Amanda Gregg

Easy problem sets, readings are pretty easy and interesting. Prof Gregg is a great person and a very help and accessible professor. The course is really well-organized. Assignments have clear guidelines, though they sometimes seem arbitrary

In Econ Hist, Gregg is a phenomenal professor teaching a fantastic course. The course lectures are clear and well-connected to the readings. Along with publishing lecture slides on Canvas, Gregg provides supplementary Panopto videos for both review and further exploration into certain topics. Surfacing this course are historical facts, such as the technologies of the British Industrial Revolution (e.g. steam engine, spinning jenny) and periods of Japan (e.g. Tokugawa, Meiji). Underlying this are widely generlizable takeaways about institutions, marketplaces, and how economies develop. I often rely on information taught in this course during my current J-Term class. The grading distribution is as follows: problem sets (20%), which usually take 1-2 hours to complete and are very easy; essays (25%), which require a strong foundational understanding of certain readings and adherence to a set rubric; exams (45%), which includes an in-person short-response style exam and an asynchronous long-response question... on the easier side if you pay attention. The remaining 10% is attendance and weekly reading responses. My 10hrs/wk was definitely overkill. Overall, I absolutely loved this class and think it (and Gregg) are among the strongest in the econ department!

In Econ Hist, Gregg is a phenomenal professor teaching a fantastic course. The course lectures are clear and well-connected to the readings. Along with publishing lecture slides on Canvas, Gregg provides supplementary Panopto videos for both review and further exploration into certain topics. Surfacing this course are historical fact …Read more

I really loved Amanda Gregg's teaching style because they went through presentations and lectured us but then involved us in interactive parts of the material so that we were engaged but also getting all the important information.