ECON 4
Introduction to Investments
Grades
3.91
Average grade awarded in ECON 4. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
92%
of the 382 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
34%
100% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 382 grades over 4 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
Every one of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 4 terms ran 3.77 to 3.96.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 46 · 12.0%
- A 274 · 71.7%
- A- 33 · 8.6%
- B+ 18 · 4.7%
- B 11 · 2.9%
- P 199 of 581
Percentages are of the 382 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONVERY, PATRICK DENNIS reviews ↗ | 3.91 | 3.91 | 382 | 4 | 92% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, two hours. Broad introduction to investments. No previous financial, economic, or math background needed. Students learn organizing framework with which to understand investing landscape with highlight on key concepts and functionality related to business and personal investments. Topics include why financial markets exist and how they work, efficient market hypothesis, risk versus reward, investment styles, valuation techniques, simple quantitative analysis, power of compound interest, financial crises, and role private equity, venture capital, innovation and start-ups, personal financial advisers, exchange rates, central banks, financial statements, value creation, interpreting financial ratios, understanding present value, diversification, capital asset pricing model, Sharpe ratio, and understanding asset’s beta, hedge funds. Serves as excellent introduction to career paths in finance and for those who want to increase their financial literacy. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2027
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