructor 3.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 2.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
4.00 Average

Great class. Attend all the lectures and take down the note slides on the overhead. Unfortunately the class is extremely large, but if you just study all the notes before the exams they aren't to hard. The final is pretty difficult though.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
5.00 Average

coppock is real cute and this is one of the most interesting classes i've taken at uva..awesome, take it..its not too hard if you go to lecture and discussion

Instructor 5.0
Enjoyability 5.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 3.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Anonymous Spring 2011
4.67 Average

Coppock is a great lecturer. He's really enjoyable and makes a lot of jokes. His two tests weren't that bad. Overall a very good course.

Instructor 5.0
Enjoyability 4.0
Recommend 5.0
Difficulty 2.0
Hours/Week 2.0