2009 October 27th, 10:38 AM
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With a more rigorous MA, perhaps. I have no idea how NCSU compares to mine, but I'm not very confident that my MA Economics program has prepared me very well for PhD-level.
By far, the strength of my program has been the Econometrics. 3 of the 9 courses required are Econometrics (plus thesis) and we're required to have a fairly in-depth understanding of both Eviews and Stata. In addition, I'm taking MA-level Statistics, so I'm really hoping the PhD-level Econometrics will be relatively easy. In Micro we used Nicholson, so it didn't add a lot to my understanding (I used Perloff w/ Calculus as an undergrad). Honestly, I think that my understanding of Micro was enhanced more by my experience as a TA in Intermediate Micro than in the MA-level course. For Macro, we used Romer and Wickens. Definitely improved my understanding, but I'm sure that PhD-level will be much more demanding. |
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2009 October 28th, 12:56 AM
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As a TA, the time I've spent pondering how to best explain a concept to another person is how I've learned the most. |
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2009 October 28th, 01:21 AM
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TestMagic Guru-in-Training
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This is why I hate programs that place little emphasis on being a TA, you develop such an amazing in-depth knowledge thinking about how to explain something to a group of people (with varying backgrounds). In fact, I cannot imagine a better way to ensure graduate students understand 100% of the fundamental concepts in economics than to make them teach those same concepts! |
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