He is a good professor, but can be boring/ slightly arrogant. I preferred Elzinga in Econ 2010.

Pretty interesting class, no major curve balls on exams. The only problem that if you have a question about the grading of a test, it is almost impossible to get it changed

Coppock has a very good, engaging teaching-style. He is very right-wing so be aware of that. He is also not as nice as Elzinga, and he HATES interruptions. Don't count on the final bringing up your grade; it is multiple choice and is meant to trick you.

Mr. Coppock is such a good teacher. He's really funny and engages the class during lectures. He makes the material interesting and for me, he made me want to go to class because he was so funny (and also to get clicker points). He is very cocky, though, and he came off as a complete jerk one time when I emailed him. It seemed like he was very willing to help those who came to him during office hours, though. Overall, I liked this class, and even though I'm a possible econ major, I would recommend this class to anyone. It's one of the best classes at UVA, and the material really pertains to everyday life and will help you in the future.

The midterms were pretty easy I thought, but if you don't know the material thoroughly, they can trip you up easily. STUDY HARD FOR THE FINAL. it's much harder than the midterms, so know how to APPLY the material. my one piece of advice for this class: never underestimate an exam! if anything, prepare really well and then end up being overprepared. It's definitely possible to get an A in this class (I did) but it's also possible to get a D. Bottom line, if you don't truly UNDERSTAND the material, you won't do well. So make sure you understand it. simple as that.

I never went to my discussion section, so that's a plus. You don't need to.

Take good notes, especially because a lot of Mr. Coppock's examples are similar to how he will present material on an exam.

Know and UNDERSTAND his "Rotunda principles"!

Overall take this class! its great!

Great class, really interesting. The questions on the midterms can be confusing and are graded on keywords, so just write a lot on those. Final is multiple choice so it's a lot more straightforward.

The class is not that hard at all. I didn't read the book and still got an A with no problem. Some people study for days, and I am not sure that I understand why. Take good notes. Memorize the few key concepts (i.e. the Rotunda principles), review the historical data on his slides, take good notes, and just pick the answer that seems logical. It is a great class.

Just go to lecture and take diligent notes. If you are a good test taker, you'll do fine. I wouldn't rely on double dutch though since the final is relatively tricky.

I really have no idea why people believe this is a hard class to get an A in. I had not taken any economics courses before in my life, let alone ECON 201, and my only knowledge was very basic offhand microeconomics and the overview of macroeconomic fiscal and monetary policy I learned from AP US Government in high school and from the news, as well as the growth theory I learned from Prof. Waldner's Politics of Developing Areas (a course that Prof. Coppock personally told me was all I needed to know about growth theory). Despite all that, I got a rather easy A- (I calculated an A from his curved grading scale that he creates every semester based on median and mode grades on exams) with rather minimal effort. The textbook is only helpful at the beginning of the course in teaching how to use PRICE THEORY GRAPHS, the absolutely most crucial thing to master to get an A in this course. Every other reading is not at all needed, and in fact, when going over growth theory, the textbook is abysmal and more of a hindrance in learning the material. All you need to get good grades on the two midterms are good notes from lecture, which are easy to attend as part of your grade is dependent on answering Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-style "Ask the Audience" questions about the lecture in class with clickers. The midterms are both mainly short answer and regurgitating the three big statistics he gives you throughout the whole course, but the final is 200 multiple choice questions, meaning that it is the one test that is actually somewhat difficult, but with a curve, I still got an A- on it. Overall, I absolutely love Prof. Coppock and his lectures, even if he oversimplifies a lot of macroeconomic theory and doesn't get into any theories other than Keynesianism and criticism of it. I would heartily support absolutely anyone taking this course, and it convinced me to double major in economics and foreign affairs.

Definitely go to every lecture. You don't need to read the book. It did help me to put some of the concepts he taught in a broader context, but nothing from the textbook that was not addressed in class was ever on an exam. I ended up getting the dutch knock out but it's not easy to do. The final definitely had some very tricky questions including ones on historical context. Overall, an amazing class and Coppock is an incredible professor. I loved going to his classes. Definitely take it, but be prepared to study.

Coppock does have interesting lectures and the class itself is very enjoyable. But he does not teach to the book at all, and his exams are based solely on how he teaches economics, not the textbook, so most questions are very ambiguous and vague. They are also extremely difficult and not a reflection of command of material on the whole. I would say if you are not an econ major, think twice because an A won't be easy.