ECON 301Microeconomics Theory 2
- Faculty
- Arts
- Offered
- Fall, Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1974–75 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Pricing and employment of inputs; general equilibrium theory; theory of modern welfare economics with some applications. Intertemporal choice.
As printed in the 1990–91 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: ECON 201, 202
Reviewed on UW Flow
63% liked it44% easy73% useful
From 30 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.
Took ECON341 before this course, don't suggest that. It made 341 a little harder than necessary and a lot of this course boring. Objectively though, this was a good course, and the small bits on game theory made it really interesting at times.
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This course is difficult, so don't take it unless you have to. It is a continuation of 201. Structure of the course was good.
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Surprisingly interesting. Most questions are calculus-based, with quite a bit of Lagrangian optimization. A breeze if you're in a math program.
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This course has some stuff that I found really interesting. It's when you get down to the more realistic details about economics.
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Discussed on r/uwaterloo
44 posts and comments in 38 threads mention ECON 301, September 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Spring 2019
In all seriousness why are you math students hating on arts students? 30 points, 64 comments
u/UWGooseHunter: “They get laid”
u/ohnohoho: “… Econ201 or 301? …”
Anyone take Econ 306 with Matt Doyle or Econ 393 with Ryan George? 5 points, 8 comments
“How did you find it difficulty wise (assignments, midterms, exam)?”
u/cordialcruelcrane: “306 is pretty easy with Matt Doyle since he provides good lectures+notes and there are no assignments, but there are several midterms. …”
u/cordialcruelcrane: “I took econ 301, irrelevant now i guess. There were pages of practice problems, half graphing + half calculus optimization problems which are the exact same format as the exam. No surprises whatsoever. …”
Winter 2018
MA - Economics questions 4 points, 4 comments
“Is anyone here in the MA economics program in Waterloo? If you are, can you please share your thoughts on this program? …”
u/G_Wen: “Econ 301 - 95 Econ 302 - 86 Econ 401 - 60 Econ 402 - 61 Econ 421 - 60 Econ 472 - 93 Econ 483 (Game Theory) - 86 Stat 443 - 85 Stat 444 - 78 Undergrad average: 74% (with a huge variance) Probably got accepted because of strong references / doing research with professors outside …”
Recommendations for online courses to take during coop 2 points, 2 comments
u/uwaterloo_student: “I’m taking Econ 301 right now along with CS 350, 341, 349, and FR192A. Unfortunately, Econ 301 really isn’t enjoyable and I have forgotten most of Econ 201. So, I plan on taking Econ 344 instead next term to satisfy my depth instead. …”
Is Econ 201/301 hard? 1 point, 3 comments
u/trindte: “I'm not exactly sure if ECON 301 is going to be offered again after this term. It doesn't list additional terms, but it also doesn't say discontinued yet. Eventually it will stop though, ECON 290 is the new course. https://uwaterloo.ca/economics/undergraduate/courses/offerings”
Fall 2017
CS348 Went From 4 to 3 Assignments? 3 points, 8 comments
“Did it always say 3 marked assignments?? I swear when I looked earlier it said 4 marked assignments.”
u/twofactorial: “… For ECON 301, our prof made this very clear and she had to ask the entire class for permission (anyone could say no to her proposed change) before she actually did the change. …”
Any way to disable UWCourseLinker from posting? 16 points, 26 comments
“posting a reply to my comment I find the bot annoying.”
u/Jackhofmann: “PSYCH 483 PSYCH 484 PSYCH 485 PSYCH 486 PSYCH 490R PSYCH 499A PSYCH 499B PSYCH 499C PSYCH 621 PSYCH 630 PSYCH 677A PSYCH 704A PSYCH 704B PSYCH 707 PSYCH 710 PSYCH 714 PSYCH 717 PSYCH 720A PSYCH 721A …”
u/Jackhofmann: “… 233W ECON 238W ECON 239W ECON 249W ECON 250W ECON 254 ECON 255 ECON 256 ECON 260W ECON 290 ECON 301 ECON 302 ECON 305W ECON 306 ECON 322 ECON 323 ECON 341 ECON 344 ECON 351 ECON 361 ECON 371 ECON 391 ECON 393 ECON 401 ECON 407 ECON 421 ECON 451 ECON 456 ECON 472 ECON 484 ECON …”
Spring 2017
ECON 351 Help 1 point, 1 comment
“Hello everyone, Just wondering if anybody has taken this course before, how did you find it? Easy, hard?”
u/qsfroot: “I took it before the arts reset so might be different But it's pretty much same models from econ 301 (or your equivalent micro course) I did well in it and I think the study/payoff ratio was not bad considering I wasn't really good at econ before that.”
What courses are you taking this fall? 28 points, 129 comments
“With course selection and add/drop happening this week I figured this would be a cool discussion post. …”
u/xabu1: “PMATH745 - representation theory of finite groups PMATH930 - introduction to universal algebra CO456 - introduction to game theory ECON491 - advanced microeconomics ECON601 - micro theory 1 Edit: …”
u/trindte: “… 1A MATH 145 MATH 147 ECON 101 1B MATH 146 MATH 148 ECON 201 2A MATH 245 MATH 247 MATH 249 ECON 301 2B PMATH 347 CO 255 ECON 401 3A PMATH 445 CO 456 ECON 491 ECON 601”
How do people in CS/SE maintain 96%+? 3 points, 34 comments
“I'm in 2B CS trying to get to 85%. Excluding IMO/IOI people, how the fuck are some of these people maintaining 96%+ throughout uni (5 years)? …”
u/shine-wang: “… He also took an elective - ECON 301. Grade? 85. …”
Winter 2017
Final Grades Discussion Megathread 40 points, 144 comments
“Passed everything Still waiting on ENGL306A and ECON102. But passed every core course!!!”
u/mesutwilshere12: “Not sure if anyone here took ECON301 but I came out of that exam upset as hell. Came back to a solid mark. Pleased.”
Is AP Calc AB and Physics 1 enough to let me skip courses? 3 points, 50 comments
u/waterwhoo: “I forget the exact conversions for AP credits (the university should have a table somewhere), but I'll give my feedback on your other questions. …”
u/waterwhoo: “… That being said, there's a second requirement in which you must pick one subject outside of math/cs and take a chain of 3 courses (if you were going to use economics, ECON 301 requires ECON 201, which requires ECON 101, so taking ECON 101, 201 and 301 would work). …”
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1974–75 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1990–91 to 1994–95 5 calendars
Pricing and employment of inputs; general equilibrium theory; theory of modern welfare economics with some applications. Intertemporal choice.
Prereq: ECON 201, 202
Offered Fall, Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1984–85 to 1989–90 5 calendars
Theory of modern welfare economics with some applications; the meaning and measurement of economic efficiency and equity and their relationship to economic welfare.
Prereq: ECON 201, 202
Offered Fall, Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1974–75 to 1983–84 10 calendars
Distribution theory; production, consumption and general equilibrium analysis; welfare economics. Prereq: Econ 207
Offered Fall, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit